Florida officials lied to the migrants who were flown to Martha’s Vineyard in an attempt to make a point about America’s immigration policies, and President Biden isn’t kidding around when he talks about his support for labor unions. #Colbert #Comedy #Monologue
From downstairs:
Every 5th grader has done more than any 5-week fetus. https://t.co/FJbYdBYs00
— Liddle Cherry Pie 🌻🌈🍒🥧 (@Pie_Overlord) September 16, 2022
Call something “Christian” and you can do whatever you want. I don’t know what the point of an unaccredited grade school is.
Thursday morning Kanye West sent a letter to Gap notifying them that he’d be terminating his Yeezy Gap clothing line. The collab between the rapper and retailer kicked off in 2020 and pulled in an impressive $1 billion in sales in its first year. But, citing a breach of contract, Ye pulled out of what should have been a ten year deal. Gap CEO Mark Breitbard emailed staff confirming the separation, saying that the company’s and Ye’s “vision is not aligned.” West reportedly plans to open his own clothing stores.
As is often the case with West, another big news item concerning him dropped the same day: Rolling Stone published a piece on questionable practices at Donda Academy, the private Christian prep school West opened last year. Yes, the artist behind The College Dropout and Late Registration operates a school. (Though to be fair, he also has albums titled Second Semester and Graduation.) The unaccredited K-12 school located in Simi Valley requires families of students to sign NDAs. A source at the school told Rolling Stone that they aren’t so much NDAs as they are an “informal agreement.”
Kanye’s Christian School Requires Parents to Sign NDAs (Jezebel)
Prager is a badly broken man who has dedicated his life to harming others. https://t.co/h2RCVNsgyW
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 16, 2022
DeSantis owns the libs by pushing out refugees from Latin American Socialism and Kleptocracy.
Is he trying to lose the right wing Cuban/Latin American vote?
re: #4 aatharuv
DeSantis owns the libs by hating on refugees from Latin American Socialism.
Is he trying to turn away the right wing Cuban/Latin American vote?
I doubt it: AFAIK, all Florida Republicans have to do is drop a few mentions of “communism” in their campaign ads (relevant or not), and that bloc falls right in line….
An interviewer asked Arizona Republican Senate candidate Blake Masters to pick a ‘subversive thinker’ whom people should know more about
He picked the Unabomber.
Nonviable fetus found abandoned on south side Milwaukee street
Milwaukee police are investigating after a dead and nonviable fetus was left on the street of a south side neighborhood Sunday.
Police were called to the 3400 block of South 84th Street, near the Highwood Estates and Euclid Park neighborhoods, sometime after 11:45 a.m. after the fetus was discovered, according to a news release. Police are searching for the mother.
The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s Office said the incident is not being investigated as a homicide. The fetus was 18 weeks old and nonviable, meaning it had no chance of survival, the office said.
Expect more of this.
Stop and watch this video.
Whatever you thought about the governors’ stunt… it turns out it was worse.pic.twitter.com/GASpsChOzl— John Scott-Railton (@jsrailton) September 16, 2022
re: #9 Amory Blaine
Better investigate those officers for their failure to revive the fetus.
Breaking news : Martha’s Vinyard is willing to accept the migrants if FL will take Dershowitz.
re: #12 Dangerman
When you bus immigrants out of the state but prevent pregnant women from leaving….
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Today is the 80th anniversary of #Kristallnacht.
A personal story:
My grandfather fought in WWII. He never spoke about it, so we didnt know much about his time in the service, but based on the patches on his uniform, we think he did something in intel.— Elisheva Avital (@ElishevaAvital) November 9, 2018
As for “this time its different, because they used people as pawns”…
they’ve been using women and children as props for decades.
See: the entire anti-abortion movement
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) once bragged to authors Peter Baker and Susan Glasser — who have just published The Divider — about his access to Donald Trump and told them about Trump’s boasts about his closeness with evangelicals, The Independent reports.
He said Trump had told him: “Those fucking Christians love me.”
Graham added: “He’s a lying motherfucker… He could kill fifty people on our side and it wouldn’t matter.”
re: #8 Dangerman
An interviewer asked Arizona Republican Senate candidate Blake Masters to pick a ‘subversive thinker’ whom people should know more about
He picked the Unabomber.
There ya go.
LOL looks like the Wagner Group’s tactic of recruiting prisoners isn’t going so well after all…
“Wagner group: Russian prisoners recruited by mercenaries already captured by Ukrainian forces”: https://t.co/he1BDaMAcZ👇
— UkraineWorld (@ukraine_world) September 16, 2022
re: #18 Dr Lizardo
I guess there aren’t a lot of jailbreak movies made in Russia.
re: #18 Dr Lizardo
LOL looks like the Wagner Group’s tactic of recruiting prisoners isn’t going so well after all…
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Sounds like NCR and the Powder Gangers in Fallout New Vegas.
“Who knew giving prisoners explosives was a bad idea.”
re: #10 Charles Johnson
Goddamn that’s hideous. I try not to use that word much, but GODDAMN. Fuck all the Republicans who had anything to do with this.
Who was the woman giving the remarks?
From downstairs:
re: #148 Backwoods_Sleuth
Interesting re a Cruz tweet that he may have deleted..
Leftist hypocrisy: Dems activate National Guard to interdict 50 illegal immigrants who disturbed liberals’ golf games & Chardonnay at Martha’s Vineyard.
They do NOTHING to address 4.2 MILLION illegal immigrants who have flooded small towns in Texas.
Biden doesn’t care.
According to Google, about 4.2 million Texas residents were foreign born. So was Cruz deliberately lambasting anyone residing in Texas who was not born here? Was he claiming that foreign birth is somehow a disqualification from being accepted as part of this nation, which would include Canadian-born Cruz himself?
I get paid what is technically an hourly rate to tutor, but the hourly rate is only good if I am actually working on something during that time. Otherwise, I get paid nothing. Guess how long it takes me to complete a paper review that has a 50 minute max time rate attached to it?
.@PressSec taking the hammer to DeSantis and Abbott “These are the kind of tactics we see from smugglers”. https://t.co/TuZSoTMPy7
— Doug Gordon (@dgordon52) September 16, 2022
Put the migrants on the block chain.
by Andrew Yang— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) September 16, 2022
re: #16 Dangerman
I wonder if that implies that spy45 doesn’t include himself among those well engaged Christians.
Streamed live on Sep 14, 2022 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is celebrating its 30th anniversary in a few months, and to celebrate, IGN’s Scott Collura is moderating a cast reunion with Nana Visitor, Colm Meaney, and Terry Farrell to discuss the legacy of the show; its themes of morality, war, diversity; and its impact on new audiences thanks to streaming services.
Imagine what it’s like to be an intelligence officer on foreign soil right now, wondering how much danger you’re in because of the theft of classified documents and a judge who cares more about the thief than national security.
— Steven Beschloss (@StevenBeschloss) September 16, 2022
Here’s what your “humanitarian crisis in Martha’s Vineyard” looks like, @HomelandGOP. (Photo @washingtonpost) https://t.co/FUqtZzOchI pic.twitter.com/iquwFJ5Gmb
— James Gleick (@JamesGleick) September 16, 2022
re: #19 jaunte
I guess there aren’t a lot of jailbreak movies made in Russia.
The star of Prison Break, Wentworth Miller, apparently at one point had a following in Russia at one point, but refused an invitation to a Russian film festival, after Putin’s passage of anti-gay laws, coming out as gay.
Wentworth Miller: Prison Break star comes out and attacks Russia’s anti-gay legislation
Oh well. It’s only the second time Wordle kicked my ass.
Wordle 454 X/6*
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The silence from the US Catholic bishops on this issue deafening
Not one said “we’ll take em”
Pelosi, Biden et al can’t get communion for their political stances.
Abbott and desantis personally concoct and approve plans to eff with peoples lives and…crickets
re: #17 Barefoot Grin
There ya go.
