It's enormously satisfying to see conservative media reaping what they sow. Those who tell lies ought to face consequences, and now they have.

Fox Corporation said in a statement that "we acknowledge the court’s rulings finding certain claims about Dominion [that were made on Fox News] to be false. We are hopeful that our decision to resolve this dispute with Dominion amicably, instead of the acrimony of a divisive trial, allows the country to move forward from these issues."

Hopefully the "moving forward" part of Fox's statement means that Fox will learn from its mistakes. But I wouldn't count on it.

The co-director of a Maryland-based research group who claims to have damaging information about Hunter Biden has been charged with arms trafficking, sanctions violations and acting as an unregistered agent for China, according to a federal indictment unsealed on Monday.

In an eight-count indictment, prosecutors in the Southern District of New York accused Gal Luft, a dual U.S.-Israeli citizen, of violating the Arms Export Control Act and the Foreign Agents Registration Act in brokering arms deals between Chinese companies, Iran and countries in the Middle East.

Mr. Luft, promoted by some congressional Republicans as a keystone witness in their efforts to show corruption by the Biden family, is a fugitive from justice. He was detained by law enforcement officials in Cyprus in February in connection with the indictment, but fled after being freed on bond while awaiting extradition. If convicted, he faces up to 100 years in prison.

Full story here.

@blablarg18

Why am I not surprised that Tim Pool, the videographer from the Occupy Wall Street protests who started and owns timcast.com, would have stories on his website discussing journal articles written by researchers 30 years ago? I would have thought that Tim being a little "behind" on his research would certainly have been a given.

At the end of that article, Tim Pool writes:

"As a result of the findings (from 1994), researchers called for additional studies to shed light on the familial contribution to gender identity disorders."

Surely there's been countless studies over the past 30 years on this topic. Perhaps Tim will be prepared to read some of them 30 years from now!

@raphjd

The Post Millennial, co-founded in 2017 by Matthew Azrieli and Ali S. Taghva, and owned and operated by the Après le Millénaire, is rated "Right Biased" on story selection that favors the right and "Mixed" in reporting due to publishing unsubstantiated claims and having failed several fact checks.

Failed Fact Checks from Post Millennial com:

Rainbow poppies not mandatory for Remembrance Day at Manitoba school – False

“almost nobody showed up” to Kamala Harris’ campaign stop in Asheville, North Carolina, on October 21 – Mostly False

“FLASHBACK: Final debate moderator busted on hot mic coaching Clinton campaign director.” – Mostly False

Harris Hasn’t Called Biden a ‘Racist’ or a ‘Rapist’ – False

Greta Thunberg predicted the ‘World Will End In 2023’ – False

Sounds like a bunch of Canadian hokum to me.

On 18 October 1956, Earl Kennedy, a 1941 Morehouse graduate and Detroit Republican activist, asked King about his position "relative to Negro people voting for Democratic candidates nationally.” MLK Jr's reply to Earl Kennedy's question is shown below.

Mr. Earl Kennedy, Chairman
First Congressional District
Michigan Citizens for Eisenhower
400 North Capitol Avenue
Lansing, Michigan

Dear Mr. Kennedy:

Thanks for your very kind letter of October 18, making inquiry concerning my political position. Actually, I am not taking any public position in this election. In private opinion I find something to be desired from both parties. The Negro has been betrayed by both the Democratic and Republican Party. The Democrats have betrayed us by capitulating to the whims and caprices of the southern dixiecrats. The Republicans have betrayed us by capitulating to the blatent hypocrisy of conservative right wing northerners. This coalition of southern dixiecrats and right wing northern Republicans defeats every move toward liberal legislation in Congress. So we confront the problem of choosing the lesser of two evils. At this point I might say however, that I feel that the Negro must remain an independent voter, not becoming unduly tied to either party. He should seek to vote for the party which is more concerned with the welfare of all the people.

I was more than happy to hear from you, and of course I was very happy to know that you are an alumnus of Morehouse College. I hope it will be possible to meet you personally sometime in the near future.

Sincerely yours,
M. L. King, Jr.,

https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/earl-kennedy

@blablarg18 It seems the better argument to be made would be how the whole world wasted its energies focusing on the plight of five rich people being lost at sea while totally ignoring the plight of 700 poor people who died when their ship capsized off the coast of Greece.

While Europe and the United States were trying to isolate Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey referred to Russia’s president as “my friend.” While NATO leaders worked to enlarge the alliance, Erdogan held up the process by seeking concessions for his nation.

Then on Monday, Erdogan suddenly flipped after more than a year of being treated as an in-house spoiler by Western allies. He dropped his objections to Sweden joining the alliance and allowed a NATO summit to convene on Tuesday with a new sense of strength and unity.

Erdogan has yet to comment publicly on his decision, much less explain his change of heart, but he appears to have concluded that he had little more to gain from continuing to block Sweden — and that he could potentially benefit more from mending his sour relationships with the United States and other NATO allies.

Full story here.

@manhandler
A good analogy for Critical Race Theory is the film THX 1138.

