Seth takes a closer look at Donald Trump making it difficult for Republicans to pretend they have a serious governing philosophy by claiming all elections are rigged and launching a deranged attack on Mitch McConnell and his wife.
New: Colorado’s latest poll shows Democrat Adam Frisch trailing Lauren Boebert by a slim margin of 2%. For reference, Frisch was behind Boebert by 7% in July. Lauren Boebert supports a total ban on abortion, promotes teachers wielding firearms, and wants to defund the FBI & DOJ.
— Dash Dobrofsky (@DashDobrofsky) October 4, 2022
a new thread, did I stumble in first? …. No, but this is new from Sade:
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Charles: when you embiggen the youtube vid you can’t see the text above it anymore.
⚡️Full list of the U.S. aid package for Ukraine:
👉 Follow @Flash_news_ua pic.twitter.com/xRPf8B79g9— FLASH (@Flash_news_ua) October 4, 2022
Things I learned today:
The original aniline dyes were discovered during attempts to synthesize quinine
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Silk skirt and blouse dyed with Sir William Henry Perkin’s Mauve Aniline Dye, England, 1862-63. Science Museum.
William Henry Perkin discovered the artificial dye mauveine in 1856 by accident. He was trying to synthesise quinine – an expensive natural substance used to treat pic.twitter.com/YJCSalJb94— WikiVictorian (@wikivictorian) August 18, 2021
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The aniline dye used on, at least some, guitars, is not the original coal tar ‘aniline’:
Aniline is a chemical that is a by product of burning coal. The first synthetic dye (mauve, developed in 1856) was a coal tar product and contained the chemical aniline but the term “aniline” has been used to include other chemical type dyes. Today the term “aniline” is used mainly to differentiate natural dyes from the synthetic dyes. The synthetic dyes offered by The ReRanch do not contain the chemical aniline.
The current status of the GQP:
Herschel Walker plans to sue the Daily Beast
MTG plans to sue Twitter
Dotard files lawsuit against CNN
If this happens, Twitter is finished. But their executives and shareholders will have fatter bank accounts, and that’s clearly all they fucking care about.
Elon Musk Proposes to Buy Twitter for Original Price of $54.20 a Share (TWTR)https://t.co/eBsplyT8Tm pic.twitter.com/syEkSU9bVI— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 4, 2022
re: #7 Charles Johnson
Can this douchebro just GO THE FUCK AWAY already. God, I hate his ugly mug.
The EU parliament has now formally passed the new law, which will require all wired chargers for smartphones, tablets, and cameras to utilize USB-C by 2024. Laptops will need to switch to the new standard by 2026. https://t.co/w0Dgr3952W pic.twitter.com/YuLmNeuUIo
— IGN (@IGN) October 4, 2022
Certainly didn’t expect paying for an abortion to change Trump’s mind on Herschel. pic.twitter.com/GCgQ39JlQ7
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) October 4, 2022
If you read those leaked emails last week, you know that Musk plans to take Twitter in an extreme right wing direction. You think Twitter’s moderation is bad now? Just wait until it’s a private company owned by someone who openly sympathizes with the far right.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 4, 2022
The only commitment I want from the Republican party is to work to bring the coup plotters among them to justice rather than sheltering them. That’s the change in direction I want for America.
I would be glad if Twitter were finished. The problem is that it won’t be. Rather, it will probably become a cesspool of hate again.
Senior campaign officials also planning to speak with Walker later today about the abortion allegation.
“Once we have more of the facts, we can go about our jobs and go win this thing,” said a person close to the Walker campaign.— Gabby Orr (@GabbyOrr_) October 4, 2022
re: #11 Charles Johnson
If you read those leaked emails last week, you know that Musk plans to take Twitter in an extreme right wing direction. You think Twitter’s moderation is bad now? Just wait until it’s a private company owned by someone who openly sympathizes with the far right.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 4, 2022
Twitter will become the new “Truth” Social, but with a large member base and the single-minded determination to spread fascist propaganda everywhere.
re: #13 Nyet
I would be glad if Twitter were finished. The problem is that it won’t be. Rather, it will probably become a cesspool of hate again.
Not probably - Musk has been very clear that it’s going to happen.
If he takes over before the mid-term election, it could be very very bad. He’ll reinstate Trump’s account and he’ll have that giant hate-megaphone again, as we go into the election.
re: #14 Backwoods_Sleuth
Well you know Walker denied the allegation so …
But then initially he also denied that he had another unknown son, until he really did
No matter what they say as rhetoric, they’re fine with abortion like they’re fine with sex:
if you have power you can do it; if you’re granted license by the powerful, you can do it; if the powerful forbid you, you cannot
Abortion is bad because it proposes that bodies…all bodies—those that fuck, those that are pregnant, those that are born…are not owned by the powerful.
That’s it.
His silence, by the way, probably means he’s gonna vote for the racist maps and made up his mind on that in like 1981.
— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) October 4, 2022
I’m sorry…what? https://t.co/AhpuoLPgk3
— Leah McElrath 🏳️🌈 (@leahmcelrath) October 4, 2022
lmao he’s proving my point pic.twitter.com/OpXFGEauqD
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 4, 2022
I’m doing a text bank for GA & the only responses so far are raging asshole rwnj.
Must keep professional….
But wow.
In those Musk texts, the redacted senders and recipients lay the groundwork for a “war” and “battle” after Musk takes over Twitter — a “coordinated pressure campaign” that will lead to deplatforming of political enemies. pic.twitter.com/GGnUXc30op
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) October 4, 2022
re: #13 Nyet
I would be glad if Twitter were finished. The problem is that it won’t be. Rather, it will probably become a cesspool of hate again.
Not just that but all the media would be trying to accommodate The Clicks which means they will all bend so far to the right there will be nothing left of our already broken media. They all use Twitter to hock their wares.
re: #23 HRH Stanley Sea
I’m doing a text bank for GA & the only responses so far are raging asshole rwnj.
Must keep professional….
But wow.
The people who agree with you are much less likely to respond. And have better manners.
Ahhh. Finally found the code that’s causing things to get fubar. It’s a script that’s supposed to downsize images, and it’s running out of control in some cases. Now that I know where it is, I can fix it.
