We all read this, but I can guarantee you that this story will not receive a single mention on Fox, OANN, Newsmax, etc. In fact, and to that point, when Mark Meadows was referred out yesterday by the 1/6 Commission for criminal contempt of a Congressional Subpoena, none of the "conservative networks" even covered it. Not a word. So, we have half the country which does not even know about this insanity and will never find it out. How can we hope to make "the other side" realize how dangerous and crazy its positions area when they will never even hear about the fact that a coup was attempted (and is now taking place again, albeit much more stealthily)?
My hope/verging on belief is that it is, and always has been, much less than “half” our country that has ever believed any of DJT’s b*llsh*t. Just as it’s far less than half of us who follow Judd’s reporting - but g-d willing, we’re all the mouthy minority!
When I was in college, the journalism school included students who wanted to be journalists, as well as those who wanted to do PR. The journalists looked down on the PR students, but it appears the PR faction has prevailed. Journalism is no longer the “first rough draft of history” - it’s just PR for one side or another. That is why the Congressional investigation is so important. It will create a public record of what really happened, so maybe someday historians will be able to point to 2020 as … whatever we let it be. The beginning of the end? Or the year when we learned the hard way about our vulnerabilities and changed our laws to keep it from ever happening again? I hope it will be the latter, but fear it will be the former.
As a 47-year veteran of journalism—much of it spent at the top of the profession—I share your disappointment. Journalism is not reporting both sides when one side is clearly corrupt and false. Yet this is what we get every day, especially in the electronic media which leans heavily on its need for "access" to justify its shoddy and too often irresponsible reporting. That is why independent newsletters like Judd's are so important at this time in our history.
A 38-page memo was circulated and discussed at the highest levels of Trump's administration and his band of allies—the very definition of sedition. How is that not the lead story for every news organization? Do we have to wait for newly "elected" President Donald Trump to start jailing his political enemies in 2025 before we take his words and actions seriously?
Wow. SO helpful, SO restrained but SO damning, Judd. Admittedly overwhelmed with news, I would likely never have read the PowerPoint and could not have put it together with various tweets/testimony as you did today. Many many thanks.
And somehow comforting to see the Former Pumpkinhead’s spoken words on the “page,” and see how close to word salad —phrase salad at least—his rabble rousing really is. My favorite:
“...I just spoke to Mike. I said, "Mike, that doesn't take courage. What takes courage is to do nothing, that takes courage."
I guess it takes one to call one out?
Meanwhile, and of course even more comforting, is to observe the dire predictions about Biden’s Presidency, and to contrast them with the latter’s true statesmanship, which continues to pull us back from the brink of chaos (she said hopefully). —I’m even thinking of POTUS’s recent response to SCOTUS’ refusal to strike down SB8 without a full hearing (which, yes, has alarmed the entire Western world…but is a Fact) - very correctly calling on Congress to codify Roe v Wade on the federal level, rather than picking a fight with SCOTUS. As DJT did with judges at all levels, over bupkis (trifles), stupidly and unconscionably increasing the danger for the human beings who make up our judicial branch. (If I sound like the daughter of a former, now-deceased, federal judge, that’s because I am one.)
Ps case in point that we are slowly righting (pun not intended) ourselves under this Admin - from Guttmacher institute newsletter today:
“The Biden-Harris administration’s Title X rule finally went into effect in November 2021, restoring the crucial reproductive health care program to its previous state. The Biden-Harris regulations set the rules for today’s Title X program and outstanding grant applications moving forward. We have reviewed the rule, and this is what you need to know.
For more than 50 years, Title X has served as the nation’s family planning program, supporting a network of grantees providing high-quality sexual and reproductive health care to millions of people coast to coast, with a mandate to serve primarily low-income and adolescent patients. Despite this successful track record, the Title X network has weathered years of politically motivated attacks, the most recent and damaging being the Trump-Pence administration’s “domestic gag rule,” which went into effect in 2019 and hamstrung the family planning network.
The Trump-Pence rule imposed ideologically driven restrictions and requirements on care, causing many providers to leave the network rather than comply. In early 2020, Guttmacher estimated that the Trump-Pence rule would essentially cut the network’s patient capacity in half. Recent data from the Office of Population Affairs (OPA), the division of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that administers the Title X program, paint an even more devastating picture: The number of clients served by the Title X program dropped to 1.5 million in 2020, when it had served more than four million patients in recent years, a precipitous 61% decline.
OPA’s analysis disentangles the impact of the Trump-Pence regulations on Title X services versus the impact of the pandemic, attributing approximately one-third of the client decrease to the pandemic and a whopping two-thirds of the decrease to the Trump-Pence rule.”
I support Guttmacher (along with other not for profits) and if nothing else, their (free!) reporting stays outside the MSM fray.
