My latest. Please read + share: "Drain MSNBC of Viewers As It Whitewashes its Network to Placate Trump"MSNBC has decided to silence, sideline, & cancel prominent anchors of color, such as Joy Reid. The rest of us can tune out and build our own media community.open.substack.com/pub/thelefth…
NEW: Macron has to interrupt Trump and correct a lie about Europe’s contribution.TRUMP: “Europe is loaning the money to Ukraine. They get their money back."MACRON: “No. We provided real money. To be clear.”Trump clearly not used to get fact-checked live.
I'd heard a rumor that DOGE had fired all the regional directors at SEC. Seems that rumor was pretty close to the mark. All told their jobs are being eliminated. (Remember, Musk despises the SEC.) http://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-…
lol there's so much going on here.when is second chance. what does termination actually mean. Musk is literally attempting to make himself look important and in charge when multiple agency heads have told him to fuck off.
The Trump administration may continue — for now — to keep the AP from covering key events. A federal judge declined to issue a temporary restraining order on Monday.
"Will childhood vaccines now mandated by law become voluntary, or removed from circulation altogether? Putting a bullseye on the polio vaccine is a clear warning that even the safest, most proven vaccines aren’t safe from Kennedy."
My fear is Trump is "putting people in place for when that fateful day arrives & the suggestion is made, as it was in the Oval Office, 'should we just shoot them in the legs,' … my fear is there will be officers in the room who say sure, we will shoot them," retired Rear Adm. James McPherson said.
“MSNBC finalized its revamped schedule on Monday, promoting progressive anchors Jen Psaki and Symone Sanders-Townsend to primetime while booting its largely non-white weekend lineup of hosts off their namesake shows.
Anchors Jonathan Capehart, Katie Phang, and Ayman Mohyeldin are losing their eponymous weekend shows. Capehart and Mohyeldin will instead be one of multiple hosts of separate editions of The Weekend at 7 a.m. and 6 p.m., respectively, while Phang will remain with the network as a legal correspondent with no anchor slot. Its other Miami-based anchor, José Díaz-Balart, will also lose his show, though he will remain as host of NBC’s weekend edition of Nightly News.
Psaki will replace Alex Wagner’s Tuesday through Friday 9 p.m. hour in April after Rachel Maddow completes her five-day-a-week stint during President Donald Trump’s first 100 days, MSNBC president Rebecca Kutler announced on Monday. Wagner will stay on as a senior political analyst.
MSNBC’s The Weekend hosts—Symone Sanders Townsend, Michael Steele, and Alicia Menendez—will take over the 7 p.m. hour from Joy Reid, who will leave the network, and the 8 p.m. hour on Mondays.
Ali Velshi’s Velshi will also expand to a three-hour, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. show to make up for Psaki’s weekend show at noon. Most of the changes will take affect in April, Kutler told staff in a memo on Monday.
The broad changes come as MSNBC severs its ties from NBC after Comcast spun most of its cable networks into a new SpinCo company headed by Mark Lazarus. As part of its new independence, Kutler said she wanted to expand the network’s Washington, D.C., operation with a new bureau of domestic and international correspondents.
“As I shared with many of you a few weeks ago, my goal is to build on the successes that have distinguished MSNBC from its peers,” Kutler told staff in a memo. “We now have one of the most engaged audiences in all of television and are seeing rapid growth across digital, audio, and more. In the years ahead, we must continue to show up for our audiences in this critical moment while simultaneously best positioning ourselves for the future.”
The changes also signals MSNBC’s desire to lean into its progressive voice for its older viewers (its viewers’ median age is 70, according to TheWall Street Journal), even as Lazarus has reportedly wanted to appeal to more Republicans.”
Appealing to republicans evidently means being racist, misogynistic, anti-Muslim, and homophobic. I guess I’m going back to reading my news.
“Rachel Maddow is coming out in support of her fellow MSNBC star Joy Reid.
Maddow, 51, addressed the cancellation of Reid’s show, The ReidOut, which aired its final episode on Monday, February 24, during her show, The Rachel Maddow Show, later Monday evening.
MSNBC confirmed Monday that Reid, 56, would exit the network imminently after reports emerged over the weekend that the news network was canceling her political commentary show after five years.
“Joy Reid’s show, The ReidOut, ended tonight. And Joy is not taking a different job in the network. She is leaving the network altogether and that is very, very, very hard to take,” Maddow said during her show Monday, per Variety.
