A Beautiful Tiny Desk Concert by Polish Composer Hania Rani

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Hania Rani makes beautiful music that’s haunted, yet enchanted. The Polish pianist and composer blurs the lines of ambient, classical and house — submerged beats pulse under ripples of piano, synths and her delicate voice. She regularly performs in concert halls across Europe, but during an American tour she brought the cinematic, yet intimate songs of her album Ghosts to the Tiny Desk.

Rani is conservatory trained, but like so many post-classical artists working right now, brings her own influences to centuries-old tradition. The way her fingers chromatically surge in a cascade of color suggest the later compositions of Mozart — somehow lush and sublime in their tension, on the brink of something different. But there’s also a restlessness in how Rani, accompanied by Ziemowit Klimek on upright bass and synth, bounces between the piano and synths with ease and often within the same song. She is a wonder to watch.

— Lars Gotrich | January 29, 2024

SET LIST
“Thin Line”
“Moans (Instrumental)”
“Don’t Break My Heart”

MUSICIANS
Hania Rani: upright piano, synth, vocals
Ziemowit Klimek: bass, synth

TINY DESK TEAM
Producer: Lars Gotrich
Director/Editor: Kara Frame
Audio Technical Director: Josh Rogosin
Series Producer: Bobby Carter
Videographers: Kara Frame, Joshua Bryant, Alanté Serene
Audio Engineer: Neil Tevault
Production Assistant: Ashley Pointer
Photographer: Elizabeth Gillis
Tiny Desk Team: Suraya Mohamed, Maia Stern, Hazel Cills
Series Creators: Bob Boilen, Stephen Thompson
VP, Visuals and Music: Keith Jenkins
Senior VP, Programming: Anya Grundmann

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333 comments
1
Unabogie  Jan 29, 2024 • 4:56:18pm

Question: wasn’t Judge Engoron supposed to give his verdict by today? I’ve looked around and haven’t found anything yet.

2
Nerdy Fish  Jan 29, 2024 • 4:59:29pm

re: #1 Unabogie

Question: wasn’t Judge Engoron supposed to give his verdict by today? I’ve looked around and haven’t found anything yet.

I didn’t think he gave an exact time, only that it would be “Soon (tm).”

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Charles Johnson  Jan 29, 2024 • 5:00:51pm

re: #1 Unabogie

Question: wasn’t Judge Engoron supposed to give his verdict by today? I’ve looked around and haven’t found anything yet.

Verdict is not out yet. But if he gives Letitia James what she asked for, Trump will be on the hook for $370 million MORE, and barred from doing business in New York.

4
Charles Johnson  Jan 29, 2024 • 5:01:35pm

JFC, close to half a billion bucks. Yowza.

5
Unabogie  Jan 29, 2024 • 5:02:57pm

re: #3 Charles Johnson

Verdict is not out yet. But if he gives Letitia James what she asked for, Trump will be on the hook for $370 million MORE, and barred from doing business in New York.

But I could have sworn Jan 29th was the day, but maybe I only heard that in my heart.

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Nerdy Fish  Jan 29, 2024 • 5:03:51pm

re: #5 Unabogie

But I could have sworn Jan 29th was the day, but maybe I only heard that in my heart.

I think it’s because he said he would deliver a verdict “in a couple of weeks,” and that works out to around today? I don’t remember the specific timeline or the words he used, but I remember specifically that he said he knew there was great interest, and that everybody would know when the verdict came in.

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Unabogie  Jan 29, 2024 • 5:05:10pm

re: #6 Nerdy Fish

I think it’s because he said he would deliver a verdict “in a couple of weeks,” and that works out to around today? I don’t remember the specific timeline or the words he used, but I remember specifically that he said he knew there was great interest, and that everybody would know when the verdict came in.

Part of me hopes he has the verdict but wants Trump to twist in the wind for being such a dickface in his courtroom.

8
PhillyPretzel ✅  Jan 29, 2024 • 5:06:00pm

re: #7 Unabogie

You are not the only one.

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Unabogie  Jan 29, 2024 • 5:06:53pm

re: #3 Charles Johnson

Verdict is not out yet. But if he gives Letitia James what she asked for, Trump will be on the hook for $370 million MORE, and barred from doing business in New York.

Also, can we marvel at the fact that Trump is already barred from operating a charity because he stole the money for himself? And that after this, he’ll be barred from doing business at all in New York? And that he’s an adjudicated rapist? And that in spite of all of that, there are millions of people who will still vote for him?

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Charles Johnson  Jan 29, 2024 • 5:07:56pm

re: #9 Unabogie

Also, can we marvel at the fact that Trump is already barred from operating a charity because he stole the money for himself? And that after this, he’ll be barred from doing business at all in New York? And that he’s an adjudicated rapist? And that in spite of all of that, there are millions of people who will still vote for him?

He’s going down in flames, all right. I just hope he doesn’t take the whole country with him.

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Nerdy Fish  Jan 29, 2024 • 5:08:12pm

re: #9 Unabogie

Also, can we marvel at the fact that Trump is already barred from operating a charity because he stole the money for himself? And that after this, he’ll be barred from doing business at all in New York? And that he’s an adjudicated rapist? And that in spite of all of that, there are millions of people who will still vote for him?

Not only vote for him. There are millions of people who somehow, despite all of the criming and the lying the divorces and the sleeping with a prostitute while his wife was pregnant, think he is not only more moral than the quietly pious and observant current President, but the living paragon of morality itself.

12
Charles Johnson  Jan 29, 2024 • 5:11:11pm

James Carville is being NOT an idiot tonight on MSNBC.

13
sagehen  Jan 29, 2024 • 5:11:28pm

re: #6 Nerdy Fish

I think it’s because he said he would deliver a verdict “in a couple of weeks,” and that works out to around today? I don’t remember the specific timeline or the words he used, but I remember specifically that he said he knew there was great interest, and that everybody would know when the verdict came in.

I thought he said “by the end of the month”, which isn’t until Wednesday.

14
No Malarkey!  Jan 29, 2024 • 5:11:36pm

re: #10 Charles Johnson

He’s going down in flames, all right. I just hope he doesn’t take the whole country with him.

I don’t think he will.

15
Decatur Deb  Jan 29, 2024 • 5:11:51pm

re: #11 Nerdy Fish

Not only vote for him. There are millions of people who somehow, despite all of the criming and the lying the divorces and the sleeping with a prostitute while his wife was pregnant, think he is not only more moral than the quietly pious and observant current President, but the living paragon of morality itself.

They used to have custodial facilities for those people. And Georgia. And Australia.

16
Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 29, 2024 • 5:12:23pm

re: #12 Charles Johnson

James Carville is being NOT an idiot tonight on MSNBC.

Oh hell, is it a full moon or something?

17
Nerdy Fish  Jan 29, 2024 • 5:12:24pm

re: #13 sagehen

I thought he said “by the end of the month”, which isn’t until Wednesday.

That sounds right.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 29, 2024 • 5:13:45pm

re: #11 Nerdy Fish

Not only vote for him. There are millions of people who somehow, despite all of the criming and the lying the divorces and the sleeping with a prostitute while his wife was pregnant, think he is not only more moral than the quietly pious and observant current President, but the living paragon of morality itself.

Including my Jesusbot relatives who insist Biden stole the Presidency from Gawd’s Anointed King. They didn’t learn the lesson from the one fool who wound up in Unk’s B&B for being real stupid on 1/6/21.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jan 29, 2024 • 5:13:54pm

re: #16 Eclectic Cyborg

It is waning. About 84%.

20
Charles Johnson  Jan 29, 2024 • 5:15:32pm

re: #16 Eclectic Cyborg

Oh hell, is it a full moon or something?

He’s still got it, lol.

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EPR-radar  Jan 29, 2024 • 5:15:34pm

re: #179 Joe Bacon ✅

All I just got my California Sample Ballot. Looking at it and I see for both Senate races Steve Garvey is on the first line. Adam Schiff is on the bottom line for the short tern race With Barbara Lee and Katie Porter in the middle of both ballots.

For President…Grifter Marianne Williamson has the top line…and Joe Biden is in the bottom of the ballot…

27 people are on the ballot for the full Senate term and only 7 are on the ballot for the short term.

Only one initiative on the ballot involving mental health services and since I see Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association opposing it That means it’s OK and I’ll vote YES on that.

OJ prosecutor Christopher Darden is running for one of the Judicial offices…

The bolded is a reasonable rule of thumb. I amused myself the other day with the CA sample ballot by reading the GOP CA-SEN candidate statements. One of them was a Trumpist loon in full clown honking noises mode, stolen election and all. The rest were the usual mix of overt MAGAts and stealth MAGAts (moderate Republicans being fully extinct, even in CA).

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Unabogie  Jan 29, 2024 • 5:16:28pm

Lyndon LaRouche had these kinds of followers, but he was always on the fringe. It’s hard to think of a guy this nutty and corrupt enjoying massive success. Maybe Ron Paul a few years back? Ross Perot? Even those guys withered away once it was understood how crazy they were.

23
mmmirele  Jan 29, 2024 • 5:17:27pm

I’ve calmed down a bit, but I still think I’m going to mail back that 2 pound Lucite plaque to the CEO with a note that obviously they don’t think much of me since I was denied a raise or a bonus this year. If I didn’t need the health insurance and a steady paycheck, I’d quit.

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Unabogie  Jan 29, 2024 • 5:18:54pm

re: #23 mmmirele

I’ve calmed down a bit, but I still think I’m going to mail back that 2 pound Lucite plaque to the CEO with a note that obviously they don’t think much of me since I was denied a raise or a bonus this year. If I didn’t need the health insurance and a steady paycheck, I’d quit.

Don’t do that. They won’t get the message from you and it only limits your options. Can you start looking for a new job?

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Charles Johnson  Jan 29, 2024 • 5:21:33pm

re: #22 Unabogie

Lyndon LaRouche had these kinds of followers, but he was always on the fringe. It’s hard to think of a guy this nutty and corrupt enjoying massive success. Maybe Ron Paul a few years back? Ross Perot? Even those guys withered away once it was understood how crazy they were.

Don’t underestimate the power of reality TV. He built a formidable army of dipshits even before he got into politics, then used Birtherism to expand it even more.

I remember a time when I was yelling to the world that the Birther conspiracy theory never went away, but was more pervasive and virulent than ever. Trump’s con man instincts recognized a meme he could exploit and he did, to the max.

Birtherism is STILL very much a part of the right wing hive mind.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 29, 2024 • 5:22:12pm

re: #21 EPR-radar

The bolded is a reasonable rule of thumb. I amused myself the other day with the CA sample ballot by reading the GOP CA-SEN candidate statements. One of them was a Trumpist loon in full clown honking noises mode, stolen election and all. The rest were the usual mix of overt MAGAts and stealth MAGAts (moderate Republicans being fully extinct, even in CA).

Every one of those GOP candidates are whack jobs!

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mmmirele  Jan 29, 2024 • 5:23:47pm

re: #24 Unabogie

Don’t do that. They won’t get the message from you and it only limits your options. Can you start looking for a new job?

I’m 63 years old. At this point, I’m just going to tough it out, make them give me a package.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 29, 2024 • 5:24:21pm

re: #25 Charles Johnson

Don’t underestimate the power of reality TV. He built a formidable army of dipshits even before he got into politics, then used Birtherism to expand it even more.

I remember a time when I was yelling to the world that the Birther conspiracy theory never went away, but was more pervasive and virulent than ever. Trump’s con man instincts recognized a meme he could exploit and he did, to the max.

Birtherism is STILL very much a part of the right wing hive mind.

I remember a Kossack buddy who was a contributor to The Fogbow which was the main anti-birther site. I’d look at the insane garbage Birthers were spouting and no matter how hard Fogbow refuted them the birthers doubled or tripled down in their asininity.

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Nerdy Fish  Jan 29, 2024 • 5:24:25pm

re: #22 Unabogie

Lyndon LaRouche had these kinds of followers, but he was always on the fringe. It’s hard to think of a guy this nutty and corrupt enjoying massive success. Maybe Ron Paul a few years back? Ross Perot? Even those guys withered away once it was understood how crazy they were.

Ross Perot’s fans, as numerous as they were, were nowhere near this crazy. Luap Nor and Lyndon LaDouche had the crazy, but not the numbers. Trump has the star power (he was a household name in America even before he ran for President), and the base cunning, to multiply those followers, using the power of social media to keep beating the same tired old drum of racism and misogyny that so attracts the kooks.

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Unabogie  Jan 29, 2024 • 5:25:05pm

re: #27 mmmirele

I’m 63 years old. At this point, I’m just going to tough it out, make them give me a package.

Well no advice as I’m also older than most of my coworkers, but I feel you.

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Nerdy Fish  Jan 29, 2024 • 5:26:32pm

re: #28 Joe Bacon ✅

I remember a Kossack buddy who was a contributor to The Fogbow which was the main anti-birther site. I’d look at the insane garbage Birthers were spouting and no matter how hard Fogbow refuted them the birthers doubled or tripled down in their asininity.

Birtherism was part of my trip back away from the cliff, when I followed Charles away from the rabid right. It was such a transparently obvious conspiracy theory, and yet people - even people I believed to be well-meaning and intelligent - continued falling harder for it every day. It was inexplicable to me, outside of that those people were shitty racists and not to be trusted.

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Unabogie  Jan 29, 2024 • 5:27:04pm

re: #25 Charles Johnson

Don’t underestimate the power of reality TV. He built a formidable army of dipshits even before he got into politics, then used Birtherism to expand it even more.

I remember a time when I was yelling to the world that the Birther conspiracy theory never went away, but was more pervasive and virulent than ever. Trump’s con man instincts recognized a meme he could exploit and he did, to the max.

Birtherism is STILL very much a part of the right wing hive mind.

Oh yeah. I’d bet that almost every Trumper would tell you in private that Obama isn’t a US Citizen.

Hell, my Trumpbot neighbor told me Obama was more loyal to his “tribe in Africa” than America. Thanks, Jerome Corsi, you piece of excrement.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 29, 2024 • 5:28:13pm

re: #23 mmmirele

Every day the light at the end of the tunnel gets just a bit brighter to July 1st when I retire with a full pension. I figure I made it this far no matter what I’m gonna exit that tunnel and at least get some pleasure after surviving all the ssshhhaaavvviiinnnggg cream I’ve dealt with since 10/21/78.

34
Unabogie  Jan 29, 2024 • 5:30:13pm

Mastodon

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 29, 2024 • 5:30:20pm

Oh in a half hour Rachel gets to talk to E. Jean and her attorneys.

Oh I hope her attorneys announce they will go after Rudy after he shot his mouth off.

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darthstar  Jan 29, 2024 • 5:30:57pm

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 29, 2024 • 5:31:22pm

re: #34 Unabogie

Let me guess—Tangerine Twit got that cake from Wal*Mart…

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teleskiguy  Jan 29, 2024 • 5:31:41pm

re: #12 Charles Johnson

James Carville is being NOT an idiot tonight on MSNBC.

The Ragin’ Cajun sometimes still has some wit to his analysis in his old age.

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The GOP is a Terrorist Organization  Jan 29, 2024 • 5:31:45pm

Marcy Wheeler on the deeply fake outrage about THE INVASION!!!! at the border.

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Vicious Babushka  Jan 29, 2024 • 5:33:09pm

re: #3 Charles Johnson

Verdict is not out yet. But if he gives Letitia James what she asked for, Trump will be on the hook for $370 million MORE, and barred from doing business in New York.

Which reminds me: tomorrow’s Mega Millions is $370 Million.

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Ace Rothstein  Jan 29, 2024 • 5:33:43pm

re: #4 Charles Johnson

JFC, close to half a billion bucks. Yowza.

That he doesn’t have, and has never had.

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The GOP is a Terrorist Organization  Jan 29, 2024 • 5:34:16pm

re: #32 Unabogie

Oh yeah. I’d bet that almost every Trumper would tell you in private that Obama isn’t a US Citizen.

Private? They’ll say it publically - without the aid of alcoholic beverages.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 29, 2024 • 5:36:43pm

re: #42 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization

Private? They’ll say it publically - without the aid of alcoholic beverages.

I can vouch for that since that’s what two of my sisters who endlessly bullshitted about their “deep Xtian faith” repeatedly posted Birther lies on Facebook and Shitter.

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DodgerFan1988  Jan 29, 2024 • 5:37:35pm
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Ace Rothstein  Jan 29, 2024 • 5:37:46pm

I remember when I told some red hats about Trump ripping off his charities to buy things for himself. Repairs to a hotel fountain, autographed sports stuff, paintings of himself, etc. They didn’t give a shit.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 29, 2024 • 5:40:10pm

re: #44 DodgerFan1988

Just waiting for Comer Pyle to start another “investigation” into the deaths of those three service members.

And who else remember when Republicans went absolutely silent when four service men were killed in Niger when the Ambien Addict was in the White House?

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Charles Johnson  Jan 29, 2024 • 5:41:29pm

I’m starting to see the Trumpite cult as a sort of fascist anarchy. Not sure that really makes sense, still thinking through the implications.

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Ace Rothstein  Jan 29, 2024 • 5:42:36pm

re: #46 Joe Bacon ✅

If they haven’t already, Biden will be blamed.

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The GOP is a Terrorist Organization  Jan 29, 2024 • 5:43:34pm

re: #43 Joe Bacon ✅

I can vouch for that since that’s what two of my sisters who endlessly bullshitted about their “deep Xtian faith” repeatedly posted Birther lies on Facebook and Shitter.

A buddy of mine whose journey off the deep end began when Obama was elected, firmly believes every lie about Obama, no matter how vile, no matter how stupid it may be. He’s a good dude, but he’s been impossible to be around in the Trump era. Makes me sad, but it’s impossible to avoid his rants about trans people and the “globalists,” et al.

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Nerdy Fish  Jan 29, 2024 • 5:45:35pm

re: #47 Charles Johnson

I’m starting to see the Trumpite cult as a sort of fascist anarchy. Not sure that really makes sense, still thinking through the implications.

It makes a really weird sense if you discard the rules of reality. What they want is a strongman who will tell the people who ordinarily tell them what to do (or they perceive them as doing so) to stop doing that. Basically, they want a bigger bully so that they can do whatever they want in peace.

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teleskiguy  Jan 29, 2024 • 5:48:20pm

Mastodon

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 29, 2024 • 5:50:01pm

re: #49 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization

A buddy of mine whose journey off the deep end began when Obama was elected, firmly believes every lie about Obama, no matter how vile, no matter how stupid it may be. He’s a good dude, but he’s been impossible to be around in the Trump era. Makes me sad, but it’s impossible to avoid his rants about trans people and the “globalists,” et al.

The absolute hatred my sisters had for Obama was nothing compared to the vileness of their hatred of Hillary.

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EPR-radar  Jan 29, 2024 • 5:50:34pm

re: #31 Nerdy Fish

Birtherism was part of my trip back away from the cliff, when I followed Charles away from the rabid right. It was such a transparently obvious conspiracy theory, and yet people - even people I believed to be well-meaning and intelligent - continued falling harder for it every day. It was inexplicable to me, outside of that those people were shitty racists and not to be trusted.

IMO what’s going on in cases like that is that way too many people are perfectly willing to “believe” obvious lies if it make them happy.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 29, 2024 • 5:51:18pm

re: #53 EPR-radar

IMO what’s going on in cases like that is that way too many people are perfectly willing to “believe” obvious lies if it make them happy.

True. They really got off on their deep Xtian hate.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 29, 2024 • 5:53:00pm

re: #50 Nerdy Fish

It makes a really weird sense if you discard the rules of reality.

You always have to do that if you’re trying to understand how they think.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 29, 2024 • 5:53:53pm

Does anyone want to join Crackhead Mike’s Pity Party?

Mike Lindell ally reveals he is ‘losing everything’ — and then breaks down crying

Sherronna Bishop spoke to the Turning Point Action conference about the horrific life that Mike Lindell has been plagued with after he attacked large companies claiming they “stole” the 2020 election. 🤣

Bishop purported to be part of the “Lindell team,” telling the audience she’s close enough to the pillow magnate that she too “was raided with the battering ram.” The Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic cases are civil cases, not criminal.

Bishop leaked personal information and voter data from Mesa County, Arizona, and handed it over to QAnon conspiracy theorists, reported Colorado Public Radio in Nov. 2021. That alleged data theft got the FBI involved, which is why her home was searched. Her work with Lindell hasn’t been the source of the “large teams of heavily armed federal agents, using a battering ram to break down doors.”

She described Lindell as “losing everything, to gain a country. That’s what we’re doing right now.”

She broke down when she began to describe what Lindell had faced.

“In the face of unbelievable odds,” she choked up as the audience applauded.

Mike Lindell ally reveals he is ‘losing everything’ — and then breaks down crying

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EPR-radar  Jan 29, 2024 • 5:54:11pm

re: #47 Charles Johnson

I’m starting to see the Trumpite cult as a sort of fascist anarchy. Not sure that really makes sense, still thinking through the implications.

Fascism is always a clown show. That’s one of the reasons Hitler was so pissed that Heydrich got himself killed by Czech partisans — he was much more competent than most of the top Nazis.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 29, 2024 • 5:55:26pm

re: #56 Joe Bacon ✅

Quit trying to make me feel good.

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  Jan 29, 2024 • 5:55:34pm

There is no place for them to go.

When Obama was running I thought that a win by him would bring out and expose the haters. I guess I also assumed that, being exposed, they would wither away in shame.

I was right and then I was wrong. Then I asked myself, as I ask you:

WHAT DO WE DO WITH THEM. WHERE DO THEY GO?

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EPR-radar  Jan 29, 2024 • 5:56:39pm

re: #59 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)

There is no place for them to go.

When Obama was running I thought that a win by him would bring out and expose the haters. I guess I also assumed that, being exposed, they would wither away in shame.

I was right and then I was wrong. Then I asked myself, as I ask you:

WHAT DO WE DO WITH THEM. WHERE DO THEY GO?

Honestly, this is a really tough question. Cult deprogramming is not something that can scale to tens of millions of cultists.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 29, 2024 • 5:59:12pm

re: #59 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)

re: #60 EPR-radar

Honestly, this is a really tough question. Cult deprogramming is not something that can scale to tens of millions of cultists.

Time cures all assholes. Our best hope is to create a society that keeps their grandchildren from finding the same stupid answers.

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teleskiguy  Jan 29, 2024 • 6:00:30pm

re: #56 Joe Bacon ✅

Mesa County, Colorado.

Must be from Raw Story. There is no Mesa County, Arizona.

Sherronna Bishop was in cahoots with Tina Peters. She was the County Clerk & Recorder and she gave all the voting info in her county to Tim Pool or some shit. Tina Peters has been criminally convicted of obstructing government operations and still faces charges for election tampering and official misconduct.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 29, 2024 • 6:03:18pm

re: #56 Joe Bacon ✅

Hang on. I’ve got my tiny violin here somewhere…

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retired cynic  Jan 29, 2024 • 6:03:59pm

re: #49 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization

A buddy of mine whose journey off the deep end began when Obama was elected, firmly believes every lie about Obama, no matter how vile, no matter how stupid it may be. He’s a good dude, but he’s been impossible to be around in the Trump era. Makes me sad, but it’s impossible to avoid his rants about trans people and the “globalists,” et al.

I’m not sure I’d call him a good dude.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 29, 2024 • 6:04:24pm

Anarcho-fascism has a ring to it.

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No Malarkey!  Jan 29, 2024 • 6:05:46pm

re: #25 Charles Johnson

Don’t underestimate the power of reality TV. He built a formidable army of dipshits even before he got into politics, then used Birtherism to expand it even more.

I remember a time when I was yelling to the world that the Birther conspiracy theory never went away, but was more pervasive and virulent than ever. Trump’s con man instincts recognized a meme he could exploit and he did, to the max.

Birtherism is STILL very much a part of the right wing hive mind.

Which is why Trump launched a birther attack on Haley. It’s a racist dog whistle.

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jaunte  Jan 29, 2024 • 6:06:32pm

Youcanttellmewhattodoism doesn’t sound as serious.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 29, 2024 • 6:07:53pm

Delusional asshole is delusional.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 29, 2024 • 6:21:15pm

re: #68 Eclectic Cyborg

That asshole closed the border?

When?

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Belafon  Jan 29, 2024 • 6:22:32pm
A South Carolina judge denied Alex Murdaugh’s bid for a new double-murder trial on Monday after his defense team accused a clerk of court with tampering with a jury.

Judge Jean Toal ruled that even if Colleton County Clerk Becky Hill did tell jurors to watch Murdaugh’s actions and body language on the stand, the defense failed to prove that such comments directly influenced their decision to find him guilty.

npr.org

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jan 29, 2024 • 6:23:12pm

It’s going to rain:

Next 2 Pacific storms to bring significant precipitation to southern California - NWS San Diego


..

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Belafon  Jan 29, 2024 • 6:23:20pm
U.S. forces may have mistaken an enemy drone for an American one and let it pass unchallenged into a desert base in Jordan where it killed three U.S. troops and wounded dozens more, officials said Monday.

apnews.com

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William Lewis  Jan 29, 2024 • 6:26:40pm

re: #52 Joe Bacon ✅

The absolute hatred my sisters had for Obama was nothing compared to the vileness of their hatred of Hillary.

In 2016 I watched people who didn’t like Trump vote for him because their hate for Hillary was so strong. The most depressing thing was that most of them were women.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 29, 2024 • 6:29:58pm

Apple to some employees: Move to Texas or GTFO.

Apple is giving a group of its employees in San Diego two choices: move to Austin, Texas, or get the boot.

The tech giant is reportedly giving the 121 employees on its Data Operations Annotations team, which works on Siri, until the end of February to make a decision on whether or not they want to move to Austin by the end of June to merge with that same team in Texas. If an employee chooses not to relocate, the company will terminate their position on April 26, according to a recent report from Bloomberg.

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mmmirele  Jan 29, 2024 • 6:31:58pm

re: #62 teleskiguy

Mesa County, Colorado.

Must be from Raw Story. There is no Mesa County, Arizona.

Sherronna Bishop was in cahoots with Tina Peters. She was the County Clerk & Recorder and she gave all the voting info in her county to Tim Pool or some shit. Tina Peters has been criminally convicted of obstructing government operations and still faces charges for election tampering and official misconduct.

Thanks, I was going to write this up but you took care of it for me.

As for Lindell, he deserves what he gets. I only wish TPUSA could be sued out of existence.

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Nerdy Fish  Jan 29, 2024 • 6:36:15pm

re: #69 Joe Bacon ✅

That asshole closed the border?

When?

At the same time he declassified all those documents with his mind.

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William Lewis  Jan 29, 2024 • 6:42:55pm

This is interesting. Possibly the first story like this I find believable

Amelia Earhart’s long-lost plane possibly spotted in the Pacific by exploration team:

New clues have emerged in what is one of the greatest mysteries of all time: the disappearance of legendary American aviator Amelia Earhart.

Deep Sea Vision, an ocean exploration company based in South Carolina, announced Saturday that it captured compelling sonar images of what could be Earhart’s aircraft at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.

The discovery was made possible by a high-tech unmanned underwater drone and a 16-member crew, which surveyed more than 5,200 square miles of ocean floor between September and December.

The team spotted the plane-shaped object between Australia and Hawaii, about 100 miles off Howland Island, which is where Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, were supposed to refuel but never arrived.

The shape of the object in the sonar images closely resembles Earhart’s aircraft, a Lockheed Electra, both in size and tail. Deep Sea Vision founder, Tony Romeo, said he was optimistic in what they found.

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Nerdy Fish  Jan 29, 2024 • 6:46:35pm

re: #77 William Lewis

This is interesting. Possibly the first story like this I find believableAmelia Earhart’s long-lost plane possibly spotted in the Pacific by exploration team:

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Yep, we saw a few articles on this come in this morning. It’s worth sending something down to take a look; if true, this could be the find of the century, putting to rest the most enduring mythical aviation accident of all time.

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jaunte  Jan 29, 2024 • 6:48:39pm

@adamserwer.bsky.social

How does someone look at an image like this and not start to question all the other information they’re getting from these people
mediamatters.org

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darthstar  Jan 29, 2024 • 6:53:03pm

Greek marinated chicken with cucumber, tomato, onion, and feta salad and hummus…also some toasted orzo.

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Ace Rothstein  Jan 29, 2024 • 6:59:40pm

re: #69 Joe Bacon ✅

That asshole closed the border?

When?

Five minutes ago. You didn’t hear about it?

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William Lewis  Jan 29, 2024 • 7:02:04pm

How do you get youtube shorts to show properly? Oh well, follow the link, it’s a hoot:

youtube.com

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The GOP is a Terrorist Organization  Jan 29, 2024 • 7:03:09pm
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teleskiguy  Jan 29, 2024 • 7:04:24pm

[…]

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Vicious Babushka  Jan 29, 2024 • 7:05:38pm

re: #69 Joe Bacon ✅

That asshole closed the border?

When?

Don’t you remember the big ceremony with a giant door & 10 ft of “Wall” on each side? With all the TV cameras when TFG’s massive motorcade went to the Southern Border & His Orange Excellency carried a giant key over his shoulder like a musket, and used it to “lock” the huge door and proclaim the Border “closed”!

Don’t you remember that migrant family who scampered around the end of the “Wall” and ran off into the desert, laughing, while Border Patrol chased after them but they got away.

I mean apart from the fact that it never happened? There is no way to “lock” the border, not even the Indians & Pakistanis “lock” the border after their ceremony for the tourists.

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jaunte  Jan 29, 2024 • 7:07:08pm

Remember this?

Texas’s economy took a more than $4 billion hit in April after Governor Greg Abbott’s order to ramp up on security at the border resulted in shipping delays and bridge blockades, according to a new analysis.
bloomberg.com

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 29, 2024 • 7:08:03pm

re: #47 Charles Johnson

I’m starting to see the Trumpite cult as a sort of fascist anarchy. Not sure that really makes sense, still thinking through the implications.

Steve Bannon it’s a full on anarchist. 100%. He wants to burn it all down and resurrect it into…I don’t know what. Something that’s not America.

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jaunte  Jan 29, 2024 • 7:08:38pm

“…Eagle Pass and El Paso account for $33.95 billion annually in trade — just shy of 36% of all cross-border rail traffic to and from Mexico, according to the Texas Association of Business.”
axios.com

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The GOP is a Terrorist Organization  Jan 29, 2024 • 7:08:48pm

Rachel’s interview with E. Jean Carroll was wonderful. She and her lawyers are just amazing!

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Jan 29, 2024 • 7:09:16pm

re: #82 William Lewis

How do you get youtube shorts to show properly? Oh well, follow the link, it’s a hoot:

youtube.com

You just put the video’s ID in a regular YouTube URL

Money Laundering Explained For Kids!

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jaunte  Jan 29, 2024 • 7:10:02pm

Republicans think shutting down the border with Mexico is a great way to crash Biden’s economic success.

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The GOP is a Terrorist Organization  Jan 29, 2024 • 7:12:39pm

re: #91 jaunte

Republicans think shutting down the border with Mexico is a great way to crash Biden’s economic success.

Republicans think Michelle Obama is really a man.

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coin operated  Jan 29, 2024 • 7:22:40pm

Love Hania Rani. If you enjoyed the Tiny Desk concert above, give this concert she did in Paris last year a listen:
Link

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Ace Rothstein  Jan 29, 2024 • 7:27:49pm

re: #92 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization

Republicans think Michelle Obama is really a man.

And that Obama is gay.

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Unabogie  Jan 29, 2024 • 7:29:44pm

re: #79 jaunte

@adamserwer.bsky.social

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Remember after 9/11 how Fox was all about fealty to the military? Now it’s telling people to be wary of the Pentagon? It’s pure brain worms.

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jaunte  Jan 29, 2024 • 7:31:07pm

re: #95 Unabogie

“His” generals didn’t follow Durr Leader.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 29, 2024 • 7:33:46pm

re: #92 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization

Republicans think Michelle Obama is really a man.

Republicans think Borat is from Kazakhstan.

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DodgerFan1988  Jan 29, 2024 • 7:35:00pm
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GlutenFreeJesus  Jan 29, 2024 • 7:39:54pm

re: #68 Eclectic Cyborg

If he closed it without a wall, we don’t need a wall.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 29, 2024 • 7:41:09pm

re: #92 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization

Republicans think Michelle Obama is really a man.

When my sister posted that…guess my reaction…

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silverdolphin  Jan 29, 2024 • 7:41:57pm

Trump Can’t Win: 64% Of Americans Won’t Support Him

Hope this is true. More Republians support him now than 6 months ago. But he loses everyone else.

Of course, the same poll has 54% of Americans say they will not support Biden. So he ‘wins’ by 10 points.

We are just starting so I expect a lot of young, progressive, independents are hoping for another choice. But I am convinced Biden will have many of them won over by election day.

We shall see.

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Dangerman  Jan 29, 2024 • 7:42:48pm
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Decatur Deb  Jan 29, 2024 • 7:44:51pm

re: #102 Dangerman

Mommyvans.

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Dangerman  Jan 29, 2024 • 7:45:17pm

re: #99 GlutenFreeJesus

If he closed it without a wall, we don’t need a wall.

If he closed the border effectively, there would be proof.

Like no one arrested or detained after that date. Border patrol sitting around with their feet on their desks, nothing to do.

Did that happen?

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Dangerman  Jan 29, 2024 • 7:46:37pm

re: #101 silverdolphin

Trump Can’t Win: 64% Of Americans Won’t Support Him

More Republians support him now than 6 months ago. But he loses everyone else.

….

We shall see.

A bigger and bigger share of a smaller and shrinking pie.

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jaunte  Jan 29, 2024 • 7:47:26pm

re: #102 Dangerman

Who owns the bus/billboard/portapotty?

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 29, 2024 • 7:47:31pm

re: #102 Dangerman

We got a limping con-job
sluggish in the night
Oh we got a limping con-job
We’re from the loony right
Come on and join our con-job
ain’t nothin’ gonna get in our way
we’re gonna plug that southern border
‘cross Gawd’s USA
Con-job…

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Nerdy Fish  Jan 29, 2024 • 7:48:32pm

re: #102 Dangerman

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William Wallace was unavailable for comment.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 29, 2024 • 7:49:00pm

re: #106 jaunte

Who owns the bus/billboard/portapotty?

That’s the “Mobile Command Center” to you, Binkey.

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jaunte  Jan 29, 2024 • 7:49:36pm

re: #109 Decatur Deb

They’ll need a covid isolation trailer.

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darthstar  Jan 29, 2024 • 7:50:12pm

re: #102 Dangerman

I count 5 minivans, 4 pickups, a few SUVs and a couple of Camry/Corrolas.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 29, 2024 • 7:50:28pm

re: #110 jaunte

They’ll need a covid isolation trailer.

They need a mobile psychiatric ward.

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darthstar  Jan 29, 2024 • 7:54:32pm

Mastodon

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silverdolphin  Jan 29, 2024 • 7:59:59pm

re: #111 darthstar

I count 5 minivans, 4 pickups, a few SUVs and a couple of Camry/Corrolas.

Looks more like a group of soccer families and team off to a state tournament, where they will stay at a Holiday Inn Express and sightsee.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 29, 2024 • 8:01:06pm

re: #114 silverdolphin

Looks more like a group of soccer families and team off to a state tournament, where they will stay at a Holiday Inn Express and sightsee.

Targetpractice and Lewis III dodged a bullet.

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jaunte  Jan 29, 2024 • 8:02:09pm

I don’t think they’ll be able to sustain their enthusiasm past Orange, Texas without some artificial stimulus.

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silverdolphin  Jan 29, 2024 • 8:03:10pm

re: #113 darthstar

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Apple is negotiating with content makers to license their material for use in LLM systems. That would be the correct way, rather than rent-seek by stealing the properties of others.

Of course, like everything, the price is important. When a single song used to cost the entire price of a CD, then people pirated. When Apple was able to seel that song for $0.99, piracy dropped. If the content producers ask too much, piracy may well continue.

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William Lewis  Jan 29, 2024 • 8:03:29pm

re: #114 silverdolphin

Looks more like a group of soccer families and team off to a state tournament, where they will stay at a Holiday Inn Express and sightsee.

And spend every night in the lobby drinking 30 packs of Busch Light and liters of cheap liquor getting wasted to the point where they’re barely able to take the elevator to their rooms and can hardly stay awake during their brats matches the next day.

(I hate cleaning up behind that kind of scum. Hockey parents are even worse though.)

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William Lewis  Jan 29, 2024 • 8:06:13pm

Last day of the week for this week - started early so I get to end early. Yay me. How’d that jody call go, “here we go again… “

😈

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jan 29, 2024 • 8:07:45pm

re: #114 silverdolphin

Looks more like a group of soccer families and team off to a state tournament, where they will stay at a Holiday Inn Express and sightsee.

Even the high school caravan that would go up to Black Bear Lodge in Canada for a weeks-long fishing trip every year was bigger.

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Ace Rothstein  Jan 29, 2024 • 8:15:27pm

Like I’ve been saying for a while now, Trump’s appeal is capped. He can’t expand it because there is nothing there to expand. He is repulsive to anyone that isn’t a diehard red hat fanatic.

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teleskiguy  Jan 29, 2024 • 8:16:16pm

re: #92 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization

Republicans think Michelle Obama is really a man.

Republicans were sympathetic to Aryan Nation arms dealer Randy Weaver back in the 90s.

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Ace Rothstein  Jan 29, 2024 • 8:17:29pm

re: #102 Dangerman

The van has “We the People” painted on it. These people have never read one word of the document they allegedly care so much about.

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 29, 2024 • 8:21:48pm

re: #98 DodgerFan1988

And who cares what Kirk thinks?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 29, 2024 • 8:26:56pm

re: #124 Patricia Kayden

And who cares what Kirk thinks?

Losers, incels and morons.

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teleskiguy  Jan 29, 2024 • 8:35:43pm

Mastodon

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jaunte  Jan 29, 2024 • 8:41:42pm

re: #126 teleskiguy

two RVs on the back side of their 54-acre property

Seems like a minor ‘zoning violation’ in contrast with the good it does.

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Belafon  Jan 29, 2024 • 8:46:22pm

re: #117 silverdolphin

Apple is negotiating with content makers to license their material for use in LLM systems. That would be the correct way, rather than rent-seek by stealing the properties of others.

Of course, like everything, the price is important. When a single song used to cost the entire price of a CD, then people pirated. When Apple was able to seel that song for $0.99, piracy dropped. If the content producers ask too much, piracy may well continue.

Now that we’ve modeled everything, we’ll tell some people that we need their work to model with.

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piratedan  Jan 29, 2024 • 8:56:04pm

re: #124 Patricia Kayden

I would have to honestly admit that like you, I could give a shit about Charlie Kirk. He only concerns me in the way of a LOT of RW talking heads, inspiring some gullible dipshit to do harm unto others. THAT, he’s fully capable of.

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piratedan  Jan 29, 2024 • 8:58:32pm

re: #126 teleskiguy

geez, did some Kommunity Karens get outraged that someone might not freeze to death? or were there some valid health/safety concerns?

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Belafon  Jan 29, 2024 • 9:02:24pm

re: #130 piratedan

geez, did some Kommunity Karens get outraged that someone might not freeze to death? or were there some valid health/safety concerns?

I posted a story yesterday about some state senator here in Texas that wants Paxton to declare Houston’s attempt to giving $500 a month to some low income people unconstitutional. It’s all the same. These so called Christians don’t want to take care of people.

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sizzzzlerz  Jan 29, 2024 • 9:16:22pm

re: #102 Dangerman

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They probably have among themselves, more firearms than the entire confederency, because, you know, gotta protect their families from the invading armies from mexico.

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retired cynic  Jan 29, 2024 • 9:24:43pm

re: #73 William Lewis

In 2016 I watched people who didn’t like Trump vote for him because their hate for Hillary was so strong. The most depressing thing was that most of them were women.

She was my s/hero. I cannot understand people who hate her like that. Maybe not feel as passionately towards her as I did, but hate? WTF.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 29, 2024 • 9:29:45pm

In about 2 1/2 hours right now I legally attain the age of 68.

Legally attain—per court precedents one attains their age the day before their birthday.

So tomorrow is a workday but I will take my birthday off on Wednesday. Plan is to celebrate on one hand…but on the other hand there will be an empty chair across from me at the table...where once again I will have to deal with the fact that I never could connect with my son…

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EPR-radar  Jan 29, 2024 • 9:32:19pm

re: #134 retired cynic

She was my s/hero. I cannot understand people who hate her like that. Maybe not feel as passionately towards her as I did, but hate? WTF.

The US right was very successful with its decades-long propaganda war vs. Hillary Clinton.

I think that’s most of it right there, although there’s a background of misogyny that was also a factor.

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coin operated  Jan 29, 2024 • 9:45:11pm

re: #136 EPR-radar

although there’s a background of misogyny that was also a factor.

I’ve said this a number of times…the right’s original sin is racism…the left’s is misogyny. While the women in the party try to empower other women, the men of our party are just kinda paying lip service. There are exceptions…Biden/Clinton (questionable)/Obama…but a large portion of the men in our party need to wake the fuck up to what they are doing (Bernie…Manchin…looking at you two flaming shitbags).

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William Lewis  Jan 29, 2024 • 9:52:30pm

re: #137 coin operated

I’ve said this a number of times…the right’s original sin is racism…the left’s is misogyny. While the women in the party try to empower other women, the men of our party are just kinda paying lip service. There are exceptions…Biden/Harris/Hillary/Obama…but a large portion of the men in our party need to wake the fuck up to what they are doing (Bernie…Manchin…looking at you two flaming shitbags).

Way too effing true.

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EPR-radar  Jan 29, 2024 • 9:58:42pm

re: #137 coin operated

I’ve said this a number of times…the right’s original sin is racism…the left’s is misogyny. While the women in the party try to empower other women, the men of our party are just kinda paying lip service. There are exceptions…Biden/Clinton (questionable)/Obama…but a large portion of the men in our party need to wake the fuck up to what they are doing (Bernie…Manchin…looking at you two flaming shitbags).

The US right is much more misogynist than the US left, since very few democrats embrace the repellant mainstream GOP view that women are baby-dispensing appliances, not people. That said, there are still way too many democrats who aren’t there for full equality for women.

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KingKenrod  Jan 29, 2024 • 10:19:39pm

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silverdolphin  Jan 29, 2024 • 10:21:27pm

re: #139 EPR-radar

The US right is much more misogynist than the US left, since very few democrats embrace the repellant mainstream GOP view that women are baby-dispensing appliances, not people. That said, there are still way too many democrats who aren’t there for full equality for women.

I think a lot of liberal men got very complacent, told themselves the heavy-lifting had already been done, patted themselves on the back for 30% of the House being female and called it a day. Women knew better.

It will be interesting to see if Dodds has any real effect on changing that view. 83 % of Democratic women beleive that abortion ahould be legal and 81% of men. Now is the time for them to really put some real effort in.

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EPR-radar  Jan 29, 2024 • 10:23:08pm

re: #141 silverdolphin

The failure of the ERA to pass was a sign of future social regression.

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silverdolphin  Jan 29, 2024 • 10:33:36pm

re: #142 EPR-radar

The failure of the ERA to pass was a sign of future social regression.

All part of the new political party system that started in the late 70. Main hallmark was the rise of Conservatives in each party and the suppression of liberals. So the rise of mysogynists in both parties became strong. That is shifting as we transition to the 7th political party system.

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retired cynic  Jan 29, 2024 • 10:35:21pm

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 29, 2024 • 10:37:57pm

re: #68 Eclectic Cyborg

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Delusional asshole is delusional.

Not delusional. Just lying as usual, knowing that his base will accept every word as gospel truth.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jan 30, 2024 • 12:25:32am

,

Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 • Villa-Lobos • Hong Hye-Ran




..

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William Lewis  Jan 30, 2024 • 12:28:45am

Peter Schickele and Itzhak Perlman being conducted by John Williams is something you never thought you needed until now…

P.D.Q. Bach - Konzertshtick for Two Violins Mit Orchestra

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JC1  Jan 30, 2024 • 12:32:26am

re: #136 EPR-radar

The US right was very successful with its decades-long propaganda war vs. Hillary Clinton.

I think that’s most of it right there, although there’s a background of misogyny that was also a factor.

She ran a horrible campaign, picked a milk toast VP, was an awful secretary of State (Putin’s reset button, regime change in Libya).
She was an excellent senator and should have remained in that position.
Given that SCOTUS was on the line, she was still the only sane choice in the general election, but I wish that we had a real primary in 2016.

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Dr Lizardo  Jan 30, 2024 • 12:41:41am

re: #133 teleskiguy

I’d say Taylor already answered them quite awhile ago…

Taylor Swift - You Need To Calm Down

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silverdolphin  Jan 30, 2024 • 12:42:44am

TL:DR Swift found a creative way to get around the bullying men who thought they could control her. By doing so, she marketed herself into the stratospheric realm (Oprah-land?) she now inhabits. Perhaps if she had been treated with respect, she would just be a popular singer still making money for the patriarchy.
_______________

Taylor Swift was always talented but I believe she really took off into Oprah levels because she found an innovatve way to get around the fact that someone she really disliked purchased all the masters to her previous albums (He was the manager of Kanye West who famously used a nude mannequin of Swift in bed with him in a music video as he called her a bitch. The duo’s misogyny towards her apparently started when West took the mike away from her and said Beyonce should have won an award.)

These men thought they were going to show this woman who had the real power, in a way that would warm any MAGA male’s heart - control all the creative works that made her a star.so they could prostitute them by controlling who got to sing her songs.

“He knew what he was doing; they both did. Controlling a woman who didn’t want to be associated with them. In perpetuity. “

Kelly Clarkson, another smart lady who has freed herself from the record labels. suggested she re-record all the songs/albums, using new artwork and adding bonuses for the fans.

Starting in 2021, she re-recorded all of them, making them “Taylor’s versions” and finishing last year. Every one of them took off. Her fans only wanted the ‘official’ version so the library of original masters quickly dropped in value. She became the first performer in 60 years to have 4 albums rank in the top 10 - simultaneously.

And since she owns the masters of these new recordings, she can now control their licensing. She refuses to license any of the original recordings but is open to using the “Taylor’s Version”. Anyone asking knows to only ask about the “Taylor Version”; that the fans will notice.

And her fans do know the difference. They have been there as the industry tried to control her and they see the inventive way to route around that control as something to celebrate.

It was the retention of control of her own creative works that I believe really sent Swift into very rarefied air. And a lot of the re-releases coincided with her Eras tour, making it even bigger. She is a smart businesswoman and has found a win-win way to make money, control her destiny and satisfy her fans.

And made her very hated by misogynstic men. They hate it when a women outsmarts a man.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 30, 2024 • 12:48:07am

re: #9 Unabogie

…And that in spite of all of that, there are millions of people who will still vote for him?

There are a sizeable number of people ready to engage in armed insurgency on his behalf

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 30, 2024 • 12:49:10am

re: #10 Charles Johnson

He’s going down in flames, all right. I just hope he doesn’t take the whole country with him.

I been thinking the same about Putin. Now that his economy is in the shitter, he does not have much to lose by rattling his saber: the threat of a war between NATO and Russia could really tank the EU economy.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 30, 2024 • 12:52:43am

re: #32 Unabogie

Oh yeah. I’d bet that almost every Trumper would tell you in private that Obama isn’t a US Citizen.

Hell, my Trumpbot neighbor told me Obama was more loyal to his “tribe in Africa” than America. Thanks, Jerome Corsi, you piece of excrement.

And Newt Gingrich menioning Obama’s “Kenyan world view”. Which I first read as “Keynesian world view”, which I thought applied to Obama…

And no, not in the sense of Kenya as a former British colony that fought for and won its independence, but in the sense of armed Mau-Mau rape gangs with machetes chopping white settlers to pieces.

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silverdolphin  Jan 30, 2024 • 12:53:12am

re: #152 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I been thinking the same about Putin. Now that his economy is in the shitter, he does not have much to lose by rattling his saber: the threat of a war between NATO and Russia could really tank the EU economy.

I think if he attacked a NATO country, Russia would very rapid see its internal infrastructure reduced to rubble. Hard to have a war if the railroads in Russia are not functional. Or if no planes can fly.

Air power is something it has not had to worry about with Ukraine, to its benefit since it really has no air power itself. NATO would.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 30, 2024 • 12:55:36am

re: #52 Joe Bacon ✅

The absolute hatred my sisters had for Obama was nothing compared to the vileness of their hatred of Hillary.

And this is the hurdle that Kamla Harris faces if she should ever run for President: their reaction would be (Obama + Hillary)³

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 30, 2024 • 12:59:08am

re: #49 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization

A buddy of mine whose journey off the deep end began when Obama was elected, firmly believes every lie about Obama, no matter how vile, no matter how stupid it may be. He’s a good dude, but he’s been impossible to be around in the Trump era. Makes me sad, but it’s impossible to avoid his rants about trans people and the “globalists,” et al.

I broke up with a GF after two years, an otherwise highly intelligent woman but she really fell into the rabbit hole and at one point insisted that Biden is not only not our legally elected President, but the fellow in the White House is not Biden but a body double.

When I asked her if he was a lizardoid alien, she replied “no comment”. I packed my suitcase and left the next morning. One cannot be in a relationship with someone who occupies a parallel reality.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 30, 2024 • 1:07:05am

re: #113 darthstar

20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it.

If they can use these works without respecting the copyright then others should be able to do the same with the works their AI generates with it.

For you geeks out there, an episode of Star Trek: Voyager addressed that idea when their sentient holographic doctor started writing holonovels. The publishers decided that he had to copyright as he was not a human being.

The courts then ruled on the one hand that the hologram had to copyrights but that since they were machine generated, neither did the publisher. Or something like that.

Incredibly presicent bit of writing for the late 1990s

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 30, 2024 • 1:11:28am

re: #154 silverdolphin

I think if he attacked a NATO country, Russia would very rapid see its internal infrastructure reduced to rubble. Hard to have a war if the railroads in Russia are not functional. Or if no planes can fly.

Air power is something it has not had to worry about with Ukraine, to its benefit since it really has no air power itself. NATO would.

He does not need or want to start a war, but if the threat of war starts to loom, that will definitely give investors cold feet when it comes to the EU and they are struggling enough already.

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William Lewis  Jan 30, 2024 • 1:14:08am

re: #151 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

There are a sizeable number of people ready to engage in armed insurgency on his behalf

Well, sizable numbers who think they will. Most of them have never served in the military and have no clue what it’s like to be cold and miserable in a foxhole with artillery going off near you or to be huddling under a poncho in a rain storm ripping open an mre that you have no idea what it is until the stench of it hits your nose (1st generation Ham & Chicken loaf, I’m remembering you. Almost as bad as C rat Ham & Mothers). Most will go slinking back to their La-Zee-boy & big screen tv after they hear that first shot go past their ear.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 30, 2024 • 1:25:49am

re: #159 William Lewis

They are ready to make a show of it, but yes, their motto might as well be “Dishonor before Discomfort”

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 30, 2024 • 2:14:45am

re: #151 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

There are a sizeable number of people ready to engage in armed insurgency on his behalf

And join the other idiots in prison. Works for me.

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 30, 2024 • 2:16:15am

re: #49 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization

How is he a good dude? Good dudes don’t believe every racist lie about President Obama or anyone else.

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William Lewis  Jan 30, 2024 • 2:19:06am

re: #162 Patricia Kayden

How is he a good dude? Good dudes don’t believe every racist lie about President Obama or anyone else.

Might _have_ been a good dude once. I had a friend once that _used_ to be before he deep ended. Sometimes people have a hard time saying that about people they liked.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 30, 2024 • 2:19:44am

re: #161 Patricia Kayden

And join the other idiots in prison. Works for me.

Like with Covid, it would be fine if they themselves were the only ones affected, but innocent people often become victims of their stupidity.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 30, 2024 • 2:21:03am

re: #163 William Lewis

Might _have_ been a good dude once. I had a friend once that _used_ to be before he deep ended. Sometimes people have a hard time saying that about people they liked.

I knew that my ex-GF did not like Obama, HIllary or BIden, but it has long since gone beyond political differences

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Jan 30, 2024 • 3:30:27am

Another brutal word.
Wordle 955 4/6

Click to Reveal

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Dangerman  Jan 30, 2024 • 3:33:12am

re: #150 silverdolphin

….

And made her very hated by misogynstic men. They hate it when a women outsmarts a man. is smart.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 30, 2024 • 3:34:59am

re: #167 Dangerman

And made her very hated by misogynstic men. They hate it when a women outsmarts a man. is smart. is anything but property or an object to please their desires.

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 30, 2024 • 3:39:59am

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Dangerman  Jan 30, 2024 • 3:40:09am

re: #159 William Lewis

Well, sizable numbers who think they will. Most of them have never served in the military and have no clue what it’s like to be shot at.

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 30, 2024 • 3:40:21am

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Nerdy Fish  Jan 30, 2024 • 3:42:26am

What a word, what a word.

Click to Reveal

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Technically, guess 2 was a mistake (I reused a letter I knew wasn’t in it), but it wound up not mattering in the end.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 30, 2024 • 3:44:30am

re: #170 Dangerman

Well, sizable numbers who think they will. Most of them have never served in the military and have no clue what it’s like to be shot at.

you just hit the reset button and keep shooting

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Randall Gross  Jan 30, 2024 • 3:46:12am

Now that they’ve sorted the Russian doping skater verdict, the Olympics will award the skating medals from the 2022 Olympics, we are in the running for a few I believe.

Mastodon

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Randall Gross  Jan 30, 2024 • 3:49:19am

Mastodon

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Randall Gross  Jan 30, 2024 • 3:52:25am

Of course the game is rigged! It’s that woke west coast team vs the Kansas City Swifties - what could be more rigged!???!!
mastodon.sdf.org

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William Lewis  Jan 30, 2024 • 3:52:33am

re: #170 Dangerman

Well, yes, there is that too. I suppose that instead of brown shirts we could refer to them as Trump Brown Pants Troopers 🤣

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 30, 2024 • 4:21:58am

We are reminded again that for many, the sport of football is a fusion of religion, patriotism and masculinity. Anything that disrupts this holy trinity must become the source of gret outrage.

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terraincognita  Jan 30, 2024 • 4:30:05am

re: #177 William Lewis

Well, yes, there is that too. I suppose that instead of brown shirts we could refer to them as Trump Brown Pants Troopers 🤣

Or on a more informal note, the Khaki Wackies.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 30, 2024 • 4:31:22am

re: #179 terraincognita

Or on a more informal note, the Khaki Wackies.

Meal Team Six
Band of Blubbers
Corinthian Leathernecks

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Shropshire Slasher  Jan 30, 2024 • 4:53:27am

Sorry.

Drone footage shot off the coast of Southern California may have revealed the first ever glimpse of a newborn great white shark in the wild.

The 1.5-meter-long (5-foot-long) white shark was spotted on July 9, 2023, 400 meters (1,300 feet) off the coast of Carpinteria, California, by wildlife filmmaker Carlos Gauna and Phillip Sternes, a doctoral student in the department of biology at University of California Riverside, while they were shooting aerial video and images.

Its pale coloring and size immediately struck the duo as unusual. Adult great white sharks are gray on top and white underneath.

Gauna and Sternes examined the images and video in the viewfinder of the drone camera and noticed a thin, white film covering the shark that was sloughing off the animal as it moved.

“We enlarged the images, put them in slow motion, and realized the white layer was being shed from the body as it was swimming,” Sternes said in a news release. “I believe it was a newborn white shark shedding its embryonic layer.”

cnn.com

Baby Shark Dance | Sing and Dance! | Animal Songs | PINKFONG Songs for Children

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Belafon  Jan 30, 2024 • 5:16:31am
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Shropshire Slasher  Jan 30, 2024 • 5:17:43am

LOL, make sure to bring cash.

The “God’s Army” trucker convoy that’s headed to the southern border in a “Take Our Border Back” campaign has been decimated by conspiracy theories that it’s an FBI front, Vice News reported Monday.

.

According to Vice’s report, the less-than-stellar turnout was likely due to theories circulating in right-wing circles that the convoy could be a “psyop” or “honeypot” trap laid by the federal government to coax people into committing violence.

rawstory.com

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Randall Gross  Jan 30, 2024 • 5:18:07am

bsky.app

direct link to essay
the-reframe.com

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lawhawk  Jan 30, 2024 • 5:18:14am

re: #3 Charles Johnson

It’s possible that the court ordered monitor, a former judge, also found discrepancies and malfeasance by Trump’s business operations, leading to additional issues that have to be addressed by the Judge.

The facts are indisputable at this point:
Civil fraud case- the judge found fraud. The trial where Trump spewed BS for a few minutes on the stand was only about the damages. The evidence Trump purported to show that fraud didn’t occur failed to undermine the state’s evidence of malfeasance. The state was looking for at least $370 million in disgorgement/damages plus a ban on Trump family members (Don Jr and Eric) from being allowed to operate businesses in NY. Trumpworld was already banned from operating a charity in NY thanks to his scam operations previously adjudicated.

Defamation cases - Carroll 1 and Carroll 2 - both are defamation cases relating to different time periods. A jury found Trump liable for defaming Carroll, finding that for civil purposes, Trump sexually assaulted Carroll, which is equivalent to rape in common vernacular. The damages for the first case to go to trial was over $5 million. The damages from the second case was $83 million.

In the defamation cases, it was actual juries that found Trump liable for defamation and identified the damages (and in the second case found Trump engaged in such egregious conduct, exceeded Carroll’s team’s recommended compensation amounts by a huge margin). Trump again shows complete and total disregard for the rule of law and the justice system in the US. He thinks himself above the law, and all of this claims for an appeal will fall flat because there were no legal errors in any of the Carroll cases.

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Randall Gross  Jan 30, 2024 • 5:21:06am

Anil Dash looks back 7 years…

Mastodon

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DodgerFan1988  Jan 30, 2024 • 5:22:34am
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darthstar  Jan 30, 2024 • 5:22:50am

re: #185 lawhawk

$48 million in undeclared income hidden as a ‘loan’ with no documentation. Up to 10 years of IRS tax fraud.

Also, it’s Tuesday - we may get a verdict from the DC appeals court on immunity today.

So between Engoron and DC we could have a Super Shitty Tuesday for Trump.

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lawhawk  Jan 30, 2024 • 5:24:39am

re: #188 darthstar

$48 million in undeclared income hidden as a ‘loan’ with no documentation. Up to 10 years of IRS tax fraud.

Also, it’s Tuesday - we may get a verdict from the DC appeals court on immunity today.

So between Engoron and DC we could have a Super Shitty Tuesday for Trump.

Ketchup futures have soared.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 30, 2024 • 5:29:27am

re: #183 Shropshire Slasher

LOL, make sure to bring cash.

rawstory.com

Their schedule has them forming up now in Jacksonville for today’s 0900 local departure. There was live video of last night’s arrival—really dumb and boring, unless nighttime turnpike centerline is your kink.

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Shropshire Slasher  Jan 30, 2024 • 5:35:06am

re: #186 Randall Gross

Anil Dash looks back 7 years…

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I imagine AI could deliver individual news stories to cater to each individual desire.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 30, 2024 • 5:36:26am

re: #191 Shropshire Slasher

That’s the same as listening to the voices in your head.

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Shropshire Slasher  Jan 30, 2024 • 5:37:33am

Now I want some sausage.

French farmers started their tractors this morning for another day of protests, saying they would ‘stave Paris’ after triumphantly feasting on wine and sausages overnight.

Monday saw the angry demonstrators choke off major motorways around the city and threaten to blockade the French capital in an intensifying standoff with the government over working conditions, incomes, red tape and environmental policies.

The farmers say the policies undermine their ability to compete with other countries.

dailymail.co.uk

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 30, 2024 • 5:40:56am

re: #183 Shropshire Slasher

The “God’s Army” trucker convoy that’s headed to the southern border in a “Take Our Border Back” campaign has been decimated by conspiracy theories that it’s an FBI front, Vice News reported Monday.

.

According to Vice’s report, the less-than-stellar turnout was likely due to theories circulating in right-wing circles that the convoy could be a “psyop” or “honeypot” trap laid by the federal government to coax people into committing violence.

And this is how we stop all the right wing nonsense.

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Shropshire Slasher  Jan 30, 2024 • 5:42:25am

Fascinating

The party of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish president, has set up an offshoot in Germany to contest European elections due later this year.

The Democratic Alliance for Diversity and Awakening (DAVA), which is allied to Mr Erdogan’s AK Party, said it would run “highly decorated candidates” in the June vote.

It will fight for the rights of “people with foreign roots” and take a stand against “anti-Muslim racism”, said Fatih Zingal, a leading DAVA figure with links to the Turkish president.

news.yahoo.com

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Jan 30, 2024 • 5:51:38am

re: #180 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Corinthian Leathernecks

Don’t disparage Corinthian leather like that.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 30, 2024 • 5:51:49am

re: #195 Shropshire Slasher

I was listening to a radio report on Muslims in Germany. Many of them turn to their Imans for advice on personal and family matters, just as Christians would go to their priest or pastor.

Most of these Imams are from Turkey and are trained abroad, with little experience of life in modern Europe or the West. That means that their advice is often going to be more suitable for Anatolia than Düsseldorf.

Germany has yet to address the notion of training native Muslim clerics to take of this vital role in the Muslim community.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 30, 2024 • 5:52:10am

re: #196 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

Don’t disparage Corinthian leather like that.

Just the deep red color.

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darthstar  Jan 30, 2024 • 5:55:22am

re: #193 Shropshire Slasher

Now I want some sausage.

dailymail.co.uk

Nobody protests quite like the French.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 30, 2024 • 5:57:20am

re: #199 darthstar

re: #193 Shropshire Slasher

Now I want some sausage.

you saucy son of a boudin

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Belafon  Jan 30, 2024 • 5:57:26am

Yeah, Elmo shouldn’t ask adults this question.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 30, 2024 • 5:58:31am

re: #201 Belafon

Yeah, Elmo shouldn’t ask adults this question.

It’s a rather ticklish subject.

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Shropshire Slasher  Jan 30, 2024 • 6:01:26am

lol

Holy Cross’ men’s basketball team got an unlikely assist on Monday night.

Facing Boston University at the Hart Center, the Crusaders swim team attempted to distract Ethan Okwuosa during a pair of free throw attempts at the end of the first half.

The home crowd gave the swimmers — skipping and waving their arms on the concourse, clad in their suits and swim caps — a rousing ovation.

nypost.com

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 30, 2024 • 6:02:19am

Meanwhile in the Jesus Land of Oklahoma…

Lankford Gets The MAGA Treatment For Defying Trump And Legislating

Amid apparent infighting in the Oklahoma Republican Party, a resolution was passed over the weekend to formally condemn Sen. James Lankford (R-OK), who has caught the ire of Donald Trump supporters for working on the bipartisan immigration bill that Trump had asked congressional Republicans to spike.

There appear to be bigger tensions within the Oklahoma GOP ranks that have left some current and former members of the state Republican Party calling that condemnation vote — which accused Lankford of “playing fast and loose with Democrats” on border policy they say is antithetical to the state party’s platform — illegitimate. But the move to punish Lankford, legitimate or not, signals that GOP activists are taking Trump’s cue, and repercussions may be coming down the pike for any Republican who dares to defy the former president in his attempt to torpedo the legislation.

My colleague Kate Riga reported on this unraveling dynamic last week. In short, Trump has been communicating to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and other Republicans in Congress that border deal is “bad” and should be dropped. That’s not because he or any other Republicans besides those working on the bipartisan commission have seen the language of the bill. It’s because solving the border “crisis” now gives Republicans one less thing to campaign on during a presidential cycle in which they, once again, have no policy platform. Trump himself also wants to use it to attack Biden in the months leading up to the general election.

talkingpointsmemo.com

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Shropshire Slasher  Jan 30, 2024 • 6:02:35am

re: #203 lawhawk

A judge Monday denied convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh a new trial after a daylong evidentiary hearing that centered on allegations that a court clerk had tampered with the jury and tainted the verdict.

nbcnews.com

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 30, 2024 • 6:08:30am

‘Ultimate degeneration’: Nevada Republicans fear they’ve made their state ‘irrelevant’

On Feb. 6, the state will hold a primary in which GOP voters will go to their usual precincts but there will be only one serious contender, Nikki Haley, on the ballot. Then, two days later, the Republican Party will host a caucus in which GOP voters will go to school gyms and church basements where they can express their support for only one credible candidate, Donald Trump.

Both parties used to hold caucuses here, but in 2021, the Nevada legislature passed a law requiring the state to hold primaries. State GOP officials wanted to stick with the caucus because they’ve done it that way before, and because the state’s new presidential primary requirements failed to include voter ID. It’s the kind of gathering that tends to draw the most fervent, activist members of a party — no coincidence, the same as Trump’s base. GOP officials decided that the caucus would be the only contest that will award delegates to the national convention.

Last fall, leaders of the group meeting at the Ahern, the Nevada Republican Club — a separate entity from the Nevada Republican Party — urged party officials not to hold a caucus competing with the state-run primary, arguing ” negative publicity from this will make the Republican Party look bad and likely diminish participation in the Primary election.”

The effect, they wrote, would be to “frustrate, anger and confuse Nevada’s Republican voters,” giving “average voters the impression they don’t care about them or their votes.”

Looking back, it seems they were right. Recent headlines about the election here have ranged from ” EXPERTS: Why Trump, DeSantis are not on Nevada Primary Election ballot” to ” Dual elections causing confusion among Nevada Republican voters” to ” Nevada Republicans can’t decide between a primary or a caucus — so they’re doing both.”

politico.com

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darthstar  Jan 30, 2024 • 6:13:55am

re: #207 Joe Bacon ✅

I hope DeSantis wins the NV caucus.

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mmmirele  Jan 30, 2024 • 6:14:42am

re: #203 lawhawk

Looks like Alex Murdaugh might get a new murder trial after a juror came forward to claim that a court officer’s comments may have influenced the juror’s decision.

Uh no?

Alex Murdaugh is denied a new trial after a judge hears jury tampering allegations

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina judge denied Alex Murdaugh’s bid for a new double-murder trial on Monday after his defense team accused a clerk of court with tampering with a jury.

Judge Jean Toal ruled that even if Colleton County Clerk Becky Hill did tell jurors to watch Murdaugh’s actions and body language on the stand, the defense failed to prove that such comments directly influenced their decision to find him guilty.

npr.org

This is a highly unusual situation, the judge who just ruled was appointed by the South Carolina Supreme Court (and herself was the former chief justice of same) to hear this and I don’t think that it’s appealable. In any case, even if the murder sentences were overturned, he still accepted plea bargains of four years (federal) and 27 years (state) for financial shenanigans. And South Carolina, like the Feds, requires 85 percent of a sentence to be served prior to release. He’s 55, if he ever gets out he’ll be around 80 and still owing millions of dollars to the people he defrauded.

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lawhawk  Jan 30, 2024 • 6:17:51am

re: #209 mmmirele

Yeah, I don’t know why CNN served up older report, as opposed to the ruling from yesterday that shot down that motion for a mistrial.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jan 30, 2024 • 6:31:52am

A word out of left field, but I pulled it out.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jan 30, 2024 • 6:34:03am

Winter flower.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jan 30, 2024 • 6:34:33am

re: #212 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

That is beautiful.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 30, 2024 • 6:36:19am

Guesses 3 and 4 were a total screw up on my part. Not to self, don’t Wordle at midnight just because you’re still (barely) awake.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 30, 2024 • 6:41:43am

Meanwhile my Jesusbot relatives are having nightmares of Taylor Swift in a bikini singing “Goin’ to Kansas City, Kansas City here I come…”

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jeffreyw  Jan 30, 2024 • 6:43:16am

Good morning!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 30, 2024 • 6:43:26am

re: #215 Joe Bacon ✅

Meanwhile my Jesusbot relatives are having nightmares of Taylor Swift in a bikini singing Goin’ to Kansas City, Kansas City here I come “Here’s for my man, Brandon…”

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 30, 2024 • 6:45:36am

re: #215 Joe Bacon ✅

Meanwhile my Jesusbot relatives are having nightmares of Taylor Swift in a bikini singing “Goin’ to Kansas City, Kansas City here I come…”

To which I say, they have WAY too much time on their hands I’d they’re sweating TayTay.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 30, 2024 • 6:46:35am

re: #218 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

To which I say, they have WAY too much time on their hands I’d they’re sweating TayTay.

She is now caught up inextricably in the pre-Super Bowl Hype Vortex, there is no getting away from that.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 30, 2024 • 6:48:07am

Our intrepid convoy adventurers got back onto I-10, only a half hour late—hardly USAREUR standard. They picked up some Florida locals, might have had a dropout or two. Digging into them a bit is interesting—their first-line leadership introduced themselves at the AM briefing. The top 3 in the convoy are all Church Militant, a very nutcase Catholic RW group told to drop the “Catholic” moniker by their Michigan archdiocese. SPLC carries them as a hate group, specifically anti-LBGT.

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Belafon  Jan 30, 2024 • 6:50:12am

re: #219 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

She is now caught up inextricably in the pre-Super Bowl Hype Vortex, there is no getting away from that.

“And look, I can’t just enjoy supporting my hot boyfriend at his games. No, someone else must have put me up to this. I have no agency to make my own decisions. This, women, is why you have to vote.” - Taylorish

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Eventual Carrion  Jan 30, 2024 • 6:52:08am

re: #211 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

A word out of left firld, but I pulled it out.

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4/6 here

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William Lewis  Jan 30, 2024 • 6:55:39am

We’ve had these fake flowers in the lobby for months now. Thought they’d make a good picture of the day for today.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 30, 2024 • 6:58:25am

re: #221 Belafon

“And look, I can’t just enjoy supporting my hot boyfriend at his games. No, someone else must have put me up to this. I have no agency to make my own decisions. This, women, is why you have to vote.” - Taylorish

And Jessica Simpson before her when she was saying Tony Roma(?). And when Dallas lost it was all her fault.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 30, 2024 • 6:59:00am

re: #223 William Lewis

We’ve had these fake flowers in the lobby for months now. Thought they’d make a good picture of the day for today.

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That’s a nice composition. Very pretty pic.

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BeachDem  Jan 30, 2024 • 7:02:42am

Tell us how you really feel, HuffPo:

ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY, UNDENIABLY
FULL OF S**T
Republicans Have Shouted About The Border For Months — Now They’re Tanking A Bill To Fix It, All To Help Trump

With a picture of Ted Cruz for emphasis

huffpost.com

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 30, 2024 • 7:02:54am

re: #201 Belafon

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Yeah, Elmo shouldn’t ask adults this question.

😂

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darthstar  Jan 30, 2024 • 7:03:06am

re: #223 William Lewis

We’ve had these fake flowers in the lobby for months now. Thought they’d make a good picture of the day for today.

[Embedded content]

What does it say on the card?

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mmmirele  Jan 30, 2024 • 7:03:26am

Another day at the office, another Godzilla or Catzilla t-shirt. (I’ve already been doing this.)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 30, 2024 • 7:03:53am

re: #220 Decatur Deb

The top 3 in the convoy are all Church Militant, a very nutcase Catholic RW group told to drop the “Catholic” moniker by their Michigan archdiocese. SPLC carries them as a hate group, specifically anti-LBGT.

I’m just a sweet Transvestite from Pan-American Panamania!!!

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darthstar  Jan 30, 2024 • 7:04:59am

re: #201 Belafon

Yeah, Elmo shouldn’t ask adults this question.

I’ve always had an irrational dislike for Elmo. I think he brought the property values of Sesame Street down that led to it’s becoming bought out by HBO.

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darthstar  Jan 30, 2024 • 7:06:11am

re: #229 mmmirele

Another day at the office, another Godzilla or Catzilla t-shirt. (I’ve already been doing this.)

I was looking at in-theater movies for the first time in a few years and noticed there’s a new Godzilla movie…and there’s an option of seeing it in black and white…which is how Godzilla should always be shown.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 30, 2024 • 7:06:13am

From Jay Cuo on X:

It’s hard to believe, but the GOP is turning its best weapon—the border crisis—into a political liability.
Joe Biden has been seen by voters as weak on the question of the border. Crossings have surged lately, and even Democratic leaders, particularly big city mayors, are pleading for a solution as shelters become overwhelmed with migrants.
It’s a crisis in need of a solution, they have repeatedly claimed. So for months Senate negotiators have sought one, and the parties are very near to a deal. Despite this promising development in the Senate, however, it now seems Republicans over in the House don’t want a solution after all.
That’s because Donald Trump has made it clear he really doesn’t want one. And it could leave the Republicans, including Trump, with egg on their faces when they face the voters in November.

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mmmirele  Jan 30, 2024 • 7:06:25am

re: #220 Decatur Deb

Our intrepid convoy adventurers got back onto I-10, only a half hour late—hardly USAREUR standard. They picked up some Florida locals, might have had a dropout or two. Digging into them a bit is interesting—their first-line leadership introduced themselves at the AM briefing. The top 3 in the convoy are all Church Militant, a very nutcase Catholic RW group told to drop the “Catholic” moniker by their Michigan archdiocese. SPLC carries them as a hate group, specifically anti-LBGT.

Just a reminder that Church Militant’s former founder and head, Michael Voris, was basically forced out last November after he admitted to breaching the org’s morality clause.

apnews.com

A clever media would be asking those Church Militant people what they thought about that, and/or check to see if Voris was among the convoy.

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darthstar  Jan 30, 2024 • 7:07:28am

re: #233 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Donald Trump is an enemy combatant…and the presumptive nominee for the GOP.

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mmmirele  Jan 30, 2024 • 7:11:02am

re: #232 darthstar

I was looking at in-theater movies for the first time in a few years and noticed there’s a new Godzilla movie…and there’s an option of seeing it in black and white…which is how Godzilla should always be shown.

This is a *good* movie. I’ve seen it. I highly recommend it. Heck, my picky ex-boyfriend liked it. There’s a lot more to it than just Godzilla stomping around. There is a story, an arc. As for the b&w version, the filmmakers went back through and took their color film and reprocessed it as black and white so it looks like Godzilla in 1954. I should see if it’s playing around here. I think it’s for one week only and ends either tomorrow or Thursday.

ETA: Oh yeah, and they did the movie on a ~$16 million budget. It doesn’t look like it!

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Decatur Deb  Jan 30, 2024 • 7:12:27am

re: #234 mmmirele

Voris is not one of the in-convoy leaders—his replacement “YG Nytstorm” is.

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steve_davis  Jan 30, 2024 • 7:14:12am

the only problem with turbotax is that it’s like greek theater, where all the action is taking place on worksheets that you never see unless you go looking for them. Spent a sleepless night wondering how on earth I wound up owing 1700 dollars on an extra 5000 dollars income between last year and this, only to finally reach the stage of things where Turbotax asks, “Oh, you’re telling us that the IRA contribution is fully deductible? Silly us! We just assumed for some lamebrained reason your employer gave you a pension plan of some sort and that this was completely non-deductible, right up until step 12, where we finally ask you if you have an employer retirement plan!”

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steve_davis  Jan 30, 2024 • 7:16:11am

re: #105 Dangerman

A bigger and bigger share of a smaller and shrinking pie.

that would have been my thought as well. sure, he’s getting more republicans as a percentage, but that’s because non-nazis are fleeing the party.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 30, 2024 • 7:18:24am

re: #239 steve_davis

that would have been my thought as well. sure, he’s getting more republicans as a percentage, but that’s because non-nazis are fleeing the party.

But without his base, the GOP has no chance at any sort of majority.

That is the corner they have painted themselves into.

And where *ugh, HIllary* was enough to keep a lot of voters away in 2016, Dobbs has really motivated them as we saw in 2022 and will see again this year

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 30, 2024 • 7:20:12am

re: #239 steve_davis

that would have been my thought as well. sure, he’s getting more republicans as a percentage, but that’s because non-nazis are fleeing the party.

and major donors

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 30, 2024 • 7:21:19am

Bigots score a victory in Maine…

wonkette.com

White Supremacists Chase DEI Coordinator Out Of Maine

Over the last year or so, varied and sundry right-wing lunatics have been drumming up a hysteria over diversity, equity and inclusion practices (DEI) largely because their various other hysterias over terms like “woke” and “critical race theory” have grown stale, and they need something to bring Republicans to the polls now that they can see the abortion regulations are not working out so well for them.

Now that hysteria is doing what it was always intended to do: It has driven Mohammed Albehadli, the diversity, equity and inclusion coordinator for public schools in South Portland, Maine, to quit his job and flee the whole state after getting a threatening letter from a white supremacist.

Albehadli is an an Iraqi immigrant who came to the US a decade ago in order to escape the horrors that we inflicted upon his country in our zeal to go after terrorists who weren’t even from there. He holds degrees from Trinity College and Boston University, and according to the school superintendent, he was “an exemplary staff member” who made a “positive impact” on the schools.

But as much support as he has from the community, Albehadli has no interest in putting himself or his family at risk and is not going to wait around for things to take a scary turn. “You hear something first. And the next thing, an action follows,” he said, according to the AP.

The email came from New Hampshire resident Ryan Murdough, the founder of the New England White Network, who has been sending unhinged racist emails to various people throughout New England since at least 2010. Murdough previously ran for the state Legislature as a Republican — though that was before the rest of the GOP was quite as enthusiastic as they currently are about saying the quiet part out loud, so he lost.

In the slur-filled email, Murdough wrote, “White parents don’t want their children going to school with black and brown kids who don’t belong in the United States” — which, given how strongly Democratic South Portland is, seems a whole lot like wishful thinking on his part.

Murdough explained on Gab (because of course he is on Gab — although he only has 2100 followers, which is pretty pathetic for a white supremacist who has been in the game as long as he has) that he sent the letter in response to an article on how Albehadli and three other members of the school board’s Elementary Boundaries and Configurations Steering Committee were discussing the possibility of restructuring area elementary schools in order to make them less racially and economically segregated. That’s it. That’s what he’s upset about.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 30, 2024 • 7:24:08am

re: #242 Joe Bacon ✅

White Supremacists Chase DEI Coordinator Out Of Maine

They are making DEI into the next CRT (and as we see, succeeding)

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 30, 2024 • 7:26:46am

Who didn’t see this coming from Axis Sally Bartiromo?

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William Lewis  Jan 30, 2024 • 7:31:19am

re: #228 darthstar

What does it say on the card?

re: #228 darthstar

What does it say on the card?

Uhm, (100% on raw file…) “Best wishes with your lovely hotel” which means they’ve been there for about 4 years since the place opened 🤣 Fake flowers are good for that though 😎

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 30, 2024 • 7:33:28am

Now the GOP BS Machine has been cranked up to 11 demanding MSNBC fir Joy Reid for saying the “F” word…

thedailybeast.com

During a segment on how Republicans are responding to proposed border legislation in light of how Donald Trump recently came out against it, Reid introduced a relevant clip of President Joe Biden speaking at a South Carolina event over the weekend.

“If that bill were the law today, I’d shut down the border right now and fix it quickly… And Congress needs to get it done,” Biden said, referring to the deal that Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) has been negotiating with Democrats.

Reid can then be heard saying with a laugh, “—Starting another fucking war.” Her mic was then cut, but turned on a moment later. It was unclear what the MSNBC anchor was referring to.

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darthstar  Jan 30, 2024 • 7:34:28am

re: #241 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

and major donors

My pipe dream/fantasy is that the media tries to sell a horse race and it ends up being a Democratic rout - with gains in both houses significant enough to quell minor obstructive efforts.

Also, I look forward to being rid of the likes of Boebert - who placed 5th in the GOP straw poll after the debate in Colorado.

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Vicious Babushka  Jan 30, 2024 • 7:36:55am

re: #136 EPR-radar

The US right was very successful with its decades-long propaganda war vs. Hillary Clinton.

I think that’s most of it right there, although there’s a background of misogyny that was also a factor.

We can blame the Dead Drug Addict for most of that. He invented the “Clinton Kill List.”

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JC1  Jan 30, 2024 • 7:37:22am

re: #238 steve_davis

the only problem with turbotax is that it’s like greek theater, where all the action is taking place on worksheets that you never see unless you go looking for them. Spent a sleepless night wondering how on earth I wound up owing 1700 dollars on an extra 5000 dollars income between last year and this, only to finally reach the stage of things where Turbotax asks, “Oh, you’re telling us that the IRA contribution is fully deductible? Silly us! We just assumed for some lamebrained reason your employer gave you a pension plan of some sort and that this was completely non-deductible, right up until step 12, where we finally ask you if you have an employer retirement plan!”

Used to do my own taxes; with 20/20 hindsight that was an insane choice. One of the best decisions I made was finding a decent tax professional to do my taxes. The few hundred dollars spent each year has paid for itself many times over in reduced stress and in tax savings.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 30, 2024 • 7:38:56am

Wow—Filed my tax returns 2 weeks ago and already have my Federal and California refunds in my bank account.

Thanks, Dark Brandon & Governor Newsom!

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jan 30, 2024 • 7:41:14am

re: #250 Joe Bacon ✅

That reminds me I have to call my accountant (email will be faster) tomorrow.

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steve_davis  Jan 30, 2024 • 7:47:04am

re: #250 Joe Bacon ✅

Wow—Filed my tax returns 2 weeks ago and already have my Federal and California refunds in my bank account.

Thanks, Dark Brandon & Governor Newsom!

meanwhile, I’ve got to wait for American Century to decide it’s finally safe to send me my tax forms, which will probably be middle of March.

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Nerdy Fish  Jan 30, 2024 • 7:47:40am

re: #252 steve_davis

meanwhile, I’ve got to wait for American Century to decide it’s finally safe to send me my tax forms, which will probably be middle of March.

I thought by law they had to be sent by February 1.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 30, 2024 • 7:48:56am

re: #248 Vicious Babushka

We can blame the Dead Drug Addict for most of that. He invented the “Clinton Kill List.”

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Belafon  Jan 30, 2024 • 7:50:03am

re: #254 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Get rid of the first slash.

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Unabogie  Jan 30, 2024 • 7:50:40am

re: #246 Joe Bacon ✅

Now the GOP BS Machine has been cranked up to 11 demanding MSNBC fir Joy Reid for saying the “F” word…

thedailybeast.com

During a segment on how Republicans are responding to proposed border legislation in light of how Donald Trump recently came out against it, Reid introduced a relevant clip of President Joe Biden speaking at a South Carolina event over the weekend.

“If that bill were the law today, I’d shut down the border right now and fix it quickly… And Congress needs to get it done,” Biden said, referring to the deal that Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) has been negotiating with Democrats.

Reid can then be heard saying with a laugh, “—Starting another fucking war.” Her mic was then cut, but turned on a moment later. It was unclear what the MSNBC anchor was referring to.

Doesn’t Trump routinely drop the f-bomb? These people are clowns.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 30, 2024 • 7:51:51am

re: #256 Belafon

Get rid of the first slash.

Hillary had it liquidated with extreme prejudice

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Unabogie  Jan 30, 2024 • 7:51:53am

re: #244 Joe Bacon ✅

Who didn’t see this coming from Axis Sally Bartiromo?

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“Blaming Black people for any random mishap that occurs”

jabberwocking.com

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 30, 2024 • 7:54:40am

YEESH…

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Unabogie  Jan 30, 2024 • 7:55:11am

re: #137 coin operated

I’ve said this a number of times…the right’s original sin is racism…the left’s is misogyny. While the women in the party try to empower other women, the men of our party are just kinda paying lip service. There are exceptions…Biden/Clinton (questionable)/Obama…but a large portion of the men in our party need to wake the fuck up to what they are doing (Bernie…Manchin…looking at you two flaming shitbags).

I’ve told this story before, but back in 2016 a Lefty friend went nuts on me after Bernie dropped out of the race. He was refusing to vote for her, and I pointed out that Bernie had endorsed her. He said, in all caps, “BECAUSE SHE THREATENED TO MURDER HIS FAMILY!”

He was completely serious. How much do you need to hate women to believe such obvious lies about one, so much so that you allowed Roe v Wade to be overturned?

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A Cranky One  Jan 30, 2024 • 7:55:17am

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jan 30, 2024 • 7:56:00am

re: #262 A Cranky One

lol

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 30, 2024 • 8:01:27am

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JC1  Jan 30, 2024 • 8:03:01am

re: #252 steve_davis

meanwhile, I’ve got to wait for American Century to decide it’s finally safe to send me my tax forms, which will probably be middle of March.

The real deadline is Oct 15th 😂.

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darthstar  Jan 30, 2024 • 8:04:04am

re: #260 Joe Bacon ✅

YEESH…

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So it isn’t J6 related…hm.

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sagehen  Jan 30, 2024 • 8:15:32am

re: #176 Randall Gross

Of course the game is rigged! It’s that woke west coast team vs the Kansas City Swifties - what could be more rigged!???!!
mastodon.sdf.org

According to Stephen Colbert, it’s “the red team versus… the other red team?”

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calochortus  Jan 30, 2024 • 8:16:18am

re: #253 Nerdy Fish

I thought by law they had to be sent by February 1.

There aren’t any penalties that I know of for not doing it, so a lot of places do it on a “get around to it” basis.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 30, 2024 • 8:16:57am

re: #172 Nerdy Fish

What a word, what a word.

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Par for me too.

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Group: 4,4,4,5

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jan 30, 2024 • 8:18:22am

Oh Sh&t. I have to go to SEPTA tomorrow. My KeyCard expires at the end of the month.

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Vicious Babushka  Jan 30, 2024 • 8:19:46am

This one sucked.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 30, 2024 • 8:20:25am

The lies keep coming out of the mouths of House Republicans!

‘Slave trade’: House Republican makes wild allegations accusing Biden of ‘traitorous’ acts

And of course it’s another asshole from Texas.

U.S. Rep. Beth Van Duyne (R-TX) served up wild accusations against President Joe Biden and his administration on Monday during a House Republicans’ press conference on the border. After making demands of the Biden Administration to send an ultra-conservative bill that includes funding and stringent policies for the U.S. border, and funding to support fighting in Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, Republicans are now rejecting what they requested after decrees from Donald Trump.

Congresswoman Van Duyne, a Texas backbencher who failed at her attempt to be elevated into House leadership when Mike Johnson was made Speaker, on Monday in a little-noticed speech served up allegations of “traitorous acts,” “usher[ing] in a new era of slave trade,” and promoting the “endless rapes” of women and children and a “lifetime of sex trafficking enslavement,” against President Biden and his administration.

“Joe Biden and the extremists in his administration are arsonists,” Congresswoman Van Duyne declared. “From day one they have burned down every shred of strong, effective, Trump-era border security policy that was protecting America.”

“Their purposeful and persistent actions, the arsonists of the Biden administration have created a national security and humanitarian nightmare. By turning over control of our southern border to the Mexican cartels, Biden, the Democrats, have ushered in a new massive era of slave trade here in America that is cursing the lives of illegal immigrant women, little girls and little boys. But Biden, [DHS Secretary] Mayorkas, and the Democrats couldn’t care less about the lives of these small children. They’re condemning them to endless rapes in a lifetime of sex trafficking enslavement.”

alternet.org

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Shropshire Slasher  Jan 30, 2024 • 8:21:56am
This is the moment heavily armed Israeli commandos disguised as Muslim women and doctors raided a West Bank hospital early Tuesday — shooting three suspected terrorists dead in just 10 minutes.

The dramatic surveillance video from Ibn Sina hospital in the town of Jenin shows about a dozen Israeli undercover special forces soldiers dressed as Muslim women in headscarves or hospital workers in scrubs or white doctor coats rushing through a hallway with assault rifles drawn.

One of the Israeli soldiers is in a surgical mask and carrying a rifle in one arm and a folded wheelchair in the other.

Another, dressed in all black, pats down a man kneeling against a wall with his hands clasped behind his head.

Other graphic images released by Palestinian news media showed a blood-soaked pillow with a bullet hole on a hospital bed and a foldout armchair covered with blood.

nypost.com

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Vicious Babushka  Jan 30, 2024 • 8:23:38am

LOL they should bring me in as a consultant.

Mastodon

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jan 30, 2024 • 8:25:08am

re: #274 Vicious Babushka

You could teach them a few things.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 30, 2024 • 8:30:57am

Russian Lawmaker Offers to Help Texas Get Independence From US

мы приветствуем Славную революцию, направленную на создание Техасской Республики Иисуса!

newsweek.com

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jeffreyw  Jan 30, 2024 • 8:35:32am

bsky.app

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Dangerman  Jan 30, 2024 • 8:43:13am

re: #268 calochortus

There aren’t any penalties that I know of for not doing it, so a lot of places do it on a “get around to it” basis.

the due date for furnishing (or at least in the mail) w-2s and 1099s to the recipient is 1/31.

dates for submitting to the government are later.

oh yes, there are penalties. they are based on how late and are per form. that’s why large organizations generally dont miss the date. and why you see brokers filing amended/corrected 1099’s.

k-1’s are a different set of rules

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Vicious Babushka  Jan 30, 2024 • 8:43:45am

re: #275 PhillyPretzel ✅

You could teach them a few things.

Nah everything is built in. I don’t have to teach anything.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jan 30, 2024 • 8:55:35am

re: #279 Vicious Babushka

Nah everything is built in. I don’t have to teach anything.

I don’t remember the book… but I read a doctor’s memoir in which he mentioned seeing couples who wanted to know why they had no children, and discovering that the wives were virgins. Of course that’s a different lesson….

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calochortus  Jan 30, 2024 • 8:55:54am

re: #278 Dangerman

the due date for furnishing (or at least in the mail) w-2s and 1099s to the recipient is 1/31.

dates for submitting to the government are later.

oh yes, there are penalties. they are based on how late and are per form. that’s why large organizations generally dont miss the date. and why you see brokers filing amended/corrected 1099’s.

k-1’s are a different set of rules

That doesn’t seem to bother a fair number of 1099 issuers. Or else they just put them in the especially slow delivery section of the USPS.

Anyhoo, I need to go run errands. Yuck. BBL

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Belafon  Jan 30, 2024 • 9:01:19am

re: #274 Vicious Babushka

LOL they should bring me in as a consultant.

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Would your first recommendation be “Make sure you’re actually ready for that commitment, or is this just a reaction?”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 30, 2024 • 9:02:34am

re: #277 jeffreyw

Secession is just Republic of Rick rolling, grandstanding and profiling. Most people advocating it don’t take it seriously, and those who do have not even begun to think through the ramifications.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 30, 2024 • 9:05:48am

re: #283 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Secession is just Republic of Rick rolling, grandstanding and profiling. Most people advocating it don’t take it seriously, and those who do have not even begun to think through the ramifications.

Preschoolers who ran away from home, decades later.

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Nerdy Fish  Jan 30, 2024 • 9:06:28am

re: #283 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Secession is just Republic of Rick rolling, grandstanding and profiling. Most people advocating it don’t take it seriously, and those who do have not even begun to think through the ramifications.

That doesn’t make his point wrong. We can’t minimize the very real suffering Democrats in red states are going through, nor abstract away their feelings behind, “They should just try harder.” We’re supposed to be the ones who care about all our people, and just writing off those who would be hurt most by secession (you think Texas wouldn’t declare an open season on people who wanted to stay a part of America if they seceded?) is callous disregard even if the threat of secession isn’t serious.

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jeffreyw  Jan 30, 2024 • 9:09:12am

bsky.app

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Vicious Babushka  Jan 30, 2024 • 9:09:42am

re: #282 Belafon

Woukd your first recommendation be “Make sure you’re actually ready for that commitment, or is this just a reaction?”

I would find a way to exploit that reaction. :)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 30, 2024 • 9:09:55am

re: #285 Nerdy Fish

That doesn’t make his point wrong. We can’t minimize the very real suffering Democrats in red states are going through, nor abstract away their feelings behind, “They should just try harder.”

People in Texas are fucked in many ways, not just Democrats (the Republicans just don’t want to admit that their state is last or near-last in basic indicators of education, health and social welfare.)

But secession is an idle threat. The fact that they are making it at all just indicates how fucked things are in Texas.

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ipsos  Jan 30, 2024 • 9:11:46am

re: #285 Nerdy Fish

That doesn’t make his point wrong. We can’t minimize the very real suffering Democrats in red states are going through, nor abstract away their feelings behind, “They should just try harder.” We’re supposed to be the ones who care about all our people, and just writing off those who would be hurt most by secession (you think Texas wouldn’t declare an open season on people who wanted to stay a part of America if they seceded?) is callous disregard even if the threat of secession isn’t serious.

In my mind (and I could well be wrong), the “k bye” response reflects the unserious level of thought behind the whole secession movement.

It’s not writing off the very good people in Texas who are fighting Abbott in serious ways about serious things. It’s saying TO THE SECESSIONISTS that they’re as fundamentally unserious as my three year old was when she “left home.”

“OK. Go have fun with your silly temper tantrum and come back when you have someone who’s ready to talk to the grownups. But I’m not going to let you waste my time or mental energy pretending to take you at all seriously in the meantime.”

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Belafon  Jan 30, 2024 • 9:13:01am

re: #285 Nerdy Fish

That doesn’t make his point wrong. We can’t minimize the very real suffering Democrats in red states are going through, nor abstract away their feelings behind, “They should just try harder.” We’re supposed to be the ones who care about all our people, and just writing off those who would be hurt most by secession (you think Texas wouldn’t declare an open season on people who wanted to stay a part of America if they seceded?) is callous disregard even if the threat of secession isn’t serious.

The East German wall was designed to keep people in. Texas Republicans would set one of those up, and they would eliminate people who don’t fit their ideal.

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Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)  Jan 30, 2024 • 9:13:37am

re: #4 Charles Johnson

JFC, close to half a billion bucks. Yowza.

Given that Trump is so damn cheap that he embezzled charity funds to pay for his son’s Boy Scout uniform, anything that takes away his money is an existential threat for him.

Better yet is the forced sale of his properties and the removal of the giant “TRUMP” signs in front of a laughing, jeering mob.

I don’t think that the monthly recurring charges that the online sharks set up to drain meemaw’s Social Security check is going to make up for this hit.

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A Cranky One  Jan 30, 2024 • 9:14:02am

Let’s see. If Texas succeeds, they will need:

A new military force
Custom controls on all roads in/out of Texas
New currency
New passports
New coastal guard
A new constitution
A new court system
A new commerce agency
Etc.

I’m sure Texas taxpayers will be thrilled with the taxes required to meet those expenses.

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Vicious Babushka  Jan 30, 2024 • 9:14:54am

NY Times is really pushing for Trump.

Mastodon

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jeffreyw  Jan 30, 2024 • 9:17:25am

Mastodon

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DodgerFan1988  Jan 30, 2024 • 9:17:40am
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jeffreyw  Jan 30, 2024 • 9:20:43am

re: #289 ipsos

In my mind (and I could well be wrong), the “k bye” response reflects the unserious level of thought behind the whole secession movement.

It’s not writing off the very good people in Texas who are fighting Abbott in serious ways about serious things. It’s saying TO THE SECESSIONISTS that they’re as fundamentally unserious as my three year old was when she “left home.”

“OK. Go have fun with your silly temper tantrum and come back when you have someone who’s ready to talk to the grownups. But I’m not going to let you waste my time or mental energy pretending to take you at all seriously in the meantime.”

IMHO, this is the correct response

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 30, 2024 • 9:20:44am

For those who take secession threats as anything but political performance art, please check out this quaint little indie feature film:

imdb.com

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Eventual Carrion  Jan 30, 2024 • 9:25:48am

re: #292 A Cranky One

Let’s see. If Texas succeeds, they will need:

A new military force
Custom controls on all roads in/out of Texas
New currency
New passports
New coastal guard
A new constitution
A new court system
A new commerce agency
Etc.

I’m sure Texas taxpayers will be thrilled with the taxes required to meet those expenses.

Maybe Russia can take care of that also.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 30, 2024 • 9:27:15am

re: #292 A Cranky One

Let’s see. If Texas succeeds, they will need:

…
Etc.

you see? you’ve already given this more thought than any secessionist.

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Belafon  Jan 30, 2024 • 9:28:19am

re: #297 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

For those who take secession threats as anything but political performance art, please check out this quaint little indie feature film:

imdb.com

As a Texan, surrounded by the people I live near and work with, I take it as seriously as knowledgeable Brits took Brexit.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Jan 30, 2024 • 9:29:11am
Since its debut on Netflix in the United States, Black Mirror has become known for dazzling audiences with its unique take on sociotechnology, and now it appears that one of the series’ most highly regarded episodes is finally getting its own spin-off series. ‘USS Callister’ marked the first episode of season four of Black Mirror, and quickly became a fan-favorite for its nod to Star Trek. It went on to win four Primetime Emmy Awards, and it looks like creator Charlie Brooker isn’t ready to let go of its success just yet.

According to What’s on Netflix, a three-episode limited series based on ‘USS Callister’ is moving forward at Netflix after rumors of its development began circulating in 2018. Based on reports, the series is set to start filming in the United Kingdom this spring, with production lasting around 10 weeks. There’s no word yet on plot details for the spin-off, but it has been said that the show will introduce a new character named Rinko.

Netflix Developing Black Mirror Spin-Off (Micro) Series Based on USS Callister (MovieWeb)

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jaunte  Jan 30, 2024 • 9:30:25am

re: #297 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Along the same lines, on Netflix:

Rose Island L’incredibile storia dell’Isola delle Rose
en.wikipedia.org

“To prevent similar incidents from occurring in the future, the UN extended the international waters territory from 6 to 12 nautical miles.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 30, 2024 • 9:32:13am

re: #300 Belafon

As a Texan, surrounded by the people I live near and work with, I take it as seriously as knowledgeable Brits took Brexit.

I will take you word on the ground. But read the list that EC presented in #292: Britain needed none of those.

One reason that Scotland voted against independence from the UK in its 2014 referendum was unclarity over just such questions.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 30, 2024 • 9:32:40am

So tempted to send this to the haters!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 30, 2024 • 9:33:57am

re: #304 Joe Bacon ✅

So tempted to send this to the haters!

The underlying levels of irony upon irony would entirely be lost on them

306
PhillyPretzel ✅  Jan 30, 2024 • 9:37:04am

re: #304 Joe Bacon ✅

That is perfect. I love it. And Ralphieboy is right they would not get it.

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Belafon  Jan 30, 2024 • 9:37:33am

re: #303 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I will take you word on the ground. But read the list that EC presented in #292: Britain needed none of those.

One reason that Scotland voted against independence from the UK in its 2014 referendum was unclarity over just such questions.

Agree, but we’re a go it alone group here, at least all the people who wave their guns around like to think.

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Shropshire Slasher  Jan 30, 2024 • 9:38:10am

re: #304 Joe Bacon ✅

So tempted to send this to the haters!

[Embedded content]

Why is she having sex with Jesus?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 30, 2024 • 9:40:49am

re: #307 Belafon

Agree, but we’re a go it alone group here, at least all the people who wave their guns around like to think.

At least Texas would not have any issues disconnecting its power grid…

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jan 30, 2024 • 9:40:55am

Attorney General Merrick Garland to undergo surgery, Justice Department says

WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Merrick Garland will undergo back surgery this weekend and delegate his duties to the deputy attorney general during the procedure, the Justice Department said Monday.

The news comes as Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin returns to work at the Pentagon following a hospitalization related to prostate cancer that was criticized for being kept secret for days.

Garland, 71, will be under general anesthesia during the back procedure on Saturday, which will last about 90 minutes and is “minimally invasive,” said Xochitl Hinojosa, director of public affairs at the Justice Department. He is expected to return home the same day, she said. Garland will delegate his duties to Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco shortly before, during and for a short time after the procedure as he recovers from the anesthesia, the statement said. He is expected to return to work the week of Feb. 5.

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Belafon  Jan 30, 2024 • 9:43:15am

re: #310 Backwoods Sleuth

Is Biden radioactive? Everyone around him is needing medical care.

312
Dangerman  Jan 30, 2024 • 9:43:28am

re: #300 Belafon

As a Texan, surrounded by the people I live near and work with, I take it as seriously as knowledgeable Brits took Brexit.

as long as we’re going down this scenic highway,
there is no mechanism to an ‘orderly’ or negotiated constitutional secession from the US.

brexit was possible because there was a process in the governing document.

313
Jay C  Jan 30, 2024 • 9:44:18am

re: #300 Belafon

As a Texan, surrounded by the people I live near and work with, I take it as seriously as knowledgeable Brits took Brexit.

The big difference in the case of a presumed “Texit”, is that the UK - prior to leaving the EU - already possessed most/all the institutions noted in #292; not to mention an autonomous national economy. Texas, AFACBD, does not: and (unless I am mistaken) is far more tied into, and mutually-dependent on, the economy of the greater US that the UK was to “Europe”.

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jeffreyw  Jan 30, 2024 • 9:44:52am

re: #311 Belafon
They know they’re safe from being fired by tweet while under.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 30, 2024 • 9:45:29am

re: #311 Belafon

Is Biden radioactive? Everyone around him is needing medical care.

It’s the vax vapors he exudes

316
Dr Lizardo  Jan 30, 2024 • 9:46:53am

re: #311 Belafon

Is Biden radioactive? Everyone around him is needing medical care.

It’s his Sith powers.

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Jay C  Jan 30, 2024 • 9:48:57am

re: #311 Belafon

Is Biden radioactive? Everyone around him is needing medical care.

Dark (Brandon) radiation….

318
goddamnedfrank  Jan 30, 2024 • 9:49:38am

re: #310 Backwoods Sleuth

Attorney General Merrick Garland to undergo surgery, Justice Department says

DARK BRANDON USING NECROMANCY TO KEEP HIS SOLDIERS IN PLAY!

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Captain Magic  Jan 30, 2024 • 9:50:57am

re: #292 A Cranky One

Don’t forget treaties with countries.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jan 30, 2024 • 9:57:01am

re: #319 Captain Magic

Don’t forget treaties with countries.

They don’t need no stinkin’ treetees!!

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Dave In Austin  Jan 30, 2024 • 9:58:19am

re: #292 A Cranky One

Let’s see. If Texas succeeds, they will need:

A new military force
Custom controls on all roads in/out of Texas
New currency
New passports
New coastal guard
A new constitution
A new court system
A new commerce agency
Etc.
I’m sure Texas taxpayers will be thrilled with the taxes required to meet those expenses.

Mandate a no less than 5 gun must be owned and you are on your own. Real Texans don’t need any of that stuff….

322
Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)  Jan 30, 2024 • 9:59:26am

re: #52 Joe Bacon ✅

The absolute hatred my sisters had for Obama was nothing compared to the vileness of their hatred of Hillary.

Never underestimate the willingness & vulnerabilty of Americans to do exactly what their TV tells them to do.

Fox News & Hate Radio told them to be afraid, and then morphed that fear into rage.

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Dangerman  Jan 30, 2024 • 10:05:43am

re: #319 Captain Magic

Don’t forget treaties with countries.

They think they’ll be a seceded state when they would be a independent country

They think they’d be treated like a distant relative rather than an arms length stranger

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Eventual Carrion  Jan 30, 2024 • 10:09:09am

re: #311 Belafon

Is Biden radioactive? Everyone around him is needing medical care.

Would be irresponsible not to ask.

325
Ace Rothstein  Jan 30, 2024 • 10:12:09am

re: #308 Shropshire Slasher

Why is she having sex with Jesus?

Right? Jesus doesn’t have two Super Bowl rings.

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wrenchwench  Jan 30, 2024 • 10:13:13am

Birbie. Wordle 955 3/6*

Click to Reveal

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The third guess is the only word in the letters I had left.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jan 30, 2024 • 10:15:34am

Top YouTuber (for these kinds of toys) Brownlee gets over a million views in just a couple of hours, with his new toy:

Apple Vision Pro Unboxing!


..

I don’t know if Apple will be successful with this. I kind of want to try it, but will never wear something that heavy on my head for very long.

328
Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 30, 2024 • 10:24:21am

re: #327 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

And he probably got that headset for free just for doing the video.

329
sizzzzlerz  Jan 30, 2024 • 10:28:09am

re: #304 Joe Bacon ✅

So tempted to send this to the haters!

[Embedded content]

Truly made me chuckle. Send it!

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  Jan 30, 2024 • 10:39:11am

re: #324 Eventual Carrion

Would be irresponsible not to ask.

The White House adrenochrome supply is perhaps running short as they try to keep Biden mobile and lucid with overdoses. Thus the other staff are having to cut back and they are getting sick?

331
steve_davis  Jan 30, 2024 • 10:45:52am

re: #253 Nerdy Fish

I thought by law they had to be sent by February 1.

Unless they get hung up because you make the mistake of owning something involving real estate or some kind of weird trust like kinder Morgan. Then it’s “we hope to get these to you soon but be prepared for turbulence.”

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 30, 2024 • 10:48:34am

re: #300 Belafon

As a Texan, surrounded by the people I live near and work with, I take it as seriously as knowledgeable Brits took Brexit.

You mean this before who goggled “what is the EU” the day AFTER the Brexit vote? Those knowledgeable folks?

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Markm1960  Jan 30, 2024 • 11:44:23am

re: #292 A Cranky One

Let’s see. If Texas succeeds, they will need:

A new military force
Custom controls on all roads in/out of Texas
New currency
New passports
New coastal guard
A new constitution
A new court system
A new commerce agency
Etc.

I’m sure Texas taxpayers will be thrilled with the taxes required to meet those expenses.

All of Texas’s border will be international, that’s a lot of $$ to set up and maintain.


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