During the last guy’s wretched administration, press conferences were unbearable, led by one liar after another telling obvious lies, and everyone knew they were lying but still the press played along like nothing was wrong.
But things are different now, so let’s check in and see how things are going with Jen Psaki. The press haven’t changed much, but the administration sure has.
Competence is boring. Give us flamboyant hucksterism!
Shorter Jen: Fuck the GOP. If they don’t support infrastructure spending they should say so.
re: #2 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Competence is boring. Give us flamboyant hucksterism!
ok
If Kevin McCarthy won’t support democracy, we won’t support him. pic.twitter.com/0ZWj7dqZlf
— The Republican Accountability Project (@AccountableGOP) March 29, 2021
ANNOUNCING THE RAP PLEDGE!
If our leaders won’t support democracy, we won’t support them.
We’re spending $1 million on TV & digital ads criticizing Republicans who voted to overturn the election.
Join us.
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Ottawa, Canada:
Haley Moore and her dog Clover were out on a walk in the neighborhood — when Haley had a seizure and collapsed to the ground.
Haley then unleashed herself and stopped traffic to get help.
We don’t deserve dogs…pic.twitter.com/HknlAt8KSC— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) March 29, 2021
So I mentioned that it’s my weekend and I was going to go on a liquor store run this morning. Well, mission accomplished, albiet a slightly higher outlay than planned.
A six of Pilsner Urquell, the original pils.
A six of Newcastle Brown ale
and
A liter of Famous Grouse.
Plus an old Russian Jupiter 12 35/2.8 lens arrived from Ukraine.
Time to kick back in my little place and enjoy the one warm day this week.
re: #4 Dangerman
LOL that photo makes him look like some Z-grade lounge singer.
re: #6 darthstar
My hometown. Great story.
re: #8 Dr Lizardo
LOL that photo makes him look like some Z-grade lounge singer.
It really evokes images of a washed-up rock star reduced to sitting in at wedding gigs.
Got my second Pfizer shot very very very early this morning, around 5 am, after a very dark 30 minute drive to the vaccination site. We had Covid back in June when it wasn’t as trendy, I expect this shot to kick my ass later today, like it did to my mate when she got her second in January. woo
re: #11 Egregious Philbin
Got my second Pfizer shot very very very early this morning, around 5 am, after a very dark 30 minute drive to the vaccination site. We had Covid back in June when it wasn’t as trendy, I expect this shot to kick my ass later today, like it did to my mate when she got her second in January. woo
Congrats! Wife had her second on Saturday - was a little sluggish yesterday but totally able to watch me work in the garden.
How is this any worse than you dry-humping Jesus for money?
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) March 29, 2021
She’s so good. Thanks for posting this Charles.
Remember how people here would list all the lies Trump’s Press Secretaries would tell so we could bash her? I wonder if we could get all of the things Psaki says so we can praise her and bash the media for asking the questions?
re: #13 darthstar
Rapper Lil Nas X is producing 666 pairs of Nike shoes called “Satan Shoes.” The shoes are part of promoting a new music video in which this rapper descends down a stripper pole and gives Satan a lap dance. The morals in this country have fallen so fast.
Brilliant marketing ploy. Free publicity and advertising from righteously indiginificated Christian moralists.
re: #16 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Rapper Lil Nas X is producing 666 pairs of Nike shoes called “Satan Shoes.” The shoes are part of promoting a new music video in which this rapper descends down a stripper pole and gives Satan a lap dance. The morals in this country have fallen so fast.
Brilliant marketing ploy. Free publicity and advertising from righteously indiginificated Christian moralists.
Especially since to anyone - even Christians - outside the fold of fanatical evangelicalism can get a laugh at their foolishness.
re: #16 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Rapper Lil Nas X is producing 666 pairs of Nike shoes called “Satan Shoes.” The shoes are part of promoting a new music video in which this rapper descends down a stripper pole and gives Satan a lap dance. The morals in this country have fallen so fast.
Brilliant marketing ploy. Free publicity and advertising from righteously indiginificated Christian moralists.
Saint also claims each shoe has a drop of human blood. Kristi Noem acts her crazy self:
Our kids are being told that this kind of product is, not only okay, it’s “exclusive.” But do you know what’s more exclusive? Their God-given eternal soul.
We are in a fight for the soul of our nation. We need to fight hard. And we need to fight smart. We have to win. https://t.co/m1k1YWFpuo— Governor Kristi Noem (@govkristinoem) March 28, 2021
re: #13 darthstar
Come on Frankie Graham cracker.
Surely must know how much violence, incest and other questionable stuff is in that Bible of yours?
re: #13 darthstar
And you lie any lie for the Republican Party.
It’s time to kick you Pulpit Pimps off of the Tax-Exempt Gravy Train.
TAX THE CHURCHES!— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) March 29, 2021
re: #18 aatharuv
Saint also claims each shoe has a drop of human blood. Kristi Noem acts her crazy self:
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an advertising campaign on this scale would cost more a lot more than $724,608 (666 x $1,088) and he is getting it for free
The only downside to Lil Nas’ music vid is that Ben Shapiro is going to make money off whinging about it for a whole month.
— Ashley Lynch™ All Along ✂️🎬 (@ashleylynch) March 29, 2021
The Pfizer and Moderna coronavirus vaccines were 90% effective after two doses, the U.S. government found in its first real-world study of their effectiveness. “This is very reassuring news,” said the CDC’s Mark Thompson, the study’s lead author. https://t.co/xBbdKl6lHN
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 29, 2021
re: #10 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It really evokes images of a washed-up rock star reduced to
sitting in atcrashing wedding gigs.
re: #24 Dread Pirate Ron
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Frightening amount of vaccine disinformation on that twitter thread. Anti-vax idiots out in force.
Lil Nas X has gotten himself a ton of free advertising courtesy of the right wing rage machine.
EDIT: And I see Wendell made this point a few posts up.
re: #21 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
an advertising campaign on this scale would cost more a lot more than $724,608 (666 x $1,088) and he is getting it for free
my downstairs responding to your downstairs:
i would have liked to be in that marketing meeting
our strategy is to do…nothing?
just wait?
what if they don’t…?
you’re sure they will?
ok, go for it
Time for the press to ask him if he’ll thank the former guy again.
Doesn’t it seem as if the Biden gang is trying to save lives? How refreshing. https://t.co/9iGSsjRdnj
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) March 29, 2021
re: #29 darthstar
Time for the press to ask him if he’ll thank the former guy again.
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For getting out of the way and keeping his mouth shut, sure.
So much for regretting his partisanship: https://t.co/lzT4C4cggf
— Ben LaBolt (@BenLaBolt) March 29, 2021
re: #7 William Lewis
So I mentioned that it’s my weekend and I was going to go on a liquor store run this morning. Well, mission accomplished, albiet a slightly higher outlay than planned.
A six of Pilsner Urquell, the original pils.
A six of Newcastle Brown ale
and
A liter of Famous Grouse.Plus an old Russian Jupiter 12 35/2.8 lens arrived from Ukraine.
Time to kick back in my little place and enjoy the one warm day this week.
Good day to fly a kite. Wind advisories all over MN & WI.
re: #30 Dangerman
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But this Pulpit Pimp says that Trump will be back in the Presidency by the end of April!
re: #30 Dangerman
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Ok to be fair he didn’t say what year
Or if the office was the NY AG
re: #36 🌹UOJB!
But this Pulpit Pimp says that Trump will be back in the Presidency by the end of April!
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Under what legal basis?
re: #16 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Rapper Lil Nas X is producing 666 pairs of Nike shoes called “Satan Shoes.” The shoes are part of promoting a new music video in which this rapper descends down a stripper pole and gives Satan a lap dance. The morals in this country have fallen so fast.
Brilliant marketing ploy. Free publicity and advertising from righteously indiginificated Christian moralists.
Exactly 3 pairs of those shoes will be sold to people who wear them. 600 pair will be sold to scalpers. No real person can afford limited quantity issues of anything any more [said in my whiney record collector voice].
For my birthday I want to share one of my favorite soundboards. Grateful Dead, Nassau Coliseum.
re: #40 Jay C
“God’s Law”??
IOW, ”don’t ask…”
Just once I’d like them to explain the process by which their proclamations will be enacted.
re: #36 🌹UOJB!
But this Pulpit Pimp says that Trump will be back in the Presidency by the end of April!
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Mike Lindell says August. Which is more wrong?
re: #36 🌹UOJB!
But this Pulpit Pimp says that Trump will be back in the Presidency by the end of April!
In a Friedman unit.
re: #42 Dangerman
Speaking of pillows, I hope David Hogg quietly dropped his competing pillow company talk…that was fucking stupid.
re: #48 darthstar
Speaking of pillows, I hope David Hogg quietly dropped his competing pillow company talk…that was fucking stupid.
I took that as satire.
re: #47 stpaulbear
In a Friedman unit.
I forgot about the old “F.U.” but it fits perfectly with these fucked up assholes!
re: #29 darthstar
Time for the press to ask him if he’ll thank the former guy again.
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Donny had about 80 days from the election (and vaccine approval) to make this stuff happen also didn’t he. Why didn’t he?
re: #53 Eventual Carrion
Donny had about 80 days from the election (and vaccine approval) to make this stuff happen also didn’t he. Why didn’t he?
He also had months and months to plan and put a system in place
You know, we’d need it for after he won. //
But that was too much work
re: #53 Eventual Carrion
Donny had about 80 days from the election (and vaccine approval) to make this stuff happen also didn’t he. Why didn’t he?
Lord Privy STEAL Jared said that it would only strike the blue states.
What is the “it” in this sentence, specifically https://t.co/6sRRD3Nu51
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) March 29, 2021
re: #45 Belafon
Have you read Last God Standing?
Oh. My. That sounds silly enough to be fun unlike the Percy Jackson snore books.
re: #53 Eventual Carrion
Donny had about 80 days from the election (and vaccine approval) to make this stuff happen also didn’t he. Why didn’t he?
If Joe Biden had been president in the fall we would have had infrastructure in place and the vaccine manufacturers would have had contracts to expand production and we’d be well over 200 million by now.
re: #50 🌹UOJB!
I forgot about the old “F.U.” but it fits perfectly with these fucked up assholes!
Yep - mostly because it never actually arrives. 🤔
re: #58 darthstar
If Joe Biden had been president in the fall we would have had infrastructure in place and the vaccine manufacturers would have had contracts to expand production and we’d be well over 200 million by now.
Yeah, if Donny had jumped on it as soon as the vaccine was approved we could have been at the point we are at now in January.
re: #55 🌹UOJB!
Lord Privy STEAL Jared said that it would only strike the blue states.
I honestly think that’s worthy of a class-action wrongful death suit against Jared which would bankrupt him. Wouldn’t that be sweet?
re: #57 William Lewis
Oh. My. That sounds silly enough to be fun unlike the Percy Jackson snore books.
I just noticed there are hundreds of them. Make sure you get the Michael Boatman version: amazon.com The writer was an actor on Spin City.
Edit: But the Norse ones sound interesting as well.
There should be a water company that brands itself “Second Amendment Rights” and hands out water to voters in Georgia. Watching Republicans struggle with trying to ban that would be fascinating.
— VoteVets (@votevets) March 29, 2021
re: #62 Belafon
I just noticed there are hundreds of them. Make sure you get the Michael Boatman version: amazon.com. The writer was an actor on Spin City.
Ah, very much Not the one I was looking at. Thank you for the clarification. THAT one looks like a hell of a lot of fun too. ;)
MrBWS and I got the Moderna first jab this morning.
Nothing to report except it’s a gorgeous, though somewhat chilly, day. (Winter appears to be making a return engagement this week, just in time to smite all the emerging fruit tree buds…sigh.)
re: #60 Eventual Carrion
Yeah, if Donny had jumped on it as soon as the vaccine was approved we could have been at the point we are at now in January.
If you don’t build anything you can’t be responsible if it fails
re: #58 darthstar
If Joe Biden had been president in the fall we would have had infrastructure in place and the vaccine manufacturers would have had contracts to expand production and we’d be well over 200 million by now.
TBF, until the vaccines were actually approved, it is difficult to get the appropriate infrastructure in place; for example, refrigeration needs depend on the vaccines themselves. There was so much that was unknown at the time — just because a pharmaceutical firm issues a press release claiming the amazing success of their product, it does not guarantee that internal studies when evaluated by a team of outside experts would satisfy even the looser requirements under “emergency use authorization”.
re: #66 Dangerman
pretty sure that the GOP would have done their best to monetize it; you pay, you get vaccinated, never mind that we called it a hoax and all of that shit. Also too, expect us to take all of the credit for the work of those in the private sector, regardless if they got federal funds because that’s how we roll.
re: #67 Hecuba’s daughter
TBF, until the vaccines were actually approved, it is difficult to get the appropriate infrastructure in place; for example, refrigeration needs depend on the vaccines themselves. There was so much that was unknown at the time — just because a pharmaceutical firm issues a press release claiming the amazing success of their product, it does not guarantee that internal studies when evaluated by a team of outside experts would satisfy even the looser requirements under “emergency use authorization”.
Arrange for vaccination sites, get states lined up with distribution plans and help them with prioritization (obviously some states like Florida needed it)…there was a lot of pre-flight work that could have been done but wasn’t.
re: #68 piratedan
pretty sure that the GOP would have done their best to monetize it; you pay, you get vaccinated, never mind that we called it a hoax and all of that shit. Also too, expect us to take all of the credit for the work of those in the private sector, regardless if they got federal funds because that’s how we roll.
They could have paid for another round of tax cuts.
A Lebanese power plant has shut down in part because of the Big Stuck Ship. Lebanon was heading for an electricity crisis anyway. Now it’s even worse. https://t.co/wHLjNd8cHh
— Liz Sly (@LizSly) March 29, 2021
re: #63 Dangerman
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I’m handing these out to everyone in line at Georgia voting locations and I am sure I will not get arrested. pic.twitter.com/nFlvgksHMN
— A Will and A Way🌎💨🔥 (@Nunoyurbeezwax) March 29, 2021
re: #68 piratedan
pretty sure that the GOP would have done their best to monetize it; you pay, you get vaccinated, never mind that we called it a hoax and all of that shit. Also too, expect us to take all of the credit for the work of those in the private sector, regardless if they got federal funds because that’s how we roll.
The NIH was instrumental in development of the moderna vaccine.
via RawStory
Somehow a general call for the public to be vaccinated is an attack on Republicans. Maybe that’s a signal that the problem is with Republicans.
Also, really enjoyed the clarification that they’re a “white Republican.” Glad that distinction was important to them.— Gene Wu (@GeneforTexas) March 29, 2021
re: #74 Dread Pirate Ron
via RawStory
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These people are the reason I want a proof of vaccination.
Lebanon is in serious trouble, dating back to the port blast and other issues.
re: #73 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
The NIH was instrumental in development of the moderna vaccine.
Obama/Biden administration gave Moderna and Pfizer about $150 million to research mRNA based vaccines for pandemic response. That got things really moving for the fast response we got when it actually became needed.
re: #13 darthstar
I’m more concerned with the amoral false-preachers that radicalize and fleece the American-right.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) March 29, 2021
re: #78 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Can I get an “amen” brothers and sisters?
re: #32 William Lewis
As I’ve mentioned before, I dearly love Rick Beato’s “What Makes This Song Great” series. He’s up to 101. Kelly Clarkson. “since you’ve been gone”
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I love this song. No apologies.
re: #48 darthstar
Speaking of pillows, I hope David Hogg quietly dropped his competing pillow company talk…that was fucking stupid.
Not quietly. He publicly stepped back after people pointed out how stupid that was.
Hey, didn’t Mike Lindell say he was releasing another movie today?
Where is it?
re: #77 Eventual Carrion
Obama/Biden administration gave Moderna and Pfizer about $150 million to research mRNA based vaccines for pandemic response. That got things really moving for the fast response we got when it actually became needed.
Obama also managed to have a detailed plan for a pandemic. There wasn’t a single thing of value trump have the US.
re: #82 🌹UOJB!
Hey, didn’t Mike Lindell say he was releasing another movie today?
Where is it?
Who cares, really?
re: #80 Barefoot Grin
I love this song. No apologies.
Agreed. It’s a exquisite bit of pop rock.
I love well crafted pop music. Drives my son nuts but one of my favorite songs is this because it’s so well written and performed:
re: #74 Dread Pirate Ron
My wife and I are both white Republicans
ah, that’s ok then.
How brain-dead do you have to be to write that in 2021?
re: #87 John Hughes
ah, that’s ok then.
How brain-dead do you have to be to write that in 2021?
That’s why they’re Republicans!
Lara Trump, the daughter-in-law of former President Donald J. Trump, is joining Fox News as a paid on-air contributor, the New York Times reports.
while
A new Meredith College survey finds Lara Trump leading in the Republican primary for the open U.S. Senate seat with 27%, followed by Pat McCrory at 17%, Mark Walker at 7% and Ted Budd at 6%.
note she trails “don’t know” and the poll sample was small.
i read another poll had her at 40%. i cant’ find it now.
re: #74 Dread Pirate Ron
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“I’m not dumb or unpatriotic for refusing to get the vaccine! That’s my personal health choice! Also, WHY HASN’T BIDEN GIVEN TRUMP CREDIT FOR THE VACCINE?!”
re: #89 Dangerman
while
note she trails “don’t know” and the poll sample was small.
i read another poll had her at 40%. i cant’ find it now.
And all of that is name recognition alone.
Biden said next week’s vaccine shipments (helped by a surge of Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine) will be 33 million, up from 27 million the previous week and 22 million the week before.
— Josh Wingrove (@josh_wingrove) March 29, 2021
re: #91 Targetpractice
And all of that is name recognition alone.
that’s how he got started
then he pivoted to racism, grievance, etc
CRAP. The wind just blew down my cedar privacy fence into my neighbors driveway. My neighbor had started moving pieces into my yard so I went out with a battery rotary saw and cut it into manageable lengths and now it’s sitting in my back yard. My insurance company is going to call me back in about an hour to start a claim. My deductible is $1000 so it won’t be a lot. Only one of the pickets broke so I may be able to salvage about 80% of them if I go that route. Posts are going to be a hassle because the guy I hired to set them came in with an auger that was at least 18”. There are massive concrete footings right where I want the new posts to be. I might look into using galvanized posts installed into the existing wood post holes.
re: #92 Dread Pirate Ron
Is this the first shipment of J&J? I don’t know anyone who has gotten that one yet.
re: #95 GlutenFreeJesus
Is this the first shipment of J&J? I don’t know anyone who has gotten that one yet.
No, J&J has been available in the States since the beginning of the month, I think. Several people on here have gotten it.
re: #95 GlutenFreeJesus
Is this the first shipment of J&J? I don’t know anyone who has gotten that one yet.
My son got the J&J 18 days ago.
The rest of us got Pfizer.
re: #95 GlutenFreeJesus
Is this the first shipment of J&J? I don’t know anyone who has gotten that one yet.
A couple of weeks ago, Rockwall gave out a few hundred J&J.
re: #64 William Lewis
Ah, very much Not the one I was looking at. Thank you for the clarification. THAT one looks like a hell of a lot of fun too. ;)
Ok, bought it and I’m about 3 ~ 4 chapters in. Worth. Every. Penny. I hope God gets as many laughs from it as I do.
re: #95 GlutenFreeJesus
Is this the first shipment of J&J? I don’t know anyone who has gotten that one yet.
Some of my friends have gotten J&J.
re: #93 Dangerman
that’s how he got started
then he pivoted to racism, grievance, etc
Racism was his shtick well before he got started running. His attitude toward the Central Park 5 was very early on; and let’s never forget his birtherism.
Heh—
I’m waiting to see the efficacy data on the Updog vaccine. https://t.co/YKGeQRV8bx
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) March 29, 2021
The problem is not that Mike Lindell says crazy, stupid stuff. The problem is that there are violent pro Trump supporters who believe this, egged on by @GOP leaders who lie about the election being stolen. That’s why National Guard troops in body armor are still at our Capitol. https://t.co/frszcA6Vpr
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) March 29, 2021
I’m looking at trending items. Oy.
Lin Wood failed in his legal attempts to overturn the 2020 election, and is now under investigation for possible voter fraud! 😱 https://t.co/llNAMXMeOg
— The American Independent (@AmerIndependent) March 29, 2021
NEW: Lin Wood to run for South Carolina GOP chair (The Hill).
— The Bias News (@thebias_news) March 29, 2021
re: #104 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Why hasn’t Lindell been arrested for sedition?
Fuck Birx. Fuck Meadows. Fuck trump.
After Birx’ CNN interview that hundreds of thousands of deaths could have been prevented, congenital liar Mark Meadows went on Bannon’s show today and claimed he would have recommended a national mask mandate to Trump in early April, but Fauci and Birx told him it wouldn’t help. pic.twitter.com/5VrUKp4wiK
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) March 29, 2021
re: #105 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I’m looking at trending items. Oy.
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re: #102 Hecuba’s daughter
Racism was his shtick well before he got started running. His attitude toward the Central Park 5 was very early on; and let’s never forget his birtherism.
i grew up and lived in NY until 1996 so yeah, i know that’s him.
i see his political persona as a separate, way more recent thing that grew quickly.
(and yes i know he toyed with politics back in 1999. that was a different animal imo)
- the escalator got him ‘introduced’
- most of the country that would come to matter to him (ie his future base) mostly only knew him from the tv show
- he got the toe hold based on the show and his name ‘reputation as a businessman’ (also a lie)**
- then he started testing the waters faster and looser
- he found there was a shit ton of people willing to support his shtick (saying out loud the racism, misogyny, bashing foreigners, the disabled, etc.)
- the reaction to the Grab ‘Em tape confirmed it for him. and doomed the rest of us.
** scads of new yorkers and those who knew were screaming ‘you have no idea what he’s really like or what you’re getting into’. it wasn’t enough
re: #103 Barefoot Grin
Heh—
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When is Berenson finally going to admit his take on the Israeli experience with vaccines seems to be wrong? That the case load and deaths have been declining? When did he join the Trump cult and the anti-vaxx movement?
re: #111 Hecuba’s daughter
When is Berenson finally going to admit his take on the Israeli experience with vaccines seems to be wrong? That the case load and deaths have been declining? When did he join the Trump cult and the anti-vaxx movement?
A long time ago, IIRC. He’s been in Fox and had been very vocal.
re: #107 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Fuck Birx. Fuck Meadows. Fuck trump.
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No, you wouldn’t have, Mark. And once again, Fauci’s “recommendation” at the time was so that health care workers could have the N95 masks.
re: #94 stpaulbear
CRAP. The wind just blew down my cedar privacy fence into my neighbors driveway. My neighbor had started moving pieces into my yard so I went out with a battery rotary saw and cut it into manageable lengths and now it’s sitting in my back yard. My insurance company is going to call me back in about an hour to start a claim. My deductible is $1000 so it won’t be a lot. Only one of the pickets broke so I may be able to salvage about 80% of them if I go that route. Posts are going to be a hassle because the guy I hired to set them came in with an auger that was at least 18”. There are massive concrete footings right where I want the new posts to be. I might look into using galvanized posts installed into the existing wood post holes.
When I put up my chain link fence I figured I would have to remove at least one post to allow large equipment into the yard so I used one of these set into concrete. The post slides in and out with no hassles. Well except for having to take the fencing down.
re: #95 GlutenFreeJesus
Is this the first shipment of J&J? I don’t know anyone who has gotten that one yet.
I got my J&J jab back on the 12th. No side effects.
Wow ~ just had an ocular migraine. They are freaky!
re: #117 prairiefire
Wow ~ just had an ocular migraine. They are freaky!
Yes they are scary if you never had one before.
They stopped when Dr. put me on beta-blockers.
re: #118 🌹UOJB!
I’ll put off my errands till tomorrow. Still feel a bit “Floaty”.
re: #107 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Fuck Birx. Fuck Meadows. Fuck trump.
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Meadows is sounding like the guy in the office who wants partial credit for the recommendation he totally was going to make if somebody else hadn’t already beat him to the punch.
A STOVEN is a new shoot growing from the stump of a felled or fallen tree. pic.twitter.com/DbxbhjBozd
— Haggard Hawks 🦅 (@HaggardHawks) March 29, 2021
re: #122 Backwoods_Sleuth
That looks like poison oak, lol. Still, Spring!
The guy who thinks everything was created by someone on drugs pic.twitter.com/b9shDf41U9
— pixelatedboat aka “mr tweets” (@pixelatedboat) March 29, 2021
Missed this from yesterday’s Fox & Friends: they were talking about Lil Nas X and the satan shoes thing. Pete Hegseth had to be corrected by the weather guy. Just A+ all around. pic.twitter.com/7ZbVBj1gJv
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) March 29, 2021
Choose your fighter pic.twitter.com/0NrQvyCmqq
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) March 29, 2021
re: #107 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Fuck Birx. Fuck Meadows. Fuck trump.
Nicolle Wallace almost lost her shit when she opened up with the Birx CNN interview.
re: #125 Backwoods_Sleuth
I thought this was funny.
we have decided to drop these to even the score. damn y’all happy now? pic.twitter.com/RGpCiiRbGb
— nope 🏹 (@LilNasX) March 28, 2021
Nobody ever accused Trump’s supporters of being bright.
A Dallas man was wearing a T-shirt that said, “I Was There, Washington D.C., January 6, 2021” when he was arrested on charges that he stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 https://t.co/1aId3kzHZS
— Michael Kunzelman (@Kunzelman75) March 29, 2021
re: #128 darthstar
Nobody ever accused Trump’s supporters of being bright.
Is it stupidity, or is it hubris?
KITTEN ADVICE: Kittens are tiny but very strong. Never try to fight one. In a fight with a human, a kitten will always win. pic.twitter.com/7nmEtSOUoT
— Tom Cox (@cox_tom) March 29, 2021
Will the media cover the fact that 2 black teens murdered an Asian Pakistani Immigrant this week?
If we are serious about stopping “Asian Hate” why is the media silent on this?
🤔— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) March 28, 2021
Mohammad Anwar was a law abiding, productive member of society. He was murdered while trying to do his job. George Floyd was a violent felon who died while high on drugs and trying to pass off counterfeit bills. Of course our society mourns the latter and not the former.
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) March 29, 2021
Correction: Two bIack girls murdered a Pakistani immigrant. https://t.co/hVHoX5wmUZ
— Mark Dice (@MarkDice) March 28, 2021
The Right are exploiting this tragedy and weaponizing the murder of a Muslim immigrant to attack the black community.
Interesting milestone. Seems to be across the board too. The “mainstream” churches’ failure to stand up to fascist Mammon-cults is coming back to haunt them.
US Church Membership Falls Below Majority for First Time
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They are actually talking about people’s ability to buy and sell linked to the vaccine passport.
They might as well call it Biden’s Mark of the Beast.— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) March 29, 2021
Prosecutors added two charges against Ghislaine Maxwell in a case accusing her of grooming and abusing young women and girls for Jeffrey Epstein’s empire of abuse, that now include sex trafficking conspiracy and sex trafficking of a minor. https://t.co/xebSMaHSYz
— Amee Vanderpool (@mamasreallyrule) March 29, 2021
re: #117 prairiefire
I haven’t had one in a while, but the first time was while driving to work - back when I did such things…
re: #137 Backwoods_Sleuth
Or you could call it Cinemark of the Beast, because some businesses are going to want it even if it’s not mandated.
re: #137 Backwoods_Sleuth
No vaccine, no fly. Works for me. Keep Q grounded.
re: #135 nines09
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re: #134 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Interesting milestone. Seems to be across the board too. The “mainstream” churches’ failure to stand up to fascist Mammon-cults is coming back to haunt them.
US Church Membership Falls Below Majority for First Time
It should. When we fail to fight evil we are no better than that evil itself. Fuck those GODDAMNED fundamentalists.
It hurts to be someone who believes in Christ Jesus and to watch the shit done in His name.
re: #142 A Cranky One
Spring has sprung
The grass has rizz
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Cooper will, Cooper won’t. Cooper does, Cooper don’t.
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re: #143 Backwoods_Sleuth
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But hey, let’s totally shoot of fireworks there in July.
re: #144 William Lewis
It should. When we fail to fight evil we are no better than that evil itself. Fuck those GODDAMNED fundamentalists.
It hurts to be someone who believes in Christ Jesus and to watch the shit done in His name.
RIGHT?! How badly I want to just rip these hypocrites a new asshole.
re: #139 dharmamark
I’m pretty sure this is the physical occurrence that happened to ancient people who were than called seers or shamans. “Yes, I just floated up to the corner of the ceiling and looked through a fractured rainbow.” That would win people over😂
JUST IN: Terrorism charges dismissed against three men accused in plot to kidnap Whitmer https://t.co/nAiXthjZNC pic.twitter.com/dEQZEYzLEh
— The Hill (@thehill) March 29, 2021
Seems like a textbook case of terrorism. pic.twitter.com/a8We65RIkQ
— Wallace Ritchie (@WallaceRitchie) March 29, 2021
re: #8 Dr Lizardo
A fat Bill Murray from SNL days doing his Star Wars-singing Nick the Lounge Singer character.
re: #149 Backwoods_Sleuth
Presiding Dipshit “There has to be some intention to incite mayhem”
Violently kidnapping the occupant of the highest office in the state apparently doesn’t meet that threshold because……Magic🤷♂️ pic.twitter.com/dgdqBHF43h— 🕯🙏𝗣𝗘𝗧𝗘𝗥🙏🕯 (@apathetic_NY) March 29, 2021
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No end to it: Florida Republicans are now considering a measure that would restrict passing food and drinks to people in voting lines.
Republicans sure seem convinced that voter suppression is in their party’s interests!@marceelias tells me he may sue:https://t.co/vR7UHbUpyx— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) March 29, 2021
re: #153 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #115 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
When I put up my chain link fence I figured I would have to remove at least one post to allow large equipment into the yard so I used one of these set into concrete. The post slides in and out with no hassles. Well except for having to take the fencing down.
Thanks. Unfortunately the existing foootings have 3.5”x3.5” existing holes from the original 4x4. I’m pretty sure there is mostly wood rot in the holes.
re: #81 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Not quietly. He publicly stepped back after people pointed out how stupid that was.
Website is still up
Regarding the earlier discussion of beer:
When you order their new “cold IPA” but you realize they just renamed their shitty IPL pic.twitter.com/ZEQSx1ja4m
— Worst Beer Blog (@WorstBeerBlog) March 29, 2021
re: #158 Backwoods_Sleuth
I agree with her face. That’s too much foam.
re: #133 DodgerFan1988
Just because George Floyd was a felon and may have been high does not give a cop the right to be judge, jury and executioner by kneeling on the guy’s neck until he died. Our laws DO NOT give the police that authority. You’re a disgusting human being.
— Dee “Why is the GOP against voting rights?” Holmes (@mmmirele) March 29, 2021
Fuck these assholes, every single one of them.
re: #136 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I keep hearing it described as a “fight over” or “battle over” voting rights in Georgia and elsewhere. Rubbish. It’s a fight FOR voting rights. The GOP is against. Democrats are for. Don’t accept the “both sides” BS.
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) March 29, 2021
re: #157 danarchy
Not much of a website, but it does have a manifesto, as bedding companies do.
I can’t find the article that said he’s was stepping back and working on himself due to the conflict he caused in the anti-gun violence movement, but I did find right-wing media from this month saying he forgot to trademark the company name.
South Dakota’s bill barring transgender girls from playing in girl’s sports is dead.
Gov. Noem demanded changes; #sdleg rejected them; while the House was debating whether to pass the bill over Noem’s objections, the Senate adjourned for the year. https://t.co/x44pxfGA1K— David H. Montgomery (@dhmontgomery) March 29, 2021
re: #164 Backwoods_Sleuth
WOMP WOMP.
re: #162 Backwoods_Sleuth
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It’s the usual BSAB/treat your readers like idiots play on the media’s part. By spinning it as “fight/battle over” voting rights, they give the impression that both sides are in general agreement but squabbling over the details, rather than one side wanting to expand voting rights while the other wishes to narrow the voting pool as far down as needed to maintain minority rule.
re: #72 sagehen
People in vote-suppressing states will be shot for handing out those squirt guns.
re: #168 Eclectic Cyborg
The SD Senate adjourned FOR THE YEAR??
Well, damn.
Fiscal year? Fiscal NYD in MN is July 1.
A lot of the Georgia voting law is hot garbage. Reducing early voting from 9 weeks to 4 weeks is fine by me though. 9 weeks just seems like way too much time. People are voting before the debates even start. Hell in MA there was no early voting until this last cycle and it is only 2 weeks now.
We are already at a place with perpetual campaigning, I just don’t think we need months of early voting.
re: #169 stpaulbear
Fiscal year? Fiscal NYD in MN is July 1.
Oh, right. Yeah, that makes more sense.
re: #147 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
RIGHT?! How badly I want to just rip these hypocrites a new asshole.
We do what we can. I don’t blame Anymouse for his reaction to the evils done to him. He should be angry; we should feel guilty.
That said, if we believe in what we claim to believe in, then things change don’t they?
In that belief, WE are given a standard that we are expected to live up to. If we actually do there should be people looking at us saying “why do they live that way? Why shouldn’t I?”
My life is what it is. There are good things in it and there are things that are Not good in it. I am not perfect and I refuse to use the “but I’m forgiven” bullshit. I do my best to live as Christ Jesus taught us to live. I will fail every fucking day and the Good One will forgive that but that does not give me an excuse to say that I can get away with my sin despite that forgiveness. We will all be in heaven or none of us will; It really is that simple.
Crap, it’s windy here. Now that my fence has blown down I’m waiting for the next thing to be destroyed. High wind weather advisory ends at 9:00 pm and it can’t come fast enough. My nerves are shot with weather paranoia today. I don’t know how Anymouse does it.
