Stephen returns from hiatus wearing something he’s calling a “mustache,” and uses his monologue to get caught up on all the major news that happened during Late Show’s hiatus. Did you hear about that talking duck?
On Sept. 11, 2001, StratCom was in the middle of a giant exercise simulating a conflict that would erupt into nuclear war. By day’s end, the faux Armageddon would give way to a real-world catastrophe. https://t.co/Q14RbhlSND
— Star-Herald (@sbstarherald) September 8, 2021
I wonder if they had any coordination problems in effecting the arrest of the double murder suspect in Llewellen, since Garden County is in Mountain Time and Keith County is in Central Time.
re: #2 JOE 🥓
Well, look who supports the Texas Abortion Ban!
I’ll give you 3 guesses…
Cannot get my head around this contradiction.
The Texas abortion bill makes it possible to follow and sue people who can afford to leave the state for an abortion where it is still not illegal.
I used that term because I realize that the Culture Wars are still raging, and Texas has just made a major breakthrough.
And once the GOP is in a position to simply ignore any state election outcomes it dislikes in 2024, they are really going to come down in the name of Fundamentalist Christian Theocracy.
re: #382 Hecuba’s daughter
The only state you cannot gerrymander is one with a single district.
That map Sen. Morfeld posted also cuts more of my district into NE-1, to add more extremely conservative rural voters to NE-1, to offset the liberal voters of NE-2.
The proposed map cuts right through the middle of Omaha, shearing off the majority-African American section of North Omaha and adding it to NE-1.
re: #4 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Cannot get my head around this contradiction.
The Texas abortion bill makes it possible to follow and sue people who can afford to leave the state for an abortion where it is still not illegal.
I used that term because I realize that the Culture Wars are still raging, and Texas has just made a major breakthrough.
And once the GOP is in a position to simply ignore any state election outcomes it dislikes in 2024, they are really going to come down in the name of Fundamentalist Christian Theocracy.
The law also contradicts another Texas culture war law they passed earlier in the year, claiming you cannot deplatform or sue anyone for what is said about a political position on social media.
re: #6 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The law also contradicts another Texas culture war law they passed earlier in the year, claiming you cannot deplatform or sue any
oneconservative for what is said about a political position on social media.
jfc he’s doing it again today
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 8, 2021
re: #2 JOE 🥓
Well, look who supports the Texas Abortion Ban!
I’ll give you 3 guesses…
“I am for a woman’s right to choose,” Jenner responded before trying to have it both ways. “I am also for a state having the ability to make their own laws. So I support Texas in that decision, that’s their decision. But as far as being a woman’s right to choose, I don’t see any changes in our laws in California in the future.”
re: #8 Charles Johnson
I used to love Nate. He’s gone all in on self-importance recently, though, which has made him more than a little insufferable. He does some good and important work on correcting misinterpretations of data and statistics, but then he just takes it wayyyyyyy too far.
76% of California recall ballots haven’t been returned.
CA voters: It’s essential that you vote against the recall — and mail in your ballots by Sept 14.
Needless to say, if Republicans take power, it would have devastating consequences for California and beyond.
(See: Texas)— Robert Reich (@RBReich) September 7, 2021
re: #11 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
76% of California recall ballots haven’t been returned.
CA voters: It’s essential that you vote against the recall — and mail in your ballots by Sept 14.
Needless to say, if Republicans take power, it would have devastating consequences for California and beyond.
(See: Texas)— Robert Reich (@RBReich) September 7, 2021
Is it possible that some of the 76% have their ballots lost in the DeJoy slowdown of the postal service?
re: #9 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
“I am for a woman’s right to choose,” Jenner responded before trying to have it both ways. “I am also for a state having the ability to make their own laws*. So I support Texas in that decision, that’s their decision. But as far as being a woman’s right to choose, I don’t see any changes in our laws in California in the future.”
what about that pesky US Constitution?
re: #13 Dangerman
what about that pesky US Constitution?
Abortion isn’t in the Constitution! Nine unelected judged imposed killing BABEEEEZ on the country! Now we’re taking it back for Christianity!
The @LAPDHQ has been at the forefront of violating the rights of the citizens it “protects” for more than 120 years. It’s nice to see them updating their intrusions. https://t.co/6Nz0uDvbhk
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) September 8, 2021
— Liz Climo (@elclimo) September 8, 2021
re: #15 Backwoods_Sleuth
“Fuck you, come back with a warrant”
proceeds to get beaten to a bloody pulp*
* = No, I actually wouldn’t, I’m white
re: #9 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The typical “It Doesn’t Affect Me Personally So I Don’t Care” conservative approach to everything.