“I am 51 years old. I have been gainfully employed since I was 12. I have had so many different types of jobs you wouldn’t believe me if I told you. But in all the jobs that I have had, in all of the years I have been alive, there is no colleague for whom I’ve had more affection and more respect than Joy Reid,” Maddow continued.
The political commentator continued, “I love everything about her. I’ve learned so much from her. I have so much more to learn from her. I do not want to lose her as a colleague here at MSNBC, and personally, I think it is a bad mistake to let her walk out the door.”
Maddow also called out further changes to MSNBC’s lineup, which include weekend anchor Katie Phang losing her time slot. She said it was “indefensible” that the network’s “two non-white hosts in primetime are losing their shows.”
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Speaking during a livestream on the “Win With Black Women” YouTube channel on Sunday, February 23, an emotional Reid said, “My show had value.”
Reid was unapologetic about commentating on difficult subjects. “My show had value,” she said, per the AP. “Whether it was the Black Lives Matter issues … [or] talking about Gaza and the fact that we as the American people have … a right to object to little babies being bombed … I am not sorry that I stood up for those things.”
So much for building manufacturing, JD Vance. You guys are literally working to kill our semiconductor industry & the Columbus Intel plant that Mike DeWine brought in a bipartisan effort. Firing all workers implementing CHIPS. MAGA or MCGA?semiwiki.com/semiconducto…
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BREAKING: A judge just ruled the Trump administration has to pay millions in already-appropriated aid that they tried to freeze.
Another major win for Democrats and the rule of law.
House Rs just passed the budget resolution, the first step in their process to enact a bill that'd kick millions off Medicaid & cut SNAP down to just $1.60 per person per meal on avg while cutting taxes for the top 0.1% by $278k – all while increasing the debt🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT
Trump: "We're gonna be selling a gold card. You have a green card, this is a gold card. We're gonna put a price on that card of about $5 million and that's going to give you green card privileges, plus. It's gonna be a route to citizenship, and wealthy people will be coming into our country."
Australia: Major “golden ticket” is quietly scrapped by the government
Published: 22 January 2024
“A visa scheme designed to lure wealthy foreigners into Australia has been scrapped by the government.
A major visa program targeted to attract wealthy investors to Australia has been quietly scrapped.
Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil told NCA NewsWire on Monday why she made the decision to pull the trigger on the Business Innovation and Investment Program (BIIP), a scheme introduced in 2012 in a bid to attract high-net individuals into the country.
The program’s significant investor stream also known as the “golden ticket” visa allows foreign nationals to stay in Australia for up to five years if they invest at least $5m in approved investments
It has been long critiqued as a way of fast-tracking Chinese millionaires into Australia, with the cohort making up over 85 per cent of successful applications.
The visa subclass was given the number 888 – which signifies triple good luck in Chinese numerology.
Ms O’Neil said the recent changes were a part of an overhaul of Australia’s “broken” migration system.
“It has been obvious for years that this visa is not delivering what our country and economy needs from a migration system,” Ms O’Neil said.
“The investor visa is one of many aspects of the system which are reforming to create a system which delivers for our country.”
The BIIP program was first launched in 2012 by then-Minister for Immigration and Citizenship Chris Bowen and was initially split into two categories, the Business Innovation Stream and investor streams.
The investor and significant Investor streams were made available to people who invested $2.5 million or $5 million in Australian investments.
More than 100,000 overseas migrants have used one of the BIIP streams to gain residency in Australia since 2012, according to the Home Affairs department.
Recent migration trend data shows that people from China accounted for over fifty per cent of all BIIP visa places in 2022-23, followed by Iran and Hong Kong.
The Australian first revealed on Monday that applications for the entire BIIP program had closed in lieu of an official announcement from the federal government.
Ms O’Neil’s comments came after Opposition Immigration spokesman Dan Tehan demanded that she and Immigration Minister Andrew Giles issue a detailed explanation as to why the program was abolished.
“It just seems that everything they’re doing in immigration at the moment is a mess,” Mr Tehan said.
“So we’d like to hear from the Minister for Immigration Andrew Giles or Clare O’Neil today. Have they scrapped it? If so, what are the reasons and what are the serious integrity issues?”
A Grattan Institute report released in 2022 said visa holders coming through the program brought fewer benefits than skilled migrants because they are “older, speak little English, and earn lower incomes.”
“Abolishing the BIIP would boost the lifetime fiscal dividend from each year’s migrant cohort by at least $3.7 billion,” the report said.
