@GottaLaff What I continuously can't believe is that the #media doesn't have their hair on fire regarding this dark path we're traveling on so many levels. It isn't just Felonious Fuckface; it's the courts, it's lawmakers, it's governors. And the #media is busy chasing shiny objects.
@mathaetaes @GossiTheDog they can afford to early adopt a VR headset that costs more than the average US family lives on in a month as a toy, and they have so little sense that they then immediately use it in a way that endangers the people around them and themselves. I think that’s pretty clear circumstantial evidence they’ve failed upward,repeatedly.
Fantastic investigation by NPR into the racist, antisemitic, misogynist roots of “porn addiction” junk science — the very stuff being peddled by antiporn groups in order to pass age-verification bills and other forms of online censorship https://www.npr.org/2026/01/01/1198916105/mens-health-masturbation-abstinence
Quoting https://x.com/meidastouch/status/1754189589085135142?s=46&t=3d9pIKw692D3Dy-4Ms4pFA
Biden outperforms polls and wins with over 96% of the vote in South Carolina.
NYT: “an uncertain measure of wider enthusiasm…”
Trump underperforms polls and wins with just 54% of the vote in New Hampshire.
NYT: “made history” “builds on his momentum”
Huh. No shit? 🙄
https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-teen-birth-rate-after-roe
Other things that have gone up:
-Teen moms evicted from their homes by their fine 'Christian' parents
-Babies being abandoned at fire stations and other 'drop-off' locations
-Infanticide
-Babies in foster care
-Teen suicides
. . . and more!
NEW: #Russia has jumped into the #Texas border controversy and is now cheering on civil war in the US and promoting the right-wing border convoy. Even more interestingly, I found evidence that disinformation accounts associated with the notorious Internet Research Agency (Russia’s “troll factory”) may be being “reactivated” to promote a secessionist movement in Texas.
My latest:
https://weaponizedspaces.substack.com/p/russia-amplifies-calls-for-civil
2016. Russia helps elect Trump. For the first time in US history, a hostile foreign power has an American ally in the WH. Eight years later, Republicans are helping Russia wage a genocidal war against European democracy. It is the greatest shift in America’s stance in world since 1776. A major US party has joined forces with a nuclear power waging war against democracy. If Republicans prevail in helping Russia, what it means to be an American will forever be changed. A shroud of shame will descend on the legacy of the Greatest Generation. They fought to liberate Europe. Republicans are fighting to enslave a European democracy — Stuart Stevens #quotes #quote #Russia #Putin #PutinGOP #PutinPuppets #RussianAssets #Trump #MikeJohnson #Republicans #Ukraine #uspolitics
To get on the #WI dem primary ballot, you need a certain # of signatures.
Phillips didn't get that. He wasn't going to be on the ballot. WI is next to #MN. I don't know if he even TRIED to get the signatures, but he went to the courts to force his way onto the ballot.
I hope he gets his spoilery arse spanked in WI, like he did in SC.
@AlliFlowers @StevenBeschloss @SteveThompson
>> Talk about not looking at the big picture!
One month after #Oct7 I was worried ➡️
https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/111376788032217265
It's not hard to imagine aligned and emboldened perpetrators engage in #ethnicCleansing all over the world if #US is in the grips of #ChristoFascist #FarRight, with a malleable character like #Trump as its #DearLeader.
This is why US #Election2024 is a #WorldSecurity issue
Most GOP 'gotcha' media moments are. Look at Jim Jordan. All he does is manufacture 'gotcha' moments in his job, and they have no real substance.
"Fani Willis Scandal Is 'Much Ado About Nothing': Former Prosecutor"
https://www.newsweek.com/fani-willis-scandal-much-ado-about-nothing-former-prosecutor-1866688
#GOP #Trump #Georgia #Willis #RICO #FultonCounty #Atlant #gotcha
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House #GOP sending in a bill with aid for Israel but none for #Ukraine . I'd love to hear what principled stand they are pretending that's based on. Is it not threatened enough? They don't have a good enough plan? (*cough* where's the post-Gaza plan?) Russia is not our enemy? ... Do tell.
Because an outside observer might think they were amoral toddlers taking a stance solely for political gain, contrarianism, and because their nascent dictator is in thrall to Putin.
I'm an astronomer specializing in #SETI, #UV #Instrumentation. #RadioAstronomy, #InterstellarMatter (#ISM), #VolunteerComputing, #BOINC, #SETIatHome, #retroComputing #retroGaming ...Wait a minute... That's not specializing!