Yep, it’s that time again. Time for Donald Trump to claim he “brought a big crew of people down” to Ground Zero and personally “helped” right after 9/11.
There is absolutely no proof that any of this happened. https://t.co/qFurQo7ttq pic.twitter.com/cc9f8y5fwI— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) September 8, 2021
Trump appears to be adding to his 9/11 tall tales on Newsmax.
This time around he says that after he “heard creaks” coming from a building at Ground Zero, he told first responders “that building’s coming down” — prompting “two big firemen” to grab him and move him to safety. pic.twitter.com/d0ivahZR9U— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) September 8, 2021
Oh. Oh God. The stupid, it burns (though not as badly as horse dewormer, I might imagine).
Ah, “free speech defender” Joe Rogan threatening to sue CNN for saying he took “horse dewormer” is the kind of nonsense I didn’t need today.
— Mike Masnick (@mmasnick) September 8, 2021
re: #8 Charles Johnson
This?
Maybe we need to be more careful with terms like “follow the science”?
Experts disagree with one another on all these decisions, there is “science” on both sides, and this sort of rhetoric is often used as a cudgel to create a false sense of consensus.https://t.co/ZQLGzKSOXn pic.twitter.com/qBR9wLlchx— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) September 1, 2021
re: #13 Dangerman
what about that pesky US Constitution?
“The Constitution is just a piece of paper,” he said in a mock-German accent.
“The argument is a new version of an old scam. It is repugnant.”
Tax expert Steve Rosenthal, to me, in this piece. He explains here why this argument about family farms being hurt by closing tax loopholes for the wealthy is such epic baloney: https://t.co/J9NAqeWc9k— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) September 8, 2021
Parent Assaults Catholic School Teacher after Viewing Video of Teacher Abusing Her Son (Friendly Atheist)
She was called to the school to view limited clips of the incident, and attacked the schoolteacher in the meeting. She says she appreciated seeing the teacher lying on the ground in the same way the teacher did with her child.
She is suing the Grovetown, Georgia Catholic School to get all the video of the incident released.
The parent was arrested for battery and jailed. She has a GoFundMe which has raised $14,000 so far.
The reason the meeting was taking place was because an incident report was filed against the teacher. She has not been arrested.
re: #24 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #22 Rightwingconspirator
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Note, Nate, that we’re saying “follow the science” not “follow the scientists.”
re: #12 Hecuba’s daughter
Is it possible that some of the 76% have their ballots lost in the DeJoy slowdown of the postal service?
Which is why I hand carried my NO ballot to the County collection box.
There is no doubt in my mind that DeJoy is fucking with the recall ballots.
re: #15 Backwoods_Sleuth
If a cop asked me for my social media info and social security number I would tell them to pound sand. Arrest me. We’ll iron it out as the lawsuit proceeds.
re: #29 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
If a cop asked me for my social media info and social security number I would tell them to pound sand. Arrest me. We’ll iron it out as the lawsuit proceeds.
The last time I crossed the Canadian border (Sarnia, Ontario), Canadian border services asked me for all my social media information.
They found it difficult to believe I’m not on any social media services.
Being stupid and honest, I did tell them I comment on political blogs. Wonkette was a bit difficult to describe to them (and why I would travel to London to see someone from that site).
It’s never easy being a parent. Part 1
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re: #25 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
From her GoFundMe page (where she has her mugshot up as her photo):
For 3 hours I watched his teacher spank him, hit him in the head, slap him with a book, shove him to the ground, snatch him up by one arm and carry him across the room multiple times, slam him in his seat to make him eat lunch alone in time-out, pick him up by his ankles and hold him on his neck/head, grab his face so hard his cheeks were touching in his mouth as she was nose to nose with him, amongst other things. The daycare director dismissed her employee’s actions and ensured me she would be keeping her job. She claimed to see nothing wrong with the teacher’s abusive behavior until she could no longer deny what we both had watched and asked me what I wanted to do about it……. I was only allowed to watch the footage from ONE day and only ONE of the two cameras in the room. I had several employees try to stop me from watching it after I had seen “certain events”.
Dr Lizardo posted some Amyl and The Sniffers previous page…
re: #32 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Her child is a non-verbal two year-old with autism.
Frankly I don’t understand why any parent would put their child in the hands of any church.
re: #20 Backwoods_Sleuth
Yep, it’s that time again. Time for Donald Trump to claim he “brought a big crew of people down” to Ground Zero and personally “helped” right after 9/11.
There is absolutely no proof that any of this happened.
less words, more accurate: (dont be afraid)
This is a lie.
re: #25 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Parent Assaults Catholic School Teacher after Viewing Video of Teacher Abusing Her Son (Friendly Atheist)
She was called to the school to view limited clips of the incident, and attacked the schoolteacher in the meeting. She says she appreciated seeing the teacher lying on the ground in the same way the teacher did with her child.
