The Bob Cesca Podcast: Payne, Fricker and Ho

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Today’s program from our podcasting affiliate, The Bob Cesca Show:

Payne, Fricker and Ho — [Explicit Language] Will there be indictments after the show? Trump documents trial set for May 20, 2024. Is this good news or bad news? F*ckery, f*ckery, f*ckery. Fani Willis is pursuing racketeering charges and solicitation of crimes. A word about the future of Trek Politics and the strike. The dangers of AI. Elon killed Twitter. It’s now called “X” even though everyone will still call it Twitter. Elon’s history with x.com. Bad news about Mastodon. Greg Gutfeld and Jesse Watters continue to justify slavery and the Holocaust. With Buzz Burbank, music by Dreamkid, Mike Farley, and more!

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steve_davis  Jul 25, 2023 • 1:41:11pm

really? I’m having to start this thing? Okay. No sign of Paris second day. Other people have cats go off for awhile and come back. I have cats that wander off and just never fucking return. There’s probably footage of me on an A&E special where they have me walking slow so that I look guilty as hell.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 25, 2023 • 1:41:20pm
Russell Moore has a bit of advice for his fellow American Christians in his new book, “Losing Our Religion.”

Don’t lie.

A simple principle, based on the Ninth Commandment’s ban on bearing false witness, and one many Christian leaders are tempted to break by repeating claims that are popular but untrue, argues Moore.

“I’m not really talking to the people who are intending to deceive and destroy — yes, I would hope they stop lying too,” said Moore in a recent interview about the new book. “I’m talking more about the disconnect between what people really believe and what the expectations of the tribe demand. And that is what I see to be so dangerous and exhausting to people.”

Following Moore’s advice could come with consequences. The former Southern Baptist ethicist was a rising star in 2013, when he was elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission after the group’s former leader left amid scandal. Moore was known for his love of 1970s outlaw country stars Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson, his advocacy for immigration reform and his skepticism about the close ties between the Republican party and evangelicals.

Things went well until the rise of Donald Trump, which turned evangelical leaders into would-be contestants on a real-life version of “The Apprentice” — Trump’s reality television series— “all clamoring to make the cut on the next episode and fearful of hearing the words you’re fired,” he writes in “Losing Our Religion,” out Tuesday (July 25) from Sentinel, an imprint of Penguin Random House.

Moore’s criticism of Trump as a candidate and as president, along with his advocacy for survivors of abuse in the SBC, made him enemies and eventually cost him his job. In 2021, he resigned from the ERLC to take a new role at Christianity Today, where he is now the editor-in-chief.

His new book was inspired by conversations Moore has had in recent years with disillusioned evangelicals, some of whom he said are feeling a sense of despair at the state of the church and of American culture. The book is part altar call for his fellow evangelicals and part retelling of the surprising lessons he’s learned in recent years.

The book recounts Moore’s struggles to reconcile what he believed with how he saw Christian leaders acting during the Trump era. He recalls a Baptist leader who told him he was playing the game of leadership wrong. That leader suggested Moore give people “90% of the red meat they expect” — referring to conservative politics and the culture wars — and then he could spend 10% of his time on things he cared about, like immigration.

He also recalled being told to “get real” — meaning he should give up on naive ideals like telling the truth or acting with personal integrity because the cultural and political stakes were too high for such niceties.

“People who have higher expectations for themselves and for others are often made to feel naive and stupid,” he said.

In new book, Russell Moore urges evangelicals to stop lying and come back to Jesus (RNS via MSN)

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 25, 2023 • 1:43:03pm

re: #1 steve_davis

really? I’m having to start this thing? Okay. No sign of Paris second day. Other people have cats go off for awhile and come back. I have cats that wander off and just never fucking return. There’s probably footage of me on an A&E special where they have me walking slow so that I look guilty as hell.

I think it has to do with the local predators, whether human or other animal. I would never let my cats outside after having had two disappear where I live now.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 25, 2023 • 1:45:13pm

from below

re: #98 Hecuba’s daughter

My Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day Year.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 25, 2023 • 1:45:35pm

also from below

re: #98 Hecuba’s daughter

Our Terrible, Horrible, Not So Great Day Year. Week

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 25, 2023 • 1:53:11pm

and they thought they’d be done with this.
once again opened a can of worms and all the troubles of the world came out.

i could just bold the whole thing

“The Education Department has opened a civil rights investigation into Harvard University’s preferences for the relatives of alumni and donors when making admissions decisions,” the New York Times reports.

“The inquiry comes after a formal complaint that three groups filed after the Supreme Court’s decision last month on the use of affirmative action by colleges and universities that severely limit race-conscious admissions.”

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silverdolphin  Jul 25, 2023 • 1:56:43pm

The Supreme Court Might Have Just Handed Jack Smith a Powerful New Tool

“As we await a likely federal grand jury indictment of Donald Trump for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, a June 27 Supreme Court decision has created an intriguing possibility—that one key set of criminal charges could rest on Trump’s threat-by-tweet to his vice president while the violent mob was inside the Capitol: “Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to … protect our Country.”

The Supreme Court by 7-2 in another case has given the prosecutor a custom ruling allowing Trump’s tweets on Jan 6 can be used as witness tampering in their effirts to intimidate Pence and cannot be used to claim they were First Amendment speech.

Now that would be interesting.

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A Cranky One  Jul 25, 2023 • 1:56:58pm

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jul 25, 2023 • 1:57:38pm

re: #7 silverdolphin

Pffff. They’d rule differently since it’s Trump.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 25, 2023 • 1:58:08pm

re: #2 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Moore’s book will be ignored by right wing Xtians who slobber on the ground Trump walks on.

It will also be ignored by those Pulpit Pimps who lust for the absolute unchecked political power the Republican Party gives them.

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darthstar  Jul 25, 2023 • 1:59:07pm

Mastodon

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A Cranky One  Jul 25, 2023 • 2:00:51pm

With all the hot weather, we decided to get Ozzie’s hair cut short.

Before:

After:

Lacy laughs at Ozzie’s new haircut.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 25, 2023 • 2:01:47pm

re: #11 darthstar

I didn’t think this could get any dumber, but it has.

Several engineers told the New York Times that cost-cutting measures included renting a mothership called the Polar Prince that was too small to carry the Titan sub on deck, meaning it had to drag the submersible through the ocean for three days from Newfoundland to the crash site.

The hack meant the sub was “tossed around pretty roughly,” editor-in-chief of Travel Weekly, Arnie Weissmann, said about his May expedition to the site. His planned dive in the Titan sub that month was canceled due to “wind, swells, and fog.”

The cost-saving measure is in comparison to the method used by Alvin, the first craft to carry humans to the Titanic site, in 1986. The vessel travels to the dive site on a dedicated mothership, which is outfitted with custom winches, hangars, and a machine shop. A large crane places the submersible into the ocean from the ship.

msn.com

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 25, 2023 • 2:11:07pm

re: #13 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

All the facepalms.

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wrenchwench  Jul 25, 2023 • 2:11:28pm

A thread on music history.

Mastodon

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 25, 2023 • 2:11:34pm

Mastodon

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 25, 2023 • 2:12:41pm

re: #11 darthstar

I didn’t think this could get any dumber, but it has.

msn.com

i know this picture is about the “X” re: #13 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

tell me that looks like something engineered to go* to 375 atmospheres

*ok, and come back.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 25, 2023 • 2:16:18pm
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Vicious Babushka  Jul 25, 2023 • 2:17:53pm

Mastodon

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darthstar  Jul 25, 2023 • 2:18:54pm

re: #18 Backwoods Sleuth

I think he’s just giving McCarthy marching orders. He was on the news earlier announcing an impeachment investigation into President Biden because their committee hearings have been such embarrassing failures it has to be Biden’s fault.

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A Cranky One  Jul 25, 2023 • 2:26:52pm

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 25, 2023 • 2:34:57pm

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Florida Panhandler  Jul 25, 2023 • 2:38:56pm

re: #19 Vicious Babushka

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Republicans have been making their intention clear lately with all the “slavery is a job training program” rhetoric.

Once Republicans gain 100% power, the only real battle left as far as minorities go will be between those Republicans who want chattel slavery to be a thing again and those who want to kick everyone not themselves out of the country… or simply just eliminate them by any means possible.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 25, 2023 • 2:40:31pm

RFK Jr.’s campaign filings show payments to a litany of Republicans and controversial activists, including some anti-vaxxers

- anti-vaccine advocates
- public health conspiracy theorists
- Republicans (F Street Partners and others)
- at least two people employed by Moms Across America
- a woman who works as a coach to help parents “unschool their children”
- an artist and content creator who has a podcast that frequently discusses aliens

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 25, 2023 • 2:41:00pm

re: #19 Vicious Babushka

So Jews who had skills that helped the Nazi war machine were allowed to survive longer than those who didn’t. Because if I were in a Nazi concentration camp, I would certainly want to devote myself to aiding my captors in their efforts to destroy democracy everywhere and to kill my people.

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gocart mozart  Jul 25, 2023 • 2:41:45pm

This is a thread of batshit Nazi related conspiracies and these people appear to serious.

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EstebanTornado1963  Jul 25, 2023 • 2:44:02pm
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Barefoot Grin  Jul 25, 2023 • 2:44:41pm

re: #24 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

RFK Jr.’s campaign filings show payments to a litany of Republicans and controversial activists, including some anti-vaxxers

- anti-vaccine advocates
- public health conspiracy theorists
- Republicans (F Street Partners and others)
- at least two people employed by Moms Across America
- a woman who works as a coach to help parents “unschool their children”
- an artist and content creator who has a podcast that frequently discusses aliens

It would be hilarious if RFK, Jr. said “fuck it, I’m running as a Republican” and knocked Trump out to become the candidate. And then proceeded to beat Biden in states full of crazy? To win the ….

Ok, not hilarious.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 25, 2023 • 2:46:33pm

re: #28 Barefoot Grin

On the other hand, it would be hilarious if he somehow beat Trump and then got smoked by Joe.

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 25, 2023 • 2:47:38pm

re: #29 Eclectic Cyborg

On the other hand, it would be hilarious if he somehow beat Trump and then got smoked by Joe.

That was where I was originally going in my mind, but then thought, “wait, that might backfire.”

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wrenchwench  Jul 25, 2023 • 2:47:57pm

I can get a whole thread displayed at Mastodon, but I can’t get a link to it. I don’t know if you need an account to go there and see it all.

Mastodon

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 25, 2023 • 2:48:19pm

just tried to look at a tweet and saw this

in the midst of HAPPENING NOW!!! it says ‘join twitter today’
.
.
.
.
so i clicked sign-in

oh…to sign in to twitter

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 25, 2023 • 2:49:29pm

Is there someone here who’s in Bluesky who understands this shit? I’d love a feed on dogs but this is like Greek to me.

github.com

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 25, 2023 • 2:55:33pm

I’ve been poking a little at blue sky today, but since I never had a twitter account (or any besides FB) I’m really slow. I’m doing searches right now, but the people I followed w/o subscription on twitter aren’t really posting yet. I think it will grow in the near future. Thanks to I Would Prefer for the code! Could be awhile, but eventually I’ll make use of it.

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jeffreyw  Jul 25, 2023 • 2:58:54pm

hot caramel

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The Ghost of a Flea  Jul 25, 2023 • 2:59:19pm

To imagine slavery as job training, you first have to postulate that Trans-Atlantic slaves were in some kind of state of nature such that they possessed no knowledge of their own. This is of course horseshit.

But relevant to the current day, I think the real self report here is that people saying this are really arguing that there’s no inherent right to dignity or freedom, and that the true value of people…and even your own life…exists only in their function as units of labor. Better units of labor get more treats; that’s meritocracy. Slavery is rendered “understandable” by simply making it another labor power dynamic in which the ownership class are granting opportunity, compensating the unfree in experience.

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Florida Panhandler  Jul 25, 2023 • 3:02:54pm

re: #36 The Ghost of a Flea

It stems from the old racist trope that Africans were basically overgrown children that needed to be taught to “live like the white man”. “White Man’s Burden” revisited. Nothing new here that Conservatives are dredging up. Same old racist horseshit they love so much. They always love someone to beat down on. The ideology can’t exist without it for long.

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wrenchwench  Jul 25, 2023 • 3:04:44pm

re: #34 Barefoot Grin

I’ve been poking a little at blue sky today, but since I never had a twitter account (or any besides FB) I’m really slow. I’m doing searches right now, but the people I followed w/o subscription on twitter aren’t really posting yet. I think it will grow in the near future. Thanks to I Would Prefer for the code! Could be awhile, but eventually I’ll make use of it.

I’m not really good at this, but I think your chances of interactions go up when you give out your handle at that place. If interactions are desired. If not, find some anti-social media. This represents me: wrenchwench.bsky.social . Doesn’t work as a link, though.

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HypnoToad  Jul 25, 2023 • 3:06:21pm

I just got an RNC survey letter in the mail…

Whose this guy again…

My name was in the smallest font on the envelope, the person who isn’t president was in the largest. It has the typical slanted questions that could only be answered one way by a red blooded American. You also have to put a stamp on the return envelope. That, and the fact that I changed my party registration away from them over a decade ago, makes me wonder at the competence of this particular political party.

I can’t even return unpatriotic answers on their dime.

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silverdolphin  Jul 25, 2023 • 3:06:34pm

re: #27 EstebanTornado1963

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Fauci said that the NIH was not funding gain-of-function research at Wuhan. That is true. We were giving Wuhan money but not for gain-of-function. Wuhan was doing gain-of-function but not with US money.

Rand Paul is being stupidly obtuse here (he also likes to redefine what gain-of-function research is) and Fauci will never be charged with perjury.

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 25, 2023 • 3:07:02pm

re: #2 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Who is the audience for his book? Does he really believe that Trump cultists are going to read his book and change? He sounds as delusional as his fellow Evangelicals. From what I see, Conservatives are perfectly okay with lies — as long as those lies push their agenda. Right now, they’re flocking to see a propaganda flick - - The Sound of Freedom — which is all based on lies.

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jeffreyw  Jul 25, 2023 • 3:10:55pm

Mastodon

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 25, 2023 • 3:14:12pm

Paul Gosar sure loves him a buncha nazis.

Mastodon

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 25, 2023 • 3:14:48pm

Mastodon

Mastodon

The end of a long toot thread about the origins of Elon’s x.com and what happened with Paypal. Read the whole thing if you, like me, don’t have a lot of background information on the whole debacle.

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jeffreyw  Jul 25, 2023 • 3:16:03pm

Mastodon

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 25, 2023 • 3:19:17pm

re: #41 Patricia Kayden

Moore is not at the level of delusion as many of his co-religionists.

However, I suspect the book is more of a hand washing thing, a la Pilate.

Those in American evangelical circles who are not total dimwits have now the burden of seeing their religion co-opted by a full-time carnival barker intent on being a fascistic strong-man.

To where all of this is leading I do not know. I suspect the % of Americans who will identify with evangelical Christianity is going to decline further, by the time the next Pew survey is completed. That was likely to happen without Trump anyway, but perhaps Trump added a bit to the decline.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 25, 2023 • 3:20:40pm

re: #43 Vicious Babushka

Paul Gosar sure loves him a buncha nazis.

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Gosar and Biggs should be disqualified from sitting in the House under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 25, 2023 • 3:20:59pm

Link: techdirt.com

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steve_davis  Jul 25, 2023 • 3:21:01pm

re: #3 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

I think it has to do with the local predators, whether human or other animal. I would never let my cats outside after having had two disappear where I live now.

This is a small space and both of us would go out of our minds if we were forced to be sealed up.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 25, 2023 • 3:24:53pm

re: #32 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

Twitter is pretty much full-time conspiracy central now, home of more delusion than ever. It’s replacing n-chan as favored online gathering of the malicious nit-wit horde.

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 25, 2023 • 3:25:11pm

re: #45 jeffreyw

I don’t blame them. Ketchup chips are delicious. I love butter tarts which are only sold in Canada. Whenever I visit, I load them up in my suitcase. The only other option would be to buy them online and they’re way too expensive.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 25, 2023 • 3:25:13pm

Look at that sick freak and you realize he really wants to wear his SS uniform on the floor of the House.

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BeenHereAwhile  Jul 25, 2023 • 3:25:44pm

re: #25 Hecuba’s daughter

So Jews who had skills that helped the Nazi war machine were allowed to survive longer than those who didn’t. Because if I were in a Nazi concentration camp, I would certainly want to devote myself to aiding my captors in their efforts to destroy democracy everywhere and to kill my people.

An Hungarian expat gentleman in my Miami neighborhood survived Auschwitz by learning how to repair field artillery with stuck shells (don’t know the artillery term), and would also be taken from camp to disarm unexploded bombs, If he was sent into an residential building to disarm an unexploded bomb, he would search the interior for jewelry and like valuables he could easily carry to bribe guards to provide items not available to his fellow prisoners.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 25, 2023 • 3:26:10pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 25, 2023 • 3:26:48pm

I keep my Twitter account so I can interact and counter religionists.

It’s my calling, as if one born out of time.

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Dave In Austin  Jul 25, 2023 • 3:27:04pm

re: #38 wrenchwench

Get rid of the @

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 25, 2023 • 3:28:28pm

re: #41 Patricia Kayden

And right behind The Sound of Freedom, this is coming out on 7/28:

According to the synopsis I read, it’s a documentary about three courageous pastors who stand up and fight back against government restrictions during the Covid pandemic.

I can hear you all rolling your eyes at this very moment.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 25, 2023 • 3:29:04pm

re: #56 Dave In Austin

Get rid of the @

Really? msjoanne.bsky.social

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 25, 2023 • 3:30:14pm

re: #38 wrenchwench

I’m not really good at this, but I think your chances of interactions go up when you give out your handle at that place. If interactions are desired. If not, find some anti-social media. This represents me: @wrenchwench.bsky.social . Doesn’t work as a link, though.

Thanks. I have followed Charles, but haven’t really had time to figure out connections. I see from your link that there are lots of people I trust with news interacting with him. So I’ll put a little more effort. I have no desire to grow followers, though. While I love the creative content that was posted to twitter, I do understand that, as things stand now, blue sky claims some outrageous rights. Nonetheless, I will mostly use it to curate news and information that had become almost unreadable even before Mush blocked us.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 25, 2023 • 3:30:15pm

re: #58 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Really? msjoanne.bsky.social

NO SHIT. It worked. Dave, you rock!!

(Hope you’re ok. Know you’re in my thoughts.)

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 25, 2023 • 3:31:03pm

If Threads ever produces the improvements promised, and goes with the Fediverse, it may be the final demise of Twitter as a desirable social platform.

But Meta promises many things that may not come true.

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 25, 2023 • 3:31:27pm

re: #58 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Really? msjoanne.bsky.social

Ok, this helped me too. I’ve been able to access all the posts now! Happy.

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 25, 2023 • 3:31:42pm

re: #57 Eclectic Cyborg

My eyes have rolled out of their sockets. I’m blind.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 25, 2023 • 3:31:57pm

re: #57 Eclectic Cyborg

And right behind The Sound of Freedom, this is coming out on 7/28:

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According to the synopsis I read, it’s a documentary about three courageous pastors who stand up and fight back against government restrictions during the Covid pandemic.

I can hear you all rolling your eyes at this very moment.

Megachurches will show it on a double bill with that JC Wannabee’s movie.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 25, 2023 • 3:34:16pm

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 25, 2023 • 3:35:10pm

Problem is, many people around the world still use Twitter out of habit and they don’t care about internal American social disasters.

Musk is counting on the professional haters being popular enough to drive money to Twitter 𝕏 . He has reason to believe this may work, given Trump and the history of hate on the internet.

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CleverToad  Jul 25, 2023 • 3:35:28pm

re: #4 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

from below

re: #98 Hecuba’s daughter

My Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day Year.

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oy.
i hope it resolves faster than my leg (next post) and is nothing but superficial and mild. re: #4 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

Yikes!
A hug and good thoughts for both of you
Doesn’t seem to be a good week for Lizards

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gocart mozart  Jul 25, 2023 • 3:38:57pm
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wrenchwench  Jul 25, 2023 • 3:39:50pm

re: #59 Barefoot Grin

Thanks. I have followed Charles, but haven’t really had time to figure out connections. I see from your link that there are lots of people I trust with news interacting with him. So I’ll put a little more effort. I have no desire to grow followers, though. While I love the creative content that was posted to twitter, I do understand that, as things stand now, blue sky claims some outrageous rights. Nonetheless, I will mostly use it to curate news and information that had become almost unreadable even before Mush blocked us.

I still prefer Mastodon, but it has a big time advantage. I mean, it has the advantage that I started there earlier. ohai.social no invite needed.

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 25, 2023 • 3:40:50pm

Mastodon

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 25, 2023 • 3:44:35pm

re: #68 gocart mozart

The California state legislature should ban districts/counties/municipalities from passing discriminatory laws. Take a page from Red states which stop blue cities from enacting progressive laws all the dang time.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 25, 2023 • 3:50:07pm

I believe you can link to a bluesky profile with a link like this:

bsky.app

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Charles Johnson  Jul 25, 2023 • 3:50:42pm

Unlinkified, it’s this:

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Charles Johnson  Jul 25, 2023 • 3:51:43pm

Oops, never mind, the code function needs some work.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 25, 2023 • 3:53:23pm

https ://bsky .app/profile/littlegreenfootballs .com

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Charles Johnson  Jul 25, 2023 • 3:53:38pm

remove the spaces, of course

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I Would Prefer Not To  Jul 25, 2023 • 3:53:40pm

re: #66 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Problem is, many people around the world still use Twitter out of habit and they don’t care about internal American social disasters.

Musk is counting on the professional haters being popular enough to drive money to Twitter 𝕏 . He has reason to believe this may work, given Trump and the history of hate on the internet.

musk is going to fail. There is a big difference between getting idiots to attend rallies and to vote for you than doing the things musk wants to do (banking, bitcoin).
The question is how much of his own money is he going to lose?

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gocart mozart  Jul 25, 2023 • 3:54:56pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 25, 2023 • 3:55:52pm

re: #77 I Would Prefer Not To

musk is going to fail. There is a big difference between getting idiots to attend rallies and to vote for you than doing the things musk wants to do (banking, bitcoin).
The question is how much of his own money is he going to lose?

Not enough to make a difference. He excels at using other people’s money; and somehow he manages to follow Trump’s policy on bills — just not pay them.

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Captain Ron  Jul 25, 2023 • 3:56:46pm
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Captain Ron  Jul 25, 2023 • 3:59:15pm
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Nerdy Fish  Jul 25, 2023 • 3:59:42pm

My morals are weak sometimes. I admit I felt a faint twinge of regret at the “everyone was uninjured” part of this post.

Mastodon

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 25, 2023 • 4:01:50pm

Let’s see if I get this right:

bsky.app

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 25, 2023 • 4:04:39pm

re: #77 I Would Prefer Not To

Never underestimate the gullibility of people.

Trump certainly does not.

And neither does Musk.

Musk can get enough of the crypto-nuts, the older conspiracy nuts, the new-fasicsts, and 4-chan creeps to make a successful business.

Yes? No?

We will see.

Also, Mastodon seems rather hostile to the religious right, and so does BlueSky. That’s a huge market that Musk now has.

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Teddy's Person  Jul 25, 2023 • 4:05:38pm

re: #12 A Cranky One

With all the hot weather, we decided to get Ozzie’s hair cut short

Does Ozzie like to be photographed as much as it seems in posted pictures?

That face just screams - I’m too sexy for my fur…

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darthstar  Jul 25, 2023 • 4:06:47pm

re: #45 jeffreyw

They have them on Amazon…of course.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 25, 2023 • 4:11:16pm

re: #82 Nerdy Fish

My morals are weak sometimes. I admit I felt a faint twinge of regret at the “everyone was uninjured” part of this post.

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The post said DeSantis was uninjured — how about everyone else?

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 25, 2023 • 4:14:06pm

Mastodon

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jul 25, 2023 • 4:14:52pm

re: #82 Nerdy Fish

Are they sure he was not injured? If I recall correctly a former Governor from another state (NJ?) was in an auto accident and he ended up much more seriously injured than originally thought.

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Captain Ron  Jul 25, 2023 • 4:15:04pm
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jaunte  Jul 25, 2023 • 4:15:24pm

re: #82 Nerdy Fish

Veterans of his campaign ‘team’ are reporting that no one on the team is valued except the two DeSantises.

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jaunte  Jul 25, 2023 • 4:16:25pm

re: #88 Backwoods Sleuth

Waiting impatiently for the herring.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 25, 2023 • 4:17:22pm

re: #85 Teddy’s Person

Does Ozzie like to be photographed as much as it seems in posted pictures?

That face just screams - I’m too sexy for my fur…

It’s the pony tail, right? It’s totally the pony tail. 😂

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jaunte  Jul 25, 2023 • 4:17:58pm

Mastodon

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 25, 2023 • 4:19:19pm

re: #90 Captain Ron

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The documents don’t say what they want so are they demanding Zuck manufacture evidence? Or maybe they’ll have some “whistleblowers” who will come forward, as least until they have to flee because they are under indictment for criminal activity.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 25, 2023 • 4:19:32pm

lol

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jul 25, 2023 • 4:21:07pm

re: #96 Backwoods Sleuth

lol. That one backfired.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 25, 2023 • 4:21:43pm
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Florida Panhandler  Jul 25, 2023 • 4:24:05pm

re: #80 Captain Ron

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I would start pulling US Military assets and families out of these Red States that refuse to follow Constitutional demands of the Federal Govt. wanna play games? Let’s see how these states do with far less US Military presence and that all-important $$$ spending.

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Captain Ron  Jul 25, 2023 • 4:26:46pm

re: #99 Florida Panhandler

I wouldn’t let them seat anybody elected from an illegal map.

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Belafon  Jul 25, 2023 • 4:29:56pm

Not only is Trump leading the other Republicans by huge margins in early primary states, DeSantis can’t even make the case that he’s the second place candidate:

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darthstar  Jul 25, 2023 • 4:30:20pm

re: #90 Captain Ron

Shorter Jordan: Stop sending us what we ask for and make up the evidence we really want!

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darthstar  Jul 25, 2023 • 4:33:35pm

re: #101 Belafon

Not only is Trump leading the other Republicans by huge margins in early primary states, DeSantis can’t even make the case that he’s the second place candidate:

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DeSantis’ biggest error is assuming that he was the heir apparent of the GOP and then going full fascist trying to out-Trump Trump because he has the power of the governor’s office. I’d be surprised if he polled in second place in Florida.

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wrenchwench  Jul 25, 2023 • 4:35:11pm

Look at the cargo pants on that bee.

Mastodon

Also known as a ‘bundlebee’.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 25, 2023 • 4:36:17pm

re: #69 wrenchwench

I still prefer Mastodon, but it has a big time advantage. I mean, it has the advantage that I started there earlier. ohai.social no invite needed.

The podcast at the top of this thread talks about their CSAM problem and writes them off entirely.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 25, 2023 • 4:36:41pm

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Belafon  Jul 25, 2023 • 4:37:09pm

I’m not gonna bother with the inner tweet because I’m sure it’s full of “Democrats don’t actually care”:

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Teddy's Person  Jul 25, 2023 • 4:38:23pm

re: #93 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

It’s the pony tail, right? It’s totally the pony tail. 😂

We should rename it the “Ozzie Tail.”

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 25, 2023 • 4:39:26pm

re: #107 Belafon

I’m not gonna bother with the inner tweet because I’m sure it’s full of “Democrats don’t actually care”:

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Did… did that guy just try to slippery slope giving kids school lunches? What the actual fuck?

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wrenchwench  Jul 25, 2023 • 4:39:27pm

re: #105 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

The podcast at the top of this thread talks about their CSAM problem and writes them off entirely.

If I see that report backed up by anything in the future, I’ll start paying attention to it.

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EPR-radar  Jul 25, 2023 • 4:39:50pm

re: #100 Captain Ron

I wouldn’t let them seat anybody elected from an illegal map.

The easiest way (and damn near the only way, actually) for a lawyer to get disbarred is getting convicted of a crime. That strongly suggests the following legal reform — disbar all Republicans, since Republicans are either convicted of their crimes, or badly need to be convicted of their crimes.

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KGxvi  Jul 25, 2023 • 4:40:32pm

re: #8 A Cranky One

It’s been 20 years and I’m still upset we never got Darth Jar Jar

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EPR-radar  Jul 25, 2023 • 4:40:59pm

re: #109 Nerdy Fish

Did… did that guy just try to slippery slope giving kids school lunches? What the actual fuck?

He’s a goddamnrepublican. Naturally the party of slavery v2.0 and Holocaust v2.0 has innumerable other awful positions.

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wrenchwench  Jul 25, 2023 • 4:41:51pm

re: #108 Teddy’s Person

We should rename it the “Ozzie Tail.”

When my twin sisters were toddlers, their hair was often done like that. We called them Tarantulas. ‘Ozzie Tail’ is better.

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EstebanTornado1963  Jul 25, 2023 • 4:42:32pm

This midget only got 127 likes on this hours old tweet (or whatever it’s called now)

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 25, 2023 • 4:42:42pm

re: #103 darthstar

DeSantis’ biggest error is assuming that he was the heir apparent of the GOP and then going full fascist trying to out-Trump Trump because he has the power of the governor’s office. I’d be surprised if he polled in second place in Florida.

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He’s always been a fascist. The race against Trump did not turn him into one.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 25, 2023 • 4:44:04pm

re: #110 wrenchwench

If I see that report backed up by anything in the future, I’ll start paying attention to it.

The study is from Stanford.

Mastodon, the decentralized network viewed as a viable alternative to Twitter, is rife with child sexual abuse material (CSAM), according to a new study from Stanford’s Internet Observatory (via The Washington Post). In just two days, researchers found 112 instances of known CSAM across 325,000 posts on the platform — with the first instance showing up after just five minutes of searching.

To conduct its research, the Internet Observatory scanned the 25 most popular Mastodon instances for CSAM. Researchers also employed Google’s SafeSearch API to identify explicit images, along with PhotoDNA, a tool that helps find flagged CSAM. During its search, the team found 554 pieces of content that matched hashtags or keywords often used by child sexual abuse groups online, all of which were identified as explicit in the “highest confidence” by Google SafeSearch.

There were also 713 uses of the top 20 CSAM-related hashtags across the Fediverse on posts that contained media, as well as 1,217 text-only posts that pointed to “off-site CSAM trading or grooming of minors.” The study notes that the open posting of CSAM is “disturbingly prevalent.”

Stanford researchers find Mastodon has a massive child abuse material problem (The Verge)

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 25, 2023 • 4:47:11pm

re: #103 darthstar

DeSantis’ biggest error is assuming that he was the heir apparent of the GOP and then going full fascist trying to out-Trump Trump because he has the power of the governor’s office. I’d be surprised if he polled in second place in Florida.

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ROTFLMFAO!

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wrenchwench  Jul 25, 2023 • 4:52:33pm

re: #117 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

The study is from Stanford.

Stanford researchers find Mastodon has a massive child abuse material problem (The Verge)

They are not on the top of my list for credibility, and one of the authors used to work for Facebook.

Tell me if I start going ‘conspiracisit’.

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KGxvi  Jul 25, 2023 • 4:53:23pm

re: #103 darthstar

DeSantis’ biggest error is assuming that he was the heir apparent of the GOP and then going full fascist trying to out-Trump Trump because he has the power of the governor’s office. I’d be surprised if he polled in second place in Florida.

