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Jeremy Bentham wrote: "In the darkness of secrecy, sinister interest and evil in every shape, have full swing.... Publicity is the very soul of justice.” I'll provide some of that publicity.
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A Plea to Media for Better Coverage of Donald Trump’s 96% Friend, Susan Collins (opens the original)
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Susan Collins is Donald Trump’s 96% friend. Media coverage should reflect that.I subscribe to Margaret Sullivan’s American Crisis Substack and this week’s post is extremely important. It is How you can demand better media coverage as the midterms loom. Sullivan recommends we read a letter from the Media and Democracy Project to media outlets imploring that they cover, as Professor Jay Rosen says, “<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/15/media/2024-election-horse-r
Forget the Corrupt Defense Contractor, Susan Collins Donors Are the People We Need to Be Worrying About (opens the original)
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Some of you may be aware of the explosive ProPublica story detailing allegations that Maine Senator Susan Collins political committees were accepting large donations from a defense contractor, in exchange for Collins helping secure millions of dollars worth of defense contracts. Sure that is bad, but in an op-ed in the Portland Press Herald I argue that we should really be worried about Collins donors like Elon Musk, Leonard Leo, and Peter Thiel. They are a genuine threat to our democracy.Gift c
Boston Oligarchs Fund Another Hostile Takeover of Our Democracy (opens the original)
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Here at the Setting Sun Home for Retired Political Scientists nothing delights the captives like a sentence that begins with “Why, back in my day . . .” So, imagine how tickled I was to find that many of the Boston oligarchs attempting to purchase Massachusetts’ candidate selection system are the same Moneybags I exposed as trying to privateer our public schools a decade ago!I am referring to Question 3 on the ballot to replace Massachusetts’ party primary system of choosing general election can
In Bucks County Beacon: Setting Record Straight on Parents Defending Education (opens the original)
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Here’s a piece Jeff Bryant and I did for Bucks County Beacon, ANALYSIS: Setting the Record Straight on ‘Parent-Led’ Groups Attacking Public Schools. Think about it—the New York Times is the “paper of record.” So if NYT makes an assertion about a ‘parent-led’ group, that fact must check out. As we show here, not always. The Times did good work in some respects, but missed the boat on others. Leaving any impression that
Bobby Charles' Two Repugnant Statements on Biddeford. (opens the original)
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Maine Republican gubernatorial candidate Bobby Charles has issued two statements on the ICE killing in Biddeford. According to Charles, everyone should desire accountability while giving ICE the benefit of the doubt, people protesting the killing are irrational children, and we’ll all be much happier if we get the illegals and drugs out of Maine.Charles should pass on a third try.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nMbd!,f_auto,q_auto:good,f
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