This week, PJ looks into a theory circling the internet about who might be behind QAnon. The investigation takes him back to the beginning of the QAnon scam, and to the message board trolls who started it.gimletmedia.com
Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley questioned Netflix Friday about content in "Cuties.web.ground.news
Recycling plastic has never worked very well. So who convinced us this was a good idea? Today on the show, we might have the answer. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.www.npr.org
“But I think the first real change in women’s body image came when JLo turned it butt-style. That was the first time that having a large-scale situation in the back was part of mainstream American beauty. Girls wanted butts now. Men were free to admit that they had always enjoyed them. And then, what felt like moments later, boom—Beyoncé brought the leg meat. A back porch and thick muscular legs were now widely admired. And from that day forward, women embraced their diversity and realized that all shapes and sizes are beautiful. Ah ha ha. No. I’m totally messing with you. All Beyonce and JLo have done is add to the laundry list of attributes women must have to qualify as beautiful. Now every girl is expected to have Caucasian blue eyes, full Spanish lips, a classic button nose, hairless Asian skin with a California tan, a Jamaican dance hall ass, long Swedish legs, small Japanese feet, the abs of a lesbian gym owner, the hips of a nine-year-old boy, the arms of Michelle Obama, and doll tits. The person closest to actually achieving this look is Kim Kardashian, who, as we know, was made by Russian scientists to sabotage our athletes.”― Tina Fey, Bossypants
This was how I found out that there are an infinite number of things that can be ‘incorrect’ on a woman’s body.― Tina Fey, Bossypants
Now if you’re not "hot," you are expected to work on it until you are. It’s like when you renovate a house and you’re legally required to leave just one of the original walls standing. If you don’t have a good body, you’d better starve the body you have down to a neutral shape, then bolt on some breast implants, replace your teeth, dye your skin orange, inject your lips, sew on some hair and call yourself the Playmate of the Year.― Tina Fey, Bossypants
Too much of our #Culture is dictated by what #Artists & #WritersBy advertisers and media, I would say. Moreover, you say it yourself too:
The #creative people in this world need to stop serving up #commercial #garbage and begin writing things that #struggle with finding acts of free-will, and objectively #ethical good acts.I concur, but I beg you not to blame artists. Let's point the finger to who are really responsible for this.
That’s not #creativity, that’s a #feedback #loop!
David Duke’s path to power began with an election in the New Orleans suburbs.slate.com
In August of 1619, a ship carrying more than 20 enslaved Africans arrived in the English colony of Virginia. America was not yet America, but this was the moment it began.www.nytimes.com
I mean. They couldn’t stop themselves from blatantly escalating things. Even for a few days, even cynically, even for the optics.
— Anna Kendrick (@AnnaKendrick47) May 31, 2020
The last few weeks have been filled with devastating news — stories about the police killing black people. At this point, these calamities feel familiar — so familiar, in fact, that their details have begun to echo each other.www.npr.org
Coronavirus has already overtaken the death rate for cancer and is about to overtake heart disease.
Before ink is dry on record FCC penalty check, Sinclair runs full-hour in-kind ad for mayoral candidate
The station hosted a more than hourlong online “conversation” with Vignarajah alone Thursday night,but the FEC has been gutted, so WGAFwith anchor Mary Bubala noting at the beginning of the livestreamed program that they had hoped to be joined by Miller, Dixon and Scott. The station did not invite former Baltimore Police spokesman T.J. Smith and Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young because they require candidates to release five years of tax returns to qualify for these debates.THE IRONY, IT BURNS
In her letter to the station, Miller’s campaign manager, Ann Beegle, noted that several people affiliated with Sinclair, a conservative-leaning Hunt Valley-based company, have made large financial contributions to Vignarajah’s mayoral campaign.
https://www.baltimoresun.com/politics/bs-md-pol-fox-debate-baltimore-mayor-20200508-hmoenzleine63fcm7qabakdzxy-story.html
Vignarajah is an entitled twat, to boot.Baltimore mayoral debate on Fox 45 becomes forum for just one candidate, Thiru Vignarajah, after others decline invitation
What was originally billed by Baltimore’s Sinclair Broadcast Group affiliate as a debate among Democratic mayoral candidates instead became a roughly hourlong conversation with only one contender — former Deputy Attorney General Thiru Vignarajah — af…www.baltimoresun.com
Web Servers are HARD!
When you first install your own #Webserver on your own #Hardware, everything pretty much goes easy and right. Over time you get more complex with things. Then upgrades start to roll in. Eventually, you make a mistake and nobody notices anything. Because you care about the content on the #Server, you spend time on that, not reading logs and outputs of cron jobs. You miss some things that would have been great to know. Then in what seems like a flash, you are in Murphy's Law territory.
It's stunning how much a person doesn't know about things they know so much about.
Vote For Pete Buttigieg! #NOT
(Former) #MayorPete gets some of his #DirtyLaundry aired out here, and man-o-man it stinks!
#PeteButtigieg #SomeMoreNews #Election2020 #DemocraticParty
Author Andrea Bernstein says Donald Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, have benefited from family connections — and the influence of money in politics.www.npr.org
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