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At Lambeau, McCarthy addresses Rodgers’ Steelers future https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/830839/ #AaronRodgers #BobHarlan #CelebrationOfLife #Football #GreenBay #GreenBayPackers #GreenBay #GreenBayPackers #interception #Lambeau #life #McCarthy #MikeMcCarthy #MVP #NFCNorth #NFL #OneYearDeal #Packers #Pittsburgh #Rodgers #season #span #Steelers #SteelersFuture #SuperBowl #touchdown #yard

At Lambeau, McCarthy addresses Rodgers’ Steelers future https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/830839/ #AaronRodgers #BobHarlan #CelebrationOfLife #Football #GreenBay #GreenBayPackers #GreenBay #GreenBayPackers #interception #Lambeau #life #McCarthy #MikeMcCarthy #MVP #NFCNorth #NFL #OneYearDeal #Packers #Pittsburgh #Rodgers #season #span #Steelers #SteelersFuture #SuperBowl #touchdown #yard

At Lambeau, McCarthy addresses Rodgers’ Steelers future https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/830417/ #AaronRodgers #BobHarlan #CelebrationOfLife #Football #GreenBay #GreenBayPackers #GreenBay #GreenBayPackers #interception #Lambeau #life #McCarthy #MikeMcCarthy #MVP #NFCNorth #NFL #OneYearDeal #Packers #Pittsburgh #Rodgers #season #span #Steelers #SteelersFuture #SuperBowl #touchdown #yard

At Lambeau, McCarthy addresses Rodgers’ Steelers future https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/830417/ #AaronRodgers #BobHarlan #CelebrationOfLife #Football #GreenBay #GreenBayPackers #GreenBay #GreenBayPackers #interception #Lambeau #life #McCarthy #MikeMcCarthy #MVP #NFCNorth #NFL #OneYearDeal #Packers #Pittsburgh #Rodgers #season #span #Steelers #SteelersFuture #SuperBowl #touchdown #yard

Seems clear that history does repeat itself, and just like that during the McCarthy era, it will take the people to get rid of #Trump #MAGA

We can't count on anyone but ourselves!

McCarthy’s supporters in the 1950s claimed that his lies were necessary for keeping #Republicans in power: the ends justified the means. Neither journalists nor politicians could figure out how to counter #McCarthy’s tactics

It was the American people who finally destroyed his career, turning against him when they realized he was hurting decent people and lying to them to gain power

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-8-2026 #Republican #fascism #communists #gaslighting

‘SNL’ recap: Melissa McCarthy demonstrates why she’s a repeat host

Along with Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin, Melissa McCarthy is one of those performers who’s been on “Saturday…
#NewsBeep #News #Topstories #baby #bensherman #cousinplanet #Headlines #jost #mccarthy #MikeyDay #monologue #mouthhorn #otherweek #PeteHegseth #repeathost #sketch #SNL #thing #TopStories #worldsong
https://www.newsbeep.com/295279/

‘SNL’ recap: Melissa McCarthy demonstrates why she’s a repeat host https://www.byteseu.com/1606756/ #Baby #BenSherman #CousinPlanet #Entertainment #jost #mccarthy #MikeyDay #monologue #MouthHorn #OtherWeek #PeteHegseth #RepeatHost #sketch #snl #thing #WorldSong

Vikings’ JJ McCarthy identifies culprit behind brutal penalties vs. Ravens https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/514090/ #AaronJones #BaltimoreRavens #BenYurosek #BlakeBrandel #BrianO'Neill #BuffaloBills #ChicagoBears #ChristianDarrisaw #FalseStarts #Football #JalenNailor #JJMcCarthy #JusticeHill #JustinJefferson #LamarJackson #MarkAndrews #McCarthy #Minnesota #MinnesotaVikings #MinnesotaVikings #MylesPrice #NFL #RashodBateman #Vikings

Vikings’ JJ McCarthy identifies culprit behind brutal penalties vs. Ravens https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/514090/ #AaronJones #BaltimoreRavens #BenYurosek #BlakeBrandel #BrianO'Neill #BuffaloBills #ChicagoBears #ChristianDarrisaw #FalseStarts #Football #JalenNailor #JJMcCarthy #JusticeHill #JustinJefferson #LamarJackson #MarkAndrews #McCarthy #Minnesota #MinnesotaVikings #MinnesotaVikings #MylesPrice #NFL #RashodBateman #Vikings

MAGA isn’t conservative. It’s McCarthyism wrapped in a flag.
#MAGA #McCarthy #TheWayLeft #Autocracy #PoliticalPodcast

Jane Fonda und 550 weitere Prominente haben das Committee for the First Amendment erneut ins Leben gerufen.

Das Komitee wurde ursprünglich gegründet, um die Meinungsfreiheit während der McCarthy-Ära in den 1940er Jahren zu schützen.

https://www.kleinezeitung.at/leute/20161949/jane-fonda-reaktiviert-aktivistengruppe-aus-dem-kalten-krieg

#usa #firstAmendment #freeExpression #meinungsfreiheit #demokratie #McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy's library: Sensitive article about the famous author's home stuffed with 20,000 books
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/two-years-cormac-mccarthys-death-rare-access-to-personal-library-reveals-man-behind-myth-180987150/
#via:metafilter #literature #mccarthy #hoarder #sfi #+

Cormac McCarthy's library: Sensitive article about the famous author's home stuffed with 20,000 books
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/two-years-cormac-mccarthys-death-rare-access-to-personal-library-reveals-man-behind-myth-180987150/
#via:metafilter #literature #mccarthy #hoarder #sfi #+

Que extraño, no hay video en #youtube que logra subtitular estos cuestionamientos por parte de una comision de senada en los EEUU hacia el autor aleman #BertBrecht. Mucho menos una traduccion del subtitulado al español.
🤷‍♀️

Parece que la IA aun tiene mucho que aprender ..

#McCarthy:
"Usted escribio esto Sr. Brecht?"

#Brecht
"No, yo escribi un poema en aleman, pero vera que este fue muy differente."

@ffleita

https://www.europesays.com/uk/285772/ Irishman Willie McCarthy comes via Australia to partner Kiwi in bid for history #Australia #australias #bid #champion #comes #for #greatest #History #in #irishman #irishman willie #jumpers #jumping #kiwi #mccarthy #partner #racing #ridden #ride #snared #some #Sports #to #UK #UnitedKingdom #via #zealands

Mes écoutes de la semaine du 07 Juillet 2025 :

#ActorsArtificial, #BriseGlace, #DedalusEnsemble, #DogFacedHermans, #Elephant9withTerjeRypdal, #BrigitteFontaine, #LaFresto, #Gnod, #WhiteHills, #IrreversibleEntanglements, #Jessamine, #PhilippeKaterine, #LucrateMilk, #McCarthy, #HedvigMollestadTrio, #MotherfuckersJMB, #Co, #CarlosNiño, #MiguelAtwoodFerguson, #JimORourke, #OrganicallyProgrammed, #JeffParker, #Prohibition, #RienVirgule, #Stereolab, #SunburnedHandOfTheMan, #Xhol

#music #record

Mes écoutes de la semaine du 07 Juillet 2025 :

#ActorsArtificial, #BriseGlace, #DedalusEnsemble, #DogFacedHermans, #Elephant9withTerjeRypdal, #BrigitteFontaine, #LaFresto, #Gnod, #WhiteHills, #IrreversibleEntanglements, #Jessamine, #PhilippeKaterine, #LucrateMilk, #McCarthy, #HedvigMollestadTrio, #MotherfuckersJMB, #Co, #CarlosNiño, #MiguelAtwoodFerguson, #JimORourke, #OrganicallyProgrammed, #JeffParker, #Prohibition, #RienVirgule, #Stereolab, #SunburnedHandOfTheMan, #Xhol

#music #record

Mes écoutes de la semaine du 07 Juillet 2025 :

#ActorsArtificial, #BriseGlace, #DedalusEnsemble, #DogFacedHermans, #Elephant9withTerjeRypdal, #BrigitteFontaine, #LaFresto, #Gnod, #WhiteHills, #IrreversibleEntanglements, #Jessamine, #PhilippeKaterine, #LucrateMilk, #McCarthy, #HedvigMollestadTrio, #MotherfuckersJMB, #Co, #CarlosNiño, #MiguelAtwoodFerguson, #JimORourke, #OrganicallyProgrammed, #JeffParker, #Prohibition, #RienVirgule, #Stereolab, #SunburnedHandOfTheMan, #Xhol

#music #record

Mes écoutes de la semaine du 07 Juillet 2025 :

#ActorsArtificial, #BriseGlace, #DedalusEnsemble, #DogFacedHermans, #Elephant9withTerjeRypdal, #BrigitteFontaine, #LaFresto, #Gnod, #WhiteHills, #IrreversibleEntanglements, #Jessamine, #PhilippeKaterine, #LucrateMilk, #McCarthy, #HedvigMollestadTrio, #MotherfuckersJMB, #Co, #CarlosNiño, #MiguelAtwoodFerguson, #JimORourke, #OrganicallyProgrammed, #JeffParker, #Prohibition, #RienVirgule, #Stereolab, #SunburnedHandOfTheMan, #Xhol

#music #record

#Trump demands unprecedented control at #ColumbiaUniversity, alarming scholars and speech groups

By COLLIN BINKLEY and JAKE OFFENHARTZ
Updated 7:52 PM EDT, March 14, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — "The Trump administration brushed aside decades of precedent when it ordered Columbia University to oust the leadership of an academic department, a demand seen as a direct attack on academic freedom and a warning of what’s to come for other colleges facing federal scrutiny.

"Federal officials told the university it must immediately place its #MiddleEasternStudies, #SouthAsianStudies, and #AfricanStudies Department under 'academic receivership for a minimum of five years.' The demand was among several described as conditions for receiving federal funding, including $400 million already pulled over allegations of #antisemitism.

"Across #academia, it was seen as a stunning intrusion.

"'It’s an escalation of a kind that is unheard of,' said Joan Scott, a historian and member of the academic freedom committee of the American Association of University Professors [#AAUP]. 'Even during the #McCarthy period in the United States, this was not done.'"

https://apnews.com/article/columbia-university-mahmoud-khalil-ice-arrests-1921e26f6b5a8585ad5cbda790846324
#CharacteristicsOfFascism #USPol #Censorship #DumbingUsDown #Authoritarianism #SilencingDissent #AcademicFreedom #Fascism

Pequeños y grandes pasos hacia el imperio de la inteligencia artificial

Traducción de la infografía:

• 1943 – McCullock y Pitts publican un artículo titulado Un cálculo lógico de ideas inmanentes en la actividad nerviosa, en el que proponen las bases para las redes neuronales.

• 1950 – Turing publica Computing Machinery and Intelligence, proponiendo el Test de Turing como forma de medir la capacidad de una máquina.

• 1951 – Marvin Minsky y Dean Edmonds construyen SNAR, la primera computadora de red neuronal.

• 1956 – Se celebra la Conferencia de Dartmouth (organizada por McCarthy, Minsky, Rochester y Shannon), que marca el nacimiento de la IA como campo de estudio.

• 1957 – Rosenblatt desarrolla el Perceptrón: la primera red neuronal artificial capaz de aprender.

(!!) Test de Turing: donde un evaluador humano entabla una conversación en lenguaje natural con una máquina y un humano.

• 1965 – Weizenbaum desarrolla ELIZA: un programa de procesamiento del lenguaje natural que simula una conversación.

• 1967 – Newell y Simon desarrollan el Solucionador General de Problemas (GPS), uno de los primeros programas de IA que demuestra una capacidad de resolución de problemas similar a la humana.

• 1974 – Comienza el primer invierno de la IA, marcado por una disminución de la financiación y del interés en la investigación en IA debido a expectativas poco realistas y a un progreso limitado.

• 1980 – Los sistemas expertos ganan popularidad y las empresas los utilizan para realizar previsiones financieras y diagnósticos médicos.

• 1986 – Hinton, Rumelhart y Williams publican Aprendizaje de representaciones mediante retropropagación de errores, que permite entrenar redes neuronales mucho más profundas.

(!!) Redes neuronales: modelos de aprendizaje automático que imitan el cerebro y aprenden a reconocer patrones y hacer predicciones a través de conexiones neuronales artificiales.

• 1997 – Deep Blue de IBM derrota al campeón mundial de ajedrez Kasparov, siendo la primera vez que una computadora vence a un campeón mundial en un juego complejo.

• 2002 – iRobot presenta Roomba, el primer robot aspirador doméstico producido en serie con un sistema de navegación impulsado por IA.

• 2011 – Watson de IBM derrota a dos ex campeones de Jeopardy!.

• 2012 – La startup de inteligencia artificial DeepMind desarrolla una red neuronal profunda que puede reconocer gatos en vídeos de YouTube.

• 2014 – Facebook crea DeepFace, un sistema de reconocimiento facial que puede reconocer rostros con una precisión casi humana.

(!!) DeepMind fue adquirida por Google en 2014 por 500 millones de dólares.

• 2015 – AlphaGo, desarrollado por DeepMind, derrota al campeón mundial Lee Sedol en el juego de Go.

• 2017 – AlphaZero de Google derrota a los mejores motores de ajedrez y shogi del mundo en una serie de partidas.

• 2020 – OpenAI lanza GPT-3, lo que marca un avance significativo en el procesamiento del lenguaje natural.

(!!) Procesamiento del lenguaje natural: enseña a las computadoras a comprender y utilizar el lenguaje humano mediante técnicas como el aprendizaje automático.

• 2021 – AlphaFold2 de DeepMind resuelve el problema del plegamiento de proteínas, allanando el camino para nuevos descubrimientos de fármacos y avances médicos.

• 2022 – Google despide al ingeniero Blake Lemoine por sus afirmaciones de que el modelo de lenguaje para aplicaciones de diálogo (LaMDA) de Google era sensible.

• 2023 – Artistas presentaron una demanda colectiva contra Stability AI, DeviantArt y Mid-journey por usar Stable Diffusion para remezclar las obras protegidas por derechos de autor de millones de artistas.

Gráfico: Open Tech / Genuine Impact

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Mes écoutes de la semaine du 27 January 2025 :

#AphexTwin, #MathieuBoogaerts, #BrianCase, #ThFaithHealers, #BrigitteFontaine, #GrandVeymont, #Hyperculte, #Ignatus, #LaTène, #McCarthy, #Nonstop, #RienVirgule, #Wysteria,

#music #disque #reco

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#RichardAmp, #ArashiwithTakeoMoriyama, #Brötzmann #NilssenLove, #BrianCase, #DhanaJeera, #BrigitteFontaine, #Hypo, #Jessamine, #RobMazurek, #McCarthy, #MissMend, #Nonstop, #Novak, #QuickspaceSupersport, #RienVirgule, #SoulCoughing, #KonradSprenger, #SufjanStevens, #TristwchYFenywod, #Various,

#music #disque #reco

#Disque du jour, bonjour :

McCarthy • The Enraged Will Inherit the Earth

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mccarthy+the+enraged+will+inherit+the+earth

Avant d'être responsable du meilleur groupe du monde de l'univers de l'espace, #TimGane officiait dans #McCarthy, un groupe d'"#IndieRock" classique de l'époque. J'ai mis du temps à apprécier, ce n'est pas complètement ma came, mais j'aime bien écouté de temps en temps.

#music

Mes écoutes de la semaine du 13 January 2025 :

#Accrual, #RichardWilsonAvena, #DhanaJeera, #BrigitteFontaine, #BenLaMarGay, #Goldfrapp, #GusGus, #HumanError, #InspiralCarpets, #PhilippeKaterine, #KosmischerLäufer, #Kraftwerk, #MarquisDeSade, #McCarthy, #MakayaMcCraven, #Moby, #PinkFloyd, #LucyRailton #MaxEilbacher, #PeterRehberg, #RienVirgule,

#music #disque #reco

Former speaker McCarthy has spent much of his time, energy and money since leaving Congress in a bid to defeat the Republicans who cost him his gavel — and his political career

During the awkward interludeafter he was ousted from the speakership but before he resigned from Congress, #Kevin #McCarthy found himself standing on the House floor one afternoon next to Representative #Bob #Good of Virginia, ◻️one of the eight Republicans who had voted to remove him from power.◻️

🔶“I just traveled to your district,” Mr. McCarthy, still raw over his political downfall, said in what was interpreted as a vaguely threatening tone. “It’s a really nice district.”

🔷“Why don’t you come down and spend money there?” Mr. Good, the chairman of the hard-right House Freedom Caucus, taunted Mr. McCarthy in response.

🔶“Oh, I’m going to,” Mr. McCarthy shot back. “I might spend $5 million there, too.”
In this instance, Mr. McCarthy was as good as his word.

🔴In the months that followed, he helped direct more than $6 million into the race to defeat Mr. Good,
who is now fighting to hang on to his seat after coming up 375 votes short in his recent primary against a Trump-backed challenger, John J. #McGuire.
(Mr. Good’s campaign is paying for a recount, and he is claiming there was “inappropriate activity” at ballot drop boxes in Lynchburg, the district’s biggest city.)

Mr. McCarthy’s campaign to bring down Mr. Good was just one part of an ⭐️elaborate and expensive campaign of revenge ⭐️he has mounted since leaving Congress, one designed to ruin the Republicans he holds responsible for his demise.

“Bob Good was defeated, but the loser just can’t accept it yet,” said Brian O. #Walsh, a top McCarthy ally who is coordinating the former speaker’s efforts to unseat the so-called “Crazy Eight” Republicans who crossed him.

Mr. McCarthy spent more than $4 million in an unsuccessful bid to defeat Representative Nancy #Mace of South Carolina in her primary last month, and his allies are now promoting ethics allegations against her in hopes of making her unelectable in the future.

He and his allies are backing a challenger to Representative Eli #Crane of Arizona, the sole first-term Republican who voted to remove Mr. McCarthy, who faces a primary in August.

And Mr. McCarthy is going after Representative Matt #Gaetz of Florida, his chief tormentor and the ringleader of the push to depose him, pushing accusations that Mr. Gaetz had sex with an underage girl.

Representative Matt #Rosendale of Montana, another of the Republicans who voted to oust the former speaker, abruptly dropped his re-election bid in March after rampant rumors circulated that he had an affair with a staff member.

Mr. Walsh declined to comment on whether Mr. McCarthy and those in his orbit had anything to do with that decision. But Mr. Rosendale’s decision saved them millions of dollars.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/07/us/politics/kevin-mccarthy-revenge-tour.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Former speaker McCarthy has spent much of his time, energy and money since leaving Congress in a bid to defeat the Republicans who cost him his gavel — and his political career

During the awkward interludeafter he was ousted from the speakership but before he resigned from Congress, #Kevin #McCarthy found himself standing on the House floor one afternoon next to Representative #Bob #Good of Virginia, ◻️one of the eight Republicans who had voted to remove him from power.◻️

🔶“I just traveled to your district,” Mr. McCarthy, still raw over his political downfall, said in what was interpreted as a vaguely threatening tone. “It’s a really nice district.”

🔷“Why don’t you come down and spend money there?” Mr. Good, the chairman of the hard-right House Freedom Caucus, taunted Mr. McCarthy in response.

🔶“Oh, I’m going to,” Mr. McCarthy shot back. “I might spend $5 million there, too.”
In this instance, Mr. McCarthy was as good as his word.

🔴In the months that followed, he helped direct more than $6 million into the race to defeat Mr. Good,
who is now fighting to hang on to his seat after coming up 375 votes short in his recent primary against a Trump-backed challenger, John J. #McGuire.
(Mr. Good’s campaign is paying for a recount, and he is claiming there was “inappropriate activity” at ballot drop boxes in Lynchburg, the district’s biggest city.)

Mr. McCarthy’s campaign to bring down Mr. Good was just one part of an ⭐️elaborate and expensive campaign of revenge ⭐️he has mounted since leaving Congress, one designed to ruin the Republicans he holds responsible for his demise.

“Bob Good was defeated, but the loser just can’t accept it yet,” said Brian O. #Walsh, a top McCarthy ally who is coordinating the former speaker’s efforts to unseat the so-called “Crazy Eight” Republicans who crossed him.

Mr. McCarthy spent more than $4 million in an unsuccessful bid to defeat Representative Nancy #Mace of South Carolina in her primary last month, and his allies are now promoting ethics allegations against her in hopes of making her unelectable in the future.

He and his allies are backing a challenger to Representative Eli #Crane of Arizona, the sole first-term Republican who voted to remove Mr. McCarthy, who faces a primary in August.

