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September 10, 2022
A man has been arrested after a 25-year-old woman was decapitated on the street in front of witnesses outside her house in the Bay Area.
Police would not confirm the details of Thursday morning’s killing but ABC News said it had obtained law-enforcement records saying that the woman’s head was cut off with a sword.
Her two children, ages 1 and 7, were in the house in San Carlos at the time, but police said they did not witness the killing. Lt. Eamon Allen of the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Department told a press conference that deputies called to the scene had found “an obviously deceased female” in the street. He added: “They began to work the scene and shortly then after, the male suspect arrived back at the scene and was quickly detained by sheriff’s deputies.
He was later placed under arrest for homicide.” ABC identified the suspect as the victim’s former boyfriend, Jose Solano Landaeta, against whom she had reportedly got a temporary restraining order.
Read it at ABC7 News
https://twitter.com/RHandaNBC/status/1568365996989382656
Young Mother Decapitated in Street 'With a Sword' Outside Home in Bay Area
https://www.thedailybeast.com/young-mother-decapitated-in-street-with-a-sword-outside-home-in-san-carlos-californiaA man has been arrested after a 25-year-old woman was decapitated on the street in front of witnesses outside her house in the Bay Area.
Police would not confirm the details of Thursday morning’s killing but ABC News said it had obtained law-enforcement records saying that the woman’s head was cut off with a sword.
Her two children, ages 1 and 7, were in the house in San Carlos at the time, but police said they did not witness the killing. Lt. Eamon Allen of the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Department told a press conference that deputies called to the scene had found “an obviously deceased female” in the street. He added: “They began to work the scene and shortly then after, the male suspect arrived back at the scene and was quickly detained by sheriff’s deputies.
He was later placed under arrest for homicide.” ABC identified the suspect as the victim’s former boyfriend, Jose Solano Landaeta, against whom she had reportedly got a temporary restraining order.
Read it at ABC7 News
https://twitter.com/RHandaNBC/status/1568365996989382656
September 9, 2022
Images of Florida
https://thebaffler.com/latest/the-infinite-previous-hofmann
THE SOUTHERNMOST OF THE CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES, the so-called Lower Forty-eight. Where better shoot for space, publicly or now privately, than from the flattest and lowest and most unstable of them all, its highest point barely a hundred yards up in the soggy air? A plump peninsular dangle haunted by the promise of its physical (dis)appearance decades hence, or, the way things are going, sooner than that—shrunk to bone (it has no bone, there is no bone), hence merely atrophied and shortened to a carious stumpy shrivel or wizen, ending at maybe Orlando, all the rest taken back by the Atlantic and the Gulf. And presumably still impeccably gerrymandered. Well, easy come, easy go, as is not—but might as well be—the state’s motto (which, if you must know, is “In God We Trust”).
From the air, it is cities, bays, jungle, and mottling—what the booksellers call foxing—like a form of rot; a level scape of little mushrooms on blotting paper; a pointillist blotch; the dotting of millions or billions of lakes and ponds among the slabs of forest and field and just swampy spare ground waiting to appreciate; the round clumps of “tree islands,” sometimes called “hammocks” in the palmetto and vine scrub; sinkholes as much a possibility as mobile homes, like the holes in Swiss cheese, sinkholes popping up—popping down—in the porous limestone when the sand plugging them abruptly drains out of them. Gridded by highways meeting at infinity, and then the plops of the round ponds. Round and straight, round and straight, like so many noughts and crosses. Inadequate separation of earth and water, the world as if God had thrown in the towel after Day Two. (And when it teems with bouncing white rain, Day One.) Brown when wet, tan when dry, gray when grown over by the duopoly of pines and palms. Dark wiggling meanders (where is the gradient that would straighten them out or speed them up?), the color of tea from the amount of leaf matter swilled out of the sandy ground, and old white dead straight—no, not authors—roads, silver in the sun, made from sand or crushed shells.