And even better that Justice Kagan re-upped the language in Brnovich in which Justice Alito in his haste to remake the “totality of circumstances” test of Section 2, conceded that “no one disputes” that intent is NOT required to prevail in Section 2 cases.
— Sherrilyn Ifill (@SIfill_) October 4, 2022
Justice Alito throwing counsel for Alabama a lifeline.
— Sherrilyn Ifill (@SIfill_) October 4, 2022
Wow. Justice Kagan gets to it. Asks if it would be possible for Alabama to create maps with no majority Black districts. Counsel for AL essentially says, “it depends on what Section 2 is trying to get at.” Just unreal. The purpose of the Voting Rights Act is not mysterious.
— Sherrilyn Ifill (@SIfill_) October 4, 2022
rest of the thread is great
If/when Twitter is taken over by Musk, someone needs to hack their system and replace the little blue bird with a blue Reichsadler.
re: #2 Thanos
a new thread, did I stumble in first? …. No, but this is new from Sade:
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Sade in 1984.
This should have been an episode of “Miami Vice”
re: #25 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Not just that but all the media would be trying to accommodate The Clicks which means they will all bend so far to the right there will be nothing left of our already broken media. They all use Twitter to hock their wares.
Newspapers and TV news will become the “buggy whips” of media.
“An assault rife, four rounds, and a knife.”
That’s what one mobilized Russian (who says he’s blind in one eye) says he got as equipment before being sent to the front. Mobilized on Sept. 19, two days before Putin announced mobilization. https://t.co/nbOoW52tD3— Euan MacDonald (@Euan_MacDonald) October 4, 2022
In honor of #YomKippur, we take a look at the other side of this shofar in The Met collection.
A #shofar player can produce a number of different calls, each with its own scriptural significance.
On Yom Kippur, a single blast of the shofar marks the end of the fast. https://t.co/6StWKCHrzU pic.twitter.com/2aNSOCBLBt— The Metropolitan Museum of Art (@metmuseum) October 4, 2022
re: #32 Backwoods_Sleuth
Damn, we’re approaching “horses and bayonets” level of bad.
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Sources:
-US Death Toll: CNN ( https://t.co/tqL1CUTcty )
-Cuba Death Toll: The Weather Channel
-Unaccounted Total: The Guardian ( https://t.co/t3jV0MbqUn )— Elijah Joyce Weather (@ElijahWeather) October 4, 2022
re: #36 Backwoods_Sleuth
10,000 unaccounted for is quite staggering at this point.
After Kanye West featured “White Lives Matter” T-shirts at his YZY show in Paris, leaders in the fashion world heavily criticized and slammed the provocateur for his ill-executed attempt at sending a message about race. https://t.co/Y0iPtk6ysm
— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) October 4, 2022
His music sucks too.
This is going to happen faster than anyone wants to believe.
Twitter and Elon Musk are discussing how to ensure the deal can close, and the judge overseeing the case requested they come back to her by the end of the day with a potential plan that would allow the litigation to be dropped, a person familiar said https://t.co/v3AxNG8ZVW
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) October 4, 2022
re: #37 Dr. Matt
10,000 unaccounted for is quite staggering at this point.
not if the phone lines are down.
There’s probably a lot of duplicates, as out-of-state friends and relatives report them as unaccounted for.
OK, the new resizing code is in place for uploaded images. Hopefully this will end those quicksand moments.
Right-wing media has been obsessed with a story from VT where a girls’ volleyball team was banned from their locker room after an undetailed “incident” involving a trans girl.
Turns out they were bullying the trans girl and school faculty heard the whole thing. pic.twitter.com/5IE64QHApU— Gillian Branstetter (@GBBranstetter) October 4, 2022
From @sevendaysvt. The school has been targeted with online harassment for the last week. https://t.co/DVMagU1wKf
— Gillian Branstetter (@GBBranstetter) October 4, 2022
“This incident should serve as a reminder that all schools have a legal and moral obligation to ensure that every student is safe, supported, and fully included in the school environment.” @ACLUVermont https://t.co/B8Vl2TtXDe
— Gillian Branstetter (@GBBranstetter) October 4, 2022
It’s coming at us like the hot kiss at the end of a wet fist. https://t.co/dYmIBmDlot
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 4, 2022
re: #38 Charles Johnson
And of course Candance Owens was there:
Kanye West decision to wear a “White Lives Matter” shirt is disgusting, dangerous, and irresponsible. Some of y’all will rush to defend him. You should ask yourselves why… pic.twitter.com/YT4a6c9tKI
— Marc Lamont Hill (@marclamonthill) October 3, 2022
Imagine hating your own race so much that you are donning actual white supremacist slogans…..to pwn the libs.
re: #37 Dr. Matt
10,000 unaccounted for is quite staggering at this point.
I have a feeling it’s the snowbirds that just went home.
re: #29 William Lewis
If/when Twitter is taken over by Musk, someone needs to hack their system and replace the little blue bird with a blue Reichsadler.
They will like it though.
Can you repeat the question… the f. pic.twitter.com/c8dPgxxOM1
— 🇺🇦Skyleigh Heinen🇺🇸 (@Sky_Lee_1) October 4, 2022
re: #43 Charles Johnson
I suspect the wingnut plan is to have the Musk-Twitter deal close in the next few days so that the triumphant return of the Mango Menace to Twitter energizes wingnuts for the midterm election.
Good news, everyone. Since he is buying, he no longer sees a threat of a WW3. ///
Here’s the new logo design for Elon Musk’s Twitter. pic.twitter.com/qw8DaJqkxZ
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 4, 2022
re: #48 EPR-radar
I suspect the wingnut plan is to have the Musk-Twitter deal close in the next few days so that the triumphant return of the Mango Menace to Twitter energizes wingnuts for the midterm election.
I don’t think it (the transaction) happens that quickly. We will see.
re: #44 Dr. Matt
And of course Candance Owens was there:
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For those two it is all about the Benjamins and nothing more. Kanye would sell his mother’s soul for a few bucks.
Worst take or worst possible take? https://t.co/veBNxKrrgl
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 4, 2022
re: #53 Charles Johnson
Fuck that guy. Seriously, he is a smarmy, smug fucker.
re: #41 Charles Johnson
OK, the new resizing code is in place for uploaded images. Hopefully this will end those quicksand moments.
