Biden nominated a, get this, radical partisan to the FCC named Gigi Sohn, who, if not a cat-hoarding lesbian who makes vegan leather belts for DEI-compliant Ren Fairs, totally missed her calling.
Even by Washington's appallingly low ethics standards, Gigi Sohn gives "pay to play" a bad name--even though she would surely deny that was, for all practical purposes, what she was doing.
At a hearing of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee last week, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, called out President Joe Biden's nominee to the Federal Communications Commission for giving thousands of dollars in campaign contributions to a dozen Democratic senators--at least one of them a member of the very committee weighing her nomination over the past 15 months.
"Do you believe it was poor judgment to give 12 separate political contributions to Democrat senators while your nomination was pending?" Cruz asked pointedly at the Feb. 14 hearing.
Not only did she deny it represented poor judgment, Sohn, a leftist who has supported and worked with several radical activist groups, defended the donations as her right as "a citizen" to participate in politics.
Her nomination was bottled up in committee by Republicans who flipped a coin and decided to do their jobs for once. Joe Manchin said he'd vote against her confirmation as well.
She has now withdrawn her name from consideration.
President Joe Biden's candidate for the Federal Communications Commission, Gigi Sohn, has withdrawn her nomination after West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin announced he'd vote against her confirmation.
She says she will spend more time with her 100 cats before some interfering agents from the SPCA declare her home an Animal Rescue Superfund Site.
What's even worse is that they replaced all the "Hitler Classic" in the vending machines overnight without warning! I would have stocked up if I knew I could only get New Hitler from here on out!
A few years back, in the wake of the anonymous allegations and scalp hunting of #MeToo and #TimesUp, some feminists created the "Shitty Media Men" website and spreadsheet, in which women were invited to anonymously post completely-verified and indeed unvetted charges of sexual assault and even r4pe against men who were unable to respond to these defamatory charges.
One man sued for libel, and that suit has been settled for six figures.
A writer named on The Shitty Men in Media list has settled his lawsuit for a six-figure sum with the woman who created the infamous spreadsheet, Confider has learned.
The Adderall Diaries author Stephen Elliott sued columnist Moira Donegan for defamation after being accused of rape, sexual harassment, and coercion on the Google spreadsheet that was widely shared at the height of the #MeToo movement and accused upwards of 70 men of sexual misconduct.
"The lawsuit had gone 4 and a half years and would have gone 4 more years I think before going to trial," Elliott told Confider via email. "They were doing everything possible to avoid defending their views in court so when they offered enough money I agreed to settle."
Elliott said Donegan wanted a confidentiality clause which he did not agree to, describing it as a "Harvey Weinstein thing to ask for."
Elliott says that he suspects he was added to the list by an unstable woman he had fired from a literary magazine he founded.
"Whoever put me on that list is deeply disturbed and Moira was taking advantage of people like that. I'm certain there is no one out there in this world who thinks that I raped them, and I'm certain that I never raped anyone. I don't even like penetrative sex with women," he told Confider.
TMI, dude.
Elliott said his life has been "permanently changed" as a result of being on the list. He says he was fired by his agent while his publisher and editor publicly supported the list.
"Imagine, a non-profit publisher publicly supporting a media blacklist, even while telling me privately they knew I was innocent, and they believed other people on the list were innocent as well," he told Confider.
Back in 2018, when this suit was first filed, Vice was angry that men are allowed to sue women for defamation at all, because Princess Girlboss should be allowed to destroy men's lives without evidence without ever being called to account for her actions.
The lawsuit launched by a man named on the so-called Shitty Media Men list against its creator has media women feeling even more fearful and frustrated about the potential consequences of speaking out about sexual misconduct.
Stephen Elliott, a writer and founder of the literary site the Rumpus, sued Moira Donegan for $1.5 million in damages last week, alleging that the accusations next to his name in the now-offline list are unsubstantiated, false, and defamatory. He also wants information about the women who might've contributed to the list or circulated it; if they're identified, Elliot said in his complaint that he may also sue them.
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For women in the media, working in an industry that's both led the charge in uncovering sexual misconduct and seen some of its most prominent members face misconduct allegations, the lawsuit is another exhausting reminder of the risks of speaking out.