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Chris Matthews used to say of presidential politics that “Democrats want to fall in love, Republicans fall in line.” It’s typically been a good career move to be the Republican heir apparent. It’s been less good for Democrats (especially when they try to clear the field in the primary, see 2000 and 2008 and 2016). DeSantis probably would have been the nominee if Trump were a normal president and retired to write his memoirs and do some speaking engagements and maybe get a seat or two on some corporate boards of governors. But instead he decided to do something we haven’t seen in modern American politics, and is running for office again. And so DeSantis has had to run a primary campaign dedicated to hollowing tusk that is the Republican base.

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darthstar  Jul 25, 2023 • 4:53:25pm

Mastodon

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darthstar  Jul 25, 2023 • 4:56:36pm

re: #120 KGxvi

Trump’s only running because he thinks it will keep him out of prison.

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 25, 2023 • 5:02:19pm

re: #122 darthstar

Trump’s only running because he thinks it will keep him out of prison.

I think it’s also because he will die without dopamine hits. And he reached a point of no return when for four years he was the most powerful man in the world.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 25, 2023 • 5:05:27pm

re: #123 Barefoot Grin

I think it’s also because he will die without dopamine hits. And he reached a point of no return when for four years he was the most powerful man in the world.

And perhaps because Putin wants him back in office. It’s a mistake to have dropped a real investigation into the relationship between Putin and Trump, and let toady Durham have the final say on this.

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No Malarkey!  Jul 25, 2023 • 5:13:28pm

Another rightwing pedophile

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Semper Fi  Jul 25, 2023 • 5:14:18pm

re: #123 Barefoot Grin

I think it’s also because he will die without dopamine hits. And he reached a point of no return when for four years he was the most powerful man in the world.

….

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 25, 2023 • 5:14:20pm

re: #119 wrenchwench

They are not on the top of my list for credibility, and one of the authors used to work for Facebook.

Tell me if I start going ‘conspiracisit’.

The quote below is from the comments at the Verge article. The terrible instances are blocked from the more reputable ones. It’s the negative side of not having a central authority. The same thing that makes it safe from billionaires makes it a platform that any monster can use. It’s up to law enforcement to take them down rather than a safety department.

The list of “most popular Mastodon instances” they worked from included some that everyone else defederated from years ago precisely because the rest of the network didn’t want loli-sharing creeps. According to one of the study authors, 95% of the instances with detected problems fell into the known creep/freeze peach lot, and the Oliphant unified Tier 0 blocklist would have blocked about 87% of the hits in their dataset. (Such a blocklist is basically “table stakes” for running a worthwhile fediverse instance nowadays.) So, yes, problems, but very fixable.

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 25, 2023 • 5:15:21pm

re: #125 No Malarkey!

Another rightwing pedophile

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If true, he needs to be Schlapped with the toughest laws his party supports.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 25, 2023 • 5:15:32pm

re: #125 No Malarkey!

Another rightwing pedophile

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Damn. That guy is finally going to go through some things.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 25, 2023 • 5:18:41pm

re: #125 No Malarkey!

Another rightwing pedophile

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That article is from April. How did we not hear about this before?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 25, 2023 • 5:18:45pm

re: #129 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Damn. That guy is finally going to go through some things.

We can all hope.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jul 25, 2023 • 5:19:28pm

The National Weather Service of Mt Holly NJ normally has both Facebook and Twitter on its home page. Tonight it is only showing Facebook.
weather.gov

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 25, 2023 • 5:25:10pm

Another day, another antisemitic attack

Mastodon

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 25, 2023 • 5:26:01pm

Mastodon

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darthstar  Jul 25, 2023 • 5:27:49pm

re: #123 Barefoot Grin

I think it’s also because he will die without dopamine hits. And he reached a point of no return when for four years he was the most powerful man in the world.

I suspect if he were to be incarcerated he’d decline so rapidly it would elicit a compassionate release.

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gocart mozart  Jul 25, 2023 • 5:32:35pm
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A Three Hour Tour  Jul 25, 2023 • 5:37:41pm

re: #130 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

That article is from April. How did we not hear about this before?

We did.
But we got swamped and distracted by so much other neverending crap that it slipped from collective memory.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 25, 2023 • 5:38:42pm
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 25, 2023 • 5:42:38pm

re: #136 gocart mozart

Fucking Elmo doesn’t allow non users to read threads.

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EPR-radar  Jul 25, 2023 • 5:49:35pm

re: #136 gocart mozart

All DeSantis supporters are Nazis. There’s no real difference between those that openly identify as such, and those who deny that’s what they are.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 25, 2023 • 5:50:41pm

It’s like the media are telling us to just take our meds and chill out. Nothing happening until you know, April or May next year. Just roll over and go back to sleep, everything’s fine, nitey-nite kids.

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EPR-radar  Jul 25, 2023 • 5:52:08pm

re: #141 Charles Johnson

It’s like the media are telling us to just take our meds and chill out. Nothing happening until you know, April or May next year. Just roll over and go back to sleep, everything’s fine, nitey-nite kids.

An opiate of the masses, as it were.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 25, 2023 • 5:52:15pm

re: #134 Vicious Babushka

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Most anyone can make daughters.
I don’t think he’s much of a dad

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Romantic Heretic  Jul 25, 2023 • 6:04:07pm

re: #43 Vicious Babushka

That’s the picture of a man who really fucking hates.

Nothing in particular. He just hates.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 25, 2023 • 6:10:43pm

re: #143 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

Most anyone can make daughters.
I don’t think he’s much of a dad

I have no knowledge of Ben’s relationship with his daughters, but given his ties to the conservative movement there is good reason to suspect that he doesn’t understand what it means to be a real father. OTOH, our RW very conservative brother always had fabulous relationships both with the daughters of the women he dated before he married and with the daughter of his wife from her first marriage. He has been a doting father and grandfather. So people can surprise you.

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Belafon  Jul 25, 2023 • 6:18:17pm

So, here in Red Texas, you learn early not to just walk up to people and talk liberal politics, even the people who are the parents of your kids’ friends. Being the more “Yes, I’m a liberal” type, I keep a LGBTQ+ Ally sticker and my Biden-Harris 2020 sticker on the car.

On Saturday, we went to the storage place where I keep all of my Halloween decorations and rented a small space for my son’s stuff from college to get it into a closer and cheaper place than the it’s at now. After renting, we followed the managers to the space to look at it. After I got out of the car, the guy said “I like your sticker.”

“Which one?”

“The Biden-Harris one. I have felt at times like I’m the only liberal out here. It’s good to know there are others.”

And that is why I haven’t taken off my sticker.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Jul 25, 2023 • 6:20:36pm

re: #145 Hecuba’s daughter

I have no knowledge of Ben’s relationship with his daughters, but given his ties to the conservative movement there is good reason to suspect that he doesn’t understand what it means to be a real father. OTOH, our RW very conservative brother always had fabulous relationships both with the daughters of the women he dated before he married and with the daughter of his wife from her first marriage. He has been a doting father and grandfather. So people can surprise you.

My ex gf has a daughter. She’s now a 19 year old college student. She hates her dad who is homo/trans/immigrant phobic. Not a trump supporter, but as close as you can get. I know it’s NYC, but this generation is much more open and woke than we every were. They will not put up with any hate. They are also concerned with the environment. Ben may have the same problems with his daughters, they may love him to a point, but hate everything he stands for. Musk has the same problem with his grown kids.

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wrenchwench  Jul 25, 2023 • 6:31:03pm

Mastodon

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 25, 2023 • 6:53:27pm

re: #145 Hecuba’s daughter

I have no knowledge of Ben’s relationship with his daughters, but given his ties to the conservative movement there is good reason to suspect that he doesn’t understand what it means to be a real father. OTOH, our RW very conservative brother always had fabulous relationships both with the daughters of the women he dated before he married and with the daughter of his wife from her first marriage. He has been a doting father and grandfather. So people can surprise you.

Also too, Ben could be all about performative bullshit where he rakes in millions in wingnut welfare. One honestly never knows.

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Captain Ron  Jul 25, 2023 • 6:55:25pm
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jaunte  Jul 25, 2023 • 6:59:39pm

Resh, or “X” cicadas.

Mastodon

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jaunte  Jul 25, 2023 • 7:03:04pm

zazzle.com

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TedStriker  Jul 25, 2023 • 7:09:38pm

re: #8 A Cranky One

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Captain Ron  Jul 25, 2023 • 7:11:01pm
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Belafon  Jul 25, 2023 • 7:14:33pm

re: #154 Captain Ron

Sounds like he’s doing his job.

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austin_blue  Jul 25, 2023 • 7:15:41pm

re: #80 Captain Ron

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Stop all Federal Funding to Alabama.

That’ll stop that bullshit real ricky tick.

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jaunte  Jul 25, 2023 • 7:16:18pm

Here’s a new 2024 sticker to share:

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austin_blue  Jul 25, 2023 • 7:21:06pm

re: #151 jaunte

Resh, or “X” cicadas.

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Goddamit, those are Dog Day cicadas, independent of any of the Brood populations.

No one I know in Texas calls them Resh cicadas.

I’ve been here since ‘89, and I’ve never herd the term.

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jaunte  Jul 25, 2023 • 7:21:53pm

re: #158 austin_blue

Alex Wild is an entomologist at UT, you could ask him.

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 25, 2023 • 7:23:19pm

re: #157 jaunte

Here’s a new 2024 sticker to share:

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The farm up the road that used to have a massive “Scott Jensen for Governor” sign in 2022 now has an even bigger “Trump 2024 Save America” banner hanging from the barn. I confess I legitimately do not understand the appeal of that man. Literally the only explanation I have is that the racists and other fuckweasels in the dregs of society like him because he gives them an excuse to be shitty people.

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jaunte  Jul 25, 2023 • 7:23:52pm

re: #160 Nerdy Fish

I think that’s it.

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silverdolphin  Jul 25, 2023 • 7:24:16pm

re: #154 Captain Ron

Lisa Glass
@LMplusG
*
FollowSo now they’re going after the dog? What a press corp.

The Associated Press
@AP
Secret Service records show that President Joe Biden’s dog Commander has bitten agency officers stationed at the White House 10 times between October 2022 and January. At least one biting incident required a trip to the hospital for the injured officer. apnews.com
6:29 PM * Jul 25, 2023

I wonder if we are finding out which Secret Service agents are trustworthy and which are Trumpers?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2023 • 7:24:18pm

hi

Last night during a clear, cool, windless night, while I was in the middle of annoying everyone here with conversation, most of rural Nebraska’s Internet service went out. CenturyLink couldn’t handle good weather apparently.

It just popped back on (on the telephone a couple hours ago they were giving estimates of up to a week).

re: #146 Belafon

So, here in Red Texas, you learn early not to just walk up to people and talk liberal politics, even the people who are the parents of your kids’ friends. Being the more “Yes, I’m a liberal” type, I keep a LGBTQ+ Ally sticker and my Biden-Harris 2020 sticker on the car.

On Saturday, we went to the storage place where I keep all of my Halloween decorations and rented a small space for my son’s stuff from college to get it into a closer and cheaper place than the it’s at now. After renting, we followed the managers to the space to look at it. After I got out of the car, the guy said “I like your sticker.”

“Which one?”

“The Biden-Harris one. I have felt at times like I’m the only liberal out here. It’s good to know there are others.”

And that is why I haven’t taken off my sticker.

I’ve never been in the habit of putting political stickers on my car, though I do have an Equal Rights Campaign sticker on it.

During the 2016 Democratic Primary season I did put a Bernie Sanders sticker on it. Without fail, every time we went to Wyoming and parked somewhere, there was either a vitriolic hand-written note or a Christian tract stuffed under the wipers.

On the other hand, when we went to Canada that year, we got lots of thumbs-up from people.

I did get one group of drunk men outside a bar in Regina who started harassing me over being a “warmonger” over my Gold Star Family plates and my ribbon bar sticker. It took very little time for the bar to call the cops and all of a sudden those folks got real polite.

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The GOP is a Terrorist Organization  Jul 25, 2023 • 7:29:18pm

Expel Florida from the Union.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 25, 2023 • 7:30:19pm

Business as usual at the cone, but a few hundred meters to the north there is another glow in the fog/vog:

iceland volcano 25 July 2023

That can happen if there is a lava pool that has been building up, but that is pretty far to the north, and it is sort of uphill.

It’s also where the third fissure had opened. There there three fissures at the beginning, but only the middle fissure created the current cone.

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jaunte  Jul 25, 2023 • 7:30:50pm

re: #164 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization

Meanwhile Florida citizens keep finding it harder to find insurance for their houses.

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jaunte  Jul 25, 2023 • 7:31:35pm

Omar Sea level comin’.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 25, 2023 • 7:31:56pm

re: #164 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization

Expect to see more Florida entries at sorryantivaxxer.com.

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 25, 2023 • 7:33:22pm

re: #164 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization

Expel Florida from the Union.

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I’d want some confirmation on that. That account is pretty clearly a right-wing fever swamp victim, so I don’t trust them not to post some dumb spoof/parody.

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BlueSpotinAL ✅  Jul 25, 2023 • 7:33:36pm

re: #154 Captain Ron

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Since Commander has bitten at least 10 times, now we know which member of the Biden family dropped their cocaine.

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Belafon  Jul 25, 2023 • 7:33:52pm

re: #164 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization

Expel Florida from the Union.

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There are a whole lot of crackpots in the replies.

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sizzzzlerz  Jul 25, 2023 • 7:34:35pm

Saw Oppenheimer this afternoon at the IMAX theater. It’s a master work by Christopher Nolan and an Oscar-worthy performance by Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer. I’ve read about the creation of the A-bomb but it was interesting seeing it come to life by the men who were the greatest minds in modern physics of the 20th century. The 3 hour run time seem to just blaze by. Definitely worth seeing, especially on the IMAX screen. Be warned, however, it is very loud.

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silverdolphin  Jul 25, 2023 • 7:35:21pm

‘This was a lie’: Another fact in the anti-LGBTQ Supreme Court wedding website case was false

She and her lawyers stated under oath several tmes she had never made a web site because she was afraid that a gay couple would force her to make a cake. Turns out she never heard of the Wayback Machine, which shows that she did have a web site. One that was good enough that her website designer used it as an example in HER portfolio.

Nothing shows the corruption of this activity court than this case.

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Belafon  Jul 25, 2023 • 7:35:28pm

re: #168 Joe Bacon ✅

Expect to see more Florida entries at sorryantivaxxer.com.

Possibly, but we’ve moved to the point where the virus isn’t causing enough deaths to make people worry. Their ban, with sane people going to other states to get it, will basically be used to say “Look, we banned it and no more people got extra sick.”

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Belafon  Jul 25, 2023 • 7:36:27pm

re: #173 silverdolphin

Mastodon

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jaunte  Jul 25, 2023 • 7:36:31pm

Politifact says false. Brevard county GOP is messed up, though.

The claim is based on the latest instance of county Republican Party leaders in Florida claiming that the vaccines are bioweapons and calling for them to be banned.

Florida state officials have not moved to enact such a ban.
politifact.com

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2023 • 7:37:02pm

re: #164 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization

Expel Florida from the Union.

“Illegal to take the vaccine?”

It was never going to stop with abortion or LGBT care. The Christian Party is determined to drag medicine all the way back to Dark Ages (the Golden Age of Christianity).

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 25, 2023 • 7:38:11pm

Mastodon

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Belafon  Jul 25, 2023 • 7:40:01pm

re: #178 Vicious Babushka

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Have you Xcreted today?

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jaunte  Jul 25, 2023 • 7:40:21pm

re: #178 Vicious Babushka

Extravant, excessive expectation.

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 25, 2023 • 7:41:22pm

MOAR XCREMENT

Mastodon

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jaunte  Jul 25, 2023 • 7:42:01pm

“At least eight local Republican parties in Florida have made the [bioweapon] claim about the vaccines and called for them to be banned.”
politifact.com

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2023 • 7:44:07pm

re: #169 Nerdy Fish

I’d want some confirmation on that. That account is pretty clearly a right-wing fever swamp victim, so I don’t trust them not to post some dumb spoof/parody.

