So, given that it’s pretty well-known that Trump might pull the U.S. out of NATO in a snit over something like this (which would make Russia very happy), it seems to me to be incumbent on reputable news outlets to question and report on how this video came to light. Who took it? Who released it? Who’s circulating it? Do we have corroboration or is it a deep fake?
It’s really not enough to be reporting on “some people say”, since, for every lunatic thing said, there are “some” who “say it”.
If you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime.
(Y’all see my sarcasm, right?)
«The consequences of snitch testimony can be catastrophic. Of the 367 DNA exonerations in the United States to date, jailhouse informants played a role in nearly one in five of the underlying wrongful convictions. A seminal 2004 study conducted by Northwestern Law School’s Center on Wrongful Convictions found that testimony from jailhouse snitches and other criminal informants was the leading cause of wrongful convictions in capital cases. Today nearly a quarter of death-row exonerations — 22% — stem from cases in which prosecutors relied on a jailhouse informant.»
I’m actually still reading this one.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-kamala-harriss-campaign-failed/
Interesting take:
«As Joel Wertheimer, who served as associate staff secretary to Obama, wrote, “The story of Kamala Harris is one sports fans are familiar with: The scouts just got it wrong. That’s really it.”»
#Wexit
#Brexit
#Blexit
#Calexit
#Texit
#Grexit
Is there a #Catalexit?
How much of a thing is #Itexit?
How odd that somebody keeps pushing for the breakup of successful unions of efforts that support a more-or-less liberal world order and generally stand in opposition to a more illiberal world order.
https://twitter.com/ClimateDesk/status/1201486173014769674?s=20
https://grist.org/article/this-company-wants-to-make-steel-and-cement-with-solar-power-heres-how/
Transportation, steel, cement.
Climate Desk (@ClimateDesk) Tweeted:
Cement alone is responsible for a staggering 8 percent of humanity’s carbon emissions.
https://t.co/3XkZTp77U9
https://twitter.com/TalbertSwan/status/1199767729366020097?s=20
Bishop Talbert Swan (@TalbertSwan) Tweeted:
30% of white children are born to single mothers. 40% of white marriages end in divorce with the father leaving the home. Most “deadbeat” fathers owing child support whose children are on welfare are white.
Why isn’t “fatherlessness” every cited as a problem for white families?
https://www.politico.eu/article/yougov-boris-johnson-on-course-for-68-seat-majority-in-uk-election/
Hmm. :-\
«The so-called MRP poll — Multilevel Regression and Post-stratification — was done by interviewing 100,000 people and feeding the results through a demographic analysis.»
Yikes.
American exceptionalism:
«the broad trend detailed in this study cuts across gender, racial and ethnic lines. By age group, the highest relative jump in death rates from 2010 to 2017 — 29 percent — has been among people age 25 to 34.
….“This report has universal relevance. It has broad implications for all of society,” said Howard Koh, a professor of public health at Harvard University who was not part of the research team.
The report reveals a broad erosion in health, with no single “smoking gun,” said Ellen Meara, a professor at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice.
“There’s something more fundamental about how people are feeling at some level — whether it’s economic, whether it’s stress, whether it’s deterioration of family,” she said. “People are feeling worse about themselves and their futures, and that’s leading them to do things that are self-destructive and not promoting health.”….
The average life expectancy in the United States fell behind that of other wealthy countries in 1998, and since then the gap has grown steadily. Experts refer to this gap as the United States’ “health disadvantage.”
