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Via TPM:
Facebook’s internal chat boards have been revealed to be a battleground between employees and their higher-ups on how to restrain right-wing outlets on their platform, where bosses usually keep in check lower-level employees quarrelling over such conservative sites being included on the platform.
As part of the Wall Street Journal’s ongoing Facebook Files, internal documents reviewed by the outlet have revealed how politics usually find their way into the decision-making process at the social media giant.
“The documents viewed by the Journal, which don’t capture all of the employee messaging, didn’t mention equivalent debates over left-wing publications,” wrote the Wall Street Journal. “Other documents also reveal that Facebook’s management team has been so intently focused on avoiding charges of bias that it regularly places political considerations at the center of its decision making.”
Idaho of all places…
Via Breaking 911:
Boise, Idaho – Authorities in Boise were responding top a report of a shooting at the Boise Towne Square shopping mall Monday afternoon. The scene is at 350 North Milwaukee Street.
Police reported multiple injuries and one suspect in custody as they swept the buildings.
Residents were asked to avoid the area and streets were blocked off.
This is a breaking news update and will be updated when more information becomes available.
Don’t be fooled. Most cops would just as soon arrest your grandma for not complying…
Police marching to protest mask mandates in NYC.
So much for serving and protecting.
pic.twitter.com/Y1jCJ1yuyJ— Randy Bryce (@IronStache) October 25, 2021
Science, Science, Science, Science!
Biden isn’t wearing a mask. He coughed in his hand before shaking hands with people, all of whom had to wear masks. His security is also forced to wear masks. pic.twitter.com/KGRa29xL6F
— Ian Miles Cheong @ stillgray.substack.com (@stillgray) October 25, 2021
Via Fox News:
More than 150 families living in San Francisco have hired private security to patrol their streets amid brazen property crimes, with some saying they no longer feel safe in their own neighborhood.
“We don’t feel safe in our neighborhood,” resident Katie Lyons, told CBS SF. “And we have an alarm, we have cameras on our property, but we want the extra security of having someone have eyes on our place.”
Lyons and other families hired patrol special officer Alan Byard to help patrol the streets of the city’s Marina District following repeated instances of car break-ins and home burglaries.
Have you heard? #BroadwayisBack! Bill and I had the absolute joy of seeing @SixBroadway Friday night – what's on your Broadway bucket list? pic.twitter.com/DvMHikDUQQ
— Kathy Hochul (@GovKathyHochul) October 24, 2021
Wow. The crowd protesting against the mandates in NYC is MASSIVE. You can hear them chant FJB. pic.twitter.com/e9pUxzg944
— Ian Miles Cheong @ stillgray.substack.com (@stillgray) October 25, 2021
Oh boy, more blue voters!
Via Western Journal:
A large caravan of more than 2,000 migrants is traveling north through Mexico toward the southern border of the U.S., with one migrant warning, “Tell Biden we are coming.”
Fox News correspondent Griff Jenkins posted a video to Twitter on Monday morning of the large group of migrants walking along a Mexican highway.
“The Migrant Caravan has left Huehuetán heading North w one migrant named William from El Salvador saying ‘Tell Biden we are coming…’” Jenkins tweeted.
Via WFB:
The country’s largest school board association apologized late Friday for its letter to President Joe Biden calling on the FBI to investigate parents as potential domestic terrorists.
The National School Board Association said in a memo to its members that “there was no justification” for some of the language in the letter, which was sent to Biden on Sept. 29. “On behalf of NSBA, we regret and apologize for the letter,” the association said.
The team?
Via CNN:
President Joe Biden decamped to Wilmington on Friday, escaping the White House he’s likened to a “gilded cage” for a weekend at his Delaware home. It’s yet another weekend away from Washington as the President has spent a noteworthy portion of his first year in office at one of his two Delaware homes or at Camp David, working remotely.
A CNN analysis of Biden’s public schedule indicates the President has spent a significant amount of time away from the White House, particularly on weekends, since his January inauguration. Including this weekend’s trip to Delaware, Biden has taken 35 personal trips and spent all or part of 108 of his first 276 days in office at one of his Delaware homes or at Camp David in Maryland. That includes partial days, like Friday — when he spent the day at the White House and departed in the evening.
