October 28, 2017

Great news! The NYTimes has done the 8,749th "What do midwestern white people think about Trump?"

Paul Waldman
Great news! The NYTimes has done the 8,749th in its "What do midwestern white people think about Trump?"

John Magary Retweeted Paul Waldman
All these Trump people ever seem to do is sit in diners at 7 in the morning and whine like little babies.

Love this exchange....Let's talk to Trump supporters...how fun....all the Ma and Pa Kettles opining on their Hero....who the heck cares?

October 28, 2017

Hundreds Face Conspiracy Charges For Actions Of A Few Inauguration Day Protests..70 years in prison

This is a freaky scary clampdown on us. Hundreds Face Conspiracy Charges For Actions Of A Few During Inauguration Day Protests

When Texas photojournalist Alexei Wood goes to court in Washington, D.C., on November 15, he’ll be one of the first people to face charges stemming from protests around the inauguration of President Donald Trump. Wood and five others are being charged for their alleged involvement in what prosecutors are describing as a riot on the morning of January 20, hours before Trump was sworn in at on the Capitol steps. All nine defendants face up to 70 years in prison.

The case’s outcome could set a precedent that would affect all of the over 200 remaining defendants awaiting trial for the “J20? protests who face the same strict maximum sentence.

“The government doesn’t like this kind of activity in its city,” said Wood’s lawyer, Brett Cohen.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia did not respond to requests for comment, but information gleaned from the April 27 indictment indicates the sort of tactics the government will use against the defendants, who will be tried in staggered groups of around eight beginning November 15.

By charging everyone together with conspiracy counts, the government seems intent on making an example of the J20 protesters. “They’re prosecuting us as a group,” Wood said.

The government may attempt to force members of the same defense into a situation in which their aims conflict with one another. “Defendants have to be careful, regardless of how they feel about particular parts of the indictments, that the prosecution’s case not hurt their fellow co-defendants,” said Sam Menefee-Libey, spokesperson for the Dead City Legal Posse, a support network for J20 arrestees that provides housing, court support, and other services to assist in their navigation of the capital’s judicial system.

The conflation of the protesters as a whole with the alleged violent acts of a few in the crowd is worrying to Menefee-Libby. It would be a “radical departure” from a basic understanding of the law, Menefee-Libby said, if the government prosecutes people solely for their proximity to criminality. “Individuals can only be held responsible for their own behavior,” said Menefee-Libby, describing a fundamental tenet of the U.S. justice system.

That the government’s case does not differentiate between actors and bystanders could be an indication of future clampdowns on protest. “Even if we take the government at their word, that members of the protest had unlawful goals,” said attorney Shana Knizhnik, of the American Civil Liberties Union’s D.C. chapter, “it’s undeniable they also had lawful goals.”

https://theintercept.com/2017/10/25/trump-inauguration-protest-j20-trial/

October 27, 2017

CONFOUNDS THE SCIENCE The Parody that is taking the internet by storm

Parody Project..this is pretty brilliant..

CONFOUNDS THE SCIENCE The Parody that is taking the internet by storm, with over 10 million views so far. Click to see why. WARNING: May not be suitable material for Trump supporters. You've been warned.
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October 27, 2017

There are so many new scandals each day that no one has had time to add "gate" to the end of any of

them. It is a miracle we are not all nuts .......I think those who don't read or watch tv MIGHT be happier, but I cannot divorce myself from this "reality". I've got to know everything going on. And write and resist.

October 27, 2017

Joni squeezed between Dick Cavett/Stephen Stills in a staged campfire circle of musicians..new book

Sometimes I think about Joni Mitchell in her long green velvet dress, 25 years old, sitting on a squat beige cushion on national television, her cheek cradled in her palm. It is August 1969. Mitchell is squeezed between Dick Cavett and Stephen Stills in a staged campfire circle of musicians that also includes her friend and early producer David Crosby and the members of Jefferson Airplane. She is silently seething. Her smile is pleasant enough, and she puts up with Cavett’s hokey quips about Canada (“But we’re still here to the south of you, protecting your border”), but it’s her glazed-over stare that says it all: Everyone else has just dropped in straight from Woodstock, some with mud from Max Yasgur’s farm still stuck to the cuffs of their jeans.

Mitchell had been invited to perform at the festival, but her agent, David Geffen, took one look at a news report of wet sludge and wild rumpus and decided that Mitchell should stay in the city so as not to miss her television debut. Meanwhile, the members of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young chartered a helicopter, played at Woodstock, and returned in time to make the Cavett show and regale the audience with dispatches from the revels. As David Yaffe writes in Reckless Daughter, a new biography of Mitchell, “Joni managed to play four songs and chime in when she could about the virtues of Pierre Trudeau or share her views on astrology (she noted that Crosby, a Leo, looked like a lion), but mostly she had to sit back and hear war stories about the event she’d missed.”

