Echinocentric @Echinocentric@social.cleverlibre.org

@av @therobburgessshow I agree that a lack of critical thinking skills are at play here—how much is nature v. nurture is debatable. I did not learn it in a systematic way until I reached my upper division uni courses, but I had a certain innate tendency towards it. Those that aren’t naturally skeptical in a quasi-objective way, would have to learn it. Of course, the right anti-education/intellectualism discourages it, arguably the overarching goal of their leaders.

@therobburgessshow I have to wonder how many of the up in arms 'come take my stove' people don't know Mcdonalds doesn't use gas and they likely never cook at home.

Missouri's House of Representatives kicked off its new session by tightening its dress code — but only for female lawmakers.
https://t.co/GWxNsG9g5F

!!It’s Friday night, you know what that means!!

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2 minutes to midnight
The hands that threaten doom

2 minutes to midnight
To kill the unborn in the womb

@waitnwallflower Healthcare? Hell...They're telling the female representatives what they can wear ffs.

The oligarchs who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us so they can become more powerful. They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see where all the wealth and power have gone.

Remember: We have more in common with each other than we do with them.

In other words, they are ALL FRAUDS.

@AvvieLanche
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
—John F Kennedy

And he's running again? Really, Republicans voted to re-elect this very dangerous person.

https://crooksandliars.com/2023/01/general-kelly-trump-nuclear-bomb?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=69619

Remember when Marjorie Taylor Greene bought up to $15,000 in defense and energy stocks *two days* before Russian forces invaded Ukraine?

We really, I mean really, need to ban members of Congress from trading stocks.

The US will hit its debt limit Thursday then default unless congress acts

The reply from congress:

I feel like part of why the right is so susceptible to moral panics about “the libs are coming for your X” is that they very much do want to come for other people’s X and assume everyone must work that way.

They want to come for your social safety net, your gender affirming care, your right to not be discriminated against in the workplace, your reproductive rights, your diet, your media, your non-conservative Christian religion or lack thereof, your identity.

My favorite band
has announced they’ll be
touring this summer
and because I am hopeful
I’ll feel comfortable
going to a crowded venue
by then
I buy tickets
and because I am doubtful
I’ll feel comfortable
going to a crowded venue
by then
I buy cancellation protection.

My kid asked where babies come from and I said everywhere, man, they’re worldwide.

There’s very few waterfalls of note in #Texas - where there’s topographic relief for them there tends to be insufficient rainfall to sustain them. But, for example, there’s Pedernales Falls in the central TX Hill Country a little ways to the west of Austin. The falls run over Pennsylvanian (Carboniferous) Age limestones chock-full of crinoid stem #fossils. Water was low this day but in a wet year they more truly qualify as “waterfalls”.

#WaterfallWednesday #PhotographyOnMastodon #photography

Classic rock icons: West Mitten and Merrick Butte at sunset, Monument Valley (Tsé Bii' Ndzisgaii) Navaho Tribal Park, Arizona.

#ThrowBackThursday photo from a summer of 2010 roadtrip wandering through the “Four Corners” states: NM, AZ, UT, & CO. Nice clouds that evening, remnants from the thunderstorms that rolled through earlier in the afternoon.

#PhotographyOnMastodon #photography #travelphotography #americanwest #Rocks #sunset

Republicans don’t care if George Santos is an unrepentant conman liar because they all are.