How does the site handle picture sizing in a tweet? Does it account for the resolution of my monitor? Sometimes when I click on your icon to bring up a picture it is too small, but when I click on the expand icon it gets too big and the horizontal scroll doesn’t work, usually I can see the left half of the picture but not the right half. (half is a guess) The tweet in #33, the shofar is an example of this.
oh brother https://t.co/6agzoSoShS
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 4, 2022
re: #53 Charles Johnson
Translation: Allows Nazis and insurrectionists to have a voice….because…..
re: #56 Charles Johnson
What…so he can withdraw again? What is the point of that?
re: #53 Charles Johnson
I fail to see how letting present-day Nazis spread their propaganda helps democracy.
The theory that free speech absolutism works to discredit Nazis has been disproven (again) by the facts. Really, Weimar Germany should have been a sufficient case study.
re: #58 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
What…so he can withdraw again? What is the point of that?
To me this looks like good news — if Musk is dicking around like this, that reduces the chance that Twitter falls into enemy hands before November.
re: #58 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
What…so he can withdraw again? What is the point of that?
Delay, delay, get different judge, etc. I still don’t think it’s a done deal. Banks might try to get out of providing the financing at previously agreed upon terms. Rates are up by a lot since the deal was first proposed, and then purposefully delayed by Musk.
Claymore anti-personnel munitions (configured to be consistent with the Ottawa
Convention);
At first I thought that this meant it had FRONT TOWARD ENEMY in English AND French, but then realized that the Claymore has to be Command Fired rather than passively detonated by a trip wire when some rando walked by.
Some cautiously optimistic news:
The latest @MorningConsult midterm tracker update shows Ds leading Rs on generic ballot by 5 pts (49%-44%) among ~8k LVs.
Biden approval among LVs at 46%.
Ds’ maintain narrow enthusiasm edge for 3rd straight week.
More here from @eyokley: https://t.co/FY1514yVBV— Cameron Easley (@cameron_easley) October 4, 2022
re: #62 austin_blue
Claymore anti-personnel munitions (configured to be consistent with the Ottawa
Convention);At first I thought that this meant it had FRONT TOWARD ENEMY in English AND French, but then realized that the Claymore has to be Command Fired rather than passively detonated by a trip wire when some rando walked by.
Interesting. We were taught as 19D how to set them both ways, especially for protection of bivouac sites.
Good thing Desantis never did that with covid. https://t.co/OEgsjjnbg6
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) October 4, 2022
re: #64 William Lewis
Interesting. We were taught as 19D how to set them both ways, especially for protection of bivouac sites.
Well we still use them that way. We never signed the Ottawa deal. Neither did Russia. But Ukraine did.
re: #7 Charles Johnson
A big question is who will be partnering in this purchase offer. And the source of the money used to finance the purchase. I suspect that the answers to these questions will be a big tell on the future direction of twitter.
I’ve also seen some suggestions that high follower Twitter accounts start figuring out a post-Twitter social media strategy. Particularly with Meta/Facebook reportedly retrenching.
I also wonder if anyone is making any money off of Twitter price changes -
*MUSK SAID TO PROPOSE TO TWITTER TO PROCEED W/ DEAL AT $54.20$TWTR shares just spiked and now are halted pic.twitter.com/cF6k1SfF1r
— Kailey Leinz (@kaileyleinz) October 4, 2022
Then there’s this:
Tesla stockholders not happy about Musk being distracted by Twitter.
Stock loses over $30 billion in value on news of Musk potentially closing deal to purchase Twitter. pic.twitter.com/hzE9nXv9QO— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) October 4, 2022
re: #69 ckkatz
I also wonder if anyone is making any money off of Twitter price changes -
Pump and dump, baby!
re: #65 Captain Ron
He’s just saying this because Florida is really fucked and he can’t do anything without biden’s help.
Twitter resumed trading after a long halt, but is still trading at a 5% discount to the offer price. Investors still aren’t convinced.
has a slope ever been more slippery https://t.co/9I62VFNC8D
— chuuch (@ch000ch) October 4, 2022
re: #68 William Lewis
Reminds me of the friend who was in Vietnam talking about claymores.
One night, their perimeter got hit by an NVA attack and several of the claymores, when detonated, went off facing the US lines. It turned out that some very enterprising NVA sappers crawled into the defenses; picked up the claymores; and turned them around.
After the attack was repelled, all of the deployed claymores’ backs were painted with high visibility white paint. Then the soldiers were instructed to watch the paint. When the on-watch soldier saw the paint start to rise, they were to detonate that claymore.
He said the new procedure was effective.
re: #50 Charles Johnson
Tweets shall now be known as Goebbels. /half
re: #74 Captain Ron
I, for one, welcome our new leafy overlords.
re: #77 Dopamine Fish
Apologies for the delayed response to your email. I was coordinating my family’s individualized approach to the apocalypse
— Leta McCollough Seletzky, JD (@LaSeletzky) October 3, 2022
I’m betting that Twitter goes down tomorrow AM. It was up 22% today. I think it will crash when traders realize that Musk is delaying as much as anything. I’ve been wrong before.
The Counterrevolution Is Only Getting Started: On Race, Voting Rights, And More, The Conservative Justices Are On A Mission To Reshape Society
Sinking distrust of the high court post-Dobbs isn’t slowing down Alito and company, who appear poised to keep putting their ideological stamp on America.
by Cristian Farias
vanityfair.com
Yet Merrill v. Milligan, a racial gerrymandering case the Supreme Court is set to hear on Tuesday, is nothing to laugh at. In February, five conservative justices, sans Roberts, blocked a lower-court ruling that ordered the state of Alabama, which is 27% Black, to redraw its congressional maps so that two of its seven districts represent this demographic reality. The judges who ordered the state to go back to the drawing board said that Alabama officials were in violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which over time has been interpreted to require that states may not dilute Black voters’ ability to elect candidates of their choice. Yet to the state of Alabama, and possibly Roberts and his comrades, sorting districts by race is itself a form of discrimination. “That would require the States to prioritize race always in redistricting,” Alabama said in its brief filed with the court. “That is not what [Section 2] commands. And if it were, [Section 2] would be unconstitutional, for districts that sort voters on the basis of race ‘are by their very nature odious.’”
