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randahl , 2 days ago to random

Ukraine reaches another milestone: 8,000 Russian tanks destroyed.

This is significant, because satellite images reveal, how Russia's old tank storage yards are being emptied.

And as Russia is only building around 20 new tanks per month, it will take Putin more than 33 years to build another 8,000 tanks.

Hitler could not defeat the Russian army.

Putin could.

randahl , 4 days ago (edited 4 days ago) to random

If Just Stop Oil spent their time building solar farms, they would literally be stopping the oil.

Instead, they prefer vandalizing cultural sites for media attention.

I do not respect their movement.

GottaLaff , 4 days ago to random

Thou shalt separate church & state, you power-hungry ChristoFascists.

“#Louisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom under a bill signed into law by Republican Gov. Jeff Landry”

https://apnews.com/article/louisiana-ten-commandments-displayed-classrooms-571a2447906f7bbd5a166d53db005a62?taid=66731eff5988a9000164aaff&utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter

randahl , 10 days ago to random

The Moscow stock exchange can no longer trade in dollars and Euro, and the Russian stock market is declining fast, and Russian banks are preventing customers from logging in, after the US unleashed extensive new economic sanctions.

Have a great weekend Vladimir! 😘

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckvv1wydkwqo.amp

Joe Biden Reaction GIF by The Democrats

GottaLaff , 12 days ago to random

👍🏼9th Circuit says #California ban on gun sales on state property is constitutional

“California laws barring the sale of firearms and ammunition at fairgrounds and other state property are constitutional, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday.” #guns #legal
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-06-11/9th-circuit-says-california-ban-on-gun-sales-on-state-property-is-constitutional

luckytran , 12 days ago to random

North Carolina's anti-mask bill just passed the House. It will now go to the Governor.

This is a horrible bill that narrows the health exemption for wearing a mask, and makes it easier for cops and anti-maskers to harass people into taking off their mask.

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article289178384.html

randahl , 24 days ago (edited 24 days ago) to random

You too can buy a Tesla, and support the main share holder Elon Musk, who abuses his social media platform to convince his 185 million followers, that the US justice system is corrupt, because his favorite criminal is brought to justice.

Or you could buy from a different car brand.

lowqualityfacts , 1 month ago to random

I think we have more than enough.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

GottaLaff , 1 month ago to random

FYI, someone just asked me, "Could you please put a CW on those US politics posts?"

I said no sorry,, just mute me.

I don't understand CWing political posts. And that doesn't mean you need to @ me explaining why. I know THEIR reasons, I just disagree with them and won't do it.

I respect CWs for other things, but not politics. Politics is news and people need to be aware of what's happening. It's not gory or violent, it's politics.

Kthxbye.

GottaLaff , 1 month ago to random

Even Lying Trump will have had enough of her lies.

Via Kyle Griffin:

#France's government is disputing a portion of #KristiNoem's book that describes a canceled meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron.

A representative from the Élysée Palace disputed Noem's account, saying there’s no record of a scheduled meeting, nor was there an invitation extended to her.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/french-official-disputes-kristi-noem-book-passage-emmanuel-macron-rcna151742

pluralistic , 1 month ago to random

Fun fact: "The Tragedy Of the Commons" is a hoax created by the white nationalist Garrett Hardin to justify stealing land from colonized people and moving it from collective ownership, "rescuing" it from the inevitable tragedy by putting it in the hands of a private owner, who will care for it properly, thanks to "rational self-interest":

https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/04/analytical-democratic-theory/#epistocratic-delusions

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EU_Commission , 1 month ago to random

200 candles today for our Ode to Joy!

The European Union’s anthem turns 2⃣0⃣0⃣ today and it is time to celebrate Ludwig van Beethoven’s masterpiece!

Composed in 1824, the excerpt from the prelude to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony was adopted as the anthem of the EU in 1985 and is one of the most known symbols of our unity. It speaks volumes through its melody, embodying the shared European ideals of freedom, peace, and solidarity.

One anthem, a whole Union. Happy birthday, Ode to joy!

#EuropeDay

GottaLaff , 1 month ago to random

CREW:

The fact that Tim Scott is refusing to say he’d follow the law and not try to overthrow the results of a free and fair election should scare anyone listening. This is how democracies end.

👇🏼
WELKER: Will you commit to accepting the 2024 election results?

TIM SCOTT: At the end of the day, the 47th president will be Donald Trump

WELKER: Wait -- yes or no, will you accept the results?

TIM SCOTT: That is my statement

lowqualityfacts , 1 month ago to random

We made a comic about the moon.

lowqualityfacts , 1 month ago to random

NYPD, finding a bike lock that literally anyone can buy: We have determined that professional agitators have infiltrated the student protests.

NYPD, seeing a discarded pizza box: And we have a strong hunch that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are the culprits.

EU_Commission , 1 month ago to random

💙 20 years.
💙 10 countries.
💙 1 enlargement.

On 1 May 2004, the citizens of 🇨🇾 🇨🇿 🇪🇪 🇭🇺 🇱🇻 🇱🇹 🇲🇹 🇵🇱 🇸🇰 🇸🇮 became citizens of the EU.

Since then, we have witnessed growth and prosperity. Real wages have doubled from 2004 to 2023 in these ten countries, while poverty levels have halved.

Our Union has benefitted from more innovations. The free movement of goods, services, capital and people, have brought greater opportunities for people and businesses.

#20YearsTogether

randahl , 1 month ago to random

Tucker Carlson normalizes Putin by interviewing him in Moscow.
Marjorie Taylor Greene says Putin "protects Christians".
And Trump says, he has a "great relationship" with Putin.

When Denmark was occupied by the Nazis, opportunists tried to normalize them too. After the war, 13,000 collaborators were sentenced, and ironically, many were placed in the Frøslev prison, built by the Nazis.

46 were executed.

I wonder what will happen, when everything falls apart for the collaborators of our time.

WarnerCrocker , 1 month ago to random

Who knew killing puppies and tossing them into a gravel pit was a constituency worth campaigning for? I'm sure we'll get polling on this in short order.

pluralistic , 2 months ago to random

If AI has a future (a big if), it will have to be economically viable. An industry can't spend 1,700% more on Nvidia chips than it earns indefinitely - not even with Nvidia being a principle investor in its largest customers:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39883571

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/23/maximal-plausibility/#reverse-centaurs

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RikerGoogling Bot , 2 months ago to random

is google warp drive down

MikeDunnAuthor , 2 months ago to random

On June 21, 1877, the authorities hanged ten Irish miners in a single day in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. Known as Black Thursday, or Day of the Rope, it was the second largest mass execution in U.S. history. (The largest was in 1862, when the U.S. government executed 38 Dakota warriors). They convicted the Irishmen of murder, and accused them of being terrorists from a secret organization called the Molly Maguires. They executed ten more over the next two years, and imprisoned another twenty suspected Molly Maguires. Most of the convicted men were union activists. Some even held public office, as sheriffs and school board members.

However, there is no evidence that an organization called the Molly Maguires ever existed in the U.S. The only serious evidence against the men was presented by a spy, James McParland, working for the Pinkerton Detective Agency, who provided the plans and weapons the men purportedly used in their crimes. The entire legal process was a travesty: a private corporation (the Reading Railroad) set up the investigation through a private police force (the Pinkerton Detective Agency) and prosecuted them with their own company attorneys. No jurors were Irish, though several were recent German immigrants who had trouble understanding the proceedings.

Nearly everything people “know” today about the Molly Maguires comes from Allan Pinkerton’s own work of fiction, The Molly Maguires and the Detectives (1877), which he marketed as nonfiction. His heavily biased book was the primary source for dozens of academic works, and for several pieces of fiction, including Arthur Conan Doyle’s final Sherlock Holmes novel, Valley of Fear (1915), and the 1970 Sean Connery film, Molly Maguires.

My novel, Anywhere But Schuylkill, tells a truer story of these union miners and their persecution by the Pinkertons.

You can read my complete article on the Molly Maguires here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/13/the-myth-of-the-molly-maguires/

#workingclass #LaborHistory #MollyMaguires #union #Pinkertons #coal #mining #police #racism

lowqualityfacts , 2 months ago to random

All that sleeping for nothing.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

lowqualityfacts , 2 months ago to random

I love Tom Hanks.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

rbreich , 2 months ago to random

Office hours: Biden’s biggest obstacle? https://robertreich.substack.com/p/office-hours-bidens-biggest-obstacle?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

breadandcircuses , 2 months ago to random

Are you old enough, like me, to remember the Exxon Valdez catastrophe, a disastrous oil spill off the coast of Alaska in 1989?

Here's some important info about that event from Greg Palast...

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"Don’t Buy Exxon’s Fable of the Drunken Captain"

The true cause of the Exxon Valdez catastrophe was the oil giant breaking their promises, cynically and disastrously, in the 15 years leading up to the spill.

