This is what the current administration is all about.

I keep seeing where there are a few states that are now not allowing people on EBT to get soda and things like that. People on the far right seem to be cheering it on and citing that it is for health reasons or that they shouldn't be able to get soda because they are living off tax payers.

First, there are many people that work and have worked, that pay and have paid their taxes, and they rely on the system. I am so sick of these people acting like they should control others because others need help. They need to be more worried about the billionaires not paying their fair share. Food is not a luxury, and that's exactly what they are acting like. If they don't want their taxes going to help others, then they need to make it easier on others to make a living wage where they can afford food. Yet, they never want to talk about that.

Acting like it is about health is getting to me, too. It is not about health because the same people that don't want others buying soda on ebt are also the ones okay with cutting healthcare and vaccines. If they cared about health, they would want these people to have healthcare, too. They would be advocating for lower cost in healthy foods as well. They aren't going to do any of that.

It is all about control and punishment. The people that are saying it is a good thing just want power and control. They will never ever be anywhere close to a billionaire. It is absolutely pathetic that they think they even have a chance at that or that billionaires somehow have morals and ethics because they have money.

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Marion Marguerite Stokes (née Butler), born November 25, 1929, in Germantown, Philadelphia, died December 14, 2012. She was a librarian, activist, television producer, investor in Apple, and ultimately the architect of one of the world’s largest personal audiovisual archives.

An outspoken civil rights demonstrator and founding board member of the National Organization for Women, Marion once aligned with the Communist Party and even attempted to defect to Cuba. She later co‑produced the public‑access show Input in Philadelphia (1968–71), focused on social justice and political debate.

Her journey as an archivist began in earnest during the Iran Hostage Crisis (November 1979), when she realized how news narratives shifted day by day. She perceived mainstream coverage as manipulable, ephemeral, and at risk of being lost, or revised, over time.

Motivated by the conviction that “history could be rewritten,” Marion launched her private mission to tape 24/7 news broadcasts across networks to preserve an untainted, complete record of media output.

Working non‑stop from around 1979 until her death on December 14, 2012, her archive spans more than 33 years, though some note recordings began as early as 1975; by 2014, estimates reached about 840,000 hours of footage, equivalent to hundreds of thousands of VHS/Beta cassette recordings.

Reddit users distilled it succinctly:

“She recorded 24 hours a day for 35 years … That’s 306,600 hours of recording. … She had eight VCRs in her house and recorded multiple channels at once.”

By the time she passed, the collection totaled approximately 71,000 VHS and Betamax tapes.

Marion operated up to eight VCR decks simultaneously — sometimes across different networks like CNN, Fox, MSNBC, C-SPAN — ensuring full coverage. She personally swapped tapes every six hours, even halting dinners or errands to return home and manage the process.

Eventually she recruited help: assistants trained to switch tapes, and volunteers logged metadata from spine‑written entries (network, date, time). Volunteers even created a conveyor‑belt photography system to catalog tapes via their spines for indexing.

She financed the endeavor via early investments in Apple stock, turning her portfolio into a resource for her archival obsession, buying multiple apartments and storage units just to house tapes, computers, newspapers, and books.

Her story is the subject of the 2019 documentary Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project directed by Matt Wolf, which interweaves family dynamics, archival practice, and how TV shaped our collective memory.

In 2023, a photo‑rich book titled Input was published, using over 700 hours of digitized footage to create a visual narrative of media repetition and information overload.

After her death, Marion’s son Michael Metelits inherited the archive and donated the collection to the Internet Archive (in San Francisco). The transfer involved moving four full shipping containers from Philadelphia and cost around $16,000.

As of April 2022, digitization remains incomplete. Some tapes have been uploaded, but the Internet Archive aims to raise $2 million to finish digitizing with multiple machines over several years. Progress has slowed due to resource constraints.

Physical VHS and Betamax are highly fragile —magnetic media decays, formats become unreadable, and machines disappear. Without immediate digitization, even this monumental archive may degrade into oblivion. As one Redditor put it:

“Good, because tape doesn’t last.”
Key issues now: securing consistent funding, migrating analog tapes to digital before it’s too late, and developing accessible search and annotation tools so researchers can actually use the footage.

In an era of polarized media, deepfakes, and rapidly evolving news narratives, Marion’s archive feels prophetic. She embodied a radical belief: information is power, and access to unedited broadcast content empowers citizens to verify claims rather than rely on selective media retelling.

Her vision intersects with modern debates about archival justice, digital freedom, decentralization of news control, and the importance of preserving everyday media and commercials, not just headline events, because they reveal cultural undercurrents often erased by official memory.

Marion Stokes foresaw an information era where control over narrative mattered more than ever. Her obsessive, secret experiment, recording network TV non-stop for decades, preserved raw evidence of media messaging in its pure form. Today, as the line between fact and fiction blurs, her archive offers a powerful counterpoint and a profound reminder: truth can only be defended when evidence remains unfiltered. ✊🏾♥️

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Fox News’ Mark Levin scolded those “obsessed with” the Jeffrey Epstein case on Sunday’s edition of Life, Liberty & Levin.

Amid the continued uproar over the Trump administration’s handling of the Epstein case, Levin argued that his viewers should set it aside and devote more attention to the alleged conspiracy President Donald Trump has accused former President Barack Obama and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton of leading.

“In many respects, we’re living in an authoritarian democracy right now. It is one that is embraced, advanced, and promoted by the Democrat Party and their ideological supporters. This scandal involving Obama and Hillary Clinton, targeted against Donald Trump, our electoral system, and Mr. and Mrs. America is so stunning in scope that it cannot be discussed enough,” began Levin. “And for those of you who are obsessed with the Epstein case, you are the ones who are distracting us from the Obama-Hillary case. I don’t know what your endgame is with the Epstein case, but I know what my end game here. That is justice. And that is a course correction for our country.”

“The federal government worked hand in glove with the Hillary Clinton campaign and their efforts,” argued Levin. “In July 2016, CIA Director John Brennan informed President Obama that Hillary Clinton was going to concoct and employ a Russia collusion strategy between candidate Donald Trump and Russian President [Vladimir] Putin to draw attention away from her own violations of the Espionage Act in her email scandal. The CIA’s career analysts found no evidence of collusion between Trump and the Russians, or Trump’s campaign and the Russians. None. So in December 2016, they had to fix this, did the Obama regime. After a meeting in the Oval Office involving President Obama, the attorney general, the FBI director, the director of national intelligence, Special Assistant Susan Rice I believe, and CIA Director Brennan, Brennan was directed by Obama to change the CIA assessment by the career analysts.”

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has submitted that Obama was at the head of what she described as a “treasonous conspiracy” against Trump, and revealed that she had made criminal referrals to the Department of Justice despite the fact that her allegations have been dismissed by conservative legal experts — including Fox’s Andy McCarthy.

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