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Performance Art 0
Via Job’s Anger.
Aside:
As far as I can tell, the only argument against TikTok is that it is owned by a company based in China and that China may somehow be benefiting therefrom. There seems to be no evidence beyond that suspicion that it is any more–or less–vile than any other internet corporate surveillance “social” media outfit.
I wonder what America’s reaction would be if China were to move to ban Facebook and Twitte–er–X and other platforms because they are based in the U. S.?
The No-Shows 0
Farron muses about why Donald Trump’s trial isn’t drawing the crowds of Trumpette protestors that Donald Trump expects and wants. (Warning: Short commercial at the end.)
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
That some students are demonstrating in favor a cease fire in Gaza and against the killing there does not ipso facto mean that they support Hamas.
It means they want the bloodshed to end.
But, honest to Betsy, you sure as heck wouldn’t know it from a lot of the punditry about the protests.
I would like the killing to end, and I sure as heck don’t support Hamas; after all, they started (this round of) it.
Chaos Agents 0
Michael in Norfolk sums up the strategy:
Follow the link for his reasoning.
The Accounting 0
David counts the counts.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Interstate trafficking of politeness:
The man who was driving the truck suffered an injury that state police described as “extremely minor,” and authorities said the man refused medical transport.
The Disinformation Superhighway 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Stacey Woods offers some tips to avoid being taken in by scams on “social” media.
It’s required reading, because, as has been so often demonstrated, “social” media isn’t.
Gutting Out the Vote 0
LA Granderson has a question concerning the Speaker of the house:
(snip)
Johnson’s party has been working to suppress Black votes for decades, so what is he talking about when he trumpets “election integrity”?
Follow the link, where Granderson puts his question into context.
All the News that Fits 0
Dick Polman takes issue with the claims of Donald Trump’s lawyers that what the Nation Inquirer did for Donald Trump is somehow “normal journalism.” Here’s a tiny pit of his article:
The entire piece is worth the few minutes it will take to read.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
AL.com’s Roy Johnson wonders why one thing is not like the other thing.
