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PufPuf23's Journal'Doxxing Truck' Takes Columbia--Here's What To Know About The Trucks That Post Names Of Students
Two points of this post.
1) The fact of doxxing trucks that look antiAmerican to me
2) The provenance of the doxxing truck and that it is from a source that is anti-POTUS Biden and just about everything that we want as Democrats and DUers except antisemitism. There have been repeated instances at DU of posts from cringe worthy anti-POTUS Biden and anti-Democratic sites.
One of these doxxing trucks showed up at Cal Poly Humboldt 2 days ago and the driver was arrested (initially reported as a Russian national now just mysterious) and released. The Redhead Blackbelt treats the occurrence as surreal, not realizing the purpose of the vehicle. RHBB was cited by recent NY Times article about demonstrations at Cal Poly Humboldt. One thing not mentioned in NYT was the importance of the Native American studies program at CPH.
‘Doxxing Truck’ Takes Columbia—Here’s What To Know About The Trucks That Post Names Of Students
Brian Bushard; Forbes Staff; Oct 26, 2023 Note date of Forbes article
The conservative organization behind the controversial so-called doxxing trucks stationed a new truck at Columbia University this week, publicly listing the names and faces of students who signed a letter calling on the university to cut ties with Israel, following the truck’s debut doxxing pro-Palestinian Harvard University students—and the organization has plans to expand the program, including outside students’ homes.
The truck, which is the third from the group and has been posting students’ names with the caption “Columbia’s Leading Antisemites,” first appeared on Columbia’s campus in New York City on Wednesday afternoon, according to Adam Guillette, the president of Accuracy in Media, the organization that solely funds the project.
Guillette told Forbes the organization also sent a truck to the University of Pennsylvania, calling on university president Liz Magill to resign, following complaints the university fostered antisemitism by allowing for a pro-Palestinian festival in September—the university defended its leadership earlier this month.
The doxxing truck at Columbia comes in response to a joint statement drafted by Columbia student organizations to university leadership, urging the Ivy League institution to cut ties with “apartheid Israel,” including a partnership with Tel Aviv University—the students also expressed “heartfelt condolences” to people affiliated with the university who were “affected by the tragic losses experienced by both Palestinians and Israelis.”
more at: https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=post&forum=1002
Accuracy in Media (AIM) is an American non-profit conservative[1][2] news media watchdog founded in 1969 by economist Reed Irvine.
AIM supported the Vietnam War and blamed media bias for the U.S. loss in the war. During the Reagan administration, AIM criticized reporting about the El Mozote massacre in El Salvador. During the Clinton administration, AIM pushed Vince Foster conspiracy theories. During the George W. Bush administration, AIM accused the media of bias against the Iraq War, defended the Bush administration's use of torture, and campaigned to stop the United States from signing the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). It described 2008 presidential candidate Barack Obama as "the most radical candidate ever to stand at the precipice of acquiring his party's presidential nomination. It is apparent that he is a member of an international socialist movement." It also criticized the media's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.[3]
AIM, which opposes the scientific consensus on climate change, has criticized media reporting on climate change. The organization gives out the Reed Irvine Accuracy in Media Award. Past recipients include Marc Morano (who runs the climate change denial website ClimateDepot), Tucker Carlson, and Jim Hoft (founder of The Gateway Pundit).
more at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuracy_in_Media
Accuracy in Media website: https://aim.org/
Note that all the homepage articles are about antisemitism on campuses that are liberal bastions and Abbott's 1619 Project in Texas that is supported by Accuracy in Media.
