Good morning. Wednesday — May the 4th be with you — in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 57. Sunrise is 5:43 AM and sunset 7:59 PM for 14h 15m 53s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 12% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1776, Rhode Island becomes…
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Daily Bread, Disinformation, Fox News, Propaganda, Putin, Russia, Tucker Carlson
Daily Bread for 5.2.22: The Short Distance Between Whitewater and the Kremlin
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 55. Sunrise is 5:46 AM and sunset 7:57 PM for 14h 11m 02s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 2.6% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Equal Opportunities Commission meets at 5 PM. On this day in 2012, a pastel version of The Scream,…
America, Conservative Populism, Culture, Daily Bread, Disinformation, Propaganda, Putin
Daily Bread for 4.27.22: How Putin Conned the Right
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Wednesday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 44. Sunrise is 5:53 AM and sunset 7:51 PM for 13h 58m 27s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 11.5% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1945, Benito Mussolini is arrested by Italian partisans in Dongo, while attempting to escape disguised as a…
Conspiracy Theories, Daily Bread, Disinformation, Mendacity, Propaganda
Daily Bread for 4.2.22: Spotting Disinformation and Misinformation
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will see a bit of snow and rain with a high of 39. Sunrise is 6:33 AM and sunset 7:22 PM for 12h 49m 30s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 1.8% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1917, President Wilson asks Congress for a declaration…
Daily Bread, Disinformation, Law, Liberty, Politics
Daily Bread for 2.3.22: Responding to Disinformation
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 17. Sunrise is 7:05 AM and sunset 5:11 PM for 10h 05m 38s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 7% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Landmarks Commission meets at 6 PM. On this day in 1690, the colony of…
Alt-Right, Conservative Populism, Daily Bread, Disinformation, Kenosha, Politics, Violence, Wisconsin
Daily Bread for 10.26.21: Wisconsin as a Testbed for Politically-Motivated Violence
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Tuesday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 54. Sunrise is 7:22 AM and sunset 5:54 PM for 10h 31m 29s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 71.9% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Common Council meets at 6:30 PM. On this day in 1944, the Battle of Leyte Gulf ends…
City, Conspiracy Theories, Development, Disinformation, Economy, Ignorance, Local Government, Medicine, School District, Vaccines
Daily Bread for 9.26.21: The Vaccine Divide and the Economic Divide
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 82. Sunrise is 6:47 AM and sunset 6:43 PM for 11h 55m 49s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 73% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1789, George Washington appoints Thomas Jefferson the first United States Secretary…
Disinformation, Ignorance, Medicine, Sen. Ron Johnson, Vaccines
Daily Bread for 9.25.21: Ron Johnson Descends Still Lower
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 69. Sunrise is 6:46 AM and sunset 6:45 PM for 11h 58m 42s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 81.3% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1890, Congress establishes Sequoia National Park. Molly Beck reports Despite guidance from…
Conspiracy Theories, Daily Bread, Disinformation, Education, School District
Daily Bread for 8.19.21: ‘People Into Chimpanzees’
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with scattered afternoon thunderstorms and a high of 88. Sunrise is 6:06 AM and sunset 7:49 PM, for 13h 42m 45s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 88.6% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1812, the American frigate USS Constitution defeats the British frigate…
Bigotry, Conspiracy Theories, Covidiocy, Crackpots, Disinformation, Sen. Ron Johnson, Trumpism, U.S. Senate, Unfit
Sen. Ron Johnson: ‘An all-access purveyor of misinformation’
by JOHN ADAMS •
Ron Johnson, one of the two United States senators representing Wisconsin, has earned a new epithet: BROOKFIELD, Wis. — Senator Ron Johnson incited widespread outrage when he said recently that he would have been more afraid of the rioters who rampaged the Capitol on Jan. 6 had they been members of Black Lives Matter and…
Congress, Conspiracy Theories, Disinformation, Insurrection, Sen. Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson Reads Lies about the Capitol Riot
by JOHN ADAMS •
In for a penny, in for a pound: Sen. Ron Johnson hopes someone will believe that the rioters who marched from a Trump rally to the Capitol on 1.6 weren’t Trump supporters at all. (Most likely, he does not expect rational people to believe this; he hopes to soothe the feelings of the irrational faction…
Conspiracy Theories, Crackpots, Crime, Disinformation, Fellow Traveler, Insurrection, Politics, Sen. Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson: ‘No Enemies to the Right’?
by JOHN ADAMS •
During an interview yesterday, Sen. Ron Johnson declared of the Capitol riot that ‘this didn’t seem like an armed insurrection to me.’ Tim Elfrink reports that As a pro-Trump mob stormed the U.S. Capitol last month, rioters battered police with a multitude of weapons: metal flagpoles, baseball bats, wrenches and clubs. Many soaked police in caustic…
City, Disinformation, Economy, Employment, Poverty
Unemployment Imagined and Real
by JOHN ADAMS •
National unemployment figures have been undercounting the true number of those unemployed. Rachel Siegel reports Fed chair: Unemployment rate was closer to 10 percent, not 6.3 percent, in January: Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell said Wednesday that the unemployment rate in January was “close to 10 percent,” significantly higher than the 6.3 percent rate…
Babbittry, Blogging, Boosterism, Culture, Disinformation, Freedom of Speech, Mendacity, Public Relations, Rhetoric
The Power of Refutation
by JOHN ADAMS •
Laura Hazard Owen writes When’s the best time to correct fake news? After someone’s already read it, apparently: Debunking > prebunking. If you want someone to not believe that false or misleading headline they just read, when’s the best time to correct it? We hear a lot about inoculating people against fake news or “prebunking”…