Robert Glasper w/Lalah Hathaway: “Everybody Wants to Rule the World”
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Robert Glasper performs a cover of Tears for Fears’ “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” for SiriusXM’s Heart & Soul.
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Welcome to your life
There’s no turning back
Even while we sleep
We will find you
Acting on your best behavior
Turn your back on Mother Nature
Everybody wants to rule the world
It’s my own design
It’s my own remorse
Help me to decide
Help me make the
Most of freedom and of pleasure
Nothing ever lasts forever
Everybody wants to rule the world
There’s a room where the light won’t find you
Holding hands while the walls come tumbling down
When they do, I’ll be right behind you
Catching up with the events of today’s SCOTUS nomination hearings and I notice a distinct lack of something from the last two go arounds: Dems aren’t wasting time during their questioning trying to be a buddy to KBJ or act as if she’s the greatest victim to ever sit before Congress. Which is notable in particular because of how fucking hostile the GQP are acting towards her very presence in the building.
Not sure if this has been posted.
Who is Russia’s top field commander in Ukraine? The US isn’t sure.
cnn.com
The US has been unable to determine if Russia has designated a military commander responsible for leading the country’s war in Ukraine, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter — something that current and former defense officials say is likely a key contributor to the apparent clumsiness and disorganization of the Russian assault.
Without a top, theater-wide commander on the ground in or near Ukraine, units from different Russian military districts operating in different parts of Ukraine appear to be competing for resources rather than coordinating their efforts, according to two US defense officials.
Units participating in different Russian offensives across Ukraine have failed to connect, these sources say, and in fact, appear to be acting independently with no overarching operational design.
Russian forces also appear to be having significant communication issues. Soldiers and commanders have at times used commercial cell phones and other unsecure channels to talk to each other, making their communications easier to intercept and helping Ukraine develop targets for their own counterstrikes.
It’s all led to what these sources say has been a disjointed — and at times chaotic — operation that has surprised US and western officials.
re: #3 retired cynic
Not sure if this has been posted.
Who is Russia’s top field commander in Ukraine? The US isn’t sure.
cnn.com
Honestly wouldn’t be surprised if there’s no overall commander because there’s nobody Putin trusted enough to lead the effort without worrying that they’d try to use fame gained in a successful invasion to challenge his rule.
re: #5 JC1
Ditto. 4/6 should have been 3, but I’m stupid.
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re: #4 Targetpractice
Honestly wouldn’t be surprised if there’s no overall commander because there’s nobody Putin trusted enough to lead the effort without worrying that they’d try to use fame gained in a successful invasion to challenge his rule.
I wouldn’t be surprised either. This is why there are multiple intelligence agencies (FSB, GRU, SVR) instead of one KGB, because Putin can set them at each other’s throats and make sure they don’t gang up on him.
re: #6 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Ditto. 4/6 should have been 3, but I’m stupid.
My problem is knowing too many five-letter words.
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re: #8 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
On the other hand, my geography remains undefeated, with another guess in one. (The toughest one I’ve had so far was Guernsey, which took five guesses.
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re: #4 Targetpractice
Honestly wouldn’t be surprised if there’s no overall commander because there’s nobody Putin trusted enough to lead the effort without worrying that they’d try to use fame gained in a successful invasion to challenge his rule.
From what I understand, the Russians have no career NCOs and any officers that get “popular” or are seen to be competent tend to get stuck on the front line so they can eventually get picked off and not end up as a popular hero and therefore a threat to whoever is in power.
Everyone has done this from Stalin to Putin.
re: #270 Belafon
It’s been my fear all along that Putin’s war will be a war of starvation, both food and other supplies.
That is why Putin does not turn back from his course. Not only does he not care how many Russian soldiers die, his ideology (his own greatness, and the god-granted greatness of Russia) means he will simply wait out Ukraine until the people surrender.
Day four of Representative Jeff Fortenberry’s (R-NE1) trial for taking $30,000 cash in a brown paper bag from a Nigerian billionaire in California for a campaign contribution.
When the FBI came to his home in Lincoln, it came out today he called the cops on the FBI.
Fortenberry had just returned that week from a trip to Nairobi where he was being briefed on elephant poaching. At the time of his return, eastern Nebraska was experiencing massive flooding and Fortenberry had toured some of the affected areas that Saturday.
He wasn’t home when agents first showed up at 1 p.m. When the FBI agents returned that evening, two Lincoln police officers were waiting for them.
Fortenberry explained that he had called then-Lincoln Police Chief Jeff Bliemeister because two people claiming to be federal agents had knocked on his door.
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Fortenberry called police on federal agents investigating illegal campaign contributions (Omaha World-Herald)
Fortenberry insists he does not know the Nigerian.
“If it’s Ayoub, he may have given me a political contribution,” he said.
Ayoub did much more. Ayoub testified Monday that he took a brown paper bag of $30,000 cash from an associate of Nigerian billionaire Gilbert Chagoury and distributed it to friends and relatives. He had them write checks to Fortenberry’s campaign at a fundraiser the doctor held on behalf of the congressman.
re: #11 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
It’s been my fear all along that Putin’s war will be a war of starvation, both food and other supplies.
That is why Putin does not turn back from his course. Not only does he not care how many Russian soldiers die, his ideology (his own greatness, and the god-granted greatness of Russia) means he will simply wait out Ukraine until the people surrender.
Time is on Ukraine’s side; they are resupplying from their own territory and the West, while the Russians are trying to resupply through hostile territory while the route through Belarus is being sabotaged. Waiting it out means Russians surrender.
And hunkering down in defensive positions isn’t as easy as it used to be, with the use of loitering munitions (drone bombs). You may think you’re protected behind camouflage, berms, and trenches, but now little drones can snoop around for hours in your territory finding high value targets and boom.
re: #13 ericblair
Time is on Ukraine’s side; they are resupplying from their own territory and the West, while the Russians are trying to resupply through hostile territory while the route through Belarus is being sabotaged. Waiting it out means Russians surrender.
And hunkering down in defensive positions isn’t as easy as it used to be, with the use of loitering munitions (drone bombs). You may think you’re protected behind camouflage, berms, and trenches, but now little drones can snoop around for hours in your territory finding high value targets and boom.
That and civilians flying quadricopters dropping grenades on them.
re: #12 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Gotta admit, taking illegal cash contributions in a brown paper bag is definitely old-school.
re: #11 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
It’s been my fear all along that Putin’s war will be a war of starvation, both food and other supplies.
That is why Putin does not turn back from his course. Not only does he not care how many Russian soldiers die, his ideology (his own greatness, and the god-granted greatness of Russia) means he will simply wait out Ukraine until the people surrender.
I think Putin will find that his own army surrenders before Ukraine does.
re: #2 Targetpractice
. Which is notable in particular because of how fucking hostile the GQP are acting towards [KBJ’s] very presence in the building.
Sets off a gut reaction: she is black and educated.
re: #15 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Gotta admit, taking illegal cash contributions in a brown paper bag is definitely old-school.
Especially if it had a big “$$$” on each side.
Senator Mike Braun clarified reversed his position in support of outlawing interracial marriage when he realized he couldn’t yet be that openly racist without serious blowback, and probably after getting an earful from Yurtle. news.yahoo.com
re: #19 No Malarkey!
Senator Mike Braun
clarifiedreversed his position in support of outlawing interracial marriage when he realized he couldn’t yet be that openly racist without serious blowback, and probably after getting an earful from Yurtle. news.yahoo.com
He will insist that he is not a White Supremacist, just a “racial realist”.
re: #20 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He will insist that he is not a White Supremacist, just a “racial realist”.
Nice that the media continues to cover for Republican racism. “Clarified.”
re: #19 No Malarkey!
Senator Mike Braun
clarifiedreversed his position in support of outlawing interracial marriage when he realized he couldn’t yet be that openly racist without serious blowback, and probably after getting an earful from Yurtle. news.yahoo.com
His position didn’t change. He only said the “correct” words to stop the flood of calls into his office and the international mockery.
The original message got out to the racist Republican base, specifically about Judge Brown Jackson and her “race traitor” husband.
He didn’t “correct” or “clarify” jackshit, he insists that he “misheard” the question and of course he’s totally not a racist who things that miscegenation is something that states should feel free to ban.
re: #23 Targetpractice
He didn’t “correct” or “clarify” jackshit, he insists that he “misheard” the question and of course he’s totally not a racist who things that miscegenation is something that states should feel free to ban.
Some of his best friends are octoroons.
re: #23 Targetpractice
He didn’t “correct” or “clarify” jackshit, he insists that he “misheard” the question and of course he’s totally not a racist who things that miscegenation is something that states should feel free to ban.
You’ll have to take that up with our corporate media, once again covering for open Republican racism.
The truth sandwich version might be something like:
Headline: Republican Embarrassed by Worldwide Outrage Over Racist Statement.
Point: Braun “did a racism.”
Point: Quote Braun’s excuse.
Point: Braun is either a racist or incompetent.
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re: #14 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
That and civilians flying quadricopters dropping grenades on them.
and pickle jars
re: #16 No Malarkey!
I think Putin will find that his own army surrenders before
Ukrainehe does.
re: #17 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Sets off a gut reaction: she is black and educated.
more than just ‘educated’
with every question they ask, they prove shes obviously smarter than them
re: #22 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
His position didn’t change. He only said the “correct” words to stop the flood of calls into his office and the international mockery.
The original message got out to the racist Republican base, specifically about Judge Brown Jackson and her “race traitor” husband.
how do they explain Thomas?
Evan Neumann: US Capitol riot suspect gets asylum in Belarus
“I am glad Belarus took care of me. I am upset to find myself in a situation where I have problems in my own country.”
In July last year, Mr Neumann was charged on six different counts, including violent entry and assaulting police officers. He was accused of punching two police officers and using a metal barrier as a “battering ram” against police during the riots at the US Capitol building on 6 January 2021.
In other words “I want to live in a country in which participating in violent seditious uprisings is not seen as a problem.”
re: #31 Dangerman
how do they explain Thomas?
He is a useful idiot. As long as he advances the goals of the Church of Conservatism, he stays. The moment they don’t need him, his wife Virginia also becomes a “race traitor.”
Since conservatives view power as a pie, and if someone get a bigger slice I get a smaller one, they can never form lasting coalitions amongst themselves. They eventually turn on each other to divide the pie.
re: #34 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
See also Candeath Owens, another useful idiot.
How many younger adults have the Republicans gone through in recent years, to simply abandon as a tool no longer needed when a newer shinier tool comes along?
They might not turn on her, because she really has no power in the Racist Party and cannot ever get it. But they will abandon her the second they no longer need her.
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re: #32 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Evan Neumann: US Capitol riot suspect gets asylum in Belarus
“I am glad Belarus took care of me. I am upset to find myself in a situation where I have problems in my own country.”
In July last year, Mr Neumann was charged on six different counts, including violent entry and assaulting police officers. He was accused of punching two police officers and using a metal barrier as a “battering ram” against police during the riots at the US Capitol building on 6 January 2021.
In other words “I want to live in a country in which participating in violent seditious uprisings is not seen as a problem.”
More like “I want to live in a country where fascism is not a problem.” I have no doubt Belarus would violently put down a seditious uprising.
I imagine his stay is not going to be very happy. I suspect up next is his wife in California divorces him and takes their children and all their crap.
re: #34 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
He is a useful idiot. As long as he advances the goals of the Church of Conservatism, he stays. The moment they don’t need him, his wife Virginia also becomes a “race traitor.”
Since conservatives view power as a pie, and if someone get a bigger slice I get a smaller one, they can never form lasting coalitions amongst themselves. They eventually turn on each other to divide the pie.
They view everything as a pie. “Trickle-down economics”, their darling child, is based on the principle that if you give to those who already have more, they will give to those below them so that “we” (i.e. the government) can give them less, thus balancing the zero-sum scales.
re: #32 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Evan Neumann: US Capitol riot suspect gets asylum in Belarus
“I am glad Belarus took care of me. I am upset to find myself in a situation where I have problems in my own country.”
In July last year, Mr Neumann was charged on six different counts, including violent entry and assaulting police officers. He was accused of punching two police officers and using a metal barrier as a “battering ram” against police during the riots at the US Capitol building on 6 January 2021.
In other words “I want to live in a country in which participating in violent seditious uprisings is not seen as a problem.”
Strange choice of countries then, since Belarus has a dictator who doesn’t tolerate participation in peaceful protests.
re: #40 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Did you bring enough to share?
I have half of the sweet potato left. I will share that among a few tacos today.
The fact that the sentence “I don’t understand what they are going through or why they feel the way they do. But I want them to live” is controversial with any fraction of our population is an indictment of America. https://t.co/K0nV6R3vHQ
— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) March 23, 2022
re: #39 No Malarkey!
Strange choice of countries then, since Belarus has a dictator who doesn’t tolerate participation in peaceful protests.
Belarus has a dictator who would prefer to see Trump in power. That’s good enough.
re: #43 Dopamine Fish
Because they are seen as an abomination unto the Lord and the thought of us tolerating them is threat to our standing as God’s Chosen Nation.
re: #43 Dopamine Fish
That GOP governor’s statement actually makes some human sense, at least on first read.
re: #43 Dopamine Fish
It is an indictment of conservatives, not America. Sorry Mr. Dunford, not accepting your “both-sides” framing.
re: #48 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
It is an indictment of conservatives, not America. Sorry Mr. Dunford, not accepting your “both-sides” framing.
I doubt he’s trying to both-sides it; he’s quite explicit on his record against Republicans. I do think it says something about us, as a country, as a whole, that we have people who would disagree with that statement. That it is only a subset of us doesn’t really matter so much to people outside America, for example.
The bigot party has bigots, news at six:
By allowing men to compete in women’s sports, the NCAA is destroying opportunities for women, making a mockery of its championships, and perpetuating a fraud.
In Florida, we reject these lies and recognize Sarasota’s Emma Weyant as the best women’s swimmer in the 500y freestyle. pic.twitter.com/tBmFxFE3q6— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) March 22, 2022
re: #49 Dopamine Fish
I doubt he’s trying to both-sides it; he’s quite explicit on his record against Republicans. I do think it says something about us, as a country, as a whole, that we have people who would disagree with that statement. That it is only a subset of us doesn’t really matter so much to people outside America, for example.
There are bigots in every country.
I get he has a record opposing Republicans, but one should never adopt a both-sides frame for anything.
I stand by my statement it is an indictment of conservatives, not America.
re: #49 Dopamine Fish
I doubt he’s trying to both-sides it; he’s quite explicit on his record against Republicans. I do think it says something about us, as a country, as a whole, that we have people who would disagree with that statement. That it is only a subset of us doesn’t really matter so much to people outside America, for example.
To some extent we create each other’s mental universe, if only through what we tolerate.
re: #7 ericblair
I wouldn’t be surprised either. This is why there are multiple intelligence agencies (FSB, GRU, SVR) instead of one KGB, because Putin can set them at each other’s throats and make sure they don’t gang up on him.
And when Putin sacked the spy bosses, you have to wonder why they didn’t see it coming. Not very good at their jobs if they didn’t realize they were toast (and yeah, if you saw the video for why the Galactic Empire is too stupid to exist, you’d see the parallels with Putin and other autocratic regimes where underlings are too afraid to do the job, success leads to being sacked, and death awaits all).
re: #50 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The bigot party has bigots, news at six:
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“THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS! THIS IS AN ATTACK ON THE EQUALITY OF WOMEN AND WE WILL NOT STAND FOR IT!!!”
“So you’ll fight to get women equal opportunities, equal pay, and equal representation?”
“HAHA, no, God no. But we will continue to use them as handy bludgeons against transsexuals for as long as we can.”
re: #53 lawhawk
And when Putin sacked the spy bosses, you have to wonder why they didn’t see it coming. Not very good at their jobs if they didn’t realize they were toast (and yeah, if you saw the video for why the Galactic Empire is too stupid to exist, you’d see the parallels with Putin and other autocratic regimes where underlings are too afraid to do the job, success leads to being sacked, and death awaits all).
The same argument is made in Issac Azimov’s book “Foundation and Empire,” where a person who becomes too popular for success (a general) is killed, so as not to be a threat to the Emperor.
Well, this is a fun article:
The MAGA Trucker Convoy Is Having a Hard Time
As the MAGA trucker convoy continues to honk its way around the Capitol — protesting, among a mishmash of right-wing grievances, vaccine mandates that have largely ended anyway — it’s recently run into some bad luck. The rigs are big, but sometimes, so are the problems.
Russia: Sending International Peacekeepers to Ukraine Would Be ‘Very Reckless’
Funny, I thought that the Russian troops were sent as a “peacekeeping force” for purposes of “denazifiction and disarmament”.
Breaks my heart.
Vladimir Putin’s Russian Army has lost another commander - the 15th of Putin’s top military leaders to be killed as the country’s invasion of Ukraine heads into its second month.
Colonel Alexei Sharov became the latest high-ranking Russian official to die in what has become the country’s biggest loss of military higher-ups since World War II. His death was announced by Ukrainian armed forces on social media Tuesday.
The commander of the 810th Guards Separate Order of Zhukov Brigade in the Russian Marines, Sharov was reportedly killed in Mariupol, a city in which over 100,000 people have been trapped amid a siege by the invading Russians.
At least 902 civilians have been killed and 1,459 wounded in Ukraine as of midnight on March 19, the UN human rights office said.
Ten million people have been displaced, including nearly 3.4 million who have fled the country, the U.N. refugee agency said.
One of them looks like Colonel Klink, minus the monocle.
re: #36 jeffreyw
I do not know what that hot mess is but it looks delish!
re: #51 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
There are bigots in every country.
I get he has a record opposing Republicans, but one should never adopt a both-sides frame for anything.
I stand by my statement it is an indictment of conservatives, not America.
Except TERFs exist.
Probably ate the fish.
Investigators searching the site where a China Eastern jet crashed, killing all 132 people on board, have found the aircraft’s black box.
Liu Lusong, a spokesman for China’s aviation authority told reporters the flight recorder ‘from China Eastern MU5735 was found on March 23’.
The discovery comes after the head of aviation safety revealed pilots of the doomed flight did not respond to multiple calls from air-traffic controllers as the plane entered a fatal dive into a mountainside.
The Chinese Boeing 737-800 was carrying 123 passengers and nine crew from Kunming in Yunnan province to Guangzhou when it crashed on Monday afternoon outside the city of Wuzhou in the Guangxi region.
All 132 people on board are presumed dead after rescue workers speculated that the fire resulting from the crash had ‘totally incinerated’ the passengers and their belongings, before causing damage to the surrounding forest.
An air-traffic controllers tried to contact the pilots several times after seeing the plane’s altitude drop sharply but got no reply, Zhu Tao, director of the Office of Aviation Safety at the Civil Aviation Authority of China, said at a news conference on Tuesday evening.
‘As of now, the rescue has yet to find survivors,’ Mr Zhu said. ‘The public security department has taken control of the site.’
re: #57 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Russia: Sending International Peacekeepers to Ukraine Would Be ‘Very Reckless’
Funny, I thought that the Russian troops were sent as a “peacekeeping force” for purposes of “denazifiction and disarmament”.
So, is Newsmax for or against? You have to register an account to read comments, which I am not going to do?
And Newsmax? Really?
They found one of the black boxes from the Chinese plane.
re: #62 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
So, is Newsmax for or against? You have to register an account to read comments, which I am not going to do?
And Newsmax? Really?
I just stop by there to check up on the RW talking points. Not registered there at all nor am I about to. I just found the headline amusing.
As far as I can tell, new smax is not leaning pro-Putin at all and generally supports Ukraine’s efforts to defend itself.
re: #61 Shropshire Slasher
Given the rate of descent, it is highly likely that the pilots, as well as everyone else on the plane, were incapacitated by the g-forces involved. That’s a full-power dive from 30,000 feet.
re: #15 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Gotta admit, taking illegal cash contributions in a brown paper bag is definitely old-school.
I’m so old that I remember one politician who hid thousands of dollars in his freezer.
The state-run TASS news agency cited a source close to Chubais as confirming that he resigned from his post https://t.co/xY6LHHpMQw
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) March 23, 2022
Looks like Chubais bailed. He’s been a big wheel forever, considered a moderate. Was Deputy PM during Yeltsin’s time.
re: #32 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
$10 says he’s thrown into the meat grinder in Ukraine and ends up dead.
re: #56 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Anyone of those idiot truck drivers who calls 911 because motorists give them the middle finger needs to be charged with tying up emergency services. Snowflakes.
re: #59 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I do not know what that hot mess is but it looks delish!
It’s a local favorite! Baked sweet potato with butter, smoked pork, special sauce, cheddar, minced ham, and crispy fried onions. We saw one made in a episode of Diners and Dives and this is our own take on it.
re: #32 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
In other words “I want to live in a country in which participating in violent seditious uprisings is not seen as a problem.”
kind of strange to move to Belarus, where participating in peaceful protests can get you beaten up and thrown in prison.
re: #50 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The bigot party has bigots, news at six:
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this is how they frame stuff
- a fetus is not a baby
- trans women are not men (excuse if my choice of words isnt quite right)
By allowing men to compete in women’s sports, the NCAA is destroying opportunities for women, making a mockery of its championships, and perpetuating a fraud.
In Florida, we reject these lies and recognize Sarasota’s Emma Weyant as the best women’s swimmer in the 500y freestyle. pic.twitter.com/tBmFxFE3q6— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) March 22, 2022
re: #38 Dopamine Fish
They view everything as a pie. “Trickle-down economics”, their darling child, is based on the principle that if you give to those who already have more, they will give to those below them so that “we” (i.e. the government) can give them less, thus balancing the zero-sum scales.
A bit of modernized feudalism. The King owns all. He gives some of it to his vassals in exchange for (usually military) service. They, in turn, give some parcels of the land granted them by the king to vassals they make of their own. And so on. Peasants? They come with the land.
Fly in the ointment are the yeomen (Free men) and especially those pesky towns with their own charters and rights.
re: #56 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Well, this is a fun article:
it’s really pathetic
they cant create any kind of disruption at all
im sure they’re pissed they’re not getting the attention that Ottawa did
re: #57 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Russia: Sending International Peacekeepers to Ukraine Would Be ‘Very Reckless’
Funny, I thought that the Russian troops were sent as a “peacekeeping force” for purposes of “denazifiction and disarmament”.
almost nothing russia says means anything
it’s all self justificational word salad and propaganda - just like the old days
re: #55 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The same argument is made in Issac Azimov’s book “Foundation and Empire,” where a person who becomes too popular for success (a general) is killed, so as not to be a threat to the Emperor.
Flavius Stilicho a bit of a historical example of same.
re: #60 Mike Lamb
Except TERFs exist.
TERFs are conservatives. In the case of UK TERFs, they are directly funded by US right-wing groups.
(16:11)
re: #66 Patricia Kayden
I’m so old that I remember one politician who hid thousands of dollars in his freezer.
a Democrat
convicted and went to jail
nobody above or below the law due to party or politics.
in fact when virginia’s governor McDonnell (R) was tried on similar charges and most didnt stick, Jefferson appealed and his sentence was reduced to time served - about 5 years or so
when the same laws are applied to everyone, then being investigated, interrogated, charged, arrested, tried, convicted is not partisan or discriminatory or unfair.
it’s equal protection and equal treatment for everybody.
This seems relevant. Trying to flee the country. Trump pardoned this felon, because it helps Trump cover up Trump’s own criminal conduct. It was self-interest that dictated this pardon. Manafort is tightly tied to Putin and pro-Putin figures in Ukraine. https://t.co/srKnbYyumW
— lawhawk #vaxxedforfamilyandcommunity (@lawhawk) March 23, 2022
my latest — for press, there are no GOP rules; https://t.co/gMJmUPCTsR
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) March 23, 2022
“When ugly smears did get debunked it was with timid language — Republicans had merely “omitted context,” and the child pornography charges were “misleading.” The press treated the allegations with respect, as if Hawley were questioning Jackson’s judicial philosophy.”
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) March 23, 2022
Again, there’s a difficulty in ‘messaging’ when the outlets you have to rely on to get a message out are constantly doing your opponent’s ‘messaging’ for you, on top of generally refusing to even pass along your message.
Happy 3 Day
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re: #74 Dangerman
it’s really pathetic
they cant create any kind of disruption at allim sure they’re pissed they’re not getting the attention that Ottawa did
And now they are catching Covid.
re: #71 John Hughes
He won’t protest against a fascist.
As I watch Senators question #KBJ and opine on her fitness to sit on the Supreme Court (often reading questions they could not answer or pushing partisan talking points), I am struck by the fact that perhaps WE should do a better job scrutinizing their fitness to represent us.
— Michael Steele (@MichaelSteele) March 22, 2022
re: #86 Dangerman
Especially this part: “often reading questions they could not answer”
Actually had it in two but coin flip on the first letter was tails instead of heads
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re: #36 jeffreyw
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re: #86 Dangerman
Of course we should, but Republicans are going to keep voting for racist assholes. We’re seeing how a black woman has to be excellent to get the approval of mediocre white men, but will still face abuse from these losers, and it’s bullshit.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) March 23, 2022
Twitter warns me about most of my Tweets these days.
re: #88 darthstar
Actually had it in two but coin flip on the first letter was tails instead of heads
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Yesterday’s 4 banger.