And Mr. McCarthy is going after Representative Matt #Gaetz of Florida, his chief tormentor and the ringleader of the push to depose him, pushing accusations that Mr. Gaetz had sex with an underage girl.

Representative Matt #Rosendale of Montana, another of the Republicans who voted to oust the former speaker, abruptly dropped his re-election bid in March after rampant rumors circulated that he had an affair with a staff member.

Mr. Walsh declined to comment on whether Mr. McCarthy and those in his orbit had anything to do with that decision. But Mr. Rosendale’s decision saved them millions of dollars.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/07/us/politics/kevin-mccarthy-revenge-tour.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Former speaker McCarthy has spent much of his time, energy and money since leaving Congress in a bid to defeat the Republicans who cost him his gavel — and his political career

During the awkward interludeafter he was ousted from the speakership but before he resigned from Congress, #Kevin #McCarthy found himself standing on the House floor one afternoon next to Representative #Bob #Good of Virginia, ◻️one of the eight Republicans who had voted to remove him from power.◻️

🔶“I just traveled to your district,” Mr. McCarthy, still raw over his political downfall, said in what was interpreted as a vaguely threatening tone. “It’s a really nice district.”

🔷“Why don’t you come down and spend money there?” Mr. Good, the chairman of the hard-right House Freedom Caucus, taunted Mr. McCarthy in response.

🔶“Oh, I’m going to,” Mr. McCarthy shot back. “I might spend $5 million there, too.”
In this instance, Mr. McCarthy was as good as his word.

🔴In the months that followed, he helped direct more than $6 million into the race to defeat Mr. Good,
who is now fighting to hang on to his seat after coming up 375 votes short in his recent primary against a Trump-backed challenger, John J. #McGuire.
(Mr. Good’s campaign is paying for a recount, and he is claiming there was “inappropriate activity” at ballot drop boxes in Lynchburg, the district’s biggest city.)

Mr. McCarthy’s campaign to bring down Mr. Good was just one part of an ⭐️elaborate and expensive campaign of revenge ⭐️he has mounted since leaving Congress, one designed to ruin the Republicans he holds responsible for his demise.

“Bob Good was defeated, but the loser just can’t accept it yet,” said Brian O. #Walsh, a top McCarthy ally who is coordinating the former speaker’s efforts to unseat the so-called “Crazy Eight” Republicans who crossed him.

Mr. McCarthy spent more than $4 million in an unsuccessful bid to defeat Representative Nancy #Mace of South Carolina in her primary last month, and his allies are now promoting ethics allegations against her in hopes of making her unelectable in the future.

He and his allies are backing a challenger to Representative Eli #Crane of Arizona, the sole first-term Republican who voted to remove Mr. McCarthy, who faces a primary in August.

And Mr. McCarthy is going after Representative Matt #Gaetz of Florida, his chief tormentor and the ringleader of the push to depose him, pushing accusations that Mr. Gaetz had sex with an underage girl.

Representative Matt #Rosendale of Montana, another of the Republicans who voted to oust the former speaker, abruptly dropped his re-election bid in March after rampant rumors circulated that he had an affair with a staff member.

Mr. Walsh declined to comment on whether Mr. McCarthy and those in his orbit had anything to do with that decision. But Mr. Rosendale’s decision saved them millions of dollars.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/07/us/politics/kevin-mccarthy-revenge-tour.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Former speaker McCarthy has spent much of his time, energy and money since leaving Congress in a bid to defeat the Republicans who cost him his gavel — and his political career

During the awkward interludeafter he was ousted from the speakership but before he resigned from Congress, #Kevin #McCarthy found himself standing on the House floor one afternoon next to Representative #Bob #Good of Virginia, ◻️one of the eight Republicans who had voted to remove him from power.◻️

🔶“I just traveled to your district,” Mr. McCarthy, still raw over his political downfall, said in what was interpreted as a vaguely threatening tone. “It’s a really nice district.”

🔷“Why don’t you come down and spend money there?” Mr. Good, the chairman of the hard-right House Freedom Caucus, taunted Mr. McCarthy in response.

🔶“Oh, I’m going to,” Mr. McCarthy shot back. “I might spend $5 million there, too.”
In this instance, Mr. McCarthy was as good as his word.

🔴In the months that followed, he helped direct more than $6 million into the race to defeat Mr. Good,
who is now fighting to hang on to his seat after coming up 375 votes short in his recent primary against a Trump-backed challenger, John J. #McGuire.
(Mr. Good’s campaign is paying for a recount, and he is claiming there was “inappropriate activity” at ballot drop boxes in Lynchburg, the district’s biggest city.)

Mr. McCarthy’s campaign to bring down Mr. Good was just one part of an ⭐️elaborate and expensive campaign of revenge ⭐️he has mounted since leaving Congress, one designed to ruin the Republicans he holds responsible for his demise.

“Bob Good was defeated, but the loser just can’t accept it yet,” said Brian O. #Walsh, a top McCarthy ally who is coordinating the former speaker’s efforts to unseat the so-called “Crazy Eight” Republicans who crossed him.

Mr. McCarthy spent more than $4 million in an unsuccessful bid to defeat Representative Nancy #Mace of South Carolina in her primary last month, and his allies are now promoting ethics allegations against her in hopes of making her unelectable in the future.

