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Not joking Today is Day 3 of Netroots Nation-Baltimore. A Friday breakout session titled “Amplify: Getting Louder in 2024” featured ads written and tested to move audiences on key issues. Humor is an important way to grab viewers’ attention. But it’s hard to do irony, explained panelist Anat Shenker-Osorio. The ad above generated eye rolls when first tested. Audiences thought it an exaggeration, unbelievable. Creators had to add the end cards to explain that this joke is no joke. Republicans blocked a bill to protect access to contraception on June 5. It’s one reason why health care advocate Laura Packard is traveling around the country with a giant, inflatable IUD. More Amplify ads are here. They are free for you to use (except in Arizona). “All videos have been tested to ensure they not only persuade our audiences but move them to action. This “mobisuasion” approach is meant to break through the noise and mobilize voters in our base to repeat our message.” ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● For The Win, 5th Edition is ready for download.
Jodie Whittaker's Thirteenth Doctor and Mandip Gill's Yaz return in July 2025 for a new series of Big Finish Productions audio adventures.
Plus, meddling homeowner associations are put in their place, retirees put up a good fight, and the left wins big across the pond.
Start shouting it MAGA Republicans don’t want to govern They want to rule … You!
In today's BCTV Daily Dispatch: The Boys, Batman: Caped Crusader, Doctor Who/Star Trek, IWTV/Mayfair Witches, Euphoria, TWD/SDCC 2024 & more!
FX Networks' Shōgun, HBO/Max's Hacks, BBC/Disney+'s Doctor Who were some of the big winners during tonight's 40th Annual Television Critics Association (TCA) Awards.
Is James McMurdock a business super-star, or has he embellished his CV?
Philadelphia Zoo is proud to announce the birth of a critically endangered Sumatran orangutan, the first birth of this species at the Zoo in 15 years, and a significant birth to the population of these animals. Born to the Zoo’s 31-year-old female Tua and 28-year-old male, Sugi, on June 26, the infant continues to look strong, and Tua continues to be an excellent mother, nursing and holding the baby at all times. The sex of the infant has not been determined and a name has not been chosen. Mom and baby are currently setting their own schedule for when they will be visible to guests. They have access to their indoor habitat where visitors may get a glimpse of them but also have access to their bedroom space to spend time alone. The Zoo is planning to have their big public debut sometime in mid-August and invites everyone to join. More details on the celebration to come soon. The baby’s birth is a part of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) Species Survival Plan (SSP) breeding program to ensure the survival of Sumatran orangutans and maintain a genetically diverse population.
I sometimes think the defining characteristic of our age is reality denial:
Since we can’t travel to the stars, this philosophical trickster brings them to us.
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Yes, they are running war game simulations to anticipate what they think is the guarantee that the Democrats are going to try to steal the election in November. Among the possibilities they ran? Barbra Streisand kidnapped by Hamas. Antifa-BLM protesters taking over a migrant detention facility. The FBI arresting Donald Trump two days after winning the election. The Washington Post reports: “As things stand right now, there’s a zero percent chance of a free and fair election,” saidMike Howell, executive director of Heritage’s Oversight Project. “I’m formally accusing the Biden administration of creating the conditions that most reasonable policymakers and officials cannot in good conscience certify an election.” The report said a key finding was that the sitting president is the greatest danger to the peaceful transition of power, with no mention of Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 loss. Instead it offered that conclusion as justification for doubting the outcome of the 2024 election and trying to reject anything other than a Trump victory.
That’s how Trump characterized his VP search on a radio show today. He was lying about it being highly sophisticated but it is very much like the Apprentice which Trump thinks is what politics is all about. The news is all over the choice right now. Is it going to be Vance? Well, Don Jr, his most fervent supporter will be speaking right before the announcement at the convention so… On the other hand, Doug Burgum is right out of Central Casting. he looks like he could be on the three dollar bill! And then there’s Li’l Marco who I think everyone knows Trump is just fucking with. The thing that none of the media is talking about is the fact that Trump is choosing a new VP in the first place? He had one, remember? And he was the most adoring sycophant any narcissistic megalomaniac could ever hope for. Why isn’t he on the ticket again? Well, we know why, don’t we? And not only isn’t he on the ticket he and most of Trump’s former cabinet are refusing to endorse him. That is the important context within which this exciting “Apprentice VP search is happening. The media should make sure they mention that whenever they talk about it.
SDCC 2024's Intergalactic Friendship Panel: Star Trek x Doctor Who will feature a conversation between Alex Kurtzman and Russell T Davies.
I’ve never seen it so explicit before but we know this is what they want: Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-WI) on Thursday accused “the angry feminist movement” of emasculating men and said the U.S. should “work our way back” to 1960 if former President Donald Trump wins in November. In a House floor speech that could have been lifted from Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale, Grothman went after supporters of government-funded childcare programs and said President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty “took the purpose out of the man’s life, because now you have a basket of goodies for the mom.” He added, “They’ve taken away the purpose of the man to be part of a family. And if we want to get America back to, say, 1960, where this was almost unheard of, we have to fundamentally change these programs.” Grothman said “the breakdown of the family” was caused by the U.S.
Behold, now behemoth … Behold, he drinketh up a river … The Book of Job, 40: 15 and 23. ‘Most of us don’t know 95 percent of what Amazon is doing,’ Amy Webb warns in her The Big Nine (2019). While Amazon Prime is diverting audiences with its rom-com, The Idea of You, the Australian Continue reading »
The recent report by the Community Security Group (CSG) detailing 91 Jewish community incidents on university campuses until May 31, 2024, warrants a closer examination, particularly considering its implications and the nuances it omits. Of these incidents, 84 were classified as containing hostile or hateful rhetoric, while the remaining were deemed suspicious activity, including individuals Continue reading »