#timothy karr

[timkarr]

Union City, NJ. 2024. Palisade.

#timothy karr #documentary photography #union city #palisade

[kwebtv]

The Seekers  -  Syndicated - July 8 - 9, 1979

Historical Drama (2 episodes)

Running Time:  240 minutes

Stars:

Randolph Mantooth as Abraham Kent

Edie Adams as Flora Cato

Neville Brand as Captain Isaac Drew

Delta Burke as Elizabeth Fletcher Kent

John Carradine as Avery Mills

George Deloy as Gilbert Kent

Julie Gregg as Edna Clapper

Rosey Grier as Amos Samuels

George Hamilton as Lt.  Hamilton Stovall

Alex Hyde-White as Oliver Prouty

Harriet Karr as Harriet Kent

Brian Keith as Elijah Weatherby

Donald Mantooth as Plenty Coup

Ross Martin as Supply Pleasant

Gary Merrill as Captain Hull

Martin Milner as Philip Kent

Vic Morrow as Leland Pell

Timothy P Murphy as Jarod Kent

Hugh O'Brian as Andrew Piggot

Robert Reed as Daniel Clapper

Allan Rich as General “Mad Anthony” Wayne

Barbara Rush as Peggy Kent

Sarah Rush as Amanda Kent

Stuart Whitman as Reverend Blackthorn

#The Seekers #TV #Historical Drama #Syndicated #1970's #Randolph Mantooth

[mccoppinscrapyard]

Books Read/Listened To in 2023

* = owned

The Hellion’s Waltz by Olivia Waite (audiobook) : ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

In My Own Moccasins by Helen Knott- ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay * - ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

Girls that Never Die by Safia Elhillo- ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

Astrid Parker Doesn’t Fail by Ashley Herring Blake- ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Who Put This Song On? by Morgan Parker (audiobook) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Almost American Girl by Robin Ha- ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes- ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Love & Other Disasters by Anita Kelly * - ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez (audiobook)- ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

And Yet by Kate Baer - ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo (audiobook) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Ana María and the Fox by Liana de la Rosa * - ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

Black Roses by Harold Green III- ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Patience and Esther by S.W. Searle- ⭐️⭐️⭐️

She Gets the Girl by Rachael Lippincott and Alyson Derrick * - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

In the Neighborhood of True by Susan Kaplan Carlton (audiobook) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai * - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Wicked Beauty by Katee Robert (audiobook) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

That Could Be Enough by Alyssa Cole * - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Maus by Art Spiegelman * - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Did You Hear About Kitty Karr? by Crystal Smith Paul * - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

Belle of the Ball by Mari Costa * - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jewdrowski (audiobook) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Sasha Masha by Agnes Borinsky * - ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

Cheer Up! Love & Pompoms by Crystal Frazier * - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

Home Field Advantage by Dahlia Adler (audiobook) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Love Charade by Allie McDermid * - ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

Yazidi! by Aurelien DuCoudray and Mini Ludvin - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo * - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Bride Test by Helen Hoang (audiobook) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

Hello Stranger by Katherine Center * - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Private Charter by N. R. Walker (audiobook) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Island Wisdom by Annie Daly & Kainoa Daines - ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies: A Lyric Essay by Julian Aguon (audiobook) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality by Julia Shaw - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Fire from the Sky by Moa Backe Astot (eARC) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

Going Bicoastal by Dahlia Adler (audiobook) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Fall Into You by Georgina Kiersten - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

An Island Princess Starts a Scandal by Adriana Herrera * - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

Sing Anyway by Anita Kelly - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

The Times I Knew I Was Gay by Eleanor Crewes * - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga * - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi (audiobook) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Jazz Owls by Margarita Engle * - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

She Was Made for Me by Jen Morris - ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

You, Again by Kate Goldbeck * - DID NOT FINISH

The Tiny Journalist by Naomi Shihab Nye - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

Payback’s a Witch by Lana Harper - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Gender is Really Strange by Teddy G. Goetz (eARC) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Well Matched by Jen DeLuca (audiobook) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Love Flushed by Evie Mitchell - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Skip! by Sarah Burgess (eARC)- ⭐️⭐️.5

The Leftover Woman by Jean Kwok * - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Home is Not a Country by Safia Elhillo (audiobook) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson * - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid (audiobook) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Minor Detail by Adania Shibli (audiobook) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw * - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Her Night With the Duke by Diana Quincy (audiobook) - currently reading

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata- currently reading

You’re a Mean One, Matthew Prince by Timothy Janovsky - currently reading

#read in 2023 #books #reading list #reading goals #personal

[blackfire2013]

Let Me Introduce Myself

Hi there! 