"It's not surprising, but that doesn't mean it doesn't feel like a punch in the gut. It's so clearly an intimidation tactic," said one woman working in the media who donated to Donegan's defense. Like the other women who talked with VICE News, she spoke on the condition of anonymity due to fears of damaging her career. "The point is to sue, and make headlines, and instill fear in women and prevent them from speaking out."
Waaah-- employers are less interested with resumes that state the applicant uses "they/them" pronouns.
Resumes containing they/them pronouns are more likely to be neglected by many hiring managers, according to a report from Business.com.
Business.com's experiment involved sending two mostly identical resumes of phantom jobseekers to various employers. Both featured the gender-ambiguous name "Taylor Williams," but only one contained gender-neutral pronouns.
The resumes were sent to 180 unique job postings that were open to entry-level candidates. According to the company, over 64% of the companies involved in the experiment were Equal Opportunity Employers, which pledged not to discriminate against workers based on sex, gender, race, religion, ability, or age.
The results revealed that the test resume with gender-neutral pronouns received eight per cent less employer interest, compared to the one without.
This is "especially worrisome," according to Business.com
An 8% difference in a completely-inadequate 160-subject survey is "especially worrisome"? What's especially worrisome to me is that the Arts & Crafts Majors of the media are so completely innumerate, even those working for an allegedly business-focused magazine.
In any event, even though the American with Disabilities Act forbids it, employers should be a little wary of taking on people with mental illnesses. Particularly when a job applicant "centers" his mental illness on xis resume as if it's a selling point.
Swarthmore College is yet another joke college no students should pay to go to.
Students and staff at a private Pennsylvania liberal arts school are staying abreast of cultural-lingo updates.
Swarthmore College was founded in 1864, but it's far from stuck in the past. In fact, the institution keeps an online log of the most current "LGBTQ+" terms.
Allosexual: Identity or descriptor for someone who experiences sexual desire and/or engages in sexual acts.Cisnormativity: Cultural system, repeated and reinforced over time, of being cisgender as the default, typical, and expected gender identity of all individuals that affects many aspects of society and structures.
Cishet: Shortening of cisgender and heterosexual; refers to people who identify as both.
Demisexual: Sexual orientation label, included under the asexual umbrella, for someone who only experiences sexual attraction after establishing an emotional connection.
Greysexual: Sexual orientation label, included under the asexual umbrella, for someone who experiences various degrees of sexual attraction and/or desire but does not identify as allosexual.
Latinx/Latiné: Gender-inclusive attempts at describing people of Latin American cultural or ethnic identity.
Masculine of Center: Gender identity label for a queer person, typically assigned female at birth but not always, who presents masculinely; most often utilized by queer women of Color.
Pangender: Gender identity label, included under the transgender umbrella, for someone who embodies all of the various gender identities.
Panromantic: Romantic orientation label for someone who is romantically, or emotionally, attracted to anyone regardless of gender identity.
Stealth: Term sometimes used by transgender people seeking to be viewed by others as cisgender in the gender with which they identify, not as visibly transgender; can be controversial in that it implies sneaking and/or deception.
There's more at the link.
The Boyscast talked about San Francisco's big list of "gender," including "Brother Boi," "Gender Outlaw" (lol) and the most sophisticated new euphemism for transsexual, "Man of Transgender Experience." Get your New Genders! The hot New Genders of 2023 are here!
Mitch McConnell says it was wrong for Fox to allow Tucker Carlson to report the truth and that he and his Uniparty pals have been lying for two years. He says he has an official police report, so ignore what you saw with your own eyes in the video that he and his Democrat co-conspirators hid from you for two years.
The Regime's courtiers and catamites all unite for the defense of the Uniparty:
Nice get on National Review picking up Noah Rothman from Jon Podhoretz's cuck neocon shit-rag Commentary.
National Review just keeps hiring from the same untalent pool of unreconstructed neocons and liberal Rockefeller Republicans, while claiming to represent "True Conservativism."
Oh, and meanwhile championing Google and FaceBook's "right" to censor conservatives while completely unrelatedly taking money from Google and FaceBook.
It's time for a f*cking Purge.
The media and Democrat Party totally is not allied with antifa: