Muslim woman says Denver arena worker told her to remove hijab, refused to let her enter
Jeezus…
Trump adviser Stephen Miller injected white nationalist agenda into Breitbart, investigation reveals
Senior Trump adviser Stephen Miller shaped the 2016 election coverage of the hard right-wing website Breitbart with material drawn from prominent white nationalists, Islamophobes, and far-right websites.
…Emails from Miller to a former Breitbart writer, sent before and after he joined the Trump campaign, show Miller obsessively focused on injecting white nationalist-style talking points on race and crime, Confederate monuments, and Islam into the far-right website’s campaign coverage.
…As Americans demanded the removal of Confederate statues and flags, Miller encouraged McHugh to turn the narrative back on leftists and Latinos.
…Miller used a US government email address during the early part of the correspondence, when he was an aide to senator Jeff Sessions, and then announced his new job on the Trump campaign, and a new email address, to recipients including McHugh.
As well as McHugh, recipients of his emails included others then at Breitbart who subsequently worked in the Trump administration, including Steve Bannon and current Trump aide, Julia Hahn.
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Google’s ‘Project Nightingale’ Secretly Gathers Private Health Data on Millions of Americans, According to a Report. Most Patients Have No Idea It’s Happening
Repeat after me sheeple: No information that is transferred digitally is private. Ever.
Juan Williams: Heed Clinton’s warning on Tulsi Gabbard | TheHill
Gabbard is the star on far-right websites because Clinton correctly pointed out the Hawaii congresswoman could end up as a third-party candidate who divides the anti-Trump vote in 2020 and delivers a second term to the president.
…In 2016, Russian trolls and bots promoted the third-party candidacy of Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate whose vote totals in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania were big enough to argue she deprived Clinton of just enough support to hand victory to Trump.
…Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) fed the frenzy by tweeting last week that “it is outrageous for anyone to suggest that Tulsi is a foreign asset.”
Sanders owes Gabbard from the 2016 race. Gabbard resigned as a vice chair of the Democratic National Committee in 2016 to endorse Sanders.
…Gabbard has pledged that she will not be a third-party candidate.
But she plans to take whatever delegate support she wins in the primaries to the Democratic convention to pressure the nominee to hear her agenda for the party.
That means another possible split within the party with the telegenic Gabbard ready to diminish Democrats as captives of establishment politics — divided and out of touch with the base of the party.
Why would the Russians have an interest in her?
Juan Williams: Heed Clinton’s warning on Tulsi Gabbard | TheHill
Exactly.
Gabbard lawyers demand retraction of Clinton’s ‘defamation’ | TheHill
Gabbard lawyers demand retraction of Clinton’s ‘defamation’ | TheHill
Weh, weh, weh, try again! She didn’t name names so no defamation occurred.
Methinks the Congresswoman from Hawaii doth protest too much.
Hillary Clinton And Theories About Tulsi Gabbard
If any politician in the history of this republic has the right to speculate about other’s intentions it’s probably someone whose intentions were shit on constantly, by all side, for more than 2 years.
Where the hell was this perspective in 2015 and 2016? Certainly not coming out of the author.
Hypocritical bullshit.
The media’s 2020 election coverage correction
There are many reasons Hillary Clinton lost the election, but the magnification of stories that ended up being meaningless was indisputably a prominent factor. It is also one factor that we can place squarely at the feet of media hungry for stories that rate, with little concern for the long-term implications [or facts].
…There were thousands of articles and countless TV segments dedicated to Clinton’s “crime” with a spike around former FBI Director James Comey’s decision not to bring charges against Clinton in August 2016 and then again when he announced the FBI was reopening the investigation just days before the election. This story was the original impetus for then-candidate Trump’s rally cry of “lock her up.” A Los Angeles Times analysis in August of 2016 found that “liar” and “corrupt” were the top two words most used when describing Clinton. And FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver argued that the Comey letter probably cost Clinton the election.
…Clinton was portrayed as professorial in an elitist and disconnected way. She was “too prepared.” ….Major publications and pundits openly mused about why Clinton was almost as disliked as Donald Trump.
Maybe the coverage had something to do with it? Clinton was the most admired woman in America for 17 years….
The media’s 2020 election coverage correction | TheHill
F’ the media and their “unbiased” bias. Left, right and center. F’ them all. They all ending up working for Putin and both truth and Democracy lost out to their cliquey,, gossipy, craven promotion of innuendo over facts.
A Sorceress’s Kit Was Discovered in the Ashes of Pompeii | Smart News | Smithsonian
A Sorceress’s Kit Was Discovered in the Ashes of Pompeii | Smart News | Smithsonian
Seems like a bit of a leap to Sorceress’s Kit.
Some Louisiana felons regain the right to vote
[Last year] Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) signed into law a bill that will restore voting rights to people with felony records who are on probation or parole, as long as they have been out of prison for five years. Both chambers of the state’s GOP-controlled legislature passed House Bill 265 with bipartisan support in May 2018.
No longer ‘voiceless,’ Louisiana felons regain the right to vote – ThinkProgress
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Trump Whistle-Blowers Are Working With House Democrats
The Oversight Committee, like many committees in Congress, has a long history of working with federal whistle-blowers regardless of which party is in charge. Though some come forward publicly, most provide information or leak documents anonymously, helping to lead to investigations and, sometimes, hearings. “It’s entirely proper, and it’s really the point of what the Oversight Committee does,” says former Representative Tom Davis of Virginia, a Republican who headed the panel during the mid-2000s.
…Members from both parties interact privately with whistle-blowers, but under a long-standing agreement within the committee, those who want to make on-the-record testimony must agree to be questioned by Democrats and Republicans alike.
Lawmakers conduct investigations and interact with whistle-blowers even when they don’t have the majority. But they have less power to act on information, because they cannot, on their own, issue subpoenas or call hearings. …The committee was receiving about three or four tips a week before the November midterm elections; that has increased to an average of five—and as many as 15—a week in the months since.
…“I’ve never seen this many whistle-blowers reporting waste, fraud, and abuse, and just general concern,” the senior Oversight Committee aide told me. “On the flip side of that, I’ve also never seen whistle-blowers so afraid of what could happen to them if somebody finds out who they are.”
…“I will protect whistle-blowers. Period,” the chairman declared.
Trump Whistle-Blowers Are Working With House Democrats – The Atlantic
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Impeachment transcript: White House officials testify quid pro quo effort was coordinated with Mulvaney
[National Security Council Ukraine expert Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman and former White House Russia expert Fiona Hill] …told lawmakers the “blatant” push for politically motivated investigations from President Donald Trump left “no ambiguity” what the Ukrainians needed to do to secure a highly sought meeting.
… Gordon Sondland told Ukrainian officials in meetings on July 10 they would have to open an investigation to secure the White House meeting. Sondland told [Vindman and Hill] he was acting at the direction of Mulvaney.
…[Hill] was instructed by Bolton to take her concerns about the role Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani was playing in Ukraine to National Security Council attorneys. Bolton told her to make clear he was “not part of whatever drug deal Sondland and Mulvaney are cooking up on this.”
…Vindman testified that the Ukrainians asked him in the spring “for advice on how to respond to Mr. Giuliani’s advances, meaning his call to undertake these — what would come across as partisan investigations.” Vindman said he recommended to Zelesnky not to get involved in US domestic politics.
…Vindman said he was first aware of the hold on Ukraine aid by July 3, and later learned that it came from Mulvaney’s office.
……Vindman said that he had raised concerns about the July 25 call to NSC lawyers, and that the process that was used for placing the call transcript on a highly secure server was abnormal.
Impeachment transcript: White House officials testify quid pro quo effort was coordinated with Mulvaney – CNNPolitics
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More Builders Are Selling Homes Wired For Technology But Data Privacy Is At Stake
This partnership between builders and Amazon benefits both sides. Amazon wants to push for wider adoption of its Echo smart speaker. Lennar relies on Amazon to help distinguish it from other home builders.
…He wasn’t looking for a smart home, but …now he enjoys all the smart home features.
…His favorite is a Ring doorbell that logs visitors. “I have teenagers,” he said.
…On the one hand, it’s nice to ask Alexa to heat up the house before crawling out of bed in the winter. On the other, there’s all those cameras. “If I’m walking on our street, I walk on the other side of the street,” she said, meaning the side without the smart homes. “Just because I don’t feel like being on everyone’s cameras.”
…It’s not just cameras, even light switches capture information. “That data’s not just sitting there, just… empty,” he says. “Somebody’s gonna look at it and leverage it, to try to turn a profit, or try to create an ad, or try to create some revenue.”
More Builders Are Selling Homes Wired For Technology But Data Privacy Is At Stak : NPR
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Russian Trolls Came for Instagram, Too
Russia’s Internet Research Agency operated a vast network of accounts on Instagram that sought to infiltrate American identity groups, harden ideological divides and sow distrust in the American political system.
Much of the group’s activity was concentrated among several dozen large accounts, …[two] of which had more than 200,000 followers. Many of the group’s accounts targeted specific identity groups, including African-Americans, gun-rights supporters and anti-immigration activists.
In total, posts from Instagram accounts linked to the I.R.A. received nearly 185 million likes during the two-year period reviewed by the researchers, and about four million comments, according to the researchers.
…One post, made by an Instagram account called @feminism_tag, accused Ms. Clinton of insulting women who had accused her husband, Bill Clinton, of sexual misconduct. Another post targeted at African-American voters showed a manipulated image of Ms. Clinton with braided hair, and was captioned “when you need the black vote.”
In all, roughly 7 percent of the more than 100,000 Instagram posts included in the data set mentioned Ms. Clinton, while 11 percent mentioned Mr. Trump. There were no instances of pro-Clinton content on Instagram, according to the New Knowledge report.
…Several of the Instagram posts traced to Russia offered merchandise for sale.
…Researchers suggested, selling merchandise …allowed Russians to collect names, addresses and other personal information from users; second, it allowed them to identify strong supporters of a cause, who could then be targeted with advertisements.
Russian Trolls Came for Instagram, Too – The New York Times
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