Jason Mraz Goes Disco, Complete With Ball: “Feel Good Too”

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Somebody told me Jason Mraz had gone disco, and I said HA! no way man, he’d never go disco, and then I saw his new video and it prominently features A DISCO BALL and I knew the unthinkable had happened and I was desolate until I suddenly found myself grooving to the Mystical Magical Rhythmical Radical Ride…

Mystical Magical Rhythmical Radical Ride out now! 🎢✨
jasonmraz.lnk.to

Director: DJay BrawnerChoreographer: Darion Reyes
Production Company: Tuff
Senior Executive Producer: DJay Brawner
Executive Producer: Max Rose
Producer: Alexia Stratton
1st AD: Eric “Z” Zaragoza
2nd AD: April Mendoza
Key PA: Derek Dale
Production Assistant: Trent Woolsey
Production Assistant: Mike Hartsfield

Director of Photography: Connor O’Brien
1st AC: Bryce Platz
2nd AC/DIT: Dusty Saunders
Gaffer: Joe Escandell
Key Grip: Jorge Lopez
Best Boy Electric: Tanner Johnson
Best Boy Grip: Rahul Biruly
Swing / Driver: Thomas Magnuson
Production Designer: Michael Coursey
Art Director: Montana Bertoletti
BTS Photographer: Jen Rosenstein
BTS Videographer: Sonny Alvarez

Editor: Joe Mischo
Colorist: Derek Hansen

Jason & Band Stylist: Benjamin Holtrop
Asst. Stylist: Emily Johnson
Jason & Band Makeup: Alexa Jarred
Key Makeup & Hair: Dre Lamparello
Wardrobe: Megan Lian

Derby United: Nili Goldfarb
Hero Skater 1: Keon Saghari
Hero Skater 2: Darion Reyes
Drums: Mona Tavakoli
Bass: Becky Gebhardt
Cello: Mai Bloomfield
Electric Guitar: Chaska Potter
Electric Guitar: Molly Miller
Synth Bass/Keytar: Andre de Santanna
Omnichordist: Gregory Page

Skaters:
Nili Goldfarb
Lysundra Lee
Melissa Cabral
Agnes Fajardo
Jacqueline Maldonado
Danielle Weisman
Antonia Lubben
Channon Medeiros
Kathleen Welton
Erika Preston
Jewelia McWhite
Sho Freeman
Alejandra Vandereb
Stephen Vee Vandereb
Daniela Bertolino
Courtney Harville
Sascha Shapiro
Christina Villalobos
Sarah Haywood

Skate Rental Dude: Alex Kinsey
Skate Rental Gal: ILana Armida
Giant Head: Billy Galewood
Book Reader: Tricia Huffman
Partygoers: Audrey Philyaw, Yasmin Madjidi, Abby Dorsey

Artist Management: Philly Brentnall
Artist Production Director: Ettore Dedivitiis

BMG Marketing: Cyndi Lynott
BMG Digital Marketing: Mikaela Andrade
Video Commissioner: Taylor Bringuel
Label: BMG

Special Thanks to the staff at the legendary Moonlight Rollerway

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Lyrics:
You, you are a wanderer
When you walk into a room
It’s like we’ve landed on the moon

You - you are a dreamer
When you walk into a space
You make believers

If it makes you feel good
If you’re excited
If you really want it
And you cannot hide it
If it makes you feel good
Then go on let it
And go on get it
‘Cause if it makes you feel good
I feel good too
I feel good too
Feel Good

You, you’re a bit of mystery
And I’m still buzzing from whatever it was you did to me
Yea, You. You got moxie.
And I love it when you’re dancing right beside me

And If it makes you feel good
If you’re excited
And you really want it
And you can’t deny it
If it makes you feel good
Then go on let it
Go on get it
If it makes you feel good

I feel good too
I feel good too
I feel good, too

You’re often misunderstood
Some people just wish they could
Do what they want
F’ing the shoulds
Just go enjoy your life
Stop trying to get it right
I’m celebrating my time that’s remaining
Working or playing
I’m spending my savings
Like we’re on holiday

Do the things that make you feel good
We’re on holiday
Do the things that make you feel good
(Feel Good)

If it makes you happy
It makes me high
If it makes you laugh
Then it makes me smile
Do what you want and don’t be shy
You make me feel alive
You’re an inspiration
A work of art
Congratulations
You won my heart
Do what you love and everybody feels it
I feel good too

Do what you love and everybody feels it
Feel good
Feel good
Feel, feel good
Feel, feel good

#JasonMraz #FeelGoodToo #MMRRR #Pop

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1
🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jun 29, 2023 • 6:18:10pm
Former Donald Trump campaign official Mike Roman is cooperating with prosecutors from special counsel Jack Smith’s team in the ongoing criminal probe related to efforts to overturn the 2020 election, two sources familiar with the matter told CNN.

One of the sources said that the agreement, known as a proffer agreement, means that Roman may not have to appear before the grand jury but could instead speak to prosecutors in a more informal setting. Under such an agreement, prosecutors generally agree not to use those statements against them in future criminal proceedings.

Roman, who received a grand jury subpoena months ago and had his phone seized, was involved in efforts to put forward slates of fake Trump electors following the 2020 election.

Investigators have recently zeroed in on the efforts to put forward alternate slates of electors in seven states Trump lost and the role of lawyers who were working for the former president after the 2020 election, multiple sources have said.

Former Trump campaign official cooperating with special counsel in 2020 election interference probe (CNN)

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Patricia Kayden  Jun 29, 2023 • 6:18:35pm

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 29, 2023 • 6:21:46pm

re: #114 silverdolphin

Not sure how they could stop it. It is independently funded so they cannot prevent it from being paid. And the AG is the only one who can fire him and it has to be for good cause.

Because it is all controlled by DOJ procedures. The Congress let the legislaton for independent prosecutors that it controlled lapse.

Good cause? Like Robert Bork firing Archibald Cox?

Conservatives do not let things like niceties, laws, or conventions stand in the way of power.

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ckkatz  Jun 29, 2023 • 6:22:53pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 29, 2023 • 6:24:58pm

re: #4 ckkatz

A 17% break by Republicans for Casey would pretty much guarantee his reëlection.

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ckkatz  Jun 29, 2023 • 6:25:34pm
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ckkatz  Jun 29, 2023 • 6:26:54pm

Why am I not surprised…

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silverdolphin  Jun 29, 2023 • 6:27:04pm

How Biden was secretly already preparing for Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling

How about money for Universities to reach u and recruit under-represented ethnic groups to apply. If there are a greater pool of minority applicants, the admission process would be helped.

And realizing the importance of overcoming socio-economic hurdles. And using a more creative admissions process. Many universities no longer use standardized testing for example. They have little or no predictive value. Using a lot of data, they are finding there are a wealth of alternative approaches that work better.

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ckkatz  Jun 29, 2023 • 6:30:42pm
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silverdolphin  Jun 29, 2023 • 6:31:50pm

re: #118 Wile E. Wonka

Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania is one of my favorites.

re: #117 ckkatz

Ha!

I had not heard of the latter before. I agree with you, it is indeed original.

Even better, one of the best outdoor rock venues is right nearby on the Columbia River Gorge. Called The Gorge at George

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William Lewis  Jun 29, 2023 • 6:34:31pm

“My cat is shooting back” LOL! I need to teach my cat how to shoot my AK to provide covering fire!

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jaunte  Jun 29, 2023 • 6:35:59pm

The future of voice communication may be sales chatbots talking to anti-sales chatbots.

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Dave In Austin  Jun 29, 2023 • 6:36:16pm
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jaunte  Jun 29, 2023 • 6:37:32pm

re: #9 ckkatz

I’m about to get some estimates on directly powering my place with solar.

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ckkatz  Jun 29, 2023 • 6:39:04pm

re: #11 William Lewis

Cat snipers!

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ckkatz  Jun 29, 2023 • 6:43:29pm

re: #14 jaunte

I’m about to get some estimates on directly powering my place with solar.

Reading between the lines, I’m wondering if the Oil and Gas interests in Texas might be working towards solar and wind facing a “You simply cahn’t get there from here” situation.

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wrenchwench  Jun 29, 2023 • 6:43:47pm

Mastodon

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silverdolphin  Jun 29, 2023 • 6:44:01pm

re: #3 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Good cause? Like Robert Bork firing Archibald Cox?

Conservatives do not let things like niceties, laws, or conventions stand in the way of power.

True but it would not be a Bork situation because that was a different era with different laws. The law was changed since the Saturday Night Massacre.. Cox was regulated by legislation. And the SNM was ruled an illegal act. The only reason he did not return is htat Jawarski had been appointed, making it moot.

Now we have a an independent prosecutor. Who is appointed by the Exrcutive branch and covered by their regulations. But is funded independently of the DOJ. I would imagine that any AG firing an independent prosecutor for spurious reasons would lose in court and the independent counsel could continue.

Of course, I do not imagine a hell scape totlally run by Republicans like that. Hope I am right.

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jaunte  Jun 29, 2023 • 6:44:59pm

re: #16 ckkatz

They’re definitely in a full court press against alternative energy in every area they can think of, but it keeps coming.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jun 29, 2023 • 6:47:03pm

re: #19 jaunte

They’re definitely in a full court press against alternative energy in every area they can think of, but it keeps coming.

You can’t fight something that makes economic sense. They’re standing athwart history shouting “Stop!” It’s a losing proposition.

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Belafon  Jun 29, 2023 • 6:47:26pm

re: #9 ckkatz

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People in the replies: “Why would we pay billions of dollars to move this stuff around?”

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 29, 2023 • 6:49:44pm

re: #20 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

You can’t fight something that makes economic sense. They’re standing athwart history shouting “Stop!” It’s a losing proposition.

The religio-political conservative “movement” in a nutshell.

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jaunte  Jun 29, 2023 • 6:50:22pm

re: #20 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

State Republicans will try to inadequately fund transmission/grid expansion because that tends to favor “storable” forms of energy, i.e. fossil fuels. Right now ERCOT has to ask the solar and wind generators to curtail output because transmission capacity is overloaded.

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sagehen  Jun 29, 2023 • 6:56:09pm

re: #11 William Lewis

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“My cat is shooting back” LOL! I need to teach my cat how to shoot my AK to provide covering fire!

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jaunte  Jun 29, 2023 • 6:56:16pm

“Justice Thomas ignites too many more straw men to list, or fully extinguish, here.”

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wrenchwench  Jun 29, 2023 • 6:59:59pm

re: #24 William Lewis

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Big Love

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 29, 2023 • 7:00:47pm

Geraldo Rivera quits Fox News

Quit…or Fired?

rawstory.com

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jun 29, 2023 • 7:01:54pm

re: #28 Joe Bacon ✅

Geraldo Rivera quits Fox News

Quit…or Fired?

rawstory.com

Fired from The Five, then quit Fox completely where he had another gig.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 29, 2023 • 7:04:43pm

re: #28 Joe Bacon ✅

Geraldo Rivera quits Fox News

Quit…or Fired?

rawstory.com

So why is a former Democratic representative replacing him on FOX?

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ckkatz  Jun 29, 2023 • 7:06:27pm
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silverdolphin  Jun 29, 2023 • 7:09:35pm

re: #19 jaunte

They’re definitely in a full court press against alternative energy in every area they can think of, but it keeps coming.

Too many ranchers in West Texas who make a lot of money with windmills and solar for the state to outlaw it totally. But they may try for urban areas.

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ckkatz  Jun 29, 2023 • 7:09:59pm
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sagehen  Jun 29, 2023 • 7:11:52pm

re: #30 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

So why is a former Democratic representative replacing him on FOX?

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Harold Ford is a “democrat” the way Joes Lieberman and Manchin are “democrats”.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 29, 2023 • 7:16:34pm

“Isolated” thunderstorms have turned into “widespread” thunderstorms.

Who at the National Weather Service can I sue? /s

windy.com

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BigPapa  Jun 29, 2023 • 7:22:22pm

re: #11 William Lewis

“My cat is shooting back” LOL! I need to teach my cat how to shoot my AK to provide covering fire!

The only thing that can stop a bad cat with a gun is a ICANHAZCHEEZBURGER.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 29, 2023 • 7:23:20pm

re: #33 ckkatz

Good luck burning all that money. Trump’s supporters hate “elites.”

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ckkatz  Jun 29, 2023 • 7:23:32pm

(It looks like our esteemed host has got “?hide” working again. If so, thankyou, thankyou, thankyou!)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 29, 2023 • 7:24:10pm

re: #34 sagehen

Harold Ford is a “democrat” the way Joes Lieberman and Manchin are “democrats”.

Reading up on him, I see he’s a conservadem. As such I can see why he’d be the token “liberal” on FOX.

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silverdolphin  Jun 29, 2023 • 7:24:19pm

re: #23 jaunte

State Republicans will try to inadequately fund transmission/grid expansion because that tends to favor “storable” forms of energy, i.e. fossil fuels. Right now ERCOT has to ask the solar and wind generators to curtail output because transmission capacity is overloaded.

Yep, and there have been several times when wind/solar provided the extra juice needed. I htink they will come to relyon it too much. eventually people will wonder why Texans pay so much for power, especially in an air-conditioned world.

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Moe Avattar  Jun 29, 2023 • 7:29:29pm

re: #11 William Lewis

“My cat is shooting back” LOL! I need to teach my cat how to shoot my AK to provide covering fire!

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ckkatz  Jun 29, 2023 • 7:31:29pm
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silverdolphin  Jun 29, 2023 • 7:32:04pm

re: #26 jaunte

“Justice Thomas ignites too many more straw men to list, or fully extinguish, here.”

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Callinmg out the Gish Gallop. It is a tool of the incompetant.

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jaunte  Jun 29, 2023 • 7:37:31pm

re: #40 silverdolphin

State urgently needs more power lines

“…Texas does not have enough high-voltage transmission lines to handle the grid,” said Landgraf, chairman of the House Environmental Regulation Committee in Austin. “The state’s power grid is growing rapidly, but the transmission lines are not keeping pace.”

“…San Angelo Republican Rep. Drew Darby’s House Bill 1254 would facilitate a timely and targeted expansion of the grid, resolve existing interzonal and intrazonal transmission constraints and ensure the future reliability of ERCOT by prioritizing the addition of load-serving capability in high growth areas and require new lines operating at 345 kilovolts to be constructed as double circuit capable lines, among numerous other provisions.”
oaoa.com

House Bill 1254 currently languishing in State Affairs committee:
legiscan.com

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jaunte  Jun 29, 2023 • 7:38:46pm

Texas is sitting on a $32.7 billion budget surplus.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 29, 2023 • 7:40:48pm

re: #45 jaunte

Texas is sitting on a $32.7 billion budget surplus.

OOPS! Time for another tax cut for the rich!

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jaunte  Jun 29, 2023 • 7:42:30pm

re: #46 Joe Bacon ✅

It’s starting to be a challenge for them to fill their days, since cutting taxes and not spending anything on infrastructure maintenance takes very little time.

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William Lewis  Jun 29, 2023 • 7:44:28pm

The earlier version of the Go-Go’s “We Got the Beat” Much better than than the “hit” version, like most punk songs that got cleaned up for radio/records.

The Go Go’s-We Got the Beat (Original Version)

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Belafon  Jun 29, 2023 • 7:47:00pm

re: #32 silverdolphin

Too many ranchers in West Texas who make a lot of money with windmills and solar for the state to outlaw it totally. But they may try for urban areas.

They would have to rewire the electrical grid. The providers in Texas aren’t the electricity sellers. They providers are wholesalers. The sources can get lost in the shuffle.

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ckkatz  Jun 29, 2023 • 7:48:49pm

re: #37 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Not to worry, the billionaires have much more to burn. And they know that if they succeed, all the money they spent will get a massive ROI.

They also know that the MAGAts will inevitably bend to their betters.

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silverdolphin  Jun 29, 2023 • 7:48:59pm

re: #49 Belafon

They would have to rewire the electrical grid. The providers in Texas aren’t the electricity sellers. They providers are wholesalers. The sources can get lost in the shuffle.

Very good point. I wonder if some of those ranchers could hook up their lines to the national grid, like though El Paso or New Mexico? ;-) i know. I know. The state would never allow it.

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jaunte  Jun 29, 2023 • 7:50:59pm

re: #51 silverdolphin

Maybe around El Paso:

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BigPapa  Jun 29, 2023 • 7:51:00pm

re: #45 jaunte

Texas is sitting on a $32.7 billion budget surplus.

No. That’s socialism.

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jaunte  Jun 29, 2023 • 7:52:20pm

(Map from the February freeze 2021)

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Belafon  Jun 29, 2023 • 7:54:09pm

*Snicker*

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 29, 2023 • 7:55:29pm

re: #48 William Lewis

The earlier version of the Go-Go’s “We Got the Beat” Much better than than the “hit” version, like most punk songs that got cleaned up for radio/records.

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Memories of the early 80s when Madame Wong’s, the Anti-Club, Starlight and The Basement would have X, Go-Gos, The Cripples, Circle Jerks, The Bus Boys, Missing Persons, Oingo Bingo and a bunch of other groups playing.

Peter Ivers would tape episodes of New Wave Theater. He was such a character. So sad that he was murdered in 1984. Case never solved…scene wasn’t the same after that…

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silverdolphin  Jun 29, 2023 • 7:59:00pm

Solar helps Texas carry energy load as heatwave puts power grid to test

No rolling blackouts due to solar, which provides over 15% of total power. And then wind takes over in early evening when solar goes away. Average age of coal-based plants is 50 years. Already had one fail.

They are like the grasshopper, having fun and not saving food for the winter.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 29, 2023 • 8:00:17pm
Hill Democrats are calling on Attorney General Merrick Garland and the Justice Department to file legal challenges against any college or university that engages in discriminatory practices - including legacy admissions,” Punchbowl News reports.

“This comes after the Supreme Court struck down the use of affirmative action for college admissions, a hugely controversial ruling that will impact students and institutions across the country.”

Damn right they knew this was coming and we’re prepared

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ckkatz  Jun 29, 2023 • 8:01:02pm
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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 29, 2023 • 8:03:52pm
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William Lewis  Jun 29, 2023 • 8:03:52pm

re: #56 Joe Bacon ✅

Memories of the early 80s when Madame Wong’s, the Anti-Club, Starlight and The Basement would have X, Go-Gos, The Cripples, Circle Jerks, The Bus Boys, Missing Persons, Oingo Bingo and a bunch of other groups playing.

Peter Ivers would tape episodes of New Wave Theater. He was such a character. So sad that he was murdered in 1984. Case never solved…scene wasn’t the same after that…

Big X fanboi. I’ve been to many more X concerts than any other band (If I wanted to, I could be for X what ‘Ski is for the Umphrey’s McGee Band LOL! ) Wish I could have actually seen them in LA. The Knitters side gig too.

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jaunte  Jun 29, 2023 • 8:05:36pm

re: #60 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

IRS Wokeness Auditors coming to a star chamber near you.

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ckkatz  Jun 29, 2023 • 8:09:10pm
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I Would Prefer Not To  Jun 29, 2023 • 8:09:34pm

I can do dad jokes.

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ckkatz  Jun 29, 2023 • 8:10:25pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 29, 2023 • 8:10:40pm

The lights just flickered. Not sure if my power will stay up.

The weather here isn’t particularly heavy, though it is both east and west.

windy.com

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Belafon  Jun 29, 2023 • 8:14:53pm

Long tweet:

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sagehen  Jun 29, 2023 • 8:15:03pm

re: #48 William Lewis

The earlier version of the Go-Go’s “We Got the Beat” Much better than than the “hit” version, like most punk songs that got cleaned up for radio/records.

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Is it shallow of me to say I hate their haircuts?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 29, 2023 • 8:15:11pm

re: #65 ckkatz

“Why is he attacking conservatives? And what’s this ebulushun?”

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Belafon  Jun 29, 2023 • 8:16:34pm

re: #67 Belafon

Image for those who don’t want to click.

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William Lewis  Jun 29, 2023 • 8:24:51pm

So, UP4014 the last BIGBOY was in Nebraska today. A UP train stalled out and needed assistance. So the second oldest locomotive still online for them was pushing revenue freight for UP in 2023.

A part of me would have rather it was UP844 instead because 844 is the _only_ steam locomotive from a class I railroad that was _never_ retired. It went into revenue service on Christmas Eve 1944 and has never “dropped her fires” But its still fun to see an old school oil burner engine get the job done… ;)

UP Big Boy 4014 shoves stalled Manifest over Blair Hill (6/29/2023)

ETA while still pulling her own manifest ;)

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ckkatz  Jun 29, 2023 • 8:33:47pm

Some time ago a Swiss company bought 96 surplus leopard tanks from the Italian Government and stored them in Italy.

Recently there was discussion on transferring those tanks to Ukraine.

The Swiss Government just forbid the transfer to Ukraine.

This type of Swiss action has happened several times in the past year. I suspect that interest in working with Switzerland on defense products has dropped several notches further.

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sagehen  Jun 29, 2023 • 8:35:10pm

re: #70 Belafon

Image for those who don’t want to click.

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um… not to give even a moment’s comfort to a racist MAGA, but can I point out that Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee have a bunch of HBCU’s? Could be that black students who want to be in those states are just plain less likely to even apply to PWI’s when they could aim instead for their parents’ and grandparents’ alma maters?

thehundred-seven.org

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darthstar  Jun 29, 2023 • 8:41:06pm

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit… These guys are so fucking tight and the jams they weave into made for radio songs are beautiful. Will see them again… and again.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 29, 2023 • 8:42:51pm

re: #71 William Lewis

So, UP4014 the last BIGBOY was in Nebraska today. A UP train stalled out and needed assistance. So the second oldest locomotive still online for them was pushing revenue freight for UP in 2023.

A part of me would have rather it was UP844 instead because 844 is the _only_ steam locomotive from a class I railroad that was _never_ retired. It went into revenue service on Christmas Eve 1944 and has never “dropped her fires” But its still fun to see an old school oil burner engine get the job done… ;)

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Video

ETA while still pulling her own manifest ;)

The train is coming back from Omaha for the College World Series. The locomotive and passenger cars are based in Cheyenne. They came through my town last week on the way to Omaha.

That was worth watching: They didn’t bother to unhook the passenger and baggage cars before they pushed the freight train over Blair Hill.

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William Lewis  Jun 29, 2023 • 8:44:27pm

re: #74 darthstar

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit… These guys are so fucking tight and the jams they weave into made for radio songs are beautiful. Will see them again… and again.

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They remind me of only one other band - Dire Straights. Especially the “Making Movies”’/”Alchemy” era.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 29, 2023 • 8:45:07pm

Here we go.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 29, 2023 • 8:46:29pm

Busy day for Christians.

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William Lewis  Jun 29, 2023 • 8:47:29pm

re: #75 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The train is coming back from Omaha for the College World Series. The locomotive and passenger cars are based in Cheyenne. They came through my town last week on the way to Omaha.

That was worth watching: They didn’t bother to unhook the passenger and baggage cars before they pushed the freight train over Blair Hill.

Yup, that’s what I meant by “while still pulling her own manifest” as that’s what railroads call the list of the cars that make up a train. She had more than enough oomph to push that train and pull her own over that hill.

The - literally - don’t make them like that any more.

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ckkatz  Jun 29, 2023 • 8:48:55pm
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Belafon  Jun 29, 2023 • 8:51:22pm

re: #73 sagehen

um… not to give even a moment’s comfort to a racist MAGA, but can I point out that Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee have a bunch of HBCU’s? Could be that black students who want to be in those states are just plain less likely to even apply to PWI’s when they could aim instead for their parents’ and grandparents’ alma maters?

thehundred-seven.org

I went and looked up some numbers. There are 16 HBCUs in Alabama out of 60 total colleges and universities in the state. As for percentage of students enrolled:

In Alabama, 32.3 percent of citizens in that age range in Alabama are black, and 16 percent of the 101,000, or 15,900, of undergraduate students enrolled in Alabama’s public four-year institutions in 2016 were black.

al.com

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 29, 2023 • 8:53:21pm

re: #81 Belafon

I went and looked up some numbers. There are 16 HBCUs in Alabama out of 60 total colleges and universities in the state. As for percentage of students enrolled:

al.com

Also the number of Black athletes at the state schools.

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austin_blue  Jun 29, 2023 • 8:57:39pm

We saw Asteroid City today.

104 minutes of the best movie you will see this year, if You Pay Attention.

And that’s it, I’m out.

Be excellent to each other.

Talk atcha tomorrow.

Oh. Numbers for today:

101 105

The high pressure dome is going to start to lift out of CenTex (or try to, it’s iffy) in the next couple of days.

We’ll see.

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Belafon  Jun 29, 2023 • 8:59:30pm

re: #81 Belafon

And I’m sure you’re correct that a lot of African American kids are attending the HBCUs because of the legacies in their family. But I think part of his point is that the state institutions should be doing a better job of representing their states.

But I will have to admit that both of us, the tweeter and me, are white guys, only thinking in terms of how our fellow whites, especially in the south, can impede others, and not necessarily taking into account how much blacks have done to overcome that.

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Belafon  Jun 29, 2023 • 9:01:09pm

re: #83 austin_blue

We saw Asteroid City today.

104 minutes of the best movie you will see this year, if You Pay Attention.

And that’s it, I’m out.

Be excellent to each other.

Talk atcha tomorrow.

Oh. Numbers for today:

101 105

The high pressure dome is going to start to lift out of CenTex (or try to, it’s iffy) in the next couple of days.

We’ll see.

We saw it on Sunday. Great movie. Definitely Wes Anderson.

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Targetpractice  Jun 29, 2023 • 9:01:20pm

*sigh*

News reports are saying that the bill passed with “strong bipartisan support,” just in case folks assume that VA Repubs are solely responsible for this nonsense.

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Belafon  Jun 29, 2023 • 9:04:13pm

But he did discover a third dimension.

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Ace Rothstein  Jun 29, 2023 • 9:09:09pm

re: #28 Joe Bacon ✅

Geraldo Rivera quits Fox News

Quit…or Fired?

rawstory.com

Who?

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Belafon  Jun 29, 2023 • 9:09:26pm
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Belafon  Jun 29, 2023 • 9:09:52pm
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silverdolphin  Jun 29, 2023 • 9:16:02pm

re: #90 Belafon

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ckkatz  Jun 29, 2023 • 9:17:00pm

This is an old and well used playbook -

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Belafon  Jun 29, 2023 • 9:26:38pm
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Belafon  Jun 29, 2023 • 9:28:02pm
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Belafon  Jun 29, 2023 • 9:31:29pm

Last stretch, then I’m outta here for the night:

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Targetpractice  Jun 29, 2023 • 9:32:16pm

Days like these, I think of all those witless wonders (aka “progressives”) who told me in ‘16 about how they didn’t care about SCOTUS vacancies because they genuinely believed that the rulings they cared about were effectively written in stone and no Trump appointees could change that.

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Belafon  Jun 29, 2023 • 9:36:01pm

OK. One more thing. An ad for a Canadian e-bike got me looking, and while I can’t find that bike being sold in the US, I found this one:

ride1up.com

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 29, 2023 • 9:36:45pm

re: #96 Targetpractice

Days like these, I think of all those witless wonders (aka “progressives”) who told me in ‘16 about how they didn’t care about SCOTUS vacancies because they genuinely believed that the rulings they cared about were effectively written in stone and no Trump appointees could change that.

Oh I sure do remember a bunch of DSA members in Los Angeles say that and NOTHING could get them to vote for who they called “Hitlery”.

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Targetpractice  Jun 29, 2023 • 9:41:04pm

re: #98 Joe Bacon ✅

Oh I sure do remember a bunch of DSA members in Los Angeles say that and NOTHING could get them to vote for who they called “Hitlery”.

Ones I talked to were diehard Berners who were so angry that Hillary wouldn’t just step aside and let their saint run unopposed that they were spinning throwaway comments from Trump into “proof” that he was a far more liberal guy on LGBTQ+ issues that she was.

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Targetpractice  Jun 29, 2023 • 9:52:06pm

Oh, if I had a nickel for every tourist that has expressed some form of shock or disappointment when told that the hotel they booked in Virginia Beach is not directly on the Oceanfront. As if the whole of the city is located a short walk away from the sand and it doesn’t matter where you book because you’ll never have to travel more than five minutes by foot before you’re in the sea. It’s like booking a hotel in Gettysburg and being surprised that your room is not directly adjacent to the battlefield.

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A Three Hour Tour  Jun 29, 2023 • 10:12:32pm

re: #100 Targetpractice

Oh, if I had a nickel for every tourist that has expressed some form of shock or disappointment when told that the hotel they booked in Virginia Beach is not directly on the Oceanfront. As if the whole of the city is located a short walk away from the sand and it doesn’t matter where you book because you’ll never have to travel more than five minutes by foot before you’re in the sea. It’s like booking a hotel in Gettysburg and being surprised that your room is not directly adjacent to the battlefield.

It seems like they’ve confused Virginia Beach with Kitty Hawk/Kill Devil Hills/Nags Head, North Carolina.

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Targetpractice  Jun 29, 2023 • 10:15:56pm

re: #101 A Three Hour Tour

It seems like they’ve confused Virginia Beach with Kitty Hawk/Kill Devil Hills/Nags Head, North Carolina.

It’s just people finding out that cardinal rule that “You get what you paid for.” They want to stay on the Oceanfront but they don’t want to pay Oceanfront prices, so they look around until they find a hotel that’s cheap and lie to themselves “Well, it’s in Virginia Beach, it’s gotta be close to the beach!” Then they roll up, ask how far a walk it is to the water, get told it’s a 15 minutes drive, and get upset because they feel they got cheated.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 29, 2023 • 10:47:51pm

LOL. Morning all.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 29, 2023 • 10:50:21pm

“Fuentes”—that name don’t sound like it’s a white person…

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teleskiguy  Jun 29, 2023 • 10:53:57pm

I feel this deeply as a mountain fun hog. It’s a source of psychological pain.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 29, 2023 • 10:55:07pm

Is there no limit to being a contrarian?

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Targetpractice  Jun 29, 2023 • 10:56:33pm

re: #106 Joe Bacon ✅

Is there no limit to being a contrarian?

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Not so long as the checks keep clearing.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 29, 2023 • 10:58:00pm

They are shooting off fireworks…

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 29, 2023 • 10:58:47pm

So this Pulpit Pimp has found a new grift…

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 29, 2023 • 10:59:35pm

And Wanky Hanky shoots his mouth off again…

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Targetpractice  Jun 29, 2023 • 11:02:00pm

re: #109 Joe Bacon ✅

So this Pulpit Pimp has found a new grift…

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“Do that exorcism,” i.e. engage in mental, verbal, and possibly physical abuse in an effort to scare your child into going back into the closet so you can continue fooling yourself that you’re not a bad parent.

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sagehen  Jun 29, 2023 • 11:03:11pm

re: #104 Joe Bacon ✅

“Fuentes”—that name don’t sound like it’s a white person…

Spain is full of white people.

And for 40 years, it was a fascist dictatorship (with a strong theocratic tilt). Proudly, openly, they wouldn’t dispute that characterization at all.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 29, 2023 • 11:14:45pm

re: #109 Joe Bacon ✅

Exorcism….or sexorcism?

Giggity.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 29, 2023 • 11:31:54pm

Somehow, I missed this tidbit yesterday….

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 29, 2023 • 11:33:12pm

re: #114 Dr Lizardo

Yes. MORE!!!

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Barefoot Grin  Jun 29, 2023 • 11:47:04pm

I can’t sleep. I also can’t access twitter lurk. Bummer. Back to trying in vain to sleep.

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Teukka  Jun 30, 2023 • 12:07:37am
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Dr Lizardo  Jun 30, 2023 • 12:34:55am
A satellite communications system serving the Russian military was knocked offline by a cyberattack late Wednesday and remained mostly down on Thursday, in an incident reminiscent of an attack on a similar system used by Ukraine at the start of the war between the countries.

Dozor-Teleport, the satellite system’s operator, switched some users to terrestrial networks during the outage, according to JD Work, a cyberspace professor at the National Defense University. Analyst Doug Madory of Kentik, which monitors online traffic, said one network was taken over by Dozor’s parent company, Amtel-Svyaz, while three others remained down.

The company did not release a statement on what had gone wrong. At least two groups claimed responsibility for the attack, one describing itself as a hacktivist organization and the other as part of the Wagner Group, the mercenaries who mutinied last week and marched most of the way to Moscow. The hackers claimed to have sent malicious software to the satellite terminals, setting off a scramble among security experts to obtain a terminal for testing.

washingtonpost.com

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Teukka  Jun 30, 2023 • 12:41:53am

*crosses fingers*

Let’s talk about 35 more counts for Trump….

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Teukka  Jun 30, 2023 • 12:44:40am
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 30, 2023 • 12:52:58am

re: #119 Teukka

Is not each count of indictment against Trump just like another whip stripe on the back of Jesus?

Might as well make it 39 counts instead of 35.

/just asking for some friends

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No Malarkey!  Jun 30, 2023 • 12:55:04am
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Teukka  Jun 30, 2023 • 12:58:36am

re: #121 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Is not each count of indictment against Trump just like another whip stripe on the back of Jesus?

Might as well make it 39 counts instead of 35.

/just asking for some friends

Look here comes the consequence

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 30, 2023 • 12:58:54am

re: #122 No Malarkey!

Don’t you mean son-in-law?

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Targetpractice  Jun 30, 2023 • 12:59:59am

re: #120 Teukka

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re: #122 No Malarkey!

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This was after our intel services recommended against giving him a clearance level and were overridden by the President himself. As well as had to file at least two “revised” financial disclosures after it was discovered that he’d tried to hide millions in undisclosed assets and investments.

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No Malarkey!  Jun 30, 2023 • 1:00:31am

re: #120 Teukka

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 30, 2023 • 1:01:43am

re: #123 Teukka

Well, I’m pretty confident that Trump will never see the insides of a prison cell.

But if he does:
1) his supporters will declare that he and they are being persecuted;
2) if Trump should die in prison, his followers will deny it and say his body was never found;
2a) some will even say Trump was taken up into heaven.

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No Malarkey!  Jun 30, 2023 • 1:02:48am

re: #124 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Don’t you mean son-in-law?

My bad, the fail sons were put in charge of laundering Russian money through the family business.

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Targetpractice  Jun 30, 2023 • 1:08:30am

re: #128 No Malarkey!

My bad, the fail sons were put in charge of laundering Russian money through the family business.

Indeed, imagine if Hunter had not only been accused, but tried in court for stealing from a charity collecting funds for child cancer patients.

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Targetpractice  Jun 30, 2023 • 1:34:09am

The problem the GQP are encountering is that the most they can come up with is the sort of crimes that anybody either in politics or related to someone in politics eventually gets caught doing: drugs and lying on their taxes. They wanted so badly to believe all the BS they were hearing in the MAGAt media, about videos of child prostitution that were in the hands of the CCP, pics that showed him in a sexual relationship with his underage niece, mountains of documents showing him engaged in illegal business deals, and various other scandals that they could milk all the way to the White House in 2024. Not that this will ever stop them, as they will continue to go forward wholeheartedly believing that if they just kick over the right rock they’ll find the pee tap…er, the child sex tapes that will put Hunter and Joe in a cell together for the rest of their lives.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 30, 2023 • 2:00:19am
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Targetpractice  Jun 30, 2023 • 2:07:17am

re: #131 Dr Lizardo

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Now how can this be? Haven’t we been told for over a year now that the Russian economy is going gangbusters? That they’re selling oil left and right, bringing in all sorts of profits despite scores of trade embargoes and restrictions, and the ruble is on the verge of eclipsing the dollar?

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 30, 2023 • 2:15:05am

re: #132 Targetpractice

Now how can this be? Haven’t we been told for over a year now that the Russian economy is going gangbusters? That they’re selling oil left and right, bringing in all sorts of profits despite scores of trade embargoes and restrictions, and the ruble is on the verge of eclipsing the dollar?

If there’s anyone out there that really believes that, well, all I can say is they should get in touch with me pronto, ‘cause I’ve got four acres of oceanfront property for sale just outside Holbrook, AZ.

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Targetpractice  Jun 30, 2023 • 2:17:02am

re: #133 Dr Lizardo

If there’s anyone out there that really believes, well, all I can say is they should get in touch with me pronto, ‘cause I’ve got four acres of oceanfront property for sale just outside Holbrook, AZ.

Yeah, it’s pretty hilarious how all that ink and airtime spent last year on how Russia was “weathering the storm” and playing up increasing export numbers as if it meant they were overcoming the trade embargoes meant the West was hurting itself for no good reason and should work to get Ukraine to accept a Russian “peace” offer.

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Dave In Austin  Jun 30, 2023 • 2:21:01am

Oh well, can’t sleep.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 30, 2023 • 2:26:05am

re: #135 Dave In Austin

Those old 3310’s were pretty tough. Might not even need the metal around it to use it as a makeshift hammer.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 30, 2023 • 2:27:57am

re: #134 Targetpractice

Yeah, it’s pretty hilarious how all that ink and airtime spent last year on how Russia was “weathering the storm” and playing up increasing export numbers as if it meant they were overcoming the trade embargoes meant the West was hurting itself for no good reason and should work to get Ukraine to accept a Russian “peace” offer.

And what’s even more hilarious is that there were so many tools out there who just blithely accepted official Russian numbers without the slightest effort of looking into their veracity.

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Targetpractice  Jun 30, 2023 • 2:32:06am

re: #137 Dr Lizardo

And what’s even more hilarious is that there were so many tools out there just blithely accepted official Russian numbers without the slightest effort of looking into their veracity.

Like so much else, it was all part of the same disinformation campaign, an effort by those who were either willing stooges or useful idiots who repeated Russian propaganda to attain their (mostly political) goals. At this point, they’re all so delusional that if Putin came out tomorrow and announced a total withdrawal including from Crimea, they’d be singing his praises as a “peacemaker” before supper time.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 30, 2023 • 2:37:14am

re: #138 Targetpractice

At this point, they’re all so delusional that if Putin came out tomorrow and announced a total withdrawal including from Crimea, they’d be singing his praises as a “peacemaker” before supper time.

And you’re not wrong at all - and heaven protect anyone who would dare to point out that Putin had, in fact, capitulated and his wannabe Peter the Great cosplay stunt had just ended in a humiliating fiasco. The Blue Checkmark Brigade would descend like a swarm on that person.

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Targetpractice  Jun 30, 2023 • 3:02:37am

re: #139 Dr Lizardo

And you’re not wrong at all - and heaven protect anyone who would dare to point out that Putin had, in fact, capitulated and his wannabe Peter the Great cosplay stunt had just ended in a humiliating fiasco. The Blue Checkmark Brigade would descend like a swarm on that person.

He’s actually managing to make the First Chechen War look competent by comparison, yet the vatniks would have you believe that he’s the greatest wartime leader since Comrade Stalin…who was also a horrifically shitty leader to the point that his advisors had to convince him that busying himself with numbers and figures was key to winning the war just to let the generals work.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 30, 2023 • 3:12:40am

re: #135 Dave In Austin

They don’t make ‘em like they used to.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 30, 2023 • 3:24:57am

I wonder if the Russians are up to something…

(via GoogleTranslate):

Ukraine’s military intelligence says Russia is phasing out nuclear power plant personnel in the Zaporizhia region. The first to leave are three senior employees of the Russian state-owned company Rosatom. Ukrainians who work for Rosatom are also said to have been advised to leave for Crimea, which is also occupied by Russia. That should happen before July 5.

The power plant is located near the city of Enerhodar in Russian-occupied territory and not far from an area where Ukraine has gone on the offensive. Ukraine says Russia is preparing a “terrorist attack” on the plant, releasing radiation. Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov today called those allegations “pure lies”.

Disaster relief exercises have started in the part of Zaporizhia that is not occupied by Russia , in case something does go wrong with the plant and radiation is released.

Original, in Dutch: nos.nl

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Targetpractice  Jun 30, 2023 • 3:36:04am

re: #142 Dr Lizardo

I wonder if the Russians are up to something…

(via GoogleTranslate):

Original, in Dutch: nos.nl

Because really, you’re already one of the most reviled men in history, why not just go for the gold and make Hitler look like a piker?

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Jun 30, 2023 • 3:39:02am

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 30, 2023 • 3:48:18am

re: #143 Targetpractice

I am not so good at predicting the future (otherwise I would have won the lottery by now.)

Putin is someone I fully expect to embrace the strongman image to the utter end.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 30, 2023 • 3:48:36am

Sadly, you’re gonna have to use Google Translate on this article, but there was a pretty wild sect/personality cult operating out of Kutná Hora, Czech Republic. A sect that led to murder.

The central character of the whole story is the already mentioned alternative therapist Richard. Everyone nicknamed him Riša and referred to him as “HE” in written form. In order to understand why people trusted him without limit, fulfilled his will or believed in his supernatural abilities and theories, it is necessary to go back to the beginning of the millennium, to a small village near Kutná Hora.

Richard’s father had a long-standing practice as a healer in a village near Kutná Hora, and he convinced his son from an early age that he had inherited his abilities. At around the age of twenty-eight, the originally trained chef “made a living for himself”. He “healed” by placing his hands on the place where a person was supposed to have a health problem. And it quickly became popular in Kutnohorsk.

irozhlas.cz

A fascinating read. Two members of the sect are on trial for murder - after they murdered the sect leader…apparently on his instructions, or so they claim. 🤦‍♂️

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 30, 2023 • 3:51:42am

So, I’m waiting to buy a new Mac, as I’ve noted here before.

Waiting to see what the new generation of iMacs will encompass, the recent WWDC was a letdown.

The Apple-centric mags, and even the dime-a-dozen tech websites, all copy each other.

Each week, and I do mean each week, they recycle the same old “news” about coming Macs.

There are usually no news each week, but they still run the articles as if there is news.

It’s all fluff.

They copy each other, but by changing a word here or there each iteration makes a story sound more certain, more factual.

But it isn’t.

It’s just the rumor mill recycling the same rumor over and over, because they have no new rumors.

Apple is very good at keep lids on things.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 30, 2023 • 4:01:26am

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 30, 2023 • 4:03:20am

Yeah, that’s about what I expected from today. Surprised I didn’t go all the way to 6, to be honest.

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No Malarkey!  Jun 30, 2023 • 4:05:25am

re: #134 Targetpractice

Yeah, it’s pretty hilarious how all that ink and airtime spent last year on how Russia was “weathering the storm” and playing up increasing export numbers as if it meant they were overcoming the trade embargoes meant the West was hurting itself for no good reason and should work to get Ukraine to accept a Russian “peace” offer.

Yep, just because India is taking advantage of the situation by buying lots of steeply discounted Russian oil does not mean the Russian economy is going gang busters.

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ckkatz  Jun 30, 2023 • 4:18:15am

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ckkatz  Jun 30, 2023 • 4:21:45am

re: #150 No Malarkey!

Yep, just because India is taking advantage of the situation by buying lots of steeply discounted Russian oil does not mean the Russian economy is going gang busters.

Yup, the sanctioning organizations are quite happy that Russia is dumping all the petroleum on the market that they can at a very steep discount. The glut keeps oil prices down.

Plus, Russia cannot ship much of it anymore since the insurance companies are worried about getting sanctioned for insuring ships carrying Russian oil.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 30, 2023 • 4:22:02am

Again, you’ll have to translate this via Google or DeepL, but here’s a bit of local news…Ostrava is getting a quantum computer.

(via Google Translate):

The LUMI-Q consortium brings together Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland and Sweden. The representatives of these countries agreed that the quantum computer will be located in the Ostrava National Supercomputer Center IT4Innovations, which is part of VŠB - Technical University of Ostrava and the national e-infrastructure e-INFRA CZ.

The construction, which should swallow up to seven million euros (166.2 million crowns), is covered by the pan-European joint venture EuroHPC. The latter will contribute 50% of the funding, the other half will be covered by the contributions of the member countries of the LUMI-Q consortium.

“The signing of the contract for the location of the quantum computer LUMI-Q in the Czech Republic is an important milestone not only for the Czech research community in the field of quantum computers and algorithms, but also represents an important step towards the development of European quantum computing resources. Together with other European partners, we are creating an important element of future scientific progress in the field of quantum computing and its applications,” said Vít Vondrák, director of IT4Innovations.

Original, in Czech: novinky.cz

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 30, 2023 • 4:27:08am

I don’t know if anyone else is seeing this, but I can no longer go to any Twitter accounts without logging in. If I close the login prompt, it redirects me back to the login page.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 30, 2023 • 4:29:25am

re: #154 Nerdy Fish

I don’t know if anyone else is seeing this, but I can no longer go to any Twitter accounts without logging in. If I close the login prompt, it redirects me back to the login page.

I’ve seen people mentioning that as well on the worldnews subreddit. They’ve been saying that since this morning.

Elmo must be fucking with the code again.

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Florida Panhandler  Jun 30, 2023 • 4:30:26am

re: #86 Targetpractice

*sigh*

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News reports are saying that the bill passed with “strong bipartisan support,” just in case folks assume that VA Repubs are solely responsible for this nonsense.

I guess nobody has ever heard of a VPN in VA. What a waste of time.

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 30, 2023 • 4:31:44am

re: #155 Dr Lizardo

I’ve seen people mentioning that as well on the worldnews subreddit. They’ve been saying that since this morning.

Elmo must be fucking with the code again.

To be honest, it’s always been a matter of time before that happened. I’m surprised he didn’t do it sooner. He wants to inflate Twitter’s numbers by making people get accounts in order to access the content on the platform. It makes me sad, because there is still some stuff that interests me on there, but I am not about to recreate my account on there and give him the satisfaction of my presence when he is openly platforming Nazis and promoting dangerous and potentially deadly conspiracy theories.

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No Malarkey!  Jun 30, 2023 • 4:32:00am

The Central Committee of the Idaho GOP voted to declare Covid vaccines “biological and technological weapons”, called for defunding the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare for promoting vaccination, censured the Governor and 19 GOP legislators for opposing a bill to allow citizens to sue public libraries for having “harmful” books, and to drum candidates out of the GOP for not strictly adhering to the party platform, among other crazy and authoritarian decisions. Of course politics in Idaho is so nuts that Ammon Bundy’s independent run for Governor got nearly as many votes as the Democratic candidate.

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ckkatz  Jun 30, 2023 • 4:33:44am

re: #118 Dr Lizardo

As you point out,there has been a lot happening in Russian networks.

A lot of traffic, particularly news related and social media, was blocked June 23rd as Prigozhin led his ?coup?mutiny?. I have not yet heard whether it was all turned back on or not.

And as you mention a lot of traffic was shut down yesterday on the Dozor-Teleport satellite network.

Plus there has apparently been a lot of unreported hacking of Russia systems over the past year.

In other internet related news - There is a report that last night’s derecho in Indiana-Illinois has shut down a bunch of connectivity there:

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Florida Panhandler  Jun 30, 2023 • 4:34:26am

re: #131 Dr Lizardo

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Commodities profits being siphoned out of the country by corrupt oligarchs can really throw a wrench into rosy economics forecasts.

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Barefoot Grin  Jun 30, 2023 • 4:35:21am

re: #151 ckkatz

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According to Garry Wills who studied Thomas Jefferson’s thoughts and actions leading to the Declaration, he was in fact a major procrastinator.

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ckkatz  Jun 30, 2023 • 4:36:37am

re: #155 Dr Lizardo

I’ve seen people mentioning that as well on the worldnews subreddit. They’ve been saying that since this morning.

Elmo must be fucking with the code again.

Because reducing the number of views for advertising, in a business that gets paid by advertisers, is such a genius move…

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Barefoot Grin  Jun 30, 2023 • 4:37:21am

re: #158 No Malarkey!

The Central Committee of the Idaho GOP voted to declare Covid vaccines “biological and technological weapons”, called for defunding the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare for promoting vaccination, censured the Governor and 19 GOP legislators for opposing a bill to allow citizens to sue public libraries for having “harmful” books, and to drum candidates out of the GOP for not strictly adhering to the party platform, among other crazy and authoritarian decisions. Of course politics in Idaho is so nuts that Ammon Bundy’s independent run for Governor got nearly as many votes as the Democratic candidate.

“We’re angry because we’re being left behind by coastal elites….”

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ckkatz  Jun 30, 2023 • 4:38:45am

re: #161 Barefoot Grin

According to Garry Wills who studied Thomas Jefferson’s thoughts and actions leading to the Declaration, he was in fact a major procrastinator.

It’s hard to write an epic break up letter. :)

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Jay C  Jun 30, 2023 • 4:42:14am

re: #161 Barefoot Grin

According to Garry Wills who studied Thomas Jefferson’s thoughts and actions leading to the Declaration, he was in fact a major procrastinator.

Also, IIRC, the actual vote to approve the DoI was taken on July 2: but it took a day or so to get the thing written up properly for a formal signing, and was dated, famously, to coincide with a national holiday…. //

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ckkatz  Jun 30, 2023 • 4:50:25am

re: #142 Dr Lizardo

Yes, there is a lot of concern about the Russians blowing up parts of the nuclear power plant. Prevailing air currents could bring radiation clouds over parts of NATO.

Obviously I have no insight into NATO and EU discussions. But I have heard a lot of other folks discuss whether this could trigger NATO Article 5.

Certainly NATO could take additional actions in Ukraine without directly attacking Russian territory. And this ability has already been communicated to the Kremlin.

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 30, 2023 • 4:55:03am

re: #162 ckkatz

Because reducing the number of views for advertising, in a business that gets paid by advertisers, is such a genius move…

I’m sure he’s thinking that the content on his platform is so highly desirable that everyone will create an account just to read their favorite people’s tweets, and to be fair, I would say it’s a pretty safe bet that they will get a pretty good bump in accounts created from taking this action. However, they’re going to be empty “read-only” accounts that do nothing but drain extra resources and provide no value to the platform for their existence.

There’s another angle to this. He’s obviously trying to push Twitter Blue as the be-all, end-all to Twitter’s financial problems. The fact that all non-Blue-subscriber API keys were unilaterally revoked - even from companies that were, or would be, paying enterprise customers - tells me that. I am seeing this action as the necessary first step to requiring that all users who access his platform must pay for a subscription - which would, effectively, end it as a viable social media platform. Requiring an account to access content is nothing new in the walled-garden social media world we live in. Paid-subscription-only sites, however, are designated “niche,” and membership therein is viewed with mixed emotions. I mean, look at the reactions already to people who buy Twitter Blue; now imagine how we would feel if ALL of Twitter was Twitter Blue subscribers. Anyone who continued to use Twitter would quickly be seen as a pariah by anyone who isn’t an Elno sycophant.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 30, 2023 • 4:57:29am

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ckkatz  Jun 30, 2023 • 4:59:42am

re: #148 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

re: #168 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Really enjoyed both pieces! Thanks for posting them.

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ckkatz  Jun 30, 2023 • 5:07:06am

re: #167 Nerdy Fish

I suspect that you are correct. Musk is trying to encircle twitter with a paywall.

But, as you point out, the new users are not going to create content.

And a lot of the previous content creators are extremely miffed at how poorly they have been treated by Musk. And so are not producing new content. Or are leaving the platform entirely.

Yup, Musk may indeed be moving fast and breaking things. But a lot of what is being broken is twitter.

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Barefoot Grin  Jun 30, 2023 • 5:08:37am

re: #164 ckkatz

It’s hard to write an epic break up letter. :)

LOL

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TarHellion  Jun 30, 2023 • 5:10:29am

re: #167 Nerdy Fish

I refuse to create an account. Elno can go eff himself.

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Belafon  Jun 30, 2023 • 5:12:00am

re: #104 Joe Bacon ✅

“Fuentes”—that name don’t sound like it’s a white person…

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Jay C  Jun 30, 2023 • 5:14:13am

re: #173 Belafon

It’s the Spanish word for fountains. Fuente is the Spanish word for fountain or source.

Except the only thing that flows out of Nick is sewage.

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Dave In Austin  Jun 30, 2023 • 5:16:46am
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TarHellion  Jun 30, 2023 • 5:16:59am

Promising start but settled for the par.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 30, 2023 • 5:20:47am

re: #160 Florida Panhandler

Commodities profits being siphoned out of the country by corrupt oligarchs can really throw a wrench into rosy economics forecasts.

Yep. And it was painfully obvious right from get-go that Russia was playing with their numbers and trying to blow sunshine up everyone’s ass. Partly to discourage the West from imposing further sanctions and probably (I say this because I can’t prove it) to conceal the staggering amount of money that’d been already siphoned off by the kleptocrats.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 30, 2023 • 5:23:03am

re: #166 ckkatz

But I have heard a lot of other folks discuss whether this could trigger NATO Article 5.

That’s a big open-ended question, one the Russians have no definitive answer to, which might cause them to hesitate about doing something rash.

Strategic ambiguity on NATO’s part.

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TarHellion  Jun 30, 2023 • 5:35:16am

re: #159 ckkatz

poweroutage.us

Kinda neat to look over this site. Indiana has about 170,000 customers without power, while Illinois has 120,000. Alaska and Idaho report just 1 outage each.

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ckkatz  Jun 30, 2023 • 5:44:50am
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ckkatz  Jun 30, 2023 • 5:46:45am

“conducting a broad offensive in the area”


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ckkatz  Jun 30, 2023 • 5:48:22am

*snork*

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 30, 2023 • 5:53:51am

re: #13 Dave In Austin

Kirk and Posibiec flatter themselves by considering themselves “thought criminals”

They are at most bumbling idiots who think out loud, or rather voice the thought-like processes in their heads.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Jun 30, 2023 • 5:57:21am

re: #7 ckkatz

Why am I not surprised…

Science fiction editor’s office ca. 1985
Writer: “Well, you know, John Brunner’s Stand on Zanzibar was a great dystopia but it’s kinda dated now…..”
Editor: “Yeah, superceded by events, as they say.”
Writer: “OK, so I have an idea for a fresh take. The 2020s. Instead of starvation and food rationing there is an epidemic of obesity. Revival tent fake religion and superstition are flourishing. A lot of people don’t believe in germ theory. Others think the Earth is flat and the Moon landings never happened. Instead of red-baiting, the Republican Party is aligned with the Russian dictator and they’re pushing a core member of the Kennedy clan for President….
Editor: “HOLY SHIT! GET OUT OF HERE YOU GIBBERING LUNATIC! AND DON’T COME BACK TILL YOU’RE OFF THE DRUGS!”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 30, 2023 • 5:57:53am

re: #45 jaunte

Texas is sitting on a $32.7 billion budget surplus.

I remember back in the halcyon days of the Clinton administration when the US government was running a surplus and Rush Limbaugh was on the air telling us that it is immoral for the government to run a surplus: it means they are taking more from us than they need to run the country and that is tanamount to theft

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jun 30, 2023 • 6:01:25am

re: #185 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I remember back in the halcyon days of the Clinton administration when the US government was running a surplus and Rush Limbaugh was on the air telling us that it is immoral for the government to run a surplus: it means they are taking more from us than they need to run the country and that is tanamount to theft

I’m sure the GQP leaders in Texas would love to siphon off a bunch of that surplus into the pockets of their cronies and their own as well. And it would be theft.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 30, 2023 • 6:02:36am

re: #106 Joe Bacon ✅

Is there no limit to being a contrarian?

NO THERE IS NOT!!!

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ckkatz  Jun 30, 2023 • 6:02:48am


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Nerdy Fish  Jun 30, 2023 • 6:05:50am

So, it’s the last day of the SCOTUS term before they run off and hide, and both student loan forgiveness and “religious liberty trumps all” are still on the table. I think that says it all for how they’re going to rule, as if anyone is surprised by this from the Calvinball Court. There’s a part of me that says the Calvinball Court is going to somehow twist the gay-wedding-website ruling into overturning Obergefell, given how lawless and imperious this Court is.

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wrenchwench  Jun 30, 2023 • 6:10:02am

Mastodon

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Thanos  Jun 30, 2023 • 6:10:54am

re: #187 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

NO THERE IS NOT!!!

The passive aggressive phrasing in that tweet — assertion through questioning — is really just level one contrarianism after all. Wait til they turn it up to 11 in the very near future…

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Belafon  Jun 30, 2023 • 6:12:13am

The reason to have Justice Jackson on the Supreme Court is exactly the same reason colleges need to have minorities on campus.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jun 30, 2023 • 6:15:03am

re: #144 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

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wrenchwench  Jun 30, 2023 • 6:16:46am

A rare birbie.

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wrenchwench  Jun 30, 2023 • 6:18:51am

Mastodon

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LadyBehir  Jun 30, 2023 • 6:22:12am

re: #10 silverdolphin

Hey! I live in (just outside but share the zip code) Jersey Shore! My favorite PA town name is Shunk. Sounds like an arrow hitting the target.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 30, 2023 • 6:34:12am

We start the day seeing Sleazy E has screwed with Twitter again.

And Now…This…

“We Buy Ugly Houses” CEO Steps Down Following ProPublica Investigation

David Hicks, CEO of HomeVestors of America, said in a letter announcing his retirement that recent press coverage of the company’s homebuying practices has taken a “personal toll on me.”

In previous interviews and in his retirement letter, Hicks has said he believes HomeVestors helps communities by purchasing difficult-to-sell properties and returning them to the market in an improved condition. “As CEO of HomeVestors, I have witnessed firsthand how we have been able to make a direct impact on people and communities in which we operate. It is this feeling of helping others that has kept me in this business for nearly 20 years,” he said in his letter.

ProPublica’s reporting, however, found HomeVestors focused its advertising campaigns on people in vulnerable situations and taught franchise owners how to “find the pain” of a homeowner in order to buy houses for rock-bottom prices. In some cases, franchisees targeted elderly homeowners who did not understand the contracts they signed. Others were in such dire financial situations that they became homeless after selling to a HomeVestors franchise.

In a 2020 interview, Hicks said houses targeted by his company smell so bad flippers want to take a shower after visiting them.

“That cat piss smell, you know what that smell is?” he said with a chuckle. “That’s money.”

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 30, 2023 • 6:35:37am

ABC News threatens to dump Trump’s favorite pollster over alleged Steve Bannon ties

rawstory.com

One of the top conservative pollsters has announced they are on the verge of no longer being included in ABC’s FiveThirtyEight polling aggregations over questions about their methodology and questionable ties to rightwing outlets and bloggers.

Late Thursday, pollster Rasmussen Reports, long a favorite of Donald Trump for its pro-conservative leanings, published an email from Elliott Morris, Editorial Director of Data Analytics at ABC News, asking for detailed information on how they arrive at their polling results as well as questions over whether they cater their results in return for favorable coverage.

On the Rasmussen website they published what they claimed was the complete email from Morris, who warned, “I am emailing you to send a final notice that FiveThirtyEight is considering formally banning Rasmussen Reports from its coverage. Such a ban would result in being removed from listing on our main polls page and being excluded from all of our aggregation and election forecasting models. If banned, Rasmussen Reports would also be removed from our historical averages of polls and from our pollster ratings. Your surveys would no longer appear in reporting and we would write an article explaining our reasons for the ban.”

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 30, 2023 • 6:39:06am

re: #198 Joe Bacon ✅

Oh please oh please oh please… Like it or not, the original FiveThirtyEight electoral model is still the best one out there, the one thing Nate Silver has really done right (though some of his work with baseball sabermetrics hasn’t been bad). Their recognition of the worthlessness of Rasmussen polls would be delicious vindication for those of us who have been pointing out for years their outright bias.

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Eventual Carrion  Jun 30, 2023 • 6:40:02am

re: #144 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 30, 2023 • 6:41:12am

Just waiting for the Sleazy Six to kill Joe’s Student Loan Relief…

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 30, 2023 • 6:41:24am

I think we see a pretty consistent pattern of him wishing he was a dictator, wishing he could be Putin in America. That’s what’s dark to me about it. That’s what he really wants. He wants to be a dictator.”

— Chris Christie, speaking to the Financial Times about Donald Trump.

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wrenchwench  Jun 30, 2023 • 6:44:01am

Mastodon

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 30, 2023 • 6:44:31am

re: #192 Belafon

The reason to have Justice Jackson on the Supreme Court is exactly the same reason colleges need to have minorities on campus.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jun 30, 2023 • 6:45:59am

re: #97 Belafon

OK. One more thing. An ad for a Canadian e-bike got me looking, and while I can’t find that bike being sold in the US, I found this one:

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That’s their very weird bike meant to look like a motorcycle. You’d have to have legs of just the right length for it to be comfortable. I bought their LMT’D not long ago.

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gocart mozart  Jun 30, 2023 • 6:53:19am

re: #30 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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No Malarkey!  Jun 30, 2023 • 6:54:03am

re: #201 Joe Bacon ✅

Just waiting for the Sleazy Six to kill Joe’s Student Loan Relief…

I’m still hoping that they recognize the standing problem the plaintiffs have, despite their deep desire to dictate policy to the Administration.

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No Malarkey!  Jun 30, 2023 • 6:54:37am

Every accusation is a confession. Trump shared classified plans with an agent of China.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 30, 2023 • 6:54:41am

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Florida Panhandler  Jun 30, 2023 • 6:56:43am

re: #204 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

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He is in it only for himself, with everyone eligible to be burned into ashes as long as he sits on top at the end. His supporting white supremacists is not self-hatred, Conservative orthodoxy or rigid belief in Classical Libertariansim. It is simply a self-promoting strategy appealing to right wing powers that be to advance his own long term personal station in life at the direct expense of anyone and everyone. …Period.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 30, 2023 • 6:57:50am

re: #197 Joe Bacon ✅

I have witnessed firsthand how we have been able to make a direct impact on people and communities in which we operate.

He saw firsthand what the PR people who arranged the photo ops wanted him to see.

Not the reality of how the business was actually being run.

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 30, 2023 • 6:58:13am

re: #209 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

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darthstar  Jun 30, 2023 • 6:58:22am

Feeling a little tired this morning…not sure if it’s from going to a show last night or waking up at 1:30 to de-skunk Milo.

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No Malarkey!  Jun 30, 2023 • 7:03:52am

Turns out no-one ever asked her to.

: The First Amendment prohibits Colorado from forcing a website
designer to create expressive designs speaking messages with which
the designer disagrees.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 30, 2023 • 7:06:30am

The Sleazy Six Strike Again and defend the racist web designer.

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 30, 2023 • 7:08:13am

re: #215 Joe Bacon ✅

The Sleazy Six Strike Again and defend the racist web designer.

And so it is now the law of the land that Christian business owners get to deny service to anyone they want, because their religious beliefs are more important than anyone else’s basic rights.

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No Malarkey!  Jun 30, 2023 • 7:10:15am

re: #216 Nerdy Fish

And so it is now the law of the land that Christian business owners get to deny service to anyone they want, because their religious beliefs are more important than anyone else’s basic rights.

Lets see how long it takes before someone puts up a “no blacks” sign because their religion prohibits “race mixing.”

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 30, 2023 • 7:10:26am

Post has it up now.

Supreme Court protects web designer who won’t do gay wedding websites

washingtonpost.com

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority ruled in favor of an evangelical Christian graphic artist from Colorado who does not want to create wedding websites for same-sex couples, despite the state’s protective anti-discrimination law.

The vote split along ideological lines 6 to 3, with the liberals in dissent.

It was the court’s latest examination of the clash between laws requiring equal treatment for the LGBTQ community and those who say their religious beliefs lead them to regard same-sex marriages as “false.”

The Sleazy Six have given a green light for Xtians to discriminate against whomever they choose.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jun 30, 2023 • 7:11:30am

re: #218 Joe Bacon ✅

Then fuck that fascist bigot. Hope their business dies.

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Belafon  Jun 30, 2023 • 7:13:09am

re: #218 Joe Bacon ✅

Post has it up now.

Supreme Court protects web designer who won’t do gay wedding websites

washingtonpost.com

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority ruled in favor of an evangelical Christian graphic artist from Colorado who does not want to create wedding websites for same-sex couples, despite the state’s protective anti-discrimination law.

The vote split along ideological lines 6 to 3, with the liberals in dissent.

It was the court’s latest examination of the clash between laws requiring equal treatment for the LGBTQ community and those who say their religious beliefs lead them to regard same-sex marriages as “false.”

The Sleazy Six have given a green light for Xtians to discriminate against whomever they choose.

It’s time to build a national database of businesses worth using.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jun 30, 2023 • 7:15:05am

re: #176 TarHellion

Promising start but settled for the par.

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 30, 2023 • 7:16:29am

Here’s the thing: I remember, when we talked about the gay wedding website designer case, that there’s an argument to be made that a creative designer shouldn’t be forced to express speech they disagree with. To give a concrete example: I don’t think the designer should be forced to make websites that say, “I, Designer X, approve of gay marriages.” Making a wedding website for a gay couple does not, to me, imply acceptance of gay marriage, and does not violate this constraint. The Supreme Court has, with this ruling, gone out and made that leap on their own, now effectively saying, “Performing a service for someone is, legally speaking, an explicit endorsement of whatever that person is requesting, and thus, the service provider has the right to decline service on the grounds that they don’t actually endorse whatever that is.” This now means that we can feel free to deny all kinds of services to Republicans, because we do not approve of what Republicans stand for.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jun 30, 2023 • 7:16:46am
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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 30, 2023 • 7:17:21am

The Sleazy Six can’t wait to overturn Obergefell.

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ericblair  Jun 30, 2023 • 7:17:25am

re: #214 No Malarkey!

Turns out no-one ever asked her to.

: The First Amendment prohibits Colorado from forcing a website
designer to create expressive designs speaking messages with which
the designer disagrees.

This is now straight-up absolutely literal legislating from the bench. There was no case, but the crooks on the Court made binding rules on the nation anyways.

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 30, 2023 • 7:18:39am

re: #224 Joe Bacon ✅

The Sleazy Six can’t wait to overturn Obergefell.

At the rate they’re going, they’re going to overturn whatever case reversed Dred Scott. Jesus H. Fucking Christ.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 30, 2023 • 7:18:52am

re: #225 ericblair

This is now straight-up absolutely literal legislating from the bench. There was no case, but the crooks on the Court made binding rules on the nation anyways.

Ain’t it amazing how the RepubliKKKlans who whine about “liberal activist judges” applaud when the Sleazy Six actually do that?

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Egregious Philbin  Jun 30, 2023 • 7:19:27am

re: #205 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Eh, I like a bike that looks more like a bike! I just got a new Pedego Interceptor. My old Interceptor had a small bit of metal under the battery break. I had put about 9000 miles on it! Anyway, the bike has a lifetime frame replacement warranty on it. They upgraded the model about a year back, so they didn’t have any of the previous generation, so I got a completely new bike. I already had the new battery which worked with the old bike. Sadly, the old battery doesn’t work with a new bike. My suggestion is to buy an e bike from a brick and mortar dealer. Money spent locally, and if something breaks, you have a dealer to go to.

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No Malarkey!  Jun 30, 2023 • 7:20:47am

re: #227 Joe Bacon ✅

Ain’t it amazing how the RepubliKKKlans who whine about “liberal activist judges” applaud when the Sleazy Six actually do that?

Shameless hypocrisy is their superpower.

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darthstar  Jun 30, 2023 • 7:22:08am

Got this shirt for the Elvis Costello show at the Silver Legacy that I ended up missing.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jun 30, 2023 • 7:22:23am

re: #192 Belafon

The reason to have Justice Jackson on the Supreme Court is exactly the same reason colleges need to have minorities on campus.

If she were a white male, no-one would question her resume. “Affirmative action” doesn’t mean you need to compromise on quality.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 30, 2023 • 7:23:04am

re: #192 Belafon

The reason to have Justice Jackson on the Supreme Court is exactly the same reason colleges need to have minorities on campus.

I do hope she gets to author an important majority decision someday.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 30, 2023 • 7:23:29am

Slappy T grumbles to his traitorous wife about Jackson hurting his fee-fees…

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No Malarkey!  Jun 30, 2023 • 7:24:28am

re: #232 Eclectic Cyborg

I do hope she gets to author an important majority decision someday.

I think she wrote an opinion of the court this term.

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ericblair  Jun 30, 2023 • 7:24:37am
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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 30, 2023 • 7:25:29am

re: #235 ericblair

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 30, 2023 • 7:25:44am

So now we’re just waiting for them to announce that they’re killing the student loan forgiveness program, and then they’ll be off on their latest Leonard Leo-funded luxury vacation while leaving millions of people completely fucked over, and not only will they not care, they will revel in the unilateral power that they have to destroy people’s lives and the progress we’ve made as a society. And all we’ll get is more strong speeches from Democrats; not a damn thing will be done about it.

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No Malarkey!  Jun 30, 2023 • 7:27:01am

re: #236 Joe Bacon ✅

Missed that part where the Sleazy Six said it had to be sincere…

Courts won’t look into the sincerity of your religious belief, because that will land them in a theological quagmire they have no interest in. You just have to assert that its based in your religion.

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No Malarkey!  Jun 30, 2023 • 7:27:52am
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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 30, 2023 • 7:28:07am

Just wondering how much more of this the Sleazy Six will impose before they finally cross the line and go too far?

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 30, 2023 • 7:31:39am

re: #240 Joe Bacon ✅

Just wondering how much more of this the Sleazy Six will impose before they finally cross the line and go too far?

What line? There’s no line they can’t cross, at this point. No Republican would dare vote to impeach any of them; I daresay Sam Alito could walk out into the streets of DC, shoot a man dead, and Republicans would figure out why that man deserved it and how it’s not an impeachable offense.

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No Malarkey!  Jun 30, 2023 • 7:32:04am

Two decisions on student loans, so its possible they toss one set of plaintiffs for standing and block debt cancellation for the other plaintiffs.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jun 30, 2023 • 7:32:50am

re: #237 Nerdy Fish

So now we’re just waiting for them to announce that they’re killing the student loan forgiveness program, and then they’ll be off on their latest Leonard Leo-funded luxury vacation while leaving millions of people completely fucked over, and not only will they not care, they will revel in the unilateral power that they have to destroy people’s lives and the progress we’ve made as a society. And all we’ll get is more strong speeches from Democrats; not a damn thing will be done about it.

And what can the Democrats do about it??? They can’t pass any legislation because the GOP controls the House. The only way to stop this is to stop electing Republicans and eventually get a SCOTUS that rules differently. This could have been prevented if progressives had all supported Hillary in 2016 but we don’t have a time machine and are stuck in this reality.

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No Malarkey!  Jun 30, 2023 • 7:34:26am

First student loan opinion.

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wrenchwench  Jun 30, 2023 • 7:38:11am

Mastodon

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darthstar  Jun 30, 2023 • 7:38:48am

Mastodon

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No Malarkey!  Jun 30, 2023 • 7:39:14am

And there it is.

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 30, 2023 • 7:39:59am

re: #243 Hecuba’s daughter

And what can the Democrats do about it??? They can’t pass any legislation because the GOP controls the House. The only way to stop this is to stop electing Republicans and eventually get a SCOTUS that rules differently. This could have been prevented if progressives had all supported Hillary in 2016 but we don’t have a time machine and are stuck in this reality.

I can accept that I, personally, am powerless to affect the situation, as much as that still galls me. As a solitary voter, the only thing I can really do is vote, and add my voice to the crowd by calling my representative and my senator and telling them my frustrations. (Though my representative wouldn’t give two shits; he’s a Republican. He probably wouldn’t even take my call, because they only consider fellow Republicans “constituents.”) It feels beyond absurd to me that the majority party in this country can’t do anything to rein in these rogue assholes who are running roughshod over everything. I hear what you’re saying, and part of me understands that, but there’s a part of me that can’t accept that EVERYBODY is helpless in the face of these tyrants. I just can’t.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 30, 2023 • 7:40:56am

And they go there.

businessinsider.com

The Supreme Court strikes down Biden’s student-loan forgiveness plan, blocking debt relief for millions of borrowers

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jun 30, 2023 • 7:41:14am

re: #241 Nerdy Fish

What line? There’s no line they can’t cross, at this point. No Republican would dare vote to impeach any of them; I daresay Sam Alito could walk out into the streets of DC, shoot a man dead, and Republicans would figure out why that man deserved it and how it’s not an impeachable offense.

I presume the person’s existence as a living being upsetting Alito’s religious “beliefs” would be sufficient.
/

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jun 30, 2023 • 7:41:41am

I imagine Tolkien’s elanor looked something like this.

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Belafon  Jun 30, 2023 • 7:41:57am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 30, 2023 • 7:43:04am

re: #249 Joe Bacon ✅

And they go there.

businessinsider.com

The Supreme Court strikes down Biden’s student-loan forgiveness plan, blocking debt relief for millions of borrowers

The cruelty is the point?

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Egregious Philbin  Jun 30, 2023 • 7:43:29am

re: #223 Backwoods Sleuth

Damn….Serpentine!!!!

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jun 30, 2023 • 7:43:29am

Will this motivate or discourage the younger generations to vote…

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jun 30, 2023 • 7:44:25am

re: #252 Belafon

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Ask if they’ll make a cake for your same-sex wedding. You can change the little figure at the top at the last minute.

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No Malarkey!  Jun 30, 2023 • 7:44:29am

re: #253 Eclectic Cyborg

The cruelty is the point?

I haven’t read it, but I’m guessing its based on the “major questions” doctrine, which is the doctrine that SCOTUS can veto any Administration policy it doesn’t like.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 30, 2023 • 7:44:51am

Bottom line—Republicans don’t want kids going to college…unless they go to Hillsdale to get brainwashed…

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Belafon  Jun 30, 2023 • 7:44:54am
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Nerdy Fish  Jun 30, 2023 • 7:46:10am

re: #258 Joe Bacon ✅

Bottom line—Republicans don’t want kids going to college…unless they go to Hillsdale to get brainwashed…

No, no, no. Rich white (presumably Christian) kids get to go to college, especially the prestigious ones. Black kids have to remain in second-class status, where they belong.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jun 30, 2023 • 7:46:27am

re: #255 GlutenFreeJesus

Will this motivate or discourage the younger generations to vote…

So far, it’s motivated them. Just remind them that the mess non-voters made won’t be cleaned up in a year or two, nor by a single election.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 30, 2023 • 7:46:28am

re: #260 Nerdy Fish

No, no, no. Rich white (presumably Christian) kids get to go to college, especially the prestigious ones. Black kids have to remain in second-class status, where they belong.

THIS.

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Dr. Matt  Jun 30, 2023 • 7:46:39am

Looks like twitter no longer allows people without accounts to view content. When I go to the web version, you are re-directed to a sign in/up landing page. Oh well….no more stalking for me.

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jeffreyw  Jun 30, 2023 • 7:46:44am

Miss Bea

Good morning!

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Jun 30, 2023 • 7:48:30am

re: #222 Nerdy Fish

Here’s the thing: I remember, when we talked about the gay wedding website designer case, that there’s an argument to be made that a creative designer shouldn’t be forced to express speech they disagree with. To give a concrete example: I don’t think the designer should be forced to make websites that say, “I, Designer X, approve of gay marriages.” Making a wedding website for a gay couple does not, to me, imply acceptance of gay marriage, and does not violate this constraint. The Supreme Court has, with this ruling, gone out and made that leap on their own, now effectively saying, “Performing a service for someone is, legally speaking, an explicit endorsement of whatever that person is requesting, and thus, the service provider has the right to decline service on the grounds that they don’t actually endorse whatever that is.” This now means that we can feel free to deny all kinds of services to Republicans, because we do not approve of what Republicans stand for.

It is usually legal to discriminate on the grounds of political belief. A lot of Nazis and their lepertarian enablers found that out the hard way after Charlottesville. A little later a landlord in Colorado Springs ran an ad declaring that he would not rent to Republicans. The usual suspects raised a mighty howl from coast to coast and provided unlimited funding for a lawsuit. Sorry, the court said, he is within his rights.

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No Malarkey!  Jun 30, 2023 • 7:51:13am

re: #261 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

So far, it’s motivated them. Just remind them that the mess non-voters made won’t be cleaned up in a year or two, nor by a single election.

If the Democrats manage to get the kids to turn out next year to give them full control of the federal government, I hope there will be 50 Democratic Senators willing to reform the filibuster. If they tell these voters, sorry, even though you gave us control to do these things for you, we allow the Republicans to block it, those voters may well say, “then what’s the point in even voting?”

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Dr. Matt  Jun 30, 2023 • 7:51:58am

I’m thinking this isn’t a very challenging game. 5 aces in row:

Connections
Puzzle #19
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟪🟪🟪
nytimes.com

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darthstar  Jun 30, 2023 • 7:53:05am

Not a good time to have student debt…or be gay…or black…or female in this country.

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darthstar  Jun 30, 2023 • 7:55:09am

re: #267 Dr. Matt

I’m thinking this isn’t a very challenging game. 5 aces in row:

Connections
Puzzle #19
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟪🟪🟪
nytimes.com

I didn’t finish yesterday but aced it today. Interesting to see the different order of solutions though.

Connections
Puzzle #19
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 30, 2023 • 7:55:12am

re: #268 darthstar

Not a good time to have student debt…or be gay…or black…or female in this country.

Or be trans or Muslim or Jewish or pregnant or…well, shit. We might be here awhile.

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Dr. Matt  Jun 30, 2023 • 7:55:49am

re: #268 darthstar

Not a good time to have student debt…or be gay…or black…or female in this country.

Sums up the history of the US of A.

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 30, 2023 • 7:56:28am

re: #270 Eclectic Cyborg

Or be trans or Muslim or Jewish or pregnant or…well, shit. We might be here awhile.

Faster to list the people who ARE going to be okay:

* White, rich, Christian, and male.
* Married to or directly descended from a white, rich, Christian male.

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Dr. Matt  Jun 30, 2023 • 7:57:21am

re: #269 darthstar

I didn’t finish yesterday but aced it today. Interesting to see the different order of solutions though.

We both got blue first….probably speaks to our dietary choices? :)

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Nojay UK  Jun 30, 2023 • 8:00:30am

re: #263 Dr. Matt

Looks like twitter no longer allows people without accounts to view content. When I go to the web version, you are re-directed to a sign in/up landing page.

I don’t have a Twitter account, never have. Sometimes following a Twitter link here on LGF and elsewhere I’d get a snapshot of the linked page with large obtrusive popups “suggesting” that I log in or sign up to Twitter. This popup didn’t happen consistently, now it does every time.

Web site designers often trial possible “upgrades” and changes to the website by rolling it out to 1% or 5% of page views and monitor what the results are. I figured the popups or lack of them for Twitter links was just such an experiment but now the experiment is over and all non-Twitterati are permanently excluded from Elon’s backyard playground.

Heads up to anyone just posting a Twitter link in the future, assume that some people seeing your post won’t be able to follow it like you can and maybe post more detail or screen snapshots.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jun 30, 2023 • 8:01:32am

re: #263 Dr. Matt

Looks like twitter no longer allows people without accounts to view content. When I go to the web version, you are re-directed to a sign in/up landing page. Oh well….no more stalking for me.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 30, 2023 • 8:03:39am

So, I just read that 26 million people had applied for student loan forgiveness.

That’s a lot of pissed off potential voters.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 30, 2023 • 8:04:56am

re: #276 Eclectic Cyborg

So, I just read that 26 million people had applied for student loan forgiveness.

That’s a lot of pissed off potential voters.

Will that finally be the line that the corrupted court should not have crossed or will folks still be glued to their TV sets watching the latest antics of the Kardashians?

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ericblair  Jun 30, 2023 • 8:04:59am

Should be, but of course it’s all Calvinball and logical consistency went down the shitter a while ago.

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 30, 2023 • 8:05:12am

re: #276 Eclectic Cyborg

So, I just read that 26 million people had applied for student loan forgiveness.

That’s a lot of pissed off potential voters.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Jun 30, 2023 • 8:05:22am

re: #265 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

Another example: Goobertarian gun stores and shooting ranges were within their rights when they put up signs prohibiting Obama voters. They did not explain how they might know such a person if one walked in off the street, but that is beside the point. Otoh, those who put up signs prohibiting Muslims were liable to prosecution. Political discrimination is legal, religious discrimination is not.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jun 30, 2023 • 8:05:32am

re: #266 No Malarkey!

If the Democrats manage to get the kids to turn out next year to give them full control of the federal government, I hope there will be 50 Democratic Senators willing to reform the filibuster. If they tell these voters, sorry, even though you gave us control to do these things for you, we allow the Republicans to block it, those voters may well say, “then what’s the point in even voting?”

As I said, more than one election. Also, don’t quit at the first setback — or don’t come crying to me about the eebil government that oppresses you. (Women’s suffrage took a century or more.)

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Belafon  Jun 30, 2023 • 8:05:43am

re: #276 Eclectic Cyborg

So, I just read that 26 million people had applied for student loan forgiveness.

That’s a lot of pissed off potential voters.

As long as they understand that it was Republicans, not Biden. Too many were complaining back when he was forgiving loans that he wasn’t doing enough.

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 30, 2023 • 8:06:33am

re: #280 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

Another example: Goobertarian gun stores and shooting ranges were within their rights when they put up signs prohibiting Obama voters. They did not explain how they might know such a person if one walked in off the street, but that is beside the point. Otoh, those who put up signs prohibiting Muslims were liable to prosecution. Political discrimination is legal, religious discrimination is not.

For now. This Court seems dead set on allowing religious discrimination, as long as it’s not against the “true” religion.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jun 30, 2023 • 8:07:38am

re: #268 darthstar

Not a good time to have student debt…or be gay…or black…or female in a red state in this country.

FTFY

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jun 30, 2023 • 8:09:35am

re: #274 Nojay UK

I don’t have a Twitter account, never have. Sometimes following a Twitter link here on LGF and elsewhere I’d get a snapshot of the linked page with large obtrusive popups “suggesting” that I log in or sign up to Twitter. This popup didn’t happen consistently, now it does every time.

Web site designers often trial possible “upgrades” and changes to the website by rolling it out to 1% or 5% of page views and monitor what the results are. I figured the popups or lack of them for Twitter links was just such an experiment but now the experiment is over and all non-Twitterati are permanently excluded from Elon’s backyard playground.

Heads up to anyone just posting a Twitter link in the future, assume that some people seeing your post won’t be able to follow it like you can and maybe post more detail or screen snapshots.

And screenshots will probably cause less trouble for Charles’s hamsters.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 30, 2023 • 8:19:13am

Mormon parents sued a school district after their son had sex in the parking lot

GASP!

open.substack.com

“The school district did not coerce JD into acting against his religious beliefs,” said the judge

Did school officials do anything wrong here? You could make a case either way, but their action—or, rather, inaction—led the mother and her husband to file a lawsuit against the Alpine School District claiming that the unsupervised time violated the free exercise of their Mormon faith.

Why? Because they found out that JD and his girlfriend had sex multiple times that week in the parking lot. And premarital sex went against their religion.

OH NO HE DIDN’T…OH YES HE DID…

A federal judge has now tossed out the lawsuit, and her ruling is downright hilarious to read in full because of how batshit crazy these parents come across.

No one doubts that the Mormon Church urges abstinence before marriage. In the case of these parents, they learned their son was doing it anyway (even before the parking lot incidents) and placed restrictions on him. He always needed a chaperone when he was around his girlfriend. He could only travel to and from school with a sibling.

And yet JD found ways around that… as teenagers often do.

U.S. District Judge Jill N. Parrish simply didn’t buy that the school district was to blame, or that they violated any kind of religious rights in the process:

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No Malarkey!  Jun 30, 2023 • 8:19:53am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 30, 2023 • 8:20:16am

hi

So, the Supreme Court will allow Christians to discriminate against everyone.

This sets up a challenge to the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which prohibits religious discrimination.

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Orange Impostor  Jun 30, 2023 • 8:20:55am

re: #224 Joe Bacon ✅

The Sleazy Six can’t wait to overturn Obergefell.

They can’t wait to overturn Obergefell, Brown v Board of Education, Loving v Virginia, and to gut the 14th Amendment by overturning United States v. Wong Kim Ark. The return of Jim Crow laws is just around the corner.

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Florida Panhandler  Jun 30, 2023 • 8:22:46am

re: #217 No Malarkey!

Lets see how long it takes before someone puts up a “no blacks” sign because their religion prohibits “race mixing.”

Coming soon to lots of rural areas:

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No Malarkey!  Jun 30, 2023 • 8:24:08am

re: #281 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

As I said, more than one election. Also, don’t quit at the first setback — or don’t come crying to me about the eebil government that oppresses you. (Women’s suffrage took a century or more.)

My point is, if Democrats tell voters “You did your part, but we still won’t do anything because the Republicans don’t want us to,” that effectively tells voters that voting is pointless, and it doesn’t matter if they keep showing up to vote.

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wrenchwench  Jun 30, 2023 • 8:24:18am

re: #288 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

This sets up a challenge to the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which prohibits religious discrimination.

So we can appeal, to the Super Duper Court?

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Jun 30, 2023 • 8:24:59am

Police say tourist filmed allegedly carving ‘Ivan+Hayley’ on Rome’s Colosseum has been identified

…..

after a spate of Americans trashing Italian heritage sites last year, some readers will be relieved to know that this time, the suspect isn’t from the US - he’s from the UK.

No word on whether the British barbarian has been arrested, but he is in deep trouble once they nab him.

If convicted of a crime, the man could face a fine of at least 15,000 euros ($16,360) or up to five years in prison, according to Italian news agency Ansa.

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Belafon  Jun 30, 2023 • 8:27:06am

re: #291 No Malarkey!

My point is, if Democrats tell voters “You did your part, but we still won’t do anything because the Republicans don’t want us to,” that effectively tells voters that voting is pointless, and it doesn’t matter if they keep showing up to vote.

The message is, and the Democrats know this, is “You voted, we responded, and Republicans on the Supreme Court are trying to undo that. We need you to do more so that we can do more.”

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sagehen  Jun 30, 2023 • 8:27:58am

re: #290 Florida Panhandler

Coming soon to lots of rural areas:

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what about Jews?

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Belafon  Jun 30, 2023 • 8:28:43am

The one thing different between now and the 60s is that the views held by the Republicans on the Supreme Court are not held by the majority of Americans on any of these decisions. We have the power to vote against them, and to boycott businesses that attempt to discriminate.

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wrenchwench  Jun 30, 2023 • 8:28:49am

re: #291 No Malarkey!

My point is, if Democrats tell voters “You did your part, but we still won’t do anything because the Republicans don’t want us to,” that effectively tells voters that voting is pointless, and it doesn’t matter if they keep showing up to vote.

That’s when it’s time to vote in the primaries. Democrats can be replaced with better Democrats.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 30, 2023 • 8:29:33am

Reason is down. I suspect the Libertarians are all orgasming over there splooging all over their computers over today’s Supreme Court decisions.

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Orange Impostor  Jun 30, 2023 • 8:29:33am

re: #290 Florida Panhandler

That sign will be changed to ban Hispanics, Blacks and Jews.

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Belafon  Jun 30, 2023 • 8:30:12am

re: #293 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

“You must stare at that spot until the rock regrows and heals.”

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 30, 2023 • 8:30:17am

Hey, guys, don’t worry about student loans! If they get too crushingly overbearing for you, you could just… die! Thanks, NY Times, for the helpful advice!

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Unabogie  Jun 30, 2023 • 8:31:19am

re: #296 Belafon

The one thing different between now and the 60s is that the views held by the Republicans on the Supreme Court are not held by the majority of Americans on any of these decisions. We have the power to vote against them, and to boycott businesses that attempt to discriminate.

This is true. The only thing they have to counter this is a disinformation apparatus that is extremely effective. They can fool a lot of people into believing that Biden is responsible for bad things the GOP does. That right there is the biggest problem we face.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 30, 2023 • 8:32:40am

re: #295 sagehen

what about Jews?

As someone who remembers before LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act—when I was not allowed to swim in the borough pool, unable to step foot in the JC Penneys store when I was a kid, not allowed to go into multiple places because they were “RESTRICTED” because I am Jewish. I damn well remember that and I also know that the Sleazy Six are slobbering for the chance to overturn the CRA and return to the days of Jim Crow and Plessy when we were second class people.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 30, 2023 • 8:32:45am

re: #296 Belafon

The one thing different between now and the 60s is that the views held by the Republicans on the Supreme Court are not held by the majority of Americans on any of these decisions. We have the power to vote against them, and to boycott businesses that attempt to discriminate.

That works in cities. In rural areas, were fuqued.

I’m not looking forward to making 260-mile round trips to the Commissary in Wyoming if it comes to Christian discrimination.

It will also work like Jim Crow did: Even if you’re a business owner who doesn’t discriminate, the majority of the business owners who do will use that against him or her to drive them out of business. “Why would you want to shop there? They serve Blacks, Jews, Teh Geyh, and atheists!”

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Belafon  Jun 30, 2023 • 8:32:45am
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Belafon  Jun 30, 2023 • 8:35:10am

Someone smarter than me - and who likes to read SCOTUS rulings- is going to have to verify the first part of his statement:

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William Lewis  Jun 30, 2023 • 8:36:10am

Ok, I’m not a baseball fan but this was so bad it had me rolling with laughter.

instagram.com

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 30, 2023 • 8:36:14am

Wonkette winds the clock back to 1983 for today in labour history.

That Time Ann Coulter’s Dad Busted The Copper Miners’ Union (today)

On June 30, 1983, workers at the Phelps-Dodge Corporation copper mines in Arizona went on strike. Led by the United Steelworkers of America, miners fought bravely against Phelps-Dodge’s decision to bust their union, but faced with overwhelming odds, they lost the strike, bringing in the heyday of corporations busting the unions and moving aggressively toward a completely non-union workplace.

(more)

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 30, 2023 • 8:37:33am

Memories from childhood when we needed a larger temple so we put it up for sale. Banks would not lend us money to buy or build a larger temple. Savings and loans said no. So we had to appeal to others to help and we got several benefactors to build the larger temple.

Oh and this was ALSO before LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act…

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 30, 2023 • 8:39:21am

re: #306 Belafon

Someone smarter than me - and who likes to read SCOTUS rulings- is going to have to verify the first part of his statement:

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If true, it would be amazing if Biden had a, “Chief Justice Roberts has made his decision. Now let him enforce it.” moment over this. Saying, “The law allows it, but I don’t wanna,” is just screaming for that exact response.

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Belafon  Jun 30, 2023 • 8:40:04am

re: #310 Nerdy Fish

If true, it would be amazing if Biden had a, “Chief Justice Roberts has made his decision. Now let him enforce it.” moment over this. Saying, “The law allows it, but I don’t wanna,” is just screaming for that exact response.

That’s why I want to verify it.

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 30, 2023 • 8:41:31am

re: #311 Belafon

That’s why I want to verify it.

It would also be very on brand for Alito’s Calvinball Court. The conservative majority clearly feel that they are the ultimate authority in America. Having a ruling that amounts to them saying, “This may be the law, but we reject that reality and substitute our own,” would be an explicit confirmation of that belief.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jun 30, 2023 • 8:42:17am

re: #291 No Malarkey!

My point is, if Democrats tell voters “You did your part, but we still won’t do anything because the Republicans don’t want us to,” that effectively tells voters that voting is pointless, and it doesn’t matter if they keep showing up to vote.

My point is, if the democrat you voted for won’t do what you voted him (!) in for, primary him.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Jun 30, 2023 • 8:45:13am

Got it! Back some younger person in setting up a liberal gun store. Call it “The John Brown Arsenal.” Sell subversive books and firearms liability insurance too. Put up a sign saying “We don’t serve terrorists, criminals or Republicans.” Ban AR-15s. Emphasize shotguns, manual action rifles and suppressed pistols. Fly a white dish towel labeled “Last Confederate banner.”

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 30, 2023 • 8:48:56am

Words of Wis-DUMB from Larry Elder

Speaking with Newsweek, Elder proposed that GOP primary voters — before casting their ballots — ask themselves, “Have you lost friends because of Donald Trump? Are you walking on eggshells at work because of Donald Trump? Do you have strained relationships with your family and relatives because of Donald Trump?”

Larry doesn’t realize that’s a badge of honor with MAGATS.

rawstory.com

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 30, 2023 • 8:50:09am
Reuters: BIDEN WILL ANNOUNCE NEW ACTIONS TO PROTECT STUDENT LOAN BORROWERS -WHITE HOUSE SOURCE

That SCOTUS will just knock down next term.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 30, 2023 • 8:50:55am

re: #218 Joe Bacon ✅

It was the court’s latest examination of the clash between laws requiring equal treatment for the LGBTQ community and those who say their religious beliefs lead them to regard same-sex marriages as “false.”

whether you see them as true or holy in the eyes of the Lord is a religious viewpoint which you are free to express

but they are legal and valid and you are required by law to recognize that

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 30, 2023 • 8:55:55am

re: #276 Eclectic Cyborg

So, I just read that 26 million people had applied for student loan forgiveness.

That’s a lot of pissed off potential voters.

Because people have come to associate the court clearly with the GOP agenda

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 30, 2023 • 8:56:02am

re: #316 Eclectic Cyborg

That SCOTUS will just knock down next term.

“The Roberts Court has made its decision. Now let them enforce it.”

320
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 30, 2023 • 8:58:05am

re: #299 Orange Impostor

That sign will be changed to ban Hispanics, Blacks and Jews.

Florida already has one for Socialists, the woke and transvestites.

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rhuarc  Jun 30, 2023 • 8:58:35am

.

322
Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Jun 30, 2023 • 8:58:49am

re: #314 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

Got it! Back some younger person in setting up a liberal gun store. Call it “The John Brown Arsenal.” Sell subversive books and firearms liability insurance too. Put up a sign saying “We don’t serve terrorists, criminals or Republicans.” Ban AR-15s. Emphasize shotguns, manual action rifles and suppressed pistols. Fly a white dish towel labeled “Last Confederate banner.”

If I really wanted to spend the bucks I would get a restored and operational Maxim machine gun. It would be displayed on its tripod, surrounded by sandbags with its cooling jacket and other brass hardware polished to gleaming perfection. The sign would say, “This is real, it works, and it is legal. Licensing and registration are not suppression.”

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Orange Impostor  Jun 30, 2023 • 9:00:40am

re: #316 Eclectic Cyborg

If Biden announces that the federal government will assume all qualifying federally guaranteed student loans where the students file directly with the guarantors for the refunds, the states (and universities for that matter) have zero authority on this. The universities are getting their money so don’t have any reason to complain.

324
Belafon  Jun 30, 2023 • 9:01:56am

re: #316 Eclectic Cyborg

That SCOTUS will just knock down next term.

Then we can get angrier.

325
BigPapa  Jun 30, 2023 • 9:06:52am

re: #90 Belafon

That’s the opposite of ‘Very Articulate.’

326
BigPapa  Jun 30, 2023 • 9:12:13am

RIP Alan Arkin, 89. What a career. Thanks for entertaining us for so long.

327
Dr Lizardo  Jun 30, 2023 • 9:12:43am

In light of this SCOTUS decision, and this story here: theguardian.com warning the super-rich about massive civil disruption if they don’t start sharing the pie, I’m reminded of this fucking great song…

The Harder They Come

328
Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Jun 30, 2023 • 9:12:45am

Since I’m in gun nut mode today, I am wondering how long it will take MAGA and its lapdog court to subvert the Second Amendment and gin up a way to keep non-Christians, POC, and lgbqt from having firearms?

329
BeachDem  Jun 30, 2023 • 9:16:30am

re: #223 Backwoods Sleuth

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Went out in a blaze of glory with The Kominsky Method—show was definitely not the same without him.

330
Jay C  Jun 30, 2023 • 9:20:58am

re: #316 Eclectic Cyborg

That SCOTUS will just knock down next term.

In an election year.
Just in case anyone had forgotten…..
/

331
Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 30, 2023 • 9:23:18am

re: #327 Dr Lizardo

In light of this SCOTUS decision, and this story here: theguardian.com warning the super-rich about massive civil disruption if they don’t start sharing the pie, I’m reminded of this fucking great song…

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I remember seeing that movie when I was an undergrad at Pitt in the 70s. Thought it was awesome. Love Jimmy!

332
BeenHereAwhile  Jun 30, 2023 • 9:24:25am

re: #71 William Lewis

So, UP4014 the last BIGBOY was in Nebraska today. A UP train stalled out and needed assistance. So the second oldest locomotive still online for them was pushing revenue freight for UP in 2023.

A part of me would have rather it was UP844 instead because 844 is the _only_ steam locomotive from a class I railroad that was _never_ retired. It went into revenue service on Christmas Eve 1944 and has never “dropped her fires” But its still fun to see an old school oil burner engine get the job done… ;)

[Embedded content]

Video

ETA while still pulling her own manifest ;)

Driver wheel slip and sand drop @ ~9:40

Edit: ~9:20

333
William Lewis  Jun 30, 2023 • 9:24:44am

re: #322 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

If I really wanted to spend the bucks I would get a restored and operational Maxim machine gun. It would be displayed on its tripod, surrounded by sandbags with its cooling jacket and other brass hardware polished to gleaming perfection. The sign would say, “This is real, it works, and it is legal. Licensing and registration are not suppression.”

I’ve often considered spending the money for an M-2 selective fire carbine for similar reasons.

334
The GOP is a Terrorist Organization  Jun 30, 2023 • 9:27:53am

Anyone else getting this message from Twiiter?

335
Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 30, 2023 • 9:28:30am

A year from tomorrow will be the day I retire from the agency with a full pension…unless the Republicans fuck with my pension again…

336
Belafon  Jun 30, 2023 • 9:28:58am

re: #334 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization

Nope

337
William Lewis  Jun 30, 2023 • 9:29:39am

re: #314 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

Got it! Back some younger person in setting up a liberal gun store. Call it “The John Brown Arsenal.” Sell subversive books and firearms liability insurance too. Put up a sign saying “We don’t serve terrorists, criminals or Republicans.” Ban AR-15s. Emphasize shotguns, manual action rifles and suppressed pistols. Fly a white dish towel labeled “Last Confederate banner.”

I’ve considered moving to some place like Madison and opening a gunstore/bookstore/coffeshop with an indoor range and call it “The Lincoln Brigade” after the Spanish Civil War fighters. Socialist books.

Emphasize training for concealed carry by liberals, silencers & the like. The insurance idea is good - a clearing house for good legal assitance too.

The sign for that dish towel could be “The only confederate flag that matters”?

338
Dr Lizardo  Jun 30, 2023 • 9:30:50am

re: #331 Joe Bacon ✅

I remember seeing that movie when I was an undergrad at Pitt in the 70s. Thought it was awesome. Love Jimmy!

I never saw it until the mid-1990s at an arthouse cinema in Portland, OR. My girlfriend at the time and me were bored and just walking around, and we saw this film playing that night, so we went and saw it.

Pretty good film - though I think it’s biggest legacy is as the movie that introduced reggae to the world.

339
The GOP is a Terrorist Organization  Jun 30, 2023 • 9:32:09am

re: #336 Belafon

Nope

[Embedded content]

Must be a Chrome thing.

340
Dr Lizardo  Jun 30, 2023 • 9:35:22am

re: #337 William Lewis

Long time ago, Portland, OR had “The John Reed Book Store”, that - as you can probably guess - largely specialized in Marxist and Marxist-adjacent literature. They carried the classics by Marx, Lenin, Stalin and Engels, translations of Russian fairy tales and poetry, American Indian, Latin American and black literature, and of course, the works of John Reed.

And there were some pretty lively Sunday evening get-togethers. Everyone from locals to tourists to refugees discussed international political situations.

As I recall, it closed back in 1992,

341
Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 30, 2023 • 9:41:17am

re: #340 Dr Lizardo

Long time ago, Portland, OR had “The John Reed Bookstore”, that - as you can probably guess - largely specialized in Marxist and Marxist-adjacent literature. They carried the classics by Marx, Lenin, Stalin and Engels, translations of Russian fairy tales and poetry, American Indian, Latin American and black literature, and of course, the works of John Reed.

And there were some pretty lively Sunday evening get-togethers. Everyone from locals to tourists to refugees discussed international political situations.

As I recall, it closed back in 1992,

Santa Monica had the Midnight Special bookstore with similar leanings and it’s where I went to get the latest issues of 64 and Shakhmatny Bulletin the Russian chess magazines.

342
Belafon  Jun 30, 2023 • 9:45:34am

Thread

343
darthstar  Jun 30, 2023 • 9:47:16am

Mastodon

344
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 30, 2023 • 9:48:57am

re: #343 darthstar

the idea of being visited by aliens lost its appeal when i realized they’d likely just be some other planet’s asshole billionaires

Teasers:

“Teasers are usually rich kids with nothing to do. They cruise around looking for planets that haven’t made interstellar contact yet and buzz them.” “Buzz them?” Arthur began to feel that Ford was enjoying making life difficult for him. “Yeah,” said Ford, “they buzz them. They find some isolated spot with very few people around, then land right by some poor unsuspecting soul whom no one’s ever going to believe and then strut up and down in front of him wearing silly antennas on their head and making beep beep noises.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

345
darthstar  Jun 30, 2023 • 9:49:51am

Mastodon

346
austin_blue  Jun 30, 2023 • 9:52:06am

re: #334 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization

Anyone else getting this message from Twiiter?

[Embedded content]

If you’ve got an account, it’s working. If you are lurking (as I do on Stonekettle’s page), Twitter is dead to you.

347
darthstar  Jun 30, 2023 • 9:54:29am

re: #344 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Teasers:

“Teasers are usually rich kids with nothing to do. They cruise around looking for planets that haven’t made interstellar contact yet and buzz them.” “Buzz them?” Arthur began to feel that Ford was enjoying making life difficult for him. “Yeah,” said Ford, “they buzz them. They find some isolated spot with very few people around, then land right by some poor unsuspecting soul whom no one’s ever going to believe and then strut up and down in front of him wearing silly antennas on their head and making beep beep noises.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Mastodon

348
Florida Panhandler  Jun 30, 2023 • 9:54:59am

re: #227 Joe Bacon ✅

Ain’t it amazing how the RepubliKKKlans who whine about “liberal activist judges” applaud when the Sleazy Six actually do that?

It was ALWAYS projection- the desire to do whatever they accused other of.

349
The GOP is a Terrorist Organization  Jun 30, 2023 • 10:00:17am

re: #346 austin_blue

If you’ve got an account, it’s working. If you are lurking (as I do on Stonekettle’s page), Twitter is dead to you.

It’s back.

350
Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Jun 30, 2023 • 10:07:51am

re: #336 Belafon

As always, replace gay with jew or black and see if it’s OK..

351
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 30, 2023 • 10:08:26am

re: #337 William Lewis

I’ve considered moving to some place like Madison and opening a gunstore/bookstore/coffeshop with an indoor range and call it “The Lincoln Brigade” after the Spanish Civil War fighters. Socialist books.

Emphasize training for concealed carry by liberals, silencers & the like. The insurance idea is good - a clearing house for good legal assitance too.

The sign for that dish towel could be “The only confederate flag that matters”?

Well, here in Sidney there’s the herbal tea, pastry, and firearms shop. They have a digital sign which shows dancing muffins and teapots, with AR-15s scrolling across the sign.

352
Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Jun 30, 2023 • 10:13:26am

Yikes! This follow up to the jet ingestion story is 4 days old but I missed it until today:

Texas airport worker who was sucked into a plane’s engine died by suicide

The medical examiner’s office identified the worker as San Antonio resident David Renner, age 27.

The cause of his death is listed as “blunt and sharp force injuries,” the Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed to NPR in a phone call on Tuesday.

There were no details on how the suicide ruling was determined, whether he left a note for example. The NTSB is satisfied with the ruling though:

NTSB is not planning to investigate the death. “There were no operational safety issues with either the airplane or the airport,” the agency told NPR on Tuesday.

353
Belafon  Jun 30, 2023 • 10:28:31am

re: #350 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

As always, replace gay with jew or black and see if it’s OK..

The SCOTUS isn’t very far from allowing white owners to deny services to those groups.

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BeenHereAwhile  Jun 30, 2023 • 10:58:56am

re: #338 Dr Lizardo

I never saw it until the mid-1990s at an arthouse cinema in Portland, OR. My girlfriend at the time and me were bored and just walking around, and we saw this film playing that night, so we went and saw it.

Pretty good film - though I think it’s biggest legacy is as the movie that introduced reggae to the world.

This in 1969.

Desmond Dekker & The Aces – Israelites (Official Lyrics Video)

355
darthstar  Jun 30, 2023 • 4:05:47pm

re: #307 William Lewis

Ok, I’m not a baseball fan but this was so bad it had me rolling with laughter.

instagram.com

That was good.


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