Steven BeschlossSo George Santos—if his name really is George Santos—will be sworn in Tuesday as a Republican member of Congress. What an insult this fraud is to every voter.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq.A quick reminder that law enforcement *responds* to crime, but a living wage, food and water security, accessible healthcare, and public education *prevent* crime.
If you want safer communities, invest in people, not punishments.
Kashmir HillAfter the report about the Girl Scout mom getting booted from Radio City Music Hall, I spent the last two days reporting out the use of facial recognition technology by the Madison Square Garden empire to keep hundreds of lawyers that work for firms that have sued it from attending concerts, sporting events and shows. It is a radical use of the technology by a private company and I am truly shocked by how forthright MSG is about its real-world block list. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/22/nyregion/madison-square-garden-facial-recognition.html
Charlotte ClymerAny pundit who is criticizing Pres. Zelenskyy's attire is failing to read the room, but moreover, they're just completely missing the point.
A country and its leader under immediate and existential threats have no time for suits and neckties.
He has no visible rank or medals or nametapes or epaulets or brass buttons or starched creases. He's wearing what women and men who are fighting on the frontlines in Ukraine are wearing.
He's wearing the urgency of the moment.
That's the point.
emptywheelElon Musk's Self-Described "Crime Scene"
https://www.emptywheel.net/2022/12/11/elon-musks-self-described-crime-scene/
Dan GillmorA reminder that the New York Times routinely engages in circus-act contortions to normalize right-wing extremism. There is not a shadow of a doubt anymore about Musk -- he's actively promoting the extremists -- but the Times insists the record is fuzzy.
#nytimes #journalism
#nytimes #journalism
Robert McNeesAstronomer Annie Jump Cannon was born #OTD in 1863. She was a pioneer of stellar classification and co-creator of the Harvard Classification Scheme. Over her lifetime she *manually* classified around 350,000 stars.
Image: Harvard University, Radcliffe Archives
AtriosI say this not in the spirit of "I told you so" (though I did) but the people whose job it is to inform you - the most highly paid of them especially - preserved the legend of Elon Musk genius rocket man and good guy despite a long history of racism, fraud, and criminal abuse
John AravosisIf you pay for Twitter Blue, you’re subsidizing homophobia and antisemitism. And it will be right there in your profile for everyone to know.
Ed BottIn case you have any lingering beliefs that Matt Taibbi is a journalist, @emptywheel is here to show you why he is absolutely, positively not.
https://www.emptywheel.net/2022/12/11/elon-musks-self-described-crime-scene/