What's in the news?

[Skynet]

Roughly, the Palmer Report would be the left-wing equivalent to Brietbart. According to what empirical analysis you can do on this sort of thing.

This chart feels like it's only really applicable to mainstream US politics.

The Most Extreme Left is surprisingly bereft of communist and anarchist media sources. I'm also surprised to not see any Neo-Nazi sources like the Daily Stormer on the Extreme Right either.

[Skynet]

Edit: Oh, there's Jacobin Magazine. Although it's strange seeing Wonkette to the left of self-avowed socialists, an account that they had a few pro-Hillary articles from my recollections.

[Tolvo]

I was actually curious to see how Breitbart was reporting on the Tucker Carlson news.

Apparently it was an Antifascist Riot secretly orchestrated by Cuba to undervalue "Democracy Activists" and the USA government?

"Tucker Carlson Antifa Riot Hints Cuba’s Campaign to Export Mob Attacks Is Succeeding" is the headline even. I'm not sure whether to link to it because it is like a weird rabbit hole of bigotry and scaremongering and their citations are their own site and for some reason constantly bring up that what they are saying are the facts while including an edited version of the Think Progress video with the concept being it wasa "Siege" of "Soy Boys"? They put this up today and it's also apparent they've seen the full video, which this edited version still doesn't show any violence and their claim is "We didn't include the footage of what really happened it was too violent."

Keep in mind most major news outlets reporting on this just took Tucker Carlson at his word, so a witness counter to his story is not more biased than Tucker himself who also hates the people he claims did these things.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/11/florida-orders-recount-contentious-senate-governor-races-181110190041101.html

Also it looks like Florida is having a recount.

[Lilias]

Not something that any network will report on, but a fan club has lost its celebrity.

https://blogs.ancientfaith.com/morningoffering/2018/11/hammi-3/

[Tolvo]

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/11/labour-activists-disappeared-china-suspected-raids-181112064615430.html

This is pretty worrying. I know it happens a lot just, always worrying. While I think hatred of China is a problem(In regards to overly hating them for certain things) I also do end up sometimes in circles with people who do defend things like this just because they're Communist(Which also can be weird when China suppresses other Communist ideologies) and it really worries me when people just support doing whatever to political opponents.

[Deamonbane]

Stan Lee, Marvel Comics godfather, dead at 95

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/stan-lee-dead-95-185336633.html

Fuck. Just... fuck.

[Shekinah]

Stan Lee, Marvel Comics godfather, dead at 95

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/stan-lee-dead-95-185336633.html

Fuck. Just... fuck.

:(

[Tolvo]

Pretty sad about that, seeing people posting lots of negative things about him which you can do but also like let people mourn. Especially a figure lots of people grew up loving the work of and being inspired by.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-calls-florida-ballots-massively-infected-demands-end/story?id=59136811

So Trump is calling for ballots to not be counted and to call races in favor of Republicans and that there is corruption and voter fraud going on.

https://www.npr.org/2018/11/12/665635832/democrats-say-their-first-bill-will-focus-on-strengthening-democracy-at-home?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=politics&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=2041

The Dems are proposing something that they should have done under the Obama administration, but I'm happy to see them at least talking about now, though I don't know how they'll actually get it passed.

[Callie Del Noire]

Stan Lee, Marvel Comics godfather, dead at 95

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/stan-lee-dead-95-185336633.html

Fuck. Just... fuck.

Excelsior my man... I'll remember all the stories you helped me thru the dark times with.. they lit my imagination..

thank you Mr. Lee.

[Rinzler]

Stan Lee, Marvel Comics godfather, dead at 95

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/stan-lee-dead-95-185336633.html

Fuck. Just... fuck.

Stan Lee, who understood that the hero doesn't always get the girl, that the rent still needs to be paid and that great power didn't mean you always made the right decisions. And he always told us so with a knowing wink and a laugh.

My abiding memory of Stan's strange and funny genius was a Spidey strip from way back - he was fighting some super-powered villain or whatever, while having to deal with the indignity of a shrunk Spidey suit because he hadn't washed it at the proper temperature. You can't really fault someone with such a healthy disrespect for power. RIP Stan.

