Insane mudslide caught on video in Switzerland
Holy mackerel!
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Why Do We ‘Write Blank Checks for War’ But ‘Our Pockets Are Empty’ When It Comes to Medicare for All?
"In an interview with CNN's Chris Cuomo Wednesday evening, New York congressional candidate and democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez questioned how Congress can "write unlimited blank checks for war" and pass the GOP's $2 trillion tax cut for the wealthy, but when it comes to proposals that would help every American—such as Medicare for All—"our pockets are empty.""The Full Story
This is also an experiment
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…. what can i tell you other than to just ignore it.
Even this.
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'Big Win for the Public': The Awful Tribune-Sinclair Merger Is Dead
""Sinclair isn't likely to learn the right lessons from the collapse of this merger," Frisch concluded. "They will be back.""The Full Story
A nice side ‘benny’ of the On This Day extension is that old posts show up - of course.
But now when you see them - and those ‘odd characters’ show up, just boot up Mars Edit and all is fixed - lickety split.
Major US news sites are still blocking Europeans due to GDPR … and we thought Instapaper was slow off the mark.
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Musicians Only Made 12% of the Music Industry’s Revenue
We were talking about this the other day. When I have a moment, I will drop a link back here.
Facebook throws an extra $10m at Zuck’s personal security
Two reasons people spend money on personal security
- inflated self worth
- real threats to their personal safety
In Zucks case there is a little of both going on, but I’d focus on the latter for his hypocrisy.
“Twitter is not the public square. It just wants you to think it is. The web itself is the public square.”
Brent Simmons
… very @dave like thought and spot on.
Apple responds to US lawmaker concerns about tracking.
“The customer is not our product, and our business model does not depend on collecting vast amounts of personally identifiable information to enrich targeted profiles marketed to advertisers.”
Tim Cook and @Manton Reece
Alex Jones has not been barred from speaking ... he’s just had his microphone taken away.
‘Cory’ himself commenting on the Alex Jones stuff … nowhere connecting the ‘amplification’ aspect that @manton raised yesterday(?) … how do we move that thought into wider mainstream thinking?
China to ignore Trump sanctions, continue doing business with Iran
… would it be unpatriotic of me to say .. at least in this case .. ‘Go China’.
Every day it seems we find another shadow ‘organization’ sticking their nose in to business outside of their jurisdiction and bypassing normal channels.
I Changed The Password Anyway … Good Practice
Journalism Needs To Be Saved Before It Is Too Late … John Oliver from two years ago!
🎵 ZZTop’s “Legs” and U2’s “Streets Have No Name” are the same song
… no really - click through and have a listen.
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach can legally oversee recount in his own race for governor
… and so would be a perfect time to recuse himself … but I’m not holding my breath … are you?
A beautiful pedestrian bridge in Vietnam
"This new pedestrian bridge at the Sun World Bà Nà Hills resort near Da Nang, Vietnam is really something else. From Colossal:"The Full Story
Listen: ZZTop's "Legs" and U2's "Streets Have No Name" are the same song
"Aaron Oppenheim writes, "I made a lil lazy mashup of Legs and Where The Streets Have No Name (just t"The Full Story