Water is a constant—or rather, an inconstant—mystery, our own prairie that half the time is a lake (we think of it as something like Zola’s Le ventre de Paris, a frenzied frog-eat-frog mutual gourmandize among water-, earth-, and air-creatures); water filling up the underground limestone caverns and spilling out of them at great pressure and purity in the springs of the Santa Fe and the Suwanee (the rights to extract and bottle billions of gallons of it obtained for a pittance by Coca Cola and others), and disappearing to leave behind aridity, sand, and death. So flat, so soft, so rootless, so yielding, so accommodating to invasives and (some) incomers, the pet boa constrictor unspooling out of the toilet, the armadillo hoofing it up from Texas at the rate of a few yards a year, the Cuban migrant crawling ashore, wet-foot or dry-foot, the armed and dangerous jail-break making a beeline for us, the totemic beasts we are known for and are sentimentally pleased to slap on our license plates—the Florida panther, the manatee—imperiled and all-but-gone; a landscape formed by bulldozer as by butter knife from the flat, resistless, featureless plain; no hill, no rock, no soil, slash pines cleared into heaps and middens to make space for new condo developments, with natural or British-sounding or misspelt tony names (the flamingoes or magnolias that were driven away to make this), where an influx of disappointed new or hopeful old people can dwell in brief comfort in system-built high-rise among the low-rise, cheek by jowl with their cars.
We are perhaps used to thinking of the clash of nature and culture; in Florida, there is no culture, no landscape that leaves a stable record of the effects of human settlement. It is more garish, more conflictual than that, more primal or more modern. It is the clash of nature and money. Subtropical nature and hot money, at that, or at the very least, warm, humid, sweaty money. Pecunia maybe doesn’t olet, but it sudet. The waves of greed and panic, panic buying, panic selling, the land booms and real estate busts, remote ownership, in-your-face ownership; railway barons and cattle barons and trumpery barons; the South a more troubled, less idyllic, less familiar, less idealized version of the West, at best, it’s “go South, old man,” or “Florida and bust!” A less favored version of California, without the rich farmland of Central Valley or the corn of Hollywood or a swamp to call Silicon; a state where things somehow didn’t take as well or as dependably, second in cattle, second in oranges, Florida permanently prox. acc., (though for all our other curses, we don’t have earthquakes; they have the Big One, we have lots of Little Ones, not earthquakes, but all manner of other plagues and pestilences).
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The Infinite Previous
Images of Florida
https://thebaffler.com/latest/the-infinite-previous-hofmann
THE SOUTHERNMOST OF THE CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES, the so-called Lower Forty-eight. Where better shoot for space, publicly or now privately, than from the flattest and lowest and most unstable of them all, its highest point barely a hundred yards up in the soggy air? A plump peninsular dangle haunted by the promise of its physical (dis)appearance decades hence, or, the way things are going, sooner than that—shrunk to bone (it has no bone, there is no bone), hence merely atrophied and shortened to a carious stumpy shrivel or wizen, ending at maybe Orlando, all the rest taken back by the Atlantic and the Gulf. And presumably still impeccably gerrymandered. Well, easy come, easy go, as is not—but might as well be—the state’s motto (which, if you must know, is “In God We Trust”).
From the air, it is cities, bays, jungle, and mottling—what the booksellers call foxing—like a form of rot; a level scape of little mushrooms on blotting paper; a pointillist blotch; the dotting of millions or billions of lakes and ponds among the slabs of forest and field and just swampy spare ground waiting to appreciate; the round clumps of “tree islands,” sometimes called “hammocks” in the palmetto and vine scrub; sinkholes as much a possibility as mobile homes, like the holes in Swiss cheese, sinkholes popping up—popping down—in the porous limestone when the sand plugging them abruptly drains out of them. Gridded by highways meeting at infinity, and then the plops of the round ponds. Round and straight, round and straight, like so many noughts and crosses. Inadequate separation of earth and water, the world as if God had thrown in the towel after Day Two. (And when it teems with bouncing white rain, Day One.) Brown when wet, tan when dry, gray when grown over by the duopoly of pines and palms. Dark wiggling meanders (where is the gradient that would straighten them out or speed them up?), the color of tea from the amount of leaf matter swilled out of the sandy ground, and old white dead straight—no, not authors—roads, silver in the sun, made from sand or crushed shells.
Water is a constant—or rather, an inconstant—mystery, our own prairie that half the time is a lake (we think of it as something like Zola’s Le ventre de Paris, a frenzied frog-eat-frog mutual gourmandize among water-, earth-, and air-creatures); water filling up the underground limestone caverns and spilling out of them at great pressure and purity in the springs of the Santa Fe and the Suwanee (the rights to extract and bottle billions of gallons of it obtained for a pittance by Coca Cola and others), and disappearing to leave behind aridity, sand, and death. So flat, so soft, so rootless, so yielding, so accommodating to invasives and (some) incomers, the pet boa constrictor unspooling out of the toilet, the armadillo hoofing it up from Texas at the rate of a few yards a year, the Cuban migrant crawling ashore, wet-foot or dry-foot, the armed and dangerous jail-break making a beeline for us, the totemic beasts we are known for and are sentimentally pleased to slap on our license plates—the Florida panther, the manatee—imperiled and all-but-gone; a landscape formed by bulldozer as by butter knife from the flat, resistless, featureless plain; no hill, no rock, no soil, slash pines cleared into heaps and middens to make space for new condo developments, with natural or British-sounding or misspelt tony names (the flamingoes or magnolias that were driven away to make this), where an influx of disappointed new or hopeful old people can dwell in brief comfort in system-built high-rise among the low-rise, cheek by jowl with their cars.
