- CBS
- X/Twitter
- USA Today
- CBS
- BBC
- CBS (Jan 16)
- Daily Mail (Jan 9)
- Twitter (Jan 8)
- Daily Mail (Jan 8)
- LA's $750k-a-year water chief Janisse Quiñones "knew about empty reservoir and broken hydrants" months before fires. [Daily Mail] Assistant Chief Kristine Larson favored representation, at all costs. [Twitter] LA fire fighters to chief: "If you had done things right...fatalities would have been reduced, property would have been saved." [Twitter]
- Obama alums double down on soliciting LA wildfires donations on Dem fundraising site: 'F--- you.' [Fox News] They claim all donations go straight to the victims but there's a 4% processing fee, there's the benefit of building their email lists, and one of the organizations they're supporting, the Latino Community Foundation, has little to nothing to do with fire relief. [Twitter]
- Axios
- Twitter
- Twitter
- Twitter
- AOC loses House oversight role vote to Connolly
- Recent Immigration Surge Has Been Largest in U.S. History
- Doctors warn cooking oil used by millions may be fueling explosion of colon cancers in young people
- Haiti gang massacres 110 people accused of witchcraft
- World leaders join Macron for Notre Dame's grand reopening
- Massimo (Sep 14)
- Massimo (Sep 8)
- Tweet (Aug 10)
- Tweet (Aug 9)
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman proposed TSMC provide trillions in funding for AI-based chip manufacturingThe executives found the idea so absurd that they took to calling Mr. Altman a 'podcasting bro'
- Examples of state of the art video and image generations. You judge how good they are
- The story of how a key advancement in AI may have come about by accident
- The FDA bans Red Dye No. 3, an artificial coloring used in beverages, candy and other foods
- Sweden starts building a deep underground long-term nuclear waste storage facility, only the 2nd in the world
- Actors Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively trade accusations
- NYMag on the allegations against author Neil Gaiman
- How archeologists dug up the oldest gun ever found in the US, dating back five centuries
- Jimmy Carter dies at 100
- FDA weighs ban on red dye No. 3, a synthetic dye used in some foods and drinks, over health risks
- Alcohol is a leading cause of cancer and drinks should carry a warning label as cigarettes do: Surgeon General
- The cost of coffee is surging as droughts and flooding strain global bean supply
- Missing congresswoman found in assisted-living home
- Overdose deaths are decreasingFatalities have been declining for 7 straight months, with changes in the supply said to be one of the causes
- Jussie Smollett's conviction for false hate crime report overturnedAn Illinois court determined that he was unjustly prosecuted a second time because State Attorney Kim Foxx decided to drop the charges against him
- Bolsonaro could face criminal charges in Brazil over coup plot
- WSJ (Jan 11)
- Tensions between India and Canada over Ottawa declaring the ambassador and other top Indian diplomats 'persons of interest' in probe of killing of Sikh activist
- NYT takes a look inside the facilities where the US is spending $1.7 trillion to overhaul its nuclear weapons
- Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, traded for WNBA star Brittney Griner, is reportedly now selling arms to the HouthisOct 7
- NYT: As America's marijuana use grows, so do the harmsOct 7
- OutKick (Jun 5)
- Mediaite (May 30)
- Axios (May 27)
- Forbes (May 16)
- The Guardian
- NPR
- CNN
- PBS
- Variety
- The Telegraph
A Twitter user notes that Rachael Gunn is an academic who's previously written about the gender politics of breakdancing and theorizes that the whole thing may have been a deliberate stunt. [Twitter]
There have been allegations that Rachael Gunn manipulated the qualifying process. Multiple sources have debunked this though.
- Yahoo
The most common defense [The Guardian, Hindustan Times] is that the man in blue was meant to be Dionysus/Bacchus and the tableau a nod to The Feast of the Gods painting by Jan van Bijlert, but that painting itself is said to be a reference to The Last Supper.