It’s legit. The wingnut is cheering the move. From the article in question (with the video):

County GOP: COVID-19 vaccine is a bioweapon (WPEC-TV, West Palm Beach, July 13, 2023)

MELBOURNE, Fla. (CBS12) — The Brevard County Republican Executive Committee (BREC) has voted on a controversial proposal.

Group leaders have written the first draft of a letter they want to send to Gov. Ron DeSantis and other state officials, calling on them to make the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines illegal in Florida.

The Republicans on Space Coast are a powerful voice in the state. Brevard County is the 10th largest county by population in Florida; it is home to the Kennedy Space Center, a popular tourist destination Cocoa Beach. It’s the neighboring county to the north of The Treasure Coast. (more)

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 25, 2023 • 7:44:52pm

re: #183 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

It’s legit. The wingnut is cheering the move. From the article in question (with the video):

County GOP: COVID-19 vaccine is a bioweapon (WPEC-TV, West Palm Beach, July 13, 2023)

As noted below, the state Republicans are not doing this yet, though many of the local crazies are calling for it.

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jaunte  Jul 25, 2023 • 7:45:44pm

re: #183 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Why Is the Villages Known as ‘The STD Capital of America?’
usnews.com

Poor judgment?

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austin_blue  Jul 25, 2023 • 7:47:21pm

re: #159 jaunte

Alex Wild is an entomologist at UT, you could ask him.

And prevent me from doing my own Research?!?!

Are you insane?!?!

///

Oh, wait, I can call him at [no phone numbers allowed] to talk to him and ask him why he replaced the colloquial Dog Day Cicada designation with Resh.

Resh is the actual Subspecies designation of the Species.

BUT, that seems to make him an asshole who wants to insert a new normative name for an insect that has been named for centuries.

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Belafon  Jul 25, 2023 • 7:54:16pm

re: #186 austin_blue

And prevent me from doing my own Research?!?!

Are you insane?!?!

///

Oh, wait, I can call him at [no phone numbers allowed] to talk to him and ask him why he replaced the colloquial Dog Day Cicada designation with Resh.

Resh is the actual Subspecies designation of the Species.

BUT, that seems to make him an asshole who wants to insert a new normative name for an insect that has been named for centuries.

OR, he’s being a scientist and using the correct terminology for the one in the picture and the rest of us like to use the terms in a more vague way.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2023 • 7:55:24pm

re: #174 Belafon

Possibly, but we’ve moved to the point where the virus isn’t causing enough deaths to make people worry. Their ban, with sane people going to other states to get it, will basically be used to say “Look, we banned it and no more people got extra sick.”

The problem is it never caused conservatives to worry, because they were consistently lied to.

Meanwhile sane people are still doing everything they can to avoid exposure because the virus isn’t less virulent (as some claimed it would become early in the pandemic with no evidence to support the claim, primarily because capitalists were losing money).

ourworldindata.org

Vaccinated: 0.17 death rate per 100,000
Unvaccinated: 0.61 per 100,000 (about four times higher)

Case rates have been sabotaged since the beginning by red states such as Florida and Nebraska.

Covid Data Tracker (CDC)

Bivalent vaccine doses distributed: 144,182,870 (less than half the population)
Hospitalisations: 7,109 (up 10.3% in the week ending July 15)
DEATH: 0.9% of all cases (no change over the last week, or 1 in 100: if that was lotto ticket odds I would sell my house to buy tickets)

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jaunte  Jul 25, 2023 • 7:55:58pm

re: #186 austin_blue

You can easily torture an entomologist with careless talk about “bugs.”

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A Three Hour Tour  Jul 25, 2023 • 8:00:55pm

re: #189 jaunte

You can easily torture an entomologist with careless talk about “bugs.”

It’s just like mentioning RICO in front of Popehat.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2023 • 8:06:27pm

Latest MedCram video on Covid-19 (two weeks ago, 20:05)

US Excess Mortality Down

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austin_blue  Jul 25, 2023 • 8:06:40pm

re: #187 Belafon

OR, he’s being a scientist and using the correct terminology for the one in the picture and the rest of us like to use the terms in a more vague way.

They’re Dog Day cicadas. They are annoying as hell, they have been in Texas long before humans arrived in Texas, and they have been called Dog Day cicadas for hundreds of years.

And now you are supporting a single biologist at UT to overturn centuries of folk wisdom to rename a hated/beloved Texas icon based not on its species name, but its subspecies name?

Shame!

///

It’s a fucking Dog Day cicada. Full stop.

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jaunte  Jul 25, 2023 • 8:10:02pm

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austin_blue  Jul 25, 2023 • 8:14:20pm

re: #193 jaunte

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Well, I guess you put me in my place.

How many more sarc tags did I need to put in my post? Damn, I thought we were having a bit of fun.

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jaunte  Jul 25, 2023 • 8:14:42pm

re: #194 austin_blue

We are!

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retired cynic  Jul 25, 2023 • 8:14:58pm

re: #194 austin_blue

I was hoping you both were!

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wrenchwench  Jul 25, 2023 • 8:16:09pm

re: #196 retired cynic

I was hoping you both were!

There may have been spectators.

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jaunte  Jul 25, 2023 • 8:16:12pm

If we can’t have fun with vernacular bug talk, where are we as a species?

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wrenchwench  Jul 25, 2023 • 8:17:36pm

Mastodon

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 25, 2023 • 8:17:49pm

re: #154 Captain Ron

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austin_blue  Jul 25, 2023 • 8:18:56pm

Probably all beetles given the number of species.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 25, 2023 • 8:23:25pm

re: #186 austin_blue

And prevent me from doing my own Research?!?!

Are you insane?!?!

///

Oh, wait, I can call him at [no phone numbers allowed] to talk to him and ask him why he replaced the colloquial Dog Day Cicada designation with Resh.

Resh is the actual Subspecies designation of the Species.

BUT, that seems to make him an asshole who wants to insert a new normative name for an insect that has been named for centuries.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 25, 2023 • 8:24:40pm

re: #174 Belafon

Possibly, but we’ve moved to the point where the virus isn’t causing enough deaths to make people worry. Their ban, with sane people going to other states to get it, will basically be used to say “Look, we banned it and no more people got extra sick.”

Yep. It may be about as lethal as the flu these days — though I don’t know the effects on someone who is unvaccinated or has not had the boosters. A friend who had 3 vaccinations was infected in May this year and hospitalized for 5 days due to low oxygen. But she did survive. The evidence is that the combination of a less lethal virus and better treatment means that population mortality statistics apparently are now about the same as the pre-pandemic level.

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jaunte  Jul 25, 2023 • 8:26:09pm

re: #203 Hecuba’s daughter

What worries me about it is the prospect of surviving an infection, but not being able to take a full breath.

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austin_blue  Jul 25, 2023 • 8:26:36pm

re: #194 austin_blue

Well, I guess you put me in my place.

How many more sarc tags did I need to put in my post? Damn, I thought we were having a bit of fun.

Oops, my bad. It’s late, I get stupider as the night goes on.

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silverdolphin  Jul 25, 2023 • 8:27:20pm

re: #175 Belafon

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TL:DR I disagree. There is a lot we can do. Every fascist state eventually lost to a more democratic state. Fascists always win early but lose late. We are in the ‘lose late ’ period. While Israel is a good example of what we have to worry about, the US is a very different place with a system designed to make full scale fascism more difficult. We will spend the next 18 months fighting to demonstrate that.
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I’m thinking that we will be seeing the difference the arc of fascism between coalition, parliamentary governments and ours. And a huge difference between a country of 9 million and one of over 350 million. Netanyahu, who controls all the legislative and executive powers, can use the minority factions against each other making it harder for them to organize and fight back. Hitler showed how a fascist can control a parliament and direction of a country

Our system divides the power that Netanyahu has in 3 ways - making it so much harder to get a majority to go along with fascist rules. Not impossible but much harder than a parliamentary government.

And, the Dems are fighting back pretty effectively now. This is not 2016 anymore. Millions of Trumpers have died. Millions of lberal Gen Z are young adults.The vast majority of Dems know the danger of Trump and they are a majority with control now of 2 of the 3 areas of power. With, I think , a pretty good chance of getting all 3 if we continue to actively fight back.

But even if somehow the GOP gets control of all three branches, say by cheating, they do not control everything. The President is not a king and the leaders of Blue states would have tremendous power to thwart him. For example, Netanyahu has security forces larg enough to intimidate civilians. Not Trump.

Lots of empiric evidence shows that to successfully be able to control a population there needs to be 1 security officer per 50 civilians (at the momnent, The best Netanyahu can get is about 1 per 100 civilians, which is why the protests will continue no matter how violent they get). WIth our entire military, Trump could control California. And if every police officer in the US went with Trump, he could control NY. If he could somehow transport them.

But Texas and Florida have more Democrats than any other state except California. How does he control them?

I really think that America is too big, with too large and divese a popuilation and tremendously dispersed political power to sustain an authoritarian fascist for long.

But we have to fight back because that fascist could do a lot of damage and kill a lot of people. We are in a great position to be active participants oin the politcal battle, not reactive ones.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 25, 2023 • 8:27:26pm
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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 25, 2023 • 8:36:14pm

MegaMillions numbers

3, 5, 6, 44, and 61, and Mega Ball 25. Multiplier was 4X

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KingKenrod  Jul 25, 2023 • 8:40:14pm

re: #158 austin_blue

Goddamit, those are Dog Day cicadas, independent of any of the Brood populations.

No one I know in Texas calls them Resh cicadas.

I’ve been here since ‘89, and I’ve never herd the term.

I’ve been here my whole life and every southerner I know calls them “locusts”.

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jaunte  Jul 25, 2023 • 8:40:34pm

@theserfstv.bsky.social

Beavers banished to a remote Idaho valley have transformed the landscape into a lush wetland and a haven against fire and drought, satellite images show.

True, according to Yale:
e360.yale.edu

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 25, 2023 • 8:41:39pm

So if I’m understanding this correctly, we have here:

1) emacs vs. vim;
2) pineapple on pizza; and
3) cicadas.

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jaunte  Jul 25, 2023 • 8:41:55pm

FREE THE BEAVERS

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wrenchwench  Jul 25, 2023 • 8:42:02pm

re: #210 jaunte

@theserfstv.bsky.social

True, according to Yale:
e360.yale.edu

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Dam right.

(Local slogan)

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silverdolphin  Jul 25, 2023 • 8:52:16pm

re: #183 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

It’s legit. The wingnut is cheering the move. From the article in question (with the video):

County GOP: COVID-19 vaccine is a bioweapon (WPEC-TV, West Palm Beach, July 13, 2023)

(First, my potential conflict of interest : I spent 7 years as head of research of a small biotech company (7 FTEs) that developed a novel vaccine system based on Adenovirus. We were sold to a larger company now called ImmunityBio which is developing a COVID vaccine using our technology. So, what FL is talking about doing would make our system more valuable as it is based on different technology)

Just try it. It will make it even easier for democrats to flip Red states after the citizens of those states get to see the hospital system in the state go belly up due to COVID hospitalizations when a new strain erupts. On top of malaria and dengue fever hospitalizations.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2023 • 8:54:25pm

re: #203 Hecuba’s daughter

Yep. It may be about as lethal as the flu these days — though I don’t know the effects on someone who is unvaccinated or has not had the boosters. A friend who had 3 vaccinations was infected in May this year and hospitalized for 5 days due to low oxygen. But she did survive. The evidence is that the combination of a less lethal virus and better treatment means that population mortality statistics apparently are now about the same as the pre-pandemic level.

As the MedCram video notes, we are actually at a negative excess death rate, along with a few other countries. As he breaks out the data, it pretty much shows the reason for that is all the people that would have died this year were taken out with the first waves of Covid-19 (elderly, diabetes, obese, &c).

He also notes a troubling issue of the age group 0-14 is showing a rise in deaths.

In other countries such as South Africa, Brazil, the UK, and Nordic countries, the excess death rate is still chugging along.

The virus is not less lethal. We have better treatment now to help survive it (meaning if you have money or good insurance you have a better chance of survival).

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silverdolphin  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:00:41pm

re: #203 Hecuba’s daughter

Yep. It may be about as lethal as the flu these days — though I don’t know the effects on someone who is unvaccinated or has not had the boosters. A friend who had 3 vaccinations was infected in May this year and hospitalized for 5 days due to low oxygen. But she did survive. The evidence is that the combination of a less lethal virus and better treatment means that population mortality statistics apparently are now about the same as the pre-pandemic level.

The thing is, mRNA vaccines will be used more and more as time for newly emerging diseases because they are so rapidly generated at scale compared to other, older approaches. So what will they do when the next pandemic hits? Their law would prevent people from getting vaccinated.

And they will also be used to save people from cancer. Yet Floridians will die of cancer because they will not be allowed to use an RNA virus. Stupid indeed.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:05:06pm

re: #211 Nerdy Fish

So if I’m understanding this correctly, we have here:

1) emacs vs. vim;
2) pineapple on pizza; and
3) cicadas.

Dayton Restaurant makes cicada pizza

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:06:53pm

re: #216 silverdolphin

The thing is, mRNA vaccines will be used more and more as time for newly emerging diseases because they are so rapidly generated at scale compared to other, older approaches. So what will they do when the next pandemic hits? Their law would prevent people from getting vaccinated.

And they will also be used to save people from cancer. Yet Floridians will die of cancer because they will not be allowed to use an RNA virus. Stupid indeed.

The rich will go out-of-state; the poor will die.

Power over life-and-death is the ultimate expression of conservatism.

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:08:37pm

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:10:02pm

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Captain Ron  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:11:58pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:13:36pm

KWCH-TV, Wichita, Kans. Station interviews a woman who’s daughter was mauled to death by a grizzly bear in Yellowstone National Park.

The religious fruitcake declares “God is good.”

WEST YELLOWSTONE, Montana (AP) — Authorities searched Monday for a grizzly bear that attacked and killed a 47-year-old Derby woman on a trail west of Yellowstone National Park along the Montana-Idaho border.

The attack on Amie Adamson happened Saturday morning only a few hundred yards from a trailhead and private campground. There was no sign that the bear, which was traveling with at least one cub, tried to eat the victim, who appears to have been jogging when she was fatally mauled, said Morgan Jacobsen with Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks.

Authorities could not say for certain whether the victim was preyed upon or whether it was a chance encounter as she traveled alone in a wooded area frequented by grizzly and black bears.

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“She was an avid hiker, marathon runner and just a beautiful free spirit that didn’t care about possessions or material things,” Janet Adamson said. “She lived for experiences. God is so good. He took her by nature, not by any evil deed, bad accident or bad illness. He took her where she was out doing what she loved and that gives us comfort.”

(more)

Derby woman killed by grizzly bear near Yellowstone National Park (July 24, 2023)

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:14:52pm

Mastodon

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William Lewis  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:15:12pm

re: #221 Captain Ron

Shouldn’t that be “Who cares who” she is?

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silverdolphin  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:19:15pm

re: #218 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The rich will go out-of-state; the poor will die.

Power over life-and-death is the ultimate expression of conservatism.

Biden could activate the National Guard and use them to distribute the vaccine. Like some Thrd world country. Or put Navy hospital ships in the harbors. Because it is not about saving the vaccinated but mainly those that cannot get a vaccine, such as the young and immunocompromised. That is why it is a public health problem.

We have already seen what happens with something like measles when vaccination rates drop. Another coronavirus or other pandemic (ebola?) might change a lot of minds. Especially with decaying bodies in the streets because refrigeration trucks and morgues are full.. Real panic would set in.

Would it though? Change minds? Not sure at all. But the people dying at the highest rates would likely be the stupid ones. That might affect things eventually.

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:22:06pm

wth?

Mastodon

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silverdolphin  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:24:37pm

re: #222 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

KWCH-TV, Wichita, Kans. Station interviews a woman who’s daughter was mauled to death by a grizzly bear in Yellowstone National Park.

The religious fruitcake declares “God is good.”

—-

(more)

Derby woman killed by grizzly bear near Yellowstone National Park (July 24, 2023)

JFC!! (yes, I know) The old “As God wills ii” fallacy.

She was jogging in grizzly territory, with no precautions, and suprised a mother with her cub. It certainly was an accident because maybe if she made more noise while jogging, the bear would not have been surprised .

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William Lewis  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:25:23pm

re: #225 silverdolphin

Would it though? Change minds? Not sure at all. But the people dying at the highest rates would likely be the stupid ones. That might affect things eventually.

Nope. Faux would blame it on the Democrats and the morons would believe it even as they cough their lungs out with their dying breath. Unless it killed them all before election day, I doubt it’ll change anything in this generation.

We have to hope the younger ones haven’t had all their brain cells poisoned or beaten out of them.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:26:10pm

re: #225 silverdolphin

Biden could activate the National Guard and use them to distribute the vaccine. Like some Thrd world country. Or put Navy hospital ships in the harbors. Because it is not about saving the vaccinated but mainly those that cannot get a vaccine, such as the young and immunocompromised. That is why it is a public health problem.

We have already seen what happens with something like measles when vaccination rates drop. Another coronavirus or other pandemic (ebola?) might change a lot of minds. Especially with decaying bodies in the streets because refrigeration trucks and morgues are full.. Real panic would set in.

Would it though? Change minds? Not sure at all. But the people dying at the highest rates would likely be the stupid ones. That might affect things eventually.

Conservatism (not political but over-caution) is not a strategy for survival in evolution (wait, they don’t “believe” in evolution either). That is why the death rate is so much higher amongst Republicans than Democrats, and why so-called independents are in-between (it’s taking out the conservative independents).

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silverdolphin  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:28:48pm

re: #226 Patricia Kayden

wth?

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I think there is an opportunity to set up a private library bookmobile that could check out the books that they want banned from schools, etc. Funded by private groups.

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silverdolphin  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:39:31pm

re: #228 William Lewis

Nope. Faux would blame it on the Democrats and the morons would believe it even as they cough their lungs out with their dying breath. Unless it killed them all before election day, I doubt it’ll change anything in this generation.

We have to hope the younger ones haven’t had all their brain cells poisoned or beaten out of them.

Just checked. 81% of the population in Florida have 1 COVID vaccination and 68% are fully vaccinated, higher than any other Red state.. The stupid in Florida are a minority.

Now if it was Louisiana or Mississippi. There the stupid are almost as many as the vaccinated.

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Targetpractice  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:43:46pm

re: #207 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

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The hilarious bit about all this is that there’s no unified hymn sheets, thus everybody’s making up their own bullshit excuses for why they “need” this inquiry to happen. Some are squealing that it’s about “bribes” that you have to “infer” from bank statements and “witnesses” who either refuse to testify under oath or are on the run from multiple felony charges, while others want it to be about Hunter and allegations that the Trump White House “obstructed” the investigation into his heinous crimes so that the people were unaware of his huge schlong until after the election where they totally would have reelected Trump if they’d known that rich guys lie on their taxes and then pay them back for little more than a “wrist slap.”

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A Cranky One  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:47:14pm

re: #85 Teddy’s Person

Ozzie does think he’s one cool dog. ;-)

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:47:41pm

re: #231 silverdolphin

That’s good to hear. I have a friend in Florida who is rabidly anti-vax. Good to know that she’s in the minority. I wish Floridians would vote for politicians who weren’t pushing lies about Covid vaccines.

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silverdolphin  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:49:11pm

re: #229 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Conservatism (not political but over-caution) is not a strategy for survival in evolution (wait, they don’t “believe” in evolution either). That is why the death rate is so much higher amongst Republicans than Democrats, and why so-called independents are in-between (it’s taking out the conservative independents).

As Feynman said, “Nature cannot be fooled.” It always wins. Ignore it at your own risk. We saw it with Challenger and they would see it with a real pandemic with high mortality. Good riddance, I guess.

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:49:35pm

Mastodon

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:50:29pm

re: #230 silverdolphin

I think there is an opportunity to set up a private library bookmobile that could check out the books that they want banned from schools, etc. Funded by private groups.

The library in question is a non-profit organisation (most public libraries are run that way). Like our village public library, the fascists are calling for the county to end all funding (the county provides 75% of the money and most of it has successfully held up).

Reading both the county commission and library board meeting comments, it is the same conservative parrot talking points: “woke,” “radical left library board” (I never met anyone on a library board who was radical anything), the Washington Post is “fake news,” Breitbart was at the friggin’ library board meeting.

The fascists are even calling to sever all ties with the American Library Association because they’re “woke” and “radical leftists” and book publishers are “pushing perverted LGBT+ ideology on children.”

None of this crap has come to our village. There is an advantage to having almost no Internet service in my county.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:57:03pm

Reddit’s r/ReligiousFruitcake
Lol the Barbie movie is a threat to this commentators life.

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silverdolphin  Jul 25, 2023 • 9:59:23pm

re: #234 Patricia Kayden

That’s good to hear. I have a friend in Florida who is rabidly anti-vax. Good to know that she’s in the minority. I wish Floridians would vote for politicians who weren’t pushing lies about Covid vaccines.

Rick Scott won the Florida Senate seat in 2018 by 10,000 votes. That is much less than the differential deaths between Democrats and Republicans due to COVID. Could make a difference. Hope springs eternal.

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goddamnedfrank  Jul 25, 2023 • 10:00:03pm

Doesn’t look like BlueSky embeds are working yet, so here’s my first stand alone post.

Feels like one of the adaptations COVID evolved to reproduce itself was to degrade people’s already poor capacity for assessing risk, which then expresses itself in militant opposition to masks and vaccines, the same way Toxoplasma gondii lowers mice’s innate fear of cats.

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silverdolphin  Jul 25, 2023 • 10:04:52pm

re: #237 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The library in question is a non-profit organisation (most public libraries are run that way). Like our village public library, the fascists are calling for the county to end all funding (the county provides 75% of the money and most of it has successfully held up).

Reading both the county commission and library board meeting comments, it is the same conservative parrot talking points: “woke,” “radical left library board” (I never met anyone on a library board who was radical anything), the Washington Post is “fake news,” Breitbart was at the friggin’ library board meeting.

The fascists are even calling to sever all ties with the American Library Association because they’re “woke” and “radical leftists” and book publishers are “pushing perverted LGBT+ ideology on children.”

None of this crap has come to our village. There is an advantage to having almost no Internet service in my county.

Here is how they fail - public libraries in Blue states are letting teens from these Red states borrow banned books. Even if the Luddites succeed in a local library, the internet makes it easy to still access the books. Not perfect but it cannot be stopped.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 25, 2023 • 10:08:45pm

Movie Night at the GOP Congress…

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jul 25, 2023 • 10:09:32pm

re: #230 silverdolphin

I think there is an opportunity to set up a private library bookmobile that could check out the books that they want banned from schools, etc. Funded by private groups.

Already done — it’s the Move On Banned Bookmobile. They are accepting donations (I don’t have a link).

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 25, 2023 • 10:11:21pm

This is the most f’d up commercial ever…

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jaunte  Jul 25, 2023 • 10:13:28pm

re: #242 Joe Bacon ✅

How many youth pastors are invited?

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silverdolphin  Jul 25, 2023 • 10:14:21pm

re: #242 Joe Bacon ✅

Movie Night at the GOP Congress…

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Jeffries needs to hold a screening of Barbie with Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling to discuss labor issues in Hollywood. And give anyone who attends the opportunity to get a selfie with them. Even Republicans ;-)

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 25, 2023 • 10:14:40pm

re: #245 jaunte

How many youth pastors are invited?

I’m sure a lot of Trump’s Pulpit Pimp Posse were in attendance.

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teleskiguy  Jul 25, 2023 • 10:17:24pm

Selfie. Here’s what I look like tonight.

@teleskiguy.bsky.social

Feeling pretty. Might delete later.

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silverdolphin  Jul 25, 2023 • 10:21:59pm

re: #243 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

Already done — it’s the Move On Banned Bookmobile. They are accepting donations (I don’t have a link).

Thanks. Here is the webpage And here is the donation page.

And Little Free Libraries are seeing a large increase in banned books.

There are ways to route around the damage.

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Targetpractice  Jul 25, 2023 • 10:25:11pm

re: #242 Joe Bacon ✅

Movie Night at the GOP Congress…

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Good to know that they’re wisely using the hours left before the August Recess.

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Belafon  Jul 25, 2023 • 10:26:18pm

This is teefury’s contribution:

teefury.com

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teleskiguy  Jul 25, 2023 • 10:27:26pm

Mastodon

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2023 • 10:31:09pm

re: #244 Joe Bacon ✅

This is the most f’d up commercial ever…

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Had to kill that right away due to the strobe graphics.

I’ve learned after the attack on people at the Epilepsy Foundation’s former forum to always have a hand on the computer top to instantly close it when people put up videos and do not warn about strobes.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2023 • 10:35:53pm

God is Good: Take two.

Woman thanks God for a delivery person who brought her a Chik-fil-A meal while she was being told in the hospital that her daughter is brain dead and will not recover.

I tried to link directly to Imgur but for some reason the comment won’t post with a link, so you get the summary from r/ReligiousFruitcake

Daughter is brain dead… but at least God provided Chick-fil-A

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William Lewis  Jul 25, 2023 • 10:39:16pm

re: #253 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Had to kill that right away due to the strobe graphics.

I’ve learned after the attack on people at the Epilepsy Foundation’s former forum to always have a hand on the computer top to instantly close it when people put up videos and do not warn about strobes.

Hrm. Was going to post a music video but it does have a lot of flashing lights, disco ball and the like. Good reminder.

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Targetpractice  Jul 25, 2023 • 10:46:52pm

Fucking lovely. Internet access for the entire property has crashed yet again in the middle of the night with no explanation and no idea when it will be restored except for the front desk terminals which magically are working and will probably only stay working for another 20-30 minutes in order for me to print the nightly reports and then crash before my coworker shows up in the morning.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jul 25, 2023 • 10:48:36pm

re: #249 silverdolphin

Thanks. Here is the webpage And here is the donation page.

And Little Free Libraries are seeing a large increase in banned books.

There are ways to route around the damage.

Thanks for finding them. I get their emails, but standing at a bus stop is not the best place for posting anything but plain text.

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mmmirele  Jul 25, 2023 • 10:50:59pm

re: #46 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Look, I can’t take Russell Moore seriously because even though he has stepped up regarding abuse and Trump, he still holds some of the really horrible beliefs of Evangelicalism. These include women are second class (Moore famously said back in 2007 that the people pushing “complementarianism” should actually just call it patriarchy) and anti-LGBTQIA bullshit.

So no, not a nice guy, not getting a pass from me. Plus, if he really wanted to reform Evangelicalism, he’s editor in chief of Christianity Today. He could start there, but it’s not going to happen.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 25, 2023 • 10:53:55pm

re: #244 Joe Bacon ✅

This is the most f’d up commercial ever…

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Wonder if the scumbag Frank Luntz was involved in making the ad; really disgusting and outrageous.

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Captain Ron  Jul 25, 2023 • 10:56:17pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 25, 2023 • 10:56:55pm

Barbie (the doll, not the movie) looks like Barbie because of the effects of tuberculosis, according to wingnut TikTok streamer John Green. Apparently he hasn’t heard of the actual history of the Barbie doll and its connexion to the former Bild Lili doll from West Germany.

Reddit’s r/NotHowGirlsWork (video, 1:31)

John Green just taught me that society’s ideal for weak-bodied women comes from a beauty standard of ✨having✨ tuberculosis…

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Captain Ron  Jul 25, 2023 • 11:15:22pm

YouTube

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William Lewis  Jul 25, 2023 • 11:19:51pm

They should have arranged for a P-51 to buzz the field for the landing … O_O

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Captain Ron  Jul 25, 2023 • 11:25:09pm
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teleskiguy  Jul 25, 2023 • 11:29:07pm

I’m going to do this.

wlewisiii, I’m a snowflake. You used rightwing terminology to describe me.

Thanks. You made me feel like I should KMS.

I’m okay, I’m not going to do anything of the sort.

I hadn’t thought about suicide *seriously* in a long time. Lots of things have been going down in my life the last few weeks. You didn’t help.

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JC1  Jul 25, 2023 • 11:51:50pm

re: #244 Joe Bacon ✅

This is the most f’d up commercial ever…

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Kind of catchy. I like the 80s techno music. Going to be a hit with the Lose Change and Qanon crowd.

And I’ll wager that this ad is nothing compared to what these two would have put on if TV was available in their day:
mentalfloss.com

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teleskiguy  Jul 25, 2023 • 11:58:30pm

Parker Molloy went and done done it.

Ben Shapiro Barbie Girl

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:09:22am

re: #266 JC1

Kind of catchy. I like the 80s techno music. Going to be a bit with the Lose Change and Qanon crowd.

And I’ll wager that this ad is nothing compared to what these two would have put on if TV was available in their day:”

Right out of the gate, one of the worst things you could be in American politics was an atheist. (“Libertine” was employed as loose sexual mores against atheists since the beginning as well.)

Things got ugly fast. Jefferson’s camp accused President Adams of having a “hideous hermaphroditical character, which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman.” In return, Adams’ men called Vice President Jefferson “a mean-spirited, low-lived fellow, the son of a half-breed Indian squaw, sired by a Virginia mulatto father.” As the slurs piled on, Adams was labeled a fool, a hypocrite, a criminal, and a tyrant, while Jefferson was branded a weakling, an atheist, a libertine, and a coward. Even Martha Washington succumbed to the propaganda, telling a clergyman that Jefferson was “one of the most detestable of mankind.”

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Targetpractice  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:10:40am

re: #267 teleskiguy

Parker Molloy went and done done it.

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Can I just save myself time and claw my eyes out now?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:12:38am

re: #267 teleskiguy

Parker Molloy went and done done it.

LOL

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:14:22am

[deleted by me]

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:19:46am

re: #270 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

There, I fixed it. Wrong set of brackets.

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Captain Ron  Jul 26, 2023 • 1:16:09am
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sagehen  Jul 26, 2023 • 1:19:47am

re: #268 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Even Martha Washington succumbed to the propaganda, telling a clergyman that Jefferson was “one of the most detestable of mankind.”

Betcha Sally Hemmings would agree with that characterization.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 26, 2023 • 1:22:10am

re: #274 sagehen

Betcha Sally Hemmings would agree with that characterization.

Republicans: Sally Hemings was just being taught a skill she could use later. /s

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sagehen  Jul 26, 2023 • 1:22:32am

PBS is running a series on Southern Storytellers; episode 2 is made to order for this crowd here.
pbs.org

Six of the South’s most influential creators take us home to the places that define them: author Angie Thomas to Mississippi; singer/songwriter Jason Isbell to his musical Alabama roots while Amanda Shires takes us to the farm the couple shares; Michael Twitty revisits rural Alabama; Lyle Lovett remembers the Texas of his childhood; and Qui Nguyen returns to his Arkansas small town.

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 26, 2023 • 1:34:35am

Re: Commander. Probably unpopular opinion, but a dog that has bitten 10x including a hospitalization should be set to a farm at the least.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 26, 2023 • 1:35:44am

re: #277 Barefoot Grin

Re: Commander. Probably unpopular opinion, but a dog that has bitten 10x including a hospitalization should be set to a farm at the least.

Or given a Cabinet post

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 26, 2023 • 1:36:30am

No tangled family relationships according to Wikipedia, nope.

Sarah “Sally” Hemings (c. 1773 - 1835) was an enslaved woman with one-quarter African ancestry owned by president of the United States Thomas Jefferson, one of many he inherited from his father-in-law, John Wayles.

Hemings’s mother was Betty Hemings, the daughter of an enslaved African woman and English Captain John Hemings. Sally’s father, the owner of Betty, John Wayles, was also the father of Jefferson’s wife, Martha. Sally was half-sister to Jefferson’s wife and was of approximately three quarters English descent. Martha died during her marriage in 1782. In 1787, when she was 14, Sally Hemings accompanied Jefferson and his daughter by Martha to Paris. There Sally was a legally free and paid servant as slavery was not legal in France. At some time during her 26 months in Paris, the widower Jefferson began having intimate relations with her.

As attested by her son, Madison Hemings, Sally later agreed with Jefferson that she would return to Virginia and resume her life in slavery, as long as all their children would be freed when they came of age. Multiple lines of evidence, including modern DNA analyses, indicate that Jefferson impregnated Hemings over the span of many years, and historians now broadly agree that he was the father of her six children. Whether this should be described as rape remains a matter of controversy. (By who? Slaves cannot consent.) Four of Hemings’ children survived into adulthood. Hemings died in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1835.

(more)
en.wikipedia.org

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 26, 2023 • 1:39:11am

re: #279 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Whether this should be described as rape remains a matter of controversy. (By who? Slaves cannot consent.) Four of Hemings’ children survived into adulthood. Hemings died in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1835.

Why do so many people have a problem with the concept of “consent”? Probably because their entire life is based on the notion of imposing their will on others.

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 26, 2023 • 1:40:13am

re: #278 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Or given a Cabinet post

as long as it’s in a crate.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 26, 2023 • 1:41:17am

re: #281 Barefoot Grin

as long as it’s in a crate.

Ambassador to North Korea

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CleverToad  Jul 26, 2023 • 1:47:29am

re: #248 teleskiguy

Selfie. Here’s what I look like tonight.

@teleskiguy.bsky.social

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Very pretty!

I keep thinking about what you said about being the person your mom can talk to, and how much that must mean to her.
.
I hope there’s someone you can talk to in turn, to vent the fear and the grief and the rage and the sheer bloody frustration of trying to live through this one day at a time, one sleepless night at a time, sometimes down to one dragging hour at a time. The support you give your folks is priceless, irreplaceable. Hoping there’s people, places you can turn to for respite as well, to keep your own strength up. Even if there’s no snow right now.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 26, 2023 • 1:58:44am

Marjorie Taylor-Greene at it again.

“Admitted atheists.”

Trying to drag us into her culture war. (They want us dead.)

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Targetpractice  Jul 26, 2023 • 2:11:27am

re: #284 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Marjorie Taylor-Greene at it again.

“Admitted atheists.”

Trying to drag us into her culture war. (They want us dead.)

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Trump’s “Christian Faith”? The guy who’d tell you about his favorite apostles “John, Paul, George, & Ringo”?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 26, 2023 • 2:12:14am

re: #285 Targetpractice

Trump’s “Christian Faith”? The guy who’d tell you about his favorite apostles “John, Paul, George, & Ringo”?

And not one, but Two Corinthians! They do the best leather!!!

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Nojay UK  Jul 26, 2023 • 2:15:08am

re: #262 Captain Ron

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Video

I caught some of the RIAT fly-ins and assorted show flights. They did have a B-52, it apparently wrecked some of the field lights when taxi-ing to take off after the Tattoo was finished. Other Golden Oldies included a Greek F-4 still in front-line service and a nice synchronised hovering display consisting of a Spanish Armada Harrier and a British F-35B Lightning II (first time ever both planes have flown together in a display). Sadly they couldn’t do it side-by-side due to turbulence.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 26, 2023 • 2:16:36am

re: #284 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Marjorie Taylor-Greene at it again.

“Admitted atheists.”

Trying to drag us into her culture war. (They want us dead.)

She makes it clear that these people are of the Devil and actively committed to ruining every aspect of what Makes America Great.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 26, 2023 • 2:36:56am

re: #284 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Trump? Christian faith? LOL sure, then I guess I’m the king of France.

Trump only worships two things: himself and money. That’s it.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 26, 2023 • 2:39:41am

re: #289 Dr Lizardo

Trump? Christian faith? LOL sure, then I guess I’m the king of France.

Trump only worships two things: himself and money. That’s it.

He has sold himself successfully to the Fundamentalists. Even they are starting to have their doubts, but in general, they don’t like admitting that their infallible interpretation of the Will of God is flawed.

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Targetpractice  Jul 26, 2023 • 2:46:24am

re: #290 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

He has sold himself successfully to the Fundamentalists. Even they are starting to have their doubts, but in general, they don’t like admitting that their infallible interpretation of the Will of God is flawed.

Which is why they bullshit themselves that having a flawed messiah is part of “His” plan and no doubt a test of their faith.

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TarHellion  Jul 26, 2023 • 2:50:35am

I love the smell of a Beagle in the morning … Smells like victory.

Click to Reveal

Wordle 767 2/6*

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Teukka  Jul 26, 2023 • 2:50:38am

re: #8 A Cranky One

Iframe

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Shropshire Slasher  Jul 26, 2023 • 2:57:40am

Coming soon to a cook out near you, mustard skittles!

Skittles don’t generally strive to be this tangy, but in anticipation of National Mustard Day on August 5, the famous American candy is taking a risk.

French’s has partnered with Skittles to give mustard lovers all over the country a new French’s Mustard Skittles flavor and a chance to win a free fun-sized packet through three pop-ups and an online sweepstakes while supplies last.

This is French’s fifth year going all out to celebrate the holiday. The mustard brand knew it wanted to do something different this year after incorporating mustard into donuts and ice cream.

“With the yellow holiday landing on August 5th, we knew we had to outdo ourselves. We are thrilled to collaborate with SKITTLES to deliver our beloved Classic Yellow® Mustard tang in a new and fun way to French’s and SKITTLES fans alike,” North America Vice President of Marketing for McCormick & Company Valda Coryat wrote in a statement.

usatoday.com

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 26, 2023 • 3:00:14am

So I got a wb+mb for $4 Tuesday night. Far cry from $820M.

Next jackpot is estimated to be $910M.

It’s going up more slowly than I thought it would. Last jump was $100M but this time only $90M, and pots going into a weekend usually jump.

I can only gather that as it’s the end of the month that people are running out of money to buy tickets.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 26, 2023 • 3:06:20am

.


György Ligeti: Sonata for Solo Cello [w/ score]






..

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 26, 2023 • 3:07:48am

re: #296 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

That piece by Ligeti is woefully underplayed. It deserves more attention than it gets.

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 26, 2023 • 3:16:30am

re: #242 Joe Bacon ✅

He’s pushing a dangerous, slanderous lie. If the movie reflects reality, why isn’t he passing laws to save the children involved?
What did Kevin say when Trump separated migrant families and put children in cages? What legislation has he passed to help poor children?

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William Lewis  Jul 26, 2023 • 3:18:47am

And to help you wake up a bit this morning…

Metric ”Help I’m Alive” on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 26, 2023 • 3:24:24am

re: #298 Patricia Kayden

[McCarthy]’s pushing a dangerous, slanderous lie. If the movie reflects reality, why isn’t he passing laws to save the children involved?

It is about keeping the narrative afloat about the DNC Pizzagate Pedophile cabal.

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 26, 2023 • 3:25:39am

Bork bork!

Click to Reveal

Wordle 767 2/6

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Shropshire Slasher  Jul 26, 2023 • 3:32:58am

Coincidence? Yahoo headline:

Vice President Harris leans into attack dog role

When Tennessee Republicans moved to expel state Democratic lawmakers who protested at the state capitol over gun violence, the White House sent Vice President Harris to Nashville to call out GOP tactics.

And when Florida passed controversial new educational guidelines for how slavery and other topics should be taught in schools, it was Harris who was quickly on a flight to Jacksonville to denounce “extremists” who she said were pushing “propaganda” on children.

Harris has settled into something of a traditional attack dog role in recent months, fighting what the White House views as hypocrisy or extreme policies pushed by Republicans as she and President Biden prepare for what could be an intense, mud-slinging 2024 campaign next year.

Instead of German Shepherds, they should have a White House chocolate lab. Nice and sweet.
news.yahoo.com

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 26, 2023 • 4:24:16am

re: #300 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It is about keeping the narrative afloat about the DNC Pizzagate Pedophile cabal.

Which doesn’t exist and never did. They are liars. The media should call them out on this nonsense.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 26, 2023 • 4:25:54am

re: #303 Patricia Kayden

Which doesn’t exist and never did. They are liars. The media should call them out on this nonsense.

Such a contrivance should never have spread in the first place, but then we had a fellow go shoot up the place in the course of his own “self-research”.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 26, 2023 • 4:46:20am

re: #210 jaunte

@theserfstv.bsky.social

True, according to Yale:
e360.yale.edu

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I saw a show on this a few years ago except it was somewhere in Nevada IIRC. They turned a dessert into lush land and once they built it, plants grew and other animals came and it became this gorgeous place. All from one beaver.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 26, 2023 • 4:51:51am

re: #234 Patricia Kayden

That’s good to hear. I have a friend in Florida who is rabidly anti-vax. Good to know that she’s in the minority. I wish Floridians would vote for politicians who weren’t pushing lies about Covid vaccines EVERYTHING.

FIFY

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lawhawk  Jul 26, 2023 • 4:56:36am

This is right near the Port Authority and Lincoln Tunnel entrances in Manhattan. The entire boom of the crane appears to have crashed to the ground, nearly hitting a concrete mixing truck.

No word on injuries at the moment, but emergency crews are already responding.

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lawhawk  Jul 26, 2023 • 4:58:52am
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lawhawk  Jul 26, 2023 • 5:02:50am

#FAFO 1/6 edition:

Dumbass insurrectionist who was wearing letterman jacket sentenced to 18 months after being identified by said jacket.

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Shropshire Slasher  Jul 26, 2023 • 5:03:38am

re: #307 lawhawk

Wow. How do you put that fire out?

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lawhawk  Jul 26, 2023 • 5:08:50am

re: #310 Shropshire Slasher

Same way they put out every high rise fire.

Firefighters have to climb up to put it out assuming that it’s stable and not in danger of further collapse. I suspect firefighters are in the completed area of the building under construction and looking at running lines to the fire.

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Belafon  Jul 26, 2023 • 5:23:23am

Thread:

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lawhawk  Jul 26, 2023 • 5:24:31am

re: #307 lawhawk

Video shows the moment the crane collapsed - it hit the building across the street and slammed into the building under construction too.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 26, 2023 • 5:25:34am

CNN legal analyst Elie Honig expressed surprise on Wednesday morning when former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani admitted in a new court filing that he made false claims about Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, two Georgia election workers who were falsely accused of committing election fraud by former President Donald Trump and his allies.

Rudy Giuliani made ‘astonishing’ admission and ‘I cannot even conceive’ how it saves him

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Shropshire Slasher  Jul 26, 2023 • 5:26:28am

re: #312 Belafon

There was some drama on that late last night. I don’t know how it was resolved.

First son Hunter Biden’s legal team appeared to pull a dirty trick Tuesday to block the release of damning evidence ahead of his expected guilty plea to federal charges of tax evasion and weapons crimes.

The drama began in the morning when the House Ways and Means Committee filed an amicus brief to Delaware US District Judge Maryellen Noreika arguing that the 53-year-old had benefited from “political interference which calls into question the propriety of the investigation” into alleged crimes including money laundering, felony tax evasion and failure to register as a foreign agent.

The filing included testimony by two IRS whistleblowers who sat for transcribed interviews May 26 and June 1.

What happened next was outlined in a letter sent to the judge Tuesday afternoon by the committee’s top lawyer, Theodore Kittila.

“[A]t approximately 1:30 p.m., we received word that our filing was removed from the docket,” Kittila said. “We promptly contacted the Clerk’s office, and we were advised that someone contacted the Court representing that they worked with my office [emphasis original] and that they were asking the Court to remove this from the docket. We immediately advised that this was inaccurate. The Clerk’s Office responded that we would need to re-file. We have done so now.”

nypost.com

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 26, 2023 • 5:29:19am

Fox hosts: Bombing Mexico ‘a good idea’ because shoplifting is ‘terrorist activity’

During the Wednesday, July 25, segment of Fox News’ The Five, the conservative co-hosts Jesse Watters, Jeanine Pirro, Dana Perino and Greg Gutfeld suggested Mexican drug cartels are behind a shoplifting surge in America, and to combat the alleged issue — the U.S. military should bomb them.

Host Jesse Watters began the conversation saying, “While the liberal media gets a crash course on crime, we’re learning that Mexican drug cartels are fueling America’s shoplifting surge. They’re selling the stolen stuff online and then laundering the profits through, guess where? Chinese brokers. So, Dana, CNN finally discovered crime is a crisis in San Francisco.”

alternet.org

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Shropshire Slasher  Jul 26, 2023 • 5:29:35am

re: #313 lawhawk

photos, etc.

dailymail.co.uk

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gocart mozart  Jul 26, 2023 • 5:29:40am

That’s one big ass moth

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 26, 2023 • 5:30:56am

re: #310 Shropshire Slasher

Wow. How do you put that fire out?

call in the big bad wolf?

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lawhawk  Jul 26, 2023 • 5:32:19am
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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 26, 2023 • 5:34:19am

Evita has a sads…

‘Livid’ Melania Trump railed against husband’s lawyers in rape case

Melania Trump is reportedly furious at her husband’s lawyers in the E. Jean Carroll sex abuse case.

The former privately cast doubt on the author’s rape allegations and expressed frustration with the ex-president’s legal team, two sources with knowledge or her remarks told the New York Times.

She was “particularly skeptical” of Carroll’s claims and questioned why she couldn’t recall the exact date she said Trump sexually assaulted her decades ago in the dressing room of a Manhattan department store, and she was reportedly “livid” watching her husband’s deposition in the case and complained that his legal team had not raised more objections.

Melania Trump, however, did not seem as upset at her husband for confusing a photo of Carroll for his ex-wife Marla Maples.

rawstory.com

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lawhawk  Jul 26, 2023 • 5:37:54am

re: #321 Joe Bacon ✅

Of all the things that she didn’t seem to mind, this is the one that stands out:

Melania Trump, however, did not seem as upset at her husband for confusing a photo of Carroll for his ex-wife Marla Maples.

That’s the one salient point that swayed jurors. Trump claimed she wasn’t his type, but Trump confused her for former wife Maples.

She also seems to think Trump’s legal team are incompetent, and that’s a Trump problem, not mine. Her husband is a fucking lunatic who makes it impossible for him to get competent attorneys because of his own behavior - he refuses to pay, overrides legal advice, and takes advices from know nothing hacks online who tell him what he wants to hear, not what he needs to hear.

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lawhawk  Jul 26, 2023 • 5:59:26am

This is so unusual in that one of these propagandists actually reports actual news accurately. That’s what makes the clip remarkable.

They know that its pure unadulterated bulkshit - they allow a cohost to make the claim, and then debunk it moments later, but the original utterance is what carries weight with the know nothings who watch this crap nonstop.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Jul 26, 2023 • 6:00:53am

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lawhawk  Jul 26, 2023 • 6:03:05am

Rudy is *fucked* in his defamation case.

He knowingly spewed misinformation and lies about the Georgia election certification and specific workers.

Rudy Giuliani conceded in a court filing Tuesday that he made “false” statements about two Georgia 2020 election workers in a filing related to their lawsuit about baseless claims of fraud that he made against them.

“Defendant Giuliani, for the purposes of litigation only, does not contest that, to the extent the statements were statements of fact and other wise actionable, such actionable factual statements were false,” Giuliani wrote in a signed stipulation that he said was intended to “avoid unnecessary expenses in litigating what he believes to be unnecessary disputes.”

Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, have said their lives were turned upside down when conspiracy theorists, as well as then-President Donald Trump and his ally Giuliani, claimed Freeman and her daughter had committed election fraud in the 2020 presidential election. A heavily edited, brief clip of security footage was widely circulated online and by Trump allies as supposed proof.

Bankrupt the morally bankrupt Rudy.

Update:
I’d say that this is sufficient to prove the case in a directed verdict since there’s no question of fact here. He purposefully lied and misrepresented facts to smear Freeman and Moss.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 26, 2023 • 6:08:58am

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Dave In Austin  Jul 26, 2023 • 6:14:24am

Back home last night. No major issues
Today is a WFH day as my chest is still sore as hell. But that will resolve itself.

