Huntn00 @Huntn00@talkedabout.social
#PoliticalModerate #Independent, #SocialLiberal, #Agnostic, #Unions, #Veteran, retired airline pilot. Supports level playing fields, equal opportunity, and democracy, not how to twist it to my advantage; capitalism/corporation critic, 🚫Today’s GOP, 🚫MAGA. Human species pessimist, pondering the Great Filter and do we have the Right Stuff? 🇺🇸 Citizen residing in a blue enclave of Texas.
Joined May 2023
@JayMags@mastodon.social Too classy for the #GOP. Instead they would knuckle dragging.😳
@BruceMirken we used to have small geckos in our front porch in Houston, but they stopped appearing last year. 😢
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Mike Pence may be ignorantly hyper-religious, but at least he's stupid. #NeverMikePence
'One of the dumbest things we’ve ever heard': Critics blast Pence’s attack on Biden https://www.alternet.org/critics-blast-pence-biden/
@josh when war crimes are responded to with war crimes, it’s lose lose. 🔥
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Fulton County DA rebuffs Jim Jordan's request for information on her investigation of Trump | CNN Politics https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/11/politics/fani-willis-jim-jordan/index.html #uspol #gop #TFG
@BlueWaveSurfer@universeodon.com Secret ballots, just like the #GOzP. 🤡
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“Fuck every cause that ends in murder and children crying.”
—Iain M. Banks, Against a Dark Background
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I started today with a Glasgow sunrise, so I thought I'd end it with a Glasgow sunset.
It wasn't taken this evening, but rather a few weeks back when the sky was clear and the Clyde was mirror-calm.
#glasgow #sunset #glasgowsunset #squintybridge #reflections #bridge #theclyde
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NPR: They call themselves Las Amazonas de Yaxunah. They've rejected gender stereotypes to become stars in Mexico. And these women and teens play the game wearing traditional Maya dresses — and no shoes.,#news #NPR https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/10/11/1203974955/these-maya-women-softballers-defy-machismo-from-their-mighty-bats-to-their-bare-
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How not surprising. Rigorous study in China finds that " social distancing measures (38% reduction, 95% prediction interval 31-45%), face masks (30%, 17-42%) and close contact tracing (28%, 24-31%) were most effective" in containing outbreaks of different #COVID19 variants. #WearAMask
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GOP Rep. George Santos says he will "fight until the bitter end” over 10 new federal charges https://t.co/O63LZTbuYd
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Two-thirds of nursing home workers say they struggle to afford basic expenses https://minnesotareformer.com/briefs/two-thirds-of-nursing-home-workers-say-they-struggle-to-afford-basic-expenses/
@knittingknots2@mstdn.social Colonialism is part of our history and it’s legacy lives on today. In the USA, I’m happy that American Indians and some of their lands have been restored. African American face continual prejudice and have not gone to war. Israel is a chicken-egg issue, not helped that Israel continues to act in an oppressive, might makes right manner for their perceived security. 🤔
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Many Palestinians view Israel, as a might makes right, terrorist State.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-52756427
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/10/12/israel-is-a-terrorist-state/
https://www.vox.com/2018/11/20/18080016/israel-zionism-war-1948
#PoliticalModerate #Independent, #SocialLiberal, #Agnostic, #Unions, #Veteran, retired airline pilot. Supports level playing fields, equal opportunity, and democracy, not how to twist it to my advantage; capitalism/corporation critic, 🚫Today’s GOP, 🚫MAGA. Human species pessimist, pondering the Great Filter and do we have the Right Stuff? 🇺🇸 Citizen residing in a blue enclave of Texas.
Joined May 2023