He and his allies are backing a challenger to Representative Eli #Crane of Arizona, the sole first-term Republican who voted to remove Mr. McCarthy, who faces a primary in August.

And Mr. McCarthy is going after Representative Matt #Gaetz of Florida, his chief tormentor and the ringleader of the push to depose him, pushing accusations that Mr. Gaetz had sex with an underage girl.

Representative Matt #Rosendale of Montana, another of the Republicans who voted to oust the former speaker, abruptly dropped his re-election bid in March after rampant rumors circulated that he had an affair with a staff member.

Mr. Walsh declined to comment on whether Mr. McCarthy and those in his orbit had anything to do with that decision. But Mr. Rosendale’s decision saved them millions of dollars.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/07/us/politics/kevin-mccarthy-revenge-tour.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Former speaker McCarthy has spent much of his time, energy and money since leaving Congress in a bid to defeat the Republicans who cost him his gavel — and his political career

During the awkward interludeafter he was ousted from the speakership but before he resigned from Congress, #Kevin #McCarthy found himself standing on the House floor one afternoon next to Representative #Bob #Good of Virginia, ◻️one of the eight Republicans who had voted to remove him from power.◻️

🔶“I just traveled to your district,” Mr. McCarthy, still raw over his political downfall, said in what was interpreted as a vaguely threatening tone. “It’s a really nice district.”

🔷“Why don’t you come down and spend money there?” Mr. Good, the chairman of the hard-right House Freedom Caucus, taunted Mr. McCarthy in response.

🔶“Oh, I’m going to,” Mr. McCarthy shot back. “I might spend $5 million there, too.”
In this instance, Mr. McCarthy was as good as his word.

🔴In the months that followed, he helped direct more than $6 million into the race to defeat Mr. Good,
who is now fighting to hang on to his seat after coming up 375 votes short in his recent primary against a Trump-backed challenger, John J. #McGuire.
(Mr. Good’s campaign is paying for a recount, and he is claiming there was “inappropriate activity” at ballot drop boxes in Lynchburg, the district’s biggest city.)

Mr. McCarthy’s campaign to bring down Mr. Good was just one part of an ⭐️elaborate and expensive campaign of revenge ⭐️he has mounted since leaving Congress, one designed to ruin the Republicans he holds responsible for his demise.

“Bob Good was defeated, but the loser just can’t accept it yet,” said Brian O. #Walsh, a top McCarthy ally who is coordinating the former speaker’s efforts to unseat the so-called “Crazy Eight” Republicans who crossed him.

Mr. McCarthy spent more than $4 million in an unsuccessful bid to defeat Representative Nancy #Mace of South Carolina in her primary last month, and his allies are now promoting ethics allegations against her in hopes of making her unelectable in the future.

He and his allies are backing a challenger to Representative Eli #Crane of Arizona, the sole first-term Republican who voted to remove Mr. McCarthy, who faces a primary in August.

And Mr. McCarthy is going after Representative Matt #Gaetz of Florida, his chief tormentor and the ringleader of the push to depose him, pushing accusations that Mr. Gaetz had sex with an underage girl.

Representative Matt #Rosendale of Montana, another of the Republicans who voted to oust the former speaker, abruptly dropped his re-election bid in March after rampant rumors circulated that he had an affair with a staff member.

Mr. Walsh declined to comment on whether Mr. McCarthy and those in his orbit had anything to do with that decision. But Mr. Rosendale’s decision saved them millions of dollars.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/07/us/politics/kevin-mccarthy-revenge-tour.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

In addition to running Sinclair,
David Smith has used his vast wealth to support a variety of far-right causes.

The Baltimore Banner reports that
👉 since 2015, Smith, through his family foundation,
has donated large sums to "Young Americans for Liberty" ($581,000),
"Project Veritas" ($536,000),
"Turning Point USA"
($150,000), and "Moms for Liberty" ($121,000).

Meanwhile, News Corp’s cable news properties, Fox News and Fox Business, also helped launder the Wall Street Journal’s attacks on Biden into the news cycle.

According to transcript searches, the WSJ piece’s core claim
that Biden is “slipping”
was brought up at least 64 times on air on Fox News and Fox Business from when the article was published until yesterday afternoon.

Online, the WSJ piece has been the focus of at least 15 articles on Fox News’ website,
with many of them treating its dubious claims about Biden’s decline as a demonstrated fact.

#Boris #Epshteyn #Sinclair #David #Smith #Rupert #Murdoch #Lachlan #Kevin #McCarthy

A 2018 study published in the American Political Science Review
found that
👉stations purchased by Sinclair
increase "coverage of national politics at the expense of local politics"
👉 and undergo "a significant rightward shift in the ideological slant of coverage."

🌟Delivering right-wing attacks on Biden's mental fitness under the guise of "local news" is an extremely powerful tactic. 🌟

While many Americans are distrustful of the national media,
71% believe that local news is accurate,
including 78% of Democrats and 66% of Republicans.

This is not the first time Sinclair has exploited Americans' trust in local news to boost Republicans politically.

In 2016, the Trump campaign provided Sinclair stations with extensive access to Trump in exchange for friendly coverage that did not include fact-checking.

🔥"We are here to deliver your message," Smith told Trump 🔥in a 2016 meeting.

In 2017, Sinclair hired #Boris #Epshteyn, who previously served as a Trump advisor and surrogate, as its Chief Political Analyst.

