Resignations in the news 12/21/2020 thru 12/25/2020

From Anon

Longtime executive at Maine Public retiring after 40

Rehoboth Beach Patrol Captain Submits

SEC Chief of Staff Sean Memon Announces Plans to Conclude

WVa Governor's Chief of Staff Mike Hall

The political chief at Mark Zuckerberg’s philanthropy is stepping

Not sure who needs to hear this, but if you're continuing to baselessly argue that there was widespread fraud and/or that the election was somehow "stolen" from Trump, you're encouraging people to attack again.

It's time to stop lying to your audiences, to your constituents.

Fox News host Mark Levin on January 3:

"Our Declaration of Independence and Constitution are being destroyed by the Democrat Party and the media. ... We're standing at the precipice and we're looking into the abyss."

Seriously, watch this.

@davewiner, https://t.co/LXMj1pRHP8:
"The epitaph of the United States may be that the idea of the rugged individualist was a lie, there never were any, and in the age of air travel and medicine we’re all very connected, our well-being depends on other people’s well-being."

John Wesley Powell tried to expose the lie in the late 1870s. Wallace Stegner wrote about it, at length, in "Beyond the Hundredth Meridian". Recommended.

"...individual initiative and individual labor and individual capital were inadequate to develop the irrigation works needed on an arid-belt farm unless the farm were located high on the headwaters of a small stream..."

"The inflexible fact of aridity lay like a fence along the 100th meridian. From approximately that line on, more than individual initiative was needed to break the wilderness."

"Powell’s way was a way tested by New England barn raisings and corn huskings ... tested even more fully by the Mormon experience of thirty years and the New Mexican experience of ten generations."

#Breaking #BreakingNews
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#Dominion CRIME Machines CEO LIES Under Oath to Officials that the company didn't get 400 Million Dollars From UBS Securities LLC when the actual document for the SALE OF EQUITY is on the SEC website. Maybe the SEC is lying? Reporters should call them.

Ok @JoeNBC, let's talk college free speech & #CancelCulture, a thread:

1. @OleMiss fired Garrett Felber, a celebrated anti-racism history scholar who spoke up on UM leaders' relationships with 'powerful, racist donors' & ties to mass incarceration.

Read: https://t.co/0eDlpsUPq6

Campus free speech & cancel culture (cont.):

2. @OleMiss is trying to compel its ombudsman to turn over confidential communications in order to unmask the #UMemails whistleblowers who exposed a web of racism among UM officials and

Campus free speech & cancel culture (cont.):

3. Faculty fear it's an effort to fire the ombudsman.

"People would be terrified of speaking up because people who speak up get hammered at this university. There is no place to go except the Ombuds office."

Campus free speech & cancel culture (cont.):

4. UM's EORC, which enforces Title IX, is leading the effort to unmask the #UMEmails whistleblowers on "hostile work environment" allegations after they exposed a web of racism and sexism on campus.

Campus free speech & cancel culture (cont.):

5. When someone at UM journalism school leaked an audio recording that could've revealed a wealthy donor was behind racist emails and photos, a "witch hunt" ensued to find the "treacherous"

Here are the 10 most popular CAMERA UK posts in 2020:

10. BBC INTERVIEWER ASKS ENTEBBE RESCUER ABOUT ‘RESERVATIONS’

9. SENIOR INDY EDITOR ACCUSES JEWISH ESTABLISHMENT OF “PERPETUATING RAPE CULTURE”

8. THE TIMES PRESENTS PALESTINIAN PROPAGANDA ON 1948 AS “HISTORY”

7. BBC NEWS MISLEADS ON ETHIOPIA-BORN MKs

6. GUARDIAN PROMOTES SETH ROGEN’S BREATHTAKING IGNORANCE ABOUT ISRAEL

One of the reasons people don’t know recovery happens through many avenues is because newspapers, TV, and film always promote 12-step recovery as the primary and only means by which one can recover. This is a big problem. 1/9

