Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

My nonagenarian mother had never heard of Trump’s pussy remark, or the Women’s March, until I told her last week. Amazed. She’s a Biden supporter now but at the time she was a MyPillow-buyin’ Fox news brainwashee. So much damage caused by that platform.

Reminder that the supposedly "pro-life" states with the most restrictive abortion laws, also have the weakest social services for women and children. The right-wing agenda isn't about life, it's about control.

The 2024 elections may see a more intense end-times rhetoric, claims of divine support and a failure to condemn the rise in Christian nationalism, writes a religion scholar.

https://theconversation.com/how-religion-and-politics-will-mix-in-2024-three-trends-to-track-219386
#USPolitics #Election

I don’t agree with Biden on some issues but I’m still going to support him 100% because the alternative is dictatorship and the end of America as we know it. Our broken electoral system makes it a binary choice.

Elise Stefanik is making one thing perfectly clear to Team Trump: She will say anything, without regard for accuracy, propriety, shame, or self-respect.

No one should want to be vice president this badly. https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/gops-elise-stefanik-goes-weird-lengths-defense-trump-rcna135210

@bmacDonald94

If the Dolphins were to leave now... the last thing they say to us would be

'Fuck you for poisoning all the fish'

Trump is still in love with Putin. Meanwhile, remember Putin attacked the US election in 2016 and tried again in 2020. With his war in Ukraine, he has even more reason to do so in 2024. I explain in the latest issue of my OUR LAND newsletter.

https://link.motherjones.com/public/34085783

Please support my work by signing up for a FREE trial subscription to my OUR LAND newsletter at www.davidcorn.com. I hope it will help you get through this year!

23 January 1910 | A Polish man, Leon Chmielewski, was born in Warsaw. A bricklayer.

In Auschwitz from 30 April 1942.
No. 34007
He perished in the camp on 24 June 1942.

#Auschwitz #Birkenau #ww2  #Poland #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #education #history #histodons #otd #Warsaw

The phone rang as I was sitting down to my anticipated evening meal, and as I answered it

I was greeted with, " is this Wilhiam Wagenhoss," not sounding anything like my name, so I said who is calling?

The telemarketer said he was with The Rubber band Powered Freezer company or something like that and then I asked him if he knew Wilhiam personally and
why was he calling this number.

I then said off to the side, "get really good pictures of the body and all the blood" then turned back to the phone and advised the caller that he had
entered a murder scene and must stay on the line because we had already traced this call and he would be receiving a summons to appear in the local courthouse
to testify in this murder case.

I then questioned the caller at great length as to his name, address, phone number at home, at work, who he worked for, how he knew the dead guy and could
he prove where he had been about one hour before he made this call.

The telemarketer was getting very concerned and his answers were given in a shakey voice.

I then told him we had located his position at his work place and the police were entering the building to take him into custody, at that point I heard
the phone fall and the scurrying of his running away.

My wife asked me as I returned to our table why I had tears streaming down my face and so help me, I couldn't tell her for about fifteen minutes. My meal
was cold, but after what I had pulled, very enjoyable.

This year, let’s normalize telling stupid people that they’re stupid.

They can’t do better if they don’t know better!

"For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons."
Douglas Adams

@StillIRise1963 Isn't that the damnedest thing? Apparently, women relaxed too much thinking we'd sewn that problem up. Then we let a rapist become president and all hell broke loose. Now we're going to have to claw our rights back. I'm ready, because I'm furious!

This isn't the first time the Perseverance rover has viewed a solar transit of one of Martian moons.
Back in on Sol 397 (April, 2022) we got to see this amazing eclipse from Phobos.

https://flic.kr/p/2p8wzLC

Hey all, here is my #introduction 👋

I'm an undergrad #cartography student excited about #remotesensing, #earthobservation and #space exploration!

In my spare time I like to browse the vast #NASA image archives to create #3D models and #animations like this one.

Back on #birdapp I really enjoyed connecting with engineers and scientists from around the world. I hope we can build an even better community over here!

Roe v. Wade just turned 51. So, until I was 9, I had no bodily autonomy. From the age of 9 to 59, I did. Now, at 60, I'm back at square one. No rights.

"America’s oligarchs, like Russia’s, are the results of a system failure & engineers of that failure

"They hang in many of the same circles. They dock their boats at the same marinas, compete for the same real estate & works of art, stash their money under the same couch cushions

"Their worlds converge on Wall St, Silicon Valley, & the corridors of power"

So much Russian oligarch money sloshes around the US, it's hard to say where one ends & t'other begins

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/01/american-oligarchy-introduction-essay-russia-ukraine-capitalism/?utm_source=mj-newsletters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-newsletter-01-22-2024

#USPol

DURING THE GREAT SOCIAL MEDIA BALKANIZATION OF 2022-23, I LANDED ON MASTODON BECAUSE FACEBOOK IS A LITERAL HELL, TWITTER GOT TAKEN OVER BY A GOBLIN, AND BECAUSE I WANTED TO LEARN MORE ABOUT @RikerGoogling.

BE HONEST: DID I END UP IN THE RIGHT PLACE? IS MY BELLIGERENT TONE SUITED TO A MEDIUM WHERE PEOPLE HAVE DEEPLY PERSONAL ARGUMENTS ABOUT WEB BROWSERS? I AM NOT DECAMPING TO BLUESKY OR THREADS OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT, BUT CAN THOSE WHO DABBLE ELSEWHERE LET ME KNOW?

when you realize that life is meaningless and you still have eight more to go

I'm ready for my close-up, Mr. DeMille.