DramatistDreamer

CA seems to be the launching pad of quite a few clever tactics these days. Have you seen their ideas on how to get around the repeal of the Net Neutrality rule? A year or two ago, I had been reading about some pilot programs in Brooklyn, NY that were constructing community-run Intranets and I wonder if this is an idea that they may end up expanding, in defiance of the Net Neutrality repeal. The thing is, the people who can potentially come up with ways around the government's repeal are often more skilled, focused and dedicated than the ones in the government enforcing the repeal. We'll see how this all shapes out.

Well, look at the stats of Long Island, NY and you will see that they got the biggest FU and I'd say that the majority of the L.I./Westchester NY area were Trump supporters. I don't feel sorry for them one bit though. Meanwhile, Great Britain's "Leave" ways are coming back to bite them hard. Exodus of Foreign Workers Leaves British Employers in the Lurch

If passed, most of the homeowners who will be negatively impacted by this Poison Pill Tax Bill will be on the East Coast, particularly the Northeast. There are CA homeowners and homeowners in Texas will be negatively affected as well. I just saw a list of the 11 most negatively affected cities/regions by passage of the tax bill and let's just say that those Trumpists in Long Island, NY will be most unhappy with that list.

Well, according to Kathy Griffin, isn't Andy Cohen also a Republican? Griffin had some hard things to say about Cohen (as well as Harvey Levin of TMZ). I don't watch any of his shows but Griffin seems to have a point about how Cohen basically makes the lion-share of his money from his exploitation of women, including Black women.

Unfortunately since the use of bots and misinformation clearly had an impact during the 2016 election, it is quickly becoming the "go to" tactic, particularly for rabid Trumpists. I don't know how civic engagement will recover after this administration.

Since this is the case of a political candidate, not Hollywood, I posted the article in the Politics thread. It is an interesting article because it involves a woman who drops out of a Congressional race after a sexual harassment allegation surfaces. Apparently, she blames the Democratic Congressional Committee for its 'zero tolerance policy' for her withdrawal from the race. Here's the link to the thread where I posted it. https://boards.soapoperanetwork.com/topic/28724-the-politics-thread/?do=findComment&comment=1547465

A candidate has decided to end her Congressional quest after sexual harassment allegations had surfaced. Apparently she blames the Democratic Congressional Committee's 'zero tolerance policy' for dropping out of the race. Accused of Sexual Harassment, Andrea Ramsey Ends Kansas Congressional Run

Is this going to be similar to Trump's bogus election fraud commission or just one big pyramid scheme/donation black hole/slush fund?

By the way, people know that Tillerson has done a complete 180 on North Korea, right? Just as I knew he would. This administration has no coherent policy, the words that they vomit out are cheap, as their word means absolutely nothing. One thing you can rely upon, is that Trump Inc. will hurl insults and start another food with one of the government's own agencies--he's back to the FBI now. This is the man we're all supposed to regard with civility? Ha!

There are some truly awful people in this country. I'm also reminded of the insults and conspiracy theories that the Newtown families have had to endure. It's all so disgusting thinking about how these people are being treated. They cannot even get to try to mourn in peace and try to put their lives back together!

Pro? These sound like arguments from those who are against Net Neutrality, those that are in favor of doing away with it.

I'm not sure whether this is still up on Wikipedia but

CNET gives a summary of the yesterday's vote at the FCC as well as gives a prediction on what we can expect from the gutting of the Net Neutrality rule.

Yeah, I've been reading quite a bit lately about fake comments on the FCC's website, all in support of undoing Net Neutrality. With this lying administration, should this surprise anyone?

Susan Sarandon is getting her ass dragged all over Twitter. The catalyst? A "Thank You" tweet to African Americans for the special election results in Alabama. God, what a tone-deaf person she is! The sub-tweets are a scream though!

Just like everything else with this administration of the damned.

Just disgusted and weary by the bare-faced greed of this administration. Two members, who also happen to be women, were the only ones trying to save Net Neutrality.

I'm not questioning the decision by PBS to cut Rose and Smiley loose, at all. It was the correct decision. What I'm questioning are the people who blame PBS for being an incubator of sexual deviance. Both men produced their own shows. PBS acted as the distributor. Rose moved out of the PBS flagship headquarters well over a decade ago. In fact, he moved his personal office out of the Bloomberg building where the show had moved, to his house, which is why he had so much time and space to harass his assistants. By that time, he'd pretty much fired almost all the staff he'd had during the early years of his show. Walmart, which is the main sponsor of Smiley's show has yet to make any type of statement on the entire affair. I guess Walmart would rather hide behind PBS and let the broadcaster take the heat.

FWIW, PBS didn't produce Smiley's show, they distributed it. Because he produces his own show, technically he could try to bring it somewhere else, though I don't know who would want to distribute his show at this point since he's practically radioactive now. Johnson's suicide note was posted on social media. I read it and came away with the impression that it was written by someone with a very messed up mind.

I assumed it was just my browser or something. Ordinarily I use Firefox but with SON, I use Chrome. Perhaps my settings are doing this but it's just your tweets that I am seeing like this, so I wondered whether you were copying and pasting the entire tweets. But you're using the Embed function? Do you use the Source feature? You should probably ask if anyone else has this issue. Perhaps it's just my settings in Chrome.

@Faulkner For some reason, your links don't quite come up that well for me- and when I try to click the links, sometimes your entire post disappears! I'm confounded. I don't know where to put this but this was so bizarre I had to share.

One of President Obama's biggest detractors has just been suspended from his PBS show and frankly, given his arrogance and some of the anecdotes he hinted at in the past, I'm not surprised. PBS Suspends ‘Tavis Smiley’ Following Sexual Misconduct Investigation (EXCLUSIVE)

Speaking of folks who spat in Obama's face, people are basically telling Mr. Berns to 'have a seat!'

This is one of the most egregious non-Harvey accounts I think I've read so far. The restaurant industry seems to have a prolific history of abuse. No surprise that Mario Batali is also mentioned in this article. One former employee of the featured restaurant nicknamed him "The Red Menace". Ken Friedman, Power Restaurateur, Is Accused of Sexual Harassment