1619 Project.
The 1619 Project is a long-form journalism endeavor that became a leading subject of the American history wars.[1] The 1619 Project is a revisionist historiographical work that takes a critical view of traditionally revered figures and events in American history, including the Patriots in the American Revolution, the Founding Fathers, along with Abraham Lincoln and the Union during the Civil War.[2][3][4][5] It was developed by Nikole Hannah-Jones, writers from The New York Times, and The New York Times Magazine. It focused on subjects of slavery and the founding of the United States.[6] The first publication from the project was in The New York Times Magazine of August 2019.[7] The project developed an educational curriculum, supported by the Pulitzer Center, later accompanied by a broadsheet article, live events, and a podcast.[8]
more at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_1619_Project
Texas “critical race theory” bill limiting teaching of current events signed into law.
Texas is one of a handful of states that have approved legislation that prescribes how teachers discuss current events and prohibits students from receiving credit for participating in civic activities
BY KATE MCGEE; JUNE 15, 2021
Gov. Greg Abbott has signed the controversial bill that prescribes how Texas teachers can talk about current events and America’s history of racism in the classroom, according to Texas Legislature Online. His signature makes Texas one of a handful of states across the country that have passed such legislation, which aims to ban the teaching of “critical race theory” in K-12 public school classrooms.
Critical race theory is an academic term that studies how race and racism have impacted social and local structures in the United States. Over the past year, GOP leaders have decried its teaching in public schools, pointing to limited examples in various school districts across the state. In 2020, former President Donald Trump had banned federal employees from training that discusses “critical race theory” or “white privilege,” calling it propaganda.
more at: https://www.texastribune.org/2021/06/15/abbott-critical-race-theory-law/
[UPDATE 5:47 P.M.: HCSO PROVIDES MORE INFORMATION] DIGITAL DISGUISE: MYSTERIOUS LED TRUCK INCIDENT ON CAL POLY HUMBOLDT CAMPUS YESTERDAY
Thursday, 2 May 2024, 11:08 am Kym Kemp; Redheaded Blackbelt
NOTE: There is a photo of the truck with the LED on (like an advertising truck) showing what looks to me to be three KKK in robes and POTUS Biden at the top of the article. The nature of the truck as a doxxing device is not reflected in the article.
Yesterday, around 9:45 a.m., a bizarre incident occurred at Cal Poly Humboldt. The incident, which occurred on a campus already tense due to ongoing protests, involved a mobile LED billboard truck showcasing images of three white hooded figures, reminiscent of Ku Klux Klan members. This display lasted for approximately 30 seconds before the screen turned off and its driver took the truck from the scene, according to an anonymous witness.
The witness described the incident, saying that the digital display also included a masked figure with a turban [the figure on the right on the digital billboard shown in the top photo.] “I witnessed this vehicle with a digital screen and, on the screen, it displayed members of the KKK and as we were standing there watching this vehicle, the screen turned off on the truck and it turned completely black and drove away,” the witness recounted.
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Law enforcement responded and the driver, who we were told was a Russian national, was arrested. At 10:20 a.m., the Humboldt County Correctional facility booking log shows a Sergey Vladimirovich Polishchuk was booked on a single charge, PC602(m), trespassing, which many of the protesters arrested Tuesday morning were also charged with, as the campus was closed due to the protests. Polishchuk was released after posting bail a little after 2 p.m. yesterday.
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UPDATE 5:47 p.m.: Humboldt County Sgt. Eric Losey reached out this afternoon and explained that some of the questions we have, he couldn’t answer because University police were in charge of that part of the investigation. However, he was able to say that he had observed the truck on Tuesday, the day before the arrest took place though he did not see any image displayed. (Another anonymous witness reported seeing the truck during the time the protest was ongoing.) He told us that when deputies stopped the truck, “it appeared that the computer was being actively deleted.” ...... Losey was not able to confirm at this time whether the driver was a Russian national, a citizen of another country, or a citizen of the US.
https://kymkemp.com/2024/05/02/digital-disguise-mysterious-led-truck-incident-on-cal-poly-humboldt-campus-yesterday/
Lived much of life within two Reformed Jewish families and known many Jews
and DU is the first place have ever been called antisemitic. Much of what I see at DU is counter to my experience in that both families were liberal, anti-war families that were revolted by Begin and Kahane. That experience formed my outlook on life as will explain.
