Showing posts with label bias. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bias. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 6, 2025

Trump bumps some medical organizations from vaccine working groups

The government labeled organizations including the Infectious Diseases Society and the American Medical Association "special interest groups" that inject bias in decision-making…

Other groups removed from the working groups include the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Physicians and the American Geriatrics Society. Several issued a joint statement calling on the administration to reconsider…
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/05/rfk-jr-trump-vaccine-policy-groups-changes


Monday, February 10, 2025

Weekly Roundup: Musk’s Coup and Trump’s Christian Zionist Gaza Takeover (Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller; Straight White American Jesus podcast)

Brad and Dan discuss Elon Musk’s increasing control over U.S. government operations. 

Senator Chris Murphy warns of Musk’s access to sensitive systems and data, while Democrats are urged to act more decisively. 

The recent executive order banning gender-affirming care and the establishment of an anti-Christian bias task force signify an alarming trend towards authoritarianism. 

They also discuss the implications of Trump’s comments on Gaza and potential legal responses.
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Sunday, February 9, 2025

Trump’s taskforce order is latest in efforts to boost Christian nationalism

Some critics were quick to condemn the initiative as a thinly veiled attempt to privilege evangelical Christianity over other religious minorities. 

"If Trump really cared about religious freedom and ending religious persecution, he'd be addressing antisemitism in his inner circle, anti-Muslim bigotry, hate crimes against people of color and other religious minorities," the president and CEO of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Rachel Laser, said in a statement. "This taskforce is not a response to Christian persecution; it's an attempt to make America into an ultra-conservative Christian Nationalist nation."…

Donald Trump's task force to "eradicate anti-Christian bias" is a complete waste of time

… and based on lies…

Thursday, January 16, 2025

Why I have finally quit Facebook (it’s not just about fact-checking)

Regarding Facebook, though, all Lanier's propositions were laid out in a buffet: in politics, it creates a bias "not towards the left or right, but downwards". Any position that could be less evidenced, more stupid, would be the one that would fly. 

The manipulative algorithms, the spread of misinformation, the generation of weird hostilities, the amplification of divisive narratives – it was all right there, but on top of that Facebook was already very boring…

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/14/why-i-have-finally-quit-facebook-its-not-just-about-fact-checking


 

Monday, June 24, 2024

Against Her Better Judges (Andrew McCabe and Allison Gill; Jack: A Special Counsel podcast, Episode #82)

It has come to light that two “more experienced” judges urged Cannon to recuse herself from the Mar-a-Lago documents case. One of them was Chief Judge Altonaga. Nevertheless, Cannon stayed on the case and has turned it into a complete mess.

America First Legal– a Stephen Miller joint– has been allowed to participate as amici.

We are still waiting on SCOTUS to drop their Presidential Immunity opinion so the DC case can proceed.

Plus, listener questions.

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Friday, March 8, 2024

Why PragerU is trying to get its videos into schools : NPR

Educators have voiced alarms about the tone and accuracy of some of PragerU's videos, such as one that features an animated Christopher Columbus saying: "Being taken as a slave is better than being killed, no? I don't see the problem."…

Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Why a Fox News pundit may not have heard bad news about Trump - The Washington Post

Biden's classified documents are not the only subject area where Fox News overperforms, certainly. You will recall that MSNBC has been particularly enthusiastic about the Carroll case, mentioning the writer in more than 4,800 segments since early 2021. 

Well, Fox News mentioned President Biden's son Hunter in more than 4,200 segments in one month. Since January 2021, the channel has mentioned Hunter Biden in more than 38,000 segments…


Friday, March 1, 2024

Bias hiding in plain sight: Decades of analyses suggest US media skews anti-Palestinian

The displacement of around 750,000 Palestinians in 1948 remains a top Palestinian concern, because it turned about 80% of Palestinians into stateless refugees.

"Rarely, however, is the history of how these people became refugees incorporated into the reporting," and neither is the body of international law and consensus on their rights, states journalism scholar Marda Dunsky, who conducted the analysis. An analysis of 30 major U.S. print and broadcast outlets over four years – from 2000 to 2004 – found that the coverage lacked this important context during the second intifada...

Thursday, February 29, 2024

Opinion | Why Is Trump Getting Special Treatment From the Supreme Court? - POLITICO

It is hard to see any legally sound reason why the Supreme Court should have decided to step in to hear Trump's implausible and constitutionally destructive claim for absolute criminal immunity — especially when it has refused to hear so many other criminal defendants' far more meritorious claims...

Monday, May 1, 2023

New Democratic star utterly DESTROYS GOP Member to his face during hearing

Watch a new Democratic star Justin Jones utterly destroys a Tennessee Republican Representative Jason Zachary to his face during a hearing on implicit bias. Meidas Contributor Francis Maxwell reacts.
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Tuesday, March 7, 2023

Does DOJ have ‘anti-Catholic bias’? Josh Hawley presses Merrick Garland. - The Washington Post

The document — which in a footnote drew a distinction between traditionalist Catholics who are and aren't radicalized — said the radicalized ones also adhere to an "anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant, anti-LGBT, and white supremacy" ideology. The memo said "legislative and judicial decisions in such areas as abortion rights" may be "catalyzing events" for right-wing extremism but that the FBI could mitigate the threat by recruiting sources within traditionalist Catholic parishes...







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