I’m Alice. I live in the Pacific North West. I’m a graduate student and a teacher. I live with my partner and their family. My pronouns are She/Her, I am cisgendered.

I started this blog in 2011. I had abandoned it in 2016. I think I can make this an interesting place now. 

I love music, cats, Star Wars, and anime, My current faves are Tokyo Revengers, Demon Slayer, and Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure. I like to knit, crochet, play video. games, read, and write. I would like to try my hand at a Tokyo Revenger fanfic. If I do write any fic, I will start a blog for that specifically. 

The Toman members who make me giddy are Baji (<3) , Kazutora, Mikey, Draken,  and Shuji. I also love Emma and Shinchiro. My favorite Jostar’s are Jolene, Jotoro, Josuke. I also love Kakyoin, Polnaref, and Karrs. I’m also an Itachi stan.

I am a pagan, a bisexual, and a goat whisperer. I paint my nails on a weekly basis and I like to wear very glam make up (when I’m not too depressed to do it). I have a calico cat who will knock at my door when she wants cuddles. 

I own a crafting business where I make a lot of random shit, I specialize in making blankets. I am going to eventually enter one in the state fair. 

My ideal way to leave this mortal coil is in the fire filled maw of a volcano. If I can’t go that way, I want to pass peacefully in a garden of roses, lilacs, and lavender. 

My favorite books are cheesy romance novels, Star Wars books, random books i found at Big Lots for $3. I currently have like 60% of Christine Feehan’s works, the Carpathian novels re to die for. I also love Timothy Zahn’s Thrawn novels. That being said, I have a HUGE TBR list.

IMPORTANT: My tumblr is NOT a place for anyone under the age of 18. I WILL block you if you follow me or interact with me. 

I will occasionally post ranty, possibly really dark/sad, things. I have a lot of things that I am working through. Maybe a selfie? Who knows.

My tags will be listed below. More will come. My asks are open. 

#Blackfire2013 #stupidstupidselfie #PNW #Upper Left #PNW is Best #shut up alice no one cares #you have q's i'll give you a's #I'm a simp for Keisuke Baji

[portlandnet]

THANK YOU NETS

Once again, NET volunteers were a critical part of a winter weather response and saved lives. NETs were involved in 10 different deployments dispatching transportation, driving houseless folks to shelters, helping at winter shelters, assisting JOHS with supply logistics, and keeping a perimeter at downed power lines. 53 volunteers signed up for 95 shifts and helped out an estimated 355 volunteer hours.

PBEM would like to recognize the following volunteers who deployed in the nasty weather to keep their community safe:

Bruce Schafer Janel Hovde Kate Hubbard Amanda Westervelt Phil Barber Courtney Yan Jeff Bissonnette John Sheehan Doug Couch Roman Perez Roger Wirt Jane Yates Timothy Wildgoose Litzy Venturi Craig Arrowsmith Anne Heimlich Michael Fortune KD Henderson LIsa Jamieson Merilee Karr Mark Jolin Suzan Reed Jonathan Tasini Joshua Baker Jane Pagliarulo Judy Matsumoto Jennifer Pereau Dan Stefanisko Spencer Neal Keelan Cleary James Bennett Lindsey Johnson Jason Groschopf Dave Manville Anna Campagna David Hansen Cierra Loop Maxwell Goshert Sarah Strider A'Jay Scipio Sue Cater Michael Schilmoeller Tanya Schaefer Nanci Tangeman Wilfred Barrett Nancy Phelps Aurora Martos Nathan White Maria Gonzalez-Cress Peter Drake Paul Rippey Annie Capestany Chuck Quarterman Rachel McCarthy Nic Peterseon Ralph Cohen Elizabeth Klein Gary Fox

#homeless #winterstorm

[ard-it]

timkarr:

Union City, New Jersey, November 2020. From the series Palisade.