We are perhaps used to thinking of the clash of nature and culture; in Florida, there is no culture, no landscape that leaves a stable record of the effects of human settlement. It is more garish, more conflictual than that, more primal or more modern. It is the clash of nature and money. Subtropical nature and hot money, at that, or at the very least, warm, humid, sweaty money. Pecunia maybe doesn’t olet, but it sudet. The waves of greed and panic, panic buying, panic selling, the land booms and real estate busts, remote ownership, in-your-face ownership; railway barons and cattle barons and trumpery barons; the South a more troubled, less idyllic, less familiar, less idealized version of the West, at best, it’s “go South, old man,” or “Florida and bust!” A less favored version of California, without the rich farmland of Central Valley or the corn of Hollywood or a swamp to call Silicon; a state where things somehow didn’t take as well or as dependably, second in cattle, second in oranges, Florida permanently prox. acc., (though for all our other curses, we don’t have earthquakes; they have the Big One, we have lots of Little Ones, not earthquakes, but all manner of other plagues and pestilences).
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September 9, 2022
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/09/iphone-14-apple-annual-upgrade-improvements/671380/
https://archive.ph/A8xJc
I cradled my first iPhone like an egg after I bought it. The year was 2011; the season was winter. The ground was slushy, but I was too nervous to take the thing on the subway. It was an absolute luxury, by far the fanciest and, I felt, most fragile thing I owned—more Fabergé than farmstand.
The precise model was the iPhone 4, which looked like an ice-cream sandwich from the side and felt about as sturdy. I wasn’t just concerned about slipping and dropping the thing: It was dark, I was in a crusty part of New York, and I looked like I got scared at Death Cab for Cutie shows—would someone punch me in the face and yank it? The iPhone was relatively uncommon back then; BlackBerry—the traditionalist’s choice—was still more popular, but both were outnumbered by Android. Nokia was trouncing them all. Most Americans didn’t have a smartphone, and many had no mobile phone at all.
In a market generally defined by boring hunks of plastic, Apple gained an edge through impeccable design that was actually less functional than most of the competition. Many reviewers rightly pointed out that the touch screen was worse to type on than a physical keyboard, and complained about the iPhone’s fragility. In these early years, buying one was the fashionable choice, not the pragmatic one. It was cool.
How things have changed. As of this summer, for the first time ever, more Americans now use an iPhone than use an Android phone. Toddlers handle them while sitting in strollers. Parents handle them while pushing strollers. For a time during the pandemic, the Kardashians ripped through them on a weekly basis to film their show without risking exposure to a film crew. There’s no mystique, no scarcity, and not much in terms of novelty. The iPhone is like a tote bag with a few cameras: a utilitarian default.
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Steve Jobs’ daughter aims a not-too-subtle dig at Apple’s new iPhone 14
https://fortune.com/2022/09/08/steve-jobs-daughter-apple-new-iphone14-tim-cook/
The iPhone Isn't Cool
Once upon a time, Apple’s new-device announcements were magic. Then everyone bought an iPhone.https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/09/iphone-14-apple-annual-upgrade-improvements/671380/
https://archive.ph/A8xJc
I cradled my first iPhone like an egg after I bought it. The year was 2011; the season was winter. The ground was slushy, but I was too nervous to take the thing on the subway. It was an absolute luxury, by far the fanciest and, I felt, most fragile thing I owned—more Fabergé than farmstand.
The precise model was the iPhone 4, which looked like an ice-cream sandwich from the side and felt about as sturdy. I wasn’t just concerned about slipping and dropping the thing: It was dark, I was in a crusty part of New York, and I looked like I got scared at Death Cab for Cutie shows—would someone punch me in the face and yank it? The iPhone was relatively uncommon back then; BlackBerry—the traditionalist’s choice—was still more popular, but both were outnumbered by Android. Nokia was trouncing them all. Most Americans didn’t have a smartphone, and many had no mobile phone at all.
In a market generally defined by boring hunks of plastic, Apple gained an edge through impeccable design that was actually less functional than most of the competition. Many reviewers rightly pointed out that the touch screen was worse to type on than a physical keyboard, and complained about the iPhone’s fragility. In these early years, buying one was the fashionable choice, not the pragmatic one. It was cool.
