• @brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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    You’re being extreme. I suppose headline is misleading because the bill would have passed without Democrat support, and it doesn’t directly restrict the voting of married women. But four house democrats did vote for this (presumably because they’re in swing districts or border towns?), and the premise (requiring proof of citizenship is soft voter supression) appears to be true.

    But you are touching on something I feel. Lots of really sensationalist sources float to the top of Lemmy’s front page.

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      New Republic is the worst. The Trump administration already does a lot of really awful, shitty, terrible things that deserve sunlight without sensationalizing shit, but they make a lot of sensationalist articles and a lot of “Oh Boy this ONE maga voter is really sorry now!” pieces. It’s got big institutional Democrat energy.

      That said, yes, the headline is indirectly correct.

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        Rawstory is pretty bad too. Blogs/tweets that float up can be even worse.

        I get it, people have their regular sources and well we should do something about it and post better ones if we don’t like it, but still.