Seth takes a closer look at President Trump and his attorney general turning the Justice Department into a political weapon to protect Trump’s friends and punish his enemies.
CL’d
re: #529 ericblair
“Barr…felt the tweet…[gave] people reason to
wonder whether thenotice that the Dept had been corrupted by political influence”
I mean it’s absolutely insane cart before horse shit. He, personally, took the wholly fucking unprecedented action of rescinding a prosecution sentencing recommendation that had already been fucking signed and filed with the goddamned Court. And it did it based on some vague notion that he disagreed with the length of the sentence, not that Stone wasn’t guilty or that the prosecutors had calculated the offense level incorrectly, just that it was “too long.” This is why all four, plus now Liu had to quit, because Barr was demanding they go back in Court, debase themselves and immolate their reputations in the fire of a lie.
The Federal Sentencing Guidelines hold sway over a lot of people’s lives, and our system of justice becomes intrinsically corrupt if its mechanisms work completely differently for friends of the President.
Very interesting that Trump hasn’t attacked William Barr for telling him to stop tweeting about his plans to abuse power. Trump attacks everyone who criticizes him, but not Barr.
That’s why I think this whole episode is straight up kayfabe.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) February 14, 2020
Trump, wielding photos, says a part of the wall gets “virtually untouchable” in the sun because it’s black, “so not only would you have to be a good climber, but you’re gonna have to bring a hose with lots of water to water it down…there aren’t too many hoses in the area.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) February 14, 2020
Good god, we are lead by fucking idiots.
Trump repeated the “theory” that the virus will die in April. His CDC director told CNN in an interview: “This virus is probably with us beyond this season, beyond this year, and I think eventually the virus will find a foothold and we will get community-based transmission.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) February 14, 2020
Trump tells the version of the story where San Diego begged him to build wall, but then after it was built they said the wall wasn’t wanted, so he threatened to uproot it and erect it elsewhere, and they said “no no no don’t do that.” This is very elaborate imaginary history.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) February 14, 2020
Meanwhile, the US political media steadfastly refuses to report on this as the creeping authoritarianism that it is.
By now incompetence has to be ruled out, leaving only deliberate malice as the motive.
The 5 or so rich guys that own all US media are apparently perfectly happy with fascism.
re: #3 Citizen K
Gloves.
Trump doesn’t recognize that gloves exist. Easy to get a bunch at your local hardware store. It goes great with the ropes and ladders or even the power saws that have all been used to scale/cut Trump’s boondoggle wall.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) February 14, 2020
Also released today - transcripts from a court case involving a FOIA request for documents about the McCabe matter. The judge (a Bush appointee) made clear his feelings about comments by President Trump re: McCabehttps://t.co/VQ6tnmnklC pic.twitter.com/GTU9fe4HEZ
— Jamie Dupree (@jamiedupree) February 14, 2020
re: #4 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
A toddler is telling tales about his imaginary friend The Wall, and the rest of the world is obliged to take this shit seriously since the toddler has the nuclear launch codes and absolute control of all US federal law enforcement.
re: #3 Citizen K
Good god, we are lead by fucking idiots.
He seems to have missed the concept of nighttime and early morning.
Happy Valentine’s Day! [trigger warning: link goes to The Federalist]
Your Refusal to Date Conservatives is Why We Have Donald Trump
re: #9 Belafon
He seems to have missed the concept of nighttime and early morning.
The worse Trump’s idiocy gets, the easier it will be for him to connect with his base.
‘Say thank you, Mr. President!’ Trump bizarrely demands Border Patrol agents praise him in middle of speech https://t.co/7O1UAGFkxr
— Raw Story (@RawStory) February 14, 2020
the happiest of valentine’s day to our president and the green-card trophy wife who married him for his money, recoils at his touch, never smiles in his presence, refuses to share his bed, and sits in her room, counting every second until she becomes a wealthy widow
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) February 14, 2020
re: #10 Flying Squirrel Girl
Happy Valentine’s Day! [trigger warning: link goes to The Federalist]
Your Refusal to Date Conservatives is Why We Have Donald Trump
Incels taking their misery out on the rest of us.
re: #10 Flying Squirrel Girl
Happy Valentine’s Day! [trigger warning: link goes to The Federalist]
Your Refusal to Date Conservatives is Why We Have Donald Trump
..because they needed somebody to masturbate to?
The US Embassy in Ukraine is now a part of Rudy Guiliani and Associates…
— Raul A. Maestri, Jr. (@ItsgoodtobeRaul) February 14, 2020
Johnson was part of the Trump coverup team so I’m not sure he was there to actually support unwavering support for Ukraine.
— Andrew Chicago (@CitizenChgo) February 14, 2020
Not alarming at all.
Trump administration will send tactical border officers with Special Forces-type training, including sniper certification, and gear like stun grenades to carry out supercharged immigration arrest effort in sanctuary cities @itscaitlind @KannoYoungs https://t.co/3RnEI4H7Qz
— Julie Davis (@juliehdavis) February 14, 2020
Oh wonderful. Add Congressman Snowball to Trump’s long long list of Kakistocracy Syncophants. The entire White House will need to be heavily fumigated once Trump and his nest of rats are made to leave.
re: #10 Flying Squirrel Girl
Happy Valentine’s Day! [trigger warning: link goes to The Federalist]
Your Refusal to Date Conservatives is Why We Have Donald Trump
Entitlement, thy name is conservatism.
re: #17 Patricia Kayden
Philly Mayor Jim Kenney is not going to like that. Philly is a sanctuary city.
re: #17 Patricia Kayden
Not alarming at all.
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Hispanic communities should form armed militias.
Meanwhile, across the pond, in our anglospheric sister in xenophobia:
Brexiteer discovers voting for cougars eating his face actually entails cougars eating his face. https://t.co/4T2kk0y5pn
— The Rude Pundit (@rudepundit) February 14, 2020
The replies to the original tweet make the salient point that this is exactly the Brexit that brexiteers voted for.
re: #22 Citizen K
Meanwhile, across the pond, in our anglospheric sister in xenophobia:
The replies to the original tweet make the salient point that this is exactly the Brexit that brexiteers voted for.
