Dana Bash asked some stupid questions. Surprise. Why must these candidate interviews be masturbatory efforts designed more to boost the journalist’s profile, reinforce media-created narratives, sell ads, and provide filler for the 24-hour news cycle than to, you know, actually inform the voters? Jamelle Bouie has thoughts. @jamellebouie some thoughts on the spectacle ♬ original sound – b-boy bouiebaisse ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● For The Win, 5th Edition is ready for download. Request a copy of my free countywide GOTV planning guide at ForTheWin.us.
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Labor Day weekend is here Most Americans are not political geeks. They don’t spend their mornings writing things like this, or reading things like this. They don’t stay up late at night generating charts trying to get politicos higher up the food chain to address turnout anomalies that could help them win up and down the ballot. (UNA stands for UNAffiliated voter.) Most Americans don’t really pay attention to the fall elections until after Labor Day. Nor do they pay attention to crucial downballot races that have much more impact on their daily lives than the presidential contest. LOLGOP suggests they do, and you do: 🚨IT’S TIME TO THROW EVERYTHING YOU’VE GOT DOWNBALLOT🚨 This is part of our Downballot for Democracy mission. It’s basically Labor Day. That means Election Season for most Americans, who avoid politics better than they do COVID, has finally begun. Of course, this particular election—with its 34 felony convictions, Republican-on-Republican shooting, and miraculous elevation of Kamala Harris to the top of the ticket—has attracted more attention than most presidential races.
The BBC dismissed two British viewers' complaints (out of 67 million+ people) over a same-sex kiss in the Doctor Who episode "Rogue."
Easington: a small, tight-knit community that stagnated after the closure of County Durham’s last pit in 1993. It’s a riches-to-rags tale familiar to anyone who lives in a former mining town — the state-mandated violence, police brutality and community spirit seen there were no different to that of any other pit village across the country. […]
Exclusive: Green Party donation by major Labour funder has only just come to light
The campaign pushed anti-immigration and Islamophobic content and fanned sectarian flames in Lebanon for months before the European and UK elections
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Carol Vorderman's Alternative Mactaggart lecture on how snobbery turned people off TV
The governing body is due to make a decision before the end of August. Israeli football officials claim FIFA will find 'all our arguments justified'
I’ve been having a bit of a sort out over the summer. I’m throwing out some old titles for poems which I shall never write. Free to a good home.
Examining the 'lazy framing' around disability in sport where the focus is often on 'the accident, the drama, the blood, the pain' and not the competition
I den pågående debatten och översynen av det finanspolitiska ramverket hörs ofta som ett mantra att det skulle ha “tjänat oss väl”. Men har det verkligen det? Yours truly var igår inbjuden av Föreningen Dialog-Bildning i Västervik för att presentera min syn på ramverket och om det verkligen tjänat oss väl. För den intresserade går […]
HEARTS were warmed by the recent raffle of a beautiful wooden platter crafted by the late Ken Gall of Woolgoolga. On hearing the Woolgoolga District Orchid Society was hosting the 23rd AOC International Orchid Conference and Show in October 2025, Ken jumped at the chance to create a beautiful timber platter for the Society to...
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COFFS Coast Legacy volunteers will be out and about this Legacy Week, 1 – 7 September, manning merchandise stands. “Legacy Badge Day is our main fundraiser and will be held on Friday, 6 September,” Community Services Manager Jane Sury told News Of The Area. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for...
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MEMBERS of Soldiers Beach Surf Club will re-enact an historic Inflatable Rubber Boat (IRB) trip from Sydney Harbour to Coolangatta next month, in time for the IRB World Championships. Two IRBs and their crews will be stopping at surf life saving clubs on the Coffs Coast on Wednesday 4 September. Advertise with News of The...
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BUSINESS Professional Women Coffs Coast (BPW) marked Equal Pay Day with an event designed to be informative, but also engaging and thought-provoking. Held on Monday, 19 August, President Deb Johnson said the objective of the evening was to ensure that participants understood the statistics and policy surrounding the yearly date and to “personalise them as...
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Tens of thousands of construction workers walked off the job to protest the attack on the CFMEU on Tuesday in a nationwide strike.
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Exclusive interviews and leaked messages reveal how a key ally of the US weaponized the fight against corruption and criminal organizations to selectively prosecute Ecuador’s heads of state, viciously persecuting Rafael Correa and his Revolución Ciudadana movement on flimsy evidence, while delaying investigations into much graver crimes allegedly committed by his successors. Recently-leaked secret chats obtained by The Grayzone expose how Ecuadorian prosecutor Diana Salazar leaked information to a subject of an ongoing investigation, undermining the prosecution of associates of […]
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THE inaugural Coffs Coast Death & Dying Expo, held at the Woopi Gardens, attracted more than 100 people. “It truly came together as the community event we envisioned,” end of life doula Rani Foreman and funeral celebrant Wendy Haynes told News Of The Area. “It was a lively gathering to bridge gaps and bring people...
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In late August, the Albanese government and the President-elect of Indonesia, Prabowo Subianto, agreed to a new “defence” treaty that is wholly about China.
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I am very pleased that our very own Chris Bertram has responded to Joseph Heath’s very entertaining and polemical “John Rawls and the death of Western Marxism,” a widely shared Substack post [HT: Dailynous]. Chris has made some important corrections to the public record, and the comments on his post are extending that. As it happens, I […]