How things have changed. As of this summer, for the first time ever, more Americans now use an iPhone than use an Android phone. Toddlers handle them while sitting in strollers. Parents handle them while pushing strollers. For a time during the pandemic, the Kardashians ripped through them on a weekly basis to film their show without risking exposure to a film crew. There’s no mystique, no scarcity, and not much in terms of novelty. The iPhone is like a tote bag with a few cameras: a utilitarian default.
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Steve Jobs’ daughter aims a not-too-subtle dig at Apple’s new iPhone 14
https://fortune.com/2022/09/08/steve-jobs-daughter-apple-new-iphone14-tim-cook/
September 8, 2022
https://www.thedailybeast.com/michigan-gop-chiefs-instructed-poll-workers-to-break-rules-during-training-video-shows
Republican leaders in Michigan’s Wayne County instructed poll workers to break election rules during a training session held the night before the state’s primary last month, CNN reports.
The session saw the GOP instructors informing workers about “bad stuff happening” during the election and encouraging them to ignore rules banning cellphones and pens from vote-counting centers and polling places. “None of the constraints that they’re putting on this are legal,” former State Sen. Patrick Colbeck told trainees during a recorded Aug. 1 Zoom call.
Cheryl Costantino, the GOP county chairwoman and host of the call, said in regard to cellphones: “I would say maybe just hide it or something, and maybe hide a small pad and a small pen or something like that because you need to take accurate notes.” When some participants said they feared being sanctioned for such rule-breaking, Costantino said: “That’s why you got to do it secretly.”
CNN reports the call shows how some MAGA conspiracy theorists are interfering with elections across the U.S. to encourage poll workers and volunteer observers to break election rules in the hope of uncovering evidence that Democrats could be doing the same.
Read it at CNN
Michigan GOP Chiefs Instructed Poll Workers to Break Rules During Training, Video Shows
https://www.thedailybeast.com/michigan-gop-chiefs-instructed-poll-workers-to-break-rules-during-training-video-shows
Republican leaders in Michigan’s Wayne County instructed poll workers to break election rules during a training session held the night before the state’s primary last month, CNN reports.
The session saw the GOP instructors informing workers about “bad stuff happening” during the election and encouraging them to ignore rules banning cellphones and pens from vote-counting centers and polling places. “None of the constraints that they’re putting on this are legal,” former State Sen. Patrick Colbeck told trainees during a recorded Aug. 1 Zoom call.
Cheryl Costantino, the GOP county chairwoman and host of the call, said in regard to cellphones: “I would say maybe just hide it or something, and maybe hide a small pad and a small pen or something like that because you need to take accurate notes.” When some participants said they feared being sanctioned for such rule-breaking, Costantino said: “That’s why you got to do it secretly.”
CNN reports the call shows how some MAGA conspiracy theorists are interfering with elections across the U.S. to encourage poll workers and volunteer observers to break election rules in the hope of uncovering evidence that Democrats could be doing the same.
Read it at CNN
September 8, 2022
https://archive.ph/wip/yWvnh
https://web.archive.org/web/20220908151243/https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2022/09/08/pisto-cheesy-eggs-recipe/
With August and Labor Day in the rearview mirror, we’re clearly cruising into a new season. Still, let’s not forget that summer lasts until Sept. 22. There is still time to soak it all in, to put all of summer’s best to use, to relish summer on all cylinders. The best way I know how to do that is to make the Spanish vegetable stew known as pisto.
Pisto has roots in ancient preparations, when Spain’s countryside — verdant and fruitful — lacked access to fresh water, according to Penelope Casas’s “1,000 Spanish Recipes.” Instead of boiling vegetables, cooks would simmer and saute them, letting their juices run and bubble until thick. There are many ways to make pisto, but it generally involves onions, zucchini (and/or eggplant) and tomatoes. Some variations are made with potatoes and other roots, leafy greens and a variety of summer squash.
Today’s recipe is a fairly traditional adaptation of pisto Manchego, in which onions, garlic, bell peppers, zucchini or eggplant, and tomatoes stew in their own juices (with a small splash of wine), until they’re tender and saucy. There’s so much you can do with pisto. It makes a fine pasta sauce, or you could cook it into rice. It’s sometimes used to stuff empanadas, and would be great in a Spanish tortilla or frittata. Cover it with cheese and bake it for a gratin. Use it to top yogurt or a creamy cheese, or consider serving it as a side dish with grilled meats or fish.
