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☆ Suspecting Clandestine Plots Behind Every Door
  + stars: | 2023-07-11 | by ( Elizabeth Williamson | More About Elizabeth Williamson | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
UNDER THE EYE OF POWER: ​How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy, by Colin DickeyThe Memorial Day pancake breakfast in Blue Hill, Maine, is hosted by the Oddfellows, an 18th-century craftsmen’s guild turned community service organization, related to the Freemasons. While there this spring, I pondered the elderly members pouring coffee and selling raffle tickets to fund college scholarships. How bizarre, even funny, that this group was once perceived as a threat to America. History bristles with examples of citizens and their elected leaders hijacking public discourse by tarring — sometimes literally — perceived enemies of the American project. Unfortunately, we have willfully forgotten most of this warped history, rendering us constantly surprised by the next imagined peril.
Persons: Colin Dickey The, ” Colin Dickey, Ben Franklin, —, ” Dickey, tarring —, McCarthy, zealotry Organizations: American, Freemasons Locations: Blue Hill , Maine, America
☆ $1 Billion Federal Agency Seeks a Boss Who Will Show Up for Work
  + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( Elizabeth Williamson | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
Recent inspector general reports document waste, absenteeism, contracting irregularities, workplace misconduct and sexual harassment at an agency with an annual budget of $1.3 billion. Some 17 agency employees knew about Mr. Blanton’s misconduct but did not report it. Failures of the Capitol Police Board (the architect is one of three voting members) and Mr. Blanton’s failed response contributed to the Jan. 6 Capitol breach, according to a Senate report. “The report is filled with errors, omissions, mischaracterizations, misstatements and conclusory statements lacking evidence,” he said. “Problem after problem after problem,” Thomas J. Carroll III, a former acting architect of the Capitol, told investigators.
Persons: Blanton’s, Alexandria Ocasio, House Cannon, Blanton, “, ”, ” Thomas J, Carroll III Organizations: Capitol, House, Capitol Police Board, Committee Locations: Cortez, New York
☆ Preaching Tolerance Abroad, as Hatred Surges at Home
  + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( Elizabeth Williamson | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
A year ago, Deborah Lipstadt, newly confirmed as the U.S. special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, attended a White House reception and reintroduced herself to President Biden as he passed by. “I know who you are,” Dr. Lipstadt recalled the president telling her. “And you have a big job.”Mr. Biden was right, but for reasons neither of them fully imagined. “My predecessors could go to countries and say, ‘You have a problem, and we take this seriously, and you should take it seriously.’ I can’t do that. I have to go and say, ‘We have a problem.’”
☆ Last time Trump lawyer Joe Tacopina called a rape accuser greedy and crazy he won. It's a different world now.
  + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +13 min
By the time he won an acquittal in a high-profile, 2011 Manhattan criminal trial, Tacopina had attacked what he called her "functional tolerance" for alcohol. She remembered in graphic detail being immobilized in her bed — too drunk to resist — as she was allegedly raped, she told jurors. "She called him a rapist," Tacopina told the jury in openings Monday. "I can dance backwards and forwards in four-inch heels," she told Tacopina when he questioned her dressing-room balancing act. "It caused me to realize that staying silent does not work," she told Tacopina of the courage she saw in that #MeToo wave.
☆ Live updates: Brittney Griner released from Russian prison, Biden gives remarks
  + stars: | 2022-12-08 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Tom_Winter_Nbc_News.Jpg | Zoë Richards | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +19 min
"Grateful for the long-overdue release of Brittney Griner today from Russian custody. "Thank you to every single person that kept Brittney Griner’s name alive #WEAREBG," tweeted one of her Phoenix Mercury teammates, Brianna Turner. The Biden administration wasn't able to secure Whelan's release because the Russian government is treating his case differently than Griner's, Biden said. “While we celebrate Brittney’s release, Paul Whelan and his family continue to suffer needlessly,” Blinken said. Share this -Link copiedWho is Viktor Bout, Russian arms dealer that the U.S. exchanged for Brittney Griner?
☆ Tesla’s close-knit leadership team goes under the spotlight in court
  + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Matt Mcfarland | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +6 min
Tornetta accuses Tesla’s board of breaching its duties to shareholders. The pay package from Tesla’s board granted Musk large sums of shares every time Tesla hit certain milestones, including earnings and share price targets. In this sketch, former Tesla board member Antonio Gracias testifies in court. Ehrenpreis also had the rights to the first Model 3, Tesla’s breakout product, but gave it to Elon Musk as a birthday gift. Ehrenpreis is also the Tesla board member who asked consultants if hypothetically Tesla could lower the disclosed costs of Musk’s compensation plan.
☆ Julie Powell, food writer behind ‘Julie & Julia,’ dead at 49
  + stars: | 2022-11-01 | by ( Dan Heching | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +2 min
CNN —Julie Powell, a bestselling author who chronicled her efforts to prepare every recipe in Julia Child’s “Mastering the Art of French Cooking,” which later inspired the movie “Julie & Julia,” died Oct. 26 at her home in New York. Her death was confirmed to the New York Times by her husband, Eric Powell, who said the cause was cardiac arrest. Amy Adams as Julie Powell in the 2009 film "Julie & Julia." Columbia/Scott Rudin Prods/Kobal/ShutterstockPowell’s book was turned into a 2009 film directed by Nora Ephron, with Meryl Streep playing Julia Child and Amy Adams in the role of Powell herself. “We were lucky enough to be the conduit.”At the center of Powell’s blog, and later the acclaimed film that used it as a base, was the writer’s admiration for Julia Child’s cooking and way of life.
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