Lunatech @Lunatech@social.cleverlibre.org

Interesting that Mike Pence is resisting his Grand Jury subpoena.

Got something to hide, Mike? Got secrets of your own you'd rather We The People didn't know about?

Mike knew everything about the plan but told no one. Sure, Mike didn't pull the trigger, but Mike knew the plan - and said nothing like the co-conspirator to commit insurrection that he is.

Mike will lose this fight. This is the last battle. Pence's testimony - his isn't the only testimony here - is the icing on the cake.

I am with the scientist.

#Michigan rep Ranjeev Puri to #republicans: Fuck your thoughts and prayers https://boingboing.net/2023/02/14/michigan-rep-to-gop-mass-shooting-enablers-fck-your-thoughts-and-prayers.html

Jesus At The Super Bowl—Who Is Behind The 'He Gets Us' Ad Campaign - Second Nexus
"Taken together, the He Gets Us ad campaign portraying Jesus as progressive revolutionary is a dangerous Trojan horse intended to capture and sway the spiritually curious into supporting a radical right-wing, Christian agenda."
#ChristoFascism
https://secondnexus.com/he-gets-us-ad-campaign

With only a few exceptions, male journalists have little understanding of what female journalists routinely face in doing their jobs. This story, from @taylorlorenz, is must-reading. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/02/14/women-journalists-global-violence/

DoNotPay's CEO has bent over backwards to avoid confronting @kathryntewson's challenges regarding the company's claims. Now she's taking him to court... and explicitly saying he can represent himself with his claimed AI lawyer.

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/14/kathryn-tewson-invites-donotpay-to-use-its-ai-lawyer-in-court-to-address-her-petition-for-pre-action-discovery-for-a-consumer-rights-claim/

@PeteAguilar
I'm so angry — House Republicans have just introduced legislation to repeal the $35/month cap on insulin that Democrats passed for seniors on Medicare.

I need you to retweet and spread the word about this. Every voter needs to know.

GOP is bragging they hit a new record for Black GOP members of the House. Out of 223 GOP members of the House how many are Black? Four. Yep, just four. Zero are Black woman. The GOP Black outreach program will now shut down because that is enough for them.

How Opera plans to integrate generative #AI into its #browser

“Following the surge in demand and popularity of the many new services like #ChatGPT and Midjourney, we are working with both multiple partners and in-house on different solutions..."

Oh boy.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90850165/how-opera-plans-to-integrate-generative-ai-into-its-browser

The stages of playing with GPT-3:

- OMG this can do anything
- There goes my job
- I should start a business around this
- Some of the responses aren’t too good
- Actually, some of these responses are just awful
- This isn’t really intelligence
- This is just spicy autocomplete

(as was forwarded to me w/no attribution)

Satanic Temple opens online abortion clinic named after Samuel Alito’s mother

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/satanic-temple-online-abortion-clinic-b2282058.html

Mike Pence claimed executive privilege to avoid testifying to the January 6 committee.

Mike Pence is now claiming legislative privilege to avoid testifying to a DOJ-empaneled federal grand jury.

Neither privilege applies to testimony about criminal conspiracies.

"The #Wyoming #Republican #Party is seeking to kill a bill working its way through the state Legislature proposing to raise the state's legal marriage age to 16, arguing that putting 'arbitrary' limits on child marriage interferes with parental rights and religious liberty."

I guess it's not being a #pedo or a #groomer if you call it "religious liberty."

https://www.newsweek.com/wyoming-ending-child-marriage-sparks-republican-outrage-1780501

Perhaps one of the most indestructible items ever created. Our families old 500 series rotary dial telephone. It still worked perfectly. Ah that sound when you dialed was awesome #phone #telephone #nostalgia #throwback #ancient

It would be "extraordinary" — and unprecedented — for a federal judge to ban a drug that was approved by regulators more than 20 years ago, the FDA says.

But anti-choice activists, now turning their attention to the abortion pill mifepristone, are hoping a right-wing ideologue in Texas will do just that. https://www.businessinsider.com/abortion-pill-women-die-mifepristone-banned-democratic-ags-argue-2023-2 #news #politics #abortion

#Texas Monthly has an excellent new deep dive into the #GOP plan to dismantle public #education in our state: https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/campaign-to-sabotage-texas-public-schools/

Previously from us, Christopher Collins looked at the #Republicans' anti-school agenda: https://www.texasobserver.org/disrupt-deplete-destroy/

and @josephinelee brought us this deep dive into the way the well-funded right-wing used #vouchers to dismantle education in #Arizona: https://www.texasobserver.org/voucher-program-arizona-privitization-public-schools-disabilities/

#TXlege #News #USPol #politics #Newstodon #schools