2026-08-21T13:47:12Z https://nostr.now Dan Gillmor https://nostr.now/npub1ry2mcdygmcufem93yun6cqvl8q6weyqa8zfyud6ys0kuyr7paaesekma3q https://files.mastodon.social/accounts/avatars/109/208/442/152/198/181/original/a98930cc33876975.png https://files.mastodon.social/accounts/avatars/109/208/442/152/198/181/original/a98930cc33876975.png https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs8dym23r2nm2lwe3q2kryvma77vpkc9tljul6kwkcwhz3d72gme4qzyqv3t0p53r0r388vkynj0tqpnuurfmysr5ufyn3hgjp7mss0c8hhxpcsrcv &#34;We are far past the stage of permissiveness with white-supremacist violence inside DHS. We are at the stage of active, enthusiastic commission of it.&#34;<br/><br/>Big Journalism doesn&#39;t get it, because it doesn&#39;t want to. So we have to rely on independent reporting that does.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.forever-wars.com/either-ice-is-abolished-or-it-will-kill-many-more-renee-goods/?ref=forever-wars-newsletter">https://www.forever-wars.com/either-ice-is-abolished-or-it-will-kill-many-more-renee-goods/?ref=forever-wars-newsletter</a> 2026-01-13T00:16:47Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs238lg8fqqnntgmf85h9gw8s4zpwjqkqtld2q39zr6tgkflwkrcygzyqv3t0p53r0r388vkynj0tqpnuurfmysr5ufyn3hgjp7mss0c8hhxmsjvqt Big Journalism is engaged in a parody of fact checking at this point. <br/><br/>Trump gets ho-hum corrections -- often granularly parsed to give him endless benefits of the doubt -- and the fact-checkers don&#39;t even pretend to get to every lie. <br/><br/>Democrats get granular parsing, too. But the goal is to find falsehoods and never, ever give the benefit of the doubt. <br/><br/>Fact-checking is a sadly broken both-sides (even when one is lying) enterprise. 2024-08-20T18:07:32Z