Beyond the notable Media Matters work below, here are some other things I’ve read this week: Peter Beinart on how a far-right conspiracy theorist found a captive audience in Trump’s White House, Megha Rajagopalan on targeting of Asian Muslims by internet trolls and fake news, Nona Willis Aronowitz on misogynists in sheep’s clothing, and Alexandra Petri on Trump’s budget.

John Whitehouse
@existentialfish

Trump and Fox & Friends caused an international incident

It is now confirmed: Fox News analyst Andrew Napolitano got a British intelligence conspiracy theory from Russian state media. The connection was apparent days ago, before Sean Spicer repeated the absurd accusation against President Obama in the White House briefing room. Fox anchor Shep Smith made very clear that Fox News does not stand behind Napolitano’s claim. Napolitano is a 9/11 truther and Trump favorite who has called into Alex Jones’ show. Trump’s endless consumption and embrace of Fox News has now caused an international incident.

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The public editor of The New York Times helped out an “alt-right” harassment campaign by chastising a journalist of color at the paper for making a pun about dogs. Seriously: http://mm4a.org/2nwaIT9

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Jake Tapper: “What is the White House defending here? Because it damn sure isn’t national security or credibility before the world.” http://mm4a.org/2nSkRWx

just another rant …

Meals on Wheels

When will #trumpvoters question his intentions! cutting what they think are #entitlements like #MealsOnWheels and other community programs … So, i decided to call at least what folks have labelled as #trumpsupporters voters etc. There must be some that are using the program Meals On Wheels or have parents friends with parents or grandparents who will be negatively impacted by this awful decision

I hope that #trumpstates will be interested in finding out what the sum total of folks getting #MealsOnWheels in Ohio, Maine, Iowa, Indiana, Tennessee and Michigan or approximately and how folks working for or getting meals feel about hearing republicans like WhiteHouse budget chief #Mulvaney’s plan on cutting social programs or”entitlements” including programs like #HeadStart and Meals on Wheels in our country?

Nativegrl77

The Republicans’ new bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act and gut Medicaid is a disaster. Insurance premiums and deductibles would rise. Families would pay more for less. You, your family or your neighbors may not be able to get needed care.

Worst of all, thousands could die. Just so the GOP can give massive tax breaks to the rich, and let insurance and drug corporations profiteer from our health care.

But we’ve already slowed the Republicans down. With enough pressure, we can kill their bill before it kills us.

Write your representative. Tell them to vote against the Republican repeal bill. People shouldn’t die just so the rich can get richer.

Republican leaders have already rammed this disastrous bill through one House committee. They are moving it without hearings or nonpartisan analysis of costs and effects. They don’t want us to know how much their radical plan will cost or exactly how many people it will hurt.

This bill is far worse than a terrible repeal plan. It’s also a Trojan horse for ending Medicaid as we know it. This threatens everyone from newborns to seniors getting long-term care. Next, the Republicans plan to go after Medicare.

We can stop this unpopular plan. Write your representative. Tell them to vote against repealing our health care.

If the Republicans really wanted to improve our health care, they would open Medicare to everyone. They also would let the program negotiate lower prices with drug corporations.

Instead they want to take away our health care to give a tax break to the rich and give corporations more power. None of us voted for that. Our representatives in Congress shouldn’t either.

Thank you for being a health care champion!

– Sarah, Julie, and the People’s Action team