Blake Masters praised the Unabomber, believes World War II wasn’t a “just” conflict, and blames America’s gun violence problem on “Black people, frankly.” (via @MaddowBlog) https://t.co/2uhDTS2Um1
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) June 15, 2022
re: #33 Dangerman
The Unabomber, a diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic, is a leading thinker for a Republican.
Fauci is reviled as a quack and political operative.
What a world
re: #25 Dangerman
Put the migrants on the block chain.
by Andrew Yang— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) September 16, 2022
He who must not be named is much more likely to have suggested putting them in unused malls*. Which in the _long_ run (after full conversion to living quarters), is not actually a bad idea. In the short run, they’re good in at best an emergency situation.
*Making use of all the brick and mortal retail that’s going by the wayside was actually one of his campaign ideas.
Trump judges continue to corrupt our legal system:
JUST IN: A three-judge panel of the Appeals Court agreed that the RNC’s lawsuit against the Jan. 6 select committee is now moot (the committee withdrew its subpoena).
BUT! The judges also decided to vacate the lower court ruling that had been one of the committee’s biggest wins. pic.twitter.com/Fi7OgZPy0N— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) September 16, 2022
This time in an attempt to protect RNC records from scrutiny.
re: #34 The Pie Overlord!
I don’t like the new queen
re: #32 Dangerman
The silence from the US Catholic bishops on this issue deafening
Not one said “we’ll take em”
Pelosi, Biden et al can’t get communion for their political stances.
Abbott and desantis personally concoct and approve plans to eff with peoples lives and…crickets
Both the Torah and the New Testament are unambiguous:
Leviticus 19 34:
The stranger who resides with you shall be to you as one of your citizens; you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I the LORD am your God.
Matthew 25 35 40:
35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’
37 “Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’
40 “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’
Neither DeSantis nor Abbott can claim to be anything other than a devotee of Republican Jesus — a total repudiation of whatever their religion should have taught them.
“These people ultimately intended to go to Florida. That’s why we flew them to an island off of Massachusetts.” https://t.co/TT2RhDD3rE
— tom choad (@tomablogger) September 16, 2022
re: #43 jaunte
There’s very little point in asking questions of any of these GOP liars. All they do is lie.
re: #42 Hecuba’s daughter
Both the Torah and the New Testament are unambiguous:
Leviticus 19 34:
Matthew 25 35 40:
Neither DeSantis nor Abbott can claim to be anything other than a devotee of Republican Jesus — a total repudiation of whatever their religion should have taught them.
they, like spy45, claim to be one thing while acting exactly the opposite.
and the hordes think they’re holy.
as for the church, let’s be charitable and say not one bishop had his TV on in the last two days
re: #44 EPR-radar
The lies the DHS people filled in on the migrants’ paperwork don’t match the lie DeSantis was telling there.
By far the worst thing in these four terrible minutes is the thing where DHS falsified the immigrants’ paperwork to random homeless shelters across the country and then made mandatory immigration appointments at offices near those addresses, thousands of miles away https://t.co/XSQwiixmt2
— Laura Jedeed (@LauraJedeed) September 16, 2022
JFC, this give me a chill down my back:
re: #47 jaunte
The DHS Inspector General is the one responsible for punishing this… unfortunately, didn’t we just determine that they’re a holdover hack?
re: #43 jaunte
He can’t even put on a mask correctly.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis put his face mask on sideways 😬 pic.twitter.com/uBAM16HRKC
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) April 18, 2020
re: #50 BeachDem
He can’t even put on a mask correctly.
Not can’t. Won’t. Because he is determined to be a maximum jackass.
Flight of the Condor. Returning the Condor to northern California.
This is a gift link; no paywall. I had to load it several times before it would start at the beginning. Be sure to turn the sound on.
re: #45 Dangerman
they, like spy45, claim to be one thing while acting exactly the opposite.
and the hordes think they’re holy.as for the church, let’s be charitable and say not one bishop had his TV on in the last two days
Let’s face it: those Christians and Jews who support Trump also support the platform of Republican Jesus. And when we ask our brother about the fate of those on the St. Louis, he waves his hands and treats that as a different situation.
I’m back, baby.
My suspension was a mistake on purpose.https://t.co/LcZLK1NVfb— gocart mozart (@EdMix13) September 16, 2022
re: #18 Dr Lizardo
LOL looks like the Wagner Group’s tactic of recruiting prisoners isn’t going so well after all…
Who could’ve guessed that criminals handed a uniform and thrust into combat with little, if any, training wouldn’t make good soldiers?
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Submitted by Olivia D! https://t.co/zvyrDicwkl pic.twitter.com/2ckkuznuM4— El Arroyo (@ElArroyo_ATX) September 16, 2022
In the stolen classified documents case, tfg’s side proposed two possible Special Masters. One, retired Judge Dearie, is reportedly competent, honest and scrupulous.
So why was he proposed by tfg? This may be the answer:
A NY operative reminds me a key fact about Dearie, whose courthouse I covered two decades ago: he is known as exceptionally slow in his pace. That is what the Trump team is we looking for. https://t.co/X0B1s1cwcR
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) September 16, 2022
re: #57 ckkatz
DT’s regular MO: run the clock down. Pursue it until there is no time left.
re: #58 PhillyPretzel
DT’s regular MO: run the clock down. Pursue it until there is no time left.
He has a real shot at dying in his sleep before we can bring him to justice.
Hi. I can’t stay, but a brief update.
We’re stranded in Newfoundland. Our ferry to Argentia was cancelled as the vessel broke down, so we scrambled and were booked on the Port aux Basques ferry. We broke down in the harbour in Port aux Basques and were towed in. (Huge plumes of black smoke issuing from the engine room is usually not a good sign.)
I wound up cancelling our reservations on the east side of Newfoundand and in St. Pierre via E-mail. My wife had alternative plans made up for a western Newfoundland trip so we’ve activated those.
On top of that, the ferry to Labrador keeps getting cancelled for high winds. The remnants of a Pacific typhoon are about to bear down on us here. That storm has already laid down snow in western Labrador.
We might have to throw ourselves on the Canadian government for mercy if the last ferry off the island gets cancelled.
On top of that, my ATM card quit working in Nova Scotia. I called the bank in Scottsbluff yesterday to find out what’s up (ouch hotel telephone charge), and they said they sent everyone new ATM cards (right after we left Nebraska, great, that means mine is at the Post Office at home). We’ll have to go to a bank to exchange some cash tomorrow but we should be okay.
We are currently in Stephenville, Newfoundland. We took a walking trip today to see an ancient fossil bed just outside town (regrettably I did not bring my camera.)
A couple photographs:
The ferry from Woods Island, Prince Edward Island to Caribou, Nova Scotia
North Sydney from the ferry in the harbour.
The two ferries to Newfoundland. On the right is the ferry to Argentia and the left to Port aux Basques.
re: #58 PhillyPretzel
DT’s regular MO: run the clock down. Pursue it until there is no time left.
It’s time for an emergency appeal to the 11th circuit. Judge Cannon is Trump’s creature, and she cannot be allowed to fuck things up any more than they have already been fucked up.
Japan’s centenarian population hits a new record high https://t.co/CgQSgRRfra
— Bloomberg (@business) September 16, 2022
re: #60 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Sounds like an adventure as well as a trip.
Hope it all works out and the delays do not affect your other plans.
Wasn’t there a song about this? It went something like -
“Welcome to the Hotel Newfoundland,
You can check out any time you like
But you can never leave”
I put a rainbow ribbon on my bag to make it easy to spot at the airport but if people think I support #LGBTQ that’s just a bonus. pic.twitter.com/oYVauowxRW
— Liddle Cherry Pie 🌻🌈🍒🥧 (@Pie_Overlord) September 16, 2022
re: #10 Charles Johnson
I want to see Massachusetts charge that asshat with kidnapping.
Growing up Black. As soon as the gospel music comes on, you better turn off that TV and start cleaning.