I also need to highlight that “self-care” is something specific to each individual. In all honesty I still have no idea what it is, what it looks like, or how I deploy it in my life. But I do know what is listed here 👇as self care would not work for me. 2/9

I completely understand that this is just one story focused on one person’s chosen (maybe) recovery path. But as most of us know, when you enter treatment, 12 step ideology will be preached 24/7. 3/9

if you don’t submit you will be labeled dishonest, closed-minded and unwilling. Often this starts a cascade leading down 2 paths. First, you assimilate into 12s culture, tc staff treats you well and gives you outstanding evaluations (which play a significant part in DC date) 4/9

Or the second pathway where you honestly admit 12s just isn’t for you (after all, this is a program of rigorous honesty right?). This path usually leads to public shaming, constant blaming of the patient for not “taking responsibility for cleaning his side of the street.” 5/9

My latest piece at @mmfa:

Fox News keeps trying to justify GOP efforts to object to the Electoral College vote by pointing to the number of people who think the election was stolen (after spending 2 months telling their audiences that it was

This is Fox, basically:

Another comparison to the role Fox is playing here via one of my favorite Onion articles:

Or maybe a human centipede, but with the front connected back to the end for a loop of shit-eating. Yeah, that's it. That's the role Fox is playing here.

But seriously, check out the *more than 2 months* of Fox-enabled conspiracy theories (a partial list):

THE BIRTH OF THE FAKE NEWS

The event was the First Imperial Press Conference, 1909 in Shepherd’s Bush, Crystal City, London.

Free pdf

@TheNewEuropean Sorry @TheNewEuropean You are doing exactly what you accuse the BBC News etc of - you have allowed May Freedom to continue Lying with out challange

She knew there had been illegalities in the Referendum

when she wrote and signed her Article 50 Letter

2/ @TheNewEuropean Court Case High Court Wilson v May Feb 2019 Sir James Eadie QC for May - the Prime Minister was aware of illegalities but decided to ignore them and proceed -

He also made it clear that the Referendum was "unlawful"

3/ @TheNewEuropean please if you are to go over Brexit 5 years and you should then at least involve people who watched with intelligence the Lies and misinformation by the MPs

4/ @TheNewEuropean July 2018 just after May in the above Article 50 episode where she knew of illegalities - she rushed to beat the Electoral Commission Report to Parliament - she had been informed by the E-C.
she knew of illegalities and decided to ignore

What does that say

5/ @TheNewEuropean The Electoral Commission Report found Vote Leave had Broken the Law -- reported that there were Serious offences committed that they referred to the Met Police - passed to Crown Prosecution 12 months ago

6/

1. - Gator Comms Post Election
11/11/2020 Minnesota deer hunter bags 10-point buck — and an alligator
"odd chain of the events from Saturday’s firearm hunting opener"
https://t.co/aorxJ8hYib
Hunting Opener.

Excited to be able to share this comprehensive review on the many ways that climate change is increasing bushfire risk in southeast Australia, just published in @CommsEarth.

Thread 👇 describing what we found:

[paper is open

This was a huge collaborative effort across climate and fire science experts, including from @ClimateExtremes and @BushfireHub, who came together following the #BlackSummer disaster in Australia.

Our review focuses on forest fires in southeast Australia (NSW + ACT + Victoria).

The #BlackSummer fires were unprecedented:

*In their scale (23% of all southeast Australia forests were burnt)

*In their power (for every month of the spring and summer seasons), and

*In the number of fires that developed into extreme pyroconvective events

Climate in SE Australia in 2019 was also the hottest and driest on record.

Regional warming is part of human-caused global warming trend.

Dry conditions were part of a 3-year drought with consecutive winter rain failures. Long-term winter drying trend appears to be emerging.

Dry years in southeast Australia are usually also hot, (and wet years are usually cool), due to land-atmosphere feedbacks.

And years of large bushfires in southeast Australia have clustered in the hot-&-dry quadrant of historical climate conditions