He’s trying to get Lily and Steve to be more brand-friendly dammit!!!… Bianca Bosker, in the Atlantic, on “Instamom: The enviable, highly profitable life of Amber Fillerup Clark, perfect mother and social-media influencer”: One morning in early November, Amber Fillerup Clark sat at her dining-room table, which serves as her desk most days, peering at …
Open Thread: Jason Chaffetz, Craven Careerist
"The president said, 'no oversight. You can't talk about anything that has to do with oversight.'" — Untroubled GOP chair of oversight https://t.co/N8GzcYl4Aj — Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) February 7, 2017 Chaffetz gets a 30-min mtg with Trump/Priebus in the Oval Office, says Trump insisted on no talk of investigations https://t.co/D0j8zI19Wq — Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) February …
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Open Thread: AWKward, Judge Gorsuch!
NEW: Supreme Court pick Neil Gorsuch calls Pres. Trump comments on the judiciary "demoralizing" and "disheartening" https://t.co/i3q2sS91B1 pic.twitter.com/FyFq3teSbg — Good Morning America (@GMA) February 8, 2017 I'd add "corrosive" and "damaging to our civic culture." https://t.co/BI060Smfkx — Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) February 8, 2017 Note the senders: happy-chat morning tv show, and a conservative who still …
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Public Safety Announcement Regarding Marches, Assemblies, and Demonstrations
I don’t want to alarm anyone, and I’ve not found any reporting on this happening anywhere else, but one of our readers/commenters sent me the following. I’ve removed a lot of the personal references so as not to identify the reader/commenter unless he/she wishes to do so in the comments. I’m curious if you have …
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Wednesday Evening Open Thread: The Trump Cabal, On Beyond Shameless
Sean Spicer just now: I can only hope that if Coretta Scott King was still with us, that she would support Senator Sessions's nomination. — Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) February 8, 2017 Used to be, an elderly racist like Jefferson Beauregard Sessions would be required to festoon his confirmation hearing with platitudes about ‘youthful indiscretions’ and …
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In US, TV Watches You!
Funny title aside, this is serious: This is horrifying. Currently advising everyone I know who owns a @VIZIO set to toss it. https://t.co/hxt9sx2l8U pic.twitter.com/lDjPkQa31z — Terrence O'Brien (@TerrenceOBrien) February 6, 2017 Here’s the full Federal Trade Commission statement: What Vizio was doing behind the TV screen By: Lesley Fair | Feb 6, 2017 11:05AM TAGS: …
Quick Tech Update and Open Thread
Folks, I’m working with Master Programmer Major Major Major Major (only his hubby can call him Master Master Master Master!) to add the missing button we need so that we can use one uniform set of buttons for both desktop and mobile site. There are, of course, a few other things I’m working on. I’m …