— BlackAdam52 (@BlackAdam52) September 16, 2022
I was arrested 8-years ago this week for stealing from an Apple Store to support my 14-year drug habit. It’s been 8-years for me this week without painkillers/opioids. Life’s hard. For everyone. Friends and family saved me. Check in on your people… pic.twitter.com/2yD9lAwrL1
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) September 16, 2022
(i’ve stolen some of this from randos. some is mine)
so david brooks makes another asinine observation:
You would think that those of us in the anti-Trump camp would have at one point stepped back and asked some elemental questions: What are we trying to achieve? Who is the core audience here? Which strategies have worked, and which have not?
well david start here:
yours is a party of greed, avarice, selfishness, corruption, and thirst for Power for its own sake.
you have accepted the support of bigots, racists, and religious fanatics. They traffic in the separation of people from each other, but the joining of certain Churches and State, and you’re ok with it.
you’re where you are now because of spy45 and others who pander to the resentments of the mostly uneducated masses. You offer simplistic, antagonistic analysis and answers to society’s problems — solutions that always seem to involve finger-pointing and aggression, but never any self-reflection. And, of course, have no chance of actually being implemented, unless it’s to punish, degrade or control women, POC or generically, ‘the libs’.
are you surprised there arent enough of you to ‘come together’ and defeat Trump OR Trumpism itself?
the problem with ‘sensible’ R’s is exemplified by Sununu. Abhors Boldoc AND still will vote for him. You put “getting our guy elected” above governing. Spy45 humiliates Cruz, Graham, and even Romney and those spineless jellyfish lick his boots.
And it’s no longer just Spy45 anymore. Now you’ve cultivated election deniers, general crazies, “no exceptions for rape or incest”. People like Gohmert, Massie, Dixon, Mastriano, Masters, Lake, Boebert, Greene ad infinito. No one hates Walker, but as a Senator; really? Oz may be a medical quack, though he doesn’t appear to be a general loon, yet. But, again, Senator Oz? Really? The best you got? But you’d vote for him, right? He’d definitely make a better senator than Fetterman? Or is it just cause he’s an R?
Spy45 can quit politics tomorrow. Your Party problem has transcended him.
Look at Abbott and Desantis.
Zero percent surprised. https://t.co/S7KG7ShVNH
— janashortal (@janashortal) September 16, 2022
re: #22 Hecuba’s daughter
From downstairs:
Interesting re a Cruz tweet that he may have deleted..
According to Google, about 4.2 million Texas residents were foreign born. So was Cruz deliberately lambasting anyone residing in Texas who was not born here? Was he claiming that foreign birth is somehow a disqualification from being accepted as part of this nation, which would include Canadian-born Cruz himself?
Yes, he is. Conservatives are racists. They do not care if you were born here, immigrated here, committed the non-criminal offence of crossing the border without passing a customs house, or illegally took a job.
That same group of racists here in Canada are called “old stock” (as in old English or Scottish stock) but have much less of a voice than our Racist Party.
re: #34 The Pie Overlord!
He knows that he is a useless old man who has accomplished nothing of value in his life and that the empire is long gone.
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re: #72 sizzzzlerz
Jesus! It looks like his mother died, or something!
Seriously. His mother is gone, and he’s sitting in her chair. I’d look really sad if I did the same.
re: #69 Dangerman
Once again, here’s the truth about Republicans that people like David Brooks will never admit — every pathology in Trump is also dominant in the GOP.
re: #72 sizzzzlerz
Jesus! It looks like his mother died, or something!
You said exactly what I was thinking.
Sounds like the summit is going splendidly for Putin:
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Putin was publicly humiliated again.
Previously Kremlin head used to make world leaders wait for him.
Now president of Kyrgyzstan allows himself to be late for a meeting with Putin. pic.twitter.com/Pcn6azv3nm— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) September 15, 2022
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At the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, it seems that the leaders are competing to humiliate Putin more. pic.twitter.com/bqGKYvoIau
— ТРУХА⚡️English (@TpyxaNews) September 16, 2022
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, canceled all meetings and public appearances last week after falling gravely ill. He is currently on bed rest under observation by a team of doctors, according to people familiar with his health situation. https://t.co/hDa8IuPlZo
— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 16, 2022
In a single day at least 5 Russian-installed officials have been killed on occupied Ukrainian territory. Two in Luhansk, one in Kherson, & two more in Berdyansk. Ukraine has not claimed responsibility but this is sure to undermine Russian morale just as Kyiv presses its offensive
— Matthew Luxmoore (@mjluxmoore) September 16, 2022
When I was a kid, there were ads for the plans to make something close to this using vacuum cleaner motors in the back of comic books.
re: #34 The Pie Overlord!
He knows that he is a useless old man who has accomplished nothing of value in his life and that the empire is long gone.
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- His mother just died.
- He knew this was to be his lot for his entire life.
- The British monarchy has _almost_ no power. The Queen was handed speeches to read by the Prime Minister of the day and she read them. She made subtle hints to show her pleasure of displeasure. (Wearing the EU colors at the time of Brexit). She could talk to and advise Prime Ministers in private, but publicly do nothing.
— The only case she ever might have real power is if there were a hung parliament, and she needed to appoint someone, or there’s a leadership crisis . I believe she did this once in the 1960’s.
- She theoretically can refuse Royal Assent to a bill (same as a veto here), but that hasn’t been done by a British monarch in nearly 200 years.
- She does have some _very_ limited power to scuttle bills related to her own estates.
- All those in theory massive, but in practice, basically non exercisable powers have now passed on to him.
- The only thing the monarch (or working royals) can do themselves are is non controversial pet projects. In Charles’s case, it’s organic farming and his charities. Harry, who of course was never going to be on the throne but was still a working royal for a long time, created the Invictus games to honor sportsmanship in Wounded veterans.
re: #74 EPR-radar
Once again, here’s the truth about Republicans that people like David Brooks will never admit — every pathology in Trump is also dominant in the GOP.
Brooks is, ultimately, a nihilist. His positions are based on protecting his comfort at the cost of all else by taking whatever he wants and presenting it as a universal; his “analysis” amounts to gamesmanship, the meta in which there’s no moral action just tactical action.
He, along with all the other pundits that appease wealthy mediocrities with casuistry, should never be allowed to appear in public without a shoe thrown at him
re: #63 ckkatz
Sounds like an adventure as well as a trip.
Hope it all works out and the delays do not affect your other plans.Wasn’t there a song about this? It went something like -
“Welcome to the Hotel Newfoundland,
You can check out any time you like
But you can never leave”
Mirrors on the ceiling,
And pink salmon on ice,
“We are all just prisoners here,
Of a broken device (a ship)”
Well, the last didn’t quite rhyme. Needz moar beer.
re: #81 The Ghost of a Flea
Brooks is, ultimately, a nihilist. His positions are based on protecting his comfort at the cost of all else by taking whatever he wants and presenting it as a universal; his “analysis” amounts to gamesmanship, the meta in which there’s no moral action just tactical action.
He, along with all the other pundits that appease wealthy mediocrities with casuistry, should never be allowed to appear in public without a shoe thrown at him
“Axiomatically dishonest” is a good term to use for the drivel that Brooks and every other right wing apologist produces.
re: #74 EPR-radar
Once again, here’s the truth about Republicans that people like David Brooks will never admit — every pathology in Trump is also dominant in the GOP.
and that’s why they don’t need him anymore
re: #78 ckkatz
The collaborators must be scared shitless. The Ukrainian army is coming, and their fancy new Russian passports don’t even let them flee to Russia!
re: #79 Crush White Nationalism
When I was a kid, there were ads for the plans to make something close to this using vacuum cleaner motors in the back of comic books.
Video: Star Wars like hoverbike makes U.S. debut (Metro)
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re: #77 ckkatz
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Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, canceled all meetings and public appearances last week after falling gravely ill. He is currently on bed rest under observation by a team of doctors, according to people familiar with his health situation. https://t.co/hDa8IuPlZo
— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 16, 2022
Tomorrow’s Wordle. I call this one Jack Fell Down and Broke His Crown.
