John Oliver Gives Us a Reality Check on Farmworkers
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John Oliver discusses the conditions farmworkers face, how we’ve failed to protect them, and the Jolly Green Giant’s body hair.
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MRNA cancer vaccine shows promise
Study was a mid-stage study with 157 high-risk patients with melanoma (79% at 18 months cancer-free rate of combined therapy versus 62% cancer-free rate with immunotherapy alone). Much larger trial likely necessary for regulatory approval (think 5-ish years) but this is good proof of concept. “Personalized” cancer treatment because process includes analyzing the genetic sequence of each patient’s tumor to create a vaccine that teaches the immune system to recognize markers of the abnormal growth.
Quote from Paul Burton, CMO of Moderna:
“I think we will have mRNA-based therapies for rare diseases that were previously undruggable, and I think that 10 years from now, we will be approaching a world where you truly can identify the genetic cause of a disease and, with relative simplicity, go and edit that out and repair it using mRNA-based technology.”
Sanctions are only as strong as the weakest link.
Supposed U.S. allies, Saudi Arabia and UAE, are helping Russia finance its war on Ukraine and evade Western sanctions.
By @summer_said & @benoitfaucon https://t.co/aYV5O14LDf— Khalid Aljabri, MD د.خالد الجبري (@JabriMD) April 17, 2023
If you care about derailments, we need to talk about your House GOP Freedom Caucus budget proposal that would cut railroad safety inspections. https://t.co/f6t0viy9uc
— Secretary Pete Buttigieg (@SecretaryPete) April 17, 2023
If the right wing finds out their food is harvested by a group of people that’s 59% undocumented, maybe they’ll boycott food.
Burning Shores launches tomorrow. Have fun. I know I will. Aloy is my queen.
re: #8 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Burning Shores launches tomorrow. Have fun. I know I will. Aloy is my queen.
Mrs. Fish’s birthday is soon, and when I saw that cross my dashboard, I immediately knew what one of her gifts was going to be. Mrs. Fish is all in on Aloy and the post-apocalyptic world of Horizon. I can’t wait to see it.
in the wake of the Clarence Thomas revelations I would like to point out that Andy Beshear just disclosed that something called Shady Rays gave him three (3) pairs of sunglasses https://t.co/Cx9HvXCoPv
— Dawn (@502eire) April 17, 2023
Armando is readying the box of radishes he will toss to his coworker Ulises in Moorpark CA. By the end of the day they will have loaded over a thousand boxes of the vegetable during their 8 hour shift. #WeFeedYou pic.twitter.com/K1SzuBj7Ma
— United Farm Workers (@UFWupdates) April 16, 2023
These Madera CA area farm workers travel over an hour south to Delano CA to work transplanting tomatoes. They earn minimum wage for their 8-hour work day. They pace varies but each person generally drops 60 plants a minute. #WeFeedYou pic.twitter.com/T1DFEPtcUe
— United Farm Workers (@UFWupdates) April 15, 2023
re: #11 The Ghost of a Flea
The Surprisingly Durable Myth of Donald Trump, Anti-Imperialist
I think Trump’s very public eagerness to start nuclear wars against hurricanes, Iran and any others who dare cross him personally speaks for itself.
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Lauren Boebert has been arrested FOUR TIMES. Her husband was arrested for showing his penis to minors, and for domestic violence. Her son flipped a car, injuring a passenger, and failed to show up for court. The per capita crime rate in Lauren’s house is higher than it is in NY.
re: #14 Florida Panhandler
I think Trump’s very public eagerness to start nuclear wars against hurricanes, Iran and any others who dare cross him personally speaks for itself.
Next: mexico
though not yet nuclear
re: #9 Nerdy Fish
Guirella is a brilliant company. I know it will be good.
I have grave concerns that this will go unpunished. The silence from Justice Roberts is deafening. Like the GOP, the SCOTUS feels it can ride out the storm.
— Rick (@sameastheold) April 17, 2023
re: #2 dat_said
Forgot to add that North Dakota legislature this year was planning on banning all mRNA vaccines in the state, including penalizing providers with a misdemeanor charge and fine (they instead opted to fund an optional 2023-24 interim legislative study of “the long-term health effects on human beings of vaccines” for respiratory syncytial virus and of mRNA vaccines). I think Idaho had similar legislation debated.
This, obviously, would have made this cancer treatment illegal in ND if it had passed.
But some people will react in horror because the law is being broken. The problem is that multiple laws will have to be violated if the debt limit is breached. Breaking the law to keep the international financial system from collapsing would seem to be the best one to violate.
— Bruce Bartlett (@BruceBartlett) April 17, 2023
re: #19 Captain Ron
The GOP is not a political party as it is a national Mafia with actual criminals occupying the SCOTUS, Congress and numerous Republican-dominated state and local governments.. it is a criminal organization led by criminals from bottom to top.
Should their next Don get into the White House the country will be under Mafia control for at least the next 20 years at least as elections in the USA will be Russia-fied quickly.
…with Russia being the very model of a Mafia-led country.
re: #14 Florida Panhandler
People that live in the center of an empire have this eerie power to not understand how empires sustain themselves: it is literally contrary to your self-preservation to consider how you live safely inside an eldritch horror that will digest you if it stops eating everyone else.
Conservatives valorize raw dominance; liberals prefer soft dominance or just hiding the stick with carrot-colored paint; both positions involve not-seeing how the center draining the periphery creates conflicts and crises that make a lot of people die and don’t even guarantee that the empire will not fail…nor that such failure will happen only after feasting on its center-dwelling citizenry, who in the imperial anatomy are closer to camel hump-fat than vital organs. But leftists are also capable of not-seeing by just…giving in to the emotional appeal of the socialism of fools. “It’s not a nigh-unfightable class war that is the same, everywhere at all times, the problem is just this one nation or one group” is an attractive position; it flattens the world.
Hence the Weird Left, who keep taking the side of the hardest right, most authoritarian actors in the world-system as long as they’re opponents of their chosen scapegoat, and the Red-Browns that are just actually hard right but can produce leftist policy if they think it obtains their ends.
I’ve started investing in stocks. Beef, Chicken, and Vegetable.
One day I hope to be a bouillonaire.
At the stock exchange??? Man, the writers have gotten so lazy. https://t.co/asxsz5CsB3
— Gary Legum (@GaryLegum) April 17, 2023
re: #24 jeffreyw
I’ve started investing in stocks. Beef, Chicken, and Vegetable.
One day I hope to be a bouillonaire.
*WHACK!*
re: #25 Backwoods_Sleuth
“If a man does not work, he must not eat.”
re: #25 Backwoods_Sleuth
Oh if only I could ask him that if that were implemented would that mean he would have to get a job before he collected another paycheck since it’s obvious he does nothing as Weaker of the House…
re: #28 jeffreyw
I was told to be careful lest I find myself in hot water.
I’m glad that you were sure to take stock of your options.
BUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
I ❤️ “RIGGED…STOLLEN”
But, then again, I’m a convicted #CerealKiller who favors #WeekPresidents.
What. A. Complete. Fucking. Moron. https://t.co/OtpbsfDR9F pic.twitter.com/pqRMTUf5lo— PeterSmirniotopoulos (@REFinanceProf) April 17, 2023
re: #22 Florida Panhandler
re: #23 The Ghost of a Flea
“There are events so epcohal that they create clear periods of before and after: Hiroshima; the fall of the Berlin Wall; 9/11. Eight years after he declared his intention to run for president, it’s now clear that we should consider Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign not as part of America’s political continuum but as one of these temporal dividing lines.”
“In American politics, there were conventions and candidates that existed in 2015 Republican politics as the before times. 2015 BT. Before Trump…”
“I’ve sat through hundreds of focus groups with GOP voters over the last four years and one thing is perfectly clear: The Republican party has been irretrievably altered and, as one GOP voter put it succinctly, ‘We’re never going back.’”
The trial in the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems against Fox Corp (FOXA.O) and Fox News will proceed with jury selection resuming on Tuesday rather than on Monday as previously scheduled, a judge said on Monday.
Fox says Dominion knocked millions off damages claim
WILMINGTON, Del. — Fox News said in a court filing Sunday that Dominion Voting Systems knocked “more than a half a billion dollars off” its original damages claim just as trial proceedings were scheduled to get underway.
The filing — a request to the court for clarification about evidence the network can present to the jury related to the question of damages — said Dominion had informed Fox it was “walking away from lost profit damages and will pursue only ‘lost enterprise value’ damages.”
“FOX has made clear that Dominion’s damages are wildly inflated which Dominion has now finally admitted at the 11th hour,” a Fox spokesperson said in a statement Monday.
Dominion disputed this, saying it has not reduced its claim. The company filed suit in 2021, arguing that Fox News defamed the company by airing baseless conspiracies about its voting machines “rigging” the 2020 election against Donald Trump and seeking $1.6 billion in damages.
“The damages claim remains. As Fox well knows, our damages exceed $1.6 billion,” a Dominion spokesperson said Monday.
Fox shenanigans
re: #36 Backwoods_Sleuth
The fact that Dominion is sticking to its claims, and Fox is lying is also continuing proof that Fox doesn’t care about reporting facts and just keeps spewing misinformation.
re: #36 Backwoods_Sleuth
Fox says Dominion knocked millions off damages claim
Fox shenanigans
They have to do this. This creates a dispute of facts, which ensures damages will go to a jury. Otherwise, it might be possible - if the two sides agreed substantially on the facts regarding the damages claims - for Dominion to prevail on summary judgment for damages. That would be BAD.
Say kids! Can we say “Obstruction Of Justice” here?
Jordan Asserts He’s Within His Right To Undermine Bragg’s Prosecution of Trump In New Filing
re: #37 No Malarkey!
I’m absolutely certain it will go unpunished.
we’ve learned,
you can lie to get there
you can cover up the truth to get there
you can cry to get there
once you get there, into that lifetime position, there’s almost no stopping you
consider the timeline:
if you were able to lie/cheat, etc to get in - because you had the support / the votes, then it would take a sea change in the electorate and the representation (ie congress) to have the ability to impeach
true at the state level too
Stumptown Hairbender in the Moccamaster this afternoon, on a whim: this is actually a delicious cup of coffee. First decent cup of anything other than the “roasted-ten-minutes-before-we-sent-it-to-you” coffee club stuff I’d been drinking.
re: #19 Captain Ron
The only way it could be punished is by impeachment and the Democrats do not have a supermajority; hence no punishment for the most corrupt court in our history.
re: #45 steve_davis
Stumptown Hairbender in the Moccamaster this afternoon, on a whim: this is actually a delicious cup of coffee. First decent cup of anything other than the “roasted-ten-minutes-before-we-sent-it-to-you” coffee club stuff I’d been drinking.
ps - my coffee comments yesterday were not directed at you and your java journey
it was an entirely unrelated genesis that invaded my quiet sunday morning
A unique borb for me. Don’t look if you have not done puzzle #667 yet.
Wordle 667 4/6*
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It’s the first time I got a whiff on the last line.
re: #48 Dangerman
I missed these comments! Now I’m intrigued! :-) I’ll have to circle back through yesterday’s stuff.
I did that exact experiment just last week.
It worked!
I placed disassembled watch parts into a shoebox, shook it up for about a minute, and a fully-functioning watch was formed from the pieces.
500 witnesses saw it. You can ask them. https://t.co/6N11Hd1qkh— Apostate in Atlanta ™️ (@ApostatePod) April 17, 2023
re: #49 wrenchwench
A unique borb for me. Don’t look if you have not done puzzle #667 yet.
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I forgot how badly the paper mill in Glens Falls, NY stinks. Like fetid dill pickles.
re: #131 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Ethiopia signed its peace deal with Eritrea. That must be it.
Yep, the Coptics getting together with the Muslims did it
Have we ever seen a governor work
so hard to dump on one of the biggest employers and revenue sources in his own state? https://t.co/6cl3bw6fBj— Amy McGrath (@AmyMcGrathKY) April 17, 2023
Gosar was sending readers to a fringe and deceptively named site called Veterans Today, which has called the Holocaust a “lie” and a “hoax” and praised Hitler as a “great man” and “a man of valor.” pic.twitter.com/p5LxHSCbzS
— Eric Hananoki (@ehananoki) April 17, 2023
re: #52 Backwoods_Sleuth
Dear Creationists, are you really telling me the human prostate (as one of literally countless examples) is intelligently designed? Please.
re: #58 Backwoods_Sleuth
But they’re not Nazis, because they don’t necessarily agree with Hitler, they just think he’s a noble hero./
re: #55 Shropshire Slasher
I forgot how badly the paper mill in Glens Falls, NY stinks. Like fetid dill pickles.
