Schmuck of the Week: Major Newspaper Editors Doing Trump’s Bidding

[Splinter]( Jul 19, 2024 [Schmuck of the Week: Major Newspaper Editors Doing Trump’s Bidding]( [Schmuck of the Week: Major Newspaper Editors Doing Trump’s Bidding]( Trump is smarter than this strain of idiocy in the media, and this is proof. [The Nefarious Figures Behind the Far-Right Who Predate Trump]( [The Nefarious Figures Behind the Far-Right Who Predate Trump]( The American far-right and their political organs within the Republican Party are waging an authoritarian hybrid war against all of us and the systems that create, maintain, and progress democracy. [California vs. Texas: Power Grid Catastrophe Showdown]( [California vs. Texas: Power Grid Catastrophe Showdown]( Heat waves, hurricanes, other forms of flooding, and more are only going to tax power grids further as climate change worsens. The dueling catastrophes of the past few weeks should offer some lessons for those trying to build the grids to survive those changes. [After One of the Wildest Weeks in American History, It Really Might Be Joever]( [After One of the Wildest Weeks in American History, It Really Might Be Joever]( If you pitched this past week as an episode of The West Wing to me, I would have permanently blinded myself from rolling my eyes all the way into the back of my head. [A Climate Action Proposal: Hold the Presidential Election in August]( [A Climate Action Proposal: Hold the Presidential Election in August]( The fact is, climate change is a massive threat to the lives, livelihoods, and overall economic and general well being of the country, and of course the world. And so why should we fickle voters cast our ballots in the pleasant chill of early November? [Copa America Was Already Embarrassing Before the Disastrous Final Took It to the Next Level]( [Copa America Was Already Embarrassing Before the Disastrous Final Took It to the Next Level]( Fans hoisted aloft a half-full bottle of tequila they somehow got past security, others destroyed an escalator or scaled a stadium wall to get past security, and a fan’s shih tzu got loose from its carrier and roamed as other fans charged past a fallen gate. [Why Are Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Backing Joe Biden?]( [Why Are Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Backing Joe Biden?]( What’s happening is that Bernie and his leftist allies in Congress are throwing Biden a lifeline, and I am very much here for this gambit where I see very little downside in swinging for the fences. [In J.D. Vance, Trump Picks the Perfect Butcher Boy as Vice President]( [In J.D. Vance, Trump Picks the Perfect Butcher Boy as Vice President]( Vance is truly a Horatio Alger story, only if a poor boy from the Midwest gained his fortune slicing his family up like so much meat and then got an invitation to dinner from the Wealth Class. He is a good little butcher boy, and he has been sharpening his knife for a very, very long time. [Trump, the Wind, and the Thin Line Between Reality and Madness]( [Trump, the Wind, and the Thin Line Between Reality and Madness]( The wind wasn’t blowing. Then it was. That’s why he’s here, so I tell myself, over and over. [Trump\'s Hardcore Following Is Ready for Its Next Stage]( [Trump's Hardcore Following Is Ready for Its Next Stage]( Secular Americans must understand this assassination attempt reflects, beat by beat, the deeply held mythology of how Jesus Christ, the original Christian martyr, was attacked and then resurrected. It activates a narrative framework that has always influenced how Christians and the Right have seen the world. [View this email in your browser]( Copyright © 2024 Splinter/Paste Media (7525 Colbert Drive, Suite 106, Reno NV 89511) [unsubscribe](