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Interview with Tarana Burke on the anniversary of the #MeToo going viral into the public's consciousness.

She Founded Me Too. Now She Wants to Move Past the Trauma.

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It wasn't the U.S. embassy but the State Department that sent this photo out. The U.S. embassy in Australia issued the apology.

A reminder though, that the U.S. has been without an ambassador to Australia for two years now.  The longest period without an ambassador since WWII.

Aww, literally the cat's pajamas.

US embassy in Australia accidentally sends out photo of cat dressed like Cookie Monster https://t.co/ZHiICzPaYx pic.twitter.com/dBKXGhCoXj

— The Hill (@thehill) October 16, 2018

I am just so sick of these crooks and their constant conflicts of interest.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is a shareholder in a private Montana company that manufactures and sells firearms and advanced weapons materials, a financial interest he did not disclose when nominated. https://t.co/hdJS6YQx3N

— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) October 15, 2018

If anyone watches that Canadian comedy Schitt's Creek, they would know that Moira Rose, one of the show's main characters is a former soap star. 

In Season 4, episode 5 (R.I.P. Moira Rose), Moira expresses her concerns over the toll that her mistaken death announcement might have on her friends, admirers and colleagues and as well as having to appear unprepared before a camera crew that spontaneously appeared in front of her residence.  One person that she mentions is Sir Tony Geary. 

15 minutes ago, I Am A Swede said:

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In other news, the skye is blue, and the grass is green......   

 

They're just confirming what we all already suspected.

This is completely outrageous though, and they can't be allowed to get away with this without punishment!

However, I suspect that they will.  Trump won't do much of anything, given how on-the-hook his family business is to the Saudis.  And the world is clambering once again for Saudi Oil.  The U.S. in particular, has moved toward fossil fuels again and Trump, Israel, KSA have all ground the Iran nuclear deal into the dirt, so business between E.U. and Iran is virtually hanging by a thread.

3 minutes ago, Juliajms said:

I'm surprised that they don't keep denying it.  Why not? Trump denies the truth even when there is video evidence.  Someone told me the Saudis hired a specialist in dismemberment to deal with the body.  I'm not sure, I haven't had the heart to watch the video or read a detailed account of what they did to him. 

Yes, I believe among those 15 Saudis that were flown into Turkey, there was a forensic pathologist among them.

This is a major development.

BREAKING: In response to my threat of a federal law suit, #Georgia Secretary of State #BrianKemp has coughed up the names and addresses of every one of the 591,000 voters he deleted from the rolls in 2017. https://t.co/FtV1epRPc0 #Crosscheck #VoterSuppression #StopTheSteal

— Greg Palast (@Greg_Palast) October 1, 2018

If this is true...whoa!

CNN reporting that Saudis are about to admit that Khashoggi was killed at Istanbul consulate in unauthorized interrogation gone wrong.

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) October 15, 2018

✊ @TaranaBurke and @Alyssa_Milano joined us to talk about the anniversary of #MeToo, its legacy, and the upcoming election.

One thing is certain of the last year: Survivors have risen up to make their voices heard. pic.twitter.com/mdMGqrRa6L

— ACLU (@ACLU) October 15, 2018

That painting reminds me of dogs playing poker.

Except far worse.

Some conservative allies of Angela Merkels lost some ground in Sunday's election but not to the right-wing anti-immigration parties but to the liberal Greens.

The German state the formed the front line of the 2015 immigration crisis has given a massive boost to a rising liberal force: the pro-refugee Greens https://t.co/JbeUY5Erti

— The Sydney Morning Herald (@smh) October 15, 2018

Looks as if Steven Mnunchin's old Yale roommate is stripping Sears for parts-spinning the most valuable assets to companies that Lampert owns, while collecting the profits. 

Is Mnunchin still on the board at Sears?

Sears, the Original Everything Store, Files for Bankruptcy

So being an official at the EPA who cares about the health of children will land you on administrative leave without explanation.  It's very clear who this administration could care less about.

Dr. Ruth Etzel worked to protect one of our most vulnerable populations—kids, babies, and fetuses—from environmental dangers.

Yesterday, Trump's @EPA put her on administrative leave without explanation. https://t.co/LCRlQUmLS7

— NRDC 🌎 (@NRDC) September 26, 2018

Well, to be fair Borna, who is a younger guy with no perceivable injuries, couldn't manage Novak either.

Daniel Dale has a Twitter thread that goes in detail about Trump's 60 Minutes interview but honestly, I couldn't be bothered to read it all.  I can see why Dale feels it's important to analyze his responses, but I'm beyond tired of parsing all of Trump's numerous lies.

