BartCop Entertainment Archives - Sunday, 18 March, 2018

Sunday

18 March, 2018

(Updated Daily)

[408 days in a row]



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Recommended Reading

from Bruce

Garrison Keillor: Too much information, baby, I love you
Stormy Daniels is going to tell her story and if it is true that she whispered in her lover's ear to meet with Kim Jong-un and talk about denuclearization and if steel tariffs were also part of the discussion, it'll be news for a week and then something else will come along and she will be forgotten.


Marc Dion: Revolution on My Street (Creators Syndicate)
I live in New England, and there was a snowstorm this week. We got 18 inches of snow, and most of us hope that's it for the year. During the storm before that, we got 17 inches, and the people on my street didn't think the city did a very good job of plowing. It seemed like it took them an awfully long time to get the street down to bare pavement.


Suzanne Moore: Let's see menopausal women on screen - in all their glory (The Guardian)
The absence of the menopause in popular culture shows that it remains taboo - and women pay the price


Helaine Olen: The students walking out over guns are putting us all to shame (Washington Post)
A huge number of students across the United States left their classes Wednesday morning to remember the victims of last month's Florida shooting and to show their support for gun-control legislation. As Joe Heim and Marissa Lang put it in The Post today, the National Student Walkout is "unprecedented in recent American history."


Kristi Harrison: 4 Ways You're Getting Teenagers Totally Wrong (Cracked)
The recent school shooting in Parkland, Florida is already unique in one regard: For weeks afterward, it actually kept the gun debate going. This is entirely due to the Parkland kids, the fiercely articulate teenage survivors who got in front of cameras and demanded change. The undercurrent of the coverage, though, is that this part is surprising. Who knew kids could form thoughts and express them? It's as if we can't conceive of anyone between the ages of 13 and 19 accomplishing much beyond eating Tide Pods and sexting each other.


Alison Flood: Terry Goodkind, warrior against sexism? That's what I call fantasy (The Guardian)
The author has publicly objected to the portrayal of female characters on his new novel's cover art - which leaves me wanting to object right back.


Alison Flood: "'Women are having different fantasies': romantic fiction in the age of Trump" (The Guardian)
In early November 2016, Sarah MacLean was 275 pages into writing her latest historical romance novel, The Day of the Duchess. She had hit all the right buttons - a titled (and entitled) duke; a beautiful, estranged wife touched by scandal; and an insurmountable challenge the pair had to mount before they could, well, mount each other. And then Donald Trump was elected. And MacLean couldn't bear her hero any more.


Lucy Mangan: "Why we need to stop using rape as a lazy plot twist" (Stylist)
Stylist's Lucy Mangan explains the problem with constantly depicting violence against women.



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Presenting

Michael Egan




#drmivhaelegan






The Tragedy of King Richard II Part One: Ascribed to William Shakespeare (The Tragedy of Richard II, Part One): Michael Egan



Editorial and Political Cartoons



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Trivia Question of the Day


What is the informal unit of time equal to 10 nanoseconds with applications in nuclear physics and also with circuits?

                                  



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Trivia Question from Yesterday


What is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea?


       Sicily                                                      Source


Sicily (Italian: Sicilia) is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. It is an autonomous region of Italy, in Southern Italy along with surrounding minor islands, officially referred to as Regione Siciliana.

Sicily is located in the central Mediterranean Sea, south of the Italian Peninsula, from which it is separated by the narrow Strait of Messina. Its most prominent landmark is Mount Etna, the tallest active volcano in Europe, and one of the most active in the world, currently 3,329 m (10,922 ft) high. The island has a typical Mediterranean climate.        Source







Alan J was first, and correct, with:
   Sicily.



mj said:
   Pretty sure
  It's Crete, cradle of Minoan civilization.




Mark. wrote:
   Sicily.



Randall responded:
   Sicily





Stephen F replied:
   stephen fung




Adam answered:
   Sicily



Dave wrote:
   Sicily is by far the largest. Separated by less than 2 miles from the Italian toe, this birthplace of the Mafia has never been connected to the mainland by a bridge, although various projects have been proposed and cancelled in recent years.



Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
   Sicily is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea



Jon L replied:
   I believe that would be Sicily.



Deborah responded:
   I don't know for certain, so I'm going with Sicily, because it's the first name that popped into my head.
  Looks like the rain has cleared out for a couple days. I'll take that.




