Monday, March 18, 2019

From Jenna Orkin

Iranian Human Rights Lawyer Sentenced to 38 Years and 148 Lashes

1.5 million felons can now vote in Florida because of these men

It would have been clearer to refer to the newly enfranchised as ex-cons.

I suppose the news here is that they're doing so openly. - JO

"Schaffer was particularly concerned by the suggestion in the documents that “reputational risks” posed by the university’s collaboration with the MoD would have been mitigated by a communications campaign paid for by the HSSRC funding.
“Now I don’t want to be too academic about this, but it’s very striking that a programme designed to change people’s views and opinions for military purposes would spend some of its money changing people’s views and opinions, so that they wouldn’t object to changing people’s views and opinions. See what they did there? Propaganda squared, and that seems wrong,” he said."
Hard to argue their criteria would not be objectionable.

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