As Ben Franklin said years ago to a passerby “Creating a Republic, if you can keep it.”
CL’ed. Really miss her.
re: #3 A Cranky One
I’ve mentioned before, my late grandmother leased a rotary phone from the phone company until she died in 2008. After her passing, my mom and sister tried to reclaim the phone from the phone company, to no avail. It was a beautiful relic from another era.
DO IT HUNTER! DO IT!
Lawyers for Hunter Biden plan to sue Fox News ‘imminently’
A letter obtained by NBC News says action is pending because of Fox’s alleged “conspiracy and subsequent actions to defame Mr. Biden and paint him in a false light.”
Lawyers for Hunter Biden plan to sue Fox News “imminently,” according to a letter sent to the network and obtained by NBC News.
The letter, dated April 23, puts the Fox News Channel and Fox News Digital on notice for litigation claims arising from the network’s alleged “conspiracy and subsequent actions to defame Mr. Biden and paint him in a false light, the unlicensed commercial exploitation of his image, name, and likeness, and the unlawful publication of hacked intimate images of him.”
Biden has hired attorney Mark Geragos and his firm to represent him in the Fox litigation efforts. The letter is the second outreach to Fox this month. An earlier letter was hand-delivered to Fox’s counsel two weeks ago, and the network asked for more time to respond, according to a source familiar with Biden’s legal efforts. The network has not yet responded to the letter sent April 23, which included a Friday evening, April 26, deadline to respond, according to Geragos. The letter is signed by Tina Glandian, a partner at Geragos & Geragos working on the case.
Fox News did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The new threat of litigation comes almost a year after Fox News agreed to pay almost $800 million to Dominion Voting Systems to settle defamation claims related to Fox’s airing of election fraud claims in the 2020 election. Fox News also agreed to a $12 million settlement with a former employee who alleged she was pressured to provide misleading information as part of the Dominion case.
Fox is currently facing a $2.7 billion lawsuit brought by Smartmatic, another voting system company that was the focus of Fox News coverage, as well as suits brought by shareholders against directors of the company for allowing the channel to air the allegations during its 2020 election coverage. Fox said in its latest financial disclosures that it will contest the lawsuits, but acknowledges that there could be a “material” adverse impact on the company’s business and financial position.
re: #6 Joe Bacon ✅
DO IT HUNTER! DO IT!
Lawyers for Hunter Biden plan to sue Fox News ‘imminently’
A letter obtained by NBC News says action is pending because of Fox’s alleged “conspiracy and subsequent actions to defame Mr. Biden and paint him in a false light.”
Lawyers for Hunter Biden plan to sue Fox News “imminently,” according to a letter sent to the network and obtained by NBC News.
The letter, dated April 23, puts the Fox News Channel and Fox News Digital on notice for litigation claims arising from the network’s alleged “conspiracy and subsequent actions to defame Mr. Biden and paint him in a false light, the unlicensed commercial exploitation of his image, name, and likeness, and the unlawful publication of hacked intimate images of him.”
Biden has hired attorney Mark Geragos and his firm to represent him in the Fox litigation efforts. The letter is the second outreach to Fox this month. An earlier letter was hand-delivered to Fox’s counsel two weeks ago, and the network asked for more time to respond, according to a source familiar with Biden’s legal efforts. The network has not yet responded to the letter sent April 23, which included a Friday evening, April 26, deadline to respond, according to Geragos. The letter is signed by Tina Glandian, a partner at Geragos & Geragos working on the case.
Fox News did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The new threat of litigation comes almost a year after Fox News agreed to pay almost $800 million to Dominion Voting Systems to settle defamation claims related to Fox’s airing of election fraud claims in the 2020 election. Fox News also agreed to a $12 million settlement with a former employee who alleged she was pressured to provide misleading information as part of the Dominion case.
Fox is currently facing a $2.7 billion lawsuit brought by Smartmatic, another voting system company that was the focus of Fox News coverage, as well as suits brought by shareholders against directors of the company for allowing the channel to air the allegations during its 2020 election coverage. Fox said in its latest financial disclosures that it will contest the lawsuits, but acknowledges that there could be a “material” adverse impact on the company’s business and financial position.
I said downstairs, and I cribbed it
hilarious if he made more money off of Fox News than any of his supposed “schemes” in Ukraine or China.
I have some old sales brochures from AT&T/Bell that show old phones and the expected new generation (including video phones).
Interesting to see how things have evolved from those early predictions. No clunky CRT for video, systems are insanely more compact, etc.
I’ll admit it was fun testing the latest prototypes of cell phones and services. Well, except the time I broke a $30,000 prototype Nokia phone. Oops.