I took some of the fence apart to salvage the cedar pickets. They’re about 10 years old and highly weathered but they’re expensive to replace. Working on the fence made me realize how much I’ve been just sitting on my ass for the last year. I’m in horrid shape.
Sorry for whining. I’m in a crappy mood today.
What you need to know about the Ever Given:
Suez Canal Blockage Update: Ship Partially Refloated | Ship’s Owner, Manager, Operator | Chief MAKOi
Chief MAKOi has many interesting and informative videos about commercial ocean shipping on Youtube.
I posted a longish comment on FB directed against GOP disenfranchisement, which received approval from like-minded friends, but the most vocal Trumpster among my FB friends mocked me for my post. I politely replied that we have different perspectives and will never persuade the other of the error of their ways — and one of the likes was from another Trumpster friend. He has taken the route of agreeing to disagree without resorting to demeaning language or hostility.
The only time I now respond to a Trumpster’s comment on their personal page is when I try (usually in vain) to correct an outright error of fact.
re: #170 danarchy
A lot of the Georgia voting law is hot garbage. Reducing early voting from 9 weeks to 4 weeks is fine by me though. 9 weeks just seems like way too much time. People are voting before the debates even start. Hell in MA there was no early voting until this last cycle and it is only 2 weeks now.
We are already at a place with perpetual campaigning, I just don’t think we need months of early voting.
4 weeks sounds good with a requirement that there be enough voting booths that no one is in line more than 30 minutes. And that’s after everyone is registered to vote.
re: #172 William Lewis
We do what we can. I don’t blame Anymouse for his reaction to the evils done to him. He should be angry; we should feel guilty.
That said, if we believe in what we claim to believe in, then things change don’t they?
In that belief, WE are given a standard that we are expected to live up to. If we actually do there should be people looking at us saying “why do they live that way? Why shouldn’t I?”
My life is what it is. There are good things in it and there are things that are Not good in it. I am not perfect and I refuse to use the “but I’m forgiven” bullshit. I do my best to live as Christ Jesus taught us to live. I will fail every fucking day and the Good One will forgive that but that does not give me an excuse to say that I can get away with my sin despite that forgiveness. We will all be in heaven or none of us will; It really is that simple.
My father believed his life was his witness, he treated everyone like Jesus in disguise. He believed that to be Christian is to strive to be like Christ. Through him I met many amazing people of different faiths who devoted their lives to helping and caring for others.
I have zero patience for the hateful fundamentalists who have read the notes on the sheet music but never actually heard the tune.
re: #173 stpaulbear
Crap, it’s windy here. Now that my fence has blown down I’m waiting for the next thing to be destroyed. High wind weather advisory ends at 9:00 pm and it can’t come fast enough. My nerves are shot with weather paranoia today. I don’t know how Anymouse does it.
I took some of the fence apart to salvage the cedar pickets. They’re about 10 years old and highly weathered but they’re expensive to replace. Working on the fence made me realize how much I’ve been just sitting on my ass for the last year. I’m in horrid shape.
Sorry for whining. I’m in a crappy mood today.
I’d offer to let you join my support group for cranky people, but I’m too cranky to have a support group…
@AriMelber - deep fake Tom Cruise sounds like he’s as much of a dick as real Tom Cruise.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) March 29, 2021
About fucking time:
Breaking: New York is lowering the vaccine age to 30 tomorrow, Tuesday.
Then it drops to age 16 on April 6, per A.P./ Cuomo administration:https://t.co/WeQayzCXuL— Ari Melber (@AriMelber) March 29, 2021
I saw this and now you must. https://t.co/9RsENSh7EM
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) March 29, 2021
Are they going to try to go through the canal again? Make those assholes go around. pic.twitter.com/dt4vkqCiEm
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) March 29, 2021
re: #179 A Cranky One
I’d offer to let you join my support group for cranky people, but I’m too cranky to have a support group…
Support groups are for losers.
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re: #184 darthstar
That’s why they parked her in the lake. She’s going to be sitting there for a while, undergoing inspections and possibly repairs. Her cargo does still have to get to its destination; those dildos are wanted by someone somewhere.
Because Georgia simply isn’t bad enough:
Definitely sensing a theme here: https://t.co/mTRoZIBIod
— Dan Froomkin/presswatchers.org (@froomkin) March 29, 2021
We’re sooner to get unlimited gun ownership at this point than any modicum of gun control. Even with the NRA running off fumes, it still basically runs the goddamn country.
re: #184 darthstar
Every ship that passes them from now on is going to have the entire crew on deck giving them the finger.
re: #186 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
That’s why they parked her in the lake. She’s going to be sitting there for a while, undergoing inspections and possibly repairs. Her cargo does still have to get to its destination; those dildos are wanted by someone somewhere.
That’s a lot of dildos. That’s why it’s called the Ever Givin’…
Parler has been forced to unironically explain the First Amendment to its users who are outraged after the company revealed it forwarded violent posts about the storming of the Capitol to the FBI. h/t @th3j35t3r https://t.co/ic7GEYtbpj
— Esther Schindler (@estherschindler) March 29, 2021
re: #190 darthstar
File under: Kind of funny, kind of sad.
Because I’m a lazy about food, I decided a chicken pot pie would hit the spot for dinner. When I opened the microwave to put the pie in, I found the bowl of Chunky chicken pot pie soup (“pub style”) that I’d forgotten about after my fence blew down. My life is so sad.
re: #192 stpaulbear
Because I’m a lazy about food, I decided a chicken pot pie would hit the spot for dinner. When I opened the microwave to put the pie in, I found the bowl of Chunky chicken pot pie soup (“pub style”) that I’d forgotten about after my fence blew down. My life is so sad.
You reminded me I have a thing of that exact kind of soup still waiting for me in my pantry.
re: #188 stpaulbear
Every ship that passes them from now on is going to have the entire crew on deck giving the finger.
