T - Word Slinger Files
- Adam Thierer - Adam Clay Thompson - Christie Thompson - Karen Travers - Alayna Treene - Mary Trump - Katy Tur - Jonathan Turley -
Adam Thierer
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Jan 12, 2023: ARS Technica: Biden taking “absolutely wrong approach” to crack down on Big Tech, critics say
Another critic not entirely sold by Biden's approach is Adam Thierer, a senior fellow for R Street, a nonpartisan, nonprofit policy research group. He tweeted that Biden’s “hotly worded” op-ed was “basically a call for America to become more like Europe on tech policy, with comprehensive, top-down, highly repressive controls on the information sector and digital innovators. This is absolutely the wrong approach for the US.” |
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Adam Clay Thompson
Adam Clay Thompson is an American investigative journalist, for ProPublica. He was a reporter for the San Francisco Bay Guardian, SF Weekly, and the Center for Investigative Reporting. He was faculty at New College of California and instructor in the Media Studies Graduate Program. He teaches at the Raising Our Voices program, to train street reporters.
Nov 1, 2017: OZY: THE PUNK ROCK JOURNALIST MAKING REAL NEWS AT THE SOURCE
Adam Clay “A.C.” Thompson’s story is as unlikely as it is picaresque. A self-professed “mess” in high school, he was the ultimate refusenik, and his parents — mom was a county welfare worker and dad was a press officer for the federal government — just hoped for some modest level of adult functionality, a blue-collar job that’d keep him in an apartment and out of trouble.
Adam Clay “A.C.” Thompson’s story is as unlikely as it is picaresque. A self-professed “mess” in high school, he was the ultimate refusenik, and his parents — mom was a county welfare worker and dad was a press officer for the federal government — just hoped for some modest level of adult functionality, a blue-collar job that’d keep him in an apartment and out of trouble.
Oct 2, 2014: AC Thompson: Pro Publica: In Protecting the Elderly, California at Last Takes Steps to Catch Up
Adam Clay Thompson
Hours after the attack on the Capitol ended, a group calling itself the Last Sons of Liberty posted a brief video to Parler, the social media platform, that appeared to show members of the organization directly participating in the uprising. Footage showed someone with a shaky smartphone charging past the metal barricades surrounding the building. Other clips show rioters physically battling with baton-wielding police on the white marble steps just outside the Capitol. Before Parler went offline — its operations halted at least temporarily when Amazon refused to continue to host the network — the Last Sons posted numerous statements indicating that group members had joined the mob that swarmed the Capitol and had no regrets about the chaos and violence that unfolded on Jan. 6. The Last Sons also did some quick math: The government had suffered only one fatality, U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, 42, who was reportedly bludgeoned in the head with a fire extinguisher. But the rioters had lost four people, including Ashli Babbitt, the 35-year-old Air Force veteran who was shot by an officer as she tried to storm the building. In a series of posts, the Last Sons said her death should be “avenged” and appeared to call for the murder of three more cops. The group is part of the Boogaloo movement — a decentralized, very online successor to the militia movement of the ’80s and ’90s — whose adherents are fixated on attacking law enforcement and violently toppling the U.S. government. Researchers say the movement began coalescing online in 2019 as people — mostly young men — angry with what they perceived to be increasing government repression, found each other on Facebook groups and in private chats. In movement vernacular, Boogaloo refers to an inevitable and imminent armed revolt, and members often call themselves Boogaloo Bois, boogs or goons. --AC Thompson; Pro Publica; The Boogaloo Bois Have Guns, Criminal Records and Military Training. Now They Want to Overthrow the Government. 2.1.21
christie thompson
Christie Thompson is a staff writer at The Marshall Project, a nonprofit newsroom covering criminal justice and immigration. Her investigative reporting has been published by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic and as an Amazon Kindle Single.
Christie Thompson is a staff writer at The Marshall Project, a nonprofit newsroom covering criminal justice and immigration. Her investigative reporting has been published by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic and as an Amazon Kindle Single.
April 2, 2023: Christie Thompson: Philadelphia Tribune: Even a hospital couldn't protect Irvo Otieno
Jan 28. 2015: Christie Thompson: Marshall Project: Another Kind of Isolation
Dec 4, 2013: Christie Thompson: ProPublica: How Bureaucrats Stand in the Way of Releasing Elderly and Ill Prisoners
Karen Travers joined ABC News in 2000 and is a Washington-based correspondent. She is a senior member of the ABC News White House team, having covered the Bush, Obama and Trump administrations and now the Biden administration. In her role as correspondent for ABC News, ABC News Radio, NewsOne and ABC News Live, Travers’ reporting from the White House can be seen, heard and read across the country and around the world.
