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I did see the stage article on Apple News, but not multiple iterations of the same article from different outlets like Google News or Facebook tends.

I do really like Apple News front page aggregation. It’s the first News app I find immersive and spends most of my time consuming news in. I find the human ‘touch’ is noticeably more thoughtful than algorithmic trending based on only a combination of analytical, keyword, and geospatial driven delivery.

Hoping they’ll someday incorporate platforms like Substack, allowing users to login to their paid-subs but be delivered within Apple News. (The Athletic and WSJ do a decent integration for paid accounts, though buggy at times.)

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I agree with everything you said, but the MSM will roll their eyes at anything you try to point out to them because you capitulated to the leadership of the most unfit, clinically delusional narcissistic demagogue our country has ever put in the White House.

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Once again: A shocking number of 'citizens' are so ignorant they wouldn't pass the exam given to new immigrants. These people should not only be discouraged from participating in democracy, they should be PREVENTED from voting

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"I thought that they wanted everyone to vote. "

Well, sort of. As long as "everyone" includes folks that have no voice (i.e. dead), they want all the votes that can be had or manufactured.

If we're talking about live voters, I assume that's a wonderfully sarcastic statement. We already have examples of what real voter suppression looks like from from the left - Black Panther "security" in areas to ensure voters are aware what is considered an acceptable vs. non-acceptable vote, by mere presence and intimidation if not by outright "electioneering" outside the ballot box. I would venture to say that the Dems were actually supporting the stolen election conspiracy theory so R's would stay home in protest. At least that's the outcome achieved... :-(

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I wish I had the same confidence that HR-1 would not become law. It has passed the House. I have zero confidence that the democrats won't blow up the filibuster to get it through the senate. The media is about the biggest spreader of conspiracy theories. And I wouldn't bet a paycheck that they won't be able to pass HR-1 and all of their Marxist dream bills.

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The videos on YouTube are also fantastic!!

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Are these articles meant to inform or inflame? A conspiracy theory is a conspiracy theory regardless of which side pushes it but This false equivalence between these theories and the one that caused the Capitol to be stormed by insurgents is crazy. You still have people trying to say that Antifa/BLM is who stormed the Capitol which is utterly ridiculous. This whole situation reminds me of the spiderman meme when the two spidermen are pointing their fingers at each other. People just cant handle truth anymore. It truly is sad.

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Thanks for your comprehensive report.

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Democrats (especially those in the MSM) love standards so much they have two sets: one set for them, and another set for everyone else.

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I have a number of liberal friends and my best friend has been a political sparring partner for decades...until now. You cannot get beyond the Propagandista's talking points. Calling them "media" belies the idea that truth is what they are about. They aren't and I wish we would stop talking about them as though they really are just good-natured people who've made a mistake. They haven't. If we do not collectively remove their power by stop granting them eyeballs they will continue to shape our country and direct it down a road of ruin and damnation.

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You say that H.R. 1 won’t pass. I hope you are right, but I am skeptical. Given the fact that Democrats have consistently shown a degree of party discipline which Republican leaders can only dream of, I would rather not have to rely on a Joe Manchin or any other Democrat Senator to vote against it. And THAT, Erick, is why the November election and everything which happened after it fills me with a deep sense of dread. Despite the impressive gains we made in the House, we managed to lose the Senate largely due to the same conspiracy theories you write about, and that may cost us the Republic as it was designed.

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So, the Republican legislature in Georgia is considering legislation that will put more restrictions on mail-in and early voting. They are doing so to either: A) create more confidence in the legitimacy of elections, or B) suppress Democratic (and minority) participation. It is so, so unreasonable to see B as the purpose.

400,000 Republicans stayed away from the polls on the run-off elections because they were LIED TO about election fraud, as the Georgia recounts and audits attested to.

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I used to believe that if I was God for a day and had the opportunity to eradicate one class of vermin from humankind, it would be lawyers. I've re-thought that and repented to God for my evil thoughts. It's the complicit media I would eradicate.

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Right...someone for the last 4 years referred to it as "fake news"...and he was right. The question is, what can be done?

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