Did you catch that? Alabama is suggesting in no uncertain terms that a key section of the Voting Rights Act is itself unconstitutional if understood to allow Black voters to have political power that’s proportionate to their numbers. That’s catnip for Roberts, who may just finish what he started in 2013’s Shelby County v. Holder, once and for all dealing a death blow to the landmark civil rights statute.
And trump has asked the SCOTUS to intervene with the Mar-a-Lago case.
I cannot see them intervening.
re: #82 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
And trump has asked the SCOTUS to intervene with the Mar-a-Lago case.
I cannot see them intervening.
They won’t. SCOTUS isn’t going to beclown itself on Trump’s behalf. They have more important things to do, like finishing off the voting rights act.
New GOP: “I’m against abortion in all cases except for convenience of the father, politics, and personal interest.”
— Amanda Carpenter (@amandacarpenter) October 4, 2022
re: #1 Patricia Kayden
That it is even this close with stark-raving loons as GOP candidates leading is a clear indication that a strong plurality of this country doesn’t want anything close to a representative democracy. What they are after is a specific agenda-driven paternalistic autocracy founded upon misogyny and racism under the guise of “freedom”.
What 35%-45% of this country hopes to achieve regarding a functioning government and related programs, military and infrastructure remains to be seen after their “victory.” But I wager the reality is something far different than they envision, probably closer to present-day areas of Florida. With thousands in need from natural disaster and simultaneously voting for “less government” it looks to be Democrats once again playing grown-up, actually building programs and government services needed.
re: #53 Charles Johnson
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— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) October 4, 2022
But of course:
New – Walker campaign manager Scott Paradise told staff this morning the Daily Beast story was a setback but that fundraising was surging after Walker’s denial.
Paradise mentioned the Access Hollywood episode, saying “Trump still made it to the White House,” per person familiar— Gabby Orr (@GabbyOrr_) October 4, 2022
Girkin gloating
Igor Strelkov
one hour ago
Как, наверное, жаль некоторым, что на фронте под Херсоном сейчас нет Стрелкова… (А еще жалче, что его пару недель назад не было на фронте под Харьковым, и позавчера - под Лиманом)! Вот как-бы было здорово и удобно сообщить, что “беглокомандующий, имея огромное количество оружия, без боя сдал украм города… (нужное вставить) и половину (всю) территорию … (нужное вставить) области и оставил украм огромные трофеи”.
Таким образом - не надо было-бы оправдываться за “успешную перегруппировку” из Балаклеи (сдана с боем за сутки), Изюма (сдан без боя), Купянска (сдан с боем за 1 сутки), Волчанска (сдан без боя), Казачьей Лопани (сдан без боя), Лимана (сдан после упорных тяжелых боев для избежания окружения) Высокополья, Давыдова Брода и т.д., и т.п.
А теперь приходится вместо Гиркина (Гиркинда, Дыркина и т.п.) отдуваться большим уважаемым генералам со многими звёздами на погонах и на могучих грудях.
И перспективы, знаете ли, впереди тоже “вполне зияющие”. Может, еще не поздно пригласить хорошо проверенного “козла отпущения”? А потом ,когда ему удастся стабилизировать фронт - можно будет его обвинить снова виноватым во всём и за всё.
(П.С. Но я вынужден предупредить - в числе наиболее необходимых способов восстановления фронта у меня непременно предусмотрены расстрелы наиболее выдающихся виновников его краха, а также всех ,кто попадется под руку при невыполнении своих насущных для фронта обязанностей. Так что если решитесь - не обезсудьте).
Learn more about the 2022 #NobelPrize in Physics
Press release: https://t.co/MNmqQ32s3L
Popular information: https://t.co/pRE0zsIlKP
Advanced information: https://t.co/Bh8VJ51QeA pic.twitter.com/hHPz92VQxE— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 4, 2022
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2022 to
Alain Aspect
Université Paris-Saclay and
École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, FranceJohn F. Clauser
J.F. Clauser & Assoc., Walnut Creek, CA, USAAnton Zeilinger
University of Vienna, Austria“for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science”
In Ukraine, in the next month or so the weather is going to start to change, and increasing numbers of Russian mobilized soldiers will start to arrive.
All this is likely to slow down the war there.
And the newly arrived Russians are likely to be poorly clothed, poorly fed, poorly led, ill trained, disorganized and unmotivated.
Excellent update from @olliecarroll. “The Ukrainian military source said that his country’s generals believe they can achieve more victories in the three to four weeks before Russia’s newly mobilised soldiers begin to appear in significant numbers” https://t.co/KmslM95fR1
— Shashank Joshi (@shashj) October 4, 2022
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“We can get a lot done in that time—and by that I mean liberating Kherson or northern Luhansk,” the source said. “When the mobilised guys join the battle, we will be so prepared it will be like pouring water on red-hot metal. They will simply evaporate.” https://t.co/KmslM8OcP1
— Shashank Joshi (@shashj) October 4, 2022
re: #86 BeachDem
There’s always at least one:
“So much for the tolerant left!” Am I right?
There is a big difference between “dude, this is a bad take” and “Elie, I know where you live and I will be coming for your family.”— Blue in Red Texas (@RockwallBlue) October 4, 2022
Tomorrow’s Wordle missed it by >that< much.
Wordle 473 2/6
🟨🟩⬛🟩⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
SibData: 2,2,4,4
Middle sister used the same starting word and 50:50 as I did.
re: #83 EPR-radar
They won’t. SCOTUS isn’t going to beclown itself on Trump’s behalf. They have more important things to do, like finishing off the voting rights act.
I don’t trust this court as far as I could throw them. Roberts may realize that it’s too late to preserve his reputation; or it’s as simple as the other 5 concluding that Roberts is irrelevant and they now control our nation. Anything to facilitate the fascist regime that the Federalist Society and its members are trying to institute in our nation.
A Russian terrorist-soldier nicknamed Lyudoyed (Cannibal), a former cemetery director (!) is calling on the conscripts to join him, especially as since the 19th out of his team of 23 soldiers only 7 are left. This was posted by a well-known propagandist, too.
