DramatistDreamer

Robert MacNeil co-founder of one of what became one of the best news programs in the U.S. has died. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/robert-macneil-co-founder-of-newshour-dies-at-93

We likely all knew that The Talk would not be long for this…World. 🤭 As to what comes next…the plot thickens. Talk about your Friday cliffhanger.

I am very tempted to watch but my feelings are similar to @Khan. Maybe I will play her and Tom’s sections at normal speed and speed up the rest.

Not to be funny or anything but those other productions have writers to pay while he doesn’t.

Believe me when I say that I would love to forget about him but the reality is that he has many talented Black actresses, among them former soap actresses on speed dial.

Wait, wasn’t Dr. Lassiter married to Ashley?

I would propose that it’s more than just discrimination by “Black” sounding names but there are likely keywords in resumes that the algorithm picks up on in which candidates will be penalized, like if they lists their education and they majored in Black studies, that will ultimately be a penalty. Addresses from redlined neighborhoods listed on resumes will also be a penalty. Interesting how the former VP of TFG is railing on social media about this so-called “pivot” being a betrayal to every “Pro-Life” voter who voted for them in 2016 and 2020. Also the AZ GOP seems to use an issue that seems to be a political loss leader for their party and double down on it (ever more rigid abortion laws). We’ll see how this goes.

Speaking of dog whistles, I am blatantly bumping this up as this may have gotten lost in the thread shuffle.

Just saw some of the scores from Monte Carlo (which, as much as I detest ESPN’s business model their production values are better than TC, which just isn’t at the same level) and good Lord, what happened to Stan! Didn’t he win RG once?!

He doesn’t seem to recognize that there is an art to editing film either. The finished work is unwatchable to me.

Maybe because I just reading 1619 but every time I read an article like this, I am more convinced that racism is embedded into every facet of American society, from the health system to H.R., education and all points in between. Over hundreds of years, the United States has only taken middling steps toward remedying this and leaves hordes of people behind along the way. https://www.yahoo.com/news/researchers-discovered-sent-80-000-165423098.html

And the drop continues. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-media-stock-price-truth-social/

No problem (Reddit FTW).

What some of us could already surmise. From WAPO: ‘Increasingly chaotic’: Why House Republicans are heading for the exits

Is the MM interview in the wrong thread or is there some piece of casting news for ‘The Gates’? Oh.

Right down to the very end of his Senate career, Joe Manchin is an intractable spoke in the veritable wheel of the Senate confirmation process of a nominee proposed by Democrats. Lydia Pohlgreen wrote about in her words “the cowardly acquiescence of three Senate Democrats to an outrageous GOP smear campaign.” Does BlueSky SM not have an open embed feature? https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/05/opinion/adeel-mangi-confirmation-muslim-judge.html?unlocked_article_code=1.iE0.zEdc.uj3OAl8FwyHb&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

Thanks for including me in this @DRW50! Looking forward to taking a look at this.

I definitely felt at least one aftershock. I have experienced a few minor earthquakes since childhood so yeah, NY, NJ and CT have definitely had these a few times in the last few decades. And I have experienced at least one train derailment years ago but it was not earthquake related, just a train on an icy track in disrepair on winter morning.

That does sound kinda scary. Glad you are safe.

Lately, it seems like I’ve been reading about so many instances of questionable officiating in these matches. On top of it all, tennis still cannot figure out how to schedule matches so that players can avoid having to double up on matches— by then, players are tired, chair umpires are tired and their calls reflect their fatigue.

Do you live in a pre-war building? I used to live in one and I loved the high ceilings but I doubt many pre-war buildings are reinforced structurally.

Lebanon, NJ was said to have been the epicenter but that tectonic activity was felt all over the NYC metropolitan area, the tri-state (including CT) and down the Atlantic to Philadelphia. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/04/05/us/earthquake-new-york

Wow, thanks for letting me know. I might actually try to tune in for that. Maybe lol.

Did anyone else feel that this morning? And after marveling at the preparedness of Taiwan, we get rumbling here with a scattershot alert system here, with some in NYC getting alerts 30 minutes late and the rest, nada. Get it together, USA.