She is suing the Grovetown, Georgia Catholic School to get all the video of the incident released.
The parent was arrested for battery and jailed. She has a GoFundMe which has raised $14,000 so far.
The reason the meeting was taking place was because an incident report was filed against the teacher. She has not been arrested.
AKA: Parent justifiably beats the shit out of child abuser.
Allow me to humbly suggest that Treasury should go get these funds. https://t.co/vBmAiOLrXd
— Siddhartha Mahanta (@sidhubaba) September 8, 2021
They be tormenting him😂 pic.twitter.com/z3vhpSVCVp
— jouissance🏳️🌈🇭🇹 (@thunderthize) September 8, 2021
re: #22 Rightwingconspirator
This?
Maybe we need to be more careful with terms like “follow the science”?
Experts disagree with one another on all these decisions, there is “science” on both sides, and this sort of rhetoric is often used as a cudgel to create a false sense of consensus.
that all science does not agree is besides the point
in fact it’s partially how actual science works
ALL the science is on one side.
That is the side of science.
anything else is not science.
crackpottery masquerading as science, however well dressed, is not science.
Two videos went viral last week on Tik-Tok showing a Christian man berating two women on a public beach in Ft. Collins, Colo. for wearing “revealing swimsuits.”
He has attempted to tell his side of the story on Instagram, going all-in on how women shouldn’t make themselves “objects” (Christians make women objects, and the Bible says something about him tearing out his own eye, but they don’t read that book).
He then veers into transphobia for no apparent reason.
He also claims that “the truth will set you free” (referring to his harassment of random women in public in the name of religion).
christian_nightmares
Christian man who harassed women at a beach tells his side of the story
A Christian man who recently harassed women at a beach for the swimsuits they were wearing, which was captured in a video that’s now going viral, tells his side of the story and it’s just as awful as you might think…
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re: #15 Backwoods_Sleuth
NEW: LAPD has instructed officers to collect social media information from every civilian they interview or stop, including individuals who are not arrested or accused of a crime.
Internal records obtained by the @BrennanCenter
https://t.co/f5KQJnfPIL— Sam Levin (@SamTLevin) September 8, 2021
Sure thing, boss. Here’s my mobile, you can get my social media info off this….
re: #24 Backwoods_Sleuth
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the lie sells better
“The argument is a new version of an old scam. It is repugnant.”
Tax expert Steve Rosenthal, to me, in this piece. He explains here why this argument about family farms being hurt by closing tax loopholes for the wealthy is such epic baloney: https://t.co/J9NAqeWc9k— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) September 8, 2021
New: House Ethics announces fines against Republicans Marjorie Taylor Greene and Chip Roy after they chose not to appeal sanctions over their refusal to wear a mask
— Hugo Lowell (@hugolowell) September 8, 2021
re: #29 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
If a cop asked me for my social media info and social security number I would tell them to pound sand. Arrest me. We’ll iron it out as the lawsuit proceeds.
am i free to go?
if yes, goodbye
if no, then Im under arrest. i consent to nothing. get me a lawyer
“Why are they so worried about how we refer to bugs?”
“Hey, they’re not ‘bugs’ either, you simpleton!”
Oh shit, the entomology police have arrived. https://t.co/uXaQ7MMGj0
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) September 8, 2021
re: #40 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The whole “women are obligated to uphold purity culture” bullshit is one of my biggest triggers. Its roots are deeply misogynist and come from the basic American Christian nationalist principle that sex is only to be had within marriage, and under no other circumstances. The idea that men are helpless before the Power of Boobs (tm) really just comes down to an insecurity that indulging in one’s fantasy will cause one to burn in Hell for all eternity.
— Conservative Self-Owns (@ConSelfOwns) September 7, 2021
Enlarge the image, note the detail, then think about how small this object really is.
For our #ArtefactOfTheDay, we’ve chosen this sardonyx #Roman gem!
Dating to c. 1st century BCE, it depicts a female sphinx, a mythical hybrid with an animal’s body and a human head. Seen as protective spirits, it was likely part of a ‘good luck’ ring.#Classics #Art #Jewelry pic.twitter.com/BdVUgN6I8M— The Classical Compendium 🏛️ (@TheClassicalCo) September 7, 2021
re: #46 Dopamine Fish
The whole “women are obligated to uphold purity culture” bullshit is one of my biggest triggers. Its roots are deeply misogynist and come from the basic American Christian nationalist principle that sex is only to be had within marriage, and under no other circumstances. The idea that men are helpless before the Power of Boobs (tm) really just comes down to an insecurity that indulging in one’s fantasy will cause one to burn in Hell for all eternity.
