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From CNN Business:
New York (CNN Business)Sheldon Adelson, the chairman and CEO of Las Vegas Sands and a major donor to Republican politicians, died late Monday following complications related to his cancer treatment, his company said. He was 87.
Adelson took a leave of absence from Sands last week to resume treatment for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, which his aides first disclosed in late February 2019.
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Comment →In the wake of the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by scores of President Trump’s supporters, a lone researcher began an effort to catalogue the posts of social media users across Parler, a platform founded to provide conservative users a safe haven for uninhibited “free speech” — but which ultimately devolved into a hotbed of far-right conspiracy theories, unchecked racism, and death threats aimed at prominent politicians.
The researcher, who asked to be referred to by their Twitter handle, @donk_enby, began with the goal of archiving every post from January 6, the day of the Capitol riot; what she called a bevy of “very incriminating” evidence. According to the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, among others, Parler is one of a number of apps used by the insurrections to coordinate their breach of the Capitol, in a plan to overturn the 2020 election results and keep Donald Trump in power.
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Comment →From Twitter Safety:
After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence.https://t.co/CBpE1I6j8Y
— Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) January 8, 2021
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Reading this, I’m actually kind of shocked Andrew Sullivan hasn’t mentioned Fairlie more. I mean, he was a British Oakshottian Tory publication-hopping, anti-Republican journalist-commentator covering American politics too, and I can’t imagine there have been too many others. And Sullivan (who despite all they have in common now, was a Thatcher-Reaganite at the time) took over as editor of TNR the same year Fairlie died! Makes me wonder…Report
Okay, I guess I just missed these occasions. Like here, and more recently here discussing the very book of which this article is an overview – which bears a quote from him on its dust jacket. Duh.
Still, it’s quite a bit rarer than I would have thought.Report