Age 5 (1958) my parents separated (but did not say so) and bought a house in SF East Bay. I became best friends with a kid up the street whose father was a researcher at Lawrence Livermore, a Cal Professor of Physics, and had worked on Manhattan Project in WWII. My fragmented family had no religious connection at the time and often had neither parent for supervision (babysitters). Had two Jewish Cub Scout Den Mothers, occasionally went to synagogue, and went to Seders. Close to half the people in our neighborhood were Jewish professional class people (MDs, Dentists, Engineers, Scientists, etc.). Have not anything to do with own family since 1996.
My father was an alcoholic right-wing bigot who had no formal education past 8th grade and ran heavy equipment in rural Humboldt County. The Bay Area house went away when the 1964 Christmas Flood destroyed everything and my maternal grandfather who was brains of family business died. My oldest sibling stayed south, my younger sibling went to live with Mother's cousin, and I was sent to a military academy owned by Episcopalian Church in Marin in 1966. The family in the East Bay were designated as a place I could go on leave. There was a new, progressive then boarding school in the East Bay that their mother wanted her son to go and me to be closer, I was accepted he was not. The school was close to half Jewish kids, some very wealthy (Haas, Selznick, etc.). Father took me out of the "hippy school" and went my senior year of high school on the Hupa Reservation (I am not NA). Had been told not going to Hoopa HS was the reason was sent away.
etc. etc.
Lived with a non-practicing Jewish (father side) woman from age 19-24. Married a Jewish woman active in her faith. Two degrees from Cal. Eight of the 10 people that were roommates while at Cal were Jewish (one non-Jew owned the house). Last two years of undergrad work caretakers for a wealthy Jewish couple in Piedmont with woman I married. Spouse family was from the same neighborhood as Golda Meir in Milwaukee.
Been living in the Klamath Mountains of childhood since 2002 so like Rip Van Winkle. Have not been to Bay Area (or any city) since 2003. Did not see a stoplight or chain store from 2013 to 2017 when was diagnosed with lymphoma followed by several other cancers. Have decided to die in place.
The Jews I knew were all liberal and loving people. The only religious meals have ever attended are Seders with the two families of Reformed Jews. My love of learning and outlook on life did not come from my own family. Went to San Francisco and Berkely anti-war rallies with Jews in late 60s and early 70s.
Still occasional contact with friend from 1st grade and regular contact with younger brother who was also one of roommates at Cal. Friend became a Jew for Jesus back in 1990s and moved to deep South. He broke things off with his parents and I broke things off with him until during covid.
The hate and violence deeply troubles me.
Does anyone know Nancy Skinner or does she read DU?
Perhaps Nancy Skinner could give DU advice?
Nancy Skinner (California politician)
Nancy Skinner (born August 12, 1954) is an American politician who is member of the California State Senate. A Democrat, she represents California's 9th State Senatorial district, encompassing parts of the East Bay.
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Skinner attended the University of California, Berkeley, earning a B.S. from the U.C. Berkeley College of Natural Resources and a Masters in Education from the U.C. Berkeley School of Education. As a student, she was a leader in the Anti-Apartheid Movement, served as the Academic Affairs Vice President of the ASUC, the student government, and was a founder of ASGE, the Union of Graduate Student Employees.[1] Skinner later taught courses in native California plants and interned at the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.[2]
Skinner was elected to the Berkeley City Council while still a student and served from 1984 to 1992. She remains the only student ever elected to the City Council.[1][3]
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In 2016, Skinner ran for the California State Senate to replace Senator Loni Hancock, who was termed-out of office in 2016. She was elected to office on November 8, 2016 and sworn in on December 5, 2016. In the 2017–2018 and 2019–2020 legislative sessions, she served as the Majority Whip of the state Senate.[8][9] In the 2019 legislative session, she chaired the state Senate's Public Safety committee.[9] In November 2020, Skinner won reelection to the Senate for another four-year term.[10]
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from wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Skinner_(California_politician)
Nancy Skinner was also the Executive Director of the Graduate Assembly at Cal (Graduate Assembly is the graduate student government, ASUC for under grads). Ms. Skinner is an extremely competent person.