One side effect is that after spending years designing/testing bleeding edge tech, I have no desire to have the latest and greatest phones. Had my fill of playing with the latest tech.
OOPS! she changed her mind again!
Kari Lake Removed “Pro-Life” from Her Campaign Webpage
…or did she?????
Hundreds of Columbia anti-Israel protesters defied the 2 p.m. deadline to vacate the campus tent camp as it expired on Monday — and vowed the stay and even escalate their actions against the university.It was not immediately clear if the Ivy League school would once against call in the NYPD to remove students from the $90,000-per-year campus.
About 200 students encircled the tent camp, while some remained in it and all of them chanted anti-Israel and anti-Columbia slogans. Outside the school gates in Morningside Heights, dozens of anti-Israel protesters rallied and chanted “globalize the intifada” as the deadline ticked down.
At some point you almost expect his lawyers to state that Trump is just a “Free President traveling the land” and submit a bunch of bunk paperwork with his name in lower case.
UT cops currently strategizing how to address student protesters. They are discussing “where to push them.”
If UTPD and Hartzell had the brains God gave a goose, they’d just ignore this. Instead they appear to be gearing up for a repeat of Wednesday’s shitshow
I put a really nice Bluetooth stereo in Mrs Cranky’s sewing room. She’s upstairs quilting and listening to music. It seems to be an all Beatles channel.
Blast from the past.
And Mrs Cranky is singing up a storm. Really happy she’s feeling good. But just between us, she really can’t sing. And the truth is, I can’t tolerate a lot of singers because, dammit, they can’t sing on key.
Ah, married life.
@susanschorn.bsky.social
DPS mulling their options.
Was there an elementary school shooting? They’re just standing around.
Cute! But I hope they don’t do a dance routine!
Sing her a song, you’re the piano man!
Billy Joel serenaded ex-wife Christie Brinkley during a concert on Friday at Madison Square Garden, where the musician has long had a popular residency.
A video posted to TikTok showed the model, 70, smiling and dancing along to “Uptown Girl” — up on the jumbotron, for all to see — as Joel sang the hit 1983 song that will be forever associated with Brinkley.
An anonymous group has funded and constructed a giant screen with loudspeakers outside the @UCLA Pro-Hamas Encampments showing footage of the October 7 Massacre on loop.
Bravo to these geniuses. #StandWithIsrael pic.twitter.com/t6bl12gvxl— The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) April 29, 2024
i’ve been testing the trough for the last week. it’s watertight. no leaks.
saturday we moved it into place.
originally it was gonna be integral with the other cross-rails
but it’s 16 feet long and developed a wicked warp
(im not really much of a woodworker)
plus it wouldnt have been high enough for gravity to facilitate the return water flow
so instead i’ll put the rails back and the trough will sit behind it like a window box, peeking up about 3 inches.
here’s the before
and the temporary after
i kludged up the plumbing so we can play with the flow to get it just right
the inflow pipe coming out of the filter tower on the right will run through a piece of bamboo. to hide it and it’ll look cool
the return pipe on the left you can just see at the bottom of the tall post will be buried and empty out over a spillway rock at the pond edge
More to come
re: #4 Nerdy Fish
I’ve mentioned before, my late grandmother leased a rotary phone from the phone company until she died in 2008. After her passing, my mom and sister tried to reclaim the phone from the phone company, to no avail. It was a beautiful relic from another era.
And you could get one in any color you liked, as long as it was black.
re: #14 jaunte
@susanschorn.bsky.social
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they getting ready to dance?
I will never understand how a threat can be serious enough to trigger a call for state troopers, but not a text or e-mail to the community.
At UT Austin, dozens of Texas state troopers are back on campus, ordering protestors to disperse (via Lily Kepner, Austin American-Statesman)
re: #22 jaunte
This is the massive disruption at UT that state troopers have been called in to disperse.
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The stormtroopers are the problem rather than the rebels.
re: #21 jaunte
That police officer up front in the first photo looks like he wants to break in that nightstick.
re: #22 jaunte
This is the massive disruption at UT that state troopers have been called in to disperse.
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What a bloody inconvenience. I will be forever scarred by this experience. My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.
re: #23 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
The stormtroopers are the problem rather than the rebels.
That’s the realization that makes demonstrations work.
re: #26 Nerdy Fish
I’m not sure why media celebrities are falling over themselves to promote the idea of campuses in chaos (hello, Morning Joe).
This is a tiny group, especially when compared to the total student population at UT Austin. It’s absurd to bring in state troopers to disperse a peaceful group of this size.
re: #29 jaunte
I’m not sure why media celebrities are falling over themselves to promote the idea of campuses in chaos (hello, Morning Joe).