[gaggedLouise]

Neil Young, authentic rock legend and a brilliant singer-songwriter, says on his personal website that his home has gone to waste in the Malibu fire, and that it's the second time in his life he's suffered this loss due to a wildfire.  :'(

“It really is time for a reckoning with this unfit leader,” Neil Young wrote of Donald Trump Sunday. This time, Young’s wrath wasn’t just brought on by the president’s continued unauthorized use of “Rockin’ in the Free World,” which the musician had railed against less than a week ago. Young has lost the Malibu home he shared with his wife, Daryl Hannah, in the devastating fires. Seeing Trump blame the deadly calamity on the state of California itself set him toward writing a response, not in the form of a tweet but rather a 300-word essay that he published on his website, Neil Young Archives.

https://variety.com/2018/music/news/neil-young-california-fire-trump-1203025945/

Not long before, Young had urged Trump to stop using his 1989 classic Rockin' in the Free World, just as he had once told George W Bush that he did not want to hear of him using it anymore (in 2005, Young included a song Let's Impeach the President on his Living With War album). For the record, RITFW was an ironic title from the start, Young told one of his bandmates that he would have to use that line and write a song so called because it felt so cheesy. :P

Miley Cyrus and actor Gerard Butler have also had to see their homes destroyed by the fire, as well as hundreds or thousands of a bit less wealthy people around Ventura County. :(

Okay, Trump didn't actually cause the fire (his climate denialism is not helping though), but I can't resist adding that song - the lyrics could soon become even more disturbingly true than they were a dozen years ago. Some of them already are.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3_cS_iQ-w0

[gaggedLouise]

Forgot to add in this link about Neil, Miley Cyrus and other people who have now lost their homes in the fire:

miley-cyruss-mansion-no-longer-stands-wildfire-lays-waste-celebrity-studded-malibu/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.36cc957dcbf7

[Sara Nilsson]

https://www.theroot.com/wisconsin-boys-take-prom-photo-giving-nazi-salute-inte-1830391879

A prom photo of future policymakers from Wisconsin’s Baraboo High School Class of 2019 appears to show most of the boys, minus the one black kid on the far right, (look hard, he’s in there) giving a Nazi salute.

Facepalms so hard it hurts. yeah its a big laugh, do the nazi salute for your picture while laughing. This is what this country has become. March with torches, throw the salute, etc. It is all just either a laugh or.. we must do this to save our white race.. *eyeroll* speaking as someone who can't get any whiter without being dead I can safely say, maybe we should die out if this is what we do? Fucking hell.

https://www.theroot.com/black-man-precludes-casualties-in-bar-shootout-only-t-1830384839

So, a guy returns to a bar after a fight. With a gun.. the bouncer stops him, but sadly the bouncer is black so when the cops arrive they see a black guy with a gun... and shoots our hero dead. Good job.

[Tolvo]

That school photo is kind of unsurprising given the current environment and my own experiences with high school. I remember when I found out a friend of mine with very uh questionable views on politics also just happened to like to keep a lot of Nazi clothes and uniforms in his closet. For no reason. At all. It was pretty worrying. But god is that photo also depressing and it sounds like that school has a lot of problems, there is also a story of one of the kids in the photo speaking out about it but it is shared as an image so I don't know if its actually real or not.

The security guard being killed is just so depressing. Whenever this happens the NRA likes to say nothing or not much at all. It seems like they really like to focus on when anything happens to white gun owners. But then again black gun owners may remind them and their base of the Black Panthers which is probably a scary thing to them. Like I'm not into guns myself but if you are into gun rights the gun rights of black people and their right to defend themselves should matter as well even if it involves coming to grips with the reality they may have to defend themselves against a cop. It was actually really glaring when certain conservatives and people who defending the killing of Trayvon Martin, of Mike Brown, and others, felt the FBI were unjustified in shooting that member of the white militant Bundy crew who ran a police barricade after escaping police and being chased and then running at them with a gun after yelling he wouldn't stop unless they killed him.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/416168-trump-wants-to-end-federal-relief-money-for-puerto-rico-report?__twitter_impression=true

Also I guess Trump is really digging in on his dislike of Puerto Rico.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/special-counsel-witness-expects-charged-mueller-probe/story?id=59148352

A member of Infowars is going to be charged in the Mueller investigation.

https://thinkprogress.org/professor-lawsuit-adf-transgender-preferred-pronouns-4341eaa191d9/

A personally worrying story is about a professor's desire and a hate group supported by the government's desire to see the right to be hostile to trans students be defended.

[Sara Nilsson]

https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/12/politics/sinema-arizona-senate-race/index.html

Democratic Rep. Kyrsten Sinema will win Arizona's US Senate race, defeating Republican Rep. Martha McSally and flipping a seat that had been in GOP hands for 24 years.