Know this because I was a Graduate Assembly delegate from Haas B-School MBA program in 85-86 and 86-87 and on the finance committee these two years. Had a BS with highest honors from the School of Natural Resources from the 1970s and worked at USFS research lab then in Berkeley. My only contact ever with Ms. Skinner was GA and doubtful if she remembers me.
Those specific years were also (as per article below), were immediately following the Anti-Apartheid demonstrations and the beginnings of ASGE took place. There was an occupation of Sproul Hall (Cal's administration building) and grad TA strike (that I argued against and did not participate) while I was a GA delegate.
Free Palestine Encampment mirrors 1980s protests against South African apartheid
Kiana Sezawar Keshavarz; Apr 29, 2024; The Daily Californian
As UC Berkeley’s Free Palestine Encampment enters its second week, onlookers have begun to draw parallels between this protest and the 1985-86 campus demonstrations for divestment from South African apartheid.
On April 10, 1985, students staged a sit-in on the steps of Sproul Hall to protest South African apartheid and the university's investments in the South African state. The protest became an encampment that remained on the steps until nearly the end of the 1985 school year.
The current encampment, which was established after a rally for Gaza last week, has four main demands, as listed on a banner hung above the very same steps as the South African apartheid protest. Demands include an end to the silence regarding the genocide in Gaza, financial divestment, an academic boycott and an end to the repression of Palestinian students and their allies, according to the sign.
https://www.dailycal.org/news/campus/student-life/free-palestine-encampment-mirrors-1980s-protests-against-south-african-apartheid/article_1fac6bc6-0624-11ef-a0ea-87db70263af0.html
[UPDATE 1:50 P.M.] CAL POLY HUMBOLDT CAMPUS SEALED OFF AMID LAW ENFORCEMENT BUILDUP AND STUDENT PROTESTS
There are 11 links to events at Cal Poly Humboldt over the last week at the bottom of this latest report; lots of pictures and videos. Several protesters have already been hospitalized and Mad River Hospital in Arcata has closed to prepare for a possible "mass casualty event".
[UPDATE 1:50 P.M.] CAL POLY HUMBOLDT CAMPUS SEALED OFF AMID LAW ENFORCEMENT BUILDUP AND STUDENT PROTESTS
This afternoon, Cal Poly Humboldt has declared a complete shutdown of its campus following the ongoing student protest over the Israeli/Hamas War that has gripped key administrative buildings. The university issued a stern warning at 12:41 p.m., announcing a hard closure, banning unauthorized individuals from entering the premises.
The closure encompasses major access points, including road blocks at Harpst and B streets, as well as Plaza and LK Wood, as confirmed by the university’s statement. The directive from Cal Poly Humboldt emphasizes that only individuals with explicit permission from University Police are allowed on campus grounds. Those found violating this mandate face potential citations or arrests.
Students residing in campus housing are allowed limited movement within their dormitories and associated dining facilities, but are restricted from accessing other parts of the university. This measure comes as part of the university’s response to the occupation of Siemens Hall and Nelson Hall, along with reported unlawful activities around the building areas and the quad.
At least two state campus police vehicles were seen at the Blue Lake Casino overnight. Social media is reporting a bulldozer and other equipment moving onto campus.
https://kymkemp.com/2024/04/27/cal-poly-humboldt-enforcing-hard-campus-closure-now-amid-student-occupation/
Ralph Reed's army plans $62 million spending spree to boost evangelical turnout
Source: Politico
Faith & Freedom plans to spend big registering and turning out evangelicals and handing out 30 million pieces of literature at churches.