I can’t recall the public seeing so much evidence on such heinous crimes and such a lack of urgency and outrage by those who are supposed to indict these monsters. There is no reason he shouldn’t be awaiting trial in prison. And talk about a national security risk!
Thank you for this information. You are providing us with incredibly valuable information!
Treason. Yet there they all sit free birds almost a year later. A year from now the 2022 elections will give power back to GOP and it will disappear from view.
Media is 1% owned. They will focus in inflation to help this along
I’m gonna take “reckless optimism” for $200. There’s still plenty of time to rig the machines oops I mean to advocate for progressive candidates before Nov ‘22.
W e can hope. The GOP and 1% like Koch Bros set this in motion decades ago. With new voter supression laws in place in 43 Republican states and gosh knows will Virginia be 44.
Do we ever hear of the John Lewis Voting Rights in Congress anymore?
Sinema and Manchin have the Senate in stagnation.
When 34% of Virginia Dems did not vote against Youngkin, I say that is an omnious sign for next year. I may never get over that. How stupid of the 34% and how bad for the rest of us.
dk what state (of the union) you're in, but I find THC very helpful. (Legal in IL) At least don't give up until after Solstice ;-} - which WILL arrive very soon yay!
[Lost my beginning] and (where is my heart button? also!--we need to happily click the positive) I have become steeped in so much news that most of this is not new to me. Please, let us know when and who the phone records revelations take place. I remember the Senate hearings in which Josh Hawley and Mike Lee were upset that their phones could be looked into regarding these events. Yesterday's column: have people seen the Kellogg's coverage [CBS Tony Dokoupil] where the strikers who have the better tier payscale and benefits are standing with their friends and neighbors who have been denied these same benefits that made these "good" jobs.]?
I have to ask - why doesn't the DOJ do more toward trying to bring the #tRumpdumpster up on some kind of charges? There's no executive privilege now. Is it really that impossible to hold him responsible for everything he's done to overthrow democracy?
We all read this, but I can guarantee you that this story will not receive a single mention on Fox, OANN, Newsmax, etc. In fact, and to that point, when Mark Meadows was referred out yesterday by the 1/6 Commission for criminal contempt of a Congressional Subpoena, none of the "conservative networks" even covered it. Not a word. So, we have half the country which does not even know about this insanity and will never find it out. How can we hope to make "the other side" realize how dangerous and crazy its positions area when they will never even hear about the fact that a coup was attempted (and is now taking place again, albeit much more stealthily)?
However, if Mark Meadows is sentenced to "time" even Fox will have to report it!
Exactly. Hannity spun it as a lie. Twitter Bits claim it has been taken out of contect
Hannity acknowledged it then?
He did. Are you on Twitter? Several have posted it. Reliable, well followed folk
i'm on Twitter but decreasingly so, and more for poetry than political news
My hope/verging on belief is that it is, and always has been, much less than “half” our country that has ever believed any of DJT’s b*llsh*t. Just as it’s far less than half of us who follow Judd’s reporting - but g-d willing, we’re all the mouthy minority!
The mainstream has been doing as well as the conservative media on this — as is their wont.
If this was a dry run at a more sophisticated attempt to overthrow an election, as Judd suggests, we should be very concerned.
When I was in college, the journalism school included students who wanted to be journalists, as well as those who wanted to do PR. The journalists looked down on the PR students, but it appears the PR faction has prevailed. Journalism is no longer the “first rough draft of history” - it’s just PR for one side or another. That is why the Congressional investigation is so important. It will create a public record of what really happened, so maybe someday historians will be able to point to 2020 as … whatever we let it be. The beginning of the end? Or the year when we learned the hard way about our vulnerabilities and changed our laws to keep it from ever happening again? I hope it will be the latter, but fear it will be the former.
As a 47-year veteran of journalism—much of it spent at the top of the profession—I share your disappointment. Journalism is not reporting both sides when one side is clearly corrupt and false. Yet this is what we get every day, especially in the electronic media which leans heavily on its need for "access" to justify its shoddy and too often irresponsible reporting. That is why independent newsletters like Judd's are so important at this time in our history.
A 38-page memo was circulated and discussed at the highest levels of Trump's administration and his band of allies—the very definition of sedition. How is that not the lead story for every news organization? Do we have to wait for newly "elected" President Donald Trump to start jailing his political enemies in 2025 before we take his words and actions seriously?
(Hey where’s my heart button? I ❤️ this column!)
Wow. SO helpful, SO restrained but SO damning, Judd. Admittedly overwhelmed with news, I would likely never have read the PowerPoint and could not have put it together with various tweets/testimony as you did today. Many many thanks.