Some are saying Walker’s campaign is in trouble after the revelation that he paid for an abortion. (At least one that we know of anyway.)
Nope. He isn’t in trouble. No GOP voters will abandon him. The abortion issue is the GOP’s road to power, not a legitimate principle. https://t.co/aafn8wbKLj— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 4, 2022
re: #94 Nyet
A Russian terrorist-soldier nicknamed Lyudoyed (Cannibal), a former cemetery director (!) is calling on the conscripts to join him, especially as since the 19th out of his team of 23 soldiers only 7 are left. This was posted by a well-known propagandist, too.
Here is what he says:
We are all ready to go forward, that’s the most important thing. Here we are retreating now, we are all worried about it and the condition is not very good. All my guys are in a great mood. Now the offensive, we need the offensive. We are waiting, come. Since the 19th I have 7 people left out of 23. We are waiting, we need people. This is the most important resource. We are waiting for them. No need to be afraid.
I think I’m going to stop shortening links with lgf.bz.
The main reason I used it was for Twitter, and they’ve been using their own shortener on all links for a while now. There’s no real reason to keep using it.
The only reason I kept using it this long was because routing it through bitly I could get statistics on the number of clicks on those shortened links. But bitly’s API now limits how far back those statistics go, which makes it useless for really tracking the number of clicks.
Nice!
“Special Forces of the elite GRU brigade were killed during the retreat from Liman”
meduza.io
(Max Seddon is the Moscow Bureau Chief for the Financial Times)
Two stats sum up how Putin’s mobilization has backfired.
Defense minister Sergei Shoigu said today that Russia had called up 200,000 men to fight in Ukraine.
That’s as many Russians as fled to Kazakhstan alone in the two weeks since Putin’s announcement.— max seddon (@maxseddon) October 4, 2022
Oh boy. pic.twitter.com/28MhsC5TjU
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) October 4, 2022
Clearly, the man has done his own research.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 4, 2022
re: #100 Charles Johnson
Charles, any chance of Telegram auto-embedding? Yes, I’m aware of the reputation, rampant freedom for Nazis etc. Nevertheless, it’s what most of the “primary sources” (soldiers, politicians, correspondents etc.) for the U-R war are using as a medium, including the Ukrainians, so it’s nevertheless an important source of info.
From the WaPo:
The Supreme Court in July 2020 flatly rejected Trump’s bold claims of immunity from local law enforcement and congressional investigators. It turned aside multiple challenges to the 2020 election results brought by Trump and his allies. And post-presidency, the court turned down his request to keep certain White House documents from the congressional committee investigating the January 2021 riot at the capitol, with only Justice Clarence Thomas indicating he would support Trump’s plea.
Of course he did.
This also was in my news feed:
In Trump White House, classified records routinely mishandled, aides say
The jumble of secret and not-secret documents found by the FBI was typical of how Donald Trump handled records, former staffers said
No shit, Sherlock.
re: #97 Dr. Matt
Donnie wants his documents back….that the FBI planted.
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Yes, and he’s invoked SCOTUS:
NEW: Trump asks #SCOTUS to enter legal fray over docs FBI seized from Mar-a-Lago. Seeks emergency order to put about 100 docs w/classification markings back into pile being sifted by special master. Story w/@kyledcheney @nicholaswu12 https://t.co/ztBjmczSHC
— Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein) October 4, 2022
I’ll never forgive right wing clown-hacks for making “doing your own research” a bad thing.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 4, 2022
re: #107 Nyet
Charles, any chance of Telegram auto-embedding? Yes, I’m aware of the reputation, rampant freedom for Nazis etc. Nevertheless, it’s what most of the “primary sources” (soldiers, politicians, correspondents etc.) for the U-R war are using as a medium, including the Ukrainians, so it’s nevertheless an important source of info.
I’ve never used it. Does it have an embedding feature?
re: #109 Dopamine Fish
Yes, and he’s invoked SCOTUS:
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That…that’s not going to actually work, is it?
re: #112 Eclectic Cyborg
That…that’s not going to actually work, is it?
It’s the Calvinball Court, so… who the fuck knows?
re: #111 Charles Johnson
I’ve never used it. Does it have an embedding feature?
Yes, if you click here, you will see a link to a script:
But there is an even easier way, just by adding something to the URL:
In fact I have already embedded some Ts with your embedding feature (though it lacks the automatic height fitting and takes time).
re: #112 Eclectic Cyborg
That…that’s not going to actually work, is it?
Now why would you think that?
It appears Trump has directed his plea to Thomas, as he oversees the 11th Circuit; the linked article says Thomas is likely to refer the matter to the full Court. So, yes, it looks like this is actually going to work. Sigh. This place is so broken.
re: #44 Dr. Matt
And of course Candance Owens was there:
Imagine hating your own race so much that you are donning actual white supremacist slogans…..to pwn the libs.
For Kanye and Candace there is no such thing as bad publicity
Behold
Trump SCOTUS petition:
1) apparently believes in a category of docs that’s both classified AND a personal record
2) says Cannon rightfully appointed special master to decide factual dispute of declassification - even though DJT never factually asserted he declassified pic.twitter.com/amYDt0cM3v— Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) October 4, 2022
1. Having fully digested Trump’s emergency application to #SCOTUS, here’s a quick #thread on what it’s really asking for, why it’s not *entirely* laughable, and why I nevertheless think that it’s both (1) doomed to fail; and (2) unlikely to accomplish much even if it succeeds:
— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) October 4, 2022
The brilliance of Justice Jackson on display. https://t.co/qg1JXoOIQr
— Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷 (@JoyAnnReid) October 4, 2022
re: #119 jaunte
Arguably it’s successful since it’s going to cause more delay. Which is the whole goal of the constant barrage of legal gibberish tossed at any available target.
cancel halloween. we’re horrified enough.
— scott linnen (@ScottLinnen) October 4, 2022
re: #119 jaunte
12. That point reinforces the big takeaway: This is a very specific and narrow request by Trump the merits of which turn on a technical jurisdictional question, but which runs into fatal procedural obstacles long before that. It’s not laughable, but only because it’s small.
/end— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) October 4, 2022
re: #103 Jay C
Well, that will solve the problem of enough rations…
<‘em>”You, soldier! What’s your name?”
