David Sanborn in memorium - Here's a clip from his TV show Dr John Jeff Healey

David Sanborn in memorium - Here's a clip from his TV show Dr John Jeff Healey

Is this the real GOP plan to kill Social Security?

A Washington Post opinion article titled :
Americans are having too few kids. The GOP made the problem worse.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/01/fertility-rates-record-low-reproductive-care?itid=sr_1_99c611fb-ad52-4183-9ac1-930dfc0c5ed2

I saw the title of this opinion piece and it made me think. If the republicans can't kill Social Security through votes, is the real goal of anti-abortion legislation to kill Social Security through attrition?

If you can read this, thank an unarmed teacher

EU Parliament 'ready' for requests to lift MEPs' immunity in Russian influence probe, says Metsola

(Note: MEP is an abbreviation for Member of the European Parliament: a politician who has been elected to represent an area of their country in the European Union)

I guess we'll just have to start with the basics

Marjorie Taylor Greene - star of stage and screen?

I was looking into that new movie "God and Country" that Rob Reiner is producing. I wanted to see more info on it so I went to IMDB.com (the Internet Movie DataBase). I was surprised to see that it looks like Marjorie Taylor Greene has top billing.

IMDB:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt29259251/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Has anyone seen this movie yet? Does it feature her?

Soros fund is building an audio empire

George Soros thinks it’s good business, and perhaps good politics, to be in your ears.

Over the last two years, Soros Fund Management, the firm founded by the billionaire investor and now controlled by the Open Society Foundations, has become an increasingly key player in the oldest electronic mass media: radio.

In February, the company became the largest shareholder in Audacy, the bankrupt second-largest radio company in the U.S., with more than 230 U.S. stations and a podcast arm that includes Cadence13 and Pineapple Street Studios. In 2022, Soros invested an undisclosed amount in Crooked Media, the liberal podcast network behind the ultra-popular Pod Save America. And a Soros-backed firm played a crucial role in Univision’s $60 million sale in 2022 of 18 Hispanic radio stations to a new firm run by veterans of Democratic politics. The deal, which included conservative Cuban powerhouse broadcasters in Miami, drew opposition from Republican members of Congress.

https://www.semafor.com/article/04/07/2024/soros-fund-is-building-an-audio-empire

As previously reported on DU:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218704001

A DU software enhancement request

Hi. I hope this is in the right forum. If, not, please feel free to give me guidance. Newbee that I am here.

As the Biden campaign is starting to gear up and go on the offensive, there are great Biden tweets and commercials being linked to as they appear.
I would like to view the Biden campaign's tweets and commercials in one area to view and enjoy. Must be link to tweets /commercials issued by the Biden campaign that we link to.
Would it be possible to ask during the the time that the user is posting -- ask something similar to:
Is this a Biden issued tweet or Biden issued campaign commercial? __ yes
Should this link be included in the list of Biden campaign tweets and commercials? __ yes

Or, if there is a way of searching just for the campaign's tweets and commercials, that would do also.

The other side features everything in constant onslaught. We get stuff in dribs and drabs.

Just a suggestion.

I wouldn't want the original poster to have to post from a specific forum to do this. Or maybe that would be the way.

Maybe the feature is already there and I'm missing it.

Thanks.

Oh, I thought DU looked great before the upgrade, but wow, it looks really good now.... modern.

Before the poison started to set in.

And before there were so many people who found that they liked the taste of that poison.

I've been somewhat nostalgic lately. Thinking of a time that might've been, and maybe, just maybe, might very well still come to be.

When Trump first started his campaign, big companies were jumping ship. The Trump ship.

I remember my buddy and I just laughing at this loser. Which company would be next to distance themselves from him.

So, I started searching for the news then that was exciting then. I found a link to a news article listing the companies that were leaving Trump - a month into his campaign.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/companies-dumped-donald-trump/story?id=32162703