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July 9, 2018

Luckovich-Sharpshooter

July 7, 2018

Rachel Maddow Is Crushing Fox News With Viewers That Democrats Need To Get Out To The Polls

This makes me smile https://www.politicususa.com/2018/07/07/rachel-maddow-fox-news-ratings-midterm.html

The numbers via a press release provided to PoliticusUSA by MSNBC:

MSNBC total day (M-Su, 6am-6am) ranked #2 across cable networks in total viewers (ahead of #3 Nickelodeon, #4 TNT and #8 CNN). MSNBC averaged 930,000 total viewers and 196,000 viewers A25-54 (vs. CNN’s 658,000 total viewers) and was up from #3 in 2Q17, while CNN was down two places from #6 in 2Q17. Beating CNN for the 5th quarter in a row, MSNBC was also the only cable news network to grow in total viewers, up +5% (vs. FOX News’ -4% and CNN’s -16%) compared to 2Q17.

“The Rachel Maddow Show” was the #2 most-watched show across all cable news in total viewers, up +9% (vs. CNN’s -15%) compared to 2Q17 and beating CNN in total viewers for the 35th straight quarter. In addition, “The Rachel Maddow Show” was #1 across all cable news in A18-49, beating both FOX News and CNN at 9 pm for the 5th straight quarter. At 9pm, “Maddow” averaged 2,752,000 total viewers (vs. CNN’s 1,004,000), 559,000 viewers A25-54 (vs. CNN’s 333,000) and 399,000 viewers A18-49 (vs. FOX News’ 388,000 and CNN’s 265,000).
July 3, 2018

Luckovich-Hard to Celebrate

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July 2, 2018

Court Orders Trump Admin To Give Asylum-Seekers Fair Parole Hearings

This is a big deal https://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/court-orders-trump-admin-to-give-asylum-seekers-fair-parole-hearings

A federal judge in Washington ruled Monday that the Trump administration is violating its own policy by uniformly denying parole to asylum-seekers who have passed their “credible fear” interviews — a key step in the asylum process.

In the decision, the court sided with the immigrants who brought the class action and ordered the Trump administration to restore the practice of granting fair, individual parole hearings to asylum-seekers who have passed that initial threshold. Prevailing at the parole hearing means that an asylum-seeker is released from detention and allowed to remain in the country pending a decision on their asylum petition, a process that can take several years.

“To mandate that ICE provide these baseline procedures to those entering our country–individuals who have often fled violence and persecution to seek safety on our shores–is no great judicial leap,” U.S. District Judge James Boasberg observed dryly.

Under the Trump administration, Boasberg wrote, “parole rates have plummeted from over 90% to nearly zero” and the Department of Homeland Security has shifted from individually considering whether each asylum-seeker should be granted parole until their hearing to uniformly denying such requests.

“The numbers here are irrefutable,” he notes in his opinion.

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