And yet, despite having heard only secondhand tales about Woodstock, or perhaps because she experienced it that way, Mitchell would go on to write the most emblematic song about the festival, sitting alone in her hotel room watching the young people roll around in the grass on TV. Mitchell started performing “Woodstock” shortly after her Cavett appearance; her song was a lament, grieving for a halcyon time that was already beginning to slip away. The song became a huge hit the following year, when Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young recorded their own anthemic version, but it was never meant as a celebratory ode. When Mitchell sings about being “stardust” and needing to “get ourselves back to the garden,” there’s a patina of cynicism to the whole affair; she can’t get back to the garden because she was never there. She knew that the experience could be lost, because she’d already had to sit it out and felt the lacuna. As Yaffe writes of the song, “It is purgation. It is an omen that something very, very bad will happen when the mud dries and the hippies go home. That garden they had to get back to—it was an illusion. It must have been lonely for Joni. She was the only one who could see it.”

You can call this show up on youtube. 2 parter and brilliant.

https://www.thenation.com/article/back-to-the-garden/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Weekly%2010272017&utm_term=weekly

October 27, 2017

Every tweet ever written has been archived in the Library of Congress for future generations to read

Every tweet ever written has been archived in the Library of Congress for future generations to read, so hate wisely.
FUGELSANG.

October 26, 2017

How Facebook and Twitter Quietly Helped Trump Win.."embeds"

How Facebook and Twitter Quietly Helped Trump Win
Tech-company “embeds” played a major role in closing the gap between Trump and Clinton, a study shows.
by

Maya Kosoff

October 26, 2017 9:56 am

If you made a list of the factors that landed Donald Trump in the White House, Trump campaign digital director Brad Parscale would put Facebook near the top. “Facebook now lets you get to places—and places possibly that you would never go with TV ads,” Parscale told CBS earlier this month. “Now, I can find, you know, 15 people in the Florida Panhandle that I would never buy a TV commercial for. And, we took opportunities that I think the other side didn't.” The relationship with Silicon Valley wasn’t one sided: as major tech companies face mounting criticism for allowing political disinformation to proliferate on their platforms, a new study suggests that employees at Facebook, Google, and Twitter also took on crucial roles within the Trump campaign, acting more like political strategists than on-site salespeople.

The collaboration allowed Team Trump to shore up its digital operations in a way that would have been difficult to accomplish on its own, according to Politico, which got an early look at the study. Embedded tech employees took on responsibilities such as targeting hard-to-reach voters and coming up with responses to probable lines of attack during debates. “Facebook, Twitter, and Google [went] beyond promoting their services and facilitating digital advertising buys,” the peer-reviewed paper concludes. The companies “actively [shaped] campaign communications through their close collaboration with political staffers.”

The Clinton campaign turned down the assistance, which Facebook, Google, and Twitter all offered to 2016 candidates free of charge. (One tech company employee in the study said her campaign “viewed us as vendors rather than consultants.”) The Trump campaign, on the other hand, used the “embeds” extensively during the general election. Ultimately, the work each company did for Trump—Google recommending geographically targeted ads, Twitter analyzing the success of tweet-based fundraising efforts, and Facebook identifying which pictures performed best on Instagram, for instance—helped close the gap between him and Clinton, experts cited in the study conclude.


https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/10/how-facebook-and-twitter-quietly-helped-trump-win?mbid=nl_CH_59f21c4040dfcc68ac21c0aa&CNDID=45600135&spMailingID=12228330&spUserID=MTYxNzY1ODQ1ODQ0S0&spJobID=1262305796&spReportId=MTI2MjMwNTc5NgS2

October 25, 2017

May I present Rev William Barber.. extraordinaire

Inspired by Martin Luther King Jr, a new civil rights leader takes center stage

The oration is infectious, Barber’s typical brand of liberation theology fusing constitutional politics and biblical principles of love and mercy. It makes not just the hairs on your neck stand on end, but your whole body sway.

The 54-year-old pastor from North Carolina is not just here to preach – this is the start of what he hopes will be a nationwide movement to complete the work that King could not. It is the first organised campaign of civil disobedience in the Donald Trump era. It’s aim? To bring about a “moral revival across the US”.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/25/william-barber-martin-luther-king-jr-civil-rights-leader?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=249461&subid=17536001&CMP=GT_US_collection

October 25, 2017

THE 10 COMMANDMENTS from T-shirt company I use #2GIVE A FUCK They want you to stay numb. Don't.

THE 10 COMMANDMENTS


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CHOOSE FREEDOM
Always.

GIVE A FUCK
They want you to stay numb. Don't.

DON'T ‘JUST DO IT'
Ask Why.

PLAY WITH THE RULES
…not by the rules.

BE A VOICE, NOT AN ECHO
Ditch brand logos, be yourself.

STAND UP TALL
Winners don't slouch.

SHOW UP
…or shut up.

DO NO HARM
…but take no shit.

LOSE YOUR EGO
It feeds your fears.

OWN YOUR FUTURE
If you don't change the World, someone else will.

October 25, 2017

Tom Steyer's impeachment commercial playing now on M$M.....brilliant

Here is Tom Steyer's commercial on CNN last nite. Wonderful, keep it airing on all networks. Every day all day.

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