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Twitter is not what it seems. The social-media platform poses as a neutral marketplace for the exchange of ideas and information; an agora where journalists, politicians, academics, cultural icons, business titans, and ordinary citizens can engage in a dialogue unbounded by gatekeeping elites.... That’s the story that conservatives want to tell about what Twitter used to be, in the bad old days before Elon Musk begrudgingly bought it. Fortunately, Twitter’s new CEO has a deep-seated objection to social-media companies using their power over discourse to promote partisan causes. Therefore, Musk is using his newfound power over discourse to promote the...

There are eight happy people in four photographs on the cover of this publication. NOT ONE IS A WHITE MALE. ML/NJ

What might have happened in Ottawa if Donald Trump were President? Might he have applied pressure to the Canadian government, that would have caused it to back down to the protesters? Biden obviously did nothing. It's not even clear that Canada is on the Administration's radar. ML/NJ

I went to my usual polling place yesterday and was given a REAL paper Ballot. I went to a table and marked it. Then I fed it into a machine which tallied it and saved the original ballot someplace within.I have long been suspicious of all voting machines. (I know if I had programmed any of them, Democrats would have seldom won anything.) But this new way of voting virtually eliminates the possibility of fraud. It is true that the tally machine could intentionally flip random R votes, or not count them. But if even only five percent of these...

No results found for site:nytimes.com "let's go brandon". Results for site:nytimes.com lets go brandon (without quotes): Man Arrested in Anti-Asian Attack Was on Parole for Killing ...https://www.nytimes.com › brandon-elliot-asian-attack-nycand so on.

This is an abbreviated version of the excellent Epix Documentary. The linked page has links to Part 1 and Part 2 of this program. Highly recommended as an introduction or a refresher to the TWA 800 disaster. (Spoiler alert: It was a Navy missile.) ML/NJ

A new video has emerged in which a South African woman points out the irony of the only outlet in a shopping mall remaining completely untouched by looters being a bookstore. After showing electronics and clothing stores that have been completely cleaned out, the video cuts to a book shop that looks totally pristine.

Well, actually there hasn't been any coverage in the NY Times yet, at least according to this Google Search:site:nytimes.com fauci emailIf the NY Times doesn't cover it, did it really happen? Is Fauci guilty of anything?ML/NJ

Derby is a week from Saturday. Contender PPs are at: https://www.kentuckyderby.com/uploads/wysiwyg/assets/uploads/PPs_20210417_Derby.pdf. ML/NJ

Animal-rights protesters, some chained together on the racetrack, disrupted racing and COVID-19 vaccinations on Thursday at Golden Gate Fields. A group called Direct Action Everywhere set up pickets around the track, and four members chained themselves together and lay down on the track near the five-sixteenths pole at noon, about 45 minutes before the first race. The people on the track also set off purple smoke flares, while another group of protesters waved signs near the entrance that said, “Shut Down Golden Gate Fields.” Because of the coronavirus pandemic, there were no spectators at the track for the day’s card....

Two NYC Jews discuss their association and friendship with Rush Limbaugh which continued from1988. Discussion begins at 11:43 into the program and runs about a half hour.This is Nachum Segal and Meir Weingarten. Among other things they discuss how the friendship began and their trip with Rush to Israel.The program first aired live on Monday, February 22.ML/NJ

So I got this email. I'm not a Cornell alum, but my son and my money did go there for four years.Anyway, it's about COVID, right? Well, not exactly.

Is the video that claims the Ashli Babbitt shooting was staged available anywhere? I mentioned it to a friend today and wanted to send him a link. But the places where I looked had taken it down. ML/NJ

Nachum Segal is an Orthodox Jewish man who hosts a morning radio program (now Internet only), JM in the AM, which stands for Jewish Moments in the Morning. Nachum has been a long time friend of Rush who was instrumental in organizing Rush's first (only?) visit to Israel. Nachum reminisces about Rush for about ten minutes beginning at 41 minutes into the linked program.ML/NJ

This is a video.State by State, Trump has a huge lead, Massive vote comes in for Biden, Thereafter incoming votes always show exactly the same percentage split between Biden and Trump. IMPOSSIBLE! Veryeffective.ML/NJ

I am beginning my second month down in Florida. On my personal laptop here, I can almost never access email which comes to me via yahoo.com. I also have another computer that one of my clients supplied me with so I can do the work remotely that he wants me to do for him. On this client computer, I never have any problem accessing my email, just as I never had any problem accessing my email on my personal computer back in NJ. Both machines are Windows 10 machines. Switching browsers doesn't seem to make a difference. The only obvious...

If you received Unemployment Insurance benefits, the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development (LWD) will provide you with Income Tax Form 1099-G (Certain Government Payments). However, the form will no longer be automatically mailed.[Emphasis added][This may be relevant to you if you received any payment from any State. I don't know. But I just received a Deficiency Notice from the IRS.]

The state of Texas filed an audacious lawsuit in the Supreme Court on Tuesday against four other states, asking the justices to extend the Dec. 14 deadline for certification of presidential electors. The suit, filed by the state’s attorney general, Ken Paxton, said Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin had engaged in election irregularities that require investigation, and it asked the court to “enjoin the use of unlawful election results without review and ratification by the defendant states’ legislatures.” Legal experts called the suit outlandish, and it comes at a time when Mr. Paxton is battling a scandal in his own...

At the Georgia Senate Committee Hearing on December 3, 2020, a Security Expert testified that his company developed a mathematical model which accurately predicted expected vote percentages for Biden and Trump by county across the country EXCEPT for counties that used Dominion Systems voting equipment. In counties that used Dominion Systems machines, Biden overperformed the model by FIVE PERCENT. With so much attention being given to the revelation of the hidden suitcases of ballots that were counted after people were told to go home for the night, it seemed to me that this equally important revelation was being overlooked. So...