Author Archives: cleek

Black Insurrectionist

“The Black Insurrectionist account is linked directly to Jason G. Palmer, who has his own questionable backstory, starting with the fact that he isn’t Black, according to an Associated Press review of public records, open source data and interviews with a half-dozen people who interacted closely with Palmer over the past two decades. The records and personal accounts offer a portrait of an individual who has repeatedly been accused of defrauding business partners and lenders, has struggled with drug addiction and whose home was raided by the FBI over a decade ago. He also owes more than $6.7 million in back taxes to the state of New York.

200,000

The Washington Post has been rocked by a tidal wave of cancellations from digital subscribers and a series of resignations from columnists, as the paper grapples with the fallout of owner Jeff Bezos’s decision to block an endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris for president.

More than 200,000 people had canceled their digital subscriptions by midday Monday, according to two people at the paper with knowledge of internal matters. Not all cancellations take effect immediately. Still, the figure represents about 8% of the paper’s paid circulation of 2.5 million subscribers, which includes print as well. The number of cancellations continued to grow Monday afternoon.

Sounds legit...

Subscription Cancelled

The Washington Post will not be making an endorsement of a presidential candidate in this election. Nor in any future presidential election. We are returning to our roots of not endorsing presidential candidates.

The comments on the article are a torrent of people cancelling their subscriptions.

I Can't Stop Giggling

A federal judge has ordered Rudy Giuliani to place numerous assets, including cash, jewelry and his New York apartment, into a receivership controlled by two former Georgia election workers as they seek to collect a $148 million defamation claim against the former lawyer for Donald Trump.

Hillary

Saw Hillary Clinton and author John Grisham speak last night. She's doing a book tour, presented as a discussion. So, Grisham asked questions - mostly about the book - and she gave answers, mostly from the book.

It was ... bracing. She told some good stories about her time as Sec State and about some interesting things she's done since (ex. getting women out of Afghanistan). But because we're so close to the election, a lot of what she talked about was the dangers of Trump. Not that the audience of mostly middle-aged women who paid to see Hillary Clinton were likely to disagree, but she did hammer the point home with everything she had.

Grisham was a gentle and supportive interviewer. He's apparently a family friend of the Clinton family, so it was a friendly chat.

I don't go to political rallies, and this wasn't one - not exactly. But, I do see the appeal now. The energy of thousands of like-minded people who are invested enough to pay to be preached to. Yeah, that's pretty invigorating.

No encore. And she didn't play any songs off her first album.