(via fishstickmonkey)

#timothy karr #christmas #decoration

[genderoutlaws]

WOMEN DON’T GET AIDS — THEY JUST DIE FROM IT | 1991 | ph: Timothy P. Karr

Displayed on bus shelters from January to April of 1991, Gran Fury’s poster comprises an archetypal image of three beauty pageant contestants. They stand shoulder to shoulder, clad in bathing suits, and smile toward the viewer. Bold white-and-black text overlays this image. It reads, “WOMEN DON’T GET AIDS…THEY JUST DIE FROM IT.” This text is underscored by a message printed in yellow that reads:

“65% of HIV positive women get sick and die from chronic infections that don’t fit the Center for Disease Control’s definition of AIDS. Without that recognition women are denied access to what little health care exists. The CDC must expand the definition of AIDS.”

#this is still relevant - as you can see if you click the second link #op #aids crisis #hiv positive #aids activism #aids history #1990s #1991 #gran fury #timothy p karr #posters #described

[occupyfamily]

Timothy Karr from the series Palisade. The dictionary defines a “palisade” as a fence of stakes used especially for defense; as a line of bold cliffs; as a wall. The Palisades of Hudson County, New Jersey, are basalt outcroppings formed 200 million years ago when shifting tectonics pushed molten material up to the surface. Today, these cliffs line the western edge of the lower Hudson River, mirrored in the glass and steel of the skyscrapers rising to the east.   The American Dream plays itself out on the street corners and sidewalks of the crowded, working-class cities that sit atop the Palisades. It’s a vibrant and complicated urban landscape that’s being encroached on by a wealthier wave of migrants fleeing New York City in search of cheaper rents and more square footage.   My photographs document the places and people living on a wall that often divides and defines their communities. I don’t hope to explain this world with words; as the late John Berger wrote about photography: “The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled.” In Palisade, I’m interested in exploring this relationship — to understand how photographs can describe facts that words fail to explain, and connect the natural to the man-made, the fleeting to the eternal, and the foreign to the familiar. 

#Timothy Karr #palisade

[furys]

Women Don't Get Aids, They Just Die From It

Gran Fury, 1991

Photographed by Timothy Karr

Text Reads: "65% of HIV positive women get sick and die from chronic infections that don’t fit the Center for Disease Control’s definition of AIDS. Without that recognition women are denied access to what little health care exists. The CDC must expand the definition of AIDS"

#gran fury #gay art #aids #just saw a post that claimed calling the aids crisis a queer crisis was homophobic towards gay men #as though gay men were the only people affected by aids #woke ahistoricism

[catherinegarbinsky]

Resources

It started with a tweet. I asked:

1 - Poets with MFAs & poetry professors: are there specific books (of poetry, on poetry) that you would recommend for writers who may not have access to formal education in poetry?

2- Poets without MFAs — please feel free to add books that have felt pivotal and educational for you in your process. I mean this primarily as a resource and did not mean to suggest that others may not have valuable texts to offer!

Here are some of the responses (I typed up as many as I could, bolded any that I noticed repeated):

Dorianne Laux and Kim Addonizio’s The Poet’s Companion

Kaveh Akbar’s Divedapper interviews

Mary Oliver’s A Poetry Handbook

Writing Dangerous Poetry by Michael C Smith

Creating Poetry by Drury

The Practice of Poetry by Behn

Feeling as a Foreign Language by Alice Fulton

A Little Book on Form by Robert Hass

Poetry and the Fate of the Senses by Stewart

Of Color: Poets’ Way of Making Anthology (forthcoming)

De-canon

The Volta

The Alabastar Jar (interviews with Li Young-Lee)

Ordinary Genius by Kim Addonzio

On Poetry by Glyn Maxwell

Fictive Certainties by Robert Duncan

The Flexible Lyric by Voigt

Wislawa Symborska’s “Nonrequired Reading”

The Art of series (especially the Art of Description by Mark Doty, especially The Art of Syntax by Ellen Bryant Voigt)

My Poets by Maureen N. McLane

The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics

The Crafty Poet by Diane Lockward

Wingbeats and Wingbeats II by Scott Wiggerman

Madness, Rack, and Honey by Mary Ruefle

Picking one poet per year, reading their ouvre and letters (an extremely helpful and nourishing assignment from a genius prof)

Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

Rigorously study the line, study grammar, and study some kind of oracle system (Tarot, I Ching, astrology, etc) and read as widely in poetry as you can