How can this be? The 22nd military in the world beating and encircling the vanguard units of the world’s second army? The answer is multifold. Here’s a virtuoso explanation. https://t.co/W50yRMGnqo
— Weddady (@weddady) March 23, 2022
Here is a (very) former Russian MP, laying out his predictions for a Ukraine war in April 2021. He’s a great speaker. It’s everything we’ve discussed here; it’s pretty much uncanny how bang-on it is, and ends with the military deciding that if they have to liberate some oppressed civilians, it’s much easier to point your army towards Moscow then Kyiv. And yes, he’s saying what’s in the subtitles.
re: #86 Dangerman
As I watch Senators question #KBJ and opine on her fitness to sit on the Supreme Court (often reading questions they could not answer or pushing partisan talking points), I am struck by the fact that perhaps WE should do a better job scrutinizing their fitness to represent us.
That’s rich. He is as responsible as every other GOPer. Fuck him.
The fact that Russia is rattling the nuclear sabre so hard is indicative of the fear growing in Putin’s heart. Why is he worrying so much that he might be removed from power if everything is going to plan?
Seeing those green cells appear is like watching your lottery numbers getting pulled one by one!
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Germany 🇩🇪to impose embargo on #Russia oil and gas. Better late than never. Thanks for waking up!
— Lesia Vasylenko (@lesiavasylenko) March 23, 2022
Trump: “When I endorsed Mo Brooks, he took a 44-point lead and was unstoppable. He then hired a new campaign staff who ‘brilliantly’ convinced him to ‘stop talking about the 2020 Election. Very sad but, since he decided to go in another direction, so have I. He’s lost that lead so I won’t have a win so I’m out.”
“Like a 320 pound jockey, Trump blames the dead horse not able to carry him.”
re: #94 No Malarkey!
The fact that Russia is rattling the nuclear sabre so hard is indicative of the fear growing in Putin’s heart. Why is he worrying so much that he might be removed from power if everything is going to plan?
I wonder if they still have the execution chamber in the basement of the Lubyanka prison?
re: #5 JC1
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re: #96 darthstar
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I would guess they were trying to shore up some other supply before pulling that trigger.
Gallup: “Initial public support for judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation to the Supreme Court ties as the highest Gallup has measured for any recent nominee.”
“Fifty-eight percent of Americans say the Senate should vote in favor of Jackson serving on the Supreme Court. Only current Chief Justice John Roberts, at 59% in 2005, had a level of support on par with that for Jackson
re: #92 ericblair
Here is a (very) former Russian MP, laying out his predictions for a Ukraine war in April 2021. He’s a great speaker. It’s everything we’ve discussed here; it’s pretty much uncanny how bang-on it is, and ends with the military deciding that if they have to liberate some oppressed civilians, it’s much easier to point your army towards Moscow then Kyiv. And yes, he’s saying what’s in the subtitles.
Kinda lost me at the end. Could you explain the Call to Biden bit?
re: #83 HRH Stanley Sea
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Well this is kind of a surprise. Last Friday it was leaked that Brian Houston, the “global senior pastor” of Hillsong had had “inappropriate” interactions with two women. One was salacious text messages, the second was going into the hotel room and talking to someone not his wife Bobbie. Both were attributed to mixing of “prescription drugs and alcohol.” He’d already taken a leave of absence from Hillsong because he’s facing a criminal trial later this year for covering up his father, Frank’s, child sexual abuse.
Now comes this:
Hillsong Church founder Brian Houston resigns after internal misconduct investigation
The acting head of the church, Pastor Phil Dooley, made the announcement at an emergency all-staff meeting on Wednesday and said Hillsong will launch an “independent review” of its governance structure.
Pastor Dooley read a statement by the Hillsong global and Australian boards which said: “We would like to advise you that Pastor Brian Houston has resigned as global senior pastor of Hillsong Church and the board has accepted his resignation.”
(You might want to click over to that article just to see a picture of the current pastor, Phil Dooley, looking like a tired old hippie.)
I can’t help but wonder if the quick resignation was prompted by additional reports of women being approached/harassed by Houston and not yet made public and/or the contents of the Hillsong documentary dropping tomorrow on the Discovery Plus cable channel. Or maybe both? Or maybe something else? It’s my understanding Houston is not in Australia right now in any case, as of last weekend he was supposedly in Mexico.
re: #23 Targetpractice
He didn’t “correct” or “clarify” jackshit, he insists that he “misheard” the question and of course he’s totally not a racist who things that miscegenation is something that states should feel free to ban.
Braun is clearly a racist but TBF he’s not an attorney and it’s possible he wasn’t even familiar with the Loving case. He doesn’t have any real understanding of how any of this works, but he knows how to regurgitate RW memes.
“Critical race theory,” as deployed by the GOP, is generally shorthand for “beware: non-Whites are coming for your status”.
Making this tweet completely unveiled in its intent. https://t.co/a6S491jTzA pic.twitter.com/jWCOmd9JLo— Philip Bump (@pbump) March 23, 2022
“There will be a fight and a battle tomorrow, but in this, we can just say, look what we have done,” said @BrownPhDGirl. “Black women did this.”https://t.co/ftcuVYwvtw
— The Lily (@thelilynews) March 22, 2022
Wow - organ impairment found in 59% of mostly *non-hospitalized* COVID cohort at 6 months post-infection, persisting at 1 year from infection (59%), including in people *without symptoms*.
Biggest findings:https://t.co/lID1pfPNnX
1/ #LongCovid— Hannah Davis (@ahandvanish) March 22, 2022
re: #107 Dangerman
softball score sheet
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For those of you worried that Manchin might take the GOP smears of Judge Jackson seriously:
Manchin signals Hawley’s line that KBJ is soft on crime and lenient on child porn sentencing isn’t moving him
“You’re sure it was Hawley right? Take that for what it’s worth”— Burgess Everett (@burgessev) March 21, 2022
re: #101 Eventual Carrion
I would guess they were trying to shore up some other supply before pulling that trigger.
Long range weather forecasts help. Needs are lower in the spring/summer. Also probably some promises of logistics help in the fall from the US to keep up with supply.
re: #39 No Malarkey!
Strange choice of countries then, since Belarus has a dictator who doesn’t tolerate participation in peaceful protests.
Belarus is in favor of protests supporting Putin-approved autocrats. Those attacking the Capitol are all in the “prefer Putin to any Democrat” fan club.
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“It’s Hawley, right? Take that for what it’s worth.”— Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), quoted by the Washington Post, on the GOP attacks against Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson at her confirmation hearings
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Manchin is still a pita. At times like these id still take him over A Hawley, Cotton or Cruz or any other lunatic that could replace him in WVa. any day of the week.
He supported Biden’s judges till now. I’d say no way he doesn’t vote for jackson.
Why not in pigs and chickens? You don’t pay taxes with a commodity. You pay with cash.
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday expressed a desire for Florida to allow cryptocurrency to pay taxes in the state.
The governor’s comments came during a news conference in Wesley Chapel, where he signed a financial literacy curriculum bill into law. The bill adds personal finance education to high school graduation requirements.
“It was kind of mentioned in some of the comments - cryptocurrency, for example - we are working and I’ve told state agencies, figure out a way that if a business wants to pay tax in cryptocurrency to Florida, we should be willing to accept that,” DeSantis said. “So we’re working through that.”
DeSantis: Florida businesses should be able to pay taxes with cryptocurrency (NBC 8 Tampa)
Dear god.
Meanwhile in Putin’s Russia, grannies eating pigeons pic.twitter.com/fwIEVTcVWb
— Soviet Sergey (@SovietSergey) March 23, 2022
re: #111 No Malarkey!
For those of you worried that Manchin might take the GOP smears of Judge Jackson seriously:
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re: #71 John Hughes
kind of strange to move to Belarus, where participating in peaceful protests can get you beaten up and thrown in prison.
I am pretty sure you can protest against Biden and for Trump all you want there with no repercussions.
Here’s the funny thing about panic. If you try to squash it with force it only builds.
Thus, Putin’s government is trying to respond to panic and prevent the flight from Crimea of Russian citizens who illegally moved thereafter February 2014
— Hromadske Int. (@Hromadske) March 23, 2022
re: #116 Dangerman
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Manchin is still a pita. At times like these id still take him over A Hawley, Cotton or Cruz or any other lunatic that could replace him in WVa. any day of the week.
