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Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul. "Rock Steady” (remix)
Smokey Robinson and The Miracles. “The Love I Saw In You Was Just a Mirage”
Stevie Wonder. (often called 'the Beatles' of Soul) “As”
Maddow & Sanders On The Black Vote Issue
Maddow & Sanders On His Electability
Maddow & Sanders On His Supporters & Warren
Right On Cue, Post-Merger T-Mobile Layoffs Begin
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200303/06584444021/right-cue-post-merger-t-mobile-layoffs-begin.shtml?fbclid=IwAR3P5g1kJ7G9xJs0sos5hECs5-E8RO9mdbzAtk8zLNHT6aB6uojmTLr8Tw4Wall Street analysts and unions alike predict the deal could eliminate anywhere between 10,000 and 30,000 jobs, and data suggests the consolidation could result in employees across the sector making less money even if they work at other companies.
Like most mergers, T-Mobile and Sprint executives have spent a year telling people none of this will actually happen and critics were being hyperbolic.
... 4% of the journalists that uncritically hyped this merger's "synergies" will go back in a few years and scrutinize the company's pre-merger promises. And all of the think tankers and analysts that rubber stamped the deal uncritically will go mute in a few years when the price hikes and additional retail and middle management layoffs arrive, pretending they had some other, mysterious origins.
This is, apparently, just how we do things in America, a country that seems habitually incapable of learning much of anything from history or experience.
Thanks, Bill Barr and Ajit Pai, for getting us here.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200219/10593043947/ny-ag-gives-up-wont-appeal-t-mobile-merger-ruling.shtml
Please, Speaker Pelosi, Please Stop Graham-Blumenthal's 'Earn It' Bill
From the Electronic Frontier Foundationhttps://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/earn-it-bill-new-path-doj-finally-break-encryption?fbclid=IwAR1Q8tgDhBF3imBA0nmaD7zcUBkC6oHUCKCeRtH19u_CB3Iki56TH8sOQ8E
Any day now, Senators Lindsey Graham and Richard Blumenthal are scheduled to introduce the Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies (EARN IT) Act.
The Department of Justice and the FBI have long seen encryption as a threat. In 1993, the Clinton administration promoted the installation of a “Clipper Chip” in consumer devices that would allow for easy government eavesdropping using key escrow.
When researchers repeatedly demonstrated that this flawed idea would compromise privacy and security for everyone, not just criminals, the idea was scrapped.
But U.S. law enforcement agencies spent the next 25 years villainizing the widespread adoption of encryption and highlighting a series of awful criminal acts in their efforts to scare elected officials into requiring backdoors.
In recent years, they’ve used acts of terrorism like the mass shootings in San Bernardino and Pensacola to press for draconian changes to the law. More recently, officials like Attorney General William Barr have blamed encryption for sexual crimes against children.
... Nearly all information that the public gets about these crimes is filtered through law enforcement and organizations that work closely with law enforcement. Because of that, it’s very hard for policymakers to make informed decisions that address both public safety and civil liberties concerns.
Meanwhile, we face immense challenges to building secure systems, and strong encryption is one the best tools we have available to protect ourselves. Encryption preserves the ability to have private, secure communications in an increasingly insecure world.
Members of the government, the military, and law enforcement themselves use encryption to protect their communications, as do journalists, activists, and those at risk of domestic abuse, among many others.
We should not sacrifice the power of these fundamental technologies, even in the name of important law enforcement goals.
This opens the door to Barr's dream: warrantless surveillance by the DOJ, NSA and all other PutiNazi-led operatives, including the president.
Just in time for the General Election.
House Phone Directory -- https://www.house.gov/representatives
David Silverman, Manager - Correspondence for Nancy Pelosi 1236 LHOB (202)-225-4965
Celine Wolff, Digital Assistant for Pelosi, Nancy " (202)-225-4965
Bernie Ad -- For The Establishment & the Black Vote?
Or for party unity?
Midday Music for Millennials -- Jes' Grew Week (Wednesday)
reminder...
3. R & B produced the fluid, expanding modern American and Western music the world now lives in.
Little Richard. “Good Golly, Miss Molly”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Richard_discography
Hear it? The Beatles’ whooo! from Little Richard?
Any weak white call to “pathologize” black culture got the big Nah. Black artists called it Soul Music, and only black artists made it.
James Brown. “I Feel Good” “Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag”
Gone worldwide.
When James Brown, The Godfather of Soul, called Michael and Prince, their response was …
Black Eyed Peas. “Let’s Get It Started”
Why Biden Has The Black Vote, Why Blacks Do Not Trust The White Vote in The General
What polls predicted a week ago about the black vote were not born out on Super Tuesday.
Seriously. Democrats must keep this in mind for the General Election & most especially for the DNC.
Black Voters Didn’t Vote for Biden in South Carolina Because They ‘Lack Information’ --
Black voters opted for Biden because they have no faith that white voters will do the right thing and vote for a true progressive. by Elie Mystal
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/biden-black-vote/
The rest of the article:
They believe if you make white people choose between their money and their morality ... they will choose their money every time and twice on Election Day.
... a 39-year-old African American voter in South Carolina ... told the Times: “Black voters know white voters better than white voters know themselves.… So yeah, we’ll back Biden, because we know who white America will vote for in the general election in a way they may not tell a pollster or the media.” ...
... The Root’s politics editor, Dr. Jason Johnson, put it like this to me ...
“Voting for Bernie Sanders requires that black people believe that white people will do something they’ve never done: willingly and openly share in the economic bounty of the United States.”
He’s not wrong, and what’s more, older black voters in South Carolina know he’s not wrong. ...
... They remember that actual progressive choices, like Jackson and Edwards, were rejected by white Democrats. They remember that white people failed to turn on George W. Bush, despite his legacy of incompetence and torture, and instead reelected him.
They remember that the majority of white people did not vote for the first black president, spent eight years attacking his every move, and then replaced him with the most small-minded bigot they could find, rejecting an immensely qualified white woman in the process.
Learning these lessons about what white people will do is part of growing up black in this country...."
Fuck ALL Democratic "establishment" talk.
Get the real difference between Democrats and the sunshine patriots who vote only the Democrat THEY want. "Establishment" is their label for Democrats they don't like. Okay for the primary. But that's where all bullshitting ends, and where the best interests of the country begin, not just Bernie supporters' best interests.
I'm sorry I forgot which DU'er said this, and I'll paraphrase them in the next two paragraphs.
Expecting the rest of Democratic candidates' supporters -- not "establishment" supporters -- to show up and vote for Sanders if he wins. We will do that. Because we know the cause of disunity. In UNITY, the whole party really should be able to guarantee Bernie the support of every Democrat and Independent who wants Trump gone, and that we will show up and vote. We will not pout and stay home in the General.
Likewise, we non-Bernie supporters are expecting Bernie supporters to show up and support whoever the nominee is, even if it isn't Bernie. THAT is how you get engaged in politics; that is how you win. You show up and you vote. You may not always get the person who gives you everything you want, but you never have to suffer a weak, corrupt government, either. If you're Democrats for Bernie, you won't stay home in the General.
Do not spite this country AGAIN. It does NOT benefit any of our fellow Americans if Trump wins AGAIN just because "non establishment" voters got mad that their guy or gal didn't get the nomination AGAIN.
This is not a nation of men. It’s a nation of laws.
Be Democrats. Keep it that way, or sunshine patriots will AGAIN help continue the lawless mafia governing that they've seen so far. They will help that darkness AGAIN make the country permanently dark.
Don't go dark in the General. BE Democrats.
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