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emptywheel @emptywheel ·17m Here's why the DEA officer went to Insurrection and kept flashing his badge.
The Grift is strong with this one.
https://extremism.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs2191/f/Mark%20Sami%20Ibrahim%20Statement%20of%20Facts.pdf
6:03 PM · Jul 20, 2021·TweetDeck
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Here's why the DEA officer went to Insurrection and kept flashing his badge.
— emptywheel (just plain blue) (@emptywheel) July 20, 2021
The Grift is strong with this one.https://t.co/j0cnuLSHs3 pic.twitter.com/mxZqS7oLwf
Seamus Hughes @SeamusHughes Welp, A DEA special agent was arrested related to Jan 6
5:47 PM · Jul 20, 2021·Twitter for iPhone
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https://twitter.com/SeamusHughes/status/1417526616838844420
Replying to
@SeamusHughes
As we do for every case, @gwupoe uploaded the charging documents here. Part of a database of 10k pages of court records.
https://extremism.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs2191/f/Mark%20Sami%20Ibrahim%20Statement%20of%20Facts.pdf
As detailed below, during the course of the investigation into the events of January 6,
2021, law enforcement learned that Mark Sami IBRAHIM of Orange County, California
traveled to the District of Columbia, and participated in the events at the U.S. Capitol on January
6, 2021, and was on U.S. Capitol Grounds, in restricted areas, without authority to be there.
@PhilipRucker When @CarolLeonnig and I asked Trump why he repeatedly told the public things that were not true, he said, “Are you talking about disinformation or are you talking about lies? There is a more beautiful word called disinformation.”
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When @CarolLeonnig and I asked Trump why he repeatedly told the public things that were not true, he said, “Are you talking about disinformation or are you talking about lies? There is a more beautiful word called disinformation.”
— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) July 19, 2021
A more beautiful word.https://t.co/B5ynf79rli
The first person sentenced for a felony in the mob attack on the Capitol was sentenced to eight months in prison on Monday. Still waiting for the others to be brought to justice.
Opinion by Ann Telnaes
Editorial cartoonist
Today at 9:03 p.m. EDT
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/19/find-guy-who-was-held-accountable/
Glenn Kirschner @glennkirschner2 At 10 am, defendant Paul Hodgkins will be sentenced. You can bet the more than 500 other insurrections currently pending trial will be watching to see what Judge Moss does at this hearing. I’ll be live-tweeting during the hearing & posting a #JusticeMatters video later today.
2:15 PM · Jul 19, 2021·Twitter for iPhone
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At 10 am, defendant Paul Hodgkins will be sentenced. You can bet the more than 500 other insurrections currently pending trial will be watching to see what Judge Moss does at this hearing. I’ll be live-tweeting during the hearing & posting a #JusticeMatters video later today. pic.twitter.com/ezXJVYD6Nr
— Glenn Kirschner (@glennkirschner2) July 19, 2021
Meghan Bobrowsky @MeghanBobrowsky American kids watched so much Peppa Pig during the pandemic that they developed British accents and started regularly using British words like “holiday” instead of “vacation,” confusing their parents.
6:05 PM · Jul 18, 2021·Twitter for iPhone
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American kids watched so much Peppa Pig during the pandemic that they developed British accents and started regularly using British words like “holiday” instead of “vacation,” confusing their parents. 🐷🐽
— Meghan Bobrowsky (@MeghanBobrowsky) July 18, 2021
My first A-Hed for @WSJ with @Preetika_Rana:https://t.co/6rnW4NKKyQ
Low-Tech Method Restores Eroded Lands
https://tellus.ars.usda.gov/stories/articles/low-tech-method-restores-eroded-lands/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery
Before and after photos of Watershed 6 Check Dam 30 in November 2009 and December 2020. Watershed 6 Check Dam 30, November 2009 (left) and December 2020 (right). Photo courtesy of Southwest Watershed Research Center.
“A picture is worth a thousand words,” so the saying goes. Scientists with the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Southwest Watershed Research Center in Tucson, AZ, took that saying to heart when they embarked on a project a decade ago to photograph the effectiveness of an ancient erosion-control technique.
