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২৯ আগস্ট, ২০২৬

Sunrise.

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RCOCEAN II বলেছেন...: Great photos. I never get tired of Beauty.; ২৯/৮/২৬, ৭:৪৩ PM
Bob Boyd বলেছেন...: Althouse Blog, where every day ends with the sun coming up. It's like being a rock star only different.; ২৯/৮/২৬, ৭:৫৫ PM
Josephbleau বলেছেন...: A nice essay from the Psmiths bookshelf,

“ We have a hard time imagining a future looking down upon us the way that we sneer at the past. Obviously we’re at the zenith of history and have discovered once and for all the correct way to order society and our personal conduct. On the rare occasions when we contemplate the fact that our descendants might look upon us with the same horror with which we regard our ancestors, we usually assume that it’s because they’re more progressive, more liberated, more whatever the thing is that distinguishes us from our culture war enemies and from our forebears. Hence the transgressive frisson we get when we read people like Robin Hanson or the writers of Games Workshop telling us that the future might be very much more like the past.”; ২৯/৮/২৬, ৭:৫৫ PM
Josephbleau বলেছেন...: Rome was not built in a day, nor destroyed in a day. And so our world. Both were developed by intelligent people who worked hard. Perhaps someday there will be more influencers and sociologists than craftsmen who can keep the lights on.; ২৯/৮/২৬, ৮:১৫ PM
Lem Vibe Bandit বলেছেন...: It started raining and I wouldn't turn on the wipers, at least not right away. It was as if I was seeing raindrops on my waxed windshield for the first time. And then it came to me what might be happening. Was I spotting the works of that Japanese artist that died? I like to think so.; ২৯/৮/২৬, ১১:৩৮ PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ বলেছেন...: 𝘑𝘶𝘥𝘨𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘗𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘰𝘯’𝘴 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵 𝘈𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘤 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 ‘𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴’ ~ FOX News

I don't know why Anthropic thinks they can get away with this! It's as if they think they live in a free country or something!

Turns out Claude is smarter than Pete.; ২৯/৮/২৬, ১১:৪৬ PM
MadTownGuy বলেছেন...: Kim Strassel of WSJ, quoted on X:

"The Media's Lawfare Enabling

The Supreme Court last week allowed Donald Trump’s ballroom construction to proceed, eliciting shock from the press corps. The court on Monday allowed the president’s mail-in voting order to continue, eliciting the same shock. This follows the shock after Trump administration wins on immigration enforcement, personnel firings, DEI and transgender orders, and dozens of other issues.

How long is the public meant to treat the press’s pearl-clutching as genuine, rather than part of a campaign to undermine the administration and the credibility of the high court?

The state of legal reporting has reached peak national embarrassment, a master class in fiction that rivals the reporting about Russia “collusion” and Joe Biden’s undiminished capacity. The media’s contribution to lawfare began in the earliest days of the first Trump term and has become only more brazen. The swings and misses are there for all to see, every day. Yet the formula is now so routine that nobody pushes back.

It works like this: The administration takes an action that offends liberal sensibilities. Interest groups rush to litigate, sometimes with prepackaged lawsuits. The press quotes liberal law professors and the litigators themselves as to why the suits are worthy. A liberal judge issues an injunction, which is treated as further proof of a lawsuit’s merit. The stories omit any critical analysis of standing, jurisdiction, merits or precedent. When a higher court corrects the legal overreach, the media, rather than acknowledge it got it wrong, insists the judges are in the tank for Mr. Trump.

Continued..; ৩০/৮/২৬, ৪:২৭ AM
MadTownGuy বলেছেন...: "Consider that ballroom case. When the National Trust for Historic Preservation filed a lawsuit last December to halt the project, the press corps pushed the litigation as a slam dunk. The stories all led with a quote from the suit, presenting as fact that “no president is legally allowed to tear down portions of the White House without any review whatsoever.” The pieces cataloged the laws the administration had supposedly violated, and the claim that any building required the “express authority of Congress.” Critics hailed the early August ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to halt the project as evidence of the trust’s legal firepower.

Chief Justice John Roberts’s order last Friday staying that injunction wasn’t accompanied by an opinion and isn’t a ruling on the merits. But any reporter with a half-sharp pencil might have reported the potentially fatal problems with this suit. These were nimbly outlined by Judge Neomi Rao, who dissented from the D.C. Circuit’s injunction.

She argues the trust has no standing to bring the suit: It wasn’t chartered to look after the White House, and its one member who occasionally walks past the complex and expects to dislike the new structure, can hardly claim a concrete “injury.” Judge Rao also makes a persuasive case on the merits, noting that the trust’s ultra vires claim (that the administration is acting in obvious excess of its powers) is “essentially a Hail Mary pass,” since at least one federal law authorizes the president to use funds for the “care, maintenance, repair, alteration” and “improvement” of the executive residence.

