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Dude, it's worse than THAT.

https://www.usatoday.com/story...

I assume you're referring to the $1 trillion per year that Trump is borrowing from the US citizens to 'boost' the economy.

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/...

(or did you think it's his genius policies that's doing that?)

I just looked at the debt graph. Obama inherited a recession, and spent to try to get out of it, but the deficit was falling towards the end of his presidency. He also inherited some unpaid for tax cuts from Bush that he kept most of.

Trump inherited a great economy, and he cut taxes as you mentioned, mostly on the rich and corporations. It is as you mentioned, acting as stimulus, though the targeting is suspect IMO.

If you cut taxes to stimulate the economy when your doing well, well, when do you pay your bills?

The thing that worries me, is what if we hit another recession and have exhausted all our credit. The trade mess just adds to the problem, since if you have annoyed all your creditors, who is going to lend you money?

I assume you're referring to the $1 trillion per year that Trump is borrowing from the US citizens to 'boost' the economy.

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/...

(or did you think it's his genius policies that's doing that?)

The platforms are worked one of his listeners is going to go off and shoot somebody. This isn't idle speculation either.

By that standard, MSNBC is guilty of incitement and should be taken off the air: "The next month, he cited the MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show as one of his favorite television programs, adding that a recent show had highlighted the contributions of 17 wealthy donors to the Republican Party."

TL;DR: The Left isn't getting banned because they don't lean on violence.

Bullshit. Funny how you excuse Antifa, who practice actual violence. Why were the Proud Boys banned, when the only violence they commit is to defend themselves when attacked by the likes of Antifa?

Twitter has policies against promoting violence and racism, yet leftists accounts get away with it all the time. Say you hate black people, and you'll be banned in a nanosecond. Speak out in favor of white genocide, not only will Twitter let you keep your blue checkmark, they suspend the guy pointing you out.

Does anyone actually complain about immigrants stealing jobs these days? If memory serves, that was the talking point in the Clinton era, when the left was against illegal immigration because they thought it benefitted big corporations. Of course, now that immigration has become a social justice issue, their stance has completely flipped.

There is a lot of different opinions, but yes, some do https://www.usatoday.com/story...

You don't hear as much about it these days because (I suspect) that as immigrants are kickd out, many of the low skilled american born low skilled citizens are kind of worried that the may be asked to take those jerbs that they bitched about imgrunts stealing. from them. Sometimes the worst thing you can get is what you asked for.

The problems to me are twofold.

Want to stop immigrant workers? Catch one, and imprison the person running the company a year for each illegal immigrant. Not a popular idea, because the owners of those company pay their baksheesh to the politicians.

the next issue is a little more complex. The bckground is that typically, the first generation of immigrants usually take menial jobs as a way to provide a better life for their children. The children move a rung up the ladder, and rinse and repeat. As an example, My grandparents immigrated from eastern Europe, and worked as miners. they had children, and many of them move a notch or two up the ladder. My grandfather worked and was killed in the mines. My father first worked construction, then had a career as a low-mid level office worker. I became a professional in the science field. Upward mobility.

Some of the relatives didn't move up, and they are the people of interest.

We aren't supposed to do several generations of menial labor. And many people for one reason or another have either tried to.

He has a 35% approval rate amongst black Americans.

https://www.usatoday.com/story...

Seems getting people jobs and not treating them like victims that can't tie their own shoes works well with people.

Well maybe not you.

https://www.usatoday.com/story...

Some of his racist ones

Would Trump actually admit under oath that he had been tricked by an internet video and hadn't bothered to do the most superficial bit of research to confirm if it was true or not? I think more likely he would just settle for a few million rather than lose face.

Remember when Trump got tricked by white supremacist videos? Remember what his response to being called out on it was? Yeah, that's right, he doubled down.

The humans have no problem in those cities.

Are you seriously arguing that humans never cause accidents in those cities? HAHAHAHAHAH..... Humans cause thousands of accidents DAILY in these cities, most of which are due to incompetent driving. One of the primary motivations for self driving cars is precisely because humans have proven that they are quite bad at driving safely. Over 40,000 fatalities in car accidents a year in the US alone last year.

https://www.usatoday.com/story...

Know what I did? I went trying to find a case which matches what you described...

Dude admits to undercover cop that selling his home made gun is not legal, and even tells cop how to claim to police that the cop made it himself. That's some nice mens rea for you right there:
https://www.fredericknewspost....

Building SBRs & supressors without first aquiring tax stamps is a big no no: http://gunsandrifles.com/2018/...

Dude sells multiple undercover agents, sure doesn't sound like soly building them for personal use, then sometime later opting to sell them: https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2...

Manufacturing machineguns at home is generally illegal, especially when the person involved doesn't have the right FFL: https://www.usatoday.com/story...

Not US based, but advertizing ones manufacturered guns for sale, not smart: https://www.illawarramercury.c...

From the UK, making bullets at home and supplying them and illegal firearms to gangs isn't exactly a way to appear innocent: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

The one case which I do recall, is this one: https://arstechnica.com/tech-p...

In many jurisdictions, rolled tobacco is taxed at a different rate as loose tobacco, similarrly, ground cofee when compared to whole beans. To skirt these taxes, some places will sell you the raw products, let you put it into a machine and out comes your less taxed result.

It's a clever and legal loophole, until the politicans close it: https://lacrossetribune.com/ne...

This last case is similar, in that it's in a gray area. Technically it's the 'buyer' who is actually manufacturing the firearm, however it seems pretty clear what the guy's game was, and depending on the degree of assistance he provided (setup for instance), he could be said to be part of the manufacturing process. Of course, he plead guilty (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/04/dr-death-pleads-guilty-to-making-selling-ar-15-rifle-components/) and reading some of how he was doing it, it's pretty clear he had little case.

Care to cite a single case which matches the description you made of a jury not believing them, that they built something for personal use and then later transferred it?

poaching the right people from the competition or getting in first to capture some new PhD research.

Apple, Google, Tesla, etc will overwhelmingly get the better people. Uber seems not to be operating with the top people: "Uber's self-driving car system detected an Arizona pedestrian about six seconds before the vehicle it was in killed the woman in March. But the system never took action to prevent the incident, according to the preliminary results of a National Transportation Safety Board investigation. Uber engineers had intentionally disabled the Volvo's emergency braking system "to reduce the potential for erratic vehicle behavior" but did not program the system to alert the human operator to manually brake the vehicle, NTSB reported Thursday."
https://www.usatoday.com/story...

If I had to guess, they were operating on the public roads prematurely rather than the closed test track in order to give the illusion of better progress on their R&D. I've seen other companies play games to manufacture the impression of progress to acquire or maintain investments.

And it makes sense to me that Uber is not able to recruit the top tier, they aren't really a high tech company, a serious research organization. Sure they are a raise investment capital success, but their success lies in a unique business model not in any technological development. I.e. they use ordinary citizens and their cars for a taxi service. They organized these citizens with a phone app. A novel business process, quite mundane technology.

likely this:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/03/21/westboro-baptist-church-pickets-funerals/6688951/

Haven't heard very much from them since Obergefell though.

There are three branches to the government, and none of them were exclusive to DNC.

Not "exclusive". But certainly run by the Democrats — as is normal for when the Executive branch is headed by a Democrat, of course.

Even if you mistake DNC for the Democratic Party

Distinction without meaningful difference to the topic at hand.

it's patently false

Oh, it is quite true. It is no secret at all, that Obama's administration (ab)used its power to spy on Republicans and help the fellow Democrats. And not only was the NSA-collected data used that way, Comey's FBI was "doing its part" too.

"Patently false" my tail...

You joke, but this podcast describes prisoners working as firefighters in California for $1/hr.

Which makes this a great time for a strike by prisoners. This is a moment when we might actually notice.