“Check dams” are low barricades built of loosely piled rocks spanning modest-sized channels. The dams slow the rush of rainwater from sporadic downpours that carve deep gullies in the Southwest’s sandy soil. A check dam’s loose build lets water pass through slowly, but it also allows the dam to come apart in the event of excessive rainfall, to reduce the risk of flooding.
Conventional wisdom and centuries of use told the scientists that check dams worked in controlling erosion, but they wanted to demonstrate how well they worked. So they built check dams at 37 sites in two watersheds in the Santa Rita Mountains and photographed each site annually to document changes in the landscape over time.
The results are visually remarkable. In the study’s 10-year span, soil slowly refilled the eroded channels and plants grew back, providing food and habitat for wildlife and grazing animals. Ranchers who want to improve vegetation can couple this technique with seeding and runoff-water capture to encourage grass to grow in the areas between channels.
“Increased drought cycles like the Southwest has been experiencing are hard on grasses, and monsoon rain events have become more severe in the last decade, making the damage in the landscape even worse,” said ARS research hydraulic engineer Mary Nichols, who led the study. “Check dams are a low-tech, effective tool that can repair or at least limit some erosion damage and help build resiliency into landscapes.” She stresses that properly maintaining the check dams is essential to their effectiveness.
Check out the before-and-after photographs of the study sites and learn about the team’s research.—By Sue Kendall, ARS Office of Communications.
https://tellus.ars.usda.gov/stories/articles/low-tech-method-restores-eroded-lands/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery
Peppa Pig, a Pandemic Favorite, Has American Children Acting British
Youngsters across the U.S. are surprising their parents with talk of petrol stations and mince pies
By Preetika Rana and Meghan Bobrowsky
July 18, 2021 12:54 pm ET
https://www.wsj.com/articles/peppa-pig-a-pandemic-favorite-has-american-children-acting-british-11626627266?st=4ckob4ms2b6l5ab&reflink=article_copyURL_share
California kindergartner Dani stunned her parents in May when she addressed her mom, who said she was going to the eye doctor, in a polished British accent: “Mummy, are you going to the optician?”
“And we were like, ‘the what?’ ” says Dani’s father, Matias Cavallin. “That’s like a college-level word,” he says. “At least, I wasn’t using it.”
The culprit? A wildly popular English cartoon about a preschooler pig named Peppa.
Like 5-year-old Dani, children across the U.S. have binge-watched “Peppa Pig” over the past year. They are emerging from the pandemic with an unusual vocabulary and a British accent just like the show’s namesake character.
The Peppa Effect, as some parents call it, already had some children snorting like pigs and using cheeky Britishisms before the pandemic. Then lockdowns sent screen-time limits out the door, and children gorged on the cartoon in a silo away from their usual social interactions, amplifying the effect.
Mr. Cavallin, a public-relations manager in El Cerrito, Calif., stumbled upon the cartoon at the start of the pandemic. He concluded that it was a sweet family show that would keep Dani busy as his wife went to the office and he juggled working from home.
“It was almost like a happy accident at a time when I was trying to find a pseudo babysitter during Zoom meetings,” he says. “It was either Peppa Pig or no work.”
As a result, Mr. Cavallin says, he went from papa to “Daddy,” said in the British way. His daughter calls the gas station the “petrol station” and cookies “biscuits,” and when he’s holding a cup of coffee, Dani asks him, “Are you having tea now?” He says that Dani’s grandparents—immigrants from Argentina who mostly speak Spanish—quip, “We don’t understand her to begin with, and now she’s speaking British?”
Parrot Analytics Ltd., an entertainment consulting firm that tracks demand for TV shows based on factors such as how frequently they are streamed and discussed online, said “Peppa Pig” retained its spot as the world’s second-most in-demand children’s cartoon for the 12 months ending February, after “SpongeBob SquarePants.” Overall, it jumped to the world’s 50th most in-demand show of any kind, from the 103rd the previous year. The show was first released in 2004.
“Young Peppa fans see her as a friend…and, as we do with friends that we admire, pick up some of their characteristics,” Peppa Pig owner Entertainment One Ltd. said in a written statement. “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery,” it added.
Some parents say the show made their children more accepting of younger brothers because Peppa has one, too. Many used the show’s differences as teaching points.
