More on poor coverage of the attack on Paul Pelosi by the Times

Is it just me, or is my former employer the @nytimes working very hard to avoid connecting the attempted assassination of Nancy Pelosi to right-wing extremism, years of GOP hate-mongering, and the attacker’s full-throated embrace of Trump and his lies? https://t.co/NPHIftEHA2
— James Gleick (@JamesGleick) October 30, 2022

How to take the politics out of it so as to protect the right. As though this is not a continuation of J6 domestic terrorism https://t.co/0n4h8upChF
— Ruth Ben-Ghiat (@ruthbenghiat) October 29, 2022

If you thought perhaps NYT is saving its front page coverage of the attempted assassination of the speaker and the damage done to her husband for the Sunday edition, I fear that was mistaken. https://t.co/XPUK1Z2jy0 pic.twitter.com/OmwttQ4DfW
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) October 30, 2022

How numb the media has become.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) October 30, 2022

What is going on? At the very least we know this was no garden variety burglary. It was targeted against a political leader and it was violent. And what does Boudin’s recall have to do with this attack? Nothing. @nytimes, really, what is going on? https://t.co/2zARQvFTHB
— Sherrilyn Ifill (@SIfill_) October 29, 2022

Influential newspaper that published 5 A1 stories in 2 days about James Comey finding some emails that were immaterial to a trivial pseudoscandal puts single story about attempt to assassinate the Speaker of the House below the fold https://t.co/8LogsFF97o
— Scott Lemieux (@LemieuxLGM) October 29, 2022

LEFT: The New York Times front page when a left-winter shoots a Republican congressman.

RIGHT: The New York Times front page when a right-winger attempts to assassinate the Democratic speaker of the House and brutally beats her husband with a hammer in their own home. https://t.co/9GOeIQExOh pic.twitter.com/j4Mr0XNxuk
— Ashton Pittman (@ashtonpittman) October 29, 2022

Republicans “both sides” attack on Paul Pelosi and the media is helping them

Great point here https://t.co/C8gsCMSB07
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) October 30, 2022

Nearly 2/3 of Republicans don’t trust the 2022 election results

I expect violence, lawsuits, recounts, and all kinds of stuff to sabotage the election results. I blame Trump.

NEW Brace for Nov. 9: Nearly two-thirds of Republican voters in the @USATODAY @Suffolk_U Poll say they don't trust the midterm election count to be fair and accurate. https://t.co/6zyzjwNkpk
— Susan Page (@SusanPage) October 30, 2022

Voter intimidation in Arizona

A Trump judge is allowing this to continue.

Breaking News: Activists can stake out ballot boxes in Arizona, a federal judge ruled. Voting rights groups have called the tactic voter intimidation. https://t.co/h8BtXVJoW8
— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 28, 2022

JUST IN: Emergency motion filed at 9th Circuit to bar armed guards at Ariz. ballot boxes. Doc: https://t.co/l3jGTGDLxK
— Josh Gorestein (@joshgerstein) October 29, 2022

Election deniers win in court:

PHOENIX (AP) — US judge in Arizona declines to bar group from monitoring ballot drop boxes, saying it would violate constitution.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 28, 2022

Poor coverage again by CNN

The violence problem is from right-wing exremists but they won’t say it. Cowards. In general, the media has been intimidated by Republicans.

Democrats don’t think the 2020 election was stolen. This is strictly a Republican problem but CNN won’t say it. I stopped watching CNN several weeks ago because of stuff like this.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) October 29, 2022

Bad coverage of the attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband

Hmmm… https://t.co/WvXMQzXGpw pic.twitter.com/4a0mUz9hM4
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) October 29, 2022

On the left, NYTimes coverage of Hillary Clinton’s emails.

On the right, NYTimes coverage of a rightwing domestic terrorist attack on the Speaker of the House. pic.twitter.com/eWHy4H9vGq
— Kaivan Shroff (@KaivanShroff) October 29, 2022

Please read this thread.

National politics framing by the most prominent national publications will look extremely bad in retrospect, and does now.

From a few days ago: https://t.co/rsEg2iI9RW https://t.co/SydAe58flC
— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) October 29, 2022

Absolutely incredible that @nytimes didn’t put above the fold an attempted assassination of the Speaker of the House—amid escalating political violence! The @nytimes repeatedly is failing to meet the moment here. pic.twitter.com/W9c4bQl9w3
— Garrett M. Graff (@vermontgmg) October 29, 2022

Influential newspaper that published 5 A1 stories in 2 days about James Comey finding some emails that were immaterial to a trivial pseudoscandal puts single story about attempt to assassinate the Speaker of the House below the fold https://t.co/8LogsFF97o
— Scott Lemieux (@LemieuxLGM) October 29, 2022

Tweet on Candyman 30 years later

'Candyman' 30 Years Later: Tony Todd, Virginia Madsen on Those Bees and the Horror Film's Racial Impact | Entertainment Tonight https://t.co/1VZcYAdYwq
— Tony Todd (@TonyTodd54) October 28, 2022

Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter unleashed an avalanche of bigotry

Right-wing extremists spewed racism and anti-semitism

Antisemitic campaign tries to capitalize on Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover.https://t.co/Ch78G2xgiz pic.twitter.com/IwhGVvpKY5
— Oren Segal (@orensegal) October 29, 2022

🚨 There was a *1,300% INCREASE* in the use of the N-word on Twitter in the hours after the Musk takeover happened, a Bloomberg analysis found.