Other than the fact it wasn’t supposed to affect white people.
re: #17 Patricia Kayden
Not alarming at all.
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At one time, the NRA was concerned about imaginary “jack booted government thugs”.
They have now evolved way past that point. Now some very real government thugs and an enabling President are celebrated.
re: #23 Belafon
Other than the fact it wasn’t supposed to affect white people.
That was the Brexit they were promised, not the one they voted for. The promise was always bollocks once you scratched the surface.
re: #17 Patricia Kayden
Not alarming at all.
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Guess he got his praetorian guard all set.
re: #22 Citizen K
Meanwhile, across the pond, in our anglospheric sister in xenophobia:
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He voted for the Brexit in which he gets to come and go as he pleases, but those damn furriners will stay where they belong.
re: #17 Patricia Kayden
Not alarming at all.
Yeah…there has been a few things written about CBP setting up urban warfare training centers and stockpiling ammunition.
Then this.
3) Border Patrol believes it is not required to answer to local police, FBI, CIA or any other law enforcement agency. They claim to be to “premiere” law enforcement agency, superior to all others. They say they will become a “national police force.” To be used by a president
— Jenn Budd ✊🏻 (@BuddJenn) February 12, 2020
This is consistent with my years of reporting on CBP and Border Patrol. It is fiercely independent; I’ve described it as part-frontier cavalry, part-police force, part-occupying army. https://t.co/0DoZ3ydJLc
— Garrett M. Graff (@vermontgmg) February 14, 2020
re: #23 Belafon
Other than the fact it wasn’t supposed to affect white people.
White British people. The British racists hate Polish and other Slavic people the way ours do Hispanics.
re: #29 Scottish Dragon
Yeah…there has been a few things written about CBP setting up urban warfare training centers and stockpiling ammunition.
Then this.
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Only answerable to POTUS. So Trump has his elite guard.
re: #22 Citizen K
Meanwhile, across the pond, in our anglospheric sister in xenophobia:
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Apparently that was a parody account.
re: #29 Scottish Dragon
That should be fixed by Congress. All arrests must be either cleared by the local auhorities or the FBI.
Gaaaaahhhh!!!!!
Rod’s chilice was positively throbbing with turgid glee.
— Deirdre🇺🇸🏴 (@mandalorchick) February 14, 2020
The first line of your upcoming Opus Dei romance novel?
— David Cook (@DavidCook1959) February 14, 2020
She couldn’t resist the lure of his virile Platonic ontology…
— Deirdre🇺🇸🏴 (@mandalorchick) February 14, 2020
re: #32 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Apparently that was a parody account.
Others have replied that their tweet history suggests sincere Brexiteering rather than any sign of parody.
re: #31 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Only answerable to POTUS. So Trump has his elite guard.
Trump will be looking to these people to help him stay in power after he loses the election. We have to be ready to go to D.C. and face down whoever is there and make it clear that Trump has to go.
re: #31 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Only answerable to POTUS. So Trump has his elite guard.
That appears to be what has happened. it was only two weeks ago CBP flat ignored a federal court order and deported a man whom the judge had given a stay, and then basically told the judge to eff off.
re: #17 Patricia Kayden
Trump’s Gestapo is forming in real time.
re: #37 Scottish Dragon
That appears to be what has happened. it was only two weeks ago CBP flat ignored a federal court order and deported a man whom the judge had given a stay, and then basically told the judge to eff off.
Scary as shit.
Time for Valentines Day stuff now. Have steak and lobster to cook. See you guys later.
OT but I watched the Devil Next Door about John Demjanjuk. Terrifying. It made me think about how many Nazi war criminals lived their final years as quiet, family men and then all the victims who never aged.
Every women deserves a man who looks at her the way Jared does when he’s thinking about his personal trainer. @IvankaTrump https://t.co/XPHRNnl1PQ
— NoelCaslerComedy (@CaslerNoel) February 14, 2020
A report from cybersecurity company Malwarebytes concluded that Mac computers are more vulnerable to software threats than Microsoft Windows systems. The report observed greater growth in Mac-targeting adware and potentially unwanted programs compared to Windows, and threats to Mac PCs increased 400% year-over-year in 2019. Meanwhile, Mac detections per endpoint increased from 4.8 in 2018 to 11 in 2019, which was nearly twice as many for Windows. Mac threats also topped Malwarebytes’ overall threat detections list for the first time, with the NewTab and PCVARK exploits ranking second and third, respectively, on the list of the most prevalent threat detections across all platforms. Malwarebytes suggested Macs may be more appealing targets due to their growing market share, while iPhones may be susceptible to iOS malware because there is no way “to scan for it.”
re: #35 Citizen K
Others have replied that their tweet history suggests sincere Brexiteering rather than any sign of parody.
He could be just stupid. The UK always had a carve-out from Schengen, so going through immigration is nothing new, and he seems to be in the EU/Swiss/UK/Ireland line anyway.
Nothing has changed in that way yet in the UK post-Brexit, since the Withdrawal Agreement mandated that the UK follow all EU rules until the end of 2020 (and therefore become a complete rule-taker, but anyway). What happens then who knows, because it’s complete amateur hour chaos in Blighty.
Cheers, Andy. pic.twitter.com/9xy3hBEzqc
— Lisa Page (@NatSecLisa) February 14, 2020
re: #3 Citizen K
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Good god, we are lead by fucking idiots.
In fairness, much of human history can be summed us thusly.
Lot of instances where people failed upwards a few too many times.
re: #6 lawhawk
Daniel Dale
✔
@ddale8
* 1h
Trump, wielding photos, says a part of the wall gets “virtually untouchable” in the sun because it’s black, “so not only would you have to be a good climber, but you’re gonna have to bring a hose with lots of water to water it down…there aren’t too many hoses in the area.”
Night.
re: #42 gocart mozart
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yeah, like he lifts //
Every women deserves a man who looks at her the way Jared does when he’s thinking about his personal trainer. @IvankaTrump https://t.co/XPHRNnl1PQ
— NoelCaslerComedy (@CaslerNoel) February 14, 2020
re: #2 Charles Johnson
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re: #41 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
You’d be surprised how many YouTube commenters believe that he was just an innocent old man who should have been left alone to die in peace. When I looked up YouTube videos to learn more about his story, the comments sympathetic to him were quite shocking. Sigh.
re: #6 lawhawk
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same store, different aisles… whodathunk?
Gloves.
Trump doesn’t recognize that gloves exist. Easy to get a bunch at your local hardware store. It goes great with the ropes and ladders or even the power saws that have all been used to scale/cut Trump’s boondoggle wall.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) February 14, 2020
re: #22 Citizen K
Meanwhile, across the pond, in our anglospheric sister in xenophobia:
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The replies to the original tweet make the salient point that this is exactly the Brexit that brexiteers voted for.
actually, it’s exactly the brexit you voted for, colin
Brexiteer discovers voting for cougars eating his face actually entails cougars eating his face. https://t.co/4T2kk0y5pn
— The Rude Pundit (@rudepundit) February 14, 2020
If Trump finds out that Michigan is “The Wolverine State” he’ll think “Cool, a human mutant with 12-inch claws really exists!”
re: #51 #thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)
Of course Trump is completely unfamiliar with hardware stores. One generally goes to places like that to buy tools etc. in preparation for work, and Trump has never worked a day in his life.
So, some context here: All Elite Wrestling, a recent upstart national wrestling promotion, just recently crowned a new Women’s champion in Nyla Rose. The rub: Nyla Rose is a transwoman. So it’s heartening to see her fellows on the AEW roster backing her up, but good lord. The trans hate is just amazingly demoralizing, especially from folks otherwise dedicated to LGBT issues, and as anecdotal as it might be, the attitudes I’ve seen are just as violently hateful, if not moreso, among the younger gens as they are the older ones. This is not something that seems to be going away demographically, which is why it seems to be such a successful wedge for conservatives.
100%. ❤️ https://t.co/sbh09zH4H9
— Jungleboy (@boy_myth_legend) February 14, 2020
yes tell me again how Andrew McCabe and a bunch of lifelong Republicans in the FBI colluded with Ukraine and Hillary to frame Russia while losing her own election so that Trump would win so that then the deep state could take him down because fuck yes that all makes perfect sense
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) February 14, 2020
re: #55 Citizen K
As I see it, there are legitimate questions about when/how/if MtF people should compete in women’s sports while still keeping things fair.
That gives the usual deplorables an opportunity to unload all their hate with less opposition than usual, which is just disgusting.
re: #50 Patricia Kayden
You’d be surprised how many YouTube commenters believe that he was just an innocent old man who should have been left alone to die in peace. When I looked up YouTube videos to learn more about his story, the comments sympathetic to him were quite shocking. Sigh.
I’m not at all because I remember reading and seeing that mindset. It always stunned me because these were often pro death penalty people and I was and am staunchly anti dp but I believe in the absolute necessity of no statutes on limitations on murder let alone war crimes.
I’m not linking to this garbage and I expect no better from Cillizza, but it’s disappointing to see @ForecasterEnten participating in erasure of Elizabeth Warren.
— Shannon (@TheStagmania) February 14, 2020
And @npr also omitted Warren like this in stories Thursday morning and Wednesday evening by @kelsey_snell and @DonGonyea — can the @nprpubliceditor look into this!? Why is @nprpolitics erasing the candidate in THIRD PLACE!? https://t.co/6Vpmm20Fby
— Jews for Warren ✡🗽 (@JewsforWarren) February 14, 2020
The erasure is real, and working apparently.
Look forward to Klobuchar getting erased too once Warren is inevitably memory holed out of the picture.
His epistemological canon burst with such ontological energy he had to pause and offer her his classical apologetics
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) February 14, 2020
A new Yahoo News/YouGov poll shows that Sen. Bernie Sanders would defeat each of the other Democratic presidential candidates in a one-on-one race — in many instances by double-digit margins.
Down in the story, as if we didn’t know:
“Of course, the Democratic primary isn’t a two-way race”
duh.
so if it was a different kind of race, other than the one it is, the results would be different. than what they are. wow.
next they’ll start pairing bernie against who? or what?
what a waste of pixels.
And Away we go…….
AGAIN?????? Crap.
— And the Wind Cries “I’m Not Real Happy with Him!” (@DaveoutofAustin) February 14, 2020
re: #62 Dave In Austin
And Away we go…….
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And she knows what about life in the 99%? Our problem isn’t a class system. It’s a corrupt executive branch who will do anything to protect his political interests even if it effects our national interests.
re: #63 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
And she knows what about life in the 99%? Our problem isn’t a class system. It’s a corrupt executive branch who will do anything to protect his political interests even if it effects our national interests.
It’s both, but the more urgent problem is definitely the man-baby in the White House.
The US might be able to survive another 10 years of the plutocracy.
The US definitely can’t survive 4 more years of that piece of shit Trump.
re: #64 EPR-radar
It’s both, but the more urgent problem is definitely the man-baby in the White House.
The US might be able to survive another 10 years of the plutocracy.
The US definitely can’t survive 4 more years of that piece of shit Trump.
We need to fix cultural inequalities too. And that’s why going after Trump and Trumpism needs to be priority instead of acting like it’s a mere class war. We can fix a lot of the plutocracy by reforms after hes removed.
Sean Hannity reacts to McCabe declination: “There is something massive that is underway that we don’t know about” https://t.co/H8boz7qdMu
— Media Matters (@mmfa) February 14, 2020
re: #66 Patricia Kayden
Justice. I realize that’s a foreign concept to you, Sean, but it’s real.
re: #62 Dave In Austin
And Away we go…….
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The unholy trinity of Sarandon, Nina Turner and Danny Glover will be in Greenville, SC Sunday for a “community meeting focused on education.” If that doesn’t cause a disruption in the universe…And for some reason, Tulsi has several events here this weekend as well.
re: #23 Belafon
Other than the fact it wasn’t supposed to affect white people.
Poles and other Eastern Europeans are white. Just saying.
re: #66 Patricia Kayden
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this is is a prime example of magical thinking at work
“I” can’t explain it. And it goes against my worldview (cognitive dissonance because i cant get what i want)
therefore there just absolutely must be something hidden/secret/weird trick/ they dont want you to know…
Sean Hannity reacts to McCabe declination: “There is something massive that is underway that we don’t know about” https://t.co/H8boz7qdMu
— Media Matters (@mmfa) February 14, 2020
re: #69 A hollow voice says, Guilty, guilty, guilty!
Poles and other Eastern Europeans are white. Just saying.
Not in the minds of many who voted Leave.
re: #69 A hollow voice says, Guilty, guilty, guilty!
Poles and other Eastern Europeans are white. Just saying.
One of the more interesting Brexit stories I read was about a few established Pakistani Britons standing by with their Anglo Briton neighbors in supporting Brexit and complaining about the Eastern Europeans and other Slavic peoples. I have a lot of empathy for those Eastern European people because their British experience probably resembles my mom’s grandparents who were from that part of the world and resident aliens in a nationalistic time.
re: #73 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
One of the more interesting Brexit stories I read was about a few established Pakistani Britons standing by with their Anglo Briton neighbors in supporting Brexit and complaining about the Eastern Europeans and other Slavic peoples. I have a lot of empathy for those Eastern European people because their British experience probably resembles my mom’s grandparents who were from that part of the world and resident aliens in a nationalistic time.
The next few decades may be dominated by a successful worldwide effort by the plutocrats to get everyone else to fight each other for jobs etc. along lines of race and nationality.
If so, then bring on the Meteor — we’re too politically stupid to live.
A quick update for all who lent their support:
My daughter is doing okay today. She’s calmed down from yesterday but we’ve seen the return of some rocking/self-stim behaviors she had outgrown in the past few years. We spent the afternoon shopping together: V-Day candy and treats for her as well as the “You are my sunshine” necklace I bought her (I sing her that every night at bedtime so its something really meaningful to me lol)
No response from the school district administrator to my email. At all. Not so much as a “we’re still gathering information and will contact you soon”. Following William’s advice, I’ll be sending the letter again, this time certified mail and much more direct in demanding answers and action.
WLUK, the local Fox affiliate, reached out to my ex-wife via Facebook wanting to do an interview. She politely declined, saying that we wanted to retain legal representation first. The reporter left contact info and invited us to reach out when we were ready.
The acting principal who was personally involved in the incident yesterday called me to reach out and “see how my daughter was doing”. He then proceeded to mention “Oh yeah, did you know your ex-wife has a FB post out there about the incident?”. My simple “Yes” was met by like 15 seconds of dead silence like he wanted me to say something more. This is actually the second time (the first was when I went to the school yesterday) that they’ve tried to play her and I against each other, divide and conquer is the strategy I guess? Anyways, not working since we’re both fired up and pretty much in lockstep with what we’re doing here.
We’ve also reached out to the ACLU, disability advocacy groups, etc. trying to find an attorney to represent us; not much interest being shown in the case by anyone so far unless we’re willing to lay down a huge retainer (which is unlikely to happen). But we’ll keep working on that end of things.
Thank you again for all of your support and good wishes. I’m going to be checking out after posting this and spend the night binging on as much Disney+ as my sunshine can watch lol.
Good night all, thank you again, and happy Valentine’s Day. May your lives be filled with love!
re: #6 lawhawk
Gloves, or also, waiting until the sun has gone down.
“…Trump told aides last year that he wanted the new barrier painted black, so the metal would absorb more heat and become hot to the touch, discouraging climbers. The administration spent $1 million to paint a one-mile span of fencing in California’s Imperial Valley, using U.S. troops to perform the labor.”
washingtonpost.com
“Trump supports the troops”
re: #78 jaunte
“…Trump told aides last year that he wanted the new barrier painted black, so the metal would absorb more heat and become hot to the touch, discouraging climbers. The administration spent $1 million to paint a one-mile span of fencing in California’s Imperial Valley, using U.S. troops to perform the labor.”
washingtonpost.com“Trump supports the troops”
Wait. Conny is using alternative energy to heat the wall? Damn. It should be heated by coal power!!!
Must be the deep state.
“Trump told aides last year that he wanted the new barrier painted black, so the metal would absorb more heat and become hot to the touch,” with the added feature of confusing expensive thermal imaging equipment.
iecinfrared.com
Don’t boo, vote. Boo also
You can register to vote in less time than it took Tiny to…well, you know. Its significantly less traumatic as too. #stormthevote https://t.co/lM1gNLlpk0
— Stormy Daniels (@StormyDaniels) February 14, 2020
re: #45 NO SMOCKING GUN!
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I love that Lisa Page keeps posting even though 80% of her commenters are bots and Q-Anon types. She’s rollin’ and trollin’.
re: #83 Acemarilllion
Donny knows his gloves!
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I bet Sacha never thought 15-20 years later that Trump would be President. A pity that Ali G rather than Borat talked to Trump because had Trump been in the Borat movie I bet Cohen would have gotten some great “locker room talk.”
I just got a text message from someone who I do not know and they want me to place a decal on my car. Joke is on them because I do not have a car. Auto-block.
re: #86 PhillyPretzel
I got a text message from the Trump campaign. I replied “FUCK YOU.” That’s my auto block.
A man robbed a bank on his first date with a woman he met on a dating app – and he made her drive the getaway car https://t.co/ld0gK8oksT via @CBSNews
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) February 14, 2020
It’s 7:00 p.m. Trump has attempted extortion and has weaponized DOJ. You get that democracy doesn’t die all at once, right? Hair falls out before fingertips die; toes go before an eye. The death of democratic norms, you see, IS the death of democracy.#PayAttention#SaveDemocracy pic.twitter.com/5gK3BLasC2
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) February 15, 2020
re: #90 jaunte
DT is at the center of quite a few suits in NY. From what I remember reading in The Washington Post the SDNY has quite a few active suits against DT.
re: #91 PhillyPretzel
DT is at the center of quite a few suits in NY. From what I remember reading in The Washington Post the SDNY has quite a few active suits against DT.
Definitely some on the state level too. Barr and Trump can’t stop AG James.
Former senior CIA official, who worked in a number of hot spots and retired last year: https://t.co/4YQsGVMHFF
— Ben Taub (@bentaub91) February 15, 2020
re: #91 PhillyPretzel
DT is at the center of quite a few suits in NY. From what I remember reading in The Washington Post the SDNY has quite a few active suits against DT.
Which I’m sure Barr is trying to undermine.
re: #96 jaunte
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The only thing I disagree with is the last. It isn’t over until we stop fighting.
Finally changed my voter registration today. I was an R but now I’m a proudly U - Undeclared voter. Now before you chastise me for being an R for so long let me explain. My wife made the same change.
Here in AK the D’s have an open primary while the R’s have always had a closed primary. This year, the Republicans cancelled their primary. I was an R so I could vote for anyone in the R contest who opposed Don Young and Lisa Murkowski. Just trying to do my little bit to get rid of those two. Yes, I know it’s a futile effort up here in red Alaska, but it made me feel good.
Our other Republican Senator, Dan Sullivan, is up for re-election his year. He’s another Senator who is living up trump’s ass. There maybe an unexpected upset in this race.
A lot has been going on behind the screens up here. There is a very serious effort to recall our Republican Governor Dunleavy. He made a lot of promises he hasn’t or even wanted to keep. Good chance he’ll be kicked out.
Also there’s a voter initiative going around to totally revamp the taxes the oil cartel pays to Alaska. Right now we’re paying them about 1.5 Billion $’s per year as an incentive to explore and produce more. And they’re not exploring or increasing production. This subsidy stays on the oil company books until they decide to cash it in. A potential very big, long term liability.
It is time for these mayors & citizens to rise up & say no to this hateful revengeful disgusting anti American move. via @NYTimes https://t.co/g7MuZpkbMD
— Rabbi Jill Zimmerman (@RabbiJill) February 14, 2020
Trump’s Stasi.
re: #99 Cheechako
I was an R so I could vote for anyone in the R contest who opposed Don Young and Lisa Murkowski.
Except for Joe Miller, right? RIGHT??
re: #75 2020 Blue Wisconsin
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Michael Avanatti is going to prison for trying to extort Nike for $25 million.
He didn’t actually extort Nike, he just tried to. And yet, he’s still going to jail.
Wanna know why?
Because attempted extortion is illegal.
cc: @realDonaldTrump— Sergio Siano (@SergioJSiano) February 14, 2020
Interesting… story on CNN’s website saying that the GOP is scared Trump sycophant Chris Kobach could cost them the open Kansas seat.
I’ll believe it when I see it, but if they really are worried about Kansas, 2020 is going to be a disaster for them all around
The Trump administration is also currently arguing to #SCOTUS (in the Hernández case) that Border Patrol officers should not be subject to damages suits for constitutional violations because their principal function is providing _border_ security—and, thus, national security. https://t.co/sQzOdoptNY
— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) February 14, 2020
re: #100 DodgerFan1988
Wow, at what level does it go before the folks wailing for their wall that look the other way as Trump turns the US into Nazi Germany, figure out we’re there - that we’ve arrived? Do they actually have to see receipts for Zyklon B before they wake up, or do all roundups and little fascist perks finally add up to a moment of clarity? At what point does it become clear we are not the United States of early 2016?
re: #106 PrairieQueen
Wow, at what level does it go before the folks wailing for their wall that look the other way as Trump turns the US into Nazi Germany, figure out we’re there - that we’ve arrived? Do they actually have to see receipts for Zycklon B before they wake up, or do all roundups and little fascist perks finally add up to a moment of clarity? At what point does it become clear we are not the United States of early 2016?
I very much fear the answer to all these questions is ‘never’. The US right has no apparent way to reverse (or even slow down) its headlong plunge into fascism. IMO overwhelming losses are the only possible thing that might alter US right wing ‘thinking’.
Preferably those losses will be peaceful losses in elections.
re: #107 EPR-radar
Being under seige by unaccountable border control agents seems like a pretty major step. But I guess if you aren’t a brown person it’s okay.//
The GOP mantra has always been, “I got mine, fuck you.” Even before Trump I had a real problem with it. Unchecked, this is exactly where this goes.
anti trans comics are the funniest shit out there, brb on my way down to the gender pHARMacy pic.twitter.com/WZ2qSgV1Qd
— the cat account in question (@ellenfromnowon) February 14, 2020
Yeah. I’m really glad I didn’t grab onto Sinfest while he was smashing the Patriarchy but DIDN’T think I was still part of it!
Guy’s deeper in the Kool-Aid than JKR at this point. And still a guy, though very self-hating.— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) February 15, 2020
The socialist poet from Bennington who’s amassed a fortune during his 30 years in Congress is Trump’s dream guy to run against. My primary vote is going to the candidate I think has the best chance of winning the nomination and THEN beating Trump.
— Dan Murphy (@bungdan) February 14, 2020
Threats of violence, homophobia, misogyny, even “you is a cuck.” It’s almost EXACTLY like one of those Trumpkin social media dogpiles. Weird.
— Dan Murphy (@bungdan) February 14, 2020
re: #104 KGxvi
Interesting… story on CNN’s website saying that the GOP is scared Trump sycophant Chris Kobach could cost them the open Kansas seat.
I’ll believe it when I see it, but if they really are worried about Kansas, 2020 is going to be a disaster for them all around
Few things would give me more joy than seeing Kansas elect a Democratic Senator for the first time since 1932!
Funky Celentanohttps://t.co/biRES8s3Hc
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) February 15, 2020
re: #113 Dave In Austin
I’ve written before, that I think Stewart does the best of all the ST actors. Picard is well produced, though in the latest episode I caught a couple of lines that indicated the writers still don’t double check claims that have to do with real knowledge (in this episode it was the number of stars in the galaxy.)
Some have criticized Picard for being too dark. ST is part of the post 9/11 world now - idealism is out the window.
I’m sure conservatives will be fine when the next Democratic President sends trained snipers to red areas to hunt for white domestic terrorists and gun extremists, who pose a much bigger danger than immigrants and refugees.
Just wanted to get that on the record.— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) February 15, 2020
Just in case you were wondering what CBP thinks about Trump assigning agents to terrorize cities for the high crime of making him angry, well wonder no more!
THREAD: I recently spent some time talking privately with a former Washington DC CBP senior management official. This is what stuck with me: Border Patrol does not believe they are a civilian law enforcement agency. They believe they are kin to the Marine Corps.
— Jenn Budd ✊🏻 (@BuddJenn) February 12, 2020
3) Border Patrol believes it is not required to answer to local police, FBI, CIA or any other law enforcement agency. They claim to be to “premiere” law enforcement agency, superior to all others. They say they will become a “national police force.” To be used by a president
— Jenn Budd ✊🏻 (@BuddJenn) February 12, 2020
We are truly seriously fucked.
re: #99 Cheechako
Finally changed my voter registration today. I was an R but now I’m a proudly U - Undeclared voter. Now before you chastise me for being an R for so long let me explain. My wife made the same change.
Here in AK the D’s have an open primary while the R’s have always had a closed primary. This year, the Republicans cancelled their primary. I was an R so I could vote for anyone in the R contest who opposed Don Young and Lisa Murkowski. Just trying to do my little bit to get rid of those two. Yes, I know it’s a futile effort up here in red Alaska, but it made me feel good.
Our other Republican Senator, Dan Sullivan, is up for re-election his year. He’s another Senator who is living up trump’s ass. There maybe an unexpected upset in this race.
A lot has been going on behind the screens up here. There is a very serious effort to recall our Republican Governor Dunleavy. He made a lot of promises he hasn’t or even wanted to keep. Good chance he’ll be kicked out.
Also there’s a voter initiative going around to totally revamp the taxes the oil cartel pays to Alaska. Right now we’re paying them about 1.5 Billion $’s per year as an incentive to explore and produce more. And they’re not exploring or increasing production. This subsidy stays on the oil company books until they decide to cash it in. A potential very big, long term liability.
Local and regional politics are complicated
Hearing from some members of the Yang Gang who now say they will vote Trump 2020 because they want to support a working class candidate but don’t like Bernie’s culturally woke element. Interesting phenomenon
— Saagar Enjeti (@esaagar) February 13, 2020
re: #120 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
They must be on some serious mind bending drugs. Remind me to stay away from them.
Trump’s 29th Trip To Mar-a-Lago Brings Golf Tab To 334 Years Of Presidential Salary
The president often brags about not taking a paycheck, but his golf hobby has now cost taxpayers $133.8 million
Huffpo
re: #120 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
[Hearing from some members of the Yang Gang who now say they will vote Trump 2020 because they want to support a working class candidate but don’t like Bernie’s culturally woke element. Interesting phenomenon
I call bull shit! There may be a few, but not many. Or maybe we need a better timeline.
Treason in plain sight. The State Dept tried to keep it quiet. https://t.co/Ojc9A2cX8V
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) February 15, 2020
A Russian journalist traveling with Lavrov said the U.S. side had requested that there be no press conference or joint statements and that photographers not even be invited to take a picture of the two top diplomats shaking hands.
Did Elizabeth Warren just jump into all of her followers’ DMs?
re: #123 I Would Prefer Not To
Ditto, I find it hard to believe they’d vote for Trump instead. Maybe some, but not en masse. There’s still time before the election to mobilize and wake these dumbfucks up.
I wrote about Trump’s plan to defund the military newspaper @starsandstripes earlier today: https://t.co/BszlJdyY3r @AymanM covered the story on @TheBeatWithAri tonight: pic.twitter.com/QCcAEyigH2
— Richard Hine (@richardhine) February 15, 2020
The problem, of course, is in the news it produces:
Though it is part of the Pentagon’s Defense Media Activity, Stripes retains its editorial independence and is congressionally mandated to be governed by First Amendment principles.
In other words, Stars and Stripes is everything Trump hates in a news organization:
Stars and Stripes is editorially independent of interference from outside its own editorial chain-of-command. It provides commercially available U.S. and world news and objective staff-produced stories relevant to the military community in a balanced, fair, and accurate manner. By keeping its audience informed, Stars and Stripes enhances military readiness and better enables U.S. military personnel and their families stationed overseas to exercise their responsibilities of citizenship
re: #123 I Would Prefer Not To
I call bull shit! There may be a few, but not many. Or maybe we need a better timeline.
I was on yangs Facebook pages and many of them are gonna vote for trump. They are assholes who just wanted a grand a month to buy an x box and munchies
Roses are red
Violets are regal
Trump’s maniacal obsession with destroying Medicaid is illegal#HealthPolicyValentines https://t.co/q7foWVEpeh— Senator Bob Casey (@SenBobCasey) February 14, 2020
re: #130 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
The ruling was unanimous and written by a Reagan appointee. He ruled: “the Secretary’s approval of the plan was arbitrary and capricious.”
— Alice Miranda Ollstein (@AliceOllstein) February 14, 2020
re: #118 uriel
We need a mayor or governor to say that an unaccountable border patrol is a terrorist organization and that his police forces will deal with them appropriate force.
re: #128 VegasGolfer
I was on yangs Facebook pages and many of them are gonna vote for trump. They are assholes who just wanted a grand a month to buy an x box and munchies
I still find it hard to believe that they have numbers. I get that they are loud, but that doesn’t mean that have votes. I remember all the idiots who said they were not going to vote for Obama when he beat Hillary. Sure, Obama lost a few, but not that many.
re: #96 jaunte
Speaking of Flynn, we never really heard the end of how Flynn was apparently working for the Turkish government as an undeclared foreign agent. One of the things Flynn was doing was to try and get the US government to deport/extradite/otherwise get rid of Fethullah Gülen, a Turkish exile in Pennsylvania. Now to be very clear, Gülen is not exactly a great guy. Even if you discount his possible involvement in the 2014 coup attempt, which is fairly easy to do since the accusations come from Erdogan, there still remains the fact that his followers have founded dozens of charter schools across the USA and are merrily taking advantage of state legislators throwing money at these unproven outfits.
We never really found out how deep Flynn was in that mess.
re: #127 jaunte
Goebbels just sat upright and is giving Trump a pat on the back from the grave. “Well done Mr. Fuhrer, well done.”
Once the DOJ and media is under control, then it’s a big government contract for Brawndo, which was previously only available to guests at Mar-a-Lago.
re: #120 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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Interesting that there was a battle between Bernie and Yang signs in the Koreatown area of Los Angeles. Berniebots tore down Yang signs and Yanggangers tore down Bernie signs. Oh both of them tore down all the Warren signs in my area…
re: #132 William Lewis
I have a feeling that the mayor and police chief of Houston will not be cooperative.
re: #136 Joe Bacon 🌹
Perhaps if they get this Spy vs. Spy shit out of their system early on, then Bernie can slip on a banana peel and most assuredly become unelectable due to poor health (as he really already is), and the rest of the country can get on with matters at hand.
Odd that a nutjob communist on death’s door has such a fanatical following they’d still fuck their country to support him, but that’s where we are right now.
Everything is a show. It’s shameless self promotion; like professional wrestling.
— Michael Hollis (@MichaelHollis89) February 15, 2020
re: #118 uriel
Just in case you were wondering what CBP thinks about Trump assigning agents to terrorize cities for the high crime of making him angry, well wonder no more!
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We are truly seriously fucked.
Read that earlier. Terrifying.
re: #131 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
By signature health care agenda items, what’s really meant is reactionary regressive bulkshit to shift burdens to those least able to endure them.
Arbitrary and capricious are totally Trump brands.
i’m not sure. if you have a valentine yet. but if you don’t. my application is below pic.twitter.com/U7dqOO0puF
— Thoughts of Dog® (@dog_feelings) February 14, 2020
Happy Valentine’s Day everyone!
💋❤️💋❤️💋
Trump thinks economy is great.
Trump claims we’re in a national emergency to deny/limit wage hikes promised to federal workers.
Trump claims economy is best ever.
Trump demands interest rate cuts to goose economy.
The reality is the economy is doing okay but could be better but for Trump’s idiotic trade war. The tax cuts didn’t grow the economy - it only grew debt and millionaires got richer. It was a redistribution effort that didn’t help most Americans.
So now Trump’s going on about how they’re working on another tax cut for middle class. No one should count on any of it. It’s vaporware.
“It’s likely that the Senate candidate who will do the best is the one who can best articulate Trump’s position and is most associated with Trump in his positions,” Kobach said. “And the person who best fits that bill would be me.” w/@arogDC @Kevinliptakcnn
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) February 15, 2020
Kansas is stupid enough to vote for him, Brownback is fading from their memories.
when mayonnaise struts in proud array
and gold doubloons spill from the deaths head’s mouth
when plaintive plans for that go poorly perused
and the old maven sails again flying his pirate flag
when uncle starts to count his cardigans
and, ever-smiling, “act as if” forges blindly ahead
then - behold! - the shambling, the destroying, the deceiving, the proud of ignorance, the insecure of hair, the incontinent of words and cheeseburgers, dunning of his own krugers, cynosure of all incels, pliable tool of all sharpers, gapes ahead, his mouth catching all flies, and slouches toward bethlehem to be bored and unable to stop changing the channel…
re: #146 Dread Pirate
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Kansas is stupid enough to vote for him, Brownback is fading from their memories.
The inability of way too many US voters to hold the truth about Republicans in their heads for more than a new nanoseconds will be the death of us all.
These voters have the memory capacity of mayflies on meth.
So we had a follower of Kobach by the name of Scott Beason, who got a bill passed with aggressive anti-immigrant policies ( charging people with harboring fugitives if they house a Messican, etc). Crops rotted in the fields, and a journalist coined the term unbeasonable. Guy’s star has faded ( no longer an Alabama state congressman?), and courts overturned the law pretty much.
Another local story: wife got a mail from Republican National Committee, pretending to be census, but asking for $15. I only get mail from sexual abstinence groups for some reason.
At least 11 former Fox employees are currently working in the Trump administration. https://t.co/96X0IdVaj2
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) February 14, 2020
It’s almost like the wall is just a giant grift on taxpayers. https://t.co/pAKL5QCEWZ
— Alex Wild (@Myrmecos) February 15, 2020
re: #148 EPR-radar
The inability of way too many US voters to hold the truth about Republicans in their heads for more than a new nanoseconds will be the death of us all.
These voters have the memory capacity of mayflies on meth.
Until it affects them personally…
Hey Jeffrie. You like posting foodie pics. Top this. Valentines day 2/14/2020.
I Love my Wife.
Steak. Petite sirloin 4 oz (med rare).
Lobster tails X2 (4 oz)
Shrimp, onions and mushrooms in a garlic and butter sauce.
Steamed broccalie with same butter sauce and
Garlic Texas Toast.
Eat your hearts out Lizards :-)
re: #100 DodgerFan1988
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Trump’s Stasi.
What happens when there is violent resistance, as there is almost certain to be?
re: #155 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Hey Jeffrie. You like posting foodie pics. Top this. Valentines day 2/14/2020.
I Love my Wife.Steak. Petite sirloin 4 oz (med rare).
Lobster tails X2 (4 oz)
Shrimp, onions and mushrooms in a garlic and butter sauce.
Steamed broccalie with same butter sauce and
Garlic Texas Toast.Eat your hearts out Lizards :-)
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Thanks. I’m gonna try adding garlic to my mushroom & onions. Good idea…
re: #157 Semper Fi
Thanks. I’m gonna try adding garlic to my mushroom & onions. Good idea…
I use 1/4 tsp minced garlic (bottled) with 1 cube of butter. Add shrooms, shrimp and onions. Let simmer while everything else is cooking. Onions tend to dissolve into the mix, but it doesn’t effect the taste.
re: #150 BlueSpotinAL
Another local story: wife got a mail from Republican National Committee, pretending to be census, but asking for $15. I only get mail from sexual abstinence groups for some reason.
I get a lot of ads for funeral plans of various types. I wonder if they know something I don’t?
Something I think about every Valentines Day is how Frederick Douglass, as was the case with many enslaved people, did not know the exact date of his birthday. So he chose February 14th as the day he would celebrate. A small attempt to reclaim something that was taken from him. pic.twitter.com/PQU0Ikx6kq
— Clint Smith (@ClintSmithIII) February 14, 2020
Sometimes a detail of our national history can bring you to tears from the sheer petty cruelty of it.
re: #148 EPR-radar
The inability of way too many US voters to hold the truth about Republicans in their heads for more than a new nanoseconds will be the death of us all.
These voters have the memory capacity of mayflies on meth.
Your precious “indepdendents” at work. Aided and abetted by a chickenshit press.
Prime example is the news that Trump essentially admitted that he lied about sending Rudy to Ukraine for the Biden bullshit.
This should be fucking front page news. The problem is Trump didn’t specifically admit to lying. He just ran off at the mouth like he usually does and tripped himself up.
But since he didn’t cop to it in a supervillain-style soliloquy, both the press and the average voter is like “Well, let’s not rush to judgement here.”
re: #155 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Hey Jeffrie. You like posting foodie pics. Top this. Valentines day 2/14/2020.
I Love my Wife.Steak. Petite sirloin 4 oz (med rare).
Lobster tails X2 (4 oz)
Shrimp, onions and mushrooms in a garlic and butter sauce.
Steamed broccalie with same butter sauce and
Garlic Texas Toast.Eat your hearts out Lizards :-)
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I don’t see any chocolate-covered strawberries.
re: #161 jaunte
Sometimes a detail of our national history can bring you to tears from the sheer petty cruelty of it.
Far too many Americans refuse to critically evaluate our history. The country basically buys into its own bullshit.
I hope everyone is enjoying their VD!
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re: #158 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
I use 1/4 tsp minced garlic (bottled) with 1 cube of butter. Add shrooms, shrimp and onions. Let simmer while everything else is cooking. Onions tend to dissolve into the mix, but it doesn’t effect the taste.
Thanks again. I added this note to my file and will try in the morning.
I was wrong about the petty cruelty comment. It wasn’t petty, it was a deliberate, systematic effort to deny a common humanity.
re: #61 #thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)
A new Yahoo News/YouGov poll shows that Sen. Bernie Sanders would defeat each of the other Democratic presidential candidates in a one-on-one race — in many instances by double-digit margins.
Down in the story, as if we didn’t know:
“Of course, the Democratic primary isn’t a two-way race”
duh
so if it was a different kind of race, other than the one it is, the results would be different. than what they are. wow.
next they’ll start pairing bernie against who? or what?
what a waste of pixels.
I checked the Wikipedia entry on the YouGov poll — am not totally clear on the exact mechanism but it does seem the poll structure is not particularly reliable. It seems to be constructed like the infamous 1936 Literary Digest poll — where the group that was polled was not representative of the population. I would ignore its assertions entirely.
To prove that social media is skewed against reality, the top trend on Twitter right now in the US is…….
Going to the airport to welcome Dad home from a business trip and sitting in the “departure/ARRIVALS” chairs at the gate because it had been assigned before the plane had taxied all the way to it. Or for that matter being GREETED at the gate by g-ma when flying to visit HER.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) February 15, 2020
Little Steven filming at the Capital Theater tonight.
— Stevie Van Zandt (@StevieVanZandt) February 15, 2020
This was me there last week, sorry sounds sucks
Anders Osborne pic.twitter.com/twrqHpuDHW
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) February 15, 2020
Anders Osborne
Alone in a Bathroom: The Fear and Uncertainty of a Post-Roe Medication Abortion Angel tucked two white pills into each side of her mouth, bracing herself as they began to dissolve. Her deepest fears and anxieties took over. Angel had wanted to talk to a doctor before she took the pills to ...
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They Were Desperate to Get Pregnant. Then IVF Gave Them Extra Embryos. One morning last spring, Ashley Harrolle put her 1-year-old daughter down for a nap and went to the kitchen. She pulled up her fertility clinic’s contact information. It was time to make the call. In a freezer several hundred ... Cheechako
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March FavoritesYou've seen these all already but looking back, just because. These are my favorite shots of this last month. That 1937 Zeiss Sonnar is such a gloriously wonderful bit of glass. Thanks for looking.
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Russia’s New Combat Robots Blown Up by Drones Near Avdiivka When we landed on the moon, I thought about how science fiction had become real. Now, the robot wars have begun. It's more poignant somehow on the ground than in the missile wars we have in the air as ...
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Why Did More Than 1,000 People Die After Police Subdued Them With Force That Isn’t Meant to Kill? An investigation led by The Associated Press has found that, over a decade, more than 1,000 people died after police subdued them through physical holds, stun guns, body blows and other force not intended to be lethal. More: Why ... CheechakoKGxvi
Abortions Outside Medical System Increased Sharply After Roe Fell, Study Finds The number of women using abortion pills to end their pregnancies on their own without the direct involvement of a U.S.-based medical provider rose sharply in the months after the Supreme Court eliminated a constitutional right to abortion, according ... Cheechako
Once Praised, the Settlement to Help Sickened BP Oil Spill Workers Leaves Most With Nearly Nothing When a deadly explosion destroyed BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, 134 million gallons of crude erupted into the sea over the next three months — and tens of thousands of ordinary people were hired ... Cheechako
Texas County at Center of Border Fight Is Overwhelmed by Migrant Deaths EAGLE PASS, Tex. - The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck. The woman had been fished out ... Cheechako