Poetic Rhythm by Derek Attridge

A Poet’s Guide by Mary Kinzie

The Art of the Poetic Line by James Logenbach

John Frederick Nims’ Western Wind

Poetry: A Writer’s Guide by Amorak Huey and Todd Kaneko

The Making of a Poem (Norton)

Art of Recklessness

Modern Life by Matthea Harvey

Dancing in Odessa by Ilya Kaminsky

Please by Jericho Brown

Slow Lightning by Eduardo Corral

Meadowlands by Louise Gluck

Kinky  by Denise Duhamel

Names Above Houses by Oliver de la Paz

How To Read A Poem and Fall in Love With Poetry by Edward Hirsch

Carol Rumen’s long-running weekly Guardian column

Poetry 101 by Susan Dalzell

Theory of Prose by V Shklovsky

The Art of Attention by D Revell

Structure and Surprise by M. Theune

Why Poetry by Matthew Zapruder

Poems - Poets - Poetry An Introduction and Anthology by Helen Vendler

Triggering Town by Richard Hugo

The Art of Daring: Risk, Restlessness, Imagination by Carl Phillips

Upstream by Mary Oliver

The Life of Images by Cahrles Simic

Being Human (anthology)

How To be a Poet

Nine Gates by Jane Hirshfield

Gregory Orr book on lyric poetry

WIld Hundreds by Nate Marshall

What the Living Do by Marie Howe

Helium by Rudy Francisco

Wind in a Box (or anything else) by Terrance Hayes

Blud by Rachel McKibbens

Incendiary Art by Patricia Smith

Poetry by Gwendolyn Brooks, Elizabeth Bishop, and William Carlos Williams, Ted Kooser, Pablo Neruda, ee cummings, Charles Simic, Patricia Smith, Dorianne Laux, EB Voigt, Terrance Hayes, John Donne, TS Eliot, Ezra Pound

Read widely. Read more than poetry. Embrace your outsider knowledge.

Real Sofistikashun: Essays on Poetry and Craft by Toby Hoagland

The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide by Robert Pinsky

A Field Guide to Poetry

Ten Windows by Jane Hirshfield

The Ode Less Travelled by Stephen Fry

The Book of Luminous Things (anthology) ed. by Milosz

Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

Poets.org and Poetry Foundation websites

Beautiful and Pointless by David Orr

Find or start a writing group!

Best Words, Best Order by Stephen Dobyns

American Sonnets by Terrance Hayes

The Lichtenberg Figures by Ben Lerner

Poetry Notebook by Clive James

Don Paterson’s 22-page intro to “101 sonnets”

Essays by Barbara Guest

Poetry is Not a Project by Dorothea Lasky

After Lorca by Jack Spicer

The New American Poetry 1945-1960

Helen Vendler’s criticism (The Ocean, The Bird and the Scholar)

Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse ed. By Philip Larkin

The Discovery of Poetry by Frances Mayes

French symbolists

The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry

The Poets Laureate Anthology

Poet’s House, 92Y Poetry

Singing School by Robert Pinsky

The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets by Ted Kooser

Glitter in the Blood by Mindy Nettifee

Poetry: A Survivor’s Guide by Mark Yakich

All the Fun’s In How You Say A Thing by Timothy Steele

The Collected Poems(1856-1987) by John Ashberry

Viper Rum by Mary Karr

The Making of a Poem by Mark Strand and Eavan Boland

Rules of the Dance by Mary Oliver

Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

Jorie Graham lecture On Description (youtube)

Poetry in Theory

How to be a Poet by Jo Bell and Jane Commane (& special guests)

dVerse Poets

Reading Poetry: An Introduction by Furniss and Bath

Poetry: The Basics by Jeffrey Wainwright

The Poetry Handbook by John Lennard

Broken English: Poetry and Partiality by Heather McHugh

The Poem’s Heartbeat by Alfred Corn

Orr’s Primer for Poets and Reads of Poetry

Penguin’s 20th Century Anthology

The United States of Poetry

Staying Alive: real poems for Unreal Times ed. By Neil Astley

Hollander’s Rhyme’s Reason

52 Ways to Read A Poem by Ruth Padel

A Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry by David Mason and John Frederick Nims

