Two white kids tried to murder a Black teenager, calling him "George Floyd" *during the attack*, and the press is bending itself into an infinity of pretzels not to say that two motherfucking racists--one of them "known to the court" aka, with a record--tried to lynch a Black boy, and that they learned their racism through their families and community.

#PressIsComplicit #Racism

https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/chatham-disturbed-over-alleged-hate-fueled-attempted-drowning/3126414/

https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/teen-indicted-in-racist-murder-attempt-on-cape-cod-da-says/3125848/

Calling a reactionary a "firebrand" is just one way the #PressIsComplicit with the #Christofascists who are working to dismantly democracy.

Controlling information and denying education is one way to control the population; that's what's happening in #Oklahoma: six consecutive days of bomb threats in ONE school district thanks to the #LibsOfTikTok and that 'firebrand' fucker.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ryan-walters-oklahoma-schools-impeachment-investigation-democrats-rcna102407

As always, the #PressIsComplicit: this was not a "racially motivated" anything; this was a white supremacist racist motherfucker.

Also, notice how "he had no arrest record" but had been committed to a hospital for "an incident of domestic violence"--when the fucker was only 15.

How often is misogyny a predictor of other hatreds?

https://abcnews.go.com/US/suspect-alleged-racially-motivated-killing-jacksonville-dollar-general/story?id=102599495

If the press hadn't jumped on the "we need to get back to ~normal~" bandwagon, we wouldn't keep coming back to, "COVID is back! another variant! popped up! how did that happen?"

It happens because we never took the measures to stop it: increased air quality everywhere, encouraged masking for everyone. Vaccines alone can't cut it.

#COVID #AirQuality #Masks #PressIsComplicit

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-mask-mandate-variants-cases-rising/?linkId=231288713

#PressIsComplicit #KatyTur made her name on twitter by being a visible victim of Trump's misogyny; she seems to be trying to create the same kind of attention from a president who doesn't attack the press.

#Hawaii #MauiFires

#ACAB #Georgia #PressIsComplicit

Some systems can't be fixed; this particular system was broken by design. News outlets contorting themselves into knots to avoid calling cops rapists, thieves, arsonists, murderers, etc. is THE feature, not a bug.

There's this excellent twitter and tumblr account called "Yesterday's Print", that has a great thread of contemporary press clippings around the sinking of the RMS Titanic. (Please note that the vast majority of these independent papers no longer exist.)

https://twitter.com/yesterdaysprint/status/1382501127111933954

This one, from the local paper "Appeal to Reason" (Girard, KS) on May 11 1912, is sad because, here we are, eleven decades later.

#PressIsComplicit

In case there was any doubt, here's a receipt.

#TargetStores #Pride #DomesticTerrorism #PressIsComplicit

The Washington Post falls for the #Christofascist framing that this is about "giving parents more power over what books their children have access to", without ever saying which parents are getting this power, and which parents' rights are being infringed upon (let alone the right of children to make up their own damned minds).

This laziness makes the press complicit in the slide to #Christofascism

#BookBans #Racism #Bigotry #Transphobia #PressIsComplicit

@Celeste_pewter I'm tired.

This kind of phrasing is one of the ways the the #PressIsComplicit in the country's slide to #Fascism

Because are Democrats "upset" or are they indignant at this breach of ethics from members of the House's Ethics Committee? There is a difference!

Of course, if Dems entire reaction is "upset", then they too are complicit; this calls for pointing out the pattern to the press, not shaking their heads sadly, ffs.

We should have known.

Not only is #JordanNeely's murderer white, he's the son of a cop.

OF COURSE HE IS.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/05/nyregion/jordan-neely-chokehold-death-subway.html

#ACAB #PressIsComplicit

When AP wonders how come there's #Fascism about, please remind the fuckers of their complicity.

"defense against disorder" is just a great way to say, "a white man murdered a Black man in cold blood, in public, for the crime of being loud"

"man dies"? "placed in a chokehold"? A Black subway passenger was murdered in cold blood by a white man and the #PressIsComplicit

#AssociatedPress #Racism #JordanNeeley
https://apnews.com/article/chokehold-nyc-subway-jordan-neely-video-46aac914ff0cddcc75977a8fb7adda0d

Here's what they decided and their explanation for why; interestingly, no mention here of the CDC people who got sick at the meeting.

#PressIsComplicit #COVID19
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/28/health/cdc-covid-community-levels/index.html

This is how moral panics are started and fueled: other media jumped to agree with the first piece by right-wing fucker Bari Weiss, because "think of the children" kneejerks always against queer people, especially trans people.

(in Missouri, and Alabama, and Texas, and Florida, and Montana, and and and...)

#Christofascism #Transphobia #TransGenocide #TransRightsAreHumanRights #PressIsComplicit

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/raising-trans-kid-missouri-become-dystopian-nightmare-families-rcna75768

The museum doesn't think that it's a coincidence this happen right after their newsletter spoke against #BookBans and in defense of #DragStoryHour

Please note the uselessness of "a detective is associated with the case"

#PressIsComplicit #KurtVonnegut

https://www.wishtv.com/news/local-news/why-was-the-kurt-vonnegut-museum-and-library-vandalized/

Keep your eyes on Montana--the legislature has literally moved to make one of their Representatives a non-person.

See the framing about "civility and decorum", what's decorum when her personhood and that of every other trans Montanan is denied?

#Montana #Transphobia #ZooeyZephyr #Fascism #PressIsComplicit

https://apnews.com/article/transgender-lawmaker-silenced-montana-censure-21ae94ed0de1aab68c5be1cc37d11484

A study in screenshots.

The VAST majority of readers will skim and read only the headline. The will note that it's in a respected news outlet, and buy the premise of the headline wholesale, never knowing the body contradicts it 100%. Some will point to it in triumph, and some will feel further isolated and gaslit as they suffer.

The press is complicit in exploiting and killing us.

#COVID19 #MSMIsCompicit #PressIsComplicit

Every billionaire is a policy failure, but few have demonstrated exactly how the way Felon Husk has in the few weeks since he entered twitter headquarters.

MSM, however, lets no opportunity pass to cover from them.

If you or I stopped paying rent, we'd end up on the street, or in jail. Felon? He gets a fluffy explanatory piece in the NY Times.

"to cut costs" indeed.

#FelonHusk #TwitterDemise #NYT #PressIsComplicit