dougiec3

GottaLaff , 17 hours ago to random

Hey CJ Roberts, you wanna weigh in? Ever?

Via Scott MacFarlane:

Rep Steve Cohen (D-TN) Introduces Resolution of Censure Against Justice Sam #Alito

GottaLaff , 1 day ago to random

#TrumpTrial 🧵starts HERE. #Trump #legal

Plz remember to use NFL (Not For Laffy, no hashtag) so I can ignore those replies while live-posting. TY!

1/...Tyler McBrien:

Trey Gowdy again...

Per Trump's campaign, this is today's Greek chrous: Don Trump, Jr., Matt Whitaker, Pam Bondi, Sen. Eric Schmitt, Rep. Daniel Webster, Rep. Dan Meuser, Rep. Ronny Jackson, Rep. Troy Nehls, Rep. Dale Strong, Rep. Maria Salazar, Sebastian Gorka, Chuck Zito, Joe Piscopo, Bill White

dougiec3 , 4 days ago to random

The inverted flag means the country has been overthrown (to many, if not most, on the right). This is a profound act of symbolism and appalling at the home of a Supreme Court Justice.
For Alito to fly it was an indication that he was part of the insurrection. "
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/may-17-2024?r=63j6s&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
#SCOTUS #SamuelAlito #ClarenceThomas #GinniThomas

GottaLaff , 7 days ago to random

Oooo! Our first PODs is coming in 10 minutes!

(Next week will be the second)

So, we'll be breaking our backs loading boxes in today, my posting will be minimal unless big news breaks.

Yes, we'll be careful, yes we use a hand truck/dolly for the really heavy stuff, so no unsolicited advice necessary. 😘

See you later.

GottaLaff , 8 days ago to random

Via Adam Schiff:

People are losing respect for our system of justice because a Speaker of the House stands outside a courthouse to falsely denigrate it.

If you have no respect for the rule of law, Mr. Speaker,

At least have some self-respect.

Aaron Rupar:

Speaker Mike Johnson is outside #Trump's trial offering a stream of lies

GottaLaff , 8 days ago to random

Omfg. Our first Pods comes tomorrow.

To. Morrow!

We actually start packing up the moving Pod tomorrow!!

Did I mention it's tomorrow?

One more comes in a week, for the furniture. Tomorrow's is for the boxes.

If I'm not around much to post, you'll know why. #Canada 🇨🇦 #CountdownToCanada

GottaLaff , 8 days ago to random

#TrumpTrial 🧵starts HERE. #Trump #legal

Remember: I cannot reply while live-posting, so plz use NFL (Not For Laffy.. no hashtag) so I can skip your replies. THANK YOU.

1/…More color from Pagliery:

Eric Trump just swapped seats with Rep. Donalds just in time for the congressman to appear in photos behind Trump's defense table.

That's what this trial is now for Trump, a political photo opp.

More...

GottaLaff , 8 days ago to random

“Federal prosecutors requested the judge overseeing Steve #Bannon's criminal contempt of Congress case to order that he begin his four-month prison sentence, after an appeals court last week upheld his conviction.

Prosecutors said there is no legal basis for Judge Carl Nichols to continue the stay on Bannon serving his sentence after the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals' conclusive ruling that rejected the basis for Bannon's appeal on all grounds”

https://trib.al/sueX48S

dougiec3 , 9 days ago to random

Ohman!

GottaLaff , 9 days ago to random

🤦🏻‍♀️😂In other news, via Bloomberg:

#Tesla started hiring back some of the almost 500 members of its Supercharging team that CEO Elon #Musk dismissed last month.

GottaLaff , 10 days ago to random

Just…. Go.

#Trump #Doonesbury #comics

https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2024/05/12

GottaLaff , 11 days ago to random

Huh. Imagine that.

👀
IRS Audit of #Trump Could Cost Former President More Than $100 Million

The tax agency concluded in its long-running investigation that Trump effectively claimed the same massive write-off twice on his failed Chicago tower. https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-irs-audit-chicago-hotel-taxes

dougiec3 , 12 days ago to random

Bagley!

