herid @herid@social.cleverlibre.org
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Refugee from twitter. I am into math, tech, clean energy, EVs, COVID info, books, movies, music.
Based in Toronto. Support Ukraine.
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https://t.me/liveukraine_eng/4065 ⚠️🇩🇪Germany has provided Ukraine with another military aid package, according to an updated list on the government's website.
It was sent to Ukraine:
📍20 missile systems of 70 mm caliber on pickup trucks with missiles;
📍30 drone detection systems;
📍8 reconnaissance drones;
📍7 tracked and remotely operated infantry vehicles for support missions;
📍63 pickup trucks;
(More) #Ukraine #News #War #Russia
@davemark thanks. that NYT article does clarify things. The constitution doesn't say anything about the Spekaer except that there should be one (I checked) but there is an 1789 law that says that the speaker has to be elected first before the speaker swears in all the other members and any other business can be conducted.
https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title2-section25&num=0&edition=prelim
This is great news but such a change would be best passed as law as opposed to just an FTC rule. of course the way things are nothing much can pass as law in US.
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Breaking News: The U.S. moved to ban so-called noncompete agreements in labor contracts, which companies use to limit employees’ ability to work fo...
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Critical under-the-radar item in the Ford #Conservative government's 2022/23 budget:
👉 Ontario projects ZERO spending on Covid-19 after March 31, 2023.
Blog credit: #ClusterFord author Robert Lee.
https://behindexposeddoors.wordpress.com/
#malfeasance #Ontario #CovidIsNotOverEvenIfGovtSaysSO
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RT @yarotrof@twitter.com
Sending its convicted murderers and rapists to Bakhmut, Russia is losing its worst. Ukraine is losing some of its best. https://twitter.com/mykhed_o/status/1610705656897585163
@davemark your original post was in quotes. what were you quoting?
just as I was saying: McCarthy is making concessions to the far righters tryting to get their votes to become #SpeakerOfTheHouse including offering them commitee slots. this isn't going to end well.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/01/05/us/house-speaker-vote
@TheOldGuy@newsie.social I didn't realize it was this much. You are right 45 billion is a lot and should last them for some time.
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You’ve heard about city administrators forcing city workers to vote for regime candidates (the central pillar of Russian “democracy”), but here’s a new spin: on Dec. 30, a district head outside Moscow made teachers leave work to go test a new bridge… to see if it would hold up.
@TheOldGuy@newsie.social yes, that was good but past experience with war funding shows that appropriations bills are never enough by themselves and require several supplementals. I expect the same to be true here.
@colo_lee @TheOldGuy@newsie.social I would not be so sure that bill will be sufficient even for a year. decisions on the type and amount of aid offered are changing constantly.
@TheOldGuy@newsie.social what bill? the war will go on for a while and there will be many aid packages to Ukraine that will need congressional approval.
People are understandably making fun of the debacle that is the #SpeakerOfTheHouse election but I have a bad feeling about where things will end. Which I think will be McCarthy caving in to many/most of the demands the GOP holdouts are making. This can only be a bad thing. For example Matt Gaetz is demanding the chairmanship of the Armed Services subcommittee. If that clown gets it this will be VERY bad news for many reasons. Chief among them: Gaetz will torpedo aid for #ukraine .
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Finally! #Ukraine will get US tanks!!
U.S. edges closer to sending armored weaponry to Ukraine https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/01/04/ukraine-bradley-fighting-vehicle/
Jill Barber - All My Dreams
I think I mentioned before that Jill Barber is my favorite Canadian singer. She deserves to be better known.
#FavoriteMusic 50/
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As much as it’s fun watching McCarthy spin, it’s worth remembering that this is a microcosm of the larger Republican game—of a tiny minority holding a majority hostage in order to impose their own extreme agenda. Take no comfort in this mess.
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The number of active Mastodon users — those who've logged in in the last 30 days — has fallen to 1.8 million from a high of 2.6 million. This reflects the fact that while there's a wave of new users after each Musk tantrum, the majority aren't sticking around. Even the 1.8M figure is inflated by new accounts, so I expect a further drop.
Still, the number of active users is over 4 times what it used to be before the Twitter takeover.
Source: https://api.joinmastodon.org/statistics (and Wayback machine).
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1. The Bills' Damar Hamlin is reportedly showing "signs of improvement" after collapsing on the field Monday night.
Hopefully, he makes a full recovery.
And no, the NFL will never be safe.
But hopefully, the NFL takes this opportunity to make it safer.
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3. The incentive to play hurt is amplified when you consider that the average NFL career is THREE YEARS.
And about three years after retirement, most NFL players are broke.
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Refugee from twitter. I am into math, tech, clean energy, EVs, COVID info, books, movies, music.
Based in Toronto. Support Ukraine.
Boosts=endorsements twitter:https://twitter.com/heridfan
Joined Nov 2022