Many films follow the format of good person versus bad person to establish their narratives. Most films that use this make the two sides easy to identify. If you've seen THX 1138, ask yourself who the "bad guy" in that film is. It's not an easy question to answer.

While the protagonist, THX 1138, can easily be seen as the good guy, it's more difficult to spot who the real enemy is in the film. Some might argue that SEN 5241 is the bad character -- and he certainly does do bad things -- but he is able to do those things because of the system.

Others might argue that the police androids are the enemy. But they are really just following orders from a system. The agents of that system make life impossible for THX, from the characters who mistakenly operate the mindblock scene that gets THX arrested, to the characters arguing in THX's trial scene. No one character is really the absolute enemy. The entire system is rigged to make THX 1138 an outsider through no fault of his own.

Established views of racism would hold SEN 5241 or the police androids or many other singular actors are the bad of a system that needs to be singularly addressed/punished/handled. But critical race theory says that these individual parts are not really the focus and that punishing them does not really correct anything. The system is to blame.

@blablarg18 said in [Trump Takes Aim At New York Judge’s Daughter Over Dem ]

Because by now, USA libs ARE Soviet, Nazi, China, East German.

The Soviet Union, Nazi Germany and East Germany no longer exist. That's like saying "USA libs ARE Ottoman and 1st French Empire-ish"

wtf does that even mean?

@raphjd they were all non-democratic autocratic regimes that severely restricted the flow of information, is that what he meant? Then I was right - that would be just like saying the Ottoman and 1sr French empires. But couldn't he have used a more contemporary example - say, Florida, where deSantis has instituted a war on woke companies and school practices? Or Russia, where Putin is jailing hundreds of people? Or Hungary, where Orban controls virtually all media?

And if his point is to criticize the flow of information why is he mentioning the Trump case as his example? Ostensibly to say "well this could happen to other Americans" as a slippery slope-type argument. "This could happen to you!" .... If under indictment for illegal use of campaign contributions, I guess.

If you're going to divert money illegally to pay off a hooker be careful Nazi Germany's coming after you. I get it, fairly simple idea there.

@raphjd Yes you are an atheist, but your family certainly isn't. That's what I meant by "conflicted nature". you do know what that word conflicted means don't you?

Being raised by a family that hates you can do some serious damage to someone's psychology. People like your aunt, a woman you've called an "evil b@&+ch" because she said you were going to hell for being gay.

But look at you now. You've come to perfectly emulate her special brand of hatred for those different from her. You're a monument to her intolerance. If she didn't already hate you for being a hellbound heathen, I'm sure she would be very proud.

@raphjd

the freaks of society

And there you have it people. The caring, thoughtful, respectful mindset of a person with feelings towards other people less fortunate than him. Someone so damaged by the conflicted nature of their religious upbringing, where they were told that they were less than human because of their sexuality. Now they live their days repeating the pattern..... inflicting their ideas of morality on everyone else, just as it was done to them so long ago.

@raphjd (waiting for you to do a Google search)

@raphjd I'd like to hear what your definition of an intersex person is. go ahead and enlighten us

@raphjd Do you even know what an intersex person is? how can you be expected to have conversations like this, when you have no idea what you're talking about.

@raphjd That's where you fail to get out of your ideological prison-bound mind. An intersex patient who doesn't identify as female wants that to be called a vagina.? Do you have you even have an idea of how many intersex people there are on planet? It's estimated to be about the same number of people who have green eyes. I'll guess that you didn't know that, or have any idea about it at all. Are you saying all those people who are born with a second hole but who identifies male want it to be called the vagina? You speak for all of those people?

@raphjd

"To appease a certain crowd of violent fascists"

Who does medical exams on a crowd? Your persecution fantasies have grown over like wild weeds. Now you have medical providers giving medical exams to crowds of people.

Offering the medical providers that work in your own facility choices on what terminology they want to use with intersex patients is not the same thing as giving medical exams to a crowd of fascists. What if your doctor wanted to call your penis a "urine-only orifice" because, seeing as how you're gay, there's no biological use for it dispensing anything else. Would you have a problem with that doctor? According to them they're not making up that term, they're simply describing a biological fact. Tell me the 500 different ways you wouldn't have a problem with that

@lololulu19 The leadership of ukraine is wacko....hmmmmm and I suppose if you were in the leadership of a country that had seen invasion and was constantly being bombarded with threats of annihilation you would be a model of sanity

@blablarg18 what's more likely .....the biden's did unknown unnamed Big bad things in front of another criminal (apparently during all those times that this man spent .... Somewhere? at the White House perhaps?)

Or, a crook is using Republicans to stay out of jail.

At least now we know where that missing informant was all this time .....he was on the run from the law! I bet if he had filled out a handgun purchase form and failed to disclose his drug use you would be all over him like white on rice

@raphjd You're absolutely right....they suggested terms for medical professionals to use if they chose to do so in situations performing work at their medical facilities.

Are medical facilities not allowed to use their own terms with their own employees treating their own patients?

Keep pushing your thought processes here .... I can tell, you're on the verge of a breakthrough.

Who should be in charge of how to address patients in their own medical facility? Big bad government? or should the people who work there be able to choose their own terminology?

Answer that one if you can