Projective Verse by Charles Olson

Retrospect/A Few Don’t by an Imagiste - Ezra Pound

Against Interpretation - Susan Sontag

Commonplace Podcast

Headwaters by EB Voigt

Olio by Tyehimba Jess

The Orchard by Brigit Pegeen Kelly

The Living and the Dead by Sharon Olds

Sonnets by Bernadette Mayer

The Sin Eater by Deborah Randall

The Art of Poetry Writing by William Packard

The Poet’s Dictionary by William Packard

Freedom Hill by LS Asekoff

Theory of the Lyric by Jonathan Culler

Close Listening ed. By Charles Bernstein

Poetics of Relation by Edouard Glissant

The Poet’s Manual and Rhyming Dictionary by Frances Stillman

The Hatred of Poetry by Ben Lerner

The Way to Write Poetry by Michael Baldwin

Fussell’s Poetic Meter and Poetic Form

Lofty Dogmas: Poets of Poetics

Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetics by Stephanie Burt

Poetry in the Making by Ted Hughes

A poet needs: grounding in verse and rhyme from nursery lines, a grounding in adult poetic diction by the classic poets (of antiquity, late antiquity, then the mediaeval, early modern and modern periods), and their own poetic vision

Pig Notes and Dumb Music by William Heyen

Satan Says by Sharon Olds

My Emily Dickinson by Susan Howe

#poetry #on poetry #poetry school #self education #resources #learning #about poetry #mfa programs #reading #for your own edification #creative writing #studying

[timkarr]

Jersey City, NJ, 2023. Palisade.

#Timothy Karr #Lensblr #Palisade #rd

[contrabassconversations]

561: College Audition Prep

This episode is a rebroadcast of one of those astoundingly complex projects that I love digging into! 

We’re featuring questions from double bass student Baylee Brown (still a high school student at the time of this recording and now a student at Boston University), which are answered by 27 noted double bass faculty members.  This idea was suggested by University of Texas at Arlington bass faculty member Jack Unzicker, who help design and execute this project.

A big shout-out to Baylee, Jack, and all of the faculty who took their valuable time to answer these questions!

Here’s the list of questions and the order in which they are covered:

What are the advantages and disadvantages to attending a conservatory vs. a university?

How many schools should I audition for?

What are some common preparation mistakes that you see auditioning students making?

Besides the bass teacher, what other factors should I consider when comparing schools?

Other than Performance, Music Ed, and Jazz, what other options are available for undergrads?

How early should students start preparing for their college auditions?

I am interested in auditioning at six schools; is there any flexibility in audition requirements that could help lessen the amount of combined repertoire for all of the schools?

How can I keep from getting overwhelmed by the audition repertoire requirements from the different schools for which I’m auditioning?

How do I ask for a lesson with the teacher for whom I’m auditioning? Do I pay them/ask about payment?

I play the German bow; how important is it that I study with a German bow teacher?

Learn more about each of the faculty members and their programs through the links below:

George Amorim - University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Andrew Anderson - Roosevelt University

Adam Booker - Appalachian State University

Jeff Bradetich - University of North Texas

Susan Cahill - University of Denver

Timothy Cobb - Juilliard School of Music

Paul Ellison - Rice University

John Floeter - Northern Illinois University

Diana Gannett - University of Michigan (emeritus)

Kieran Hanlon - State University of New York at Fredonia

Chris Hanulik - University of California, Los Angeles

Caitlyn Kamminga - University of Trinidad and Tobago

Douglas Mapp - Rowan University

Gaelen McCormick - Nazareth College

Leigh Mesh - Bard College

Orin O’Brien - Manhattan School of Music

Volkan Orhon - University of Iowa

Scott Pingel - San Francisco Conservatory of Music

Andrew Raciti - Northwestern University

Brian Perry - Southern Methodist University

Catalin Rotaru - Arizona State University

Tracy Rowell - Oberlin College

Donovan Stokes - Shenandoah University

James VanDemark - Eastman School of Music

Nicholas Walker - Ithaca College

DaXun Zhang - University of Texas at Austin

Learn more about over 100 other United States college double bass programs in our colleges guide!

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#doublebass #bass #music #interview #orchestra #teaching

[acheslog19ahsgov-blog]

MEDIA ASSESSMENT OF ISSUE

Liberal source: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opinion-karr-net-neutrality-ajit-pai_us_5b1adc2de4b0adfb82691b9f

S: Net neutrality, which protects the rights of Americans and internet freedom, can still be saved.