The President is golfing. https://t.co/3aI8KRnNdf

— Soledad O'Brien (@soledadobrien) October 14, 2018

4 hours ago, Juliajms said:

Florida was having problems with theirsystem too ahead of the deadline.

https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2018/10/09/a-mess-floridas-online-voter-registration-system-panned-641953

How could I possibly overlooked Florida and their constant stream of voting shenanigans? 

Perhaps it is in the spirit of schadenfreude that I'm strangely, slightly bemused by watching these bankers, tech titans and the lot of them having to backpeddle and squirm over this conference in Saudi Arabia as others with half a conscience quickly back out of putting in an appearance. It just speaks to the lack of integrity of the Trump WH that they haven't done so at this time and are still trying to minimize the Khashoggi situation.

As Saudi Arabia threatens massive economic reprisals against the US if held to account for the disappearance of a WashPo columnist, a friendly reminder that the Trump administration formally labeled America's top source of imported oil, Canada, a threat to national security

— David Frum (@davidfrum) October 14, 2018

Apparently DelPo has a fractured patella.

Sobre la rodilla de @delpotrojuan
Update on #Delpo.

👇 pic.twitter.com/pVuocxjH4z

— Jorge Viale (@jorgeviale) October 14, 2018

On 10/13/2018 at 10:44 AM, cct said:

DD, I think you mean Avery, not Bailey.

Good Lord, am I thinking about that Y&R character?    It's been a loooong time between series iterations.

10 hours ago, Khan said:

I know one thing that turned me off to Bernie was the attitude that voter suppression against AA communities was not a "real" issue.  SCOTUS' decision to strip away provisions of the Civil Rights Acts was a clear sign that it was.

Unfortunately, Bernie wasn't the only one minimizing the role of voter suppression in 2016.  The media gave the issue short shrift as well.

I was continually shouting to the heavens about it on my TL and only a few other, mainly black people were discussing it, amplifying the issue.

Because there was little to no acknowledgement and reflection on it in the mainstream, it's happening AGAIN in Georgia as it has been discovered that voters have been purged from the voting roles.  This comes off the heels of the discovery of voting places in predominantly African American districts being closed--was that Georgia too?  Or South Carolina?

The only reason anyone in mainstream media is paying any attention to this now is because one of the gubernatorial candidates is a black woman but apparently we're all supposed to be colorblind, right?

Back to Bernie though...the man didn't know, understand or even want to learn the meaning of the word intersectionality.  He had no grasp of how one's race can affect one's economic situation, health or healthcare prospects, etc. and he had no desire to learn or even acknowledge that such a dichotomy existed. That is truly what turned me off of him.

21 minutes ago, Juliajms said:

I hope you are right, but I can't share your optimism.  Who knows if democracy as we knew it will even survive Trump?  I have my doubts because now those in power know that you can flaunt norms and no one can or will stop you. We'll see if the Genie will go back in the bottle.  I think it's more likely if we can defeat Trump in 2020, but now ambitious people of all persuasions see that you can lie, cheat and steal and get away with it even when the world is watching.

 TBH, I never thought of it as optimism but I guess it comes off as such.  Max mentioned the likes of the Whigs once being an active political party and being relegated to history and it reminded me that years ago, I was thinking of the Whigs and the Federalists and immediately thought of the GOP as the next likely political party to follow suit.  It wasn't with any joy or glee that I thought about it, at the time.  Just an assessment of how events seem to shift trajectories throughout the course of history.

Not to get preachy but sometimes we think that we live in hardship that will never end but I always remind myself that slavery in this country lasted hundreds of years.  That is truly an interminable amount of time where no doubt, people languished, believing that miserable state would always be.  Unfortunately centuries last a long time but fortunately for me, not for all eternity.  It's a somewhat bitterly depressing way to look at things but it reminds me that things don't last forever.  Now will it change in our lifetimes is an entirely different question.

Yes, I agree that Hillary was the Democratic establishment's preferred candidate, part of that is because of Bernie's political affiliation but I also think that Bernie had some genuine problems reaching the many Democrats of color.  Sanders definitely failed to strike the right tone with black voters and black women, in particular, who are not only a vital part of the Democratic voting base but the most consistently reliable in terms of voting.  And we weren't voting for Bernie.

Consequently, I can see Michael Bloomberg having some of the same issues, if not worse than Bernie, due to Bloomberg's shift back and forth between political party affiliations, among other issues.  People in NYC regretted that third term pretty early on after he won re-election and national politics is often less forgiving than the local political scene where, perhaps pragmatism is overlooked, if not rewarded.

@KMan101 It is certainly a lot of episodes, I'm not trying to minimize the effort involved.  P&G, for better or worse, would be starting from the 1980s because they 'wiped' what came before 1979 and the last decade is already digitized right?  So that basically leaves the '80s and the '90s, which don't get me wrong, it still a whole lot but not every episode would be a priority.  Some episodes/storylines, I would prioritize over others.  