A government review on the program published in March last year estimated the lifetime economic contribution of BIIP holders at $600,000, less than half the $1.6m of Australians.
Labor revealed its plans to rehaul Australia’s migration system in December last year which seeks to tighten visa processes for migrant workers and international students.
Under the strategy, a new “skills in demand” visa will be rolled out in late 2024 to draw in highly skilled migrants into industries facing critical worker shortages.
The visa will permit holders to change employers and still retain residency in the country.
Australia’s net migration levels are believed to have peaked last year at 510,000, and are expected to lower to 375,000 in 2024, and 250,000 in 2025.”
Basically it attracted money launderers and all kinds of crooks. WTAF?
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Good morning. The latest update on Joy:
Let me say, there are so many people on substack…read this:
https://techpolicy.press/substack-founder-defends-commercial-relationships-with-nazis
New MSNBC Bloodbath of Non-White Anchors After Joy Reid Forced Out
https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-msnbc-bloodbath-of-non-white-anchors-after-joy-reid-forced-out/
“MSNBC finalized its revamped schedule on Monday, promoting progressive anchors Jen Psaki and Symone Sanders-Townsend to primetime while booting its largely non-white weekend lineup of hosts off their namesake shows.
Anchors Jonathan Capehart, Katie Phang, and Ayman Mohyeldin are losing their eponymous weekend shows. Capehart and Mohyeldin will instead be one of multiple hosts of separate editions of The Weekend at 7 a.m. and 6 p.m., respectively, while Phang will remain with the network as a legal correspondent with no anchor slot. Its other Miami-based anchor, José Díaz-Balart, will also lose his show, though he will remain as host of NBC’s weekend edition of Nightly News.
Psaki will replace Alex Wagner’s Tuesday through Friday 9 p.m. hour in April after Rachel Maddow completes her five-day-a-week stint during President Donald Trump’s first 100 days, MSNBC president Rebecca Kutler announced on Monday. Wagner will stay on as a senior political analyst.
MSNBC’s The Weekend hosts—Symone Sanders Townsend, Michael Steele, and Alicia Menendez—will take over the 7 p.m. hour from Joy Reid, who will leave the network, and the 8 p.m. hour on Mondays.
Ali Velshi’s Velshi will also expand to a three-hour, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. show to make up for Psaki’s weekend show at noon. Most of the changes will take affect in April, Kutler told staff in a memo on Monday.
The broad changes come as MSNBC severs its ties from NBC after Comcast spun most of its cable networks into a new SpinCo company headed by Mark Lazarus. As part of its new independence, Kutler said she wanted to expand the network’s Washington, D.C., operation with a new bureau of domestic and international correspondents.
“As I shared with many of you a few weeks ago, my goal is to build on the successes that have distinguished MSNBC from its peers,” Kutler told staff in a memo. “We now have one of the most engaged audiences in all of television and are seeing rapid growth across digital, audio, and more. In the years ahead, we must continue to show up for our audiences in this critical moment while simultaneously best positioning ourselves for the future.”
The changes also signals MSNBC’s desire to lean into its progressive voice for its older viewers (its viewers’ median age is 70, according to The Wall Street Journal), even as Lazarus has reportedly wanted to appeal to more Republicans.”
Appealing to republicans evidently means being racist, misogynistic, anti-Muslim, and homophobic. I guess I’m going back to reading my news.
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Calls Joy Reid’s Sudden Exit a ‘Bad Mistake’ in Emotional Address
https://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/msnbcs-rachel-maddow-calls-joy-reids-sudden-exit-a-bad-mistake-in-emotional-address/?link_source=ta_thread_link&taid=67bdcaa850a3e40001184bf5&utm_campaign=true_anthem_usweekly&utm_medium=social&utm_source=threads.net
“Rachel Maddow is coming out in support of her fellow MSNBC star Joy Reid.
Maddow, 51, addressed the cancellation of Reid’s show, The ReidOut, which aired its final episode on Monday, February 24, during her show, The Rachel Maddow Show, later Monday evening.
MSNBC confirmed Monday that Reid, 56, would exit the network imminently after reports emerged over the weekend that the news network was canceling her political commentary show after five years.
“Joy Reid’s show, The ReidOut, ended tonight. And Joy is not taking a different job in the network. She is leaving the network altogether and that is very, very, very hard to take,” Maddow said during her show Monday, per Variety.