And somehow comforting to see the Former Pumpkinhead’s spoken words on the “page,” and see how close to word salad —phrase salad at least—his rabble rousing really is. My favorite:
“...I just spoke to Mike. I said, "Mike, that doesn't take courage. What takes courage is to do nothing, that takes courage."
I guess it takes one to call one out?
Meanwhile, and of course even more comforting, is to observe the dire predictions about Biden’s Presidency, and to contrast them with the latter’s true statesmanship, which continues to pull us back from the brink of chaos (she said hopefully). —I’m even thinking of POTUS’s recent response to SCOTUS’ refusal to strike down SB8 without a full hearing (which, yes, has alarmed the entire Western world…but is a Fact) - very correctly calling on Congress to codify Roe v Wade on the federal level, rather than picking a fight with SCOTUS. As DJT did with judges at all levels, over bupkis (trifles), stupidly and unconscionably increasing the danger for the human beings who make up our judicial branch. (If I sound like the daughter of a former, now-deceased, federal judge, that’s because I am one.)
Ps case in point that we are slowly righting (pun not intended) ourselves under this Admin - from Guttmacher institute newsletter today:
“The Biden-Harris administration’s Title X rule finally went into effect in November 2021, restoring the crucial reproductive health care program to its previous state. The Biden-Harris regulations set the rules for today’s Title X program and outstanding grant applications moving forward. We have reviewed the rule, and this is what you need to know.
For more than 50 years, Title X has served as the nation’s family planning program, supporting a network of grantees providing high-quality sexual and reproductive health care to millions of people coast to coast, with a mandate to serve primarily low-income and adolescent patients. Despite this successful track record, the Title X network has weathered years of politically motivated attacks, the most recent and damaging being the Trump-Pence administration’s “domestic gag rule,” which went into effect in 2019 and hamstrung the family planning network.
The Trump-Pence rule imposed ideologically driven restrictions and requirements on care, causing many providers to leave the network rather than comply. In early 2020, Guttmacher estimated that the Trump-Pence rule would essentially cut the network’s patient capacity in half. Recent data from the Office of Population Affairs (OPA), the division of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that administers the Title X program, paint an even more devastating picture: The number of clients served by the Title X program dropped to 1.5 million in 2020, when it had served more than four million patients in recent years, a precipitous 61% decline.
OPA’s analysis disentangles the impact of the Trump-Pence regulations on Title X services versus the impact of the pandemic, attributing approximately one-third of the client decrease to the pandemic and a whopping two-thirds of the decrease to the Trump-Pence rule.”
I support Guttmacher (along with other not for profits) and if nothing else, their (free!) reporting stays outside the MSM fray.
Glad to read your acknowledgement of Biden's response re SCOTUS: not to add to the myriad arguments, but to call on Congress to act.
Thanks for noticing 🥰👍🏻
I can’t recall the public seeing so much evidence on such heinous crimes and such a lack of urgency and outrage by those who are supposed to indict these monsters. There is no reason he shouldn’t be awaiting trial in prison. And talk about a national security risk!
Thank you for this information. You are providing us with incredibly valuable information!
Treason. Yet there they all sit free birds almost a year later. A year from now the 2022 elections will give power back to GOP and it will disappear from view.
Media is 1% owned. They will focus in inflation to help this along
I’m gonna take “reckless optimism” for $200. There’s still plenty of time to rig the machines oops I mean to advocate for progressive candidates before Nov ‘22.
W e can hope. The GOP and 1% like Koch Bros set this in motion decades ago. With new voter supression laws in place in 43 Republican states and gosh knows will Virginia be 44.
Do we ever hear of the John Lewis Voting Rights in Congress anymore?
Sinema and Manchin have the Senate in stagnation.
When 34% of Virginia Dems did not vote against Youngkin, I say that is an omnious sign for next year. I may never get over that. How stupid of the 34% and how bad for the rest of us.
I wish I could be optimistic.
dk what state (of the union) you're in, but I find THC very helpful. (Legal in IL) At least don't give up until after Solstice ;-} - which WILL arrive very soon yay!
[Lost my beginning] and (where is my heart button? also!--we need to happily click the positive) I have become steeped in so much news that most of this is not new to me. Please, let us know when and who the phone records revelations take place. I remember the Senate hearings in which Josh Hawley and Mike Lee were upset that their phones could be looked into regarding these events. Yesterday's column: have people seen the Kellogg's coverage [CBS Tony Dokoupil] where the strikers who have the better tier payscale and benefits are standing with their friends and neighbors who have been denied these same benefits that made these "good" jobs.]?
I have to ask - why doesn't the DOJ do more toward trying to bring the #tRumpdumpster up on some kind of charges? There's no executive privilege now. Is it really that impossible to hold him responsible for everything he's done to overthrow democracy?