Yup, that's what the podcast is about. Really good summary of how we got here and what they're trying to change.

If the murderer had been a citizen, I really doubt the site would have seen it as newsworthy.

I'm blowing mod points to reply to your post, but it's important to point out that in this case you are flat out wrong. This story has been in the national news for a month since she went missing. It has been in the national news all along. When her body was found yesterday that was in the national news. Today it was revealed someone was charged with her murder, and it was an illegal immigrant.

This was a month ago (People magazine): https://people.com/crime/unive...
Three weeks ago (Fox News): http://www.foxnews.com/transcr...
Three weeks ago (CNN): https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/26...
This was two weeks ago (USA Today): https://www.usatoday.com/story...

You get the idea. Google shows 2.7 million hits from news sources for her name. Just pointing out you have made a massive assumption ("By just reporting every crime committed by an illegal they can create the impression that all illegal immigrants are murderous") based on totally incorrect information ("If the murderer had been a citizen, I really doubt the site would have seen it as newsworthy.")

You joke, but this podcast describes prisoners working as firefighters in California for $1/hr.

Which makes this a great time for a strike by prisoners. This is a moment when we might actually notice.

Voter fraud is not an issue. First, I need to define this term. Voter fraud is when a person votes or attempts to vote as somebody different than who they are. It is hard to imitate a different voter and not very efficient. Republicans have been trying to prove massive voter fraud for many years, at least since George W. Bush has been in office. I don't have exact statistics handy, but there has been less that two people per state per year. It is not a problem.

Remember the poll worker that voted on behalf of her friends and family members, insisted it wasn't actually a crime, was convicted of voter fraud, and then was cheered as a hero at a democrat political rally?

Back when I frequented Drudge Report, if a link took me to infowars.com I would navigate away. It's a little crazy over there.

I agree with you completely. After the ban, I've been looking at his site occasionally to see what all the fuss is about, and just can't get interested in any of it.

Problem is, free speech means everyone gets to have their say. Banning Infowars was wrong, it was the 3rd click of the censorship ratchet, and it needs to be discussed in the arena of civil rights.

I think the second one(*) was taking away DailyStormer's domain registration and not letting them use it.

Even the Electronic Freedom Foundation worried over censoring DailyStormer.

We're well into the 3rd line of that "first they came for..." poem, and we really need to get this sorted out before the internet turns into a leftist utopian playland, where everyone agrees and speaking out is prohibited.

We really need to get this sorted out.

Maybe the government will step in and impose regulations.

It seems like we're headed that way.

(*) First one was MasterCard and Visa dropping Wikileaks simultaneously after posting the "collateral murder" video, isolating Wikileaks from $11 million in donations that were coming in.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/07/06/mar-lago-foreign-worker-visas/764053002/

Generic of course.

I'm just curious, why are Epi Pens not already generic?

Then observe the value of competition... The market works, if you let it.

There is already a generic epinephrine injector that's been around for about 13 years called Adrenaclick. I bought mine from Walmart for about $160, I think.
There's also the Auvi-Q since 2012. https://www.drugs.com/history/...

https://www.consumerreports.or...
https://www.usatoday.com/story...

If they're concerned about moral and ethical issues why the hell do they work for Google?

It's not hard to figure out.

Listen to the chants of leftist protestors in the US:

"No borders! No walls! No USA at all!"

Note well that there were a helluva lot more leftist protesters shouting "No USA at all!" than the 20 or so white nationalists that the news media made such a stink over....

I'd imagine you could do that, too; although most of the time people just find ballot boxes (Note: Daily Kos is very liberal and kind of crazy, hurls accusations of malice without hesitation), additional ballots, or whatnot.

It's a really damned old problem.

Experiment, sure...
New police radars can 'see' inside homes (Jan. 19, 2015)
https://www.usatoday.com/story...
Technologies that see through the walls (July 7, 2015)
https://www.kaspersky.com/blog...