With the secondary requirement that the entire burden of purity is upon the woman.
A man who “fails” is generally not punished as severely (if at all).
re: #35 Dangerman
less words, more accurate: (dont be afraid)
This is a lie.
i said that because “There is absolutely no proof that any of this happened” is engaging with crackpots
it instantly legitimizes the absurd claim he just made and now youre in a fight about proof
saying there is absolutely (wow, so forceful) no proof doesnt make it not true.
call it what it is: a lie. add ‘baldfaced’ if you want to be forceful.
The Christian Church’s inability to properly instruct youth about sex - instead, fanatically adhering to the principle that sex within marriage is hallowed, and sex outside of it is a damnable offense - has caused a great deal of consequences that church leaders would be appalled (and slightly turned on) to see. The kinkiest people I’ve ever met are mostly former Catholics. I have multiple evangelical friends, married for over a decade, who still have serious hang-ups about having sex with their own spouses because of the shaming that the churches they grew up in did. It’s a fucking disaster that nobody wants to talk about because even saying the word “SEX” in a church gets you death glares and morality lessons. Christ on a cracker, it makes me angry.
re: #46 Dopamine Fish
No church has never really been a hotbed of libertines.
re: #37 jaunte
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you have to staff up the irs and let them do their jobs
ask joe manchin who controls the budget. he’ll tell you it’s the donor class
manchin does not get money from west virginians.
he gets it from the donor/corporate class
that’s why his editorial the other day was in the WSJ, not a WVA paper.
and why his speech the same day was to: the chamber of commerce
Allow me to humbly suggest that Treasury should go get these funds. https://t.co/vBmAiOLrXd
— Siddhartha Mahanta (@sidhubaba) September 8, 2021
re: #51 Dopamine Fish
And I’ll bet if the women’s owners men were there he would have walked right on by.
re: #54 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
And I’ll bet if the women’s
ownersmen were there he would have walked right on by.
Without even skipping a beat.
Okay. Righteous tirade mode off, for now. For one thing, I can’t find Mrs. Fish’s bullwhip, and I’m all out of whup-ass to flip tables.
Here’s the douchecanoe in action [1:50]
Christian man harasses women at a beach for “flaunting your stuff” pic.twitter.com/9VVUqQcaMM
— Christian Nightmares (@ChristnNitemare) September 8, 2021
He’s been identified [0:28]
This is also the beach harasser guy… https://t.co/bOhHaVCJ06 pic.twitter.com/ULeHBEGe2B
— Christian Nightmares (@ChristnNitemare) September 8, 2021
re: #49 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
With the secondary requirement that the entire burden of purity is upon the woman.
A man who “fails” is generally not punished as severely (if at all).
men have no agency. who knew?
re: #58 Dangerman
men have no agency. who knew?
After all, Eve was the one who gave Adam the fruit, because even Adam couldn’t resist the Power of Boobs.
re: #59 Dopamine Fish
After all, Eve was the one who gave Adam the fruit, because even Adam couldn’t resist the Power of Boobs.
didnt he play Cy Tolliver in deadwood?
The third candidate (later in the thread) also comes from the same homeschooling organisation. She is running against both of the Christian candidates as a Libertarian and transwoman disabled activist, on a platform of anti-authoritarianism.
St. John is running against the incumbent, Jaime Herrera Beutler, who is an evangelical homeschool alumna: https://t.co/g5GSo7vL3p. pic.twitter.com/jSIHO2nQzu
— R.L. Stollar (@RLStollar) September 8, 2021
re: #62 Dangerman
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The worst part is that I had to go look it up, because I didn’t know his actual name.
re: #63 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I’ve been documenting the intensifying radicalization of Heidi and her followers since long before she or I started running for office. pic.twitter.com/IwMSNLWz2Q
— Lucy Lauser for Congress (@LucyLauser) September 8, 2021
re: #31 I Would Prefer Not To
It’s never easy being a parent. Part 1
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Remember this: “Vought was also the mastermind of Trump’s executive order that attempts to reclassify tens of thousands of civil servants who work in policy roles so they can be easily fired.”? You don’t care so much about others getting fired.
— Hopewell Kat 🇺🇸 💙#Love #Family #Art (@HopewellKat) September 8, 2021
re: #12 Hecuba’s daughter
Is it possible that some of the 76% have their ballots lost in the DeJoy slowdown of the postal service?
Probably not, with ballot drop boxes all over the state. This isn’t much different from the numbers a week or so before the 2020 General.
