Tuesday, October 26, 2021
“Stop the Steal” Organizers Say GOP Lawmakers, Trump Staffers Involved in Planning Jan. 6 Rallies
Two planners of the pro-Trump rallies that preceded the U.S. Capitol insurrection have named multiple members of Congress who they say were intimately involved in planning both Trump’s efforts to overturn his election loss and the events that turned violent on January 6.
No AirDrop Needed: How to Copy and Paste Across Apple Devices | PCMag
Need an iPhone photo on your Mac? A link from your iPad on your iPhone? Apple's Universal Clipboard function lets you copy text, images, and files between your iPhone, iPad, and Mac with just a few settings tweaks...
Facebook whistleblower 'shocked' by company’s investment in metaverse
'Wow, do you know what we could have done with safety if we had 10,000 more engineers?' It would have been amazing."…
Curb Your Enthusiasm review – Larry’s back, and funnier than ever | Curb Your Enthusiasm | The Guardian
The return of the angriest yet most comforting comedy on television brings the perfect formula of celebrity cameos, snark and screaming…
10 Great macOS Monterey Features Worth Upgrading For - MacRumors
Apple today released macOS Monterey to the public after several months of beta testing, and it brings a whole slew of useful new features and changes to apps like Safari, Maps, FaceTime, Notes, Photos, Messages, and More, along with some great quality of life improvements...
Deficit shrinks in the first year of Joe Biden's presidency
"Federal deficits have widened immensely under Trump's leadership. This is striking not only because he promised fiscal responsibility — at one time even pledging to eliminate the national debt within eight years — but also because it's a historical anomaly. Deficits usually narrow when the economy is good and we're not engaged in a major war.... Trump's own policies are to blame for this aberration.".,.
Two Jan. 6 Planners Cooperate With Committee, Name MAGA Congress Members - Rolling Stone
Two sources are communicating with House investigators and detailed a stunning series of allegations to Rolling Stone, including a promise of a "blanket pardon" from the Oval Office…
Monday, October 25, 2021
In Major Shift, NIH Admits Funding Risky Virus Research in Wuhan | Vanity Fair
…The leaked grant proposal struck a number of scientists and researchers as significant for one reason. One distinctive segment of SARS-CoV-2's genetic code is a furin cleavage site that makes the virus more infectious by allowing it to efficiently enter human cells. That is just the feature that EcoHealth Alliance and the Wuhan Institute of Virology had proposed to engineer in the 2018 grant proposal. "If I applied for funding to paint Central Park purple and was denied, but then a year later we woke up to find Central Park painted purple, I'd be a prime suspect," said Jamie Metzl, a former executive vice president of the Asia Society, who sits on the World Health Organization's advisory committee on human genome editing and has been calling for a transparent investigation into COVID-19's origins…
Mike Lindell to broadcast 3-day Thanksgiving 'marathon' as he prepares America for overturning election - Raw Story - Celebrating 17 Years of Independent Journalism
"And you're going to be sitting around the table -- this is very important to our country and the world -- everyone can be sitting around the table and going, 'Hey, what do you think of that?…"
“The Liberty Way”: How Liberty University Discourages and Dismisses Students’ Reports of Sexual Assaults — ProPublica
… Ten more former students told me they chose not to report their rapes to campus officials amid fear of being punished. "I knew I would face the blame for putting myself in that situation," said Chelsea Andrews, a Liberty alum who said she was assaulted by a Liberty graduate student...
Facebook and Google Teamed up to Beat Apple's User Privacy Measures
Google worked with Facebook to undermine Apple's attempts to offer its users great privacy protections, 12 state attorneys general alleged in an update to an antitrust lawsuit against the search engine…
Sunday, October 24, 2021
Roe is Doomed. Contraceptives Could Be Next - Part 2 (Opening Arguments podcast OA535)
This is part 2 of the deep-dive into Griswold v Connecticut. If you didn’t catch part 1, make sure to listen! It’s OA533!
