AARP Poll: Trump Is Thumping Biden in Pennsylvania By Five Points
—Disinformation Expert Ace
He's winning the Boomers. He's winning Gen X, aka "The New Greatest Generation," by 16. (Even though I'm not yet 29, I identify as a Gen Xer.)
He's winning all other age groups, including the very young, by a point.
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House Republicans: It's Time to Send the Foreign Proto-Jihadists Illegally Squatting on American Universities To "Study Abroad" in Gaza
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Before getting to that, via Twitch, noted warmongrel Liz Cheney has the sads that Biden is now supporting Hamas, and cries Tears of Crisco on Twitter about it:
She's not the only Vulnerable Democrat now pretending to be surprised by Biden's Pivot to Hamas.
Politico:
"I've been clear that allowing anyone to enter the country without being properly vetted and going through a legal process undermines our national security," said Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.). "And that neighboring countries in the region including Egypt and Jordan should play a leading role in taking in refugees."
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) said the White House and Biden's administration should keep its focus on a bigger prize: "The administration should be focused on reaching an agreement that ends the fighting, frees the hostages and gets much-needed humanitarian aid into Gaza." ...
Here's a political stunt that I would like to be a real thing: Send the terrorists-in-training back to their terrorist shitoles.
Tennessee Republican Rep. Andy Ogles introduced legislation Wednesday to send Hamas-sympathizing student visa holders home and told Hamas-Sympathizing student visa holders to "go study abroad in Gaza."
The Daily Caller first obtained a copy of the legislation, which is titled the Study Abroad Act. The bill would specifically "revoke the F, J, or M visa" of any alien who authorities have "arrested for rioting or unlawful protest," or who authorities have "arrested while establishing, participating in, or promoting an encampment" at an institute of higher education.
"The ability to receive higher education in the United States is truly a privilege. Previously known for their prestige and unparalleled academics, many elite American universities have damaged their hard-earned reputations by opening their doors to impressionable terrorist sympathizers. In the last several weeks, our nation has seen these institutions overrun and terrorized by young people calling for a third intifada," Ogles told the Caller before introducing the bill.
"These antisemitic, anti-America riots have wreaked havoc and chaos on campuses, leading to the cancellation of commencements and in-person classes. It is unacceptable that we would allow non-Americans to terrorize our institutions of higher learning. It's time to send a clear message to foreign, Hamas-sympathizing students rioting: if you bring chaos to our universities, you can study abroad somewhere else. Might I recommend Iran, Qatar, or Gaza? They seem more your speed," he added.
Ogles was joined by Texas Republican Rep. Randy Weber and South Carolina Rep. Jeff Duncan as cosponsors of the legislation.
"If you hate America so much, you should get the first ticket back to your country and attend college there. The unruly anti-Semites that are spewing hate and discontent on college campuses will not be tolerated in the United States," Weber told the Caller.
Protests continue to take place at college campuses across the U.S.
"If you come to America on a student visa and support a terrorist organization like Hamas, then you are in violation of your visa," Duncan told the Caller. "We do not need Hamas sympathizers on American soil breaking our laws and influencing our youth to hate America and freedom. You riot on behalf of a terrorist organization, then say goodbye to your visa."
If only.
I heard someone, Matt Walsh I think, calling for Republicans to pass something like this, to force Democrats to vote against it and proclaim themselves as pro-Intifada-Riot.
We're In the Final Months of An Election So That Means It's Time for the Democrat Deep State to Star Censoring Political Discussions Again
—Disinformation Expert Ace
I'd like to think that if Trump is re-elected, the FBI will have reason to fear, but I don't think that.
I think Trump likes brand names.
On Monday, Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, told reporters that federal agencies such as the FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) restarted discussions with Big Tech platforms. According to NextGov/FCW, this coordination will focus on "removing disinformation on their sites as the November presidential election nears." Warner claimed these talks resumed in March, around the same time oral arguments in Murthy v. Missouri -- which centers on the feds' censorship efforts -- were heard before the U.S. Supreme Court.When pressed on the validity of Warner's remarks, an FBI representative confirmed to The Federalist that the agency has resumed communications with social media companies ahead of the 2024 election.
"The FBI remains committed to combatting foreign malign influence operations, including in connection with our elections. That effort includes sharing specific foreign threat information with state and local election officials and private sector companies when appropriate and rigorously consistent with the law," the representative claimed. "In coordination with the Department of Justice, the FBI recently implemented procedures to facilitate sharing information about foreign malign influence with social media companies in a way that reinforces that private companies are free to decide on their own whether and how to take action on that information."
CISA External Affairs Specialist Tess Hyre declined The Federalist's request for comment on whether the agency has resumed discussions with social media companies to combat what it claims to be "disinformation," but she said that CISA Director Jen Easterly will be participating in an "Election Security" hearing in "the coming weeks."
Neither the FBI nor CISA responded when pressed on when they restarted communications with social media companies on efforts to remove posts containing so-called "disinformation" from their platforms. The FBI and CISA did not identify the specific companies they're working with on such efforts. Neither agency provided an answer when questioned on how they determine what constitutes "disinformation" or what other federal agencies they are collaborating with in these efforts to have "disinformation" removed from social media platforms.
Biden is the most grotesque censor since at least Woodrow Wilson, and probably in all of American history.
Rep. Jim Jordan's (R-Ohio) Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government released an 800-page report that reads like Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged."Take a look:
In March 2021, an Amazon employee emailed others within the company about the reason for the Amazon bookstore's new content moderation policy change: "[T]he impetus for this request is criticism from the Biden Administration about sensitive books we're giving prominent placement to."
In March 2021, just one day prior to a scheduled call with the White House, an Amazon employee explained how changes to Amazon's bookstore policies were being applied "due to criticism from the Biden people."
In July 2021, when Facebook executive Nick Clegg asked a Facebook employee why the company censored the man-made theory of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the employee responded: "Because we were under pressure from the [Biden] administration and others to do more. . . . We shouldn't have done it."
YouTube "shared with the Biden White House a new 'policy proposal' to censor more content criticizing the safety and efficacy of vaccines, asking for 'any feedback' the White House could provide before the policy had been finalized." Someone at the Biden White House got back to YouTube with, "at first blush, seems like a great step."