The courts will decide the merits. But it’s ludicrous that the country’s ace legal reporters never provided the public even an inkling of these legal defects. It’s much more fun, as numerous stories about last week’s order did, to suggest slyly that the chief justice is doing a personal favor for the president.

This is the cynical game—jerryrigged reporting to give life to lawfare and to set false expectations, the better to smear legal grown-ups. How unrelentingly were we told Mr. Trump’s 2017 “travel ban” would never stand? That there was no such thing as presidential immunity? That of course a president can’t fire independent-agency heads? That the administration’s firings, and DEI rules, and immigration actions all offended the law?

How do we know this misreporting is intentional? The press corps is quite capable of providing good analysis about cases the president is actually poised to lose, as with his emergency tariffs and his executive order on birthright citizenship. It would be easy to call any right-leaning lawyer to get a read on a liberal suit’s flaws. It doesn’t happen.

Don’t expect it to end, since the tactic continues to work for the left. The lawsuits—and the cheering coverage—keep the Democratic base motivated. The flood of litigation—and the hyped coverage—maintains the narrative that the president is daily exceeding legal boundaries. And the purposeful presentation of Supreme Court rulings as political or partisan—rather than straightforward legal correctives—gives ammunition to elected Democrats making the argument that they are justified in blowing up the judiciary to achieve partisan objectives.

The real scandal is the press’s role. No one is surprised to see elected officials or political partisans engaged in partisan tactics, which now includes lawfare. But this particular ruse doesn’t work without the media’s cooperation—its willingness to suspend disbelief, omit key facts, and pretend higher courts are acting out of bounds. It’s doing terrible damage. Where are the professional media critics when you need them?"

https://x.com/Rach_IC/status/2093773286232805589; ৩০/৮/২৬, ৪:২৮ AM
MadTownGuy বলেছেন...: Bill Maher:

“Trump renamed Lake Ontario to Lake America, liberals are very pissed. They say you can’t just go around renaming things to suit your agenda.”

“Just ask my LatinX birthing person.”; ৩০/৮/২৬, ৪:৩৫ AM
rehajm বলেছেন...: …one more data point on the sorry state of polling- I’ve had the same phone number for over twenty five years. In the last ten days I’ve received a dozen texts or calls asking for my opinion or a Democrat/DSA candidate for my support. Many of them address me by name and it’s always the same name they’ve used since I acquired my phone number, except that the name isn’t mine and has never been mine. That means the robo lists they sell to each other are decades old and are never updated….much like the voter rolls I suppose….; ৩০/৮/২৬, ৫:৪৬ AM
rehajm বলেছেন...: Kim Strassel has never been afraid of doing journalism but an editorial about media bias is stale and dated. Everyone is either disgusted by the media’s own destruction or is supportive of their chosen role as blatant propagandists. I mean if you write to a level few will bother climbing down to in an attempt to understand wtf you’re saying you can justify anything since you need their puzzles in the morning. It doesn’t change the fact..; ৩০/৮/২৬, ৬:০২ AM
MadTownGuy বলেছেন...: tl:dr isn't a good reason for dismissing the facts.; ৩০/৮/২৬, ৬:০৫ AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) বলেছেন...: MadTown, the current injunction-malfunction of the Left ongoing thanks to Judge Talwani in MA and her personal jihad against Trump also illustrates everything Strassel wrote about how the lying leftist Big Media “covers” legal battles in the Age of Trump*.

> Corporate Media keep claiming Trump has lost “every motion” in the USPS Mail-in Ballot case misleading the public
> Yet lead plaintiff North Carolina just “smoothly and flawlessly” complied with the new rules, sending their state registered voter list to USPS so they can mail ballots on Friday (9/4)
> This now completely undercuts the judge’s order claiming no states even could comply with the crazy new rules and leaves fellow plaintiffs to argue that they are dumber than NC and still want relief
> But corporate media and X posters keep pretending that Trump will lose this battle, even as his opponents start negotiating their surrender

*Don’t fool yourselves into believing that this won’t go down in history as The Age of Trump.; ৩০/৮/২৬, ৬:৩৯ AM
Humperdink বলেছেন...: rehajm said: “ Kim Strassel has never been afraid of doing journalism but an editorial about media bias is stale and dated.”