Thank you all for the well wishes.

The Staff is waiting my arrival.

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William Lewis  Jul 26, 2023 • 6:16:50am

Early demo version of Heart of Glass… really different from what would become perhaps their defining hit :)

Blondie Once I Had A Love aka The Disco Song 1975 Version

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 26, 2023 • 6:20:21am

re: #324 lawhawk

For absurd reasons, MAGA cultists think FOX News supports The Satanic Temple

Who wants to tell them a charity gift-matching program is not a bombshell revelation?

FOX News is under fire for allegedly donating money to The Satanic Temple, but the reality is far less interesting than the accusation. Conservatives are flipping out anyway, though, because that’s the only reaction they have available in their toolbox.

The claim was first made in the right-wing publication The Blaze and used the words “EXCLUSIVE” (in all caps) and “whistleblowers” and phrases like “behind closed doors,” as if they had just uncovered something truly nefarious.

They didn’t do anything like that.

Here’s the actual story: A lot of companies, in order to encourage charitable giving among staffers, will promise to match donations up to a certain amount. The details vary depending on the organization, but if you want to give money to registered non-profit group, you just have to fill out some simple forms… and that’s all there is to it. It’s a win-win for everyone. The charity gets more money. The company gets to say it did a good deed while also getting a tax break (which, let’s be honest, is the real reason they do it).

Interestingly enough, donations to groups that discriminate on the basis of gender or sexual orientation (or any other protected class) are not eligible for FOX’s gift-matching, which excludes a lot of conservative Christian ministries, including one that has the late evangelist Billy Graham’s name on it. Political and religious groups are also excluded, as are private charities.

friendlyatheist.com

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jeffreyw  Jul 26, 2023 • 6:36:22am

Peppers & Onions

Good morning!

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 26, 2023 • 6:37:07am

Defamed Georgia election workers celebrate Rudy Giuliani’s ‘milestone’ admission

They deserve to celebrate! Let them get every last penny from Screwdy G!

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No Malarkey!  Jul 26, 2023 • 6:37:16am

re: #326 lawhawk

Rudy is *fucked* in his defamation case.

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He knowingly spewed misinformation and lies about the Georgia election certification and specific workers.

Bankrupt the morally bankrupt Rudy.

Update:
I’d say that this is sufficient to prove the case in a directed verdict since there’s no question of fact here. He purposefully lied and misrepresented facts to smear Freeman and Moss.

The ludicrous spin Rudy’s lawyer put on his admission to lying:

Ted Goodman, Giuliani’s political advisor, said, “Giuliani did not acknowledge that the statements were false but did not contest it in order to move on to the portion of the case that will permit a motion to dismiss.”

“This is a legal issue, not a factual issue. Those out to smear the mayor are ignoring the fact that this stipulation is designed to get to the legal issues of the case,” Goodman said.

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lawhawk  Jul 26, 2023 • 6:38:10am

re: #330 Joe Bacon ✅

Company matches allow companies to piggyback on charitable giving to reduce their own tax burden. My company allows that as well - there are annual dollar limits.

There are companies who help manage this whole company match effort too.

The donee must be a verified 501c3 entity. There has to be a tax id number available.

Individual companies may limit that even further, if they want to restrict giving per their company match.

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Jay C  Jul 26, 2023 • 6:45:27am

re: #313 lawhawk

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The sole vocal comment on that clip says it all…

Hope the crane operator got out safe.

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wrenchwench  Jul 26, 2023 • 6:47:38am

re: #328 Dave In Austin

Back home last night. No major issues
Today is a WFH day as my chest is still sore as hell. But that will resolve itself.

Thank you all for the well wishes.

The Staff is waiting my arrival.

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A little WFH is a nice respite after the WTF days.

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lawhawk  Jul 26, 2023 • 6:52:33am

re: #333 No Malarkey!

It’s mindblowingly insane to think that Rudy isn’t trying to settle the defamation case, but given that he’s cash strapped, he has few options? It’s not like anyone is going to bail him out, least of all Trump.

Trump jettisons anyone who outlives their usefulness to Trump. Rudy fits that to a T.

Rudy can’t find enough people to grift to pay his bill either.

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wrenchwench  Jul 26, 2023 • 6:54:12am

re: #326 lawhawk

“Defendant Giuliani, for the purposes of litigation only, does not contest that, to the extent the statements were statements of fact and other wise actionable, such actionable factual statements were false,”

That’s the kind of statement that gives lawyers a bad name. Has he been disbarred yet?

‘to the extent they were true, they were false.’

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Jul 26, 2023 • 6:54:33am

On our walk this morning. Urban babby deer. Where is mama? Probably eating the man’s hosta. He said this pair and the mother have been in his yard much of the week in the morning.

Urban deer have no fear, even the babbies.
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lawhawk  Jul 26, 2023 • 6:55:50am

re: #339 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

Charge ‘em rent, food and board.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 26, 2023 • 7:07:23am

#HitlERA

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jul 26, 2023 • 7:08:22am

re: #292 TarHellion

I love the smell of a Beagle in the morning … Smells like victory.

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wrenchwench  Jul 26, 2023 • 7:10:38am
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steve_davis  Jul 26, 2023 • 7:11:02am

re: #196 retired cynic

I was hoping you both were!

I thought you were saying Boo-urns…..

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jeffreyw  Jul 26, 2023 • 7:14:53am

Mastodon

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BeenHereAwhile  Jul 26, 2023 • 7:15:00am

re: #135 darthstar

I suspect if he were to be incarcerated he’d decline so rapidly it would elicit a compassionate release.

Upon compassionate release, Trump would immediately begin another presidential campaign.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 26, 2023 • 7:19:02am

Jury acquits Kevin Spacey on sexual assault charges dating back to 2001

A London jury acquitted Kevin Spacey on sexual assault charges on Wednesday after a four-week trial in which the actor said he was a “big flirt” who had consensual flings with men and whose only misstep was touching a man’s groin while making a “clumsy pass.”

ktla.com

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Jul 26, 2023 • 7:19:44am

re: #277 Barefoot Grin

Re: Commander. Probably unpopular opinion, but a dog that has bitten 10x including a hospitalization should be set to a farm at the least.

…..or sicced on the Republicans.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 26, 2023 • 7:20:36am

re: #122 darthstar

Trump’s only running because he thinks it will keep him out of prison.

That’s most of it but not all

He believes his shit

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 26, 2023 • 7:21:31am

re: #348 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

re: #277 Barefoot Grin

Re: Commander. Probably unpopular opinion, but a dog that has bitten 10x including a hospitalization should be set to a farm at the least.

…..or sicced on the Republicans.

Just waiting for Anna Paulina Lunatic to introduce articles of impeachment against Commander…

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Dave In Austin  Jul 26, 2023 • 7:22:36am

re: #336 wrenchwench

A little WFH is a nice respite after the WTF days.

Couldn’t say it better….. She’smuchbetterthanMe said maybe a pleurisy may have been the cause of it as well. Still sore and tight.

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BeenHereAwhile  Jul 26, 2023 • 7:26:00am

re: #155 Belafon

Sounds like he’s doing his job.

VP Mike Pence could have used Commander on Jan 6.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 26, 2023 • 7:26:21am
House lawmakers are holding a hearing Wednesday to pressure the executive branch to release more information about unidentified anomalous phenomena, known as UAPs or UFOs, as bipartisan momentum grows for greater transparency about the strange encounters documented by hundreds of pilots,” CBS News reports.

And by bipartisan they mean rfkjr and the loony left

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steve_davis  Jul 26, 2023 • 7:27:04am

re: #227 silverdolphin

JFC!! (yes, I know) The old “As God wills ii” fallacy.

She was jogging in grizzly territory, with no precautions, and suprised a mother with her cub. It certainly was an accident because maybe if she made more noise while jogging, the bear would not have been surprised .

KWCH later interviewed the mother grizzly: “I just think about how good God is. I was just saying to the young one, ‘I wonder what we’ll have for lunch today,’ and then there it was, jogging past me.”

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 26, 2023 • 7:28:12am

Yeouch

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 26, 2023 • 7:28:17am

‘We’ll have fun on the stand!’ Trump insists Jan. 6 trial would prove his lies about 2020 election

Sure. We can’t wait to see Trump on the stand when he whips out a pair of metal balls and screams about Joe stealing the strawberries.

rawstory.com

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 26, 2023 • 7:35:06am

re: #356 Joe Bacon ✅

‘We’ll have fun on the stand!’ Trump insists Jan. 6 trial would prove his lies about 2020 election

Sure. We can’t wait to see Trump on the stand when he whips out a pair of metal balls and screams about Joe stealing the strawberries.

rawstory.com

Never go full Queeg.

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JC1  Jul 26, 2023 • 7:37:15am

Various reliable Twitter accounts are reporting a larger push by Ukraine in their counter offensive.

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steve_davis  Jul 26, 2023 • 7:38:25am

re: #305 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I saw a show on this a few years ago except it was somewhere in Nevada IIRC. They turned a dessert into lush land and once they built it, plants grew and other animals came and it became this gorgeous place. All from one beaver.

happened in Yellowstone as well when they reintroduced wolves. Turns out wolves like to eat the hooved fuckers who trample and eat all the new growth. It’s harder to do that when you’re having to run for your life constantly, so there was suddenly new growth, and far fewer obese elk. a win-win.

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No Malarkey!  Jul 26, 2023 • 7:41:28am

The IRS needs to put more rich tax cheats in prison.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 26, 2023 • 7:44:06am

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lawhawk  Jul 26, 2023 • 7:48:36am

*facepalm*

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Dave In Austin  Jul 26, 2023 • 7:49:31am
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William Lewis  Jul 26, 2023 • 7:51:02am

re: #357 Dr Lizardo

Never go full Queeg.

Mmmm. Haven’t thought of that movie in a long time. God that was such a good film.

Totally different but it also makes me remember Mr. Roberts…
“Captain, it is I, Ensign Pulver, and I just threw your stinking palm tree overboard. Now, what’s all this crud about no movie tonight?”

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 26, 2023 • 7:53:29am

I’m enjoying the sound of thunder in Chicagoland. It’s nice that my cats ignore it rather than freaking out and hiding like some of my previous cats did.

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austin_blue  Jul 26, 2023 • 7:53:46am

re: #235 silverdolphin

As Feynman said, “Nature cannot be fooled.” It always wins. Ignore it at your own risk. We saw it with Challenger and they would see it with a real pandemic with high mortality. Good riddance, I guess.

Also:

You don’t believe in vaccines? That’s fine, because Mother Nature doesn’t give a shit. So when you get the plague, don’t whinge. Just shut up and die like a proper fighter pilot.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 26, 2023 • 7:54:17am

re: #363 Dave In Austin

Can you think of anything else that should be added to Trump’s future prison cell?

Yes. Show the Barbie Movie on the TV screen 24/7.

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Sherlock Hound  Jul 26, 2023 • 7:55:04am

re: #309 lawhawk

#FAFO 1/6 edition:

Dumbass insurrectionist who was wearing letterman jacket sentenced to 18 months after being identified by said jacket.

See also: Charlestown, Boston was a murder spot in the 1980’s. When the police caught up to perpetrators, they had to tell them. “Don’t wear your fucking school jackets!”

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 26, 2023 • 7:56:49am
American actor Kevin Spacey was found not guilty Wednesday of all the sexual assault charges he was facing in a U.K. trial. The actor had faced nine sexual offense charges related to incidents reported by four men that allegedly took place between 2001 and 2013.

The Academy Award-winning actor had pleaded not guilty to all of the charges.

Spacey, 64, was acquitted in London’s Southwark Crown Court of charges including sexual assault, causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent and causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity.

Kevin Spacey found not guilty on all charges in U.K. sexual assault trial (CBS)

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austin_blue  Jul 26, 2023 • 7:58:13am

re: #345 jeffreyw

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 26, 2023 • 7:58:44am

re: #362 lawhawk

*facepalm*

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had to go on CNN
had to open his mouth

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 26, 2023 • 8:00:08am

re: #364 William Lewis

Mmmm. Haven’t thought of that movie in a long time. God that was such a good film.

Totally different but it also makes me remember Mr. Roberts…
“Captain, it is I, Ensign Pulver, and I just threw your stinking palm tree overboard. Now, what’s all this crud about no movie tonight?”

—————

‘all right. who did it? you men are going to sweat in those battle stations till someone confesses”

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 26, 2023 • 8:02:47am

re: #364 William Lewis

Mmmm. Haven’t thought of that movie in a long time. God that was such a good film.

Totally different but it also makes me remember Mr. Roberts…
“Captain, it is I, Ensign Pulver, and I just threw your stinking palm tree overboard. Now, what’s all this crud about no movie tonight?”

Another great film.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 26, 2023 • 8:03:11am

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lawhawk  Jul 26, 2023 • 8:04:09am
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Eventual Carrion  Jul 26, 2023 • 8:04:48am

re: #292 TarHellion

I love the smell of a Beagle in the morning … Smells like victory.

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lawhawk  Jul 26, 2023 • 8:08:15am

re: #360 No Malarkey!

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Eventual Carrion  Jul 26, 2023 • 8:08:29am

re: #309 lawhawk

#FAFO 1/6 edition:

Dumbass insurrectionist who was wearing letterman jacket sentenced to 18 months after being identified by said jacket.

Ahhhh, high school glory days.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 26, 2023 • 8:13:08am

re: #315 Shropshire Slasher

There was some drama on that late last night. I don’t know how it was resolved.

nypost.com

Except Biden’s attorney responded to the court calling bullshit (in a much nicer way), but hey, NY Post and you do you.

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Teddy's Person  Jul 26, 2023 • 8:13:49am

re: #363 Dave In Austin

Can you think of anything else that should be added to Trump’s future prison cell?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 26, 2023 • 8:14:13am

re: #321 Joe Bacon ✅

Evita has a sads…

‘Livid’ Melania Trump railed against husband’s lawyers in rape case

Melania Trump is reportedly furious at her husband’s lawyers in the E. Jean Carroll sex abuse case.

The former privately cast doubt on the author’s rape allegations and expressed frustration with the ex-president’s legal team, two sources with knowledge or her remarks told the New York Times.

She was “particularly skeptical” of Carroll’s claims and questioned why she couldn’t recall the exact date she said Trump sexually assaulted her decades ago in the dressing room of a Manhattan department store, and she was reportedly “livid” watching her husband’s deposition in the case and complained that his legal team had not raised more objections.

Melania Trump, however, did not seem as upset at her husband for confusing a photo of Carroll for his ex-wife Marla Maples.

rawstory.com

I don’t really care. Do u?

Didn’t think so.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 26, 2023 • 8:14:24am

re: #377 lawhawk

But a ProPublica investigation reveals that some foundation donors have obtained millions of dollars in tax deductions without holding up their end of the bargain, and sometimes they personally benefit from donations that are supposed to be a boon to the public. A tech billionaire used his charitable foundation to buy his girlfriend’s house, then stayed there with her while he was going through a divorce. A real estate mogul keeps his nonprofit art museum in his guesthouse and told ProPublica that he hadn’t shown it to a member of the public since before the pandemic. And a venture capitalist couple’s foundation bought the multimillion dollar house next to their own without ever opening the property to the public.

It’s so easy to win the game when the whole fucking deck is stacked in your favor.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 26, 2023 • 8:17:58am

re: #326 lawhawk

Rudy is *fucked* in his defamation case.

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He knowingly spewed misinformation and lies about the Georgia election certification and specific workers.

Bankrupt the morally bankrupt Rudy.

Update:
I’d say that this is sufficient to prove the case in a directed verdict since there’s no question of fact here. He purposefully lied and misrepresented facts to smear Freeman and Moss.

And those two women are, rightfully, in take no prisoners mode. Hopefully he’ll be living in a box on 5th Ave soon, begging for pennies while he shouts 911! 911!

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Markm1960  Jul 26, 2023 • 8:24:39am

re: #363 Dave In Austin

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Eric, JR & Kushner.