Tesla cars are hacked for remote brake activation, among other things. Not a reassuring platform to start from...

You mean the code that was hacked each year so that brakes could be activated remotely? That code base? Yeah - I don't see other manufacturers really giving $0.02 about it...

Why don't you take your faggot (gaping) ass to a Muslim bakery and tell them you demand they bake you a SSM wedding cake and sue THEM for refusing?

Because I live in a state where the mosques were vandalized and the legislature had a freakout over a utility sink. There are no legal grounds for me to do so, in fact, a judge disrupted a court proceeding over his ire over the Supreme court decision, by refusing to let two parties settle a divorce because of a feigned complaint about Obergefeld v. Hodges.

Maybe you live in a state where you would have legal grounds. So why don't you? Is it because the Muslim bakeries were happy to bake a cake, and if you tried to sue them for refusing, the Judge would ask why you committed perjury. Some of us remember your heavily edited video was falsified.

You are a deceitful, hypocritical, bloviating, shallow-minded, shit-spewing, garbage-flinging Right-wing buffoon.

Keep repeating yourself.

Visit https://eu.usatoday.com/ and try not to blink, or you will miss page loading and rendering. They decided that getting rid of JS trackers is a better business decision than implementing all the consent gathering, required by EU law. Now USA Today page loads fast.

Football/basketball pays for the rest of the sport programs.

I do hope you're kidding:
28 Top tier Div1 teams spending more than they make
Schools prop up their football programs with student fees
Only 8 schools broke even or better in a 5 year period
Schools play loose with numbers to show athletics programs as more profitable to the university when those "profits" are really earmarked for athletics scholarships

And finally, just to blow the entire set of "profitability" out the window, note that most universities don't include a whole host of associated costs into the calculation of whether their programs are profitable. That last one basically calls into question any previous studies that do not explicitly account for a host of expenses that should be rolled into any sports program. Essentially regular students/parents/loans are paying for the sports programs at all universities with the potential exception of less than a literal handful.

But is SHOULD go away because the Russians are on the "right" side now...

Facebook just busted the Russians for supporting anti-Trump demonstrations.
https://www.npr.org/2018/07/31...

Also, during the 2016 election, the Russians backed Bernie...
https://www.usatoday.com/story...

This should be enough to prove the Russia is one of the "good guys" and should be left alone to meddle -- as long as they are on the right side.

https://www.usatoday.com/story...

A California Department of Motor Vehicles employee slept thousands of hours on the job since 2014 , a report released Tuesday from the state's auditor says.

The report estimates the employee slept three or more hours daily at her desk since February 2014, totaling over 2,200 hours of work time and costing more than $40,000.

The employee worked as a key data operator. Her duties included "routine data entry for change of address and new vehicle ownership forms," the report says.

She processed less than half the documents that she was expected to – an average of 200 documents a day, when key data operators are expected to process more than 550, according to the report.

While her supervisors were aware of the issue, the report found that they underestimated the amount of time the employee was sleeping on the job and did not properly follow disciplinary procedures.

A supervisor reported waking the employee up "three to four times each day," the report says. It says the work the employee did complete "was often so inaccurate" that coworkers wouldn't trust her to correctly enter their address or vehicle ownership change.

Mueller is a professional liar and propagandist.

Former head of the FBI for 12 years, appointed by the Trump DOJ, endorsed by Republicans back when this whole process started.

I totally believe you...

The fact that the came out with the latest faux indictments immediately before the summit tells anyone with a couple of functioning neurons that this was done to maintain the Russiagate narrative. Nothing more, nothing less.

Preach brother! You've disproven the indictment by timing and irrelevant hyperbole alone! All who disagree with you have less than a couple of functioning neurons!

I totally believe that too...

And note that Putin immediately called Mueller's bluff by offering to hand over the indicted Russian officials if the FBI provides evidence to back up their claims, which everyone knows Mueller isn't going to do.

