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Very few media elites are going to call on Trump to drop out. Maybe none. He’s too good for their business.
— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-06-01T14:53:38.453Z
Very few media elites are going to call on Trump to drop out. Maybe none. He’s too good for their business.
— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-06-01T14:53:38.453Z
Very few media elites are going to call on Trump to drop out. Maybe none. He’s too good for their business.
— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-06-01T14:53:38.453Z
Garbage dumped. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
A new Reuters/Ipsos poll finds 10% of Republican registered voters say they are less likely to vote for Donald Trump following his felony conviction for falsifying business records to cover up a hush money payment to a porn star.Also important: “Among independent registered voters, 25% said Trump’s conviction made them less likely to support him in November, compared to 18% who said they were more likely and 56% who said the conviction would have no impact on their decision.”
” if” I know
Vigilance, I know
Down by two, I know….
re: #9 Dangerman
There’s always a quote from that asshat for every occasion, isn’t there? 😄
It’s better that Trump not drop out. To redeem itself, the country needs the chance to loudly reject Trumpism, not just some crooked Yankee real estate huckster.
re: #13 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
And he’d be marketing gold Malaysian-made Trump condoms.
re: #9 Dangerman
Trump: The trial is over for me. Not a problem.
re: #8 Dangerman
This is a poll of registered voters. I have no idea how they’re going to be able to do a likely voter poll closer to the election
re: #17 dat_said
This is a poll of registered voters. I have no idea how they’re going to be able to do a likely voter poll closer to the election
I did not care about polls before the verdict, I am not going to start paying attention to them now…
re: #13 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
It’s like Trump was driven by disordered behaviors he had no control of.
re: #20 jaunte
It’s like Trump was driven by disordered behaviors he had no control of.
It’s like he had no one to give him reasonable financial, political and legal advice.
re: #21 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The disorder tells him “don’t listen to them, you’re the smartest one.”
Any of the commenters on this blog could have taken a $400 million inheritance and become billionaires, because they’re sane, understand their limitations, and consider expert advice. Not Trump.
It’s disgusting how many people died because of asshole fabulists like David Peckerr and Mark Burnett creating a fictional persona for an emotionally disordered nepo baby.
Reading an article on the fact that lunar time is different than our time due to general relativity (24 hours on the moon will be 56 microseconds shorter than measured by an earthbound clock). And I saw this paragraph:
A recent memo from the White House also directed NASA to map out its plans for this new time scale by December 31, calling it “foundational” to renewed US efforts to explore the lunar surface. The memo also asks that NASA implement such a system by the end of 2026, the same year the space agency is aiming to return astronauts to the moon for the first time in five decades.
To those who recommended Mastodon thanks. I have been enjoying Caturday on Mastodon. Some of those cats are so precious.
First Luna Moth sighting this year.
— Alexander Chee (@alexanderchee.bsky.social) 2024-06-01T16:28:15.907Z
re: #25 Belafon
Reading an article on the fact that lunar time is different than our time due to general relativity (24 hours on the moon will be 56 microseconds shorter than measured by an earthbound clock). And I saw this paragraph:
The Gummint has a whole strategy on what to do with cislunar space (here), including some sort of GPS system between the Earth and the Moon.
This motherfucker is not OK.
— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-06-01T03:02:04.000Z
That’s a big beautiful buggah. Our luna moths in Hawaii get pretty big but they’re more darkish brown and leather. No less purty.
All right, that bug that caused links to not be linkified inside blockquotes is now fixed.
Sorry, it’s from X, but here’s the latest polling results out of the UK. This is gonna be an absolute wipeout for the Conservatives if this holds over the next four or so weeks.
Under 100 seats for the Tories, even without tactical voting. pic.twitter.com/2i8W7cVflv
— ChrisO_wiki (@ChrisO_wiki) June 1, 2024
Chad Daybell sentenced to death for killing wife and girlfriend’s 2 children in jury decision
There will be a separate sentencing for the insurance fraud.
I couldn’t be on the jury because I don’t believe the state should be executing people. I’d rather see him locked up for the rest of his miserable life, remembering every single day when he wakes up that he’s there because he let his little head lead him, and he killed his wife and the two children of his affair as a result. Now Chad Daybell will go to death thinking he’s some sort of damned martyr, and he might even be delusional enough to think that God will save him somehow. I wish that had been cut off.
re: #30 Charles Johnson
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Were there any anti-Trump protests outside the courthouse at all? I remember a few pro-Trump layabouts who got jeered by passersby, but I don’t seem to recall any kind of coordinated effort. Also, “brand new and gleaming professionally made signs,” LOL. What a doof. And this is the guy 30% of the country says we need to lead us.
Foreign legion ‘proud’ to provide security at Paris Olympics
The elite French Foreign Legion is preparing for security duty in Paris during this summer’s Olympic Games, a far cry from the group’s previous deployments to places like the troubled Sahel region of Africa.
It appears print truly is dying.
I went to 11 places yesterday (convenience stores, etc.) in search of a newspaper and came up empty.
I ended up having to order a copy of yesterday’s WaPo. It will be here on Tuesday.
re: #34 mmmirele
I couldn’t be on the jury because I don’t believe the state should be executing people. I’d rather see him locked up for the rest of his miserable life, remembering every single day when he wakes up that he’s there because he let his little head lead him, and he killed his wife and the two children of his affair as a result.
With appeals and such, I would expect him to live longer on death row that he would in GenPop. Child abusers and killer aren’t exactly popular there.
#TelAviv LIVE: Tens of thousands are on the streets demanding that Netanyahu sticks to his word and end his double game with the Israel public.
▪️ Rallies across Israel come less than 24 hrs after Biden’s tv address laying bare the latest draft for a hostage/ceasefire deal. pic.twitter.com/1mNQfCjSve— Yonatan Touval (@Yonatan_Touval) June 1, 2024
re: #40 No Malarkey!
Sorry, Loony, Trump is not going to dump Melania for you no matter how sycophantic you are; you don’t look enough like Ivanka.
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I think the guards at Rikers will have something to say about that, in addition. It’s not like the other places where she’s done her attention-whoring, where if they’re guarded at all, it’s rent-a-cops.
re: #38 sizzzzlerz
With appeals and such, I would expect him to live longer on death row that he would in GenPop. Child abusers and killer aren’t exactly popular there.
I keep seeing this cited (child rapists, killers, &c don’t survive longer in general population) but has anyone actually studied that?
re: #42 Nerdy Fish
I think the guards at Rikers will have something to say about that, in addition. It’s not like the other places where she’s done her attention-whoring, where if they’re guarded at all, it’s rent-a-cops.
Maybe she could handcuff herself to Richard Spencer. They deserve each other.
I got my shopping list together. All of the coupons that Acme offered I do not use. And there is nothing on sale that I use.
re: #40 No Malarkey!
They used to have places with padded cells where Loony Loomer could be placed where she would get the psychiatric care she needs
Came across a video of wingnut Catholic Mike Winger (child rape apologist) gloating over the thought of his atheist relatives burning in Hell.
Switched to a guinea pig video.
re: #44 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Maybe she could handcuff herself to Richard Spencer. They deserve each other.
I had a visceral reaction to that post, but honestly, I can’t think of which one would have it worse, so you probably have the right of it.
Also, happy belated birthday and many happy returns. I meant to try to catch you yesterday, but I failed to do so.
re: #39 Captain Ron
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#NowPlaying The Jim Carroll Band > Catholic Boy > People Who Died > Stream at Amazon
— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-06-01T19:34:49+00:00
re: #48 Nerdy Fish
I had a visceral reaction to that post, but honestly, I can’t think of which one would have it worse, so you probably have the right of it.
Also, happy belated birthday and many happy returns. I meant to try to catch you yesterday, but I failed to do so.
Thank you.
I’m sixty-four now and my wife is still feeding me (I just had waffles with maple syrup).
My wife is listening to a creepypasta video story set in the Nebraska Panhandle.
re: #38 sizzzzlerz
With appeals and such, I would expect him to live longer on death row that he would in GenPop. Child abusers and killer aren’t exactly popular there.
For that reason, Daybell would have never see GenPop, he’d basically been put in solitary for however long the sentence would be.
re: #40 No Malarkey!
Everyone there from guards to inmates will walk past her laughing just like they did at Twitter HQ.
re: #40 No Malarkey!
Sorry, Loony, Trump is not going to dump Melania for you no matter how sycophantic you are; you don’t look enough like Ivanka.
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If that’s legitimately Loomer, Jesus H. Fucking Christ…
re: #33 Dr Lizardo
Sorry, it’s from X, but here’s the latest polling results out of the UK. This is gonna be an absolute wipeout for the Conservatives if this holds over the next four or so weeks.
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I hope Labor is smart enough to be working up a whole list of policies they’ll bring to the floor IMMEDIATELY. Show the voters you know why they put you there.
re: #43 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I keep seeing this cited (child rapists, killers, &c don’t survive longer in general population) but has anyone actually studied that?
MANY prison inmates were sexually/physically/emotionally abused as kids. You go in to gen pop as a kiddie diddler/killer, chances are good they’ll be counting how many screwdriver holes an average abdomen can contain.
Note that this is far more extreme than the parieto principle (80% of consequences come from 20% of causes), on the internet it’s a much smaller proportion of people causing most of the problems (maybe 5% or less).
— Jay Van Bavel, PhD (@jayvanbavel) May 30, 2024
This study leverages a panel of 664,391 registered US voters on Twitter (now X) to identify and study 2107 supersharers. We first address fundamental questions about supersharers’ importance: Are they effectively “shouting” into a void where no one is listening, or are they finding large audiences online? Are supersharers vocal actors with little influence over their networks, or are they prominent actors supplying a demand for political misinformation? If supersharers are embedded in real human social networks, as suggested by prior work (4), they are likely to have real-world relationships with some of their followers (9), which places the communication in a different context of social trust. People who follow supersharers are likely to be exposed to more misinformation and potentially repeated exposure, both of which are contributing factors to belief in false claims (10, 11). Over time, repeated exposure may have long-term implications, such as changing the norms of accepted behavior (12).
re: #35 Nerdy Fish
Were there any anti-Trump protests outside the courthouse at all? I remember a few pro-Trump layabouts who got jeered by passersby, but I don’t seem to recall any kind of coordinated effort. Also, “brand new and gleaming professionally made signs,” LOL. What a doof. And this is the guy 30% of the country says we need to lead us.
I was at that courthouse for jury duty.
There were just enough cops to make people walk to the end of the block to get around the barriers; the closest thing to a crowd was the line of people hoping for seating. No protesters, for or against. Occasionally a bike messenger passing by would yell something, but that’s about it.
While hosting the Kansas City Chiefs at the White House to celebrate their 2024 Super Bowl championship, U.S. President Biden wears the team’s football helmet. pic.twitter.com/tiuTgXPCWN
— AP NFL (@AP_NFL) May 31, 2024
Imagine using Truth Social as your only source of news and reading Trump’s extended posts while thinking “Holy shit this motherfvcker is guilty!” https://t.co/CVFrUBtrdE
— Ragnarok Lobster 🐺 (@eclecticbrotha) May 31, 2024
re: #40 No Malarkey!
Sorry, Loony, Trump is not going to dump Melania for you no matter how sycophantic you are; you don’t look enough like Ivanka.
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Thread:
It’s 2028. Trump’s funeral was 3 years ago. Gateway Pundit electrifies MAGA with posts about Trump sightings. People send in blurry photos of shambling orange figures in the distance. One man collects a lock of hair he found in the bushes. Locals claim the hair healed them.
— Jean-Michel Connard 좆됐어 (@torriangray) May 31, 2024
A man in Fresno finds an image of Trump in the an oil slick that leaked out of his 1984 Dodge Dart. Jim Bakker visits the oil spill and says it’s been touched by the hand of God. He offers onlookers survival buckets of Mac and cheese at a significant discount.
Visitors leave stones at the oil slick. By 2030 those stones are used to build a small chapel. Don Jr is buried there when he passes from cocaine induced cardiac arrest that same year. Followers, now wearing orange face paint, insist he was secretly vaccinated.
Eric attempts to claim the throne as the true successor to to his father, but followers stone him to death when he accidentally implies black people have souls at an event in Council Bluffs. They parade his corpse through the streets before dumping it in a YMCA pool.
By 2040 referring to him by his full name is seen as a sin. They whisper “the Donald” in hushed, reverent tones. A splinter group believes he must only be referred to as The Once and Future President, Son of Fred, Child of God. The groups routinely battle in Walmart Parking lots.
By 2050 many his followers have walked away from society. On the Day of Shrugging, they all put down tools and remotes and wander into the wilderness. Within 5 days 70% of them have died of exposure or animal attacks.
Those who remained in the cities spend the rest of their days walking the path of reverence, visiting the Trump holy sites: Mar-a-Lago, Four Seasons Total Landscaping, Atlantic City, and for some reason Shoji Tabuchi’s former theater in Branson, Missouri.
By 2100 the countryside is littered with MAGA chapels created to service the pilgrims. Each chapel has a Trump relic and most have repurposed Rockafire Explosion robots that just repeat CROOKED HILLARY over and over until they die.
re: #39 Captain Ron
LIVE: Tens of thousands are on the streets demanding that Netanyahu sticks to his word and end his double game with the Israel public.
▪️ Rallies across Israel come less than 24 hrs after Biden’s tv address laying bare the latest draft for a hostage/ceasefire deal.
tell us again about Biden the warmongering enemy of Israel
Need to get my motorcycles riding hips back. Had my new bike out for about 2.5 hours today, it is a really nice day here. Came back home, came in house to do some dishes and let the pipes cool down before putting the cover on her. As I was standing there at the sink doing dishes my hips started cramping. They must not have like my posture on the bike. Well they better get used to it because I plan on taking an extra long weekend later this summer and ride it down to my sisters place in Virginia Beach.
re: #6 Charles Johnson
Forgive me while I call complete bullshit. Salem fully intended to release bullshit. They support all bullshit all the times far right wing sites.
I hope that dude took them for millions. Mega millions.
re: #71 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Forgive me while I call complete bullshit. Salem fully intended to release bullshit. They support all bullshit all the times far right wing sites.
I hope that dude took them for millions. Mega millions.
I think I said this morning when that headline first broke, “Translation: They covered the advance, now they’re trying to cover their ass against a defamation lawsuit.”
re: #56 GlutenFreeJesus
Everyone there from guards to inmates will walk past her laughing just like they did at Twitter HQ.
And her vow:
I’ll be here as long as it takes.”
Loomer ended her stand when she asked police to cut off her handcuffs after a little more than two hours of protest. (I believe she had to use the bathroom and had lost the handcuff keys—yeah, she’s SOOOOOOO effective and dedicated)
And don’t even mention when her tire got slashed!! hahahahahahahahaha
re: #73 BeachDem
She blocked me after that whole show. Or else I’d be insulting her more again.
re: #63 Belafon
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If it is true that one of the jurors was a Truth Social devotee, it just goes to show you that by and large, juries take their duties extremely seriously. That guy had a golden opportunity to be a personal hero to the mango Mussolini, and he decided that the rule of law was more important.
re: #39 Captain Ron
I no longer have any hope regarding Gaza. Either Hamas or Netanyahu, or both, are going to make this last until their victory.
If too many civilians die in pursuit of that it is a price they are willing to pay.
re: #70 Belafon
Gas is down to $2.88 here at one location.
It’s still over $4 in western Nebraska for regular.
I remain convinced oil companies keep the price of gasoline high in Red states or districts when a Democrat is President for the purpose of monkeying with the election for their tax breaks.
re: #75 GlutenFreeJesus
She blocked me after that whole show. Or else I’d be insulting her more again.
When I need a good laugh, I like to relive “The night of the slashed tire!”
For anyone who missed it:
re: #77 Romantic Heretic
They’re both in it together. To what end, I have no idea.
re: #79 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
It’s still over $4 in western Nebraska for regular.
I remain convinced oil companies keep the price of gasoline high in Red states or districts when a Democrat is President for the purpose of monkeying with the election for their tax breaks.
The point is that their pricing policies have little to do with Free Market principles and much more to do with cartel strategy
re: #27 PhillyPretzel ✅
To those who recommended Mastodon thanks. I have been enjoying Caturday on Mastodon. Some of those cats are so precious.
re: #33 Dr Lizardo
The Tories are crashing… but the Reform party is surging.
The Reform Party is the basket of deplorables.
So like in the US, where decent people leave the GOP and awful remain, in the UK that is happening to the Conservative party.
re: #79 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
It’s still over $4 in western Nebraska for regular.
I remain convinced oil companies keep the price of gasoline high in Red states or districts when a Democrat is President for the purpose of monkeying with the election for their tax breaks.
There’s more competition here even though we’re going to be represented by Katrina Pierson in the Texas House next year. The oil companies more than likely muck with rural prices.
re: #82 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state. - Peter Berger
When I first saw that quote a question came to mind: What happens when the market economy is the state?
America has answered that question for me.
The way to constantly inject Trump’s felony conviction into the campaign, other than remembering that “convicted felon” is now his first name, is to simply make his pathetic whining, excuses and demands for never-ending life mulligans the center of the campaign against him. He’s a disgrace but more than that an embarrassment. It won’t be hard because he’ll be making this claim non-stop through November, just a constant cue up for the same lethal mockery. It is the heart of his politics to always be jacking the conversation up to higher and higher levels of drama, even when the drama is his own menace, indeed especially when the drama is his own menace. That’s his power. What cuts him down is to zero in on the pathetic excuse-making and whining, a trait all of us associate with the most odious and pitiful people we’ve ever known. And let that pull the disgrace of his many crimes and prosecutions along with it.
re: #86 Romantic Heretic
When I first saw that quote a question came to mind: What happens when the market economy is the state?
America has answered that question for me.
Every year, the energy companies meet with the government to plan US energy strategy. Because these talks are strategic in nature, they are also classified.
What do we call it when members of an industry meet in secret to plan out the market?
re: #79 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
It’s still over $4 in western Nebraska for regular.
I remain convinced oil companies keep the price of gasoline high in Red states or districts when a Democrat is President for the purpose of monkeying with the election for their tax breaks.
Saw $3:00-350 down in Tennessee. And as high as $4.50.
re: #32 Charles Johnson
All right, that bug that caused links to not be linkified inside blockquotes is now fixed.
Did you record your time spent, comment what you did and close the JIRA ticket?
re: #68 Eventual Carrion
Need to get my motorcycles riding hips back. Had my new bike out for about 2.5 hours today, it is a really nice day here. Came back home, came in house to do some dishes and let the pipes cool down before putting the cover on her. As I was standing there at the sink doing dishes my hips started cramping. They must not have like my posture on the bike. Well they better get used to it because I plan on taking an extra long weekend later this summer and ride it down to my sisters place in Virginia Beach.
Frequent short rides work well to recondition the position on a bicycle. Long ones are more likely to need recovery time. I’m talkin’ 5 rides a day.
re: #91 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅
Hoomans can not loaf properly.
Not without consulting the Kama Sutra.
Good lord. I replied to this post:
He cried for a month that the court case wouldn’t let him campaign. Since then it’s two days of golf and a UFC fight in NJ. pic.twitter.com/1EvDdfbSSa
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) June 1, 2024
Saying I would pay good money to see Trump get his ass kicked in the octagon…
…and got a 12 hour timeout for “violating our rules against violent speech”
🙄
Fuck Elmo and his garbage hellsite.
This lawyer of 38 years explains to Trump, Elon Musk, and MAGA-fascists how the legal system in America works. pic.twitter.com/wofM9JOlHh
— Bill Madden (@maddenifico) June 1, 2024
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My ATT was out since yesterday — no wifi, no internet on my computer, no TV. So used internet on my phone instead. ATT tech came during the middle of their 4 hour window today and got it all back working within an hour. Yay!!
re: #97 Eclectic Cyborg
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American rabbits fight differently.
re: #90 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅
The new reality of EVs makes the past shenanigans by the Oil industry and Republicans far less likely IMO. A whole slew of EVs are coming out that directly complete price wise with comparable gas engine models and it will not take very long if gas goes to $5 or higher nationally for a lot of people to switch. The irony of this is the very same gas engine fans that bash EVs in general should instead be thanking EV buyers for helping keep the price of gasoline at this current level.
If the Russian aggression in Ukraine and Iran’s continued menace in strategic oil conduits haven’t spiked gas prices by now then you know something is going on inside Oil Corp board rooms. And I guarantee you the discussion very much involve EVs.
This is the month that right-wingers like to swap videos and pics of scantily-clad gay people back and forth with each other while using the cover story that it’s about fighting “wokeness.”
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) June 1, 2024
Just ridiculous and petty that no bridge in FL can be lit up with any color this month except red, white and blue.
‘Where Woke Goes to Die’ really worked well for him on a national stage, so why not double down.— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) June 1, 2024
re: #97 Eclectic Cyborg
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I saw that pic and someone had captioned it “Every bunny was Kung Fu fighting”
“Russia if you’re listening, we need a Reichstag, stat!” https://t.co/xI8TwfUB5y
— Jim Stewartson, Counterinsurgent 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙🎈 (@jimstewartson) June 1, 2024
A MOST PROLIFIC SOURCE OF SATISFACTION TO A PRACTICAL JOKER
re: #110 Charles Johnson
Until grade schoolers learned to fill them from their inkwells.
re: #108 DodgerFan1988
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re: #97 Eclectic Cyborg
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You know that’s bunny foreplay, right?
re: #97 Eclectic Cyborg
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are you sure that’s a battle? Maybe it’s ballet.
re: #55 Randall Gross
That is weird and hilarious
A GREAT article on the evolution in a short period of time of a new species:
The evolutionary mystery of the German cockroach
The species evolved to exploit human-built environments and exists nowhere else. So where did it come from?
By John Hawks
Around ten years ago I was involved in a fascinating collaboration to examine evolution within the environments built by humans. Humans create a huge variety of environments within the structures they build. Evolutionary biologists are working to understand how organisms colonize and adapt to these novel environments: from houses and garages to the insides of HVAC systems and water heaters. These built environments have exploded in numbers and diversity during the last few thousand years, and that makes them natural laboratories for studying rapid evolution.
I became interested in the evolution of these species coadapted to human structures because of my work on recent human evolution. Many human populations have been adapting to some very extreme environments over the last few thousand years. From the high Andes Mountains to the hot Kalahari Desert, and from the high Arctic to the floating villages of southeast Asia, people have been adapting to extremes. Inventing new cultural practices is one way that people push physiological boundaries. Houses, shelters, clothing, food storage bins, water containers: all these help to moderate extremes. They also create microhabitats that other species colonize, from mice to microbes.
One of the most striking examples of adaptation to the environments built by humans is the German cockroach. This species, Blattella germanica, is one of around a half dozen cockroach species that commonly inhabit human structures. Most, like the American cockroach and Oriental cockroach, are a lot bigger in size than German cockroaches, and all of the others can still be found inhabiting natural habitats in the part of the world where they originated. But not the German cockroach. This small species only exists within and nearby human-built structures. Despite what may seem like a huge limitation, the species has been incredibly successful in spreading globally—as a 2019 review by Qian Tang and coworkers put it, from Alaska to Antarctica and everywhere in between.
re: #109 Charles Johnson
Every 3 Stooges gag on the back of a comic book.
I started selling seeds at 8 yrs old (1962) off the back of those comics. Action Classics maybe?
An intra-Democratic Party war will doom us all:
"...the NY Dem establishment [is] lining up agnst an incumbent congressman who is one of the GreenNewDeal’s most passionate + pragmatic champions.... Because Bowman has supported a cease-fire [+ referred to 🇮🇱's actions as] a “genocide,” 🇮🇱’s most prominent lobbying grp is spending 💰💰💰 to unseat him"
— Shannon Mattern (@shannonmattern.bsky.social) 2024-06-01T14:25:58.525Z
This is terrible.
I won five free tickets in the 2x2 lottery two days ago.
Yesterday I washed my wallet and destroyed the ticket.
re: #124 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
An intra-Democratic Party war will doom us all:
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I wonder who knows his constituents better.
One of the victims of the culture wars?
Related:
— Climate News (@climatenews.bsky.social) 2024-06-01T12:56:26.779Z
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As ideological apparti and party apparti are consumed with fighting off right-wing populism, lost in the shuffle is the long work on rebuilding our civilization and fighting against fossil fuel interests.
And this is why Biden:
1) champions US oil (which is a minsnomer) production; and
2) seems so intransigent on changing US policy towards Israel even in light of Netanyahu’s extreme actions.
The Democratic Party is a coalition of people who are not Republicans. And that is pretty much what brings the Democrats together.
On policy issues though there are some deep rifts in the Democratic Party.
The framing of the move away from fossil fuels as a “green jobs” program is smart, politically, because closing facilities is a losing political proposition.
Only by promising jobs in abundance can the climate activist proposals find widespread political power.
But acting on fossil fuels is still fraught will all sorts of political problems.
It’s one thing to say we are fighting a war on coal.
But the President cannot say we are fighting a war on oil.
Even before Trump, the office of the President was a highly compromising position for any Democrat (since at least LBJ.) Hence Bill Clinton and his neoliberalism.
Now with Trump turning the GOP into a pro-authoritarian party it takes all-hands on deck just to fight that off.
So problems elsewhere (e.g. in Palestine) are only pitfalls for any Democratic President and thus are attempted to be put quietly on a back burner.
Past rifting events for the Democratic Party:
1. Slavery;
2. Moving of people from rural areas to cities;
3. Civil Rights and Vietnam.
I wonder if we’re at a time when another rift will reform the Democratic Party (and maybe the GOP or form a new party.)
Plot twist, you can’t be a felon and run for office in the state of Washington.
re: #128 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Thunderstorm watch goes up.
Yesterday and now today. Who knew Neb evenings get exciting. Be safe.
re: #128 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Thunderstorm watch goes up.
We dealt with that earlier today. I would say Rockwall got around an inch. Our ground is so saturated that every rain generates a a flash flood watch and a flood warning.
re: #130 Unabogie
Plot twist, you can’t be a felon and run for office in the state of Washington.
Yes, but the Supreme Court will magically rule that Trump isn’t running for office in Washington, so that rule doesn’t apply to him.
re: #33 Dr Lizardo
Sorry, it’s from X, but here’s the latest polling results out of the UK. This is gonna be an absolute wipeout for the Conservatives if this holds over the next four or so weeks.
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Don’t see how the UK will be able to maintain their own currency as previously, if they rejoin the EU.
Good!
‘Kari Lake got served’ a lawsuit the moment jury was reading Trump’s guilty verdicts
The exact moment that the jury was reading its 34 felony convictions for Donald Trump, his close associate Kari Lake was reportedly served with a defamation lawsuit.
Caroline Wren, senior adviser to Lake, who is herself a failed Arizona governor candidate and current GOP senate candidate, “broke the news” on Steve Bannon’s “War Room” show.
“I’ll break a little news for you here, Steve. You know what happened as they were reading the guilty verdicts of Donald Trump? Kari Lake got served, her husband got served, Don Jr. got served, I got served in a defamation lawsuit by the election administrator in Arizona,” she said.
“You think they just happened by chance to serve Rudy at his 80th birthday party? You think they happened by chance to serve Kari Lake during the guilty verdict? No. This is all purposeful.”
re: #135 Joe Bacon ✅
Not just Kari but failson #1 got served.
re: #133 Belafon
Yes, but the Supreme Court will magically rule that Trump isn’t running for office in Washington, so that rule doesn’t apply to him.
I doubt they’ll need any magic. State law applies to statewide office, not federal (isn’t that what the decisions about keeping him off the primary ballots said?).
Moreover, when you vote in November, you’re not voting for president, you’re voting for a slate of electors. Who, I suppose, should not be felons.
re: #130 Unabogie
Plot twist, you can’t be a felon and run for office in the state of Washington.
There is a Supreme Court case from 1992, where Arkansas passed a term-limit law. The first two sections regarded state officials, but the third applied to US Representatives.
The Supreme Court struck it down as unconstitutional, as Constitution sets forth the requirements for federal officials, not states.
I presume if the Washington law is applied to Donald Trump, it would meet the same fate. While Washington administers the Presidential election within their state, it is a federal election.
Of course, the Supreme Court could overturn its own position. The case was decided 5-4:
Stevens, Souter, Kennedy, Ginsberg, Breyer agreed the law was unconstitutional regarding federal positions.
Thomas, Rehnquist, O’Conner, and Scalia opposed.
I just realized something. When Trump’s next trial begins, he will be facing trial as a convicted felon…not a ‘first time offender.’ So there won’t be that excuse for leniency hanging over the court’s head.
re: #135 Joe Bacon ✅
Good!
“You think they just happened by chance to serve Rudy at his 80th birthday party? You think they happened by chance to serve Kari Lake during the guilty verdict? No. This is all purposeful.”
Funny that: Process servers or sheriffs’ deputies tend to serve you at a place where they can find you.
re: #70 Belafon
Gas is down to $2.88 here at one location.
It’s below $3/gal at some locations in Nashville.
Made me remember that just before Obama’s first presidential election, W’s gas was over $4/gal & diesel was $6 plus.
Audrey @parickards.bsky.social
Danny Devito in New York walking his Dachshund that’s wearing a yellow sundress.
Two people who survived the Tulsa Race Massacre are alive today, both 109 years old.
Sarah J. Jackson
Yesterday was the anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre. There are two survivors left. Ages 109. I think a lot about the failure of this nation to address this atrocity and many others. Not from the 17th, 18th or 19th century, but the 20th. And the determination of those survivors to live so long.
That would go really well.
Elon Musk could become policy adviser if Trump wins election, WSJ reports (Reuters, May 29, 2024)
WASHINGTON, May 29 (Reuters) - Donald Trump is considering tapping billionaire Elon Musk as a policy adviser if the Republican presidential candidate reclaims the White House in November’s election, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the talks.
The two have discussed ways for Musk, who runs the social media platform X as well as SpaceX and Tesla to have “formal input and influence” over economic and border security policies, according to the Journal.
The WSJ also said Musk informed Trump about his ongoing influence campaign aimed at convincing powerful U.S. business leaders not to support Democratic President Joe Biden, who beat Trump in the 2020 election and is seeking a second term.
Those talks, which included billionaire investor Nelson Peltz, also included discussions about funding a “data-driven project to prevent voter fraud,” the outlet said, adding no further details were known.
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#satire— Minimalist AI Art (@borborygmos.bsky.social) 2024-06-01T18:30:27.744Z
re: #147 Belafon
I’m not sure what beef an Atlantic and Boston Review writer has with me.
I guess I’m not privy to Mr. Friedman’s wisdom.
re: #148 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Personally, in really kind of annoyed at the share filters on bsky.
And there I was, thinking this timeline couldn’t possibly get any shittier.
— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-06-02T00:13:39.000Z
re: #139 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
There is a Supreme Court case from 1992, where Arkansas passed a term-limit law. The first two sections regarded state officials, but the third applied to US Representatives.
The Supreme Court struck it down as unconstitutional, as Constitution sets forth the requirements for federal officials, not states.
I presume if the Washington law is applied to Donald Trump, it would meet the same fate. While Washington administers the Presidential election within their state, it is a federal election.
Of course, the Supreme Court could overturn its own position. The case was decided 5-4:
Stevens, Souter, Kennedy, Ginsberg, Breyer agreed the law was unconstitutional regarding federal positions.
Thomas, Rehnquist, O’Conner, and Scalia opposed.
But isn’t Ohio planning to keep President Biden off the ballot based on rules they set? If so, Washington can do it as well.
The Kansas Supreme Court offered a mixed bag in a ruling Friday that combined several challenges to a 2021 election law, siding with state officials on one provision, reviving challenges to others and offering the possibility that at least one will be halted before this year’s general election.But it was the ballot signature verification measure’s majority opinion — which stated there is no right to vote enshrined in the Kansas Constitution’s Bill of Rights — that drew fiery dissent from three of the court’s seven justices.
The measure requires election officials to match the signatures on advance mail ballots to a person’s voter registration record. The state Supreme Court reversed a lower court’s dismissal of that lawsuit, but the majority rejected arguments from voting rights groups that the measure violates state constitutional voting rights.
In fact, Justice Caleb Stegall, writing for the majority, said that the dissenting justices wrongly accused the majority of ignoring past precedent, holding that the court has not identified a “fundamental right to vote” within the state constitution.
In other words, we’re not a democracy.
re: #152 Charles Johnson
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Suddenly, being an immigrant with a shady business isn’t so bad, eh?
The worst people in the country are orbiting each other into a black hole of stupid. I hope we can stay outside the event horizon.
re: #96 Eclectic Cyborg
I’m guessing Drumpf needs to get a kayfabe transfusion.
re: #97 Eclectic Cyborg
(Sings) Every bunny was kung fu fighting!
re: #149 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I fed that into SDXL… and got this:
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
Seems about right.
re: #151 Belafon
Personally, in really kind of annoyed at the share filters on bsky.
It’s a mixed bag to me. I prefer the label systems like Aegis, which can hide a post under a label like “misogyny” or “racism” but you can still click if you want to read it within the conversation.
On the one hand, block lists can catch people inadvertently (or intentionally). On the other hand, some douchecanoe running around on the site will quickly be blocked into oblivion (and you don’t have to see their shitty takes if you’re warned in advance).
re: #159 jaunte
So when will we see the Dixie Swastika flying about the Fascist “Heritage” Foundation?
re: #159 jaunte
Jonathan M. Katz @katzonearth.bsky.social
Having a super normal one at the Heritage Foundation
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The Heritage Foundation displaying an upside down US flag is so stupid, it’s pathetic.
re: #162 Joe Bacon ✅
That wouldn’t fit their pretense of being the only true Americans.
re: #163 BeenHereAwhile
Victimized like a common Alito.
re: #130 Unabogie
Plot twist, you can’t be a felon and run for office in the state of Washington.
Yeah Washington law doesn’t beat federal law. They may be able to keep felons from running for local office, but there is no way any court will uphold a state law superseding federal law. It is why the supreme court shot down colorado removing Trump from the ballot per curiam.
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