Testing The Waters For An Ordinary Bookclub
Who wants to read Solzhenitsyn’s In the First Circle: The First Uncensored Edition? How many folks do you think it’d take for us to say “okay, let’s do that”? Sound off in comments. (We...
Jaybird
/// March 19, 2013
Who wants to read Solzhenitsyn’s In the First Circle: The First Uncensored Edition? How many folks do you think it’d take for us to say “okay, let’s do that”? Sound off in comments. (We...
Dennis Sanders
/// March 19, 2013
The Republican National Committee released its long term assessment report yesterday. Called “Growth and Opportunity,” the document is intended to spell out the current state of the GOP (not good) and ideas on how...
Christopher Carr
/// March 19, 2013
Using very simple language, can anyone explain what exactly is going on with Java/DHS/Microsoft/Google/#”the terrorists” and why this all necessitates my updating Java ten times a day?
Elias Isquith
/// March 19, 2013
Among many others, I have an unfortunate habit of writing posts during the evenings that I ultimately don’t finish. By the time I’ve got a moment to return to the piece, it’s either old...
Jason Kuznicki
/// March 19, 2013
Here’s a thing I don’t get: Why aren’t way more progressives putting money into the stock market, and then politicizing the hell out of it?
David Ryan
/// March 19, 2013
My friend and mentor Bob Wise atop his boat Loose Moose II on launch day This is from chapter 70 of Boat with an Open Mind: Loose Moose II “Staring with the two desks,...
Nob Akimoto
/// March 19, 2013
Early week plug. Still working on a crowd-sourcing of my master’s degree. Give a little bit (how’s $5? $10? Get a personalized postcard!) Also, ideas on how to improve the pitch and make a...
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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