Give the cops time. It bleeds, it leads.
re: #13 A Cranky One
And Mrs Cranky is singing up a storm. Really happy she’s feeling good. But just between us, she really can’t sing. And the truth is, I can’t tolerate a lot of singers because, dammit, they can’t sing on key.
Ah, married life.
Sigh. For the first several years of my retirement I listened to music on earphones whilst mowing the miles of fairway on my private disc golf courses. I truly enjoyed singing along very loudly to Bruce, Wilburys, Petty, et cetera. I figured that the noise from the mower kept anyone else from hearing my loud singing and it was good lung exercise.
Sadly, a couple of years ago my wife informed me that, no, it is not true that others can’t hear me and that she could hear my strangled sounds over the mower from at least 800’ away through trees, sometimes further!
I miss my loud singing.
re: #6 Joe Bacon ✅
Biden has hired attorney Mark Geragos and his firm to represent him in the Fox litigation efforts. The letter is the second outreach to Fox this month. An earlier letter was hand-delivered to Fox’s counsel two weeks ago, and the network asked for more time to respond, according to a source familiar with Biden’s legal efforts. The network has not yet responded to the letter sent April 23, which included a Friday evening, April 26, deadline to respond, according to Geragos. The letter is signed by Tina Glandian, a partner at Geragos & Geragos working on the case.
I’m not a Garages fan. Is that really the best he could get?
It should come to no one’s surprise, but Texas’ indicted felon Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit in his favorite handpicked courthouse to overturn Title IX regarding President Biden’s expansion announcement to cover federal protections for LGBTQ+ students. This very likely will come before the same judge who currently has a case in front of the US Supreme Court in an attempt to ban the drug mifepristone nationwide.
re: #36 Orange Impostor
It should come to no one’s surprise, but Texas’ indicted felon Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit in his favorite handpicked courthouse to overturn Title IX regarding President Biden’s expansion announcement to cover federal protections for LGBTQ+ students. This very likely will come before the same judge who currently has a case in front of the US Supreme Court in an attempt to ban the drug mifepristone nationwide.
The Republican AG association was part of the coup attempt.
truthout.org
re: #25 PhillyPretzel ✅
That police officer up front in the first photo looks like he wants to break in that nightstick.
Surprised that governor Hotwheels hasn’t called for the use of deadly force yet.
George Santos’s Newest Money Grab Is His Most Hypocritical Yet
The former congressman is reviving his drag queen persona.
re: #38 Orange Impostor
Surprised that governor Hotwheels hasn’t called for the use of deadly force yet.
wait? those protesters aren’t open carrying their AR-15s? My my I thought carrying your AR-15 in Texas was a Gawd-Given Right!
re: #6 Joe Bacon ✅
Tina Glandian Hmmph. She represented Andrew Tate and Jesse Smollett.
Meanwhile Sleazy E shows how he rewards employees who go the extra mile!
Tesla Lays Off Employee Who Slept In Car To Work Longer Hours
re: #42 Joe Bacon ✅
Meanwhile Sleazy E shows how he rewards employees who go the extra mile!
Tesla Lays Off Employee Who Slept In Car To Work Longer Hours
Many companies would get rid of an employee who sleeps in their car instead of going home.
re: #41 GlutenFreeJesus
Tina Glandian Hmmph. She represented Andrew Tate and Jesse Smollett.
And Mark Geragos represented Chris Brown, Michael Jackson and Scott Peterson.
re: #40 Joe Bacon ✅
wait? those protesters aren’t open carrying their AR-15s? My my I thought carrying your AR-15 in Texas was a Gawd-Given Right!
“The 2nd Amendment is to protect the people from the government” only applies to Conservatives, dummy. Didn’;t you know that?
re: #40 Joe Bacon ✅
wait? those protesters aren’t open carrying their AR-15s? My my I thought carrying your AR-15 in Texas was a Gawd-Given Right!
I’m sure Greg Abbott would react calmly to armed students.
expressnews.com
The quantity, prominence and tone of the reporting are creating the perception that a series of not-exceptional or unprecedented campus anti-war protests represent a crisis that requires intervention by administrators, police and politicians.
…….
I’m focused on the moral panic angle here. They’re always so dumb and destructive.
We are witnessing a picture-perfect example of a moral panic.
All the elements are there: The marginalized folk devil (Palestinians & their supporters); the stereotype (don’t care about Palestine, just want to kill Jews); the threat amplification by institutions, media & pols; and efforts to leverage that exaggerated threat into greater social control.
Not surprised at all.
Texas governor says state will ignore ‘illegal’ Biden Title IX revisions
re: #5 Dangerman
Operator, give me number 32Oooh, is that you, Myrt?
My husband, as a young man in the 1950s, moved to the town where I still live, and the phone system was quite a small one, with the operators in a second-floor office overlooking the town square. Anyone could call the operator, and ask if she had seen their husband-wife-hired man-the doctor-the vet. She would say, yes, I just saw him entering the hardware store; want me to ring him there? Charles loved that. We did use one of those heavy suitcase style telephones that were the first mobile units, which were really great in emergencies on the farm. And I couldn’t live without my smartphone in my pocket. But there is sure something special about calling the operator over the town square, and asking her to tell a husband to bring home an extra can of tomatoes!
“…A source close to [Gaza truce ] talks told the BBC they were cautiously optimistic.
The proposal includes a 40-day truce in return for the release of hostages and the prospect of displaced families being allowed back to northern Gaza.”
bbc.com
Jeff Bridges Returning for ‘Tron: Ares,’ Says De-Aged Character in ‘Tron: Legacy’ Looked ‘More Like Bill Maher Than Myself’Jeff Bridges is going back to the grid.
The 74-year-old actor told the Film Comment podcast (via The Playlist) that he is going to appear in “Tron: Ares,” the third film in the long-running sci-fi franchise that Bridges inaugurated with “Tron” in 1982 and reprised with “Tron: Legacy” in 2010. The new film stars Jared Leto as the titular character Ares, with Joachim Rønning (“Maleficent: Mistress of Evil”) directing from a script by Jesse Wigutow and Jack Thorne.
“I’m heading off this Saturday to play a part in the third installment of the ‘Tron’ story,” Bridges said. “Jared Leto is the star of this third one. I’m really anxious to work with him. I’ve admired his work.”
“Tron” is best known for pioneering the use of computer generated imagery, which was used to create the digital world of a video game after Bridges’ character, Kevin Flynn, is zapped inside one. In the sequel, Flynn is trapped inside a much more sophisticated version of the game by his digital double, Clu, who was also played by Bridges and digitally de-aged using CGI.
@susanschorn.bsky.social
APD now reinforcing dps. Several students have been violently dragged out of the peaceful. They treated one girl like a wishbone.
@susanschorn.bsky.social
APD just carried out an unconscious student.
@susanschorn.bsky.social
Students outside the circle are now jumping in to replace the arrested students
@susanschorn.bsky.social
Apart from the area the cops have turned into a warzone, UT campus is completely normal.
In terms the capitalists will understand: it’s really fucking hard to be productive when cops are brutalizing your fellow students on campus. If the university didn’t send the cops in, I wouldn’t have even known there was a protest.
re: #19 darthstar
Finally…
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I take it the Incelmobile only comes in gray. I’ve never seen it in any other color.
Uh oh!
OAN Retracts Article Regarding Michael Cohen Story About His Alleged Affair With Stormy Daniels And Extortion Plan
OAN today has retracted its March 27 article entitled “Whistleblower: Avenatti Alleged Cohen Daniels Affair Since 2006, Pre-2016 Trump Extortion Plan,” and is taking it down from all sites and removing it from all social media. This retraction is part of a settlement reached with Michael Cohen. Mr. Avenatti has denied making the allegations. OAN apologizes to Mr. Cohen for any harm the publication may have caused him.
NO PERSON SHOULD RELY ON THE MARCH 27 ARTICLE OR THE ALLEGATIONS CONTAINED THEREIN.
From the Horse’s Ass:
we fought medicare and we won
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This seems like it should be the final movie in a trilogy, but they say it’s the first.
Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson & Ralph Fiennes To Star In ‘28 Years Later’ For Danny Boyle And Sony Pictures
EXCLUSIVE: The new 28 Years Later trilogy from director Danny Boyle and Sony Pictures is gaining momentum, and some serious star power. Sources tell Deadline that Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Ralph Fiennes have boarded the first pic, a sequel to the original 28 Days Later.
Boyle is directing the first movie from a script by Alex Garland. Sony will release the film in theaters globally.
While plot details are vague, the original 28 Days Later in 2002 centered on a bicycle courier (played by Cillian Murphy) who wakes from a coma to discover the world had been overrun with zombies following the outbreak of a virus. The pic grossed more than $82 million worldwide and led to a 2007 sequel 28 Weeks Later, on which Boyle and Garland served solely as EPs.
Deadline recently broke the news that the studio has already tapped Candyman director Nia DaCosta to helm the second part of the trilogy, and that the plan is to shoot both films back to back. As for the three newest cast members, the studio is clearly showing it means business, adding star power instead of going the lesser-known-actor route like in previous installments.
re: #55 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I take it the Incelmobile only comes in gray. I’ve never seen it in any other color.
