Ladies and gentleman, the weekend. I’m
Carolina A. Miranda, arts and design columnist at the Los Angeles Times, with the week’s essential culture news and art historical dog paintings.
You down with NFT?
A single living artist. A major auction house. A sale that represented “a bold challenge to an entrenched system of representation by prominent art dealers.”
I’m not talking about last months’s auction at
Christie’s, in which the artist known as
Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) sold a digital collage linked to an
NFT token for a brain-blasting $69.3 million. (Though I’ll get to that in a minute.) Go back, instead, to the fall of 2008, when Lehman Bros. was disintegrating, the Dow was in freefall and Young British Artist
PolitiFact s ruling: False
Here s why: During a devastating winter blackout in Texas, a conservative group linked the outage to President Joe Biden, claiming that one of his executive orders gave the Chinese Communist Party access to the U.S. power grid. Joe Biden is handing our power grid to the Chinese Communist Party, tweeted the conservative activist group Students for Trump on Feb. 16.
The post also includes a quote by the group’s CEO, Charlie Kirk, which reads: While thousands of Americans are without power because of a faulty energy infrastructure, this is your daily reminder that Joe Biden rescinded a Trump executive order banning Chinese involvement in our power grid.
Fact-checking the claim that Chinese interference shut down the Texas power grid
Noah Y. Kim, PolitiFact Texas
March 2, 2021
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Mark Mulligan, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer
During the devastating winter blackout in Texas, a conservative group linked the outage to President Joe Biden, claiming that one of his executive orders gave the Chinese Communist Party access to the U.S. power grid. Joe Biden is handing our power grid to the Chinese Communist Party, tweeted the conservative activist group Students for Trump on Feb. 16.
The post also includes a quote by the group’s CEO, Charlie Kirk, which reads: While thousands of Americans are without power because of a faulty energy infrastructure, this is your daily reminder that Joe Biden rescinded a Trump executive order banning Chinese involvement in our power grid.
Fact-checking the claim that Chinese interference shut down the Texas power grid lmtonline.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from lmtonline.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.