TSN Open Mic for the week of 5/8/2023
There’s a phenomenon where someone writes an essay about this or that but someone else wants to discuss something that has not yet made it to Ten Second News.
This is unfair to everybody involved. It’s unfair to the guy who wrote the original essay because, presumably, he wants to talk about his original essay. It’s unfair to the guy who wants to talk about his link because it looks like he’s trying to change the subject. It’s unfair to the people who go to the comments to read up on the thoughts of the commentariat for the original essay and now we’re talking about some other guy’s links.
So!
The intention is to have a new one of these on the Sidebar every week. If you want to talk about a link, post it here! Or, heck, use it as an open thread.
And, if it rolls off, we’ll make a new one. With a preamble just like this one.
On the new turn of Liz Holmes:
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Not quite news but an essay on Americans/Anglosphere eaters having a limited palate for eating for texture: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/08/t-magazine/food-texture-eating.html
FWIW, I am one of these Americans. I don’t understand the point of eating something tasteless or that tastes bad because of the texture it produces in your mouth.Report
Some things happened today…Report
Indeed they did. And as usual one side of the political aisle stayed silent about the messes in their own house while trying to gun up fake crises on the other side.Report
George Santos has been indicted with a bunch of crimes: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/05/10/nyregion/george-santos-charges-news#santos-had-been-under-investigation-for-his-campaign-finances-and-other-activitiesReport
McMegan has a great thread on the Bud Light thing:
And if you are inclined to say “BUT WHAT ABOUT CONSERVATIVES”, I have good news. Check out her conclusion:
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Not a bad piece and definitely a decent little illustration of why conservatives underperform in the woke wars. Obviously she can’t be too pointed in the WaPo and just say that the basic problem people have with wokeness, DEI, trans politics etc. run amok is because it demands people to say and to some degree live as though things that obviously aren’t true are. Mulvaney has the right to express herself how she wants but she isn’t a woman or even a remotely defensible representation of one anymore than turning in homework on time is white supremacy, and people resent being pressured to act as though they are. That doesn’t mean though that they want the dour, mean spirited, thinly veiled return to a more overtly religious, socially conservative society or that they are suddenly all on board with the larger, hollowed out husk of a conservative policy and culture war agenda.
Actually fighting back would require conservatives to do some hard, hard soul searching, pay the massive bill they’ve run up on their cynical deals with populism and crazy media personalities, and yes, drop a bunch of the priors they’ve had a rigor mortis like grip on since the end of W’s term. Until that time the best they can do is make tactical gains against totally unforced errors coming out of the wilder reaches of neurotic, upper class progressive culture but not much else.Report
The Trump infomercial on CNN is going like everyone thought it would go: https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1656458568290246657?s=20Report
Interesting if true:
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In a perfect world this would disabuse corporate legacy media if any notion that it needs to “both sides” this campaign. But they just don’t seem to be able to help themselves.
I’m Not declaring the fourth estate dead just yet, but this shows they are in life support and crimping their own oxygen hose.Report
I don’t think they’re thinking about that at all. They’re thinking about ratings.Report
Based up my experience “corporate media legacy” has never really “both sides”. It’s always been left of center and any time given to the other side has been “one sided” and had an agenda.Report
According to Politico, Biden’s reelection campaign has dropped New York City Mayor Eric Adams as a national surrogate.
It has to do with how Adams is criticizing Biden on the whole “border” thing. Hey! Read the poem!Report
In strange bedfellow news, Gorsuch, Thomas, ABC, Sotomayor, and Kagan rule that California’s animal welfare Prop 12 (related to pigs and the amount of space they need to sell their meat in California) does not violate the Dormant Commerce Clause.
https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/supreme-court-california-bacon-law-dismissed-18093919.phpReport
What’s amusing to me is how the whole thing is a jigsaw-puzzle of concurrences and dissents and concurrences with the dissents and dissents with the concurrences.Report
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
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The lickspittles are pathetic https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1656837643349417986?s=20Report
Would you say that “CNN is fake news”?Report
All you have to do is want it badly enough:
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Climate Defiance is Speaking Truth to Power:
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Twitter is now at the openly promoting animal cruelty stage: https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1657070606687297536?s=20Report
From ABC: South Shore residents take legal action over migrant respite center plans amid Chicago crisis
It’s like being a NIMBY, but for people.Report
The Good News: We’re not going to be talking about DEI anymore.
The Even Better News: We’re going to be talking about DAB.
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It might be time to boycott HSBC.
HSBC downgrades Anheuser-Busch InBev as it deals with a ‘Bud Light crisis’
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