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Are Jeanine and Maria gone?

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Fri, 21/04/2023 - 10:00
Rupert and the boys must be wondering if they’re worth it This discussion at Puck about the Fox settlement suggests that the B list may be on the way out. Or maybe not. But whatever changes we might anticipate at the network probably aren’t going to be earth shattering. The “stars” are safe which means nothing will change. Dylan Byers: …This settlement changes exactly one thing behind the scenes: Fox News as an institution will take greater steps to ensure that it doesn’t leave itself vulnerable to further defamation claims. But that doesn’t mean they need to change their editorial strategy. If you look at the primetime trifecta—Tucker, Ingraham and Hannity—they are really masters in the dark art of floating conspiracies without running the risk of libel. Tucker doesn’t say “votes were stolen,” he says, “we don’t know how many votes were stolen.” He raises the specter of scandal, of a liberal plot against America, etcetera, but he stays within the bounds of free speech.

Do they know any teenagers?

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Fri, 21/04/2023 - 08:30
DeSantis formally raised the age of his “Don’t Say Gay” bill to the 12th grade. Apparently, he and the rest of his right wing hate squad think they can keep LGBTQ out of high schools. Lol. This is going to be quite the battle: not between the teachers and the government, between the kids and the government. As you’ve probably heard by now, Ron DeSantis is currently on a quest to inflict his antigay, antitrans, antidrag, antiabortion, antidiversity, antifacts, anti-free-speech, anti-anything-that-Ron-disagrees-with agenda on the people of Florida, which he seemingly believes will win him the presidency. To that end, it apparently wasn’t enough to sign the bigoted “Don’t Say Gay” bill into law last year, which banned classroom instruction in kindergarten through third grade. No, Ron had to do one worse. On Wednesday, the Florida Board of Education expanded that ban through grade 12, at the request of the Florida governor.

Brainwashed by the fever swamp

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Fri, 21/04/2023 - 07:00
Paranoid men with guns. What could go wrong? The old man who shot the 16 year old kid who rang his doorbell is described by his grandson as a right wing crank: Ludwig said he and his grandfather, who goes by the first name Dan, used to be very close. “But in the last five or six years or so, I feel like we’ve lost touch,” he said. “I’ve gotten older and gained my own political views, and he’s become staunchly right-wing, further down the right-wing rabbit hole as far as doing the election-denying conspiracy stuff and COVID conspiracies and disinformation, fully buying into the Fox News, OAN kind of line. I feel like it’s really further radicalized him in a lot of ways.” Ludwig said his grandfather had been immersed in “a 24-hour news cycle of fear and paranoia.” “And then the NRA pushing the ‘stand your ground’ stuff and that you have to defend your home,” he said. “When I heard what happened, I was appalled and shocked that it transpired, but I didn’t disbelieve that it was true.

Peak oil and the Flawed Logic of Infinite Economic Growth, with Keith Akers

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Fri, 21/04/2023 - 05:49

Gain a fresh perspective on climate change and ecological sustainability with author Keith Akers as he delves into the impacts of fossil fuel extraction, the ecological crises facing our planet, and the radical changes needed for a sustainable future.

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Trumpian logic

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Fri, 21/04/2023 - 05:30
The fact that he has been the subject of one scandal after another and is being pursued in numerous legal challenges at every level of government in various parts of the nation, means that he is the most honest and honorable man in the history of the world. And tens of millions of our fellow Americans believe this must be true.