John Oliver: Abortion Ruling - “The Draft Is a Horror Show”
John Oliver discusses the leaked draft opinion that looks set to overturn Roe v. Wade, how we got to this point, and where we may be headed.
John Oliver discusses the leaked draft opinion that looks set to overturn Roe v. Wade, how we got to this point, and where we may be headed.
The final version of Alito’s opinion that is published will be softened and polished, but the gist of it will remain. Women will have virtually no constitutional rights that a white man is bound to respect, because they had none in 1868.
re: #1 No Malarkey!
The final version of Alito’s opinion that is published will be softened and polished, but the gist of it will remain. Women will have virtually no constitutional rights that a white man is bound to respect, because they had none in 1868.
And SCOTUS will be officially a laughing stock that was paid and bought by dark money from extremists.
re: #1 No Malarkey!
The final version of Alito’s opinion that is published will be softened and polished, but the gist of it will remain. Women will have virtually no constitutional rights that a white man is bound to respect, because they had none in 1868.
What I expect most of the changes to be mostly trying to do a “This only applies to abortion, we’re totally not starting a free for all targeting everything Repubs want to ban in the name of JAY-SUS!!!.”
re: #2 Dr. Matt
And SCOTUS will be officially a laughing stock that was paid and bought by dark money from extremists.
I’m not laughing; this bunch has just gotten started in their efforts to turn the clock back 150 years.
re: #3 Targetpractice
What I expect most of the changes to be mostly trying to do a “This only applies to abortion, we’re totally not starting a free for all targeting everything Repubs want to ban in the name of JAY-SUS!!!.”
This opinion does show why it was vitally important to pass the Equal Rights Amendment, and what a tragedy it was that it failed. Most women’s rights only exist through statutes that can be repealed.
re: #5 No Malarkey!
This opinion does show why it was vitally important to pass the Equal Rights Amendment, and what a tragedy it was that it failed. Most women’s rights only exist through statutes that can be repealed.
Sadly, women will only be the first victims. LGBTQ+ are next on the list with Obergefell, then interracial couples with Loving, and virtually any other ruling that guarantee minority rights that rely in part or in whole upon Griswold. Given the authoritarian nature of our enemies, the death of the “right to privacy” is likely to lead to only more attempts to begin insinuating government surveillance in our lives as “national security.”
On a lighter note, if you like dinosaurs, and who doesn’t, the show
Dinosaur Apocalypse,
about the day that the meteor hit earth 66 million years ago, will air on PBS on Wednesday at 9:00pm.
re: #7 No Malarkey!
On a lighter note, if you like dinosaurs, and who doesn’t, the show
about the day that the meteor hit earth 66 million years ago, will air on PBS on Wednesday at 9:00pm.
Isn’t that for team meteor, people who hate dinosaurs?
Pentagon update on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Day 75:
• 🇺🇸 has NOW trained 310 🇺🇦 troops on M777 howitzers
• 🇺🇸 has sent 85 of 90 howitzers to 🇺🇦
• 🇺🇸 assesses 🇷🇺 has made “no significant progress” in Donbas
• 🇺🇸 believes some 🇷🇺 troops are not obeying orders— Jack Detsch (@JackDetsch) May 9, 2022
re: #1 No Malarkey!
The final version of Alito’s opinion that is published will be softened and polished, but the gist of it will remain. Women will have virtually no constitutional rights that a white man is bound to respect, because they had none in 1868.
Can’t wait to kick Barrett off of the court since they weren’t allowed to be judges.
Probably seemed like a good idea at the time pic.twitter.com/waFEvpdFFa
— Think Defence (@thinkdefence) May 8, 2022
Damn, this thread is a doozy.
🧵 STATEMENTS MADE BY TRUMP ABOUT THE PEOPLE HE APPOINTED TO LEAD OUR COUNTRY IN SENIOR ADMIN POSITIONS:
AUG 2015 - “I’m going to surround myself with only the best and most serious people. Top of the line professionals.”
REX TILLERSON - “Dumb as a rock.”
(Cont.)— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) May 9, 2022
We can’t believe a word of this BS from an interim chief executive of ERCOT. I don’t hear any other state or nation complaining about rolling blackouts in mildly hot or cold weather every single year for at least the last 5 years. Only Texas under GOP control has screwed us bigly https://t.co/efVem1H0Dd
— Russell Foster A New Texas (@RussellFosterTX) May 9, 2022
re: #15 jaunte
There were some issues in California in recent memory, as I seem to recall, but you don’t see any other states complaining.
re: #15 jaunte
Well true but that is like Louisiana saying all states have flooding problems.
— CTreviño (@CTrevino1982) May 9, 2022
re: #16 Dopamine Fish
There were some issues in California in recent memory, as I seem to recall, but you don’t see any other states complaining.
CA shit the bed in a stupid energy deregulation scheme, and all of the resulting rolling blackouts etc. were entirely man-made because the resulting “free market” incentivized energy producers to create artificial shortages.
Once those perverse incentives were ended, the power came back like fucking magic.
More recently, there are issues with wildfires getting started by power lines, so blackouts are preemptively done in fire country when there’s high wind.
re: #19 EPR-radar
To be fair, when the weather is very hot over a large region, or the whole state, CA’s increasing reliance on renewable power means production and demand peak at different times, which can cause problems.
I have enhanced for you a rare colour photo of writer Leo Tolstoy, taken 114 years ago, back in 1908. It is original colour (not colourised).https://t.co/EwhNNmOKzm pic.twitter.com/xQdy4UesVx
— BabelColour (@StuartHumphryes) May 9, 2022
re: #20 calochortus
To be fair, when the weather is very hot over a large region, or the whole state, CA’s increasing reliance on renewable power means production and demand peak at different times, which can cause problems.
Energy storage via batteries is becoming increasingly important and I suspect will be more news-worthy in coming years.
re: #22 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Energy storage via batteries is becoming increasingly important and I suspect will be more news-worthy in coming years.
Probably, but it’s not there yet.
Now here’s a conspiracy theory I can believe in :
re: #23 calochortus
Probably, but it’s not there yet.
Yeah, the main limitation is that a battery farm at the level of a wide area power grid is a fire hazard trying to happen. It would be nice if there was a safer and more convenient way to store large amounts of energy that could be quickly disbursed during high demand.
Now this is how you BBQ trolls…or call it a Ukrainian cookout. Wait for the secondary explosions around the 48 second mark…would not want to be on the ground in that complex.
#Ukraine: Ukrainian indirect fire struck Russian positions (With plenty of ammunition, possibly artillery rockets, stored) near Vesele, #Kharkiv Oblast.
As you can see, the damage was severe. pic.twitter.com/kFJ7V6REUh— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) May 8, 2022
People leaving the Trump rally last night. pic.twitter.com/RQCXVH2h1Q
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) May 7, 2022
re: #26 darthstar
Now this is how you BBQ trolls…or call it a Ukrainian cookout. Wait for the secondary explosions around the 48 second mark…would not want to be on the ground in that complex.
That shit blowed up real guuud!
re: #27 darthstar
Well, that warms the cockles of my heart. It’s almost like God is telling them something.