I thought the operators of the canal provided a small crew to pilot ships through the canal. Seems kind of weird to blame the actual crew for something the canal pilot did.
re: #194 danarchy
I thought the operators of the canal provided a small crew to pilot ships through the canal. Seems kind of weird to blame the actual crew for something the canal pilot did.
They do, and there was a report that the Suez Canal pilots, as opposed to their (Central/South) American counterparts in Panama, are very loose in discipline and slightly corrupt.
Considering the Chauvin trial today, I figured this seemed…relevant to bring up:
These were the text messages between police officers before they went out and beat the undercover officer and many civilians reported being abused during arrest in the kettle. https://t.co/aVgGoV5vnN pic.twitter.com/RVABSjnlQJ
— David Carson (@PDPJ) March 29, 2021
Man. It’s amazing how fast Red States are speedrunning ‘Worst State Ever’.
HB 1570 was just passed through both chambers in the Arkansas legislature, banning trans youth from accessing health care and health insurance coverage that we deserve and need.
Our rights and lives are under attack.
Governor Hutchinson must veto this bill.— ACLU (@ACLU) March 29, 2021
re: #117 prairiefire
Wow ~ just had an ocular migraine. They are freaky!
I have these continually, but if you’ve never had them, yes, they are freaky!
re: #194 danarchy
I thought the operators of the canal provided a small crew to pilot ships through the canal. Seems kind of weird to blame the actual crew for something the canal pilot did.
OK. I disavow my previous comment. The ship itself will still live in infamy from now on.
House offer accepted. Having to write a check for earnest money just now. Crossing my fingers that the bank wasn’t bullshiting me on the pre-qual.
re: #195 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
They do, and there was a report that the Suez Canal pilots, as opposed to their (Central/South) American counterparts in Panama, are very loose in discipline and slightly corrupt.
Panama pilots do have the advantage of not encountering blinding sandstorms. I wonder if there is also an operational difference between a N-S canal and an E-W canal.
re: #135 nines09
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re: #193 Citizen K
You reminded me I have a thing of that exact kind of soup still waiting for me in my pantry.
And that’s what I had for supper last night.
“The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities…”
Karl Marx or Adam Smith?— Edwin (@EdMix13) March 29, 2021
re: #118 🌹UOJB!
Yes they are scary if you never had one before.
They stopped when Dr. put me on beta-blockers.
I had my first one three years ago on the sideline of a Houston Texans game that I was shooting. It looked like I was walking through a flashing tunnel that got bigger and bigger and then it just went away. No pain or anything, but it freaked me the fuck out.
re: #205 Ace Rothstein
I had my first one three years ago on the sideline of a Houston Texans game that I was shooting. It looked like I was walking through a flashing tunnel that got bigger and bigger and then it just went away. No pain or anything, but it freaked me the fuck out.
Had it happen to me a couple times over 10 years ago while I was sitting at my desk in the office. Very strange — and I panicked the first time until it vanished.
re: #206 Hecuba’s daughter
Had it happen to me a couple times over 10 years ago while I was sitting at my desk in the office. Very strange — and I panicked the first time until it vanished.
Same here. Mine were jaggy neon-colored circles that just got bigger and bigger, and then were gone. Total freak.
The NY Times had an opinion piece by Nicholas Ashford promoting the return of the Fairness Doctrine to alleviate the problem of the daily dose of misinformation that too many receive from various media platforms. On the surface, it seems like a beguiling proposal but then I started wondering: what happens if the sane media is forced to host anti-vaxxers who want to respond to infectious disease specialists or climate change deniers want equal rights with scientists or creationists demand the opportunity to responds to evolutionary biologists? How is this managed to prevent lies from gaining a platform?
The author suggested:
A reimagined and expanded version of this policy could enable independent bodies to review inaccurate material and require that technology platforms and broadcast media publish and respond to criticism.
But in these contentious time, when facts have to fight “alternative facts”, I’m not sure that this is a possibility as long as the GOP remains a force for racism and anti-science rhetoric
re: #201 Hecuba’s daughter
Contrary to the way most people would guess, the Panama Canal actually does run N-S… or at least it is closer to that than E-W.
It’s more or less NNW-SSE. The Pacific entrance is actually to the east of the Atlantic entrance.
Southern Poverty Law Center @splcenter files a lawsuit against ICE on behalf of detained women who had “unwanted &/or unnecessary” medical procedures while detained that the lawsuit says led to irreversible harm. https://t.co/aVyy5gFdza
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) March 29, 2021
re: #188 stpaulbear
Every ship that passes them from now on is going to have the entire crew on deck giving them the finger.
More likely saying, “There but for the grace of god…”
re: #196 Citizen K
So the all White jury saw those text messages and still decided that these police thugs were not guilty. Just like white jurors used to free white men guilty of lynching. Nothing has changed.
re: #210 Dread Pirate Ron
The ICE officials involved, including Dr. Amin, need to be facing arrest and not just lawsuits. Outrageous.
re: #210 Dread Pirate Ron
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
Article II
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
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D. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
E. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
If you think Chauvin is going to do any time for killing George Floyd, you crazy.
re: #215 Ace Rothstein
If you think Chauvin is going to do any time for killing George Floyd, you crazy.
I think he will serve time. Prosecution’s witness today was damning, and there’s more to come. He might not get the charge people want, but he’ll do time or Minneapolis/St. Paul will burn.
re: #187 Citizen K
At this point they are all but flat out asking to be stopped. How I do not know, but they won’t stop on their own.
re: #217 Barefoot Grin
I firmly believe he will be acquitted of all charges. Nothing has changed. I was so forceful about that declaration on twitter, because I’m a little afraid of doing such things there anymore.
It’s not going to be good for our country at all.
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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
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