February 10, 2022

I wish it was clearer how the discovery and returns of these Presidential documents came about.

In this post, the language is "...after Mr. Trump returned 15 boxes of documents to the government last month".
I've seen other reports, that word it more like "National Archives had to retrieve Trump White House records from Mar-a-Lago". (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/07/trump-records-mar-a-lago/)
How, exactly, was it discovered that Trump had taken these documents to Maralago as momentos?.
And what exactly transpired to get him to release them from his p-ssy gr-bbing clutches?

February 7, 2022

So, this whole debate about Spotify would mean nothing to me, if it weren't for Neil Young.

I didn't know ANYTHING about Spotify, barely heard of Joe Rogan. But I regard Neil as a hero; he has NEVER 'sold out'. So, now I'm mad at Spotify. Still don't really know anything about it.
But it occurred to me, that one way we hurt any kind of broadcast is to go after their ADVERTISERS. And sure enough, Spotify has advertisers (I looked it up)!

"You either pay for Spotify with a premium plan, or you don’t.
If there are so many users who stream on Spotify without paying, how does Spotify, and the artists who are on the platform, make money?
Spotify has two main streams of income: ad revenue and subscriptions."
https://www.makeuseof.com/music-streaming-services-explained-how-does-spotify-make-money/

So, why aren't we gathering lists of advertisers? Why aren't we threatening to boycott? Why are we just waiting for the musicians to do something?

February 6, 2022

"How Comic Genius Charlie Chaplin Survived His Hungry Childhood"

Good story describing a recently rediscovered interview with a woman whose aunt helped raise the Chaplin boys, Charlie and Sydney, after their mother entered an insane asylum.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/feb/06/charlie-chaplin-comic-genius-survived-ragged-london-childhood

January 8, 2022

I would have been FINE with ALL Capitol attackers being locked up until trial. But THIS guy?

https://www.rawstory.com/proud-boys-2656258654/

While on pretrial release, Josh Pruitt went on CNN to say that he'd attack the Capitol again, given the chance. Because of this statement, and also because of multiple threats he made to his girlfriend and others, AND CURFEW VIOLATIONS (trying to sound like Arlo Guthrie, here), prosecuters are trying to revoke his pretrial release.

WHY he was on pretrial release seems to be unanswered. He was a member of the Proud Boys, with a long rap sheet. HE WAS EVEN WEARING A GPS ANKLE MONITORING SYSTEM WHILE ATTACKING THE CAPITOL BUILDING!!

January 8, 2022

SATIRE, FOLKS! The Onion is satire!

https://www.theonion.com/toddler-dies-in-accidental-shooting-after-finding-fathe-1848308408

"Calling the incident a tragedy that could have easily been prevented, authorities announced Wednesday that a local 2-year-old had died in an accidental shooting after discovering his father’s gun hidden under a pile of guns."

' "You can only imagine what was going through the parents’ minds when they heard a shot from upstairs and both dropped their guns to go see what had happened." '


It's sad that this is funny; it's funny because it is so close to the truth.

January 6, 2022

The battle against vaccine hesitancy among Israel's Ultra-Orthodox

https://www.npr.org/2021/04/22/988812635/how-israel-persuaded-reluctant-ultra-orthodox-jews-to-get-vaccinated-against-cov

An interesting NPR article, explaining how Israel, which had a very high vaccination rate overall, worked to win over Hasidic communities which had been convinced that the vaccine would cause infertility in women.
Health officials worked to win over some of the senior Rabbis, who agreed to take part in the campaign. But there were still pockets of resistance in the communities. It took a tragedy in one community to win over the skeptics.

"Osnat Ben Sheetrit, 31, ran a wig and bridal salon for the ultra-Orthodox community and lived in the West Bank settlement neighborhood of Har Shmuel, near Jerusalem. In February, she was about to give birth to her fifth child. She remained hesitant about getting vaccinated, even after Israeli health experts and rabbis endorsed vaccines for pregnant women.

Her husband finally convinced her to make her a vaccine appointment that same month. But before she could get vaccinated, she was infected with the coronavirus and was hospitalized.

She gave birth while sick, but her newborn survived only a few hours. Shortly after the baby died, Ben Sheetrit died, too."

January 4, 2022

Major Utah GOP donor says 'the Jews' are using COVID-19 vaccines to 'euthanize the American people'

Source: Rawstory.com

"On Tuesday, Deseret News reported that Dave Bateman, the cofounder of tech company Entrata and a major financial backer of the Republican Party, mass-emailed several tech executives and elected officials claiming that COVID-19 vaccines are a Jewish plot to depopulate the world."

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/vaccine-conspiracy-theories-2656215991/

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I think any politicians who accepted donations from this guy need to be exposed.

January 2, 2022

The FBI is asking for help

There are 350 insurrectionists the FBI is still looking for.
https://www.rawstory.com/fbi-insurrectionist-wanted-list/

December 3, 2021

Prison Acknowledges Security Lapse that led to Ghislain Maxwell Spending Night in Noose Room

https://www.theonion.com/prison-acknowledges-security-lapse-that-led-to-ghislain-1848147121

Sorry if someone has already posted this tidbit. It made my day.

November 24, 2021

Certainly something to be thankful for, this season.

I've just realized why I prefer to get my news through this site.
Other news sites end up giving me feelings of depression and helplessness.
But on DU, I get the news accompanied by comments from (for the most part) thoughtful, caring individuals. Instead of a feeling of helplessness, I feel like I belong to a community that is working to hold back the evils of our society.