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Travel Hat's Journal
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August 30, 2023

About the 2 people shot at the White Sox game this past weekend.....

Peggy Kusinski
@peggykusinski
As I reported on
@ESPN1000
just now… the shooting at Guaranteed Rate Field during a #WhiteSox game was indeed an accidental discharge by one of the women “grazed” by the bullet. She reportedly snuck the gun in past metal detectors hiding it in the folds of her belly fat.

June 13, 2023

Gavin Newsom on Hannity last night. This is what the Dems should be doing in my opinion

This is what I think our leaders in the democratic party should be doing. Getting on the Fox network and standing up for what we believe in.

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1668438978138198017?cxt=HHwWgsC-1aWavqcuAAAA

We have some great communicators, Newsom, Pete Buttigieg and Dan Goldman to name a few.

I know going on Fox to some would seem useless, but if don't try reaching out more outside the MSNBC and CNN networks nothing will change in my opinion.

Though I would ignore the OANs and small far right-wing networks.

But like I said, this is only my opinion.

March 16, 2023

A Quick Look at the Lying Trumpist Liars Behind that Database on Corporate Giving to "BLM"

This is an article By Josh Marshall From TPM

According to stories bursting across the right-wing mediasphere today, a key reason for the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was its focus on spreading “woke culture” rather than efficiently managing risk and profits. Ground zero for this is the allegation that SVB had donated over $73 million to the “BLM Movement & Related Causes.” That struck me as quite a lot of money for a single company, even a large and profitable one, to give to any cause or even all causes. So I tried to find out where this factoid came from and rapidly found my way to a Trumpist think tank. Perhaps not surprisingly, it’s a complete lie. I want to show you the receipts, but first some key details.

The claims come from a database posted earlier this week by the Center for the American Way of Life, a project of the Claremont Institute. As Claremont put it in a Newsweek article introducing the database, “Americans deserve to know who funded the BLM riots.”

Claremont has been around for many years — I actually spent a summer many years ago as a research assistant at another think tank very loosely associated with it — and it’s always been on the right. But it’s undergone a sort of hyper-right-wing rebranding in the Trump era and now presents itself as the group trying to provide an intellectual, let’s say PhD-based, underpinning to Trumpism, sometimes termed “national conservatism.”

Now back to the database. Even if it had nothing to do with SVB’s collapse, is it really possible that the bank contributed almost $74 million to the “BLM Movement & Related Causes?” Well, no.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-quick-look-at-the-lying-trumpist-liars-behind-that-database-on-corprate-giving-to-blm

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Name: Steven Skoglund
Gender: Male
Hometown: Rockford
Home country: USA
Current location: Rockford
Member since: Wed Sep 25, 2019, 08:57 AM
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About Travel Hat

Just retired. I like to travel. Been able to do some because of my work. looking to do some more now. Been lurking here for awhile, but now that I'm retired I thought I'd join.
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