I came across this is little story today, it's not breaking news. I suspect that a member of the housekeeping staff knows something about the bomb threat that required the sweep for weapons.
According to police in Secaucus, the bomb threat — which later was determined to be bogus — was called in to Hudson Regional Hospital on July 18. During a search, bomb detection dogs led investigators to an unlocked office closet containing dozens of firearms.
Among the weapons were 11 handguns and 27 rifles or shotguns, according to police. The closet also contained a .45 caliber semi-automatic rifle with a high-capacity magazine that was determined to be an assault rifle, and a 14-round high-capacity handgun magazine.
The arrested the guy the next day.
What the heck do you think this guy was doing? It sounds very ominous that he was keeping those weapons there.
Spinning together a counternarrative for tens of millions of viewers, Russian propagandists plucked clips from American cable news, right-wing social media and Chinese officials. They latched onto claims that Western embargoes of Russian oil would be self-defeating, that the United States was hiding secret bioweapon research labs in Ukraine and that China was a loyal ally against a fragmenting West.
Day by day, state media journalists sharpened those themes in emails. They sometimes broadcast battlefield videos and other information sent to them by the successor agency to the K.G.B. And they excerpted and translated footage from favorite pundits, like the Fox News host Tucker Carlson, whose remarks about the war were shown to millions of Russians.
“Be sure to take Tucker,” one Russian news producer wrote to a colleague. The email referred to a clip in which Mr. Carlson described the power of the Chinese-Russian partnership that had emerged under Mr. Biden — and how American economic policies targeting Russia could undermine the dollar’s status as a world-reserve currency.
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V.G.T.R.K. did not respond to requests for comment. A Fox News spokeswoman didn’t provide a comment.
V.G.T.R.K. has roughly 3,500 employees and operates some of the country’s most-watched channels, including Russia 1 and Russia 24, as well as a robust online operation. With national and regional networks, it reaches nearly the entire Russian population, from urban hubs to rural areas, and its dominance has grown as the government has restricted access to social media and independent news. The company receives about $500 million a year from the Russian government, analysts estimated.
“Besides the political machine of what the Kremlin operates directly, V.G.T.R.K. is the second-most important part of propaganda in Russia,” said Vasily Gatov, a Russian media researcher at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership and Policy.
The company, created in 1990 and now run by the Kremlin ally Oleg Dobrodeyev, sets the news agenda and shapes public opinion, Mr. Gatov said. About two-thirds of Russians count television as their main source of news, according to a recent survey. And V.G.T.R.K.’s influence extends to other media outlets, with its former Kremlin correspondent, Margarita Simonyan, now the top editor of RT, Russia’s English-language news channel.
We've seen some of the content used by Russian propagandists in these threads. Republican members of congress have shared Russian misinformation in the congress.
I've said many times before...hospital staffing problems are a business model.
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But a New York Times investigation has found that hospitals helped lay the groundwork for the labor crisis long before the arrival of the coronavirus. Looking to bolster their bottom lines, hospitals sought to wring more work out of fewer employees. When the pandemic swamped hospitals with critically ill patients, their lean staffing went from a financial strength to a glaring weakness.
More than half of the roughly 5,000 hospitals in the United States are nonprofits. In exchange for avoiding taxes, the Internal Revenue Service requires them to offer services, such as free health care for low-income patients, that help their communities.
But The Times this year has documented how large chains of nonprofit hospitals have moved away from their charitable missions.
Some have skimped on free care for the poor, illegally saddling tens of thousands of patients with debts. Others have plowed resources into affluent suburbs while siphoning money from poorer areas.
Our health system is broken. We need single payer.
I've said many times before...hospital staffing problems are a business model.
Our health system is broken. We need single payer.
Agree. Biden is going to sign an over 800 billion dollar military budget for one year but we can't come up with universal health care. But we debated that ad nauseam during Obamacare.
I work for one of the large not-for-profits here. Yesterday I went to a multidisciplinary discharge rounds meeting we have Monday through Friday where the hospitalists, case managers, charge nurses (when we don't have an assignment), manager go. For the uninsured in order to help them, in addition to not getting paid for their hospital stay, we pay for their prescriptions, we give them equipment like walkers, we pay for home health (because that's cheaper than a hospital bed), we pay for taxi rides home, we have beds reserved at the Salvation Army , and we even have some contracts with some skilled nursing facilities to send them there for rehab at our expense. The burden on not-for-profits is huge.
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Agree. Biden is going to sign an over 800 billion dollar military budget for one year but we can't come up with universal health care. But we debated that ad nauseam during Obamacare.
