Newspapers and newspaper jobs are disappearing

Bad news for all of us

New study: the steady loss of local newspapers and journalists across the country contributes to the nation’s political polarization https://t.co/uu5v4EKqR1
— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) January 30, 2019

Newspapers are still shedding on average 1,000 jobs per month – more than mining, steel, fishing and all the beleaguered industries politicians talk about.

The news industry – in all formats – is in crisis. We need sustainable business models for journalism https://t.co/OJccQf7L2f
— Indira Lakshmanan (@Indira_L) January 24, 2019

45% of newspaper journalism jobs have disappeared since 2007.

Digital news outlets had replaced only 18% of those jobs even before recent layoffs at BuzzFeed, HuffPo, Mic, etc.

This isn't just a jobs thing, it's about people not getting basic information they used to. pic.twitter.com/hBV0W52Zxr
— Mike Rosenberg (@ByRosenberg) January 25, 2019

This is a superb thread on the decline of the newspaper industry. I’d add only two (little) notes: 1. Fast home internet connections (approx mid-aughts) helped stomp print circ; 2. Smartphones (beginning ‘07’) drove everyone to mobile. Otherwise, applause, @JeremyLittau! https://t.co/JOqPzO2uhh
— Paul Farhi (@farhip) January 25, 2019

.@mcclatchy emailed 450 employees, about 10 percent of the newspaper chain's staff, offering buyouts. #MiamiHerald https://t.co/Agiy2Ctl8f
— Miami New Times (@MiamiNewTimes) February 1, 2019

Journalism layoffs in just the past month:

HuffPost: 20
BuzzFeed: 250
Vice: 250
Gannett: 400
McClatchy: 450
— Alexander Kaufman (@AlexCKaufman) February 1, 2019

The NRA-Russia connection

EXCLUSIVE: Emails sent by NRA officials before the now-infamous 2015 trip to Moscow, as well as photos taken during the visit, reveal the gun group’s significant role in arranging the excursion. https://t.co/vSnwmrXmb3

— Pete Madden (@pamadden) January 30, 2019

The NRA is trying to create distance between CEO Wayne LaPierre and the NRA officers who traveled to Moscow in 2015 at the invite of criminal Russian influence agent Maria Butina and Alexander Torshin, when NRA members met with top Putin officials.https://t.co/SwSVwhFHPA

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 30, 2019

As the NRA now tries to distance itself from the 2015 Moscow trip where its leaders spent time with Russian operatives Maria Butina & Alexander Torshin, a reminder that NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch confirmed the trip last year, as I reported here https://t.co/Fn4f8l3luQ @RonWyden

— Mark Follman (@markfollman) January 29, 2019

Polls show people favor the Democrats on border security and oppose Trump’s wall

In 2010, Americans preferred the GOP to Dems on "border security" by 20 points.

Before the shutdown, the GOP led by double digits.

Today, Democrats lead Trump by 9 points.https://t.co/pWsPVYGvBr

— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) January 29, 2019

American voters oppose 55 – 41 percent building a wall along the border with Mexico, compared to 55 – 43 percent opposition January 14.
https://t.co/rOoXEjxwYN

— Eugene Scott (@Eugene_Scott) January 29, 2019

Trump organization fired undocumented workers who worked at Trump golf club for years

.@realDonaldTrump's golf club in NY state employed undocumented workers for years — then fired 12 of them, en masse, during the shutdown.
Trump Org. said it had just discovered their papers were fake.https://t.co/skvSEuGwRe

— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) January 28, 2019

Hear from Margarita Cruz, who was fired for being undocumented after working for Trump's Westchester golf course for eight years. And hear the audio she recorded of her own firing, in this amazing video from @DDaltonBennett and @jnebraska https://t.co/PCBUyxe88d

— Rosalind Helderman (@PostRoz) January 26, 2019

He could have joined e-verify. But he didn’t. https://t.co/gQgKDAkN82 https://t.co/9VFgKD6Qif

— Maria Sacchetti (@mariasacchetti) January 29, 2019

Trump has described them as rapists and thugs, but his golf courses have relied on undocumented migrants for years. "I'd never done anything wrong, only work and work," said one who worked 15 yrs at NJ course — until he was fired amid wall showdown. "I started to cry." @partlowj https://t.co/eJblLwCA1E

— Greg Miller (@gregpmiller) January 27, 2019

7 questions about Trump’s use of undocumented workers at his golf courses, answered by the reporters who broke the story, @fahrenthold and @partlowj. Starting with, "How did The Post find these workers?" https://t.co/gemX4OQ9BJ

— Peter Wallsten (@peterwallsten) January 28, 2019

Until Trump’s NY golf course fired a dozen undocumented workers in recent days, the odds of encountering an illegal immigrant there were much greater than at the one on the border https://t.co/5FDxKCk9FU

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) January 29, 2019

Undocumented workers get no gov’t benefits, yet many pay taxes. Today I met some of the undocumented women you hired at your golf club in my district. Your people arranged their fake papers and then withheld their Social Security taxes. https://t.co/bwbSCGhcv8

— Tom Malinowski (@Malinowski) January 29, 2019

Um….?

Eric Trump: It’s ‘truly heartbreaking’ that NBC made Trump golf course look bad for firing undocumented workershttps://t.co/255S3lVltz

— Raw Story (@RawStory) January 29, 2019

Trump lies all the time

He lies about big things.

He lies about small things.

He uses numbers and provides no evidence that they are true.

He lies all the time – he’s a liar! Sad!

He lies about Obama:

You have to be really obsessed with black people to dream up this nonsense https://t.co/EGHae3BvbF

— Mara Gay (@MaraGay) January 28, 2019

He lies about the number of illegal immigrants and their cost to the country:

President Trump shared disputed figures about the number of undocumented immigrants, what they cost the country and how many had illegally voted in elections. “There’s a long history of these numbers being inaccurate." https://t.co/EUJmDKEx0u

— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 28, 2019

Please note: the numbers @realDonaldTrump provides below are completely fabricated and should not be taken as true in any way. https://t.co/qmYdQvtHD4

— House Homeland Security Committee (@HomelandDems) January 27, 2019

What a crock of BS! Trump must think his followers are dumb enough to think these absurdly exact-looking strings of digits actually measure something. It’d be like saying everything Trump utters is approximately 97.46321954780214347% likely to be false. https://t.co/OmcR1FniPL

— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) January 27, 2019

Nothing screams fake numbers than false precision (ie, the exact number to the dollar or illegal immigrant) in what can only be rough, disputed estimates https://t.co/G6ikOhlb0d

— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) January 27, 2019

If these ludicrous figures are from the Department of Homeland Security, as the president seems to claim, shouldn't Secretary Nielsen be called before the relevant congressional oversight committees ASAP to explain where they come from and if they're correct? https://t.co/QYJiXwUN3h

— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) January 27, 2019

He lies when he said women were taped:

After Trump repeatedly said, without evidence, that women were gagged with tape to cross border, @kmettler wrote about it. Then Border Patrol sent a message to agents asking if anyone had seen evidence of Trump’s claim. No evidence has been presented. https://t.co/8sPAdx7KqO

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) January 27, 2019

His soul is diseased and every once in a while we're forced to peer inside https://t.co/CWicFQyfZ2

— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) January 27, 2019

He lies about voter fraud:

This is not true.

Read the facts here, from @TexasTribune: https://t.co/GPQHqFu9UM https://t.co/yUnMpL203s

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) January 27, 2019

He lies about Democrats:

The Democrats are named Jim. They do not have last names. They are big, strong Democrats who never cried in their lives, not even when they were babies, but cried when they made these calls to the White House.. https://t.co/TJetxke0nW

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 25, 2019

Trump says of Dems: "Almost all of them are breaking, saying walls are good, walls are good." 🤔 None have said that, and his bill got fewer votes than the Dem version after more Rs bolted from his side.

— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) January 24, 2019

The Supreme Court may restrict abortion rights soon

Sad! This would be a bad decision by the court but hardly a surprise.

The Supreme Court may kill Roe v. Wade as soon as this week https://t.co/qSzo8Gj23T pic.twitter.com/A8AfDGEQp9
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) January 28, 2019

The constitutional right to choose is under immediate threat. https://t.co/yQxNZHZb7N
— Slate (@Slate) February 1, 2019

The case for and against impeachment

I want indictments, not impeachment.

I want Trump to go to jail.

It is good to have a discussion about impeachment.

1. It’s not too early.
It won’t backfire.
It’s what the Constitution demands.
Congress must open a formal impeachment inquiry, and bring the debate out of the court of public opinion and into Congress, where it belongs. My cover story for @TheAtlantic:https://t.co/s9Y6UMQVCn

— Yoni Appelbaum (@YAppelbaum) January 17, 2019

Should Democrats impeach Donald Trump now that they have control of the House?

It's a serious question and @YAppelbaum has just made a compelling case for impeachment in @theatlantic.

But, for now at least, I think the right answer is no.

(Thread.)https://t.co/tcKICZgQlk

— Yascha Mounk (@Yascha_Mounk) January 23, 2019

This is exactly the time for House and Senate Dem leaders to go all in and control the narrative that Trump is constitutionally compromised.

Do one thing: use the word "impeachment". Don't shy away from it.https://t.co/btz4LOs2N2

— David Jolly (@DavidJollyFL) January 18, 2019

Trump responds to the Buzzfeed story with lies

✅ Russia probe didn’t start from the dossier.

✅ Dossier not discredited.https://t.co/D6vHkt4WGq

— andrew kaczynski (@KFILE) January 19, 2019

Please stop lying. The Russian probe was not entirely based on the Steele memos. And please explain why you lied to voters about your business interactions with Russia—and why you falsely claimed Russia was not attacking the election. Thank you. https://t.co/Jj3vCFUOb3

— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) January 19, 2019

The 2020 census citizenship question will probably wind up in the Supreme Court

It’s a bigoted idea and the Trump administration has lied about why they wanted it. Sad!

The Supreme Court drops 2020 census case https://t.co/Ju6clj0hUv pic.twitter.com/GkhN2Ly6Io

— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) January 18, 2019

A judge ruled that the Administration can’t add a last-minute citizenship question to the 2020 Census. I believe it would undermine the purpose of the Census: to count everyone. This lengthy opinion shows why. Thanks @brianschatz for your leadership. https://t.co/foxHqyIZTd

— Amy Klobuchar (@amyklobuchar) January 16, 2019

BREAKING: DOJ has filed notice that it is appealing this week's ruling against the Trump administration's sought inclusion of a citizenship question on the once-a-decade Census. pic.twitter.com/gNn6WrWXCi

— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) January 17, 2019

The census judge’s message to SCOTUS: You cannot reverse my ruling without looking like hypocritical suckers. https://t.co/S92rtFWLeW

— Slate (@Slate) January 18, 2019

This week's ruling on the #2020Census citizenship question is "incredibly careful, thorough and well-reasoned," says the Brennan Center's @tomTMwolf. https://t.co/gkRcNwMtV9

— Brennan Center (@BrennanCenter) January 18, 2019

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