“I am 51 years old. I have been gainfully employed since I was 12. I have had so many different types of jobs you wouldn’t believe me if I told you. But in all the jobs that I have had, in all of the years I have been alive, there is no colleague for whom I’ve had more affection and more respect than Joy Reid,” Maddow continued.
The political commentator continued, “I love everything about her. I’ve learned so much from her. I have so much more to learn from her. I do not want to lose her as a colleague here at MSNBC, and personally, I think it is a bad mistake to let her walk out the door.”
Maddow also called out further changes to MSNBC’s lineup, which include weekend anchor Katie Phang losing her time slot. She said it was “indefensible” that the network’s “two non-white hosts in primetime are losing their shows.”
…
Speaking during a livestream on the “Win With Black Women” YouTube channel on Sunday, February 23, an emotional Reid said, “My show had value.”
Reid was unapologetic about commentating on difficult subjects. “My show had value,” she said, per the AP. “Whether it was the Black Lives Matter issues … [or] talking about Gaza and the fact that we as the American people have … a right to object to little babies being bombed … I am not sorry that I stood up for those things.”
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BREAKING: A judge just ruled the Trump administration has to pay millions in already-appropriated aid that they tried to freeze.
Another major win for Democrats and the rule of law.
https://www.threads.net/@keithedwards
https://investmentmigration.org/news/australia-major-golden-ticket-is-quietly-scrapped-by-the-government/
Australia: Major “golden ticket” is quietly scrapped by the government
Published: 22 January 2024
“A visa scheme designed to lure wealthy foreigners into Australia has been scrapped by the government.
A major visa program targeted to attract wealthy investors to Australia has been quietly scrapped.
Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil told NCA NewsWire on Monday why she made the decision to pull the trigger on the Business Innovation and Investment Program (BIIP), a scheme introduced in 2012 in a bid to attract high-net individuals into the country.
The program’s significant investor stream also known as the “golden ticket” visa allows foreign nationals to stay in Australia for up to five years if they invest at least $5m in approved investments
It has been long critiqued as a way of fast-tracking Chinese millionaires into Australia, with the cohort making up over 85 per cent of successful applications.
The visa subclass was given the number 888 – which signifies triple good luck in Chinese numerology.
Ms O’Neil said the recent changes were a part of an overhaul of Australia’s “broken” migration system.
“It has been obvious for years that this visa is not delivering what our country and economy needs from a migration system,” Ms O’Neil said.
“The investor visa is one of many aspects of the system which are reforming to create a system which delivers for our country.”
The BIIP program was first launched in 2012 by then-Minister for Immigration and Citizenship Chris Bowen and was initially split into two categories, the Business Innovation Stream and investor streams.
The investor and significant Investor streams were made available to people who invested $2.5 million or $5 million in Australian investments.
More than 100,000 overseas migrants have used one of the BIIP streams to gain residency in Australia since 2012, according to the Home Affairs department.
Recent migration trend data shows that people from China accounted for over fifty per cent of all BIIP visa places in 2022-23, followed by Iran and Hong Kong.
The Australian first revealed on Monday that applications for the entire BIIP program had closed in lieu of an official announcement from the federal government.
Ms O’Neil’s comments came after Opposition Immigration spokesman Dan Tehan demanded that she and Immigration Minister Andrew Giles issue a detailed explanation as to why the program was abolished.
“It just seems that everything they’re doing in immigration at the moment is a mess,” Mr Tehan said.
“So we’d like to hear from the Minister for Immigration Andrew Giles or Clare O’Neil today. Have they scrapped it? If so, what are the reasons and what are the serious integrity issues?”
A Grattan Institute report released in 2022 said visa holders coming through the program brought fewer benefits than skilled migrants because they are “older, speak little English, and earn lower incomes.”
“Abolishing the BIIP would boost the lifetime fiscal dividend from each year’s migrant cohort by at least $3.7 billion,” the report said.
A government review on the program published in March last year estimated the lifetime economic contribution of BIIP holders at $600,000, less than half the $1.6m of Australians.
Labor revealed its plans to rehaul Australia’s migration system in December last year which seeks to tighten visa processes for migrant workers and international students.
Under the strategy, a new “skills in demand” visa will be rolled out in late 2024 to draw in highly skilled migrants into industries facing critical worker shortages.
The visa will permit holders to change employers and still retain residency in the country.
Australia’s net migration levels are believed to have peaked last year at 510,000, and are expected to lower to 375,000 in 2024, and 250,000 in 2025.”
Basically it attracted money launderers and all kinds of crooks. WTAF?