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I am am older person. I used to follow pop music in my childhood, through my teens. I did disco dance competitions in the 1970s. I followed pop music through my 30s, and then a wider range of music. In the early days of MTV, I watched the latest music videos daily. I'm most familiar with 1960s music and also the Madonna and Michael Jackson era. With some indie and feminist music added later. Tracy Chapman. Separately, I have seriously studied music and dance from around the world, and am aware of those influences on pop styles. About 20 years ago, it evolved that I was only aware of pop music when driving in the car. But I have had no car for the past 10 years. Sometimes I turn on pop music radio when doing household chores, but otherwise I am unaware. I literally have never ever heard a Taylor Swift song. I had seen her name mentioned when scanning headlines, but paid no attention. I didn't even know she was a famous phenomenon until I saw that the SON board has a Taylor Swift thread and I read some of that. Taylor Swift's endorsement of Kamala Harris would have meant nothing to me except that I knew about her from SON. LOL. And now there's a new Kamala ad -- I learned that its music is from Taylor by reading the replies to the tweet. Great ad!

yes I agree that both feel deliberate in their framing

Oh! I see now. NewYork magazine's Intelligencer ("nymag.com/intelligencer") had two tweets/articles posted less than 2 hours apart. I thought you meant this one with Chait's piece: but actually you were referring to this one -- which was within a post on this thread, slightly above your comment, and I had missed it:

The Nuzzi article from "New York" Magazine (nymag.com) (not NewYorker) is on the Media thread, but worth linking here on the Politics thread, too, https://boards.soapoperanetwork.com/topic/56478-the-mediajournalism-thread/?do=findComment&comment=1956355 as such contempt for the truth is sadly how the press commonly writes politics. This is from NYMag's latest website headlines, so maybe this is what @DRW50 is now referencing? "Is the Entire World Conspiring to Make It Look Like Trump Lost the Debate? An intriguing theory by Matt Taibbi." Taibbi's post-debate column amasses suspicious evidence of media collusion -- a piece by Jonathan Chait, for the "Intelligencer" part of nymag.com in which Chait is writing about what Taibbi said. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/donald-trump-lost-debate-matt-taibbi-kamala-harris.html

We can mock the insanity, of course. I have seen several musical memes about the eating pets statement. I saw one that was set to the the music soundtrack of Peanuts/Charlie.Brown/Snoopy TV specials. But racism isn't funny. at all. I just cannot. I think that the memes tend to "normalize" or "lighthearten" racism, even if unintentionally. Especially if these memes are spread on tiktok without context. Or if the meme-maker's total motivation is to be trendy and get clicks. Context matters. Of course it was great that Kamala laughed at him on the debate stage!

Election officials warn that widespread problems with the US mail system could disrupt voting https://apnews.com/article/election-2024-mail-ballots-voting-postal-service-985dd6e483fb6dc593d83255b11a9d0a Why is this person still the U.S. Postmaster General? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_DeJoy

Leo Howard (Tate) and Natasha Hall (temp Sloan) got married on Sept 9. https://www.instagram.com/thehowardsfilmco/p/C_v1fu3ST_V/

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/09/11/elon-musk-says-noncitizens-are-voting-in-arizona-that-isnt-true/75162647007/

source?

USA Debate coverage in UK and Australia https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/sep/10/trump-harris-debate-watch-time-guide or watch here

^ So nymag.com is doing the full both-sides strategy for magazine sales and website clicks: A cover featuring both Harris and Trump. I posted the links but haven't had time to read them, as my day today is busy. But just the title and the magazine's description of Nuzzi's piece, and that quote that @DRW50 found -- it all sounds so vomit-inducing.

New York (*not* The New Yorker) "New York" magazine (nymag.com), "Vulture", "The Cut", "intelligencer", and a few others are all the same magazine. Owned by Vox Media. The latest issue of New York magazine features two articles on its cover: https://nymag.com/press/article/nuzzi-interviews-trump-traister-on-harriss-rise.html a piece on the Harris campaign by Rebecca Traister for "The Cut": "The Joyous Plot to Elect Kamala Harris: How a women-led movement, born in the devastation of 2016, put Democrats on the brink of making history" https://www.thecut.com/article/kamala-harris-women-movement-voters-organizers-grassroots-fundraising.html and a piece by Olivia Nuzzi for "Intelligencer": "I Examined Donald Trump’s Ear — and His Soul — at Mar-a-Lago: Still reeling from a changed race, Trump contemplates his campaign, his new opponent, and the miracle of his continued existence." https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/donald-trump-ear-campaign-assassination-attempt.html The nymag web page about the cover had this description of Nuzzi's piece: "a revealing and intimate conversation with a man on the brink of self-reflection as he reels from his assassination attempt and the changing shape of the race and grapples with the existence of God" From the "about" blurb for Intelligencer: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/about-us/ "Intelligencer’s staff of writers, including Jonathan Chait, Zak Cheney-Rice, and Olivia Nuzzi"

from Kevin Costner https://www.instagram.com/p/C_tomc0y8Ol/ kevincostner Just hearing the news of James Earl Jones’s passing. That booming voice. That quiet strength. The kindness that he radiated. So much can be said about his legacy, so I’ll just say how thankful I am that part of it includes Field of Dreams. If you’ve seen it, you know that this movie wouldn’t be the same with anyone else in his role. Only he could bring that kind of magic to a movie about baseball and a corn field in Iowa. I’m grateful to have been a witness to him making that magic happen. Rest in peace, friend.

I haven't been motivated to watch at all. I'll see what happens when the new writers' material begins airing several months from now.