Soon it will be brown.
re: #56 Joe Bacon ✅
I hope he got some money from them too, because a retraction from that gang of cretinous shitheads is worthless.
re: #55 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I take it the Incelmobile only comes in gray. I’ve never seen it in any other color.
Rust
but you have to wait a little longer
re: #53 jaunte
I knew a guy in college who told me he was going into law enforcement because “I like to beat people up.”
re: #63 Eclectic Cyborg
I know events like today get them excited.
Hearing reports of aggressive student agitators brutally attacking first responders’ liberty sticks with their heads, knees, and groins
I’m getting a distinct smell of bullshit from this one.
— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-04-29T20:15:50.000Z
re: #60 Charles Johnson
I hope he got some money from them too, because a retraction from that gang of cretinous shitheads is worthless.
Charles I am hoping that Smartmatic bankrupts OAN.
Was replying to this:
There have been at least three arrests so far at UT Austin, per Lily Kepner of the Statesman. Protestors are sitting down with arms linked.
Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) “has been making a point lately of telling voters that he doesn’t support a nationwide abortion ban,” the HuffPost reports.“But the Pennsylvania Republican is hoping nobody notices that he’s signed on to legislation in Congress for the last seven years to impose a near-total nationwide abortion ban ― and he’s still a cosponsor of this bill.”
gee why would he feel the need to do this?
i’d say it’s a good sign
Oops, I meant this one:
UT Austin claims police found “baseball size rocks … strategically placed within the encampment” and blames protests on outsiders
Austin is a city with baseball sized rocks secreted just inches below the soil all over the city.
re: #71 Charles Johnson
Oops, I meant this one:
Palestinians throw rocks at IDF, therefore kids who don’t want the Palestinians murdered by IDF throw rocks at cops. That’s irrefutable logiderp.
re: #72 jaunte
Austin is a city with baseball sized rocks secreted just inches below the soil all over the city.
Rocks? Arrest the planet Earth as an accomplice to the protest.
House Republicans Introduce Legislation ‘To Expel Palestinians From the United States’ https://t.co/Nx8ZBEt8uZ
— #TuckFrump (@realTuckFrumper) November 3, 2023
co-sponsors Andy Harris, Aaron Bean, Ralph Norman, Scott DesJarlais, Clay Higgins, Ronny Jackson, Bill Posey, Barry Moore, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Andy Biggs.
re: #75 Florida Panhandler
Rocks? Arrest the planet Earth as an accomplice to the protest.
Earth has a lot to answer for.
re: #76 Dangerman
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co-sponsors Andy Harris, Aaron Bean, Ralph Norman, Scott DesJarlais, Clay Higgins, Ronny Jackson, Bill Posey, Barry Moore, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Andy Biggs.
No sincere people involved at all. Just a pack of frauds.
re: #78 b.d.
Old Austin joke, dating back 20-25 million years.
I don’t usually talk this way, but:
The threat perceptions of the US security state are seriously out of whack.
Armed right wing intimidation mobs? Eh, what can you do?
30 students with kaffiyehs and tents? Full battle rattle.
Never Forget that email from the fbi deputy director that compared the George Floyd protests to 9/11, six months before the bureau completely whiffed on preventing J6
re: #79 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
No sincere people involved at all. Just a pack of frauds.
Hey! That’s mah esteemed representative, y’all.
re: #83 Dangerman
it’s totally performative
but still…
For now, anyway. If Trump is in the WH next year, I predict that the protestors will very quickly find out that Trump is orders of magnitude worse for Palestinians than President Biden.
re: #84 Decatur Deb
Hey! That’s mah esteemed representative, y’all.
Then you know more than the rest of us that he’s a fraud.
re: #85 No Malarkey!
For now, anyway. If Trump is in the WH next year, I predict that the protestors will very quickly find out that Trump is orders of magnitude worse for Palestinians than President Biden.
Was talking to my SIL earlier today who lives in Austin. A little about the UT protesters. But she made this point.
And I made the point that it’s most likely what they want so they can “protest” more.
re: #83 Dangerman
it’s totally performative
but still…
I know but it’s so damn stupid and wasteful. 🙄
Four LE shot in NC.
4 officers working for U.S. Marshals task force shot while serving a warrant in North Carolina, officials say
nbcnews.com
Might have involved an “armored” vehicle.
lmao a retreat? pic.twitter.com/b8TrQLOP7N
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 29, 2024
Good fucking grief. How much you bet this “retreat” is at MAL?
re: #71 Charles Johnson
Oops, I meant this one:
Is that anything like those antifa bricks?