AdvertisementOne Facebook executive's email revealed that the company was brainstorming "additional policy levers we can pull to be more aggressive against . . . misinformation. This is stemming from the continued criticism of our approach from the [Biden] administration."
Facebook's internal communications also revealed that "The Surgeon General wants us to remove true information about [COVID vaccine] side effects," and, of course, Facebook eventually complied. Mark Zuckerberg tried to resist at least at one point, emailing that "when we compromise our standards due to an administration in either direction, we'll often regret it."
But the White House applied more pressure, and Zuckerberg caved.
There's a word for using government power to silence debate: censorship. And it's as American as serfdom, haggis, seppuku.
Speaking of us losing our right to free speech before an election, Google censored that Trump ad targeting black voters, claiming the ad was a "policy violation."
Then they reversed this decision.
They claim it was all a perfectly innocent mistake and totes not politically motivated.
An advertisement for the Donald Trump reelection campaign that was aimed at Black voters in Middle Georgia was removed by Google last week and then reinstated, the company confirmed to The Telegraph.
...The Middle Georgia ad created a firestorm of comments on social media, even drawing a communication from the former president's son, Donald Trump Jr., who claimed "Google is censoring this pro-Trump ad to protect (President Joe) Biden." Trump Jr. even asked his followers on X, formerly known as Twitter, to help him make the ad go viral.
Google is censoring this pro-Trump ad to protect Biden. Let's make it go viral. pic.twitter.com/1qDH5QzkbJ -- Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) May 4, 2024
Google says it made a mistake. "This enforcement decision was made in error," a Google spokesman told The Telegraph, and "it was appealed by the advertiser and quickly overturned upon further review. This ad is currently running."
Here's that ad:
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Chris Cuomo: I'm Taking a Regular Dose of Ivermectin But Am Not a Horse; "Joe Rogan Was Right"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Everything they told us was a propagandistic lie. Everything.
Chris Cuomo's stance on Ivermectin as a theraputic drug for COVID-19 has done a complete 180, as the news anchor who once said on CNN that anyone promoting it should be "shamed" now says he's "taking a regular dose" to deal with his own struggles with long-term effects of an infection.Cuomo shared in January that he's suffering from "long COVID," or the long-term lingering effects of a previous infection. This week on the PBD Podcast, a current-events show hosted by Patrick Bet-David, the NewsNation personality said he's using the antiviral to help with an ongoing inflammatory response and "brain fog."
"I'll tell you something else that's gonna get you a lot of hits," Cuomo said. "I am taking ... a regular dose of Ivermectin. Ivermectin was a boogeyman during COVID. That was wrong. We were given bad information about Ivermectin. The real question is, why?"
When COVID-19 was peaking in 2020 and 2021, Ivermectin emerged as a fringe remedy, and was instantly denounced as a "horse dewormer" -- including a segment that mocked podcaster Joe Rogan for announcing that he had success taking the antiviral drug. Though it was first used in the 1970s as an antiparasitic primarily for animals, Ivermectin's use in humans had become widespread in later decades, as a malaria prophylaxis and treatment in particular, and is considered very safe.
"Everyone's going to say 'Joe Rogan was right,'" Cuomo continued. "No, Joe Rogan was saying -- yeah, he was right -- that's not what matters. What matters is, the entire medical community knew that Ivermectin couldn't hurt you. They knew it ... I know they knew it. How do I know? Because now I'm doing nothing but talking to these clinicians, who at the time were overwhelmed by COVID, and they weren't saying anything!"
When Cuomo was still a CNN anchor, he and colleague Don Lemon ridiculed its use after Rogan's disclosure:
"People who are getting, injecting, drugs for animals," Lemon said at the time, "and horse -- ."
"And people telling them to!" Cuomo interjected at the time. "What person -- you know you talk about cancel culture and who to shame -- Ivermectin? A de-wormer? Really? ... they need to be shamed. They need to be called out and shamed, brother."
On the PBD podcast, Cuomo walked that back -- way back -- suggesting that part of the reason Ivermectin was so vehemently rejected was that there was no profit in a drug that was already inexpensive and widely distributed.
"Journalists" claim that only "experts" should offer advice about technical subjects, bu then they -- non-experts in everything except propaganda -- routinely tell people what The Science (TM) is.
Further, Joe Rogan was not prescribed ivermectin by a hobo off the street. A medical doctor, an expert in health and disease, prescribed it.
Did CNN ever say "Well, an expert prescribed this, so we should defer to his expertise"?
They would parry this by saying "he's not an expert in covid," to which I reply: He's certainly more of an expert in covid than a fucking J-school graduate and nepo baby gay fuckboy, Anderson Cooper.
These Experts In Nothing Except Being Unwarrantly Arrogant Liberals all called a drug made for humans, whose creation was awarded a Nobel Prize in (human) medicine in 2015, "horse dewormer" and "horse paste."
I guess the Nobel Prize committee in medicine aren't relevant enough experts in discerning between People Medicine and Horse Medicine, too.
The "Don't Speak on a Subject Unless You're an Expert" rule is not a rule, it's a con. You can tell it's a con because the people pushing it the most aggressively violate it themselves.
And, by the way, I've never seen a liberal "journalist" who did not believe he is actually an "expert" on everything he talks about. They're all stupid, ignorant blowhards with an agenda but they all think they're polymath Renaissance Men.
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We're Six Months Ahead of an Election So That Must Mean It's Time for Biden to Tap the Political, I Mean Strategic Petroleum Reserve Again
—Disinformation Expert Ace
This demented pant-shitting rapist has brought trust and dignity back to the White House.
Biden promised to refill it. He cancelled that promise. Now he wants to deplete it further to give him an election boost.
President Biden will use crude oil from the strategic petroleum reserve should the need arise, energy adviser Amos Hochstein has said, noting there was enough oil in the reserve.
"We have been replenishing into the SPR for the last several months. I think we have sufficient supply in the SPR to address any kind of concern in the economy if we need it," Hochstein said, speaking at the Milken Institute Global Conference, as quoted by Reuters.
The U.S. saw the stockpiles of crude oil in the SPR fall from 638 million barrels at President Joe Biden's inauguration to just 347 million barrels by the summer of 2023 as the administration tried to bring down gasoline prices for consumers by releasing over 180 million barrels from the SPR.
The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition
—CBD
The vastly entitled "students" currently shutting down some of our elite universities have exposed the generation-long shift from a society that allows youth to suffer the consequences of their actions, to a society that allows children (and these people are absolutely just spoiled little kids) to skate through their first 20 or 25 years without any sense that being jerks might earn them a punch in the nose.
When a group of lawbreaking students takes over a building on campus, then hilariously demands that the university feed them, the time is long overdue for a national discussion about how we have raised a generation of spoiled brats who think that they are not only entitled to all of the benefits of adulthood, they are also entitled to the accommodation that culture makes for children.
The First Amendment of the Constitution is clear. Speech, however vile...however stupid...however ignorant of reality...is legal. Trespassing and destruction of property and kidnapping and assault are not speech, and these effete elitists must learn the difference.
Sadly, the lesson that these "protesters" are learning is that they can break the law with impunity, and their punishment will be: nothing. That teaches them that the hecklers' veto is alive and well and living on campus and, more destructively, on airport off-ramps and city intersections and lecture halls.
And when these children march off into the real world after graduation (and they will be allowed to graduate!), what will they bring to the work force? Imagine the job interview!
Of course many will do no such demeaning thing like actual work. They will remain at the universities, then slide effortlessly into government or NGOs that are currently being showered with government money. They will be a new generation of parasites in the bureaucratic state and its supporters in the quasi-government organizations that do the government's bidding when it is inconvenient to act directly. And even worse...in 10 years many of these children will be the vanguard of a new generation of activist professors...molding the mush-brains of a new crop of undergraduates!
I can hardly wait!
[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter]
The Morning Report — 5/9/24
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning, kids. Very early appointment this morning so I'll keep it short. The first of the two big stories is Speaker Mike Johnson, who is turning into the Paul Ryan of Kevin McCarthys, gets to keep his speakership mostly because the Democrats have turned him into the Joe Biden of Nancy Pelosis.
Eleven Republicans in the House of Representatives voted against the motion to table Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA) motion to vacate, ousting Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) from his position.Reps. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), Eric Burlison (R-MO), Eli Crane (R-AZ), Warren Davidson (R-OH), Paul Gosar (R-AZ), Thomas Massie (R-KY), Alex Mooney (R-WV), Barry Moore (R-AL), Chip Roy (R-TX), Victoria Spartz (R-IN), along with Greene, were the Republicans who voted against tabling the motion to vacate.
Greene’s motion to vacate came after she filed a motion to vacate Johnson from his position as speaker of the House in March. Conservatives in the House have argued that Johnson has capitulated to the Democrats and [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden.
In April, Johnson proposed a $95 billion foreign aid package. The package sent roughly $26 billion to Israel, $61 billion to Ukraine, and $8 billion to supporting allies in the Indo-Pacific.
On Monday, Greene and Massie met with Johnson for roughly three hours in an attempt to propose accountability measures to ensure Johnson would not advance an agenda that Republican members of the House opposed.
After the meeting, Greene said that she and Massie had engaged in a “very long discussion with Speaker Johnson” and would be meeting with him again the next day. Greene added that she had been “patient” and “diligent” and that nothing “has changed.”
There are those who will place the blame on this at MTG but considering the actions of Johnson, as well as the sudden resignation of several GOP congress-critters right during an election year that all but evaporated our majority in the House, is she really where the blame lies? And lest we forget Kevin McLuntz who was replaced for basically doing what Johnson is still doing. The rot is indeed ugly, dark and deep. MTG's only fault, if you could call it that, was being openly as angry about it as we all are.
Yes, we’re on Hamas’s side now. It’s as official as it can get without Old Joe Biden asking Congress for a declaration of war against Israel: the Biden regime has thrown the weight of the United States government behind the effort to save Hamas. As Israel begins its action in Rafah against Hamas’s last significant forces, Biden apparatchiks have come out strongly in support of the jihadis, attempting to kneecap Israel’s efforts by withholding crucial and previously agreed-upon arms shipments. . .. . . The Biden gang pressures Israel and not Iran or Hamas because this is all about securing the Arab Muslim vote in Michigan and elsewhere. The pressure on Old Joe has been high for months. Back in November, Nihad Awad, executive director of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), who infamously said that he was “happy” about Hamas’ Oct. 7 jihad massacre of 1,200 Israelis, declared at a pro-Hamas rally: “No cease-fire, no votes. No votes in Michigan, no votes in Arizona, no votes in Georgia, no votes in Nevada, no votes in Wisconsin, no votes in Pennsylvania. No votes for you anywhere if you don’t call for a ceasefire now.” A ceasefire, like cutting off Israel’s arms shipment, would allow Hamas to survive. That’s why Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Ramallah) agreed, adding: “The American people won’t forget. Biden, support a ceasefire now. Or don’t count on us in 2024.”
. . . The U.S. government has gone all-in on saving Hamas, just as Israel has a chance to realize its stated goal of destroying the organization forever.
Why is the Biden regime betraying an ally, a course of action that could have repercussions with other allies and potential allies for generations to come? Why has the regime essentially switched sides in Israel’s conflict with the same jihadis who scream “Death to America” as well as “Death to Israel”? It’s all about getting that vote in Michigan, as well as expressing the left’s hatred for particularity and for groups that refuse to efface all their individuality and join the collective. But the longer this keeps up, the Biden regime will not just imperil Israel, but the nation that had been the Jewish state’s great defender. Not that any of its apparatchiks will care about that.
Hopefully, Israel still has enough munitions stockpiled to finish off the cockroaches in Rafah or at least get them on he sly from the Saudis or Emiratis, perhaps even Egypt, none of whom have any love for the mythical "Palestinians" and their backers in Tehran.
And yet the chants of "Genocide Joe" don't seem to be dying down regardless of what Joe's fellow incest aficionado Bro-Fo Omar claims.
That's it for today. Talk amongst yourselves. As Stormy Daniels would say, "No holes barred!" Except Paul/Kurt, et al. Hasta mañana.
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- The FBI has resumed collusive efforts with social media companies to censor posts it claims are “disinformation,” The Federalist has learned.
FBI Confirms It’s Restarting Online Censorship Efforts Ahead Of 2024 Election
- "Resurgent anti-Semitism isn’t just an issue for the Jewish community—it’s a warning for all who value the ideals upon which America was built."
Confront Anti-Westernism
- Daniel Greenfield: "It may be the only way to save America."
Defund College
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Daily Tech News 9 May 2024
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- Underpants gnomes, eat your heart out.
Stack Overflow signed a deal with OpenAI - creators of ChatGPT - to sell off user data at a presumably enormous profit. (Tom's Hardware)
The users of course don't see a penny of this.
Understandably annoyed, those users started editing their content. They can't delete answers that have been accepted due to the way Stack Overflow works, but they can update them and render the data worthless.
So Stack Overflow started banning its own best users.
To rub salt into the wound, Stack Overflow has long banned its users from using generative AI to help write those answers, but has no qualms whatsoever about selling your work.
This likely violates the terms of Europe's GDPR, so let's see what the lawsuit fairy brings.
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(5/8/24) Wednesday Overnight Open Thread
—Misanthropic Humanitarian
Quote I Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. C. S. Lewis
Quote II“I want to say, shame on this committee for doing this. Apparently … the majority members keep attacking the NPR CEO Katherine Maher because she’s not here. They gave her one-week notice, she’s a brand new CEO and today is her board meeting, her first board meeting as CEO, and you want to haul her in here so that you can rake her over the coals for your partisan issues. Shame on this committee! I’m beside myself. I think it’s outrageous.” Democratic Colorado Rep. Diana DeGette
She enjoys projecting partisanship, Representative DeGette is one of nine impeachment managers arguing for Donald Trump's conviction.
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The Wacky Races Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Wakayama, Japan
by sorakataphoto
Why do Japanese bullet trains have giant needle-noses? It's not for aerodynamics. It reduces the power of the sonic booms they generate.
Sometimes you just need a butt rub.
Instant justice for a litterbug.
Humpday more like Flumpday am i rite
A little light aquacizing in the afternoon.
Beaver mom carrying her pup.
Sloths must do Pilates because their core strength is uhmazing.
I'm glad to see Dogs finally pushing back against cats' appropriation of Dog's Spaces.
Humpday more like Slumpday am i rite
Oh great, another parade of goose-steppers!
This is kinda funny. At least I think it is.
When a squirrel is your secret admirer.
ICYMI: The Desert Cats.
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Updated: Biden Announces No Weapons Will Be Sold to Israel If They Invade His Very Good Gaza Friends in Rafah
—Disinformation Expert Ace
As Jen Psaki might say (with no Secret Service investigation) -- Don't worry, Israel! Joe Biden may well die!
Oh wait, because I'm not a Democrat the Secret Service and FBI will be used to harass me, right?
San Francisco is about to lose a very, very big company with a very, very big contribution to their tax base -- Google.
At least it looks that way. Google is abandoning a "trophy" office building and consolidating in a cheaper one, and it looks like they're doing this in anticipation of abandoning the dying Gomorrah entirely.
I've covered the Financial District's body blows time and again, including the mostly empty One Front Street building -- one of the largest office buildings in the city -- where I worked three decades ago.The latest to leave is Google, vacating the 300,000-square-foot offices it has occupied at One Market Plaza since 2018. The San Francisco Chronicle describes the complex as one of those "trophy" office spaces, thanks to its "sweeping views of San Francisco Bay." Say what you will about the increasingly empty (but still pooped-covered!) city, but the Bay remains one of the most glorious sights in the country.
Ryan Lamont, a spokesperson for Google, said the company will be moving out of One Market's Spear Tower, but will continue to occupy the smaller Landmark building. He declined to comment on how long Google plans to remain in the latter.Translation: Google will not remain long in the latter. The company is consolidating its San Francisco offices into much less glamorous digs at 345 Spear St in the SoMa neighborhood.
Lamont also said, "We remain committed to our long-term presence in San Francisco," but the trendline doesn't look good.
Wow. Even leftwing Google is leaving San Fran.
At what point does the left admit that letting all of the criminals out of jail isn't working? Is the answer "never"? I think the answer might be "never."
Sean Hannity, meanwhile, is leaving NY.
Fire Marshall Jamaal has a secret YouTube page and, you'll never guess, it's filled with anti-western conspiracy theories.
"Squad" member Rep. Jamaal Bowman allegedly maintained a personal YouTube account that subscribed to users pushing outrageous conspiracy theories -- many with roots in antisemitism.As recently as last month, the Bronx and Westchester Democrat was creating playlists of videos using the screen name Inner Peace, according to the Daily Beast.
The outlet reported that the Bowman channel followed troves of accounts peddling bonkers claims about aliens, flat Earth theory, UFOs and the Illuminati.
The Post could not locate the Inner Peace account Thursday, and it was unclear whether it had been taken down. The Daily Beast reported that Inner Peace included images and footage from the Bronx middle school that Bowman founded and where he served as principal for 10 years.Some of the channels purportedly followed by Bowman, such as BreakThrough News, have been known to disseminate Chinese and Russian propaganda.
"The American Takeover: How 2 Years of War Made Ukraine a US Colony," one video from that channel is titled.
To be fair that one kinda checks out.
BreakThrough News is also rife with anti-Israel content, much of which appears to be in keeping with Bowman's views of the Jewish state's war against Hamas.
Other channels, including DiEM25, Free Will, PoliticsJOE, and Real News Network, have featured interviews with pro-terror professor Norman Finkelstein, whom Bowman lauded at a panel discussion on the Israel-Hamas war this past January.
I'm sure Jake Tapper will scold Jamaal about his conspiracy-mongering.
Hamas ran a psyop on the American public, putting out the false claim that they had "accepted" a ceasefire deal.
It's worse than that, though: they ran this op with the connivance and indulgence of the anti-American American government.
As our sister site, Townhall, explained, "Biden dispatched CIA Director William Burns to hash out a last-minute attempt to get a ceasefire agreement done, but the way it was handled was a total circus."Axios detailed how much of a train wreck it was. Three Israeli officials said that they didn't receive the text of the group's response from the mediators until an hour after Hamas released its statement and that it contained "many new elements" that were not in the original proposal.
The officials claimed CIA director Bill Burns and other Biden administration officials who are involved in the negotiations knew about the new proposal but didn't tell Israel.
The Israeli officials also said the last touches on the proposal were made on Monday morning in Doha with the Biden administration's knowledge.
On Monday morning, Burns spoke on the phone with Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant, a source with knowledge of the call said. But when Hamas released its statement the Israeli minister was also surprised.
Two Israeli officials said the feeling is that "Israel got played" by the U.S. and the mediators who drafted "a new deal" and weren't transparent about it.
Why are pro-Palestinian terrorists, I mean protesters, "protesting" Jewish Holocaust survivors at the Holocaust Museum?
Hint: It rhymes with "schmanti-schmemitisim" and "Shmarab Schmaziism and Schmuslim Schmitlerism."
Conn Carroll: The Karen Party has nothing to offer men but scoldings, denigration, and discrimination.
[A new Trump ad targeting black men] is a manifestation of the strategy Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) outlined in January. "What I can tell you," Gaetz said, "is for every Karen we lose, there's a Julio and Jamal ready to sign up for the MAGA movement."Or as Ron Brownstein put it: "What Gaetz is saying, in his somewhat stereotypical racial shorthand, is that even if Trump alienates a growing number of well-educated white women ('Karen'), he can overcome those losses by attracting more blue-collar, nonwhite men ('Julio and Jamal')."
The strategy works because the Democratic Party has been taken over by college-educated white women, and college-educated white women have different positions on, and care about, different issues than non-college-educated men of all races.
On immigration, for example, few demographics are more supportive of open borders than college-educated white women. And few groups are less supportive of open borders than non-college-educated men.
And it is not just immigration where the Democratic Party has abandoned men. Colbert King wrote an important column this weekend on how Democrats have all but called fathers unnecessary.
"Some among the social services intelligentsia contend that a low-income, single-woman household can raise a cohesive family if given enough government help and cash," King writes. "After all, goes the argument, Black women have strength beyond bloodlines, including supportive community connections."
And it is not just black women. The foundational creed of the modern Democratic Party is that fathers are not necessary. All mothers need to raise children, according to the Democratic Party, are checks from the federal government. Marriage is just one choice among many for Democrats. If the mother doesn't want the father around, that's great. More power to her.
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Marriage does matter. Black children, particularly sons, need married fathers in the home.
The white lady at the Biden call center doesn't get this. She can't. Her top priorities are abortion and female participation in the workforce. She couldn't care less about the plight of men. Just look at the "Who We Serve" page of the Democratic Party's website. As Survey Center on American Life founder Daniel Cox notes, out of 16 groups mentioned, including "Democrats Abroad," "LGBTQ+ Community," and of course, "Women," the word "Men" appears nowhere.
Whistleblower: The sacking of Hamilton Hall was well-organized, and Columbia may retaliate against me for telling the truth about it, because they want to protect the vandals.
The Lil' Terrorists (TM) took custodians hostage when they took over the building. They false imprisoned this guy -- kidnapped him. And it was a kidnapping, because he was held against his will and the kidnappers had demands they made to Columbia.
Columbia doesn't want this custodian talking about it because kidnapping and hostage taking are now Core Columbia Values.
It's the viral image that captured the clash between the anti-Israel protesters who stormed Columbia and the campus workers who tried to stop them. As the mob invaded Hamilton Hall in the early hours of April 30, a facilities worker was photographed pushing a demonstrator against a wall.Later, it emerged that the protester was a 40-year-old trust fund kid named James Carlson, who owns a townhouse in Brooklyn worth $2.3 million. [His father owns a $3.4 million house.] The man who tried to hold him back was Mario Torres, 45, who has worked at Columbia--where the average janitor makes less than $19 an hour--for five years.
Now, in an exclusive interview with The Free Press, Mario Torres describes the experience of being on duty as protesters stormed the building in the early hours of the morning, breaking glass and barricading the entrances. "We don't expect to go to work and get swarmed by an angry mob with rope and duct tape and masks and gloves," he said.
"They came from both sides of the staircases. They came through the elevators and they were just rushing. It was just like, they had a plan." Mario said protesters with zip ties, duct tape, and masks "just multiplied and multiplied."
At one point, he remembers "looking up and I noticed the cameras are covered." It made him think: "This was definitely planned."
Torres was trying to "protect the building" when he ended up in an altercation with Carlson: "He had a Columbia hoodie on, and I managed to rip that hoodie off of him and expose his face." (Carlson was later charged with five felonies, including burglary and reckless endangerment.) "I was freaking out. At that point, I'm thinking about my family. How was I gonna get out? Through the window?"
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"Is Columbia going to retaliate and find a reason to fire me? Is someone going to come after me? So I'm taking a big risk doing this, but I think that they failed. They failed us. And I think that's the bigger story. They failed us. They should have done more to protect us, and they didn't."
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Disney's Value Plunges $20 Billon After Iger's Earnings (Losings) Report
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The Disney shills at CNN have to admit: Disney stock just had its worst day in eighteen months.
Even though Iger claims, through recherché numerical manipulations unknown outside of Bistromath*, that Disney Minus is now profitable, the rest of the news was so bad that Disney's share price dropped 10% and its overall market cap fell by $20 billion.
Walt Disney's (DIS.N) surprise profit in its streaming entertainment division was eclipsed by a drop in its traditional TV business and weaker box office, sending its stock tumbling 10%, on track for its deepest one-day drop in 17 months. Like other media companies, Disney has been trying to adapt to consumer migration from cable television to streaming entertainment, and had promised Wall Street that its streaming operation would become profitable by September.The division has been losing money since Disney+ debuted in 2019 in a major push by the company to compete with Netflix.