Protesters opposed to the war in Ukraine threw red paint on Russia’s ambassador to Poland Sergey Andreev as he arrived at a cemetery in Warsaw to pay respects to Red Army soldiers who died during World War II. https://t.co/S2SMcPPvVx pic.twitter.com/8hgQutHGRK
— The Associated Press (@AP) May 9, 2022
Andy Ngo gonna spin this as Ukrainian Antifa terrorism in 3-2-1.
. @flotus and Slovakian President earlier today pic.twitter.com/zjX24Myg85
— Kate Bennett (@KateBennett_DC) May 9, 2022
Volunteers in Ukraine have placed these pet food feeding stations up all over destroyed neighborhoods so that the cats and dogs left behind won’t starve to death. pic.twitter.com/BJQupUo8Ru
— Lorenzo The Cat (@LorenzoTheCat) May 8, 2022
Here you go @elonmusk, when Twitter employees invariably lie to you about enforcement policy, maybe they can explain why a verified account is allowed to incite terrorism without any care in the world about being banned. pic.twitter.com/rCpuf5e1Ry
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) May 9, 2022
There has actually been pretty extensive empirical research in this area, and there’s no evidence that Twitter has a liberal bias. In fact, the evidence suggests the opposite. https://t.co/Wf5HeEH3Fu
— Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D (@RVAwonk) May 9, 2022
re: #31 Backwoods_Sleuth
Its impressive how many European states are led by women.
re: #10 A Cranky One
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If that’s the bridge I think it is in Durham, NC, then it’s been crashed into like that hundreds of times. IIRC, they actually raised it a bit and it’s still getting hit often.
this young lady has one hell of a future in track:
She lost her shoe coming out of the starting blocks.
Wait for it… pic.twitter.com/60SKGKpz4g— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) May 9, 2022
A woman in Texas shouldn’t have different rights than a woman in Minnesota. pic.twitter.com/sF3ZsctALY
— Amy Klobuchar (@amyklobuchar) May 9, 2022
re: #27 darthstar
Oh, it’s just mud. I was hoping they would be ankle-deep in cow shit or the like.
A Taco Truck parked in front of Kavanaugh’s house would be good.
— Dave #VoteBlue (@dwh112655) May 9, 2022
re: #36 Backwoods_Sleuth
this young lady has one hell of a future in track:
Future Olympian right there.
re: #33 Backwoods_Sleuth
That’s ridiculous, and you’re responding to a well-known white nationalist who wants to abuse people without getting banned. If I were you, I’d make an effort to not look like a white nationalist.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 9, 2022
re: #35 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion
If that’s the bridge I think it is in Durham, NC, then it’s been crashed into like that hundreds of times. IIRC, they actually raised it a bit and it’s still getting hit often.
It is not the infamous 11’ 8” bridge, which is the one to which you are referring. (Now, that bridge is 12’ 4”, but is lovingly referred to as “11’ 8”+8” to memorialize its history.) I don’t remember which one this is, though.
re: #32 Backwoods_Sleuth
One of my cats acted like she was starving to death at 6am today. It’s impossible to sleep with a meowing cat on you.
Some are worried about how we will reestablish normal relations with the fascist thugs who run Russia. The correct answer is that we don’t.
When authorities pulled Oleksandr’s body from the car it exploded. Lyudmyla picked up the pieces of the man she had spent decades with and placed them in a box. Back at the home they made together, she buried him in the garden where they planted vegetables each spring. pic.twitter.com/ldzuDKHRLM
— Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM) May 9, 2022
re: #43 Punish Domestic Terrorists
One of my cats acted like she was starving to death at 6am today. It’s impossible to sleep with a meowing cat on you.
My wife has that problem every morning.
Congratulations to the journalists of #Ukraine. #Pulitzer pic.twitter.com/jDP90egbgT
— The Pulitzer Prizes (@PulitzerPrizes) May 9, 2022
Actually, I miss my daughter who was murdered because ignorant assholes like you refuse to address gun violence @Jim_Jordan. As for my 401k, still higher today then it was on the last day of the other guy. Instead of Soviet inspired tweets, do something worthwhile or shut up. https://t.co/B724kfCd3l
— Fred Guttenberg (@fred_guttenberg) May 9, 2022
re: #43 Punish Domestic Terrorists
One of my cats acted like she was starving to death at 6am today. It’s impossible to sleep with a meowing cat on you.
mine doesn’t meow. she jumps on the bed. then she jumps off the bed. then she jumps on the bed. then she jumps off the bed. then she jumps on the bed…..yesterday she was angry because I wouldn’t let her out after dark, so she took a crap in my bath tub. It’s like dating one of the godamned kardashians.
tan suit. impeach pic.twitter.com/dQxJs3izZl
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 9, 2022
re: #49 steve_davis
mine doesn’t meow. she jumps on the bed. then she jumps off the bed. then she jumps on the bed. then she jumps off the bed. then she jumps on the bed…..yesterday she was angry because I wouldn’t let her out after dark, so she took a crap in my bath tub. It’s like dating one of the godamned kardashians.
Our outdoor cat has decided that she will not eat her food if it has been left in the rain. She will physically shove it out of her food bowl and leave it off to the side, then sit at the door and meow pathetically to demand fresh food. Now, I wouldn’t mention it, if it was something she had always done. No, she literally just started doing this last month.
victory parody pic.twitter.com/6vM0hEWTp3
— Ukraine / Україна (@Ukraine) May 9, 2022
The end of a very good thread from a person who escorted abortion patients at a Planned Parenthood in the heart of the Bible belt:
It’s about sexuality, and it’s about misogyny. People protested that clinic because they want to create a world where conservative Christianity wholly monopolizes sexual expression and gender roles.
Concern about “life” is decidedly secondary to this.— John Skiles Skinner (@jskilesskinner) May 9, 2022
re: #48 Backwoods_Sleuth
It’s easier just to ignore the sex predators than admit that my 401k is 20%+ higher than when the corrupt and criminal Trump was in office.
Then again, my 401k isn’t fully invested in Russian stocks tovarisch.— lawhawk #vaxxedforfamilyandcommunity (@lawhawk) May 9, 2022
my 401k didn’t look the other way in the shower room
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) May 9, 2022
well a two hour nap seems to have fixed whatever was ailing my computer
(a nap for me, not it)
Stepped in a whole nest of them, I guess. pic.twitter.com/aTliJA36h8
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) May 9, 2022
thread
Really wild (but totally expected) to watch Dems get completely played on this whole “is it okay to protest outside of people’s houses?” thing.
Let’s review:— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) May 9, 2022
People who are keen for fascism will all agree with you. Soros fights for open societies. Musk fights to do away with fact-checking and bans for lying about important topics and abuse, so Musk will be popular with lying abusers.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 9, 2022
I don’t know, man. Maybe if you don’t want people in your neighborhood chanting and protesting you shouldn’t participate in a coordinated effort to steal the Supreme Court and take away a crucial right roughly 70% of the country supports.
— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) May 9, 2022
Well, THAT didn’t take long. pic.twitter.com/jTqzT8F71Y
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) May 9, 2022
It’s not okay to lecture folks for demonstrating on the street of a public servant who is going to be part of issuing a legal decision that has a HUGE impact on Americans.
There isn’t a 1-800 call SCOTUS line. The GOP led Senate was that, and they willfully ignored voters.— Atima Omara (@atima_omara) May 9, 2022
“I think we’re at serious risk” — Psaki on the possibility of a national abortion ban if Republicans retake power pic.twitter.com/CDIvGCWu42
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 9, 2022
“If you don’t live in a red and purple state, you might be tempted to think that as horrible as the looming rollback of reproductive rights is, it won’t directly affect you. Think again. [The GOP is] already talking about a federal abortion ban.” @atrupar https://t.co/qPKJQtcsEH
— Poli Alert (@polialertcom) May 9, 2022
It’s depressing to see Democratic politicians getting played by the right again, buying into the fake outrage over pro-choice demonstrators and recycling this dumb “civility” nonsense again. They’re just never going to learn.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 9, 2022
re: #64 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
What’s the Russell 2000? I’ve never heard of that.
It’s an index of 2000 small market cap companies.
re: #64 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
What’s the Russell 2000? I’ve never heard of that.
It’s an index of 2000 small company stocks.
They don’t teach it in school because they want to go back to it. https://t.co/FajQcyhsxY
— LvilleClinicEscorts (@LouClinicEscort) May 9, 2022
The Law on Lend-Lease speeds up and simplifies the procedures for delivery of weapons and other assistance to 🇺🇦. The document prescribes the conditions under which assistance is provided to #Ukraine.
#StandUpForUkraine #StandWithUkraine— Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine - Ukrainian Parliament (@ua_parliament) May 9, 2022
re: #61 No Malarkey!
This is because the Fed raised interest rates, when they should have known better not to, because the “inflation” right now is because of everything but monetary policy. COVID caused supply chain problems, Russian invasion of Ukraine, higher fuel prices, price-gouging by corporations who are blaming inflation because people are stupid, etc.
The Fed didn’t “print a bunch of money”, the government isn’t throwing money at people to not work, and inflation is happening everywhere but is the least bad here… and they all goddamn well know this. Raising interest rates isn’t how you deal with this problem and they are going to make shit worse.
jeebus
I’m very grateful for Elevate PAC’s endorsement of my candidacy to represent Alaska in Congress. Thank you Rep @EliseStefanik🇺🇸 - Sarah Palin pic.twitter.com/mFu313qeBT
— Sarah Palin (@SarahPalinUSA) May 9, 2022
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re: #74 nines09
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Woman wakes up to dog snuggling with her in bed — but it wasn’t one of her 3 pups https://t.co/PLLaMpJw1D
— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) May 9, 2022
re: #42 Dopamine Fish
Looks like it could be one of the infamous Storrow Drive bridges in Boston.
re: #75 nines09
I have that same problem. Whenever I put text, an image or video, and then more behind a private or spoiler tag, all the text gets munched into one line.
I care just as much as Justice Alito cared for my family when we were in danger. https://t.co/iwPHvWGncR
— Rachel Vindman 🌻 (@natsechobbyist) May 9, 2022
re: #78 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion
Yep. No idea but to limit text or split as I did.
I can’t believe that Esquire promoted this shitty infringing Kickstarter, that says right in the text that it’s doing something that he can’t legally do, was guaranteed to be shut down, and has since been shut down.
Unfortunately The Departed has one huge problem. The movie ends with the painfully on the nose metaphor of an ACTUAL RAT crawling across screen. It’s always bothered me that a movie as good as The Departed has such a cheesy ending, and I recently realized it could be fixed by digitally erasing the rat from the last shot.
I cannot sell any of these Blu-ray copies, because even though it’s obviously a far better version of The Departed, I do not own the rights to the movie. So, if you’d like to receive one of the 50 limited edition copies, you’ll have to contribute $70 or more. This will allow me to buy you a legal Blu-ray of The Departed, throw that disc away, replace it with my superior version, and mail it to you.
The Departed Fans Have Launched a Campaign to Fix the Movie’s One Gaping Flaw (Esquire)
The claim that Alito has been moved with his family to “an undisclosed location” appears to be entirely made up. There are no news stories backing up the claim, and a Breitbart piece which may be the original source cites merely “Reports around D.C.”
— Angus Johnston (@studentactivism) May 9, 2022
re: #82 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Digitally removing a rat from a scene is a “far better version” of the movie.
Are these people fucking kidding? Really?
JFC
Joe Biden should call on his supporters to stand down. Stop burning prolife offices, stop threatening violence against Supreme Court Justices. These are Biden’s people. Do something about it
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) May 9, 2022
re: #72 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion
Even if the current inflation is not solely the result of monetary policy, the Fed did keep interest rates too low for too long.
Banks and big borrows have gotten used to really cheap money.
But our lives are all about eeking out a living with whatever we have. My current soapbox about real estate is driven in part because land rents are shooting up but that only could have happened if people had access to cheap money to buy up as much property as they can find.
The property prices are skyrocketing because there is no shortage of buyers. There is a shortage of supply.
There is no shortage of buyers because money to borrow has been too easy, (among other reason.)
re: #85 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion
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This is what they are talking about. A rat walks along the railing outside the window.
Who. Gives. A. Rat’s. Ass.
That’s obviously an outrage that ruins the movie, and now thanks to the man stopping the Kickstarter, we’ll never see this creative genius’ vision.
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The people: They’re taking away our rights!
The gov’t: Oh. Word?
The people: we are taking to the streets to exercise our 1st amendment rights
The gov’t: We must stop the people AT ONCE!!! To the bipartisan mobile!— flexghost. (@flexghost1) May 9, 2022
Maybe it’s time for women to stop being so nice…#RoeVWadeprotest #RoeVWade https://t.co/3YaPp27Jhj
— Duty To Warn 🔉 (@duty2warn) May 9, 2022
re: #86 Backwoods_Sleuth
JFC
These are Americans fighting for their rights, rather than “Biden’s people.” You don’t get to turn America into a theocracy without the American people fighting back against the attack. It’s not like these are seditionist terrorists trying to undo an election for a madman.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 9, 2022
re: #87 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Even if the current inflation is not solely the result of monetary policy, the Fed did keep interest rates too low for too long.
Not disagreeing with you on that, but right now is not the time to up and decide to “fix this”. Making money cheap shot up the prices of housing but there was practically zero inflation for anything else so this might not have been the best tool for that job either.
Meanwhile, a May 9 parade in Kharkiv… pic.twitter.com/83D7rfytwn
— Christo Grozev (@christogrozev) May 9, 2022
re: #91 Backwoods_Sleuth
My advice is don’t try to enslave Americans if you don’t want them to tear you apart like the slave-master that you are.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 9, 2022
Alternatively, Kim Reynolds could try not breaking the law so frequently. https://t.co/2dIxkOHrlB
— Max Burns (@themaxburns) May 9, 2022
re: #63 Backwoods_Sleuth
Republican- voting Blacks, Latinos, Gays, Cubans, and other people please take note. This right wing re-targeting never ends.