There’s that one stretch of I-70 as you pass Terre Haute, IN….
FBI investigating GOP Okla. officials caught on tape talking about lynching Black people, murdering newspaper reporters https://t.co/jkfoDWR2fC via @heartlandsignal
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The McCurtain County Courthouse in Idabel, Okla. on Aug. 25, 2018. (Source: Michael Barera on Wikimedia Commons via Creative Commons 4.0)
GOP officials from McCurtain County, Okla. are being investigated by the FBI after they were caught on tape expressing their frustration about it not being socially acceptable beat up and hang Black people, as well as their desires to hire hit men to kill newspaper reporters.
The audio was published by print-only newspaper McCurtain Gazette-News, and it released transcript of a recording from a county commissioners meeting last month to the public that allegedly incriminates several public officials after disturbing comments were made. The full audio recording from Gazette-News reporter Bruce Willingham will be released by the newspaper at a later date.
After hundreds came out in protest, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) has called for the resignation of McCurtain County Sheriff Kevin Clardy (R), District 2 Commissioner Mark Jennings (R), Investigator Alicia Manning and Jail Administrator Larry Hendrix for their comments in the meeting. District 3 Commissioner Robert Beck (R) is also cited in the audio.
The transcript suggests that the group first started discussing a recent fire which killed a woman and her two dogs. The group joked about the woman’s body parts falling off her body, and that it is similar to eating barbecue.
“So we get her in the body bag and Kyler goes, ‘You do know what we gotta do right?’ Faith goes, ‘No, what?’ He goes, ‘You gotta pre-heat the oven 350 degrees, leave her in there for 15 minutes,’” said Clardy.
Later in the transcript, Jennings and Clardy had a racist exchange and went back and forth about society making it unacceptable to lynch Black people.
“I’m gonna tell you something. If it was back in the day, when that when Alan Marshton would take a damn Black guy and whoop their ass and throw him in the cell? I’d run for f—ing sheriff,” Jennings said.
After Clardy said things aren’t like that anymore, Jennings continued.
“I know. Take them down to Mud Creek and hang them up with a damn rope. But you can’t do that anymore. They got more rights than we got.”
Jennings supposedly went on to say that he knows of two large pre-dug holes “if you ever need them,” referring to disposing the remains of Bruce Willingham and his son, Chris, also a Gazette-News reporter. Jennings also said that he knows of “two or three hit men, they’re very quiet guys.”
Manning chimed in and claimed nobody would care if two of the Gazette-News’ reporters were harmed. “Yeah, but here’s the reality,” Manning allegedly said. “If a hair on his wife’s head, Chris Willingham’s head, or any of those people that really were behind that, if any hair on their head got touched by anybody, who would be the bad guy?”
The trio was supposedly frustrated with the Gazette-News portraying the sheriff’s office unfavorably in their reporting.
re: #55 Shropshire Slasher
I forgot how badly the paper mill in Glens Falls, NY stinks. Like fetid dill pickles.
I lived in a town with a paper mill. Smelled like a cat box. That was before I had cats. Now I have cats, I don’t live in that town, and the town no longer has a paper mill. My how things change.
re: #55 Shropshire Slasher
I forgot how badly the paper mill in Glens Falls, NY stinks. Like fetid dill pickles.
I could smell the Kimberly Clark paper mill in Anderson when I was growing up if there was a south wind. Loved that smell.
re: #20 dat_said
Forgot to add that North Dakota legislature this year was planning on banning all mRNA vaccines in the state, including penalizing providers with a misdemeanor charge and fine (they instead opted to fund an optional 2023-24 interim legislative study of “the long-term health effects on human beings of vaccines” for respiratory syncytial virus and of mRNA vaccines). I think Idaho had similar legislation debated.
This, obviously, would have made this cancer treatment illegal in ND if it had passed.
Are we looking at a future where even more people are dying because they won’t accept mRNA backed treatments?
Shortly after that, Mark Pomerantz files a declaration affirming he wasn’t involved in the decision seeking Trump’s indictment — because he resigned more than a year earlier.
Background: https://t.co/DPQa52Z82Z
Doc: https://t.co/xrVDZqkua9 pic.twitter.com/qiWXQ7RCk9— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) April 17, 2023
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GOP officials from McCurtain County, Okla. are being investigated by the FBI after they were caught on tape expressing their frustration about it not being socially acceptable beat up and hang Black people, as well as their desires to hire hit men to kill newspaper reporters.
The audio was published by print-only newspaper McCurtain Gazette-News, and it released transcript of a recording from a county commissioners meeting last month to the public that allegedly incriminates several public officials after disturbing comments were made. The full audio recording from Gazette-News reporter Bruce Willingham will be released by the newspaper at a later date.
After hundreds came out in protest, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) has called for the resignation of McCurtain County Sheriff Kevin Clardy (R), District 2 Commissioner Mark Jennings (R), Investigator Alicia Manning and Jail Administrator Larry Hendrix for their comments in the meeting. District 3 Commissioner Robert Beck (R) is also cited in the audio.
The transcript suggests that the group first started discussing a recent fire which killed a woman and her two dogs. The group joked about the woman’s body parts falling off her body, and that it is similar to eating barbecue.
“So we get her in the body bag and Kyler goes, ‘You do know what we gotta do right?’ Faith goes, ‘No, what?’ He goes, ‘You gotta pre-heat the oven 350 degrees, leave her in there for 15 minutes,’” said Clardy.
Later in the transcript, Jennings and Clardy had a racist exchange and went back and forth about society making it unacceptable to lynch Black people.
“I’m gonna tell you something. If it was back in the day, when that when Alan Marshton would take a damn Black guy and whoop their ass and throw him in the cell? I’d run for f—ing sheriff,” Jennings said.
After Clardy said things aren’t like that anymore, Jennings continued.
“I know. Take them down to Mud Creek and hang them up with a damn rope. But you can’t do that anymore. They got more rights than we got.”
Jennings supposedly went on to say that he knows of two large pre-dug holes “if you ever need them,” referring to disposing the remains of Bruce Willingham and his son, Chris, also a Gazette-News reporter. Jennings also said that he knows of “two or three hit men, they’re very quiet guys.”
Manning chimed in and claimed nobody would care if two of the Gazette-News’ reporters were harmed. “Yeah, but here’s the reality,” Manning allegedly said. “If a hair on his wife’s head, Chris Willingham’s head, or any of those people that really were behind that, if any hair on their head got touched by anybody, who would be the bad guy?”
The trio was supposedly frustrated with the Gazette-News portraying the sheriff’s office unfavorably in their reporting.
They seem nice./
re: #55 Shropshire Slasher
I forgot how badly the paper mill in Glens Falls, NY stinks. Like fetid dill pickles.
Memories of the J&L Steel plant in Aliquippa PA when the coke ovens opened and that rotten egg odor made its’ way across the river…
Not a drag Queen.
BREAKING: trump acolyte Ali Alexander (not a drag queen) apologizes for soliciting dick pics from teenaged boys. https://t.co/vRYy7cPOVd
— Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) April 17, 2023
re: #63 Barefoot Grin
“I know. Take them down to Mud Creek and hang them up with a damn rope. But you can’t do that anymore. They got more rights than we got.”
And that’s what’s got them so mad. Not that Black people actually have more rights than white people do, but that whites perceive that Black people have more rights than they do. We can talk to them until we’re blue in the face about equity vs. equality, the cumulative effects of historical suppression, etc., but as long as they think they’re at an actual disadvantage, they’ll never care about any of it. They have to be the most important man on the totem pole.
re: #64 wrenchwench
I lived in a town with a paper mill. Smelled like a cat box. That was before I had cats. Now I have cats, I don’t live in that town, and the town no longer has a paper mill. My how things change.
cat box now smells like paper mill?
WAIT!!!!!
WHAT????
HOW????
Two charged with allegedly operating secret Chinese police station in NY
Dozens of Chinese national police officers are separately charged with intimidating Chinese dissidents online
Federal officials arrested two New York residents Monday for allegedly operating an unauthorized police station out of a Manhattan office building and using it to find and intimidate a Chinese dissident living in California.
re: #69 Joe Bacon
Memories of the J&L Steel plant in Aliquippa PA when the coke ovens opened and that rotten egg odor made its’ way across the river…
“New Jersey”
re: #69 Joe Bacon
Memories of the J&L Steel plant in Aliquippa PA when the coke ovens opened and that rotten egg odor made its’ way across the river…
I’ve had the opportunity to be downwind from feed lots, paper mills, sugar beet plants, and a Quaker Oats facility (the worst of all of them). The feed lot and sugar beet plants allowed me to precisely determine which way the wind was blowing on my college campus.
The most interesting downwind experience I’ve had is working next to a dog food manufacturer. Some days it would smell like fetid and rancid milk, some days a sour chocolate smell, and some days I would exit the building and think “mmm, barbecue” and then I’d think “oh, eww”
re: #71 Nerdy Fish
And that’s what’s got them so mad. Not that Black people actually have more rights than white people do, but that whites perceive that Black people have more rights than they do. We can talk to them until we’re blue in the face about equity vs. equality, the cumulative effects of historical suppression, etc., but as long as they think they’re at an actual disadvantage, they’ll never care about any of it. They have to be the most important man on the totem pole.
Yeah, that jumped out at me too as being a typical mindset for the KKK adjacent.
re: #76 Barefoot Grin
Yeah, that jumped out at me too as being a typical mindset for the KKK adjacent.
There’s a reason why neo-Nazism calls to the narcissists and selfish dickwads like incels. It’s a completely self-centered worldview based on, “White people are born to rule over all the other races.”
re: #33 Dangerman
For almost as long as I’ve been on this site, I’ve applied this metaphor in which various right wing pundits are carnies, experimenting with varying levels of prurience and shock to draw people to their tent amongst the ten-in-one, while also trying to gauge what is permissible to local norms. They fear get kicked out of the market entirely, so for years the way they’ve managed is by staging blow-offs…oops, we accidentally did some really explicit sadism and racism, pay no mind that’s not what we’re about.
But what I left unsaid is you can just go farther into the past and find the far worse things—the open bigotry, the naked violence, the chattelage, and the not-a-metaphor sexual exploitation— just under the strict condition that you don’t shit where you eat: there are designated areas for venting these Kurtz-ian wants. Americans do their horrible shit overseas, both on an individual and a societal basis. And this is where the metaphor intersects the literal: colonialism is about figuratively and literally fucking the colonized because…that’s their lot, to be the vehicle for the appetites of the colonized whether that’s sex or murder or servitude.
Trump is proposing that the vices that are supposed to be discharged on the periphery should actually just be a part of daily life of the center: let’s do all the sadism and exploitation and creepy shit, but not commute. And the reactionary audience that already views themselves as entitled to their appetites are clearly delighted: they never followed the rules, even their own rules, because of some kind of internal compass, they were just scared of punishment.
But now they have permission.
U.S. Rep. Victoria Spartz unleashed a loud anti-gun-control rant during Chairman Jim Jordan’s field trip to lower Manhattan Monday, where he and his Judiciary Committee held a hearing wrongly alleging violent crime in the nation’s largest city - and the fifth-safest among all of America’s big cities - is out of control, in an effort to attack Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg for prosecuting Donald Trump. The Indiana Republican lawmaker claimed safe storage of guns in the home does not make her or her children safer, then appeared to suggest children and young adults are the main perpetrators of violent crime, while saying schools should be reformed so children can be “taught some values.”
“I just don’t see how am I, how I am and my kids are going to be safer if I lock up my guns,” Rep. Spartz said, referring to safe storage of firearms in the home. A study published in 2020 found 2500 lives could be saved by stricter laws requiring safe firearm storage.
Yeah let your kids play with your guns, asshole!
re: #57 Backwoods_Sleuth
What a vindictive piece of shit.
re: #80 Joe Bacon
“schools should be reformed so children can be ‘taught some values’”
IOW, she wants Christian schools where teachers are allowed to beat the shit out of our kids in order to “learn them somethin’.”