He supported Biden’s judges till now. I’d say no way he doesn’t vote for jackson.
Jackson will be confirmed unless someone finds some real dirt on her. So far, they’ve got nothing.
re: #117 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Why not in pigs and chickens? You don’t pay taxes with a commodity. You pay with cash.
DeSantis: Florida businesses should be able to pay taxes with cryptocurrency (NBC 8 Tampa)
And then the the rate plummets and your governmental budget is in the shitter
re: #96 darthstar
Better late than never!
Germany had to go scrounge up some alternate sources before fully closing the valve on Russia. Although Qatar is hardly a democracy. Neither is Saudi Arabia, and we have no trouble dealing with them.
re: #123 Dangerman
Which cryptos will Fla accept?
All of them?
Or will the govt be picking winners and losers?
re: #123 Dangerman
And then the the rate plummets and your governmental budget is in the shitter
DeSantis doesn’t care. He’s positioning himself for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination in case Trump falters.
“I’m so glad that for the most part we behaved in an appropriate manner here” — Did Tillis … did he watch yesterday’s hearing? pic.twitter.com/VrcaRQIJ3y
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 23, 2022
Nestlé officially announced the cessation of imports and exports to and from #Russia
The world’s largest consumer goods company said it would no longer pay any taxes in Russia and any profits it makes will be used for humanitarian aidhttps://t.co/Uv13Bvo372 pic.twitter.com/mjUiH8KXIP— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) March 23, 2022
re: #126 No Malarkey!
DeSantis doesn’t care. He’s positioning himself for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination in case Trump falters.
And barring that, to be in position for 2028
Oh, don’t blame social media, senator. It comes straight from your colleagues across the aisle and their Murdoch propaganda organ. https://t.co/leoHUEhUke
— Jeff Jarvis (@jeffjarvis) March 23, 2022
re: #121 darthstar
Here’s the funny thing about panic. If you try to squash it with force it only builds.
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Well, this certainly won’t help the situation…
The head of occupied #Crimea Aksyonov has announced the possible nationalization of hotels belonging to #Ukrainian owners who “supported the regime in #Kyiv”. The decision will be taken in the near future pic.twitter.com/6hXiOFBhGd
— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) March 23, 2022
this awful person…
Democrats have gone from “Believe All Women” to “We don’t know what a woman is.”
— Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) March 23, 2022
The One weird trick defense contractors don’t want you to know.
how to build an instant navy
Finnish Customs has detained 21 yachts possibly owned by oligarchs https://t.co/2jUuAbhsXT
— Nordic News (@Nordic_News) March 22, 2022
re: #128 Dangerman
Expect a run on baby food, formula, and Nespresso pods in the coming days. New mothers who are breast-feeding better keep at it.
Hmm - seems to be a 50-50 split between those who think I’m too ancient a wreck to imperil myself and those who feel it would be a hilarious adventure … I shall ponder
— Stephen Fry (@stephenfry) March 23, 2022
re: #133 Dangerman
The One weird trick defense contractors don’t want you to know.
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Think I may fly over to Europe this weekend and claim some of those yachts as mine.
If the real owner wants them back then they can speak up.
re: #64 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I just stop by there to check up on the RW talking points. Not registered there at all nor am I about to. I just found the headline amusing.
As far as I can tell, new smax is not leaning pro-Putin at all and generally supports Ukraine’s efforts to defend itself.
There was an article awhile ago that Newsmax was apparently distinguishing itself from Fox and OAN by not being a pro-Putin operation. Of course, depending on how the GOP base responds, they may have switched their stand. According to the February 25th dailybeast:
The spokesperson also highlighted a recent blog post in which Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy insisted that “Newsmax supports President Biden’s efforts to stop this invasion,” while adding: “Fox News’ main host is stating categorically he is siding with Putin.” But despite Ruddy’s assertion, much of Newsmax’s programming has featured Putin-friendly commentary, including talk radio host Michael Savage denigrating the Ukrainian president—who is Jewish—as a “puppet of George Soros” and a Newsmax anchor claiming the “Russian invasion that they claim is well underway smells fishy to me.”
The six stages of racist denials:
1. I never said it
2. I said it but it was taken out of context
3. I misunderstood the question
4. I’m sorry if “some people” were offended
5. The media loves to label GOP as “racists”
6. Fu*k it. I said it, I meant it.— Dolorous Ed 🇺🇦 ✊🏻 (@dolorous_ed) March 23, 2022
re: #103 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Kinda lost me at the end. Could you explain the Call to Biden bit?
I’d assume a bit of sarcasm, because I don’t think Joe’s rarin’ to help out our buddy VVP, if I’ll be frank.
re: #132 Backwoods_Sleuth
this awful person…
Republicans are terrible people. Ronna here changed her name to please a narcissistic sociopath who went on to attempt a coup when we rejected the pathetic loser.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) March 23, 2022
Russian Ministry of Defense spokesman denies that any Russian military vehicles have been captured by Ukrainian farmers. pic.twitter.com/6eLZyzUVrj
— KT CounterIntelligence (@KremlinTrolls) March 23, 2022
re: #123 Dangerman
And then the the rate plummets and your governmental budget is in the shitter
Proving that government cannot function, the sole republican goal.
re: #123 Dangerman
And then the the rate plummets and your governmental budget is in the shitter
Normally I’d expect a recipient to immediately sell the commodity for cash, but this is Florida.
I’m sure it was an accident.
Two Russian soldiers were heard venting about Putin’s “bullshit” war against Ukraine in an intercepted phone call, as devastating losses reportedly led one soldier to drive over his colonel with a tank. “Basically, it’s a shitshow here, I’ll put it that way,” one of them said.
— Jon Cooper (@joncoopertweets) March 23, 2022
re: #132 Backwoods_Sleuth
this awful person…
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I guess it’s just open season on transgender women right now. Someone’s going to get killed—oh wait, it’s already happening. It’s just going to get worse.
re: #140 Punish Domestic Terrorists
GOP are the ones who’d want to police bathrooms and check kids to see whether they’re male or female. GOP are the ones who’d deny health care to women. They’re the ones out to eliminate access to contraception.
They’re the ones who want to end the right to privacy.
So Ronna and the GOP could go fuck themselves with a rusty pitchfork sideways (and not have access to tetanus boosters).
BREAKING: Officials announce that they pulled ex-Trump campaign Chairman Paul Manafort from a plane and revoked his passport as he tried to flee to Dubai after the US Senate declared him “a grave national security threat” over his Russian ties. RT IF YOU’RE GLAD THEY STOPPED HIM!
— Occupy Democrats (@OccupyDemocrats) March 23, 2022
Thinks I had on my “No one would read a fiction book with this in it because it sounds to stupid” - (Sadly I have to include Trump’s election was on that list as well.)
Russians having crappy cold weather gear.. I mean.. laughable right?
Second source:
Even now, he was going to pitch work. “Listen, Igor…Don’s coming back, and you’ll need help navigating the new DC…” https://t.co/IMqGu1HwgC
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) March 23, 2022
“…he has heart problems, an acquaintance of the minister told the newspaper.” https://t.co/Ry3eX9h7bp
— Jon Fasman (@jonfasman) March 23, 2022
So, grain of salt and all, but um. Shoigu was one of the few of Putin’s inner circle that cooked up this shitshow.
Officials with Miami-Dade police confirmed that Manafort was denied travel by the Customs and Bureau Protection at Miami International Airport. Police said he could not take the flight and his U.S. Passport was revoked. https://t.co/fMfuaS0Vih
— Eugene Wilkie (@ResusCGMedia) March 23, 2022
re: #149 Kilroy was here
Thinks I had on my “No one would read a fiction book with this in it because it sounds to stupid” - (Sadly I have to include Trump’s election was on that list as well.)
Russian’s having crappy cold weather gear.. I mean.. laughable right?
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Because if they ever had good cold weather gear, it was sold.
re: #139 ericblair
I’d assume a bit of sarcasm, because I don’t think Joe’s rarin’ to help out our buddy VVP, if I’ll be frank.
That was my thought, too.
re: #142 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Proving that government cannot function, the sole republican goal.
The sole Republican goal is to concentrate power in their hands. Collapsing the government removes the check on their power.
Putin could plausibly be nominated for the Nobel. Name another leader of a major power who has done so much to disarm.
Weather radio just popped off with a tornado warning.
???
Look out window, clear sky, bright day.
Radio then goes into “this is a practice tornado warning. All listeners should practice their tornado plans.”
re: #146 mmmirele
I guess it’s just open season on transgender women right now. Someone’s going to get killed—oh wait, it’s already happening. It’s just going to get worse.
This is what I fear the longer this shit goes on. The Idaho Leg would probably be more than happy to pass legislation green lighting our summary execution if they though they could get away with it.
re: #123 Dangerman
And then the the rate plummets and your governmental budget is in the shitter
Looks like a set up for rich cronies to get out of any position in crypto that they got into at the state’s expense. Are there any details on what the state will set the $/crypto exchange rate at?
LOl
re: #152 darthstar
I predicted some months ago people close to Agolf Twittler would attempt to flee the country as the dragnet tightened.
He was headed to Dubai. Conveniently, there is no extradition treaty between the UAE and USA, and Dubai is one of the places Russia’s oligarchs are fleeing to.
Kentucky Republican lying that their latest anti-abortion bill is actually about “protecting women’s health.”
Tate repeats that HB3 is a bill that protects the health of women, “to ensure that while abortions are legal in KY, we want them to be as safe as possible.”
— Alex Acquisto (@AcquistoA) March 23, 2022
re: #149 Kilroy was here
Nope. Entirely predictable. Russia’s military was large, but not particularly skilled in key functions - logistics and preparation. Russia’s got modern gear, but not in large numbers. Russia’s got high tech weapons, but not in large numbers.
What we’re seeing is that Russia’s military is a paper tiger, but when it faces resistance from a military that’s semi competent or better, it faces stiff resistance, and conscripts show lack of training, lack of tactics, and commanders are ill-equipped to shift tactics to address problems.
Low pay. Low morale. Poor gear condition. Poor equipment choices. Poor manpower choices. Everything has consequences.
Putin went to war with the military he thought he had, and it was Putin who threw his people into a meat grinder.
Was he lied to? Did he lie to himself (after skimming money meant for the military)? Will he mete out punishments to everyone in the supply chain because of his own failures? On that, it’s all but certain. Eliminate any possible opposition.
re: #142 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Proving that government cannot function, the sole republican goal.
down in one!
re: #76 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Flavius Stilicho a bit of a historical example of same.
Heh.
IIRC, Emperor Honorius’ jealousy of Stilicho’s influence and popularity led him to try to eliminate him: but no one wanted to have to front for the assassination plot. So Honorius simply invited the general to the palace, and when they met for their conference, pulled out a sword and slew Stilicho himself.
The contemporary equivalent, I suppose, would be Putin announcing a photo-op, and then pulling out a pistol and shooting a scapegoat general on live TV. Which the more I think about it, seems less and less of a far-fetched scenario…
re: #206 dat_said
Grand Gateway Motel backpedaling really fast with a “that was my crazy mom” statement and not management.
The entire staff at a hotel bar has quit, groups are planning a protest and lawsuit, and community leaders are speaking out after a Rapid City hotel owner called for a ban on Native American guests.https://t.co/5oDh4jUFa1
— SDPB News (@SDPBNews) March 23, 2022
I guess the hasty backpedaling and $59 a night room offer was not enough to avoid consequences.
re: #161 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I predicted some months ago people close to Agolf Twittler would attempt to flee the country as the dragnet tightened.
He was headed to Dubai. Conveniently, there is no extradition treaty between the UAE and USA, and Dubai is one of the places Russia’s oligarchs are fleeing to.
insert TFG’s comment about taking the fifth here. seems apropos.
re: #162 No Malarkey!
Kentucky Republican lying that their latest anti-abortion bill is actually about “protecting women’s health.”
Context, Alex.
Tate repeats the lie that HB3 is a bill that protects the health of women, “to ensure that while abortions are legal in KY, we want them to be as safe as possible.”
“I’m not an attorney. I watch Law & Order from time to time.”
Senator Tillis said this while questioning the most qualified Supreme Court nominee in history.— Lawrence O’Donnell (@Lawrence) March 23, 2022
I’m going to do my tornado drill. It’s way past my bedtime, so I’m off to do a blanket dive.
Catch y’all another time.
We live in their heads rent free.
Did Joe Biden have Ketanji Brown Jackson examined by a medical professional so he was sure he nominated a woman, per his campaign promise?
— Michael Quinn Sullivan🇺🇸 (@MQSullivan) March 23, 2022
re: #168 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Context, Alex.
doesnt change anything about the procedures at all re “we want them to be as safe as possible.”
it’s all about access (or lack of)
Actor Brian Blessed OBE will compere a short run of special live shows to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Mike Oldfield’s groundbreaking 1973 debut album Tubular Bells later this year,The actor, who also acted as compere and narrator at Rick Wakeman’s Six Wives Of Henry VIII shows at Hampton Court back in 2009, will also be performing the iconic parts of the Master of Ceremonies and The Caveman for the piece, which will be performed in its entirety by the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, conducted by Simon Dobson and with band and singers from the London Contemporary Voices Choir and Ellis Shaw.
The iconic album will be played in full, as well as Ommadawn Part 1 and Hergest Ridge Part 1. Mike Oldfield will not be performing.
Brian Blessed to MC Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells at new live performance (LouderSound)
re: #169 lawhawk
So naturally they put him on the Judiciary committee.
re: #175 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!
So naturally they put him on the Judiciary committee.
The GOP having the unqualified vet the qualified is a feature, not a bug.
re: #171 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
We live in their heads rent free.
You’re telling us that you’re dysfunctional. It’s embarrassing for you, but reactionaries lack the ability to sense when they’re embarrassed.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) March 23, 2022
re: #174 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Brian Blessed to MC Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells at new live performance (LouderSound)
I first saw him as Augustus in I, Claudius, channel 13 new york PBS in the 70’s
Sen. @Ossoff: “You, in opinion…made the observation that ‘presidents are not kings.’ What does that mean?”
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson: “The Separation of Powers is crucial to liberty. It is what our country is founded on.” pic.twitter.com/cEFvONoiY7— CSPAN (@cspan) March 23, 2022
re: #178 Dangerman
I first saw him as Augustus in I, Claudius, channel 13 new york PBS in the 70’s
I think it was Blake’s 7 for me. I met him at a convention in Oakbrook, IL many years ago. The voice is even more impressive in-person.
“These charges don’t hold up.”
.@SenatorDurbin on Sen. @JohnCornyn’s ‘war criminals’ line of questioning from yesterday. pic.twitter.com/OIw30HwJ2q— CSPAN (@cspan) March 23, 2022
re: #110 Belafon
*fibro-inflammation in heart (9%), pancreas (9%), kidney (15%) & liver (11%)
*increased volume in liver (7%), spleen (8%) & kidney (9%)
*decreased capacity in lungs (2%)
*excessive fat deposition in liver (25%) & pancreas (15%)
2/— Hannah Davis (@ahandvanish) March 22, 2022
I haven’t had time to really dive into the paper. There is a chance that this is just uncovering what was already underlying but hidden.
I personally think it created and exacerbated some pretty serious dysfunction. I’ve had a number of conversations with some of my work colleagues (implanted medical devices - pacemakers, ICD, CRT, spinal cord stim, deep brain stim) about how damage like this will show up in the long term.
re: #145 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
And a Southern Idaho good morning to the Lizard family.
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Now you’re talkin’!
Former Trump adviser Paul Manafort was removed from a plane at Miami International Airport before it took off for Dubai because he carried a revoked passport. https://t.co/nqiPZt5Sqh
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 23, 2022
This happened on Sunday night, and we’re just now finding out about it?
I wonder how authorities/the airline figured out his passport had been revoked. I don’t know how the back end verification of passports works. Perhaps it was hasty, as in “after he bought his ticket and boarded the plane, but before the plane took off?” Anyone know?
Totally glossed over the detail.
Every Republican voted to nuke the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees.
The result is that now it only takes 51 votes to confirm Jackson, not 60.— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) March 23, 2022
“My parents grew up in Florida under lawful segregation,” Jackson tells Sen. Leahy.
“What that means is that when they were coming through middle school and high school, they were not allowed to go to school with white students.”
Her parents in the audience, listening: pic.twitter.com/NtNHkPQxW8— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) March 23, 2022
Looks like sensible people will be able to protect all of their children in the near future, leaving only the very sick and the delusional vulnerable to the disease.
