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Trump doesn't like the Boss

Looking at the last line, Bruce might not be allowed back in

 This is what triggered Trump:

Trump is also trying to pick another fight with Taylor Swift. Good luck with that.

Priorities (continued)

Devolution

Westerly cat lady endorses Kamala!

Taylor Swift DID NOT endorse Trump. Only in his dreams

Taylor Swift inspires new MAGA fever dream

Steve Bannon’s latest theory on Taylor Swift is the craziest conspiracy yet

By Walter Einenkel for Daily Kos

Former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon has a new addition for the right-wing conspiracy theory world. During an interview with former Breitbart editor Raheem Kassam on “Bannon’s War Room podcast,” the two men talked about the obstacles facing Trump this election season, including the psychological operator Taylor Swift.

If you don’t know, according to conspiracists, Taylor Swift is not-so-secretly being used by deep-state forces hellbent on reelecting President Joe Biden. Bannon plussed-up the conspiracy theory by implying that Swift’s successful tour’s dates were not coincidental. Cue dramatic sting!d More

BANNON: 

This is the Taylor Swift situation. I don't believe in coincidences. Her tour, which is the biggest tour, I think, in music history, stops on 20 August and doesn't pick back up until mid-November, early to mid-November. To be fully available after Labor Day to do whatever. And she's pretty adamant. 

She got involved in the ‘22 midterms, and Taylor Swift, with TikTok in back, is a formidable presence. And anybody that doesn't believe that, I don't think is looking at the demographic and the power she has with that demographic.

Follow your cues

Beats "thoughts and prayers"

 

We can do it

Taylor Swift's secret mission

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Once beloved by the alt-right, Taylor Swift is now one of the MAGAnuts most feared enemies

The alt-right saw Taylor Swift as an 'Aryan goddess.' She shook them off as 'repulsive' 

by Charles Jay for Community Contributors Team

By Mike Luckovich

Fox News hosts have been engaged in pushing out some pretty special conspiracy theories. The newest is that the Super Bowl somehow has been rigged so that pop megastar Taylor Swift, who is dating Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, will have a platform to endorse President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign.

Fox host Jesse Waters even went so far as to suggest that the Pentagon’s “psychological operations unit” has turned Swift into “an asset.” He said Swift could be “a front for a covert political agenda.” The Pentagon dismissed the accusation with a Swiftian song reference: “As for this conspiracy theory, we are going to shake it off.”

But there was at least one unexpected voice of reason in the Murdoch media empire: Fox Sports pundit Colin Cowherd, who on his show “The Herd” blasted those people who have a problem with Swift appearing on NFL broadcasts when she attends a game. 

He cited a New York Times report that found that Swift appeared on camera for only 32 seconds during the 3.5-hour broadcast of Sunday’s Ravens-Chiefs AFC Championship game—17 seconds of which were devoted to an in-house promo for the network’s upcoming broadcast of Sunday’s Grammy Awards.

Clearly this is a crisis

By Jack Ohman

Our Westerly neighbor has it right

 

Congratulations, Taylor Swift, our Westerly neighbor

 

Just the guy we need

 

She's the one

By Matt Davies

 

Taylor Swift SNAFU is a by-product of monopolies

FTX, Ticketmaster, and the Good People Hurt by Greed

ROBERT REICH for robertreich.substack.com

Taylor Swift performs onstage during the Z100's iHeartRadio Jingle Ball 2019 at Madison Square Garden in New York on December 13, 2019. (Photo: Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images)

Friends,

I’m not going to talk about Twitter today. I want to focus on two other outrages.

Over the past week, both Ticketmaster and FTX crashed.

This is what unregulated monopolies do, eventually – taking lots of angry consumers with them.

Which is why we need to either regulate or to bust up corporations that corner markets. But to do so, we need to stop big money.

Taylor Swift is the most popular artist in America; she hadn’t done live shows for four years. Ticketmaster was her ticketing agent. But because Ticketmaster had under-invested in its platform, its site and app couldn’t handle the demand (not before scalpers managed to get plenty of tickets and put them on sale for multiples of the original list price).

Taylor Swift, the millipede

Scientists name a new species after the singer

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(Photo : JEAN-BAPTISTE LACROIX/AFP via Getty Images | VT Entomology / Screenshot taken from the Official VT Entomology Twitter Account)

Taylor Swift, U.S. singer-songwriter known for hits such as "Shake It Off" and "You Belong With Me," has earned a new accolade -- she now has a new species of millipede named in her honor.

The twisted-claw millipede Nannaria swiftae joins 16 other new species described from the Appalachian Mountains of the United States. These little-known invertebrates have a valuable role as decomposers: breaking down leaf litter, they release their nutrients into the ecosystem. They live on the forest floor, where they feed on decaying leaves and other plant matter, and in fact, they are somewhat tricky to catch, because they tend to remain buried in the soil, sometimes staying completely beneath the surface.

Scientists Derek Hennen, Jackson Means, and Paul Marek, at Virginia Tech, U.S., describe the new species in a research paper published in the open access journal ZooKeys. The research was funded by a National Science Foundation Advancing Revisionary Taxonomy and Systematics grant (DEB# 1655635).

Seawalls can make rising waters worse in the long run

Green buffers are generally better for protecting coastal communities than concrete defenses

By Joe Lo, Climate Home News

Taylor Swift's mansion in Watch Hill and its seawall (EcoRI photo)

Using seawalls to protect against sea level rise and storm surges can be counterproductive, scientists warned in a major UN report this week.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s latest report has a new emphasis on “maladaptation”, when measures taken to adapt to the effects of climate change cause more problems than they solve.

While seawalls do protect coastal properties and beaches, they are expensive, damage wildlife, mainly benefit the rich and encourage risky building near the coast.

Experts around the world told Climate Home News that green buffers like mangroves are generally a better way of dealing with sea level rise than hard infrastructure like seawalls and levees, although they are not suitable for every location.