A Black Sunriser learning half the truth about Sunrise Movement

David Bruce Collins retweeted a tweet by Alex O'Keefe of Sunrise Movement talking about how it's still too White as well as too classist and neoliberal.'

.@sunrisemvmt directors terminated me after I sent this letter to our members. https://t.co/Xx6dBCjOcX

As a national leader, I've seen Sunrise grow from a scrappy movement to a giant nonprofit co-opted by mega donors. Seeking only media relevance & proximity to Biden.

— Alex O'Keefe 👌 (@_dotgov) June 8, 2021

Gee, what a shock. 

DBC already knows the truth has been out there for years, as he's seen before this blog post I sent to him, Alex and Sunrise. 

Note I said half the truth. Per that blog post, part of a series telling the truth about Sunrise, it's always been, in essence, the youth wing of Gang Green mega-environmental group Sierra Club, with all that implies. And, that implies it NOT being "scrappy" at one time.

And, Mr. O'Keefe, on classism, may be wanting to partially have it both ways? Calling yourself "Fred Hampton if he went to the Hamptons" is .... "interesting."

It's also naive and misinformed in other ways.

One, O'Keefe seems to have zero consciousness of the theft of the Green New Deal.

Two, in his piece, he touts the Indigenous Deb Haaland as Interior Secretary. That would be the Haaland going along with Status Quo Joe and ignoring Indigenous-led protests against an Embridge pipeline, protestors including former Ralph Nader non-Democrat running mate Winona LaDuke. Protestors buzzed by a Border Patrol helicopter.

Finally, as for O'Keefe's earlier letter being ignored? If you do leave and start a new movement, are you going to tie it to the duopoly as well?

Glenn Greenwald really met David Miranda on a Brazilian beach?

That's the story that Glennwald always tells, amirite?

That's what Wiki says on Miranda's page, also claiming that Glenn said they moved in together just a week after meeting. Color me skeptical.

But, per this great new website that's tracking Glenn's Internet presence, how do we know that Glenn and David didn't actually meet at some online, or in-person, meet-up for pornography directors and producers?

Per a subpage on that site, Master Notions, with links to Twitter threads like this, the "official Greenwald story" is almost surely wrong.

Glenn's background in the porn world, as noted as the site, is pretty well known. I was unaware of David's alleged background before this. (I say "alleged" just in case it's a different D. Miranda, but ...  also per that subpage, see this Twitter thread.)

Also exposed there? Glenn's claim that he stopped "producing blue" in 2004 would appear questionable.

But, what do you expect from a seeming serial liar who still lies about his support for the Iraq War (documented), and who can never admit a mistake even while actual journalists he shit-storms and backstabs correct their mistakes regularly?

Maybe then, per another link off that Master Notions, maybe you should expect the defender of Matt Hale to dress in Nazi kink for sexual perversion?

Per a main piece, that shit-storming and backstabbing comes from a Daily Beast piece written after Ken Silverstein started his multivolume takedown of Glennwald.

Some of it's in a WaPost piece that focuses on Glenn's lying about the Intercept.

Speaking of, the last piece in that series is now up. It's where the other links come from.

And, also speaking of? On Twitter about two weeks ago, I wondered if Glenn had made Brazil his semi-permanent domicile not because of gay marriage (which has been constitutionally approved here in the USofA since Obergefell anyway (now six years old and only two years later than Brazil's legalization), but because of some of his well-known previous tax issues in the US.

NOW, I wonder if, since his "producer timeline" looks hinky, if maybe, while not producing anything, he's got a backdoor ownership stake in something along with Miranda. (Of note, and showing its limitations with modern news and politics, which I've long known? Wiki doesn't mention anything about porn producing on either Glennwald's or Miranda's pages.) Anyway, tax issues and pornography production aren't mutually exclusive anyway.

Bookmark that link up top!

Some part of me feels kind of naive for not questioning this part of the Gospel according to Glenn earlier, but better late than never, amirite? I got more than halfway sucked in by Sully's nuttery on Trigg Palin, but escaped. I got a third of so of the way sucked in by two of the "stenos," Mark Ames and Yasha Levine, on some of their Russia stuff, but moved on. Maybe one-quarter of the way, if that, by Aaron Maté, and not at all by Max Blumenthal. The stenos all combined led me to wonder, with Assange's own gaslighting, "just maybe those emails were stolen," though never believing there was a conspiracy to kill Seth Rich for that. At the same time, kind of like Lincoln, I'm dogged once I start unraveling that skein of yarn. And, I'll gladly thank those higher up the Glenn Greenwald investigations food chain. And again, Twitter for things like this comes off as far more fun than Hucksterman.

Sidebar, just for the hell of it: Per this Out story, Greenwald, who one would think would be all about "personal responsibility," comes off as a titty-baby corporation suer while still at Wachtell.

I wish I knew his reaction to all of this, but:

 

Per others on those links above, I have no issues with pornography. It's with the serial lying and the framing that's behind it.

One final thought.

We all know the old cliché about not trusting some people when they tell you it's daytime outside, but instead going to the window and opening the curtains.

With people like Glenn, I've long had a "meta" version of that, or a version on steroids of that.

With people like them, I don't go to the window to open the curtains or blinds. Instead, I go to the door and walk outside, on the chance they've painted a picture of the sun on the windows.

 

Note: I of course blocked Glenn back. Not out of pettiness, but related to that same trust issue.

Was Dallas Morning News parent A.H. Belo facing NYSE delisting?

I occasionally write here about media issues, and it's always fun kicking the Snooze, the tea-sippers of Texas newspapers.

Per the header?

Reading between the lines of a Belo announcement, I think that's exactly the case.

Earlier this month, A.H. Belo said it was leaving the New York Stock Exchange for NASDAQ. Specifically, it's headed for NASDAQ's Capital Market. Why?

Learning more about that Capital Market is, I think it was in danger of being delisted.

NASDAQ Capital Market, per Investopedia:

The Nasdaq Capital Market is one of Nasdaq's U.S. market tiers containing early-stage companies that have relatively lower market capitalizations. Listing requirements for companies on the Nasdaq Capital Market are less stringent than for the two other Nasdaq market tiers, which focus on larger companies with higher market capitalization.

More on the Capital Market here further confirms this idea.

In short, Belo, a one-newspaper (Dallas Morning News, aka the Snooze) with adjuncts like Al Dia, and a digital marketing agency that must not be doing THAT well, doesn't have much money on tap. This is kind of like NASDAQ's "penny stocks" wing.

One thing that I'm kind of curious about: why didn't it go to the former AMEX instead? Is the bottom tier of NASDAQ even weaker?

Coronavirus week 61: Odds and ends and Rebekah Jones

Those OSHA workplace safety standards for COVID that Biden said would happen? Between CDC dropping most mask rules and OSHA slow-walking hearings, they ain't happening. So, when another pandemic comes, our "heroic" grocery store workers will again be SOL.

Fired Florida Department of Health spox and data guru Rebekah Jones misinterpreted fluctuating data to come to some of her more conspiratorial ideas. Yes, she was in kind of a bad spot, but she then chose to run with it; the Herald piece is a bit turd-polishing. Even more on her nuttery, including COVID conspiracy theories here, including the idea that it almost certainly backfired and actually helped DeSantis. And yes, Florida remains below the US average in death rate; in fact, it's almost 10 percent below the U.S. average, lower than here in Tex-ass and about the same as Ohio. Another #BlueAnon backfire. (And, as of late Monday afternoon, on Twitter, some #BlueAnon were supporting her in the face of a Twitter suspension for high-level spamming.)

Methodist Hospital Houston employees are suing over a COVID vaccine mandate. (OF COURSE Jared Woodfill is their lawyer.) They've got no chance of winning. First, the hospital already has an influenza vaccine mandate. "Goes to precedent, your honor." Second, the EEOC has already ruled that employers can require this vaccine, and has made similar rulings on other vaccines. Third, Jared Woodfill is their lawyer! Skeptical Raptor, with guest poster Dorit Reuss goes further into "they've got no chance," including posting the complaint, which is full of crazy.

Naomi Wolf, antivaxxer nutbar de luxe, now things mRNA from vaccines can get into our water and sewer systems and ????  what??? become "The mRNA from the Black Lagoon"? She's now been suspended from Twitter for something related to her nuttery.

Electric cars are coming! Except to Merika, probably

The Beeb has a great story about how more and more car companies are planning to sell electric only vehicles, generally no more than 15 years in the future. It also notes that the cost of "juice" vs. "fuel" continues to drop and tilt the economic equation toward electrics, and adds that if you include maintenance costs specific to an internal combustion engine, the tipping has probably already gone electric-favorable.

So, everybody's rushing to buy, right?

Not quite, per this:

Shocked? 

Note also that Ford, unlike GM, at least for the story, mentions a Europe-only all-electric time frame. Chrysler-Fiat-Who Will Rescue Us Next? isn't even mentioned.

I am not sure of all the reasons behind that flat-to-slumping purple line, but I can think of a few.

Wingnuts being refusniks as part of "owning the libs." (I wondered last week if this attitude on COVID vaccines would stand up to free Budweiser.).

EVs in the U.S. associated too much with Tesla.

Fear of driving range. (This one is nonsense, as any new electric right now will go 250 miles without a charge. Of course, if you're Tesla and insist on your own charging system, this may be a problem, and were I a local government, contra Sulphur Springs, Texas, I wouldn't help build out a Tesla-specific charging site.

Interestingly missing from the story are the two pioneers of hybrid drives: Toyota and Honda.

Another first-round exit for Luka Doncic and the Dallas Mavs; What's needed? New coach? New GM? New owner?

Despite a great effort by Luka Doncic in Game 7, the Dallas Mavericks lost Game 7 to the Clippers and have another first-round playoff exit.

So, what's needed to upgrade?

First, while Kristaps Porzingis is a fine 2A player, would he a be a full No. 2 on an elite team? Probably not. He's NOT "The Unicorn," not with Joel Embiid, Anthony Davis and Nikola Jokić all better 3-ballers, plus the first two being better defenders and the third a much better all-around player. To put it another way, when coach Rick Carlisle (hold on to that) is praising your "floor spacing," that's a tell.

In addition, ESPN points out what many Mavs fans know. His injury history has cut his mobility and made him a liability on D.

Dwight Powell? Solid PF/C combo. Does he have more of a ceiling?

Maxi Kleber? About a No. 8 player. 

Boban? The "Boban strategy" of Carlisle? Not a difference-maker.

Tim Hardaway Jr.? A probable keeper. Dorian Finney-Smith? A mix of skills and grit and a probably keeper. Jalen Brunson? Room to grow and should.

But, no real No. 2.

Can you get a more well rounded No. 3 in the free agent market?

Like a Will Barton? Or Paul Millsap? A full season of Aaron Gordon with the Nuggets means one or both of them are expendable. (Barton has a player option.)

Most other names on this free agent list likely aren't happening. And, that sets aside fans wondering how well Cuban and Donnie Nelson are as free agent whisperers. Plus, that ESPN piece about the Zinger and the Mavs notes that, per the free agents link, it's likely not happening.

So, a trade deal? Too bad Seth Curry for Josh Richardson backfired, as Mavs fans are noting on Twitter. And, nobody's taking back the Zinger, ESPN says. Unfortunately, ALSO per that ESPN piece, he sounds more and more disgruntled about being a clear second fiddle. Knicks fans will once again be laughing up their sleeves.

It also sets aside whether or not Rick Carlisle, 2011 ring aside, is the best man to be leading the Mavs in the future. I think that's a question more Mavs fans should be asking.

At ESPN, Bobby Marks is handing out receipts on Twitter:

Dallas have been to the playoffs 9 times with Rick Carlisle as Head Coach.

They have lost in the 1st. rd. 7 times.

6 first rd. exits in a row since winning a championship in 2011.

— Bobby Marks (@BobbyMarks42) June 6, 2021

That's why people like me are questioning.

Sadly, the Cuban sandwich has already said "he stays."

 

And, he's wrong. The Hawks, dead in the water a few months ago, replaced Lloyd Pierce with Nate McMillan midseason — and they're not only in the playoffs, they're still playing.

What if Doncic says no? That ESPN story, by McMahon, also notes the Doncic-Carlisle tensions.

Donnie Nelson? Not great as a GM, but, in many ways, we know who the real GM is. And, contra the header, he's not selling.

So, Mavs fans? (I follow them, but not sure I'd call myself a "fan.") You're stuck. You're stuck with a bad free agent market, a depreciating asset in Porzingis, and a coach who doesn't always see eye to eye with his best player. The Lakers will remain better for a year or two still, at least, as will the Clippers. The Nuggets will remain better for a number of years, as will the resurgent Suns. But, as long as Cuban is satisfied with first-round exits, there you go.