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ancianita's JournalMidday Music for Millennials -- Jes' grew Sunday
Afrika Bambaataa and Soulsonic Force. Planet Rockhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrika_Bambaataa
Grandmaster Flash. The Message
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandmaster_Flash_and_the_Furious_Five
Salt-n-Pepa. Push It
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt-N-Pepa
Public Enemy. Fight The Power
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Enemy_
Tim O'Brien Promises 'Scorched Earth' Attacks On Trump Family Corruption
OBRIEN: I think its an important moment for the American people to be woke about how rampant the financial conflicts of interest are among Trumps children and the president himself. Theyre an absolute failure to distance themselves from the Trump organization and all the deals theyve continued to pursue while in the White House, whether its the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C.; 666 Fifth Avenue, which has a long and ugly history with Jared and the Chinese government; and Jared and the Russian government; and Jared and his familys struggling finances at the time all of this stuff will become, I think, food for thought for everyone.
Trump's corrupt ties go well beyond his own family. She cited the family of Trump cabinet member Elaine Chao (aka Mrs. Mitch McConnell), Rudy Giulianis family, Newt Gingrichs wife, Wilbur Ross, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, Attorney General William Barrs son-in-law, Eric Trumps brother-in-law - all of whom have profited from having Trump in the White House.
https://crooksandliars.com/2020/03/tim-o-brien-promises-scorched-earth?utm_source=social&utm_medium=facebook&utm_content=28021
MMM -- Jes' grew Saturday
don't forget
The Isley Brothers. Fight The Power
The Jacksons. Can You Feel It
Michael Jackson. Black or White
Tom Tom Club. Genius of Love
Warren to Maddow: It's Time To Think More Creatively About 'Organized Nastiness' Online
I've not been able to find TRMS' whole show so far, just part of the full show interview. The full interview would be better.
You Have The Right To Wonder What It Takes For A Woman To Win The Presidency In America
Besides TRMS, O'Donnell's was the only other news show significantly devoted to women's political reality. And likely only for last night.
My admiration of Lawrence as a feminist ally just went up a notch.
But then, fetishing women who lose could be in play, as well. As the Doors song says, "Don't you love her as she's walking out the door..."
Midday Music for Millennials -- Jes' grew Funk Friday
Of course there's a lot! Funk is endless!
always recommended
Funkadelic. One Nation Under A Groove
Parliament. Flashlight
Tone loc. Funky Cold Medina
George Clinton. "Atomic Dog
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Clinton_(musician)
Cameo. Word Up
Armand Van Helden. Funk Phenomena
BRAD PARSCALE -- TRUMP'S BRAIN
From this week's The New Yorker, "#Winning by Andrew MarantzMichael Bloomberg's getting behind Joe Biden is made all the more momentous by the digital war Democrats will be forever up against.
This New Yorker article is long, so if you prefer to skip the bio and history of Parscale's becoming Trump's brain, start at the fourth text break that begins "If Aaron Sorkin ever writes a sequel to "The Social Network"..."
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/03/09/the-man-behind-trumps-facebook-juggernaut
We have almost two hundred and fifteen million hard-I.D. voter records in our database now, Parscale claimed last year, although his definition of hard I.D. is not clear. Even if Trump were banned from every social network, his campaign would be able to reach supporters by text. According to Parscale, the campaign is on track to send almost a billion texts, the most in historyand texts are far more likely to be opened than e-mails, social-media posts, or news articles. Weve been working on this around the clock for three years, a senior official who works on the 2020 digital campaign told me.
Recently, the campaign paid more than a dozen Instagram influencers, including TankSinatra, FuckJerry, and MoistBuddha, to run pro-Bloomberg sponsored content. Viral stunts like this come at a cost, both in dollars and in personal dignity; and it isnt clear whether the Instagram ads, which winkingly portray the candidate as a stiff plutocrat interested in buying an election, will appeal to the target demographic. But the Bloomberg campaign is an interesting test case: if enough well-placed memes can turn a mediocre hair product or a boring pop song into a hit, then why not a Presidential candidate?
Some of the public anxiety over Facebook is a response to how easily it can be abused, but much of that anxiety is about the outcomes the platform yields when its working as designed. Even leaving aside the Cambridge Analytica data breach and the allegations of foreign interferenceeven if nobody had ever violated any platforms terms of servicemany of the fundamental problems of social media still remain. Creepy surveillance, dissolution of civic norms, widening unease, infectious rage, a tilt toward autocracy in several formerly placid liberal democraciesthese are starting to seem like inherent features, not bugs.
The real scandal is not that the system can be breached; the real scandal is the system itself. In a sense, its almost comforting to imagine that the only bad actors on social media are Russian state assets, clickbait profiteers, and rogue political consultants who violate the law. If that were the extent of the problem, the problem could surely be contained. ?
Trump Asylum Ban Blocked By Ninth Circuit
Though it should be, this hasn't hit mainstream media yet, so it can't be posted in LBN.
Southern Poverty Law Center won the ruling.
https://www.splcenter.org/sites/default/files/3.5.2020_ca9_order_lifting_stay.pdf?fbclid=IwAR3nvZDPZ1DM3M4edi86A0gVIzOQis2shjwtmTWh_-AXUeI5qchInWD61uQ
https://ccrjustice.org/home/press-center/press-releases/trump-asylum-ban-blocked
The decision lifts a prior administrative stay of the district courts preliminary injunction. That injunction prohibits the government from applying the asylum ban to those who had been illegally metered before the ban went into effect. The Ninth Circuit found that the government failed to demonstrate that it would suffer irreparable harm if the injunction were to go into effect while the Ninth Circuit reviews the merits. The court also found that the government is unlikely to succeed in that appealthat is, it is unlikely to demonstrate it had no duty to grant access to the asylum process to individuals metered prior to the implementation of the asylum ban.
The case is Al Otro Lado v. Wolf, a class action lawsuit brought by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Center for Constitutional Rights, American Immigration Council, and Mayer Brown LLP on behalf of individual asylum seekers and the legal services organization Al Otro Lado (AOL).
Todays order will protect the lives of asylum seekers who were forced to endure extreme hardship while waiting in dangerous border cities for months for their chance to seek asylum in the United States, said Erika Pinheiro, AOL Director of Litigation and Policy. These asylum seekers have a deep commitment to following our laws in seeking protection, and we are relieved to see that their decision to follow our governments instructions to wait in Mexico will not prejudice their chances for relief. ...
Great news! But justice is slow.
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