May 20, 2020

How do I delete my account?

May 20, 2020

How do we talk about rightwing attacks on this site without getting flagged?

The path these attacks take now is to brew among subgroups on facebook, like african Americans, or bernie supporters for example, when they find a formula that works there, they roll it out widely buy facebook ads, and push it into the news. They do this knowing it has "legs" among the voters they want to peel away from Democratic Party. I happen to be in a position to see these early and think early warning means better prepared.

Unfortunately, those links get flagged here because they must, by necessity, describe the attack.

The Tara Reade story, for example, circled in a stealth facebook campaign for a month before the Intercept picked it up and made it into a mainstream story. It didn't seem to break widely here until Chris Hays covered it, almost three months later.

So how can I safely post a heads-up about these campaigns? Should there be a safe research forum or something? I really think our survival might depend on seeing the warning signs of a rightwing massacre before they pull out the machetes and go after us Rwanda style. They are already doing that with masks. There was another shooting at a Waffle House today. The mask shootings are not based on reality. It is pure disinformation but it is killing people.

So do we engage with the reality of how these attacks work or just wait and react when they are big news?

May 16, 2020

Joan Armatrading - Me, Myself I

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May 14, 2020

Help me find a picture "My freedom is worth more than your life"

I saw it yesterday and now can't find it.

May 14, 2020

2 Minutes!

I have a game I sometimes play.

I'll roll over to FOX and listen for ten lies.

Usually, that's 10 minutes at most, but tonight, Tucker Carlson got there in 2 minutes from 8:08 ET to 8:10 ET.That was faster than the butcher of Mar-a-Lago.

May 12, 2020

So the rightwing radio and tv shows I monitor have almost stopped talking virus response.

FYI: It's BLAME CHINA, OPEN, TARA, and Obamagate.

Interestingly, they did not seem to agree on WHAT Obamagate was exactly.

Blame China was a talking point sent to Senators a couple weeks ago.

Nothing about the virus, just happy talk that it was going away and that "v-shaped" recovery was coming.

I can't wait till we show them what a recovery should look like after Biden gets in.

May 12, 2020

Script to break the Ohio unemployment snitch line.

Let's fight back!


https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wxqemy/this-script-sends-junk-data-to-ohios-website-for-snitching-on-workers

An anonymous hacker has released code that allowed anyone to automatically submit junk data to Ohio’s controversial COVID-19 Fraud website, which prompts employers to report workers who refuse to work during the deadly pandemic so they won’t receive unemployment benefits.

The script, which began circulating on social media earlier this week, automatically fills out a “fraud reporting” form on the state of Ohio’s unemployment insurance website. State officials created the form to encourage companies to snitch on workers who are refusing to work under unsafe conditions, drawing outrage from workers and labor rights advocates. The script’s creator says the goal is to overwhelm the site with a flood of fake submissions, making it harder to process claims and thus deny people their benefits.

May 12, 2020

Hamilton - The Schuyler Sisters (Hamilton is coming to Disney+ July 3!)

The Schuyler Sisters - YouTube
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Lyrics
There's nothing rich folks love more
Than going downtown and slummin' it with the poor.
They pull up in their carriages and gawk
At the students in the common
Just to watch them talk.
Take Philip Schuyler: the man is loaded.
Uh-oh, but little does he know that
His daughters, Peggy, Angelica, Eliza
Sneak into the city just to watch all the guys at—
Work, work!
Angelica!
Work, work!
Eliza!
And Peggy!
The Schuyler sisters!
Angelica! Peggy! Eliza! Work!
Daddy said to be home by sundown.
Daddy doesn't need to know.
Daddy said not to go downtown.
Like I said, you're free to go.
But–look around, look around, the
Revolution's happening in New York (New York)
Angelica! Work!
It's bad enough daddy wants to go to war.
People shouting in the square.
It's bad enough there'll be violence on our shore.
New ideas in the air.
Look around, look around—
Angelica, remind me what we're looking for...
She's lookin' for me!
Eliza, I'm lookin' for a mind at work. (Work, Work)
I'm lookin for a mind at work! (Work, work!)
I'm lookin for a mind at work! (Work, work!)
Whooaaaaa! Whooaaaaa! (Work!)
Wooh! There's nothin' like summer in the city.
Someone in a rush next to someone lookin' pretty.
Excuse me, miss, I know it's not funny
But your perfume smells like your daddy's got money.
Why you slummin' in the city in your fancy heels
You searchin for an urchin who can give you ideals?
Burr, you disgust me.
Ah, so you've discussed me.
I'm a trust fund, baby, you can trust me!
I've been reading Common Sense by Thomas Paine.
So men say that I'm intense or I'm insane.
You want a revolution? I want a revelation
So listen to my declaration:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident
That all men are created equal"
And when I meet Thomas Jefferson,
I'm 'a compel him to include women in the sequel! (Work!)
Look around, look around at how
Lucky we are to be alive right now!
Look around, look around at how
Lucky we are to be alive right now!
History is happening in Manhattan and we
Just happen to be in the greatest city in the world!
In the greatest city in the world!
Cuz I've been reading Common Sense by Thomas Paine. (Look around, look around)
So men say that I'm intense or I'm insane.
(The revolution's happening in New York)
You want a revolution? I want a revelation
So listen to my declaration
We hold these truths to be self evident
That all men are created equal
Look around, Look around
At how lucky we are to be alive right now!
History is happening in Manhattan and we just
Happen to be
In the greatest city in the world
In the greatest city-
In the greatest city in the world!
Work, work!
Angelica! (Work, work!)
Eliza! (Work, work!) And Peggy!
The Schuyler sisters! (Work, work!)
We're looking for a mind at
Work, work! Hey!
Work, work! Hey!
Work, work! Whoa! Hey! Hey!
Work, work! Hey! Hey! Hey!
In the greatest Work, work!
In the greatest city in the
World
In the greatest city in the world!
Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Lin-manuel Miranda
The Schuyler Sisters lyrics © 5000 Broadway Music

May 11, 2020

Looking for resources...