I work for one of the large not-for-profits here. Yesterday I went to a multidisciplinary discharge rounds meeting we have Monday through Friday where the hospitalists, case managers, charge nurses (when we don't have an assignment), manager go. For the uninsured in order to help them, in addition to not getting paid for their hospital stay, we pay for their prescriptions, we give them equipment like walkers, we pay for home health (because that's cheaper than a hospital bed), we pay for taxi rides home, we have beds reserved at the Salvation Army , and we even have some contracts with some skilled nursing facilities to send them there for rehab at our expense. The burden on not-for-profits is huge.
The burden should be on the government that is charged with responsibility for the general welfare of the citizens.
Journalists and celebrities are probably the biggest users of the Twitter platform. Maybe they will begin to step away too. Most of the world doesn't view Twitter with the same level of importance as they do.
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Twitter suspended the accounts of roughly half a dozen prominent journalists on Thursday, the latest change by the social media service under its new owner, Elon Musk.
The accounts suspended included Ryan Mac of The New York Times; Drew Harwell of The Washington Post; Aaron Rupar, an independent journalist; Donie O’Sullivan of CNN; Matt Binder of Mashable; Tony Webster, an independent journalist; Micah Lee of The Intercept; and the political journalist Keith Olbermann. It was unclear what the suspensions had in common; each user’s Twitter page included a message that said it suspended accounts that “violate the Twitter rules.”
The moves came a day after Twitter suspended more than 25 accounts that tracked the planes of government agencies, billionaires and high-profile individuals, including that of Mr. Musk. Many of the accounts were operated by Jack Sweeney, a 20-year-old college student and flight tracking enthusiast who had used Twitter to post updates about the location of Mr. Musk’s private plane using publicly available information.
Last month, Mr. Musk had said he would allow the account that tracked his private plane to remain on Twitter, though he said it amounted to a security threat. “My commitment to free speech extends even to not banning the account following my plane, even though that is a direct personal safety risk,” he said in a tweet at the time.
But he changed his mind this week, after he claimed a car in which one of his sons was traveling was accosted by a “crazy stalker.” On Wednesday, Mr. Musk tweeted that any account that posted “real-time location info of anyone will be suspended, as it is a physical safety violation. This includes posting links to sites with real-time location info.”
Some of the journalists whose accounts were suspended had written about the accounts that tracked the private planes or had tweeted about those accounts. Some have also written articles that have been critical of Mr. Musk and his ownership of Twitter. Many of them had tens of thousands of followers on the platform.
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“Tonight’s suspension of the Twitter accounts of a number of prominent journalists, including The New York Times’s Ryan Mac, is questionable and unfortunate,” said Charlie Stadtlander, a spokesman for The Times. “Neither The Times nor Ryan have received any explanation about why this occurred. We hope that all of the journalists’ accounts are reinstated and that Twitter provides a satisfying explanation for this action.”
Does Twitter become less attractive and relevant if The Times were to significantly limit their interactions there?
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A representative for The Post did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Kristine Coratti Kelly, a CNN spokeswoman, said the suspensions were “concerning but not surprising” and that “Twitter’s increasing instability and volatility should be of incredible concern for everyone who uses” it. In an appearance on CNN after his account was suspended, Mr. O’Sullivan said Twitter’s actions could intimidate journalists who cover companies owned by Mr. Musk.
“I was disappointed to see that I was suspended from Twitter without explanation,” Mr. Webster, whose account was suspended, said in an emailed comment. He added that he had tweeted about the Twitter account that tracked Mr. Musk’s private plane before his suspension.
Mr. Binder, the Mashable journalist, said that he had been critical of Mr. Musk but had not broken any of Twitter’s listed policies.
After his suspension from Twitter, Mr. Sweeney turned to Mastodon, an alternative social network. After Mastodon used Twitter to promote Mr. Sweeney’s new account on Thursday, Twitter suspended Mastodon’s account. As some journalists shared the news of Mastodon’s suspension, their own accounts were suspended.
Funny that Twitter suspended the Mastodon account for a promotion.
Only Colorado, Connecticut and New Mexico don't have qualified immunity for their police. NYC ended qualified immunity. Police need more accountability, not less. They need to self fund their legal costs rather than making the tax payers responsible for their bad actions.
Journalists and celebrities are probably the biggest users of the Twitter platform. Maybe they will begin to step away too. Most of the world doesn't view Twitter with the same level of importance as they do.
Does Twitter become less attractive and relevant if The Times were to significantly limit their interactions there?
Funny that Twitter suspended the Mastodon account for a promotion.
No surprises here. As predicted, the first time the Musk got doxxed, his attitute turned 180 degrees. Just because one can make a car (well, half of the time anyway), doesn't' mean that they are suitable for a job that requires emotional stamina and sensitivity at the same time. Meanwhile, we have to be regaled daily with his nonfocused decisions that are set-ups for his failure. He's quite a bit like Trump in that respect that he can't control his ego and will self-destruct.
DRC has the largest mineral potential wealth in the world estimated to be 24 trillion. We've probably gotten stuff from them for many years. But let it if for Biden's Climate initiatives, it's a problem.
Congo is a sad place. With all this wealth they can't get it together and the concern for child welfare is valid.
Journalists and celebrities are probably the biggest users of the Twitter platform. Maybe they will begin to step away too. Most of the world doesn't view Twitter with the same level of importance as they do.
Does Twitter become less attractive and relevant if The Times were to significantly limit their interactions there?
Funny that Twitter suspended the Mastodon account for a promotion.
Too bad libs are whining over a few journalists who deservedly had their accounts suspended.
The real Twitter news is that the FBI working in cahoots with Twitter.
It looks like the FBI was monitoring for propaganda and misinformation and asked the social media company to review account activity that appeared to be in violation of the company's own policy and then the company took action enforcing their own rules. Weren't accounts of liberals and conservatives flagged for review?
I do think that propaganda and misinformation is dangerous for our democracy and must be monitored. Honestly, what I call propaganda and misinformation my brothers in the Midwest call "truth". Of course, neither of them are vaccinated against covid and they believe that there were serious irregularities and problems with election security in 2020 because of that "truth". The best man from my wedding years ago attended the January 6th events because of his social media "truths" that had him convinced that the election was stolen in 2020 as confirmedfor him by Tucker and Sean.
The government is supposed to try to protect the general welfare of the American citizen.
I don't see that the FBI dictated the rules or demanded specific action beyond review. It makes sense that this would begin in earnest during the Trump administration... the most corrupt and dishonest presidency of your lifetime that spread covid and election misinformation from government podiums and accounts.
It looks like the FBI was monitoring for propaganda and misinformation and asked the social media company to review account activity that appeared to be in violation of the company's own policy and then the company took action enforcing their own rules. Weren't accounts of liberals and conservatives flagged for review?
I do think that propaganda and misinformation is dangerous for our democracy and must be monitored. Honestly, what I call propaganda and misinformation my brothers in the Midwest call "truth". Of course, neither of them are vaccinated against covid and they believe that there were serious irregularities and problems with election security in 2020 because of that "truth". The best man from my wedding years ago attended the January 6th events because of his social media "truths" that had him convinced that the election was stolen in 2020 as confirmedfor him by Tucker and Sean.
The government is supposed to try to protect the general welfare of the American citizen.
I don't see that the FBI dictated the rules or demanded specific action beyond review. It makes sense that this would begin in earnest during the Trump administration... the most corrupt and dishonest presidency of your lifetime that spread covid and election misinformation from government podiums and accounts.
I might be missing something but "working in cahoots" and "pressuring them to moderate content..." doesn't seem that bad on the surface. Twitter is a huge platform and misinformation spread fast and can be dangerous.
MTG and Gaetz certainly would be upset though because it was their party and followers that stirred things up after Trump lost the election leading to events on January 6th.
The "think of all the mass shootings they could have stopped while they were focused on this" seems lame.
I suppose the question would be should the FBI get involved at all? Should we be able to say whatever we want even if it's lies or something like "make sure to be armed when you go to the protest on January 6th at the Capitol" because it's free speech?
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I might be missing something but "working in cahoots" and "pressuring them to moderate content..." doesn't seem that bad on the surface. Twitter is a huge platform and misinformation spread fast and can be dangerous.
MTG and Gaetz certainly would be upset though because it was their party and followers that stirred things up after Trump lost the election leading to events on January 6th.
The "think of all the mass shootings they could have stopped while they were focused on this" seems lame.
I suppose the question would be should the FBI get involved at all? Should we be able to say whatever we want even if it's lies or something like "make sure to be armed when you go to the protest on January 6th at the Capitol" because it's free speech?
I agree. Conservatives seem to believe that this is evidence of nefarious intent but they haven't really provided any evidence of that intent, in my opinion.
I do believe that our federal government should care about propaganda... especially that which undermines the federal government agencies in doing their jobs. Agencies like the CDC for instance.
In my view, the Twitter files are underwhelming in terms of breaking news or exciting developments.
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An Alternate Reality: How Russia’s State TV Spins the Ukraine War https://nyti.ms/3YnHP9U
We've seen some of the content used by Russian propagandists in these threads. Republican members of congress have shared Russian misinformation in the congress.