Justice matters.
Justice matters.'s JournalDavos economic forum exposes fake right-wing populists - The Mehdi Hasan Show
Follow MSNBC Show Blogs
MaddowBlog: https://www.msnbc.com/maddowblog
ReidOut Blog: https://www.msnbc.com/reidoutblog
Seattle schools sue tech giants over social media harm
(Missed the LBN Forum deadline)
AP News
Seattle schools sue tech giants over social media harm
SEATTLE (AP) The public school district in Seattle has filed a novel lawsuit against the tech giants behind TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Snapchat, seeking to hold them accountable for the mental health crisis among youth.
Seattle Public Schools filed the lawsuit Friday in U.S. District Court. The 91-page complaint says the social media companies have created a public nuisance by targeting their products to children.
It blames them for worsening mental health and behavioral disorders including anxiety, depression, disordered eating and cyberbullying; making it more difficult to educate students; and forcing schools to take steps such as hiring additional mental health professionals, developing lesson plans about the effects of social media, and providing additional training to teachers.
Defendants have successfully exploited the vulnerable brains of youth, hooking tens of millions of students across the country into positive feedback loops of excessive use and abuse of Defendants social media platforms, the complaint said. Worse, the content Defendants curate and direct to youth is too often harmful and exploitive ....
Make 'em pay the costs of their unlimited greed.
Bolsonaro has been holed up thousands of miles away in Florida.
Source: New York Times
Before departing Brazil, the former president had urged his supporters to avoid violence.
When his supporters stormed Brazils Congress and presidential offices on Sunday to protest what they falsely claim was a stolen election, Jair Bolsonaro was believed to be thousands of miles away.
Facing various investigations from his time in office, Mr. Bolsonaro flew to Florida in late December with plans to stay for at least a month. He has been in Orlando, living in a rented house owned by a professional mixed-martial-arts fighter a few miles from Disney World.
Mr. Bolsonaro has long questioned the reliability of Brazils election systems without evidence and he refused to concede unequivocally when he lost in October to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who took office on Jan. 1.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/08/world/americas/bolsonaro-florida-brazil-protests.html
Looks like Fascism is the menu du jour...
Never Forget... now forgotten.
Steve Hackett Foxtrot Live
Steve Hackett live al Teatro Galleria di Legnano 19-11-2022
Classic progressive (early Genesis) cover with virtuoso guitarist Steve Hackett & friends live.
Enjoy!
Rep. Raskin On Newly-Released 1/6 Transcripts (and Hutchinson facing mob-like threats)
One day after the January 6th committee unveiled its final report, the panel is out with dozens of newly-released transcripts. Congressman Jamie Raskin helps us unpack it all.
FTX Co-Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Charged With Fraud
Money
Crypto
FTX Co-Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Charged With Fraud
The ex-CEO of the collapsed crypto exchange is charged with eight counts of fraud in the US. He'll likely face extradition from the Bahamas.
Sam Bankman-Fried, the co-founder and former CEO of collapsed crypto exchange FTX, was arrested Monday in the Bahamas, the attorney general's office for the Bahamas said in a statement.
The arrest came after the US government notified the office that it had filed criminal charges against Bankman-Fried and would likely seek extradition, the Bahamas AG office said.
Damian Williams, the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, confirmed Monday's arrest and unsealed the 14-page indictment Tuesday. Bankman-Fried faces eight counts of conspiracy and criminal activity related to wire fraud, commodities fraud, securities fraud, money laundering and violation of campaign finance laws.
Separately, the US Securities and Exchange Commission filed civil charges on Tuesday against Bankman-Fried for allegedly violating securities law and "orchestrating a scheme to defraud equity investors in FTX Trading Ltd."
https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/crypto/ftx-co-founder-sam-bankman-fried-arrested-in-bahamas-charged-with-fraud/
Another Ponzi scheme crook (once evaluated at $32B)...
Deadline White House 11/28/22
Nicolle Wallace at her best. Trump is the voice of the racist GOP that is very much afraid to openly say what they feel but their actions speak louder through their policies.
Election denier Mark Finchem loses secretary of state race in Arizona
Source: NBC News
Republican Mark Finchem, a prominent election denier, has lost to Democrat Adrian Fontes in the race for Arizona secretary of state race, NBC News projects.
Fontes, a former top elections official for Maricopa County, will succeed Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, the Democratic nominee for governor.
Finchem was among a host of GOP candidates for statewide office who have repeatedly cast doubt over Joe Bidens presidential victory or falsely claimed that the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump in Arizona.
Last year, Trump backed Finchem's candidacy and highlighted his record of defending the stolen election claims. Mark was willing to say what few others had the courage to say about the 2020 election, Trump said in offering his public support.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/election-denier-mark-finchem-loses-secretary-state-race-arizona-rcna56880
Another ugly anti-democracy bites the dust!
THANK YOU ALL PRO-DEMOCRACY VOTERS IN AZ!!
Tropical Storm Nicole intensifying as it heads towards the Bahamas and Florida
Source: Yale Climate Connections
Tropical Storm Nicole intensifying as it heads towards the Bahamas and Florida
The large storm will bring impacts far to the north of its center, with coastal flooding expected all the way to North Carolina.
Nicole made the transition from a subtropical storm to a tropical storm Tuesday morning, and this change in structure has allowed it to begin an intensification phase. Nicole has made a turn to the west toward the northwestern Bahamas and Florida and is expected to make landfall early Thursday morning in Florida as a category 1 hurricane. Because of Nicoles large size, impacts from the storm will extend far to the north, and a damaging storm surge is likely along most of the Southeast U.S. coast from central Florida to North Carolina.
Nicole is a large storm and that means widespread coastal flooding
At 1 p.m. EST Tuesday, Nicole was centered about 420 miles east of West Palm Beach, Florida, headed west at 9 mph, with maximum sustained winds of 60 mph and a central pressure of 992 mb. Satellite images showed that Nicole still had somewhat of a subtropical appearance, with heavy thunderstorm activity in wide bands arcing to the west, north, and east of the center. However, Nicole had developed a concentrated area of intensifying heavy thunderstorms near its circulation center, and this change in structure prompted the National Hurricane Center (NHC) to define Nicole as a tropical storm rather than a subtropical storm on Tuesday morning. Thunderstorm coverage was thin on the south side, though, where dry air was present.
Nicole was a large storm, with tropical-storm-force winds that covered a region of ocean larger than the state of Florida. The breadth of Nicoles tropical-storm-force winds is remarkable; less than 2% of all 6-hourly named storm fixes since 2004 showed such a large wind field, according to Michael Lowry.
Read more: https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2022/11/tropical-storm-nicole-intensifying-as-it-heads-towards-the-bahamas-and-florida/
Also: https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
Profile Information
Member since: Fri Dec 14, 2018, 09:16 PMNumber of posts: 6,928