The Midnight Special account at YouTube has been posting some real bangers from back in the day when it was the best late night concert show on TV; case in point, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers with arguably their first break-through hit.
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers performed on The Midnight Special June 2, 1978
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re: #239 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)
You know this Kari lake Chess stupidity….
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Best rando comment:
HAHAHAHAHA
If anything, trump is trying to eat the chess pieces
Kari hopes to be TFG’s VP. Sorry babe, RFK Jr. has it locked up.
re: #1 Vicious Babushka
Kari hopes to be TFG’s VP. Sorry babe, RFK Jr. has it locked up.
In days past, Kari Lake would have been institutionalized or burned at the stake.
What the hell is wrong with Matt Stoller’s brain?
Imagine if Ron DeSantis and Matt Stoller got married at Disneyland. That would be a nightmare scenario for his presidential campaign. I am also not betting on this happening.
— gocart mozart (@EdMix13) July 28, 2023
Today, President Biden signed an Executive Order boosting the incentive to manufacture new inventions in the U.S. when those inventions are developed using taxpayer dollars – supporting American manufacturing and American jobs in the industries of the future. pic.twitter.com/2F0sudJI57
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) July 29, 2023
teehee
via Will Amato on FB pic.twitter.com/ERjb4F38x3
— BB 🐝 💬 (@beebigelow) July 29, 2023
re: #4 Backwoods Sleuth
He’s been so effective at keeping cocaine out of Florida.
re: #231 wrenchwench
I already follow Qasim Rashid. I think I’ll add emptywheel. She dm’d me on twitter a million years ago, asking about something I posted. Then she became big. The nic bmaz rings a bell for me, probably from twitter, but it could just be tinnitus.
Will check out Qasim Rashid.
I’d check out Ken White/Popehat. Since he went solo his posts have better quality.
I’m slowly morphing from twitter to both mastodon & Bluesky to wait and see.
re: #4 Backwoods Sleuth
lolololololol
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il Duce says “In my White House there will be no cocaine allowed in the White House,”
il Duce so silent on all the cocaine Junior and his paramour did in the White House
re: #9 Backwoods Sleuth
Tiny Tim proves that he flunked English in High School.
Black republicans are being excoriated by their fellow republicans for disagreeing with DeSantis over slavery.
Bet they couldn’t see that coming from a predominantly white, mean, violent, vociferously racist political party. Surprise!— Larry Middleton - Post: @L78lancer 💙🇺🇸🌻 (@l78lancer) July 28, 2023
re: #3 gocart mozart
What the hell is wrong with Matt Stoller’s brain?
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He’s one of those red-to-brown people we’ve seen far too often in the last decade. Yeesh.
Nazi propaganda, explosive device, ammunition seized in L.A. raid, prosecutors say
Authorities say a dangerous member of a white supremacist group is off the streets after local and federal agents raided his home in Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley on Thursday.
Ryan Scott Bradford, 34, faces charges of conspiring to distribute methamphetamine and being a felon in possession of ammunition, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Friday.
Bradford was arrested when local and federal authorities served a search warrant at his home on White Oak Avenue in Reseda where they seized 116 rounds of ammunition, firearm parts, two 3D printers, various Nazi propaganda, and what appeared to be an improvised explosive device, prosecutors allege.
Many of the items, including a 3D printer with a swastika on its base, were spread out on the sidewalk in front of his home during the raid and visible in news helicopter footage.
The discovery of the possible explosive also prompted the closure of White Oak Avenue between Saticoy and Valerio streets for several hours.
“The defendant is a self-described anti-Semite associated with a white supremacist group which espouses the hatred of Jews and other minorities,” said Donald Alway, the Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office.
In an affidavit, prosecutors say Bradford created online handles that referenced the “Peckerwoods” - an extremist group with origins in the California state prison system.
re: #14 Joe Bacon ✅
Guys like this are one step above “generic Republican” on the Party Loyalty scale.
re: #8 BeenHereAwhile
I see by your upding that you saw my answer. Or not. It’s back there.
ed. for confusion
Before I moved to the PNW we had an are: #14 Joe Bacon ✅
Nazi propaganda, explosive device, ammunition seized in L.A. raid, prosecutors say
Authorities say a dangerous member of a white supremacist group is off the streets after local and federal agents raided his home in Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley on Thursday.
Ryan Scott Bradford, 34, faces charges of conspiring to distribute methamphetamine and being a felon in possession of ammunition, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Friday.
Bradford was arrested when local and federal authorities served a search warrant at his home on White Oak Avenue in Reseda where they seized 116 rounds of ammunition, firearm parts, two 3D printers, various Nazi propaganda, and what appeared to be an improvised explosive device, prosecutors allege.
Many of the items, including a 3D printer with a swastika on its base, were spread out on the sidewalk in front of his home during the raid and visible in news helicopter footage.
The discovery of the possible explosive also prompted the closure of White Oak Avenue between Saticoy and Valerio streets for several hours.
“The defendant is a self-described anti-Semite associated with a white supremacist group which espouses the hatred of Jews and other minorities,” said Donald Alway, the Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office.
In an affidavit, prosecutors say Bradford created online handles that referenced the “Peckerwoods” - an extremist group with origins in the California state prison system.
Before I moved to the PNW we had an apartment right near there. Along with fascists trying to shut down a book reading at my old Saticoy Elementary school by burning a Pride flag, this just underscores how much of a threat these people are. They must be stopped.
re: #14 Joe Bacon ✅
Nazi propaganda, explosive device, ammunition seized in L.A. raid, prosecutors say
Authorities say a dangerous member of a white supremacist group is off the streets after local and federal agents raided his home in Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley on Thursday.
Ryan Scott Bradford, 34, faces charges of conspiring to distribute methamphetamine and being a felon in possession of ammunition, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Friday.
Bradford was arrested when local and federal authorities served a search warrant at his home on White Oak Avenue in Reseda where they seized 116 rounds of ammunition, firearm parts, two 3D printers, various Nazi propaganda, and what appeared to be an improvised explosive device, prosecutors allege.
Many of the items, including a 3D printer with a swastika on its base, were spread out on the sidewalk in front of his home during the raid and visible in news helicopter footage.
The discovery of the possible explosive also prompted the closure of White Oak Avenue between Saticoy and Valerio streets for several hours.
“The defendant is a self-described anti-Semite associated with a white supremacist group which espouses the hatred of Jews and other minorities,” said Donald Alway, the Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office.
In an affidavit, prosecutors say Bradford created online handles that referenced the “Peckerwoods” - an extremist group with origins in the California state prison system.
Valley Boy?
Okay, fine,
Fer sure fer sure
He’s a Peckerwood
And there is no cure.
Mr. Bradford is going to Joliet for a dime at the Greybar Hotel courtesy of Uncle Sugar.