Sixty-nine of those 108 days away from Washington were spent at his home in Wilmington, spread over 23 visits; seven days at his Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, beach house over two visits; and 32 days at Camp David over 10 visits.
That puts Biden ahead of the pace set by former President Donald Trump, who had spent less time at his Florida and New Jersey getaways at the same point in his presidency than Biden has spent in Delaware.
While most presidents have prioritized taking time away from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, this is the most time a president has spent away from the White House on personal travel at this point in the presidency in recent history.
Now that he mentions it…
WE DID IT. FROM BANNED ON YOUTUBE TO PASSING ADELE ON THE ITUNES CHARTS TO BECOME THE #1 SONG IN THE COUNTRY!
Stop being afraid of censorship. Stop being afraid to be cancelled. STAND UP.
Thank y’all so much! KEEP IT GOING! pic.twitter.com/rIfsJjSxEG
— CCG BRYSON (@RealBrysonGray) October 24, 2021
Update to this story.
Via WFB:
A coalition of longtime anti-Israel activists and groups is spearheading a “grassroots” campaign by Google and Amazon employees calling on the companies to cut business ties with Israel, drawing accusations that it’s an astroturf operation.
On Oct. 12, a group of “anonymous Google and Amazon employees” published an open letter in the Guardian calling on their employers to pull out of a project with the Israeli government to develop a cloud data system—called Project Nimbus—and “cut all ties with the Israeli military.” The authors said they were withholding their identities “because we fear retaliation” and claimed “more than 90 workers at Google and more than 300 at Amazon” had signed on to the letter.
The next day, a group calling itself No Tech for Apartheid launched a website. The group claimed it was created in response to the employee letter, saying it was “heeding the call from hundreds of Google and Amazon workers to rise up against” Project Nimbus, and linking to the Guardian article.
The group registered the website—NoTechForApartheid.com—nearly two months prior to the Google and Amazon letter’s publication, and it sat dormant until the day after the “anonymous” letter was published, according to domain respiration data. The fine print at the bottom of the website notes that it is a “joint project” of Jewish Voice for Peace and MPower Change, two prominent anti-Israel groups that are active in the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement.
While the No Tech for Apartheid campaign bills itself as an organic effort, the two anti-Israel groups leading the project—Jewish Voice for Peace and MPower—have no significant ties to the tech industry but lengthy backgrounds supporting boycotts, divestment, and sanctions against Israel. MPower’s leadership role in particular could become a credibility problem for the campaign due to its controversial executive director. The group is run by Linda Sarsour, a prominent BDS activist who was kicked off the Women’s March board and denounced by President Joe Biden due to her affiliation with anti-Semitic preacher Louis Farrakhan.
Via Free Beacon:
The Biden administration is in touch with nearly 400 Americans who are stranded in Afghanistan, a figure that far exceeds the administration’s claims that about 100 Americans were left in the nation following the United States’ hurried exit from Kabul, according to a senior congressional source who was briefed Thursday by the State Department.
With Afghanistan in the administration’s rear-view mirror, U.S. officials are providing exact figures on the number of Americans who are still stranded and want to leave—although they are doing so in private, off-the-record forums—according to two senior congressional aides, who relayed the contents of the non-public call to the Washington Free Beacon.
The United States is in touch with 363 Americans who are stuck in war-torn Afghanistan and around 176 U.S. permanent residents who are asking to be evacuated immediately, Biden administration officials said on the call with congressional staff, according to the source, who requested anonymity to discuss non-public information. These figures demonstrate that senior Biden administration officials routinely misrepresented the number of stranded Americans to the public and Congress for nearly two months.
Via Newsbusters:
Friday’s edition of The 11th Hour on MSNBC devolved into hyperbolic name-calling when host Brian Williams compared Republicans to “killers” and the Lincoln Project’s Steve Schmidt comparing them to fascists all while Democrats do nothing to stop them.