Moderna says its Covid-19 vaccine performs as well in children as it does in adults (CNN)
Hey, @judicialnetwork, @Politifact just issued a real factcheck on Sen. Blackburn’s attacks on #KBJ re CRT (https://t.co/BvUqnwnnmu), unlike your totally fake rip-off of @Poynter’s trademarked image in your attempted smear of @SenWhitehouse. When are you going to remove it? #liar https://t.co/akUAcEdr8f
— Lisa Graves (@thelisagraves) March 23, 2022
Imagine how aggressive the GOP will be the first time a Transgender person is nominated to SCOTUS.
Today KBJ is proving herself to be not just superb at showing grace and brilliance under pressure — and smart at avoiding saying too much — but a marvelous teacher at heart. She is finally getting a chance to show why she will be a truly great Supreme Court Justice.
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) March 23, 2022
The GOP elevated a well known sexual predator to the top of it’s party. A man who fetishized his own daughter and owned a contest to find the the hottest teen in USA. Don’t believe their attempts to misdirect, never have a group of (mostly) men so lacked morality. @GOP
— NoelCaslerComedy (@caslernoel) March 23, 2022
re: #174 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Brian Blessed to MC Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells at new live performance (LouderSound)
I understand he is a rude, overbearing jerk in person but an entirely entertaining actor and TV personality.
Ossoff is *so close* to asking about Jan 6 and I just want him to GO FOR IT.
He’s the most junior and I wonder if someone told him not to so he’s dancing around like this.— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) March 23, 2022
He might do the ‘aww shucks I just can’t understand” thing… but if he’s paying attention he’s GETTING HIS ANSWERS right now. He’s just not getting it in the spoon fed, dumbed down way he wanted.
— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) March 23, 2022
If Ossoff gets gets reelected enough, he’s going to be the chair of this committee someday.
I mean… to the extent that Marcus Licinius Crassus Trump allows us to have judiciary committees in the future.— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) March 23, 2022
re: #186 Backwoods_Sleuth
“My parents grew up in Florida under lawful segregation,” Jackson tells Sen. Leahy.
“What that means is that when they were coming through middle school and high school, they were not allowed to go to school with white students.”
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is Critical Race Theory in a nutshell: a study of the history, nature and ongoing effects of institutionalized racism in America.
re: #194 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is Critical Race Theory in a nutshell: discussing the history, nature and ongoing effects of institutionalized racism in America.
Or is this CRT?
COLBY: CRT means all whites are racist! So I support teaching it in schools
D: That’s not what it means
C: I also cannot distinguish acknowledgment of LGBT existence from sexually explicit material
D: WTF is wrong with you
C: Here is a DVD of “Heather Has 2 Mommies and 1 Cup”— Dreamweasel (@Dreamweasel) March 23, 2022
“We’re afraid #19 has escaped, sir.” pic.twitter.com/Q73e5cgfsL
— Uncle Duke (@UncleDuke1969) March 23, 2022
re: #184 mmmirele
This happened on Sunday night, and we’re just now finding out about it?
I wonder how authorities/the airline figured out his passport had been revoked. I don’t know how the back end verification of passports works. Perhaps it was hasty, as in “after he bought his ticket and boarded the plane, but before the plane took off?” Anyone know?
How was he even allowed to board? When I travel internationally, they scan my passport at least twice (actually, three times if you count the TSA check) and that’s before you’re anywhere near the airplane.
SOROS! Take a drink pic.twitter.com/GVmf6D272X
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 23, 2022
If Supreme Court Justices didn’t insist that you can’t have their seat until you pry it from their cold, dead hands, I wouldn’t have to hope that Thomas dies of what is definitely not covid, nosireebob.
Its probably “pneumonia” https://t.co/Rq5EsfFrfK
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) March 23, 2022
re: #169 lawhawk
I thought that members of the Senate Judiciary Committee would all be attorneys. Certainly the GOP has more than enough Senators with those credentials to staff the committee.
re: #63 Belafon
They found one of the black boxes from the Chinese plane.
There’s dashcam video of that crash - looks to be going down at about a 60 degree angle.
I honestly can’t help but wonder if that was a pilot murder-suicide. It’s thankfully exceedingly rare….but it does happen.
re: #199 No Malarkey!
If Supreme Court Justices didn’t insist that you can’t have their seat until you pry it from their cold, dead hands, I wouldn’t have to hope that Thomas dies of what is definitely not covid, nosireebob.
Oooh…I feel a Herman Cain award coming on.
re: #198 Backwoods_Sleuth
Geez, Aaron, it’s 11:50 in the morning. We’ll be drunk by lunch.
— TheBadNewsB (@TheBadNewsB) March 23, 2022
re: #199 No Malarkey!
If Supreme Court Justices didn’t insist that you can’t have their seat until you pry it from their cold, dead hands, I wouldn’t have to hope that Thomas dies of what is definitely not covid, nosireebob.
*deleted* I want to keep my account here.
re: #200 Hecuba’s daughter
I thought that members of the Senate Judiciary Committee would all be attorneys. Certainly the GOP has more than enough Senators with those credentials to staff the committee.
No requirement.
There’s no requirement that a member of the Supreme Court be a lawyer either. Or a judge prior to nomination.
And it’s clear that a bunch of the people who claim to be lawyers/went to law school - don’t know the first thing about the jurisprudence they’re questioning about - especially the GOPers. Because they’re not even understanding the responses.
Brown Jackson is giving lessons on the law for anyone paying attention. The GOP doesn’t care about the answers, since it’s their questions that they want Fox to sound bite. Her understanding of the law is impressive.
JFC, Mitch, STFU
Justices Ginsburg and Breyer had no problem defending the Court and slamming the door on partisan court-packing. Judge Jackson won’t follow their lead. She carefully keeps that door open and avoids answering the Committee plainly. I’m afraid that speaks volumes. pic.twitter.com/tYQBUbVcYv
— Leader McConnell (@LeaderMcConnell) March 23, 2022
Graham is now the sixth Republican senator to appeal to QAnon conspirators during this hearing.
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) March 23, 2022
Because this is all the GOP has left - smear campaigns. They have nothing on her. They can’t oppose her nomination on the merits, so they’re spewing all kinds of crap knowing the base wont care about the details/reality.
Lindsey Graham is once against suggesting that Democrats are racist because they opposed the nomination of Janice Rogers Brown, who is Black.
Democrats opposed Brown because she called the New Deal “our socialist revolution” and because she believes Lochner was correct.— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) March 23, 2022
re: #195 No Malarkey!
Or is this CRT?
CRT is teaching white Southerners to feel bad about the fact that their plantation-owning ancestors were too lazy to do the hard work themselves and too cheap to pay people a decent wage for the hard work, so they took to purchasing hostages and forcing them into hereditary bondage to keep their plantations up and running.
That would hurt their fee-fees so bad, they had been taught it was all Rhett and Scarlett and Twelveoaks and happy slaves out on the back porch dancin’, playin’ banjos and thankin’ their masters for teachin’ them about Jesus.
re: #206 Backwoods_Sleuth
There’s one person who has actively changed the size of the Court to further a partisan agenda.
That’s Mitch McConnell. He shrank SCOTUS by denying Garland a hearing or vote on his nomination. Now he’s bitching about how a justice acts? McConnell can fornicate with himself.— lawhawk #vaxxedforfamilyandcommunity (@lawhawk) March 23, 2022
re: #197 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
How was he even allowed to board? When I travel internationally, they scan my passport at least twice (actually, three times if you count the TSA check) and that’s before you’re anywhere near the airplane.
There’s some speculation that he was allowed to board because a case is building to show that he was fleeing the USA to the UAE where we have no extradition treaty for because he’s under investigation/about to be charged with some underlying criminal thing that isn’t covered by his pardon.
“Two humpback whales were entangled in crab fishing gear in Monterey Bay and near Half Moon Bay, which will likely prompt the closure of the Dungeness crab commercial fishing season from Sonoma County south.”
By @taraduggan https://t.co/vEcZ2HxhIr— Demian Bulwa (@demianbulwa) March 23, 2022
re: #199 No Malarkey!
If Supreme Court Justices didn’t insist that you can’t have their seat until you pry it from their cold, dead hands, I wouldn’t have to hope that Thomas dies of what is definitely not covid, nosireebob.
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There’s a whole lot more that can go wrong with a 73 year old man than just COVID, and I think a lot of people here unfortunately know what can mean when a senior starts getting serious infections.
And yes, if you are determined to keep your powerful post with unchecked authority until the day you die, a lot of people who don’t like what you do are going to be very interested in your medical state and cheering on viruses, bacteria, and blood clots. Don’t like it, retire.