Stale and dated? Not to me. The Commie left media continues to blather they are unbiased. Hard to believe if one watches the weekend panel shows on NBC, CBS, ABC, & CNN. Fortunately their reach is shrinking. With the advent of talk radio, streaming and podcasts they are called to task. We need to keep pounding them. Margaret Brennen looks great on Sunday, she morphs in complete fool by Monday afternoon.; ৩০/৮/২৬, ৬:৫৬ AM
Jersey Fled বলেছেন...: Real data on extreme weather events.

https://globalextremeweather.thehonestbroker.org/; ৩০/৮/২৬, ৭:০৫ AM
boatbuilder বলেছেন...: I can't speak for the rest of America, but the White House Ballroom thing is the DC HOA trying to stop Trump from expanding the garage.; ৩০/৮/২৬, ৭:২২ AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) বলেছেন...: Big Media wants to help the Left and keeps framing the news in ways that are helpful to the Left but as Strassel’s article and Instapundit’s other examples show and as the best WSJ editor James Taranto actually named, the habitual coddling and promotion has not helped the Left. Because Margaret Brennan will give them a tonguebath they are not challenged to explain their policies, and because the View and their trained seals will clap at anything they assume their ideas are sound.

In contrast every interview is a battle when Conservatives meet the Press. Every statement is challenged, every prediction measured against the Narrative (not the actual outcomes), every assertion countered with Leftist “everybody knows” counter-arguments [i.e. “everybody knows that tax cuts lead to deficits”] that are false but widely accepted by people who hate Republicans.

This continuous battle serves to sharpen Right-leaning politicians so that with more experience they bat away false assumptions and bore into their message unimpeded. Like Rubio and Vance and Bessent and Miller: all very effective and clear communicators.

But DSA and especially old Progressives are weak and intellectually flabby by virtue of the Media tonguebaths and flattery [“look at Kamala walking upright! She’s awesome!”] for simply showing up. Few ever challenge their silly slogans [“medicare for all!”] so when an enterprising reporterette pipes up with “and that will cost what?” it completely trips them and leads to the stumbling bumbling word salads such as spewed by AOC and El Sayed and all of them. Truisms are passed down because they are TRUE:

“You play how you practice”
“Armies fight how they train”
“Iron sharpens iron”; ৩০/৮/২৬, ৭:২৬ AM
Iman বলেছেন...: Question of the Day, Every Day…

Brilyn Hollyhand
@BrilynHollyhand
When America had a disagreement with Canada, Democrats sided with Canada.

When America had a disagreement with Iran, Democrats sided with Iran.

When America had a disagreement with Venezuela, Democrats sided with Venezuela.

Do Democrats ever side with America?; ৩০/৮/২৬, ৭:২৯ AM
Brylinski বলেছেন...: https://x.com/mamathemagazine/status/2093441271062724684; ৩০/৮/২৬, ৭:৩৩ AM
Jamie বলেছেন...: "Stale and dated? Not to me."

Me either. Too many beloved family members and friends get all their information from mainstream news sources - or from mainstream news sources and lightweight social media "influencers" whom I shouldn't put in quotes because they're damn well influencing my loved ones.

I can't remember anymore what woke me up to that media "bias" (and I WILL put that in quotes because so often it isn't subtle at all but is instead outright advocacy and enmity). But I keep hoping that if people keep pounding on the subject of media bias, with examples, maybe my loved ones will someday experience the same awakening.; ৩০/৮/২৬, ৭:৩৯ AM
Iman বলেছেন...: The extinction of CBS News Radio this Summer was a bonus. Say goodbye to Laurie Levenson, Law Professor whose lefty opinions were run on a daily basis. Just for starters.; ৩০/৮/২৬, ৭:৪৬ AM
Iman বলেছেন...: The Democrats’ TDS and outright affinity for Communism is duly noted.; ৩০/৮/২৬, ৭:৫২ AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) বলেছেন...: One of the underreported discoveries squirming under the USAID rock was the enormous amount of grants to mainstream media via NGOs, using our tax dollars of course, for specific types of reporting promoting “extreme weather” and creating virtual “evidence” for leftist claims by seeding words and phrases throughout the wider Media. Sorts long ago discovered that seeding just about any leftist oriented NGO was the best use of his billions. Simply give $100K to an NGOMas start-up and watch Democrats at USAID lavish millions more on it. The global Left could simply use that firehose of taxpayer dollars to inflate any NGO they wanted to. Sometimes outrageously so.

Perennial Loser Stacy Abramson founded an NGO to install non-racist insulation in indigenous American homes (or something like that) and the Biden administration immediately flooded her NGO with $2 billion of our money. One report said $20 billion but I bet none of self-identified progressives here heard either figure EVER in the same sentence as Abramson’s name.; ৩০/৮/২৬, ৮:০০ AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) বলেছেন...: One of the underreported discoveries squirming under the USAID rock was the enormous amount of grants to mainstream media via NGOs, using our tax dollars of course, for specific types of reporting promoting “extreme weather” and creating virtual “evidence” for leftist claims by seeding words and phrases throughout the wider Media. Soros long ago discovered that seeding just about any leftist oriented NGO was the best use of his billions. Simply give $100K to an NGOMas start-up and watch Democrats at USAID lavish millions more on it. The global Left could simply use that firehose of taxpayer dollars to inflate any NGO they wanted to. Sometimes outrageously so.