“Oleg, sir!”
“Good, Oleg. You are here to provide dinner!”
“But, sir: I don’t have any rations with me!”
“That’s not what I meant…..”
In Putin’s Russia, dog feed YOU!
re: #44 Dr. Matt
And of course Candance Owens was there:
Imagine hating your own race so much that you are donning actual white supremacist slogans…..to pwn the libs.
Just more of those malignant narcissists that have the wealth and means to easily escape the country and what is to come after a complete right wing takeover.
My theory as to why Elon has suddenly revived the Twitter purchase is because he’s pissed off about how much his twitter poll backfired on him, along with the resulting diplomatic fuck yous from Ukraine politicians.
re: #128 Backwoods_Sleuth
My theory as to why Elon has suddenly revived the Twitter purchase is because he’s pissed off about how much his twitter poll backfired on him, along with the resulting diplomatic fuck yous from Ukraine politicians.
He’s gonna investigate those “bots” lol
Atlas V to Launch SES-20 and SES-21
About 4 minutes to launch.
Logging off now. I will return when the fast is over!
re: #128 Backwoods_Sleuth
My theory as to why Elon has suddenly revived the Twitter purchase is because he’s pissed off about how much his twitter poll backfired on him, along with the resulting diplomatic fuck yous from Ukraine politicians.
My theory is he wants to avoid further discovery.
re: #114 Nyet
I’ll check it out. Their embed code uses Javascript, though, and I tend to shy away from pure JS embedding because it can be a security risk.
meanwhile across the pond:
The CEO of Shell has called on the government to tax oil and gas companies in order to protect the poorest people in society from soaring energy costs https://t.co/3ZEBexKwCl
— Sky News (@SkyNews) October 4, 2022
The American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association want the U.S. attorney general to investigate and prosecute people making threats to children’s hospitals that provide gender-affirming care. https://t.co/9aBaekqeXh
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 4, 2022
re: #134 Backwoods_Sleuth
I can only imagine the GOP reaction to such a proposal.
re: #137 Eclectic Cyborg
I can only imagine the GOP reaction to such a proposal.
COMMUNISM!!11!!!
SOCIALISM!!11!!
Steve explaining his paws. Steve is an Interlektual. pic.twitter.com/EzVBCyA90W
— In Otter News…. (@In_Otter_News2) October 4, 2022
re: #111 Charles Johnson
There has to be some social media startup with active moderation ready to compete with a Twitter about to be dominated by Crazytown Nazis.
Is there really no startup funding available anymore? Or was the whole tech-bro movement pretty much a fascist groundswell from the get-go?
re: #136 Nyet
Where did you get the code for that? The only embedding code I saw was that Javascript link.
A ‘Weird’ Ancient Marine Reptile Surfaces Thanks to the ‘Bone Biddies’
The unique plesiosaur defies the fossil rulebook—just ask the “paleogrannies” who prepared it for study.
atlasobscura.com
Oh, it would be worth living in Wyoming in order to be a Bone Biddy!
re: #140 Florida Panhandler
There has to be some social media startup with active moderation ready to compete with a Twitter about to be dominated by Crazytown Nazis.
Is there really no startup funding available anymore? Or was the whole tech-bro movement pretty much a fascist groundswell from the get-go?
I’ve actually set up a Mastodon instance on another project I’ve been working on, but it isn’t public yet, and tbh I’m not that wild about Mastodon as a replacement for Twitter.
Lol he blocked me for this?
— William McCarthy (@billymccarthy) October 4, 2022
re: #141 Charles Johnson
Where did you get the code for that? The only embedding code I saw was that Javascript link.
It’s your embedding feature, with the embedded link being the second one I posted (with ?embed=1 at the end of the URL).
re: #140 Florida Panhandler
There has to be some social media startup with active moderation ready to compete with a Twitter about to be dominated by Crazytown Nazis.
Is there really no startup funding available anymore? Or was the whole tech-bro movement pretty much a fascist groundswell from the get-go?
The only way it would work is if, when I move over, nearly everyone I follow moves as well. And I don’t think any other existing platform could scale that much a quickly as would be needed.
re: #140 Florida Panhandler
There has to be some social media startup with active moderation ready to compete with a Twitter about to be dominated by Crazytown Nazis.
Is there really no startup funding available anymore? Or was the whole tech-bro movement pretty much a fascist groundswell from the get-go?
CounterSocial. I have an account there but it’s not anywhere near what Twitter is. Maybe if Twitter hours full on Nazi it’ll grow.
Forced birth politics has NEVER, EVER been about any principle other than greed for power.
Again the EXTREMELY explicit argument Republicans are making is that per their own belief system, being soft on murderers IS WORSE than being a murderer. https://t.co/uovROw6VLS
— Grudgie the Whale (@grudging1) October 4, 2022
BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to testify in an abortion access lawsuit. More details TK.
Judge Robert Pitman had previously quashed the subpoena, which Paxton fled his home to avoid being served.— Eleanor Klibanoff (@eklib) October 4, 2022
re: #140 Florida Panhandler
There has to be some social media startup with active moderation ready to compete with a Twitter about to be dominated by Crazytown Nazis.
Is there really no startup funding available anymore? Or was the whole tech-bro movement pretty much a fascist groundswell from the get-go?
well, lots of folks are suspicious of Jester, but there is CounterSocial. I haven’t experienced problems there yet.
re: #141 Charles Johnson
Where did you get the code for that? The only embedding code I saw was that Javascript link.
Oh, I see — you just plugged that URL into the “Embedded Content” dialog. That just creates an IFRAME for that URL at a certain preset size - but there’s no size info in the URL, so I don’t think it can be automatic. At least you can scroll down to see the rest.
I could add that URL format to the auto-replace code, so you’d only have to paste the URL into a comment.
re: #151 Charles Johnson
I also manually enabled scrolling in the JSON packet, otherwise the embedded block would have been cut off or the height would have to be changed each time.
re: #151 Charles Johnson
Adding that URL format (with scrolling) to the embedding feature would be very appreciated!
re: #153 Nyet
Adding that URL format (with scrolling) to the embedding feature would be very appreciated!
(The fixed height should remain 400px I think.)