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re: #79 Crush White Nationalism
When I was a kid, there were ads for the plans to make something close to this using vacuum cleaner motors in the back of comic books.
Video: Star Wars like hoverbike makes U.S. debut (Metro)
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i know what you meant, but…. ;-)
Today in Frankfort the price of gasoline fell below $3.00/gallon.
re: #86 steve_davis
presumably this was before lawyers discovered civil litigation.
I don’t think these things ever got off the ground, so they’re pretty safe and just a waste of time and money.
re: #34 The Pie Overlord!
He knows that he is a useless old man who has accomplished nothing of value in his life and that the empire is long gone.
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Today’s Wordle seems to have set off broad-based distress. I’ve seen like 6 failures here, including my own.
Wordle 454 X/6
I was so sure I had this supposedly tough Wordle, but nope! I’m not one of the smart kids :(
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Oh God.
5th Circuit is gonna 5th Circuit. pic.twitter.com/IsB6vRZoxk
— Mike Masnick (@mmasnick) September 16, 2022
re: #92 austin_blue
“73-year old man gets 1st Job”.
as much sympathy as I have for royalty in England, I had a hard time squaring the idea of Charles tooling around in the motorboat trying to kill the Irish terrorists (edited: patriot games), with the guy who apparently couldn’t write with a fountain pen without ink leakage.
Here’s a link (it’s not yet on the 5th circuit website), but here’s the copy I got: https://t.co/x7K2pdzL4l
— Mike Masnick (@mmasnick) September 16, 2022
re: #92 austin_blue
“73-year old man gets 1st Job”.
Interned for 53 years until career employee “retired.”
Good thread on developments in Russia’s former empire.
Point #1. Azerbaijan is not Ukraine, and Armenia is not Russia. Armenia is a democratic republic where large-scale protests against the government are normal. Azerbaijan is a despotic state. Azerbaijan has a common border with Russia, while Armenia doesn’t 2/10 pic.twitter.com/bD5FwolNhZ
— Greg Yudin (@YudinGreg) September 16, 2022
re: #92 austin_blue
“73-year old man gets 1st Job”.
I am not ride or die by the royal family—I think they shouldn’t get to be the largest land holder in a state that kicked them out of total power—but Charles is basically the 20th century version of the 21st century phenomenon of social media kids whose lives are eaten by living in a panopticon plus constant impression maintenance.
He’s fucked, and an awful awkward toff, but he was fitted for that fate by being the first test subject of princedom within an era of radio and television.
It’s a dialectical tension—he sucks and also can be understood sympathetically.
Then again, they’re all fucking pretending Andrew isn’t an albatross and they all should be pelted with chanclas.
re: #99 Eclectic Cyborg
Wait. What the fuck?
Fifth Circuit allows Texas to enforce its bizarre, unworkable law forcing social media companies to carry speech violating their TOS.
re: #101 No Malarkey!
Fifth Circuit allows Texas to enforce its bizarre, unworkable law forcing social media companies to carry speech violating their TOS.
Yep, I was just getting there. The case is NetChoice v. Paxton, and it looks like this is now headed to SCOTUS.
re: #101 No Malarkey!
Fifth Circuit allows Texas to enforce its bizarre, unworkable law forcing social media companies to carry speech violating their TOS.
I see. So the 5th circuit has officially reached the “we are protecting the first amendment by allowing red states to impose censorship” part of the proceedings.
re: #102 Dopamine Fish
Yep, I was just getting there. The case is NetChoice v. Paxton, and it looks like this is now headed to SCOTUS.
Oh hell, is SCOTUS really going to rule companies can’t censor anyone?
That would be a fucking shitshow.
WTF?
At this rate it won’t be long before the only constitutional amendment left will be the 2nd. https://t.co/qh01pRAPMQ— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 16, 2022
re: #105 Charles Johnson
That’s exactly what the Republicans want, so… yeah.
re: #105 Charles Johnson
[slides a pile of chips onto the “they’ll fuck up the 2nd the minute they feel safe openly saying that only white people should have guns and are entitled to freely kill anyone that rustles their jimmies.”]
I mean, we all knew the question with the Fifth Circuit ruling wasn’t IF they were going to rule the wrong way, but just how dumb it was going to be. This looks… pretty damn dumb.
re: #82 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Mirrors on the ceiling,
And pink salmon on ice,
“We are all just prisoners here,
Of a broken device (a ship)”Well, the last didn’t quite rhyme. Needz moar beer.
Ha!
Yes, moar beer can be quite beneficial to what ails ye
If you do not make your escape from Nova Scotia… I think that Blue Rodeo is playing up in Glace Bay tomorrow. :)
I’m sure the affected corporations will be thrilled at having to let anyone and everyone say whatever the hell they want on their platforms.
Not like that will dent the userbases (and ad dollars) or anything…
re: #18 Dr Lizardo
After Prigozhin’s grand tour of the Russian prisons (which has been reported on for over a month before this video leaked), more and more sightings of mass transport of prison vehicles in the direction of the border. Such as this one in the Tambov region, reported by @bazabazon, pic.twitter.com/rLO4TmO9q4
— Christo Grozev (@christogrozev) September 16, 2022
re: #34 The Pie Overlord!
He knows that he is a useless old man who has accomplished nothing of value in his life and that the empire is long gone.
His mother died.
Amazon’s video strategy is wild. They said just weeks ago if their billion dollar Lord of the Rings show wasn’t a huge hit they’d stop making shows all together.
Instead they went the opposite route and decided a (presumably) wildly expensive high-concept show was the way to go. https://t.co/3PUVUYbjtl— Nathan McDermott (@natemcdermott) September 15, 2022
“Months before National Archives officials found hundreds of classified documents they retrieved from former president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club, they were told that none of the material was sensitive or classified and that Trump only had 12 boxes of ‘news clippings,’” the Washington Post reports.
(psst) - they lied. Bigly.
but, but, but if it’s just news clippings, why the special master?
and doj should be able to keep them for the investigation because they’re not privileged
re: #114 Captain Ron
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I will watch it, but they had better run into Spider-Man and Dr. Doom.
re: #110 Eclectic Cyborg
I’m sure the affected corporations will be thrilled at having to let anyone and everyone say whatever the hell they want on their platforms.
Not like that will dent the userbases (and ad dollars) or anything…
No more Terms of Service? This is plain, old-fashioned Digital Anarchy.
What Fresh Hell is This?
Also, the duck is wearing a big red-bordered sign that says, in big bold red capital letters, “THIS IS A DUCK.”
And we have PHOTOGRAPHS of the duck and the red sign. https://t.co/hW9pljxjwR— George Conway🌻 (@gtconway3d) September 16, 2022
re: #114 Captain Ron
That tweet presumes that Rings of Power is not considered a “hit” in Amazon’s eyes.
And the first season cost around $55M per episode, and while a 5-season arc will cost over a billion dollars, the rights purchase is forever. No one else can make a Hobbit or LOTR TV show/streaming series without Amazon’s permission.
Blade Runner is not an illogical choice for Amazon as I am sure it will gain a lot of attention.
Contemporary TV is in an odd state, with streaming now being so popular. But Amazon has made a corporate decision to position Prime Video as a significant competitor to Netflix and Disney+.
Personally I think there is just too much TV (and cinema) for the well being of our society. But when I grew up I was always told TV was a “boob tube” so I’m probably scarred from childhood.
The Fifth Circuit has dropped another opinion that makes me question why I bother being a lawyer.
I like how a corporation has the religious right to decide what health benefits to provide to its employees, but not the right to prohibit racist speech.
Fascinating stuff.— Andrew Kinsey (@KinseyAndrew) September 16, 2022
re: #96 Dopamine Fish
So I take it from the 5th Circuit that corporations are NOT people now?
re: #121 Florida Panhandler
So I take it now that corporations are NOT people now?
Oh, no, they’re people. They’re people with a limited set of rights; to wit, they have the right to hate gay people, but not hate Republicans.
re: #107 The Ghost of a Flea
I think I’ve argued on here before that reactionaries have already done for the 2nd amendment, they’ve just done it by changed the underlying definitions of critical concepts relating to threat and self defense, then creating a squid-ink cloud of cultural reasoning that some Americans aren’t real Americans that get gun rights.