Link please. Because the tale is that Putin offered to allow Mueller to observe interviews conducted by Russian officials in Russia if the Russians could question "U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul and 10 other 'U.S. officials and intelligence agents.'" Trump refused.

I mean, you've only totally gotten that one wrong... so I totally believe that other stuff.

I don't think there's a conspiracy, but I *do* believe that, a few years ago, everyone sort of tacitly agreed that it would be good to have Russia as an enemy.

First (a couple of years ago) we heard about unspecified attacks on "critical infrastructure" by "Russian state-sponsored actors".

Then after the election it was "Russians meddled in the election", followed by "Russians hacked the election"

(It's on Wikipedia, so it must be true!) .

Then 17 intelligence agencies confirmed that the Russians hacked the election. Including, and I'm not making this up, Coast Guard Intelligence.

Thenn there is the infamous pee pee document

Of course the Mueller investigation is onto something, because... if there's nothing there why is Mueller still investigating?

Trump meeting with Putin is treason and...

Trump's treason was confirmed.

The thing is, the timing of the Steele dossier is inconsistent with the Russian narrative. If Hillary had known about the dossier during the campaign, she would have moved heaven and Earth to get it in the public eye before the election. The fact that she *didn't* implies that she was certain of winning the election, and the dossier was prepared for a different purpose.

There's no really good evidence that the Russian government is involved with any of the hacking, except to say "That's something they would do". It's the fallacy of the reversed conditional,

I think what we're seeing is a long-term narrative to (eventually) justify a conflict with Russia.

...and Trump stuck a pin in that by meeting with Putin and starting a normal political relationship.

(Probably every response to this post will call me out as a Russian puppet, use foul insults, or predict Trump going to federal prison. Ignore those posts - the ones to read are ones that have a reasoned argument, citing facts, hopefully with links backing up facts, and painting a believable picture of an alternate explanation.)

Crimea actually, part of Russia proper until 1954, 60-80% Russian-speaking (depending on who's counting), annexed after a (granted,questionable) referendum after successful US-sponsored coup in Ukraine. Sounds much less villainous after you know some facts. Also a great loss of resources that were supposed to be made available to US interests after the successful coup. Oops.

There was no "coup" unless you rely on Russian sources. It was the majority of Ukrainians who VOTED to join the EU. Russia views the EU as the gateway to NATO and of course Putin would have none of that, so he decided to invade the east and annex Crimea with soldiers without insigna, all the while putting up smokescreens denying any involvement. All of which is obviously illegal under international law.

Support for a Russian-allied tyrant is different from US supporting its Allied Tyrants (say the House of Saud) by how many levels of Hell exactly? Oh, I see, the same action's evil depends of who is doing it! Also known as Hypocrisy. And no, "whataboutism" is an Orwellian NewSpeak term, a logical fallacy in itself designed to deflect from exposing actions Hypocritical. Don't even bother.

The Syrians were protesting on the streets for more freedoms and democracy as part of the Arab spring. Assad decided not to chat and gun them down instead. You can bet your ass the US or any Western country would never be able or willing to uphold support for a regime that guns down their own citizens. Putin has no problem with that, obviously.

You should read stuff by Seymour Hersh (one of those old school war journalists no longer popular for their knack of telling inconvenient truths - oh, hey this sounds familiar!) and his on-site investigations of the Great Chlorine Fabrication. There are many others. For further reference check out a girl named Nayirah and incubator babies but then again it will probably bounce off your uncritical self-smug world-view like a water off a duck.

International inspectors have performed their investigations and it is clear that the Syrian regime bears responsibility for the chemical attacks. But you might prefer to believe Putin and Assad's version, since they are clearly more trustworthy than any international organization.

Hang them now! How dare they have a preference! Wait, isn't this exactly what US is doing? Wasn't Obama actually co-campaigning in Britain against Brexit even...

Voicing support for one party or the other is one thing. A foreign state actor providing material support and finances to a party and agenda of a foreign nation is another thing altogether.