Perennial Loser Stacy Abramson founded an NGO to install non-racist insulation in indigenous American homes (or something like that) and the Biden administration immediately flooded her NGO with $2 billion of our money. One report said $20 billion but I bet none of self-identified progressives here heard either figure EVER in the same sentence as Abramson’s name; ৩০/৮/২৬, ৮:০১ AM
rehajm বলেছেন...: I mean sure it makes you feel good with your morning coffee but it isn’t changing minds and the media is not returning to journalism just because another editorial about their abandonment for propaganda makes the cut. Ann’s still gonna eyeroll your claims about media bias then go right back to the gift links. She’s certainly not alone in that sentiment. I’d rather focus efforts on a different angle…; ৩০/৮/২৬, ৮:০২ AM
Peachy+2 বলেছেন...: When do we do something about Soros - his leftist treachery needs a permanent end.; ৩০/৮/২৬, ৮:০৩ AM
Iman বলেছেন...: Stacy “Tank” Abrams?; ৩০/৮/২৬, ৮:০৪ AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) বলেছেন...: Autocorrect at first disallowed mention of George Soros. Why would the commie programmers at Apple even care? Unfortunately as we post now in the ante-trashcan icon age I am unable to remove the original draft with one mis-autocorrected word. The hosts may delete my 8:00 semi-duplicate post if they wish.; ৩০/৮/২৬, ৮:০৪ AM
Peachy+2 বলেছেন...: Mike Wolf 8:01 - It's as if the entire Democrat Party is a Crime Syndicate.; ৩০/৮/২৬, ৮:০৪ AM
Peachy+2 বলেছেন...: (and 8:00); ৩০/৮/২৬, ৮:০৪ AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) বলেছেন...: The same, Iman. She’s actually a billionaire thanks to Democrats.; ৩০/৮/২৬, ৮:০৫ AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) বলেছেন...: True rehajm. We are simply collectively writing the epitaph for an industry as we watch it sink into oblivion. They know they’ve lost the respect and trust of the American people. We know they know. They just don’t care.; ৩০/৮/২৬, ৮:০৮ AM
Humperdink বলেছেন...: “I can't remember anymore what woke me up to that media "bias"’.

I can! When 60 Minutes did an expose of Illinois Power in November 1979 (+/-). Illinois Power hired a camera crew to follow 60 Minutes’s crew around their facility, filming everything the CBS crew captured and then refuting it with their experts. It was glorious.; ৩০/৮/২৬, ৮:০৯ AM
Curious George বলেছেন...: Pete Crow-Armstrong is the best player in baseball.; ৩০/৮/২৬, ৮:১২ AM
rehajm বলেছেন...: …except they aren’t sinking into oblivion. The Late Show scam excepted they seem to be thriving- CNN should have died. The funding still flows. They aren’t going anywhere…; ৩০/৮/২৬, ৮:৫১ AM
Big Mike বলেছেন...: Related:

The Vigilant Fox 🦊
@VigilantFox

MSNBC contributor reluctantly admits 𝕏 Community Notes actually works, even though it physically pains her to say so.

Rolling Stone called @ElonMusk and 𝕏 "the biggest purveyors of online misinformation."

Now liberals like Molly Jong-Fast are admitting that false information and missing context get kept in check "pretty well" by Community Notes.

MAHER: "In this current atmosphere we live in, I never believe anything I read just from that one thing I read."

JONG-FAST: "X has community notes, and I think community notes — I don't want to compliment X here, but community notes works pretty well."

MAHER: "Well, then compliment them. Why can't you?"

JONG-FAST: "I'm doing it! I'm doing it. Yes, I'm doing it, but I don't want to.”; ৩০/৮/২৬, ৯:০৩ AM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ বলেছেন...: Who's going to tell Trump the U.S. SPR can't accommodate Venezuelan crude oil?

Heavy Venezuelan Crude a Bad Fit for US SPR ~ Energy Intelligence
https://www.energyintel.com/0000019b-c329-d184-a3fb-cfafe2060000

One of the things I am going to do with the Venezuelan Oil is fill up the Strategic National Reserves which, because of Sleepy Joe Biden, has been virtually emptied. The “topping out” process will begin very shortly, and is a Gift from Venezuela to the People of the United States. Thank you! President DONALD J. TRUMP
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/117184857420534704; ৩০/৮/২৬, ১০:২৮ AM

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