Hi gang – I hope everyone had a great week. It went by pretty fast for me and I hope for you as well!
Surprised they didn’t make him foreman, given the judge.
Kyle Rittenhouse juror dismissed for making joke ‘in bad taste’ about police shooting of Jacob Blake
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/11/04/kyle-rittenhouse-juror-dismissed-joke-blake/
Maybe someone should send her a nice chianti?
Ghislaine Maxwell jail conditions rival Hannibal Lecter’s, lawyers say
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/nov/04/ghislaine-maxwell-jail-lawyers-hannibal-lecter-bail-request
Pretty!
Diwali 2021 in Photos:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2021/diwali-images-festival-lights/?itid=hp-more-top-stories
Stonks!
Peloton shares fall 24% as company posts wider-than-expected loss and slashes full-year outlook
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/04/peloton-pton-to-report-fiscal-q1-2022-earnings-.html
Sprots!
Douche
Aaron Rodgers’ Covid-19 case is a failure of leadership that won’t be forgotten
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/nov/04/aaron-rodgers-covid-vaccine-leadership
Not a Douche
Buster Posey’s career was like no other in Giants history
https://theathletic.com/2933824/2021/11/03/buster-poseys-career-was-like-no-other-in-giants-history/
The worst Chris. The Twitterverse is dragging Chris Pratt for this cringey tweet.
Palate cleanser after that:
Have a great Friday!
That Pratt tweet is actually (probably inadvertently) worse than it seems. He also has a son by his first wife, Anna Faris. The son, Jack, was born two months premature, suffered cerebral bleeding, has had multiple surgeries, and is somehow slightly disabled. Pratt appears to be a devoted father to both, but to say that the new model “gave” him “a gorgeous healthy daughter” (emphasis mine) is unfortunate phrasing. Jack is now 9, presumably can read and interested in his father’s doings.
It’s something when the whole internet hates you!
…I know that post of his wasn’t directly from there but I’ve definitely heard it said that you never want to be twitter’s “main character” for the day…although I guess that wouldn’t be “the whole internet”…either way it doesn’t help that he keeps reminding me how long ago it was that he was some fool with a busted leg on parks & rec?
It seems like he was being facetious. I’d spend some more time trying to parse the words, but I can’t remember who Chris Pratt is or why he is famous, so it doesn’t seem worth the effort.
…it might be that his mrs thinks he was funny…but context is a minefield online & in the context of some of the stuff he’s said & done publicly it might seem like it reading differently to a bunch of folks wouldn’t have come as a surprise to him
…I don’t really “do” instagram but my understanding is that if he didn’t want the world & their dog to weigh in on how it looks to them he could have avoided that?
…I wouldn’t be surprised to discover that he assumed people would see it as self-deprecating & I’m pretty sure I know some people who’d read it that way…but I get why others would find it…let’s call it off-putting?
Yes! His son is exactly where my mind went to when he chose to describe his daughter as “healthy”. Even if he didn’t intend it, at the very least it was an insensitive choice of wording.
The Department of Labor released a strong jobs report, with employment up by 531,000 and the unemployment rate down to 4.6% from over 6% when Biden took office.
I’m sure the media’s take will be anxiety about employment making inflation worse and how we need to start firing more people and cutting wages, never mind that employment shortages are what are making the supply problems behind inflation worse.
Bad news for the woke left!
And for more on the NY Times political reporting bias, there’s this:
https://theracket.news/p/the-far-rights-secret-weapon
Jeremey Peters has a clear problem with presenting right wing activists as moderates, and his editors are clearly letting it happen. And the scary thing is that they may actually be complicit in it, swallowing packaged frameworks from the right wing PR machine, complete with supposedly neutral sources prepped for an interview.
At what point do we start enforcing treason and sedition laws?
https://sethabramson.substack.com/p/breaking-news-gop-senate-candidate
and from the land of @Farscythe, what the fuck did I just read?
https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kbp5x/how-a-far-right-philosopher-ended-up-shooting-porn
A “far-right philosopher”. *SNORT*
*shrugs* first ive heard about it
suspect that means they arent causing as much controversy as they had hoped
Milk is a billion gazillion dollars per gallon now…still less than 2007 though…how will this typical, modern day, middle class family survive?
https://www.wonkette.com/cnn-explains-how-joe-biden-s-inflation-hurts-typical-american-family-with-nine-kids
“We interview people who don’t understand inflation about inflation.”
CNN is owned by AT&T. AT&T helped fund and start OANN.
https://www.businessinsider.com/oan-funding-att-investigation-funneled-tens-millions-dollars-trump-insurrection-2021-10?op=1
All corporate media is terrible but at least most honest people know that Fox is pushing an agenda, even most liberals think CNN is not partisan.
$2.79?! Where I live, milk has been $4/gal for at least 12 years, thanks to a “state minimum” price that started as a subsidy for dairy farmers.
This gives me even more hope for the COP26 great accomplishments…