Five years ago tomorrow, this charming image of Lavrov and Trump behind the Resolute Desk used by American Presidents for more than a century. pic.twitter.com/AGrDRiFYfT
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) May 9, 2022
re: #67 Charles Johnson
You should never be civil to uncivil people. They’ll just take advantage of it for they regard civility as weakness.
re: #98 jaunte
Who is the bigger monster in this picture? Shrug, I don’t know. I really don’t.
re: #98 jaunte
Next to the crime-President who extorted Zelenskyy. It’s only going to get harder for right-wing authoritarians to pretend to be good people moving forward, so I suggest they give up their support for criminals like Trump now.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 9, 2022
re: #97 Florida Panhandler
Republican- voting Blacks, Latinos, Gays, Cubans, and other people please take note. This right wing re-targeting never ends.
Right-wing authoritarians will always need an enemy. If they succeed in wiping out decent people, eventually, the last two authoritarians will tear each other apart.
re: #72 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion
Raising interests rates is the economic equivalent of bleeding. It might lower the patient’s temperature but it weakens them.
Bleed them enough and the patient dies.
re: #86 Backwoods_Sleuth
Joe Biden should call on his supporters to stand down. Stop burning prolife offices, stop threatening violence against Supreme Court Justices. These are Biden’s people. Do something about it
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) May 9, 2022
Your people tried to burn the Capitol to the ground and hang the Vice-President.
Shut the fuck up, you walking pile of dog shit.
re: #59 Backwoods_Sleuth
thread
I’m pro-choice on this issue. I personally wouldn’t do it, but I’m not going to complain about others.
re: #107 A Cranky One
Madison Cawthorn can punch them free if the tree dies of natural causes and rots first.
Republicans are not Racist at all.
Wait… whoops, my bad. Seems I was wrong.
Literally SHOCKING that most Republicans hate immigrants. I’m shocked.
Did somebody burn a “pro-life” office or is Hawley just babbling lies again?
re: #110 Charles Johnson
Did somebody burn a “pro-life” office or is Hawley just babbling lies again?
I think he’s babbling lies. A building did get written on in cursive, which is pretty weird.
re: #111 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I think he’s babbling lies. A building did get written on in cursive, which is pretty weird.
My bet is they did it themselves so they can be “victims”.
re: #110 Charles Johnson
Did somebody burn a “pro-life” office or is Hawley just babbling lies again?
somebody did; but we have no idea who.
My money’s on right-wingers trying to generate sympathy for themselves. Because this would absolutely be a first for pro-choicers; they’ve never been arsonists.
“[Trump] became obsessed with retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman… It was surprising how animated one army lieutenant colonel was able to make the leader of the free world.” @MarkTEsper pic.twitter.com/j1uWaVHxx3
— Alexander S. Vindman (@AVindman) May 9, 2022
Women are going to be as loud as they want to be about men taking away their bodily autonomy, their privacy, and their liberty. Deal with it. Unless they want to stand with us, men can just take a seat.
— Elizabeth de la Vega (@Delavegalaw) May 9, 2022
re: #114 sagehen
somebody did; but we have no idea who.
My money’s on right-wingers trying to generate sympathy for themselves. Because this would absolutely be a first for pro-choicers; they’ve never been arsonists.
We’ve never been wound up by four years of a would-be autocrat in the White House enabled by the corruption of the Republican party, followed by the Supreme Court’s attack on American women before. Decent people may be the angriest we’ve ever been since before slavery was ended. I know I am. If a Republican got in my face this week, they would wind up on their ass wondering what happened.
re: #110 Charles Johnson
Did somebody burn a “pro-life” office or is Hawley just babbling lies again?
BREAKING: Somebody vandalized and allegedly threw Molotov cocktails into Wisconsin Family Action’s — an anti-abortion rights group — Madison office, writing w/ graffiti, “If abortions aren’t safe, then you aren’t either.”
Story TK pic.twitter.com/6Wfnyeh9hQ— Alexander Shur (@AlexanderShur) May 8, 2022
Some good news.
NOW: Putin’s $700 million super-yacht has been seized in Italy.
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) May 9, 2022
re: #119 Eclectic Cyborg
Buildings wouldn’t be ruled like that if we weren’t supposed to write on them.
re: #86 Backwoods_Sleuth
they think because everyone knows that tfg was integral to 1/6 and orchestrated it from the top, that biden must be doing that too now
re: #122 Dangerman
they think because everyone knows that tfg was integral to 1/6 and orchestrated it from the top, that biden must be doing that too now
If we were authoritarians and fell in line, we’d be Republicans, but they don’t get that.
Oh, I see. So the only evidence that this was actually “Joe Biden supporters” is a very convenient message spray-painted in cursive script?
🙄— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 9, 2022
re: #119 Eclectic Cyborg
Misused capitalization and missing comma indicate that’s not pro-choice.
Oh, you mean the “sidewalk counselors” 🙄
Yeah, I had one scream at me that I’m a whore who will burn in hell because I walked into Planned Parenthood for a pap smear. Totally civil…— Mz Bee Haven (@MzBeeHaven9) May 9, 2022
So … you’re saying it IS price-gouging driving inflation?
Good to know. https://t.co/3S3zsQe5Th— Rep. Joe Neguse (@RepJoeNeguse) May 9, 2022
Massie remains an embarrassment
To defend U.S. 🇺🇸 sovereignty, to protect tax-payers, and to secure the health freedom of Americans, I have cosponsored @RepChipRoy’s bill to DEFUND U.S. contributions to the World Health Organization. @WHO pic.twitter.com/pxHZWt4RTt
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) May 9, 2022
Levon Helm, Robbie Robertson, Ringo Starr, Neil Young, Ron Wood, Dr. John, Clapton Stephen Stills and others jamming.
https://t.co/fvxP1DVBzl
Garth.— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) May 9, 2022
Racist livestreamer Dalton Clodfelter interviewed a man he claims was seen in a blue “America First” hat guarding an NYC cathedral during a recent pro-choice protest. The man in the interview calls protesters “animals” and says one Black protester should be “enslaved.”
CW: Slurs pic.twitter.com/ipEChM8jOM— Nick Martin (@nickmartin) May 9, 2022
The man who talked to Clodfelter indicated he’s a follower of white nationalist Nick Fuentes, who sells the blue “America First” hat with his initials NJF on the back. Clodfelter said he met the man during the conference Fuentes organized earlier this year in Florida.
— Nick Martin (@nickmartin) May 9, 2022
The man interviewed by Clodfelter said he’s part of a group that conducts stings on people: “We, like, catch pedophiles out here, bro.” He said the group had at least one video already online.
— Nick Martin (@nickmartin) May 9, 2022
re: #131 Backwoods_Sleuth
“We, like, catch pedophiles out here, bro.”
Sounds like a professional operation.
