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aiop·AMUSING, INTERESTING, OUTRAGEOUS, or PROFOUNDbyDoug Holland

Trump is targeting Ilhan Omar. Where’s the elite media outrage?

But with rare exception, the response from the mainstream media’s pundit class has been largely muted, with the vast bulk of the coverage coming in the form of he said/she said, down-the-middle reporting. This is in stark contrast with how elite opinion-shapers responded with uniform outrage in the days after Trump’s also dubious raid on John Bolton, his former national security adviser and a neoconservative commentator, in August 2025. Both are part of a consistent pattern of Trump weaponizing the Department of Justice to attack his perceived enemies, yet only the latter solicited widespread media condemnation.

… The reasons for this glaring discrepancy are likely many: Omar is Black and Muslim, Bolton is white and not. Omar is a woman, Bolton is a man. Omar is considered “far left,” Bolton is squarely in the center-right of elite Washington consensus. Omar is a harsh critic of Israel, and Bolton is among its most overtly and bloodthirsty champions. The reality is it’s almost certainly a combination of all these factors. Writ large, Bolton is a member of The Club, and Omar isn’t.

Trump is targeting Ilhan Omar. Where’s the elite media outrage?https://theintercept.com/2026/10/15/ilhan-omar-raid-corporate-media-coverage/Open linkView original on lemmy.world
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aiop·AMUSING, INTERESTING, OUTRAGEOUS, or PROFOUNDbyDave

Tombstone Tourists: Inside the World of Cemetery Enthusiasts - DAYTRIPPEN ADVENTURES @ staying CLOSE TO HOME

Checking out the local cemetery and reading graveyard headstones might not be your forte or even entertaining that idea as a Daytrippen travel destination; however, people do this as a hobby, and they have a 10-dollar colourful name for these people: "taphophile, tombstone tourists, grave hunters, or cemetery enthusiasts." Read the whole story here. 🔗 https://daytrippen.ca/tombstone-tourists/

Tombstone Tourists: Inside the World of Cemetery Enthusiasts - DAYTRIPPEN ADVENTURES @ staying CLOSE TO HOMEhttps://daytrippen.ca/tombstone-tourists/Open linkView original on lemmy.ca
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aiop·AMUSING, INTERESTING, OUTRAGEOUS, or PROFOUNDbyDoug Holland

Online, your free speech was taken from you, by the same people who spent years pretending to care about free speech.

The spread of censored and mangled syntax is happening because people believe, or have experienced, that platforms will silence them for accurately describing the world in plain language. This shit is terrible, and it has to stop.

https://www.anildash.com/2026/10/06/kill-unalive/Open linkView original on lemmy.world
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