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jd vance killed him (at least that's the best theory I have rn)

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The Democrat won with 53% of the vote tonight; Trump carried the district with 60% of the vote in November. This changes the balance of power in the Iowa Senate to 34R–16D.

i made a long post about how traditional media coalescing around Trump is scarier than social media for me and i included some news/media sources i recommend at the bottom. here they are (plus some additions) in a shorter post so that it is easier to share.

the objective is to build a network of local, national and global sources that you can count on. preferably completely independent and free from editorial or corporate oversight.

note: all media is flawed, including the ones below. never rely on one source. do not immediately accept something as the truth from any single source. everyone is capable of accidentally getting a detail wrong, or even deliberately misleading. the fact is that even reading something as inflammatory as Fox News can give you information you wouldn't be able to get anywhere else, the key is not to take any of it at face value.

do not rely on "media bias" sources like Ground News. they are part of the problem with making false equivalencies between left and right. this insightful blog post published a few days ago proves my point: "The data collected here shows that left-leaning stories tend to have far better sourcing than right-leaning ones, and are less politically polarized. The process for selecting, grouping, and summarizing these stories does not seem to take these differences into account, and there is little transparency into how that process works. This leads the platform to publish dodgy stories from the right, with the appearance that they are just as valid as high-fact reporting from the left or the center."

Only thing I wanna add is that not only is Ground News incredibly America-centric, making it pretty useless outside America.

But I just wanna take a moment to dunk on them even harder, every Belgian agrees all media in this country has a massive bias. So I tried a little experiment when I came across this story. Just, just, it's the homophobe's wet dream, which is why multiple Belgian newspapers reported about it;

"They seemed like the perfect adoptive parents, but now face 100 years in prison: “Their depravity goes as deep as it can”" (with a picture of a wholesome gay couple with two gids with "love is love T-shirts".) It's about two gay guys from Georgia who were actually evil, but also, you know, basically tick every single homophobic trope.

I came across it in the GVA, or the local newspaper of Antwerp, Belgium, but also one of the most popular newspapers of the country.

Anyway, went to Ground News to see if this story was really right wing. And although Ground News is a usefull way to find out where the story comes from, it's horrible in placing newspapers;

So by now, they have confirmed this story was mostly covered by the right, but not when I checked;

They put telegraaf.nl on the right, which, is fair. They're this close to becoming neo-nazi's. But wow, of the 115 international and American newspapers that covered this story, they have only been able to give 56 a political ranking. 49%!!!!!!!!

I'm not asking them to move heaven and earth. But they were only able to place ONE Dutch newspapers, and NO Flemish ones. Even though all Flemish newspapers are owned by the same people and by consequences publish the same stories. (You can type the title of any article of any Flemish newspaper into Google and you'll find three copies in other major Flemish newspapers! It's hilarious.)

It really shouldn't take them to much effort to at least cover Belgium of all places! Especially regarding such a crazy and stupid story like this.

I also love how there is not difference between the right and the left. They use an AI to come up with some summaries than don't describe the article AT ALL if you actually read it. GOD this stuff is tupid.

Just skip the news all together except @destielnewsnetwork . That's how I do it! <3

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It’s complicated. From what I’ve seen, concessions are not legally binding, and a candidate could still technically win even if they’ve conceded. And concessions can be retracted.

"Former One Direction singer Liam Payne died outside a hotel in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires, local media reported on Wednesday, saying the 31-year-old British musician was found dead after falling from the hotel's third floor.

Citing officials, leading local newspapers La Nacion and Clarin reported that police were called to the hotel in the capital's leafy Palermo neighborhood responding to an emergency call that cited "an aggressive man who could be under the effects of drugs and alcohol.""

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