Our President extends Christmas wishes to all, even the “radical left scum.” This is his effort to bring the country together, to extol himself, and to mark a day of Peace and Joy! Who better to celebrate and congratulate than himself?
The people who run social media at the Whute House are vile. They think it’s funny to grab someone off the street or in their workplace, throw them to the ground, and imprison them without a hearing. In their twisted minds. Santa is an ICE agent with a gun, ready to help Trump and Miller as they try to Make America White Again.
Trump chose Christmas Week to unveil his gift to the nation.
He suspended five contracts for partially built wind farms on the East Coast. And on Christmas Eve, he revived the coal industry, even though coal is a major source of air pollution.
A day after the Trump administration acted to throttle offshore wind farms, it tossed two lifelines to coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel and a favored industry of the president.
The government ordered two coal-burning power plants in Indiana to continue operating past their scheduled closure dates while it also gave hundreds of coal plants an additional five years before they need to prevent toxic chemicals from leaching into sources of drinking water.
The dual moves late on Tuesday were part of the administration’s sweeping effort to bolster the struggling coal industry and avoid having coal plants close on President Trump’s watch.
The day before, the Trump administration had dealt a devastating blow to clean energy by ordering the suspension of five offshore wind projects that were under construction along the East Coast and poised to deliver power to more than 2.5 million homes and businesses.
Several Catholic churches erected nativity scenes, with the immigrant family–Joseph, Mary, and Jesus–absent. They were picked up by ICE and deported.
Another Christmas song. Remember when Christmas was about love and kindness and welcoming the stranger? We deport the stranger.
Susan Tincher woke up early one day and received an alert about a disturbance in her neighborhood. She dressed, drove a few blocks, and got out of her car, where she encountered ICE. Within seconds, she was thrown to the ground, handcuffed, and taken away. This is her story.
Someone at the White House thinks cruelty is funny.
Merry Christmas!
Since my childhood, I have always thought of Christmas as a day of peace, holiness, and love.
It’s not a happy time for many families.
Robert Reich compares what is happening right now to the Nazi regimes’s treatment of Jews in the 1930s and America’s treatment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.
Its plan to warehouse immigrants has shades of Nazi concentration camps and America’s shameful imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
The Trump administration is building or refurbishing huge incarceration centers.
This is the beginning.
Who are we?
I’m confused. Yesterday afternoon, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Trump could not send the National Guard to Chicago. Okay.
But a few minutes later, he mobilized the Louisiana National Guard and ordered it to New Orleans, where serious crime is declining. Jeff Landry, the Republican Governor of Louisiana, was delighted that Trump was sending in the Guard.
Questions:
If the president can’t send the Guard to Chicago, why can he send it to New Orleans?
If Governor Landry thought that New Orleans needed the National Guard, why didn’t he mobilize them himself? Maybe it’s because the federal government will pay part of the costs. But if the need was urgent, it seems the Governor would have acted without delay.
Answers?
These past few days, we have seen a perfect illustration of “the Streisand Effect.”
Perhaps you are among the few people in the nation who doesn’t know what that term refers to. I asked around and found friends who had never heard of it.
So as a public service, I’m posting the definition., relying on Wikipedia
In 2003, Barbra Streisand sued an aerial photographer and the company he worked for when she learned that her house in Malibu had been photographed as part of the California Coastal Records Project, to document coastal erosion. Her home was part of a collection of 12,000 photographs. She sued for $50 million for “invasion of property.” Before she sued, the image had been downloaded only six times; after she sued, it was downloaded hundreds of thousands of times. A judge dismissed the case and required her to pay $177,000 to the folks she sued for their legal expenses.
The Streisand effect describes a situation where an attempt to hide, remove, or censor information results in the unintended consequence of the effort instead increasing public awareness of the information.
So here’s the Streisand Effect in action, before our very eyes. Bari Weiss, the new “editor-in-chief” at CBS News, saw the report called “Inside CECOT” that “60 Minutes” planned to air last Sunday. After careful review, the segment was heavily promoted as a coming attraction.
Then Bari Weiss decided to yank it.
Consequently, the story of censorship exploded and got far more attention than if the show had aired as planned. Bootleg copies of “Inside CECOT” are in many corners of the Internet, sent from Canada, where the show played before it was spiked.
If it had aired on schedule, there would have been no mention of it in every major news outlet.
Bari Weiss blew it up into a news story.
The Streisand Effect.
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