As for Captain Joe Hazelwood, he was below decks, sleeping off his bender. At the helm, the third mate would never have collided with Bligh Reef had he looked at his Raycas radar.

But the radar was not turned on. In fact, the tanker’s radar was left broken and disabled for more than a year before the disaster, and Exxon management knew it. It was just too expensive to fix and operate.

Today, three decades after the oil washed over the Alaskan beaches, you can kick over a rock and it will smell like an old gas station.

The Fable of the Drunken Captain serves the oil industry well. It falsely presents America’s greatest environmental disaster as a tale of human frailty, a one-time accident. But broken radar, missing equipment, phantom spill teams, faked tests — the profit-driven disregard of the law — made the spill an inevitability, not an accident.

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FULL ARTICLE -- https://www.gregpalast.com/dont-buy-exxons-fable-of-the-drunken-captain-2/

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #Capitalism #Pollution

flexghost , 3 months ago to random

Dems are usually terrible at messaging

But this: this is a home run.

🇺🇸

Video answering trumps question are you better off than you were 4 years ago illustrating trumps failure with the pandemic

lowqualityfacts , 3 months ago to random

Nature is crazy.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

GottaLaff , 3 months ago to random

❗️ #BREAKING

“In a surprise move, an #Illinois judge has removed former President Donald #Trump from the state’s ballot based on the #14thAmendment’s so-called “insurrectionist ban.”

He’ll have time to appeal.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/28/politics/illinois-trump-removed-ballot-insurrectionist-ban?cid=ios_app

ErikUden , 4 months ago to random

My phone just had a bug where it did the "emergency" thing but my screen was still locked so I could not stop it and just had to wait in absolute fear whilst emergency services were called, all my emergency contacts (friends and family) were sent my whereabouts and told I was having an emergency......

AH

appassionato , 4 months ago to bookstodon group

Hidden Links: How Random Historical Events Shaped Our World by Zac Sangeeth & Sangeeth Varghese

Unravelling thread by thread, this book investigates the disproportional effect of historically unconnected and random events like climate changes, imperial pursuits, pandemics, and nomadic migrations on our modern lives in the most unbelievable ways.

@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#history

vampiress , 4 months ago to random

Good Morning!

It's Friday, the internet is down so... welcome to Fuckit Friday! Grab those papers off your desk and just tip them off. Riiiiight into the bin. Because fuck it.

Close your inbox, don't even bother trying to get it to zero. Because fuckit. Just grab your stuff and leave. Go for a walk somewhere nice.

Appreciate the dying remains of this planet we've fucked over, because fuckit.

Grab a coffee. Fire a billionaire into the sun using a huge trebuchet.

Because FUCK IT. #FuckIt

GottaLaff , 4 months ago to random

Thanks for the Dem ad, Nik!

Via Aaron Rupar:

#NikkiHaley on Newsmax: "Let's speak some hard truths. If Donald #Trump becomes the Republican nominee, we will get a President Kamala Harris. You mark my words. He cannot win a general election ... he can't get independents. He can't get suburban women."

MikeDunnAuthor , 4 months ago to random

Every 6 days, another country celebrates its independence from Britain.

ergative , 4 months ago to random

Hey, friends, a quick reminder that although Make America Kittens Again (MAKA) has been blocked from Chrome, it still works on Firefox:

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/make-firefox-kittens-again/

(MAKA is a browser extension that replaces all images whose metadata includes the word 'Trump' with a creative-commons picture of a kitten. Here's what it did to the front page of today's NYTimes for me.)

breadandcircuses , 5 months ago to random

What a surprise. Corporate media owned by capitalists is actively supporting fossil fuel companies owned by capitalists. Good ol' Business As Usual!

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Although commercial news media have recently given more coverage to the existential threats posed by anthropogenic climate change, more typically they pay only scant attention to the pernicious influence of the oil and gas industry. Corporate news outlets consistently underreport the devastating impact of fossil fuels on human health, and they tend to “greenwash” the economic and political forces that keep us dependent on carbon-intensive energy.

As greenhouse emissions rise and global temperatures inch closer to critical levels, we need media to tell the truth about the corporate behemoths responsible for the climate crisis, not media that collaborates openly with them.

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FULL ARTICLE -- https://truthout.org/articles/as-the-planet-boils-corporate-media-still-carry-water-for-fossil-fuel-giants/

#News #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual #Greenwashing

rbreich , 5 months ago to random

In separate legal rulings, Trump has been found to have committed rape, business fraud, and insurrection.

And yet he remains the Republican presidential front runner.

Don't ever tell me again that the GOP is the party of "family values" or "law and order."