The ongoing murders of opposition figures and journalists in Russia

Having been fed a steady diet of bullshit of such high purity you probably also think that Putin is not having popularity ratings in 80% range

Putin's rating haven't been in the 80's for a while now. Not that it matters. Of course a strong leader in a police state where the media is controlled by the government will have high ratings. How high do you think Hitler's rating where?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
https://www.bbc.com/news/world...
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/...
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/0...
The list goes on...
Business as usual in Putin's Russia.

At least WalMart pays local taxes in the towns and cities they were located in. And despite paying relatively low wages on a national level, they were often on par and over to what the local small retail stores were paying their employees. Amazon, otoh, got the advantage of selling merchandise tax free for almost two decades consequently devastating local retail brick and mortar store and local tax bases as it became more popular.

At least Amazon pays its employees enough so they don't qualify for welfare. WalMart costs us $6.2 billion. Oh, and guess who had money hiding off shore in a tax haven? Walmart.

https://www.usatoday.com/story...

https://www.usatoday.com/story...

so do cars. We heavily regulate cars. Also, it's kinda hard to get a car into a school hall way. I mean, I've seen some enterprising young lads pull it off, but it's a lot of effort.

that too, but it's also wrong link because it's fucking bloomberg, who thinks having javascript disabled or rejecting cookies is a 'terms of service violation'. fuck 'em. search engines exist. they are not the only source for news or 'news'.

here's some noscript friendly alternative sources...

https://arstechnica.com/inform...

https://nypost.com/2018/07/05/...

https://www.engadget.com/2018/...

https://www.usatoday.com/story...

any of these will let you read the article with noscript and adblock active.

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yeah,... right. which car companies would that be.. short or selective memory?

GM/Chrysler bail out - Final tally: Taxpayers auto bailout loss $9.3B - "The government said it recovered $70.42 billion of the $79.68 billion it gave to General Motors, Chrysler, Ally Financial, Chrysler Financial and automotive suppliers through the federal Auto Industry Financing Program. The program was part of the larger Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP." https://eu.usatoday.com/story/...

The previous guy merely pointed out that the government is enforcing the law the way they're supposed to, rather than ignoring it the way a certain previous administration did.

BULL FUCKING SHIT

Do NOT try to excuse this insanity with a lying-ass letter-of-the-law claim.

The previous guy was arguing that children should be taken away from parents who are simply charged with a crime that is typically punished with a $10 fine and time served. That is NOT "the way they are supposed to." It is vastly disproportionate. We don't take away kids from people charged for possessing a fake Smokey the Bear emblem, or transporting a water hyacinth, all of which are petty misdemeanors of the same level as improper entry.

Furthermore, improper entry is not illegal if it is for the purpose of asylum. People have 1 year after making entry to legally claim asylum. So there is absolutely no legal justification to keep asylum seekers incarcerated, much less separated from their kids.

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“The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.”

— Aldous Huxley
The Olive Tree (1936).

You're assuming that genocide is a genetic trait, when it isn't. Ethics are taught.

Genocide is a word with moral implications. You should ask if the drive to advance your own species / family line over others is a genetic trait. Which it will be, because any species / family with this mentality is going to wipe the floor with one that doesn't.

If we met an advanced space-faring species, what would be their advantage in treating us with respect? Anything they want to know about us they could learn through subjugation. Leaving us to our own devices leaves open the chance that in another 10,000 years we'd be competing with them.

Ethics are taught.

Humans have been warring since they figured out that banding together offered a survival advantage. There were no "ethics", just the drive to survive and propagate.

Who taught our closest relatives, the Chimps, their ethics?
https://www.usatoday.com/story...: https://www.usatoday.com/story...
Murder 'comes naturally' to chimpanzees: https://www.bbc.com/news/scien...
Monkey see, monkey kill: The evolutionary roots of lethal combat: http://www.latimes.com/science...

You're assuming that genocide is a genetic trait, when it isn't. Ethics are taught.