@HSJForCongress Do you have anything to say about the fantasies of violence you are encouraging? Do you ever worry about the potential for inciting your followers to commit hate crimes?
— Lucy Lauser for Congress (@LucyLauser) September 8, 2021
re: #14 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Abortion isn’t in the Constitution! Nine unelected judged imposed killing BABEEEEZ on the country! Now we’re taking it back for Christianity!
I think we need to attack the anti-abortion position from a First Amendment standpoint. They’re imposing their religious beliefs on all of us, and not even science agrees with their crazy about when life begins.
re: #67 Patricia Kayden
That position serves at the pleasure of the President.
Lots of people claiming the President is trying to bully him by asking him for his resignation (a normal thing in Washington).
After this Libertarian douchecanoe is fired for trying to make something out of this, he will turn to complaining how he’s the real victim here.
re: #67 Patricia Kayden
So the asshole is just going to defy that letter and stay in his position indefinitely??
re: #31 I Would Prefer Not To
It’s never easy being a parent. Part 1
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re: #70 mmmirele
I think we need to attack the anti-abortion position from a First Amendment standpoint. They’re imposing their religious beliefs on all of us, and not even science agrees with their crazy about when life begins.
That’s what The Satanic Temple is trying to do with their suit against Texas.
They tried a similar suit against a restrictive Missouri law and the federal courts threw it out.
Christians and conservatives don’t give a diddly-damn about other people’s religious rights, particularly non-Christians.
As for the “science” aspect, they’ve already gotten away with the argument “that’s just your opinion man.”
And they will come for contraception next. Perhaps if an IUD was marketed shaped like a Latin Cross… .
re: #73 Eclectic Cyborg
until he shows up for work and discovers his security credentials have been revoked and he can pick up his personal items in a box from HR
re: #34 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Her child is a non-verbal two year-old with autism.
Frankly I don’t understand why any parent would put their child in the hands of any church.
My sister put her two kids into a cooperative daycare hosted at a church because NO OTHER DAYCARE would take two kids with febrile seizure syndrome. It worked out fine, except for the younger kid telling a teacher that it was fine if he peed in the bushes because “mom lets me do it at home”. Mom was all NOPE.
re: #77 mmmirele
My sister put her two kids into a cooperative daycare hosted at a church because NO OTHER DAYCARE would take two kids with febrile seizure syndrome. It worked out fine, except for the younger kid telling a teacher that it was fine if he peed in the bushes because “mom lets me do it at home”. Mom was all NOPE.
Hm. Febrile seizures occur in up to 10% of all children. They also have an elevated risk of developing epilepsy.
Of course suing a daycare for violating the ADA will make you a pariah, and do you really want to put your children in a daycare which discriminates against the disabled?
re: #50 Dangerman
Here in France we’re starting the trial of the Bataclan terrorist attack.
The TV news had a little segment about the people who lied about being victims, sometimes to get money, more often for screwed up mental reasons. Some of them were clearly operating on Trumpian style NPD aggrandisement.
People who just *have* to be at the center of things.
Chrissy Stroop is getting comments from people of every sect saying they were treated the same way.
In case you’re unable to subscribe to The Editorial Board but don’t want to miss what I right for it, my latest for them, “Exvangelicals and the Limits of Evangelical Empathy,” is now available with no paywall on Alternet:https://t.co/AGN0i0Pjiw
— Chrissy is judging vaccine refusers (@C_Stroop) September 7, 2021
re: #68 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
re: #12 Hecuba’s daughter
Is it possible that some of the 76% have their ballots lost in the DeJoy slowdown of the postal service?
my reading is the percent returned may not matter too much
my go to, electoral-vote.com, has a good write up today about his chances
But how many votes will he ultimately need to keep his job? That depends on turnout, of course…
Point is, between recent past history, and the brisk rate with which ballots are being cast in the current election, it is likely turnout will be quite high this time. Let’s estimate that two-thirds of eligible voters cast a vote. That’s a bit of a bump over any other recent election, because everyone’s getting a ballot in the mail. We don’t want to bump it too much, however, because studies show that people who want to vote make a point of doing so, absentee ballot or not. The ease with which people can participate in this election will probably get some percentage of the population to turn out that otherwise would not have done so, but we just don’t think it will be enough to drive turnout into the 70s.
Anyhow, there are 22,249,865 eligible voters in California. If two-thirds of them vote, that’s 14,833,243 people. Half of that plus one is 7,416,621 votes. Our crude math from above suggests Newsom already has 4,047,883 votes banked. If so, then he would need 3,368,738 more “keep” votes out of 8,399,522, or about 40%. And again, this is assuming pretty high turnout. If you project turnout to be 60% instead, then that would be 13,349,919 total votes, half of that plus one would be 6,674,960, and Newsom would need 2,627,077 of 6,916,198 remaining votes, or about 38%.
click the link and look for ‘run the newsom numbers”
it goes into the likely breakdown so far (a 1.5M vote lead for keep newsom) and an R surge on election day
Please don’t do that. White Christian nationalists are *absolutely* Christians by any coherent definition. Failure to grapple with that and hand-waiving them away as “fake” does a tremendous disservice to addressing the underlying cause of Christian authoritarianism. https://t.co/sJSc4CVBEq
— Nick Fish (@nicholasrfish) September 7, 2021
Why waste a perfectly good jacket? 🤷 https://t.co/GajppYzSLm
— Kathy Hochul (@GovKathyHochul) September 4, 2021
A reminder, as we approach, the 20th anniversary of 9/11, this is how cynically Benjamin Netanyahu reacted
on the day itself:https://t.co/oTapunR4WH pic.twitter.com/QWYLNDzXCS— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) September 8, 2021
Look at this colorized photo of my mom (in the middle) at her high school prom in 1955. She’s so beautiful. pic.twitter.com/YPNud7qbuG
— James LaPorta (@JimLaPorta) September 7, 2021
re: #69 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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— Lucy Lauser for Congress (@LucyLauser) September 8, 2021
i posted yesterday how Louisiana is teaching teh civil war to 8th graders.
an example was the hardships faced by a 20 yo white woman whose family owned 120 slaves
you want to have a war where your white, deserving constituents to go through what that poor woman did? what is wrong with you? //
There are two approved Louisiana history textbooks for the state’s 8th graders.
This is how one of them introduces the Civil War: as tough times for a poor young white woman whose family owned 120 slaves. pic.twitter.com/oR617iSkFO— Joshua Benton (@jbenton) June 14, 2021
Ok Nick. Now please do Evangelical Christians with a 7 Mountain Dominionist agenda.
And don’t say it doesn’t exist. pic.twitter.com/OiHQk2ZndB— And The Wind Cries: “Ted Cruz will never be Pres.” (@DaveoutofAustin) September 8, 2021
re: #87 Dangerman
“but due to emancipation, the family lost their labor force and now had to complete the task of harvesting the fields by hiring freed men who, as Kate noted, demanded high wages.”
Holy FUCK.
Listen, you pedophile-enabling stooge insurrectionist: Trump signed the agreement with the Taliban. He knew the Afghan military wouldn’t hold. He invited the Taliban to Camp David. You’re just compensating for profound intellectual & vertical insecurity.
And everyone knows it. https://t.co/RQ3jTcIxmO— Randi Mayem Singer (@rmayemsinger) September 8, 2021
re: #86 Dave In Austin
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Jim LaPorta’s mother in 1955 has an uncanny resemblance to 1985 Lea Thompson portraying Marty McFly’s mother in 1955, down to the same taste in prom dresses.
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re: #92 A Three Hour Tour
Jim LaPorta’s mother in 1955 has an uncanny resemblance to 1985 Lea Thompson portraying Marty McFly’s mother in 1955, down to the same taste in prom dresses.
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Oh, good, I got that one right!
re: #86 Dave In Austin
My mom fought with her during the resistance. pic.twitter.com/PM7iJImJ0t
— Coffeefueled (@EponymousBreeze) September 8, 2021
re: #92 A Three Hour Tour
Jim LaPorta’s mother in 1955 has an uncanny resemblance to 1985 Lea Thompson portraying Marty McFly’s mother in 1955, down to the same taste in prom dresses.
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It’s frankly uncanny
/s/
I’m going to amble off to bed.
The forward motion of the tropical wave in the northeast Gulf of Mexico has slowed considerably in speed, and the National Hurricane Center gives it an 80% chance of becoming a tropical cyclone before reaching the Florida coastline.
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A second wave is expected to move off the coast of Ghana in a few days, which NHC gives a low probability of development over five days.
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A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for Bermuda.
re: #70 mmmirele
I think we need to attack the anti-abortion position from a First Amendment standpoint. They’re imposing their religious beliefs on all of us, and not even science agrees with their crazy about when life begins.
At the end of an individual human life, doctors and lawyers and clergy seem to be in general agreement that brain activity (or lack of) is how we draw the line between a human being and a meat-bag full of spare parts. I’m open to using that same criteria to define the beginning of an individual human life.
re: #98 sagehen
At the end of an individual human life, doctors and lawyers and clergy seem to be in general agreement that brain activity (or lack of) is how we draw the line between a human being and a meat-bag full of spare parts. I’m open to using that same criteria to define the beginning of an individual human life.