John I from Hawai`i says,
   "Crete."



Billy in Cypress (not Cyprus, the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.) answered:
   Sicily, that's a gouda pizza.



Rosemary in Columbus wrote:
   Sicily



Daniel in The City said:
   Sicily. Thanks, Sporcle.



David of Moon Valley took the day off.
  

Dave in Tucson took the day off.
  

DJ Useo took the day off.
  

zorch took the day off.
  

Joe S     took the day off.
  

George M. took the day off.
  

Harry M. took the day off.
  

Michelle in AZ took the day off.
  

Gene took the day off.
  

Kevin K. in Washington, DC took the day off.
  

Gary E.K. took the day off.
  

Dale of Diamond Springs took the day off.
  

Brian S. took the day off.
  

Ed K took the day off.
  

kennb took the day off.
  

Sandra in Maine took the day off.
  

Paul of Seattle took the day off.
  

BttbBob   has returned to semi-retired status.
  
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Sally has retired.
  



MAM     In memory.



  





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Middle Class Political Economist




Now a Blogger-Columnist at US News and World Reports "Economic Intelligence"


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Reader Suggestion

Michelle in AZ


Revealed: 50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach | News | The Guardian



Secretive religious charity run by top US housing officials raises questions | US news | The Guardian



Facebook just suspended Cambridge Analytica--about damn time.



Malevolent Mango fires McCabe to screw with his pension... (but is it something else)



Retired Four-Star General McCaffrey: "President Trump is a serious threat to US National Security"



Cambridge Analytica and the Secret Agenda of a Facebook Quiz - The New York Times



Why Gun Culture Is So Strong in Rural America - The New York Times



Saudi Arabia Lightens Up, Building Entertainment Industry From Scratch - The New York Times



Trump's Lawyer Feels the Time is Right to Drop the Ax on Mueller's Russia Probe



Andrew McCabe Has Died So That Jeff Sessions May Live



Kelly: Tillerson Was on the Toilet When I Told Him He Was Fired



The silenced majority of women who would abort a fetus with Down syndrome - The Washington Post



In California's rural, conservative north, there are big dreams for cleaving the state



Former Coal Lobbyist On Tap For No. 2 Spot At EPA : NPR



Follow Up: What Happened To That Computer Teacher In Ghana Who Had No Computers? : Goats and Soda : NPR



Kentucky Votes To Ban Child Marriage : The Two-Way : NPR



Lower LA River makeover detailed in new renderings - Curbed LA



The Daily 202: Trump may hire multiple cable news personalities as part of shake-up - SFGate



We're not sure why McCabe was fired. But Trump's tweet suggests the worst. - The Washington Post



Hush Contract Liquidated Damage Clause of $1 Mil. per Breach Is Invalid & Unenforceable



Disturbing: Watch GOP Base Threaten To Burn Down Bookstore (Video)



UK finance, power and water on highest alert as threat of Russian cyber reprisal grows | World news | The Guardian



Trapped in the Sunken Place: how Get Out's purgatory engulfed pop culture | Film | The Guardian



'I created Steve Bannon's psychological warfare tool': meet the data war whistleblower | News | The Guardian



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Reader Comment

Current Events





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Bonus Links

Jeannie the Teed-Off Temp


Donald Trump Always Lied About Apprentice Ratings, Says Bush | Vulture



Trump's Lawyers Seem to Be Getting Desperate | NY Mag



The Problem Isn't Just Trump. It's Our Ignorant Electorate. | The Daily Beast



When Trump Asked Not To Publish Unflattering Double Chin Pics, This Is How The Internet Responded | Bored Panda



Steve Mnuchin Spent Nearly $1 Million in Taxpayer Dollars on Eight Flights - Mother Jones



A Government That Hates the Constitutional Right to Choose | NY Mag



Trump White House quietly issues report vindicating Obama regulations - Vox



A History of Sex and Abuse in the Trump Administration - Rolling Stone



McCabe's Firing Chips Away at the Justice Department's Independence - The Atlantic



Tillerson's ouster prolongs limbo for empty State Department jobs - POLITICO



White House weighs rehiring fired Trump aide McEntee - POLITICO



Amateur astronomers have discovered a stunning new type of northern lights, "Steve" - Quartz



John Kelly's day from hell - Axios



What We Know, and Don't Know, About the Firing of Andrew McCabe - Lawfare





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from Marc Perkel

Marc's Guide to Curing Cancer

So far so good on beating cancer for now. I'm doing fine. At the end of the month I'll be 16 months into an 8 month mean lifespan. And yesterday I went on a 7 mile hike and managed to keep up with the hiking group I was with. So, doing something right.

Still waiting for future test results and should see things headed in the right direction. I can say that it's not likely that anything dire happens in the short term so that means that I should have time to make several more attempts at this. So even if it doesn't work the first time there are a lot of variations to try. So if there's bad news it will help me pick the next radiation target.

I have written a "how to" guide for oncologists to perform the treatment that I got. I'm convinced that I'm definitely onto something and whether it works for me or not isn't the definitive test. I know if other people tried this that it would work for some of them, and if they improve it that it will work for a lot of them.

The guide is quite detailed and any doctor reading this can understand the procedure at every level. I also go into detail as to how it works, how I figured it out, and variations and improvements that could be tried to enhance it. I also introduce new ways to look at the problem. There is a lot of room for improvement and I think that doctors reading it will see what I'm talking about and want to build on it. And it's written so that if you're not a doctor you can still follow it. It also has a personal story revealing that I'm the class clown of cancer support group. I give great interviews and I look pretty hot in a lab coat.

So, feel free to read this and see what I'm talking about. But if any of you want to help then pass this around to both doctors and cancer patients. I need some media coverage. I'm looking for as many eyeballs as possible to read these ideas. Even if this isn't the solution, it's definitely on the right track. After all, I did hike 7 miles yesterday. And this hiking group wasn't moving slow. So if this isn't working then, why am I still here?

I also see curing cancer as more of an engineering problem that a medical problem. So if you are good at solving problems and most of what you know about medicine was watching the Dr. House MD TV show, then you're at the level I was at when I started. So anyone can jump in and be part of the solution.

Here is a link to my guide: Oncologists Guide to Curing Cancer using Abscopal Effect

Oncologists Guide to Curing Cancer using Abscopal Effect



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Selected Readings

from that Mad Cat, JD


THE SHIT JUST GOT CLOSER TO THE FAN!

A CRACK IN THE DAM OF LIES.

HAPPINESS IS A WARM GUN.

THE CENTER CANNOT HOLD...

"JESUS FREAKS" TRY TO TAKE OVER THE GOVERNMENT!

THE TRUMP PARADIGM OF DECEIT.

BLOWBACK.






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In The Chaos Household

Last Night

More rain.



Tonight, Sunday:

CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH 'Instinct', then a FRESH 'NCIS: The Expendable One', followed by a FRESH 'Refuge'.



NBC opens the night with a FRESH 'Little Big Shots', followed by another FRESH 'Little Big Shots', then a FRESH 'Genius Jr.', followed by a FRESH 'Timeless'.



ABC begins the night with a FRESH 'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a FRESH 'American Idol', then a FRESH 'Deception'.



The CW offers an old '2˝ Men', followed by another old '2˝ Men', then an old 'The Goldbergs', followed by another old 'The Goldbergs', then 2˝ hours of what passes for local news and other fluffery.



Faux has a RERUN 'Bob's Burgers', followed by a FRESH 'Bob's Burgers', then a FRESH 'The Simpsons', followed by a FRESH 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine', then a FRESH 'Family Guy', followed by a FRESH 'The Last Man On Earth'.



MY has an old 'Anger Management', followed by another old 'Anger Management', then an old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by another old 'Big Bang Theory', then still another old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by yet another old 'Big Bang Theory'.



A&E has all old 'Storage Wars' all night.



AMC offers 'The Walking Dead', another 'The Walking Dead', followed by a FRESH 'The Walking Dead', followed by a FRESH 'Talking Dead'.



BBC  -   
 [6:00AM]    STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 12-The Wounded
 [7:00AM]    STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 13-Devil's Due
 [8:00AM]    STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 16-Galaxy's Child
 [9:00AM]    THE PROFESSIONAL (1994)
 [11:30AM]    GRUDGE MATCH (2013)
 [2:00PM]    SNOWPIERCER (2014)
 [5:00PM]    SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS (2011)
 [8:00PM]    TOP GEAR - SEASON 25 - EPISODE 4
 [10:00PM]    SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS (2011)
 [1:00AM]    TOP GEAR - SEASON 25 - EPISODE 4
 [3:00AM]    TOP GEAR - SEASON 12 - EPISODE 1
 [4:00AM]    TOP GEAR - SEASON 12 - EPISODE 2
 [5:00AM]    TOP GEAR - SEASON 12 - EPISODE 3     (ALL TIMES EST)



Bravo has a FRESH 'Atlanta Social', followed by a FRESH 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', then a FRESH 'To Rome For Love', 'Married To Medicine', followed by a FRESH 'Watch What Happens Live'.



Comedy Central has the movie 'Horrible Bosses 2', followed by the movie 'Big Daddy'.



FX has the movie 'Straight Outta Compton', followed by the movie 'Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation'.



History has 'Kingpin', followed by a FRESH 'Kingpin'.



IFC  -   
 [6:00AM]    PORTLANDIA-Long Way Back
 [6:30AM]    THE RIVER WILD
 [9:00AM]    GANGS OF NEW YORK
 [1:00PM]    PORTLANDIA-Open Relationship
 [1:30PM]    PORTLANDIA-You Do You
 [2:00PM]    PORTLANDIA-Most Pro City
 [2:30PM]    PORTLANDIA-Peter Follows P!nk
 [3:00PM]    PORTLANDIA-Long Way Back
 [3:30PM]    DICKIE ROBERTS: FORMER CHILD STAR
 [5:45PM]    THE ROCKER
 [8:00PM]    MEET THE PARENTS
 [10:30PM]    MEET THE FOCKERS
 [1:00AM]    MEET THE PARENTS
 [3:30AM]    MEET THE FOCKERS     (ALL TIMES EST)



Sundance  -   
 [5:00am]    silver linings playbook
 [7:30am]    spies like us
 [9:45am]    airplane!
 [11:45am]    airplane ii: the sequel
 [1:45pm]    weekend at bernie's
 [4:15pm]    point break
 [7:00pm]    twister
 [9:30pm]    twister
 [12:00am]    point break
 [2:45am]    weekend at bernie's
 [5:15am]    the andy griffith show
 [5:45am]    love lust    (ALL TIMES EST)



SyFy has the movie 'Superman II', followed by the movie 'Superman'.



TCM:
 [6:00 AM]      The Firefly (1937)
 [8:30 AM]      Brewster's Millions (1945)
 [10:00 AM]      Crossfire (1947)
 [12:00 PM]      Gun Crazy (1950)
 [1:45 PM]      A Face in the Crowd (1957)
 [4:00 PM]      The Philadelphia Story (1940)
 [6:00 PM]      The Long, Long Trailer (1954)
 [8:00 PM]      Madigan (1968)
 [10:00 PM]      Charley Varrick (1973)
 [12:00 AM]      Spring Fever (1919)    SILENT 
 [12:00 AM]      Spring Fever (1927)    SILENT 
 [2:00 AM]      Spring Dreams (1960)
 [4:00 AM]      Farewell to Spring (1959)    (ALL TIMES EST)



Monday   -  03/19/18

TCM:
 [6:00 AM]      Devil's Island (1940)
 [7:15 AM]      A Scandal in Paris (1946)
 [9:00 AM]      A Man Escaped (1956)
 [10:45 AM]      Strange Cargo (1940)
 [12:45 PM]      The Pilgrim (1923)    SILENT 
 [1:30 PM]      The Count of Monte Cristo (1934)
 [3:30 PM]      The Canary Comes Across (1938)
 [4:00 PM]      They Live by Night (1949)
 [5:45 PM]      So You Think You're Not Guilty (1950)
 [6:00 PM]      The Seventh Cross (1944)
 [8:00 PM]      Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
 [10:00 PM]      The Lady From Shanghai (1948)
 [11:45 PM]      King Kong (1933)
 [1:45 AM]      Easy Rider (1969)
 [3:30 AM]      Night of the Living Dead (1968)
 [5:30 AM]      White Heat (1949)     (ALL TIMES EST)




Antenna TV - Johnny Carson (from Mar. 25, 1977) - Mitzi Gaynor, Orson Bean, and Dr. Carl Sagan.

Bounce TV

CHARGE!