Yikes! Kevin McCarthy just got called out to his face live on CNBC over his debt ceiling hypocrisy. The host noted that McCarthy raised the debt ceiling 3 times under Trump and added $2 trillion to the deficit with his tax cuts for the wealthy. pic.twitter.com/RudZNpg6Ko
— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) April 17, 2023
Texas is considering a ‘Border Protection Unit’ empowered to deputize militias to “repel” and “return” migrants. It’s part of an intentional challenge to federal immigration law: https://t.co/DmXBw1y0vC
— Josh Kovensky (@JoshKovensky) April 17, 2023
re: #80 Joe Bacon
U.S. Rep. Victoria Spartz unleashed a loud anti-gun-control rant during Chairman Jim Jordan’s field trip to lower Manhattan Monday, where he and his Judiciary Committee held a hearing wrongly alleging violent crime in the nation’s largest city - and the fifth-safest among all of America’s big cities - is out of control, in an effort to attack Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg for prosecuting Donald Trump. The Indiana Republican lawmaker claimed safe storage of guns in the home does not make her or her children safer, then appeared to suggest children and young adults are the main perpetrators of violent crime, while saying schools should be reformed so children can be “taught some values.”
“I just don’t see how am I, how I am and my kids are going to be safer if I lock up my guns,” Rep. Spartz said, referring to safe storage of firearms in the home. A study published in 2020 found 2500 lives could be saved by stricter laws requiring safe firearm storage.
Yeah let your kids play with your guns, asshole!
Spartz fantasizing himself as the hero of an action movie, like the kid in Christmas Story. It rarely happens like that in real life.
Jim Jordan’s NYC field hearing takes bizarre turn as witness accused of ‘secretly’ smiling
Rep. Jim Jordan’s (R-OH) field hearing over crime in New York City took a strange turn Monday when a Republican lawmaker suggested that a witness “secretly smiled” during a discussion about gun violence.
Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-WY) took aim at gun safety advocate Rebecca Fischer during the Victims of Violent Crime in Manhattan hearing at the Jacob Javits Federal Building.
Hageman was arguing that the gun violence epidemic was caused by moral decline, and suggested that the group New Yorkers Against Gun Violence’s executive director wasn’t seriously considering the notion that guns aren’t directly responsible for gun violence.
Hageman insisted that “we’re not here for grandstanding” and that “we’re recognizing that across the country, there is a sickness pervading our communities that is destroying who and what we are.
re: #86 No Malarkey!
Spartz fantasizing himself as the hero of an action movie, like the kid in Christmas Story. It rarely happens like that in real life.
Herself, but yes. Any situation in which the time it takes for you to unlock and access your properly stored firearms actually makes a life-or-death difference is going to be a situation in which you most likely die anyway. I don’t think it’s fair to expose thousands of innocent people to potential accidental death at the hands of unsecured firearms, just for the sake of a few gun nuts’ fantasies of reaching for the pistol on their bedside table and shooting a would-be rapist/robber/murderer dead on entry.
Gym Neighbors really brought his whole Ass Hole KKKrew to New York!
re: #87 Joe Bacon
Hageman was arguing that the gun violence epidemic was caused by moral decline, and suggested that the group New Yorkers Against Gun Violence’s executive director wasn’t seriously considering the notion that guns aren’t directly responsible for gun violence.
Guns don’t kill people. PEOPLE WITH EASY ACCESS TO GUNS KILL PEOPLE. It’s that fucking simple.
The Sheriff’s in town https://t.co/bIMTQKl5oO
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) April 17, 2023
re: #90 Nerdy Fish
Guns don’t kill people. PEOPLE WITH EASY ACCESS TO GUNS KILL PEOPLE. It’s that fucking simple.
I got the impression that Moms Demand Action is going after safe gun storage because it is subject to a smaller reaction than any reduction in the number of guns. Still subject to reaction, of course.
re: #79 The Ghost of a Flea
Which is a really long way to say: fascists basically work on Jeffrey Epstein rules.
He’s hitting the crackpipe again!
‘It’s End Times!’ Mike Lindell goes berserk fearing artificial intelligence in voting machines
Mike Lindell suggested artificial intelligence could lead to the “End Times” if it’s allowed in voting machines. pic.twitter.com/PbIN7USZ0j
— David Edwards (@DavidEdwards) April 17, 2023
re: #85 darthstar
Dear god…read that article. Alexander is a predator.
It’s just so cliche now.. a self-hating gay man who overcompensates for his abject narcissism by empowering white supremacists who only want to crush people like him in their endgame.
re: #94 Joe Bacon
More likely that both of them are hitting the “sauce” again.
Collins: Imagine a billionaire gives a dollar to charity. How much do you think you as taxpayers chip in towards the contribution?
Here’s a sneak preview of our cost of billionaire philanthropy report: 74 cents pic.twitter.com/E8weTJ3QSf— Acyn (@Acyn) April 17, 2023
re: #84 Captain Ron
[ It’s part of an intentional challenge to federal immigration law:]
Is the challenge to international law unintentional?
re: #98 wrenchwench
Is the challenge to international law unintentional?
Governor Abbott probably neither knows nor cares what international law regarding refugees and asylum even is. If pressed on it, he’d probably say that it’s a side benefit of his policy, since American law should override international law.
re: #98 wrenchwench
Is the challenge to international law unintentional?
Memories of the Birchers back in the 60 and 70s with their billboards that said GET US OUT OF THE U.N.!
Feinstein’s refusal to retire is currently wrecking Biden’s entire judicial agenda. It’s erasing the advantage that Senate Democrats gained in 2022. It’s grinding confirmations to a halt. It’s giving GOP senators even more leverage over noms. The damage here is just astounding. https://t.co/br9UizAxlL
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) April 17, 2023
Biden nominated a person turning 60 next year for an appeals court seat and Durbin is protecting the sacred blue slips to keep Republicans happy, but Cotton and Blackburn won’t allow Dems to change committee membership. Got it. https://t.co/yHLgHSoikk
— Chris “Subscribe to Law Dork!” Geidner (@chrisgeidner) April 17, 2023
re: #101 Captain Ron
Jesus Christ, Dianne. You’re doing way more harm than good.
STEP DOWN ALREADY. No one is going to shame you for retiring at the age of 89.
High winds at the perfect time of day created a rare Rainbow Waterfall in Yosemite National Park pic.twitter.com/c9XLLfpTxU
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) April 17, 2023
re: #102 Eclectic Cyborg
The desire for power is the entire premise behind JRRT’s LOTR.
It’s also the premise for numerous films and TV shows, e.g. Babylon 5, Dallas, etc.
re: #75 dat_said
I’ve had the opportunity to be downwind from feed lots, paper mills, sugar beet plants, and a Quaker Oats facility (the worst of all of them). The feed lot and sugar beet plants allowed me to precisely determine which way the wind was blowing on my college campus.
The most interesting downwind experience I’ve had is working next to a dog food manufacturer. Some days it would smell like fetid and rancid milk, some days a sour chocolate smell, and some days I would exit the building and think “mmm, barbecue” and then I’d think “oh, eww”
Could smell a paper mill in Canada when there was an east wind when I lived in northern New York state.* I recall that driving through Lackawanna, NY and the steel mills there in the early 70s there were some particular smells. Passing feed lot/pig farms while on various highways.
I’d say the worst was driving north in DelMarVa and passing downwind of some of the Tysons plants. Overpowering smell of rancid chicken fat.
* - Apparently that same wind was also carrying fluorides being exhausted by the Reynolds Metals aluminum smelting operation that lay in the same direction from us. The local dairy farmers won a suit against them about it eventually.
re: #63 Barefoot Grin
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Copied!The McCurtain County Courthouse in Idabel, Okla. on Aug. 25, 2018. (Source: Michael Barera on Wikimedia Commons via Creative Commons 4.0)
GOP officials from McCurtain County, Okla. are being investigated by the FBI after they were caught on tape expressing their frustration about it not being socially acceptable beat up and hang Black people, as well as their desires to hire hit men to kill newspaper reporters.
The audio was published by print-only newspaper McCurtain Gazette-News, and it released transcript of a recording from a county commissioners meeting last month to the public that allegedly incriminates several public officials after disturbing comments were made. The full audio recording from Gazette-News reporter Bruce Willingham will be released by the newspaper at a later date.
After hundreds came out in protest, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) has called for the resignation of McCurtain County Sheriff Kevin Clardy (R), District 2 Commissioner Mark Jennings (R), Investigator Alicia Manning and Jail Administrator Larry Hendrix for their comments in the meeting. District 3 Commissioner Robert Beck (R) is also cited in the audio.
The transcript suggests that the group first started discussing a recent fire which killed a woman and her two dogs. The group joked about the woman’s body parts falling off her body, and that it is similar to eating barbecue.
“So we get her in the body bag and Kyler goes, ‘You do know what we gotta do right?’ Faith goes, ‘No, what?’ He goes, ‘You gotta pre-heat the oven 350 degrees, leave her in there for 15 minutes,’” said Clardy.
Later in the transcript, Jennings and Clardy had a racist exchange and went back and forth about society making it unacceptable to lynch Black people.
“I’m gonna tell you something. If it was back in the day, when that when Alan Marshton would take a damn Black guy and whoop their ass and throw him in the cell? I’d run for f—ing sheriff,” Jennings said.
After Clardy said things aren’t like that anymore, Jennings continued.
“I know. Take them down to Mud Creek and hang them up with a damn rope. But you can’t do that anymore. They got more rights than we got.”
Jennings supposedly went on to say that he knows of two large pre-dug holes “if you ever need them,” referring to disposing the remains of Bruce Willingham and his son, Chris, also a Gazette-News reporter. Jennings also said that he knows of “two or three hit men, they’re very quiet guys.”
Manning chimed in and claimed nobody would care if two of the Gazette-News’ reporters were harmed. “Yeah, but here’s the reality,” Manning allegedly said. “If a hair on his wife’s head, Chris Willingham’s head, or any of those people that really were behind that, if any hair on their head got touched by anybody, who would be the bad guy?”
The trio was supposedly frustrated with the Gazette-News portraying the sheriff’s office unfavorably in their reporting.
Sounds like Greg Iles’ Natchez Burning trilogy.
Trump’s attorney allegedly trying to bypass judge’s anonymous juror ruling — again
Shysters gotta shyster!
Joe Tacopina, the attorney representing Donald Trump in E. Jean Carroll’s defamation lawsuit against the ex-president, is being accused of another attempt to try to obtain the identities of the jurors who will be selected to decide the case.
The judge declared the jurors’ identities would not be revealed to anyone given Trump’s propensity to attack his opponents, and the willingness of some of his supporters to follow his lead. On Friday Tacopina strongly pushed back against that decision, going so far as to point to the comments sections of online news articles to “prove” bias against the ex-president.
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— Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) April 14, 2023
This is Tofu. He loves making new friends. Especially if they can fly. 13/10 pic.twitter.com/yABQioUWPz
— WeRateDogs® (@dog_rates) April 17, 2023
re: #88 Nerdy Fish
Herself, but yes. Any situation in which the time it takes for you to unlock and access your properly stored firearms actually makes a life-or-death difference is going to be a situation in which you most likely die anyway. I don’t think it’s fair to expose thousands of innocent people to potential accidental death at the hands of unsecured firearms, just for the sake of a few gun nuts’ fantasies of reaching for the pistol on their bedside table and shooting a would-be rapist/robber/murderer dead on entry.
it’s really just another excuse to explain away wanting guns (like the tyranny argument).
this time it’s to be prepared in case someone breaks in while they’re at home.
let them them to explain what the stats are on this epidemic of home invasions when families are at home.
(i know what they are)
we also know that the ‘tyranny’ argument is zero times since 1776 or 1788/9 or whenever
re: #92 wrenchwench
I got the impression that Moms Demand Action is going after safe gun storage because it is subject to a smaller reaction than any reduction in the number of guns. Still subject to reaction, of course.
you aren’t required to store your gun in a safe.
you certainly do not have to store your gun in a safe if you think (or even irrationally fear) you are going to need it, and you want to be ‘ready’.
now stick with me because here’s the responsibility part:
IF you choose not to store it, then you’d better control it at all times.
at all times means AT ALL TIMES.
no arguments, excuses, explanations, but for’s, exceptions, etc.
if you can’t or won’t control your weapon at all times, then secure it, lock it, store it OR DONT HAVE ONE
re: #111 Dangerman
you aren’t required to store your gun in a safe.
you certainly do not have to store your gun in a safe if you think (or even irrationally fear) you are going to need it, and you want to be ‘ready’.now stick with me because here’s the responsibility part:
IF you choose not to store it, then you’d better control it at all times.
at all times means AT ALL TIMES.no arguments, excuses, explanations, but for’s, exceptions, etc.
if you can’t or won’t control your weapon at all times, then secure it, lock it, store it OR DONT HAVE ONE
Of all the firearms deaths in Oregon, 81% are suicides. Nationally, it’s more like 60%. The majority.
re: #105 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Could smell a paper mill in Canada when there was an east wind when I lived in northern New York state.* I recall that driving through Lackawanna, NY and the steel mills there in the early 70s there were some particular smells. Passing feed lot/pig farms while on various highways.