The word peaked at 170 mentions every five minutes on the afternoon of Oct. 28. https://t.co/BnNAAqaf73
— Davey Alba (@daveyalba) October 29, 2022

"An emboldened cast of anonymous trolls spewed racist slurs and Nazi memes onto Twitter in the hours after billionaire industrialist Elon Musk took over the social network Thursday"https://t.co/qjQm9mESZE
— Tony Romm (@TonyRomm) October 28, 2022

The ADL Center on Extremism has identified a coordinated effort to spread #antisemitic content on @Twitter, explicitly drawing inspiration from @elonmusk's takeover of the company. In the past 24 hours, over 1200 tweets and retweets have spread antisemitic memes. pic.twitter.com/4mUj5wxQnH
— ADL (@ADL) October 28, 2022

The terrible Independent State Legislature theory

NEW: In a new brief, nine Republican secretaries of state are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to take up an election case out of Pennsylvania and reconsider the independent state legislature theory, a radical legal theory that could upend American elections.https://t.co/yJVp4Z87mz
— Democracy Docket (@DemocracyDocket) May 30, 2024

The Supreme Court could undermine elections by endorsing it. Nothing is too extreme for this bunch.

The League of Women Voters and a coalition of LWV chapters representing 50 states and D.C. have come out against the so-called "independent state legislature theory." @LWV #ISLTamici @BrennanCenter

Brief: https://t.co/HDrIk5gCW8

Key Quote: pic.twitter.com/Vk8NkLUecp
— Tom "T.M." Wolf (@tomTMwolf) October 28, 2022

CLC has filed a friend-of-the court brief in #MoorevHarper that outlines how dangerous the independent state legislature theory is to our #democracy and encourages #SCOTUS to preserve the role of state courts and independent redistricting commissions.https://t.co/49kAISAS0y
— Campaign Legal Center (@CampaignLegal) October 25, 2022

It is interesting how many conservative legal eminences are begging the Supreme Court not to do the crazy thing it is threatening to do to our elections. https://t.co/kbsCfXh9Oj
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) October 25, 2022

Retired conservative federal Judge J. Michael Luttig joins with voting rights groups as a co-counsel in a Supreme Court case in order to persuade the justices to reject an obscure legal theory that has been promoted by Trump supporters https://t.co/GnELL4e4d6
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) October 19, 2022

The plaintiffs in the pending SCOTUS case on the so-called "independent state legislature theory" just filed a strong takedown of the theory, featuring a key addition to their legal team–noted conservative jurist @judgeluttig

Context, highlights, & analysis🧵👇@BrennanCenter pic.twitter.com/T2UucnMOgC
— Tom "T.M." Wolf (@tomTMwolf) October 19, 2022

You need to listen to this @AliVelshi interview with @judgeluttig about the extreme version of an “independent state legislature” theory that SCOTUS is considering this term in Moore v Harper. This is the best analysis out there of this dangerous idea. https://t.co/K829qknuyo
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) October 17, 2022

The extreme right-wing Supreme Court will probably end affirmative action

As part of their plan to take the country back to the 1950s, I expect the extremist Supreme Court (R) to overturn affirmative action.

The Court is poised to “transform Brown from an indictment against racial apartheid into a tool that supports racial exclusion.” We’re all learning that the gap between the unimaginable and the inevitable is narrowing fast and may soon vanish altogether.https://t.co/mTV9WJCII9
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) October 28, 2022

Affirmative action under threat as high court hears UNC case https://t.co/t25n72PLYL
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 29, 2022

This week the Supreme Court hears a challenge to affirmative action—and will likely overrule more than four decades of precedents on college admissions. https://t.co/cyjL45F6ub
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) October 29, 2022

The most diverse group of Supreme Court justices in history will gather Monday to confront the issue that has vexed and deeply divided past courts: affirmative action. https://t.co/x60mrKaQmh
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 29, 2022

It’s official: Supreme Court is nixing affirmative action next term. Arguments set for October https://t.co/5XOqaBK80Z
— Sophia Tesfaye (@SophiaTesfaye) August 12, 2022

Supreme Court will hear two major cases concerning race-based affirmative action at Harvard and the University of North Carolina on October 31 https://t.co/jPjHbWmHHi
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) August 3, 2022

Next term, the Supreme Court will hear a case about affirmative action. Justice Thomas' wife sits on the board of the group that is backing the lawsuit.

This is why it's important we have a code of ethics for our judicial system: so conflicts of interest like this do not arise.
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) July 2, 2022