Liveblog - ICYMI: November 15, 2024

Below, you will find some headlines we may have missed and some interesting video clips on several subjects. Please feel free to share anything you may have run across; just make sure it’s not from a McMAGAt infested shithole.

Updates:

Anyway, what’s everyone having for breakfast?

MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.bsky.social) 2024-11-15T15:27:52.771Z

Oklahoma is ranked 49 out of 50 in education. But hey, nice Bibles.

Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen.bsky.social) 2024-11-15T05:58:45.606Z

Social Media:

Bluesky feels more like old Twitter than X does

As more users flee X, a clearer, sunnier social media age is dawning.

In the two years since Elon Musk bought Twitter and turned it into X, the platform has become crowded with deceptive ads and unchecked misinformation. Now, with President-elect Donald Trump heading to the White House and Musk joining his administration, countless people announced their departure from X. Rival social media site Bluesky told Vox that 2.25 million new users have joined in the last week alone. And they’re having a blast.

Bluesky looks a lot like the old Twitter you knew and loved. It’s a reverse chronological feed of posts, including images, videos, and links that you can like and repost. Like old Twitter, your feed is not ruled by an algorithm. Meanwhile, Bluesky’s open source, decentralized framework gives you a lot more control over how your feed works than X or even Threads, the X alternative Meta has been pushing onto Instagram users.

When platforms are closed and centralized, overnight, they can change the algorithm to boost certain people over others, down rank links, limit reach of speech.. @jimacosta.bsky.social lays out what brought him to Bluesky🦋 www.youtube.com/watch?v=S17l…

Rose 🌹 (@rose.bsky.team) 2024-11-15T17:43:41.442Z

The Twitter/X platform is a “shit hole country.”

Jack Hopkins-The Original (@therealjackhopkins.bsky.social) 2024-11-15T02:35:14.998Z

Follow News Views Here:

Disinformation on the Web:

The Fascist Guy’s Brownshirts:

"6 Things About Trump’s Hawkish New Defense Secretary That Should Scare the Hell Out of You"Meet Pete Hegseth: Fox host, Iran hawk, Christian Zionist, and more. My video explainer:

Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan.bsky.social) 2024-11-15T01:07:40.635Z

Pete Hegseth, Trump’s pick for defense secretary, faced sex assault allegation

Hegseth, a former Fox News host, was not charged with a crime in connection with the reported 2017 incident.

Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of defense and a former Fox News host, was investigated in 2017 over “an alleged sexual assault” at a California hotel that was hosting a gathering of Republican women, police said Friday.

Hegseth was not charged with a crime and the city of Monterey police, in its statement citing a police report, did not release any information about the alleged victim, who reported the incident on Oct. 12 of that year.

Police said the alleged assault occurred sometime between midnight Oct. 7 and 7 a.m. on Oct. 8 at the address of the Hyatt Regency Monterey Hotel and Spa on Del Monte Golf Course.

@axios.com “Vaccine maker stocks fall as Trump taps RFKJr. for health secretary”This will cause immediate cuts to research. This is already doing damage.

Deirdre Assenza (@deirdreassenza.bsky.social) 2024-11-15T15:46:00.022Z

NEW: Trump to tap campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung as WH communications director

Republicans Against Trumpism (@rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social) 2024-11-15T18:20:19.216Z

Flashback Friday:

The Worst People in the World:

Steve Bannon: "President Trump in his first cabinet picks has shown that we are going to deconstruct the administrative state."

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.bsky.social) 2024-11-15T17:36:26.169Z

From the MarKODA Files-The Racist POS Edition:

    Avatar photo
    About Ms. G 5494 Articles
    WTF, America?! What the actual F?!