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wrenchwench  Jul 26, 2023 • 8:25:26am

re: #343 wrenchwench

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I didn’t think I could make one prettier than yesterday’s, but I did.

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goddamnedfrank  Jul 26, 2023 • 8:25:51am

bsky.app

X: The Everything App, a new White Wolf game. A cross between Werewolf: The Apocalypse & Cyberpunk, set in the dystopian present where a deranged billionaire who wants to put chips in your brain & trade horses for handjobs buys an electronic city & fills it with neo-nazis, crypto fanboys & scam bots

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 26, 2023 • 8:35:17am

re: #375 lawhawk

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dear rudy:

you made regular backups, right?

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 26, 2023 • 8:42:58am

When it comes to Congressional Republicans…

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William Lewis  Jul 26, 2023 • 8:44:05am

Just in case you need a bit of self referential irony…

Don’t You (Forget About Me)

(not great but not that bad either. She’s done better versions of actual jazz standards. Probably only did this song for the obvious reasons.)

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 26, 2023 • 8:45:47am
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jul 26, 2023 • 8:46:33am

re: #359 steve_davis

happened in Yellowstone as well when they reintroduced wolves. Turns out wolves like to eat the hooved fuckers who trample and eat all the new growth. It’s harder to do that when you’re having to run for your life constantly, so there was suddenly new growth, and far fewer obese elk. a win-win.

The famous case is a pair of wolves crossing ice on Lake Superior one winter to get to Isle Royale in 1949. From there they started rebalancing the ecology there by eating moose. Said moose had overbrowsed the island and were in a starvation cycle.

en.wikipedia.org

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goddamnedfrank  Jul 26, 2023 • 8:50:20am
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Thanos  Jul 26, 2023 • 8:54:19am

bsky.app

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aatharuv  Jul 26, 2023 • 8:54:26am

re: #363 Dave In Austin

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> Can you think of anything else that should be added to Trump’s future prison cell?

A certified copy of President Barack Obama’s birth certificate. In big letters and a photo of President Obama, say in the Oval Office.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 26, 2023 • 8:58:27am

Screwdy G digging a deeper hole.

Keep digging, Screwdy!

Giuliani Won’t Contest That He Made ‘False Statements’ About Georgia Election Workers

AND

Rudy still won’t hand over key records in lawsuit.

Filings in the case in recent weeks have suggested both that Judge Howell has lost her patience with Giuliani, and that the Trump attorney has sought any way to avoid disclosing the contents of the records that Freeman and Moss want to review.

Giuliani said in May that he couldn’t afford to search for the records, which purportedly cover much of his communications from the Stop the Steal period. Judge Howell lodged an order in July “cautioning” Giuliani that if he continued to fail to comply with her order to provide the records, he could face “severe discovery sanctions.”

talkingpointsmemo.com

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Thanos  Jul 26, 2023 • 9:01:35am

re: #374 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

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I’ve been a Gerrold fan for a long time, here’s his Amazon Author page where he probably earns some money from book sales.

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Eventual Carrion  Jul 26, 2023 • 9:03:57am

And a perfect Connections game

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 26, 2023 • 9:05:05am

WTAF

Mastodon

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 26, 2023 • 9:05:07am

Things are poppin’ in Nigeria, it seems….

The leader of Niger has reportedly been seized by members of the presidential guard, triggering warnings from regional powers a coup is underway.

The area around the presidential palace in the capital Niamey, where President Mohamed Bazoum is reportedly being held, is currently like a “ghost town,” a journalist on the ground told CNN, describing the situation as “tense.”

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) said there had been an “attempt to seize power by force” in the West African country, in a statement on Wednesday.

“ECOWAS condemns in the strongest terms the attempt to seize power by force and calls on the coup plotters to free the democratically-elected President of the Republic immediately and without any condition,” the bloc added.

edition.cnn.com

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lawhawk  Jul 26, 2023 • 9:05:09am

re: #395 Joe Bacon ✅

Klasfield above indicates that the DOJ vendor that was tasked with getting data from those laptops, phones, and other info, may have wiped them upon return to Rudy.

That means they may not be available to Rudy unless backups were made or he can get the DOJ to release to this instant case.

This is the kind of shitshow every Trump-related defendant is facing from multiple courts and multiple angles, since the discovery in one case may fuck them in other cases.

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William Lewis  Jul 26, 2023 • 9:08:28am

Door Dash is really hard on a diet. ‘nuff said ;)

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 26, 2023 • 9:10:12am

re: #401 William Lewis

Door Dash is really hard on a diet. ‘nuff said ;)

Yes, yes it is. Though amazingly, I weighed myself this morning after a month of not doing so (and dreading it), and I clocked in at an even 230. That’s actually down a little bit from the last time I checked.

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Thanos  Jul 26, 2023 • 9:11:01am

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HRH Stanley Sea  Jul 26, 2023 • 9:11:12am

re: #376 Eventual Carrion

Mine shows the state of my brain today. 😬

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 26, 2023 • 9:13:36am

re: #392 goddamnedfrank

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William Lewis  Jul 26, 2023 • 9:16:00am

re: #402 Nerdy Fish

Yes, yes it is. Though amazingly, I weighed myself this morning after a month of not doing so (and dreading it), and I clocked in at an even 230. That’s actually down a little bit from the last time I checked.

Was at 312 at the best last check. My high was 375 so that’s a serious drop. Even with my “pizza” days, I’m doing pretty damn good which is why I bought myself that D810 camera.

Every time I pick that camera up, it reminds me of my goal (getting back to at least 250lbs. ) and that I haven’t gotten there. But it also reminds me of the rewards for getting to my milestones… :)

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 26, 2023 • 9:17:01am

re: #406 William Lewis

Not bad! My high was around 275, so even though I have another 30 to go not to be overweight, it’s still a lot better than where I was.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 26, 2023 • 9:23:37am

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piratedan  Jul 26, 2023 • 9:26:16am

re: #178 Vicious Babushka

next thing you know, we’ll be Rooing the day :-)

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piratedan  Jul 26, 2023 • 9:35:18am

re: #308 lawhawk

maybe next time Ron wants to be a political slut, he’ll put an aspirin between his lips and stfu…….

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 26, 2023 • 9:36:30am

JUST YOU WATCH - BRICS ARE GONNA BE THE NEW ECONOMIC SUPERPOWER OF THE 21st CENTURY!!

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 26, 2023 • 9:37:47am

Mastodon

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 26, 2023 • 9:40:05am

re: #356 Joe Bacon ✅

‘We’ll have fun on the stand!’ Trump insists Jan. 6 trial would prove his lies about 2020 election

Sure. We can’t wait to see Trump on the stand when he whips out a pair of metal balls and screams about Joe stealing the strawberries.

rawstory.com

Trump on the stand? LOLOLOL

No lawyer would ever allow him to testilie and I believe even Trump understands that would be a very bad move on his part.

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 26, 2023 • 9:40:17am

Mastodon

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 26, 2023 • 9:43:29am

re: #415 Vicious Babushka

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Did Gutfeld say that to get attention trying to top the slaves learned skills people?
It seems odd that both of these things are being said at the same time. Maybe they share a root cause, fascism.

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 26, 2023 • 9:46:28am

re: #416 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Did Gutfeld say that to get attention trying to top the slaves learned skills people?
It seems odd that both of these things are being said at the same time. Maybe they share a root cause, fascism.

He said that because he is a racist asshole, and racist assholes have become emboldened.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 26, 2023 • 9:57:14am

Link: salon.com

There’s an article at the WSJ (that I can’t read because it’s paywalled) about how Twitter is slashing ad rates and changing advertising up trying to get any money coming in. Top notch business guy there. 👀

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danarchy  Jul 26, 2023 • 9:57:20am

re: #417 Vicious Babushka

He said that because he is a racist asshole, and racist assholes have become emboldened.

Isn’t Gutfeld Jewish? I mean not religiously, I know he is an atheist, but ethnically. I think his father was actually a Jew from Germany, think he would know better.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 26, 2023 • 9:58:48am

re: #419 danarchy

Isn’t Gutfeld Jewish? I mean not religiously, I know he is an atheist, but ethnically. I think his father was actually a Jew from Germany, think he would know better.

They all know better. That doesn’t mean they care.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 26, 2023 • 9:59:28am

re: #418 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Link: salon.com

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There’s an article at the WSJ (that I can’t read because it’s paywalled) about how Twitter is slashing ad rates and changing advertising up trying to get any money coming in. Top notch business guy there. 👀

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danarchy  Jul 26, 2023 • 9:59:56am

re: #418 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Link: salon.com

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There’s an article at the WSJ (that I can’t read because it’s paywalled) about how Twitter is slashing ad rates and changing advertising up trying to get any money coming in. Top notch business guy there. 👀

I kinda wonder how complete the rebranding is going to be. Is it going to be the sort of thing where Google is alphabet and facebook is meta but they are still facebook and google just under a bigger umbrella.

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Teukka  Jul 26, 2023 • 10:00:46am

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 26, 2023 • 10:01:04am
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Vicious Babushka  Jul 26, 2023 • 10:01:45am

...

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 26, 2023 • 10:03:21am

re: #363 Dave In Austin

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Commander?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 26, 2023 • 10:03:37am

re: #422 danarchy

I kinda wonder how complete the rebranding is going to be. Is it going to be the sort of thing where Google is alphabet and facebook is meta but they are still facebook and google just under a bigger umbrella.

I’d say that could be except Facebook never calls itself Meta and Google doesn’t show Alphabet anywhere on it’s pages. Twitter now had the X logo in most places and refers too itself as X. Meta and Alphabet were created as parent companies. At this point I have no idea what Elmo is going for (other than broke).

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 26, 2023 • 10:06:42am
Russia and Belarus officially banned from 2024 Olympics

It is a year to the day until the world’s best athletes head to Paris for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games - but we now know for certain that Russia and Belarus will not be there.

Organisers of the Paris Olympics have officially blocked the countries from competing, after not extending a formal invitation to the Games.

The remaining 203 national committees were all given invitations at an event in Paris to mark one year until the Olympic opening ceremony on the river Seine.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced its intention to not offer invitations to the Russian and Belarusian Olympic Committees two weeks ago, but it is only at today’s ceremony that it has been set in stone.

Questions still remain over whether athletes from Russia and Belarus will be able to compete as independent athletes, under the Olympic flag.

IOC president Thomas Bach maintained his long-standing position of refusing to confirm whether they can compete, telling the media: “There’s still one year to go.”

news.sky.com

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Thanos  Jul 26, 2023 • 10:07:44am

re: #407 Nerdy Fish

Not bad! My high was around 275, so even though I have another 30 to go not to be overweight, it’s still a lot better than where I was.

I’m down from 257 to 215, mostly due to Ozempic

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Thanos  Jul 26, 2023 • 10:10:49am

re: #403 Thanos

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 26, 2023 • 10:11:12am

re: #428 Dr Lizardo

Questions still remain over whether athletes from Russia and Belarus will be able to compete as independent athletes, under the Olympic flag.

I hope not. After their cheating scandal that still allowed them to compete under the Olympic flag, I gave up on the Olympics. If cheating doesn’t disqualify you what would?

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BeachDem  Jul 26, 2023 • 10:12:19am

re: #419 danarchy

Isn’t Gutfeld Jewish? I mean not religiously, I know he is an atheist, but ethnically. I think his father was actually a Jew from Germany, think he would know better.

Per wiki

Gutfeld was raised Roman Catholic and served as an altar boy. He describes himself as an “agnostic atheist”.

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dat_said  Jul 26, 2023 • 10:12:39am

re: #418 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Link: salon.com

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There’s an article at the WSJ (that I can’t read because it’s paywalled) about how Twitter is slashing ad rates and changing advertising up trying to get any money coming in. Top notch business guy there. 👀

In the Salon article, there is a link to a Fortune article: “Completely irrational’: By changing Twitter’s name, Elon Musk is wiping out $4 billion to $20 billion in brand value”.

To be honest, I didn’t think there was $20 billion in brand value left.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 26, 2023 • 10:14:18am

re: #433 dat_said

In the Salon article, there is a link to a Fortune article: “Completely irrational’: By changing Twitter’s name, Elon Musk is wiping out $4 billion to $20 billion in brand value”.

To be honest, I didn’t think there was $20 billion in brand value left.

I don’t see $20B as total value let alone what could be lost.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jul 26, 2023 • 10:14:53am

re: #426 Barefoot Grin

Commander?

That would be cruel and unusual. For the dog.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 26, 2023 • 10:15:52am

re: #431 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I hope not. After their cheating scandal that still allowed them to compete under the Olympic flag, I gave up on the Olympics. If cheating doesn’t disqualify you what would?

Yeah, you’d think. Unfortunately, the IOC is widely regarded as most susceptible to corruption. A couple Hefty bags filled with Euro might be persuasive.

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Captain Ron  Jul 26, 2023 • 10:26:59am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 26, 2023 • 10:28:15am

re: #438 Captain Ron

1. UFO does NOT necessarily mean an alien craft.

2. Where is the evidence of this? Where is the proof of extraterrestial life?

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HRH Stanley Sea  Jul 26, 2023 • 10:30:45am

re: #418 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 26, 2023 • 10:33:07am
The rally in consumer sentiment — like the rally in the stock market — is looking pretty broad,” Axios reports.

“This upswing has been building all year as inflation cooled. It’s visible across income groups — and across different national surveys measuring consumer attitudes.”

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dat_said  Jul 26, 2023 • 10:34:06am

re: #440 HRH Stanley Sea

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The S3XY thing reminds me of this:

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 26, 2023 • 10:38:22am

re: #441 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

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The Republican Bullshit Machine has been cranked up to 11 repeating the lies that the economy is collapsing because Joe is a Marxist.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 26, 2023 • 10:40:08am

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 26, 2023 • 10:40:36am
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Vicious Babushka  Jul 26, 2023 • 10:42:30am

So, dogs, cats, crows, pigs or octopi?

Mastodon

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 26, 2023 • 10:43:30am

Mastodon

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 26, 2023 • 10:45:23am

re: #446 Vicious Babushka

Any questions?

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A Cranky One  Jul 26, 2023 • 10:46:13am

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 26, 2023 • 10:46:14am

re: #448 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

So, aliens hate America?

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A Cranky One  Jul 26, 2023 • 10:48:08am

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 26, 2023 • 10:48:26am

re: #447 Vicious Babushka

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Rando:

Similarly, claims of UFO abductions have declined to almost nothing since the widespread adoption of smartphones. Thanks to location data, it’s easier than ever to corroborate a person’s location or ask them to prove that they actually went missing.

Everyone having a movie-grade camera on their person is also how we know that bigfoot, nessie, really any cryptid is totally fake.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 26, 2023 • 10:56:14am

re: #353 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

And by bipartisan they mean rfkjr and the loony left

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Let’s never forget it was the ill-advised initial statements from the Air Force that led everyone to believe that an alien craft was recovered from Roswell. If they hadn’t said that the remnants were of a “flying disc”, there would be no craze associated with the area. By the time of the retraction, it was too late. So the government has no one to blame but itself for the continued belief of alien visitors from outside our planet.

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sagehen  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:02:20am

re: #437 lawhawk

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(except Mercedes formerly-Bezos)

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sagehen  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:03:45am

re: #439 Eclectic Cyborg

1. UFO does NOT necessarily mean an alien craft.

2. Where is the evidence of this? Where is the proof of extraterrestial life?

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BeenHereAwhile  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:49:58am

re: #324 lawhawk

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This is so unusual in that one of these propagandists actually reports actual news accurately. That’s what makes the clip remarkable.

They know that its pure unadulterated bulkshit - they allow a cohost to make the claim, and then debunk it moments later, but the original utterance is what carries weight with the know nothings who watch this crap nonstop.

Just “correcting the record.”

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 26, 2023 • 3:33:11pm

rre: #447 Vicious Babushka

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Unreliable people are always the much better explanation for alien sightings.


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