A: Timothy Karr is a white male who is the senior director of strategy and communications of Free Press, an organization which fights to keep net neutrality.

C: The opinion piece was posted on the Huffington Post, which has a liberal bias.

A: Everyone, but people who care more about net neutrality are more likely to read.

P: Subjective idea for keeping net neutrality.

S: The senate voted 52-47 in may for keeping net neutrality. Multiple polls that reveal both democrats and republicans support keeping net neutrality.

I agree. There is a large bipartisan majority for keeping net neutrality, so because the FCC and the senate voted on or near party lines is unmindful of the American people.

Conservative source: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/03/04/activists-are-wrong-about-how-to-protect-open-internet.html

S: Net neutrality should be repealed because the rules are outdated and it hurts consumers.

A: Drew Johnson is an American white male.

C: The opinion piece was posted on Fox News, which has a conservative bias.

A: Everyone. People who agree will read to confirm their beliefs, and people who disagree point out flaws and attack the article and author in the comments section.

P: Subjective idea for repealing net neutrality.

S: Private investment in broadband infrastructure fell by more than $4 billion.

Disagree. The actual source used for falling more than $4 billion shows falling by $3.6 billion. They rounded $3.6 billion to $4 billion and than put the word “more” on it. The fall would affect unconnected rural areas, but that could be solved with net neutrality by having the government subsidize the development of broadband infrastructure in these areas.

Impartial source: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/02/22/587896608/fccs-repeal-of-net-neutrality-on-track-to-go-into-efffect

S: Senate democrats are trying to save net neutrality.

A: Alina Selyukh is a white female who is a business correspondent at National Public Radio.

C: The article was posted on National Public Radio, which has minimal partisan bias, after the FCC voted to repeal net neutrality.

A: People who want to read a report about net neutrality being repealed and attempts to overturn the decision.

P: Objective report on net neutrality’s status. It presents both broadband companies’ perspective and net neutrality supporters’ perspective.

S: The FCC voted to repeal net neutrality, which limits the power of Internet service providers. Broadband companies still have to disclose how they handle web traffic. Internet providers can block and throttle connections.

I agree with facts. There is not much about the different sides of net neutrality in the article. It simply reports what is happening.

3. All articles talk about net neutrality and the senate’s status when the article was posted on blocking the FCC’s decision. The Huffington Post and National Public Radio both assess that without net neutrality, internet service providers can block and throttle connections. Fox News dismisses this as simply “’Chicken Little’ rhetoric”. Only The Huffington Post talks about public opinion. Both The Huffington Post and Fox News discredit opponents. National Public Radio barely talks about opinions on the issue.

4. I identify with The Huffington Post’s article the most because it actually has an opinion (sorry National Public Radio) and because it involves public opinion. The internet is becoming a necessity for people, and it should not be able to be censored or restricted unless you give more money to your internet service provider.

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Exclusive: Obscure Indian cyber firm spied on politicians, investors worldwide

— Jack Stubbs, Raphael Satter, Christopher Bing | Reuters | June 9, 2020

Sumit Gupta, owner and director of cybersecurity firm BellTroX InfoTech Services, walks outside his office in New Delhi, India, June 8, 2020. Reuters/Alasdair Pal

LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) — A little-known Indian IT firm offered its hacking services to help clients spy on more than 10,000 email accounts over a period of seven years.

New Delhi-based BellTroX InfoTech Services targeted government officials in Europe, gambling tycoons in the Bahamas, and well-known investors in the United States including private equity giant KKR and short seller Muddy Waters, according to three former employees, outside researchers, and a trail of online evidence.

Aspects of BellTroX’s hacking spree aimed at American targets are currently under investigation by U.S. law enforcement, five people familiar with the matter told Reuters. The U.S. Department of Justice declined to comment.

Reuters does not know the identity of BellTroX’s clients. In a telephone interview, the company’s owner, Sumit Gupta, declined to disclose who had hired him and denied any wrongdoing.

Muddy Waters founder Carson Block said he was “disappointed, but not surprised, to learn that we were likely targeted for hacking by a client of BellTroX.” KKR declined to comment.

Researchers at internet watchdog group Citizen Lab, who spent more than two years mapping out the infrastructure used by the hackers, released a report here on Tuesday saying they had "high confidence" that BellTroX employees were behind the espionage campaign.