GottaLaff , 12 days ago to random

Via Pagliery:

We wrapped up the day with some news.

The hush money trial now features... yet another hush money deal.

Prosecutors say Allen Weisselberg is getting $750k this year to keep quiet about his former boss. #TrumpTrial

GottaLaff , 12 days ago to random

#TrumpTrial 🧵 starts HERE. #Trump #legal

Please remember I don’t reply while live-posting. Plz use NFL (Not For Laffy, but no hashtag) so I can ignore those replies.

1/

Pagliery:

Today's session starts with prosecutors asking for a sidebar with the judge. Lawyers on both sides are now discussing something in hushed tones.

dougiec3 , 14 days ago to random

Deering!

GottaLaff , 14 days ago to random

Via Pagliery:

So, actual brain worms.

NYT reports RFK Jr. had previously undisclosed health issues, including a parasite in his brain. “I have cognitive problems, clearly,” #RFKJr. said in the 2012 deposition. “I have short-term memory loss, and I have longer-term memory loss that affects me.” https://nytimes.com/2024/05/08/us/rfk-jr-brain-health-memory-loss.html

DemocracyMattersALot , 17 days ago to random

Lara Trump would prefer to count ballots before the election.

#NoRepublicansEverAgain #VoteBlueEveryTime

RNC co-chair Lara Trump: 'You cannot have ballots counted after elections are over' https://www.rawstory.com/lara-trump-counting-ballots/

GottaLaff , 17 days ago (edited 17 days ago) to random

1/... Via Kevinly Father on Twitter:

The Republican party is literally suing to prevent legal votes from being counted.

Bartiromo: I see that the RNC is filing a lawsuit in a battleground state to stop counting ballots past election day.

Lara #Trump: Yeah. Well, that's exactly right. You cannot have ballots counted after elections are over.

flexghost , 17 days ago to random

Calm down news media

Trump wasn’t “destroyed” or “dealt a devastating blow.” It’s been years of these kinds of headlines

Hope Hicks was subpoenaed. She didn’t want to be there. It was excellent testimony

But the title bout is going to be Cohen who recorded Trump least once

MikeDunnAuthor , 18 days ago to random

Today in Labor History May 4, 1970: Ohio National Guards murdered four students at Kent State University. They also injured nine others, including one who was permanently paralyzed. During the massacre, they fired 67 rounds in 13 seconds at the unarmed crowd. The students were protesting the U.S. invasion of Cambodia. With the current wave of student protests against the Israeli genocide in Gaza, the government’s response is looking sickeningly similar to its response to student protests in the early 70s: Violent repression, use of chemical agents, snipers on rooftops. If the vitriolic rhetoric of politicians and pundits continues, another student massacre seems imminent.

#students #KentState #massacre #NationalGuard #cambodia #bombing #USImperialism #MayTheFourth #freepalestine #EndTheOccupation #genocide #gaza #studentprotests #freespeech

breadandcircuses , 19 days ago to random

The US military is responsible not only for killing and maiming people all around the world, and not only for pouring greenhouse gases into the atmosphere at levels far above any other institution, but also for polluting water and soil wherever they go, leaving death, disease, and destruction in their wake.

---

PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are a class of nearly 15,000 fluorinated chemicals used since the 1950s to make clothing and food containers oil- and water-repellent. They’re also used in firefighting foam. These chemicals do not break down over time, and have contaminated everything from drinking water to food. Research has linked them to cancer, heart and liver problems, developmental issues, and other ailments.

In the 1960s, the Defense Department worked with 3M, one of the largest manufacturers of PFAS chemicals, to develop a foam called AFFF that can extinguish high-temperature fires. By the 1970s, every military base, Navy ship, civilian airport, and fire station regularly used AFFF.

