By way of Smirking Chimp I come across this fascinating (and utterly depressing) account of how Karl Rove “reached out” to (Saint) Jack Welch, A.K.A “the buzz saw”, Chairman of General Electric, the parent company of NBC, and how together they put in place the right wing noise machine that masquerades as our nation’s electronic news media.
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Load More...@alexanderchee And I'm truly, truly amazed stories like this haven't been national news. It's infuriating.
Source: https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2020/05/21/gov-walz-large-amount-of-covid-19-testing-equipment-bound-for-minn-picked-off-by-federal-govt/This doesn’t once mention how Blue states have had their PPE seized by FEMA and had aid denied them by the administration. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/25/us/politics/coronavirus-red-blue-states.html?referringSource=articleShare
“The No. 1 predictor of whether a person will go on to commit violence, more than anything else, is if that person has been exposed to violence in the past” @ransfordcv https://www.thenation.com/article/society/violence-epidemic-public-health/
No surprise here. I'm one of many people who have been saying this for years. But it's nice to see more evidence to back it up.
@mferrini @yourauntemma Also this, which dovetails with the previous linked study, but for slightly different reasons.
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-effect-new-study-connects-white-american-intolerance-support-authoritarianism-ncna877886
Testing testing testing, check check check.
Testing again