[Tolvo]

https://www.denverpost.com/2018/11/10/brianna-titone-colorado-first-transgender-lawmaker/

This is also pretty cool to see. I followed Danica but I didn't know about this woman or some of the others. It is kind of interesting how much media pushes everyone to try and hate trans people, and there is definitely transphobia, but also we are seeing more and more trans people being elected.

In other, more frightening news.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/11/crying-nazi-releases-video-game-users-play-richard-spencer-kill-reporters-lgbt-people-pulse-like-club/

A Neo Nazi released a game centered around killing minorities and people he hates. It also includes real footage of people being harmed and hate crimes and such.

Like, even though I don't like them Postal, South Park Games, those can exist. This does seem to take it to another level, though Youtube did ban the trailer. Games don't necessarily make people actually go out and kill people but they can reinforce a lot of ideas someone already has and this seems like its more about dehumanization and scaring people. Like hell we do have the other side with things that are very left leaning like Wolfenstein but I dunno this seems a whole other level.

[Skynet]

https://www.theroot.com/wisconsin-boys-take-prom-photo-giving-nazi-salute-inte-1830391879

Facepalms so hard it hurts. yeah its a big laugh, do the nazi salute for your picture while laughing. This is what this country has become. March with torches, throw the salute, etc. It is all just either a laugh or.. we must do this to save our white race.. *eyeroll* speaking as someone who can't get any whiter without being dead I can safely say, maybe we should die out if this is what we do? Fucking hell.

The kid in the upper right corner is not doing the salute and looks rather uncomfortable about the whole affair; he was the only one who had the foresight or decency to realize this would immediately backfire.

https://www.theroot.com/black-man-precludes-casualties-in-bar-shootout-only-t-1830384839

So, a guy returns to a bar after a fight. With a gun.. the bouncer stops him, but sadly the bouncer is black so when the cops arrive they see a black guy with a gun... and shoots our hero dead. Good job.

At this rate it won't be long before an African-American police officer is shot by his fellow boys in blue on mistaken identity.

[Tolvo]

That has actually happened, let me try to find it where they shot an off duty black officer.

Here it is.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/26/us/saint-louis-black-officer.html

[Scribbles]

https://www.theroot.com/black-man-precludes-casualties-in-bar-shootout-only-t-1830384839

So, a guy returns to a bar after a fight. With a gun.. the bouncer stops him, but sadly the bouncer is black so when the cops arrive they see a black guy with a gun... and shoots our hero dead. Good job.

I thought police were supposed to make some kind of declaration before firing their weapons, like asking the suspect to drop the gun and so on.

[Flower]

I saw that article. Damn shame. Apparently, the onlookers tried to inform him that he was the hero and not the suspect. Still killed him.

[gaggedLouise]

I thought police were supposed to make some kind of declaration before firing their weapons, like asking the suspect to drop the gun and so on.

Obviously can't always be done like that in a dangerous live situation - but the police need to show some judgment about what *can* be called actually a dangerous and quickly unfolding situation....or not.

[Sara Nilsson]

Well, I will be damned. Trump was right. Yeah let that sink in. Trump was right.

Florida DID have voter fraud. 147 votes where emailed in for faxed in and counted despite that is not ok. And remember four (4) cases of voter fraud was found nationwide in 2016, so clearly this is very troubling.

Just one tiiiny problem. They where all republican.

https://www.theroot.com/for-once-trump-was-right-florida-officials-admit-to-w-1830406659

[Callie Del Noire]

Well, I will be damned. Trump was right. Yeah let that sink in. Trump was right.

Florida DID have voter fraud. 147 votes where emailed in for faxed in and counted despite that is not ok. And remember four (4) cases of voter fraud was found nationwide in 2016, so clearly this is very troubling.

Just one tiiiny problem. They where all republican.

https://www.theroot.com/for-once-trump-was-right-florida-officials-admit-to-w-1830406659

Oh that is voter fraud and everyone knows that only the fake news pinko commie libtards do things like that

[Sara Nilsson]

Clearly a false flag operation.

[Tolvo]

I've actually seen some democrats talking about this on twitter, but no full articles yet. Like democrat politicians. With their issue with it not being that it is actually voter fraud. Because technically you can legally do that in their system, but that the majority democrat counties were not given permission to do this and that the republican ones were. So it is very sketchy but technically legal according to them and that it is a bit of a rigged system.