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God help me, I just don’t understand conservatives sometimes. I disagree with them most of the time, but I usually understand where they’re coming from. But sometimes my best acts of imagination pale in...
Elias Isquith
/// May 5, 2013
God help me, I just don’t understand conservatives sometimes. I disagree with them most of the time, but I usually understand where they’re coming from. But sometimes my best acts of imagination pale in...
Jaybird
/// May 5, 2013
“When I say peacetime, I mean before Soviet power.” (Our kickoff post is here, and our discussion posts are here, here, here, and here.) One thing that gets mentioned a handful of times is...
Tod Kelly
/// May 5, 2013
Like Erik, I’ve been practically invisible around here for the past month or two. (I missed two Bar Fights in a row!) Unlike Erik, I don’t have a mega-cool and talent-revealing singer-songwriter vid to...
Guest Authors
/// May 5, 2013
by Stillwater In a recent post which is now unfortunately closed (“Something, Something … Petard”), James Hanley and I (and Shazbot!) engaged in a friendly dispute ostensibly about the meaning of the word “value”...
Guest Authors
/// May 5, 2013
by zic This a story for Kyle. It’s a true story, meaning it really happened. But it is also story, for it’s my honest recall of what happened; and I know more than most,...
Guest Authors
/// May 5, 2013
by Brian John Spencer For Americans to understand British politics as it is practiced today, they need to understand Ukip. Why? Because the Eurosceptic, catch-all protest party is driving the agenda and forcing British...
Kazzy
/// May 5, 2013
Our own Mike Dwyer lays out an interesting argument about the appropriateness of children being trained to use guns. The comment section there has an interesting conversation about this and other issues. But there...
Erik Kain
/// May 5, 2013
Original music by singer-songwriter Erik Kain.
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)
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