⚡️🇺🇦Military: Ukrainian strike damages 2 Russian ships in Black Sea (more) https://kyivindependent.com/military-ukrainian-strike-damages-2-russian-ships-in-black-sea/ #Ukraine #Press #News #Russia #RussiaUkraineWar #9yrInvasionofUkraine #WantedDeadOrAlive
#SanctionChinaNow
#NoEUPrezForHungary
“'File the f——- motion,' McCarthy said."
Are we really still unable to write the words our most senior elected leaders say?
Today, I told my students that, as a physics major, I was taught that nothing travels faster than light. But, I told them, as a politician, I learned that the only thing that travels faster than light is bullshit.
I did use that word. They lived.
It is time for our news services to write the words our electeds use.
James Comer, who voted to censure Adam Schiff for dishonesty, says untrue things on TV regularly. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/14/comer-biden-impeachment-inquiry/
I couldn't agree more. Fighting fascism is my raison d'etre.
That means #VoteBlue and we'll figure out the rest later. #Fascism is the existential threat of today.
Anyone who thinks fascists will be the same on #ClimateChange are off their rocker, too.
I hope you read and share.👇
Conservative activists are using new emerging technologies to develop powerful tools for voter suppression and election subversion. Left unchecked, we risk a new level of election vigilantism taking hold.
https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-growing-threat-of-republican-election-vigilantes/
@BobWilliams I hate to tell you that you just described 99% of all bugs.
Hey look, it's that thing I spent years warning about while so-called "experts" gaslit the public about the truth. They should be fucking pilloried for how bad they fucked the country. https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7byyd/2024-election-neo-nazis-visble-on-streets
Police union leader said woman killed by Seattle officer ‘had limited value’ - The Guardian https://apple.news/AH0WFzcIwQbO8EsC3_3eruA
Most journalists have, sad to say, stuck with the deadbird site. They shouldn't, and one of our finest political journo-activists, @msifry, says of X/Twitter "Enough wrestling with the pig. Time to go." https://theconnector.substack.com/p/finishing-with-twitterx?utm_campaign=email-post&r=qs4z&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Note: Micah is a friend and he quotes me in this piece.
“Twitter never has and never will be a vehicle for democratic expression. It is a privately held corporation that monetizes human expression and algorithmically maximizes its distribution for profit, and what turns out to be most profitable is sowing social, cultural, and political division. Its participants are a very tiny, skewed slice of humanity that has American journalism in a choke hold.”
Jill Lepore clear-eyed about Musk and (his cozy biographer).
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/09/18/elon-musk-walter-isaacson-book-review
“'Children in the US can be legally married in 41 states, physically punished by school administrators in 47 states, sentenced to life without parole in 22 states, and work in hazardous agriculture conditions in all 50 states.' Over and over again, the worst states for children are clustered around the “pro-life” Bible Belt, and the map of the states that are the worst for children looks a lot like a map of red-state America."
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/09/human-rights-watch-usa-child-abuse-labor-report.html
A building designed to withstand a pandemic 100 years years ago:
“Air was brought from the outside and blown through a series of water sprays or screens, heated to any desired degree, then forced through a system of ducts which distributed it to every part of the building through hundreds of small pipes which opened beneath the seats. A complete change of air took place every three minutes” #covid #publichealth
https://montecristomagazine.com/community/secret-tunnels-orpheum-theatre
My latest about the growing threat of Republican election vigilantes and what states must do to prevent them from undermining a free and fair election in 2024.
https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-growing-threat-of-republican-election-vigilantes/
https://t.me/liveukraine_media/13802
⛔️🇷🇺Today in St. Petersburg, Russia, there was a large Orthodox Christian neo-Nationalist procession. In this video a group of people march under the imperial banners of the Russian Empire and chant: “We Are Russians - God Is With Us”. #Ukraine #Press #News #Russia #RussiaUkraineWar #9yrInvasionofUkraine #WantedDeadOrAlive
#SanctionChinaNow
#NoEUPrezForHungary
Mostly reclusive and carrying slightly damaged goods. A survivor by some accounts. Definitely in need of much therapy. ;)
Staunchly anti-fascist
Bear in mind that, while I may "like" your "toot", about a person, event or particular topic, if it links to the "bird-site" I will no longer boost and inadvertently contribute to their grift. Everyone has a choice and a part to play when crimes go unpunished.
"We are dreamers, shapers, singers, and makers".
-Elric