In December, 6-year-old Aurelia insisted on the British holiday traditions of wearing a crown and baking mince pies for “Father Christmas,” says her mother, Lauren Ouellette, in North Scituate, R.I. “It gave us room to explore something new. Is Father Christmas the same guy as Santa? And why is he called that?” she says.
Aurelia throws around phrases like, “Can we turn the telly on?” A reference to the water closet instead of the bathroom initially threw off Ms. Ouellette. “I was like, ‘Where did she learn that from? Was she on the Titanic in a past life?’ ” she says. All became clear when they watched the show together a week later.
Boston-based Tess Darci says that her 4-year-old daughter, Cecilie, sounds like “a little lady” thanks to the show. “She says ‘lovely’ and ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ all the time,” says Ms. Darci, who runs a communications agency.
Now Ms. Darci teaches new things in Peppa lingo. She described Boston’s recent power outage as a “power cut,” which Cecilie knew because of an episode that referenced it during a thunderstorm.
Ms. Darci liked that the series exposed her daughter to a new culture, particularly during a year in which global travel cratered. “At least with Peppa they go to Italy, she’s learning about London, she knows about the queen.”
Seattle-based Dominique Parr took her daughter Hazel, now 3, to a speech therapist last year because she wasn’t forming her own unique sentences. Hazel’s first word was “George,” Peppa’s brother from the show, and everything she said was a direct quote from the cartoon. Ms Parr learned that she was autistic, and because Hazel loved the show so much, her therapist used the show to work on her language skills—role playing with Peppa toys and oinking like a pig to keep her engaged.
Ms. Parr struck a chord with parents in August when she posted a TikTok video of Hazel parroting lines from the show, like “How clever!” It went viral, garnering almost 10 million views and commentary from parents around the world who said their children had adopted the accent, too. When she was “peak obsessed” with Peppa, Ms. Parr says, Hazel called her Mummy Pig.
Hazel now speaks in her own sentences and speaks in an American accent. She also has a new favorite show: “Bluey,” a cartoon about a family of dogs with Australian accents.
Ms. Darci, Cecilie’s mother, thinks she hasn’t heard the last of Peppa. She caught her 16-month-old son, Arthur, eyeballing the show alongside his big sister.
“I was like, ‘Uh oh, here we go again,’ ” she says.
Write to Preetika Rana at preetika.rana@wsj.com and Meghan Bobrowsky at meghan.bobrowsky@wsj.com
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Appeared in the July 19, 2021, print edition as 'Binge-Watching ‘Peppa Pig’ Has Preschoolers Speaking Colourfully.'
https://www.wsj.com/articles/peppa-pig-a-pandemic-favorite-has-american-children-acting-british-11626627266?st=4ckob4ms2b6l5ab&reflink=article_copyURL_share
Replying to @ericgeller The FBI and CISA have also released a report about the tactics and techniques of the prolific Chinese hacker group (APT40) whose members were just indicted:
https://us-cert.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/CSA_TTPs-of-Indicted-APT40-Actors-Associated-with-China-MSS-Hainan-State-Security-Department.pdf
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The FBI and CISA have also released a report about the tactics and techniques of the prolific Chinese hacker group (APT40) whose members were just indicted: https://t.co/kPOAGcc7gV pic.twitter.com/k0nhnI6KVg
— Eric Geller (@ericgeller) July 19, 2021
Eric Geller @ericgeller Replying to @ericgeller DOJ this morning also unsealed an indictment charging four Chinese nationals with IP theft hacks against dozens of companies, universities, and govt agencies in U.S., Germany, Norway, & elsewhere.
Govt agents directed criminal hacker at front company.
https://justice.gov/opa/pr/four-chinese-nationals-working-ministry-state-security-charged-global-computer-intrusion
12:52 PM · Jul 19, 2021·TweetDeck
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DOJ this morning also unsealed an indictment charging four Chinese nationals with IP theft hacks against dozens of companies, universities, and govt agencies in U.S., Germany, Norway, & elsewhere.
— Eric Geller (@ericgeller) July 19, 2021
Govt agents directed criminal hacker at front company.
https://t.co/bgvlNSxIjF pic.twitter.com/U9SbDSUEm6
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