Echinocentric @Echinocentric@social.cleverlibre.org

Most Americans are completely unaware of the April 7, 2020 turning point in the pandemic here in America. But it’s set up the death of over a million Americans, and possibly even more from bird flu. Check it out…

https://open.substack.com/pub/thomhartmann/p/how-trump-could-make-a-bird-flu-pandemic?r=nl8r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

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Feeling not one bit charitable to white nationalist Marjorie Taylor Green, who is anti-vax, anti LGBTQ, pro assault weapons and pro book banning:

@wdlindsy
It is difficult to believe people think this is okay:
“14-year-olds walking down the middle of the street in the city of St. Louis carrying AR-15s. Now they have been emboldened, and they are walking around with them,” Baringer said. “Until they actually brandish them, and brandish them with intent, our police officers’ hands are handcuffed.”

@therobburgessshow @MKSinSA Spectacle is a specialty of Republicans. I sense she’s about to come out of her shell and claim her birthright as one of them. (They don’t want her either if she loses her seat)

The brain is a truly overrated organ

Your heart just pumps away
Your lungs
Your kidneys
Your stomach

They just get on with it, mostly

But no, the brain 'blah blah blah, oooo look, a thing, babble babble...'

Imagine if there was a bank robber who committed the largest bank robbery in history, he got caught but through some technicality he didn't go to prison. Instead, he got elected to congress and they put him in charge of banking regulation.

That's Rick Scott and Medicare.

“It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.”

Joseph Heller
#Quotes #EmotionalIntelligence

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them”. - Ray Bradbury

The Republican controlled Missouri state house voted against banning minors from openly carrying firearms without adult supervision

The ban failed in a 104-39 vote. Only one Republican voted in support

> Guns are the #1 cause of death for children according to the CDC

> Missouri immediately banned abortion after Roe was overturned…

because nothing days “pro-life” more than giving children guns

FYI—Working at McDonald’s is skilled labor.

“Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man.”

Zhuangzi

President Biden wished congressional Republicans “lots of luck in your senior year” during his State of the Union speech. Here’s what that taunt meant. https://t.co/nBvT9WmMDk

In this season
a mask is a fine way
to keep your nose warm
though regardless
of the thickness of your sweater
there is nothing you can wear
to protect you
from the cold emptiness
you feel in your stomach
when you look around
and see that so many
can’t be bothered to mask.

Fact:

People in western democracies who spread Russian narratives and are pro putin and work to further their agenda are "Russian assets"

"Siri, show me what New York Times' op-ed writer Pamela Paul would write about Ron DeSantis's grotesque bigotry using the same slimy, dishonest 'parents have legitimate concerns' strategy anti-vaxxers employ to support the lie that #vaccines cause #autism?" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/09/opinion/ron-desantis-democrats.html

@arpcomics Yea it's only become more obvious to those of us paying attention in the last few years. It's REALLY obvious now as they barely hide it anymore. FOX dropped the act years ago. But the rest of the media still pretending. A few pundits seem to still get things out and do the self criticism thing for the media, but it falls on deaf ears.

@antonioserrata Clearly media ownership is in on it, they're framing in favor of the fascists has been shockingly consistent for years. I thought it was crazy in 2000 that not a single major media outlet called out the fact that SCOTUS decided to not count all the votes. But now I think that the framing may have gone on longer and I just didn't notice.

Yesterday’s Big Tech Twitter hearings were a bust for the GOP, but that didn’t stop them from acting like dangerous jackasses. Nor did it stop Democrats from making some important points and introducing into the record the best thing ever. My piece is out and walks us through the sound and the fury. https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/the-tweet-smell-offailure?sd=pf

The buffoonery on display here is just embarrassing. @JimmyGomezCA spanked Greene for spreading misinformation about Covid. Greene tried to interrupt and was cut off by the GOP chair. Absolute buffoonery.
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RT @KurtWagner8
Rep. MTG is now up and says she is not going to let the witnesses speak during her 5 minute Q&A because they banned her account and wouldn't let *her* speak on Twitter...
https://twitter.com/KurtWagner8/status/1623362052436656128

Though I recognize
that they are not
a native avian species
to this continent
I cannot help but think
that if this country wished
to select a bald headed bird
that truly represented the nation
it should have gone
with the ostrich
and not the bald eagle.