“We've been through dark times in these months of anguished war. During that time, I can say that Israel has had no better friend than Senator John Fetterman. Senator, welcome to Israel.”
Wednesday, June 26, 2024
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
Tuesday Trifecta: Fire alarm puller Jamaal Bowman loses primary in NY, handsy Lauren Boebert wins hers in CO, and Joe Biden's student loan forgiveness was stopped by two Obama judges lol
The Hill reports here on Boebert, who replaces Ken Buck, and on Bowman's loss here.
ABC reports here on the student loan decisions.
Gen Z, the followers of Jahn and Miri
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| JAHN: Is this supposed to be a good thing, Miri? MIRI: Of course it is. |
Every day they navigate memes, photos, social media, chats with their friends, flashes of video, influencers influencing, news articles from a zillion places across the net. ...
"Within a week of actual research, we just threw out the term information literacy," says Yasmin Green, Jigsaw's CEO. Gen Zers, it turns out, are "not on a linear journey to evaluate the veracity of anything." Instead, they're engaged in what the researchers call "information sensibility" — a "socially informed" practice that relies on "folk heuristics of credibility." In other words, Gen Zers know the difference between rock-solid news and AI-generated memes. They just don't care.
Jigsaw's findings offer a revealing glimpse into the digital mindset of Gen Z. Where older generations are out there struggling to fact-check information and cite sources, Gen Zers don't even bother. They just read the headlines and then speed-scroll to the comments, to see what everyone else says. They're outsourcing the determination of truth and importance to like-minded, trusted influencers. And if an article's too long, they just skip it. They don't want to see stuff that might force them to think too hard, or that upsets them emotionally. If they have a goal, Jigsaw found, it's to learn what they need to know to remain cool and conversant in their chosen social groups. ...
They don't read long articles. ...
Instead of listening to stuffy old teachers, like CNN and the Times, they take their cues from online influencers — the queen bees and quarterback bros at the top of the social hierarchy. The influencers' personal experience makes them authentic, and they speak Gen Z's language.
More.
https://www.businessinsider.com/gen-z-most-trusted-news-source-online-comment-sections-google-2024-6
Monday, June 24, 2024
Ukraine didn't target the beach in Crimea where Russians were collateral damage of Russian defense operations
Video shows panicked beachgoers fleeing from falling shrapnel after Russian air defense intercepted the U.S.-supplied ATACMS missiles.
Don't sun on the beach in a war zone, unless you enjoy that sort of thing.
More.
Maybe that's the problem right there
No human biologist now argues that violence is in our genes.
More.
How is it that the United States has the most people dead from COVID-19 compared with every other country in the world when we invented the vaccines which supposedly saved so many lives?
81.4% of Americans had received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine as of May 9, 2023 according to Our World in Data.
By April 2022, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data show that about 6 in 10 adults dying of COVID-19 were vaccinated or boosted, and that’s remained true through at least August 2022 (the most recent month of data).
More.
Sunday, June 23, 2024
Meanwhile White House senior deputy press secretary Andrew Bates is getting some much needed help from new hire Tyler Cherry who was communications director for Deb Haaland at Interior
I'm sure Joe knows all about this guy lol:
"Praying for #Baltimore, but praying even harder for an end to a capitalistic police state motivated by explicit and implicit racial biases," Cherry posted in 2015 amid riots that were sparked following the death of Freddie Gray, a Black man, in police custody in Baltimore.
"Apt (sic.) time to recall that the modern day police system is a direct evolution of slave patrols and lynch mobs," he stated in a separate post months later.
In 2018, Cherry called for Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE), the Homeland Security Department agency tasked with preventing
cross-border crime and illegal immigration, to be abolished.
Cherry was also posting support for "Palestine" on social media in 2014 during the Gaza War in which Palestinian forces, led by the radical Iran-backed terrorist group Hamas, launched hundreds of rockets into Israel, sparking a forceful Israeli response that involved airstrikes and a ground invasion.
"Cheersing in bars to ending the occupation of Palestine — no shame and f--- your glares #ISupportGaza #FreePalestine," Cherry said on July 25, 2014, in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Cherry also has a history of criticizing Republicans on social media, including in 2017 when he said that conservatives in the Republican Party were focused on "white grievance politics."
"The Tea Party was never about the debt/deficit but about racism and white grievance politics," he wrote on X.
More.
Update:
Very-Fine-People-On-Both-Sides Hoax of 2017 in the news: There was a change of ownership at Snopes in September 2022
Biden decided to run for president, he said, because Trump called neo-Nazis very fine people.
Funny what a change of ownership in September 2022 can do.
Trump and Biden have a debate scheduled for next Thursday, coincidentally.
Biden made the uncle-eaten-by-cannibals claim in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on April 17th
Major American media protected the president from this story for five days and didn't address it widely until Papua New Guinea got offended by his remarks.
It wasn't "news" before that, because it was bad.
Pennsylvania polling headed south for Biden starting on April 30 and not even the May 31 conviction of Trump has reversed it.
Letting Biden loose in Pennsylvania for three days to pile up eight fact checks from CNN of all places appears to have been a very costly political mistake.
Trump takes the war to Biden's home turf, turns out big, enthusiastic crowd in North Philly
Biden took 81% of the vote in Philadelphia County in 2020 but won Pennsylvania by only 82,000 votes.
Trump: "I went to school in Philadelphia" lol, which is some lie you'd expect Joe Biden to say but is actually true in Trump's case.
CNN, 19 April 2024:
President Joe Biden spent three days this week campaigning in the critical swing state of Pennsylvania. He littered his remarks with false and misleading claims on subjects ranging from his annual earnings to his cap on seniors’ prescription drug spending to the demographics of China to the frequency of his past travel to Iraq and Afghanistan.
And in Biden’s most eyebrow-raising remarks of the campaign swing, he told and then retold a story in which he strongly suggested his late uncle, Ambrose Finnegan, was eaten by cannibals after his plane was shot down while he fought in World War II. Biden’s dramatic details don’t match the Defense Department’s official account of the plane crash.
Here is a fact check of eight of Biden’s Pennsylvania remarks.
More.
Link:
Democrats keep saying that Trump is the most unvirtuous man ever to hold political office lol
Trump doesn't hold a candle to JFK.
Saturday, June 22, 2024
One reason Americans are fatter than ever might seem to be sloth, except for the fact that 60% of the population worked in both 1979 and 2022 but the average work week dropped by just one hour over the period
According to the CDC, obesity is most severe among those of late middle-age, so if you can prevent it before then you are more likely to escape it later:
The prevalence of severe obesity was highest among adults aged 40–59 compared with other age groups.
Peak Baby Boom turned 40 in 1997.
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| Americans worked 32.61 hours per week on average in 1979 and 31.57 hours in 2022 |
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| All countries in 2016 with 30% of population or more obese |
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| 60% of the US population was working in both 1979 and 2022 |
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