#Huffpost

[cynicalclassicist]

Vance continues to prove himself a loyal lickspittle to the fascist. Now that has become the GOP line. DEI is to blame for anything that goes wrong!

JD Vance supported Donald Trump's claim that diversity hiring was to blame for the jet and helicopter crash in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday.

Vice President JD Vance backed up President Donald Trump’s claim that diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, policies led to Wednesday’s plane crash in Washington, D.C., telling Fox News that white people have been discouraged from applying to be air traffic controllers because of what he referred to as the “DEI regime.”

On “Sunday Morning Futures,” Vance argued that the “DEI policies” of the Biden and Obama administrations “contributed to where we are.”  

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Alanna Vagianos at HuffPost:

When most people in the U.S. think of the history of abortion, they think about white women like Margaret Sanger, a nurse who opened America’s first birth control clinic and founded an organization that later became Planned Parenthood. Fewer people think about Mildred Campbell, a Black midwife from Washington, D.C., who provided abortions in the late 1800s. Or Marie Leaner and Sakinah Ahad Shannon, two Black members of the Jane Collective, a group that provided abortions to women in the late 1960s and early 1970s before federal abortion protections existed. Or Toni Bond, one of 12 “founding mothers” who created the framework of reproductive justice in the 1990s. Renee Bracey Sherman and Regina Mahone are hoping to change that with their new book, “Liberating Abortion: Claiming Our History, Sharing Our Stories, and Building the Reproductive Future We Deserve.” Bracey Sherman and Mahone offer a more complete history of abortion in the book, which includes many of the women of color who were so critical to the movement but whose names were erased by whitewashed media tropes and racist arbiters of history.

“In so many ways, the media has this history of cosigning the racist, sexist, misogynistic tropes about Black women and other people of color,” Mahone told HuffPost. “This book is our platform to right those wrongs. We’re writing our experiences back into the history of abortion.” Bracey Sherman, a biracial Black woman, and Mahone, a Black woman, have both had abortions and understand how isolating it can be to not see oneself reflected in the abortion stories that media and history choose to tell. Bracey Sherman has been working toward writing this book throughout her long career in reproductive justice, during which she founded the abortion storytelling organization We Testify. And Mahone, a journalist who has covered the intersections between race, class and reproductive rights, is keenly aware of who typically gets to tell abortion stories.

HuffPost’s Alanna Vagianos interviewed Renee Bracey Sherman and Regina Mahone, authors of a new book called Liberating Abortion: Claiming Our History, Sharing Our Stories, and Building the Reproductive Future We Deserve.

The book discusses the history of abortion access that is too often ignored in discussions about reproductive health and abortion: the white-centric history of abortion that downplays women of color and their roles.

[republicansaretheproblem]

HuffPost.

[gamer2002]

Out: deep fakes are dangerous because trolls will make POTUS look bad

In: deep fakes are a legitimate way of POTUS communication

[pennsyltuckyheathen]

(via Rep. Chip Roy's Question For Republican Colleagues Backfires | HuffPost Latest News)

MAGA Republicans and the Sedition Caucus (aka Freedom Caucus and former tea baggers) unintentionally reveal their lack of focus on legislation or any other activities their constituents expect from a representative government.  

Their agenda is to follow Trump’s orders without question in his pathetic attempts to distract from his fraudulent business activities, criminal conduct and the fact that he’s a fake billionaire.  

[squiglluwu]

Are there armpit enjoyers out there?

Cuddle enjoyers? Hell yeah

Hot comments? hell yeah

More on my links

[thoughtportal]

Trader Joe’s is facing a litany of union-busting charges before the National Labor Relations Board. The agency’s prosecutors have accused the company of illegally retaliating against workers, firing a union supporter and spreading false information in an effort to chill an organizing campaign.

But in a hearing last Tuesday, the grocer’s attorney briefly summarized a sweeping defense it intends to mount against the charges: The labor board itself, which was created during the New Deal and has refereed private-sector collective bargaining for nearly 90 years, is “unconstitutional.”

The argument would appear to fit inside a broader conservative effort to dismantle the regulatory state, which has taken aim at agencies tasked with enforcing laws to protect workers, consumers and the environment.

The exchange, a transcript of which HuffPost obtained through a public records request, came at the start of a trial to determine whether Trader Joe’s violated workers’ rights. Trader Joe’s’ attorney, Christopher Murphy of the law firm Morgan Lewis, informed the judge, Charles Muhl, that there was “one final thing” the grocery chain wanted to add to its defense before proceedings began.