I’d say the worst was driving north in DelMarVa and passing downwind of some of the Tysons plants. Overpowering smell of rancid chicken fat.
* - Apparently that same wind was also carrying fluorides being exhausted by the Reynolds Metals aluminum smelting operation that lay in the same direction from us. The local dairy farmers won a suit against them about it eventually.
Chicken? Chicken’s nothing.
Pig farms OTOH. That’s the stench of “Iowa money” as a poet once put it. Miles upwind and 10’s of miles down wind…
re: #114 William Lewis
Chicken? Chicken’s nothing.
Pig farms OTOH. That’s the stench of “Iowa money” as a poet once put it. Miles upwind and 10’s of miles down wind…
and lots of flies.
re: #114 William Lewis
Chicken? Chicken’s nothing.
Pig farms OTOH. That’s the stench of “Iowa money” as a poet once put it. Miles upwind and 10’s of miles down wind…
There was an island in the Allegheny River side of Pittsburgh called Herrs Island that used to house all the meatpacking plants in the City. You knew when you were near it by the…distinctive odor…
We could smell the soy and corn processing plants in Decatur, Il from our home 30 miles to the east when the wind was blowing. The truck drivers called it Stinky Town on the old CB chatter.
re: #114 William Lewis
Chicken? Chicken’s nothing.
Pig farms OTOH. That’s the stench of “Iowa money” as a poet once put it. Miles upwind and 10’s of miles down wind…
Concur, based on pedaling across Kansas.
re: #112 wrenchwench
Of all the firearms deaths in Oregon, 81% are suicides. Nationally, it’s more like 60%. The majority.
i looked but i cant find stats on how many commit suicide with their own gun vs getting access to someone else’s.
re: #119 Dangerman
i looked but i cant find stats on how many commit suicide with their own gun vs getting access to someone else’s.
This is the Moms Demand research site:
Most Americans don’t give political contributions above $200. Barely 0.1% of the US adult population gives a contribution above $2,700.
Harlan Crow has given more than $10 million, but he questions if that makes him a “megadonor” pic.twitter.com/CWKUj8VpZZ— Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) April 17, 2023
On Saturday evening, mobs of youths rioted on Michigan Avenue in Chicago before shootings broke out. Two youths were shot and transported to hospital. pic.twitter.com/go46qTJjDj
— Andy Ngô 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) April 16, 2023
Everyone is always calling for an “uncomfortable conversation about race.” Well here it is.
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) April 17, 2023
The Right Wing Twitterverse race baiting about Chicago today.
re: #122 DodgerFan1988
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The Right Wing Twitterverse race baiting about Chicago today.
20 kids were shot in Alabama yesterday. These assholes can fuck right off with this shit.
re: #120 wrenchwench
This is the Moms Demand research site:
there is this:
With 70 percent of unintentional shootings by children (of themselves or others) and 80 percent of child gun suicides taking place at a home, practicing secure firearm storage can prevent access by children and save lives. One study in JAMA Pediatrics estimated that if half of households with children that contain at least one unlocked gun switched to locking all their guns, one-third of youth gun suicides and unintentional deaths could be prevented.47
most all of those are someone else’s (ie the parent’s) gun
re: #111 Dangerman
They need their guns handy in case a black person knocks on their door.
F. MURRAY ABRAHAM’S unexpected departure from Mythic Quest last year ahead of the Apple TV+ show’s third season stemmed from sexual misconduct complaints, Rolling Stone has learned.The 83-year-old’s exit was announced last April with little explanation other than producing studio Lionsgate confirming the news regarding the Oscar-winning actor. “Beyond that, we do not comment on matters concerning personnel,” the studio added. Abraham did not comment at the time.
But Rolling Stone has learned that at least two concerns were raised about Abraham’s behavior. The first incident resulted in Abraham being given a warning and told to keep away from some of the show’s actresses, according to a production source. After a second incident was brought to creator and star Rob McElhenney’s attention, Rolling Stone understands that Abraham was let go from the show.
F. Murray Abraham Was Kicked Off ‘Mythic Quest’ for Sexual Misconduct (Rolling Stone)
re: #85 darthstar
Dear god…read that article. Alexander is a predator.
this is not “same sex attraction”
it’s sexual predation of underaged boys
though how very Republican of him to imagine the problem is not his sexual interest in minors.
then again, it’s just a hollow excuse cause he got caught
Imagine you’re negotiating the price of a car and you offer $27k. After several weeks, the other side says why are you waiting to find agreement? You’re like, WTF, I made you an offer.
Biden put out a budget. @SpeakerMcCarthy must show his budget or there is nothing to discuss. https://t.co/yP69koycSW— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) April 17, 2023
re: #116 Joe Bacon
There was an island in the Allegheny River side of Pittsburgh called Herrs Island that used to house all the meatpacking plants in the City. You knew when you were near it by the…distinctive odor…
And they did a major project on Herrs Island to clean it up starting in the late 80s. Pretty much stripped all the soil off of it and it’s now an urban redevelopment showcase. I know a few people who live there.
And where I ate dinner on Saturday sits on former J&L Steel property in the Southside Flats along the Monongahela. That area was a rusty wasteland when I arrived in the area in 1981. Just inactive old industrial ground for the most part beyond some glow at night a little further upriver from still operational coke ovens. It sat that way for years as some of the old buildings were demolished.
Eventually development pushed up the river from downtown. Industrial park development on the north side between 2nd Avenue and the river which included the research building I used to work at. Development on the south side was commercial mainly pushing along Carson St. A bit in parallel with the commercial redevelopment upriver in Homestead to replace the old mills there as well.
This is interesting - maybe this is an example of the new and improved USPS under the direction of the current postal board.
Per my IRS tax form, I mailed my tax return via priority mail Saturday, 04/15, addressed from Nashville TN to the Charlotte NC IRS facility.
Running the tracking number shows it’s out for delivery Monday, 04/17 in Santa Clarita CA.
re: #133 BeenHereAwhile
That is one reason why I file electronically. My accountant has the correct e-mail address.
re: #132 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
So good to hear about Herrs Island & the Mon Wharf!
McGovern: If you want to combat crime, I advise my Republican friends to look in the mirror. Speaker McCarthy’s hometown of Bakersfield is the 4th most dangerous place to live in the United States pic.twitter.com/P1O5iesVTb
— Acyn (@Acyn) April 17, 2023
*boom*
“Sheriff: Yeah. Well, It’s not like that nomore.
Jennings: I know. Take them down to Mud Creek and hang them up with a damn rope. But you can’t do that anymore. They got more rights than we got.”
[Transcript]https://t.co/w61M6Fik9b— gocart mozart (@EdMix13) April 17, 2023
A Tennessee Air National Guardsman was arrested last week after federal agents said he responded to a parody website promoting jobs for hitmen. https://t.co/N5obuhos7i
— The Associated Press (@AP) April 17, 2023
What does DeathSentence think that he will gain by wrecking Florida’s largest job creator? The Presidential nomination? LOL.
Disney’s sloppy and futile attempt to subvert the will of the Legislature and Floridians was uncovered by our state oversight board and their 11th hour agreements will be nullified by the Legislature.
Disney’s corporate kingdom is over. pic.twitter.com/GomGyfEDLS— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) April 17, 2023
re: #4 The Ghost of a Flea
I would not be surprised one bit if I found out that Trump and Kushner have asked their friend MBS to help their friend Vlad.
re: #139 The Pie Overlord!
Isn’t it up to the courts to potentially nullify any contracts Disney has made?
Catching up:
On gross industrial smells: Southern Arizona Copper Mine, Southern California Aluminum Waste, Egg City, that one time they grew like 10000 acres of hemp, Charmin toilet paper factories and rotten onions all have skanked my lungs and then some
On Judicial Branch political corruption: flood the zone is a strategy well used by the venal — early Millenium Utah Jazz “they can’t call a foul on every play” mentality and a work the refs goon squad of a crowd rode Stockton, Malone and company a long way. This is my closest attempt to curve fit a sports analogue to the current situation
On animals: see photo
re: #139 The Pie Overlord!
What does DeathSentence think that he will gain by wrecking Florida’s largest job creator? The Presidential nomination? LOL.
Besides, only Republicans are allowed to do 11th hour dismemberment of the powers of offices and boards right before they lose control of them!
/
re: #141 Eclectic Cyborg
It should be but Florida’s sorry excuse of a governor thinks (if you can call the process that name) he does.
re: #138 Backwoods_Sleuth
He did more than that. He met with an FBI agent and took money to perform the hit.
re: #4 The Ghost of a Flea
Meanwhile, the Discord Leaks show Turkey supplying Wagner with weapons. Per the Washington Post:
The documents show that the United States has gained access to the internal plans of Russia’s notorious Wagner Group, a private military contractor that has supplied forces to Russia’s war effort, and that Wagner has sought to purchase arms from Turkey, a NATO ally.
In early February, Wagner personnel “met with Turkish contacts to purchase weapons and equipment from Turkey for Vagner’s efforts in Mali and Ukraine,” one report states, using a variation on the spelling of the group’s name. The report further states that Mali’s interim president, Assimi Goïta, “had confirmed that Mali could acquire weapons from Turkey on Vagner’s behalf.”
It’s unclear from the report what the Turkish government may have known about the efforts by Wagner or if they proved fruitful. But the revelation that a NATO ally may have been assisting Russia in its war on Ukraine could prove explosive, particularly as Turkey has sought to block the addition of Sweden into the ranks of the trans-Atlantic military alliance.
I’ve rarely had any problems with USPS aside from an occasional dented box, once an order of chili oil through Amazon came with a broken bottle that the mailman managed to contain within a plastic bag. The fault was Amazon’s because it was poorly packed.
Recently I ordered a new Pixel phone and their trade in offer for my old phone was acceptable. They sent a trade-in kit with a pre-paid label with confirmation number for USPS that I turned around the same day by placing it into the mailbox and raising the red flag. I promptly forgot about it until I got a reminder from Google to mail the kit back to get the refund. I ran down the tracking number and plugged it into their site and it said “we have received notice that a label has been generated but we haven’t yet received the package”. I called the local PO but they didn’t have any more info than I did.
I pretty much wrote that money off, then two months later Google said that they had received the kit and the phone looked fine.
Florida: Hi, I’m literally drowning via flooding. Deep sea fish are ending up dead on our shores & people are getting brain eating amoebas more and more. Maybe you should do something?!
Ron DeSantis: Interesting. I’m going to go after the Mouse at Disney & trans people instead. https://t.co/cpKAT67tmX— pitchforks ❁ (@BrandiLynn4Ever) April 17, 2023
DeSadist keeps fucking with The Mouse they’re gonna pack up and leave.
re: #149 Joe Bacon
He hopes. The Mouse can afford better lawyers than he can.
My newsfeed just told me that George Santos announced he is running for reelection in NY-3. I guess that makes the GOP primary there mildly interesting to see if any degree of sanity exists within the party in that district.
re: #139 The Pie Overlord!
What does DeathSentence think that he will gain by wrecking Florida’s largest job creator? The Presidential nomination? LOL.
Florida’s largest job creator is the duo of the Sun and the Atlantic/Gulf of Mexico. That’s it. You can place a chimpanzee in the Governor’s chair here and the state will run economically.
Other than that, Disney is a business and I can’t fathom why at every single media event DeSantis throws questions directly asking if it is now OK for politicians to directly interfere with business are OK now? Why spare Republicans the agony of trying to defend escaping their exhausting efforts to deny any government control over business?
re: #139 The Pie Overlord!
What does DeathSentence think that he will gain by wrecking Florida’s largest job creator? The Presidential nomination? LOL.
