Echinocentric @Echinocentric@social.cleverlibre.org

Sooo let me get this straight. We've allowed a significant portion of our workforce to be dead or disabled via covid, resulting in labor shortages, so now we're turning to children to fill the gap? Where are the "urgency of normal" pundits now?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/02/11/child-labor-iowa/

Where once images
of the cheering crowd
at an exciting event
filled me with a certain fear
that I was missing out
these days I find
that when I look at such images
I am relieved to be doing so
from the safety of my home.

Judge: Witnesses may have lied under oath when testifying before a Georgia grand jury investigating Trump

Prosecutors: (trying to look busy while the statute of limitations runs out)

Wait. Why are any Americans still *in* Russia?

…aside from republicans there for training.

Democrats are passing bills, building the country up, and putting Americans to work with higher wages while Republicans are running around the halls of Congress with balloons.

Opinion: Biden is succeeding in building the economy from ‘bottom up, middle out’-
https://wapo.st/40Vus2a

The problem with capitalism is how it distorts the natural balance of Fucking Around & Finding Out by creating a class that is allowed nearly infinite fuckery with zero finding out

Last year, the top railroads made over $26 billion in profits and paid their wealthy shareholders over $20 billion in stock buybacks and dividends.

But these companies claim they can't afford to give rail workers paid sick leave?

In other news, I managed to walk two laps around the park yesterday on my cane while Jack had a masked playtime with another child from his online class. It may not seem like much, but when you've been effectively bedridden for months, dealing with that level of deconditioning to get your body moving again is A LOT. I was proud of myself.

One of the most transformative mindset adjustments I've experienced: to stop focusing on perceived infractions of rules of a game we've been handed, and start focusing on who handed us the game, who enforces the playing of it, and what has been taken from us all while we play.

@marcelias

Thanks, Marc;

I've been reading through GA SB-202 from one of your prior podcasts, and it's truly appalling how Republican controlled states are taking elections away from the people.

From article:

"My message to state Democratic leaders is simple: Use your power to expand voting rights and protect democracy. Make 2023 the year that every Democratic-controlled state enacts new laws to strengthen free and fair elections and increase voter access. Enact bold new proposals..."

When a school board, a library or a state bans books, it’s not a show of strength. It’s a sign they’re ruled by fear. Fear of knowledge. Fear of opposing views. Fear of democracy.

Antisemitic text alluding to the debunked conspiracy theory that Anne Frank's diary was a forgery was projected onto her former hiding place in Amsterdam this week, the Anne Frank House said. https://t.co/KrVRkUoqrQ

The notion that Republicans care about the debt is one of the biggest lies in American politics. As long as the wealthy and corporations get their tax cuts, the deficit be damned.

if you understand that for a certain demographic of people, accountability is considered offensive, a lot of things start to make more sense.

Every asshole pundit and journalist who mansplained to those of us who were worried about exactly this happening should never be taken seriously again. They are not serious people, they are not smart people, and they don't know what the fuck is going on in the world around them.

https://apnews.com/article/abortion-us-food-and-drug-administration-donald-trump-texas-medication-bdd99c39613c71f62d10dfc2f2d1bf07

Lawyer dies after his hidden gun goes off during MRI scan

Leandro Mathias de Novaes’ gun went off due to magnetic field in the MRI scanning room:

It's a superconducting electromagnet, mate. The metal detectors on the door aren't there for your explodey penis substitute, they're there because ferrous metals go ZOOOOM if they get too close to the high-Tesla field!

It's like the dipshit ignored the pre-MRI fact sheet/briefing.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/brazil-lawyer-death-mri-gun-b2279514.html

Shameful. We're coming for you!

The 170-plus Republican election deniers who were just elected to Congress had some crucial last-minute help. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/big-lie-corporate-donations_n_63e69db8e4b022eb3e301098

@TCatInReality Yeah, not enough folks realize Democracy is at a bit of a crossroads here. This demands on all-hands-on-deck response. And Garland is a key player. He cannot F this up.

I wish #JohnFetterman a quick recovery and return to the Senate.

Did he push himself? Perhaps.

Did he save the Senate from

Republican control and that scumbag #DrOz? Absolutely.

That was hero work.

Get well soon, sir.

Thoughts and prayers to #GiseleFetterman

I'm very smart, but you would be wise to not underestimate my stupidity.