The News Cycle was Crazy today (so far)

[_Res Ipsa]

I'd read the FISA warrant. I have no interest in reading an obviously incomplete description written by a man who has already proved himself to be a dishonest, partisan hack. Normally, I'm all for protection of confidential information that impacts sources and methods. But I think dealing with a foundational attack on our system of government should take precedence.

[_EAllusion]

Fox / Hannity somehow, somewhere got ahold of hacked texts from Mark Warner that purport to be scandalous, but probably aren't. If only there was some news story a week ago to explain how this could happen.

[_EAllusion]

Aaaaaand multiple Republican senators have already come out to disclaim the presented hacked texts and stories on Fox about them as misleading and incorrect.

Meanwhile, Hannity et. al. are laundering criminal hacks from a known Russian go-between to discredit via disinformation an investigation into Russian malfeasance and potential stateside cooperation with the same in the US election. I don't know how you don't look at this as outright traitorous behavior.

[_MeDotOrg]

I'm not sure there's a news cycle anymore. Just a giant firehose turned up to 11.

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Winston Churchill famously observed that the Balkans produced more history than they could consume, and he was talking about events that occurred over centuries. It seems like we've been producing more history than we can consume for a while now.

'Consume' should probably be replaced with 'digest'. Too much to process.

[_Maksutov]

I'm not sure there's a news cycle anymore. Just a giant firehose turned up to 11.

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Winston Churchill famously observed that the Balkans produced more history than they could consume, and he was talking about events that occurred over centuries. It seems like we've been producing more history than we can consume for a while now.

'Consume' should probably be replaced with 'digest'. Too much to process.

Alvin Toffler warned us about some of it in Future Shock. And I suppose Orwell warned us about ephemeral and malleable history in Nineteen Eighty Four. We should have been better prepared.