Welcome to The Now

 These attractions are either taking a hiatus or a permanent leave in 2024.

 

 

 Cinemawins reviews the Truman Show:

 

 Whether you like the person/group or not, if they challenge (or question) those in power, there will be retaliation. Just remember that the low hanging fruit, those who the masses would barely miss or support, are typically targeted first:

 

 

 

 While we need to remember that the Democrats are so schizophrenic that they complain about Joe Biden's age and competency yet refuse to entertain the idea of having real primaries, the GOP is not the alternative option : The Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference often lures a who’s who of GOP power players to Michigan. Wealthy donors shake hands with presidential candidates, who give rousing speeches to packed audiences in hopes of winning the conference’s straw poll. The event is typically a money-maker for its sponsor – the Michigan Republican Party – helping to fund get-out-the-vote efforts and support campaigns to get Republicans elected throughout the state. But this year’s conference was decidedly different. The only presidential candidate to show up was Vivek Ramaswamy, who was mostly polling in the single digits. The line-up of speakers included failed Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake; Zuby, a British rapper who occasionally appears on Fox News; and, conservat...

 

 

 

  Also, the link to the scheerpost article.

 

 Very. Very Fast.

 

 Via CNN : Tesla is recalling nearly all 2 million of its cars on US roads to limit the use of its Autopilot feature following a two-year probe by US safety regulators of roughly 1,000 crashes in which the feature was engaged. The limitations on Autopilot serve as a blow to Tesla’s efforts to market its vehicles to buyers willing to pay extra to have their cars do the driving for them. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said the Autopilot system can give drivers a false sense of security and be easily misused in certain dangerous situations when a Tesla’s technology may be unable to safely navigate the road. The over-the-air software update will give Tesla drivers more warnings when they are not paying attention to the road while the Autopilot’s “Autosteer” function is turned on. Those notifications will remind drivers to keep their hands on the wheel and pay attention to the road, according to a statement from NHTSA After the recall, Teslas with Autosteer turned on...

 

 

 

 Here's Rachel Blevins on the "carrot" (begging): And here's Jimmy Dore on the "stick" (threatening): Of course, none of this will help Biden's polls, the US economy or what moral standing America has left, especially considering that the Russia-Ukraine war is all but over. If an inkling of what's been given to Ukraine (and Israel) for war was used for infrastructure (remember when Congress were arguing over how expensive that was), universal healthcare or total student loan forgiveness, there'd be a lot more happy Americans. 

 The propaganda can't hold:

 As the "Lets Screw Over Russia!" Crowd discovered: Bonus: Rachel Blevins also reviews the Russia-Saudi connection:

 On top of Black Americans, people under 30, union-supporter, and other various groups:

 Lives and careers are being impacted by these increasingly punitive responses:

 

 Easier to claim that babies were beheaded when the video that can confirm it no longer exists:

It's been mentioned over and over again that the Pentagon is bad at managing money, which explains (in part) their inability to pass an audit in last year .  This year's no different : The Pentagon just failed its audit — again. For the sixth time in a row, the agency that accounts for half the money Congress approves each year can’t figure out what it did with all that money. For a brief recap, the Pentagon has never passed an audit. Until 2018, it had never even completed one. Since then, the Pentagon has done an audit every year and given itself a participation prize each time. Yet despite this year’s triumphant press release — titled “DOD Makes Incremental Progress Towards Clean Audit” — it has failed every time. In its most recent audit, the Pentagon was able to account for just half of its $3.8 trillion in assets (including equipment, facilities, etc). That means $1.9 trillion is unaccounted for — more than the entire budget Congress agreed to for the current fiscal yea...

 Wow:

  Very touching .

 But not for any moral reasons:

 

Nick Cruse from RBN: 

 With the Ukraine/Russia conflict all but over, the United States has resorted to using the courts to fight Russia: 

 Rachel Blevins and guest Mark Sleboda discuss the actor-turn-president's increasingly erratic actions: 

 

Hopefully this will influence another, more permanent one: Fresh off historic contract victories, the United Auto Workers on Friday became the largest U.S. union to endorse a cease-fire in Gaza as Israel resumed its bombardment of the Palestinian territory following a weeklong pause. “I am proud that the UAW International Union is calling for a cease-fire in Israel and Palestine,” UAW president Shawn Fain wrote in a social media post on Friday. “From opposing fascism in WWII to mobilizing against apartheid South Africa and the Contra war, the UAW has consistently stood for justice across the globe.” The union’s cease-fire endorsement was made public by Brandon Mancilla, director of UAW Region 9A, in remarks outside the White House, labor activist Mindy Isser reported for In These Times. “Mancilla was at a news conference where labor leaders and union members from across the country had journeyed to Washington, D.C. to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with a broad, multiracial coalition of p...

 Lee an Eleanor explain: Ironic that the DNC is cancelling democracy for their own party, but during the general election will claim that "democracy is at stake."

 She currently operates out of New York. Here's a story of her on Now This back in 2021:

 

 Mint Press News: The Western countries who are giving Israel military aid .  CT Mirror: the medicine(s) being used to battle Opioid deaths . CNN: Spotify firing around 1,500 employees .

 Apparently releasing hostages is fine as long as you turn around and take the same number from other locations:

 The lesson is to not jump to conclusions: