On his best day, Joe has no idea
what they're talking about...
President Joe Biden was greeted in Seattle Friday by a protester who mocked him for getting confronted by the Easter Bunny earlier this week. A woman holding a large Easter Bunny head shouted, “Where’s the Bunny?” when the presidential motorcade passed and then shouted, “Let’s go Brandon!” along the street.
The protester was referring to the viral moment when a staffer dressed as the Easter Bunny interrupted Biden at an Easter event to redirect him away from reporters.
As usual, a crowd of anti-Biden protesters kept up the “Let’s Go Brandon” chant as the president drove by.
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The Florida Department of Education has released examples of what it calls “problematic” material that led it to ban dozens of math textbooks - including a lesson with an algebra graph measuring racial prejudice.
Can someone please explain what's going on in the schools?...
The European Union approved new legislation that would pressure
big tech giants like Meta, Google and Twitter to enforce illegal content on their platforms or potentially risk paying billions in fines.
After some 16 hours of negotiations, the EU reached a deal early Saturday in Brussels on the Digital Services Act, a landmark law requiring companies to more aggressively police their content and take down anything deemed harmful or illegal quickly.
"Our new rules will protect users online, ensure freedom of expression and opportunities for businesses," EU President Ursula von der Leyen tweeted. "What is illegal offline will effectively be illegal online in the EU. A strong signal for people, business & countries worldwide."
The historic vote comes more than a year after the EU presented the Digital Services Act (DSA) and a Digital Markets Act (DMA), which the EU approved last month and seeks to curb big tech's marketing power, to the European Parliament. The EU said the legislation is the first in the world to target digital regulation.
"It aims to protect the digital space against the spread of illegal content, and to ensure the protection of users’ fundamental rights," the EU said. Platforms with more than 45 million monthly active users in the EU are subjected to the law.
The thing about this is - who's to determine what's 'illegal' when it comes to free speech on social media platforms? It seems like it could be very arbitrary and capricious. As our former Jerkoff-In-Chief has pointed out, free speech has no place on social media...
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NYC back in the late 60's/early 70's. If you grew up in the NY/NJ/CT area back then, you know how important she (and that station) were to all of us.
She may be the greatest female 'radio personality' ever on the air. She had a truly mystical voice.
She would start out every night's show with a little piece of poetry: 'Breathe deep the gathering gloom'...
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Mother's Day is 15 days away. You still have
time to get her something nice. Like this...
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And if you did grow up with the Night Bird, you know that's a Moody Blues line. Those were the days. Reminds me to see if there's a remastered CD of On The Threshold Of A Dream, probably the best MB album ever.
ReplyDeleteFew people remember that she was a really good looking woman, a curvy rehead ... who was on stage at Woodstock. Had her own Hendrix song too. But oh that voice ...
If you were there then, you also remember Donna Fiducia first from the Shadow Traffic helicopter reports on the Howard Stern show, and later in her stint on WNEW. It was only later when videos came around and then the internet that we found out just how gorgeously leggy she was. Speaking of WNEW and leggy, if you were REALLY lucky, you had one of those WNEW calendars. I had the 1982 one where the radio crew did scenes from popular songs. The Aqualung one has stuck in my memory forever, the crew "sitting on a park bench eyeing little girls with bad intent" as Suzanne Fellini struts by in hot pants and leg warmers. Wowza. She was a one hit wonder punk rocker, doing a video for "Love on the Phone" which could have been an outtake from Rocky Horror. At the time "phone sex" had just been invented, and there were ads for it in the back of certain magazines. We were all like "what the heck is phone sex???"
I used to fall asleep listening toher...
DeleteThe "dog & pony show" is supposed to keep us riveted to CNN and not bother with what is really going on in the background. See how well that's working out for them?
ReplyDeleteI don't even watch CNN when I'm in an airport...
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