But also, since we love you so much, there’s a wildcard on more Sidney Powell terrible lawyering! She’s the grift that keeps on giving.
Interview:
Fannie Lou Hamer and the meaning of freedom (Vox Conversations podcast)
Vox's Jamil Smith talks with Keisha Blain, associate professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh and author of Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America. They discuss the legacy of Fannie Lou Hamer, a sharecropper-turned-civil-rights-activist, whose speech about voting rights at the 1964 Democratic National Convention changed how the Democratic Party viewed Black activism. They talk about how Hamer's ideas influence movements for human rights and racial equity today.
Interview:
The Tennessee Judge Who Keeps Jailing Kids (Opening Arguments podcast OA536)
So much in today’s episode! First: a Thomas rant on police striking and quitting over the COVID vaccine. Next: a brief look into Striketober and when Reagan ruined unions. Third: Steve Bannon contempt order! Then finally our main segment on the awful story broken by ProPublica of a Tennessee Judge who has ruined childrens’ lives over a made up crime. But wait there’s more! A wildcard segment on Activision-Blizzard in which Andrew shares the names of the lawyers who moved from the EEOC to DFEH and why this case is still incredibly weird and has only gotten more weird!
Interview:
Billy Porter makes peace with himself: 'I set myself free, honey. No more secrets' (Terry Gross, Fresh Air podcast)
...More recently, Porter won an Emmy for his starring role on Pose, an FX series set in the underground gay and trans ball culture of the late '80s and '90s. Porter's character, Pray Tell, is diagnosed with HIV in Season 1 and dies from HIV/AIDS in the third and final season. While that season was airing, Porter also revealed he is HIV-positive. He says being open about his health status felt like a rebirth...
Interview:
McCabe Exonerated (Allison Gill; Mueller, She Wrote podcast)
This week: I have an update on Andy McCabe’s lawsuit; a little Matt Gaetz; a second Facebook whistleblower has come forward, some info on tom barrack; a Parnas and Fruman Show update; some news on the insurrection; plus some sabotage and the Fantasy Indictment League.
Interview:
Mississippi Goddam Episode 2: The Aftermath (Reveal podcast)
On the morning of Billey Joe Johnson’s death, crime scene tape separates the Johnsons from their son’s body. Their shaky faith in the criminal justice system begins to buckle.
As Billey Joe Johnson’s family tries to get answers about his death, they get increasingly frustrated with the investigation. They feel that law enforcement, from the lead investigator to the district attorney, are keeping them out of the loop. While a majority White grand jury rules that Johnson’s death was accidental, members of the family believe the possibility of foul play was never properly investigated.
Interview:
As Billey Joe Johnson’s family tries to get answers about his death, they get increasingly frustrated with the investigation. They feel that law enforcement, from the lead investigator to the district attorney, are keeping them out of the loop. While a majority White grand jury rules that Johnson’s death was accidental, members of the family believe the possibility of foul play was never properly investigated.
Interview:
Facebook crisis grows as new whistleblower and leaked documents emerge
…The internal documents also show Facebook researchers have found the platform's recommendation tools repeatedly pushed users to extremist groups, prompting internal warnings that some managers and executives ignored, NBC News reported.
In one striking internal study, a Facebook researcher created a fake profile for "Carol Smith", conservative female user whose interests included Fox News and Donald Trump. The experiment showed that within two days, Facebook's algorithm was recommending "Carol" join groups dedicated to QAnon, a baseless internet conspiracy theory…
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/oct/22/facebook-whistleblower-hate-speech-illegal-report
Ivermectin Shows That Not All Science Is Worth Following - The Atlantic
… Most problematic, the studies we are certain are unreliable happen to be the same ones that show ivermectin as most effective…
Chris Hayes Exposes The 'Cruelty At The Core' Of The GOP | HuffPost Latest News
″'Look at me, I'm a loud, ostentatious jerk' is increasingly what it means to be a right-wing politician in America these days," he posited...
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