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Jan 18, 2023: White House Correspondents’ Association board member Karen Travers of ABC News told Jean-Pierre at her regular briefing, “There was a formal request from the WHCA to have [White House special counsel] Richard Sauber come to the briefing and take questions … Would you commit to having the White House counsel come here and take questions?”
“That is something that I would refer you to the White House counsel’s office,” Jean-Pierre responded. “They have been engaged with all of you.” The press secretary noted that there was a “45-minute” Zoom call by counsel’s office spokesman Ian Sams on Tuesday, though The Post’s recording showed the call actually lasted 35 minutes. |
Jan 24, 2023
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Alayna treene
March 3, 2023: Daily Beast: Steve Bannon Vows to Go Nuclear on Fox News in His CPAC Speech
Far-right kingmaker Steve Bannon will come out swinging against Fox News at his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday, according to CNN reporter Alayna Treene. Bannon said he would “go after” the right-wing media giant, Treene tweeted, and gave a preview of his line of attack: “The Murdochs have decided that Trump is not going to be President of the United States. Well, we've decided that Fox is not going to be a major network anymore.”
Far-right kingmaker Steve Bannon will come out swinging against Fox News at his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday, according to CNN reporter Alayna Treene. Bannon said he would “go after” the right-wing media giant, Treene tweeted, and gave a preview of his line of attack: “The Murdochs have decided that Trump is not going to be President of the United States. Well, we've decided that Fox is not going to be a major network anymore.”
mary trump
May 23, 2023: World Times Today: Judge dismisses Trump’s lawsuit against the New York Times and orders him to pay attorney’s fee
A New York judge on Wednesday dismissed former President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the New York Times, saying the newspaper’s reporting of his tax returns was protected under the First Amendment.
Trump sued the newspaper, three of its reporters and his niece Mary Trump in 2021 after a series of bombastic reports about his tax records. The former president demanded “no less” than $100 million at the time and accused the journalists of being involved in an “insidious plot” to obtain his niece’s documents.
The series later won a Pulitzer Prize.
A New York judge on Wednesday dismissed former President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the New York Times, saying the newspaper’s reporting of his tax returns was protected under the First Amendment.
Trump sued the newspaper, three of its reporters and his niece Mary Trump in 2021 after a series of bombastic reports about his tax records. The former president demanded “no less” than $100 million at the time and accused the journalists of being involved in an “insidious plot” to obtain his niece’s documents.
The series later won a Pulitzer Prize.
katy tur
Jan 12, 2023: Variety: Chris Jansing Adds Hours in MSNBC Daytime Shakeup as Hallie Jackson Expands Streaming (EXCLUSIVE)
Other moves are afoot at MSNBC. Jansing’s new hours will last from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., and she will be followed by Katy Tur, who previously anchored the 2 p.m. hour. Jose Diaz-Balart will move from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. as part of the moves. Andrea Mitchell continues to anchor at noon. MSNBC will leave the 10 a.m. hour open until executives decide upon a new host. Ana Cabrera, the former CNN daytime anchor, is widely expected to join MSNBC after honoring a non-compete period.
Other moves are afoot at MSNBC. Jansing’s new hours will last from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., and she will be followed by Katy Tur, who previously anchored the 2 p.m. hour. Jose Diaz-Balart will move from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. as part of the moves. Andrea Mitchell continues to anchor at noon. MSNBC will leave the 10 a.m. hour open until executives decide upon a new host. Ana Cabrera, the former CNN daytime anchor, is widely expected to join MSNBC after honoring a non-compete period.
jonathan turley
Jonathan Turley
Trump is being indicted for spreading lies. That's what the indictment says over and over again, and they insist that he knew they were lies. There are legitimate free speech concerns raised by these charges. Essentially he's being charged with lying and the government is saying you can make false statements in an election, but not if you know that they're false. But they don't really establish that he knew that they were false, even if that theory is correct.............It's unlikely he [Trump] will get a trial put in front of the Florida trial, but they very well could help him out in moving these issues to the appellate court and asking them is this the criminalization of disinformation? Are you about to criminalize false political speech? Because in the past, the Supreme Court has been extremely skeptical of laws that attempt to do that.”
-Jonathan Turley; Various Fox Interviews on 8.8.23
-Jonathan Turley; Various Fox Interviews on 8.8.23
