Headline News Thread II: Meanwhile...

[dxmnkd316]

So my wife is in Thailand (presently in Hua Hin) and is fine. Her parents (Bangkok), sister (outer Bangkok) and brother 2 (Rayong) were all unaffected.

Brother 1 who is a military diplomat stationed in Yangon but was traveling at the time was only impacted by his flight scheduled back to Yangon being cancelled. Luckily all of them are unscathed.

I was so out of the loop (Gophers hockey) I had no idea until my wife later messaged me.

Glad your family is safe. The images are horrific.

 

[Slap Shot]

It was only a matter of time.

PBS insisted on removing a 90-second segment from a documentary about Art Spiegelman that was critical of Donald Trump. Daniel Engber reports on a worrying trend in public television:

 

[ScoobyDoo]

Public Television is dead. So is public radio. The Republicans have won.

 

[dxmnkd316]

It was only a matter of time.

Fuck that’s bad. This is PBS, not paramount.

 

[aparch]

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