“uncovered”
you and your board got pantsed
re: #141 Eclectic Cyborg
Isn’t it up to the courts to potentially nullify any contracts Disney has made?
it’s a contract
100% legit
there will be no ‘nullification’ or anything else
(ianal)
the problem for desantos et al is
“All agreements signed between Disney and the District were appropriate, and were discussed and approved in open, noticed public forums in compliance with Florida’s Government in the Sunshine law,” the company said. Documents for the February 8 meeting show it was noticed in the Orlando Sentinel as required by law.
Uh oh!
Wisconsin AG charges ex-Cardinal McCarrick with fourth-degree sexual assault
The disgraced former Catholic leader has been repeatedly accused of sexual misconduct
Wisconsin’s Attorney General Josh Kaul has just charged former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick with fourth-degree sexual assault, based on a complaint saying the Church leader fondled the victim’s genitals in 1977.
This is separate from a case in Massachusetts also involving McCarrick and a child victim. He pleaded not guilty to that accusation in 2021, and his lawyers claimed in February that he’s not competent to stand trial because the 92-year-old has dementia (stemming from Alzheimer’s disease).
In 2019, Theodore McCarrick became the first Catholic cardinal to be defrocked for sexually abusing boys under his care. (Those victims are separate from the ones mentioned above.) It was a shock at the time given both his place in the Church hierarchy and the fact that he was the former archbishop of Newark and Washington D.C. At the time of the allegations, McCarrick was the highest-ranking Catholic child sex predator in the world.
I got $50 that says the parents will say that the photographer asked their son to point the gun at him/her so Reuters could promote their “liberal, Soros-backed anti-gun agenda.”
re: #149 Joe Bacon
DeSadist keeps fucking with The Mouse they’re gonna pack up and leave.
I wonder what percentage of Disney revenue is even American.
re: #157 Ace Rothstein
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the kid is pointing the gun at someone and no one seems to care.
first let me get this photo we can reminisce on years from now
re: #160 Dangerman
the kid is pointing the gun at someone and no one seems to care.
first let me get this photo we can reminisce on years from now
With his finger on the trigger.
re: #147 jeffreyw
Multiple problems with USPS in my part of Los Angeles. All the mail deposit boxes in the Koreatown area were removed and never replaced. Two local post offices were closed and demolished. Deposit boxes have been removed that were outside of remaining post offices. Passport services have been curtailed.
Mail delivery is still screwed up. I’m still getting bills that are 3 to 4 months old. Magazine subscriptions are also delayed. That’s why I hand carry my ballot to a county deposit box because I do NOT trust the Post Office to deliver it on time.
re: #161 Ace Rothstein
With his finger on the trigger.
no way a kid can comprehend ‘control your weapon at all times’, or the ramifications or consequences
handing weapons to kids is chaotic insanity
re: #63 Barefoot Grin
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“So we get her in the body bag and Kyler goes, ‘You do know what we gotta do right?’ Faith goes, ‘No, what?’ He goes, ‘You gotta pre-heat the oven 350 degrees, leave her in there for 15 minutes,’” said Clardy.
Later in the transcript, Jennings and Clardy had a racist exchange and went back and forth about society making it unacceptable to lynch Black people.
“I’m gonna tell you something. If it was back in the day, when that when Alan Marshton would take a damn Black guy and whoop their ass and throw him in the cell? I’d run for f—ing sheriff,” Jennings said.
After Clardy said things aren’t like that anymore, Jennings continued.
“I know. Take them down to Mud Creek and hang them up with a damn rope. But you can’t do that anymore. They got more rights than we got.”
Jennings supposedly went on to say that he knows of two large pre-dug holes “if you ever need them,” referring to disposing the remains of Bruce Willingham and his son, Chris, also a Gazette-News reporter. Jennings also said that he knows of “two or three hit men, they’re very quiet guys.”
Manning chimed in and claimed nobody would care if two of the Gazette-News’ reporters were harmed. “Yeah, but here’s the reality,” Manning allegedly said. “If a hair on his wife’s head, Chris Willingham’s head, or any of those people that really were behind that, if any hair on their head got touched by anybody, who would be the bad guy?”
The trio was supposedly frustrated with the Gazette-News portraying the sheriff’s office unfavorably in their reporting.
People who are capable of really true evil.
As I promised earlier today:
::: Pulling the Curtains aside to reveal the Buffet :::
Enjoy. :)
Give us this day our daily lead.
And forgive us our trespasses, as we shoot those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into the temptation of reasonable gun control; but deliver us from the evil black guy.
For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory, for ever.
Amen. pic.twitter.com/raakvNeQt0— Sgt Joker (@TheSGTJoker) April 17, 2023
This is Adolfo Kaminsky. During WWII, he saved the lives of 14,000 French Jews. Adolfo was born on October 1, 1925 in Argentina to Russian Jewish parents who fled pogroms. In 1930, the Kaminsky family moved to France. After his mother was killed by the Nazis in 1941, Kaminsky… pic.twitter.com/4j3UgoXBnT
— Humans of Judaism (@HumansOfJudaism) March 17, 2023
We went to the NRA Convention to gather “thoughts and prayers” to end gun violence. pic.twitter.com/AEbsP2t5XR
— The Good Liars (@TheGoodLiars) April 17, 2023
re: #167 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
I see we have the opening prayer of the “Holy Implement.” /
re: #167 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Except it’s not a cartoon. It’s a real life happening in a PA church run by one of Moon’s relatives!
re: #167 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Didn’t they worship guns in Planet of the Apes? Or was it a nuclear bomb?
re: #168 The Pie Overlord!
I was watching a tribute to Nicholas Winton yesterday. It was called The Man Who Saved 669 Children. It is going to be on NJTV Thursday 8 PM.
re: #157 Ace Rothstein
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I’m guessing that’s at the NRA convention. See the EAA (European American Armory Corp.) display behind the kid? The zip ties may or may not make it actually safed but I can’t tell for sure from the photo.
A Barnes and Noble manager kicked Arizona Trump supporter Ethan Schmidt out of the store after harassing shoppers at the pride book display and others for their vaccination status. pic.twitter.com/Nyuo3E6vPF
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) April 17, 2023
After “exposing” rainbows in the toy section, Ethan’s friend complained about the body type of Little People figures.
Ethan then compared himself to Rosa Parks and said he wants “reparations.” pic.twitter.com/Hyz1AQJYB0— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) April 17, 2023
::: dragging out galvanized tub full of iced Champagne :::
Enjoy the buffet and Champagne.
re: #175 The Pie Overlord!
He desperately wants to be a martyr for Trump. He’s gonna continue to push the envelope until that happens.
As Desantis law banning Chinese-manufactured drones takes effect, the state’s police, fire, weather & emergency management agencies are scrambling to replace $200 million in drones already purchased w/more expensive, less-capable ones from other countries. https://t.co/9euHDCOCns
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) April 17, 2023
Yeah, finding out about crimes committed by US Senators would be interesting. Let’s do it. https://t.co/Y6AT2ovnzp
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) April 17, 2023
re: #177 Joe Bacon
He desperately wants to be a martyr for Trump. He’s gonna continue to push the envelope until that happens.
He’s not doing this shit for Trump. He wants to make a name for himself as World’s Stupidest Asshole.
re: #180 The Pie Overlord!
He desperately wants to be a martyr for Trump. He’s gonna continue to push the envelope until that happens.
He’s not doing this shit for Trump. He wants to make a name for himself as World’s Stupidest Asshole.
But aren’t they the same thing? 🤔
MAGA on April 16, 2023: “HA HA HA! We have won the culture war, losers! With our wildly publicized Bud Lite tantrum, we have made American corporations too afraid to support LGBTQ ever again!”
Disney on April 17, 2023: pic.twitter.com/cAdIKgWzwq— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) April 17, 2023
How to Manufacture a Debt Ceiling Crisis in 4 Steps, by @SpeakerMcCarthy. pic.twitter.com/EnYpEFognJ
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) April 17, 2023
Mama taught me early to clear my own dishes.
Smell the privilege.
The flight attendant @united just made my 22 week pregnant wife traveling with a 5 year old and 2 year old get on her hands and knees to pick up the popcorn mess by my youngest daughter. Are you kidding me?!?! pic.twitter.com/vLYyLyJC54
— Anthony Bass (@AnthonyBass52) April 16, 2023
re: #183 Joe Bacon
So is Quevin going to force people on Social Security to work to get their benefit checks?
onventre: #174 William Lewis
I’m guessing that’s at the NRA convention. See the EAA (European American Armory Corp.) display behind the kid? The zip ties may or may not make it actually safed but I can’t tell for sure from the photo.
No need to guess—
Photos show kids as young as 6 handling guns at the NRA’s annual meeting. Gun violence is the leading cause of death among children.
Here are the many stages of #TarmactheWeatherCat as he looks at the forecast for later this week. Honestly, we don’t blame him! With that said, severe weather chances return to the state Thursday bringing with it heavy rainfall. Continue to check back for updates! #arwx pic.twitter.com/Qm2TJgHs9N
— NWS Little Rock (@NWSLittleRock) April 17, 2023
re: #184 Dave In Austin
Mama taught me early to clear my own dishes.
Smell the privilege.
I went to a college where many students took their cafeteria trays outside to eat in the sun and then just left the trays and the trash on the steps of the dining hall: “that’s what we pay the custodial staff for!”
re: #187 Backwoods_Sleuth
A cute cat that predicts the weather. Cool.
*stares off into the distance*https://t.co/LKWO98qTDd
— darth™ (@darth) April 17, 2023
re: #190 Backwoods_Sleuth
Ramen noodles have more of a backbone that Durbin.
re: #188 Barefoot Grin
I went to a college where many students took their cafeteria trays outside to eat in the sun and then just left the trays and the trash on the steps of the dining hall: “that’s what we pay the custodial staff for!”
Sounds like Stephen Miller in high school:
Miller announced to the crowd, his voice rising, “Am I the only one who is sick and tired of being told to pick up my trash when we have plenty of janitors who are paid to do it for us?!”
re: #192 BeachDem
Sounds like Stephen Miller in high school:
Miller announced to the crowd, his voice rising, “Am I the only one who is sick and tired of being told to pick up my trash when we have plenty of janitors who are paid to do it for us?!”
Yeah. Coming from a little snot whose parents were slumlords.
Ky. Dept. of Education just dropped its guidance on SB 150 and other bills impacting Kentucky schools.
This will be a thread of notes from said guidance. 🧵— Olivia Krauth 🐝 (@oliviakrauth) April 17, 2023
KDE is like, sorry, we can’t give you guidance (that was based on research, law and court decisions so districts didn’t have to use their own resources looking into things) around student pronouns anymore, so it is up to y’all to watch the “legal landscape” around trans kids.
— Olivia Krauth 🐝 (@oliviakrauth) April 17, 2023
also among the items Olivia notes is this:
Districts need to review basically everything for mentions of gender identity and sexual orientation, including AP classes, dual credit courses and extracurriculars.
I think that means any sort of GSA type of group can no longer happen.— Olivia Krauth 🐝 (@oliviakrauth) April 17, 2023
so, SB150 is just gonna be a royal PIA for school districts
re: #147 jeffreyw
I’ve rarely had any problems with USPS aside from an occasional dented box, once an order of chili oil through Amazon came with a broken bottle that the mailman managed to contain within a plastic bag. The fault was Amazon’s because it was poorly packed.
Recently I ordered a new Pixel phone and their trade in offer for my old phone was acceptable. They sent a trade-in kit with a pre-paid label with confirmation number for USPS that I turned around the same day by placing it into the mailbox and raising the red flag. I promptly forgot about it until I got a reminder from Google to mail the kit back to get the refund. I ran down the tracking number and plugged it into their site and it said “we have received notice that a label has been generated but we haven’t yet received the package”. I called the local PO but they didn’t have any more info than I did.
I pretty much wrote that money off, then two months later Google said that they had received the kit and the phone looked fine.
I’m going to apply Occam’s razor and wait and see if it is delivered to an IRS processing facility in the LA area.
re: #184 Dave In Austin
Mama taught me early to clear my own dishes.
Smell the privilege.
Also your wife is Jesse James Decker’s sister from the E! Reality show. She has over a million followers on IG and literally told a different story than you did. You really should have kept it offline.