This is Loki and Luna. Their apartment complex thinks there is only one of them. They go on separate walks to keep up the facade and save on pet fees. 14/10 for both pic.twitter.com/FztPbflQR0
— WeRateDogs® (@dog_rates) October 4, 2022
George Lucas: This scene is set in the roughest bar you can imagine, filled with violent scumbags who’ll cut your arm off if you look at them sideways
John Williams: What kind of music will they be playing?
George Lucas: Light jazz— Andy Ryan (@ItsAndyRyan) October 3, 2022
“Abortion is the murder of a baby,” says the right, “and someone who paid to kill a baby would make a fine Senator.”
The sheer shamelessness of the hypocrisy is nearly as amazing as how routine it’s become. https://t.co/omUKDTQ7vP— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) October 4, 2022
We should not have a system where Elon Musk can buy Twitter then secretly spend billions of dollars to elect politicians who will help the company.
But that’s the system we have.— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) October 4, 2022
re: #137 Eclectic Cyborg
I can only imagine the GOP reaction to such a proposal.
BURDENSOME, JOB-KILLING TAX HIKES!!!!
The most interesting thing about that Elon Musk trial balloon is the reveal that Russian sources of the proposal feel in danger of losing Crimea on the battlefield
— David Frum (@davidfrum) October 3, 2022
re: #161 Charles Johnson
US democracy has been in mortal peril ever since the first billionaire, and it’s getting worse every year because of the ever-increasing concentration of wealth (i.e., power) in the oligarch class.
re: #161 Charles Johnson
I can picture a lot of countries starting to look at actively having to block Twitter to try and thwart the incoming Nazi invasion. Fascist movements around the world are probably soiling their pants with glee in anticipation of a racial/ethnic supremacist-friendly Twitter already.
“abortion is murder, but murder is OK if it gets us another senate seat” pic.twitter.com/Uu9PFsKk5z
— sam (@sam_d_1995) October 4, 2022
re: #159 Nyet
The embedding doesn’t work for me right now FWIW…
All I did was paste in the same link from your post above. What did you try?
Oh, did you leave off the “?embed=1” ? I’ll change it to add that if necessary.
re: #167 Charles Johnson
I did add embed=1, also reloaded the page several times - I paste the link, press OK, nothing happens (no code gets inserted).
Whereas it does work with YouTube’s embed/iframe code, so the script does work in general on my PC.
Weird-o-Rama!
This one is worried about the “race” of a mermaid. Hey, crazy person, mermaids aren’t real and if they were, they still aren’t human. This is like worrying about the ethnicity of Winnie the Pooh.
White nationalist Jared Taylor gripes that having a Black actress play The Little Mermaid “is all part of the sick and sickening adoration for Blacks and loathing for whites we see everywhere.” pic.twitter.com/oBHROSvXIc
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) October 4, 2022
This is incredible. Party like it’s Paris 1968! The 1st four bands are:
Les Who
Les Small Faces
Booker T & the MGs
and Les Pink Floydhttps://t.co/8bUGOUxjNw— gocart mozart (@EdMix13) October 4, 2022
No, just paste the Telegram link into a comment. No need to use the “Embedded Content” feature.
This is how Hank Duyn in Venice, Florida, rescued his horse from drowning in an overflowing river yesterday. The horse was tired and hungry, but fine. #HurricanIan pic.twitter.com/swVUiG16zx
— Lorenzo The Cat (@LorenzoTheCat) October 4, 2022
This feels like taking a race question off a form that still has zip codes or names on it, and declaring it “race blind”
— bøşſї 🇺🇦 (@thisisbossi) October 4, 2022
re: #178 Nyet
ta da! thanks, Charles!
The same goes for YouTube, by the way - no need to get the embed code, just paste the URL of the video into a comment.
Reminding folks credibly accused nut/sexual assaulter on teenagers Roy Moore only lost to Doug Jones by 1.5% and Moore got 90% of GOP vote. Walker in GA, even if he loses, will get 90% of the GOP vote. Republicans have completely abandoned family values and respect for women.
— Matthew Dowd (@matthewjdowd) October 4, 2022
How Harley Quinn feels about the news that Musk is buying Twitter….again cc @darth pic.twitter.com/Ywj3fYEVii
— Carolina Milanesi (She/Her) (@caro_milanesi) October 4, 2022
re: #181 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Movement conservative Republicans never had any family values or respect for women.
O_o
Herschel today talked about the time he was admitted to a psychiatric hospital: “They told me I had a mental problem. I remember sitting here in this hospital and In saying, ‘Whoa, these people here are crazy, and I’m not like them.” pic.twitter.com/tN29sbCWnY
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) October 4, 2022
re: #180 Charles Johnson
The same goes for YouTube, by the way - no need to get the embed code, just paste the URL of the video into a comment.
I know, that was a way to test whether the button works.
Transportation Sec. Pete Buttigieg responds to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) saying he is trying to “emasculate the way we drive”:
“I literally don’t even understand what that means. My sense of manhood is not connected to whether my vehicle is fueled by … electricity.” pic.twitter.com/rd8O0Hk6nF— The Recount (@therecount) October 4, 2022
re: #185 Backwoods_Sleuth
To be fair, any black (or gay) Republican should be admitted to a psychiatric hospital for an evaluation.
The music in Star Wars is called Jizz because George Lucas needed something that sounded like Jazz but wasn’t Jazz
JIZZ pic.twitter.com/32eHXhHwaj— Bruce Greene (@brucegreene) May 4, 2022
re: #171 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
All live-action mermaids can be black and all drawn mermaids can be white.
— Blue in Red Texas (@RockwallBlue) October 4, 2022
re: #142 retired cynic
A ‘Weird’ Ancient Marine Reptile Surfaces Thanks to the ‘Bone Biddies’
The unique plesiosaur defies the fossil rulebook—just ask the “paleogrannies” who prepared it for study.
atlasobscura.comOh, it would be worth living in Wyoming in order to be a Bone Biddy!
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We stopped at their museum a few years ago, and my dino-buff husband had a marvelous time talking to some of the Biddies. Glad to see them getting credit and exposure!
