BillW333

🇺🇸 🌊 🇺🇦 NO DMs! Computer Programmer | Star Trek & general Sci-Fi/Fantasy fan | GM for TTRPGs| demi|AuDHD | BillW333 on Twitch; pronouns he/him, #resist

[Bonnie Gordon🖖🏼 @BonnieBellG]

Hey Long Island!
Are you ready to nerd out with me? :)
June 12-14th! 🌺 🖖🏼
Catch me at the Luau with the Stars on Saturday night!
@treklongisland

[Neverwinter @NeverwinterGame]

Come play with us during our casual stream! Executive Producer 'Panderus' and Community Manager 'Kyrië' will be live at https://t.co/P9ZyC67ZUk on Friday, June 12, at 1 PM PT / 22:00 CET. See you there!

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

This Administration has removed the achievements of the Air Force’s first female Thunderbird pilot Retired Colonel Nicole Malachowski. The removal of these articles have sparked criticism because her place in Air Force history is not a Political slogan it’s well documented.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Honest Abe nailed it.

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

This is another brilliant Engineer from Mexico who is trying to make our life safer while fighting against Global pollution.

[Fightful Wrestling @Fightful]

Tyler Mane, who is a former pro wrestler and played Sabertooth in the X-Men/Deadpool and Wolverine movies, reveals that he has breast cancer.

“Yep. I have breast cancer. And yep, it’s super rare. Only 1% of breast cancers are men. I’ll be honest, my first reaction was to keep it secret. I mean it’s kind of embarrassing. But then I found out that men are more likely to be diagnosed in advance stages BECAUSE it’s not talked about and not looked for. In fact, my doctors all dismissed it and it was only because my wife pushed me to get the lump removed that I got in early. So let’s start talking about it! 1 in 755 men will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime and if caught early, it’s VERY treatable. Time to answer the Wake Up Call! Like, Save, Share, Comment let’s spread the word!”

(Tyler's social media)

[John Collins @Logically_JC]

This one hits hard.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

It's the golden age for criminals.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

You've probably heard that daddy longlegs are the most venomous spider alive, saved only by fangs too small to break your skin. Every part of that is wrong.

The common daddy long leg isn't a spider. It's a harvestman, a different arachnid with one round body instead of two, and it can't spin silk. It has no fangs or venom glands.

But you should love it anyway. It spends its days eating dead bugs and rot off the ground, which makes it part of your yard's cleanup crew.

If you see one of these guys in your yard, don't squish it! Count yourself lucky.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: '60 Minutes' journalist Scott Pelley releases EPLOSIVE receipts proving CBS boss Bari Weiss pushed Trump's LIES about ICE's killing of Renée Good’s, when video evidence obviously said otherwise!

In a video interview with The New York Times, the just-fired 60 Minutes correspondent said he believed CBS editor-in-chief Bari Weiss was repeatedly trying to steer coverage toward narratives favored by the Trump administration, most egregiously over the on-camera death of Good from multiple angles.

Pelley said Weiss communicated through then-executive producer Tanya Simon that the segment should portray protesters as more violent, and to describe Good as driving in the direction of the masked ICE agent.

"The video showed that the officer wasn't standing in front of the car and she wasn't driving toward him, but that's what the president said about that and that's the way she wanted it described," Pelley, who has eyes like the rest of us, recalled.

That allegation goes to the heart of journalism. Governments make claims every day, and it’s a reporter’s job to verify them, challenge them and compare them against evidence.

Pelley said the issue wasn't as much Weiss wanting to parroting the White House’s version of events, but the analysis of events after the next-day news cycle.

"My impression at the time was that she was putting a thumb on the scale on behalf of the administration," Pelley said.

He said this kind of pressure became a recurring pattern, always more from the president, more from his underlings.

“There's nothing wrong with reporting those views, but it was never enough,” he said. “It was always – more from the president, from the administration, that sort of thing. The balance was off.”

Ironically, Bari Weiss built much of her public reputation arguing that journalism should resist ideological pressure, follow the facts and challenge consensus.

Now, Pelley confirms she is pretty much doing the exact opposite, and it turns out we have a Trump-allied hack is at the helm of the venerable 60 Minutes, the jewel in the CBS News crown since 1968.

Pelley didn’t say it, but the implication is clear. If 60 Minutes, a bastion of American journalistic integrity for the last 58 years, goes down, exactly where are we in America right now?

[SGC Fella 🇬🇧 🇱🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇱 @SGAFella]

I think @AmazonMGMStudio should rethink their plan to scrap @martingero's Stargate show.

[Q The Storm Rider @Q_TheStormRider]

JUST IN: Reporter Catherine Herridge testifies that CBS News locked her out of the building and seized all her files, says she was working with sources to "expose government corruption."

Nothing at all going on here, folks.

"CBS News’ decision to seize my reporting records crossed a red line that I believe should never be crossed by any media organization."

"Multiple sources said they were concerned that by working with me to expose government corruption and misconduct they would be identified and exposed."

"CBS News locked me out of the building and seized hundreds of pages of my reporting files, including confidential source information."

FOLLOW ME, THE NEXT DROP WILL BE SHOCKING.

[MJdowntheshore @MJdowntheshore]

Big pussy got grabbed by a strong woman.

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

I think we all know that this is true!

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 HEARTBREAKING: Scott Pelley Sounded Like A Man Attending A Funeral.

Not for a person.

For a profession.

🔥 That’s why his defense of journalism hit so hard.

Scott Pelley confirmed on the record that CBS management ordered him to “inject falsehoods” into 60 Minutes coverage.

He named Bari Weiss directly. He said she was brought in to neutralize independent journalism inside the network.

