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November 2, 2016

Hate Rising



Published on Oct 28, 2016

From the Ku Klux Klan to the so called alt-right movement, white supremacist groups are growing in numbers and influence. In “Hate Rising,” Jorge Ramos shows us how their ideas, usually confined to private and secretive gatherings, are becoming mainstream thanks in part to the rhetoric on the campaign trail this election cycle.
November 1, 2016

TV anchor with MS leaving Fox 2 to join medical marijuana fight

Source: Freep



After 22 years on television, Fox 2 Detroit morning anchor Anqunette Jamison Sarfoh has announced plans to retire.

In a Facebook video post Tuesday morning, Sarfoh, best known as "Q" to Fox 2 watchers, said that she would leave the business and join a leadership role with MILegalize, in an effort to help legalize marijuana in Michigan.

Most recently, Sarfoh was on a leave of absence because of medical issues related to her multiple sclerosis.

"I loved my job but multiple sclerosis was making it harder and harder to do it," she said in the video. "I spent my first year of having MS sicker than I have ever been in my entire life. And then I became a medical marijuana patient."


Good on you, Q! Many good wishes for your health and your future as an advocate.
November 1, 2016

Dear DU, please add Heat Street (heatst.com) to your do not read or link to list.

I have recently seen two or three OP's using this site as a source.

Here is the wiki entry on this site:

Heat Street is a conservative opinion and commentary website. Launched in February 2016, the website is headed by British writer and former politician Louise Mensch.[3][4] It is owned by News Corp under Dow Jones & Company.

History

The website was announced in February 2016. It launched officially on April 20, 2016.[3] The website was to be headed by British journalist Louise Mensch and network producer Noah Kotch, who helped launch Vocativ.[5] The editors are quoted as saying,

We plan to break news, move the media and mock the mainstream. It takes friction to generate heat. We will rub against the grain of convention. That's our mission.[6]


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_Street
November 1, 2016

LOSER




For the cover of New York’s Election Issue, we turned to the artist Barbara Kruger, who had created such a memorable cover for the magazine the week of Eliot Spitzer’s resignation. She came back with this image. Editor-in-chief Adam Moss says that he and the editors, “were drawn to it, in part, for the three ways in which it could be interpreted: as Trump speaking (single word epithets being his specialty); as a description of Trump; and as a call on the election result. On this latter point, who knows – and we confess to being a little rattled when the Comey letter news broke just as were shipping it. But in the end we felt that the power of Kruger’s image transcended any one meaning you could read into it. The issue analyzes many aspects of Trump’s extraordinary candidacy, and an important point is spelled out in the headline we appended to the bottom corner: Trump has already changed America, not much for the better. Which adds a fourth meaning: in that sense we are all losers too.”


http://nymag.com/press/2016/10/cover-donald-trump-by-barbara-kruger-for-the-election-issue.html

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