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@wdlindsy@toad.social · 3d ago
"Nobody in the history of American politics has weaponized incidents of violent crime to turn them into political capital like Donald Trump. His campaign’s use of the incident in Butler, PA as well as the Laken Riley murder in sick and perverse ways were instrumental in returning him to the presidency." ~ Ron Filipkowski #WhiteHouseCorrespondentsDinner #WHCD #Trump #Republicans #violence #media #ballroom /1 https://www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-politics-bulletin-358-42726
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@wdlindsy@toad.social · 3d ago
"Now he’s is using the incident at the WHCA dinner to justify his deeply unpopular ballroom monstrosity. Trump, members of his admin, Republican members of Congress, as well as right-wing TV hosts, podcasters and influencers went on a full-court propaganda blitz today to use the latest incident to justify not only construction of the ballroom, but even a demand to have taxpayers now foot the bill." #WhiteHouseCorrespondentsDinner #WHCD #Trump #Republicans #violence #media #ballroom /2
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@wdlindsy@toad.social · 3d ago
"He lies. And the press corps accepts it. This dynamic is a part of strategy that's gotten clearer since Saturday. Instead of using the shock of violence to bridge divisions between Americans, the president is enlisting the press corps in creating a reality with which to divide us further." ~ John Stoehr #WhiteHouseCorrespondentsDinner #WHCD #Trump #Republicans #violence #media #ballroom /3 https://www.editorialboard.com/cole-allen-is-not-anti-christian-trump-lied-about-his-faith-and-the-press-corps-accepted-it/
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@wdlindsy@toad.social · 3d ago
"The Republicans love to gaslight the public into believing that the Democrats are inciting violence when they tell the truth about Trump. In fact, it's the president who is the greatest source of incitement. That his life has been threatened three times should be proof enough." #WhiteHouseCorrespondentsDinner #WHCD #Trump #Republicans #violence #media #ballroom /4
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@wdlindsy@toad.social · 3d ago
"Yet the press corps plays along, accepting Trump's claims uncritically – he was told to get down when he actually fell; Cole Allen is ant-Christian when he is actually deeply Christian – as if the constant mainlining of deceit into the body politic is not going to bring tensions to an even higher boil." #WhiteHouseCorrespondentsDinner #WHCD #Trump #Republicans #violence #media #ballroom /5
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@wdlindsy@toad.social · 3d ago
"The western media has been admirably clear that Putin has a closer relationship with Trump than any previous US president (and admirably critical of this relationship). But there has been no similar level of transparency in the media about Israel’s influence on US policy, even though Israel’s foreign influence on US policy now and over time is much more transparent than Russia’s (after all, Russia is an ally of Iran)." ~ Jason Stanley #Trump #Netanyahu #media /1 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/27/trump-israel-trump-war
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@wdlindsy@toad.social · 3d ago
"Those who omit mention of Israel’s pernicious influence on US policy are not intentionally bad actors. Rather, I suspect the main reason they avoid criticizing Israel in this way is that they believe criticizing Israel is antisemitic, or at the very least foments antisemitism (or, more likely, they worry about being accused of antisemitism for criticizing Israel). But this is not a good justification. This very reasoning is antisemitic." #Trump #Netanyahu #Israel #media #antisemitism /2
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@wdlindsy@toad.social · 3d ago
"It is antisemitic to treat criticism of Israel’s foreign influence as antisemitic. But it is not just antisemitic - it also contributes substantially to antisemitism. An antisemitic trope central to Nazism is that Jewish people control the media." #Trump #Netanyahu #Israel #media #antisemitism /3
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@wdlindsy@toad.social · 3d ago
"By acting as if the concerns of Israel are the same as the concerns of Jewish people, and restricting criticism of Israel on this basis, the news media strengthens societal belief in this pernicious antisemitic trope. … There is no moral case for hiding Israel’s foreign interference in US policy." #Trump #Netanyahu #Israel #media #antisemitism /4
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@SocraticEthics@mastodon.online · 4d ago
⚠️⛔️President Zelensky reminded media how some Ukrainian soldiers who defended Chernobyl during Russia’s illegal invasion are still held in illegal captivity as POWs (more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-society/4116889-president-some-chernobyl-defenders-still-held-in-russian-captivity.html #Ukraine #Press #Media #News #PACE #CoE #UN #Chornobyl #Headlines #russiaUkraineWar #12yrInvasionOfUkraine #RussiansAreBabyKillers