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My useless congresscritter:
Just a few hours before a congressional candidate’s forum was slated to begin on Tuesday, U.S. Rep. Steven Palazzo’s staff called event organizers and said he couldn’t make it because he had “meetings dealing with national security.” But as all six of Palazzo’s Republican challengers were still on stage sharing their ideas with the public, the incumbent posted a Facebook photo of himself with his son at a restaurant in Starkville. It is unclear if national security was among the topics Palazzo discussed with his college-aged son over dinner.
Palazzo, the 10-year incumbent congressman representing Mississippi’s 4th District, will be on the June 7 primary ballot for the Republican nomination to Congress. Six GOP challengers — including several well-known Gulf Coast figures — have lined up to unseat him, in large part because of an ongoing House Ethics Committee investigation into allegations that Palazzo illegally misspent hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign funds for personal use.
Typical fucking Republicans.
Maybe the Dow is slipping bec of the likelihood we will lose our constitutional right to privacy.
You think the labor shortage is bad now? What happens when you take millions of women out of the workforce bec they are being forced to have babies they can’t afford and don’t want?— Dr.C (@JanetCoryell) May 9, 2022
Remember, all it took for GOP to admit an embryo or fetus isn’t a human being was to deny pregnant women $500 additional stimulus money.
In 2020 & 2021, not 1 Republican demanded pregnant women get more stimulus money. All their moral outrage & anger was doused by a measly $500.— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@QasimRashid) May 9, 2022
Hey can we start a gofundme to send Rand Paul’s neighbor to Brett Kavanaghs place?
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re: #132 Eclectic Cyborg
“We, like, catch pedophiles out here, bro.”
Sounds like a professional operation.
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Sounds like an operation a pedophile would join to give themselves cover and throw off suspicion.
re: #51 Dopamine Fish
Our outdoor cat has decided that she will not eat her food if it has been left in the rain. She will physically shove it out of her food bowl and leave it off to the side, then sit at the door and meow pathetically to demand fresh food. Now, I wouldn’t mention it, if it was something she had always done. No, she literally just started doing this last month.
My cat stopped eating kibble (in fact, she pawed it out of the feeder to express her disdain), so I frantically bought a bunch of different flavors of canned and pouched cat food, and found some she would eat, then bought a few boxes of same. Well, now she won’t eat *those*. So I went back to the kibble. She’s eating that. For now.
re: #139 mmmirele
My cat stopped eating kibble (in fact, she pawed it out of the feeder to express her disdain), so I frantically bought a bunch of different flavors of canned and pouched cat food, and found some she would eat, then bought a few boxes of same. Well, now she won’t eat *those*. So I went back to the kibble. She’s eating that. For now.
Just keeping you on your toes.
Is passive-aggressive a common catly personality trait?
It’s food drive month via the USPS. First collection is this Saturday.
big talk…
Bannon fuming about Esper: “This West Point mafia .. Mike Pompeo .. Dave McCormick .. Esper, should be ashamed of themselves and should be .. apologizing. You can either apologize or we’re going to force an apology. We’re not gonna sit down and just take this.” pic.twitter.com/RgCQz3qugR
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) May 9, 2022
re: #128 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Let’s start with a couple of questions: What was the annual inflation rate last year? And what is the projected annual inflation rate for this year? We’ll get back to that.
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…the rate of inflation in 1984 was 3.9%, and the sitting American president won reelection in a landslide [Reagan]. Was that because other issues concerned people more than inflation did? Or because things seemed headed in the right direction by the time people cast their ballots? Or because Walter Mondale was such a lousy candidate? Or because Ronald Reagan was such a good candidate? We do not know, but clearly a high annual rate of inflation was not determinative, at least not by itself.Currently, the projected inflation for 2022 is… 3.9%. And inflation last year checked in at… 7.0%. Did you know that? Did anyone who is not an economist or in the financial sector know that? Put another way, inflation was nearly twice as bad last year as it’s projected to be this year. And yet it’s this year that we see all the Chicken Little “the sky is falling” inflation news. It’s almost like the gap created by reduced COVID-19 coverage had to be filled with some other form of negativity.
The point here is that inflation, while clearly a real thing, is also about perceptions. And if there is less coverage of the issue over the next few months (with, say, abortion coverage filling the negativity quotient), or if things seem to be headed in the right direction by the time of the election, then it’s entirely plausible that kitchen-table issues will not be determinative in November.
re: #132 Eclectic Cyborg
“We, like, catch pedophiles out here, bro.”
Sounds like a professional operation.
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didnt know you could identify one just by looks
re: #141 sagehen
Is passive-aggressive a common catly personality trait?
Yes. In fact a cat that isn’t passive-aggressive probably needs to be checked out by a kitty psychiatrist.
re: #145 Dangerman
didnt know you could identify one just by looks
Grade school bullies are able to pick their targets out just by looking around, and this GOP shit is no different.
re: #147 EPR-radar
Grade school bullies are able to pick their targets out just by looking around, and this GOP shit is no different.
if anyone could tell who’s a pedophile just by looks, more of them would be caught
supper tonight
Chicken taco on garlic naan bread pic.twitter.com/O611muE2hO
— Cabledog (@Cabledog6) May 9, 2022
Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton said at a news conference that marshals were pursuing a pickup driven by the escaped inmate when the truck wrecked and he surrendered. The former jail official was taken to a hospital.https://t.co/D1tcgc8tXj
— Local 12/WKRC-TV (@Local12) May 9, 2022
This cat wounded from shelling approached these Ukrainian soldiers for help. They took her to a clinic where she had surgery. She’s in recovery and is expected to be fine. Photo/Story: Animal Rescue Kharkiv. pic.twitter.com/pA8tqVBlLk
— Lorenzo The Cat (@LorenzoTheCat) May 9, 2022
Really important thread. I don’t think Prolife people understand the implications of the laws they want to pass will have on miscarriage.
Every woman mourning a miscarriage immediately becomes a suspect in a state where abortion is banned. https://t.co/oyjVPPCBnL— Nunca Trumpismo (@NeverTrumpTexan) May 9, 2022
FDNY Statement on Protest Video pic.twitter.com/AHgEWqTKln
— FDNY (@FDNY) May 9, 2022
re: #150 Backwoods_Sleuth
End of police chase — Evansville, Indiana. Car badly damaged. pic.twitter.com/8KMN8rezxm
— Brian Entin (@BrianEntin) May 9, 2022
When Amy Coney Barrett expressed her dark desires for domestic supply infants, she was talking about mass child trafficking. I do hope everyone sees that.
— Ricky Davila 🇺🇦 (@TheRickyDavila) May 9, 2022
She sure is. In the more than 8k adoption (child trafficking) centers owned by Christians in the US, babies are priced according to race & gender.https://t.co/6fK0ZFkocz
— Seel 🇺🇦 🌻 (@biotech_seel) May 9, 2022
We need solidarity. pic.twitter.com/p747hAPUW1
— Alex Berrios (@Aberrios04) May 9, 2022
re: #156 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Uncivil schooling!
re: #152 jaunte
They absolutely understand. They think it’s the fault of the mother for having a miscarriage.
re: #158 GlutenFreeJesus
“She didn’t have enough faith.”
