The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

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"Deep State"

Just a thread to try to figure out what's going on with the newest most popular conspiracies, to post items over time. Because I recently saw these things that blew my mind:

Boomer angst: what does it mean if this in my inbox strikes fear in my heart?

If this in my inbox strikes fear in my heart:

IMPROVEMENTS TO YOUR ONLINE AND MOBILE BANKING ARE COMING!

does it mean I am old and paranoid and ready for teh assisted livin'? 

Further questions that suggest you are in the same demographic:

Dec 7 Net Neutrality nationwide protest

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: "DON'T KILL NET NEUTRALITY" NATIONWIDE PROTEST DEC. 7

Website HERE found via an email from PEN America:

What Trump did during his summer vacation: crashing and burning via "Fake News." For the record, Aug. 15, 2017

Looked at the front pages tonight, too much bad Trump news for the "In The News" section, and not just on the Charlottesville story. Not including op-ed, only Editorial Board

Marathon on the whole Democratic Party doldrum thingie: 3 recommended pieces

So I saw Maureen Dowd's piece published Saturday zooming up the "Trending" chart @ NYTimes.com, by evening it was at #1. So I read it, it's good:

Donald Skunks the Democrats

Four participation trophies later, the Democrats finally take a look in the mirror. Even they aren’t sure who’s staring back.

Jobs, Jobs, Jobs (per AA anonymous)

All this jobs jobs jobs talk is starting to get to me when I am constantly reading about extremely low unemployment all around the country. including in red states like Wyoming. What happened is that someone learned to play a wicked poker with the Electoral College by targeting some pockets of long-time resentment about jobs lost 20 years ago or more, places that have not adjusted to reality and refuse to move anywhere but want obsolete jobs to come to them and want to stay in their hood and never change. Likewise we are told we need to cater to the needs of poor segregated minority communities, they don't want to move and mix, want to keep their culcha, but want jobs and services to come to them without paying a lot of taxes. Meanwhile immigrants are willing to come across the world to work and live here. Absurdity after absurdity.

I know, don't need to say it, it's about well-paying jobs that restore the middle class. But that's not going to happen without education anymore. Not anywhere in the world. (If it ever really did. I grew up in a poor white hood in the late 50's and early 60's where uneducated dad's were always being "laid off" of "third shift" at the factory, so they could never afford to get out of slummy rentals, they kept having kids nonetheless.)

On a Brit equivalent closing for campaign speeches

For those in the mood for Brit humor, see some of the answers to her tweet:

French politicians end speeches with "Long live the Republic, long live France". Yanks do "God bless America". What is the Brit equivalent?

— Julia Hartley-Brewer (@JuliaHB1) April 23, 2017

 

 

The Melania Trump in hiding mystery solved?

I am watching her speak Live on CNN right now, on a serious topic. As it says at the bottom of the screen "Melania Trump Makes Rare Appearance at State Dept./First lady presenting International Women of Courage Awards".

Though she is clearly using a prepared script, she is stumbling on some words and her accent has never sounded so heavy. Yet there is a sincerity to her delivery that it comes across that this is one issue she cares about.

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LinkAfrican immigrants in U.S. - artappraiser03 years 1 week ago
Link"I Was the Governor of Montana. My Fellow Democrats, You Need to Get Out of the City More." artappraiser83 years 1 week ago
Reader blog[Trump Scandals & Russian Interference] party like it's 2016 PeraclesPlease2963 years 1 week ago
Link‘A War Hero and Patriot’: Leaders React to the Death of Bob Dole artappraiser33 years 1 week ago
Link[ABORTION-Supreme Court] "I Was Raped by My Father. An Abortion Saved My Life." artappraiser163 years 1 week ago
Link[COVID News] Anti-mandate protesters in Luxembourg storm Christmas market artappraiser83 years 1 week ago
Link'Absolute liars': Ex-D.C. Guard official says generals lied to Congress about Jan. 6 artappraiser03 years 1 week ago
LinkThe Secretive Prisons That Keep Migrants Out of Europe artappraiser23 years 1 week ago
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LinkFar-right French presidential hopeful promises 'reconquest' at rally artappraiser13 years 1 week ago
LinkFacing Economic Collapse, Afghanistan Is Gripped by Starvation artappraiser23 years 1 week ago
LinkChris Cuomo Suspended by CNN artappraiser43 years 1 week ago
LinkThe Teenagers Getting Six Figures to Leave Their High Schools for Basketball artappraiser13 years 1 week ago
Reader blogYoung Author Explains Why Millennials Are The Most Depressed Generation In The History Of The World Orion353 years 1 week ago
LinkBelieve Women - kind of? (URL fixed) PeraclesPlease93 years 1 week ago
LinkPoland PM urges NATO to 'wake up' to destabilisation by Russia and allies artappraiser43 years 2 weeks ago
LinkU.S. military explosives vanish, emerge in civilian world artappraiser43 years 2 weeks ago
Reader blogStupidity, a Basis for Political Power, Bonhoeffer NCD33 years 2 weeks ago
LinkMan with gun outside U.N. headquarters prompts hours-long standoff, lockdown in NYC artappraiser53 years 2 weeks ago
Reader blogHow Amtrak Plans To Modernize Its Trains By 2030 Orion83 years 2 weeks ago
LinkIran and the U.S. Return to the Bargaining Table A Guy Called LULU63 years 2 weeks ago
LinkIf Republicans Sweep in 2022, There are No Excuses Orion43 years 2 weeks ago
Link[COVID News] U.S. Covid-19 Deaths in 2021 Surpass 2020’s artappraiser153 years 2 weeks ago
LinkTwitter removes another 3,000 state-backed accounts linked to six countries artappraiser03 years 2 weeks ago
LinkFive Trump-Russia 'Collusion' Corrections We Need From the Media Now -- Just for Starters A Guy Called LULU53 years 2 weeks ago

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