I’m trying to imagine a female politician who had four children from four different fathers and any person on the left or right being like, “she’s wealthy and beautiful, so she’s just spreading her seed.” https://t.co/t2WV3Q9UxT
— Jill Filipovic (@JillFilipovic) October 4, 2022
Brett Favre has a hired a new, high-powered attorney to represent him in the Mississippi welfare fraud scandal: Eric Herschmann, who helped clear former Pres Trump in his first impeachment trial. Herschmann has “concluded Favre shouldn’t be indicted.” https://t.co/wxJlOZMSRm
— Michele Steele (@MicheleSteele) October 3, 2022
re: #171 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Weird-o-Rama!
This one is worried about the “race” of a mermaid. Hey, crazy person, mermaids aren’t real and if they were, they still aren’t human. This is like worrying about the ethnicity of Winnie the Pooh.
On the other hand, Paddington Bear is definitely English, though he claims to be from “darkest Peru.” I would guess Surrey or Hampshire, somewhere in the southeast anyway.
— Brad, I guess (@gymshortsjordan) October 4, 2022
Not-so-fun fact: Mississippi, the poorest state, is one of just 13 with a grocery tax—and has the highest at 7%.
During Tate Reeves’ 8 years as Mississippi Senate president, multiple bills to end Mississippi’s grocery tax died even as he led the charge to slash corporate taxes. https://t.co/9XGNWqLVMq— Ashton Pittman (@ashtonpittman) October 2, 2022
New rule:
Dudes who never served in the military who claim the military has “gone soft” must immediately walk into a tear gas training chamber and recite their age, hometown, and social security number to a drill instructor who is audibly laughing from inside their gas mask.— Jason Kander (@JasonKander) October 4, 2022
re: #196 Belafon
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Eric’s art was good, but he’s an atty who will rep low life, high paying Republicans.
re: #192 Nyet
The Telegram embedder now has a resize handle in the lower right corner, to let you resize it vertically to fit the content.
re: #202 HRH Stanley Sea
Eric’s art was good, but he’s an atty who will rep low life, high paying Republicans.
At some point, we need to talk about Eric Herschmann’s home office decor. pic.twitter.com/vzdRoxQAhs
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) June 14, 2022
COVID is the number 3 cause of death in the United States.
If heart attacks were contagious, would you do everything you could to avoid them? https://t.co/Ry3WSIflBR pic.twitter.com/5ULVK8p3dj— This Machine Kills Fascists (@RoyalHoeliness) October 4, 2022
If a hurricane was killing 2,900 people a week it would be perverse to tell them not to seek shelter.
Weekly confirmed deaths (in the U.S.) 2,961 on October 3:
ourworldindata.org
lolwut? pic.twitter.com/Hgb7judX4V
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 4, 2022
We are grateful for your dedication to help our state, @ChefJoseAndres.
Every meal @WCKitchen provides for Floridians in need makes a huge difference. Thank you for your service as we work to recover from Hurricane Ian. https://t.co/BKisa7nxQp— Charlie Crist (@CharlieCrist) October 4, 2022
I feel like the people who run these accounts spend all day looking at memes but don’t really understand memes. It’s like how a cat will watch tv sometimes. https://t.co/zAKElR2VKG
— Brendel (@Brendelbored) October 4, 2022
Chauncey DeVega interviews George Conway and it’s worth a read.
Trump “will be convicted of multiple felonies”: George Conway on the bumpy road ahead | https://t.co/5XasF1csK3https://t.co/8gceSnumdR pic.twitter.com/BgpGS0KhB0— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 5, 2022
A Sandy Hook Harasser Desecrated A Child’s Grave. Another Threatened To Dig It Up. https://t.co/8ix1X2Z7RZ
The Nobel prize for physics was announced today, and it is for experimental work in quantum mechanics, and I’m watching all the media outlets stumble over themselves trying to explain it.
It’s not a topic that lends itself to easy popularization.
Even people who know better have to make silly statements. From a CNN article:
The winners’ work confirmed that “quantum mechanics actually has utility in real-world applications,” Michael Moloney, CEO of the American Institute of Physics, told CNN.
QM has been useful for nearly a century, but the applications are not something with which the layman has every-day interaction.
— DurhamBullPen (@DurhamBullPen) October 5, 2022
re: #208 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Ya know, any time you need a relief from the BS, just go to @chefjoseandreas twitter feed.
I’ve been warped by the rain, driven by the snow
I’m drunk and dirty, don’t you know
And I’m still, Wordlin’
re: #171 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Weird-o-Rama!
This one is worried about the “race” of a mermaid. Hey, crazy person, mermaids aren’t real and if they were, they still aren’t human. This is like worrying about the ethnicity of Winnie the Pooh.
All I know is that when a pubescent black mermaid played a crystal flute, Racists came out of the woodwork and flooded the Interwebs like a Hurricane Ian storm surge.
Once Praised, the Settlement to Help Sickened BP Oil Spill Workers Leaves Most With Nearly Nothing When a deadly explosion destroyed BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, 134 million gallons of crude erupted into the sea over the next three months — and tens of thousands of ordinary people were hired ...
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Joe Bacon ✅
March FavoritesYou've seen these all already but looking back, just because. These are my favorite shots of this last month. That 1937 Zeiss Sonnar is such a gloriously wonderful bit of glass. Thanks for looking.
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Russia’s New Combat Robots Blown Up by Drones Near Avdiivka When we landed on the moon, I thought about how science fiction had become real. Now, the robot wars have begun. It's more poignant somehow on the ground than in the missile wars we have in the air as ...
Rightwingconspirator
Why Did More Than 1,000 People Die After Police Subdued Them With Force That Isn’t Meant to Kill? An investigation led by The Associated Press has found that, over a decade, more than 1,000 people died after police subdued them through physical holds, stun guns, body blows and other force not intended to be lethal. More: Why ... CheechakoKGxvi
The Pandemic Cost 7 Million Lives, but Talks to Prevent a Repeat Stall In late 2021, as the world reeled from the arrival of the highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus, representatives of almost 200 countries met - some online, some in-person in Geneva - hoping to forestall a future worldwide ... Cheechako
Texas County at Center of Border Fight Is Overwhelmed by Migrant Deaths EAGLE PASS, Tex. - The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck. The woman had been fished out ... Cheechako
