| To: S. maltophilia who wrote (7706) | 5/30/2025 5:53:20 PM | | From: Ron | | | | Stupid label, but such is the state of 'computational social scientists' focusing on journalism research at Pew Research Center.
What is a news influencer? In this study, we use the term “news influencers” to refer to individuals who regularly post about current events and civic issues on social media and have at least 100,000 followers on any of Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X (formerly Twitter) or YouTube. News influencers can be journalists who are or were affiliated with a news organization or independent content creators, but they must be people and not organizations. |
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| To: Ron who wrote (7708) | 5/30/2025 6:56:35 PM | | From: S. maltophilia | | | | | Kinda all-encompassing. There should be a distinction between a reputable journalist who struck it out on their own (voluntarily or not) and some random twit who used to tout makup or mountain bikes and caught on with their take on the news. But I wince whenever I hear "influencer." |
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| To: Ron who wrote (7712) | 5/31/2025 2:38:37 PM | | From: S. maltophilia | | | | For those who didn't read that far down:
...A particular area of concern for Congress is the library’s database of all lawmakers’ research requests, another employee said, which dates back to the 1990s. Those requests were made under a strict promise of confidentiality, the second employee said.
The library has always taken its oath of secrecy very seriously, the employee said. Only designated staff can access the database of records requests, which are not visible to the rest of the library, per the employee, and staff are trained not to discuss congressional information requests with anyone but the person making the request.
But the director of the Congressional Research Service can see all of the research requests — and that position is appointed by the librarian, a third staffer noted. So if Trump manages to anoint a....
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It's not that the petulant man-baby can't wait to have its own library. The regime could combine the LOC with Palantir's Foundry to integrate the regimes Panopticon. Staasi were pikers. Xi will be jealous. |
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| From: Ron | 5/31/2025 6:00:43 PM | | | | | | | FBI deputy director Dan Bongino is learning the hard way that stoking conspiracy theories is easy—cleaning up the mess is another story.
Earlier this week, Dan Bongino, the former Fox News host turned FBI deputy director, sat down on the plush "Fox & Friends" couch to perform his latest role: teary martyr. “I gave up everything for this,” he whined, recounting his long nights at the bureau, the lonely grind of law enforcement, and, bizarrely, how his boss Kash Patel’s faucet interrupts the solitude of the four walls he stares at each day.
| It was a strange, self-pitying monologue from a man who spent years feeding the very flames that now threaten to consume him.
| Bongino is under fire from the MAGA base, not because he’s made any meaningful policy decision, but because he dared to say out loud this week what they refuse to believe: that billionaire sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein killed himself. For a movement built on conspiracy and grievance, this was heresy. Never mind that Bongino spent the better part of the Trump years helping mainstream the idea that Epstein’s death was part of a vast, sinister cover-up. Now that he’s wearing a badge and unable to actually deliver the goods, he’s trying to extinguish the blaze he poured gasoline on.
| To prove his newfound seriousness, Bongino and Patel announced on Fox News that the FBI will release surveillance footage showing no one entered Epstein’s jail cell, all but declaring it as proof he wasn't murdered. “You are going to see there is no one there but him,” Bongino said of Epstein. "There is video clear as day. He’s the only person in there and the only person coming out."
| But the announcement was a clear attempt at damage control to reclaim credibility with a base that has grown restless after months of waiting for long-promised “deep state” bombshells to drop. But the problem isn’t the tape—it’s the narrative.
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