I admit, I am talking specifically about ATWT, right now.

In terms of cost, I imagine it wouldn't be cheap but there are actual film restoration programs at universities where there are students concentrating on film restoration.  Does anyone reach out to those programs to see if students might want to take on some of these reels for credit?  Or even a part-time/work-study job?  It would be worth a shot and preferable to letting these archives further degrade. 

Under supervision, so that students don't destroy the film, of course.

It would take some thought but with the emergence of new software and more effective restoration techniques, the process seems as though it would be less of a hardship than it used to be.  If they could get a few teams of students that might help too. 

From what I understood of the SoapClassics effort, they lacked the manpower to take on a bigger slate of projects.  So they had to undertake a relatively modest effort as a result.

Now, in the era of crowdfunding, had someone started a Go Fund Me account to raise a stipend to fund a few teams of students and hire a few professionals to supervise...who knows how far they could've gotten in the last several years?

Hi @Max. 

I don't think that your post was presented in a manner that was at all offensive, I thought it was pretty respectful, in general.

From my perspective, in recent times, I think that Democrats have been mostly liberal socially but economically have been centrist, if not slightly right of center. 

For example, Bill Clinton instituted welfare reforms that many liberals balked at, not to mention that he did nothing to reverse the tide of mass incarceration, particularly as it connected to non-violent crimes (mostly drugs, that many judges today might suggest treatment for, instead of prison) that begun under the Reagan era.

Many people (even some conservatives) still express bitterness toward Obama over not sending any of the bankers to prison for causing the global economic crisis which had become a full-blown recession by the end of the George W. Bush era.  The irony was that the GOP had already launched preemptive attacks on the Obama administration as being anti-capitalist in anticipation of severe penalties and restrictions against Wall Street for their part in the global economic crisis.  Plenty of fines (that were easily paid by the offending financial institutions), some regulations (which the GOP have been trying to repeal ever since) but no jail time for anyone.

Perhaps the Democratic populace are more liberal than their leaders.  Even on the issue of gay marriage, President Obama and Hillary Clinton, as well, were both halting (at first), in their acceptance of gay marriage.  Do you remember when both stated that they believed that marriage was an institution between a man and a woman?  Both changed their minds but this was not an automatic shift.  Obama even said that he would have to think about it, which happened before he eventually shifted his position.  The interesting thing is that, although many complained that neither Obama nor Hillary seemed sufficiently liberal, Bernie Sanders, seen as a liberal icon obviously couldn't gather the votes to take the nomination and his future prospects for doing so seem dubious.

I think that the populace, particularly the ones under 45, seem to be pushing leaders further to the left, which does have implications for the future but the leadership at this time still seems fairly rooted to the center.  Again, socially, there is a bit of movement to the left of center but if you look at social programs, one of the biggest strides made in healthcare, even that is far from a liberal policy-- the insurance companies remain ensconced in the healthcare market place.  A true liberal policy would've eliminated them altogether a la Canada or Sweden.

Time will tell whether younger generations continue to push toward a genuinely liberal policy or whether there is more vacillation between centrist and left of center policies but I make a clear distinction between social/cultural liberalism and actual economic geo-political policy that I can see in government.  I would say the former, not the latter is happening today.

Also, I do agree with your assessment of the Republican party that their ethos seems unsustainable.  Years ago, since the emergence of the Tea Party, I've been saying that the GOP will eventually fall in on itself and within twenty years will be relegated to the history books.  I still believe this but I'm not sure that this won't happen sooner than I predicted.

9 minutes ago, Soapsuds said:

No tennis talk about what happened early this morning? Sasha got stomped on....LOLOLOLOL.....and I knew Borna was going to beat Roger. Borna hits a new high ranking of #13.

There was NO WAY my a*s*s was getting up to see Sacha and Novak play.  I did see some of the Coric/Federer match and Coric played pristine tennis, while Roger had quite a number of errors.  I hope that Borna plays with that level (at minimum) against Nolé because he's going to need it.  The last thing I want to see is a dropoff in quality and a romp in the final.

Looking at this graphic, all I see is slow, slow, slow, S-L-O-W.

For those interested here is the court pace index at masters 1000 level, this is an average of the main show court at each event. pic.twitter.com/uz9gd7q0IB

— Nick Lester (@nicklester) October 13, 2018

Probably what Trump likes best about his S-I-L.  Clearly, they have much in common.

NYT: Kushner Likely Paid No Federal Income Taxes for Years, Documents Show https://t.co/uMqG1qKUWa

— Amanda Golden (@amandawgolden) October 13, 2018