Here, we’re doing as friends of mine in Spain do and topping each serving of pisto with an egg cooked in crispy, fried Manchego cheese. The cheese forms a lacy crust around each sunny-side-up egg, and the pisto does a great job of soaking up the rich yolk. Be sure to serve this with bread on the side, for dragging through all of summer’s best flavors.
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Savor the end of summer with pisto, a Spanish vegetable stew
https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2022/09/08/pisto-cheesy-eggs-recipe/https://archive.ph/wip/yWvnh
https://web.archive.org/web/20220908151243/https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2022/09/08/pisto-cheesy-eggs-recipe/
With August and Labor Day in the rearview mirror, we’re clearly cruising into a new season. Still, let’s not forget that summer lasts until Sept. 22. There is still time to soak it all in, to put all of summer’s best to use, to relish summer on all cylinders. The best way I know how to do that is to make the Spanish vegetable stew known as pisto.
Pisto has roots in ancient preparations, when Spain’s countryside — verdant and fruitful — lacked access to fresh water, according to Penelope Casas’s “1,000 Spanish Recipes.” Instead of boiling vegetables, cooks would simmer and saute them, letting their juices run and bubble until thick. There are many ways to make pisto, but it generally involves onions, zucchini (and/or eggplant) and tomatoes. Some variations are made with potatoes and other roots, leafy greens and a variety of summer squash.
Today’s recipe is a fairly traditional adaptation of pisto Manchego, in which onions, garlic, bell peppers, zucchini or eggplant, and tomatoes stew in their own juices (with a small splash of wine), until they’re tender and saucy. There’s so much you can do with pisto. It makes a fine pasta sauce, or you could cook it into rice. It’s sometimes used to stuff empanadas, and would be great in a Spanish tortilla or frittata. Cover it with cheese and bake it for a gratin. Use it to top yogurt or a creamy cheese, or consider serving it as a side dish with grilled meats or fish.
Here, we’re doing as friends of mine in Spain do and topping each serving of pisto with an egg cooked in crispy, fried Manchego cheese. The cheese forms a lacy crust around each sunny-side-up egg, and the pisto does a great job of soaking up the rich yolk. Be sure to serve this with bread on the side, for dragging through all of summer’s best flavors.
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September 8, 2022
https://www.thedailybeast.com/st-petersburg-officials-demand-vladimir-putin-be-tried-for-treason-in-letter
Several municipal lawmakers in St. Petersburg are calling on Russia’s State Duma to charge Vladimir Putin with treason, according to a local lawmaker. Dmitry Palyuga, a deputy with the Smolninskoye municipal council, announced the news on Twitter late Wednesday, sharing a copy of the letter he said had been prepared for Russian lawmakers.
https://twitter.com/dmitry_palyuga/status/1567554776144953347
“The decision [to send the request to the State Duma] was supported by the majority of deputies present,” he wrote, without specifying exactly how many lawmakers had voted in favor of the move. The letter notes that the lawmakers in Putin’s hometown want him removed from power for his “special military operation” against Ukraine, which they said constitutes high treason.
In addition to scores of Russian troops getting killed in the war, the letter notes, “Russia’s economy is suffering” as a result of foreign companies leaving and a huge segment of the population fleeing. NATO is also “expanding” as a result of Putin’s war, despite his declared goal being to stop the alliance from growing, the letter says, adding that the Russian leader’s “demilitarization of Ukraine” has also backfired spectacularly as the West provides more weapons.
“We believe that President Putin’s decision to begin the [special military operation] is harming Russia’s security and its citizens,” the letter reads. Notably, the lawmakers made no mention of Putin’s senseless motivations for the war, though they had previously sent him an open letter condemning his “historical fantasies” and demanding he stop the “bloodshed” in neighboring Ukraine.
Read it at Current Time
St. Petersburg Officials Demand Vladimir Putin Be Tried for Treason in Letter
https://www.thedailybeast.com/st-petersburg-officials-demand-vladimir-putin-be-tried-for-treason-in-letter
Several municipal lawmakers in St. Petersburg are calling on Russia’s State Duma to charge Vladimir Putin with treason, according to a local lawmaker. Dmitry Palyuga, a deputy with the Smolninskoye municipal council, announced the news on Twitter late Wednesday, sharing a copy of the letter he said had been prepared for Russian lawmakers.
https://twitter.com/dmitry_palyuga/status/1567554776144953347
“The decision [to send the request to the State Duma] was supported by the majority of deputies present,” he wrote, without specifying exactly how many lawmakers had voted in favor of the move. The letter notes that the lawmakers in Putin’s hometown want him removed from power for his “special military operation” against Ukraine, which they said constitutes high treason.
