alternet.org — 14+ min ago
How the Capitol rioters" "Stop the Steal" movement outsmarted Facebook
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The Trump-led "Stop the Steal" movement may have seemed like a chaotic event of disorderly confusion when the mob of angry Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, but further research actually details how the movement managed to outsmart the social media geniuses at Facebook. Details about Facebook's internal "Stop the Steal" report make it clear that the social media network's efforts to combat the right-wing movement were synonymous with being a day late and a dollar short. According to NPR, the movement was far more coordinated than the network realized. The publication highlights where Facebook missed the mark. By ... ...
rawstory.com — 47+ min ago
'Smug' Florida surgeon general booted from at-risk state senator's office for refusal to put on a mask: report
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Tina Polsky, who was diagnosed with stage 1 breast cancer in August, asked state Surgeon General Joseph ... According to a report from Christine Jordan Sexton of Florida Politics, Florida's newly-appointed Surgeon ... According to a report from Orlando Weekly, the Florida Supervisors of Elections association issued a ... MSNBC legal analyst Katie Phang predicted Attorney General Merrick Garland's Justice Department would ... The report states that the center headquartered at the Willard Hotel became home to Rudy Giuliani, Steve ... ...
bustle.com — 4+ hour, 10+ min ago
The 4 Best Wine Bottle Openers
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It's super easy to use -- just slide it over the top of the wine bottle, push the needle into the cork ... With over 1,100 reviews on Amazon, this hugely popular air pressure wine opener is a fan favorite among ... steel housing with a clear corkscrew compartment, the handy contraption is capable of uncorking your wine ... all along " wrote one Amazon reviewer. ... bottle in just a few seconds. ... ...
wonkette.com — 45+ min ago
Vegas Republican Learns Voter Fraud Is Not As Easy As Fox News Promised
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Steve Watkins, North Carolina Republican/ex-felon Leslie McRae Dowless, Bruce Bartman of Pennsylvania ... Just ask Edward Snodgrass, a Republican Party official in Ohio, former Kansas GOP Rep. ... The QAnon-adjacent event will feature such luminaries as Ron and Jim Watkins, George Papadapoulos, the ... , Donald Trump and Kayleigh McEnany themselves, and so, so many more. ... demon sperm lady, Jordan Sather, Sheriff David A. ... ...
commondreams.org — 16+ min ago
Now or Never: Will Glasgow's COP26 Help Save the World From Disaster?
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In 1988, a top climate scientist, Jim Hansen, then head of NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies, ... (known as Bill) Reilly, as head of his Environmental Protection Agency. ... It was signed at the giant 1992 Rio Earth Summit. ... between Blair, Clinton and the Japanese prime minister, Ryutaro Hashimoto, with the German chancellor ... One--Raul Estrada Oyuela, the Argentinian chairman of the main negotiating committee--became known as ... ...
commondreams.org — 16+ min ago
Joe Manchin Is the One With an "Entitlement Mentality'
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Celine-Marie Pascale is a professor of sociology at American University in Washington, D.C., and author ... At Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, Two Lance Woman told me the reason there is an environmental ... Virginian family of four actually needs to achieve what the Economic Policy Institute calls a "modest ... Nowhere is that more clear than in Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, politicians acting in opposition to ... he is with the American public and his own voters--like a modern day Marie Antoinette. ... ...
commondreams.org — 16+ min ago
Corporate Cable Outlets Refuse to Report on Financial Conflicts of Manchin and Sinema
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Katty Kay of _MSNBC_'s _Way Too Early_ (10/4/21) asked _Punchbowl News_' Jake Sherman, "If you had to ... On _ABC_'s _Good Morning America_ (10/3/21), former Sen. ... Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D.-N.Y.) ... Even more forcefully, _NBC_'s Chuck Todd (_Meet the Press_, 10/3/21) asked Sen. Bernie Sanders (I. ... In a review of 21 relevant news programs, airing on October 3-4 on _ABC_, _CBS_, _NBC_, _CNN_ and _MSNBC ... ...
wetairscrubber.com — 4+ hour, 19+ min ago
Smokestack Scrubbers: a New Component to Industrial Exhaust Systems -- Multi-vortex Wet Air Scrubber
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new type of wet scrubber - a Multi-Vortex wet air scrubber produced by Redwood Technology. ... Wet air scrubbers are also capable of handling flammable and explosive gases safely. ... While there are many air pollution control components on the market, smokestack scrubbers are very multidisciplinary ... The technology of scrubbers, which can remove a very large proportion of the sulfur dioxide from smokestack ... Some scrubbers can be installed directly inside a smokestack, but other scrubber installations require ... ...
beaumontenterprise.com — 1+ week ago
Federal government investigating possible civil rights violations at PA plant
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According to the Port Arthur Community Action Network and its attorneys Lone Star Legal Aid and the Environmental ... A Port Arthur industrial plant is being investigated by the federal government for potentially violating ... Environmental Protection Agency on Friday agreed to pursue the investigation of the 85-year-old calcining ... the civil rights of residents who live around the plant. ... plant, which manufactures a petroleum byproduct called petroleum coke in the mostly-Black Port Arthur ... ...
nationofchange.org — 31+ min ago
10 years after Occupy Wall Street, its legacy remains strong
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Over the next few months, Occupy camps were forcefully ousted in Portland, Boston, San Francisco, Philadelphia ... _New York Times_ business columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin, who admitted to scurrying to OWS after the CEO ... When Occupy Wall Street was evicted from its home base in New York City's Zuccotti Park on Nov. 15, 2011 ... , Seattle, New Orleans, and Los Angeles, with hundreds of arrests. ... of America and Black Lives Matter, spawned or shaped by Occupy. ... ...