Genocide is a word with moral implications. You should ask if the drive to advance your own species / family line over others is a genetic trait. Which it will be, because any species / family with this mentality is going to wipe the floor with one that doesn't.

If we met an advanced space-faring species, what would be their advantage in treating us with respect? Anything they want to know about us they could learn through subjugation. Leaving us to our own devices leaves open the chance that in another 10,000 years we'd be competing with them.

Ethics are taught.

Humans have been warring since they figured out that banding together offered a survival advantage. There were no "ethics", just the drive to survive and propagate.

Who taught our closest relatives, the Chimps, their ethics?
https://www.usatoday.com/story...: https://www.usatoday.com/story...
Murder 'comes naturally' to chimpanzees: https://www.bbc.com/news/scien...
Monkey see, monkey kill: The evolutionary roots of lethal combat: http://www.latimes.com/science...

You’re not kidding.

This is just Facebook implementing features based on their user surveys.

indefinite detention of children

Some sources say it's the law that children may only stay there for 3 days. Other sources say the average stay is ~50 days. As an aside... I noticed the same paragraphs being used across numerous sources, without the original author being quoted (i.e, plagiarism, and possibly an effort craft a narrative via quantity).

Further, since people who present at a port of entry requesting asylum have broken no US laws, the Trump Administration is separating children from parents who have done nothing wrong and holding them in concentration camps just to exert political pressure on his opponents.

That's not what other sources are saying.

"The vast majority of the children arrived at the border unaccompanied," Merkley said Sunday. "But a certain share of them came with their parents and they were separated from their parents."

Source

Children are automatically separated from parents referred for criminal prosecution.

Source

It'd be nice if there was a source that offered data in bulletpoint-format with multiple sources per data point. So many articles are basically opinion pieces stuffed with adjectives like that Vanity Fair article you linked to.

He's gone in 8 if you continue acting this way (and then gets replaced by someone just like him).

Are you sure?

Poll: More than half of Republicans would support postponing 2020 election

https://www.usatoday.com/story...

Welcome to the New America, where conservatives care more about putting SJWs in their place than little things like terms limits.

The University of Chicago just announced last week that going forward, SAT scores will be "optional" when determining admission standards. Others, no doubt, will follow suit.

https://www.usatoday.com/story...

Guess who tends to do better on SAT tests? That's right - whites and asians. Blacks and Hispanics, on average, do far less well on SAT tests. Notice I said "on average". Obviously there are some Black and Hispanic students that do exceptionally well on the SAT tests but overall, as a group, they don't do as well as whites and asians do as a group. It's just a fact.

I suspect that at least one of the reasons that the University of Chicago chose to take this path is to "right" a supposed "wrong". Google has a very low percentage of black and Hispanic employees and Facebook and Microsoft are probably about the same. I don't know this for a fact but I would be willing to bet it is the case.

So the U of C has now "leveled" (i.e. tilted) the playing field in favor of two groups that traditionally don't do well on standardized tests. What could possibly go wrong?

And yet, our noble MSM is reporting only that the study was retracted, comparing it to 50-ish other studies that were similarly flawed.

Did you read the links? The NPR link says basically what you're saying here: the diet still has good evidence behind it, but they softened the language in the conclusion as a result of this. The Quartz article is more one-sided, but... are you really calling Quartz "MSM"?

Let's see... Here's the New York Times coverage. I'll quote:

That Huge Mediterranean Diet Study Was Flawed. But Was It Wrong?
A highly publicized trial in Spain found that the Mediterranean diet protects against heart disease. Now the original work has been retracted and re-analyzed, with the same result.

The next link from my search is USA Today, I'll quote:

He stressed this flaw only affected a small part of the trial (about 10 percent of participants) and that the conclusions remain the same: A Mediterranean diet can decrease risk of heart attacks and strokes by about 30 percent among those who are at high risk of developing cardiovascular disease.

So the answer to your exercise appears to be: Yes, the MSM are responsible journalists and the random news blog is not.