In addition to scores of Russian troops getting killed in the war, the letter notes, “Russia’s economy is suffering” as a result of foreign companies leaving and a huge segment of the population fleeing. NATO is also “expanding” as a result of Putin’s war, despite his declared goal being to stop the alliance from growing, the letter says, adding that the Russian leader’s “demilitarization of Ukraine” has also backfired spectacularly as the West provides more weapons.
“We believe that President Putin’s decision to begin the [special military operation] is harming Russia’s security and its citizens,” the letter reads. Notably, the lawmakers made no mention of Putin’s senseless motivations for the war, though they had previously sent him an open letter condemning his “historical fantasies” and demanding he stop the “bloodshed” in neighboring Ukraine.
Read it at Current Time
September 8, 2022
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-gone-full-qanon-theres-no-point-in-denying-it-anymore
Former President Donald Trump has boosted content from accounts that support QAnon conspiracy theories on his Truth Social platform at an accelerated rate, ever since the FBI searched the Florida country club resort he calls home. In doing so, Trump has at last obliterated any of the plausible deniability previously afforded to him in his prior crossovers with the false conspiracy theory’s followers. It’s no accident that QAnon supporters are using the former president’s social media platform, Truth Social. Appealing to them was an explicitly stated strategy to build out its user base.
Media Matters senior researcher Alex Kaplan chronicled efforts by CEO and former congressman Devin Nunes and one-time board member and Trump administration official Kash Patel to court the community, including the early promotion of an account that appeared to be emulating the pseudonymous author, “Q”—the heart of the QAnon movement.
Truth Social has verified 47 QAnon-promoting accounts with more than 10,000 followers each, according to an analysis by NewsGuard. By Kaplan’s count, Trump has used his Truth Social account on the platform to boost at least 50 distinct QAnon-supporting accounts to his more than 4 million followers.
https://twitter.com/AlKapDC/status/1566936479254847488
Kaplan, in a phone interview, said QAnon content “plays a significant role in Truth Social’s ecosystem” and that Trump’s sharing of content from QAnon accounts since the FBI executed a search of Mar-a-Lago echoes his history of doing the same on Twitter before he was banned. Trump had shared posts from QAnon accounts prior to the FBI search, but Kaplan said the saturation of such content on his Truth Social feed has been particularly high since the search.
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Trump's Gone Full QAnon. There's No Point in Denying It Anymore.
The former president is actively courting QAnon supporters on social media and at his rallies.https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-gone-full-qanon-theres-no-point-in-denying-it-anymore
Former President Donald Trump has boosted content from accounts that support QAnon conspiracy theories on his Truth Social platform at an accelerated rate, ever since the FBI searched the Florida country club resort he calls home. In doing so, Trump has at last obliterated any of the plausible deniability previously afforded to him in his prior crossovers with the false conspiracy theory’s followers. It’s no accident that QAnon supporters are using the former president’s social media platform, Truth Social. Appealing to them was an explicitly stated strategy to build out its user base.
Media Matters senior researcher Alex Kaplan chronicled efforts by CEO and former congressman Devin Nunes and one-time board member and Trump administration official Kash Patel to court the community, including the early promotion of an account that appeared to be emulating the pseudonymous author, “Q”—the heart of the QAnon movement.
Truth Social has verified 47 QAnon-promoting accounts with more than 10,000 followers each, according to an analysis by NewsGuard. By Kaplan’s count, Trump has used his Truth Social account on the platform to boost at least 50 distinct QAnon-supporting accounts to his more than 4 million followers.
https://twitter.com/AlKapDC/status/1566936479254847488
Kaplan, in a phone interview, said QAnon content “plays a significant role in Truth Social’s ecosystem” and that Trump’s sharing of content from QAnon accounts since the FBI executed a search of Mar-a-Lago echoes his history of doing the same on Twitter before he was banned. Trump had shared posts from QAnon accounts prior to the FBI search, but Kaplan said the saturation of such content on his Truth Social feed has been particularly high since the search.
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September 8, 2022
An effort to strengthen national competitiveness and give America an edge in the world
https://theliberalpatriot.substack.com/p/how-bidens-unheralded-national-industrial
President Biden heads to Ohio tomorrow to deliver a speech at the future site of two microchip manufacturing plants, an effort to sell a leading policy accomplishment of this summer: the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022, passed with bipartisan support last month. Among other things, this legislation provides federal money and tax credits to encourage the construction of microprocessor manufacturing facilities in the United States - and Ohio is another state with critical contests in the midterm elections two months away.
