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Kasumii's avatar

“Trump lies about history” is a far more accurate headline.

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Scott Koorsen's avatar

Have you called it a constitutional crisis yet? NPR is already discussing how we are in the start of competitive authoritarianism.

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chrisattack's avatar

Soon to be defunded NPR.

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Dianne's avatar

Is anyone surprised??? Trump is a traitor! He has trumped the gullible US voter.

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Barbara Fox's avatar

If you watched 60 minutes last evening and do not see the weaponization of the justice dept as a constitutional crisis, I am speechless

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awalther@sbcglobal.net's avatar

Kash Patel will stop the weaponization of the FBI.

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awalther@sbcglobal.net's avatar

Trump had to be careful about trashing Putin as he wants to bring a close to the war. Trump is making great strides in improving every aspect of out country.

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Kasumii's avatar

This reads like a high school current events report. There are brief, bland descriptions of something that happened followed by other’s quotes pertaining to said news. Plus, you used “rewrites history” instead of “lies about” and “skewed interpretation” instead of “lying about what really happened” when describing trump’s words as well as his minion’s attempts to spew their bullshit over reality.

Your work has noticeably changed since the election. This piece is very much like mainstream media. Your voice is nowhere to be found.

I recommend Jay Kuo’s piece on his Substack “The Status Kuo” on these same events. It’s titled “Disarray and Defiance”. Your work used to be headed in that direction - reporting the news in your voice and adding your journalistic take or interpretation of the news.

I don’t know why you’ve shifted your approach. I miss your “old” work but recognize it’s your choice on how to report the news. I’ll wait a while to see if this shift is permanent. If it is I will look elsewhere for the news.

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susanus's avatar

Well, to be fair “rewrites history” has long been used to mean “lies egregiously”. I think we all got that. I like the fact that Gabe reports things without getting self righteous or overwrought. It’s refreshing. But I do think the Constitutional Crisis call is overdue - just from the fact that the Executive branch seems to have swallowed up the Legislative and the Judicial. I am hoping that, like Jonah, they can manage to emerge intact from the belly of the whale. But hope is a flimsy thing to pin your hopes on.

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Michael Bower's avatar

Wake up to...THIS ¿

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Michael Kupperburg's avatar

Thousands of nuclear arms had been left on Ukrainian soil by Moscow after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Ukraine made the decision to completely denuclearize.

In exchange, the U.S., the U.K. and Russia would guarantee Ukraine's security in a 1994 agreement known as the Budapest Memorandum.

Should Ukraine demand her nuclear weapons back from both the U.K. and the U.S.? If not now, when?

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LadyHistorian's avatar

This is Again a Russia thing. In May 2009, then President of Russia Medvedev issued an ukaze creating a “Russian History Commission” comprised of the Chiefs of Staff of the Kremlin and the Military, and deputy ministers of all the intelligence services, both military and civilian to monitor and prevent the works of researchers and historians worldwide, whose works reflect negatively on the glory of Stalin, World War II, the Soviet system, and Putin. My own works have been negatively affected by Russian cyber interference on numerous occasions. I have received death, threats, trolling, character assassination in worse to deadly effect. The creation of this commission was covered by Kremlin.RU, the Wall Street Journal online, REUTERS, Eurasia daily, which is published by the Jamestown foundation, and the English language newspaper in New Jersey comma_Ukrainian weekly_. These articles consistently were what was available about this Commission and its work for years. (More later)

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LadyHistorian's avatar

…For many years, these articles described were the only ones online and popped up in a search, but around 2012, you had to know what you were looking for to find them.

And don’t these high level officials have better things to do than to meet to discuss history books’ content? Were they Actually meeting to do Other stuff, like plan the invasion of Ukraine, say? Sergey Narayshin was the chairman of this Commission.

Its mandate from Medvedev’s ukaze stipulated that they were to recommend political, economic, and military sanctions against the governments and scientific societies that wrote truths rather than Soviet/Russian dezinformatsia. They also were ordered to fund the works of those who wrote as they wished or directed them to do to create a body of works in English and other languages that could forward the altered narrative. Shade of the NYT’s Walter Duranty seen there.

By the time 2018 rolled around, the above mentioned articles were buried in search results along with utterly irrelevant results.

Vova issued a screed of his own about Ukrainian history and its uncomfortable truths of surviving multiple genocides in the 20th century, and again now in this current illegal genocidal war of Russian invasion and bestiality.

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