DEBUNKING VIRAL CLAIMS
Bricks Were Placed for Construction, Not to Incite Protesters
re: #92 BeachDem
Is that anything like those antifa bricks?
DEBUNKING VIRAL CLAIMS
Bricks Were Placed for Construction, Not to Incite Protesters
The existence of rocks is a felony. Ask any farmer.
re: #52 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
he needs to get at least one more season of The Old Man in.
BTW, I spent about 10 seconds looking in the window of the Incel Camino and the monitor lit up with an owl with red eyes and the words sentry mode, cameras recording.
Insecure car. Also, there is noticable staining on the door panel. Should tape a wad of steel wool on the door for the owner as a gesture of goodwill.
re: #93 Decatur Deb
The existence of rocks is a felony. Ask any farmer.
They can also do a lot of damage when thrown by a snowblower, and banging them together can start fires. We should ban rocks. They’re just too dangerous.
re: #96 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
Don’t get me started on that Cain-Abel thing.
re: #98 Decatur Deb
Don’t get me started on that Cain-Abel thing.
I thought we might need to ban jawbones, even the ones in use, but that was just fan fiction.
re: #95 darthstar
BTW, I spent about 10 seconds looking in the window of the Incel Camino and the monitor lit up with an owl with red eyes and the words sentry mode, cameras recording.
Insecure car. Also, there is noticable staining on the door panel. Should tape a wad of steel wool on the door for the owner as a gesture of goodwill.
Tesla’s do that as part of their anti-theft. My boss has a Tesla (that he loves) and told me about it some time ago.
re: #102 jaunte
Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social
PROTECT AND SERVE
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Dangerous redhead.
i am so flashing back here to, well, you know
re: #38 Orange Impostor
Shhhh! Don’t give him any ideas!
i dont think america’s ‘mayor’ knows what communism means
Rudy on his most recent indictment in AZ: “This is just straight out communist corruption. These people are massive crooks - the people in AZ. They’re despicable, anti-American traitors.” pic.twitter.com/1PCK3MlSNe
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) April 29, 2024
re: #102 jaunte
Those guys do not have the style to carry it off:
digital.library.temple.edu
I did stand-up last night as “1990s Jerry Seinfeld Doing Bits About His 17-Year-Old Girlfriend” pic.twitter.com/hFKr7ie6JP
— Jeremy Kaplowitz (@jeremysmiles) October 29, 2019
re: #102 jaunte
Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social
PROTECT AND SERVE
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Dangerous redhead.
Hasn’t this been done already? (edit—a day late and a dollar short as always, but worth a repeat)
re: #10 Shropshire Slasher
Am I crazy to believe that this could all be ended with HAMAS releasing the hostages?
re: #111 Patricia Kayden
No. You are not crazy. That might work if Bibi was willing to work with the diplomats.
re: #111 Patricia Kayden
Am I crazy to believe that this could all be ended with HAMAS releasing the hostages?
the beginning of the end could be started with…
re: #111 Patricia Kayden
Am I crazy to believe that this could all be ended with HAMAS releasing the hostages?
Not at all. Am I crazy for believing this could all be ended with the Hamassholes unconditionally surrendering? ICC or the Israeli’s, their choice…
There is a direct causal relationship between someone thinking they are smart enough to be interviewed by Isaac Chotiner and that, in fact, not being the case.
i haven’t seen a bloodbath like this since Elliot Abrams was Deputy Secretary of Bloodbaths
— Joshua Erlich (@joshuaerlich.bsky.social) 2024-04-29T21:16:33.115Z
re: #112 PhillyPretzel ✅
Hamas was the one who rejected the past three ceasefire and hostage release proposals, even after Israel gave in more to their demands due to Biden’s pressure. Based on the latest there’s a LOT of pressure from Egypt and Washington on both Hamas and on Qatari mediators to get Hamas to agree to the current proposal.
re: #111 Patricia Kayden
Am I crazy to believe that this could all be ended with HAMAS releasing the hostages?
I also cannot help but wonder how much Putin may have discretely egged on this calamitous situation in the ME through Iranian and Syrian proxies to create trouble for
Biden. I’m sure he realizes that upsetting Muslims in Michigan, for example, could lose the election for the incumbent. I understand the frustration in the Muslim community, but seriously, Trump would be WAY worse for the Palestinians.
re: #117 (((Archangel1)))
I agree. Hamas has to do what the diplomats are requesting and they have not.
re: #111 Patricia Kayden
Am I crazy to believe that this could all be ended with HAMAS releasing the hostages?
Not at all crazy.
However, the scenario you outline depends (entirely, IMO) on there actually being any hostages to release - alive, anyway.