You technically have a right to bear arms…
…but you do not have a right to not be viewed as a threat and summarily killed, whether by a citizen or cop, in keeping with cultural norms of “who is inherently threatening”…
…and you do not have a right to be treated equally under law for a similar level of transgression with firearm…
…and your right to self defense is conditional on you being the right kind of person…
…and your right to resist unjust agents of the states simply disappears if you’re darker than a paper bag…
…and sometimes people who should be against all gun control will just do gun control but only versus specific groups, and the only fight back is to “prove” their enforcement is unequal.
All of the above developed as tactics in the Reconstruction South, and were refined into instruments of terror in the Redemption South. Since then the instruments have just become more refined—what was justified by fear of the Black Panthers (which pretty much established the basis of extrajudicial killing we are now aware of at all times), what was justified by the drug war, what was justified by 9.11.01, and finally what has justified by the modern moral panic of young black men that threaten just by existing in space and thus can be shot.
I’m not sure it’s quite dead yet, but it certainly isn’t well:
(Reportedly, Russia has been pulling a lot of its troops out of Tajikstan and sending them to Ukraine.)
Russia’s CSTO (Collective Security Treaty Organization) is effectively collapsing - member states Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan are openly fighting each other - Armenia is begging for help that will never arrive, and Kazakhstan is getting security guarantees from China. https://t.co/ZmtxmwXRyW
— Jimmy (@JimmySecUK) September 16, 2022
Don’t look, dopey.
No, no, LOL, no, no, no, and no. pic.twitter.com/DGeYFkmDFy
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) September 16, 2022
re: #114 Captain Ron
What else is Amazon going to do with that money?
Give their employees a safety net?
I’m not sure what this tweet means, but if true, that means that the Fifth Circus is likely to have a bad time when this goes over their heads yet again.
Yeah. The fact that SCOTUS already reimposed the injunction should have been a hint. Apparently, not strong enough.
— JAG says it’s legal, but stupid. (@truthisbest5) September 16, 2022
I’m confused - are corporations people, or not?
JFC is our judicial system ever fucked up. Far-right-friendly MAGA judges are demonstrating what “judicial activism” *really* looks like.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 16, 2022
remember when being a flip flopper would doom your chances?
The astounding flip-flop of an election denier
yes, i know his arent very good anyway, but he’s got Sununu’s support!
As Jesus famously said: “For I was hungry and you let me starve, I was thirsty and you left me parched, I was a stranger and you lied to me, stranded me in an unfamiliar place, and exploited me to score a Fox News exclusive.” https://t.co/0OXprWkthl
— Rep. Veronica Escobar (@RepEscobar) September 16, 2022
re: #98 No Malarkey!
Putin loved those “frozen conflicts”, let him wield influence with little effort.
Now the thaw is setting in and his freezer appears to be broken.
Where next? Transnistria? Georgia?
Ha ha, this is exactly right. RWNJ are all about free markets until someone hurts their fee-fees.
Fifth Circuit says you guys have to let me play with you
— WontonKillingHat (@Popehat) September 16, 2022
re: #132 John Hughes
Putin loved those “frozen conflicts”, let him wield influence with little effort.
Now the thaw is setting in and his freezer appears to be broken.
Where next? Transnistria? Georgia?
you can be sure Herschel Walker is ready for the fight!
re: #133 KingKenrod
It’s almost as if we now have 2 radically different court systems in the US, one based on traditional notions of jurisprudence, and another based entirely on whatever is good for Donald Trump and his like-minded GOP agenda at any given minute of the day.
re: #135 Florida Panhandler
It’s almost as if we now have 2 radically different court systems in the US, one based on traditional notions of jurisprudence, and another based entirely on whatever is good for Donald Trump and his like-minded GOP agenda at any given minute of the day.
There’s also a third judicial faction — generic Republican/federalist society stooges who aren’t Trump worshippers but otherwise put GOP interests above the law. 6 of these assclowns are presently befouling the Supreme Court.
This is HILARIOUS!
Republican Jesus is the funniest thing you will see on this site ALL DAY. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/onkHnZCY55— BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ (@mmpadellan) September 16, 2022
Liddle Cherry Danish because it’s our favorite #Shabbat #ShabbatShalom #goodshabbos #TweetYourShabbat pic.twitter.com/9gPmq2zt6N
— Liddle Cherry Pie 🌻🌈🍒🥧 (@Pie_Overlord) September 16, 2022
To make the above, you need 2 ingredients!
1. Package of frozen puff pastry.
2. Can of cherry pie filling.
Preheat oven to 400°
Thaw the puff pastry. Cut into squares (if it’s not already pre-cut).
Spoon a Tbsp of pie filling into each square and roll up the edges.
Bake for 30 minutes.
NOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOM
Republicans have nothing but contempt for their own constituents,
whether they vote for them or not.
“It is a great day to be in Hattiesburg.
“It’s also, as always, a great day to not be in Jackson.” —@tatereeves pic.twitter.com/JQ3cWrFjTk— When is Lynn Fitch’s press conference? (@jallen1985) September 16, 2022
re: #133 KingKenrod
Ha ha, this is exactly right. RWNJ are all about free markets until someone hurts their fee-fees.
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Does this mean that Truth Social can no long ban Devin’s cow?
MAGA: a term denoting extreme cult-like behavior, centered around an authoritarian dumbass.
Synonym: fascism.
Origin: lost in the mists of crime.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 16, 2022
re: #137 Captain Ron
And Republicans don’t like it.
re: #140 jaunte
Can we share this far and wide? Tater won’t usually come out and say directly how much contempt he has for (majority-black city) Jackson, but he does here. I assume that is a friendly white audience.
— Just a water-boilin’ fool. (@MadameBeloved) September 16, 2022
RAYS HAVE FLASH MOBS
this changes everything https://t.co/yVP4KgnTGA— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 16, 2022
re: #138 The Pie Overlord!
Looks cherry-licious!
Q1: what kind of sugar did you sprinkle on the pastry? Is it just regular granulated or something else?
Q2: Any reason other fruits like peaches, pears, or apricots wouldn’t work?
re: #145 Charles Johnson
One more gathering that was larger than TFG’s inaugural
Watching season 4 of Cobra Kai even though it’s getting a little too formulaic now. Fun as long as you suspend all disbelief and critical thought.
re: #108 Dopamine Fish
I mean, we all knew the question with the Fifth Circuit ruling wasn’t IF they were going to rule the wrong way, but just how dumb it was going to be. This looks… pretty damn dumb.
Thank you, everyone who thought it was safe not to vote for Hillary Clinton in 2016. We now have a federal judiciary full of right wing loons.
re: #148 Charles Johnson
Fun as long as you suspend all disbelief and critical thought.
Damn it, Charles! I am not going to join the MAGAts!
re: #149 No Malarkey!
Thank you, everyone who thought it was safe not to vote for Hillary Clinton in 2016. We now have a federal judiciary full of right wing loons.
We sure do. And they’re getting frisky.
Still - Biden has been appointing a lot of judges, too. I haven’t paid enough attention to know if there’s a strategy, but last I heard he was appointing far more judges than Trump had at this point.
re: #128 Dopamine Fish
I’m not sure what this tweet means, but if true, that means that the Fifth Circus is likely to have a bad time when this goes over their heads yet again.
What the FUCK? pic.twitter.com/rQVlBjpRPU
— Kathryn Tewson (@KathrynTewson) September 16, 2022
If I’m reading this right, the Fifth Circuit believes that the presence of Nazis on Twitter is a hypothetical scenario. pic.twitter.com/j3dig331yJ
— Kathryn Tewson (@KathrynTewson) September 16, 2022
re: #134 Dangerman
you can be sure Herschel Walker is ready for the fight!
Two old men in the stands at a Georgia football game watching UGA the mascot lick his balls:
“I wish I could do that.”