However, revenue from the traditional television business declined 8% to $2.77 billion and operating profit fell 22% from a year ago.
..."The initial market reaction is showing that there are more questions than answers for earnings over the next couple of quarters," said Brian Mulberry, client portfolio manager at Zacks Investment Management.
The direct-to-consumer entertainment division, which includes the Disney+ and Hulu streaming services, reported operating income of $47 million for the January-March period, compared with a loss of $587 million a year earlier.
I imagine Hulu is responsible for almost all of the increase.
By the way, the Hulu deal is going to cost them more than they want to pay. I think their own banker -- who is paid to do their bidding -- offered a laughably low estimation of Hulu's value. Comcat's banker figured a 1/3 stake in Hulu is worth $40 billion plus. The matter will go to a third bank to figure out whose valuation, the ballpark accurate one or Disney's, is correct.
Valliant Renegade noted that Bob Iger, uncharacteristically, stayed a long time to answer (or "answer") questions. His surmise is that Disney's big investors called Iger and told them they wanted some answers.
However, his answers -- "answers" -- seem to not have appeased the investors. Probably because while he was technically "answering questions," what he was actually doing was filibustering to avoid actually answer difficult questions.
Midnight's Edge has an example of this -- a questioner wanted to know what Iger was doing to get Star Wars and Marvel producing money again, and Iger filibustered for five minutes blabbing about how pleased he was with ESPN's performance, before then listing a handful of upcoming movies he claims he has "confidence" in. Then he repeated his bullshit that all Star Wars and Marvel need to rehabilitate themselves is fewer projects with a focus on "quality." Listen starting at around 8:00 for that.
So the investors, having told Disney they wanted some reassurance, got none of it at the question and "answer" session, and Disney's shares dropped.
Disney will release no more than three Marvel films and up to two Disney+ shows each year going forward as it works to place more focus on quality output.The announcement by CEO Bob Iger comes as Disney shares plunged 8% in Tuesday trading following the release of the entertainment giant's quarterly earnings. ...
"I've been working hard with the studio to reduce output and focus more on quality," Iger said on the company's earnings call Tuesday.
Disney produce 4 of the 5 biggest money-losing flops of 2023. The only non-Disney megaflop on the list was WB's doomed Flash movie. The others were The Marvels, Indiana Jones and the Annoying Mary-Sue, Wish, and The Haunted Mansion. Ant-Man: Quantumania also lost money, but, thanks to applying the Bistromath operation known as the Finageler's Constant, it supposedly only lost $38 million.
Sure, Jan.
Oh, and Bob Iger lied in his last disclosure to Con the Rubes into keeping him in the CEO's office.
Now that Disney management has won its proxy battle with activist investor Nelson Peltz, let's take a look at the Big Lie the company told to help keep shareholders on management's side.Last month, the Mouse House released a detailed, 67-page report for investors "singing the praises of its chief executive Bob Iger in a bid to convince stockholders to side with him in a battle with activist investors," as Forbes' Caroline Reid put it. I included the link because Reid did in her write-up, but the PDF file is no longer there, perhaps flushed down the memory hole.
Reid's article is a bit technical but the upshot is that when calculating the studio's return on investment for franchises like The Avengers and Star Wars, Disney didn't factor in the multibillion-dollar acquisition costs of buying Marvel and Lucasfilm.
"Calculating ROI on revenue rather than profit ignores the costs so artificially inflates the result," Reid explained. Well, yes. It's really easy to show a profit when you include revenues but conveniently leave out major expenses.
Reid concluded that "Disney hasn't misled investors as the methodology is in the fine print." But the methodology itself is a scam, a way to calculate returns on investment that no reputable firm would ever use. The Avengers movies made boatloads of money (at least until recent years) but Star Wars is probably still in the red -- despite what Disney told investors.
The board won its proxy battle against Peltz, so I guess it was all worth it.
During his terrible earnings report, Bob Iger highlighted Disney's slate of films coming in 2024 and 2025. For some reason he omitted mentioning the Rachel Ziegler disaster-in-the-making Snow White.
Has it been Quiet Cancelled? Or are they planning to release it on Disney Minus, so they can charge the film's losses against Disney Minus, and not against the film division? It may seem like six of one half a dozen of the other but everyone expects Disney Plus to be a permanent loss anyway.
Alan Ng reviewed the Disney Minus show "Tales of the Empire." He said that last season's show featured ten episodes about women in the Star Wars universe solving women's problems with women's wisdom, and this new series offers six episodes of women fixing the galaxy with stronk and brave womanhood.
I don't know if he's counting the They/Thems as women. This is a real scene from the new season, in which bad guys -- I assume -- cut down a They/Them and debate "letting Them die."
Even though they're killing this pyrsyn, they sure don't want to misgender Them!
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UNC Faculty Makes Terrorist Demand: We'll Withhold All Students' Grades Unless the Administration Promises Amnesty for the Pro-Terror "Protesters"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
UNC-Chapel Hill police charged 36 members of a pro-Palestinian "Gaza solidarity encampment" Tuesday morning after warning the group to remove its tents from campus or face possible arrest, suspension or expulsion from the university. University officials confirmed Tuesday evening that 30 people -- including 10 students -- were cited for trespassing and released on site after they refused to leave the encampment at Polk Place, the university's main quad. Twenty of those cited are not affiliated with the university. Six more demonstrators were charged and taken to the Orange County jail for booking, after which they were released on a written promise to appear in court. At least one person was charged with assault on a government official and resist, delay and obstruct, according to UNC police reports.The arrests were part of a tension-filled day between demonstrators and law enforcement, with the protest escalating to physical struggles around a flagpole in the center of Polk Place when an American flag was taken down and a Palestinian flag was hung in its place. Protesters also threw water on Interim Chancellor Lee Roberts and the officers as they worked to rehang the flag.
Some protesters attempted to push past the police but did not appear to be successful.
UNC canceled classes Tuesday afternoon for the rest of the day, on the university's last day of classes for the semester. The school said it would also suspend all non-mandatory operations.