Which, sadly, is not a given.
The incompetent ahole Netanyahu government is essentially stuck between dueling domestic pressures for the release of hostages - either via a deal or via a military operation in Rafah. On top of being Hamas’s last stronghold, Rafah is where many believe the majority of the hostages are being held captive, including the three hostages Hamas released videos of in the past week, among them US citizen Keith Siegel who was abducted on October 7.
As it looks now, a decision will be made within the next 48-72 hours. If Hamas accepts the deal, it’ll go forward. If it rejects a deal for the fourth time, the military operation will almost certainly be launched.
Welp, any plans I had for riding off into the sunset on my share of the Columbia Pipeline Merger Litigation settlement are dashed—I got 63 cents.
re: #117 (((Archangel1)))
Hamas was the one who rejected the past three ceasefire and hostage release proposals, even after Israel gave in more to their demands due to Biden’s pressure. Based on the latest there’s a LOT of pressure from Egypt and Washington on both Hamas and on Qatari mediators to get Hamas to agree to the current proposal.
Any chance of Haniyeh et anybody getting kicked out of Qatar?
I didn’t think so.
I’ve been thinking about Trump’s non-existent campaign, and have come to a couple of possible conclusions:
1. he doesn’t have the money to run an actual presidential campaign. either because he’s been skimming from the campaign or because his donors are tapped out
2. he (or his campaign team) has figured out that as long as he is out of the spot light a lot of voters kind of forget how much they don’t like him and so his numbers get artificially inflated. while the truest of true believers still follow him on his twitter rip off. this isn’t entirely a bad strategy, but because he lacks self control he can be easily bated into dumping it by Biden saying he’s lazy/scared/not up to the challenge.
3. he is in real cognitive decline and the campaign is trying to hide it by keeping him off the campaign trail. this makes sense given the number of times we’ve seen him be the living embodiment of the Apple spinning pinwheel during a speech. but at some point it is going to happen in front of everyone (at the convention, at a debate) and nobody will be able to ignore it
4. it is some combination of the above. this is kinda where I’ve settled. it seems a strange place for a presidential campaign to be, but it is also such a weird election in general I guess it makes sense for them to do something unorthodox
re: #124 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅
I can vouch for that, I married a redhead.
there’s a reason why the words for dangerous and redhead are so similar in Spanish…
peligroso y pelirrojo
re: #125 KGxvi
Being forced to sit in a courtroom all day should do wonders for his cognition.
Speaking of which, when does the trial get going again?
In this document, we review the current scale of the hunger crisis in the Gaza Strip, its short and long term impacts, Israel’s conduct with respect to this issue and the legal implications of this conduct. We rely on the most recent figures and data available.
Based on various reports from international bodies about the situation in Gaza and on testimonies gathered by B’Tselem’s field researchers, we unfortunately conclude that for months, Israel has been committing the crime of starvation under international law in the Gaza Strip.
re: #127 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Being forced to sit in a courtroom all day should do wonders for his cognition.
Speaking of which, when does the trial get going again?
tomorrow, i think. not sure why the court was dark today
re: #129 KGxvi
tomorrow, i think. not sure why the court was dark today
Passover. I learned it in the dead thread. Yr gonna hafta start earlier…
Business As Usual - that is the phrase used pejoratively for many issues, for the default continuation of the current practice.
In regards to the 2024 election, the BAU that some legacy media are attempting is really falling short of what we need as a polity.
The world is going to force us to change.
Americans who think they can isolate are fooling themselves.
As I’ve noted many times, Trump is more a symptom rather than a cause.
Philippine students are told to stay home as Southeast Asia copes with a sweltering heat wave
Southeast Asia was coping with a weeks long heat wave on Monday as record-high temperatures led to school closings in several countries and urgent health warnings throughout the region.
[…]
Large crowds have sought relief in air-conditioned shopping malls in Metropolitan Manila, the congested capital region of more than 14 million people where the temperature soared to 38.8 degrees Celsius (101.84 Fahrenheit) Saturday, surpassing the record set decades ago, according to weather officials.
re: #110 BeachDem
Hasn’t this been done already? (edit—a day late and a dollar short as always, but worth a repeat)
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This is the part of the fascist takeover of America where online calls for cracking liberal skulls meets actual physical violence.
Noem is cranking out a bunch of tweets on a bunch of subjects trying to move on and every reply to every tweet is about the puppy and the goat.