In the decades that followed, millions of gallons flowed into the environment. According to the nonprofit Environmental Working Group, 710 U.S. military sites have known or suspected PFAS contamination. Internal studies and memos show that not long after 3M and the Navy patented the foam in 1966, 3M learned that its PFAS products accumulated in the body and could harm animal test subjects.

Today, the EPA considers it unsafe to be exposed to virtually any amount of PFOA and PFOS, two of the most harmful substances under the PFAS umbrella.

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FULL STORY -- https://grist.org/accountability/us-military-bases-teem-with-pfas-theres-still-no-firm-plan-to-clean-them-up/

#Science #Environment

wdlindsy , 19 days ago to random

Josh Marshall reports that no clear information has yet been reported on who the pro-Israel counter-protesters violently attacking student protesters at UCLA are. He's also seen no evidence they were arrested.

Reports uniformly say they were not students and were almost all men. They were wearing balaklavas.

#StudentProtests #Israel #Palestinians #Gaza
/1

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/details-on-identities-of-the-violent-pro-israel-protesters-at-ucla

GottaLaff , 20 days ago to random

#TrumpTrial 🧵starts HERE. #Trump #legal
PLEASE NOTE: I likely can’t reply while live-posting. Adding NFL (Not For Laffy) helps! Thx.

1/…

Via Andrew Weissmann:

Court about to begin. The defense table, from left to right: Blanche, the defendant (ie Trump), Bove, and Necheles (notably farthest from Trump). Gaggle of photographers shoot Trump, inches from his face: he maintains an implacable and dour expression. ADA Josh Steinglass and his team now enter: Steinglass is very much the lead here.

GottaLaff , 21 days ago to random

⚠️CDC warned on Tuesday of an E. coli outbreak linked to organic walnuts sold in bulk that has so far infected 12 people across the states of #California and #Washington.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4635317-multi-state-e-coli-outbreak-connected-to-walnuts-cdc/

dougiec3 , 22 days ago to random

Nick Anderson!
"Abbott Arrests Protesters After Championing Free Speech on College Campuses"

GottaLaff , 24 days ago to random

Colin Jost: "Can we just acknowledge how refreshing it is to see a president of the United States at an event that doesn't begin with a bailiff saying 'all rise'?"

dougiec3 , 25 days ago to random

Anderson!

wdlindsy , 26 days ago (edited 26 days ago) to random

“'I am in shock that a lawyer stood in the U.S. Supreme Court and said that a president could assassinate his political opponent and it would be immune as ‘an official act,' lawyer Marc Elias, whose firm defends democratic election laws, wrote today on social media. He added: 'I am in despair that several Justices seemed to think this answer made perfect sense.'”

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Trump #SupremeCourt #crime #immunity #Constitution #democracy
/1

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-25-2024

dougiec3 , 28 days ago to random

Universities and law enforcement have forgotten anything they may have learned during the Vietnam war.
https://www.npr.org/2024/04/23/1246594938/pro-palestinian-campus-protests-columbia-yale-nyu
#Protest #FirstAmendment

dougiec3 , 1 month ago to random

Nick Anderson!

GottaLaff , 1 month ago to random

Mr. Laffy is on the phone with Verizon. My coverage will be spotty til Internet is back. She was excused.

#Trump #legal 🧵1/…

#TrumpTrial Via McBrien:

The first potential juror of the day, who mentioned that her bad anxiety might prevent her from being fair and punctual, had said: "The more days that go on and more and more people in my life know that I'm here without me even telling them, they just put pieces together."

GottaLaff , 1 month ago to random

🤦🏻‍♀️ “The potential change of plans comes as the administration faces fierce political headwinds, a conservative Supreme Court majority that has shown aggressive interest in curtailing the #EPA’s authority and questions over how fast electric utilities can pivot to the most innovative #ClimateCrisis solutions.”

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/18/climate/biden-epa-power-plant-rules-hydrogen-climate?cid=ios_app

dougiec3 , 1 month ago to random

Bagley!

GottaLaff , 1 month ago to random

#WompWomp

Via Kyle Cheney:

NEW: Judge Mehta has denied Donald #Trump's motion to pause the #Jan6 lawsuits against him filed by members of Congress and police officers.

Trump wanted them put on hold until his criminal case is resolved.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/18/jan-6-lawsuits-trump-00153133

futurebird , 1 month ago to random

If you are an artist don't feel like you need to only post new work. Much of your work will be new to the people following you. And if you share a little about why you created it, or how you made it, or even how you see it differently, those who have seen it before will still find it fresh.

"I drew this six years ago, if I did it today I would ..."

"I remember drawing this during ..."

"This was the first time I tried to draw..."

etc.

I love these kinds of posts from artists.

GottaLaff , 1 month ago to random

While moving is stressful in many ways (and exciting in even more), it’s a piece of cake compared to the stress I feel from politics.

Speaking of which, today is Pack More Stuff Day, Open House Day tomorrow… so I won’t be around much.

If news breaks— well, you know the rest.

GottaLaff , 1 month ago to random

#RIP Robert MacNeil, Earnest News Anchor for PBS, Dies at 93

With his longtime co-host Jim Lehrer, he delivered thoughtful reports that stood in stark contrast to the commercial networks’ ever more sensational newscasts.... via NYT

GottaLaff , 1 month ago to random

Via WaPo:

"US hikes cost of #oil drilling on federal lands for 1st time in decades, a bid to generate more $ for taxpayers

Interior Department rule represents 1st comprehensive update to the federal oil & gas leasing program in more than 30 years. It will force oil companies to pay at least 10x more to drill on US lands — $150K up from $10K — + higher royalties...also aims to prevent taxpayers from footing the bill for cleanup of abandoned oil and gas wells."

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

“House advanced bill to reauthorize warrantless surveillance authority, opening measure up for debate two days after band of conservatives blocked previous version”- The Hill

Via @GreenFire :

Bill requires warrants to allow Americans caught communicating w our foreign enemies to be investig so we can try to prevent things like planes flying into our buildings..

GOP want to not allow MoC to be investig bc we know why

If FISA not reauthorized we'll go back to old syst when no warrant required

wdlindsy , 1 month ago to random

"On April 8th, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene publicly declared that the Ukrainian government was 'Attacking Christians' and that the Russian government was defending Christianity.

Marjorie, what planet are you on? …

The reality is that Marjorie Taylor Greene already decided long ago that she was going to support Putin."

~ Alexander Vindman

#MarjorieTaylorGreene #Putin #Russia #Ukraine
/1

https://alexandervindman.substack.com/p/marjorie-what-planet-are-you-on

kimlockhartga , 1 month ago to bookstodon group

Okay, @bookstodon I have the full list of comps (If you liked this book, you may also like this other book). It's very very long, so I alphabetized the first books in each pairing, if that helps at all. Without further adieu: BOOK THREAD

1000 Best Books to Read Before You Die // Read This Next // The Western Lit Survival Kit
11/22/63 // Fatherland
The 1619 Project // Four Hundred Souls
1984 // Julia
1Q84 // The Bone Clocks
After Annie // Swim Home to the Vanished
Aftershocks (Kloos) // Nova (Delany)
The Alice Network // The Lost Girls of Paris
All Our Wrong Todays // Bridge (Beukes)
All The Birds in the Sky // Midnight Robber
All The Light We Cannot See // The Paris Library
All The Names They Used for God // New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color
American Delirium // The Burned Bridges of Ward, Nebraska
American Gods // Sorrowland
American Prometheus // The Cassandra (Shields)
Annihilation // Roadside Picnic
Apeirogon // Immortals of Tehran
Appleseed (Bell) // The Red Garden
Ariadne // Clytemnestra
Ascension (Binge) // High Crimes (GN) Sebala
At Night All Blood is Black // Hangman (Binyam)
Awayland // The Summer People
Babel // The Starless Sea
Bad Cree // Crooked Hallelujah
The Ballad of Perilous Graves // The Black God’s Drums
The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World // And at my Back I Always Hear
Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance // Other Birds
The Beauty of Your Face // The Topeka School
The Beekeeper of Aleppo // The Wrong End of the Telescope
Before We Were Yours // The Home for Unwanted Girls
The Best of Me (Sedaris) // The Fun Parts
The Binding // The Kingdoms
Bird by Bird // How Not to Write a Novel
Birds of America // Your Duck is my Duck
Black River Orchard // Red Rabbit (Grecian)
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman // Kaleidoscope (Selznick)
Bliss Montage // Gods of Want
The Bloody Chamber // Red as Blood
The Body is Not an Apology // Full of Myself (GN)
The Bone People // The Whale Rider
The Book of Fire // Harrow (Williams)
The Book of Lost Names // The Book of Lost Friends
Book of Night // Hex Life (Golden)
The Book Thief // The Librarian of Auschwitz
Broken (Lawson) // Solutions and Other Problems
The Broken Earth Trilogy (Jemisin) // The Earthsinger Chronicles (L. Penelope)
Caste // Read Until You Understand
Cat’s Cradle // The Crying of Lot 49
A Certain Hunger // Tender is the Flesh
A Children’s Bible // How High We Go in the Dark
Chouette // Blue Hour // Reproduction
Cloud Atlas // Cloud Cuckoo Land
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena // Magenta (Foden)
Crow Mary // James (Everett)
Cuyahoga // Attack of the 50 ft. Indian
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed // Zombie Sharks With Metal Teeth
Dark Matter (Crouch) // The Space Between Worlds
David Copperfield // Demon Copperhead
The Days of Afrekete // In the not Quite Dark
Deacon King Kong // Black Bottom Saints
Dead-end Memories // Things That Fall From the Sky
Dear Edward // The Book of Two Ways
Dear Life (Munro) // The Relive Box
Death Valley // Where Echoes Die
Detransition, Baby // Manhunt
Dinosaurs (Millet) // I Love You, But I’ve Chosen Darkness
Dinosaurs on Other Planets // Reptile House
Disappearing Earth // Hold The Dark
A Discovery of Witches // Middlegame
The Dog Stars // A Beginning at the End
The Dovekeepers // To The Edge of Sorrow
Dr. No (Everett) // American Mermaid
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead // Remnant Population
Drowning Practice // Flood (The Reset #1) Greene
The Dutch House // The House of the Spirits
Eat The Mouth That Feeds You // This Wicked Tongue
The Echo Wife // The Ones We Choose
The Employees // Genesis (Beckett)
The End of Men // The Men
Everything I Never Told You // All That’s Left Unsaid
Exhalation // Memory Wall
Far Out (Guran) // Love After The End (Whitehead)
The Fell (Moss) // Burntcoat (Hall)
The Fervor // Hex (Knight)
Fever Dream // The Ones That Got Away
The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America // Baking with Kafka
The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of The Whole Stupid World // OMFG, BEES!
Filthy Animals // A Minor Chorus
Fingersmith // Once Upon a River
Florida (Groff) // Ghost Summer (Due)
The Forest of Vanishing Stars // The Yellow Bird Sings
The Foretelling // The Steerswoman’s Road
Four Treasures of the Sky // Straw Dogs of the Universe
The Four Winds // The Past is Never
The Fox Wife // The Fox Maidens (GN) // Ninetails (Mao)
A Gentleman in Moscow // The Diamond Eye
Get in Trouble // Windeye
The Ghost Bride // The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
Gingerbread // The Book of X
A Girl is a Body of Water // Shallow Waters
The Girl With the Louding Voice // The Dragonfly Sea
The Glass Hotel // It Came From Del Rio
Gnomon // ZED
Going Zero // We Are Satellites
The Goldfinch // Rules of Civility
Goliath (Onyebuchi) // Thrust (Yuknavitch)
The Great Gatsby // The Chosen and the Beautiful
The Great Glorious Goddamn of it All // Pity the Beast
The Great Reclamation // Okinawa (GN) Higa
The Great Transition // Sucker (Hornsby)
The Guns of the South // The Underground Railroad (Whitehead)
Hamlet // The King of Infinite Space
Hao: Stories // Skinship (Stories)
Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World // Franz Kafka: The Complete Stories
The Harpy // The Forbidden Territory of a Terrifying Woman
Heaven (Kawakami) // Bloomland
Hell Bent (Alex Stern #2) // The Indian Lake Trilogy (SGJones)
The Henna Artist // A Burning
Her Body and Other Parties // Delicate Edible Birds
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever // Meet Me in the Future
The Hero of This Book // Delphi
A History of Burning // Beyond the Door of No Return
A History of Wild Places // Dead Eleven
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy // The Grand Scheme of Things (Strang)
Homeland Elegies // Radiant Fugitives
The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet // Clark and Division
A House Between the Earth and the Moon // The Future
House of Leaves // We Spread
How Can I Help You // Sing Her Down
How Long ‘til Black Future Month? // Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora
Hummingbird Salamander // Blue Skies (TCBoyle)
The Huntress (Quinn) // The Wind Knows my Name
Hurricane Girl // The Last Animal
Hyperbole & a Half // Barely Functional Adult (GN)
I Hold a Wolf by the Ears // The Collected Stories of Shirley Hazzard
I Hope This Finds You Well (Baer) // Dark Testament (Smith)
If I Survive You // How to Learn Jamaican
Illuminations (Moore) // Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick
In The Dream House // [EXTREME CONTENT WARNING]: A Blue Sky
The Invention of Wings // The Yellow Wife
Jackal // My Monticello
Jacob’s Ladder // Little Foxes Took Up Matches
Jesus’ Son // Stone Mattress: Nine Tales
Joan is Okay // Edge Case
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 // Flowers of Fire
Kindred // The Sweetness of Water
The Kite Runner (GN) // Yazidi! (GN)
Lady Tan’s Circle of Women // The Night Tiger
Land of Milk and Honey // In The Quick
Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century // Tomb Sweeping
Libertie // Wake (GN)
The Library at Mount Char // The Gone World (Sweterlisch)
Lies my Teacher Told Me // Stamped From the Beginning
The Light Pirate // Lark Ascending
Lighter Than my Shadow // Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body
Like Life // Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea
little gods // The God Child
A Long Petal of the Sea // Last Evenings on Earth
Lore // Olympus, Texas
The Lost Man // The Last Word
A Lush and Seething Hell // Wounds: Six Stories From the Border of Hell
Luster // Speaking of Summer
Magic Hour // The Water Keeper (Martin)
Marguerite (Kemp) // Flowers of Darkness
The Mars House // The Olympus Project
The Mars Room // Chain-gang All-stars
Matrix (Groff) // The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
Me Talk Pretty One Day // Assassination Vacation
The Measure // The Wishing Game
The Memory Police // You Feel it Just Below the Ribs
The Memory Theater // Adjacentland // At The End of the World
The Metamorphosis // The Bonus Room
Mexican Gothic // Just Like Home (Gailey)
The Midnight Library // The Other You (JCOates)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream // Shakespeare for Squirrels
Milk Fed // Written on the Body
The Minority Report // Veracity (Bynum)
The Mountains Sing // The Best We Could Do (GN)
Mouthful of Birds // We Show What We Have Learned
A Moveable Feast // The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Munich (Harris) // The Torqued Man
The Murmur of Bees // The Hummingbird’s Daughter
Music for Wartime // What Becomes
My Government Means to Kill Me // Manywhere
The Nature of Fragile Things // Vera (Edgarian)
Neverwhere // Slade House
The Nickel Boys // Home (Morrison)
The Night Circus // Caraval
Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird // Song for the Unraveling of the World
Ninth House // The Book of Love (Link)
No One Left to Come Looking for You // Brooklyn: A Crime Novel
Normal Rules Don’t Apply // The Rock Eaters
The Ocean at the End of the Lane // The Ten Thousand Doors of January
The Office of Historical Corrections // Heads of the Colored People
Old Babes in the Wood // Wednesday’s Child
Old God’s Time // Distant Sons (Johnston)
On Earth as it is on Television // Ripe (Hider)
Only The Beautiful // The Foundling
The Only Good Indians // The Removed
The Only Good Thing Anyone Has Ever Done // Away! Away!
Oona Out of Order // The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano
Open Throat // What We Feed to the Manticore
Orange World // What’s Yours is not Yours
Oranges Are not the Only Fruit // Mostly Dead Things
Organ Meats // Dazzling (Emelumadu)
Oryx and Crake // Borne (VanderMeer)
Our Missing Hearts // Paper Names
Our Share of Night // The Inheritance of Orquidea Divina
Our Wives Under the Sea // I Who Have Never Known Men
Out There Screaming // Twice Cursed
Outlawed // These Women
The Overstory // Once There Were Wolves
Pachinko // The Island of Sea Women
Paingod and Other Delusions // The Glassy Burning Floor of Hell
Pandemic (Riddle) // Child Zero
The Paper Menagerie // Beastiary
The Parable of the Sower // American Afterlife
To Paradise // Every Drop is a Man’s Nightmare
The Paradox Hotel // Flux (Chong)
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake // Peaces
The People of the Book // Ghostwritten (Mitchell)
The Pessimists // Why Did I Ever (Robison)
A Phoenix First Must Burn // Crosshairs (Hernandez)
Piranesi // Whether Violent or Natural
Poland (Michener) // Marzi (GN) Sowa
Poor Deer // Brother & Sister Enter the Forest
The Power // Woman World (GN)
Pride and Prejudice // The Other Bennet Sister
Project Hail Mary // Star Splitter
A Psalm for the Wild-built // Light From Uncommon Stars
The Pull of the Stars // As Bright as Heaven
QualityLand // Golden State (Winters)
Quichotte // FKA USA
Recursion // Big Time (Winters)
The Red Arrow // Dayswork
Red at the Bone // Riot Baby
The Refusal Camp // The Jackson Brodie series (Atkinson)
Remarkably Bright Creatures // Sea Change
The Resisters // Trashland
Ring Shout // Friday Black
Ripe (Etter) // The Startup Wife
A River of Stars // Central Places
The Rose Code // Good Night, Irene
Rosewater (Thompson) // Noor
Rubyfruit Jungle // With Teeth

GottaLaff , 1 month ago to random

Via Josh Gerstein:

JUST IN: DC Circuit upholds misdemeanor statute barring parading and picketing in Capitol, used to charge 1000+ #Jan6 defendants, rejects 1st Amendment overbreadth challenge. #legal

ADDED: ... ruling that the building — as opposed to the exterior grounds — is NOT, by law, a public forum.

dougiec3 , 1 month ago to random

I remember the total eclipse when I lived in Austin back in the last century. You don't have to look at the sun to experience the phenomena. Look at the shadows of things, particularly of trees and shrubs.
https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses/future-eclipses/eclipse-2024/where-when/
#Science

GottaLaff , 1 month ago to random

Trump now owns the RNC. The GOP Fascist Party is in full swing.

Via NYT—Donald #Trump will attend a high-dollar fund-raising dinner in Palm Beach, Florida, on Saturday that is expected to raise at least $25 million for a new joint fund-raising account for Trump’s presidential campaign, the #RNC and roughly 40 state parties.

GottaLaff , 1 month ago to random

#WompWomp

🤨ADDED via @lolgop : (I think No Labels is quitting because RFK Jr. is already a good enough spoiler to help Trump.)

👀👀Via Kyle Griffin:

Breaking WSJ: No Labels is abandoning efforts to create a 'unity ticket' aiming to win the White House, according to people familiar with the plans.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/no-labels-will-abandon-2024-presidential-campaign-effort-4b4e5121?st=1lbuhcrqtr1bz9g&reflink=article_copyURL_share