Comet TV

Cozi TV

Decades TV Network

Escape

Heroes and Icons

Find Justice - Justice Network

Get TV

Grit - Television With Backbone - Grit

Laff - You Know You Want To. - Laff

Me-TV

MOVIES! TV Network

RTV - The Retro Television Network

the works

This TV





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Crowds cheer for marchers along Fifth Avenue during the St. Patrick's Day Parade, March 17, 2018, in New York.
Photo by Gordon Donovan

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The Sideshow - by Avedon Carol


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How Google Maps Changes Borders Based on Your Location ŤTwistedSifter

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Creates Mural In New York

Banksy

British artist Banksy has unveiled a mural in New York highlighting the case of a Turkish artist who was jailed for nearly three years over a painting.

Zehra Dogan was reportedly imprisoned last year for her painting of a brutally damaged Turkish city.

Banksy's protest shows the image projected above a mural of black tally marks which resemble jail bars and represent the time she has spent in prison.

A painting of her face is seen peering from behind one set of bars.

The New York Times reported that the mural was 70ft long, made in collaboration with graffiti artist Borf and was unveiled on Thursday.

Banksy

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Reenactors from the 69th Regiment perform during the St. Patrick's Day Parade on March 17, 2018, in New York.
Photo by Gordon Donovan

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Weird Al Yankovic Does a Fabulous Polka Style Medley of Songs From the 'Hamilton' Soundtrack

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Civil War Gold

Dents Run, PA

A 155-year-old legend about buried federal gold in Elk County appears to have caught the attention of the FBI.

Dozens of FBI agents, along with Pennsylvania state officials and members of a treasure-hunting group, trekked this week to a remote site where local lore has it that a Civil War gold shipment was lost or hidden during the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg.

The treasure-hunting group Finders Keepers has long insisted it found the gold buried in a state forest at Dents Run, about 135 miles (217 kilometers) northeast of Pittsburgh, but said the state wouldn't allow it to dig.

The FBI has refused to say why it was at the site Tuesday, revealing only that it was conducting court-authorized law enforcement activity. Finders Keepers owner Dennis Parada said Friday he's under FBI orders not to talk.

Depending on who's doing the telling, the shipment had either 26 gold bars or 52 bars, each weighing 50 pounds (23 kilograms), meaning it would be worth about $27 million then, or about $55 million today.

Dents Run, PA


This story of the missing Civil War gold was one my grandfather's favorite bits of local lore.
He also claimed that a particular apple tree (or its offspring) up in Glen Hazel had been planted by Johnny Appleseed.
And that the Brooklyn Bridge was built with Elk County quarried rock.


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Correction

ProPublica

The news organization ProPublica issued a detailed correction of a story about Gina Haspel, President Donald Trump's choice for the next CIA director, and the waterboarding of a detainee the year after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

It wasn't alone: Other organizations, including The Associated Press, have issued their own corrections this week, illustrating the murkiness of reporting on the behavior of official actions by public servants whose work, by its very nature, remains in the shadows.

The retraction and apology on Thursday by ProPublica, an organization of independent investigative journalists founded in 2007, was unusual in the amount of detail it offered about its reporting process. ProPublica concluded it was wrong last year in reporting that Gina Haspel was chief of a secret CIA "black site" in Thailand where suspected al-Qaida detainee Abu Zubaydah was interrogated with waterboarding, a measure that some regard as torture. That claim became relevant again this week with Trump's proposed promotion of the longtime CIA official.

ProPublica also apologized for incorrectly saying that Haspel mocked Zubaydah's suffering. The organization said it is now clear that Haspel was not in charge of the base until after Zubaydah's interrogation was finished.

ProPublica said it was told by three former government officials, when Haspel became the No. 2 person at the CIA last year, that she had been head of the Thailand base at the time of Zubaydah's waterboarding. The New York Times also reported that same detail last year.

ProPublica

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A member of the New York Police Department's Emerald Society Pipes & Drums performs during the St. Patrick's Day Parade, March 17, 2018, in New York.
Photo by Gordon Donovan

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This Is A Journey Into Sound: A Look at Old-School Headphones - Flashbak

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Just A Goofy Ad

'Bowling Ball Test'

President-for-now Donald Trump (R-Delusional) had people scratching their heads when he referred - with obvious annoyance - to an unpassable "bowling ball test" that Japan uses to justify excluding American cars from the market.