He told 60 Minutes’ new leadership she was “murdering the show.”

Pelley spent 24 years at CBS News.

He just put his name on the record against the institution that built his career.

The Paramount-Skydance merger closed.

The new ownership installed Weiss. Pelley is the most senior on-air voice at CBS News describing what’s happening inside.

This is what institutional capture sounds like from inside the institution.

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

When the President of France visited the United States in April 1960, he asked the FBI to help him find a man.
The man he was looking for was an American citizen. He was sixty-four years old. He had been awarded fifteen French military decorations and — six months earlier, in a ceremony in Paris — had been made a Knight of the Légion d'honneur, the highest civilian honor France can give. The medal had been pinned to his chest by the President himself, who had publicly called him un véritable héros français. A true French hero.
The FBI located the man within a few days.
He was operating an elevator at Rockefeller Center in New York City.
The elevator operator's name was Eugene Bullard. He had been born in Columbus, Georgia, in 1895, the son of a man whose own father had been a slave.

He had run away from Columbus at the age of eleven, after watching a white mob nearly lynch his father.
He spent the next several years drifting through the American South. At sixteen, he stowed away on a German freighter at Norfolk, Virginia. He landed in Aberdeen, Scotland. From there he made his way to London, where he learned to box. By 1913, at eighteen, he was prizefighting in Paris.
When Germany invaded France in August 1914, Bullard was nineteen years old. He had no legal obligation to fight. He had no French citizenship.
He went to the recruiting office on October 19, 1914, and signed up for the French Foreign Legion.
He spent the next eighteen months as an infantryman in some of the worst fighting of the war — at the Somme, at Champagne, at Verdun. He was wounded three times. The third wound, on March 5, 1916, tore open his thigh and left him with permanent damage to his leg.
He was twenty years old. The doctors told him he would not return to the infantry.
He decided he wanted to fly.

In a Paris café in the spring of 1916, while he was recovering, Bullard mentioned to three white American friends that he was thinking of joining the French air service. A Mississippian named Jeff Dickson laughed.
Gene, Dickson said, you know damn well there aren't any Negroes in aviation.
Bullard answered: Sure do. That's why I want to get into it. There has to be a first to everything, and I'm going to be the first.
Dickson bet him two thousand dollars he would not make it.
Bullard took the bet. He earned his pilot's license on May 5, 1917. He won the bet.
He reported to the front in August 1917 and flew approximately twenty combat missions over the next three months in a SPAD VII. The fuselage was painted with a bleeding heart pierced by a knife and the French phrase Tout le Sang qui Coule est Rouge — All Blood that Flows is Red.
He carried, on every combat flight, a small capuchin monkey named Jimmy in the front of his flight jacket.
The French press began calling him L'Hirondelle Noire — the Black Swallow.

When the United States entered the war in 1917, Bullard immediately applied to transfer to the U.S. Army Air Service.
His application was rejected.
The U.S. Army Air Service had a policy, in 1917, of not accepting Black pilots. The other American pilots flying for France in his unit, all of them white, were transferred to the U.S. Air Service.
He was the only one who was not.

For the next twenty years, he was one of the most familiar faces in the Montmartre nightlife of Paris between the wars. He owned a nightclub called L'Escadrille. He spoke fluent French, English, and German. Hemingway drank there. Fitzgerald drank there. Langston Hughes drank there. Josephine Baker performed there. Louis Armstrong was a personal friend.
When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Bullard was forty-four. His fluent German and his ownership of a nightclub frequented by German officers made him useful to the French Resistance. He became an intelligence agent — eavesdropping in his own bar on conversations between German officers who did not know he understood every word.
When France fell in June 1940, friends in the Resistance smuggled him across the Spanish border before the Gestapo could arrest him.
He came back to the United States for the first time in twenty-eight years.
He arrived in New York with thirty dollars in his pocket and a permanent limp.

He did not return to a hero's welcome. He returned to a country that had no idea who he was.
He worked at a perfume counter. He worked as a security guard. He worked at the Staten Island shipyards. By the late 1940s, he had taken the job that he would hold for most of the rest of his life.
He operated the elevator at Rockefeller Center.
He was wearing the elevator uniform on the day a producer from NBC came down from the studios upstairs to ask if he was the man Charles de Gaulle had been looking for.
A few weeks later, NBC sent a film crew to interview him in the lobby. The studios where NBC produced The Today Show were on the floors above. He had operated the elevator that took the network executives up to those studios every morning for nearly ten years. He had not been recognized as he did it.
He went back to operating the elevator the following Monday.

He died of stomach cancer on October 12, 1961, three days after his sixty-sixth birthday.
He was buried in the French War Veterans' section of Flushing Cemetery, in Queens, in the uniform of the French Foreign Legion. The casket was draped with the French flag.
In 1994 — thirty-three years after his death — the United States Air Force formally commissioned Eugene Jacques Bullard as a Second Lieutenant, posthumously.
It was the first commission the U.S. military had ever offered him.
He had been the first Black combat pilot in American history.
The French had been calling him a hero since 1917.
The Americans got around to it in 1994.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

The plaintiff argued Oliver "feigned outrage for ratings." The outrage was about a licensed physician testifying under oath that leaving a patient with cerebral palsy in his own waste for days was acceptable because "people are allowed to be dirty."

Oliver's team pulled the full transcript to verify the quote was not taken out of context. It wasn't. The judge found the patient's dignity was the same regardless of the technical distinction the plaintiff raised.

The lawsuit was designed to make the segment cost more than it was worth to defend. It didn't work. It never has. Oliver's record is perfect.