- The Wrap
- City Journal
- Highlights of the competition: Simon Biles triumphant return, Ledecky breaks records in women's swimming. Memes and memorable things: shooters go viral for their unique styles
- Controversies: The opening ceremony did in fact mock The Last Supper; Imane Khelif gender questions; that ridiculous Aussie breakdancer may have been some sort of stunt
Assorted links:
- Excellent New Yorker piece 'The Other Afghan Women' offers an enlightening perspective on the war and many interesting details
- The NYT finds life in Kabul under the Taliban has been a struggle, though not everyone's unhappy with their rule
- NYT: Did the War in Afghanistan Have to Happen?In 2001, when the Taliban were weak and ready to surrender, the U.S. passed on a deal
Original analysis:
- New Media News (Aug 2021)
- Matt Yglesias, a liberal commentator, acknowledges that the spike wasn't caused by Covid, it was George Floyd-BLM: The 2020 murder surge wasn't about CovidMatt Yglesias's Slow Boring (Oct 2023)
- Twitter (Sep 25, 2024)
- Apparently they pay by the incomprehensible word there too
- The paper in question: Construction and validation of a scale for assessing critical social justice attitudes
- NYT (Oct 23)
- City Journal (Aug 12)
- NYPost (Jun 26)
- NYT (May 14)
- NYT (Apr 9)
- Twitter (Apr 1)
- Daily Mail (Jan 13)
- The Telegraph (Oct 6)
- Mashable (Oct 28)
- Mashable (May 24)
- That's an opening though, for news they can trust. That's what this site is for...
- Credit card swipe fees plague small businesses. A NYT piece tells of how fees are their third largest expense behind rent and payroll
- Trudeau gov to send $250 checks to most Canadians. They're just handing out cash now, like a bribe — actually, it is that
- China soars past Europe as the 2nd-largest all-time greenhouse gas emitter. So much for the climate agenda
- Free Speech Union (Nov 16)
- Daily Mail (Nov 16)
- LBC (Nov 15)
- Turns out the real threat of AI isn't apocalyptic, but it flooding our world with artificial slop, for little purpose
- The Star (Aug 7)
- True North (Jun 19)
- Bloomberg (Apr 8)
- Fox News (Apr 4)
- Mackenzie Gray (Apr 2)
- Daily Mail (Jan 2024)
- National Post (Jun 2023)
Older developments:
- NYPost (Aug 2023)
- Globe and Mail (Aug 2023)
First off, they're not book bans. It's usually a library or district just taking a book off its shelves. That you hear more about it affecting progressive books is just because the left loves to produce a lot of “educational material” (propaganda) for children. Right-wing books don't even get to the point of there being a possibility that they get “banned“ (i.e. pulled from shelves somewhere), because they aren't stocked in the first place or they're pulled outright from Amazon and other major booksellers.
It's been effective framing for them though, redirecting the conversation away from their far more common and significant censorship. I may put together something addressing this later.
- The Telegraph
- Daily Mail
- Daily Mail
- CBS (Sep 30)
- The Guardian (Sep 26)
Bud Light:
- Bud Light maker Anheuser-Busch lays off hundreds of US corporate workers after sales slump [CNBC, AP]Jul 27
- Anheuser-Busch sales drop 23% from a year ago [CBS]May 12
- Bud Light sales continue to plummet after transgender marketing controversy [St. Louis Post-Dispatch]May 1
Target:
- The Washington Post
- The Wall Street Journal
This is something this writer has long argued, against widespread skepticism. Basically, we've never lost the power we have as consumers. Corporations can't just keep spitting in our faces forever. The problem is that conservatives suck — or did suck — at boycotts, not that they don't work.
But there's also been some confusion about what we want here. We're surrounded by ads in our day-to-day life. It's deeply annoying to be subjected to this propaganda. We just want it to stop. It seems though like a lot of people have a vendetta against the Bud Light brand specifically. But woke capitalism is a widespread phenomenon. We've already made our point to Anheuser-Busch. Now we want all the other companies to get that message too.