Trump insisted to donors in Missouri on Wednesday that a U.S. automaker had spent a "fortune" building a super car to beat Japanese regulatory tests - but was pounded in the "bowling ball test," according to an audiotape of his talk obtained by NBC News and The Washington Post.

The test, he said, involves dropping a bowling ball "from 20 feet up in the air" onto the hood of a car. "If the hood dents, then the car doesn't qualify," he said. "Well, guess what, the roof dented a little bit, and they said, nope, this car doesn't qualify."

There is no such regulatory test. The best guess on what Trump was talking about?

The Post speculated it was likely linked to a goofy Nissan ad showing bowling balls bouncing wildly down a street. The balls smash several parked cars. Only a Nissan cruises by unscathed ... "urban proof."

'Bowling Ball Test'

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Cambridge Analytica

Facebook

Cambridge Analytica, a company that profiled voters for Donald Trump's campaign, allegedly harvested private information from more than 50 million Facebook profiles, which they used to influence and wage a "culture war" during the 2016 election.

Whistleblower Christopher Wylie, who helped found Cambridge Analytica and served as their director of research until 2014, told NBC News' U.K. partner ITN Channel 4 News that the company helped develop an application on Facebook that paid individuals to take a survey. If users had not adjusted their privacy settings on the social media outlet, however, the app didn't just capture the survey responses - it also gathered as much data from each account as possible.

That data included information from Facebook users' friends and contacts, as well.

"So by you filling out my survey I capture 300 records on average right," Wylie told ITN Channel 4 News. "And so that means that, all of a sudden, I only need to engage 50,000, 70,000, 100,000 people to get a really big data set really quickly, and it's scaled really quickly. We were able to get upwards of 50 million plus Facebook records in the span of a couple of months."

According to Wylie, the project was of particular importance to Steve Bannon, who later served as the chief executive of Trump's campaign. He added that the former head of the right-wing media organization Breitbart wanted to use the data netted by Cambridge Analytica to influence and galvanize the views of the American public.

Facebook

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New York State Courts Pipes and Drums marches during the St. Patrick's Day Parade on March 17, 2018, in New York.
Photo by Gordon Donovan

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The Good Hitlers of Circleville | Amusing Planet

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Makes Dead Dog Joke

Mike Huckabee

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-Deplorable) loves a good joke. Too bad he has never told one.

On Saturday, Huckabee tweeted his delight at the news that Andrew McCabe, former deputy director of the FBI and 21-year veteran of the agency, had been fired the night before. McCabe would have been able to retire Sunday.

"Breaking Wind from CNN!" he wrote. "Andy McCabe offered deal for lying to FBI and won't get pension but will get passage in overhead bin on United flight to Oakland to work for scofflaw mayor."

Huckabee was referring to a dog that died this week after it was put in the overhead bin of a United Airlines flight. David Huckabee, the former governor's son, killed a dog while working as a counselor at a Boy Scouts camp in 1998. Funny stuff, right?

Mike Huckabee

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For the parade-goer watching the St. Patrick's Day Parade in New York City, green is the skin tone of choice.
Photo by Gordon Donovan

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Trailing Angela Davis, from FBI Flyers to 'Radical Chic' Art | Collectors Weekly

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False Voter Fraud Stories

Pennsylvania

A Pennsylvania official said no "legitimate claims or complaints" of voter fraud have come up since Tuesday's closely contested U.S. House race in the state, countering several false stories that cited invalid votes and a court decision throwing the election results out.

The website Daily World Update said in a story circulating on social media that a judge identified as Marshawn Little of the 45th Federal Appeals Court of Westmoreland County cancelled the results because they were "tainted beyond reproach."

But there is no such judge in Pennsylvania and no such court exists.

Another story on the same website, which identifies itself as a satire site to users who click the "About" section, claims "trucks full of illegals" cast votes in the election.

No county elections office in the district has received any such reports, either.

Pennsylvania

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The Long, Complex History of Oakland's Man-Made Bird Islands - Atlas Obscura

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A male yellowhead jawfish protects the fertilized eggs of its mate by holding them in its mouth until they hatch. This scene was captured over a shallow sandy bottom off the island of Cozumel, Mexico.
Photo by Marty Snyderman

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