Murkowski is a no for federal abortion protections. *spit*
Imagine spreading this lie as a news org. Whew—Politico is absolute trash. https://t.co/mpjhLOJajG
— Soledad O’Brien (@soledadobrien) May 9, 2022
re: #161 Backwoods_Sleuth
I heard all the conservative Justices have been taken to an exclusive orbital habitat.
re: #15 jaunte
When I was in Abidjan last month we had a few power cuts, 2-3 hours long.
But that’s like the third fucking world, man.
re: #162 jaunte
I heard they’re permanent residents at GITMO.
re: #160 GlutenFreeJesus
Murkowski is a no for federal abortion protections. *spit*
Of course. She’s a goddamn Republican.
Ah, good to see Russian tank quality is the same as it ever was…
Only 2 out of the planed 3 T-14 Armatas appeared to take part in the parade. I did notice a distinct lack of wide angle shots showing the T-14s. Appears maybe the camera crews were given orders to not show the fact one was missing.
I wonder if it broke down again. pic.twitter.com/svg0EVcZWg— Oliver Alexander (@OAlexanderDK) May 9, 2022
re: #163 John Hughes
When I was in Abidjan last month we had a few power cuts, 2-3 hours long.
But that’s like the third fucking world, man.
I hate the leaders in my state and the people who think abortion and blocking immigrants is more important than actual governing.
re: #166 William Lewis
It has simply never occurred to me before now that the ability (or lack thereof) to put on a military parade could actually say something real about a nation’s military capability.
i know we’re numb but it’s pretty remarkable for a former defense secretary to describe a president he worked for as a threat to democracy https://t.co/AUqHpl8AjJ
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 9, 2022
re: #144 Dangerman
Yes, perceptions matter.
I go to the grocery store and find that in the past year:
1) cost of fried chicken has gone up over 25%;
2) my bottled water (not fizzy stuff, just Crystal Geyser) has gone up 30%;
3) bakery items I buy (cookies) have gone up about 25%.
House prices around me have gone up about 20%.
These are real prices, these are prices people see and experience. This is what we perceive.
re: #34 No Malarkey!
Its
impressive[ depressing] howmany[ few ] European states are led by women.
Speaking of Brett Kavanaugh’s house remember how his mortgage got mysteriously paid off right before he was appointed
— jamison (@jhermann) May 8, 2022
I really hope someone finds out who was behind this.
No matter how many rights the GOP strips, no matter how peaceful your protest, they will always frame themselves as the victims. Civility politics is a sham, ignore it. pic.twitter.com/ocZk1vZZsL
— Savvy ☭ (@sleepisocialist) May 9, 2022
re: #30 DodgerFan1988
The best part about that Russian ambassador getting douched with red paint was the Polish response - “necessarily regrettable action” and that they had advised him NOT to visit the cemetery in Warsaw…but the activity itself was a legal form of protest.
re: #132 Eclectic Cyborg
“We, like, catch pedophiles out here, bro.”
Sounds like a professional operation.
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“Your pedos or ours?”
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Parody has a new name: Ronnie D. https://t.co/5oVlufT85a
— Rich Campbell (@RCampbellmc58) May 9, 2022
O_o
re: #176 Backwoods_Sleuth
The Onion: “Fuck it. We give up.”
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
Today is Victory Day in Russia. In addition to the parades there was also programming on state tv honouring Russian veterans
Below is a screen shot of a Russian singer with a huge image of what is supposed to be a Russian vet. It’s actually Bonnie & Clyde. It’s all lies#Fresh pic.twitter.com/imkE68iT9T— ᑕᗩT 🏴☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@RememberMeYeah) May 9, 2022
Russian state TV aired a big #VictoryDay concert on Channel One, showing pictures of nice Soviet couples during this song… including Bonnie and Clyde. pic.twitter.com/pQR3JMvgdo
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) May 9, 2022
This is embarrassing. pic.twitter.com/OvDNMF3Z6U
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) May 9, 2022
re: #173 Backwoods_Sleuth
Oooh, so scary. Wonder if it was as scary as when gun-totin’ anti-vaxxers protested at Amy Acton’s house when she was the Ohio Health Director?
Mom can’t talk with her mouth full.
— Conservative Self-Owns (@ConSelfOwns) May 9, 2022
cat. pic.twitter.com/EyZd7aW53J
— WholesomeMemes (@WholesomeMeme) May 9, 2022
re: #176 Backwoods_Sleuth
Guess what happens on November 8th.
@HouseDemocrats @SenateDems @WhiteHouse Sounds like it’s time all of you started investigating companies for price gouging during an emergency.
— Blue in Red Texas (@RockwallBlue) May 9, 2022
re: #173 Backwoods_Sleuth
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but well-armed crowds dressed in camo and helmets and chest plates storming school board meetings, following board members out to the parking lot and banging on their car windows yelling “we know where you live”… that’s not scary at all.
They are all such untolerable hypocrites.
First of all, the protests were all civil and nonviolent. Secondly, your total silence when Christine Blasey Ford was forced into hiding amid death threats over her testimony renders your argument absolutely pointless.
And last but not least… pic.twitter.com/iDUTqPm943— Arch (Space Laser Vaccination Supervisor) (@Arch_LGF) May 9, 2022
The multi-shirted Svengali of the disaffected, angry deplorables. pic.twitter.com/S3h3OW27P2
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) May 9, 2022
re: #188 Backwoods_Sleuth
Steve needs some powerful meds.
first part hidden because reasons…
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This drawing would take you 45 minutes? lolhttps://t.co/oogEOppYNG
— khanate (@polishXcellence) May 9, 2022
with talent?? lmao
— khanate (@polishXcellence) May 9, 2022
I think our current candidates and elected officials need a civics class starting with basic definitions of things like treason. https://t.co/nIi4pSaoz0
— Adam Kinzinger (@AdamKinzinger) May 9, 2022
So…the next time Ginni Thomas attempts to overthrow the duly elected government of the United States of America by violence and sedition…she has to be accompanied by a Cop? pic.twitter.com/KkVWrtcpQX
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) May 9, 2022
re: #74 nines09
Sorry to hear about the reckless. Good to hear that you were cut at least a little bit of a break.
In Virginia, a Reckless driving charge automatically includes a criminal (misdemeanor) charge. Mostly the traffic court judge waives it.
But in many places, judges will sentence a defendant to 1 day in jail for every mile per hour beyond 20 over the speed limit. Often this involves a bunch of weekends in local jail.
Because Conservatives control the Senate. Unfortunately, many people blame the Democratic party for the obstruction of their few Conservatives, and plan to hand Congress to the Republicans, rewarding everyone who fights against progress in America.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 9, 2022
re: #168 EPR-radar
It has simply never occurred to me before now that the ability (or lack thereof) to put on a military parade could actually say something real about a nation’s military capability.
You are 100% correct. That is exactly the purpose of parades.
Back in ancient days, a victory parade was a demonstration of winning. It proved that you still had your army and it was in good condition. (Ie not slaughtered, and still had the shields and armor which would have been thrown away to aid in fleeing faster from a victorious enemy.) And usually you brought back loot and prisoners to bolster the claims of success.
