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OnePlanet , 5 days ago to random

“A cheetah and her Cheetos”

GottaLaff , 5 days ago to random

Another day, another…

Adult killed, child wounded in #shooting during football game at #Maryland high school: Police

Police were looking for the suspect who fled Potomac High School. #GunViolence

http://abcn.ws/ykLsNWl

Free_Press , 6 days ago to random

UP TO 30 INCHES OF RAIN!

Weather tracker: State of emergency in Florida as heavy rain causes flooding

Emergency services conduct at least 40 rescues and schools, courts and railways closed in some counties
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GlobalWarming #climatechange #climatecrisis #Breaking #BreakingNews #Florida

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/14/weather-tracker-state-emergency-florida-heavy-rain-flooding

Drdind , 12 days ago to random

This👇

GovTrack , 15 days ago to random

S.Res. 719 by Sen. Bill Cassidy [R-LA] was agreed to yesterday. A resolution designating June 13, 2024, as “National Seersucker Day”, designating every Thursday after National Seersucker Day through the last Thursday in August 2024 as “Seersucker Thursday”, and designating June 2024 as “Seersucker Appreciation Month”. https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/118/sres719 🏛️

luckytran , 17 days ago to random

This article is misleading and emboldens pandemic deniers and minimizers.

It's incorrect to say there was no science to support distancing rules.

The science absolutely shows us that increasing physical distance is associated with decreasing risk.

The nuance that is dangerously not conveyed here is that while distancing helps, 6-feet alone often isn't enough because COVID is airborne, so we need layered measures like masks and clean air too.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/06/02/six-foot-rule-covid-no-science/

GottaLaff , 18 days ago to random

Via Emptywheel:

What if instead of polling, Does Trump's felony conviction make you more or less likely to vote for him?" instead poll, "Does GOP's wholesale attack on rule of law make you more or less likely to vote for it?"

"Does fact Trump found guilty of defrauding university students, charity donors, banks, and NY state make you more or less likely to vote for him?"

"Does fact Trump pardoned Steve Bannon for defrauding his own supporters make you more or less likely to vote for him?"

mondoweiss , 1 month ago to israel group

Don't be fooled by Joe Biden's recent speech on antisemitism. Biden doesn’t care about Jews unless they share his support for Zionism. The rest of us are enemies of the state.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/05/dont-be-fooled-biden-is-the-real-antisemite/

#Palestine #Israel #Gaza
@palestine @israel

randahl , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

As promised, President of Georgia Salome Zourabichvili today vetoed the Russian law, which the ruling Georgian Dream party has been trying to push through parliament.

The law would create a new mechanism for suppressing media and NGO’s as “foreign agents” — something which the EU has described as incompatible with European values.

Salome VS Putin: 1-0

🇬🇪♥️🇪🇺

Update: Unfortunately, parliament can override the veto with a second vote, writes BBC:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cv2254nrv06o

GottaLaff , 1 month ago to random

⚠️World's oceans have gone 'crazy haywire,' officials warn, with majority of coral reefs in peril

Conditions last year were so unusually warm in some waters that heat stress levels were literally off the charts of NOAA's alert system. #ClimateCrisis
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/ocean-record-heat-coral-bleaching-rcna152637

randahl , 1 month ago to random

Would a native English speaker help me out here?

I know what a coffin is, and I know what a casket is. But what should I call these simple plywood boxes, Russia uses to send dead soldiers back to Russia?

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GottaLaff , 1 month ago to random

Via Ben Wikler:

Absorb this graph—but note that the final year is 2018, the year of Trump’s tax cuts. That’s #Trump’s big goal, always has been: to rip off working people and hand huge bags of cash to the ultra-wealthy, like himself and his Mar-a-Lago buddies.

Rutger Bregman:

Stunning graph: the plummeting tax rates of the richest Americans. For the first time in history, billionaires have a lower effective tax rate than working-class Americans.

GottaLaff , 1 month ago to random

Lawrence O’Donnell:

“We had a monster in the presidency not because of Donald #Trump, but because of the people who voted for Donald Trump and because of the people who worked for Donald Trump’s campaign to get him there. You get monsters like Donald Trump thanks to people like Hope Hicks.”

https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/lawrence-you-get-monsters-like-donald-trump-thanks-to-people-like-hope-hicks-210249285691

breadandcircuses , 1 month ago to random

Capitalism has nothing to do with democracy. In fact, capitalism functions best when democracy cannot interfere.

That’s why — putting their dishonest and misleading rhetoric aside — capitalists always oppose democracy and will seek to shut it down. They’ll keep up the pretense, waving a flag of freedom 🇺🇸 while in reality disabling democratic processes and choking freedom out of existence.

#Politics #Democracy #Capitalism

otownKim , 1 month ago to random

The current SCOTUS situation is stressing me out BIG TIME!!!!! I feel this is way past the COUP tipping point!!!! I'm worried! UGH 😩

rbreich , 1 month ago to random

Let's be clear. There is no place for antisemitic harassment or violence on campuses or anywhere else. None.

But protesting the slaughter in Gaza is not in itself antisemitic, and having armed police arrest peaceful student demonstrators is never acceptable.

BustaMarx , 1 month ago to random

@pluralistic
"A corporation is an immortal, transhuman colony organism that uses us as inconvenient gut-flora: no matter how much you love it, it will never love you back." 🤌

GottaLaff , 2 months ago to random

🥳The US House has passed $95 billion in aid to #Ukraine, #Israel and #Taiwan, ending a political impasse. The Senate is expected to pass the package, which was negotiated with the White House, next week -Bloomberg

flexghost , 2 months ago to random

Here’s Rep. Byron Donalds pleading with potential jurors to acquit Donald Trump from his hush money charges

“My plea is to the people of Manhattan that may sit on this trial…This is a trash case, there is no crime here…they should vote not guilty.”

Mmm your tears sustain me: they’re so delicious

but there’s a name for what you just did

.... jury tampering

Video of some dummy who is useful to the GOP until one day he isn’t

luckytran , 2 months ago to random

Anti-maskers: “We should be free to choose to do what we want.”

Also anti-maskers: “I don’t feel comfortable sitting next to somebody with a mask on.”

Hypocrites.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/rcna144887

GottaLaff , 3 months ago to random

#WompWomp

"Peter #Navarro, a former trade adviser in #Trump’s White House, appears to be heading to jail.

Chief Justice John Roberts on Monday turned down Navarro’s emergency motion to stave off his imminent jail sentence — set to begin Tuesday at 2 p.m. in a Miami federal prison — for his defiance of a subpoena from the House #Jan6 committee two years ago." #legal https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/18/peter-navarro-supreme-court-00147649

flexghost , 3 months ago to random

Michael Whatley and Lara Trump are the new leaders of the RNC

Checking the finances now…

GottaLaff , 3 months ago to random

I can’t post the clip, but this is via Dem strategist Sawyer Hackett:

President #Biden: "I told him, Bibi, and don't repeat this, but you and I are going to have a ‘come to Jesus’ meeting."

“I’m on a hot mic here. Good. That’s good.”

GottaLaff , 4 months ago to random

Yes, THAT Delgado.

A.J. Delgado:

Again, you morons, I will take #Biden, even if so old he literally has to be propped up on the podium with wooden strings, over insufferable nepo-babies Jared and Ivanka running the country and the world again.

Voters agree w me.

breadandcircuses , 5 months ago to random

No matter how difficult and how painful it will prove to be, the only sensible choice right now is for the world to unite as one and agree that it is time to totally break our addiction to fossil fuels.

But this almost certainly will never happen.

Even if the UN General Assembly voted in favor, that still would not happen. Why? Because the US capitalist empire would never allow it, and the United Nations is essentially powerless to enforce anything.

And it’s not only the US. It’s also Norway, Sweden, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, Canada, Australia, India, China, Japan, South Korea — on and on and on and on.

Virtually every nation-state in the world is far too invested in capitalism’s fever dream of endless growth to ever consider calling a halt or urging their citizens to adopt a carbon-free lifestyle.

Instead we’ll simply carry on with Business As Usual, with politicians making their phony pledges and corporations doing their greenwashing, and with temperatures rising and ecosystems declining and species dying, while billionaires turn into trillionaires.

#USA #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual