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re: #221 Dave In Austin
Next, Arizona should pass a bill banning dogs from playing basketball.
— Blue in Red Texas (@RockwallBlue) June 7, 2023
re: #239 silverdolphin
I think similarly. Without compettiton, all animals will expand their populations until they either run out of food or their waste products destroy the habitat. We are in the process of dealing with the latter, I expect many intelligent civilizations fail to get through things like climate changes, etc and fail. Will we? Hope not.
For most species, what will happen if they overconsume is they source of food becomes scarce and their group is reduced in population. We are different in that we can adjust our living conditions - we can move, or switch food sources, or invent new ways of obtaining the food, for example - in order to minimize this. But that same ability can lead people to think that we can overcome everything, or, in some cases, think that something else must be in control. The question does become about whether or not we can do something at this point.
The calls for outright murder and violence against the LGBTQ community and our allies is reaching a fever pitch. I’ve never seen it this bad. It’s completely unchecked. pic.twitter.com/Ainj3hKHYl
— Alejandra Caraballo (@Esqueer_) June 7, 2023
The Veritasium video was really cool and it means there’s something else I want to know. Most of the math I have talked about are infinite length decimal numbers. To actually talk about infinite numbers greater than zero, and to tie them into fractals. So cool.
Watching a UK police series like Cops. They have their own Sovereign Citizens, but they call themselves Freemen of the Land. LOL
re: #5 Captain Ron
Watching a UK police series like Cops. They have their own Sovereign Citizens, but they call themselves Freemen of the Land. LOL
They exist practically everywhere now that has English as a primary language. The ones who have the least tolerance for them are the Aussies on account of two of their own getting killed by a couple of “Freemen” this past year. Now if you try that shit at a traffic stop, they give you one chance to rethink your whole “freer than thou” attitude, then they haul you out and slap cuffs on you.
Seems like some people didn’t learn that “Jews for Hitler” didn’t work out too well:
Gays Against Groomers is celebrating the violence committed by far right extremists. One confirmed Proud Boy participant, Louie Mario Flores, has been present at multiple GAG sponsored protests. pic.twitter.com/24I50tqnCs
— Alejandra Caraballo (@Esqueer_) June 7, 2023
Violent far right anti LGBTQ extremists viciously attacked LGBTQ parents outside of a Glendale, CA schoolboard meeting about recognizing June as pride month.
As usual the police are helping the extremists. pic.twitter.com/xd9dgsQkgp— Alejandra Caraballo (@Esqueer_) June 7, 2023
re: #1 Belafon
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And there are a host of responses from people who accuse Democrats of being pedophiles, based on their taking Kari Lake’s description at face value. Lake is an unprincipled liar who misrepresents every issue. She is working overtime to help destroy our nation.
re: #1 Belafon
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So either you believe the AZ GQP that this bill was meant to address a single incident that was addressed at the administrative level by the teachers losing their jobs after they got caught having sex in a classroom during off-hours, in which case this is bill is an overly-broad attempt that is the legislative equivalent of trying to swat a fly with an RPG.
OR you look at the full bill in the context of the GQP’s efforts in multiple states and see that it was yet another attempt to bind the hands of teachers by scaring the shit out of them with an overly vague law that would make them afraid to recommend any books to their students for fear that a parent mind find “sex” in their pages and send their child’s teacher to prison for 2 1/2 years.
IOW, they’re either guilty of the sort of nanny-state extremism that they regularly accuse Dems of or of trying to further censor the speech of the state’s educators.
I don’t understand why posting to LGF stopped working a few hours ago … test
Now it looks like it’s sort of working. Spy mode is still not updating so I have to manually refresh the page. In regular mode it simply bounces me out to a blank .php page with a single question mark on it.
As for that song I was looking for, Mr. Johnson jogged my memory by posting the Lawrence video up there. The song was another video by Lawrence, “The Weather” (3:12)
re: #13 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I don’t understand why posting to LGF stopped working a few hours ago … test
I didn’t even realize it’d stopped working. I just figured everybody got bored and wandered off in a daze.
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Working only on my phone for me. Read only on my work PC.
It suddenly started working normally on my laptop.
re: #19 Targetpractice
I was promised there would be no math.
That’s what the Veritasium video a couple threads ago was about. I was thoroughly lost about five minutes in.
re: #5 Captain Ron
re: #6 Targetpractice
We have a similar group in Czech Republic: they call themselves “Společenství legitimních věřitelů České republiky”, or “Community of legitimate creditors of Czech Republic”.
It’s Sovereign Citizen BS, translated from English and a few tweaks here and there. They pursue the same tactics, fake IDs, claims that Czechoslovakia was never dissolved, etc., etc.
Non-spy mode is still not working for me.
Who threw a gremlin in the hamster wheel?
It’s 2023, we’re over 3 years past the freak-out point of COVID, over a month since it was treated as officially “over” as a pandemic, yet people still give me confused/dirty looks when told that our hotel does not offer complimentary full cleans more often than once a week.
re: #9 Hecuba’s daughter
And there are a host of responses from people who accuse Democrats of being pedophiles, based on their taking Kari Lake’s description at face value. Lake is an unprincipled liar who misrepresents every issue. She is working overtime to help destroy our nation.
So, a Republican then?
re: #10 Targetpractice
So either you believe the AZ GQP that this bill was meant to address a single incident that was addressed at the administrative level by the teachers losing their jobs after they got caught having sex in a classroom during off-hours, in which case this is bill is an overly-broad attempt that is the legislative equivalent of trying to swat a fly with an RPG.
OR you look at the full bill in the context of the GQP’s efforts in multiple states and see that it was yet another attempt to bind the hands of teachers by scaring the shit out of them with an overly vague law that would make them afraid to recommend any books to their students for fear that a parent mind find “sex” in their pages and send their child’s teacher to prison for 2 1/2 years.
IOW, they’re either guilty of the sort of nanny-state extremism that they regularly accuse Dems of or of trying to further censor the speech of the state’s educators.
Kari Lake lied by omission. The bill does stop people from filming sexually explicit content in classrooms, which happened exactly once (they were fired). If that’s all the bill did, pass it and move on.
But:
Sen. Jake Hoffman, R-Queen Creek, put out a statement earlier this week asking Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs to sign his Senate Bill 1696, which would make it illegal for sexually explicit acts to be filmed or facilitated on property owned, leased or managed by the state or any other government entity in Arizona.
But the bill also stops workers for any government agency in the state from referring minors to sexually explicit materials, which could stop public librarians from referring teens to some classic works of literature and even informative books about reproduction and puberty.
“I think we are in good order to cover both topics at once,” Hoffman said during a Senate Government committee meeting in February. “I don’t want minors in Arizona being exposed to sexually explicit materials.”
What they did with the bill was slip in a book ban so they could use a motte-and-bailey fallacy to defend the bill and smear Democrats.
The bailey: Defending book bans. That is starting to get real pushback and is very hard to defend now.
The motte: Using classrooms to film sexually-explicit material is an easy ban to defend.
If they’re truly concerned about filming porn in classrooms, they could put up a clean bill to ban that. A conservative can’t do that. They must lie about their real purpose. So, the filming ban to cover their real purpose: Ban books.
Was falling into the same trap as yesterday, but guessed better this time for the birbie.
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If Trump is ever successfully prosecuted for J6, the lynchpin of that prosecution was the J6 Committee getting Cassidy Hutchinson to fire Trump’s lawyer and cooperate. That was the first key domino to fall that started everything.
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) June 6, 2023
re: #27 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)
This is when Meadows decided to flip. It was that or prison. pic.twitter.com/bbb8mRNybz
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) June 6, 2023
re: #25 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Kari Lake lied by omission. The bill does stop people from filming sexually explicit content in classrooms, which happened exactly once (they were fired). If that’s all the bill did, pass it and move on.
But:
What they did with the bill was slip in a book ban so they could use a motte-and-bailey fallacy to defend the bill and smear Democrats.
The bailey: Defending book bans. That is starting to get real pushback and is very hard to defend now.
The motte: Using classrooms to film sexually-explicit material is an easy ban to defend.
If they’re truly concerned about filming porn in classrooms, they could put up a clean bill to ban that. A conservative can’t do that. They must lie about their real purpose. So, the filming ban to cover their real purpose: Ban books.
Yeah, I scanned over the text of the bill last night as well as a few other stories about it not coming from the echo chamber Lake links to. And the best the BSAB crowd can offer in defense of a bill that would send teachers to jail for 2 1/2 years for recommending The Great Gatsby is that standard “Oh, they would never do that” bit. You know, because never in the history of the Republic has a prosecutor with an axe to grind and a hard-on for “moral crusades” exploited massive loopholes in the law to go after those they view as “the enemy.”
I was a little amused by the way the first two guesses played out.
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Full-of-shyte criminal libertarian speaks.
US intelligence points to Russia being behind the dam attack. The same people who told you that Russia got Trump elected, Russia blew up NordStream, that the US proxy war in Ukraine was unprovoked Russian aggression and that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation 🤣😂
— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) June 6, 2023
re: #31 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Full-of-shyte criminal libertarian speaks.
The same people who told you that:
* Russia got Trump elected - partially true
* Russia blew up Nordstream - still the most likely explanation
* US proxy war in Ukraine was unprovoked Russian aggression - it’s not a “US proxy war,” but otherwise true
* Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation - unequivocally true
Any questions?
amazon moment pic.twitter.com/TVYooCbAoJ
— internet hall of fame (@InternetH0F) June 7, 2023
An idle thought I just had: The chain of custody of the “Hunter Biden laptop” supposedly goes: Hunter -> John Paul Mac Isaac -> Rudy Giuliani. America’s favorite drunk lawyer spent time sniffing around in Ukraine for Hunter Biden secrets and was fed lots of stuff that looks, for all intents and purposes, like it came from Russian disinformation. (Now currently the subject of Congressional clown James Comer’s contempt of Congress motion.) It is also, according to independent computer forensics experts, impossible to determine what was originally on the laptop’s hard drive image and what has been manipulated or outright invented. Could that have originated with Rudy, or rather one of his tech-savvy Russian connections, to attempt to plant incriminating information on a device whose provenance could be plausibly linked to the President’s son?
Ladies. Find yourself a man who will love you as much as Congressman PatMyHead loves seeing himself in a TV studio monitor. https://t.co/OkiOhsWOSy
— PoliticOhMyGawd (@PoliticOhMyGawd) June 6, 2023
re: #35 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
How can anyone say, with a straight face, that the Republican Party is in favor of “positive economic changes” when they literally just tried to tank the US economy? That is not what a party of fiscal responsibility does. They can argue until they’re blue in the face about “limiting government spending,” but that is a shell game; those negotiations belong in the budget bill, not in determining the fate of the full faith and credit of the United States. But what am I saying? Congressman Donalds doesn’t actually believe a word of what he just wrote. He is just parroting the party line because that’s all that’s in his empty head. He is a well-conditioned biological robot.
A racist in Hyannis, MA threatens to kill a Black man and hurls racial slurs at him pic.twitter.com/XfyJatQPEB
— Marjorie Gaylor Queen 🏳️🌈 (@Tim_Tweeted) June 6, 2023
So I have been having the same problems with posting that Anymouse reported. It does not work. I am assuming thet Great Leader will magically fix it with hopefully little work.
When I click “Post it, I get a blank page. And several other buttons do nothing. like “Preview”, “Reply” and “Quote”. I also could not change state of “not subscribed”. But the “+/-” button worked. This was on iOS and Mac using Safari and Firefox.
Spy mode seems to work, though. Thanks, Anymouse.
(Correction: add two zeroes to the Y axis. Most recent month is *190* billion, not 1.9 billion.)
Fixed version: pic.twitter.com/JeQVQRZTMn— Steven Rattner (@SteveRattner) June 6, 2023
re: #34 Nerdy Fish
An idle thought I just had: The chain of custody of the “Hunter Biden laptop” supposedly goes: Hunter -> John Paul Mac Isaac -> Rudy Giuliani. America’s favorite drunk lawyer spent time sniffing around in Ukraine for Hunter Biden secrets and was fed lots of stuff that looks, for all intents and purposes, like it came from Russian disinformation. (Now currently the subject of Congressional clown James Comer’s contempt of Congress motion.) It is also, according to independent computer forensics experts, impossible to determine what was originally on the laptop’s hard drive image and what has been manipulated or outright invented. Could that have originated with Rudy, or rather one of his tech-savvy Russian connections, to attempt to plant incriminating information on a device whose provenance could be plausibly linked to the President’s son?
I think wha you speculate is very much true- Guiliani wasusing Russian psyops. Because, as I understand it, the supposed “informant” complaint that the GOP-led committee is going after Wray for was apparently also brought over from Russia in a tranch of material from Rudy.
A group of biochemical engineers, Siavash Ahrar, Manasi Raje, Irene Lee and Elliot Hui at the University of California, Irvine, has developed a finite state machine (FSM) implemented as a pneumatic circuit using microfluidic valves to build a lab-on-a-chip. Their work is published in the journal Science Advances.Over the past several years, biochemical and mechanical engineers have been working toward the goal of automating many of the chemical process that are currently done by hand—trained lab technicians using pipettes to determine the concentration of a chemical dissolved in a liquid, for example. Automating such tasks would not only make them less expensive, it could speed things up, potentially offering medical lab results in minutes rather than hours. To that end, engineers have been working toward building what they call a lab-on-a-chip. In this new effort, the research team has applied pneumatics to the problem.
Many chemical processes involve the movement of liquids. The researchers sought to use water pressure instead of electricity when building circuits for use on a potential lab-on-a-chip. They created a tiny sandwich comprising panes of glass as the bread and a sheet of silicone as the interior. But before making their sandwich, they etched the glass panes to allow a liquid to pass through and poked holes in the silicone sheet to connect the channels in the glass panes.
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Finite state machine implemented as pneumatic circuit using microfluidic valves to create lab-on-a-chip (Physics, June 5, 2023)
re: #39 Belafon
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I went to the actual source of the data to see real numbers. The April 2023 numbers are over twice as much as the previous high in 2015. And hey are up about 2.5 times from when Biden took over. This is more than just a little thing.
Morning Lizards.
Good. pic.twitter.com/QeWLKgUsBX
— Michele: 🏳️⚧️ Out of the closet. Into the fire (@michele_out) June 7, 2023
re: #28 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)
This is when Meadows decided to flip. It was that or prison. pic.twitter.com/bbb8mRNybz
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) June 6, 2023
I fully suspect that Meadows got immunity or a deal before he did any flipping. Prosecuting him also in the huge mess might be problematic if they wanted to get Trump also.
They need to take it to the “tipper’s” church and drop it in their collection plate.
I remember this happening to me when I waited tables too, and the stingiest tippers were the Sunday after-church customers. https://t.co/RVUQvNYthr
— Godless Liz 😇 (@GodlessLiz) June 6, 2023
re: #47 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
They need to take it to the “tipper’s” church and drop it in their collection plate.
I HATED that shit. Even as a deeply zealous evangelical Christian teenager, I understood how rude and un-Christian it was to pretend to leave a nice tip and for it to turn out to be a cheap attempt at proselytizing.
re: #47 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Memories of the 60s when the Birch Churchers would leave Chick tracts at restaurant tables instead of tips.
re: #49 Joe Bacon ✅
Memories of the 60s when the Birch Churches would leave Chick tracts at restaurant tables instead of tips.
They still do that. Even now, Sunday afternoon is the worst time to work a restaurant job, because the post-church Christian socialites tip the least of any social group.
Bye Chris. May you wind up the same way as Navin Johnson.
CNN boss Chris Licht out of a job amid backlash over Trump town hall
CNN boss Chris Licht is reportedly out of a job after suffering weeks’ worth of backlash internally for the network’s highly criticized town hall featuring former President Donald Trump.
“Warner Bros. Discovery will announce that Licht will be stepping down as chairman and CEO of CNN” within the next 48 hours.
Byers notes that the CNN Trump town hall combined with a less-than-flattering profile of Licht in The Atlantic led to “the near-total decimation of staff morale” and left Licht with few defenders at the network.
re: #50 Nerdy Fish
They still do that. Even now, Sunday afternoon is the worst time to work a restaurant job, because the post-church Christian socialites tip the least of any social group.
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— rural hell (@bizarroluke) June 6, 2023
re: #50 Nerdy Fish
They still do that. Even now, Sunday afternoon is the worst time to work a restaurant job, because the post-church Christian socialites tip the least of any social group.
All the while spouting off about donating more to charity more than anyone else.
re: #53 Dave In Austin
All the while spouting off about donating more to charity more than anyone else.
“But when you give, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.”
re: #54 Nerdy Fish
“But when you give, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.”
Indeed! But I won’t speak of it here.
Southern Poverty Law Center, June 5, 2023
Documents Reveal ADF Requested Anti-Trans Research From American College of Pediatricians
Between Sept. 30 and Dec. 1, 2014, ADF sent letters to school boards in Minnesota, Rhode Island, Virginia and Wisconsin warning that they could be open to litigation for policies allowing transgender students to use appropriate facilities such as bathrooms and locker rooms. On Dec. 5, 2014, ADF sent an email with a similar message to school superintendents across the U.S. The letters and emails were signed by Jeremy D. Tedesco, then senior counsel at ADF, now vice president of corporate engagement, responsible for “efforts to combat corporate cancel culture.”
In a November 2014 blog post decrying a transgender-inclusive nondiscrimination ordinance in Houston, Texas, then-ADF president Alan Sears highlighted the letters and ADF’s campaign against LGBTQ+ nondiscrimination protections. Sears also repeated an anti-LGBTQ+ trope claiming that nondiscrimination protections put children at risk and the “safety implications” of LGBTQ+ nondiscrimination laws “are so obvious as to hardly need elaboration.”
The only problem for Sears and Tedesco was a lack of evidence to support their claims; and, to make the claims stick, someone needed to elaborate. A new trove of internal documents from the American College of Pediatricians suggests ADF turned to the group known to traffic in anti-LGBTQ+ “junk science” to “substantiate” many of its anti-LGBTQ+ talking points and provide medical justification for interpreting Title IX to exclude gender-identity protections. Together, the documents offer insight into how the groups manufactured legislative, legal and public relations challenges to medical science and public policy throughout the 2010s that have resulted in a rollback of abortion rights and nearly unprecedented restrictions on bodily autonomy in the U.S.
ACPeds did not respond to a emailed request for comment on Hatewatch’s findings.
Ah. It’s Friday at 5 pm for me😉
A Guinness and a tot of Famous Grouse after a six night stretch is a fine thing right now. My PC can’t post but the phone still works.
Las Vegas Needs to Save Water. It Won’t Find It in Lawns.
As millions of newcomers have flocked to the Las Vegas Valley over the past 50 years, every level of government in the nation’s driest state has worked to ensure that water shortages don’t stop the growth.
Since 1999, southern Nevada has ripped out thousands of acres of turf from lawns, sports fields and roadway medians under the West’s most ambitious grass-removal program. These efforts helped halve the amount of water each resident consumed and freed up enough for Clark County to add nearly 1 million people.
Now, the valley is again looking to grass removal to continue growing without increasing its overall water use. In 2021, the Nevada Legislature passed a first-of-its-kind law mandating the elimination of “nonfunctional turf,” defined as grass that is decorative and rarely used. The Southern Nevada Water Authority promised this would do away with 3,900 acres of grass (roughly 3,000 football fields) within six years.
And it’s not enough.
re: #59 dat_said
Your random trivia for the day post. The Bakken oil boom in ND peaked in 2012. Apparently enough young families stayed in western ND that the average age has dropped compared to “comparable” prairie states.
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My niece and her family moved there from Phx. Still there. He’s a precision specialty welder.
re: #58 William Lewis
Ah. It’s Friday at 5 pm for me😉
A Guinness and a tot of Famous Grouse after a six night stretch is a fine thing right now. My PC can’t post but the phone still works.
Tomorrow is the last day of the school year for my daughter, which means no more early mornings for my wife until fall. I imagine we will be in a similarly celebratory mood.
re: #63 Joe Bacon ✅
‘How do you explain defying a subpoena?’ CNN hosts put former Trump lawyer on the spot for classified docs
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One thing that’s always gotten me is the whole, “I’m defying this subpoena because executive privilege,” argument. That’s not how it works. You take it to court, get an injunction, and THEN you can argue executive privilege. If you can’t muster up an injunction based on your arguments about executive privilege, then you have no business defying the subpoena.
To the surprise of absolutely no one…
The Turkish lira tumbled to a fresh record low Wednesday, extending its slide against the U.S. dollar since President Recep Tayyip Erdogan started his third term.
The decline took the currency’s loss since the appointment of Erdogan’s new government to more than 8%. The currency has weakened by around 20% since the start of the year.
Analysts say Erdogan’s government propped up the lira in the run-up to Turkey’s presidential and parliamentary elections last month, using foreign currency reserves to keep the exchange rate under control.
Zaslav fires Licht for doing what Zaslav told him to do at CNN, which was disastrous.
re: #61 Dave In Austin
My niece and her family moved there from Phx. Still there. He’s a precision specialty welder.
You should visit them the third week of January and then again on the third week of August so you can have a chance to experience 150 degree F temperature range.
One year in college at Fargo I went for a run when it was colder than 40 below (both in C and F) just because. Later that summer it got to 105 F in Bismarck so I thought I’d go for a short run just because how cool would it be to say I ran on days with over 150 degree temperature range. I lasted about a mile in the 105 - seemed like I could literally see the water being sucked out of me. The 40-some below was a piece of cake.
re: #66 No Malarkey!
Zaslav fires Licht for doing what Zaslav told him to do at CNN, which was disastrous.
As we used to say in the Cavalry “Sucks to be you.”
re: #66 No Malarkey!
Zaslav fires Licht for doing what Zaslav told him to do at CNN, which was disastrous.
So the big boss gets to get away with it, and the little boss gets a golden parachute to inflict his stupidity on someone else. And then they’ll just bring in a new little boss to do the same thing, but less blatantly stupid.
re: #58 William Lewis
Ah. It’s Friday at 5 pm for me😉
A Guinness and a tot of Famous Grouse after a six night stretch is a fine thing right now. My PC can’t post but the phone still works.
It’s 8:03 AM here, and I’m busy with coffee and Tia Maria.
re: #66 No Malarkey!
Zaslav fires Licht for doing what Zaslav told him to do at CNN, which was disastrous.
Rich bastards always have fall guys.
re: #71 Nerdy Fish
So the big boss gets to get away with it, and the little boss gets a golden parachute to inflict his stupidity on someone else. And then they’ll just bring in a new little boss to do the same thing, but less blatantly stupid.
New boss.
re: #57 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
ADF in that post is the anti-LGBT+ and anti-abortion group Alliance Defending Freedom.
It is not the Anti-Defamation League, which does not support this sort of hate legislation.
Susan Lorincz, the 58-year-old white woman who shot through her front door last week and killed Ajike “AJ” Owens, a Black mother of four, has been arrested on charges of manslaughter with a firearm, culpable negligence, battery and two counts of assault.https://t.co/4iOwpue1VB
— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) June 7, 2023
re: #76 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
ADF in that post is the anti-LGBT+ and anti-abortion group Alliance Defending Freedom.
It is not the Anti-Defamation League, which does not support this sort of hate legislation.
I did have to click through to figure out what “ADF” meant, since I assumed on the face of it that it was not the Anti-Defamation League, but your snippet did not provide sufficient context. This ADF is also the same bunch of fuckwits that opposed vaccine mandates with the help of the so-called Frontline Doctors group or whatever their full name was, right?
Christie isn’t going to be the GOP nominee, put if he brings this energy to a debate stage it will make good television.
I think Christie and Trump on the debate stage together is going to be fun to watch.
— Slava Ukrayini! (@aagcobb1) June 7, 2023
re: #64 Nerdy Fish
One thing that’s always gotten me is the whole, “I’m defying this subpoena because executive privilege,” argument. That’s not how it works. You take it to court, get an injunction, and THEN you can argue executive privilege. If you can’t muster up an injunction based on your arguments about executive privilege, then you have no business defying the subpoena.
The ever-present IOKIYAR
re: #79 No Malarkey!
Christie isn’t going to be the GOP nominee, put if he brings this energy to a debate stage it will make good television.
Needz moar shivs.
re: #77 Belafon
Marion County Sheriff Billy Woods said that Susan Lorincz shooting Ajike Owens was not a stand your ground case but “simply a killing.” pic.twitter.com/oPpvKkFkhM
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) June 7, 2023
re: #82 Backwoods Sleuth
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re: #26 TarHellion
Was falling into the same trap as yesterday, but guessed better this time for the birbie.
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Now we see if a jury lets her go when she says she was afraid of her neighbor.
Women are not generally protected by murder-your-neighbour stand-your-ground laws. See the woman who was jailed in Jacksonville for firing a “warning shot” which hurt no one, because her ex-hub tried to break down her door when she had a restraining order against him.
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re: #89 Dave In Austin
So say we all!
I’ve given Charles pointers on what seems to be amiss, let’s see if he finds it.
The ‘New Comments’ button doesn’t work, but the ‘Auto’ checkbox does! Better than Spy and Master Spy!
Huh. Dead Junebug on the floor. Not sure how it got in the house. The cat is certainly confused by it!
I’m reminded of the old wize crack about how God must love beetles because he made so many of them…. 😎
re: #51 Joe Bacon ✅
…..
CNN boss Chris Licht out of a job amid backlash over Trump town hall
….
Byers notes that the CNN Trump town hall combined with a less-than-flattering profile of Licht in The Atlantic led to “the near-total decimation of staff morale” and left Licht with few defenders at the network.
The town hall itself should have been sufficient for immediate dismissal — especially given his efforts to defend what happened. And to force others to defend him publicly.
re: #92 William Lewis
Huh. Dead Junebug on the floor. Not sure how it got in the house. The cat is certainly confused by it!
I’m reminded of the old wize crack about how God must love beetles because he made so many of them…. 😎
That was a bon mot from J.B.S. Haldane, a British geneticist—the actual phrase is “inordinate fondness for beetles.” And yeah, there are a LOT of beetles out there.
And how do we start the day off?
Coworker restored a classic Edsel and it’s her pride and joy…she wakes up and the car is stolen…
I am using Edge from a Windows PC (no Spy Mode) and seem to be able to post the usual way.
How sad for Chris Licht.
Somebody should have warned him, ETTD.
America’s mainstream media still wants to save the GOP — but that’s impossible
By RICH LOGIS
As a former Trump supporter and hardcore Republican, I’m here to say: Give up on rescuing the GOP. Kill it instead
Why is the centrist and center-left press more preoccupied with saving the Republican Party than are the GOP itself and its politically traumatizing right-wing media?
Who do I mean by the centrist and center-left press? For instance, the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Atlantic, all organizations employ adult journalists and columnists. Hell, let’s throw in CNN.
Here are some recent examples, which should be considered in-kind contributions to the national Republican Party:
Washington Post: “Republican 2024 contenders are doing it all wrong”
Post again: “Vivek Ramaswamy knows the trick to winning Republican votes”
Here are two articles on former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, latest entrant in the 2024 race. They have undoubtedly endowed him with more national visibility than have his own media appearances and tough-guy, anti-Trump talk:
New York Times: “The Chris Christie Scenario”
Post: “Chris Christie is not in it to win it. His task is more important”
With no disrespect to Kaitlan Collins, I’ve yet to hear any cogent journalistic justification for CNN’s disastrous Trump town hall last month. But, hey, ratings: Maybe the method by which to save America from a second Trump term is to give him prime-time slots to lie, prevaricate and vent self-pity. I wonder whether CNN thought its mini-Waco might turn off enough Republican primary voters to reject Trump, in the interests of salvaging the party of Lincoln
re: #97 sagehen
How sad for Chris Licht.
Somebody should have warned him, ETTD.
I read the Atlantic article; he was very sure he knew how to handle Trump. I don’t know how a guy who has had a lot of success in television didn’t understand that putting Trump on live in a studio packed with his rabid supporters was going to be a disaster.
re: #94 mmmirele
That was a bon mot from J.B.S. Haldane, a British geneticist—the actual phrase is “inordinate fondness for beetles.” And yeah, there are a LOT of beetles out there.
Ah yes I remember that now, thank you! He was a font of many such quips. 😉
It amuses me Christie thinks he’s going to somehow make hay by telling Republicans the truth about Donald Trump.
A year from now he’ll be all dickless Reek Cruz phone banking for Trump from some rundown strip mall in Trenton. https://t.co/8bURJnuBiq pic.twitter.com/DXfreWIPsq— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) June 7, 2023
#96 made me curious. Logged in via edge here on windows 10 and no joy. Only edge on my android 11 phone works for me.
So this floated by in a chat:
.@zerohedge has been quoted 597 times by RussiaToday; often within minutes of publication. Surely a coincidence.
— Christo Grozev (@christogrozev) February 26, 2016
No surprise here considering who his father is.
Spreading Russian propaganda is a family trade for them. pic.twitter.com/AyGeModtoR— Tioduro 🇧🇬🇺🇦 (@SomniNaut) May 27, 2023
Just look at what the Father of the found of zero hedge publishes.
(the father was a Soviet Journalist and official)
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. pic.twitter.com/7VARecOA0U— zerk (@gkq4szjbwj) May 27, 2023
re: #96 Eclectic Cyborg
I am using Edge from a Windows PC (no Spy Mode) and seem to be able to post the usual way.
Edge is working for me as well - Windows PC
re: #104 jeffreyw
Edge is working for me as well - Windows PC
I’m using Firefox, doesn’t work, JS error.
re: #105 Teukka
I’m using Firefox, doesn’t work, JS error.
Same here, FF and Chrome are borked - Spy works in FF
re: #106 jeffreyw
Same here, FF and Chrome are borked - Spy works in FF
I’ve been using Chrome on Windows all morning from Spy with no issues.
re: #101 Backwoods Sleuth
It wouldn’t surprise me if all the establishment Republicans fall in line to “support the nominee” when Trump clinches the nomination, even if by then he is a convicted felon. Will any GOP office holder besides Mitt Romney publicly state he is not supporting the nominee?
Regular edge, updated to latest release, not working here on my PC either. I could try Brave I suppose but it’s just another chrome clone.
re: #79 No Malarkey!
Christie isn’t going to be the GOP nominee, put if he brings this energy to a debate stage it will make good television.
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Christie is articulate, vicious, and knowledgeable about policies and governing. He may not be a good person but he is far better than either Trump or DeSantis.
Spy “works” I guess, but I have never been able to tolerate using it so… < Shrug >
North Dakota Gov Doug Burgum announces bid for White House today.
Probably considered a moderate GOP but he’s put out a bio video where one of the first things he says is a tired old dad joke about something like the only time we used the word woke was when we had to get up at 5 am to work the farm. Lots of typical GOP talk about taxes too high and too many regulations that hurt business, all spoken with beautiful video of unspoiled western North Dakota badlands. He also does a version of drill baby drill.
I can see how his bio appeals to NDans - local farm boy goes off to big Stanford but comes back and mortgages the family farm so he can create Great Plains SW and sell it to Microsoft to become a true billionaire. They loves them that come back to ND. Of course, he doesn’t stand much of a chance. He’s likely entering the race to raise his public profile and maybe get a cabinet spot in Energy or Agriculture.
re: #86 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Women are not generally protected by
murder-your-neighbourstand-your-ground laws. See the woman who was jailed in Jacksonville for firing a “warning shot” which hurt no one, because her ex-hub tried to break down her door when she had a restraining order against him.
You mean black women, don’t you?
re: #111 Hecuba’s daughter
Christie is articulate, vicious, and knowledgeable about policies and governing. He may not be a good person but he is far better than either Trump or DeSantis.
And I have never felt he actively hated the nation or our people, no matter how much we would be opposed in how to govern. That alone makes him a better man.
re: #114 Eclectic Cyborg
Who?
/
See? He’s already raised his public profile. You didn’t even know his name and now you’re asking “Who?”
/s
OK: let’s try Spy Mode and see if I can post
UPDATE: Yay!!
Since this morning, I’ve been unable to:
*”Jump to bottom”
*Refresh Comments
*Post comments
*”Reply” or “Quote”
on all my devices (HP desktop/Chrome, iPad, iPhone)
Master Spy just woke. Comments and updings coming through.
re: #119 🔧-wench
Master Spy just woke. Comments and updings coming through.
Somewhere, Ron Desantis sheds a tear.
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re: #116 William Lewis
And I have never felt he actively hated the nation or our people, no matter how much we would be opposed in how to govern. That alone makes him a better man.
He is, however, the guy who hired people who thought it was appropriate to create a massive traffic jam on a bridge as political retaliation.
re: #63 Joe Bacon ✅
News shows need to quit booking this lawyer. He lies about what he does know, contributes nothing; completely full of Parlatore.
re: #122 No Malarkey!
He is, however, the guy who hired people who thought it was appropriate to create a massive traffic jam on a bridge as political retaliation.
Agreed. He’s still better than Quisling45 even with that fact.
re: #124 William Lewis
Agreed. He’s still better than Quisling45 even with that fact.
I mean, that’s a pretty low bar, to be fair.
re: #115 Hecuba’s daughter
You mean black women, don’t you?
White women have less protection as well. White women have a place, but it isn’t protection from white men. We live in conservative hell.
Testing …
New York’s air quality is among the worst in the world’s major cities today 🇺🇸💨
🇨🇦 Smoke from Canadian wildfires is blanketing the city in haze
⚠️ New Yorkers recommended to limit outdoor activity to the greatest extent possiblehttps://t.co/Tk6VfbJs94 pic.twitter.com/QAPAj92l7e— Stephen Stapczynski (@SStapczynski) June 7, 2023
Not working PC-Chrome or my I-Phone. Just spy mode.
re: #127 ckkatz
Testing …
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Smelling the fires here in Northern NJ.
Returning to the normal climes of sofla this pm.
(kindle fire, chrome, no problem)
Clips show Florida GOP Reps. @AlinaGarcia and Rick Roth trying to convince Hispanic religious leaders that new immigration law isn’t meant to send current workers packing
Reporting by @AnneBocahttps://t.co/mdvkI4HPml#FlaPol— Florida Politics (@Fla_Pol) June 7, 2023
Farmer-face Eating Leopard Party:
Video clips now making the rounds on social media show Republican Reps. Alina Garcia and Rick Roth speaking to those assembled at a Hialeah meeting with the Asociación de Ministros hispanos del Sur de La Florida (Hispanic Ministers Association of South Florida)
The lawmakers said the new law is meant “more as a political bill, not policy.” And it’s meant to keep undocumented migrants from coming to Florida — not to affect those who are already here.
But the bad publicity about the law is already having an effect, Roth said.
“I’m a farmer and the farmers are mad as hell,” said Roth, who grows vegetables, sugarcane, rice, sweet corn, celery, lettuce and radishes in Palm Beach County. “They (workers) are already starting to move to Georgia and other states.”
Yup, spy mode, FireFox, win 10 PC seems to work.
Many thanks to those who figured that out!
DC is also under pollution warning due to the smoke.
plotting revenge on canada pic.twitter.com/U65uNLokWV
— alex (@alex_abads) June 7, 2023
re: #125 Nerdy Fish
I mean, that’s a pretty low bar, to be fair.
Its kind of amazing that a crime boss who also attempted to violently overthrow the US government and may have sold highly classified documents to foreign powers is the standard by which GOP politicians are measured.
Be mad as hell if taxpayers have to bail out Rick Roth from his bigotry.
re: #132 ckkatz
Obligatory:
In all seriousness though, there’s a bunch of Canadian cities getting fucked up by this too (Including areas where my mother, brother and his family and my best friends live).
Just got off the phone with the bike store, last week a metal bar on the frame of my bike (Pedego Interceptor) broke. More of a nuisance than anything as it made a loud squeaking sound. Well, that run of my bike that I bought 3.5 years ago had issues, and I was out of warranty (they have since made the bike warranty 5 years), but….the frame is warranted for life. After much wrangling (my sister and brother in law own a franchise for Pedego), the company is giving me a new bike! Better yet, its a new gen model, the controller is better, the hub motor is 750 watt, it has hydraulic brakes, upgraded 7 speed shifter. Only bad thing is that I can’t choose the color, so, instead of mineral blue, it is black. I can live with that. I’ve been riding my old bike (Comfort Cruiser) which has 36 volt battery vs 52 volt on the other one, it works, just much less torque, no suspension seat, no pedal assist, no speedometer/odometer, and no built in light. I put over 9000 miles on the bike that broke and was looking to upgrade, thanks to metal fatigue it didn’t cost me anything. THIS is why when you buy a bike, you do it from a local brick and mortar store. And it helps when you are related to the owner…LOL
re: #135 Eclectic Cyborg
Obligatory:
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In all seriousness though, there’s a bunch of Canadian cities getting fucked up by this too (Including areas where my mother, brother and his family and my best friends live).
Maybe its not due to climate change, but this is exactly the kind of thig you would expect to happen due to climate change.
re: #135 Eclectic Cyborg
Obligatory:
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In all seriousness though, there’s a bunch of Canadian cities getting fucked up by this too (Including areas where my mother, brother and his family and my best friends live).
Yes!
It is frustrating to see maps where the smoke suddenly appears on the US side of the border, but the smoke clouds in Canada aren’t shown.
IKR? They’re recycling the discredited Russian aligned Ukrainian Disinformation Op against Biden in 2020!😂🤣
An agent of Russia! pic.twitter.com/5VCfUAHmB3— SVTaylor💙☘️🥁🐝🇺🇲 (@sharonvt75) June 7, 2023
What is going on here? Why don’t the buttons work?
re: #138 jeffreyw
Jon Hamm is an amnesiac archangel lost in Soho in Good Omens S2 trailer
David Tennant and Michael Sheen had so much chemistry the first season but it did not have enough Hamm. There was also a whole mythology thing that had to be dealt with. This season loks like it could be even more fun.
re: #141 The Pie Overlord!
What is going on here? Why don’t the buttons work?
I think that Teukka mentioned he was getting JavaScript errors. He also mentioned that he was in contact with our esteemed host.
RESPECT THE LEGEND FOREVER 😢 pic.twitter.com/Cr6CC9pXSO
— The Iron Sheik (@the_ironsheik) June 7, 2023
Anymouse posted:
(5:30. Your Navy training sailors on what to expect with native foods.)
Wow that was racist AF.
re: #141 The Pie Overlord!
What is going on here? Why don’t the buttons work?
Try spy mode, one of the hamsters got caught in the wheel.
Overall, real (inflation-adjusted) incomes have increased over the past 2 year.
But certain highly salient categories (like food, cars, and housing) have outrun income growth, leaving consumers frustrated — and feeling poorer. @Morning_Joe pic.twitter.com/mCPOHpsnlv— Steven Rattner (@SteveRattner) June 7, 2023
The reason that economic factors failed to help HRC and failed to punish Trump is that polarization has replaced its predictive power. All of these metrics now measure latent partisanship, ESP
among the more hyperpartisan Republicans and right leaning indies. @SteveRattner https://t.co/SIm5SLvoHN— Rachel Bitecofer 📈🔭🇺🇲🇺🇦 (@RachelBitecofer) June 7, 2023
Hoarse is having fun. Or at least that is what I think it is that he is having…
.
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Nothing. Just a dull sun rising over an apocalyptic hellscape. pic.twitter.com/uW8j0lUW97
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) June 7, 2023
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New Jersey smells like it is on fire. Smoke from Canadian wildfires is blotting out the sun. And cell service is going in and out.
I’m sure it’s fine.— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) June 6, 2023
re: #138 jeffreyw
Jon Hamm is an amnesiac archangel lost in Soho in Good Omens S2 trailer
Oh, fuck, those little bastards at Amazon just got my prime money locked up, didn’t they?
re: #128 Dave In Austin
Not working PC-Chrome or my I-Phone. Just spy mode.
On spy now. The thread doesn’t work on my iphone or meet windows computer using edge or chrome.
Let’s see if this works.
Hi, y’all!
A month ago, my old BF in Portland sent an article about an old apartment building near downtown burning. Yesterday, I saw a different article about the same fire, and realized it’s the building he and I moved into when we moved to Portland from California in 1982. Confirmed by email.
re: #149 No Malarkey!
Can vouch for the “feeling poorer” thing. I got a small raise this year, but everything costs so much more now that I actually have LESS disposable income than I did before.
re: #133 No Malarkey!
Its kind of amazing that a crime boss who also attempted to violently overthrow the US government and may have sold highly classified documents to foreign powers is the standard by which GOP politicians are measured.
Ffs I’ll be pissed if this comment doesnt land in 40-50 up votes territory
Interesting observation -
This is entirely right.
Tucker Carlson’s credibility came from the fact that he was on TV as one of only a few people with their own show.
Now he’s just a dude on the internet. https://t.co/CbfAsAt3RV— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) June 7, 2023
re: #143 William Lewis
Current mood. Pretty close copy. Still fun.
If you want to play that song, *this* is the video to use.
As Canada burns, some good news.
More on why the battery storage market is growing so quickly in my latest newsletter: https://t.co/6T9PiXNsZ2
— Michael Thomas (@curious_founder) June 7, 2023
BBC, British Airways and Boots issued with ultimatum by cyber gang https://t.co/BJ3Dmv2cIM
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) June 7, 2023
re: #157 sagehen
If you want to play that song, *this* is the video to use.
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Going to have to watch that show someday.
re: #154 Eclectic Cyborg
Can vouch for the “feeling poorer” thing. I got a small raise this year, but everything costs so much more now that I actually have LESS disposable income than I did before.
Yeah but without the raise you’d have even more less. ;-)
One day we’ll reckon with the fact that America started wars in Afghanistan & Iraq to avenge an attack orchestrated by Saudi Arabia and when future generations ask why we didn’t just attack Saudi Arabia we can threaten them with revoking their scholarship to MBS-Yale University.
— Jay Kirell (@JasonKirell) June 7, 2023
My wife told me that the air quality was really bad in NH a couple of days ago. I checked today and it’s mostly good now. Looks like the smoke is going straight south over upstate NY down through Delaware into Jersey.
re: #163 The Pie Overlord!
Alright this one sucked.
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IMHO, any score 6 and below doesn’t suck. Sevens suck.
Yours looks a lot like mine.
“The UK Cabinet Office will tell central government departments to remove all surveillance equipment made by Chinese companies including Dahua and Hikvision from sensitive sites in an attempt to limit potential intelligence-gathering by Beijing”
https://t.co/lZxVhPTI2B— Shashank Joshi (@shashj) June 6, 2023
This has been getting a lot of play. It provides a theory of the targeting intention during the drone attack on Moscow last week.
“A senior U.S. official and a congressional staffer with knowledge of the matter said the drone strikes appeared aimed at what were believed to be the Moscow residences of Russian intelligence officers…” https://t.co/8yftjbqogK
— Shashank Joshi (@shashj) June 6, 2023
re: #161 William Lewis
Going to have to watch that show someday.
There’s 15 seasons, more than 300 episodes. Time enough for EVERYBODY to be in it.
writing is good for most of those seasons, acting is almost uniformly excellent. Also, the cinematography is a love letter to America (and muscle cars).
re: #169 sagehen
There’s 15 seasons, more than 300 episodes. Time enough for EVERYBODY to be in it.
writing is good for most of those seasons, acting is almost uniformly excellent. Also, the cinematography is a love letter to America (and muscle cars).
Heard lots of good things about it but have never been in a place to watch it. Hopefully sometime.
Founder of “Protect Our Kids First” arrested for allegedly downloading child sex abuse material
Meanwhile, right-wingers continually accuse LGBTQ+ people, drag performers, and their allies of being “pedophiles” and “groomers.”
Michael Dolce, a 53-year-old lawyer known for representing child sexual abuse survivors, was recently arrested by FBI agents at his West Palm Beach, Florida home.
Dolce, who founded a group called Protect Our Kids First Inc., was allegedly laying in his bed and downloading sexually explicit images of children when agents broke down his front door.
According to an FBI affidavit, after Dolce’s March 15 arrest, agents found 1,997 images and five videos of child pornography on his computer. The images were of male and female children ages five to 12, including several of a prepubescent girl in a subfolder titled “Sweet Pedo Stars.” Dolce could receive a minimum of 20 years in prison if found guilty of possessing child pornography.
re: #171 Joe Bacon ✅
It’s amazing how predictable these people are.
Heartbreaking….
More power to all you rescuers…..— jyothidatta (@jo_da123) June 7, 2023
re: #171 Joe Bacon ✅
“The phone calls pedophiles are coming from inside the house!”
Sen. Dick Blumenthal said: “There’s an ongoing Department of Justice investigation, I would intensify it and focus not only on the anti-trust issues, but also on the potential foreign registration questions.”
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) June 7, 2023
Mrs. Fish and I had a vigorous debate on this, but on one thing, we agreed: The poor bear is absolutely caught in the middle.
Did Bear No. 119 violate the 4th Amendment when a state agency attached a camera to him, and he then filmed the interior of a private family home? A seemingly silly case with potentially un-bearable implications! https://t.co/o0YF1rJRNp
— Ilya Somin (@IlyaSomin) June 6, 2023
Russian occupied town -
re: #173 Captain Ron
All the animals died in Nova Kakhovka Zoo 💔
It completely went under water, only swans and ducks managed to escape @UAnimalsENG #StopEcocideUkraine#RussiaIsATerroristState pic.twitter.com/7X0UOSsJlM— MFA of Ukraine 🇺🇦 (@MFA_Ukraine) June 6, 2023
re: #177 Nerdy Fish
Mrs. Fish and I had a vigorous debate on this, but on one thing, we agreed: The poor bear is absolutely caught in the middle.
It is an unbearable violation of the constitution and his location has nothing to do with his innocence.
😱😇
re: #177 Nerdy Fish
Interesting case. Apparently, the agency that used the bear knew it frequented the property of the person alleging the violation and used the animal for specifically that reason (to surveil the property).
Experts: VDARE’s Real Estate Deals May Cost Group Nonprofit Status (Southern Poverty Law Center, May 24, 2023)
Let me see if I can muster up some sympathy for Peter Brimelow.
Nope. Sorry asshole.
The VDARE Foundation, a nonprofit based in New York that leading white nationalist activist Peter Brimelow founded in 2008, purchased the castle for $1.4 million in February 2020. The foundation serves as an umbrella organization for VDARE’s website, which it claims is a nonprofit journalistic outlet but consists of anti-immigrant and white nationalist posts. The hate group used donations for the purchase, according to court documents.
Public tax filings known as 990s show VDARE’s donations soared from $500,672 in 2018 to $4,258,309 in 2019. DonorsTrust, a nonprofit used as a “dark money ATM” for certain charities, donated $1.5 million to VDARE in 2019, DonorsTrust’s 990 shows. According to documents in the lawsuit docket, VDARE deeded the entirety of the castle property to two entities: a nonprofit called the Berkeley Castle Foundation and a for-profit limited liability company (LLC) called BBB. BBB paid VDARE $310,000 for its section of the property, according to the deed.
BCF paid VDARE $10 for the land it received in the deed. In that deed, the hate group cited West Virginia law which it claimed means “the transfer is exempt from the excise tax as a transfer between like nonprofit corporations having the same or similar purposes.” Another real estate deal called a deed of trust; security agreement and fixture filing, shows VDARE lent BCF $1,081,660.77 for the purchase of the castle property. Hatewatch obtained the document from the Morgan County, West Virginia, property search site.
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re: #180 Eclectic Cyborg
Interesting case. Apparently, the agency that used the bear knew it frequented the property of the person alleging the violation and used the animal for specifically that reason (to surveil the property).
That’s what I kept arguing to Mrs. Fish. If it had just been a random bear that happened to wander onto their property, the state probably has a case that the video evidence collected was incidental and not subject to the Fourth Amendment. Mrs. Fish repeated the common refrain, “If the homeowners didn’t want to be spied on, maybe they shouldn’t have been feeding bears! How else can the city figure out what’s going on?” Which, of course, belies the purpose of the Fourth Amendment, which is that the state needs to go through a process to be able to surveil private citizens, even if they are criming.
This conservative Republican, who describes himself as “anti-woke as you can get,” warns Ohio lawmakers that a bill to ban gender-affirming care for teenagers is appalling. He said he learned the complexities of the issue from raising a transgender son. (Reposted due to typo) pic.twitter.com/JsSTGOB68z
— David Heath (@davidhth) June 6, 2023
As always, few GOP legislators understand an issue unless it affects them personally. But he did speak up.
re: #183 Dr. Matt
Test?
Anyone having issues with LGF on their desktops? It keeps crashing on my PC, but seems ok on mobile.
re: #186 Dr. Matt
Anyone having issues with LGF on their desktops? It keeps crashing on my PC, but seems ok on mobile.
Lots of us are. Buttons not working and such.Try Spy Mode for the moment.
Running chrome on my laptop and having no problems.
re: #188 Hecuba’s daughter
Running chrome on my laptop and having no problems.
What I see, there’s a JavaScript error.
re: #186 Dr. Matt
Anyone having issues with LGF on their desktops? It keeps crashing on my PC, but seems ok on mobile.
Thanks. Trying spy mode for the first time ever.
re: #186 Dr. Matt
Anyone having issues with LGF on their desktops? It keeps crashing on my PC, but seems ok on mobile.
Been that for hours here
Here’s one. We had this convo earlier.
Conservatives donate more money to charity than liberals do. But that’s because we don’t care about other people’s needs, right?https://t.co/N3IJE1ozjw
— Peregrine-Falcon (@PFalcon451) June 6, 2023
“i forgot my cat. i left her behind. please, i beg you — let’s go back. please. i won’t ever forgive myself”
a rescued woman in Kherson. she barely survived herself, but won’t leave a single animal of hers behind. my heart is about to burst with pain@Liberov pic.twitter.com/tdED56sVlR— вареничок.еріставі 🇺🇦🏳️🌈 (@maksymeristavi) June 7, 2023
one of desantis’ actual problems right now is that reporters are practically hunting for examples of him being weird and awkward with voters, amplifying them and solidifying the narrative that he is weird and awkward https://t.co/wqnAQt8vfu
— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) June 7, 2023
The battle between artists and artificial intelligence (AI) is heating up, and one online art platform thinks it has a solution.Magma, a browser-based creative service, is launching tools that it claims will protect artists from AI copying their work. The tools block the use of artists’ names in prompts unless the artist has given explicit permission to do so.
“The AI art conversation goes beyond unethical practices for training models, and for many, treads into moral queries in how the artwork will be created in the future,” Damian Kaczmarek, CEO at Magma, told Lifewire in an email interview. “Ultimately, the divide itself is what allows generative AI to exist in the foreseeable future, and quite simply means that regardless of how strong the opposition to AI is, generative AI is here to stay in one fashion or another.”
Artists Have Heartache With AI Using Their Work—Magma Offers One Possible Solution (Lifewire)
When I hear Chris Licht’s name, all I can think of is the “Dere-lict my balls” line in Zoolander.
re: #186 Dr. Matt
Anyone having issues with LGF on their desktops? It keeps crashing on my PC, but seems ok on mobile.
Yeah, moi aussi - all day so far
Sent the boss an email earlier, I’m sure he’s on it, if awake….
re: #192 Dave In Austin
Here’s one. We had this convo earlier.
These sorts of studies leave out all sorts of charitable giving which is not captured by looking at the reports of charities themselves.
When I put a $50 in the collection can at the market for the secular food bank in my county, that will get reported on their IRS Form 990, but it won’t be reported as a democratic socialist giving them the money. When I go to the village fire brigade for a cookout-fundraiser, the same applies (they are a charitable organisation and file the requisite paperwork, but not “from whom they got the money”).
Lots of Christians will claim putting money in a church’s collection plate amounts to charity, regardless of whether that church actually does charitable work or not, and the church likely doesn’t open their books for audits or file a Form 990.
re: #192 Dave In Austin
Here’s one. We had this convo earlier.
Donating to hate groups (NRA, Evangelical churches, etc) is not charitable in the real-world.
re: #198 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
And since large numbers of Christians give 10% or more to their church on a consistent basis, of course charitable giving will look skewed towards conservatives.
re: #199 Dr. Matt
Donating to hate groups (NRA, Evangelical churches, etc) is not charitable in the real-world.
Filter out the donations to extremist religious organizations and see how that works out. It’s clear that an empathy deficit creates selfish right-wingers.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) June 7, 2023
re: #194 ckkatz
From Kyle Griffin on Twitter responding to Ron DeSantis essentially ignoring a World War 2 veteran:
It’s worth reading the whole anecdote:
“Governor, I think there’s a World War II veteran back there!” an aide told DeSantis as the crowd swarmed.
DeSantis gave a nod in the veteran’s direction, flashed a thumbs-up, thanked him for his service and turned back to someone else waiting for a photo with him.
“The veteran would like a signature,” nudged Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds a few beats later. She passed along a piece of paper that read ‘RESERVED VIP’; DeSantis scribbled his name and then walked off, looking for the next voter.
“Governor, did you want to know there’s a World War II veteran?” another person asked 30 seconds later as DeSantis smiled for as many photos as he could.
“I know, I signed something for him!” DeSantis yelled back. He gave another thumbs-up and hustled away. https://
It’s worth reading the whole anecdote:
“Governor, I think there’s a World War II veteran back there!” an aide told DeSantis as the crowd swarmed.
DeSantis gave a nod in the veteran’s direction, flashed a thumbs-up, thanked him for his service and turned back to someone else…— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 5, 2023
GQP meltdowns in 5…4…3…
We’ve added more jobs to the U.S. economy in 28 months than any president has in a four-year term. pic.twitter.com/iFClG4qY4O
— President Biden (@POTUS) June 7, 2023
New York City. And the surface of Mars. pic.twitter.com/jvV62hQdEl
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) June 7, 2023
re: #201 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
Charities can also be used to launder money.
My favorite quote from today -
[A] desperate attempt to make a horse race out of horseshit.
- Rick Wilson
re: #45 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Morning Lizards.
— Lord Piltdown (@jimreynolds54) June 7, 2023
re: #204 The Pie Overlord!
Rep. Ken Buck
In 2016, Buck reportedly called a military proposal to protect bases against flooding part of a “radical climate change agenda.”
In 2010, Buck praised Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma for trying to disprove climate change, saying at a campaign event that “Sen. Inhofe was the first person to stand up and say this global warming is the greatest hoax that has been perpetrated. The evidence just keeps supporting his view, and more and more people’s view, of what’s going on.”
businessinsider.com
Rep. Duncan Hunter
“There is climate change,” Hunter said in a 2014 candidate debate. “Is there human-caused climate change? I don’t buy that.”
Hunter co-sponsored HR 3380 in 2016, a bill that would stop any federal action on addressing climate change.
In March 2017, Hunter answered an audience question at a town hall about if he would dismantle the EPA by saying the agency had “destroyed American business.”
businessinsider.com
From the article you presented…
Conservatives donate to charity basically to go “yeah, I have more money than you” pic.twitter.com/GC9zwBNMNJ— Cyus 🔜 Fur Eh (@saskprotogen) June 7, 2023
“America has become a sick and broken… “
Woe! Why can’t a rich white man just commit some crimes without being held accountable?! What’s happened to America that a rich white man can’t abuse the power of his office and Justice just looks the other way like in the olden days?! https://t.co/dkY2WnnmpK— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) June 7, 2023
I’m using a Davinci Resolve Editor Keyboard that has a Mac layout on my PC.