In more modern times, colonels were given a budget in return for providing a unit of so many trained and equipped men. The parade was an inspection for the king or dictator to verify that the money was not embezzled. (Beyond an agreed to amount.) It is still popular in many low trust countries.
The US never really went that route because of our self definition as a civilian democracy. The use of non-professionals to fill the military out in wartime. And the habit of sending an inspection team to the unit rather than sending the unit to be inspected by the President.
(Except for parades celebrating the end of wars. Although that may be more for the voters who are returning home to be demobilized and their families.)
.@SarahPalinUSA You and I have unfinished business. I’ll do everything I can to make sure you never hold a position of responsibility in the United States Congress. You are an unstable, narcissistic, ignorant, grifting quitter. Magnificent, Majestic, Alaska deserves better.
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) May 9, 2022
Shot across the bow.
re: #194 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Simple mathematics: 50 Senators is not enough to get anything (which may be controversial in the eyes of some Americans) done.
Politics is local and until the masses start voting in state legislatures to make progress there will be little change at the top.— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) May 9, 2022
re: #196 DodgerFan1988
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Shot across the bow.
Hope he can convince enough Alaskans to dump her.
re: #198 darthstar
Hope he can convince enough Alaskans to dump her.
I thought that she had quit her elected position and left the state?
re: #189 PhillyPretzel
Steve needs some powerful meds.
Steve has taken way too many powerful meds in his lifetime. I mean, look at him. 👀
re: #201 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Steve has taken way too many powerful meds in his lifetime. I mean, look at him. 👀
I’d like to see if his liver tissue is hard enough to deflect bullets!
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A judge revoked pretrial release and ordered detention for Jan. 6 defendant Barton Shively after he reached for a loaded shotgun during an unannounced visit from probation officers, who also found ammo, sword, knives, body armor.
Shively displayed “alarming lack of candor” pic.twitter.com/NiGWGKjlbm— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) May 9, 2022
re: #202 Sherlock Hound
I’d like to see if his liver tissue is hard enough to deflect bullets!
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Guys - seriously - I’m worried about Steve Bannon.
He looks like gout that developed gout.https://t.co/W7xFiUpbnC— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) May 9, 2022
It’s the Breitbart-Politico-MSM loop again. https://t.co/7cyQ5nKRJI
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 9, 2022
re: #200 sagehen
she’s running for Congress this year.
Aha! That explains a lot. She certainly has made a lot of enemies. Which is generally not a good idea.
My father, who worked with a lot of senior politicians and government officials back in his day, noted that the smartest and most successful politicians worked very hard to be friendly and win over even their opponents. That has also been my (rather limited) experience as well.
This is one reason why I am watching with such curiousity about the current GQP Oppositional Defiance Disorder platform.
re: #203 Backwoods_Sleuth
Sure. Release all these dangerous, delusional people back into the wild. What could possibly go wrong?
Our current predicament is unsustainable: you can’t have a minority of the country telling the majority how to act and have that same minority deny the majority the ability to change the results through elections. This behavior will precipitate/exacerbate a Legitimation Crisis.
— Scott Shapiro (@scottjshapiro) May 9, 2022
In court filing seeking leniency at sentencing tmrw, lawyer for Jan 6 defendant Savannah McDonald:
“She’s a small-town girl with plans for living her life. She’s not afraid of hard work & looks forward to finding her place in her community”
McDonald was allegedly in 1st wave pic.twitter.com/2Wstj3v2eg— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) May 9, 2022
“I’m the only girl that made it into the Senate,” McDonald, then a 20-year-old resident of Elberton, wrote in a group chat on Snapchat later obtained by the FBI. “We weren’t just there we went farther than almost anyone into the building … [m]aybe about top 15 people.”
— 🌊🌊🇺🇸Jane Moore🇺🇸🌊🌊 (@janeworld1) May 9, 2022
boofuckinghoo
Speaking of local politics and state legislatures, I’m not sure where the Democrats have a possibility of flipping a legislative body.
States where Democrats used to have a chance were demolished in 2020.
This is why I’m not optimistic. Seeing so many places where (even slightly) liberal Democrats used to get elected go hard for Trumping GOP tells me that as a polity our country is worse off than some Democratic strategists project.
Example: Iowa. It has swung hard-right in only a few years.
Minnesota is unlikely to go that way but the Dems are not even secure there outside of downtown Minneapolis.
Maybe Arizona can be changed. The old folk who go there to retire die off soon enough and as bad a (D) as Sinema is she still got elected as a Democrat.
re: #210 Backwoods_Sleuth
boofuckinghoo
Let us hope that the Finding Out part is as severe as the Fucking Around part she already enjoyed.
Be vewy quiet, I’m hunting wordles.
Wordle 324 5/6
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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 10, 2022
Trying to scare and expose the identity of lawful whistleblowers is far outside the bounds of normal First Amendment speech. It is an attempt to replace the rule of law with the rule of a tyrant. It is unacceptable that Republicans would not clearly denounce it. https://t.co/fatu3ifZPh
— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) May 9, 2022
I will vote for Democrats, then criticize Democrats when they suck, then vote for them again, in a little maneuver I call “BEING CAPABLE OF UNDERSTANDING MULTIPLE FUCKING TRUTHS AT THE SAME GODDAMN TIME.”
— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) May 9, 2022
Another thunderstorm rolling through, worst looks on radar to be passing south.
Tornado watch in effect too which is rare this far north.
Damn I love this new iMac. This thing screams.
re: #1 No Malarkey!
The final version of Alito’s opinion that is published will be softened and polished, but the gist of it will remain. Women will have virtually no constitutional rights that a white man is bound to respect, because they had none in 1868.
And the White women who keep voting for Republicans are cool with that, I guess. It’s not just White men who support Republicans, unfortunately.
I have a few programs I need to run in “Rosetta” mode because they weren’t compiled for Apple silicon, but honestly I can’t see any difference in speed.
Last night Beth didn’t quite pull this off. That guitar player is Tim Pierce. John Nichols is not that style guitarist.
This is what it was meant to sound like.
Rock and roll.
Later Lizards
The biggest incompatible programs hit, though - my purchased and fully legal Adobe CS4 suite, with Illustrator, Photoshop, Fireworks, and InDesign. I paid a lot of money for these apps back in the day and goddammit, I was still using them. I’ll have to decide if it’s worth doing the new Adobe subscription thing.
I don’t remember any United States senator moving this fast when Donald Trump was inciting violence on federal judges who didn’t rule the way he liked.
And the judicial protection bill advanced by the judge whose son got murdered at their own home is still sitting in Congress. https://t.co/2m1otXEHNg— Cristian Farias (@cristianafarias) May 9, 2022
re: #181 Sherlock Hound
Mom can’t talk with her mouth full.
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BTW that’s the address of Huntington Beach’s city hall. So it’s either bullshit, or they are renting out a meeting room in the city government building, which is a problem.
re: #221 Charles Johnson
The biggest incompatible programs hit, though - my purchased and fully legal Adobe CS4 suite, with Illustrator, Photoshop, Fireworks, and InDesign. I paid a lot of money for these apps back in the day and goddammit, I was still using them. I’ll have to decide if it’s worth doing the new Adobe subscription thing.