— Tony Posnanski (@tonyposnanski) April 17, 2023
re: #192 BeachDem
Sounds like Stephen Miller in high school:
Miller announced to the crowd, his voice rising, “Am I the only one who is sick and tired of being told to pick up my trash when we have plenty of janitors who are paid to do it for us?!”
It was a school for rich kids that didn’t get into Duke, so yes. To this day I wonder if it was worth staying there. I grew up where the university of Illinois is and was accepted there. Well, who knows. I’m ok now.
Breaking: Clay County prosecutor announces he’s filed two felony counts against Andrew Lester in the shooting of 16-year-old Ralph Yarl Assault in the first degree Armed criminal action A warrant has been issued for Lester’s arrest
NEW: Clay County prosecutor announces he’s filed two felony counts against Andrew Lester in the shooting of 16-year-old Ralph Yarl
Assault in the first degree
Armed criminal action
A warrant has been issued for Lester’s arrest pic.twitter.com/3Mjhtt1Zqq— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) April 17, 2023
re: #194 Backwoods_Sleuth
so, SB150 is just gonna be a royal PIA for school districts
It hurts to see this turn. My kids got some good education in Lexington the two years we were there.
re: #201 wrenchwench
Now does the green snek show up?
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re: #201 wrenchwench
Yes. It shows up. And I am walking away from it as fast as I can.
MTG: Trump Golfs With Lindsey Graham Because He Wants To Keep “America’s Biggest Traitors” Close By - https://t.co/eMd9nnk7fm pic.twitter.com/TevL6v1tlM
— JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) April 17, 2023
re: #207 retired cynic
It still does not show up.
go figure?
I thought there was a chance, but it makes more sense to me that it would be consistent in not showing.
re: #201 wrenchwench
Now does the green snek show up?
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Pretty green snake.
Use to play with them while growing up in FL.
Scammy Davis, Jr. MAGA chud, Ali Alexander, says he’s sorry for asking teenage boys for d*ck pics. “I apologize for any inappropriate messages sent over the years” he said. Here he is posing with his serial criminal fascist mentor. pic.twitter.com/MO8U5zlFpm
— gocart mozart (@EdMix13) April 17, 2023
Somewhere in the special counsel’s office, someone quietly pauses, puts down their pen, pushes “record,” picks up pen again. pic.twitter.com/pBNu2DY3CW
— Pete Strzok (@petestrzok) April 17, 2023
re: #102 Eclectic Cyborg
Jesus Christ, Dianne. You’re doing way more harm than good.
STEP DOWN ALREADY. No one is going to shame you for retiring at the age of 89.
it’s more complex than that. She feels with absolute certainty, I am sure, that she will die within a year of retiring. It’s not a rational thought, but it’s an understandable one.
re: #201 wrenchwench
Now does the green snek show up?
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Yes it shows up (and it’s cute). I’ve seen at least one other post by another lizard that showed nothing when I click the reveal box. Should have flagged it.
Note: #42 still doesn’t show
re: #212 CleverToad
Yes it shows up (and it’s cute). I’ve seen at least one other post by another lizard that showed nothing when I click the reveal box. Should have flagged it.
Does it show blank? no mastodon post at all? Or just without the pic?
re: #213 wrenchwench
Does it show blank? no mastodon post at all? Or just without the pic?
Blank, no mastodon post at all
re: #206 wrenchwench
Hidden toots with pics don’t reveal themselves for everyone. If you go back up to #42, does it still not show up?
The post at #42 shows up but there is a lot of empty space below to photo. The try at #201 rendered as expected
Mitt Romney on a Feinstein committee swap: “They’d like Republicans to help them speed the appointment of more liberal justices? Yes — when hell freezes over.” https://t.co/o9VzpA6QTG
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) April 17, 2023
re: #206 wrenchwench
Hidden toots with pics don’t reveal themselves for everyone. If you go back up to #42, does it still not show up?
Not for me. I reloaded the comment and clicked the button but nothing showed.
re: #190 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’m curious how Democrats were supposed to plan for Feinstein doing this after California’s reelected her.
re: #198 gwangung
Breaking: Clay County prosecutor announces he’s filed two felony counts against Andrew Lester in the shooting of 16-year-old Ralph Yarl Assault in the first degree Armed criminal action A warrant has been issued for Lester’s arrest
I’m honestly surprised. I’ll be even more surprised if a conviction follows but that’s for another day…
re: #211 steve_davis
it’s more complex than that. She feels with absolute certainty, I am sure, that she will die within a year of retiring. It’s not a rational thought, but it’s an understandable one.
Rational thought about death is rarely about one’s own.
Shoutout to the lovely lady that gave me this bracelet yesterday… thank you. It says “fuckity fuck fuck” in Morse code. Perfect. Xojd pic.twitter.com/qtgvzIYD19
— Jeffrey Dean Morgan (@JDMorgan) April 17, 2023
If the GOP forces Feinstein to retire, they’ll be doing Dems a favor. But what a bunch of assholes.
In CBS studio, Walter Cronkite reports on return of Apollo 13, which almost ended in tragedy this week 1970: pic.twitter.com/XrHFWDTMOM
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) April 17, 2023
In West Wing, Kissinger, Nixon and astronauts Collins and Anders watch treacherous return of Apollo 13 to earth, today 1970: pic.twitter.com/PD4UWVkITF
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) April 17, 2023
re: #224 Backwoods_Sleuth
I remember when that happened. Those astronauts pulled off an incredible return.
Child labor perpetuates poverty, illiteracy, unemployment, etc. The worst part of being a teenager was working for minimum wage. https://t.co/l9QNBsEoWO
— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) April 17, 2023
— gocart mozart (@EdMix13) April 17, 2023
re: #227 The Pie Overlord!
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It should come as no surprise that Reason takes that position. Libertarians.
re: #185 Joe Bacon
So is Quevin going to force people on Social Security to work to get their benefit checks?
I thought those on Social Security worked their entire lives to receive the benefits.
lol
“We all drank a local IPA beer instead.. I was going to make a big deal about this proud of the stand that we took until Primetime producers told me the local beer we were drinking is actually owned by Anheuser-Busch” pic.twitter.com/vkH950UovD
— Acyn (@Acyn) April 17, 2023
re: #232 Backwoods_Sleuth
lol
🍻 @PeteHegseth has been telling this heroic Yankee Stadium @budlight boycott story all day, featuring @foxandfriends co-host @willcain and SEAL Team Six member @mchooyah…until a @FoxNews producer informed him the “local IPA” he was drinking is an @abinbev corporate cousin
📺 https://t.co/HH7ueUS1GI pic.twitter.com/eQyXOZdsAi— Bad Fox Graphics (@BadFoxGraphics) April 17, 2023
Wouldn’t touch one now. #FascistElmo pic.twitter.com/ojk27Q1v4k
— TravisBlues (@Travisblues01) April 17, 2023
re: #235 Backwoods_Sleuth
Nut: “How dare you tell us not to be angry and tantrum-throwing about a subject you told us to be angry and throw tantrums about!”
re: #233 Backwoods_Sleuth
Mo-rons. All of them are fucking mo-rons.
AB Inbev has over 400 brands, including what many folks consider craft beers.
Bud Light garners more sales by volume than all the craft beers combined.
Sales of specialty brews are definitely rising: The nation’s 7,500-plus craft breweries shipped a total of 25.9 million barrels in 2018, up from 9.1 million just 10 years earlier. Out of those, these are the 35 most popular craft breweries in America.
If the amount of craft beer sold sounds impressive, consider that the nation’s No. 1 beer brand, Bud Light, alone shipped 27.2 million barrels last year - and sales of the top three brands (all of them, incidentally, light or “lite”) exceeded 53 million.
BREAKING: A 65-year-old man has been charged with second-degree murder after police say he shot at a car that had mistakenly turned into his driveway Saturday night.
20-year-old Kaylin A. Gillis, from Saratoga County, was killed.
FULL DETAILS: https://t.co/GaDLqCIgsD pic.twitter.com/1C0NLLNBAh— Times Union (@timesunion) April 17, 2023
re: #228 gocart mozart
All Monotheistic beliefs are fear based.
“But by me” is just fear based marketing.
The bottom line is that Homo Saipan’s are nothing more than fear based creatures. Period. Nothing more.— TravisBlues (@Travisblues01) April 17, 2023
re: #235 Backwoods_Sleuth
He looks like he snorted a coffee can full of blow.
re: #198 gwangung
Breaking: Clay County prosecutor announces he’s filed two felony counts against Andrew Lester in the shooting of 16-year-old Ralph Yarl Assault in the first degree Armed criminal action A warrant has been issued for Lester’s arrest
Now taking bets their right-wing loon Governor will Pardon the criminal immediately upon any conviction.
People fail to realize this “castle doctrine” and gun fetish has been the long term strategy of a violent war of attrition against blacks for decades now being put into action.
re: #237 lawhawk
Murka 🇺🇸 loves their piss water.
What do Bud Light and having sex in a canoe have in common?
They’re both fucking next to water.
re: #242 teleskiguy
Murka 🇺🇸 loves their piss water.
What do Bud Light and having sex in a canoe have in common?
They’re both fucking next to water.
Bud Light sales have been dropping for years as that article reported going back for the past decade.
Doesn’t matter to most Americans, since they seem to prefer drinking that stuff instead of better tasting beer.
When looking at Ali Alexander, I want people to consider that maybe it’s not that he’s a self-hating gay guy and that informs his politics, but instead that he’s a predator and that informs his politics. He chosen the side where he can get more power and less scrutiny, faster, with greater unfiltered access to vulnerable people.
Now that he’s been busted, he’s used the conventional language conservatism permits him to mask his behavior and, through semantic fuckery, generate collective guilt for gay people because gay = predator.
Like, the thing to emphasize here is that this a creep…one of many creeps…who has chosen politics that grants them exclusive power rather than chose a politics that would simply let them live in the world with dignity. He has settled over time into a niche surrounded by other creeps. He just got outed because another reactionary creep decided to drop this info…but we should pause and consider that said creep was probably sitting on this until it served his interests, this wasn’t a civil act to protect people.
Rotate yoru perspective to see the continuity, the consistency: Alexander chose Team Abuse Power and all this new shit is consistent with that.
re: #201 wrenchwench
Now does the green snek show up?
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But I do not see the deputy.
I was a heavy pale ale guy in my drinking daze. Dale’s Pale Ale and Modus Mandarina were my go-to’s. Lagers just weren’t my thing, I thought Bud Light and especially Coors Light were terrible.
maybe it is the fuckin gunshttps://t.co/0jKft053kT
— darth™ (@darth) April 18, 2023
“I’m going to start something which I call ‘Truth GPT’ or a maximum truth-seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe,” Mr. Musk said in an interview on Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight” https://t.co/O5GyVTtAz2
— Shashank Joshi (@shashj) April 17, 2023
re: #244 The Ghost of a Flea
This is 100% the deal with Lindsey Graham, too.
That he radiates Capote-ness isn’t why he’s a piece of shit, he’s a piece of shit because he will get behind any conservative he thinks grants a path to more power.
He’s a goon, always has been a goon, and does the work of goons because that’s his priority: pushing Team Abuse Power to the win.
re: #235 Backwoods_Sleuth
I think more attention needs to be brought to Little Richard, the Father of Rock & Roll; to the fact that his family kicked him out at age 16 for being gay, that he was protected by the gay community and found work as a drag queen before beginning his music career.
We need Kid Rock to renounce the second half of his fake name.
re: #248 teleskiguy
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Attention conservatives: Rock & Roll is Drag music!
I did occasionally enjoy a Corona or Negra Modelo on a beach. Those lager experiences were good.
this is the sort of conversation you have after taking your first bong rip in a college dorm room pic.twitter.com/F8p3ClZybK
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 18, 2023
just 2 dudes having a normal laugh pic.twitter.com/tbYmtd3JWG
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 18, 2023
re: #244 The Ghost of a Flea
What did we do to deserve your trenchant and incisive writing?
re: #226 PhillyPretzel
I remember when that happened. Those astronauts pulled off an incredible return.
I remember following it on the news, and not knowing enough to realize I should be worried. I didn’t for one second think they wouldn’t make it.
re: #254 Unabogie
And then there was the blanket pardon that only applied to Nazis
great thread about how Fox News makes its money and the threat to it that the Dominion lawsuit presents https://t.co/HKy2HN9CTr
— shauna (@goldengateblond) April 18, 2023
2 segments of this is all i got in me tonight. gotta tap out and play with my kids. godspeed to those who intend to watch all two nights of the interview.