Clergy definitely are not in agreement, even with each other.
re: #98 sagehen
I think you’re oversimplifying. What brain activity? Lots of animals have “brain activity”, that doesn’t make them human.
I can hardly wait!
The James Webb telescope has a bona fide launch date
The telescope is ready. So is the rocket. It’s time.
re: #86 Dave In Austin
She looks like Lea Thompson. Like just like her.
Melissa Hedge, 30, Pure Romance Sales, Molalla OR, got some bad info, died of COVID. (Sorry Antivaxxer)
Unlike most of their entries, she did not push antivax memes (other than a “frame” around her photo saying she wouldn’t take the vaccine). She mostly used her Facebook account for her multi-level marketing hunbot scheme.
But because of that frame, she was targetted by antivaxxers to convince her to avoid seeking medical care.
Like the others, just as she was going on a ventilator she asked those to pray for her and would be out in a couple days.
Her cousin posted her loss, also noting that cousin had already lost their son.
Quelle surprise. https://t.co/klhU7QizGq
— Chrisi, Livable Climate Enthusiast (@chrisiousity) September 8, 2021
meanwhile in Kentucky, shenanigans continue
Y’all! 🚨
We just got word of this meeting where the supermajority is going to try again with passing this bill.
Keep in mind that almost all of my Democratic colleagues on the committee have left for the day because we weren’t informed in advance of this meeting. pic.twitter.com/JtugTX58PY— Attica Scott (@atticaforky) September 8, 2021
Perhaps the reporters should take up knitting. https://t.co/5lCHKxulld
— Steve Marmel (@Marmel) September 8, 2021
Any choice made by the rescuer speaks to the beliefs, emotions and values of the rescuer, not the humanity of those not rescued.
— ⚡️⚡️Donald Mariotto ⚡️⚡️ (@DonaldMariotto) September 8, 2021
I would try to save as many of the children as possible.
I notice you are too cowardly to answer my question as I expected because either:
a. You would save the fertilized eggs and be exposed as a sociopath, or
b. You would save the child and be exposed as a hypocrite.— Edwin (@EdMix13) September 8, 2021
I made this “fire in a fertility clinic” analogy at Fred Clark’s blog 6 or 7 years ago. Here it is fleshed out by him.
A gut-check - https://t.co/VeK8R1jBUz
— Edwin (@EdMix13) September 8, 2021
re: #102 retired cynic
I was really pissed that the month I was in French Guyana they scrubbed the Ariane launch, from Irracubo I should have had a great view.
Oh well, I did get to eat the best pho in the Amazon.
re: #101 John Hughes
I think you’re oversimplifying. What brain activity? Lots of animals have “brain activity”, that doesn’t make them human.
A functioning human cerebral cortex. As measurable by EEG.
Narrator: @GovAbbott did not have any means of “eliminating all rapists or all rape from Texas or the U.S. He just wanted women to be punished for having sex—regardless of whether or not it was consensual—even though men cause all pregnancies.#TexasWarOnWomen https://t.co/uw0Py5CQ9Q
— Andrew Wortman 🏳️🌈 (@AmoneyResists) September 8, 2021
So what’s the word to use? Mis-Guided.
Sorry man, I grew up in Wheaton, IL. I know all about these people.
And I’m really quite done AND quite angry with them at this point.
And I would consider them Failed as opposes to Fake. Someone’s feeding them this tripe.— And The Wind Cries: “Ted Cruz will never be Pres.” (@DaveoutofAustin) September 8, 2021
re: #106 DodgerFan1988
The high seas, while appearing borderless and free, are, in fact, some of the most tightly regulated places on Earth. The cruise ship industry in particular is bound by intricate rules. As Romundt put it: “We were like, ‘This is just so hard.’”
WOMP WOMP.
The final entry on the FAQ page, regarding the possibility of having pets on board, gave a bracing insight into the tension between the idea of freedom and the reality of hundreds of people closely cohabiting on a cruise ship. The answer linked to a separate document, containing a 14-point list of conditions including one that declared no animal should exceed 20lbs in weight, and any barking or loud noises could not last for longer than 10 minutes. If a pet repeatedly disturbed the peace - more than three times a month or five times in a year - it would no longer be allowed to live on board.
LOL.
But while Panama was happy to have the ship moored off its coast, it specified that the ship had to remain officially designated as a ship. Which led to another difficulty: the discharge of sewage. Though the ship had an advanced wastewater management system, which could turn sewage into drinking-quality water, they were not permitted to discharge this wastewater into Panamanian waters, and so would have had to sail 12 miles out every 20 days or so to empty tanks into international waters.
Turns out Libertarian ideas ARE full of shit.
This woman, PBUH, reminds me of our Nyet.