“He’d bitecha.”
Michael Tracey is somewhere in a training camp in Belarus watching this video and thinking “stolen valor” and shedding one poignant tear. https://t.co/I9kH0FN56O
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) September 16, 2022
Unreal! “The Platform’s obsession with terrorists and Nazis”!!!
Calling this an “obsession” is just… I can’t even.
At least the true intent shines through - they want social media to allow the worst kinds of far right (and/or terrorist) bad craziness. https://t.co/mCDKUNVbJ6— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 16, 2022
re: #149 No Malarkey!
Thank you, everyone who thought it was safe not to vote for Hillary Clinton in 2016. We now have a federal judiciary full of right wing loons.
Would they have approved any of her judicial nominations since the Senate was in GOP hands? Unless the Democrats also took control of the Senate in that scenario. Hard to know what would have happened. McConnell would not allow any Scotus nomination through. So there would be a 7 person Supreme Court. Given he blocked Obama nominations to other courts, would he have continued doing so? I’m not sure what would have ultimately happened but it could have been very bad. Trump would have pursued his lies about a stolen election 4 years earlier.
re: #146 sizzzzlerz
Looks cherry-licious!
Q1: what kind of sugar did you sprinkle on the pastry? Is it just regular granulated or something else?
Q2: Any reason other fruits like peaches, pears, or apricots wouldn’t work?
That is large grain sparkling sugar.
If you like other fillings by all means use that. We like cherry.
re: #148 Charles Johnson
Watching season 4 of Cobra Kai even though it’s getting a little too formulaic now. Fun as long as you suspend all disbelief and critical thought.
Season five is even sillier. Still found it entertaining on some levels.
Huh: Simona Mangiante, who married former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos after he pled guilty to lying to the FBI about his communications with Russians during the 2016 campaign, is running for office in Italy on a Russia-friendly platform. https://t.co/KikQGmoqZY
— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) September 16, 2022
re: #152 Charles Johnson
Still - Biden has been appointing a lot of judges, too. I haven’t paid enough attention to know if there’s a strategy, but last I heard he was appointing far more judges than Trump had at this point.
And if the Democrats keep control of the Senate, as seems increasingly likely, he can continue to do so for the next two years. And whereas Trump appointed mostly a bunch of mediocre, reactionary white men and women, Biden is appointing the most diverse group of outstanding attorneys to ever grace the federal bench.
Herschel Walker doing plenty of Nonsensical rambling today.
Herschel: “If you read the Constitution, and the 14th Amandmant, you know our forefather was apologizing for their whiteness cause they say every man be treated fair. But what has happened, we elected the wrong people to office that didn’t pick that baton up and run with it.” pic.twitter.com/Kgl8ryS9TE
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) September 16, 2022
re: #157 Hecuba’s daughter
Would they have approved any of her judicial nominations since the Senate was in GOP hands? Unless the Democrats also took control of the Senate in that scenario. Hard to know what would have happened. McConnell would not allow any Scotus nomination through. So there would be a 7 person Supreme Court. Given he blocked Obama nominations to other courts, would he have continued doing so? I’m not sure what would have ultimately happened but it could have been very bad. Trump would have pursued his lies about a stolen election 4 years earlier.
At the very least, the hundreds of Federalist Society Judges Trump appointed would not be on the federal bench.
re: #162 Eclectic Cyborg
It also looks like he could use a proofreader or maybe he should go back to school and learn some English.
They will never stop whining about their precious European culture being tainted:
Numenor is Atlantis, a fantasy which Plato used for a morality lesson, which Tolkien stole to reshape the morality lesson to bend it more towards his own religion.
It’s not about European history. It’s a morality tale.
Objecting to an actor’s skin in this regards is just silly.— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) September 16, 2022
HAH. FAFO strikes again.
NOW: The MAGA super fan who posted on Facebook that storming the Capitol on January 6 was the “proudest day of his life” has been sentenced to five years in federal prison.
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) September 16, 2022
re: #162 Eclectic Cyborg
Wait.. the 14th Amendment … (checks notes)… was ratified in 1868.
And no where does it apologize for “whiteness” because it’s not about being white, it’s about forcing the defeated Confederate states to accept reality of coming back fully into the Union.
When the sound of the garbage truck driving away reminds you it’s trash day pic.twitter.com/T2dEMUdZcZ
— Midge (@mxmclain) September 16, 2022
re: #138 The Pie Overlord!
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Just when the bakery I work at discontinued Danishes, in a thrift store I saw an old glass gallon jar, with an old paper label that said, ‘Danish flavoring’. I’m sure it was just a coincidence. I laughed, but I did not buy it. It was a carrying issue, which I now regret. I did find 2 new work shirts at the Really really free store when I dropped stuff off there today.
Also from the Fifth Circuit:
The 5th Circuit ruled a Jim Crow-era law to keep Black Mississippians from voting is not discriminatory.
U.S. Court of Appeals Judge James Graves Jr. disagreed, writing a powerful dissent that could inspire SCOTUS to step in.
From @BobbyHarrison9:https://t.co/1YXyk4kc3m— Adam Ganucheau (@GanucheauAdam) September 15, 2022
A dissent written by U.S. Court of Appeals Judge James Graves Jr. could play a key role in determining whether the U.S. Supreme Court will hear an appeal of a case that has, so far, upheld Mississippi’s Jim Crow-era constitutional provision written to keep Black people from voting.
Last month, the 5th U.S. Court of Appeals upheld a Mississippi constitutional provision that bans people convicted of certain felonies from voting. White leaders in Mississippi included most of those specific felonies in the state’s 1890 Constitution because they thought those crimes were more likely to be committed by African Americans.
Though attorneys challenging the provision in court say it has continued to disenfranchise Black Mississippians, a majority of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals did not agree. Following the appeals court’s ruling, plaintiff attorneys said they plan to appeal the lower court’s ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court. They have 90 days from the final verdict that was issued on Aug. 24 the file the appeal.
Graves, a Black man from Mississippi who was appointed to the federal appeals court in 2010, wrote a 47-page dissent that outlines the state’s long and disturbing history of racism and its impact on America.
Rob McDuff, an attorney with the Mississippi Center for Justice who is working on the case, said Graves’ dissent could increase the odds the Supreme Court will take up the case.
re: #148 Charles Johnson
Watching season 4 of Cobra Kai even though it’s getting a little too formulaic now. Fun as long as you suspend all disbelief and critical thought.
It’s like a train wreck that you can’t look away from. And I love this show. 😂
Season 5 is redonk.
re: #171 Backwoods_Sleuth
You know Clarence will side with the 5th Circuit.
re: #171 Backwoods_Sleuth
James K. Vardaman bragged that he helped institute Jim Crow laws “for no other purpose than to eliminate the n****r from politics.”
And he still has his name on a building at @OleMiss.
And the U.S. 5th Circuit just upheld one of his racist Jim Crow laws:https://t.co/64EMD8wGsz https://t.co/kITsI1aouA— Ashton Pittman (@ashtonpittman) September 9, 2022
Pictured: 5th circuit issuing its decision https://t.co/6kdqplNvfv pic.twitter.com/h5BoeMcLSf
— mike wissell (@latimeriidae) September 16, 2022
and Ken takes a victory lap
BREAKING: I just secured a MASSIVE VICTORY for the Constitution & Free Speech in fed court: #BigTech CANNOT censor the political voices of ANY Texan! The 5th Circuit “reject[s] the idea that corporations have a freewheeling First Amendment right to censor what people say. pic.twitter.com/UijlzYcv7r
— Attorney General Ken Paxton (@KenPaxtonTX) September 16, 2022
Not bad, for a sea. https://t.co/F0hHnRecoB
— Lake Superior (@LakeSuperior) September 16, 2022
re: #175 Backwoods_Sleuth
Does this mean airlines can’t prevent passengers from watching porn on their phones?
re: #163 No Malarkey!
At the very least, the hundreds of Federalist Society Judges Trump appointed would not be on the federal bench.