Biden warns business leaders to prepare for Russian cyber attacks
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While the Biden administration has been warning the nation of the prospect of cyber attacks by Russia for months, most recently as a response to the economic restrictions imposed on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, the President’s statement suggests “evolving intelligence” has heightened the threat.
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The InfoSec people where I work say “This is unprecedented level of communication and warning.”
re: #173 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
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New digs near Pittsburgh! Floof Cat has inspected and approved. She especially appears to like the deck to watch things and the lack of neighbor cats chasing her.
Had to sign in, literally just to upding Die Floofer Cat.
re: #211 lawhawk
Hey Mitch, the Court should not have an opinion on its own size. That is not their jurisdiction. The Constitution explicitly provides to Congress the ability to provision the Supreme Court. The justices that sit thereon have exactly zero to do with that. Their opinion doesn’t, and shouldn’t, matter.
And now we’re back to other black women.
Has anybody asked why @GOP didn’t nominated JANICE ROGERS BROWN to the Supreme Court instead of alleged attempted rapist Brett Kavanaugh?
Or is that not something we’re allowed to ask them.— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) March 23, 2022
Lindsey Graham, who as a Senator could support laws to more directly address child pornography online… has instead decided to scream at Judge Jackson about child pornography
— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) March 23, 2022
Graham is now blowing by his time, Durbin tried to stop him and he blew by… WILL SOME SENATE DEMOCRAT SHOUT THIS FOOL DOWN
— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) March 23, 2022
re: #216 garzooma
The InfoSec people where I work say “This is unprecedented level of communication and warning.”
I bet most will blow it off and not take it seriously.
FEINSTEIN AND LEAHY are up there like bumps on a goddamn log. FUCKING TAKE THE FIELD AGAINST THIS MAN
— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) March 23, 2022
“Senator, I’m not sure, I don’t understand the context of the question” — Judge Jackson to Lindsey Graham as he tries to craft another clip for Hannity by whining about Kavanaugh
“Senator, she’s had nothing to do with the Kavanaugh hearing,” Durbin interjects pic.twitter.com/BFeeNJHWFe— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 23, 2022
re: #199 No Malarkey!
If Supreme Court Justices didn’t insist that you can’t have their seat until you pry it from their cold, dead hands, I wouldn’t have to hope that Thomas dies of what is definitely not covid, nosireebob.
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If Trump were still President, Thomas might have considered leaving early. But not with Biden as President.
re: #199 No Malarkey!
If Supreme Court Justices didn’t insist that you can’t have their seat until you pry it from their cold, dead hands, I wouldn’t have to hope that Thomas dies of what is definitely not covid, nosireebob.
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Was Clarence hanging around with the guys from the Coughing Convoy?
re: #221 Backwoods_Sleuth
It’s important to remember that this is all a carefully crafted campaign to get sound bites on Faux News, Newsmax, OANN, and other right-wing outlets, to confirm to the Republican base that Lindsey Graham is a good soldier in the culture wars and that he hates Black people as much as they do.
Man, that’s weird. Old white man has probably never cut off a smart educated black woman before so he didn’t have to listen to her answer a question HE asked. https://t.co/F5Wd5U7aGb
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) March 23, 2022
re: #224 b.d
Was Clarence hanging around with the guys from the Coughing Convoy?
There’s a better chance it was Ginny. We kept warning them about taking ‘rona home to compromised loved ones. (we need a speculating wildly tag)
Graham now asks if a fetus can feel pain and if illegal immigrants should be able to vote so basically on brand 5000%
— Jessica Mason Pieklo (@Hegemommy) March 23, 2022
They just can’t bait her and it’s driving them nuts
— Jessica Mason Pieklo (@Hegemommy) March 23, 2022
re: #141 darthstar
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Same basic physical posture Bagdad Bob used when assuring that “all is well”.
re: #226 Backwoods_Sleuth
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She should sit there an not answer when Graham talks, and when he finally asks why, she can say “We’re obviously not hear what I have to say, but what you have to say.”
I remember the Sotomayor hearings and how the GOP fixated on some comments she had made about “wise Latina women” to set up the media association of “Sotomayor = Racist”.
Lindsay Graham’s questions should not be allowed…from his first blatantly illegal “What faith are you?” to his appalling attempt to classify as The Honorable Judge as pro child pornography.
— Ellen Barkin (@EllenBarkin) March 23, 2022
This looks….wonderfully disturbing.
Remember Durbin was promoted to Chair because Feinstein wasn’t considered strong enough anymore to run hearings like this. https://t.co/8lJsHr0JSw
— Lawrence O’Donnell (@Lawrence) March 23, 2022
re: #200 Hecuba’s daughter
I thought that members of the Senate Judiciary Committee would all be attorneys. Certainly the GOP has more than enough Senators with those credentials to staff the committee.
They don’t want attorneys, they want reactionaries…of which they have an over abundance.
re: #201 Dr Lizardo
There’s dashcam video of that crash - looks to be going down at about a 60 degree angle.
I honestly can’t help but wonder if that was a pilot murder-suicide. It’s thankfully exceedingly rare….but it does happen.
That was my thought, as well.
do these guys not realize how pathetic this sounds? https://t.co/ty8TGTDPMQ
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 23, 2022
re: #236 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
They don’t want attorneys, they want reactionaries…of which they have an over abundance.
See, in general, the Federalist Society.
I’d find Lindsey Graham’s claim that he wants to throw the book at sex offenders more credible if he didn’t vote to put an attempted rapist on the Supreme Court.
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) March 23, 2022
re: #237 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
That was my thought, as well.
The first video released made it look like the plane went straight nose-down into the ground, but that dashcam video revealed an angle. Unfortunately, in both examples, the video isn’t clear enough to see if there was some kind of obvious airframe structural failure.
Reminds me of the PSA #1771 crash - the plane was piloted at a very steep angle straight into a hillside. A fired PSA employee hijacked the plane, shot the pilots, then flew it right into the ground in a murder-suicide.
re: #241 Backwoods_Sleuth
I love Ian. If I wasn’t married, I would stalk him. Talk, I meant Talk!
(Did I just say that out loud? Hmmm.)
re: #242 Dr Lizardo
The first video released made it look like the plane went straight nose-down into the ground, but that dashcam video revealed an angle. Unfortunately, in both examples, the video isn’t clear enough to see if there was some kind of obvious airframe structural failure.
Reminds me of the PSA #1771 crash - the plane was piloted at a very steep angle straight into a hillside. A fired PSA employee hijacked the plane, shot the pilots, then flew it right into the ground in a murder-suicide.
YIKES! I don’t recall that. I remember the FedEx one with a disgruntled employee, but that landed safely.
re: #166 dat_said
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I guess the hasty backpedaling and $59 a night room offer was not enough to avoid consequences.
The entire staff at a hotel bar has quit, groups are planning a protest and lawsuit, and community leaders are speaking out after a Rapid City hotel owner called for a ban on Native American guests.https://t.co/5oDh4jUFa1
— SDPB News (@SDPBNews) March 23, 2022
Batshit yokel gentry, without a doubt. This country is infested with morons who have great influence and privilege within limited areas simply because they inherited income producing property of some kind. Sometimes I believe it is the central fact of American political life, since these people are the real heart and soul of the Republican Party.
re: #173 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
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New digs near Pittsburgh! Floof Cat has inspected and approved. She especially appears to like the deck to watch things and the lack of neighbor cats chasing her.
Come north one day (I am between Pittsburgh and Erie on Ohio line) for a visit. Bunny and Fred would greet your cat with open paws. Well maybe not, but it could be interesting.
re: #242 Dr Lizardo
Yup, that one and the FedEx one were nasty. When I first started at the airlines, I could easily and legally bypass the metal detectors if I wanted to catch a flight. That all changed, thankfully.
re: #131 darthstar
Well, this certainly won’t help the situation…
And the 🇿 authorities still wonder why opinion is turning against them? 🤔
re: #133 Dangerman
The One weird trick defense contractors don’t want you to know.
how to build an instant navy
Stole that one, except defence contractors became “the military-industrial complex”.
re: #196 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Well I bet the virus and the cats are planning to kill that person.
re: #246 Eventual Carrion
Come north one day (I am between Pittsburgh and Erie on Ohio line) for a visit. Bunny and Fred would greet your cat with open paws. Well maybe not, but it could be interesting.
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re: #248 TedStriker
Otherwise known as the Max Von Sydow Show…
;-P
Leads were pretty awful but it did allow Von Sydow, Blessed, and Topol to chew on the scenery.
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