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 18, 2023
re: #234 Dave In Austin
I want to get this sticker and give it to my boss, his wife’s daily driver is a black Model Y.
our children continue to pay the price as older generations are spoon fed with conspiracies and racist fearmongering pic.twitter.com/uZ4I61MC6C
— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) April 18, 2023
BABEES!
We have a kea chick (left) & an African penguin chick in the brooder. They have their own separate “nests” but whenever the keepers come back in for their next feeding they find the African penguin chick has climbed in with the kea chick. They seem to enjoy each other’s company! pic.twitter.com/KeXCvAhL84
— Cincinnati Zoo (@CincinnatiZoo) April 12, 2023
We are so excited to announce the two newest members of our Cincinnati Zoo fam…bat-eared fox kits! These 2 little boys were born on April 6 to first-time parents Frankie & Otis. The kits are already strong & full of personality. Learn more: https://t.co/F7Use3jZQ7 pic.twitter.com/M5DLpBPosc
— Cincinnati Zoo (@CincinnatiZoo) April 17, 2023
re: #252 jaunte
Attention conservatives: Rock & Roll is Drag music!
That’s black rock & roll. White rock & roll is about underage child marriage (may or may not be cousins)…
McCarthy has no good answer because his debt limit stance is completely disingenuous
has nothing to do w/seriously reducing US debt
it’s about GOP extremists without popular support seizing an available lever to hurt a Democratic president even at the risk of economic disaster https://t.co/Ld8sgKIa7i— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) April 17, 2023
It’s hard to believe this bozo is the speaker.
Newsletter from Fascistland. Over in California, we have sane people running things. https://t.co/46ee174z4d
— Harry Turtledove (@HNTurtledove) April 18, 2023
It shouldn’t be *EASY* to buy a gun. Yet it is in many parts of the United States. This needs to change. It should be *HARD* to buy a gun.
— Elon Musk Blows Goats | teleskiguy@mastodon.social (@ballfootski) April 18, 2023
Police learned the teenager’s parents had asked him to pick up his siblings at an address on 115th Terrace, but he accidentally went to a home on 115th Street, where he was shot. Lawyers for Ralph’s family also say the youth was shot after he went to the wrong house.
This was an episode of The Closer
“Products of discovery” 2009
do it rupert
do it for donald https://t.co/NomTTFwFaD— darth™ (@darth) April 18, 2023
I mean… I really hope shoes fucken drop left and right, man…
re: #270 Backwoods_Sleuth
pretty sure Newsome is gearing up to run in 2028. He’s not going to primary Joe.
finally got around to binge watching season 2 of picard. all right, that was much better than i anticipated, from the first episode. and it only took me until the last episode to finally realize that was Data playing Dr. Soong.
The same.ND legislature that, just a few weeks ago, voted down spending $6 million for expanding the free school lunch program is now debating increasing the tourism budget by millions. One of the big projects under consideration is Bison World adjacent to I-94 by Jamestown.
Now it might be a viable project but I’m skeptical. The state had the least number of tourists for a U.S. state with 21 million out-of-state visitors in 2021. The vast majority were visiting family, or on their way to Glacier with a stop at Teddy Roosevelt NP (you really should go - spectacular place), or going to NDSU for a football game, or going to UND for hockey. Jamestown is a hundred miles from the population centers of Fargo and Bismarck and just close enough to Medora/Teddy Roosevelt that no traveler would stop there for much more than a bathroom break unless really compelling. It is unlikely going to be a success even with state subsidies and the developers pipe dreams of capturing 1% of the ND tourists passing through.
re: #269 jaunte
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It’s hard to believe this bozo is the speaker.
Qevin is in an impossible position and it shows. His caucus has taken all the traditional targets (SS, Medicare/Medicaid, Defense, etc) off the table for cuts and what’s left amounts to such a small part of the overall budget that there’s no way he can accomplish his promise of a balanced budget in 10 years. So he has no counter-offer to Biden’s budget, nothing he can sell voters on as a “better” proposal, leaving him all but begging the WH to bail him out by proposing cuts so his caucus can blame the whole mess on Biden rather than acknowledge that holding the economy hostage in pursuit of phantom “cuts” is absolute lunacy.
re: #275 steve_davis
finally got around to binge watching season 2 of picard. all right, that was much better than i anticipated, from the first episode. and it only took me until the last episode to finally realize that was Data playing Dr. Soong.
Season 1 was the best. They actually tried to do something new and different.
Season 2 wasn’t bad. Falling back a bit too much on tried-and-true ST tropes but acceptable.
Season 3 is nostalgia and fan service. Story? We don’t need no stinking story!
Agreed and a *lot* of us in the conservative world have been talking about how disgusting this guy is for years.
— Patrick (@PMC713) April 17, 2023
Reactionaries and conservatives will now show their ass in exactly the same way that they always do:
Once the shit becomes public, everyone cues up to talk about how they knew…coincidentally all of this concern only ever been expressed privately to one another. In circumstances where they could have lived their morals…even their completely fucked homophobic morals and their completely cynical “anti-grooming” morals…they chose to make this an in-house problem.
It’s the Lavrenty Beria rule: the crimes exist in quantum indeterminacy until the moment they threaten or embarrass the side, at which point the waveform collapses and they become retroactively unbearable.
re: #250 jaunte
I think more attention needs to be brought to Little Richard, the Father of Rock & Roll; to the fact that his family kicked him out at age 16 for being gay, that he was protected by the gay community and found work as a drag queen before beginning his music career.
We need Kid Rock to renounce the second half of his fake name.
Richard Penniman got a job washing dishes at Ann’s Tick-Tock Lounge on Broadway in Macon Ga, which he celebrated in song, as that job helped him survive until he developed his entertainment career.
In the 1950s & 1960s, Ms Ann’s establishment was “tolerated” by the Macon PD Vice squad, who ran the streets, as as long as the different patrons behaved themselves.
In those days, If you were a college kid in Macon GA who needed a place to get a meal after midnight, the only places serving food were the Krystal (gut bombs, fries and chili), and Ann’s. It goes without saying , the food at Ann’s was better than the Krystal.
re: #84 Captain Ron
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Texas is considering a ‘Border Protection Unit’ empowered to deputize militias to “repel” and “return” migrants. It’s part of an intentional challenge to federal immigration law: https://t.co/DmXBw1y0vC
— Josh Kovensky (@JoshKovensky) April 17, 2023
i wonder how many dead militia MAGAts it would take to bring this to a screeching halt? My guess would be 5 or 6.
re: #283 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
i wonder how many dead militia MAGAts it would take to bring this to a screeching halt? My guess would be 5 or 6.
That would just lead Abbott to put the National Guard there. And then probably instigate an international incident with Mexico when someone start firing weapons across the border at “escaping illegals” and hits or comes close to hitting some Mexican law enforcement personnel.
re: #276 dat_said
The same.ND legislature that, just a few weeks ago, voted down spending $6 million for expanding the free school lunch program is now debating increasing the tourism budget by millions. One of the big projects under consideration is Bison World adjacent to I-94 by Jamestown.
Now it might be a viable project but I’m skeptical. The state had the least number of tourists for a U.S. state with 21 million out-of-state visitors in 2021. The vast majority were visiting family, or on their way to Glacier with a stop at Teddy Roosevelt NP (you really should go - spectacular place), or going to NDSU for a football game, or going to UND for hockey. Jamestown is a hundred miles from the population centers of Fargo and Bismarck and just close enough to Medora/Teddy Roosevelt that no traveler would stop there for much more than a bathroom break unless really compelling. It is unlikely going to be a success even with state subsidies and the developers pipe dreams of capturing 1% of the ND tourists passing through.
That it succeeds or not might be secondary to them funneling a few million tax dollars to their contributor buddies.
re: #281 The Ghost of a Flea
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Reactionaries and conservatives will now show their ass in exactly the same way that they always do:
Once the shit becomes public, everyone cues up to talk about how they knew, but nothing could be done…coincidentally all of this concern only ever been expressed privately to one another. In circumstances where they could have lived their morals…even their completely fucked homophobic morals and their completely cynical “anti-grooming” morals…they chose to make this an in-house problem.
It’s the Lavrenty Beria rule: the crimes exist in quantum indeterminacy until the moment they threaten or embarrass the side, at which point the waveform collapse and they become retroactively unbearable.
It’s always the same song and dance:
1) When the news first breaks, everybody not directly implicated expresses “shock” and “outrage” that this was going on without their knowledge because (of course) none of them were ever involved.
2) Eventually everybody squeals on everybody in order to avoid their own culpability, leading to everybody claiming that it was only “rumors” and they never had direct knowledge.
3) Then evidence appears that shows that everybody knew and everybody condoned, resulting in the players now admitting that it was common knowledge but nobody did anything because shadowy forces that were above them all kept anything from being done.
4) Finally, the players get cornered with everything and admit that the reason nothing was done was because the perp was successful enough and powerful enough that nobody made a move because so long as it was a party secret then they could keep pretending they had morals and scruples.
Good news, Everybody! All the other problems are solved. Climate change, sustainable energy, war in Ukraine, healthcare, elder care, hunger, poverty, national infrastructure, all of it!
And all Congress has left to worry about now is if high school athletes pee standing up. https://t.co/kMoPA5W9vL— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) April 17, 2023
re: #286 Targetpractice
To your point:
Other people were aware of the pedophilia allegations but apparently weren’t concerned enough to go to the cops or FBI! pic.twitter.com/TDU50loZi0
— Marcy (@Marcy_Powell) April 17, 2023
I think a thing that can never be downplayed is that all these people are self-interested parties in a way that most of us can’t conceptualize. They’ll overlook horrible shit to get what they want, whether that’s merely interpersonal or structural on a nationa/international level.
As a consequence they’re both acting like buddies and fully prepared for the moment they have to fuck each other over: that’s existence, in their mind, each person is a tiny duke that must at all times be girded for Shakespearean fuckery. This means that it’s just normal to hang with monsters if they’re useful, and to abandon them when they’re inconvenient; this works for them because they’re around like-minded people who also accept that giving monsters what they want provides dividends.
This is how you end up with and endless series of horrible sex crimes as the background to your moral movement that declares it abhors sex crimes more than anything else: the general principle is secondary to the highly-individual calculation of what is necessary to increase your clout.
You can’t piss off monsters before the moment they can’t grant you more power…hence why Milo, who’s basically a discard from every reactionary pile, is the guy that starts this shit: nobody’s being useful to him.
re: #242 teleskiguy
Murka 🇺🇸 loves their piss water.
What do Bud Light and having sex in a canoe have in common?
They’re both fucking next to water.
I understand that some German beer makes you think that chewing asphalt would be easier.
re: #265 sagehen
That’s black rock & roll. White rock & roll is about underage child marriage (may or may not be cousins)…
I just read that the 16-year-old kid in Kansas City that got shot after he went to the wrong house is alive. I mistakenly assumed he was dead.
I don’t know a lot of people that answer the door with a gun in their hand, but if you’re so afraid that you have to, why are you opening the door in the first place?
re: #289 The Ghost of a Flea
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I think a thing that can never be downplayed is that all these people are self-interested parties in a way that most of us can’t conceptualize. They’ll overlook horrible shit to get what they want, whether that’s merely interpersonal or structural on a nationa/international level.
As a consequence they’re both acting like buddies and fully prepared for the moment they have to fuck each other over: that’s existence, in their mind, each person is a tiny duke that must at all times be girded for Shakespearean fuckery. This means that it’s just normal to hang with monsters if they’re useful, and to abandon them when they’re inconvenient; this works for them because they’re around like-minded people who also accept that giving monsters what they want provides dividends.
This is how you end up with and endless series of horrible sex crimes as the background to your moral movement that declares it abhors sex crimes more than anything else: the general principle is secondary to the highly-individual calculation of what is necessary to increase your clout.
You can’t piss off monsters before the moment they can’t grant you more power…hence why Milo, who’s basically a discard from every reactionary pile, is the guy that starts this shit: nobody’s being useful to him.
There’s also the element of omerta to it, of “don’t tell everybody about my crimes because then I’ll have to tell them about yours.” That what likely protected Alexander for so long was that he knew enough about the proclivities of those around him that ran from the obscene to the criminal that to report him would have given him motivation to act in kind. Better than even odds that now that Alexander’s actions have been made public, we’ll soon learn that he’s personal knowledge of similar or worse acts of his associates that he’s kept quiet about because he stood to gain more from his association with them than he would have reporting them to the authorities/press.
I found something I’m addicted to (besides diet Coke). It’s a game on my cell phone that is deceptively simple. Basically, you connect number tiles to get them off the board and then new ones drop down. Yeah, I got hooked so much that I actually paid $5 to get rid of the ads. I also learned that I played it *cough* 20 hours *cough* last week.
So yeah, I need to stop. Because, seriously, for me, it’s quite addicting. I racked up 333 million points in my last game, which I started early today. Yeah, I DEFINITELY need to stop.
re: #293 Targetpractice
Notably…right before this all dropped Alexander was doing “you know what you were party” with MTG.
re: #244 The Ghost of a Flea
When looking at Ali Alexander, I want people to consider that maybe it’s not that he’s a self-hating gay guy and that informs his politics, but instead that he’s a predator and that informs his politics. He chosen the side where he can get more power and less scrutiny, faster, with greater unfiltered access to vulnerable people.
Now that he’s been busted, he’s used the conventional language conservatism permits him to mask his behavior and, through semantic fuckery, generate collective guilt for gay people because gay = predator.
Like, the thing to emphasize here is that this a creep…one of many creeps…who has chosen politics that grants them exclusive power rather than chose a politics that would simply let them live in the world with dignity. He has settled over time into a niche surrounded by other creeps. He just got outed because another reactionary creep decided to drop this info…but we should pause and consider that said creep was probably sitting on this until it served his interests, this wasn’t a civil act to protect people.
Rotate yoru perspective to see the continuity, the consistency: Alexander chose Team Abuse Power and all this new shit is consistent with that.
One could say Ali Alexander has joined the log rolling society.
re: #292 Ace Rothstein
I just read that the 16-year-old kid in Kansas City that got shot after he went to the wrong house is alive. I mistakenly assumed he was dead.
I don’t know a lot of people that answer the door with a gun in their hand, but if you’re so afraid that you have to, why are you opening the door in the first place?
I thought he initially shot the 16-year-old through the door.
And we know also have the woman killed in Saratoga for pulling into the wrong driveway.
“Shoot first. Ask questions later.” is no way to carry out relations with neighbors and potential visitors. (I’m sure the NRA and right-wing will be all about the mental health side of things again. Too soon to talk about guns and the constant fearmongering.)
Did you know that I am working on making my second million dollars?
I gave up on my first … ;)
re: #298 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
You’re right.
“There is no indication that either Lester or Ralph spoke to one another before the Thursday evening shooting, Thompson said. The prosecutor added there is no evidence that the teen entered the home and preliminary evidence shows Lester opened fire on the teen through a glass door with a .32 caliber revolver.:
re: #73 Joe Bacon
WAIT!!!!!
WHAT????
HOW????
Two charged with allegedly operating secret Chinese police station in NY
Dozens of Chinese national police officers are separately charged with intimidating Chinese dissidents online
Federal officials arrested two New York residents Monday for allegedly operating an unauthorized police station out of a Manhattan office building and using it to find and intimidate a Chinese dissident living in California.
When I was in Japan in November, this was kind of a big deal, with governments in Asia and Europe and Canada concerned about these “police stations.” The countries I specifically remember were Japan, the Republic of Ireland and Canada, but I heard nothing about the USA. Now we know.
re: #298 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
I thought he initially shot the 16-year-old through the door.
And we know also have the woman killed in Saratoga for pulling into the wrong driveway.
“Shoot first. Ask questions later.” is no way to carry out relations with neighbors and potential visitors. (I’m sure the NRA and right-wing will be all about the mental health side of things again. Too soon to talk about guns and the constant fearmongering.)
Young white girl; of course he was arrested on the spot unlike the guy who shot the black teen.
re: #292 Ace Rothstein
I just read that the 16-year-old kid in Kansas City that got shot after he went to the wrong house is alive. I mistakenly assumed he was dead.
I don’t know a lot of people that answer the door with a gun in their hand, but if you’re so afraid that you have to, why are you opening the door in the first place?
It’s still unclear whether it was fear or opportunity
re: #99 Nerdy Fish
Governor Abbott probably neither knows nor cares what international law regarding refugees and asylum even is. If pressed on it, he’d probably say that it’s a side benefit of his policy, since American law should override international law.
He’s a fucking graduate of Vanderbilt law school, he at least took Constitutional Law and knows that on matters of border security and immigration, the field has been preempted by the federal government. What an asshat.
Good. https://t.co/PJam6qd6Y5
— Sherrilyn Ifill (@SIfill_) April 18, 2023
re: #298 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
I thought he initially shot the 16-year-old through the door.
And we know also have the woman killed in Saratoga for pulling into the wrong driveway.
“Shoot first. Ask questions later.” is no way to carry out relations with neighbors and potential visitors. (I’m sure the NRA and right-wing will be all about the mental health side of things again. Too soon to talk about guns and the constant fearmongering.)
What if it was a relative or delivery or….?
re: #292 Ace Rothstein
I just read that the 16-year-old kid in Kansas City that got shot after he went to the wrong house is alive. I mistakenly assumed he was dead.
I don’t know a lot of people that answer the door with a gun in their hand, but if you’re so afraid that you have to, why are you opening the door in the first place?
He took a bullet to the head, and then the shooter shot him a second time, but, according to this article nbcnews.com, he got up and went to three houses for help. The first two refused, and the third told him to raise his arms over his head and lie on the ground (I personally want the first two for sure charged with something). He’s at home now, but his injuries are serious.
re: #298 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
I thought he initially shot the 16-year-old through the door.
And we know also have the woman killed in Saratoga for pulling into the wrong driveway.
“Shoot first. Ask questions later.” is no way to carry out relations with neighbors and potential visitors. (I’m sure the NRA and right-wing will be all about the mental health side of things again. Too soon to talk about guns and the constant fearmongering.)
You are what you rehearse.
Regardless of how people say guns should be used…in practice there is a distinctive US reactionary gun culture that informs people that
1. the correct way to own a gun is to enjoy killing a bad person
2. it’s praxis to sit with this fantasy at all times and consume media that reinforces this fantasy
3. bad people are everywhere and you should mistrust everyone
4. …but especially anyone “other” to reactionary standards
5. it’s not just about personal, physical threat, it’s about your entitlement to use lethal force to protect property
6. …but also the standard for what requires lethal force is “vibes”
This is how you get these kinds of murders…you’ve told people they’re entitled to extrajudicial murder on slim pretexts and that everything is a threat.
Furthermore…it’s how you get so many assholes doing negligent discharges. In theory gun safety matters, but in practice what people is doing is roleplaying their fantasy—guns out, always ready to kill, no time to assess the situation or even be disciplined.
This culture exists for two reasons: one, what reactionaries really want is arbitrary power to cause death, and this fantasy normalizes that; two, the NRA and firearm manufacturers both make far more money if guns are tools, but instead are fetishes that you own and operate to participate in the cultural narrative in which the gun owner is special and elite and under threat precisely because there are untermenschen that envy his (usually his) superiority.
You shoot a lady in a car in your driveway because you have told yourself that you are special, your property is special, such that the only possible explanation for that car pulling in is…to hurt you, whether that’s hurting your ego or hurting you physically.
We’ve developed honor killing, but with an American twist in that it’s an act of individualist self-affirmation, a thing to be celebrated.
— Luke Smithwick (@lukesmithwick) April 18, 2023
Every fucking time.
If you want an example of how one side plays to win and the other does not, look at how Durbin refuses to get rid of blue slips - handing Republicans a unilateral veto of Biden’s judicial picks - while Republicans won’t so much as let an ailing Feinstein be replaced temporarily
— Brian Fallon (@brianefallon) April 17, 2023
re: #117 Barefoot Grin
We could smell the soy and corn processing plants in Decatur, Il from our home 30 miles to the east when the wind was blowing. The truck drivers called it Stinky Town on the old CB chatter.
When I lived in Salt Lake City, if the wind from the west side was *just* right, you would get the distinctive rotten egg smell of the Great Salt Lake (which is ~15 miles from downtown SLC). It didn’t happen very often, not even once a year, but it was memorable when it did happen.
Holy sh*t.GOP officials in McCurtain County, OK caught on tape talking about wanting to lynch black people and how to kill/burn/bury local journalists.This is KKK stuff, folks.Revealed by a small local paper called the McCurtain-Gazette News.pic.twitter.com/NYTxJi2T23
— TrumpsTaxes (@TrumpsTaxes on Post and Mast*don) (@TrumpsTaxes) April 17, 2023
Systemic Racism? What Systemic Racism?
re: #305 jaunte
Interesting article the tweet points to:
As Fox News case heads to trial, far right St. Louis site faces its own defamation suit
They didn’t know it at the time, but Dec. 3, 2020, was the start of a nightmare for Wandrea Moss and her mother, Ruby Freeman.
[…]
The allegations were quickly debunked by government officials and the media, but they still reverberated through right-wing media outlets.Later that day, the Gateway Pundit, a St. Louis-based site run by brothers Jim and James Hoft, identified Freeman as one of the election workers accused of producing and counting 18,000 hidden, fraudulent ballots from a suitcase.
[…]
Freeman and Moss say they were almost immediately bombarded with threats of violence, many tinged with racial slurs. Under advice from the FBI, Freeman says she had to flee her home. On Jan. 6, 2021 — the day of the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol — Freeman said her home was surrounded by Trump supporters shouting through bullhorns.
This was also interesting:
Among the attorneys representing the Georgia election workers is John Danforth, former Republican U.S. Senator from Missouri.
What I’d like to know is why isn’t this a criminal matter? Why do election workers have to engage lawyers to protect themselves? Clearly, this is a vital public service that needs to be protected as such.
re: #312 DodgerFan1988
Systemic Racism? What Systemic Racism?
You can’t legally discuss that in Oklahoma schools.
re: #312 DodgerFan1988
FBI investigating GOP Okla. officials caught on tape talking about lynching Black people, murdering newspaper reporters https://t.co/g53Sy0oAs8
— Heartland Signal (@HeartlandSignal) April 17, 2023
Here is the audio transcript https://t.co/yE2WUbBlJi
— TaraAnura4Missouri (@Tara4Missouri) April 17, 2023
re: #314 garzooma
And Danforth was Clarence Thomas’s mentor, and proposer to the SC.
re: #314 garzooma
Why do election workers have to engage lawyers to protect themselves? Clearly, this is a vital public service that needs to be protected as such.
We’ve entered a new dark age that lawmakers hadn’t anticipated.
re: #312 DodgerFan1988
Government so small that it can’t find the bodies.
good times on the American right https://t.co/4FPSIhtwkN pic.twitter.com/YSSGAt4IIH
— Sam Adler-Bell (@SamAdlerBell) April 17, 2023
re: #226 PhillyPretzel
I remember when that happened. Those astronauts pulled off an incredible return.
Another great accomplishment by Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise, Kevin Bacon, and Ed Harris.
re: #320 The Ghost of a Flea
In a perfect world, Ali will have video of Marj doing lines of coke off Nick Fuentes’ ass while promising to set him up with a high school prom king.
April 17, 2023, 9:07
“Abby Grossberg said in a new sworn statement that she recently found two more recordings on an old cellphone, which she alleges Fox News lawyers failed to search.
The recordings are of phone interviews she participated in with Bartiromo: one with Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and another with two sources who claimed to know about Dominion voter fraud.”
nbcnews.com
re: #324 jaunte
April 17, 2023, 9:07
“Abby Grossberg said in a new sworn statement that she recently found two more recordings on an old cellphone, which she alleges Fox News lawyers failed to search.
The recordings are of phone interviews she participated in with Bartiromo: one with Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and another with two sources who claimed to know about Dominion voter fraud.”
nbcnews.com
Oh…I would love to see Ted Cruz called to the stand as a witness…testifying under oath.
re: #325 darthstar
Oh…I would love to see Ted Cruz called to the stand as a witness…testifying under oath.
Executive Privilege!!!
Thank you for speaking out on behalf of the children. More people should recognize your work, and should Google “Catholic League + children” for more. https://t.co/eUEsFoMiaB
— Eyes on the Right (@EyesOnTheRight) April 17, 2023
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