Temporarily — because what then would happen in 2020? Would Trump be able to get elected at that point? Counterfactual history is very uncertain. Ben Elton’s Time and Time Again posits the situation of a person being sent back in time to prevent WW1 on the theory that subsequent ills were all due to that calamity; what happens is basically every attempt to correct the situation has unforeseen and often very dire consequences.
They seem to be handling the situation with grace and compassion. Why are you so hateful?
— Jen Henry (@jenresisted) September 16, 2022
How does she know that?? https://t.co/tZ8Lxag3Cb
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) September 16, 2022
Won’t reveal her sources I bet.
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) September 16, 2022
I have no idea why I tried to learn anything in law school. This is heffalumps and woozles law. I’d need like five edibles to even know where to start. pic.twitter.com/rArU1F25LP
— JD / 🇺🇦 (@jdsanctioned) September 16, 2022
re: #16 Dangerman
Here we go again. First I agree with Liz Cheney, and now I agree with Graham.
Does Jesse not think the north has bilingual schools or shit frontline healthcare?
And I thought Chicago was already a shooting gallery, are you now telling me I have to wait for more hardworking immigrants from Latin America to make the women feel unsafe? Make up your mind! https://t.co/adj8HhdSY7— JD / 🇺🇦 (@jdsanctioned) September 16, 2022
OK logging off for now. See you tomorrow night!
re: #152 Charles Johnson
Still - Biden has been appointing a lot of judges, too. I haven’t paid enough attention to know if there’s a strategy, but last I heard he was appointing far more judges than Trump had at this point.
it’s not just how many judges, it’s who he’s picking
Commentators (e.g., here) stressed, as did Biden, the comparatively large proportion of former public defenders among his appointees. Over a third of Biden’s 42 2021 appointees had some public defender experience, and almost as many had at least three years’ experience. As a proportion of all appointees, they more than doubled public defenders among Obama’s appointees, and were much more than other predecessors.
Biden’s 23 appointees in his second year include six with some public defender experience, five with three or more years.
Lancet (British medical journal) estimates that close to 200,000 people in US needlessly died from covid due to trump’s murderous handling of pandemic during his time in office.
— Robert Klein (@rklein7777) September 16, 2022
This woman outscammed a ‘romance scammer’ demanding £3,000 and it’s glorioushttps://t.co/qgnagRW6k5 pic.twitter.com/rITlaO47Wu
— The Poke (@ThePoke) September 16, 2022
re: #162 Eclectic Cyborg
Clearly, Herschel played football without a helmet.
Testimony of Ukrainian volunteer medic, Taira Paievska before the US Congress on what she witnessed in Mariupol when she was captured by Russian forces. The last line is haunting. pic.twitter.com/IgrO1RsE87
— Stewart McDonald MP (@StewartMcDonald) September 16, 2022
Always enjoy Dr. Miano belittling TikTokIdiots:
re: #93 KingKenrod
Today’s Wordle seems to have set off broad-based distress. I’ve seen like 6 failures here, including my own.
Make that seven. There are a lot of words that could fit this combination, and I picked all the wrong ones.
Wordle 454 X/6
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re: #184 Backwoods_Sleuth
Man. You are just all on the racist thing. It’s always these mediocre white men with receeding hairlines. Your low self esteem due to your poor hairline and even poorer personality clearly makes you project your self hate into racism and whining like a child.
— Tom (@Bost0nPatriot) September 15, 2022
Almost 40% of the population of NYC is foreign-born. More than 1/3 of the populations of LA County and San Francisco are foreign-born. Almost 30% of Boston’s population is foreign-born. The idea that blue cities are untouched by immigration is bizarrely out of touch with reality. https://t.co/bXx6LLBYFB
— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) September 16, 2022
— WholesomeMemes (@WholesomeMeme) September 16, 2022
re: #184 Backwoods_Sleuth
I live in San Diego County, which has the busiest international border in the US.
And guess what, this county is still one of the most desirable places to live, which is exactly why property costs so damn much here.
I don’t mind people speaking Spanish around me. Frankly, it really isn’t that much of a problem. I have never been anywhere in the county in which the fact that we are part of old Mexico, and in which so many people have come from Mexico, has caused me a problem.
We could certainly have robust debates about whether our catastrophic and incoherent immigration “policy” of the last few decades puts different burdens on different states. But not treating the humans involved as humans strikes me as chillingly sociopathic.
— WontonKillingHat (@Popehat) September 16, 2022
Listen to this nasty little worm.
Miller: My message to every Republican Governor tonight is in every instance that you can, take the illegal immigrants in your state where the law allows you to and put them into the neighborhood of rich Democrats… pic.twitter.com/ie1bd8JQ1k
— Acyn (@Acyn) September 16, 2022
So how are the migrants going to get to their court hearings in Texas or Florida?
re: #94 Dopamine Fish
Oh God.
So I can walk into my local McDonalds and start cussing up a fucking storm and there is nothing they can do about it?
re: #110 Eclectic Cyborg
I’m sure the affected corporations will be thrilled at having to let anyone and everyone say whatever the hell they want on their platforms.
Not like that will dent the userbases (and ad dollars) or anything…
That’s definitely a problem for sites like Facebook and Twitter. For newspapers and magazines, the solution is “no comments then.” If this went so far as to extend to print outlets, then good-bye to letters to the editor.
re: #200 Ace Rothstein
So how are the migrants going to get to their court hearings in Texas or Florida?
that’s the bonus; if they miss their hearings, that automatically puts them on the deport list.
re: #200 Ace Rothstein
So how are the migrants going to get to their court hearings in Texas or Florida?
There’s going to be a ruling from Somewhere: They all get asylum, then citizenship, then business loans and student loans….and apologies.
re: #187 Patricia Kayden
It was way the fuck over 200 000, I guarantee you.
Nanmadol has become quite the monster:
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That’s a lot of atmospheric water heading towards Japan.
re: #206 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Nanmadol has become quite the monster:
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That’s a lot of atmospheric water heading towards Japan.
I can feel it here too. DW is talking to her mother in central Japan and the typhoon will only cause strong winds there. The atmospheric pressure here is due to the fact that one of DW’s siblings is a conspiracy theorist who refuses to get vaccinated and she is screaming at her to not allow one of her brothers to visit until he gets vaxed. She also has cousins who do acupuncture and have taken no measures to make their workplace safe; they too don’t vax.
Anyway, sorry to hijack this report (though it’s funny to hear DW in full local dialect mode).
re: #120 Dopamine Fish
Yes.
Without a government to defend their claim to property via police, corporations wouldn’t be able to exist.— lurkey_lurker (@lurkey_lurker) September 16, 2022
By that logic, people wouldn’t be able to exist, yet people are not creations of the government.
re: #179 Hecuba’s daughter
Temporarily — because what then would happen in 2020? Would Trump be able to get elected at that point? Counterfactual history is very uncertain. Ben Elton’s Time and Time Again posits the situation of a person being sent back in time to prevent WW1 on the theory that subsequent ills were all due to that calamity; what happens is basically every attempt to correct the situation has unforeseen and often very dire consequences.
If you think things would be worse now if Clinton had been elected President in 2016, I’ve got nothing.
re: #199 jaunte
Listen to this nasty little worm.
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Miller: My message to every Republican Governor tonight is in every instance that you can, take the illegal immigrants in your state where the law allows you to and put them into the neighborhood of rich Democrats… pic.twitter.com/ie1bd8JQ1k
— Acyn (@Acyn) September 16, 2022
re: #200 Ace Rothstein
So how are the migrants going to get to their court hearings in Texas or Florida?
Or Washington or Arizona or all the other bogus places the dhs agents wrote in the forms
heh
It appears that the Gulf monarchies who gave millions in cash and jewelry to the Windsors over the years do not appreciate being told to take a bus to the funeral. https://t.co/G2St6daRmJ
— My Royalty Account (@BurnerRoyalty) September 16, 2022
re: #199 jaunte
Listen to this nasty little worm.