Biden’s speech will largely be viewed through a domestic economic and political lens – but it’s important to recognize how his administration’s emerging industrial policy links up to U.S. foreign policy and will shape how America competes in the world in the years and decades to come. A main goal of this bill is to decrease America’s dependence on overseas supply chains, and it also offers investments and incentives to give the country’s science and technology capacities a boost at a time when the issue of which countries have an edge in these arenas has become a central question in geopolitics.
Expect Biden to say many of the same things he did this summer in signing the bill into law: that America barely produces 10 percent of these chips today versus 40 percent 30 years ago, and that the Chinese Communist Party lobbied against this bill. He should build on these comments and widen the focus a bit more, reminding his Ohio audience and the country at large of the important steps his administration has taken to re-wire America’s economy and make it more competitive in the world.
Three main components of Biden’s national industrial policy
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How Biden's Unheralded National Industrial Strategy is Recasting U.S. Foreign Policy
An effort to strengthen national competitiveness and give America an edge in the world
https://theliberalpatriot.substack.com/p/how-bidens-unheralded-national-industrial
President Biden heads to Ohio tomorrow to deliver a speech at the future site of two microchip manufacturing plants, an effort to sell a leading policy accomplishment of this summer: the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022, passed with bipartisan support last month. Among other things, this legislation provides federal money and tax credits to encourage the construction of microprocessor manufacturing facilities in the United States - and Ohio is another state with critical contests in the midterm elections two months away.
Biden’s speech will largely be viewed through a domestic economic and political lens – but it’s important to recognize how his administration’s emerging industrial policy links up to U.S. foreign policy and will shape how America competes in the world in the years and decades to come. A main goal of this bill is to decrease America’s dependence on overseas supply chains, and it also offers investments and incentives to give the country’s science and technology capacities a boost at a time when the issue of which countries have an edge in these arenas has become a central question in geopolitics.
Expect Biden to say many of the same things he did this summer in signing the bill into law: that America barely produces 10 percent of these chips today versus 40 percent 30 years ago, and that the Chinese Communist Party lobbied against this bill. He should build on these comments and widen the focus a bit more, reminding his Ohio audience and the country at large of the important steps his administration has taken to re-wire America’s economy and make it more competitive in the world.
Three main components of Biden’s national industrial policy
1. Massive public investments and incentives for technology and clean energy, including new infrastructure
Since President Biden took office, Congress has passed three pieces of legislation that amount to a program of massive public investment in technology, carbon-free energy, and new infrastructure:
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of November 2021,
The CHIPS and Science Act of early August 2022, and
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of later that month.
Since President Biden took office, Congress has passed three pieces of legislation that amount to a program of massive public investment in technology, carbon-free energy, and new infrastructure:
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of November 2021,
The CHIPS and Science Act of early August 2022, and
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of later that month.
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September 8, 2022
https://www.gq.com/story/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-october-cover-profile
For her first two years in Washington, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez walked the few blocks from her apartment to her congressional office nearly every morning, a routine she felt forced to change after a treasonous mob stormed the Capitol. Now she drives most days—a comically short commute she considers a necessary safety precaution. But for some reason—she’s not quite sure why—the congresswoman decided to walk to work on what would become Washington’s most tumultuous morning since the insurrection.
As she reached the Capitol grounds on June 24, a group of men stopped her for a photo. “I said ‘Hello’ and ‘How are you all doing?’?” she’d later recall. “They’re like, ‘Well, you know… We’ve definitely been a lot better, given this morning.’?” This was how the congresswoman learned that the Supreme Court had gutted the constitutional right to abortion established by Roe v. Wade. The ruling had been anticipated for weeks—after a draft opinion from the court’s conservative faction leaked—but somehow much of Washington still managed to appear blindsided. Democrats had expected to spend the afternoon celebrating the passage of a new gun control law. Now their day had morphed into a wake.
Out on the steps of the Capitol, a group of lawmakers gathered to sing “God Bless America,” a preplanned photo op that now read as hopelessly out of touch: Angry Americans were spilling into the streets and elected Democrats were singing campfire songs. Ocasio-Cortez knew where she needed to be. It wasn’t at a sing-along. “Sometimes people ask, ‘Oh, what’s the point of protest?’?” she told me later, recalling that day. The act of protest, she said, creates community. And participation by political leaders sends a message. “It’s really important for people to feel like their elected officials give a shit about them,” she said. “Not from on high, but from the same level.”