Looking for good resources, statistics, news feeds, and livestreams


I'm looking for good resources this election season. I found this list from a month ago. Can anyone add anything?

Corona Virus Tracker -
https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

Joe Biden's Here's The Deal podcast - https://joebiden.com/heres-the-deal/

Take Action for Joe - https://joebiden.com/take-action/

Warren Democrats - https://elizabethwarren.com/

Electoral-vite.com - https://electoral-vote.com/ This site offers analysis,news, and statistics.

FiveThirtyEight - https://fivethirtyeight.com/ This is Nate Silver’s data heavy statistics and analysis site.

Media Matters - https://www.mediamatters.org/ This site turns its eye on the media and is a great source for calling out the often uncritical and occasionally outright lying news coverage.

Crooks and Liars - https://crooksandliars.com/ This is a snarkier, more video-heavy site analyzing coverage similar to Media Matters above.

Open Secrets - https://www.opensecrets.org/ A source for statistics and details on political donations. I find it is a great way to sniff out Republican donors and “fake” liberals who will crop up to claim support for Trump.

Wonkette - https://www.wonkette.com/ A joyfully snark-laden source for left-leaning political news.

Alternet.org - https://www.alternet.org/ A good source for progressive political opinion and news.

Crooked Media - https://crooked.com/ A source for liberal news and analysis from former Obama staffers. Their podcasts, especially Pod Save America and Pod Save the World are excellent.

Al Franken Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-al-franken-podcast/id1462195742 It’s just a joy to hear his voice again.

MSNBC Livestream - https://livenewschat.eu/politics/

Live Streams for MSNBC, FOXNEWS, CNN, and CNBC. - https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html

Democracy Now - https://www.democracynow.org/ A wonderful source for news the media ignores and far-left political opinion.


Media Bias/Fact Check
We are the most comprehensive media bias resource on the internet. There are currently 3100+ media sources listed in our database and growing every day. Don’t be fooled by Fake News sources. Use the search feature above (Header) to check the bias of any source. Use name or url.
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/

Debunkatron
For the fun of debunking,
duty of skepticism,
and love of science.
http://debunkatron.com/

Metabunk
Metabunk.org is dedicated to the art and pastime of honest, polite, scientific investigating and debunking. It is primarily a discussion forum, however the focus is on providing concise useful resources, and attempting to avoid repetitive debate and arguments.
https://www.metabunk.org/home/

Right Wing Watch
Right Wing Watch is a project of People For the American Way (PFAW) dedicated to monitoring and exposing the activities and rhetoric of right-wing activists and organizations in order to expose their extreme agenda. Our researchers monitor dozens of broadcasts, emails and websites, and use their expertise on right-wing movements to analyze and distill that information for media, allies and the general public. By shedding light on the activities of the right-wing movement, we help expose the risks its extreme and intolerant agenda presents to our country. We do not endorse the views of groups that we report on.
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/


The Empire Files - Abbey Martin
From inside history's biggest empire:
Files logged by Abby Martin recording a world shaped by war & inequality.
http://theempirefiles.tv/


I'm also watching...
https://www.19thnews.org/
https://www.verifiedvoting.org/

Economics Data and Opinin
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/
https://www.conference-board.org
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/robert-reich
https://twitter.com/profwolff?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
https://www.nytimes.com/column/paul-krugman
https://wolfstreet.com/2020/05/11/us-commercial-real-estate-prices-plunged-in-april-mall-prices-collapsed/

Far left Economics
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/
https://jacobinmag.com/

May 11, 2020

Are these numbers being manipulated?

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm

I feel like I'm missing something, but I cannot figure out why excess deaths would fall to 61% of expected two weeks ago and then 16% this week. The haven't been below 95% since February. Did people quit dying? It looks like they are just not there.

Updated May 11, 2020

Week ending date in which the death occurred COVID-19 Deaths (U07.1)1 Deaths from All Causes Percent of Expected Deaths2 Pneumonia Deaths
(J12.0–J18.9)3 Deaths with Pneumonia and COVID-19
(J12.0–J18.9 and U07.1)3 Influenza Deaths
(J09–J11)4 Deaths with Pneumonia, Influenza, or COVID-19
(U07.1 or J09–J18.9)5
Total Deaths 49,867 808,851 95 74,756 21,974 6,046 107,825
2/1/2020 0 57,448 97 3,700 0 472 4,172
2/8/2020 1 57,782 97 3,688 0 501 4,190
2/15/2020 0 57,096 97 3,712 0 521 4,233
2/22/2020 2 57,068 98 3,577 0 542 4,121
2/29/2020 7 57,286 100 3,666 5 623 4,291
3/7/2020 29 56,910 98 3,769 16 597 4,378
3/14/2020 50 54,959 96 3,731 25 591 4,346
3/21/2020 507 55,073 97 4,233 231 504 5,007
3/28/2020 2,786 58,522 105 5,740 1,265 416 7,629
4/4/2020 8,498 66,223 118 9,047 4,068 442 13,701
4/11/2020 13,422 71,028 128 10,658 5,983 445 18,213
4/18/2020 12,890 65,345 121 9,320 5,529 238 16,746
4/25/2020 8,471 52,945 98 6,527 3,568 119 11,468
5/2/2020 2,613 32,669 61 2,726 1,047 32 4,311
5/9/2020 591 8,497 16 662 237 - 1,019