Hard to say. You have the investment in time and know the apps but the Adobe subscription model, I consider to be onerous.
There are more alternatives than there used to be, especially for Photoshop.
Photoshop alternative: Pixlr. The Gimp. Pixelmator Pro (mac only IIRC)
Lightroom alternative: RawTherapee. Darktable
Illustrator alternative: Inkscape.
InDesign alternative: Scribus.
Premiere Pro alternative: DaVinci Resolve.
After Effects alternative: Blender.
Fireworks alternative: Affinity Designer
Walked away from Adobe except for Reader and don’t miss them personally. May ditch Reader soon since the browsers do an excellent job with pdfs now.
watch out, got a tough guy here…
Trump-endorsed congressional candidate. In Georgia. pic.twitter.com/pMKTvBo9rJ
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) May 10, 2022
re: #114 sagehen
somebody did; but we have no idea who.
My money’s on right-wingers trying to generate sympathy for themselves. Because this would absolutely be a first for pro-choicers; they’ve never been arsonists.
Besides, pro-choicers are a good deal better informed and more logical, and therefore more capable in terms of creating improvised incendiary devices. If they did resort to arson, the place would be a smoldering crater.
This Best Buy has a better defense than your favorite NFL team pic.twitter.com/pBlilzeAj9
— NFL Memes (@NFL_Memes) May 9, 2022
There will be at least one TV movie about this.
Runaway Prison Guard Shot Herself as Cops Closed in on Her and Inmate Lover (The Daily Beast)
the delusions keep getting larger:
Alex Jones says he was the true hero of J6: “It’s a bizarre feeling .. to know that you tried to stop what happened .. I’m not asking for a medal, but everybody else just stood there. The thousand undercover FBI agents .. sat there while I tried to stop what was happening.” pic.twitter.com/P2FDUysI8K
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) May 10, 2022
Q: What is the penalty for lying to Congress?
A: Section 1621 anyone who “willfully & contrary to such oath states or subscribes any material matter which he does not believe to be true” is guilty of perjury & shall be fined or imprisoned for 5 years, or both!#DemVoice1 #Fresh pic.twitter.com/5PPip9RxJy— Tony 🌊 #DemVoice1 (@TonyHussein4) May 6, 2022
I’m a little out of it ( meds) but nonetheless, thankful and relieved I finished my 6 chemo treatments .🙏🙏🙏 pic.twitter.com/awKOpFdbNk
— Chris Evert (@ChrissieEvert) May 9, 2022
Ovarian cancer, which was discovered when she underwent a preventive hysterectomy after testing showed she had genetic markers. She had the genetic tests after her sister died of ovarian cancer.
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This Gmail, do you see it in the room with you right now? https://t.co/hnMZR6DRPH
— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) May 10, 2022
when discussing the propriety of protesting outside of supreme court justices’ homes, it’s important to remember that in the 90s the court held that protesting outside of the homes of **abortion clinic employees** is protected by the first amendment
— Law Boy, Esq. (@The_Law_Boy) May 9, 2022
I’m so tired of this shit. Just call it what it really is.
It isn’t Sharia law god damn it. It’s Christofacist law. Call it what it really is. The imposition of EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN laws upon the majority of Americans.
— Michele: Out of the closet. Into the fire (@michele_out) May 10, 2022
Tomorrow’s Wordle has … a complication. (And yes, it’s today’s Wordle in most of Europe and Africa by now.)
Wordle 325 4/6
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Apparently, the only way you’ll get my word is if you don’t close your browser tab between days. The recent cravenness seems to have caused things to slip. Everyone else in my dataset had a different word.
My dog had puppies this week , she won’t sleep , she just stays awake and stares at her new babies ❤💛 pic.twitter.com/VzZR2nEfuZ
— Happy Dog (@Happydog___) May 8, 2022
niterz, lizardz!
re: #223 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion
BTW that’s the address of Huntington Beach’s city hall. So it’s either bullshit, or they are renting out a meeting room in the city government building, which is a problem.
Or the Proud Boys ARE the cops. I would not say this couldn’t be.
ok piglet just give me a second https://t.co/td1nMT3wyr
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 10, 2022
re: #239 Charles Johnson
“Once upon a time, there was an ever-evolving democracy, in which people of all stripes increasingly were given their freedom…”
I was scrolling this list of blockchain related grifts and thefts for a while, and was still in May.
Web3 is going just great
…and is definitely not an enormous grift that’s pouring lighter fluid on our already-smoldering planet. (web3isgoinggreat.com)
re: #215 Backwoods_Sleuth
The lack of democratic Fight is because WHITE. VOTERS. WONT. ALLOW. THEM. TO.
— NewDemocrat4Life (@reesetheone1) May 9, 2022
re: #241 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I was scrolling this list of blockchain related grifts and thefts for a while, and was still in May.
Web3 is going just great
…and is definitely not an enormous grift that’s pouring lighter fluid on our already-smoldering planet. (web3isgoinggreat.com)
I love this site! Speaking of NFTs…
Yay, another NFT that’s going to end up being either a rugpull or another ripoff. Hey @davidgerard here’s another one to keep an eye on. (Why does it have to be my state?)
— Dee Holmes🇺🇦🌻 (@mmmirele) May 10, 2022
ETA sorry that came through twice. It’s unclear as to whether Kelli Ward has blocked me or not. But I did want my cryptocurrency buddy to see this.
re: #235 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
[McConnell] He also says if Republicans take charge, they will outlaw all abortions in the US, period…
No he won’t…
This is, quite simply, a lie. McConnell doesn’t control the Senate right now and, if and when he does again, he’s not going to get 60 votes to overcome a Democratic filibuster. Nor is he going to get 50 Republican votes to kill the filibuster or create a carve-out. Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Susan Collins (R-ME) would never go for it, and there are several other women senators and/or senators from purplish states whose votes would be very hard to get. And even if McConnell somehow could get the 50 votes, he knows full well that killing/carving out the filibuster to ban abortion nationwide would give Democrats an engraved invitation, the next time they have the trifecta, to pack the Court, pass a new Voting Rights Act, overturn the ban on abortion, and do a host of other things that will enrage Republican voters. In other words, McConnell has absolutely no intention of following through on his (incredibly vague) promise. He’s just trying to minimize potential damage to the Republicans ahead of the midterms
re: #245 Dangerman
I wish I shared your optimism, but I don’t.
re: #246 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
I wish I shared your optimism, but I don’t.
Understandable
re: #221 Charles Johnson
The biggest incompatible programs hit, though - my purchased and fully legal Adobe CS4 suite, with Illustrator, Photoshop, Fireworks, and InDesign. I paid a lot of money for these apps back in the day and goddammit, I was still using them. I’ll have to decide if it’s worth doing the new Adobe subscription thing.
I was using Adobe CS6 (the final Adobe standalone download) until I got a new Dell last year. Then I shelled out for the subscription thing. It’s also easier keeping everything on one device instead of one desktop and one laptop. I still have my 2012 Lenovo laptop as a backup.