She’s Good, Ain’t She? (UPDATEDx2)
Whewwwwwww! Daaaaaaaaaamn! Former Secretary of State’s Condoleezza Rice’s speech was, in a word, awesome.
Kazzy
/// August 29, 2012
Whewwwwwww! Daaaaaaaaaamn! Former Secretary of State’s Condoleezza Rice’s speech was, in a word, awesome.
David Ryan
/// August 29, 2012
I am going to be on Huff Post Live with James Poulos at about 9:30. The topic will be jobs. <strike>When I have one, I will update this post with a</strike> Here is the...
Tom Van Dyke
/// August 29, 2012
Via HuffPo: Yahoo News’ Washington bureau chief David Chalian was fired on Wednesday after a hot-mic incident during an online broadcast from the GOP convention in Tampa. … During the broadcast, Chalian can be...
Burt Likko
/// August 29, 2012
Please join up for this year’s fantasy football league! Sign up here, using the password tombradysbabygoat. If you have difficulty locating the page, it’s Yahoo Fantasy Football league no. 627721. The winner of the fantasy...
Burt Likko
/// August 29, 2012
…may very well be in Arizona’s new Ninth Congressional District, which wraps around the eastern side of Phoenix like a crescent, including much of Tempe and parts of Scottsdale, Mesa, Chandler, and Paradise Valley. If...
Patrick
/// August 29, 2012
Imagine license plates existed starting in 1765. The post image means something, yes? If you’re John Adams and you’re trotting down the road on the way to drop off a letter to The Boston...
Ethan Gach
/// August 29, 2012
Last time I asked for documentary recommendations and got a lot of great feedback, so I thought I’d try crowdsourcing again.
Jason Kuznicki
/// August 29, 2012
Winning a two-candidate election in which voters can be plotted on a spectrum will require winning the median voter. This is a well-known result in political science. We usually think of the median voter...
Sam Wilkinson
/// August 29, 2012
Rufus Wainwright got married, and although all of the “No gay marriages for ANYBODY!” crowd called immediately for their fainting couches, the world continued to spin on its axis. Wainwright’s a (ridiculously) good singer,...
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.
(Featured image is "Some birds hanging out at the Sands Casino in Atlantic City" by iirraa is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
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.
(Featured image is "A radio tracking device on a Saker Falcon (Falco cherrug) at the Cotswold Falconry Centre" by Anguskirk and is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
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
(Featured image is "Free Bird" by Ennev and is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
Comment →From DFW's CBS:
DALLAS, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – Chief Judge Barbara Lynn of the Northern District of Texas has reversed a previous ruling of the Court that had dismissed all claims against the City of Dallas in the murder of Botham Jean.
The federal civil rights lawsuit against the City of Dallas is now allowed to proceed once an amended lawsuit is filed.
We discussed Amber Guyger getting indicted here.
We discussed her trial here.
(Featured image is Botham Jean from The Botham Jean Foundation/Facebook)
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