One America News, the far-right network whose fortunes and viewership rose amid the triumph and tumult of the Trump administration, has flourished with support from a surprising source: AT&T Inc, the world's largest communications company.

A Reuters review of court records shows the role AT&T played in creating and funding OAN, a network that continues to spread conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and the COVID-19 pandemic.

OAN founder and chief executive Robert Herring Sr has testified that the inspiration to launch OAN in 2013 came from AT&T executives.

“They told us they wanted a conservative network,” Herring said during a 2019 deposition seen by Reuters. “They only had one, which was Fox News, and they had seven others on the other [leftwing] side. When they said that, I jumped to it and built one.”

more: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-oneamerica-att/

How about all votes from African-Americans are counted ten times? To counter voter suppression, I mean.

I was sure I remembered this, but my husband thought I was crazy. Part of the agreement when Bill and Melinda Gates' agreement (not pre-nup; they didn't have one) was that he could continue his annual vacation with an old girlfriend. But I was right!

From https://nypost.com/2021/05/04/bill-gates-took-getaways-with-old-girlfriend-after-marriage/

After marrying his wife, Bill Gates would spend a long weekend every year at a cozy beach cottage in North Carolina — with his old girlfriend.

The billionaire Microsoft founder made sure the bizarre arrangement was part of the deal when he married Melinda French in 1994, he told Time magazine in a 1997 profile.

“We can play putt-putt while discussing biotechnology,” Gates said of his private getaways with fellow nerd techie and ex Ann Winblad — who is now happily married to actor Kevin Kline’s detective brother, Alex Kline, a source told The Post on Tuesday.

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“When I was off on my own thinking about marrying Melinda, I called Ann and asked for her approval,” he said, adding that Winblad gave the other woman the thumb’s up.

I had absolutely no side effects from shot#1; my husband's arm was pretty sore, but OK the next day. I expected to have very little, if any, problem with #2 and thought my husband might be a little unwell.

Shots on the 14th and that evening we both were wiped out, despite taking it easy all afternoon and drinking lots of water. Since then, we both have had sore throats and sleepiness, taking naps at the drop of a hat all day long. Don't feel unwell except for the sore throat, which responds to salt-water gargle and Tylenol, but feel like we had the wind knocked out of us. We drag around all day, and the smallest chore seems way too much to try to do.

We are 73 years old, with co-morbidities. He's diabetic type 2, and I have copd. Every day we're feeling a little better, and I would do it all over again to get the shot, but I was caught entirely by surprise by the duration of these symptoms.

Like some other posters here, I've had trouble with the video of the cop shooting and killing the 13-year-old who threw down his gun. I have trouble seeing that the gun was dropped, and I could understand the cop's motive for shooting.

It occurred to me this morning that something important changed before the cop shot. The cop had been yelling at the kid to stop, and the kid kept running. Then suddenly the kid stopped--the kid complied with that order from the cop. Regardless of whether he'd dropped the gun, when the kid stopped running, the cop should have recalibrated his response.

"Drop the gun." "I did drop it." NO SHOOTING

"Hands on your head and face the wall." NO SHOOTING'

"Lie face down." NO SHOOTING

I'm an old lady with no police training. A cop should have know to move the situation toward a less aggressive, calmer exchange, and he didn't.

This failure of cops to tone down rather than ramp up aggression and rage seems to be a common thread in these killings.

made more dangerous by their behavior toward people of color, particularly young men with dark skins.

The police who are unnecessarily aggressive toward some of the people they stop for minor traffic infringements increase whatever risk they feel by coming on as the power force who hates and/or fears the people they have stopped.

While police are killed during routine traffic stops, I assume sometimes without inviting aggression by their own behavior, the fact that police officers *admit* that they are afraid of attack by some (read: dark-skinned) people they stop is telling.

If you are applying for a job, a large part of which involves contact with something or someone you are afraid of, why would you want such a job? If you are afraid of heights, you wouldn't want to work on constructing sky-scrapers. If you're afraid of snakes, you wouldn't apply for work at the reptile house at the zoo.

If you are afraid of the people you believe are the most dangerous and most likely to try to kill you, why would you want to be a police officer?

Could it be because you want to be in the position of bullying, torturing, and even killing those people you fear--without (until recently) any accountability? If the job in the snake house consisted of killing snakes, someone afraid of snakes might well want that job.

What kind of psychological testing is done on applicants for police work?

In every one of these killings, and in the traffic stop of the serviceman, the cop making the first contact seems enraged right from the get-go. What's going on? None of the reasons for stopping any of these folks was for a violent crime. Are the police trained to be aggressive to the point of (seemingly) blind rage from the very first contact?

If the initial contact had been calm and (dare I say it) respectful, how different the outcomes would have been! Plus, as I understand it, in all these recent cases, the cops had identifying information about the "perpetrators," making an instant arrest not necessary, if anything more than a ticket was necessary.

As a white woman who has been stopped a couple of times for speeding (and who has driven countless times with expired tags and inspection stickers, not to mention burnt-out taillights), I have never ever been approached by a cop this way. It's strictly "license and registration, ma'am, and proof of insurance. Do you know why I stopped you?" The biggest discourtesy I've ever suffered is being called by my first name by a cop young enough to be my grandchild.

Most of the victims in the spa murders were Asian; 100% were women, who were killed solely because they were women. If this isn't a hate crime, I don't know what is.