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
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"Trump supporters are consolidating around the former president and so-called Christian democracy. They are enforcing loyalty so tightly that the far-right House Freedom Caucus recently expelled Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) either because she is too close to House speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) or because she called Representative Lauren Boebert (R-CO) a 'little bitch' on the floor of Congress, or both."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
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http://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/jul/11 In South Carolina, where 55 Council chapters were active by July 1956, 17 Black parents were fired or evicted from their farms within two weeks of signing a pro-integration petition in the small town of Elloree. In Yazoo County, Mississippi, when 53 Black residents signed an NAACP petition for integration, the local Council published their names in a newspaper ad, leading to harassment, firing, and credit cancellation. In the end, all signers removed their names from the petition and the Yazoo County NAACP disbanded.
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At this Cleveland forum, Jewish and Black people discuss religion, politics and privilege
@AlliFlowers More investigation would be needed. It’s a guess at this point.
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Interesting results. Either the fediverse is healthier than the world in general, or the responses were way too limited.
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Why is Barbie getting so much attention?
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It ought to be stunning that #Alabama’s contract review committee on Thursday reapproved 26 deals paying up to $14.9 million to one lawyer – Bill Lunsford – to defend the state’s disgraceful prison system.
Oughta be. —John Archibald
https://www.al.com/news/2023/07/archibald-alabama-sticker-shock-leads-to-sicker-shock.html
@wdlindsy Today’s rogue, lawless, end justifies the means GOP politics. The end? Win at all costs They saw where a substantial % of their base went, #Trump orbit and they followed. The Joint Chiefs told Donny to stuff it in 2020 regarding Marshall Law and the Justice Dept attacking #TheHeadCrook is insufferable. A lot of them hate his guts because he is destroyed the GOP as it existed before the pestilence, but they are now tied to his bed face down serving at his pleasure. 😳
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The biggest Federal Scam of all time related to COVID relief. Who are you going to blame? https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/covid-relief-scam-fraud-money-billions-1234784448/ You might wonder how much debt the USA can handle before we tip over? One of the fundamental problems is the GOP constantly promising to lower taxes, with the goal of eradicate social spending, that lowers the wealthy people’s taxes by millions and you average citizen get $100 off. We need a discussion about taxes and how we spend our tax money. A talk less likely from the GOP.
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"That a Republican is undermining the military belies the party’s traditional claim to be stronger on military issues than the Democrats. So does the attack of House Republicans on our nation’s key law enforcement entities—the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation—after traditionally insisting their party works to defend 'law and order.'”
~ Heather Cox Richardson
I want to apologize, I spend a lot of time ragging on humans and humanity. To clarify there are outstanding, good, mediocre, sheep, genius, ignorant, bad, and very bad people out there. And it’s complicated. Good people can be assets to our society, but still make poor environmental choices. Collectively we will produce an outcome for ourselves and the Planet. Sadly I am a pessimist about our ability to collectively make the right choices. Read up on #TheGreatFilter. 😔
@RollingStone #TheHeadLiar as POTUS again renews Russia as his personal ally, the GOzP finds new love for Vlad as Orange Man threatens the coherence of NATO. It would not end in a day, but soon after in Russia’s favor. We might even have our own Civil War V2 to look forward to. 😳
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Donald Trump has boasted that if he were president again, he could end Russia’s war with Ukraine. But Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky called bullshit, saying that Trump already had his chance to end Vladimir Putin’s aggression against his country. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/zelensky-trump-claim-end-war-russia-1234785289/
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With a new CEO stepping in, Unilever must now do the right thing and exit russia
Still operating in russia currently means financing putin’s war in #Ukraine . It’s time for #Unilever to face reality, end its hypocrisy and exit the country for good
By Margaret Hodge
Yesterday, Hein Schumacher started his first week as Unilever’s new CEO. His number one priority should be reassessing Unilever’s business operations in russia.
Read more here 📎 https://www.cityam.com/with-a-new-ceo-stepping-in-unilever-must-now-do-the-right-thing-and-exit-russia
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There seems to be a great number of bee keepers and "bee allies" on Mastodon. Is this true? If it is, I find that very reassuring.
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Via Laurie Garrett:
No end in sight for heat dome effect that has already kept most of So US & Mexico in triple-dig F temps for 3+ wks. How long must this persist b4 polit leaders in hardest-hit states stop blocking #ClimateCrisis adaptation & mitig efforts?
NBC's Bill Karins:
Last time El Paso, TX didn’t hit 100 dg was 6/15. Average high this time of yr: 95-97. Theyre under exces heat warning & highs near 105 next 6 days. After that, no relief in sight to record breaking 100 dg day streak
#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
