https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-pop-culture/transgender-models-featured-victorias-secret-fashion-show-rcna175699
Transgender models featured in Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show
Valentina Sampaio and Alex Consani made history at the iconic fashion show, which returned Tuesday after a six-year hiatus.
Oct. 16, 2024, 7:42 AM GMT-11
By Matt Lavietes
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/10/18/hurricane_helenes_political_disaster_151797.html
Hurricane Helene’s Political Disaster
COMMENTARY
By Ryan Bonifay
Hurricane Helene devastated large swaths of western North Carolina, with entire towns wiped away or forever altered. The human disaster will be felt for decades. But there’s another impending disaster no one is talking about – a political one.
North Carolina is a perennial swing state with a penchant for split-ticket voting. In 2020, Donald Trump won the state by less than 1.5 percentage points. In 2008, Barack Obama clinched the state for the Democrats by a mere 14,000 votes out of 4.3 million votes. This year, North Carolina is once again a battleground state, with both political parties spending hundreds of millions of dollars, and both presidential nominees are spending significant time here. In the Tar Heel State, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are literally fighting for every single vote.
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There is ZERO election integrity in California.
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These are currently sitting in my apartment complex mail room which is unlocked, bc the locks are broken.
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LIVE: President Trump holds a rally in Detroit, MI!
https://www.rsbnetwork.com/video/live-president-trump-holds-a-rally-in-detroit-mi-10-18-24/
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/oh-bamacare-visualizing-forty-years-health-insurance-cost-inflation
Oh, 'Bamacare! Visualizing Forty Years Of Health Insurance Cost Inflation
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by Tyler Durden
Friday, Oct 18, 2024 - 11:00 AM
The Consumer Expenditure Survey (CEX) now covers forty years worth of data for how Americans households spend money.
That data includes how much the average "consumer unit" surveyed by the U.S. Census Bureau spends on health insurance, which like many other things in the economy, has seen significant cost inflation over the past four decades.
The following chart, via Political Calculations blog, shows how that cost has changed from 1984, the first year for the CEX, through 2023, the latest, whose data was just released last month.
As you'll see, over the past 40 years, there has been one major factor that has altered the trajectory for how much American households/consumer units pay on average for health insurance coverage.
https://x.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1847036642005032967
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@JamesOKeefeIII
BREAKING: Second Round of Meta Engineers Reveal Censorship Practices: “Pro-Trump” Posts “Go Just Up to Another Team to Take It Down"
“Usually the disinformation we saw was pro-Trump… We'll investigate, and then it goes just up to another team to take it [the post] down,” admits Matthew Fowler (@mattsfowler), a Software Engineering Manager at @Meta
, during an undercover date with an O’Keefe Media Group journalist. Fowler emphasized that Meta’s investigations often rely on mainstream media for verification, stating, “The news is going to do their job, and then based on what the outlets say… you have to trust that.”
Plamen Dzhelepov (@PlamenDzhelepov), a Machine Learning Engineer at Meta, agreed, “Meta has the right to suppress anything,” acknowledging the company’s political bias by noting, “they're biased if they do that against the Republicans.” Dzhelepov detailed Meta’s censorship capabilities, confirming they target “crazy conspiracy right-wing people,” actively demoting their opinions.
Michael Zoorob (@MichaelZoorob), a Data Scientist at Meta, described the fact-checking process, stating, “the fundamental problem is that… the vast majority of what fact-checkers label as false is shared by conservatives,” admitting that any policy demoting content labeled false by fact-checkers disproportionately affects conservatives.
When addressing misinformation, Dzhelepov explained Meta's approach: “it's either censored or it says a [community note] thing, where it says, 'this is disinformation, it's probably fake' under the post," adding that Meta “actually suppresses certain voices.” Zoorob also recalled how Meta had downranked the Hunter Biden laptop story upon the FBI's warning, stating, “We just downranked it,” making the post less visible in users' feeds.”
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