I’d arrived at the Supreme Court a few minutes before Ocasio-Cortez to interview protesters, and watched as she maneuvered in her plaid pink pantsuit past a small circle of antiabortion demonstrators and then waded into the sea of women and men who’d gathered to mourn. Soon, she was speaking into a borrowed megaphone, helping to lead the call-and-response. “Into the streets!” Ocasio-Cortez shouted, pumping a clenched fist in the air. Within minutes, a sobbing young woman found the congresswoman and threw herself into her arms. “I’m so scared,” she wept. “I’m so scared.”
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AOC's Fight for the Future
Almost four years after her improbable arrival in Washington, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has become the political voice of a generation—and a cultural star whose power transcends politics. Now, as the country hurtles toward the midterm elections, AOC opens up about the battle over abortion, her own shot at the presidency, and why it's critical that men step up now.https://www.gq.com/story/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-october-cover-profile
For her first two years in Washington, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez walked the few blocks from her apartment to her congressional office nearly every morning, a routine she felt forced to change after a treasonous mob stormed the Capitol. Now she drives most days—a comically short commute she considers a necessary safety precaution. But for some reason—she’s not quite sure why—the congresswoman decided to walk to work on what would become Washington’s most tumultuous morning since the insurrection.
As she reached the Capitol grounds on June 24, a group of men stopped her for a photo. “I said ‘Hello’ and ‘How are you all doing?’?” she’d later recall. “They’re like, ‘Well, you know… We’ve definitely been a lot better, given this morning.’?” This was how the congresswoman learned that the Supreme Court had gutted the constitutional right to abortion established by Roe v. Wade. The ruling had been anticipated for weeks—after a draft opinion from the court’s conservative faction leaked—but somehow much of Washington still managed to appear blindsided. Democrats had expected to spend the afternoon celebrating the passage of a new gun control law. Now their day had morphed into a wake.
Out on the steps of the Capitol, a group of lawmakers gathered to sing “God Bless America,” a preplanned photo op that now read as hopelessly out of touch: Angry Americans were spilling into the streets and elected Democrats were singing campfire songs. Ocasio-Cortez knew where she needed to be. It wasn’t at a sing-along. “Sometimes people ask, ‘Oh, what’s the point of protest?’?” she told me later, recalling that day. The act of protest, she said, creates community. And participation by political leaders sends a message. “It’s really important for people to feel like their elected officials give a shit about them,” she said. “Not from on high, but from the same level.”
I’d arrived at the Supreme Court a few minutes before Ocasio-Cortez to interview protesters, and watched as she maneuvered in her plaid pink pantsuit past a small circle of antiabortion demonstrators and then waded into the sea of women and men who’d gathered to mourn. Soon, she was speaking into a borrowed megaphone, helping to lead the call-and-response. “Into the streets!” Ocasio-Cortez shouted, pumping a clenched fist in the air. Within minutes, a sobbing young woman found the congresswoman and threw herself into her arms. “I’m so scared,” she wept. “I’m so scared.”
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September 8, 2022
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-fbi-documents-steve-bannon-indictment-b2162393.html
Donald Trump reportedly told close aides that he decided to preserve documents related to the Russia investigation over fears the Joe Biden administration would “shred” them.
The former president was “concerned” Mr Biden’s administration, which he referred to as the “deep state”, would bury or destroy “the evidence” that could prove the Republican leader was “wronged”, Rolling Stone reported, citing people familiar with the situation.
It comes as Bill Barr told Fox News that the DoJ is “getting very close” to indicting Mr Trump over the secret documents seized from Mar-a-Lago.
On Wednesday, Mr Trump took to Truth Social to complain that the FBI had stolen his personal medical records in the search of his Palm Beach property, though the warrant stated that anything around the classified material could also be seized and then returned.
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Trump news - live: Ex-president 'says he kept secret Russia documents to stop Biden shredding them'
Trump ‘very close’ to being indicted over secret papers at Mar-a-Lago, says Bill Barrhttps://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-fbi-documents-steve-bannon-indictment-b2162393.html
Donald Trump reportedly told close aides that he decided to preserve documents related to the Russia investigation over fears the Joe Biden administration would “shred” them.
The former president was “concerned” Mr Biden’s administration, which he referred to as the “deep state”, would bury or destroy “the evidence” that could prove the Republican leader was “wronged”, Rolling Stone reported, citing people familiar with the situation.
It comes as Bill Barr told Fox News that the DoJ is “getting very close” to indicting Mr Trump over the secret documents seized from Mar-a-Lago.
On Wednesday, Mr Trump took to Truth Social to complain that the FBI had stolen his personal medical records in the search of his Palm Beach property, though the warrant stated that anything around the classified material could also be seized and then returned.
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