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) April 29, 2024
Well deserved, I say.
re: #128 goddamnedfrank
Just to be clear, this is why the Zombie and Zombie Rights Activist analogies are so utterly fucked up, disgusting, and shameful. Because a zombie is a hypothetical post-human thing that necessarily eats people, so starving zombies is therefore not only acceptable, but righteous.
re: #94 steve_davis
he needs to get at least one more season of The Old Man in.
hadnt heard of it
just watched the first episode
i’m in
re: #126 KGxvi
there’s a reason why the words for dangerous and redhead are so similar in Spanish…
peligroso y pelirrojo
Yep, anime, sci-fi, fantasy all tell us the most important rule:
“Whatever you do, don’t piss off the redhead…”
re: #138 Teukka
Yep, anime, sci-fi, fantasy all tell us the most important rule:
“Whatever you do, don’t piss off the redhead…”
in the last couple of years, mrsdm has been drifting towards redhead
i’ve been appropriately cautious
re: #139 Dangerman
in the last couple of years, mrsdm has been drifting towards redhead
i’ve been appropriately cautious
Yeah, you likely know the warning sign known as “The Inhalation™”
Man approached bison too closely in Yellowstone National Park and was injured
Early start to the season
Rangers responded to the area after receiving a report of an individual who harassed a herd of bison and kicked a bison in the leg.
Dude only suffered minor injuries. Alcohol was involved per report.
Cheng “Charlie” Saephan and his wife will split the prize evenly with a friend who chipped in $100 to buy a batch of tickets with them. They are taking a lump sum payment, $422 million after taxes.
He says he will be able to “find a good doctor for myself.”
— Phil Lewis (@phillewis.bsky.social) 2024-04-29T21:02:22.330Z
re: #144 dat_said
Man approached bison too closely in Yellowstone National Park and was injured
Early start to the season
Dude only suffered minor injuries. Alcohol was involved per report.
To quote the Lakota guy…
“Do not taunt or pet the fluffy cows”
The guy was lucky to survive.
re: #100 Eclectic Cyborg
Goliath liked this post.
What a rock can do.
“David was a shepherd and a firey little cuss
Along came Goliath kicking up a fuss.
Picked up a cobble stone, and hit him in the dome.
And Goliath’s birds were singing home sweet home.”
re: #142 William Lewis
My junior high school building looks to have been from the same era, appeared quite like yours.
It’s no longer a school but now houses some local gov’t offices, I think.
Population decline in the region has made some schools obsolete.
re: #144 dat_said
Man approached bison too closely in Yellowstone National Park and was injured
Early start to the season
Dude only suffered minor injuries. Alcohol was involved per report.
I usually root for the wildlife, unless it’s something totally unavoidable.
re: #71 Charles Johnson
Oops, I meant this one:
The disconnect is amazing:
It’s legal to carry an AR-15 around the UT campus.
— Alex Wild (@alexwild.bsky.social) 2024-04-29T21:35:04.128Z
Bangladesh reels under longest heat wave in 76 years
Md. Bazlur Rashid, a meteorologist at the Bangladesh Meteorological Department, told Anadolu that heat waves swept across the entire country for 27 days straight until Saturday.
“According to the data available since 1948, this month (April) has already seen records of heat wave days in a single year,” he added.
re: #122 BeachDem
Welp, any plans I had for riding off into the sunset on my share of the Columbia Pipeline Merger Litigation settlement are dashed—I got 63 cents.
(Cost of litigation paid first, then shareholders)
others have mentioned this, but these professors have no collective bargaining rights. putting their jobs and bodies on the line.
— Joshua Erlich (@joshuaerlich.bsky.social) 2024-04-29T22:33:10.784Z
i was thinking of watching Keeper of the Flame tonight
tracey/hepburn 1942
part of the plot:
papers …reveal how, backed by secretive, ultra-wealthy, power-hungry individuals, he planned to use racism, anti-union sentiment, and antisemitism to divide the country, turning social groups against one another in order to create the chaos that would let him seize power.
sound familiar?
re: #144 dat_said
Man approached bison too closely in Yellowstone National Park and was injured
Early start to the season
Dude only suffered minor injuries. Alcohol was involved per report.
alcohol gets blamed for a lot of things it didnt do
Can’t think of a more American moment than “now that I won $200 million, I can finally afford decent healthcare.”
Is the Cybertruck the Hetzer of wankpanzers?
re: #144 dat_said
Man approached bison too closely in Yellowstone National Park and was injured
Early start to the season
Dude only suffered minor injuries. Alcohol was involved per report.
re: #155 Dangerman
alcohol gets blamed for a lot of things it didnt do
Here’s to alcohol, the cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems
re: #102 jaunte
Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social
PROTECT AND SERVE
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Dangerous redhead.
re: #103 Dangerman
re: #104 Eclectic Cyborg
I know.
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Fucking Gingers.
Dangerous Wimmins.