Mark Lettieri Group: “Catboy” (Live at the Iridium)

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From Out by Midnight: Live at the Iridium - Out 8/25/23
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Guitar: Mark Lettieri
Drums: Jason “JT” Thomas
Bass: Wes Stephenson
Keyboards: Daniel Porter

Written and produced by Mark Lettieri

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Mix engineer: Joey Lomas
Mastering engineer: Dave McNair
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1
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 23, 2023 • 7:53:37pm

Reset the clock #Methodist

CHARDON, Ohio (WOIO) - A Thompson Township pastor pleaded guilty Wednesday in Geauga County Court of Common Pleas to several sexual crimes against juveniles.

According to court documents, Dennis Laferty pleaded guilty to two counts of gross sexual imposition and one count of sexual imposition.

Laferty, 37, was indicted following an investigation by detectives into allegations of sexual abuse involving minors between Nov. 30 2019 and Jan. 30.

Laferty was the pastor at the Thompson United Methodist Church.

WOIO-TV, Cleveland
cleveland19.com

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Belafon  Jun 23, 2023 • 7:54:19pm

Bringing this over because it’s good news:

My son is officially Dr. Mask. He passed his defense of his dissertation. He has a few minor things to fix, but it’s official

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 23, 2023 • 7:56:59pm
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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 23, 2023 • 7:58:22pm

re: #2 Belafon

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🙂

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 23, 2023 • 7:59:22pm

The tornado warning in Scottsbluff has expired and has been replaced with a severe thunderstorm warning. That storm will pass north of my village.

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teleskiguy  Jun 23, 2023 • 7:59:35pm

Always kind of bittersweet when I get CL’d. CuriousLurker did not put up with any of my shit and she said so. I still try to learn and live by her example in online interactions. Aminah, PBUH

Parts of the Chilean Andes are getting clobbered with snow, three to five feet in some places, storms like what Tahoe saw last winter.

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teleskiguy  Jun 23, 2023 • 8:03:34pm

So I found out that the vehicle odometer on my ‘07 Toyota Corolla stops working when it reaches 299,999 miles. So I’ll have to write down the true mileage every time I change my oil.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 23, 2023 • 8:03:36pm
NASA’s most advanced spacecraft for solar exploration just made another close flyby of the sun.

The Parker Solar Probe conducted its 16th perihelion pass on Thursday morning (June 22), cruising through the sun’s superhot outer atmosphere, called the corona.

As the spacecraft flies through the corona’s blazing plasma, where temperatures can climb above 1.8 million degrees Fahrenheit (1 million degrees Celsius), the instruments onboard the probe are kept at a comfortable 85 degrees F (29.4 degrees C). This is due to the probe’s heat shield, which is 4.5 inches (11.4 centimeters) thick and can safely reach temperatures hotter than 2,500 degrees F (1,400 degrees C).

(more)
space.com

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 23, 2023 • 8:04:56pm

Uh oh!

Giuliani hit with sanctions for failing to produce records in defamation case

reuters.com

Rudy Giuliani was sanctioned by a U.S. judge on Friday for failing to search for and turn over records in a defamation lawsuit brought by former Georgia election workers against him for accusing them of ballot fraud.

U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell ordered Giuliani, Donald Trump’s ex-lawyer, to pay attorney fees and costs associated with the plaintiffs’ effort to force Giuliani to search for documents, according to an order in Washington, D.C., federal court. The exact sum has not yet been determined.

A lawyer for Giuliani did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

“We are pleased with the court’s Order, and look forward to our clients having their day in court,” Michael Gottlieb, a lawyer for the election workers, said in a statement.

The judge previously said Giuliani, who served as mayor of New York, must produce nearly all records requested by the election workers by June 30.

Howell found that Giuliani “arbitrarily limited” his search of a database that contained messages and documents in his possession prior to April 2021, when federal authorities seized his electronic devices, and conducted an “imprecise” manual search of messages from after April 2021.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 23, 2023 • 8:05:41pm

re: #7 teleskiguy

So I found out that the vehicle odometer on my ‘07 Toyota Corolla stops working when it reaches 299,999 miles. So I’ll have to write down the true mileage every time I change my oil.

That’s a weird place for it to stop. Did Toyota save money by only providing digits 0,1,2 on your odometer?

It turns out my Smart’s odometer has a seventh-position digit. It’s about to flip over 101,000 miles. If I can believe Mercedes-Benz, the odometer says I should be able to get to 9,999,999 before I need to replace my car. /s

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 23, 2023 • 8:07:41pm

And it’s a TWO-Fer!

Sidney Powell stuck with most sanctions for frivolous claims in Michigan election fraud case

alternet.org

Donald Trump’s ally and attorney Sidney Powell is among those who Friday largely lost their bid to overturn sanctions related to frivolous claims made in election fraud lawsuits challenging the 2020 results in Michigan.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled that a lower court mostly got it right when it sanctioned Powell and other attorneys in connection with false claims made in an attempt to reverse the election in favor of Trump. The news comes a month after Powell and other attorneys were hit with a lawsuit by a Michigan attorney regulations agency alleging they committed professional misconduct.

The Sixth Circuit ruling explained how the attorneys refuted their own made-up positions:

“Three voters and three Republican nominees to the electoral college in Michigan brought this suit in a bid to overturn the results of the state’s 2020 presidential election. The complaint plausibly alleged that Republican election challengers had been harassed and mistreated during vote counting at the TCF Center in Detroit, in violation of Michigan law. But the complaint also alleged that an international ‘collaboration’—with origins in Venezuela, extending to China and Iran, and including state actors in Michigan itself—had succeeded in generating hundreds of thousands of fraudulent votes in Michigan, thereby swinging the state’s electoral votes to Joseph Biden. Many of those allegations—particularly the ones concerning Dominion voting machines—were refuted by the plaintiffs’ own exhibits to their complaint.”

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immigrant  Jun 23, 2023 • 8:08:20pm

(Live at the Iridium)
Heh. My Dad sorta brought me up on a diet of Les Paul (and Mary Ford).

In the early aughts, I went to the Iridium, where Les was propped up in the corner, and his masterpieces were being played by his support band. It was good to see him (for the first and last time), but kind of sad since that guy was the absolute wizard of his time.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 23, 2023 • 8:08:50pm

There’s a whole train of thunderstorms hammering Scottsbluff. Apparently they aren’t livin’ right or something. They also have a flash flood warning now.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Jun 23, 2023 • 8:13:42pm

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BlueSpotinAL ✅  Jun 23, 2023 • 8:13:49pm

re: #13 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

There’s a whole train of thunderstorms hammering Scottsbluff. Apparently they aren’t livin’ right or something. They also have a flash flood warning now.

Pat Robertson no longer alive to pray the storms away from you.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 23, 2023 • 8:14:10pm

The tornado watch has been extended to midnight. We have severe wind shear here, with storms north of us moving SE and storms south of us moving NE.

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teleskiguy  Jun 23, 2023 • 8:15:03pm

re: #10 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

sofa king weird. It’s a digital odometer. I’m kind of pissed, actually!

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I Would Prefer Not To  Jun 23, 2023 • 8:16:50pm

CLd

Maybe this a ploy to let them exit from Ukraine. I can dream, can’t I?

better than my fear that this is a diversion so they can catch the Ukranians off guard.

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teleskiguy  Jun 23, 2023 • 8:16:55pm

mastodon.social

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 23, 2023 • 8:16:59pm

re: #15 BlueSpotinAL ✅

Pat Robertson no longer alive to pray the storms away from you.

Considering his record that’s probably a good thing, then.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 23, 2023 • 8:21:09pm

re: #15 BlueSpotinAL ✅

Pat Robertson no longer alive to pray the storms away from you.

He’s now spending all eternity trapped in the Stonewall Inn.

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teleskiguy  Jun 23, 2023 • 8:21:14pm

re: #19 teleskiguy

Hey, found another instance that won’t embed here. The fediverse is all over the place. I don’t mind.

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teleskiguy  Jun 23, 2023 • 8:22:45pm

re: #14 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

It’s in the fediverse now.

Mastodon

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Dave In Austin  Jun 23, 2023 • 8:28:50pm

Are you not amused??

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teleskiguy  Jun 23, 2023 • 8:29:07pm

If you know how to see through the detritus, Google still works. You just have to scroll a bunch to get to what you’re actually searching for. Tech companies are fucking P.T. Barnum, actively looking for suckers. Pretty amazing, actually, they’ve had massive success.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 23, 2023 • 8:30:36pm

A new tornado touched down from the last storm which hit Scottsbluff. That tornado will pass north of me.

Very few people live in that part of my county.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 23, 2023 • 8:37:29pm

Flash flood warning for Lodgepole.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 23, 2023 • 8:39:34pm

LOL

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Dave In Austin  Jun 23, 2023 • 8:41:52pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 23, 2023 • 8:44:37pm

The night isn’t over yet. I suppose I probably shouldn’t break out the rum.

The storm to our north carrying the tornado has turned to move south.
radar.weather.gov

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Dave In Austin  Jun 23, 2023 • 8:44:47pm

re: #28 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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Sherlock Hound  Jun 23, 2023 • 8:45:03pm

re: #28 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Always stay well behind anything named “Vengeance II”. You might find out what happened to “Vengeance I”, and you’re much better if it happens Somewhere Else. Thus is it with catturd1…
///

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BigPapa  Jun 23, 2023 • 8:50:46pm

Gotta give it to Joe. Despite being senile, forgetful, falling all the time, and altogether not well and extremely frail, was able to get the Navy to not report a sinking sub while at the same time causing a coup in Russia just to help his wayward son out.

Never question a father’s love.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Jun 23, 2023 • 8:51:45pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 23, 2023 • 8:51:48pm

A massive north-south line of storms is about to cross into Nebraska from Wyoming.

The storm to our north is now a supercell.

Enhanced radar in this area looks like crap.

radar.weather.gov

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Jun 23, 2023 • 8:55:35pm

OK, we appear to be living in a timeline directed by Wes Anderson

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piratedan  Jun 23, 2023 • 8:56:45pm

re: #33 BigPapa

pretty amazing accomplishment for someone who is so old. Next thing you know he’ll be trying to tax the rich and attempting to fix things. Granted there’s a LOT on that list to unfuck, but they’re doing what they can and its not just low hanging fruit stuff either.

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BigPapa  Jun 23, 2023 • 8:58:37pm

re: #37 piratedan

Joe is a bad motherunfucker.

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DodgerFan1988  Jun 23, 2023 • 8:58:53pm
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jaunte  Jun 23, 2023 • 8:58:56pm

Alexander Vindman:

“…I’ve made the drive from Rostov to Moscow at least a dozen times. Voronezh is more than halfway to Moscow. If reports of Wagner fighting in Voronezh are accurate, then they are hours away from Moscow.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 23, 2023 • 9:00:13pm

Powerful thunder in the area now.

Another severe thunderstorm is behind this one also moving toward us.

Note the population north of my town on this new warning.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 23, 2023 • 9:02:16pm

re: #34 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

Looks like this is a legit attempt at an insurrection/uprising/coup d’etat by Prigozhin and the Wagner Group.

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Captain Ron  Jun 23, 2023 • 9:04:56pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 23, 2023 • 9:05:34pm

A severe thunderstorm warning and deadly hail warning have been issued for Moomaw Corner.

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Belafon  Jun 23, 2023 • 9:06:54pm

In the 1800s, the US Army made it all the way to Mexico City. This trek seems much shorter.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 23, 2023 • 9:07:21pm

Storms to our west and north are moving south. Storms to our east and south are moving north.

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sagehen  Jun 23, 2023 • 9:10:34pm

re: #45 Belafon

In the 1800s, the US Army made it all the way to Mexico City. This trek seems much shorter.

On horseback, right? Were there even any roads?

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 23, 2023 • 9:11:18pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 23, 2023 • 9:12:25pm

The weather updates from me should end shortly. There’s lightning all around us so we should lose our Internet service and electricity soon.

Banner County still has no power.

windy.com

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 23, 2023 • 9:12:48pm

LOL 😄

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jaunte  Jun 23, 2023 • 9:13:58pm

re: #47 sagehen

It was an amphibious landing farther south; the citizens of Veracruz are still pretty touchy about it.

“On March 9, 1847, American troops performed their first major amphibious operation, landing 12,000 men, supplies, weapons, and horses at Veracruz, Mexico.”
teva.contentdm.oclc.org

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 23, 2023 • 9:15:15pm

Hmmm wondering if the NRA is scrambling on what to do when their Russian money is cut off…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 23, 2023 • 9:15:58pm

re: #48 Dr Lizardo

That means that Russia’s troops in Ukraine have been cut off from their command-and-control, or in other words, they’re fuqued.

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wrenchwench  Jun 23, 2023 • 9:16:58pm

re: #49 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The weather updates from me should end shortly. There’s lightning all around us so we should lose our Internet service and electricity soon.

Banner County still has no power.

windy.com

Something always happens in Chadron, right? Or threatens to.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 23, 2023 • 9:20:45pm

are: #54 🔧-wench

Something always happens in Chadron, right? Or threatens to.

Pretty much. Tornados, severe thunderstorms, prairie fires threatening to burn down the town, the state college student council leader being arrested for rape (the son of a Republican candidate for the state board of education), that sort of thing.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 23, 2023 • 9:20:54pm

re: #53 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

That means that Russia’s troops in Ukraine have been cut off from their command-and-control, or in other words, they’re fuqued.

Fingers crossed.

What I found interesting in Prigozhin’s statements yesterday about the reasons behind the Russo-Ukrainian War is that his thesis is that it was launched illegally and under false pretenses. According to him, it was launched in an attempt to bring a fella named Medvedchuk (don’t know if I got that correctly) to power in Kyiv, then the Russian elites would divvy up Ukraine for their own financial gain.

That largely mirrors American and Western statements.

LOL…did we pay Prigozhin to launch this attempted coup? After all, he is a mercenary.

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retired cynic  Jun 23, 2023 • 9:22:48pm

re: #46 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Storms to our west and north are moving south. Storms to our east and south are moving north.

The combination of that is just not good.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 23, 2023 • 9:23:25pm

Lights are flickering.

This is one helluva big thunderstorm warning just issued for us.

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wrenchwench  Jun 23, 2023 • 9:23:42pm

I’m not sure I posted this when it was fresh. Now I’m sure I posted it. Forever fresh.

Mastodon

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 23, 2023 • 9:26:18pm

Seen on Wagner-affiliated Telegram channels:

(Chief of the General Staff) Gerasimov fled the Rostov army headquarters along with people loyal to him and is holed up in a civilian apartment with his acquaintances in Rostov.

Take with a grain of salt on that one. I’d think that if Gerasimov had fled Army HQ in Rostov, he’d hightail it outta there back to Moscow. Provided he’s even in Rostov to begin with.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 23, 2023 • 9:29:37pm
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William Lewis  Jun 23, 2023 • 9:31:05pm

re: #60 Dr Lizardo

Seen on Wagner-affiliated Telegram channels:

Take with a grain of salt on that one. I’d think that if Gerasimov had fled Army HQ in Rostov, he’d hightail it outta there back to Moscow. Provided he’s even in Rostov to begin with.

Unless he was trying to get his loot and got stuck there?

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Belafon  Jun 23, 2023 • 9:31:15pm

re: #60 Dr Lizardo

Seen on Wagner-affiliated Telegram channels:

Take with a grain of salt on that one. I’d think that if Gerasimov had fled Army HQ in Rostov, he’d hightail it outta there back to Moscow. Provided he’s even in Rostov to begin with.

Would he be allowed into Moscow.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jun 23, 2023 • 9:32:08pm

re: #42 Dr Lizardo

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Looks like this is a legit attempt at an insurrection/uprising/coup d’etat by Prigozhin and the Wagner Group.

Russia is the master of disinformation; I am skeptical that this could indeed be happening since we really don’t have any journalists that could verify any of these reports. The movement of the military in Moscow could be nothing but kabuki theater. It still seems a possibility that it’s a ploy to divert attention from some hostile action in Ukraine or perhaps some other Putin-supported maneuver to do housekeeping among his staff to eliminate those not sufficiently loyal.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 23, 2023 • 9:33:36pm

re: #62 William Lewis

Unless he was trying to get his loot and got stuck there?

That’s possible, to be fair. Might’ve been down there overseeing operations and got trapped there.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 23, 2023 • 9:34:16pm

re: #64 Hecuba’s daughter

Russia is the master of disinformation; I am skeptical that this could indeed be happening since we really don’t have any journalists that could verify any of these reports. The movement of the military in Moscow could be nothing but kabuki theater. It still seems a possibility that it’s a ploy to divert attention from some hostile action in Ukraine or perhaps some other Putin-supported maneuver to do housekeeping among his staff to eliminate those not sufficiently loyal.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 23, 2023 • 9:35:29pm

Amazing. I still have Internet service after a lightning strike across the street at the church.

Also, I’m deaf.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 23, 2023 • 9:36:04pm

re: #64 Hecuba’s daughter

This is looking like the real deal to me. If this is mere kabuki theater, then it deserves a goddamn award.

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Captain Ron  Jun 23, 2023 • 9:36:34pm
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sagehen  Jun 23, 2023 • 9:37:39pm

re: #56 Dr Lizardo

LOL…did we pay Prigozhin to launch this attempted coup? After all, he is a mercenary.

The money he’s making in Africa, with his diamond mines and gold mines… I’m not sure we could even afford him.

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Captain Ron  Jun 23, 2023 • 9:38:01pm
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Belafon  Jun 23, 2023 • 9:41:35pm

re: #64 Hecuba’s daughter

Russia is the master of disinformation; I am skeptical that this could indeed be happening since we really don’t have any journalists that could verify any of these reports. The movement of the military in Moscow could be nothing but kabuki theater. It still seems a possibility that it’s a ploy to divert attention from some hostile action in Ukraine or perhaps some other Putin-supported maneuver to do housekeeping among his staff to eliminate those not sufficiently loyal.

What would “Wagner took over a military headquarters” gain Russia?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 23, 2023 • 9:42:57pm
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teleskiguy  Jun 23, 2023 • 9:44:48pm

OK, in the interest of total accuracy I should post this:

re: #45 teleskiguy

The only reason I still own guns (Springfield pump-action 12-gauge, 3-shot maximum; Browning .22 semi-auto long rifle, and a .30/06 bolt action) is because I know how to use them and they’re not pistols or semi-auto rifles, it’s nice to have ‘em with all the societal uncertainties. I’m extremely familiar with guns and how they work. And four people I knew shot themselves with guns, so…

My .22 rifle is a semi-automatic weapon. I did contradict myself here.

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Belafon  Jun 23, 2023 • 9:44:59pm

re: #73 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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I remember reading that when it was first posted. It’s probably in the history here somewhere.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Jun 23, 2023 • 9:45:40pm

Well played

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teleskiguy  Jun 23, 2023 • 9:46:40pm

.22 pistols are favorite weapons to kill people in the American mafia. I found this out reading several books.

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piratedan  Jun 23, 2023 • 9:47:06pm

re: #64 Hecuba’s daughter

If it IS a disinformation campaign…. who is it aimed at?

Is Putin running a coup against his own Military?

who’s to say?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 23, 2023 • 9:48:16pm

IFL Science, today

Relics Of History’s First Known Goddess Emerge In Assyrian City Razed By ISIS

Amid the smashed ruins of an ancient town sacked by ISIS, archeologists have returned and yielded all kinds of ancient artifacts. Among the new relics discovered at the site are ones from a 3,000-year-old temple that was dedicated to Ishtar, the Mesopotamian goddess of love and war, who’s the goddess with the earliest written evidence.

The ancient city of Nimrud is located in present-day Iraq, around 30 kilometers (20 miles) south of the city of Mosul. Found along the Tigris River, the settlement grew into a thriving Assyrian city between approximately 1350 BC and 610 BCE, complete with grand palaces, beautiful artworks, and impressive temples.

In June 2014, ISIS captured Mosul and seeded its influence across the surrounding area. As part of their effort to rid the area of non-Islamic culture, ISIS set out to systematically destroy the archeological site of Nimrud, demolishing the ruins with sledgehammers, bombs, and diggers.

That reign of terror has, thankfully, ended and archeologists have recently been able to return to Nimrud.

Early this year, archaeologists from the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and Heritage and the University of Pennsylvania continued work on the Temple of Ishtar, which burned when Nimrud was sacked by an invading army in 612 BCE.

(more)

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 23, 2023 • 9:48:42pm

re: #70 sagehen

The money he’s making in Africa, with his diamond mines and gold mines… I’m not sure we could even afford him.

Fair point.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 23, 2023 • 9:50:58pm

The weather is improving (sort of) in that the storm systems now appear to be moving east, rather than the severe shear we had before.

The double squall line is moving through our county seat now, so it should be here in a few minutes. The supercell which was moving south toward my village has weakened considerably.

windy.com

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 23, 2023 • 9:51:37pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Jun 23, 2023 • 9:56:23pm

re: #72 Belafon

What would “Wagner took over a military headquarters” gain Russia?

Do we have real confirmation that happened? Or just some twitter assertion to that effect?

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 23, 2023 • 9:58:12pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 23, 2023 • 10:00:33pm
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Belafon  Jun 23, 2023 • 10:00:55pm

re: #83 Hecuba’s daughter

Do we have real confirmation that happened? Or just some twitter assertion to that effect?

Looks like videos and stories are coming out, but even ignoring those, the question still stands: what benefit does Moscow gain by having the loss of Rustov get out?

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Jay C  Jun 23, 2023 • 10:02:13pm

re: #78 piratedan

If it IS a disinformation campaign…. who is it aimed at?

Is Putin running a coup against his own Military?

who’s to say?

Even given that “news” out of Russia should always be taken with a grain railroad hopper car full of salt, what seems to be going on in/around Rostov seems less of a “coup”, and more of a classic Mutiny (at the least) - where a major part of Russia’s military force in Ukraine seems to have finally decided “fuck this shit” (for which I’m sure there is a pithy phrase in Russian), and, in effect, walked off the job. Then again, Wagner ARE mercenaries - sorry, “private contractors” - so maybe labor-relations similes are appropriate…

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 23, 2023 • 10:02:22pm

re: #86 Belafon

Looks like videos and stories are coming out, but even ignoring those, the question still stands: what benefit does Moscow gain by having the loss of Rustov get out?

Exactly. There is zero upside to this for the Kremlin. If anything, it’s nothing but downside.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 23, 2023 • 10:11:38pm

Hail is coming down here now.

We’ve received more rain tonight than we usually get in the whole month.

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Belafon  Jun 23, 2023 • 10:14:15pm

re: #89 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Hail is coming down here now.

We’ve received more rain tonight than we usually get in the whole month.

Look at what your atheist prayers have wrought.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 23, 2023 • 10:16:48pm
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retired cynic  Jun 23, 2023 • 10:17:08pm

A sick cockatoo lost his human. Here’s how the vet responded.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 23, 2023 • 10:17:53pm

re: #90 Belafon

Look at what your atheist prayers have wrought.

Apparently they work better than my governor putting out a proclamation during the 2012 drought asking everyone in the state to pray for rain.

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Belafon  Jun 23, 2023 • 10:25:25pm

re: #92 retired cynic

I think he was a muppet character.

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wrenchwench  Jun 23, 2023 • 10:26:11pm

Mastodon

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teleskiguy  Jun 23, 2023 • 10:30:56pm

This is a very good rock ‘n’ roll song.

Sitting Still

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 23, 2023 • 10:31:24pm

I’m going to hit the rack. The heavy weather is starting to weaken a bit and we aren’t getting house-rattling thunder now.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jun 23, 2023 • 10:40:11pm

This chaos in Russia was definitely not on my 2023 bingo card.

OT: Par for Saturday.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 23, 2023 • 10:41:59pm
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Jun 23, 2023 • 10:43:57pm

re: #56 Dr Lizardo

Fingers crossed.

What I found interesting in Prigozhin’s statements yesterday about the reasons behind the Russo-Ukrainian War is that his thesis is that it was launched illegally and under false pretenses. According to him, it was launched in an attempt to bring a fella named Medvedchuk (don’t know if I got that correctly) to power in Kyiv, then the Russian elites would divvy up Ukraine for their own financial gain.

That largely mirrors American and Western statements.

LOL…did we pay Prigozhin to launch this attempted coup? After all, he is a mercenary.

I think it’s possible. We and the allies might also have offered to return conficated oligarch loot to HIM, rather than to THEM, since they could well have no further use for it if Priozhim actually gains power.

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teleskiguy  Jun 23, 2023 • 10:47:34pm

There’s some Spreadheads amongst the Lizard People. Check this out! Encore at Red Rocks tonight, never played.

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teleskiguy  Jun 23, 2023 • 10:57:02pm

Mastodon

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 23, 2023 • 11:09:54pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Jun 23, 2023 • 11:10:12pm

Orcas are continuing on the attack… this time disrupting a boat race near Spain.
apnews.com

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 23, 2023 • 11:12:12pm

re: #104 Hecuba’s daughter

Orcas are continuing on the attack… this time disrupting a boat race near Spain.
apnews.com

“Begun, the orca uprising has.”

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Hecuba's daughter  Jun 23, 2023 • 11:12:36pm

re: #103 Dr Lizardo

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If true, the Wagner Group are now half-way to Moscow.

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Belafon  Jun 23, 2023 • 11:13:39pm

re: #99 Dr Lizardo

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I’ll probably wake up sometime later - it’s 1 am here - and check to see if we’ve heard anything.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 23, 2023 • 11:14:56pm

re: #106 Hecuba’s daughter

Yep, pretty much.

Putin is expected to make a live address regarding this whole clusterfuck momentarily.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jun 23, 2023 • 11:19:15pm

I’m heading to bed under the assumption that the world will still be standing in the morning. Good night all!

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ckkatz  Jun 23, 2023 • 11:22:34pm

If you are curious about the various tweets with ballerinas appearing in threads with whatever it is that is happening in Russia… During the 1991 coup Swan Lake was broadcast on Russian TV so that the stations would not have to broadcast about the coup.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 23, 2023 • 11:24:00pm
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ckkatz  Jun 23, 2023 • 11:30:54pm

Also, US Government, Intelligence and Military sources are saying that they believe that whatever it is that is happening is Russia is real and serious. (Some have called it a “Pizza Watch”. Which means that the analysts and leadership are in the situation rooms 24/7 until further notice. And are therefore being fed on delivery food, such as pizza.)

Putting a bunch of confirmatory tweets because of length

(My apologies for using tweets knowing the current status of twitter interface.)

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 23, 2023 • 11:32:47pm

Now this is podracing a three day “special military operation”!!

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teleskiguy  Jun 23, 2023 • 11:34:02pm

Say Can You Hear (Album V)

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 23, 2023 • 11:35:39pm

re: #112 ckkatz

Yeah, this seems to be the real deal. Prigozhin is making his power play.

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ckkatz  Jun 23, 2023 • 11:40:53pm

re: #111 Dr Lizardo

Yes, the intermixing of the different organizations without much fighting is quite interesting. Apparently very few on the ‘government”? NonWagner? side seem particularly interested in dying for Putin. There is video of FSB border guards letting the Wagner columns into Russia without doing anything to stop them. In Rostov there are numerous videos of OMON, Rostgvardia and Military Police just staring at the Wagner forces. There has been only one video of shooting happening that was theoretically geolocated to just East of Rostov.

I am seeing questions about whether the various Russian defense, security, and intelligence organizations were just caught with their pants down. Or whether major elements are siding with Prigozin.

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ckkatz  Jun 23, 2023 • 11:45:16pm

“Today marks 2 years at CTV. I’ve learned a lot. Never wear this shirt in the studio is lesson 1.”

Behind private label because may be slightly nsfw in some cases…

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ckkatz  Jun 23, 2023 • 11:57:33pm

Good Night All!

And thought(s) for Saturday courtesy of Jill Thomas Doyle:

A grammar book walks into a bar

* An Oxford comma walks into a bar, where it spends the evening watching the television, getting drunk, and smoking cigars.

* A dangling participle walks into a bar. Enjoying a cocktail and chatting with the bartender, the evening passes pleasantly.

* A bar was walked into by the passive voice.

* An oxymoron walked into a bar, and the silence was deafening.

* Two quotation marks walk into a “bar.”

* A malapropism walks into a bar, looking for all intensive purposes like a wolf in cheap clothing, muttering epitaphs and casting dispersions on his magnificent other, who takes him for granite.

* Hyperbole totally rips into this insane bar and absolutely destroys everything.

* A question mark walks into a bar?

* A non sequitur walks into a bar. In a strong wind, even turkeys can fly.

* Papyrus and Comic Sans walk into a bar. The bartender says, “Get out — we don’t serve your type.”

* A mixed metaphor walks into a bar, seeing the handwriting on the wall but hoping to nip it in the bud.

* A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves.

* Three intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They converse. They depart.

* A synonym strolls into a tavern.

* At the end of the day, a cliché walks into a bar — fresh as a daisy, cute as a button, and sharp as a tack.

* A run-on sentence walks into a bar it starts flirting. With a cute little sentence fragment.

* Falling slowly, softly falling, the chiasmus collapses to the bar floor.

* A figure of speech literally walks into a bar and ends up getting figuratively hammered.

* An allusion walks into a bar, despite the fact that alcohol is its Achilles heel.

* The subjunctive would have walked into a bar, had it only known.

* A misplaced modifier walks into a bar owned by a man with a glass eye named Ralph.

* The past, present, and future walked into a bar. It was tense.

* A dyslexic walks into a bra.

* A verb walks into a bar, sees a beautiful noun, and suggests they conjugate. The noun declines.

* A simile walks into a bar, as parched as a desert.

* A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, drinking to forget.

* A hyphenated word and a non-hyphenated word walk into a bar and the bartender nearly chokes on the irony

- Jill Thomas Doyle

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 24, 2023 • 12:00:04am

re: #117 ckkatz

Moire patterns will pop up anywhere they can.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 24, 2023 • 12:01:48am

Who could have thought that hiring a private army full of dubious characters would backfire?

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ckkatz  Jun 24, 2023 • 12:08:12am

re: #119 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Moire patterns will pop up anywhere they can.

I am debating whether this would be considered a “Wardrobe malfunction”. Or as “Functions as designed”.

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No Malarkey!  Jun 24, 2023 • 12:08:35am

re: #117 ckkatz

“Today marks 2 years at CTV. I’ve learned a lot. Never wear this shirt in the studio is lesson 1.”

Behind private label because may be slightly nsfw in some cases…

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No Malarkey!  Jun 24, 2023 • 12:10:18am
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No Malarkey!  Jun 24, 2023 • 12:12:02am
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Dr Lizardo  Jun 24, 2023 • 12:13:19am

re: #116 ckkatz

Apparently, Putin has given the Russian security services the green light to go after Wagner. He called it “treason” repeatedly in his address to the Russian nation. Putin has declared Prigozhin an enemy of the state.

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ckkatz  Jun 24, 2023 • 12:15:52am

re: #120 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Who could have thought that hiring a private army full of dubious characters would backfire?

One of the interesting things is that Wagner apparently was very careful about preserving their high skilled mercenaries (mostly prior service from Russia’s military) while getting tens of thousands of untrained convicts killed. Which means that the Wagner mercenaries may be much more individually competent than most troops that the Ministry of Defense could deploy against them.

Wagner’s top leadership does contain a lot of criminals, though. Including Prigozhin.

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William Lewis  Jun 24, 2023 • 12:18:30am

Of course, just as soon as I get done mopping, someone brings two dogs out to take them out to do their thing. Sigh.

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No Malarkey!  Jun 24, 2023 • 12:19:59am

re: #126 ckkatz

One of the interesting things is that Wagner apparently was very careful about preserving their high skilled mercenaries (mostly prior service from Russia’s military) while getting tens of thousands of untrained convicts killed. Which means that the Wagner mercenaries may be much more individually competent than most troops that the Ministry of Defense could deploy against them.

Wagner’s top leadership does contain a lot of criminals, though. Including Prigozhin.

This seems like a great opportunity for Ukraine with Russian leadership focused on the Wagner threat. We’ll see what happens.

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ckkatz  Jun 24, 2023 • 12:29:48am

re: #129 No Malarkey!

This seems like a great opportunity for Ukraine with Russian leadership focused on the Wagner threat. We’ll see what happens.

You are very correct.

I did see an unconfirmed tweet that the Ukrainians have sped up their attack along the Orkhiv-Vasilyvka corridor. That is the one aimed at the Eastern/Southern bank of the Dnipro/Dnieper River. Presumably with an intermediate target of Enerhodar/Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant.

There are also other Ukrainian corridors of attack. Among them from Orkhiv to the South, presumably towards Melitopol. And from Velyka Novosilka South, presumably towards Mariupol.

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No Malarkey!  Jun 24, 2023 • 12:31:08am
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Dr Lizardo  Jun 24, 2023 • 12:40:33am

A thread here:

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ckkatz  Jun 24, 2023 • 12:42:22am

re: #125 Dr Lizardo

Apparently, Putin has given the Russian security services the green light to go after Wagner. He called it “treason” repeatedly in his address to the Russian nation. Putin has declared Prigozhin an enemy of the state.

I don’t have any expertise or insight into the state of Russian leadership.

But, fwiw, here are a few views -
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Dr Lizardo  Jun 24, 2023 • 12:42:51am

Putin seems to be losing control of the situation.

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No Malarkey!  Jun 24, 2023 • 12:47:57am

re: #134 Dr Lizardo

Putin seems to be losing control of the situation.

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Can’t rule out the possibility that there is no-one left willing to fight for Putin. It does remind one of 1917, when the army mutinied and the Tsar was toppled; ironically Putin himself drew that parallel in his speech.

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ericblair  Jun 24, 2023 • 12:57:46am

re: #135 No Malarkey!

Can’t rule out the possibility that there is no-one left willing to fight for Putin. It does remind one of 1917, when the army mutinied and the Tsar was toppled; ironically Putin himself drew that parallel in his speech.

At the least, it appears that a significant number of leaders are trying to hedge their bets at this point. Ukraine and the West are rooting for injuries: Ukraine will try to take maximum advantage of this of course as Christmas came early this year.

I don’t know what a best-case scenario looks like for the West. Probably a destroyed Wagner (they’re honest to God mob thugs), and severely weakened Russian military that forces them to withdraw from Ukraine and Syria.

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ericblair  Jun 24, 2023 • 12:59:52am
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Dr Lizardo  Jun 24, 2023 • 1:00:25am
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Dr Lizardo  Jun 24, 2023 • 1:18:48am
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Dr Lizardo  Jun 24, 2023 • 1:33:44am
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Dr Lizardo  Jun 24, 2023 • 1:34:57am

See, this is what a three-day special military operation looks like…

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 24, 2023 • 1:37:09am
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ericblair  Jun 24, 2023 • 1:50:04am

re: #140 Dr Lizardo

Russian Telegram channels report that Wagner PMCs have entered Voronezh and are on the outskirts of Krasnodar and Volgograd. No one is resisting the militants.

Don’t worry, I assume that our Putin-loving media pals will advise Putin to trade Russian land for peace as it’s the only sensible solution. Any minute now, I’m sure. Yep.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 24, 2023 • 1:53:13am

re: #144 ericblair

Don’t worry, I assume that our Putin-loving media pals will advise Putin to trade Russian land for peace as it’s the only sensible solution. Any minute now, I’m sure. Yep.

J. Jonah Jameson Laughing

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 24, 2023 • 1:58:04am
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Dr Lizardo  Jun 24, 2023 • 1:58:52am
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ericblair  Jun 24, 2023 • 2:00:47am

Russian mass media is pretty much paralyzed, looks like. They’re quite capable of gathering and reporting news for non-political things, but are complete government propaganda outlets for anything vaguely political. So it’s all about Telegram and Vkontakte posts.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 24, 2023 • 2:02:06am
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Dr Lizardo  Jun 24, 2023 • 2:02:43am

re: #148 ericblair

Russian media has no idea what to do right now, though I can well imagine they’re panicking behind the scenes.

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ericblair  Jun 24, 2023 • 2:05:26am

re: #150 Dr Lizardo

Russian media has no idea what to do right now, though I can well imagine they’re panicking behind the scenes.

Probably readying their “I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords” announcements just in case.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 24, 2023 • 2:07:40am

re: #151 ericblair

Probably readying their “I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords” announcements just in case.

Just gone done talking to a fellow in Guangzhou, and apparently, this is being openly talked about on Chinese social media. He figures the Chinese censors manning the Great Firewall haven’t got their marching orders yet.

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ericblair  Jun 24, 2023 • 2:10:34am

1905 or 1917, who knows yet.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 24, 2023 • 2:16:05am

re: #129 No Malarkey!

I’d be surprised if Ukrainian propagandists have not been encouraging regular Russian troops to abandon the fight and join the Wagner rebels.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 24, 2023 • 2:17:40am

Meanwhile, on Czech social media, there’s speculation that President Biden might be behind this.

Heh. Well, all I can say is if that’s the case, then Biden is, it would seem, a Sith Lord powerful enough to rival Palpatine.

Hell, it’s no longer Dark Brandon - it’s Darth Brandon.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 24, 2023 • 2:18:35am
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Dr Lizardo  Jun 24, 2023 • 2:20:57am
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ericblair  Jun 24, 2023 • 2:24:17am

re: #156 Dr Lizardo

Since we all have a pretty good grasp of Ukrainian geography now, it’s time to move on to learning about Western Russia.

Remember, war is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.

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William Lewis  Jun 24, 2023 • 2:25:26am

re: #153 ericblair

1905 or 1917, who knows yet.

My money is on 1905 with Ukraine playing the part of Tushima. We’ll end up with a critically wounded (politically) tsar that won’t survive the next time. History doesn’t repeat exactly but, oh, those echoes…

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 24, 2023 • 2:28:38am

re: #159 William Lewis

My money is on 1905 with Ukraine playing the part of Tushima. We’ll end up with a critically wounded (politically) tsar that won’t survive the next time. History doesn’t repeat exactly but, oh, those echoes…

So, with a Tsar President who’s ultimately forced to abdicate, then held prisoner, and finally hustled into a basement and shot?

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 24, 2023 • 2:30:15am
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Targetpractice  Jun 24, 2023 • 2:32:36am

re: #157 Dr Lizardo

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Meanwhile, in Ukraine, popcorn stocks have hit critical levels. NATO nation leaders are pledging to organize an emergency resupply mission.

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William Lewis  Jun 24, 2023 • 2:33:50am

re: #160 Dr Lizardo

So, with a Tsar President who’s ultimately forced to abdicate, then held prisoner, and finally hustled into a basement and shot?

These day’s I’d bet more like Beria’s death in “The Death of Stalin” than that of the Romanovs’

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 24, 2023 • 2:35:31am

Regarding this little flare up… the Russian media are likely worried they will go the way of ISN:

elite troops attack broadcast center
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Dr Lizardo  Jun 24, 2023 • 2:36:08am

re: #162 Targetpractice

Meanwhile, in Ukraine, popcorn stocks have hit critical levels. NATO nation leaders are pledging to organize an emergency resupply mission.

Yeah. Lots of popcorn - or something - going off in Voronezh, apparently.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 24, 2023 • 2:38:07am

Also, dozens of Russian Telegram sources are now reporting air raid sirens sounding in Voronezh.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 24, 2023 • 2:40:05am

Oh, it’s on now.

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Targetpractice  Jun 24, 2023 • 2:44:36am

re: #167 Dr Lizardo

Oh, it’s on now.

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Yeah, it doesn’t appear as though there’s going to a meeting and a forgiving of sins moment here, somebody is going to end up in a cell…if they’re lucky.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 24, 2023 • 2:45:22am

re: #168 Targetpractice

Yeah, it doesn’t appear as though there’s going to a meeting and a forgiving of sins moment here, somebody is going to end up in a cell…if they’re lucky.

This is looking more and more like one of those “crossing the Rubicon” moments. There is either victory or death.

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Targetpractice  Jun 24, 2023 • 2:50:02am

re: #169 Dr Lizardo

This is looking more and more like one of those “crossing the Rubicon” moments. There is either victory or death.

That thought came to mind as I catching up with the thread, this is Caesar crossing the Rubicon, he and his men dubbed traitors and criminals as they fought for their homes. There’s no turning back now, no laying down of arms that will lead to Moscow forgiving them and allowing them to walk away. Either they succeed in their goals or they die in the fighting.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 24, 2023 • 2:52:23am

re: #170 Targetpractice

That thought came to mind as I catching up with the thread, this is Caesar crossing the Rubicon, he and his men dubbed traitors and criminals as they fought for their homes. There’s no turning back now, no laying down of arms that will lead to Moscow forgiving them and allowing them to walk away. Either they succeed in their goals or they die in the fighting.

Yep, for Prigozhin and the Wagner Group, there’s no going back now. This is open rebellion.

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Targetpractice  Jun 24, 2023 • 2:58:43am

The reality is that even if Prigozhin succeeds in capturing and/or executing Shoigu and Gerasimov and makes no move on the Kremlin itself, it will effectively mean the end of Putin’s regime. He will be seen as a leader in name only, serving at the sufferance of Wagner going forward. The knives will be out, the oligarchs who refused to move against him for fear of being targeted by those around him will now see him as vulnerable. IOW, he has to put Prigozhin down and has to do it hard.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 24, 2023 • 3:01:07am
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Targetpractice  Jun 24, 2023 • 3:04:56am

I imagine the situation on the ground in Ukraine as gotta be confusing as fuck for the Russian Army. With the SMD HQ out of action, the traditional Soviet-style system of all info traveling up the chain of command and all orders traveling down is in utter chaos with commanders having no fucking clue what to do and afraid of taking personal initiative for fear that once the whole mess with Wagner is sorted out they’ll be in deep shit for giving commands contrary to the wishes of Moscow.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 24, 2023 • 3:10:21am
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Dr Lizardo  Jun 24, 2023 • 3:11:28am
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Dr Lizardo  Jun 24, 2023 • 3:23:37am

No matter the outcome, one thing that this has done is drawn the West’s attention again. Russia and its “Ukraine must negotiate” talking heads were really pushing the narrative that the Ukrainian counter-offensive had stalled, if not outright failed. This totally overshadows basically anything since Kherson. I’d say maybe even more than the dam the Russians blew up.

Even if this blows over in a few more days, the narrative has now shifted to just how fragile Russia really is; it’s on the brink of becoming a failed state. This seems to have taken everyone by complete surprise, not just the Kremlin, but Western intelligence agencies as well. And I’d bet there’s some genuine nervousness in places like Beijing, Tehran, Damascus and Minsk right about now.

OK, I’m off to a sci-fi convention here in town, the first one since the end (so to speak) of the pandemic. Have fun, Lizards.

Be back later.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 24, 2023 • 3:41:12am

The Libertarian Party is in serious cope mode with their Russian buddies in trouble.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 24, 2023 • 3:45:23am

Lots of unconfirmed reports about Russian leaders, from Putin on down, evacuating Moscow.

I will believe it when I see it.

24 hours from now we should know more.

But social media is lit right now with stories that all cannot be true.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 24, 2023 • 3:50:42am

Recall of Marie Callender frozen shepherd’s pies manufactured in Arkansas underway. 2,700 pounds of shepherd’s pies are contaminated with flexible plastic.

Conagra Brands, Inc. is recalling over 2,000 pounds of frozen beef shepherd’s pie products.

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, the frozen pies may contain clear, flexible plastic.

The products were produced on March 1 with time stamps ranging between 17:45 and 17:56 hours. The label of the recalled 4.31-pound products includes “MC Beef Shepherd’s Pie” with lot code 5006306020, a best by date of Feb. 24 2024 and a case code 2113100032. The products contain six 11.5-ounce carton packages of Marie Callender’s Beef Shepherd’s Pie with the same lot code, best by date and time stamps.

The FSIS says the items were shipped to retail customer distribution centers in several states before they were distributed nationwide.

No adverse reactions have been reported due to the consumption of these products.

(more, with a photograph of the product)

wnky.com

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ericblair  Jun 24, 2023 • 3:52:05am

Translation, you’re on your own, asshole.

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Teukka  Jun 24, 2023 • 3:53:18am
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Targetpractice  Jun 24, 2023 • 3:53:26am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 24, 2023 • 3:55:25am
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 24, 2023 • 3:56:21am

re: #181 ericblair

But do you trust that report?

It’s like what is happening in Belarus - wish we had more detail:

Putin ally Lukashenko ‘flees Belarus’ as Wagner launches coup threatening Moscow

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 24, 2023 • 3:57:15am

re: #184 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Never start a land war in Asia.

Lesson learned yet again.

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Teukka  Jun 24, 2023 • 3:57:57am

re: #182 Teukka

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Targetpractice  Jun 24, 2023 • 3:58:02am

re: #184 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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Belafon  Jun 24, 2023 • 3:58:17am

re: #153 ericblair

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1905 or 1917, who knows yet.

How long until some group here declares that Wagner is the model that must be followed in the US?

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No Malarkey!  Jun 24, 2023 • 4:03:50am

re: #147 Dr Lizardo

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Oh, now that Wagner is fighting in Russia they are terrorists? Cool.

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Teukka  Jun 24, 2023 • 4:04:27am
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ericblair  Jun 24, 2023 • 4:06:20am

re: #185 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

But do you trust that report?

It’s like what is happening in Belarus - wish we had more detail:

Putin ally Lukashenko ‘flees Belarus’ as Wagner launches coup threatening Moscow

I see no reason why it shouldn’t be the case, considering recent Kazakh-Russian relations and the general uselessness of CSTO. I’d previsionally believe it based on circumstances. Sure, you can disbelieve everything you see reported, but I can’t see what good that does.

Meanwhile, Belarusian rebels declare it’s go time:

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Belafon  Jun 24, 2023 • 4:06:41am

re: #173 Dr Lizardo

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 24, 2023 • 4:09:20am

The Mises Caucus of the Libertarian Party is having trouble coping with their friends in Russia having the butts handed to them.

There is no risk if there’s a civil war.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 24, 2023 • 4:17:18am

That’s gotta suck (KETV, Omaha, June 22, 2023). Stand by for the “died suddenly” dipshytes to weigh in.

‘Widowed and married within a 10-minute span’: Groom dies one hour after ceremony, friends hope to support bride

An Omaha woman who just married the love of her life will now have to bury him.

He died an hour after they said their vows.

Monday was an important day for the Davis family: Juneteenth, but also Johnnie Mae’s grandmother’s birthday.

Friends said the couple was looking forward to the day after two recent losses in Johnnie Mae’s life, including her father.

No one could have imagined how their day would end.

“We were in the church and it was a beautiful ceremony,” said Jewel Roberson, Johnnie Mae’s friend.

“It was the happiest day of Toraze’s life. I could just see the smile on his face and how happy he was. And it’s just his energy. I just knew that he was just, it was a great day for him,” said Monica Miller, friend and ECO Supportive co-worker of Johnnie Mae.

After Monday’s ceremony, the couple popped outside to take photos.

Their celebration would turn to chaos.

“His heart stopped for the first time at 4:35, just an hour after the ceremony had begun,” Roberson said.

Johnnie Mae Davis would be a bride and a widow within an hour.

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No Malarkey!  Jun 24, 2023 • 4:17:49am
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William Lewis  Jun 24, 2023 • 4:18:11am

Potentially staged but still interesting…

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Targetpractice  Jun 24, 2023 • 4:19:50am

Really, if you’re a supporter of Russia and wish for it to continue to remain healthy and secure, then after the events of the past 24 hours you should be all but begging Putin to call off the “Special Military Operation” and withdraw his entire forces from Ukraine in order to clean house back home. If you’re still convinced that they can continue the war in Ukraine and put down a quarter million troop rebellion, you’re out of your goddamned mind.

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No Malarkey!  Jun 24, 2023 • 4:25:51am

re: #198 Targetpractice

Really, if you’re a supporter of Russia and wish for it to continue to remain healthy and secure, then after the events of the past 24 hours you should be all but begging Putin to call off the “Special Military Operation” and withdraw his entire forces from Ukraine in order to clean house back home. If you’re still convinced that they can continue the war in Ukraine and put down a quarter million troop rebellion, you’re out of your goddamned mind.

If Prigozhin has 250,000 troops on his side now, it’s all over for Putin.

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Targetpractice  Jun 24, 2023 • 4:27:54am

re: #199 No Malarkey!

If Prigozhin has 250,000 troops on his side now, it’s all over for Putin.

Yeah, just realized my mistake, I’m off by a factor of ten. I blame Zoidberg.

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Belafon  Jun 24, 2023 • 4:29:35am
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ericblair  Jun 24, 2023 • 4:29:48am

This poor Oryx guy has his work cut out for him.

It seems that RU air forces are overwhelmingly loyal to the government. However, Wagner has been firing off their anti-air missiles and hitting them, but there are still civilian flights in southern Russia. They have to shut down the airspace now or there are going to be more MH17s.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 24, 2023 • 4:31:33am

Daily Kos, yesterday:

COL Larry Wilkerson (RET) On What’s Starkly Absent in Media Coverage of Extremism in the Military

In the Media Matters piece below, while the author covers the specific issue of the Fox News-led attack that led to the disintegration of the Defense Department’s efforts to deal with extremism within the ranks of the U.S. Armed Forces, he completely omits any meaningful discussion of the central danger. That danger grows greater every day that passes. Christian Nationalism, and the often-accompanying phenomena of virulent white racism and utter disregard of the U.S. Constitution, is consuming the military chaplain corps and much of the rank and file and, stunningly enough, a considerable number of the generals and admirals. All “in the name of Jesus,” to cite their frequent mantra.

For many years now, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) has fought tenaciously against these developments. As an advisory board member of the MRFF, I’ve seen and experienced some of that battle — it’s deadly serious, just as are its opponents the Christian Nationalists, and it’s a battle that is clearly essential to protecting the very fabric of America as well as ensuring a competent and healthy military. That the author of the piece below missed even mentioning this grave danger is indicative of how even people who should realize what is happening do not. It’s high time the bulk of the American people did.

In contrast to the seemingly oblivious media, MRFF founder and president Mikey Weinstein, in his post-Jan. 6 op-ed “Forced Jesus Worship: Pentagon Ignores the Consequences of Ignoring Extremist Reality,” rightly described Christian nationalism as the “mothership” of white supremacy and other forms of extremism, as illustrated in this MRFF graphic:

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Belafon  Jun 24, 2023 • 4:32:35am
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Targetpractice  Jun 24, 2023 • 4:32:48am

re: #202 ericblair

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This poor Oryx guy has his work cut out for him.

It seems that RU air forces are overwhelmingly loyal to the government. However, Wagner has been firing off their anti-air missiles and hitting them, but there are still civilian flights in southern Russia. They have to shut down the airspace now or there are going to be more MH17s.

Not surprising Russian Aviation is loyal to the government, they haven’t really been used as cannon fodder in this war to the degree that the Russian Army has. Hence why the former is trying to defend the regime while the latter is reportedly either standing to the side as Wagner advances or even joining their ranks.

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Teukka  Jun 24, 2023 • 4:37:09am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 24, 2023 • 4:38:35am
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Eventual Carrion  Jun 24, 2023 • 4:39:21am

re: #98 Hecuba’s daughter

This chaos in Russia was definitely not on my 2023 bingo card.

OT: Par for Saturday.

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steve_davis  Jun 24, 2023 • 4:49:22am

re: #197 William Lewis

Potentially staged but still interesting…

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I don’t know….”It’s not open” would seem a sort of odd thing to say, if staged.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 24, 2023 • 4:51:15am

Much of Banner County here is still without power.

Customers to the northeast of my village are also without power. My county had three tornados last night.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 24, 2023 • 4:55:35am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 24, 2023 • 4:56:43am

re: #209 steve_davis

I don’t know….”It’s not open” would seem a sort of odd thing to say, if staged.

Plus people allowing themselves to be filmed with “enemies of the state” wouldn’t seem wise if Wagner was staging this.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 24, 2023 • 5:07:28am

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 24, 2023 • 5:10:03am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 24, 2023 • 5:14:03am
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Nerdy Fish  Jun 24, 2023 • 5:15:09am

I can already tell today is going to be a weird day.

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 24, 2023 • 5:17:08am

re: #210 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Much of Banner County here is still without power.

Customers to the northeast of my village are also without power. My county had three tornados last night.

Wow. That’s a pretty spectacular night. I haven’t looked back through the history; are you and your village doing alright?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 24, 2023 • 5:17:40am

This isn’t good. (1:41)

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Barefoot Grin  Jun 24, 2023 • 5:34:02am

Do the Wagner forces have helicopters? And if so, do they play “Ride of the Valkyries” in flight?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 24, 2023 • 5:35:25am

This would cause an armed revolt here.

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 24, 2023 • 5:36:49am

re: #219 Barefoot Grin

Do the Wagner forces have helicopters? And if so, do they play “Ride of the Valkyries” in flight?

*WHACK!*

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 24, 2023 • 5:41:04am

wpc.ncep.noaa.gov (Weather Prediction Center)

Today the storm front which passed through here will move across MN, IA, and MO.

Tomorrow severe storms will reach most of IN, west OH, and most of KY and TN.

Day after severe storms will reach NC and south VA, with flooding possible in DC to Philadelphia.

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 24, 2023 • 5:42:24am

re: #222 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

wpc.ncep.noaa.gov (Weather Prediction Center)

Today the storm front which passed through here will move across MN, IA, and MO.

Tomorrow severe storms will reach most of IN, west OH, and most of KY and TN.

Day after severe storms will reach NC and south VA, with flooding possible in DC to Philadelphia.

Yep, the clouds are already rolling in. We’ve got like an 80% chance of a thunderstorm that produces at least half an inch of rain - which is BADLY needed; we have been VERY dry this spring/summer. The rivers and lakes still have plenty of water, but our surface stuff needs some help.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Jun 24, 2023 • 5:42:38am

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 24, 2023 • 5:43:47am

re: #220 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Aren’t all cows “killed off” eventually?

Even milk cows are turned into pet food once their milking days are over.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Jun 24, 2023 • 5:44:14am

re: #213 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 24, 2023 • 5:48:47am

I don’t know if this is a reliable source - I sort of trust none of them - but these are interesting developments if true:

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 24, 2023 • 5:50:08am

re: #227 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I don’t know if this is a reliable source - I sort of trust none of them - but these are interesting developments if true:

I am giving the whole thing the 24-hour-rule treatment. There’s a lot going on, and a lot of untrustworthy sources out there, especially on the hellsite.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 24, 2023 • 5:51:10am

Polls are open today in Sierra Leone, in what is widely expected to be tense.

Sierra Leone typically has much greater turnout percentages for elections than the United States.

The West African country, which never fully recovered economically from a 1991-2002 civil war and the Ebola epidemic a decade later, was further pummelled by the Covid pandemic and fallout from the war in Ukraine.

Twelve men and one woman are in the running for the top job, but incumbent President Julius Maada Bio’s main challenger is Samura Kamara of the All People’s Congress (APC) party.

The two will face off for the second time in a row after Bio, of the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP), narrowly beat Kamara in a runoff in 2018.

Rising food prices are a key issue for many voters in the import-dependent West African nation of eight million people.

Year-on-year inflation hit 43 percent in April, according to the latest official figures.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 24, 2023 • 5:55:13am

Flights from Moscow have reportedly sold out as the Wagner mercenary group approach.

Der Spiegel has reported that tickets for direct connections from Moscow to Tbilisi, Astana and Istanbul are no longer available.

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TarHellion  Jun 24, 2023 • 6:05:04am

It’s Birbie Saturday.

Called insurance company today to initiate claim on the fried heat pump. Hopefully get the heating and air company out on Monday to begin the process of getting a new one installed. High today isn’t too bad - 83 - but tomorrow it is supposed to be near 90.

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ericblair  Jun 24, 2023 • 6:05:09am

Pro-war Russians have been discovering that your hometown being bombed and shit blowing up is horrible and scary and bad. Meanwhile, Ukrainian bloggers:

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jeffreyw  Jun 24, 2023 • 6:05:47am

Beef Ribs

Good morning!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 24, 2023 • 6:13:29am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 24, 2023 • 6:15:14am
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Thanos  Jun 24, 2023 • 6:17:40am

So I wake up this morning to see that the Nazi’s are once more headed towards Moscow but it’s not Winter.

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Dave In Austin  Jun 24, 2023 • 6:21:46am

Anyone struggling on their mobile device this morning? My Iphone is crashing when attempting to load comments. its probably the imbeds.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 24, 2023 • 6:21:53am

Conservatives who like to smoke weed.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jun 24, 2023 • 6:25:55am

re: #237 Dave In Austin

Anyone struggling on their mobile device this morning? My Iphone is crashing when attempting to load comments. its probably the imbeds.

Yeah. It’s all the full tweets eating up the memory. I can only read in spy now.

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Dave In Austin  Jun 24, 2023 • 6:26:34am

re: #238 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Conservatives who like to smoke weed.

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 24, 2023 • 6:27:18am

re: #239 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Yeah. It’s all the full tweets eating up the memory. I can only read in spy now.

The very reason why our illustrious host implemented the “light tweet” feature, which is now disabled, courtesy of the clown in charge of the hellsite.

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TarHellion  Jun 24, 2023 • 6:27:33am

re: #223 Nerdy Fish

Be happy to lend you some rain … and some slugs! (Evil laughter)

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 24, 2023 • 6:30:26am

Meanwhile the Putin Love Fest at the Faith & FreeDUMB conference continues…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 24, 2023 • 6:31:25am

That’s not how this works, moran.

Domestic terrorist James Charles Kopp has filed court papers asking that his federal convictions be overturned on the grounds of the United States Supreme Court determining in the 2022 Dobbs decision that Americans have no constitutional right to abortion — which he seems to believe gave him the right to kill an abortion provider.

In 1998, Kopp, a member of a radical anti-abortion group called the Lambs of Christ (or, alternately, Victim Souls of the Unborn Christ-Child), shot and killed Dr. Barnett Slepian in a sniper attack in his home near Buffalo, New York. Kopp was convicted in 1993 on state charges of second degree murder and on federal charges of discharging a firearm during a crime of violence and of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE) resulting in death.

“FACE was intended to protect a ‘right’ to abortion that thus never existed, and, as such, the fate of FACE attaches to and follows perfectly the fate of Roe,” Kopp wrote in the court papers, as per the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. “Since Roe is now overturned FACE also is now gone and never existed.”

The FACE Act, signed into law by Bill Clinton in 1994 following several years’ worth of anti-abortion terrorism on US clinics, makes it illegal when anyone:

(1) by force or threat of force or by physical obstruction, intentionally injures, intimidates or interferes with or attempts to injure, intimidate or interfere with any person because that person is or has been, or in order to intimidate such person or any other person or any class of persons from, obtaining or providing reproductive health services;

(2) by force or threat of force or by physical obstruction, intentionally injures, intimidates or interferes with or attempts to injure, intimidate or interfere with any person lawfully exercising or seeking to exercise the First Amendment right of religious freedom at a place of religious worship; or

(3) intentionally damages or destroys the property of a facility, or attempts to do so, because such facility provides reproductive health services, or intentionally damages or destroys the property of a place of religious worship.

Dobbs has had no impact on the legality of FACE, and it is hard to see how it would.

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Anti-Abortion Terrorist Thinks Dobbs Ruling Should Set Him Free (Wonkette, this morning)

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 24, 2023 • 6:32:16am

‘I am going to stay out of it’: Michigan GOP lawmakers keeping their distance from Trump campaign stop

rawstory.com

When Donald Trump makes a campaign stop in Michigan on Sunday he is not expected to be surrounded by Republican lawmakers from the state who are keeping their distance from the twice-indicted former president.

According to the Detroit News, the former president is making a major campaign stop where he will speak at the Oakland County Republican Party’s Lincoln Day Dinner and the report states that there is a definite lack of enthusiasm for the Republican frontrunner for the 2024 presidential nomination.

The report notes, “Only a handful of the 72 Republicans who serve in the Michigan Legislature had publicly endorsed Trump’s bid for another term as president by Thursday, a trend that highlights concerns among some GOP leaders in a state that once helped propel him to the White House.”

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 24, 2023 • 6:33:05am

re: #244 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

That’s not how this works, moran.

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Anti-Abortion Terrorist Thinks Dobbs Ruling Should Set Him Free (Wonkette, this morning)

Yeah, I read that article yesterday. The pretzel logic involved is… special. It has a very sovereign citizen kind of flavor to it.

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darthstar  Jun 24, 2023 • 6:34:14am

Good morning….I see Putin’s SMO is still going according to plan…

Mastodon

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darthstar  Jun 24, 2023 • 6:37:05am

re: #247 darthstar

Good morning….I see Putin’s SMO is still going according to plan…

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It’s almost as if Prigozhin watched Stripes and realized that he’s got an easier foe.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jun 24, 2023 • 6:39:52am

re: #222 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

My eyes are watching the weather maps at the Nat’l Weather Service and my local conditions.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 24, 2023 • 6:40:42am

re: #246 Nerdy Fish

Yeah, I read that article yesterday. The pretzel logic involved is… special. It has a very sovereign citizen kind of flavor to it.

He is a Christian radical. He thinks it is legal to assassinate healthcare providers.

The “defence of another” argument from Christians to murder in the name of their god has never worked in any court.

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 24, 2023 • 6:44:37am

re: #250 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

He is a Christian radical. He thinks it is legal to assassinate healthcare providers.

The “defence of another” argument from Christians to murder in the name of their god has never worked in any court.

I mean, what even is that? I’m sorry, but killing is wrong. EVEN IF you believe abortion is murder, it is still not my - or any individual Christian’s - place to pass judgment, or to execute a perceived offender. That right rests with the courts, in this life, and with God alone, in the next. I don’t know where or when this entitlement mentality of Christians came in, where they believe that they have the right and duty to individually enforce their moral code upon other people, but it needs to fucking stop.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 24, 2023 • 6:45:50am

Maybe, but they keep voting for those asshats. Actions matter much more than answering pollsters.

One-Third of Republicans Disapprove of Roe v. Wade Being Overturned (The New Civil Rights Movement, June 23, 2023)

Even though the fight to overturn Roe v. Wade, the case that granted the right to an abortion in the United States, was one of the biggest causes of the GOP, a new poll shows that one-third of Republican voters think that was a bad idea.

The poll was commissioned by NBC News for Friday’s anniversary of the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade. Overall, 61% of voters are against the Supreme Court decision, while 36% approve. This is up from August of 2022, only two months after Roe v. Wade was overturned, where 58% of people disapproved, and 38% approved.

While 92% of Democrats disapprove of Roe being overturned, 31% of Republican voters disapprove. Independents disapprove of the ruling by 60%. Women voters also highly disapproved, at a rate of 67%—though that goes 10 points higher when limited to women aged 18-49. The only groups who approve of the decision were Republican voters at 65%, and rural voters at 53%.

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darthstar  Jun 24, 2023 • 6:46:58am

Mastodon

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 24, 2023 • 6:48:08am

re: #251 Nerdy Fish

I mean, what even is that? I’m sorry, but killing is wrong. EVEN IF you believe abortion is murder, it is still not my - or any individual Christian’s - place to pass judgment, or to execute a perceived offender. That right rests with the courts, in this life, and with God alone, in the next. I don’t know where or when this entitlement mentality of Christians came in, where they believe that they have the right and duty to individually enforce their moral code upon other people, but it needs to fucking stop.

Most people reserve the right to defence of another. If you believe your god says a blastocyst or foetus is a person, and the physician or nurse is murdering babies, then you can use your religious faith to justify killing one to save thousands.

It is why so many anti-abortionists consider abortion to be genocide, and often compare it to the Holocaust.

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darthstar  Jun 24, 2023 • 6:49:01am

re: #252 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Maybe, but they keep voting for those asshats. Actions matter much more than answering pollsters.

One-Third of Republicans Disapprove of Roe v. Wade Being Overturned (The New Civil Rights Movement, June 23, 2023)

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I don’t want GOP politicians changing their tune on Roe just to save their asses. Get a big Democratic wave, and codify Roe on day 1 in 2025 so President Biden can sign it into law on its 52nd anniversary

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Florida Panhandler  Jun 24, 2023 • 6:49:34am

re: #155 Dr Lizardo

Meanwhile, on Czech social media, there’s speculation that President Biden might be behind this.

Heh. Well, all I can say is if that’s the case, then Biden is, it would seem, a Sith Lord powerful enough to rival Palpatine.

Hell, it’s no longer Dark Brandon - it’s Darth Brandon.

So in other words, according to the vast worldwide right wing conspiracy, Biden is a doddering old man who spends 23 1/2 hours a day asleep when he isn’t drooling all over himself. He also at the exact same time organizes a revolution inside the world’s largest country by geography, exercises compete control over the DOJ to attack political foes, controls a vast international criminal empire and has time to take away your light bulbs and gas stoves.

Sounds plausible.

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 24, 2023 • 6:50:19am

re: #256 Florida Panhandler

Would you believe me if I said that this is one of the less crazy conspiracy theories out there?

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austin_blue  Jun 24, 2023 • 6:51:34am

re: #2 Belafon

Bringing this over because it’s good news:

My son is officially Dr. Mask. He passed his defense of his dissertation. He has a few minor things to fix, but it’s official

You raise a child with human values, good things happen. Well done, dad.

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darthstar  Jun 24, 2023 • 6:52:10am

Mastodon

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Florida Panhandler  Jun 24, 2023 • 6:53:08am

re: #259 darthstar

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I have a feeling we’re about to hear a lot about a Putin Bunker in the next few days.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jun 24, 2023 • 6:53:52am

re: #260 Florida Panhandler

You may be correct.

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Targetpractice  Jun 24, 2023 • 7:01:31am

re: #259 darthstar

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The amount of copium that the vatniks must be huffing to make sense of scenes like these has to be epic.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 24, 2023 • 7:05:44am

Houston Culture Map, June 23, 2023

Let’s stand up for Dr. Peter Hotez after attacks from Joe Rogan, Elon Musk, RFK Jr., and their followers, says Ken Hoffman

Last Thursday, June 15, famous and infamous podcaster Joe Rogan interviewed presidential candidate and famous anti-vaxxer Robert Kennedy Jr. for three hours. During the interview RFK Jr. repeated his accusations that Covid vaccines are unnecessary and actually cause harm to children and vaccines are linked to autism - both assertions that have been proved incorrect.

RFK Jr. has long promoted conspiracy theories that the CIA murdered his uncle President John Kennedy and his father Robert Kennedy; vaccines contain dangerous levels of mercury; that Wi-Fi radiation could be causing autism, food allergies, asthma, eczema, and other illnesses; and that the government suppressed proof that ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine were effective in treating Covid.

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(((Archangel1)))  Jun 24, 2023 • 7:15:22am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 24, 2023 • 7:17:37am

re: #255 darthstar

I don’t want GOP politicians changing their tune on Roe just to save their asses. Get a big Democratic wave, and codify Roe on day 1 in 2025 so President Biden can sign it into law on its 52nd anniversary

This disapprove of Roe v Wade being overturned because they see it is bad political tactics. They would be still happy to ban abortion in other nefarious, roundabout salami-tactic ways without giving the opposition a single high-profile rallying point

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 24, 2023 • 7:20:02am

Voice of America, June 23, 2023

WASHINGTON —

Iranian American activists who staged a rare sit-in outside the State Department to oppose potential U.S. monetary incentives to Iran to slow the progress of the Iranian nuclear program say they are optimistic about a dialogue they started with the Biden administration.

In a statement sent to VOA on Friday, the nonpartisan and nonprofit National Solidarity Group for Iran (NSGIRAN) said it is “optimistic that the State Department has opened a channel of communication with us, and hopeful that hearing the concerns and perspectives of Iranians inside and outside Iran will help the U.S. craft policies toward the Islamic regime that take those concerns and perspectives seriously and consequentially into account.”

NSGIRAN said its organizer, Siamak Aram, and another member of the group attended a Thursday meeting at the State Department with an official of the department’s Iran desk, whom the group declined to identify. It was the second meeting that NSGIRAN said it had with the U.S. official since it began a sit-in outside a State Department entrance on June 3. It said the first meeting took place at the State Department on June 5.

The activists ended the 14-day sit-in on June 16, a day after a State Department spokesperson publicly acknowledged the protest for the first time and confirmed the group’s first meeting with the U.S. official.

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Iranian Activists End State Department Sit-in Optimistic About Dialogue

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Dave In Austin  Jun 24, 2023 • 7:22:08am
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darthstar  Jun 24, 2023 • 7:23:22am

We could actually be seeing a 3 day special military operation…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 24, 2023 • 7:24:13am

re: #267 Dave In Austin

Russia: A bunch of dump trucks full of sand are being placed at all entrances into Moscow.

Moscow: Where life’s a beach!!!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 24, 2023 • 7:24:29am

UK village marks struggle against US Army racism in World War II (Stars & Stripes, today)

BAMBER BRIDGE, England — The village of Bamber Bridge in northwestern England is proud of the blow it struck against racism in the U.S. military during World War II.

When an all-Black truck regiment was stationed in the village, residents refused to accept the segregation ingrained in the U.S. Army. Ignoring pressure from British and American authorities, pubs welcomed the GIs, local women chatted and danced with them, and English soldiers drank alongside men they saw as allies in the war against fascism.

But simmering tensions between Black soldiers and white military police exploded on June 24, 1943, when a dispute outside a pub escalated into a night of gunfire and rebellion that left Private William Crossland dead and dozens of soldiers from the truck regiment facing court martial. When Crossland’s niece learned about the circumstances of her uncle’s death from an Associated Press reporter, she called for a new investigation to uncover exactly how he died.

The community has chosen to focus on its stand against segregation as it commemorates the 80th anniversary of what’s now known as the Battle of Bamber Bridge and America reassesses its past treatment of Black men and women in the armed forces.

“I think maybe it’s a sense of pride that there was no bigotry towards (the soldiers),” said Valerie Fell, who was just 2 in 1943 but whose family ran Ye Olde Hob Inn, the 400-year-old thatched-roof pub where the conflict started. “They deserved the respect of the uniform that they were wearing. … That’s how people felt about it.”

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 24, 2023 • 7:26:14am

re: #260 Florida Panhandler

I have a feeling we’re about to hear a lot about a Putin Bunker in the next few days.

“Mit dem Angriff Steiners wird das alles in Ordnung kommen.” Or however you’d say that in Russian.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 24, 2023 • 7:27:36am

re: #270 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

UK village marks struggle against US Army racism in World War II (Stars & Stripes, today)

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Funny how they could defend American blacks at home while bludgeoning Indian, Pakistani and Rhodesian colonists abroad.

And the US was there to fight for their right to maintain that empire

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Dave In Austin  Jun 24, 2023 • 7:28:11am
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jeffreyw  Jun 24, 2023 • 7:28:43am

Too soon?

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Florida Panhandler  Jun 24, 2023 • 7:33:10am

The endless corruption of Federalist Society political hacks continues.

yahoo.com

What a fucking suprise. Yet another loony right wing SC Justice in an endless sea of corruption.

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jeffreyw  Jun 24, 2023 • 7:34:23am

Have a nice Caturday

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(((Archangel1)))  Jun 24, 2023 • 7:36:02am

They are clearly facing a dangerous nation-wide supply shortage….

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 24, 2023 • 7:36:23am

Putinverstehers over at moonofalabama are holding hands over ears and shouting “This thread is only for events in Ukraine, not in Russia!” as if there were no direct and immediate causal connection between the two

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darthstar  Jun 24, 2023 • 7:37:06am

Mastodon

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darthstar  Jun 24, 2023 • 7:37:49am

Find me a Wagner-Stone connection…or Wagner-Flynn.

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Targetpractice  Jun 24, 2023 • 7:39:25am

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

Putinverstehers over at moonofalabama are holding hands over ears and shouting “This thread is only for events in Ukraine, not in Russia!” as if there were no direct and immediate causal connection between the two

Their handlers in Moscow are too busy dealing with the “Special Military Operation” to give them proper marching orders right now.

//

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Barefoot Grin  Jun 24, 2023 • 7:39:51am

re: #280 darthstar

Find me a Wagner-Stone connection…or Wagner-Flynn.

I think there may actually be a Wagner-Erik Prince connection.

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gocart mozart  Jun 24, 2023 • 7:41:04am
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Dr Lizardo  Jun 24, 2023 • 7:42:04am

I only took the one photo at the sci-fi convention - lots of cosplay this time and all in all, a pretty well-attended event. It’ll continue tomorrow.

There’s another one coming up next month, Ostrakon, which will be more of a dedicated anime/manga convention. It’s billed as a “festival of Japanese pop culture in Ostrava”.

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BlueSpotinAL ✅  Jun 24, 2023 • 7:42:57am

Moscow may have a military parade with modern tanks this year after all.

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Belafon  Jun 24, 2023 • 7:45:10am

re: #272 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Funny how they could defend American blacks at home while bludgeoning Indian, Pakistani and Rhodesian colonists abroad.

And the US was there to fight for their right to maintain that empire

People aren’t always the government. You will note that the article said that the town went against the British government’s call to do what the American government wanted.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 24, 2023 • 7:48:54am

According to the LiveUAMap, the first Wagner units (advance recon, I’d imagine) have reached the Moscow region.

liveuamap.com

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Thanos  Jun 24, 2023 • 7:50:50am

re: #248 darthstar

It’s almost as if Prigozhin watched Stripes and realized that he’s got an easier foe.

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Stealing that

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 24, 2023 • 7:51:23am

LOL

Mueller, She Wrote
@MuellerSheWrote
How’s Tulsi Gabbard tonight?

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wrenchwench  Jun 24, 2023 • 7:52:09am

Mastodon

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 24, 2023 • 7:52:21am

Czech media reporting that Latvia has now ordered its borders closed to Russians.

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Thanos  Jun 24, 2023 • 7:52:43am

re: #282 Barefoot Grin

I think there may actually be a Wagner-Erik Prince connection.

Academi (aka Blackwater) partnered with Wagner in some of their African manufactured insurrections according to some.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 24, 2023 • 7:52:55am

re: #289 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

LOL

Better question - anyone checked in on Viktor Orbán lately?

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Varek Raith  Jun 24, 2023 • 7:55:46am

Well, that escalated quickly.
What a world.

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Barefoot Grin  Jun 24, 2023 • 7:56:24am

There have been reports that Wagner is freeing prisoners in Rostov and encouraging them to join up; and that there are mutinies in other prisons such as the one holding V. Karamurza.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jun 24, 2023 • 7:57:04am

Those claiming Biden responsibility for the Wagner invasion are right. If Trump had been re-elected, he would have pulled us out of NATO and turned Ukraine over to Putin. It is Biden who led the West in arming Ukraine and thereby revealing that Russia’s vaunted military was in reality a Potemkin army.

Wagner forces are too small to achieve victory — either they will likely be crushed within a day or so or Putin will remove those officials that Prigozhin is targeting and Wagner will return to the fold.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 24, 2023 • 7:58:34am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 24, 2023 • 7:59:09am

re: #296 Hecuba’s daughter

Wagner forces are too small to achieve victory — either they will likely be crushed within a day or so or Putin will remove those officials that Prigozhin is targeting and Wagner will return to the fold.

Russians killing Russians is always a good look…if you are a fucking cold-hearted Machiavellian dictator that is.

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wrenchwench  Jun 24, 2023 • 7:59:56am

I think I saw one of these outside my window last month.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 24, 2023 • 8:03:03am

re: #296 Hecuba’s daughter

Those claiming Biden responsibility for the Wagner invasion are right. If Trump had been re-elected, he would have pulled us out of NATO and turned Ukraine over to Putin. It is Biden who led the West in arming Ukraine and thereby revealing that Russia’s vaunted military was in reality a Potemkin army.

Wagner forces are too small to achieve victory — either they will likely be crushed within a day or so or Putin will remove those officials that Prigozhin is targeting and Wagner will return to the fold.

That depends.

Revolutions fail unless you either get outside support or the military goes over to your side.

There’s a helluva lotta propaganda coming out of every side of this, so it’s hard to say how many formations of the Russian Federation have gone over to Wagner.

If the RU Army refuses to fight if this gets to Moscow, it’s over.

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Florida Panhandler  Jun 24, 2023 • 8:04:52am

re: #287 Dr Lizardo

According to the LiveUAMap, the first Wagner units (advance recon, I’d imagine) have reached the Moscow region.

liveuamap.com

These “Mercenaries Advancing Towards Moscow” are straight out of some Tom Clancy video game.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 24, 2023 • 8:04:57am
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Dr Lizardo  Jun 24, 2023 • 8:05:48am

re: #301 Florida Panhandler

These “Mercenaries Advancing Towards Moscow” are straight out of some Tom Clancy video game.

If Tom Clancy were alive right now, I’d imagine he’d be sporting quite the chub, LOL 😄

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Unabogie  Jun 24, 2023 • 8:06:05am

re: #275 Florida Panhandler

The endless corruption of Federalist Society political hacks continues.

yahoo.com

What a fucking suprise. Yet another loony right wing SC Justice in an endless sea of corruption.

It’s so random how rich conservatives just become enamored of properties owned by conservative judges that they must have them immediately with no concern for cost.

Collectors – what are ya gonna do?!?

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darthstar  Jun 24, 2023 • 8:06:30am

re: #291 Dr Lizardo

Czech media reporting that Latvia has now ordered its borders closed to Russians.

I was thinking a while ago that there’s probably a good rush of Russians headed for every border crossing they can find. Expect Kharkiv in Northern Ukraine to have Russians begging for safe harbor soon.

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wrenchwench  Jun 24, 2023 • 8:06:53am

Four scores and seven wordles ago…

Click to Reveal

Wordle 735 4/6*

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I didn’t think guess 2 was a word.

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Targetpractice  Jun 24, 2023 • 8:09:34am

re: #296 Hecuba’s daughter

Those claiming Biden responsibility for the Wagner invasion are right. If Trump had been re-elected, he would have pulled us out of NATO and turned Ukraine over to Putin. It is Biden who led the West in arming Ukraine and thereby revealing that Russia’s vaunted military was in reality a Potemkin army.

Wagner forces are too small to achieve victory — either they will likely be crushed within a day or so or Putin will remove those officials that Prigozhin is targeting and Wagner will return to the fold.

That’s the thing about revolutions, they always start small and then grow as the revolutionaries give the common folk an outlet for anger and resentment they’ve been gathering against the government. If the reports of Russian Army soldiers along the way either standing aside or joining the march are to be believed, then things could go very pear-shaped for the regime in Moscow.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jun 24, 2023 • 8:10:42am

re: #307 Targetpractice

True. I am willing to wait and see what happens.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 24, 2023 • 8:13:06am

KLKN-TV, Lincoln, Nebr., June 21, 2023

LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN) - This week’s ruling on a transgender care ban for minors could have far-reaching consequences.

A federal judge struck down Arkansas’ law aimed at preventing doctors from providing gender-affirming hormone treatment or surgery to anyone under 18.

The state’s attorney general is planning to appeal to the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which also covers Nebraska.

That could put a similar ban here, where the ACLU has filed a lawsuit, in jeopardy.

Just last month, Gov. Jim Pillen signed Legislative Bill 574.

It includes regulation of puberty blockers and a ban on gender-affirming surgeries for minors.

Both are currently set to go into effect on Oct. 1.

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Nebraska’s transgender care ban could be in jeopardy after Arkansas ruling

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steve_davis  Jun 24, 2023 • 8:14:36am

re: #220 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

This would cause an armed revolt here.

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wouldn’t it be more merciful to offer the cows early retirement? You don’t see AT&T saying, “Okay, we need to kill 40,000 employees next year to meet our target.”

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 24, 2023 • 8:14:59am

re: #308 PhillyPretzel ✅

The 1917 Bolshevik Revolution was carried out with about 30,000 men. The Tsar’s army largely deserted.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jun 24, 2023 • 8:16:30am

re: #311 Dr Lizardo

So I have read in the history books. As I said we will wait and see what happens.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 24, 2023 • 8:16:54am

re: #310 steve_davis

wouldn’t it be more merciful to offer the cows early retirement? You don’t see AT&T saying, “Okay, we need to kill 40,000 employees next year to meet our target.”

Yet.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 24, 2023 • 8:22:37am

Czech media reporting that the 217th Guards Airborne regiment has defected to Wagner. This was from a live feed Czech TV has with their reporter in Moscow.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jun 24, 2023 • 8:22:59am

re: #311 Dr Lizardo

The 1917 Bolshevik Revolution was carried out with about 30,000 men. The Tsar’s army largely deserted.

If only both sides could lose. Putin and Prigozhin are monsters who offer death and destruction to anyone who doesn’t submit.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 24, 2023 • 8:23:47am
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Dr Lizardo  Jun 24, 2023 • 8:24:23am

re: #315 Hecuba’s daughter

If only both sides could lose. Putin and Prigozhin are monsters who offer death and destruction to anyone who doesn’t submit.

Oh, I agree. Let them both fight it out to the death. And ideally, they both end up dead.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jun 24, 2023 • 8:25:00am

re: #216 Nerdy Fish

I can already tell today is going to be a weird day.

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Birdie for me (after a week of “hunt the final letter” produced 5’s and one 6).. No pretty picture because LGF is FUBARed on my ipad, where I play wordle, and I’m looking at it on my iphone.

(Tried several browsers, no luck. Updated to latest iOS. I expect twitter is to blame.)

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Florida Panhandler  Jun 24, 2023 • 8:25:24am

re: #307 Targetpractice

That’s the thing about revolutions, they always start small and then grow as the revolutionaries give the common folk an outlet for anger and resentment they’ve been gathering against the government. If the reports of Russian Army soldiers along the way either standing aside or joining the march are to be believed, then things could go very pear-shaped for the regime in Moscow.

In any case, be mindful that as of now Russian Army regulars are now consisting of outright criminals drawn from the worst prisons in Russia. Not exactly the type of people regular Russians want to back.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 24, 2023 • 8:26:35am

All this craziness going on in Russia (and I gotta admit, I didn’t have that one on my bingo card) reminds me of that saying attributed to Lenin: “There are decades where nothing happens; and then there are weeks where decades happen.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 24, 2023 • 8:29:48am

re: #315 Hecuba’s daughter

If only both sides could lose. Putin and Prigozhin are monsters who offer death and destruction to anyone who doesn’t submit.

That is the crux. Anyone who replaces Putin is likely to be as bad or even worse.

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(((Archangel1)))  Jun 24, 2023 • 8:31:43am
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Hecuba's daughter  Jun 24, 2023 • 8:33:21am

Hope Sergey pays us a visit for his insight on the turmoil in his homeland.

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darthstar  Jun 24, 2023 • 8:38:34am

Looks like the Kremlin is pulling out all the stops.

Mastodon

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 24, 2023 • 8:38:54am

I’m surprised this wasn’t done sooner.

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darthstar  Jun 24, 2023 • 8:42:09am

re: #325 Dr Lizardo

I’m surprised this wasn’t done sooner.

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How is martial law different from day to day life in Russia?

Also, I hope Steven Seagal and Snowden and that woman who thought running to Russia was a good career move are enjoying themselves.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 24, 2023 • 8:46:50am

re: #326 darthstar

How is martial law different from day to day life in Russia?

Also, I hope Steven Seagal and Snowden and that woman who thought running to Russia was a good career move are enjoying themselves.

Heh. Let’s add Gerard Depardieu to that list (though I think he moved there for tax purposes).

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Belafon  Jun 24, 2023 • 8:47:54am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 24, 2023 • 8:49:39am

Competence in government is a choice.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 24, 2023 • 8:49:52am

re: #252 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Maybe, but they keep voting for those asshats. Actions matter much more than answering pollsters.

One-Third of Republicans Disapprove of Roe v. Wade Being Overturned (The New Civil Rights Movement, June 23, 2023)

(more)

The reason these “pro-choice” Republicans will continue to vote for Radical Xtians who want to kill Roe? Their racism TRUMPS everything else!

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sagehen  Jun 24, 2023 • 8:52:21am

re: #330 Joe Bacon ✅

The reason these “pro-choice” Republicans will continue to vote for Radical Xtians who want to kill Roe? Their racism TRUMPS everything else!

be fair, for some of them it’s just all about taxes.

To paraphrase TNC — “it’s not that all of them are hardcore racists. Just, that it’s not a dealbreaker for them.”

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darthstar  Jun 24, 2023 • 8:53:06am

Mastodon

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darthstar  Jun 24, 2023 • 8:53:52am

Mastodon

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darthstar  Jun 24, 2023 • 8:55:10am

I’m going to walk the boys. Don’t let Russia fall while I’m gone. I don’t want to miss it.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Jun 24, 2023 • 8:55:36am
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Dr Lizardo  Jun 24, 2023 • 8:56:07am

re: #333 darthstar

I think it was our Joe Bacon here who noted that the NRA must be getting really nervous right about now because it’s looking like the Russian gravy train is pulling out of the station.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jun 24, 2023 • 8:57:37am

re: #329 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

How to re-open a highway Philly-style.

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Belafon  Jun 24, 2023 • 8:58:09am
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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 24, 2023 • 8:59:21am

re: #331 sagehen

be fair, for some of them it’s just all about taxes.

To paraphrase TNC — “it’s not that all of them are hardcore racists. Just, that it’s not a dealbreaker for them.”

Sagehen, if you could hear the callers I deal with at my agency and how a significant block of them let their racism run unchecked it’s their hatred of the black man that was in the White House and they double down that hate on the black woman who is Vice-President. With her it’s not only racism it’s full blown misogyny. Taxes is secondary to them. It’s the HATE that binds them to the GOP.

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dat_said  Jun 24, 2023 • 9:00:07am
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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 24, 2023 • 9:00:35am

re: #337 PhillyPretzel ✅

How to re-open a highway Philly-style.

FREE TASTYKAKES FOR EVERYONE! 😉

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jun 24, 2023 • 9:02:15am

re: #341 Joe Bacon ✅

LOL. Soft pretzels and hoagies too.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 24, 2023 • 9:02:55am

re: #342 PhillyPretzel ✅

LOL. Soft pretzels and hoagies too.

Cheesesteaks and Pork Sandwiches, too!

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cat-tikvah  Jun 24, 2023 • 9:03:12am

re: #342 PhillyPretzel ✅

LOL. Soft pretzels and hoagies too.

And put mustard on those pretzels.
The way they’re supposed to be eaten.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 24, 2023 • 9:05:42am

re: #337 PhillyPretzel ✅

How to re-open a highway Philly-style.

A huge pile of people in the thread are whinging about a) wasting tax money on a parade with Philly team mascots, and b) Whaddabout the guy who died (who has been mentioned in the past and by the state governor and city mayor in press conferences).

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 24, 2023 • 9:05:42am

This is uncorroborated but Czech television’s reporter in Moscow is reporting the same:

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 24, 2023 • 9:05:56am

Republicans ought to be scared right now…what if someone decides to release all those e-mails that the GRU scooped up from GOP servers in 2016…and reveal a lot of nasty secrets that Republican politicians hid in their closets?????

What if someone post the Pee Tape on the Internet?????

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jun 24, 2023 • 9:08:48am

Safari on my iphone just choked on this page. Duckduckgo browser is working for the moment, but who knows how long.

(Still wishing for an “automatic page two” after 250 posts or so.)

If I disappear, you’ll know why.

MSNBC is now reporting on Russia, Russia, Russia (did someone else use that phrase?) as their main story.

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ipsos  Jun 24, 2023 • 9:10:33am

Not complaining about the Ordlwe today at all…

M2EvbjNCZWV3Wm5oMHNReTNzT1NtMnIrNllSaHN5QlhkdVZoN0tMKy8rOVZiS1k3WjZnazgvSDlNc01Xc3ROZGJKNk5BRm1DbzhSN2FCTDEvWFgyY1ljMDZVdnhaNVRMRlZDQ3IyOHpZa2c9OjrP01hTIIrU6sGHH86qTxPG

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jun 24, 2023 • 9:12:25am

I wonder how well a Ukrainian psy/intelligence op to get Russian frontline troops to surrender right now and just completely open the front up would go?

The Russian command structure is in shambles and I bet officers are now more concerned with guessing right on which way to jump than in actual combat defense.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 24, 2023 • 9:12:52am

Two hours ago on Twitter:

Danny
@danzu72
Watching Sky News and a reporter interviewing a Tennessee State Senator and within 3 minutes she had him admitting that his abortion law was a mistake and wished it had never passed. She knew the facts and didn’t just let him spew nonsense like our reporters continually do here.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 24, 2023 • 9:14:27am

re: #348 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

Safari on my iphone just choked on this page. Duckduckgo browser is working for the moment, but who knows how long.

(Still wishing for an “automatic page two” after 250 posts or so.)

If I disappear, you’ll know why.

MSNBC is now reporting on Russia, Russia, Russia (did someone else use that phrase?) as their main story.

I just checked on my iPhone and Safari is doing the same thing. Shows “A problem repeatedly occurred on littlegreenfootballs.com…”

But it’s OK on my iPad Mini & iPad Pro.

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Ferdinand  Jun 24, 2023 • 9:14:39am

Sky News is rocking their coverage today. Are they BBC affiliated?

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 24, 2023 • 9:16:12am

Haaretz confirms

Putin Declares Martial Law Across Russia as Wagner Mercenary Group Halfway to Moscow

haaretz.com

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sagehen  Jun 24, 2023 • 9:17:42am

re: #353 Ferdinand

Sky News is rocking their coverage today. Are they BBC affiliated?

no.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jun 24, 2023 • 9:18:02am

re: #351 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Two hours ago on Twitter:

Foreign reporters tend to do better interviews in the USA since their media doesn’t think it has to be brain dead and pathetic journalists for the sake of the mythical “access”.

(The journalists should consider their actual power. Which falls first, the media company or the politician, if a media company decides that a politician “will not be mentioned” on their broadcasts. And more so if they collectively opt to do it.)

During the American Civil War the reporters with the Army of the Potomac got upset with Gen. Meade and collectively decided they would thereafter not mention him in their dispatches. Or negatively if they needed to do so. (They were upset about Meade throwing some reporters out because the spilled military information to the papers.) The military-press relationship has always been a tricky thing.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jun 24, 2023 • 9:19:46am

re: #348 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

Safari on my iphone just choked on this page. Duckduckgo browser is working for the moment, but who knows how long.

(Still wishing for an “automatic page two” after 250 posts or so.)

If I disappear, you’ll know why.

MSNBC is now reporting on Russia, Russia, Russia (did someone else use that phrase?) as their main story.

Last night only CNN was doing their thing and covering this in depth in the US. Maybe they are reverting to constant serious coverage. They excelled at this in the past; they were the go-to network for breaking news (and missing planes). Hopefully they have learned a lesson with their Trump town hall fiasco.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 24, 2023 • 9:21:42am

Czech television reporting that Lukashenko might have fled Belarus to Turkey on his private plane. Again, that’s not confirmed, but it allegedly happened earlier today, not long after Wagner took Rostov.

If that’s true - and that’s a big “if” - then maybe he figured it’s game over. So far, however, I haven’t seen any kind of confirmation of this, just what’s being reported on Czech TV.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 24, 2023 • 9:23:20am

re: #357 Hecuba’s daughter

Last night only CNN was doing their thing and covering this in depth in the US. Maybe they are reverting to constant serious coverage. They excelled at this in the past; they were the go-to network for breaking news (and missing planes). Hopefully they have learned a lesson with their Trump town hall fiasco.

Meanwhile, is FNC continuing their wall-to-wall coverage about Hunter Biden’s schlong?

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BeachDem  Jun 24, 2023 • 9:24:27am

re: #282 Barefoot Grin

I think there may actually be a Wagner-Erik Prince connection.

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Jay C  Jun 24, 2023 • 9:27:42am

re: #352 Joe Bacon ✅

I just checked on my iPhone and Safari is doing the same thing. Shows “A problem repeatedly occurred on littlegreenfootballs.com…”

But it’s OK on my iPad Mini & iPad Pro.

Moi aussi: LGF is loading/updating/working fine on my W10 notebook: but failing repeatedly on my Apple iPhone/iPad.
PITA: I was trying to update the news from Russia on the only site that counts this mornning while standing in line for bagels, and couldn’t access us: so I had to relay on the NYT…..

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Targetpractice  Jun 24, 2023 • 9:29:11am

re: #346 Dr Lizardo

This is uncorroborated but Czech television’s reporter in Moscow is reporting the same:

[Embedded content]

Yeah, the war is effectively over. Putin hasn’t declared it so, but pulling troops from the front lines back home means the guys left behind have been left to die. They’ve no real hope of resupply or reinforcement in the near future, the chain of command is totally fucked, and Ukraine is not going to sit back and let them catch a breather while Moscow tries to unfuck the situation. Right about now might be a good time for any whose loyalties are wavering to reconsider Ukraine’s offers to surrender.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 24, 2023 • 9:29:32am
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Dr Lizardo  Jun 24, 2023 • 9:30:00am
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Targetpractice  Jun 24, 2023 • 9:31:10am

re: #364 Dr Lizardo

[Embedded content]

Pizza shops in DC and Langley are gonna make an absolute fortune in coming days.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 24, 2023 • 9:33:00am

re: #365 Targetpractice

Pizza shops in DC and Langley are gonna make an absolute fortune in coming days.

Oh yeah, it’s going to be a nonstop pizza watch.

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Targetpractice  Jun 24, 2023 • 9:37:05am

It took Wagner 10 months to take Bakhmut, let’s see if they can take Moscow in less than 10 days.

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BigPapa  Jun 24, 2023 • 9:38:37am

Totally worth a re-up
80 times Trump talked about Putin

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Varek Raith  Jun 24, 2023 • 9:40:02am

US and Western officials caught off guard by Prigozhin’s escalation in Russia
Uh, yeah, and just about everyone else on the planet. e_e

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BigPapa  Jun 24, 2023 • 9:40:53am
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Teukka  Jun 24, 2023 • 9:41:20am
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Targetpractice  Jun 24, 2023 • 9:41:36am

Putin: “COMRADES, YOU HAVE TO HELP ME!”
CSTO: “New phone, who dis?”

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 24, 2023 • 9:42:54am

re: #369 Varek Raith

US and Western officials caught off guard by Prigozhin’s escalation in Russia
Uh, yeah, and just about everyone else on the planet. e_e

And I’ll bet there’s growing unease among Putin’s allies.

Funny enough, I just remembered that when Xi Jinping was in Moscow a few months back, he said something to the effect of, “We will soon see geopolitical events the like of which haven’t been seen in a century.”

Turns out he was right.

In a Chinese curse sort of way.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 24, 2023 • 9:43:45am
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darthstar  Jun 24, 2023 • 9:44:38am

re: #354 Joe Bacon ✅

Haaretz confirms

Putin Declares Martial Law Across Russia as Wagner Mercenary Group Halfway to Moscow

haaretz.com

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sagehen  Jun 24, 2023 • 9:45:44am

re: #365 Targetpractice

Pizza shops in DC and Langley are gonna make an absolute fortune in coming days.

You’d think Langley might buy their own pizza oven, keep supplies on hand and maybe some junior analyst comes from a pizza family and can run it. Op-sec, y’know, don’t want to see too many deliveries when sometimes the crisis isn’t on all the cable new channels.

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darthstar  Jun 24, 2023 • 9:46:01am

re: #371 Teukka

Worthless fat fuck says what?

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Jay C  Jun 24, 2023 • 9:46:42am

re: #369 Varek Raith

US and Western officials caught off guard by Prigozhin’s escalation in Russia
Uh, yeah, and just about everyone else on the planet. e_e

SRSLY: Somehow, I don’t think “Mercenary Mutiny” was a common subject for discussion vis-a-vis the Ukraine situation. Until now.

One thing, though: personally, I DO have confidence that the Biden Administration (utterly unlike its predecessor) has the ability to manage affairs for the most positive outcome: both for the US, Ukraine, NATO/EU, the world, etc.

So get ready for an even worse (if possible) avalanche/tsunami of bullshit from the GOP….

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steve_davis  Jun 24, 2023 • 9:46:48am

re: #296 Hecuba’s daughter

Those claiming Biden responsibility for the Wagner invasion are right. If Trump had been re-elected, he would have pulled us out of NATO and turned Ukraine over to Putin. It is Biden who led the West in arming Ukraine and thereby revealing that Russia’s vaunted military was in reality a Potemkin army.

Wagner forces are too small to achieve victory — either they will likely be crushed within a day or so or Putin will remove those officials that Prigozhin is targeting and Wagner will return to the fold.

really? wagner forces are too small? The entire Russian army is currently sitting in Ukraine. They are literally having to pull wwii level tanks out to kamikaze Ukrainian positions because they don’t have the materiel left to fight like a first-world army. My guess would be that Moscow is like Washington during that period of the Civil War when the confederates could virtually have walked into Washington if there intelligence had been better and they’d realized the capital was completely exposed.

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darthstar  Jun 24, 2023 • 9:46:52am

re: #368 BigPapa

Totally worth a re-up
80 times Trump talked about Putin

Oh, just wait for him to put his two cents in, and say we should be offering to support Russia.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 24, 2023 • 9:47:42am

What Russian air defense doing?

Apparently, getting their asses handed to them by….checks notes….Russians.

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Targetpractice  Jun 24, 2023 • 9:47:51am

re: #369 Varek Raith

US and Western officials caught off guard by Prigozhin’s escalation in Russia
Uh, yeah, and just about everyone else on the planet. e_e

I wasn’t, at least not entirely. Even as an evil bastard, Prigozhin does have a point that the MOD has been engaged in a continued campaign of using his men as expendable cannon fodder. They sent them into the meat grinder that was Bakhmut and supported them for months, but just as they got close to taking the city suddenly their supply shipments were cut to 1/10th of what they needed and they were banned from recruiting prison convicts which was one of their primary means of recouping their losses. When they started talking about leaving the city last month, the MOD responded by threatening to slap any who left with treason charges. And then came the announcement last week that the MOD was ordering all merc companies to sign over leadership to them, which Prigozhin predictably responded to by telling them where they could stick the paperwork.

tl;dr: Things have gradually been coming to a head for months, so it’s not a surprise that this happened, it’s more a surprise that it didn’t happen sooner.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Jun 24, 2023 • 9:48:57am

re: #347 Joe Bacon ✅

Republicans ought to be scared right now…what if someone decides to release all those e-mails that the GRU scooped up from GOP servers in 2016…and reveal a lot of nasty secrets that Republican politicians hid in their closets?????

What if someone post the Pee Tape on the Internet?????

Yep, the gravy train has left the station but that is really the lesser of the GQP’s two big worries. It seems likely that blackmail and information transfer (dirt on enemies etc.) are bigger factors in Russian influence. It’s hard to believe, for example, that you could buy off a filthy rich hereditary oligarch like Tucker Carlson with piles of cash. It would take more than Putin is willing to pay and larger amounts are exponentially harder to conceal.
We might actually have gotten a glimpse of how this works when faithful Putin stooge Madison Cawthorn decided to jump ship and start blabbing about repug coke orgies. In no time at all, the infamous “cousin video” surfaced and Maddy was toast in his rabidly homophobic district.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jun 24, 2023 • 9:49:38am

Lightning and Thunder coming into Philly.
weather.gov

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BeachDem  Jun 24, 2023 • 9:50:18am

Interesting (Wendy Siegelman is amazing—and her connection charts unmatched)

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 24, 2023 • 9:50:49am

Glorious! GLORIOUS!!

Even if Putin survives this, he’s going to be horrifically diminished.

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DodgerFan1988  Jun 24, 2023 • 9:51:54am
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steve_davis  Jun 24, 2023 • 9:52:10am

re: #327 Dr Lizardo

Heh. Let’s add Gerard Depardieu to that list (though I think he moved there for tax purposes).

in fairness to depardieu, I’m guessing French taxes on his level of wealth are pretty crushing.

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Varek Raith  Jun 24, 2023 • 9:53:47am

King Pyrrhus be like o_O

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 24, 2023 • 9:54:13am

re: #388 steve_davis

in fairness to depardieu, I’m guessing French taxes on his level of wealth are pretty crushing.

To be fair, yeah, I’d reckon so too. It’s got to be way up there.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jun 24, 2023 • 9:54:18am

Now on Firefox with images turned off. When this chokes, I’m done. Somebody wake Charles, we’re drowning hers!

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 24, 2023 • 9:54:35am

Has Cuckoo For Cocoa Puffs RFK Jr chimed in yet to defend Putin?

How about Jill Stein or her latest stooge Cornel West?

Jimmy Dore?

Greenwald?

Taibbi?

Bari Weiss?

Marianne Williamson?

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BeachDem  Jun 24, 2023 • 9:54:52am

re: #385 BeachDem

Interesting (Wendy Siegelman is amazing—and her connection charts unmatched)

[Embedded content]

The story from which the chart came.

wsiegelman.medium.com

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 24, 2023 • 9:55:34am

Sounds like Putin’s clique figures Moscow might well fall to Wagner and they’re planning on setting up shop in St. Petersburg:

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jun 24, 2023 • 9:55:47am

re: #388 steve_davis

in fairness to depardieu, I’m guessing French taxes on his level of wealth are pretty crushing.

Not inclined to be “fair.” He joined his fate to Putin, screw him.

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Varek Raith  Jun 24, 2023 • 9:57:18am

re: #394 Dr Lizardo

Sounds like Putin’s clique figures Moscow might well fall to Wagner and they’re planning on setting up shop in St. Petersburg:

Apparently Lukashenko’s jet landed in Turkey earlier.
Truckload of salt and all that;
news.yahoo.com

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darthstar  Jun 24, 2023 • 9:57:26am

Mastodon

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 24, 2023 • 9:57:39am

re: #395 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

Not inclined to be “fair.” He joined his fate to Putin, screw him.

Along with Steven Seagal, who - as I understand it - skedaddled to Russia to avoid some kind of legal issues back in the US.

Of course, Edward Snowden (betcha he’s sweating bullets right about now) and that Tara Reade lady.

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Targetpractice  Jun 24, 2023 • 9:57:46am

re: #394 Dr Lizardo

Sounds like Putin’s clique figures Moscow might well fall to Wagner and they’re planning on setting up shop in St. Petersburg:

[Embedded content]

Rats, sinking ship, and all that jazz.

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BigPapa  Jun 24, 2023 • 9:58:16am

Even if Putin doesn’t completely lose power he is weakened considerably for the foreseeable future. The odds of leaks implicating him and Chumpy that could make both look bad are greatly increasing at this moment.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 24, 2023 • 9:58:26am

re: #396 Varek Raith

Apparently Lukashenko’s jet landed in Turkey earlier.
Truckload of salt and all that;
news.yahoo.com

Maybe he just figured shit was about to go south and hustled his family out of Belarus as a precaution.

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darthstar  Jun 24, 2023 • 9:58:56am

Mastodon

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BlueSpotinAL ✅  Jun 24, 2023 • 9:59:42am

re: #368 BigPapa

Totally worth a re-up
80 times Trump talked about Putin

ETTD ?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 24, 2023 • 10:00:01am

re: #388 steve_davis

in fairness to depardieu, I’m guessing French taxes on his level of wealth are pretty crushing.

Russia was trying to position itself as the Switzerland of the East, a tax haven for Western millionaires. Depardieu was their biggest poster child.

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Varek Raith  Jun 24, 2023 • 10:00:06am

re: #400 BigPapa

Even if Putin doesn’t completely lose power he is weakened considerably for the foreseeable future. The odds of leaks implicating him and Chumpy that could make both look bad are greatly increasing at this moment.

It’ll have come at the cost of killing/destroying/pissing off his best asset, Wagner, in Ukraine.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 24, 2023 • 10:00:44am

re: #404 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Russia was trying to position itself as the Switzerland of the East, a tax haven for Western millionaires. Depardieu was their biggest poster child.

IIRC, Russia has (or had) a 15% flat tax on income.

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BigPapa  Jun 24, 2023 • 10:01:58am

re: #403 BlueSpotinAL ✅

ETTD ?

Everything Trump Touches Dies
or
Everything Touching Trump Dies

This is a quandary

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Varek Raith  Jun 24, 2023 • 10:02:05am

re: #402 darthstar

[Embedded content]

FFS, it can’t be really be that obvious can it? Just bomb here, bunker under totally unnoticable white structure!
:D

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jun 24, 2023 • 10:02:31am

re: #402 darthstar

Use the metadata to get the coordinates to Ukraine AF or special forces. ::: evil grin :::

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 24, 2023 • 10:03:10am

re: #388 steve_davis

in fairness to depardieu, I’m guessing French taxes on his level of wealth are pretty crushing.

Aw, ultra-rich dipshyte didn’t want to pay taxes. Let him enjoy his libertarian paradise as it falls to a ruthless mercenary.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 24, 2023 • 10:03:42am

re: #404 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Russia was trying to position itself as the Switzerland of the East, a tax haven for Western millionaires. Depardieu was their biggest poster child.

You ain’t kiddin….

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steve_davis  Jun 24, 2023 • 10:04:09am

re: #382 Targetpractice

I wasn’t, at least not entirely. Even as an evil bastard, Prigozhin does have a point that the MOD has been engaged in a continued campaign of using his men as expendable cannon fodder. They sent them into the meat grinder that was Bakhmut and supported them for months, but just as they got close to taking the city suddenly their supply shipments were cut to 1/10th of what they needed and they were banned from recruiting prison convicts which was one of their primary means of recouping their losses. When they started talking about leaving the city last month, the MOD responded by threatening to slap any who left with treason charges. And then came the announcement last week that the MOD was ordering all merc companies to sign over leadership to them, which Prigozhin predictably responded to by telling them where they could stick the paperwork.

tl;dr: Things have gradually been coming to a head for months, so it’s not a surprise that this happened, it’s more a surprise that it didn’t happen sooner.

I’m guessing a lot of the early Prigozhyn bitching about not getting enough ammo was performative dinner theater designed to hide any suspicions about the fact that ammo was getting to him but wasn’t being used in large enough numbers. Someone would have noticed. Hence, create video in which you bitch about how corruption elsewhere is preventing ammo from getting to your boys. Meanwhile that ammo is actually getting stockpiled somewhere amongst the “real” Wagner troops against the day when the march on Moscow begins.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 24, 2023 • 10:06:08am

re: #412 steve_davis

Meanwhile that ammo is actually getting stockpiled somewhere amongst the “real” Wagner troops against the day when the march on Moscow begins.

That’s the current line of speculation from Czech military analysts. They now think that when Prigozhin was bitching about lack of ammo several weeks back, he was actually hoarding it for this very occasion.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 24, 2023 • 10:06:23am

I wonder how Tara Reade is feeling about her so-called defection right about now? Was the job at RT worth it?

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Belafon  Jun 24, 2023 • 10:06:41am

re: #369 Varek Raith

US and Western officials caught off guard by Prigozhin’s escalation in Russia
Uh, yeah, and just about everyone else on the planet. e_e

Who had “Russia’s Plans for Attacking Their Own Mercenaries”? Anyone?

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darthstar  Jun 24, 2023 • 10:06:51am

Mastodon

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Targetpractice  Jun 24, 2023 • 10:06:55am

re: #400 BigPapa

Even if Putin doesn’t completely lose power he is weakened considerably for the foreseeable future. The odds of leaks implicating him and Chumpy that could make both look bad are greatly increasing at this moment.

What is going to be truly telling is how Wagner is met in Moscow in the coming hours. If they fail to take the city and end up being put down hard, then the damage done to Putin’s regime will be harsh but he may weather it. But if they pull into the city and are met with little to no resistance, then Putin’s regime is over and all he’s doing by hiding in his bunker is delaying the inevitable.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 24, 2023 • 10:07:10am
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Targetpractice  Jun 24, 2023 • 10:07:53am

re: #418 Dr Lizardo

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Zelensky: “I don’t need a ride, I need ammunition.”
Putin: “I don’t need ammunition, I need a ride.”

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BeenHereAwhile  Jun 24, 2023 • 10:09:16am

re: #408 Varek Raith

FFS, it can’t be really be that obvious can it? Just bomb here, bunker under totally unnoticable white structure!
:D

Dunno how credible it is, but it’s straight out of a Marvel comic book.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jun 24, 2023 • 10:09:43am

Can’t quote things right now, but one thing historically that Russians fear most is civil unrest. This might ultimately affect how Moscow greets Prigozhin.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jun 24, 2023 • 10:09:52am

re: #392 Joe Bacon ✅

Has Cuckoo For Cocoa Puffs RFK Jr chimed in yet to defend Putin?

How about Jill Stein or her latest stooge Cornel West?

Jimmy Dore?

Greenwald?

Taibbi?

Bari Weiss?

Marianne Williamson?

I think Greenwald put out some pallid lie of a statement yesterday about how he does not support anybody in the entire situation. (Wagner, Russia, Ukraine, USA, etc.) I guess his latest check didn’t cash so he is open on the market now for anyone to buy.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 24, 2023 • 10:11:06am
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Nojay UK  Jun 24, 2023 • 10:11:22am

re: #412 steve_davis

I’m guessing a lot of the early Prigozhyn bitching about not getting enough ammo was performative dinner theater.

The econo-military Youtuber Perun (highly, HIGHLY recommended to Ukraine war wonks who aren’t that interested in the pew-pew shooty stuff) explained that Wagner was getting priority in Russian front-line logistics during the battle for Bakhmut while other Russian forces were being starved. Eventually the Russians dialled back the amount of supplies, especially artillery ammo being gifted to the Wagner fighters to bolster their own lines and Prighozin went public on this on Telegram, publishing the actual receipts (10% of the numbers of shells delivered per week, number of weekly Khinzal strikes allocated to the Wagner Group tacticians etc.)

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 24, 2023 • 10:11:37am
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BigPapa  Jun 24, 2023 • 10:11:43am

If it goes in Moscow like it’s gone already, Putin is over. I suspect there will be the last stand of Putin loyalists. But if citizens are bringing Prigozhin’s troops bottled water and food in between skirmishes, he’s fooked.

Don’t mind my Shadenboner over here.

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darthstar  Jun 24, 2023 • 10:11:43am

Mastodon

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ericblair  Jun 24, 2023 • 10:12:07am

re: #376 sagehen

You’d think Langley might buy their own pizza oven, keep supplies on hand and maybe some junior analyst comes from a pizza family and can run it. Op-sec, y’know, don’t want to see too many deliveries when sometimes the crisis isn’t on all the cable new channels.

Yeah, these headquarters have pretty significant catering facilities and the Pentagon has a full up mall food court as well. So the “Pentagon pizza effect” is not a real thing. However, adversaries can kind of monitor who goes in and out, if you keep your eyes on enough parking lots and tunnels and metro stops. I’m pretty sure that a whole lot of military personnel called off their Sunday BBQs as soon as the shit went down yesterday.

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BlueSpotinAL ✅  Jun 24, 2023 • 10:12:47am

re: #402 darthstar

You iz banned from twitter for providing assassination coordinates!

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Targetpractice  Jun 24, 2023 • 10:13:04am

re: #427 BigPapa

If it goes in Moscow like it’s gone already, Putin is over. I suspect there will be the last stand of Putin loyalists. But if citizens are bringing Prigozhin’s troops bottled water and food in between skirmishes, he’s fooked.

Don’t mind my Shadenboner over here.

Remember to call a doc if it lasts more than four hours.

/

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steve_davis  Jun 24, 2023 • 10:13:33am

re: #362 Targetpractice

Yeah, the war is effectively over. Putin hasn’t declared it so, but pulling troops from the front lines back home means the guys left behind have been left to die. They’ve no real hope of resupply or reinforcement in the near future, the chain of command is totally fucked, and Ukraine is not going to sit back and let them catch a breather while Moscow tries to unfuck the situation. Right about now might be a good time for any whose loyalties are wavering to reconsider Ukraine’s offers to surrender.

surrender, hell. Just let the officers know, “If you guys were all to take the M6 highway from Central to Pumpkintown, at 0800 tomorrow, and were to do it with your tank turrets reversed so that our drones could know you are non-belligerent, we would grant you free passage back to Russia so that you can fight for your own homeland, if that is your wish.”

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BigPapa  Jun 24, 2023 • 10:13:53am

re: #431 Targetpractice

Remember to call a doc if it lasts more than four hours.

/

Hm.. it could last 40 days and 40 nights the way things are going

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Nojay UK  Jun 24, 2023 • 10:14:15am

I wonder if next year’s May Day parade in Red Square will include Abrams and Leopard tanks?

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jun 24, 2023 • 10:15:01am

re: #434 Nojay UK

I wonder if next year’s May Day parade in Red Square will include Abrams and Leopard tanks?

I expect the infamous T-14s might still appear this year.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 24, 2023 • 10:15:04am

re: #427 BigPapa

If it goes in Moscow like it’s gone already, Putin is over. I suspect there will be the last stand of Putin loyalists. But if citizens are bringing Prigozhin’s troops bottled water and food in between skirmishes, he’s fooked.

Don’t mind my Shadenboner over here.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 24, 2023 • 10:15:48am

Declare Marshall Zhukov Law

as I recall, he refused to give the order to shoot striking workers as be believed that no Russian soldier should fire on other Russians

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jun 24, 2023 • 10:16:55am

re: #437 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Isn’t it spelled M A R T I A L?

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Varek Raith  Jun 24, 2023 • 10:16:59am

If the claims of the attack on a Wagner camp by Russian forces are true, I wonder if Shoigu did this without informing anyone else? What a clusterfuck this will likely turn out to be.

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BlueSpotinAL ✅  Jun 24, 2023 • 10:17:08am

re: #414 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I wonder how Tara Reade is feeling about her so-called defection right about now? Was the job at RT worth it?

Defection turns into defecation.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 24, 2023 • 10:18:34am

re: #438 PhillyPretzel ✅

Isn’t it spelled M A R T I A L?

Martian Law; there is supposed to be an enormous ka-BOOM!!!

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Belafon  Jun 24, 2023 • 10:19:20am

If Putin does run to St. Petersburg, that actually makes it worse for the country, especially if Wagner takes the Kremlin. Although, if the Russian military just gives in, it could make things really scary for Putin.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Jun 24, 2023 • 10:19:34am

re: #325 Dr Lizardo

If this were an American right-whinger, they would be preparing to enact Marshall law.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jun 24, 2023 • 10:19:49am

re: #438 PhillyPretzel ✅

Isn’t it spelled M A R T I A L?

It’s a play on words. Marshall Zhukov was in charge when Hitler was invading in WWII.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 24, 2023 • 10:20:19am

re: #414 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I wonder how Tara Reade is feeling about her so-called defection right about now? Was the job at RT worth it?

Gee I forgot about that fool…

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Teukka  Jun 24, 2023 • 10:20:24am

re: #444 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

It’s a play on words. Marshall Zhukov was in charge when Hitler was invading in WWII.

My favorite pun is Martian Law…

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jun 24, 2023 • 10:20:34am

re: #444 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

That will work this time.

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darthstar  Jun 24, 2023 • 10:22:30am
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Hecuba's daughter  Jun 24, 2023 • 10:23:31am

re: #408 Varek Raith

FFS, it can’t be really be that obvious can it? Just bomb here, bunker under totally unnoticable white structure!
:D

I’ve seen enough movies — the bunker may be several miles from there with access through underground vehicles.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 24, 2023 • 10:23:56am

Putin ordered pizza and the delieryman is on his way

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ericblair  Jun 24, 2023 • 10:24:29am
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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 24, 2023 • 10:24:34am

re: #450 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Putin ordered pizza and the delieryman is on his way

[Embedded content]

WHAT????

NO PINEAPPLE?????

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jun 24, 2023 • 10:26:13am

re: #452 Joe Bacon ✅

A grenade would be a nice touch. ::: evil grin :::

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Florida Panhandler  Jun 24, 2023 • 3:22:28pm

re: #422 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

I think Greenwald put out some pallid lie of a statement yesterday about how he does not support anybody in the entire situation. (Wagner, Russia, Ukraine, USA, etc.) I guess his latest check didn’t cash so he is open on the market now for anyone to buy.

Greenwald awaiting the pile of ashes to climb up on…. Along with others just like him like Candace Owens, Snowden, Clarence Thomas, Alito and a long list of other freelance world burners.


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