[the-wacky-planet-of-fielder]

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-instagram-banned-nathan-fielder_n_5b4f9cdfe4b0169b6e70ac24

[raeonthearoace]

I really hate how news sites will say someone was "taken down" or "torn apart" when they actually mean some people said mean things about them on Twitter.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Amanda Terkel at NBC News:

WASHINGTON — The Department of Defense announced Friday night that it will institute a new “annual media rotation program” for its in-house press corps, effectively removing several major news outlets, including NBC News, from their Pentagon office spaces in favor of other outlets.  In addition to NBC News, The New York Times, National Public Radio and Politico must vacate their dedicated workspaces. The news organizations found out in a memo sent to the press corps without being individually notified, and an accompanying email included a message that read, in part, “no additional information will be provided at this time.”  “For over a half-century, the Pentagon Press Corps has benefited from working out of individual office spaces that provide coveted and open access to some of the Department’s top military and civilian leaders,” read the memo Pentagon spokesman John Ullyot sent to the Pentagon Press Association.  “In order to broaden access to the limited space of the Correspondents’ Corridor to outlets that have not previously enjoyed the privilege and journalist value of working from physical office space in the Pentagon, beginning February 14, 2025,” Ullyot wrote, there will be “a new Annual Media Rotation Program for those dedicated media spaces.”  In a statement, NBC News said, “We’re disappointed by the decision to deny us access to a broadcasting booth at the Pentagon that we’ve used for many decades. Despite the significant obstacles this presents to our ability to gather and report news in the national public interest, we will continue to report with the same integrity and rigor NBC News always has.”  The move by Pentagon officials comes seven days after the Senate confirmed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth by the narrowest of margins. It followed weeks of coverage about his behavior and treatment of women, including allegations that his alcohol consumption alarmed colleagues and his second wife feared for her safety around him. Hegseth has denied the allegations. 

[...] The new outlets rotating in are One America News Network — which will take NBC News’s spot — the New York Post, Breitbart News Network and HuffPost.   Three of the new outlets are conservative, while HuffPost leans progressive.   HuffPost does not have a Pentagon correspondent, and the site did not request a space, spokesperson Lizzie Grams said.  

The DoD under drunk clown Pete Hegseth institutes an “annual media rotation program” that kicks out four legacy media outlets (NBC News, Politico, New York Times, and NPR) in favor of three far-right partisan outlets (OANN, Breitbart, and New York Post) and a left-leaning outlet (HuffPost, which doesn’t even have a Pentagon correspondent) for token balance.

This is likely retaliation for reporting on allegations against Hegseth.

See Also:

CNN: Pentagon to swap traditional media with pro-Trump outlets under new rotational program for Defense Department workspace

Mediaite: Pentagon Boots NBC, NPR, NYT, and Politico from Offices – To Be Replaced by Breitbart and One America News

Reuters, via US News and World Report: Trump's Pentagon Says It Will 'Rotate' Out Some Media From Offices

The Guardian: Pentagon removes New York Times, NPR and more from workspaces as part of ‘rotation program’

[itmightbemikey]

front page of the huffpost

[friendraichu]

“You’re using up resources needed for sick people!” Ben was told.

“This is what we call a boozer,” he overheard.

A doctor told him, “This is the last time I’m going to save your life!”

[msclaritea]

'What on earth are the levelling up secretary, Michael Gove, and the deputy prime minister, Oliver Dowden, doing in a men-only club in 2024? It’s more than two decades, for heaven’s sake, since the then Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith – not one of nature’s more radical progressives – rejected honorary membership of the Carlton Club on the grounds that the Conservatives’ oldest gentlemen’s club denied full membership rights to female MPs. It took seven years of arm-twisting, but eventually the club surrendered, accepting that leaders couldn’t be seen publicly condoning its practices. Though perhaps “publicly” is the relevant word, given that some Garrick members seemingly didn’t see the problem until they were outed and exposed to female colleagues’ ire.'

If Iain Duncan Smith is more progressive then you (20 years ago!), you need a kick up the backside

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/22/garrick-club-row-women-men

You can go fuck yourself and yes, I just saw all of the sudden dust up over the Garrick Club, conveniently kicked up in the last couple of days. What should I assume, then? That the Team Z network found out ahead of time that Benedict would be going there and created said controversy. You people are nothing but a bunch of parasites. What I'm wondering right this minute...is who put Rishi Sunak up to getting involved.

Because The Guardian, The Standard, The Telegraph, Huffpost, etc are ALL rags that you all have used to go after him, before.

Hey, Ben. if you were invited beforehand to the club, whoever invited you, might be behind this.

[informationatlas]

Mice Can Sing!

Rodents, often viewed as simple creatures, exhibit surprising complexity in their behavior. Mice and rats display human-like traits such as laughter when tickled, empathy by sensing each other's pain through facial expressions, and even an ability to discern artistic styles like Picasso and Renoir. 

Studies reveal that male mice produce intricate ultrasonic vocalizations, or "songs," to communicate with females. These songs vary in complexity depending on social context: when males can't see females but only smell their urine, the songs are louder and more intricate; however, when in the presence of females, the songs become simpler but longer.

Researchers at Duke University have found that female mice show a preference for more complex mating calls, indicating their effectiveness in attraction. This suggests that male mice invest more energy in attracting females when they can't see them, but once in close proximity, they focus more on mating behaviors. The study aims to explore the brain mechanisms behind these vocalizations and whether mice can learn new songs, potentially shedding light on communication disorders like autism. Published in the journal Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, this research underscores the complexity of rodent behavior and its implications for understanding animal and human communication.

(via Yes, Mice Can Sing. And You Won't Believe How Much They Sound Like Songbirds | HuffPost Impact)