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#3329012 8-Jan-2025 10:01

Yes, yes.
(FYI, the old guy was the husband of a senator being sworn in).

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#3329435 9-Jan-2025 08:36

I received the following painfully topical promotion for The Guardian via email today:

Don’t leave facts to big tech

We live in a dangerous age of misinformation and disinformation. One that is often fuelled by social media.

On Tuesday, Meta’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, announced that his social media platforms - including Facebook, Instagram and Threads - would get rid of all factcheckers.

Meta’s move could make the truth even harder to find online.

In the UK, more than half of adults use social media to get their news. The number is even higher for young people. Facebook, Instagram and Elon Musk’s X make up three of the 10 biggest sources for news in the country.

Meta has said it will follow the lead of X and move away from third-party checks of misleading content in favour of user-based notes. Nobel prize-winning journalist Maria Ressa said Meta’s change in policy would lead to a “world without facts”.

Meanwhile, Musk himself, the planet’s richest man, has spent the past week using his enormous profile on his social media site to attack and spread falsehoods about elected officials in the UK.

Disinformation, as a Guardian editorial put it this week, is a “potent political weapon” that can make “voters believe falsehoods while distrusting - even hating - those who don’t”. ...

Note that I have no vested interest in The Guardian - I read it, but am not yet a subscriber.

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#3329572 9-Jan-2025 14:11

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#3330239 11-Jan-2025 11:30

The NY Times - Giuliani Found in Contempt of Court Over Continued Defamation of Election Workers

10 Jan 2025

A federal district judge found Rudolph W. Giuliani in contempt of court on Friday for continuing to defame two Georgia women after the 2020 election.

In May, Mr. Giuliani agreed to stop repeating lies about the women, Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, a mother-daughter team of election workers in Fulton County, Ga., during the 2020 race. ...

In November, Mr. Giuliani repeated accusations against the women at least four times, after Donald J. Trump won the 2024 presidential election. ...

[Judge Howell] said that Mr. Giuliani should have to reimburse Ms. Freeman and Ms. Moss for the cost of bringing the contempt case.

She said she had little confidence, based on his past behavior, that he would pay what he owes and warned him that he could face jail time in the future.

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#3330245 11-Jan-2025 12:13

So, Rudy, where's your orange Messiah now? Apart from posting on Twitter, he's...um..er...doing nothing?

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#3330345 11-Jan-2025 21:47

quickymart:

So, Rudy, where's your orange Messiah now? Apart from posting on Twitter, he's...um..er...doing nothing?

Used and abused and forgotten

Whilst the difficult we can do immediately, the impossible takes a bit longer. However, miracles you will have to wait for.

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#3330546 12-Jan-2025 11:20

Before I get accused of left-wing bias, "The Christian Post" source below has a heavily right-wing bias.

This article has a tiny bit of creative editing, but overall gives all views.

Note this congregation makes the men and women sits separately in this conservative American southern church.

The pregnant girl's age is unconfirmed. No one associated in the church has not set up a fund for the girl, I believe. I suspect the pastor would forbid it.

Virginia Democrats secured narrow majorities in both the state legislature. This shift is expected to influence abortion rights on Virginia. An abortion in Virginia costs at least NZD $1,124, though NZD $3,236.83 is common, and usually not covered by insurance, in particular in the conservative "bible belt" region of the US.

Christian teenager’s apology to her church for getting pregnant out of wedlock sparks online protest: Christian Post

A Christian teenager’s tearful apology to her congregation for getting pregnant out of wedlock has sparked an online protest from members of the public, including “The View” co-host Sunny Hostin, especially after her pastor banned members from throwing her a baby shower as punishment for her sin.

An approximately 1.5 minute video clip of the apology at True Vine Apostolic Church of Christ in Hampton, Virginia, first highlighted by Larry Reid Live, shows the church’s founder and pastor, Bishop Terry W. Jackson, directing the young woman where and how to stand before she offered the congregation her brief apology and revealed her condition.

