Mocking Milo: Marked-up manscript is publisher’s evidence in lawsuit

The editors didn’t like right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos’s Milo ‘s book much, and it shows in the comments. The manuscript, with all those editor’s marks, was filed as evidence by Simon and Schuster to prove that  Milo’s autobiography, Dangerous, was unpublishable. In July, Yiannopoulos self-published “Dangerous” and then sued Simon & Schuster for $10 million for canceling the book. Since then, the two parties have been battling things out in a New York State court. It’s quite bad. Here’s one take in the Washington Post.  And what’s a pile-on without hearing from HuffPost? This entire paragraph is just repeating Fake News,” Ivers noted alongside a bizarre section on witchcraft, blood, semen and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. “This is what people say about you,” Ivers said next…

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Julian Assange has deleted his Twitter account

It’s gone. Deleted. Not suspended. Just not there. Gizmodo has the most on it right now: For reasons unknown, the official Twitter account of Julian Assange, the leader of disgraced transparency organization Wikileaks, has been deleted. The Internet Archive—or someone availing themselves of its services—appears to have been preserving snapshots of Assange’s account once every hour since September 18th of this year. Based on that information, it’s likely the @JulianAssange account was deleted between 4am and 5am GMT.

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Tomi Lahren snowflakes out over Obama, Christmas

Tomi Lahren complained about this pic making the rounds on Twitter. Because everybody thinks Obama stole Christmas. But he didn’t, really.  And she got a response she should have known was coming, but probably didn’t   Enough said.

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It’s a Wonderful Life: Holiday Classic or Communist Propaganda?

I’ve seen It’s a Wonderful Life in its entirety, although not in one setting. I think I’ve absorbed the movie in overlapping parts two or three times over the past three decades. And yes, it’s undoubtedly subversive to J. Edgar Hoover’s repressed and repressive way of thinking. I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if Donald Trump’s father wouldn’t let his kids watch this movie. After all, the film “deliberately maligned the upper class, attempting to show the people who had money were mean and despicable characters.” According to The Post:  J. Edgar Hoover’s Communist-hunting agents thought it was a Trojan horse sneaking anti-American propaganda to the masses. This argument was compiled in a memo written by an unnamed special agent in the FBI’s Los Angeles field office…

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