👉Sinclair stations were 💥required 💥to run Epshteyn's political commentary.

"The American people demand change, and they demand action, and that’s exactly what they’ll get from this administration going forward," Epshteyn declared in one piece.

In 2018, 🔥anchors at Sinclair affiliates were forced to read a script warning viewers about "fake stories" being published by other media outlets "to push their own personal bias and agenda." 🔥

The argument mirrored then-president Donald Trump's criticism of the media.

#Sinclair #David #Smith #Rupert #Murdoch #Lachlan #Kevin #McCarthy

The Wall Street Journal piece was panned by independent media critics.

CNN's Oliver Darcy said the Wall Street Journal piece had "glaring problems."

In Poynter, Tom Jones wrote that it was not a "fairly reported story" because it relied exclusively on "quotes and opinions from those who don’t want to see Biden elected to a second term."

Nevertheless, ⭐️the Wall Street Journal piece was repackaged by Sinclair Broadcast Group and beamed into the homes of millions of Americans. ⭐️

#Sinclair, which is controlled by right-wing media mogul #David #Smith, owns or operates 185 local television stations across 86 markets.

Sinclair repackaged the Wall Street Journal story through its centralized news team, known as The National Desk.

The segment was then pushed to dozens of local news stations owned by Sinclair.

Local anchors introduced the piece by reading from a nearly identical script.

Again and again, the anchors say that the Wall Street Journal is "out with new reporting calling into question the mental fitness of President Joe Biden," adding that the issue "could be an election decider."

#Rupert #Murdoch #Lachlan #Kevin #McCarthy

Two outlets controlled by right-wing media tycoons are working in tandem
to aggressively push specious claims about President Joe Biden's fitness for office. 

On June 4, the Wall Street Journal published a 3,000-word article questioning Biden's mental acuity.

The Wall Street Journal is owned by News Corp, the media conglomerate founded by right-wing billionaire #Rupert #Murdoch.
. (News Corp is now chaired by Rupert Murdoch's son, #Lachlan.)

The Wall Street Journal article,
headlined “Behind Closed Doors, Biden Shows Signs of Sipping,” boasts that it is based on "interviews with more than 45 people over several months."

👉But only one person is quoted on the record supporting the thesis of the piece: Former House Speaker #Kevin #McCarthy (R-CA).
“I used to meet with him when he was vice president. I’d go to his house,” McCarthy told the Wall Street Journal. “He’s not the same person.” 

🔥Relying on McCarthy as the lynchpin of the article is problematic. First, McCarthy is not a neutral observer. He is a partisan Republican interested in inflicting political damage on Biden.

Further, what McCarthy told the Wall Street Journal about Biden is directly contradicted by comments that McCarthy said previously
— both publicly and privately.

In the article, McCarthy criticizes Biden's performance in debt ceiling negotiations in 2023. But in March 2023, while these negotiations were underway, the New York Times reported that
"McCarthy has told allies that he has found Mr. Biden to be mentally sharp in meetings."

McCarthy made similar comments about Biden in public, praising Biden as "[v]ery professional, very smart" and "[v]ery tough at the same time."

In October, when McCarthy was ousted as House Speaker, Politico reported that McCarthy "mocked Biden’s age and mental acuity in public, while privately telling allies that he found the president sharp and substantive in their conversations."

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/sinclair-biden-slipping-wall-street-journal-hit

👀 ‘Never get the #stink of #Trump off you': #Liberals are [refreshingly] quick to #dance on Kevin #McCarthy's [timely] #grave and revel in his upcoming #absence.

https://www.rawstory.com/kevin-mccarthy-resignation/

Pugilism is in; Civility is out with our #Republican legislators!

“It's no wonder that Americans gave #Congress an approval rating of 13% last month — its lowest mark since 2017.”

#McCarthy ‘elbows' Burchett
#Gaetz files ‘ethics' complaint against McCarthy
Sen #Mullin challenges witness to a fight
#MarjorieTaylorGreen calls Rep #Issa a ‘pu**y’
Rep #Comer explodes at Rep #Moskowitz

And remember when Rep #Rogers had to be restrained after lunging at Rep Gaetz!

https://www.axios.com/2023/11/15/congressional-pressure-cooker-explodes-as-personal-feuds-turn-physical

@DrJackBrown

Suggested edit:

"#McCarthy may run again for #Speakership with #Jordan holding the leash."

"Even as Americans watch as the mean-spirited, violence-threatening, authoritarian face of the GOP rears itself, they are being taught a valuable lesson that would never have occurred had Democrats simply done the 'nice' thing—the “expected” thing—as they nearly always do, in keeping Rep. Kevin McCarthy afloat."

~ Dartagnan

#Republicans #McCarthy #RepublicansinDisarray #chaos #ChaosAgents #PoliticsofDestruction
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/10/18/2200161/-The-American-public-needs-to-take-a-good-look-right-now-at-the-Republican-chaos-in-the-House

A total of 20 #Republicans voted against #JimJordan on the first vote for #speaker, the exact same number who opposed #McCarthy on his first of 15 ballots. But it’s a very different group of 20 lawmakers, & it remains to be seen what Jordan can do to win them over.