“I want to apologize to everybody in here because I am pregnant. I’m sorry y’all,” she said, wiping away tears from her eyes. “I just hope that y’all forgive me.”
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#3330626 12-Jan-2025 15:21

The nut job Andrew Tate who is currently under house arrest in Romania on sex and human trafficking charges has announced he will be the new UK Prime Minister and has formed a new party. I will not link to the ranting announcement video for obvious reasons.

NDTV: Controversial social media personality Andrew Tate has set his sights on the Prime Minister's office in the UK. His political vehicle? A newly formed party called the ‘BRUV', short for ‘Britain Restoring Underlying Values'. Tate claims, “Great Britain's DOGE will be DADDY,” – short for Department of Assistance And Development Of Domestic Youth.

You can't make that up. Tate was banned from Twitter some time ago. It seems Tate's twitter account was recently restored. Some outlets are reporting that Elon Musk supports the new party. Those reports seem to be on the very thin basis that Musk has replied in relatively neutral terms to a few tweets about the subject.

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#3331031 13-Jan-2025 19:49

One of Tate's BFF's right here:

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#3331056 13-Jan-2025 20:46

US state Louisiana forbids public health workers from promoting COVID, flu and monkey pox shots: National Public Radio (NPR)

A group of high-level managers at the Louisiana Department of Health walked into a Nov. 14 meeting in Baton Rouge expecting to talk about outreach and community events.

Instead, they were told by an assistant secretary in the department and another official that department leadership had a new policy: Advertising or otherwise promoting the COVID, influenza or mpox vaccines, an established practice there — and at most other public health entities in the U.S. — must stop.

NPR has confirmed the policy was discussed at this meeting, and at two other meetings held within the department's Office of Public Health, on Oct. 3 and Nov. 21, through interviews with four employees at the Department of Health, which employs more than 6,500 people and is the state's largest agency.

According to the employees, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they fear losing their jobs or other forms of retaliation, the policy would be implemented quietly and would not be put in writing.

Staffers were also told that it applies to every aspect of the health department's work: Employees could not send out press releases, give interviews, hold vaccine events, give presentations or create social media posts encouraging the public to get the vaccines. They also could not put up signs at the department's clinics that COVID, flu or mpox vaccines were available on site.

The new policy in Louisiana was implemented as some politicians have promoted false information about vaccines and as President-elect Donald Trump seeks to have anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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#3331062 13-Jan-2025 20:53

RFK Jr already making his mark? 🙄

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#3331063 13-Jan-2025 20:53

Prediction:

The wealthy will get vaccinated

The wealthy will then acquire any assets the poor have when they can not pay medical bills or die from preventable diseases.

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#3331194 14-Jan-2025 09:05

quickymart:
RFK Jr already making his mark? 🙄

Republicans only move quickly in reverse. When moving forward, a snail could outpace them.

"The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil."

Hannah Arendt, political theorist

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#3332544 17-Jan-2025 08:16

The NY Times - Giuliani Fails to Appear for Trial That Will Decide Fate of Florida Home

Jan 15 2025

Rudolph W. Giuliani did not show up to federal court in Lower Manhattan to testify in a trial that will determine whether he can keep a Florida condo, his only remaining home, as well as three personalized Yankees World Series rings.

Court has been adjourned until Jan. 21, the day after President-elect Donald J. Trump’s inauguration. No reason has yet been given for Mr. Giuliani’s absence on Thursday.

It was an extraordinary development in a case where Mr. Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City, has already been held in contempt of court for his failure to hand over millions of dollars in assets to settle a nine-figure defamation suit.

Two judges have warned Mr. Giuliani that further obstructions could land him in jail.

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#3332617 17-Jan-2025 09:13

But, he's settled with them: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/16/politics/rudy-giuliani-georgia-election-workers-defamation-settlement/index.html

He gets to keep all his crap (which isn't worth more than $10 million at best, apparently) and has to pay them an undisclosed amount for ruining their lives. Oh and he also has to shut his stupid lying mouth and stop talking about them.

Bets on how long the second part lasts?

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