Getting used to the missing End and Delete keys (Backspace is labeled “Delete”) and need of a Fn button took a little while, but I think I’m good now. It has very satisfying clicks like an old IBM AT keyboard. The three mode shuttle dial is excellent for editing video in Davinci Resolve.
re: #211 The Pie Overlord!
We are not using the “power of government” to “Get Trump”.
We are using the power of law enforcement to bring a criminal to justice.
re: #211 The Pie Overlord!
LOL. You turned on him to save your own ass. And now you’re attempting damage control.
The MAGAts will eat you alive.— Jenpocalypse17 🌊 (@Jenpocalypse17) June 7, 2023
Criminals are supposed to be brought to justice. Republicans have forgotten that and become a lawless cult led by a narcissistic sociopath with a very low IQ.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) June 7, 2023
re: #213 Charles Johnson
Bug fixed.
Thanks, boss.
Figured you’d be on it quick when you eventually dropped by.
re: #211 The Pie Overlord!
Is Budowich the pool maintenance guy? /s
I read his tweet as “I’m getting indicted’
Ah… something just happened so that posting is working properly. Thanks to Charles for making that happen. Been a frustrating morning in this orange hellscape known as NYC metro area. The air is so thick with haze and smoke that it is otherworldly.
re: #205 Eclectic Cyborg
Charities can also be used to launder money.
Fixed?
The only reason the rat fuckers care about charity.
re: #213 Charles Johnson
Bug fixed.
Thank you. May I inquire as to the details of the entymological identity of it?
re: #230 Teukka
Thank you. May I inquire as to the details of the entymological identity of it?
Twitter is breaking, and one of the tweets had some garbage in its “text” property.
Rep. Becca Balint (D-VT) does a superb job of calling out (R) witness Gunasekara and her transphobic views on ESG. ESG is an investment strategy that does not promote gender transitions for children. You really believe this garbage? #wtpBlue #DemVoice1 pic.twitter.com/viChRO25A1
— Brian Cardone 🏴☠️🇺🇦 (@cardon_brian) June 7, 2023
re: #232 jaunte
The reactionary Right lumps all “woke” ideologies into one bucket. ESG, DEI, CRT, WTF, BRB, BBQ - it’s all the same: “Bad.”
Meanwhile the “Boycott Target” song is #44 on the Itunes top songs chart, sometimes the world can be shit and you still gotta slog through.
Prediction -
if Christie is on the stage Trump won’t be. Even if Christie isn’t Trump has no reason to debate
— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) June 7, 2023
Says the Russian bot. We see you.
— Dame Sylvia. trump is an abomination. (@iamyuneek) June 7, 2023
Grammar: That’s the 98th percentile, not “top 2” percentile.
Vague: Top 2% of what? Morans? Grifters? Liars?
Abused? DARVO (deny, attack, reverse victim and offender)
Well, I missed the notices, but apparently the AddThis service for sharing to social media went out of business. So no more share button on posts.
re: #241 Charles Johnson
Well, I missed the notices, but apparently the AddThis service for sharing to social media went out of business. So no more share button on posts.
That’s unfortunate.
re: #239 ckkatz
The whole notion that Christie will somehow be able to directly talk at Trump during a debate is laughable given that:
1) Trump isn’t likely to attend any debate. As frontrunner he’s gonna duck the debates and everyone knows it; and/or
2) Christie isn’t likely to make it to any debate as failing to garner any support.
re: #231 Charles Johnson
Twitter is breaking, and one of the tweets had some garbage in its “text” property.
I figured it was something among those lines…
UPDATE @PuckNews: Chris Licht comms chief Kris Coratti cleaned out office last night and has told staff she expects to leave. Veteran CNN P.R. guru Matt Dornic also likely out. Licht’s biz chief Chris Marlin and CoS Devan Cayea likely out this week as well https://t.co/j2BuuAlZpi https://t.co/x8sPPemqgR
— Dylan Byers (@DylanByers) June 7, 2023
Aand out they go. The next person to get the nod for CNN CEO would have to be a complete idiot to accept it, but whatever.
Licht was just one of the morons, like Musk, who was always a right wing asshole. They decided that the “wokeness” in their organizations was due to mush headed libtards, and what the organizations needed was a clear headed rational thinker to get rid of that and cater to normal people: that is, hysterical bigots.
Turns out that the mush headed libtards we actually business people trying to make money, and hysterical bigots are an ungrateful minority that already have pure hardcore bigotry being pumped directly into their veins and don’t need more watered down crap. So the organizations go straight down the shitter, as the old audience hates what happened and the hysterical bigots have been programmed to hate the organization from the get-go. Nice going.
This may be helpful to Lizards who love high-end cookware.
Grab your favorite piece before it sells out. https://t.co/TSF0aH70e9
— Food & Wine (@foodandwine) June 7, 2023
2. One key fact: the world’s top players on the PGA Tour were NOT CONSULTED ABOUT THIS DEAL
Tiger wasn’t looped in.
Neither was Rory McIlroy, even though he is ON THE PGA TOUR BOARD
If the top 10 or 20 PGA Tour players came out against this, it’s dead— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) June 7, 2023
A 6 post thread.
re: #241 Charles Johnson
Well, I missed the notices, but apparently the AddThis service for sharing to social media went out of business. So no more share button on posts.
re: #242 Nerdy Fish
That’s unfortunate.
Not exactly “out of business”, Oracle (who’s owned AddThis since 2016) killed it May 31st.
re: #238 🔧-wench
Men’s Rights Activists to boycott zoos, safaris, reptile-skin boots.
re: #241 Charles Johnson
Well, I missed the notices, but apparently the AddThis service for sharing to social media went out of business. So no more share button on posts.
Wordpress is doing something, I don’t know how you feel about Automattic, but they have a mastodon button in their assortment that still works.
re: #241 Charles Johnson
Well, I missed the notices, but apparently the AddThis service for sharing to social media went out of business. So no more share button on posts.
My computer’s paranoiaware has always blocked AddThis. Last night’s problem here was new to me.
re: #250 Thanos
Wordpress is doing something, I don’t know how you feel about Automattic, but they have a mastodon button in their assortment that still works.
Here’s the link to the WP plugin
sharethis.com
re: #200 Nerdy Fish
And since large numbers of Christians give 10% or more to their church on a consistent basis, of course charitable giving will look skewed towards conservatives.
Never mind that little of that 10% will actually help any of the people that the Christ wanted it help. < spit >
I believe in God.
I even believe in Jesus and what the rabbi tried to teach us.
I don’t believe in an afterlife.
And I damn sure don’t believe in the shit that the church has placed a priority on, starting with anything even remotely related to inheritance other games that the monogamist priests played.
There was a short story I read once about a Spanish town that when a new priest was assigned to the community, the little old church ladies brought an, of age, guy and gal (with their permission) to the first meeting with the priest and said, essentially, you will need this. Which way will you need? To be a success here, you can’t be outside the bounds but these people are willing to be with you. As long as you are monogamous while you are here, you will be accepted, either way.
re: #237 Thanos
Meanwhile the “Boycott Target” song is #44 on the Itunes top songs chart, sometimes the world can be shit and you still gotta slog through.
How important is iTunes in music ratings? Does forty-fourth on iTunes mean “popular with chuds?”
re: #223 lawhawk
Ah… something just happened so that posting is working properly. Thanks to Charles for making that happen. Been a frustrating morning in this orange hellscape known as NYC metro area. The air is so thick with haze and smoke that it is otherworldly.
I remember the twilit noon skies during the last big northern California fires. Ghastly. You have my sympathy.
At least this time around everyone has n95 masks in the house.
re: #254 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
How important is iTunes in music ratings? Does forty-fourth on iTunes mean “popular with chuds?”
You are correct, it’s not a big deal, e.g. it doesn’t appear in the Billboard top 100
re: #255 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS
I remember the twilit noon skies during the last big northern California fires. Ghastly. You have my sympathy.
At least this time around everyone has n95 masks in the house.
The haze is thick enough to shut down the airports.
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