“This is one of the largest spy-for-hire operations ever exposed,” said Citizen Lab researcher John Scott-Railton.

Although they receive a fraction of the attention devoted to state-sponsored espionage groups or headline-grabbing heists, “cyber mercenary” services are widely used, he said. “Our investigation found that no sector is immune.”

A cache of data reviewed by Reuters provides insight into the operation, detailing tens of thousands of malicious messages designed to trick victims into giving up their passwords that were sent by BellTroX between 2013 and 2020. The data was supplied on condition of anonymity by online service providers used by the hackers after Reuters alerted the firms to unusual patterns of activity on their platforms.

The data is effectively a digital hit list showing who was targeted and when. Reuters validated the data by checking it against emails received by the targets.

On the list: judges in South Africa, politicians in Mexico, lawyers in France and environmental groups in the United States. These dozens of people, among the thousands targeted by BellTroX, did not respond to messages or declined comment.

Reuters was not able to establish how many of the hacking attempts were successful.

BellTroX’s Gupta was charged in a 2015 hacking case in which two U.S. private investigators admitted to paying him to hack the accounts of marketing executives. Gupta was declared a fugitive in 2017, although the U.S. Justice Department declined to comment on the current status of the case or whether an extradition request had been issued.

Speaking by phone from his home in New Delhi, Gupta denied hacking and said he had never been contacted by law enforcement. He said he had only ever helped private investigators download messages from email inboxes after they provided him with login details.

“I didn’t help them access anything, I just helped them with downloading the mails and they provided me all the details,” he told Reuters. “I am not aware how they got these details but I was just helping them with the technical support.”

Reuters could not determine why the private investigators might need Gupta to download emails. Gupta did not return follow-up messages and repeatedly declined to talk when a Reuters reporter visited him at his office on Monday. Spokesmen for Delhi police and India’s foreign ministry did not respond to requests for comment.

HOROSCOPES AND PORNOGRAPHY

Operating from a small room above a shuttered tea stall in a west-Delhi retail complex, BellTroX bombarded its targets with tens of thousands of malicious emails, according to the data reviewed by Reuters. Some messages would imitate colleagues or relatives; others posed as Facebook login requests or graphic notifications to unsubscribe from pornography websites.

Fahmi Quadir, Founder of Safkhet Capital, Pose in New York City, New York, U.S., June 9, 2020. Reuters/Brenden McDermid

Fahmi Quadir’s New York-based short selling firm Safkhet Capital was among 17 investment companies targeted by BellTroX between 2017 and 2019. She said she noticed a surge in suspicious emails in early 2018, shortly after she launched her fund.

Initially “it didn’t seem necessarily malicious,” Quadir said. “It was just horoscopes; then it escalated to pornography.”

Eventually the hackers upped their game, sending her credible-sounding messages that looked like they came from her coworkers, other short sellers or members of her family. “They were even trying to emulate my sister,” Quadir said, adding that she believes the attacks were unsuccessful.

U.S. advocacy groups were also repeatedly targeted. Among them were digital rights organizations Free Press and Fight for the Future, both of whom have lobbied for net neutrality. The groups said a small number of employee accounts were compromised, but the wider organizations' networks were untouched. The spying on those groups was detailed in a report here by the Electronic Frontier Foundation in 2017, but has not been publicly tied to BellTroX until now.

Timothy Karr, a director at Free Press, said his organization “sees an uptick in breach attempts whenever we’re engaged in heated and high-profile public policy debates.” Evan Greer, deputy director of Fight for the Future, said: “When corporations and politicians can hire digital mercenaries to target civil society advocates, it undermines our democratic process.”

While Reuters was not able to establish who hired BellTroX to carry out the hacking, two former employees said the company and others like it were usually contracted by private investigators on behalf of business rivals or political opponents.

Bart Santos of San Diego-based Bulldog Investigations was one of a dozen private detectives in the United States and Europe who told Reuters they had received unsolicited advertisements for hacking services out of India - including one from a person who described himself as a former BellTroX employee. The pitch offered to carry out “data penetration” and “email penetration.”

Santos said he ignored those overtures, but could understand why some people didn’t. “The Indian guys have a reputation for customer service,” he said.

Additional reporting by Alasdair Pal in NEW DELHI and Ryan McNeill in LONDON; Editing by Jonathan Weber, Chris Sanders and Edward Tobin

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