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Miller and the covid denialists need to be deported to the Netherlands, to stand trial under the Julius Streicher precedent, propaganda in furtherance of genocide.
Follow his path, share his fate.
Seriously, international law has a LOT to say about the treatment of refugees, and shuffling them around as a political stunt is almost certainly a violation.
Kind of a weird idea.
ICYMI: An e-ink word processor for the internet age, the Flowo recaptures the focused productivity of the typewriter in a wireless keyboard form. https://t.co/Jb7hQEw9Sj
— Design Milk (@designmilk) September 11, 2022
re: #216 Charles Johnson
Kind of a weird idea.
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Nostalgia doesn’t always cross over to wanting it back.
You’re right! Human trafficking is a criminal offense! Why do you love it when Republicans commit crimes?
— KevinSaidPutinPaysTrump (@NoLeaksInTheFam) September 16, 2022
Yeah, I meant season 5 of Cobra Kai above. Just finished the last episode when Crease predictably returns from faking his death, at which point I thought, “I’d be OK if this show wasn’t renewed for another season. Gettin’ just a teensy bit too silly. It was fun. It’s not you, it’s me.”
.@PressSec: “These were children, they were moms, they were fleeing Communism. And what did @GovAbbott and @GovRonDeSantis do to them? Treated them as political pawns, treated them like chattel in a cruel, pre-meditated political stunt.” pic.twitter.com/IfFDi70Qfv
— Herbie Ziskend (@HerbieZiskend46) September 16, 2022
re: #217 wrenchwench
Nostalgia doesn’t always cross over to wanting it back.
Yeah, I pictured using this thing and realized that one thing I definitely don’t miss about typewriters is messing with the roller and only being able to see a few lines at once.
re: #209 No Malarkey!
If you think things would be worse now if Clinton had been elected President in 2016, I’ve got nothing.
If Hillary won, would that have meant that the House and Senate also would have likely gone blue? If so, then there would have been a positive outlook for this nation. But I don’t know how likely that would have been. McConnell didn’t need Trump to sabotage much of Obama’s agenda. Fascism and racism permeated the party before Trump.
Happy International Preservation of the #Ozone Day!🎉#ICYMI: An annual analysis showed a significant decline in the levels of ozone-depleting chemicals, reaching a milestone in the path to recovery of the #ozonelayer.
Story 🔗: https://t.co/0O9CX9gLO8 pic.twitter.com/VoSpCFuMyi— NOAA Research (@NOAAResearch) September 16, 2022
re: #224 Captain Ron
That’s very good news. This improvement has been going on for awhile. Good to hear it’s continuing.
Maybe Biden’s initiative on climate change will lead to similar improvements!
Looks like Bob married well. pic.twitter.com/tKW5JefxXr
— Sean (@sean_s_mc) September 17, 2022
Woohoo. Got VS Code’s Remote SSH extension working with the new server, so I can now work directly on the files. This server you’re using right now is too old to install the special VS Code apps, so this is another huge step in the goodest direction.
Also installed all the mod_rewrite commands to route all the different types of LGF web pages according to simplified readable URLs. It’s all working but there are still weird little problems showing up due to PHP 8.
re: #207 Barefoot Grin
I can feel it here too. DW is talking to her mother in central Japan and the typhoon will only cause strong winds there. The atmospheric pressure here is due to the fact that one of DW’s siblings is a conspiracy theorist who refuses to get vaccinated and she is screaming at her to not allow one of her brothers to visit until he gets vaxed. She also has cousins who do acupuncture and have taken no measures to make their workplace safe; they too don’t vax.
Anyway, sorry to hijack this report (though it’s funny to hear DW in full local dialect mode).
The Weather Network here in Canada noted today that they follow western Pacific typhoons, because eventually they become major weather systems in Canada. Powerful typhoons, even after they’ve lost their wind punch, still carry incredible amounts of water. As such, right now there is a former typhoon stretching from northern Ontario and Michigan’s UP across Ontario and Québec, and another that is exiting now from Newfoundland (the sun was out here today).
Been a while since I’ve rummaged around through this code. To launch the new server, I’m just focusing on getting things working, but I already see some things that could be greatly improved going forward. It’s not too horrible because I always try to write code to be easily understood, but some of the basic architecture of the Javascript stuff needs refactoring.
I’m just saying.
I have no personal experience in this.
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One symptom of depression is lack of dopamine.
— David Moisan (@dmoisan) September 17, 2022
re: #212 jeffreyw
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It’s not “real” pizza until you put some pineapple on it.
re: #230 Sherlock Hound
I’m just saying.
I have no personal experience in this.
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Does this “Fit Mind” outfit understand they are asking you to eliminate “screen time” by putting their app on your cell phone?
re: #231 sagehen
I bet you put mayonnaise on a hot dog.
You COULD make your own health care decisions with your own doctor… or you could let my opponent and these men, these “ALL STARS,” make your reproductive decisions for you…🙄 pic.twitter.com/kAXxCNCAso
— Patty Pansing Brooks (@Patty4Nebraska) September 15, 2022
Ted is so desperate to paint migrants being moved from a remote island with no social services to another city in the same exact state with adequate services and shelter as a “deportation.”
Because apparently, if it doesn’t fit your narrative, then just lie until it does. pic.twitter.com/wO3BeefHzf— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) September 16, 2022
re: #229 Charles Johnson
Been a while since I’ve rummaged around through this code. To launch the new server, I’m just focusing on getting things working, but I already see some things that could be greatly improved going forward. It’s not too horrible because I always try to write code to be easily understood, but some of the basic architecture of the Javascript stuff needs refactoring.
While you were rummaging around in the code, did you find any missing socks?
re: #228 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The Weather Network here in Canada noted today that they follow western Pacific typhoons, because eventually they become major weather systems in Canada. Powerful typhoons, even after they’ve lost their wind punch, still carry incredible amounts of water. As such, right now there is a former typhoon stretching from northern Ontario and Michigan’s UP across Ontario and Québec, and another that is exiting now from Newfoundland (the sun was out here today).
Very good point. New England still is shocked by the hurricane of 1938. It’s claimed that 1 in three trees was blown down in New Hampshire.
re: #232 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Does this “Fit Mind” outfit understand they are asking you to eliminate “screen time” by putting their app on your cell phone?
“THAT’S **DIFFERENT**!”
—Them, probably.
Someone else in the thread said “I went to Aruba and no screens all week! Only music!”
OK, but what does your favorite music produce in your brain?
re: #233 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
I bet you put mayonnaise on a hot dog.
I hate mayonnaise. I don’t put it on or in ANYTHING. Not even tuna salad. I almost caused an international incident when I first learned there’s Europeans who dip their fries in it.
re: #236 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
While you were rummaging around in the code, did you find any missing socks?
No, but he found a ton of left parentheses “(” and right braces “}”!!
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re: #235 Backwoods_Sleuth
There’s a response to Ted there, with an appropriately disturbing video clip.
I still don’t know why blue states don’t parole & deport gun criminals to Texas pic.twitter.com/vHcG4SWnCD
— 🄾🅃🅃🄾 🅃🄾🄿🄲🄸 for Congress (@OttoTopci) September 16, 2022
re: #240 sagehen
I hate mayonnaise. I don’t put it on or in ANYTHING. Not even tuna salad. I almost caused an international incident when I first learned there’s Europeans who dip their fries in it.
I cannot stand the taste of mayonnaise, and it violently activates my gag reflex and ruins the taste of anything I put in my mouth for hours afterward. The Spousal Unit loves mayo on lots of things and even dips her fries in it.
In those circumstances, I have to invoke the mantra I use against hyperpartisan food snobs against myself: “These are not YOUR taste buds. Processing taste differently is not a goddamned moral failing.”
I still have to avert my eyes, though.
re: #192 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Make that seven. There are a lot of words that could fit this combination, and I picked all the wrong ones.
Wordle 454 X/6
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Moi aussi:
I thought I had it made after the second guess, but got blooyed by the vagaries of the English vocabulary….
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