WOW. This is what the media will never show you. Vice President Kamala Harris was in Iowa earlier. Full crowd. Uproarious applause. Standing ovation. Don’t let anyone tell you people aren’t energized by Kamala Harris. Incredible. pic.twitter.com/SV9POi9u5n
— Victor Shi (@Victorshi2020) July 28, 2023
re: #20 Vicious Babushka
I hope you and your family have a good Shabbat.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito issued a temporary pause Friday on a Texas ruling that threw out the government’s regulations on ghost guns. @KelseyReichmann https://t.co/OCPwP05b81
— Courthouse News (@CourthouseNews) July 28, 2023
re: #7 jaunte
He’s been so effective at keeping cocaine out of Florida.
Well, they’ve never really been known as a coke-friendly state…. ////
Even @SenatorTimScott’s ubiquitous post-racial amiability won’t allow @GovRonDeSantis’ beneficent slavery stance to go unchecked, although he does offer him an unmerited benefit of the doubt to clarify. Mighty white of him…
— Louis R. Bridgeman (@LouisRBridgema3) July 28, 2023
re: #28 Barefoot Grin
Well, they’ve never really been known as a coke-friendly state…. ////
Pudgy: ‘I’m going to make Floriduh the first NoCaine State!’
re: #30 BigPapa
Pudgy: ‘I’m going to make Floriduh the first NoCaine State!’
Well, the Republican Party doesn’t got no Cain… They killed him.
re: #28 Barefoot Grin
Well, they’ve never really been known as a coke-friendly state…. ////
Yeah. Florida is a Pepsi State 😏
Here’s the ADL definition for those unfamiliar.https://t.co/KwYtmeDUQU
— Christi Graybill #🟦 🟧 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ (@Gockomo) July 28, 2023
MegaMillions jackpot has been bumped up.
Sales must be good.
Time for me to go add to the pot.
Because it’s behind a paywall most can’t read it, so here is a gift link:https://t.co/MU4UeftlfX
— Jenna D. ☮ (@zephmarie) July 29, 2023
I just heard an Amazon Prime truck driver get into a screaming match with someone on my street.
Friday night fun.
When Tesla finally gets around to releasing the new Roadster.
Musk, giggling: We’re calling it the SS except the S’s are lightning bolts because it’s electric. Get it?
Reporter: Um you do realize the SS was a Naz…
Musk, pinching nipples, screaming: THE BATTERY CAPACITY IS 1488 HECTOWATT HOURS!
re: #35 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Or maybe it’s because the annuity rates took a big hike today.
Annuitized jackpot value goes up, the cash value does not.
Yes, the annuity rate took a leap upwards.
re: #37 Charles Johnson
I just heard an Amazon Prime truck driver get into a screaming match with someone on my street.
Friday night fun.
My Amazon delivery driver - bringing a dress shirt for my wife’s niece’s engagement party next weekend - got waylaid by two of my neighbors because the one neighbor’s kid tried to run the truck off the road with a pointy stick. You can’t make this stuff up.
re: #37 Charles Johnson
I just heard an Amazon Prime truck driver get into a screaming match with someone on my street.
Friday night fun.
“What is your name?”
“Tony”
“Fuck you, Tony”
Always be like Dolly. pic.twitter.com/toBm9PX9ob
— Ricky Davila (@TheRickyDavila) July 28, 2023
In a world full of Jason Aldeans…
re: #22 Backwoods Sleuth
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I’ve been to several events with Kamala Harris, both before and after she became vp. The audiences have always been extremely enthusiastic. She is an excellent speaker—sincere and engaging, and she’s an equally good listener; pays attention and responds directly.
I hate the bad rap she gets. I really like her a lot.
re: #46 BeachDem
I’ve been to several events with Kamala Harris, both before and after she became vp. The audiences have always been extremely enthusiastic. She is an excellent speaker—sincere and engaging, and she’s an equally good listener; pays attention and responds directly.
I hate the bad rap she gets. I really like her a lot.
any women in her position is going to get a lot of flak from haters. It’s sad, but that the f uped world we live in.
re: #45 Charles Johnson
“Good God! Don’t jump!”
An X sat on the ledge.
An old man who had fainted was revived.
And everyone agreed it would be a miracle indeed
If the stock survived.
re: #47 I Would Prefer Not To
any women in her position is going to get a lot of flak from haters. It’s sad, but that the f uped world we live in.
It’s not the haters I’m talking about. It’s the fucked up media.
Incoming storm. Lots of wind and lightning. No rain or thunder yet.
Correction I just heard some distant thunder.
re: #45 Charles Johnson
Someone needs to kick it on its side and break its legs.
re: #48 jaunte
“Good God! Don’t jump!”
An X sat on the ledge.
An old man who had fainted was revived.
And everyone agreed it would be a miracle indeed
If the stock survived.
All the updings!
re: #49 BeachDem
It’s not the haters I’m talking about. It’s the fucked up media.
Same difference, really.
re: #51 Joe Bacon ✅
Let me know when X shouts “TOP OF THE WORLD, MA!” 😉
Onle Skum is as much a stable genius as Cody Jarrett, for sure:
If the past several years have proved anything, it’s that we should no longer assume someone is smart or capable just because they’re the head of a company
— Kyle Buchanan (@kylebuchanan) July 28, 2023
re: #15 EPR-radar
Guys like this are one step above “generic Republican” on the Party Loyalty scale.
But they are moving up, with a bullet
re: #3 gocart mozart
By and large, I’m willing to bet that most Hollywood actors are fully aware of how potentially voting for the Leopards Eat My Face Party will work in the end.
With that in mind, actors voting anything close to big numbers for Conservative candidates seem like a long shot.
“I thought I was only making other people’s lives worse…” pic.twitter.com/UcF9MXgl8d
— Oli Stirling (@OWS1892) July 28, 2023
@joshuajfriedman.com
Prosecutors tonight alerted a federal judge about Twitter posts from Jan. 6 defense lawyer John Pierce that they characterized as “apparent threats” against DOJ personnel (via Kyle Cheney / Politico)
At one point, Pierce represented more Jan. 6 defendants than any other single defense lawyer—17, according to DOJ’s count
We’re back from the dominoes league at the public library.
Catholic parishioner donations at work.
Vatican prosecutor seeks 7 years in jail for cardinal, confiscation of $460 million from 10 people (ABC News, July 26, 2023)
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican prosecutor asked a court Wednesday to convict 10 people, including a cardinal, of a range of financial crimes, sentence them to three to 13 years in prison and order the confiscation of some 415 million euros ($460 million) to pay the Holy See back for bad investments and financial losses over the past decade.
Prosecutor Alessandro Diddi ended six days of aggressive closing arguments with his requests for a verdict and sentencing. After a summer pause, the defense and civil parties in the Vatican’s “trial of the century” will deliver their closing arguments, with Judge Giuseppe Pignatone’s court expected to deliver a verdict before the end of the year.
Diddi justified the substantial requests for prison time, fines and confiscation of assets based on what he called the “many crimes against the patrimony of the Holy See.” He has estimated the combined losses at between 139 million and 189 million euros ($154 million and $210 million).
“Up until now, no one has advanced an offer to pay back the damage,” he said. “These are people with means.”
The sprawling trial originated in the Vatican’s 350 million euro ($385 million) investment in a luxury London property but grew to include two other tangents implicating Cardinal Angelo Becciu, once a papal contender and the first-ever cardinal to stand trial in the Vatican criminal court.
One involved allegations Becciu donated some 125,000 euros ($138,000) in Vatican money to a Sardinian charity run by his brother; the other involved allegations he used some 575,000 euros ($635,000) in Vatican funds to double pay a self-styled security analyst ransom fees to help free a nun held hostage by al-Qaida-linked militants in Mali.
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re: #60 Belafon
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I don’t know why this brightened up my morning, but it did. It felt like one of those “British Tourists complaining about their holiday” posts where the beach they went to was too sandy, or the Spanish taxi drivers only speak Spanish. And they couldn’t work out why.
— Col B (@ColinBo48001482) July 28, 2023
re: #59 Florida Panhandler
By and large, I’m willing to bet that most Hollywood actors are fully aware of how potentially voting for the Leopards Eat My Face Party will work in the end.
With that in mind, actors voting anything close to big numbers for Conservative candidates seem like a long shot.
You’re always going to have the James Woods, Kevin Sorbo’s, Kaitlyn Jenner’s of the world.
Famous, successful Hollywood conservatives (you can count them on your fingers, and it doesn’t even take both hands):
Kelsey Grammer
Tom Selleck
Craig T Nelson
Tim Allen
That’s all I could think of.
re: #56 Captain Ron
What many people may not realize is that the “big” studios make profit mostly through advertising and merch.
With the rise in streaming pushing the decline in broadcast and traditional cable packages, the major studio conglomerates have spent a lot of money trying to make their own streaming service the thing to get.
Problem is… for many it is not only not profitable but a money loser.
Comcast has lost something like $6B on Peacock since it started accounting for Peacock in 2020, only three years ago.
These kinds of losses then bite into future production (in that case for NBC and Universal.)
WBD does not lose on Max but it is burdened with too much debt.
It was the traditional cable revenues which lined the pockets of major corporations.
And again, even major cinema hits are profitable for the rights holders who do merch and advertising licenses.
There is a Come-to-the-21st-Century (not the brand, the calendar) thing that’s going to happen to the actors and writers in the US. And not just them.
re: #69 sagehen
Famous, successful Hollywood conservatives (you can count them on your fingers, and it doesn’t even take both hands):
Kelsey Grammer
Tom Selleck
Craig T Nelson
Tim AllenThat’s all I could think of.
Person of Interest wacko Caviezel.
Also, the reason WBD is not losing money is because the guy put at the top of the new corporation took and axe and wielded it right and left, leaving desolation in amongst the creative efforts.
So he reduced costs enough to show WBD not losing money.
But he’s also not making much new IP for future revenues.
re: #69 sagehen
Famous, successful Hollywood conservatives (you can count them on your fingers, and it doesn’t even take both hands):
Kelsey Grammer
Tom Selleck
Craig T Nelson
Tim AllenThat’s all I could think of.
Are you only talking about successful ones we don’t cringe at, because Mel Gibson goes on that list, but he is fringe. Bruce Willis would also fit in your list.
re: #71 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
John Wayne.
And the old time Republicans like Bob Hope.
I am also reminded that Joe Pesci and Frank Sinatra thought that Sinead should get the shit beat out of her if she returned to America.
Two years later they were all, “Not MY Parish priest!”
re: #69 sagehen
Famous, successful Hollywood conservatives (you can count them on your fingers, and it doesn’t even take both hands):
Kelsey Grammer
Tom Selleck
Craig T Nelson
Tim AllenThat’s all I could think of.
Angie Harmon
Pat Sajak
Chuck Wollery
The he guy from Justified (Art)
Clint Eastwood
Jerry Bruckheimer
Gary Sinese
The three I mentioned above.
There’s more but they may not be as outspoken.
re: #49 BeachDem
It’s not the haters I’m talking about. It’s the fucked up media.
re: #54 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Same difference, really.
re: #58 I Would Prefer Not To
Same thing.
It’s not the same, let me explain why. It’s because the media, with some exceptions on the far right (FOX, OANN, NY Post, Washington Examiner) isn’t motivated by hate. Their motive isn’t personal, it’s financial. It isn’t immoral so much as it’s amoral, profit driven. Beltway reporters like Seung Min Kim don’t hate Harris because she’s a black woman, but they’re absolutely willing to tear her down any chance they get with performative, dishonest, two faced, anti-black framing whenever they cover her because it’s what their bosses want. Those bosses desperately desire Republicans back in control because they want continued lowered taxes and the massive ad revenue covering the dysfunctional chaos of Trump’s administration brought their companies. Failing that they’ll settle for a good close horserace, even if they have to manufacture it by hook or by crook.
They’re cynically sacrificing Harris, Biden’s administration, Democrats, the country and given the geopolitical and environmental stakes literally the entire planet on the altar of corporate quarterly earnings reports. So the reason the media and the haters shouldn’t be conflated as the same thing is because the media absolutely knows better, and the actual job they’re supposed to be doing that they aren’t is to accurately inform the public.
re: #64 silverdolphin
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Elon Musk, doing Undercover Boss at Tesla, joins his employees for their usual supervised lunch. He asks about how the Mileage Accuracy (MA) algorithm is doing from one of the engineers. When he finds out it is dead, he has a strong reaction.
FWIW, the 3rd guy screen left from Cagney is Jim Thorpe.
Speaking of entertainers and social ills and politics, here’s a blog article from last year that takes a look at the 1960’s and early 1970’s and some popular entertainers involved publicly:
re: #1 Vicious Babushka
I dunno. Donny couldn’t stand to hear his voice for more than 10 seconds before it pisses him off.
Anyone remember @TEN_GOP? It was Russians, and they baited the American right quite effectively. Fucken @DonaldJTrumpJr followed the fake account and amplified it over and over.https://t.co/toRTMKI8gQ https://t.co/DNqBSfN3TV
— Elon Musk Blows Goats | teleskiguy@mastodon.social (@ballfootski) July 29, 2023
‘How To Navigate The Internet’ needs a two semester course in all high schools. Won’t happen, ‘cause one of the courses is critical thinking and the zealots can’t have that bullshit. I didn’t learn that stuff until I got to college.
And I will tottle off to bed. There’s a 5 o’clock CDT kickoff between Brazil and France that is a Big Deal.
Sweet Dreams to you all. Be nice to each other.
Oh, 102 Murkin, 38.4 Commie today. That’s balmy!
Starting tomorrow, it’s going to get HOT again, with another two weeks over 40 Commie (104 Murkin). No Rain in site, which will leave us with the staggering official total of .04” for July.
Yay! One of the worst month’s since records were collected.
Oh, guess what our reservoirs are doing, upstream of us?
West Texas has been as dry as Ben Shapiro’s wife’s pussy in the major river systems this spring and summer.
I’m going to take a nap. Battle dominoes wore me out.
In the tropics, Typhoon Doksuri is now well-inland in China, with wind speeds of 75 knots (139km/h). The prognostication of the Joint Typhoon Warning Center has not changed: The storm will be downgraded later to a tropical storm and cross the river valley which feeds Shanghai. On July 29 it should be downgraded again to a tropical depression as it drives toward Beijing.
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Meanwhile, the depression east of The Philippines is upgraded to Tropical Storm Khanun. Current wind speeds are 40 knots (74km/h). The prognostication for this storm has not changed either: It should intensify to a typhoon with the centre coming very close Kadena AFB and the town of Kadena on the Island of Okinawa. Khanun will be at peak strength as it crosses the island, about 85 knots (157 km/h). A day later it will reach the outskirts of Shanghai, with the strongest winds (the northern quadrant of the storm) driving into the harbour and river delta, where water flooding down from then-Tropical Storm Doksuri should be arriving. The storm is expected to disintegrate rapidly after coming ashore.
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In the North Atlantic, Tropical Disturbance One is about equidistant between the Cape Verde Islands and the Windward Islands. This storm has a 70% chance of becoming a tropical cyclone within seven days. It is expected to turn to the north in the middle of the ocean well east of Bermuda.
Tropical Disturbance Two is over land in southeast Georgia. It is moving slowly inland and is not expected to develop, but will bring heavy rain to northeast Florida, eastern Georgia, and eastern South Carolina.
nhc.noaa.gov
Tropical Disturbance Three is over land in southeast Nicaragua. The Central Pacific Hurricane Center says it should move over the Cordillera Isabella Range (the central mountain range of the country) and into the eastern Pacific. From there the storm has an 80% chance of becoming a tropical cyclone as it tracks along the Pacific coast of Central America and Mexico.
nhc.noaa.gov
re: #83 austin_blue
It got to 92°F here humidity never got over 20%, but today was *really* hot around here. I did a good turn at a physical cost today, the physical cost being mowing my parents’ backyard in 90° heat. I got it done, drank plenty of water, and it is cooler in the shade and my parents have several big trees growing around their house.
It’s too hot.
And I weeded our terraced garden that we (my Mother and I) started during the pandemic. That was sublime work, just expelling the weeds one by one on my hands and knees to make sure our tomato, zucchini, and pepper plants can do their thang. The fact that I’ve pulled so many weeds out of that dirt this month is indicative of good soil heath, right?
It’s not unheard of for SWAT teams to destroy innocent people’s property—with extreme displays of force—while pursuing fugitives.
It’s also not unheard of for the state to ruin those people’s lives by refusing to pay them for the damages.
Which is what happened to Carlos. /2— Billy Binion (@billybinion) July 28, 2023
Vicki is in her 70s. She had stage 3 cancer & was hoping to retire. But the raid turned her life upside-down. “I’ve lost everything,” she told me.
The city then told her she didn’t meet their definition of “victim.”
This is what her house looked like. /8 https://t.co/wKtEIMUxBJ pic.twitter.com/k9FnAvNm44— Billy Binion (@billybinion) July 28, 2023
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re: #77 goddamnedfrank
It’s not the same, let me explain why. It’s because the media, with some exceptions on the far right (FOX, OANN, NY Post, Washington Examiner) isn’t motivated by hate. Their motive isn’t personal, it’s financial. It isn’t immoral so much as it’s amoral, profit driven. Beltway reporters like Seung Min Kim don’t hate Harris because she’s a black woman, but they’re absolutely willing to tear her down any chance they get with performative, dishonest, two faced, anti-black framing whenever they cover her because it’s what their bosses want. Those bosses desperately desire Republicans back in control because they want continued lowered taxes and the massive ad revenue covering the dysfunctional chaos of Trump’s administration brought their companies. Failing that they’ll settle for a good close horserace, even if they have to manufacture it by hook or by crook.
They’re cynically sacrificing Harris, Biden’s administration, Democrats, the country and given the geopolitical and environmental stakes literally the entire planet on the altar of corporate quarterly earnings reports. So the reason the media and the haters shouldn’t be conflated as the same thing is because the media absolutely knows better, and the actual job they’re supposed to be doing that they aren’t is to accurately inform the public.
Thank you.
amre: #78 BeenHereAwhile
FWIW, the 3rd guy screen left from Cagney is Jim Thorpe.
Yep, great cameo. This scene was mostly ad libbed by Cagney. He did not tell any of the people around him what he was going to do. And he did not tell the director. He just wanted the two largest guys next to him so he could leverage upo on them to the table.
When he showed the gradual rage hitting “White Heat” is made the scene and the movie. Cagney made the decision to make the character a psychopath and his portrayal of mental illness is still disturbing. He really was an underrated actor.
re: #89 Captain Ron
Speaking of Reason Magazine, this isn’t the reason, wingnuts.
How Hunter Biden’s Plea Deal Fell Apart (July 27, 2023)
“A federal judge objected to two aspects of the agreement that seemed designed to shield Biden from the possibility that his father will lose reelection next year.”
Hunter Biden’s plea agreement, which fell apart under scrutiny by a federal judge on Wednesday, was the product of extensive negotiations between his lawyers and David Weiss, the U.S. attorney for Delaware. Yet the two sides evidently did not anticipate that U.S. District Court Judge Maryellen Noreika would object to provisions that she called “not standard,” “not what I normally see,” and possibly “unconstitutional.” In particular, Noreika zeroed in on two highly unusual aspects of the agreement that seemed designed to shield Biden from the possibility that his father will lose reelection next year.
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re: #94 Captain Ron
I don’t know about getting a driver’s license for an electric bicycle: That seems a bit of overkill.
That said, most states have adopted a three-tier level to define classes of electric bicycles.
Class 1: Max speed 20 mph, provides assist when peddling (no throttle)
Class 2: Max speed 20 mph, provides assist when peddling or with throttle
Class 3: Max speed 28 mph, provides assist when peddling (no throttle)
Pedal Replace (no pedals): an electric motorcycle
Every state except eleven (including Nebraska) has adopted the three tier language above. Since Nebraska bans “motor vehicles” from most parks, public land, &c, the lack-of-definition of “what is an electric bicycle” means all electric bicycles are banned from public land in Nebraska.
A bill was introduced in the recently-concluded legislative session to bring Nebraska in line with the other states, LB 738. This bill would classify the three classes above as bicycles (thus permitted in state parks or on bicycle paths) and pedal replace as motorcycles (prohibited from any area where motor vehicles are prohibited).
However, the bill stalled like so many others and died at the end of the legislative session due to the filibuster of the anti-trans hate bill and anti-abortion bill.
This caused E-bike riders to throw their hate against the Democrats (and one Republican) leading the filibuster, because they don’t give a damn about women’s or trans people’s rights. They want their ebikes in parks.
re: #79 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Speaking of entertainers and social ills and politics, here’s a blog article from last year that takes a look at the 1960’s and early 1970’s and some popular entertainers involved publicly:
I was thinking more of current right-wingers than historical, but.
Back then, when the left was rioting in Chicago, setting off bombs in the Pentagon and Greenwich Village and university chemistry labs, robbing armored cars… it was pretty reasonable at the time to be conservative. The far left back then was every bit as whacked out and insanely violent as the far right is today.
I don’t want to alarm anybody but there’s a non-zero chance we’ll have to witness Xzibit do an ad where his says “Yo dawg, I heard you like X” before rapping X while sitting with Musk in a Tesla X then they open up the X app on the display and the car just gets so depressed it decides to explode.
Things you won’t see on FOX or PragerU and the “religion industry” with their anti-transgender rhetoric. They need their stochastic terrorism.
A Sterling Heights, Mich. Baptist pastor, Rev. Albert Weathers pleaded guilty murdering by firearm a transgender woman, Kelly Stough. He got a sentence reduction because Christian. He was sentenced to eight years in prison today.
Attorney Kirsten Browde details the case on TikTok (1:13)
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re: #92 silverdolphin
Yep, great cameo. This scene was mostly ad libbed by Cagney. He did not tell any of the people around him what he was going to do. And he did not tell the director. He just wanted the two largest guys next to him so he could leverage upo on them to the table.
When he showed the gradual rage hitting “White Heat” is made the scene and the movie. Cagney made the decision to make the character a psychopath and his portrayal of mental illness is still disturbing. He really was an underrated actor.
And being a hoofer, he had great fluid body moves as well. As you say a good all around actor.
re: #96 sagehen
I was thinking more of current right-wingers than historical, but.
Back then, when the left was rioting in Chicago, setting off bombs in the Pentagon and Greenwich Village and university chemistry labs, robbing armored cars… it was pretty reasonable at the time to be conservative. The far left back then was every bit as whacked out and insanely violent as the far right is today.
I respectfully disagree for several reasons:
1) The far left back then never had the political and institutional support that today’s hard right does. E.g., it is completely unimaginable for the SLA or some other violent lefty types back then to have pulled off a J6 attempt.
2) If we give full credit to conservatives (of both parties) for the Vietnam War, the total US violence of that era was overwhelmingly from the right. While it is not completely unknown for the left to be more violent than the right, it is damn rare.
3) Even if we consider only domestic US political violence, I think it likely the right back then was considerably more violent than the left — it’s just that back then (as now) right wing violence is often done by people that have impunity (e.g., cops) and/or to people that are marginalized (and there was no video to put the lie to official reports). E.g., we now know that for much of that era J Edgar Hoover’s FBI was a lawless gang of thugs, but that never made the news.
4) “Both sides” is always wrong, no matter what variation on the theme is played.
A handful of Canadian cities are experimenting with open streets — streets that are temporarily closed to cars, opening up spaces for cyclists and pedestrians. https://t.co/byGrfPg6uO
— CBC News (@CBCNews) July 28, 2023
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And being a hoofer, he had great fluid body moves as well. As you say a good all around actor.
Oh man. He was not a dancer but he danced like he was. He was not a singer but he sang like he was.
His dancing down the stairs in Yankee Doodle Dandy was amazing. And all improvised in the moment. That was the first take. They would not let him do it again.
re: #96 sagehen
I was thinking more of current right-wingers than historical, but.
Back then, when the left was rioting in Chicago, setting off bombs in the Pentagon and Greenwich Village and university chemistry labs, robbing armored cars… it was pretty reasonable at the time to be conservative. The far left back then was every bit as whacked out and insanely violent as the far right is today.
In the Fifties and Sixties, although in decline, the Ku Klux Klan was still a potent force. The Holocaust-denial industry was in full force.
Police violence was routinely used against anti-Vietnam War protestors, including homicide (such as Kent State University, which was widely praised by conservatives).
Desegregation of prisons during the Civil Rights Era led to the rise of the Aryan Brotherhood.
With Roe v Wade, Christian terrorism against clinics, providers, and patients dramatically increased. Christian terrorists justify their murder and mayhem with the Bible and justifiable defence of another.
The Seventies also saw the rise of the best-organised and best-financed Nazi organisation in the United States, the National Alliance. They were connected to a whole string of violent acts. At the same time, the fascist Christian Identity religious sect arose to promote violence against Jews, LGBT+, atheists, and other “degenerates.”
Christian terrorists got their big score with the bombing of the Atlanta Olympics. Christians then spent years hiding and moving the terrorist who bombed the Olympics in the name of God as an anti-abortion protest.
The media during the Civil Rights Era and immediately afterward was the same conservative media it is now. It was in their interest to downplay the widespread violence which always accompanies conservatism.
Few things are as amazing to a front desk person as a guest marching across a blacked out hotel with various other guests milling around in confusion and anxiety, stepping right up to the front desk, and saying in a totally naive tone “The power’s out in my room. Do you know why?”
re: #106 Targetpractice
Few things are as amazing to a front desk person as a guest marching across a blacked out hotel with various other guests milling around in confusion and anxiety, stepping right up to the front desk, and saying in a totally naive tone “The power’s out in my room. Do you know why?”
It was even more fun at the hotel in Hayward. There we had a power feed that came in on two separate lines from two different substations. Thus, we could have one go down but not the other - which meant half the hotel would be without power but not the other half. Want to talk about confused guests? This is especially bad in the middle of very cold or very hot weather since the PTACs need electricity to run… Haven’t had a full power out (knocks on my head since that’s the nearest wood … 😉) since I moved down here thankfully.
The Undersea #Data Center (UDC) in Sanya, South China’s #Hainan, one of the world’s two undersea data centers, has been operating soundly for eight months, and is also the only undersea data center that provides commercial services. Based on China’s green development plan, the… pic.twitter.com/4EYI2T073c
— Global Times (@globaltimesnews) July 28, 2023
re: #107 William Lewis
It was even more fun at the hotel in Hayward. There we had a power feed that came in on two separate lines from two different substations. Thus, we could have one go down but not the other - which meant half the hotel would be without power but not the other half. Want to talk about confused guests? This is especially bad in the middle of very cold or very hot weather since the PTACs need electricity to run… Haven’t had a full power out (knocks on my head since that’s the nearest wood … 😉) since I moved down here thankfully.
We just had a weird situation earlier, as some jackass plowed into a power pole less than 10 minutes after I clocked in and power to the property went haywire. Instead of going totally out, both buildings acted as if they were on half-power and the lights kept flickering in and out while we waited for things to get fixed. This prompted people to ask all sorts of otherwise stupid questions, like why the AC screen was lit up but not running, why were there lights in some parts of the hallways but their rooms were out, and people able to get in one building but not the other because the outside keylocks had no power.
Of course, I had people at the front desk in less than 2 minutes after the lights went out, asking me why the power was out (no fucking clue), when would it be restored (see above), and what they were supposed to do until it was fixed (corporate policy forbids me from telling them where and how far to fuck off to).
Spot the Difference (personal care kits sold in a hotel side by side, one for men and one for women, Reddit’s r/NotHowGirlsWork)
Marketing for the win!
re: #109 Targetpractice
The worst I get is I fixed the chimes on the clock in the village trustee boardroom, and now that they work properly they annoy everyone.
re: #112 silverdolphin
English Madrigal conitinues to set looms. It will kast at least another week
New yellow lilies erupted today at my house, about the size of dinner plates (well, maybe not that big). I guess the heat didn’t kill them.
I’ll try to get photographs tomorrow so you can mock my pitiful flowerbed.
Paul & Morgan (goes to Fundamentalist Wiki, extremely popular Christian fundamentalist YouTubers with young people. They lived the evil secular lifestye, so they can tell you how not to. They claim they’ve left extremist fundamentalist Christianity - they lied, they didn’t.)
Wait…you mean Paul & Morgan didn’t like the Barbie movie? I mean it is a movie about how women can be who they want, that they don’t need men to be successful and it is about girl dolls. Shocker. 🙄 (Reddit’s r/FundieSnarkUncensored)
Rev. Benjamin Cramer (pastor at Cathedral of the Rockies, otherwise known as First United Methodist Church in Boise, Idaho), frequently condemned by a wide array of Christians for holding to a liberal view of Christianity, weighs in on the film “Sound of Freedom.”
He doesn’t care for Christian-themed movies. He finds they seem to all go with the premise they have something to prove or win, and the makers have a giant chip on their shoulders.
Re: Sound of Freedom Movie, two days ago
(long post warning; TW: human trafficking)
Many people have been asking for my perspective on the “Sound of Freedom” movie. What follows is my personal and pastoral concerns about the film, the organization behind it, and the precedent it sets for the Christian community.
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re: #62 jaunte
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Oh please. “You will live in infamy forever” is right up there with “a pox on both your houses” as a concerning threat. If they really reported that to a judge, they deserve a tongue lashing that includes the word “snowflake” in it somewhere.
Sigh… although I played the mega-ball (18) twice, and even though I had picked all five of the white balls, I couldn’t get more than one of them on a line.
So 2x$2 it is for me.
Anyway, next Tuesday’s (the first of August) MegaMillions is now at real money (annuitized).
re: #118 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Sigh… although I played the mega-ball (18) twice, and even though I had picked all five of the white balls, I couldn’t get more than one of them on a line.
So 2x$2 it is for me.
Anyway, next Tuesday’s (the first of August) MegaMillions is now at real money (annuitized).
I haven’t checked my ticket yet. I’ll take it into the store tomorrow to check.
MSN pushing the Oppression Olympics in an article yesterday, under the category “Godly Women.”
15 Famous Celebrities Who Embrace Christianity Despite Public Scrutiny
No “scrutiny” is mentioned anywhere in this article. Also, under “Godly Women,” men are mentioned in the article.
re: #120 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Caution in reading the article because one of the Christians “under scrutiny” mentioned in the article is noted Hitler-apologist Kanye West.
With some blue states having passed shield laws, Aid Access is now operating in the United States, cutting the time women in red states who need an abortion have to wait for abortion pills to arrive by mail to just days. This is critical since the earlier in the pregnancy the abortion occurs, the better. The abortion providers, however, will have to cross large portions of the United States off of their travel plans, least they be arrested and sentenced to long prison terms.
re: #7 jaunte
He’s been so effective at keeping cocaine out of Florida.
It is just to keep the Hunter Biden coke fiend narrative kicking about among his base
re: #21 jaunte
“This is technofeudalism. Whereas capitalists seek profits (income from selling things), feudalists seek rents (income from owning the things other people use). If Telsa were a capitalist enterprise, then entrepreneurs could enter the market and sell mods that let you unlock the functionality in your own car”
“Loan us all your money and we will use it to buy everything you own and lease it back to you!”
re: #56 Captain Ron
If the past several years have proved anything, it’s that we should no longer assume someone is smart or capable just because they’re the head of a company
we are dealing with the Entertainment Industry, which is always about superficial appearances, fleeting trends and appealing to the lowest common denominator.
re: #82 teleskiguy
‘How To Navigate The Internet’ needs a two semester course in all high schools. Won’t happen, ‘cause one of the courses is critical thinking and the zealots can’t have that bullshit. I didn’t learn that stuff until I got to college.
Modern Media and Information Studies should be as much a part of the currculum as English, Math, Science and History.
This France/Brazil match is worth watching. It’s on Fox live. Earlier, Sweden destroyed Italy 5-0.
Wendie Renard heads in a corner and France is up 2-1. It’s good to have 6’ 2” defender for set pieces.
7 minutes left in regulation.
2 minutes left. This has been a hugely entertaining match. Wide open, full throttle.
re: #132 austin_blue
2 minutes left. This has been a hugely entertaining match. Wide open, full throttle.
It’s been great.
And, it’s done. 2-1 France.
Just a cracking match.
England’s morning session on the third day of the fifth test at the Oval is off to a cracking start, 130 runs. They now lead Australia by 112 runs with nine wickets remaining.
re: #110 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Spot the Difference (personal care kits sold in a hotel side by side, one for men and one for women, Reddit’s r/NotHowGirlsWork)
Marketing for the win!
Pink Tax.
re: #135 Nojay UK
England’s morning session on the third day of the fifth test at the Oval is off to a cracking start, 130 runs. They now lead Australia by 112 runs with nine wickets remaining.
Jesus, that’s a slaughter.
re: #24 Charles Johnson
Holding down the shift key is like using the clutch in a manual transmission to change gears.
re: #137 Nerdy Fish
Jesus, that’s a slaughter.
Third day of five in the last Test, the Aussies have retained the Ashes 2-1 after the fourth match ended in a “rain stopped play” draw. The fast bowlers in both teams are shagged out (ObUS: ninth-innings pitchers) and the England opening batsmen are throwing the bat because racking up a big score is both possible and desirable so they can at least draw the series and also catch the eye of the selectors for the next Test matches.
re: #103 Captain Ron
Philadelphia does that with some of the roads along the Schuylkill River in Fairmount Park.
Got out with a par before falling too far into the Spiral of Doom.
Getting the new washer sometime between Noon and 4 today. This year alone we have now replaced the water heater, heat pump, and washer. Got a feeling it will be dryer, dish washer, and range in the near future.
Took care of the grocery shopping early. We hit 97 yesterday and looks like more of the same today. Another good day to stay nice and cool indoors.
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re: #56 Captain Ron
If the past several years have proved anything, it’s that we should no longer assume someone is smart or capable just because they’re the head of a company
My company was privately owned by employees who had reached certain status within the organization. The people running the company would have all done extremely well on IQ tests —the CEO had moved up from the ranks and was brilliant. As always, the problem was assuming that because someone is smart in one area that intelligence transfers elsewhere, as opposed to leading to arrogance. The “owners” voted to take the company public during the Internet boom because they thought it would retain employees who might otherwise leave to cash in on a rising stock market. Unfortunately, the people running the company did not understand that a publicly held company really was different from a private one and made some terrible financial decisions. We peons would joke then that “they were smart people — of course they knew what they were doing”. It did not end well — management was basically ousted and replaced by others who prettied us up so that a larger company would purchase us.
How to make weapons-grade ratatouille
With flavor so deep it’ll drop your voice an octave, this stuff is, well, the bomb
By FRANCIS LAM
I think I read this in my young ratatouille apprenticeship. I do make a good caramelized tomato base but this sounds next level with a low and slow caramelization.
One of my near future Saturdays or Sundays sounds like it’s gonna be fooked up.
re: #146 BigPapa
This lady turned some of my common notions on their head. I’ve tried some of her techniques and they work. Ratatouille is all about managing water in the veggies.
For Better Browned Meat and Veggies, Just Add Water | Techniquely With Lan Lam
Like I’ve said before, keep an eye on the Suwałki Gap :
A group of a hundred soldiers from the Russian Wagner group have moved closer to the Belarusian city of Grodno near the Polish border, Polish prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki has said.
Poland, a former Warsaw Pact member which has been a full member of the US-led NATO military alliance since 1999, has been concerned about the possible spillover of war on to its territory ever since Russian invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Reuters reports.
The move of several thousand Wagner mercenaries to Belarus was part of a deal that ended the group’s mutiny attempt in June, when they took control of a Russian military headquarters, marched on Moscow and threatened to tip Russia into civil war, president Vladimir Putin has said.
Earlier this month, Poland began moving more than 1,000 troops to the east of the country amid rising concerns that the presence of Wagner fighters in Belarus could lead to increased tension on its border.
Putin might try something - though it seems suicidal, it fits in with his “escalate to de-escalate” strategy. He’s shown himself to be a reckless gambler, and he may be (mistakenly) thinking that if Wagner personnel made a move, he’s got plausible deniability and that NATO will end up dithering on what to do in regard to such a move.
re: #146 BigPapa
That tomato bases had many possibilities beyond ratatouille
re: #148 BigPapa
Lan is very good. I like to watch her on America’s Test Kitchen. They are part of the Cooks Illustrated family of publications and TV shows.
re: #149 Dr Lizardo
Like I’ve said before, keep an eye on the Suwałki Gap :
Putin might try something - though it seems suicidal, it fits in with his “escalate to de-escalate” strategy. He’s shown himself to be a reckless gambler, and he may be (mistakenly) thinking that if Wagner personnel made a move, he’s got plausible deniability and that NATO will end up dithering on what to do in regard to such a move.
I wonder what the leadership of Belarus feels about all this.
There is being a pawn of Russia, and then there is being thrown under the bus as part of some gamble by Putin.
And Belarus’ role in the initial invasion of Ukraine has sort of been ignored/overlooked. Their territory being used for an incursion into Poland will not be overlooked.
re: #153 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Lukashenko is all in. He’s nothing but a puppet of the Kremlin now and there’s little he can do. It does look like Putin has put tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, so that might give Luka a sense of security (false or real remains to be seen).
re: #146 BigPapa
After making this, will Patton Oswalt stop by for the ultimate taste test?
re: #154 Dr Lizardo
Lukashenko is all in. He’s nothing but a puppet of the Kremlin now and there’s little he can do. It does look like Putin has put tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, so that might give Luka a sense of security (false or real remains to be seen).
Since I think that Lukashenko’s government is not that popular I also wonder what sort of intelligence information is streaming out. Might just be local info since the government itself is loyalists.
re: #139 darthstar
Jonesy knows the Xenomorph’s acid for blood won’t do jack squat to him.
A worker @ Bangor #Maine @PlanetFitness confirmed neo-nazi Chris “Hammer” Pohlhaus has been banned from the gym because of his racist tees, his swastika tat & his creeping on women. Management had been watching him “like a hawk.” Disinfomaniacs pod # 5 #mepolitics pic.twitter.com/aZ1jrbGUJ7
— Crash Barry (@Crash_Barry) July 27, 2023
re: #155 TarHellion
After making this, will Patton Oswalt stop by for the ultimate taste test?
A non-zero chance for sure.
re: #160 A Cranky One
If you’re not happy single, you won’t be
happy married. Happiness comes from
dogscats, not relationships.
FIFY
re: #144 TarHellion
By the time I hit the Spiral, there weren’t many letters left (sigh of relief). Bogey.
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re: #169 A Cranky One
Damn - that’s creepy.
re: #158 A Cranky One
Reminds me of a quote that a certain brand of cigar was “Rolled on the thighs of virgins.”
Talk about I got mine fuck you!
Joe Brock gets a lot of calls from employers in distress. The 62-year-old works as a “union avoidance” consultant, so companies come to him when their workers are on the verge of organizing. He hears from employers of all stripes who want to stay union-free — hospitals, retailers, manufacturers. But it’s no coincidence that many who want Brock specifically are squaring off with the Teamsters.
After all, Brock used to be an elected Teamsters official in Philadelphia. The son of a union leader, he served as president of Teamsters Local 830 before he lost a contentious election and was ousted from office. Since then, he has been working union campaigns from the other side. He belongs to a prolific subgroup of “persuaders” who were once part of the labor movement but now work against it as consultants-for-hire.
A self-described “unabashed liberal union buster” who still receives a Teamsters pension, Brock has been called plenty of names over the years.
Some of these consultants found their way to the employer side after being politically sidelined. A few turned up campaigning against unions within months or even weeks of leaving their unions.
Employers pay Brock’s firm upwards of $3,000 per day, plus expenses, for each consultant who works on a campaign, according to Labor Department filings.
A good contract can run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Here are Black plaintiffs’ objections to the new Alabama congressional map. As expected, they bring the 🔥. The court holds a hearing 8/14 on the objections (status conference on 7/31). https://t.co/3WJIXb3hxj pic.twitter.com/S979PFH9Ri
— Michael Li 李之樸 (@mcpli) July 29, 2023
And it is not just the map itself. The plaintiffs point out how Black members of the Alabama legislature were almost completely shut out of the redrawing process. pic.twitter.com/Hrw3teoX9v
— Michael Li 李之樸 (@mcpli) July 29, 2023
re: #172 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS
Weeds are having a good summer too.
Where is the line between a weed (unwanted thing) and a wildflower (wanted thing)?
Voilets are often a wanted thing; they are a scourge in my garden. Same with morning glory. I will take poison ivy/oak/sumac out of the question, I don’t think anyone is ok with any of those in their garden
re: #175 No Malarkey!
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re: #165 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS
By the time I hit the Spiral, there weren’t many letters left (sigh of relief). Bogey.
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re: #142 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Philadelphia does that with some of the roads along the Schuylkill River in Fairmount Park.
MLK/West River Drive. Also, thanks for the reminder. I need to get out there and do my Fairmount Park/Manyunk Canal ride when the weather isn’t murderous. Haven’t done it in a while.
Another fun one is the Delaware/Raritan Canal on the NJ side. Washington’s Crossing to Lambertville/New Hope and back.
Trump loses again, before a judge he appointed.
OVERNIGHT: A federal judge (appointed by Donald Trump) dismissed Trump’s lawsuit claiming CNN defamed him by using the phrase “The Big Lie,” which Trump says implicitly compares him to Hitler.
Lawsuit dismissed *with* prejudice. https://t.co/Y4goldofbY pic.twitter.com/ReJdmssJ2o— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) July 29, 2023
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re: #183 No Malarkey!
Trump loses again, before a judge he appointed.
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re: #185 darthstar
Remember, he didn’t just find these judges himself. If he did he’d win a lot more court cases. Some of these people were actually qualified legal professionals he was sent to appoint.
True. Many of his appointees are unqualified hacks, but far from all of them.
re: #182 Mattand
MLK/West River Drive. Also, thanks for the reminder. I need to get out there and do my Fairmount Park/Manyunk Canal ride when the weather isn’t murderous. Haven’t done it in a while.
Another fun one is the Delaware/Raritan Canal on the NJ side. Washington’s Crossing to Lambertville/New Hope and back.
I used to walk a loop with a friend on Sunday mornings along those trails. Usually started north of Lambertville at Stockton. Would stop at the little French cafe in New Hope and then come back on the other side of the river. My friend put up with my stopping to take pictures since I generally had the camera with me.
re: #186 No Malarkey!
True. Many of his appointees are unqualified hacks, but far from all of them.
Of the 264 Trump judges that the ABA rated, only 10 were marked as unqualified. But they were all (264) Federalist Society hacks, devoted to an ideology destructive to our future.
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re: #165 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS
By the time I hit the Spiral, there weren’t many letters left (sigh of relief). Bogey.
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re: #181 Hecuba’s daughter
Bogey here too
Though I had a par, then certainly the bogey. Yikes.
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re: #192 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅
Though I had a par, then certainly the bogey. Yikes.
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re: #193 wrenchwench
Yikes will be my first word someday.
Unconventional, but gets rid of some of those letters that crop up that you (I) don’t use early on in the decision tree.
re: #183 No Malarkey!
Trump loses again, before a judge he appointed.
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Anne Applebaum
@anneapplebaum@bird.makeup
This article is about Ukrainians in Poland, but it reflects something broader: Ukrainians are more entrepreneurial, more tech-savvy than most Europeans, because they have had to be economist.com
How Ukrainian refugee entrepreneurs are changing Poland
The Economist
re: #202 jeffreyw
here ya go:
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@stavvers@masto.ai
The content warning HOA scolds really are a plague on here, so these are my best tips for dealing with them:
1. Mute them, they’re just jerks being jerks
2. Reply “this toot makes me feel uncomfortable, please CW it”
3. Do 2, then 1.
Improves your experience here 10000%
re: #176 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅
Where is the line between a weed (unwanted thing) and a wildflower (wanted thing)?
Voilets are often a wanted thing; they are a scourge in my garden. Same with morning glory. I will take poison ivy/oak/sumac out of the question, I don’t think anyone is ok with any of those in their garden
I call plants weeds if they’re able to establish themselves and grow without help from humans. Around here, there are plenty of them in kept on in peoples’ gardens because they have nice flowers. Others are unwelcome and uprooted when found (yes, we have morning glories, also nasturtiums and bamboo). The spot where I took that photo is one of the semi-wild areas of campus. The trees were planted by the gardeners, the undergrowth takes care of itself, so everything is a weed.
Erica Watkins tells Oklahoma’s education chief Ryan Walters to resign to his face.
“We get it. You want to be noticed by the big britches in DC,” she says in a fiery speech.
“Your fabricated culture war is inflicting casualties on our most precious population, our children.” pic.twitter.com/eAHdl22iNL— David Heath (@davidhth) July 29, 2023
#ChildhoodMemories
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Cue tiny me running out into the street, screaming, “We’re getting a dog! We’re getting a DOG!!!”
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“Put the candle back!”
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Some of the first park rangers in America weren’t rangers at all. They were Buffalo Soldiers - Black Americans who served in the U.S. Army after the Civil War. On Buffalo Soldiers Day, we celebrate the legacy of these first-of-a-kind, trailblazing rangers. pic.twitter.com/QhlCdPswfG
— US Department of the Interior (@Interior) July 28, 2023
Interior continues to preserve and honor the history of these first rangers at places like Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument, Fort Selden National Historic Site, @YosemiteNPS and more.
Photo by Gary Schwitzer pic.twitter.com/07NbgMaq4K— US Department of the Interior (@Interior) July 28, 2023
re: #213 Backwoods Sleuth
Unfortunately, red states know they have all the power and as long as the GOP has full control of the state government, there is little these objections can accomplish. As Texas Democrats have learned, a red state government can take over local agencies and overturn the will of the public.
re: #217 Hecuba’s daughter
Unfortunately, red states know they have all the power and as long as the GOP has full control of the state government, there is little these objections can accomplish. As Texas Democrats have learned, a red state government can take over local agencies and overturn the will of the public.
These fuckers are winning the Civil War 160 years later
re: #219 HRH Stanley Sea
“If you don’t like it you’re anti-Semitic!”
re: #218 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
These fuckers are winning the Civil War 160 years later
Just shows the battle is continuing; after all, for over 90 years after the end of Reconstruction, the South lived under Jim Crow. And now, courtesy of the Roberts Court and its Shelby decision, they got a second wind to try again.
That feeling you get when you have that amazing Mastodon post and the instance doesn’t support it.
re: #223 Hecuba’s daughter
Just shows the battle is continuing; after all, for over 90 years after the end of Reconstruction, the South lived under Jim Crow. And now, courtesy of the Roberts Court and its Shelby decision, they got a second wind to try again.
Let it remind us that we cannot take the gains we have made in personal freedoms, minority, women’s or LGBTQ rights over recent decades for granted
If you are gonna do something might as well do it right.
— Kosmokazee (@Kosmo1978) July 29, 2023
re: #215 Captain Ron
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a door like that, there must be something really fucking scary dangerous on the other side. Why is he opening it? The dragon’s gonna getcha.
re: #227 sagehen
a door like that, there must be something really fucking scary dangerous on the other side. Why is he opening it? The dragon’s gonna getcha.
re: #227 sagehen
a door like that, there must be something really fucking scary dangerous on the other side. Why is he opening it? The dragon’s gonna getcha.
Inside is the ‘Rotating Target Neutron Source’.
re: #212 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS
I call plants weeds if they’re able to establish themselves and grow without help from humans. Around here, there are plenty of them in kept on in peoples’ gardens because they have nice flowers. Others are unwelcome and uprooted when found (yes, we have morning glories, also nasturtiums and bamboo). The spot where I took that photo is one of the semi-wild areas of campus. The trees were planted by the gardeners, the undergrowth takes care of itself, so everything is a weed.
Late to this party
for us, everything is a plant
a weed is a plant growing where you Dont want it, so basically intent.
It likely will be removed.
It could be replanted, potted or tossed
re: #215 Captain Ron
Ah someone entering the control center for the Jewish Space Laser! 😏
re: #223 Hecuba’s daughter
Just shows the battle is continuing; after all, for over 90 years after the end of Reconstruction, the South lived under Jim Crow. And now, courtesy of the Roberts Court and its Shelby decision, they got a second wind to try again.
According to desantis there are advantages living under state sponsored oppression
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