#GymJordan #extremism #MAGA #anarchist #WeaponizationOfGovernment #PartyOfGrievances #ChaosCaucus #TrollCaucus #dysfunction #PublicDisservice

A total of 20 #Republicans voted against #JimJordan on the first vote for #speaker, the exact same number who opposed #McCarthy on his first of 15 ballots. But it’s a very different group of 20 lawmakers, & it remains to be seen what Jordan can do to win them over.

#GymJordan #extremism #MAGA #anarchist #WeaponizationOfGovernment #PartyOfGrievances #ChaosCaucus #TrollCaucus #dysfunction #PublicDisservice

A total of 20 #Republicans voted against #JimJordan on the first vote for #speaker, the exact same number who opposed #McCarthy on his first of 15 ballots. But it’s a very different group of 20 lawmakers, & it remains to be seen what Jordan can do to win them over.

#GymJordan #extremism #MAGA #anarchist #WeaponizationOfGovernment #PartyOfGrievances #ChaosCaucus #TrollCaucus #dysfunction #PublicDisservice

A total of 20 #Republicans voted against #JimJordan on the first vote for #speaker, the exact same number who opposed #McCarthy on his first of 15 ballots. But it’s a very different group of 20 lawmakers, & it remains to be seen what Jordan can do to win them over.

#GymJordan #extremism #MAGA #anarchist #WeaponizationOfGovernment #PartyOfGrievances #ChaosCaucus #TrollCaucus #dysfunction #PublicDisservice

A total of 20 #Republicans voted against #JimJordan on the first vote for #speaker, the exact same number who opposed #McCarthy on his first of 15 ballots. But it’s a very different group of 20 lawmakers, & it remains to be seen what Jordan can do to win them over.

#GymJordan #extremism #MAGA #anarchist #WeaponizationOfGovernment #PartyOfGrievances #ChaosCaucus #TrollCaucus #dysfunction #PublicDisservice

Republicans nominate ‘Klu Klux Klan' member without the baggage for House Speaker 👻

“By a vote of 113 to 99 during a closed-door party meeting, Mr. #Scalise turned back a challenge by Representative Jim #Jordan of Ohio, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee and a favorite of the hard right. His candidacy will now go to the #House floor, where chaos reigned”

#kluKluxKlan #altright #rightwing #fascism #authoritarianism #HouseGOP #GOP #republican #mccarthy
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/10/11/us/house-speaker-vote-news

Centrist #Dems leave McCarthy hanging without a lifeline
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/03/centrist-dems-mccarthy-speaker-00119626?ref=am-quickie.ghost.io

Months of bad blood between #McCarthy and #Democrats help sink his #speakership
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/03/kevin-mccarthy-democrats-vote-speaker-house/?ref=am-quickie.ghost.io

#Trump and his team stay quiet on #MattGaetz's push to oust Kevin McCarthy
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-advisers-skepticism-matt-gaetz-push-kevin-mccarthy-speaker-rcna118699?ref=am-quickie.ghost.io

Kevin McCarthy ousted as #speaker, throwing #Washington into chaos
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-10-03/kevin-mccarthy-speaker-matt-gaetz-house-republicans?ref=am-quickie.ghost.io

McCarty-Abwahl - US-Analyst: "Unklar ist, was die rechten Rebellen antreibt"

Nur wenige Republikaner konnten McCarthy, den Speaker des US-Repräsentantenhauses, stürzen. Das liege an den Regeln der Partei, sagt US-Analyst Andrew Denision.#McCarthy #Sprecher #SPEAKER #US-Repräsentantenhaus #STURZ #Republikaner #Hardliner #Rechte #USA #POLITIK #Demokraten #KRISE
US-Analyst zu McCarty-Abwahl: "Ziele der Hardliner sind unklar"

#Gaetz’s Ouster of #McCarthy Draws Attention to His #Ethics Issues

Rep #MattGaetz is facing a #House Cmte inquiry into allegations of #SexualMisconduct & #MisuseOfFunds. Rep #KevinMcCarthy has argued Gaetz’s move against his #speakership is #payback.

#HouseRepublicans are a #mess
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/03/us/politics/gaetz-ethics-committee-house.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

#McCarthy suggests that Matt #Gaetz is not a real #conservative, after voting w/ #Democrats against #GOP spending bills. “It had nothing to do about spending," he said, adding, "It was all about getting attention.”

McCarthy says he “hasn’t thought about” #resigning from Congress. There is some precedent for that: When John #Boehner faced a motion to vacate in 2015, he relinquished the speaker’s gavel & resigned rather than face a vote on the #House floor.

Per Marianna Sotomayor

“You can’t overstate just how much it means to #Republicans that #KevinMcCarthy announced he is not naming a preferred successor to the #leadership role. Many Republicans have privately told The WaPo for weeks before a motion to #vacate was even introduced that they would never back down supporting #McCarthy & would only do so if McCarthy stepped back. They would also look to him for who to support as his #successor.

#California Democrats are saying Speaker Kevin #McCarthy ignored a request from lawmakers to postpone scheduled Thursday votes to accommodate the funeral of the late Sen. Dianne #Feinstein.

“So far he has not responded. And all indications are that he's just going to keep on with the votes,” said Rep. Judy Chu. “Of course, he may not be the speaker by that time.”

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2023/10/03/congress/california-dems-postponement-ask-00119698