One Woman’s Mission to Rewrite Nazi History on Wikipedia
Ksenia Coffman’s fellow editors have called her a vandal and a McCarthyist. She just wants them to stop glorifying fascists—and start citing better sources.
re: #106 DodgerFan1988
Satoshi, when resold to New British cruise line Ambassador Cruise Line in May of this year
re: #117 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Satoshi, when resold to New British cruise line Ambassador Cruise Line in May of this year
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In other words, they forgot to read the sequel to Atlas Shrugged, which describes how the libertarian encampment fails because none of the men knew how to farm, and their attempt to buy food ended with them being robbed of their gold.
re: #89 Eclectic Cyborg
“but due to emancipation, the family lost their labor force and now had to complete the task of harvesting the fields by hiring freed men who, as Kate noted, demanded high wages.”
Holy FUCK.
yeah
its wrong anyway
as if they just went and hired the same ‘just freed’ black slaves and paid them actual wages
hah
re: #118 Belafon
The main problem with libertarian sea settlements should be obvious:
1) They are only viable if placed close enough to land to allow for easy movement of people and supplies.
2) To be in international waters and subject to fewer laws, they have to be a good distance AWAY from land.
It’s just not physically workable.
re: #89 Eclectic Cyborg
“but due to emancipation, the family lost their labor force and now had to complete the task of harvesting the fields by hiring freed men who, as Kate noted, demanded high wages.”
Holy FUCK.
The US should have done what the Brits did.
Declare a tax on each slave named.
Some years later, outlaw slavery with reparations to be paid for each slave named on tax rolls.
Bubye
Kellyann Conway’s response to being fired today by Biden from a US Service Academy advisory board. pic.twitter.com/CGt5z8ER5o
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) September 8, 2021
re: #117 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
So nobody on Galt’s Galley wants to chip paint?
re: #116 retired cynic
This woman, PBUH, reminds me of our Nyet.
One Woman’s Mission to Rewrite Nazi History on Wikipedia
Ksenia Coffman’s fellow editors have called her a vandal and a McCarthyist. She just wants them to stop glorifying fascists—and start citing better sources.
Thank you for sharing that. Good to see these goobers getting smacked down.
It’s not a fetus at 6 weeks, it’s still an embryo.
Sperm has unique human DNA so I suppose it’s when you first visit the PornHub.— Edwin (@EdMix13) September 8, 2021
re: #98 sagehen
At the end of an individual human life, doctors and lawyers and clergy seem to be in general agreement that brain activity (or lack of) is how we draw the line between a human being and a meat-bag full of spare parts. I’m open to using that same criteria to define the beginning of an individual human life.
im gonna strongly disagree
there are two separate issues here and must not be conflated
1. citizenry - when, in the seamless progression from long before fertilization to birth, it ‘becomes’ a single, discrete human life with constitutional rights and equal protections.
- up to now that line has been defined as surviving the birth process, natural or surgical, even for one second.
- at times the death of a pregnant woman has led to a stiffer criminal charges. that does not recognize constitutional personhood in the ‘unborn’ in general or specific.
2. abortion - in the seamless progression from long before fertilization to sometime before birth, are there any circumstances where the state has a legitimate interest in questioning or preventing the procedure.
justification for one point in time over another is irrelevant and counterproductive.
Scientific, religious, coin toss, rational, logical, hypocritical.
while still recognizing that with ‘seamless’ a one day old blastocyst is a fundamentally different circumstance than say two weeks before a projected birth.
justification only leads to “my way is right and here’s why”.
- i suggest that as with birth, until there is inarguable science (which given the reaction to covid might never happen), any such point or definition is arbitrary.
re: #119 Dangerman
yeah
its wrong anyway
as if they just went and hired the same ‘just freed’ black slaves and paid them actual wages
hah
Then paid the newly freed work force in farm script, created the farm store which would accept farm scrip, and charged the laborers rent to be paid in farm script..
Until payment of wages in scrip became illegal under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.
Yea, I know what happened next.
re: #31 I Would Prefer Not To
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re: #125 gocart mozart
Tumors also have unique human DNA, but I’d prefer we not protect them.
Identical twins, on the other hand, do NOT have unique human DNA. Where do they stand in this twitterer’s moral calculus?
re: #112 sagehen
A functioning human cerebral cortex. As measurable by EEG.
Once again, are you sure that you could tell the difference between a mouse and a human on an EEG.
re: #114 Dave In Austin
Nick is right. You’re just saying “no true Scotsman”.
I’ve argued “these people aren’t christians” in the past, but it doesn’t really help. It’s like Muslims arguing that DAECH isn’t really Islamic, it may be true, but it’s pointless.
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