Eric J. Korpela @SETIEric@social.cleverlibre.org

Those were the good old days.
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If at first you don’t succeed, drink all the alcohols until you no longer care.

@GottaLaff
Vindman is correct.

2,203,718 registered Iowa voters:

Democrats 471,010
Republicans 594,533
Libertarian 8,550
Unaffiliated 442,290

110,000 Iowa Republicans voted yesterday, 51% for Trump

So 1 in 6 Rs went out for caucuses, and 50% of those voted for Trump, or 56K ppl
Less than 10% of Rs, and 2.5% of Iowa registered voters.

Also, turnout was poor: 110,000 yesterday as compared with 186,000 in 2016.

#Iowacaucus

We no longer have political coverage.

We have an extended immersive theater performance of Waiting for Godot.

Liar. Coward.

Via Aaron Rupar:

DANA BASH: How do you feel about your party's frontrunner being found liable for sexual abuse?

#NikkiHaley: First of all, I haven't paid attention to his cases. All I know is he's innocent until proven guilty. You have investigations on #Trump and #Biden.

The peoples of Israel and Palestine are held hostage by poor, extreme, and self-interested leadership, leading them eagerly into death’s embrace.
The result is predictable. As former U.K. Defence Secretary Ben Wallace wrote, Netanyahu’s methods will “fuel the conflict for another 50 years.” The Israeli prime minister is unrepentant. On Christmas Eve, he said, “We are intensifying the war in the Gaza Strip.”

Washington can and should be empathetic and sympathetic with how Israel arrived at this moment, but it ought not continue to sustain one of the greatest human disasters of the 21st century.
This calamity is not in America’s interests, nor does it even serve the interests of the Israeli people.
And it only guarantees misery, starvation, and death for the people of the Gaza Strip.
https://warontherocks.com/2023/12/reversing-americas-ruinous-support-for-israels-assault-on-gaza/

Fighter planes of the 1950s used the Bendix Central Air Data Computer, an electromechanical analog computer that computed with gears. In this thread, I look inside its pressure transducers that converted pressure readings to shaft rotations that turned the gears. 1/13

Just in: Apple will have to comply with a sweeping injunction reshaping its relationship with millions of app developers, after the Supreme Court today declined to hear its appeal in the Epic Games case: https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/16/tech/apple-risks-a-hit-to-its-sales-after-supreme-court-declines-to-review-epics-app-store-case/index.html

I'm not sure Trump winning just barely half of the 14% of Iowa Republicans who bothered to vote is the amazing victory the media is reporting.

Just in case anybody has lost track of Trump’s white Christian nationalism, here is how his campaign video, played at his final Iowa rally before the caucuses, introduced him. Read Dana Millbank’s further reporting and commentary here (gift access) https://wapo.st/41VNuq1.

#TrumpIndictments

Me, reading Tony Dungy's disenchanting words about the NFL.

It is ridiculous to infer that young people don't enjoy sports because Taylor Swift is involved.

Maybe it's because of men who think like you, Tony.

Having a hard time believing Tuberville talks to many scientists.

Voters don’t always have final say – state legislatures & governors increasingly undermining ballot measures that win https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/011324_citizen_initiatives_op/voters-dont-always-have-final-say-8211-state-legislatures-governors-increasingly-undermining-ballot-measures-that-win/
Citizen initiatives became popular during the Progressive Era of the early 20th century as a way to give power back to citizens, yet it is becoming increasingly common for lawmakers across the country to not only ignore the will of the people, but also actively work against it.
#Tucson #Arizona

55/ Orden:

Well, folks, the Trump civil fraud trial, which started at the beginning of October, is DONE.

END OF THREAD. WHEW!

Two obvious wrongs here:

1. She shouldn't have been denied ER assistance even once, never mind twice

2. Having miscarried, she should never have been prosecuted

Oh, and (3): neither of those wrongs would have happened if she'd been a few skin tones paler.

TLDR: batshit racist Republican prosecutors blowing smoke. Hope she gets a good lawyer who can soak them (and the hospital) for serious damages.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/abortion-miscarriage-charges-ohio-grand-jury-b2477278.html

no matter what safeguards you try to build to help internet users, the modern web is enough of a cesspool that some asshole is going to come up with something like this.

Nikki Haley:

-Said Florida’s Don’t Say Gay bill “doesn’t go far enough”

-Would sign a federal abortion ban

-Pledged not to "expand Medicaid ever”

-Proudly called herself a “union-buster”

Don't let anyone fool you into thinking she’s some moderate alternative to Trump.

"Get over it". The stated Republican party policy platform.

Concerned about:
- your kids being shot while at school?
- your wife, daughter, or girlfriend getting necessary lifesaving healthcare?
- access to birth control?
- women's equality?
- LGBTQ equality?
- marriage equality?
- affordable housing?
- income inequality?
- billionaires controlling courts and legislatures?
- Oligarchies and monopolies?
- white supremacy?
- Republican corruption?
- a functional House of Representatives?
- politicized GOP state and federal courts?
- voting rights?
- democracy?
Get over it.

Your GOP today in action. Do you think the GOP cares about you? Get over it.

#GOP #Republicans #Trump