#NigelFarage giddy over far right #Reform party sweeps in dozens of rural districts, clipping Conservative and #LabourParty seats alike across swath of rural #England in recent #UK election , worrying new #PM
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Virginia Giuffre dies by suicide at 41 in #Australia following a brutal car accident earlier this year that damaged vital organs.
Ms Giuffre made worldwide headlines after her teenage sexual servitude as a "masseuse" to Jeffrey #Epstein and clients like #PrinceAndrew was revealed in court cases and press accounts. The ensuing scandal led to Epstein's apparent #suicide in a federal lockup and the eventual prison sentence for newspaper magnate Robert Maxwell's daughter #Ghislaine.who was a wrangler of girl's pimped in the internationally notorious case.
#WaPo #WashingtonPost #SharedLink #FreeLink https://wapo.st/42PoYYv
#WaPo #editorial by Catherine Rampell who is headed to #MSNBC to co-host the evening edition of "The Weekend" details #Drumpf's petty purges of accessible govt #data that " have been faster and more sweeping — picking off not just select #factoids but entire troves of public information." "deleting #taxpayer-funded data — information that Americans use to make sense of the world. In its absence, the president can paint the world as he pleases."
https://wapo.st/3XF0wqH #Gov #FOIA #Opinion #FreeLink #SponLink
The Washington Post · How Trump is hiding government data to reshape reality
In first 50 days #DJT has issued at least 32 exec orders reshaping, if not chopping capabilities and #downsizing the US govt.
The freezing of work, and denying disbursement of billions of dollars of federal funding.to once vital programs has created ripples felt around the world as aid to allies is axed and many programs are perhaps at best, in fraught #legallimbo
Scion of Wealthy #Saratoga CA family who lived in their $6m mansion msg'd his sex assault victim on Facebook: “So I raped you...” followed by " I’ll pray for you.”
After returning to #SiliconValley , graduating from a "religious" college in #SantaClara & working for Elon's #Tesla, he fled to #France where, from what I've gleaned, #rape is apparently an unofficial national pastime ... this week, only 11 yrs later, the 31 yr old #fugitive was #extradited to USA, and denied bail.
Thankfully #DJT, who likes that sort of activity, is coming into office... anyone wanna bet on Prez #Pardon?
RIP Sugar Pie DeSanto
I'm a little late to the memorial, time having been consumed by holiday travel, and then news of wildfires sweeping areas I just returned from, but just saw notice that at the end of the past year, we lost #SugarPieDeSanto
I was lucky I had the fortunate opportunity to see her perform memorable sets live a couple times earlier in this century in #SanFrancisco , and despite her age, she was still feisty, acrobatically bawdy & hilarious.
A relative of fellow #ChessRecords recording artist Etta James, and part Filipino (born Umpeylia Marsema Balinton ) ... , she was perhaps less renowned, but certainly worth checking out for any fans of authentic old school #RhythmandBlues music.
"I was one of the toughest women you would find, and a big mouth, and I didn’t take anything from no one,” she said in an interview in the 2011 book “Flying Saucers Rock ’n’ Roll: Conversations With Unjustly Obscure Rock ’n’ Soul Eccentrics”
I recall in more recent times, her being burned out in a 2006 fire that swept the apt building where she lived in #Oakland, and killed her husband.
But she was a tough cookie and soldiered on for many more years ...stay safe out there folks...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/arts/music/sugar-pie-desanto-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.pk4.vem5.yVNsGkJu6sLE&smid=url-share #SharedLink #FreeLink #NYTimes #BluesMusic
During his #GOP Presidential campaign #DJT threatened to withhold #FederalAid from #California unless the state changed how it approached water management.
Sen. John Barrasso of #Wyoming, the No. 2 ranking #Republican in the upper chamber, blamed #CalFire disasters on “policies of the liberal administration out there” adding " I expect that there will be strings attached to money that is ultimately approved"
In bipartisan votes, #Congress recently approved billions of dollars in new disaster funding for #Florida, #Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, #Tennessee and #Virginia with no specific conditions on those states federal assistance.
Angry Small Town Muricans In Seymour #Indiana Can't Wait For King #DJT's Promised Deportations, Expecting #DayOne As Definite Deadline.
Other residents in the 22k population community seeking to utilize or integrate #SouthOfTheBorder arrivals are clashing with others calling for #migrants to be rooted out and detained.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/for-many-people-in-this-small-town-deportations-cant-come-soon-enough-fee9a193?st=wXuEib #LinkShare #FreeLink #WSJ
Covid For Cows?
A Bad #BirdFlu Outbreak Has Migrated Into California's #Bovine Population And Is Detected In #Unpasteurized #DairyProducts
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/19/us/bird-flu-california-covid-cows.html?unlocked_article_code=1.i04.Q9RK.BOFoRw1q7qFG #SharedLink #FreeLink #NYTimes
The New York Times · Bird Flu Has Hit California Dairies So Hard That They’re Calling It ‘Covid for Cows’
#NYPD say they have name of suspect who assassinated United #Healthcare #Insurance #CEO but are not releasing it to public.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/nyregion/brian-thompson-gunman-timeline.html?unlocked_article_code=1.fk4.MnLr.4EjTFxkzdMMU&smid=url-share #SharedLink #FreeLink #NYTimes
“The rule of the worst.”
TheEconomist word of the year “has the crisp, hard sounds of glass breaking.”
“‘Kakistocracy’ is not found in ancient sources; it seems to have been coined in English as an intentional antonym to aristocracy, originally ‘rule by the best’.”
https://www.economist.com/culture/2024/11/29/the-economists-word-of-the-year-for-2024
The Economist · The Economist’s word of the year for 2024
#CourtCase Decision Allows Wagering On #USElection
Current #Gambling Platforms #Oddsmakers Favor #DJT With 55% #Odds Over #Kamala at 45%
https://www.ft.com/content/0bfa5288-ecd2-41d1-9c1f-ac84e0c43c65 #FinancialTimes #FreeLink #SharedLink
“The real reason 47,000 dockworkers are on strike”
“The difficult issue at the heart of this strike is whether #machines will displace workers earning up to $39 an hour at the ports.”
https://wapo.st/3zw6PEt #ArtificialIntelligence #Robots #UnionLabor #InternationalConglomorates #Cargo #Labor #WaPo #FreeLink #LinkShare
Washington Post · This weightlifting workout in your 60s can preserve strength for yearsOlder people had stronger leg muscles three years after finishing a 12-month weightlifting program than those who did moderate strength training.
Landslide!
By a vote of 2,628 to 985, VW employees in Tennessee voted to join the United Auto Workers!
This is the first successful UAW vote in the South.
The next vote: May 17 at a Mercedes plant in Alabama. 
https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2024/apr/19/uaw-wins-at-volkswagen-chattanooga-tfp/
“Trump benefits from something akin to the soft bigotry of low expectations.”
Jamelle Bouie is spot on with his criticism. But this is an opinion essay. Someone at a higher pay grade has to change “news” focus at his own paper, @nytimes
The New York Times · Opinion | Trump Is Losing It
"Alan Filion is accused of running a swatting service since 2022, targeting high schools, historically Black colleges and universities as well as FBI agents’ homes. For $35 to $75, Filion allegedly offered to report mass shootings, bomb threats and gas leaks among other emergencies to spark massive responses from law enforcement."
"If convicted, Filion faces 65 years in prison."
The Washington Post · Teen accused of making hundreds of swatting calls around the country