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Sofie, an SJP organizer who did not give her last name, said Monday morning that the group planned to stay in the encampment until the university complies with its demands. "We're going to be out here until the university discloses, divests and actually ends complicity in the genocide against the Palestinian people carried out by the U.S. and Israel, Sofie said. In a news release Tuesday, the university said campus police "calmly approached the group" at 6 a.m. and detained people who refused to leave. "During that time, the protesters attempted to block the UNC Police vehicles by standing in front of them and throwing items at officers," the UNC release stated.
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Members of the encampment who were willing to risk arrest, indicated by wearing a red wristband, gathered near the group's tents, while those not willing to do so remained at a distance.
Dividing the protest cadres into color-coded groups segregated based on how many laws they're willing to break, and how much violence they are prepared to use, is an antifa/Black Bloc practice.
Those wearing orange wristbands were willing to serve as "jail support."...
At noon, the demonstrators began marching to South Building, on the other end of the quad. The group, hundreds strong, chanted "Free, free Palestine," and "long live the intifada," among other chants.
The protesters were allowed to do their stupid pro-terrorism exercises so long as they did not interfere with the actual business of the schools. Just like the scorpion that must always sting the frog whose back it rides on, they quickly showed their true natures as destroyers and began invading and "taking over" classrooms.
The SJP is urging professors to withhold grades for any students unless these terrorists are granted amnesty.
They really appreciate the Palestinian Way of taking hostages and issuing demands. Maybe they should all move to that most shitty of all shithole countries.
[A] group of 800 professors at the school are signing a letter demanding that the school reverse all of the suspensions.The student encampment located on Polk Place was an example of the kind of peaceful free expression that our university claims to uphold. Free speech is often challenging; it can make people uncomfortable, and it can grow heated. But until that speech crosses the line into violence or obstruction, it must be protected, even at the cost of discomfort or patches of grass yellowed by tents. The administration's decision to call in police from across the state to storm our students' encampment at 5:30 in the morning on Tuesday, April 30, created a militarized and unsafe climate on the UNC campus. It subjected the very students it is charged with protecting to violence and trauma...The university must immediately dismiss all suspensions and other charges against students involved in the protest, return the confiscated belongings of our students, remove the fence around the flagpole in the quad, and re-open Campus Y in recognition of its central importance to our university community.
In short, they want amnesty for everyone involved in the protests. There were no threat included in the letter signed by the professors but the UNC Chapter of SJP is trying to add one. If amnesty isn't granted, they want professors to withhold students' grades.
UNC SJP is seeking to use withheld grades to pressure administrators to reverse student discipline. The group said in a news release that instructors are "withholding grades and demanding the UNC-CH administration grant all protesters amnesty."At least one professor has indicated he is going to do this until the school meets his (or her) demands.
UNC claims they'll sanction any professor who actually attempts to damage students by withholding their grades.
Fire them.
North Carolina must rewrite the law ending tenure for any professor who refuses to do his job for any reason, if that university takes any state aid.
And then: Fire them.
We cannot live in a society in which the left is always threatening the rest of us into giving them special privileges and immunities, as if they were an imperial noble caste.
AstraZeneca Withdraws Its Vaccine Worldwide, Citing Unacceptable Level of Dangerous Side Effects
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The British pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has decided to globally withdraw its COVID-19 vaccine, citing a rare and dangerous side effect associated with the jab.
The news was first reported by The Telegraph, which confirmed that the company had voluntarily withdrawn its "marketing authorisation," meaning it will no longer be available for purchase.The paper reported:
The Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine is being withdrawn worldwide, months after the pharmaceutical giant admitted for the first time in court documents that it can cause a rare and dangerous side effect.The vaccine can no longer be used in the European Union, after the company voluntarily withdrew its "marketing authorisation". The application to withdraw the vaccine was made on March 5 and came into effect on Tuesday. Similar applications will be made in the coming months in the UK and in other countries that had approved the vaccine, known as Vaxzevria.
The decision to withdraw it brings to an end the use of the jab, which was heralded by Boris Johnson as a "triumph for British science" and credited with saving more than six million lives. AstraZeneca said the vaccine was being removed from markets for commercial reasons. It said the vaccine was no longer being manufactured or supplied, having been superseded by updated vaccines that tackle new variants.
AstraZeneca has come under intense scrutiny over recent months over evidence that their version of the COVID-19 vaccine, known as Vaxzevria, has caused dozens of cases of Thrombosis with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome (TTS), leading to at least 81 deaths. Around 50 victims and grieving relatives are also suing the company as a result.
Oh, thrombosis? You mean arterial thrombosis? Clots inside blood vessels that cause heart attacks and deaths?
Including in young people, who of course are rarely victims of heart attacks?
Are those the sort of thromboses you mean?
Thrombosis is a blood clot within blood vessels that limits the flow of blood. Acute venous and arterial thromboses are the most common cause of death in developed countries. The mortality rate varies with the location and acuity of thrombosis. Myocardial infarctions and cerebrovascular accidents (CVAs) account for the highest proportion of thrombosis-associated deaths in the United States.
RFKJr. Told a Court During His Divorce Proceedings That a Worm Had Eaten Part of His Brain and Died Inside of His Skull, Giving Him "Cognitive Problems"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
That reads like a juiced headline but it's actually 100% accurate.
The Times is attempting to take Kennedy out of the race.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. admitted in a 2012 deposition that a worm had eaten part of his brain and then died inside his head, according to a report by The New York Times.Key Details:
RFK Jr. made the unusual admission during a deposition for his 2012 divorce proceedings.
He began experiencing cognitive problems and memory loss in 2010, admitting in the deposition two years later, "I have cognitive problems, clearly."
Upon seeing a New York doctor regarding his cognitive problems, he was ultimately informed that the issues were likely "caused by a worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died," Kennedy said in his deposition.
Diving Deeper:
The New York Times report indicates that Kennedy made the startling revelation during his 2012 divorce deposition. He reportedly began experiencing cognitive issues and both short and long-term memory loss in 2010, shortly after the death of his uncle, Senator Edward Kennedy, from brain cancer. Initially, Kennedy feared he had a brain tumor, but a second opinion from a New York doctor revealed a different cause. The doctor informed Kennedy that a dark spot on his brain scans was due to a dead parasite. Kennedy testified that the doctor told him the parasite had eaten a part of his brain before dying.
