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      Rupert Murdoch Lies at the Heart of Democracy's Destruction Worldwide

      If our media and body politic are infected with a cancer — driven by an unending thirst for profits, regardless of the damage it does — it's our responsibility as Americans to call it out.

      Thom Hartmann
      Mar 12, 2023

      What country in its right mind would allow a foreign entity to come into their country, set up a major propaganda operation, and then use it to so polarize that nation that its very government suffers a violent assault and its democracy finds itself at a crossroads?

      Apparently, the United States. And we’re not the first, according to former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.

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      Dominion, Tucker Carlson, and the Very Big and More Dangerous Lie

      The lying about Dominion is symptomatic of much bigger, deeper, and more insidious Big Lies.

      Jeffrey C. Isaac
      Mar 10, 2023

      The Dominion lawsuit against Fox News has gotten a great deal of attention, and rightly so, for it raises fundamental questions about democracy in the U.S. and the ways that it is profoundly corrupted and seriously endangered by an alliance of right-wing media and the Republican Party. And yet beneath the lying exposed in the case are the more dangerous lies at the heart of MAGA ideology. And whether or not the notorious liars at Fox News Corp. believed anything they were saying about Dominion, there is no doubt that the deeper lies remain articles of faith for Fox and the Republican party.

      The facts of the case are pretty straightforward.

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      LGBTQ activists and their supporters rally in support of transgender people

      Right-Wing Media Ramping Up LGBTQ Attacks

      Claims about the "grooming" of children are meant to "create a culture of fear for all LGBTQ people and their allies, a clear attempt to force them back into the shadows and further out of public life."

      Ari Paul
      Jan 07, 2023

      Last summer, while waiting for coffee at a diner in what I’ll just call a small town, I overheard three older men complaining about how schools are forcing children to swap genders. A server responded, “You’re not even allowed to talk about this anymore.” I thought to myself, “A, you’re talking about it right now, and B, where’s my coffee?”

      The exchange has stayed on my mind: How on earth are so many people convinced that children’s lives are being turned upside down by the acceptance of LGBTQ rights in America? And why do they believe they are the ones being silenced, when they clearly aren’t?

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