A prominent evangelical advocacy organization plans to significantly ramp up political spending in the 2024 election with one goal in mind: returning Donald Trump to the White House
Faith & Freedom, a conservative-leaning organization, intends to spend $62 million registering and turning out evangelical voters, texting and calling supporters, and door-knocking — $10 million more than it spent four years ago. The group is expected to, among other things, hand out 30 million pieces of literature in 125,000 churches — many of them in battleground states.
“In terms of home visits and voters reached at the door, to my knowledge it’s the largest effort on the right outside of the Republican National Committee ever,” Ralph Reed, a longtime Republican strategist and Trump ally who oversees the organization, said of the direct voter contact enterprise.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/11/ralph-reed-army-spending-trump-00146170
Why don't these churches pay taxes?
What about separation of church and State?
Thirty million pieces of literature at 125,000 churches.
California Primary Election Results 2024: Live Maps
The San Fransisco Chronicle has live charts and maps of the March 5 California Primary election.
I do not like the "jungle" primary system.
Live election results for California's once-in-a-generation Senate race, the presidential primary and more
https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2024/california-primary-election-results/
Christian Nationalist Space Lasers Destroying Hippie Mail in Ballots.
The second video (40 sec) is a POV closeup of a redwood tree sheared by lightning, a blazing Post Office, and large pieces of the shattered tree trunk on the highway.
Pretty sure mail in ballots were destroyed.
Lots of weirdo weather in progress.
[UPDATE 7:13 P.M.] LEGGETT POST OFFICE ON FIRE FOLLOWING REPORTED LIGHTNING STRIKE
Friday, 1 March 2024, 6:11 pm Matt LaFever; RedheadBlackBelt
The Post Office in the Northern Mendocino County town of Leggett is on reportedly fire this evening after being struck by lightning.
A firefighter at scene reported a structure, the Leggett store, which is nearby is actively being threatened.
The initial dispatch regarding the structure fire came out around 5:44 p.m. indicating a fire was burning inside Leggett Post Office located at 67674 Highway 271.
The reporting party told dispatch the fire ignited after the structure was struck by lightning.
Videos, photos, air photo, and updates at link: https://kymkemp.com/2024/03/01/leggett-post-office-on-fire-following-reported-lightning-strike/
POTUS Biden Settlement Policy in Israel.
Note just made the same post prior to seeing this three.
The quotes are from TwitterX and don't have an account.
US senator applauds restoration of settlement policy
Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen has welcomed the Biden administration’s decision to reverse a Trump-era policy that refused to say that Israeli settlements in the occupied territories are illegal under international law.
“I applaud @SecBlinken for taking this important step to reassert U.S. policy against illegal settlements and to advance a viable two-state future where Israelis and Palestinians can live with equal measures of dignity, rights and security,” the senator said in a social media post.
Former US ambassador to Israel hits out at Blinken over settlement policy
David Friedman, who served as ambassador to Israel under the Trump administration and earned a reputation for controversial acts underscoring his firm support for Israel, has slammed current Secretary of State Blinken’s remarks earlier today that Israeli settlements violate international law, a position the Trump administration did not take.
“Blinken is 100% wrong. I researched this for over a year with many State Department lawyers,” Friedman said in a social media post. “There is nothing illegal about Jews living in their biblical homeland.”
Gov't Mule ft Robert Randolph, Samantha Fish, Ron Holloway - Rambling Gambling Man - Island Exodus14
Several years past, Samantha Fish retired the "Fishcaster" as main guitar and replaced with a white Gibson SG that is a copy of Sister Rosetta Tharpe's white SG. Before that, I was ignorant of Sister Tharpe.
Alarming new warnings about Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant
Feb. 19, 2024
Nearly two years since the war in Ukraine began, the IAEA and Ukrainian officials are increasingly worried that the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant -- the largest in Europe -- could be on the brink. NBC News' Richard Engel reports.
https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/alarming-new-warnings-about-russian-held-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-power-plant-204507205815
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