In addition to the brain parasite, Kennedy also admitted to suffering from mercury poisoning, which he believes was caused by his frequent consumption of tuna fish sandwiches.
Um. I don't know whether to take all of this seriously, or if Kennedy is just a hypochondriac and medical paranoiac.
However, Kennedy's health history is not without other complications. The anti-vaccine activist and conspiracy theorist has openly discussed his past struggles with drug addiction.
Obviously the Times is attempting to destroy RFKJr. so that he doesn't take votes from Biden (who himself has a worm-riddled brain and "cognitive problems").
I'm not sure if I should root for their effort. RFKJr. seems to take more votes from Trump.
MXMNews criticizes Biden for his Basement Strategy.
Even the New York Times has criticized Biden for not doing any interviews, except with the likes of Steven Colbert and Howard Stern.
The one thing the leftwing press will criticize a Democrat for is not giving the press the access and deference they feel entitled to.
Basement Biden? Biden "systematically avoiding interviews," reportQuick Hit:
President Biden's systematic avoidance of media interviews has raised concerns among journalists and the public alike. With the fewest interviews given by any president in over 40 years, Biden's lack of media engagement has sparked speculation about his cognitive abilities and the transparency of his administration.
Key Details:
President Biden has given fewer interviews than any president in over 40 years, leading to criticism from media outlets including The New York Times.
Concerns have been raised about the precedent this sets for future presidents and the potential impact on democratic accountability.
Despite these concerns, Biden's communications team has shifted focus towards social media influencers to disseminate the president's message.
Diving Deeper:
The New York Times, which endorsed Biden's presidency in 2020, has publicly criticized the president for his lack of engagement with the press. In a statement, the newspaper expressed concern that Biden is "systematically avoiding interviews," "undermines an important norm" and sets a "dangerous precedent" for future presidents to evade scrutiny and accountability.
Former President Donald Trump has also taken a jab at Biden's reluctance to sit for interviews. In a recent Time Magazine interview, Trump questioned whether Biden would be capable of participating in such an interview, implying concerns about his cognitive abilities.
...Despite these criticisms, Biden's communications team has adopted a different strategy, focusing on social media influencers to communicate the president's message. Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki defended this approach, arguing that the type of interviews Biden takes are more important than the quantity.
Talking with shriveled-dick hypochondriac and pornographer Howard Stern is a "quality interview"?
Even Stern admits that he went easy on Joe Biden.
Stern then addressed critics who claimed his questions to Biden were "too soft.""My whole goal was not to sit there and talk politics. I'm not into that. I don't want to debate policy," he claimed." My only agenda [was] I would like to get to know the president because I suspect he's a very meaningful, very thoughtful guy."
"You've gotta f*cking be kidding me," Stern finally exclaimed.
Quality interview.
Judge Delays Trump's Florida Documents Trial to Investigate the FBI's Mishandling of Evidence; Georgia Court Agrees to Hear Trump's Appeal to Disqualify Fani Willis
—Disinformation Expert Ace
This is about Jack Smith's own misrepresenations to the court about his sloppy evidence handling.
Judge Aileen Cannon's decision to indefinitely delay former President Trump's trial stems from significant pretrial litigation issues, including a crucial admission by Special Counsel Jack Smith that may reshape the prosecution's standing. In a recent filing, Smith disclosed that the documents from Mar-a-Lago might not have been maintained in their original order, contradicting earlier representations to the court.
I confess, I have no idea why the ordering of the documents is important, but apparently it is. Anyone know why this is important?
This revelation came as part of the Special Counsel's response to a co-defendant's request for a delay to prepare his defense, asserting that the state of discovery provided was inadequate. Smith's admission acknowledges that some boxes of documents had been accessed and their contents possibly rearranged, which he claims still does not affect the integrity of the evidence. However, this could provide a substantial basis for Trump's defense team to argue evidence tampering.Moreover, Smith admitted that the replacement of classified documents with placeholders was not initially disclosed accurately to the court, which could lead to significant legal repercussions for the prosecution. Judge Cannon now faces the task of deciding how to address these admissions, including the potential sanctioning of the Special Counsel and further delays in the trial proceedings.
Meanwhile, in the matter of MSD (Mobile Snizz Dispensary) Fani Willis:
The cowardly, biased chickenshit political operator posing as a judge did not disqualify her; he gave her a choice to recuse herself, or fire Sweetdick. She chose the latter.
Trump says she should have been disqualified outright. He's right.
The Georgia Court of Appeals has agreed to consider Trump's appeal. This is an "interlocutory" appeal, which is harder to get. Usually appeals are heard after a trial is completed. An interlocutory appeal is a request to hear an appeal while a trial is still underway.
The decision by the intermediate appeals court to take up the case is likely to cause a delay, further reducing the possibility of the case reaching trial before the November general election. This is particularly significant as Trump is expected to be the Republican nominee for president.Trump's lead attorney in Georgia, Steve Sadow, has expressed that the former president looks forward to presenting arguments to the appeals court as to why the case should be dismissed and why Willis "should be disqualified for her misconduct in this unjustified, unwarranted political persecution." A spokesperson for Willis declined to comment on the Court of Appeals decision to take up the matter.
Wednesday Morning Rant
—Joe Mannix
Last week's jobs report was underwhelming to say the least. In the wake of the headline "not as much as growth as expected" conclusion, the junta unsurprisingly trotted out the same old tired lines as always. Bidenomics is great. America is back. Don't let the wreckers gaslight you into thinking things are bad. Etc. You can set your watch by it, just like Obama's "green shoots" and "jobs created or saved."
One of the downsides to press coverage on the employment reports is that it ignores - probably because the "expert" journalists don't even know about it - everything outside the executive summary. The internals of BLS reporting are often interesting and if you want any context outside the headline number and the biggest movers by economic sector, you have to dig in and learn what to look for. Journalists can't usually be bothered, if they are even capable.
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