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@wdlindsy@toad.social · 4d ago
"For a decade I have been following the twists and turns of Donald Trump’s America with the privilege of journalistic distance. On Saturday night I felt the darkness come viscerally close. ... The past 10 years have witnessed a shooting at a congressional baseball practice, a deadly white supremacist march in Charlottesville," (continued in /2) ~ David Smith #Trump #WHCD #shooting #violence #media /1 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/26/white-house-correspondents-dinner-shooting-covering-trump
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@wdlindsy@toad.social · 4d ago
(continued from /1) "the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol and the killings of the former Minnesota house speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and the rightwing activist Charlie Kirk. Political violence is rampant and on Saturday, in a fancy Washington ballroom, Trump and the media glimpsed the edge of the abyss." #Trump #WHCD #shooting #violence #media /2
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@wdlindsy@toad.social · 4d ago
"My first thought wasn’t shock. It was recognition. Because I had spent the better part of this Saturday documenting exactly how we arrived at a place where something like this could feel — in the most sick and twisted way imaginable — not just possible but almost inevitable." ~ Kristoffer Ealy #Trump #WHCD #shooting #violence #media /3 https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/corporate-media-chaos-trump-the-whcd
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@wdlindsy@toad.social · 4d ago
"I fear violence will become a defining characteristic of the next few months, leading up to the midterms. It is the lexicon of what now passes for debate in the Trump era." ~ Gene Weingarten #Trump #WHCD #shooting #violence #media /4 https://geneweingarten.substack.com/p/i-blame-trump
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@wdlindsy@toad.social · 4d ago
"There is a close relationship between Trump and violence — not just the attempts on his life but also the violence he’s unleashed on the world, the violence his ICE and Border Patrol agents have caused inside America, the violence he has incited among his followers." ~ Robert Reich #Trump #WHCD #shooting #violence #media /5 https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-last-nights-correspondents
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@wdlindsy@toad.social · 4d ago
"When the president was asked at a press briefing late Saturday why he’s been targeted by several attempted gunmen now, Trump said he’s 'studied assassinations,' and they often target 'the most impactful people' and 'the big names.' 'I hate to say I’m honored by that, but I’ve done a lot,' he said. 'We’ve changed this country, and there are a lot of people that are not happy about that.'” ~ Andrew Perez and Asawin Suebsaeng #Trump #WHCD #shooting #violence #media /6 https://zeteo.com/p/trump-evacuated-white-house-correspondents-dinner-dc
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@wdlindsy@toad.social · 4d ago
"He also used the shooting to promote his ballroom (bunker) and MAGA, of course, blamed 'the left' and said this is why Congress should fund DHS, and by extention secret service. Unfortunately, STAGED was already trending on Twitter before we received all of these details." ~ Wajahat Ali #Trump #WHCD #shooting #violence #media #staged /7 https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/behold-the-ridiculous-unbearable
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@wdlindsy@toad.social · 4d ago
"The problem with having a criminal President who promotes conspiracy theories, incites an insurrection, & lies habitually about everything and is enabled by an entire political and media movement that does the same is that after a while, people don’t believe him and create their own narratives." #Trump #WHCD #shooting #violence #media #staged /8
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@wdlindsy@toad.social · 4d ago
"Trump took to the podium a little after 10:30. Referring to the threat of a shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner—which has never happened before—he said: 'I will say, you know, it’s not a particularly secure building, and, uh, I didn’t want to say this, but this is why we have to have all of the attributes of what we’re planning at the White House.'" ~ Heather Cox Richardson #Trump #WHCD #shooting #violence #media /9 https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-25-2026
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@wdlindsy@toad.social · 4d ago
"'It’s actually a larger room, and it’s much more secure. It’s got— It’s drone proof. It’s bulletproof glass. We need the ballroom. That’s why Secret Service, that’s why the military are demanding it. They’ve wanted the ballroom for 150 years for lots of different reasons, but today’s, uh, a little bit different, because today, we need levels of security that probably nobody’s ever seen before.'” #Trump #WHCD #shooting #violence #media /10
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