"This is not a show, every meter is given by blood." - General Zaluzhnyi
A stark reminder of the reality of war.
One thing missing from the Western popular media analysis of the war is troop number concentration. Most of the information indicates that Ukraine is seriously outnumbered and outgunned.
And yet, they move forward against great odds-and at great risk.
With the limited data we have in the West, it's impossible to truly understand what they're up against.
Aww, damn. #RIP Alan Arkin Dead: Little Miss Sunshine Oscar Winner, Argo Star Was 89 - Variety
#AffirmativeAction#SCOTUS#SCOTUSisCompromised#SCOTUSIsCorrupt I would not be where I am without affirmative action and nothing will stop me from continuing to help Black and Brown students to achieve their academic goals. #NoireSTEMinist #MySTEMIsForTheStreets NoireSTEMinist.com #BlackTwitter #BlackMastodon #BlackFediverse
Wiener Zeitung (#Austria), the oldest still-published newspaper in the world, founded in 1703, printed its final daily edition today.
https://www.wienerzeitung.at/nachrichten/politik/oesterreich/2194098-Chronologie-einer-gescheiterten-Rettung.html #journalism
@mikebrew @Huntn00 @Jayslacks Well, since Gunn's defection, we - in the Marvel Universe - don't care WHAT he has to say, now do we? 😉
@Radical_EgoCom @Huntn00 And that's why I support a cooperative economic system instead of a corporate one. Cooperatives are owned by the very people who would otherwise be exploited, so the incentive to do so evaporates. And with the one share per shareholder, nobody ends up exercising undue power over others or accumulating wealth excessively.
New in Public Notice: The breathtaking hypocrisy of Alito https://www.publicnotice.co/p/alito-paul-singer-alaska-trip-corruption
Damn. As expected:
Steve Vladeck:
#BREAKING: #SCOTUS strikes down Harvard and UNC race-based affirmative action programs.
… says they illegally use race.
Mystal:
John Roberts says that affirmative action at Harvard and UNC violate the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
That means it's dead.
It's 6-3. Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson dissent.
@Radical_EgoCom so worst case scenario is Just getting fired????? 🤬 Any sane place would let them rot in jail
Fox News host Jesse Watters, who was just given Tucker Carlson's timeslot, made a crude "joke" about VP Kamala Harris' gender at an insurance industry function back in April. The result was an "epic meltdown."
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/28/media/jesse-watters-insurance-executives-reliable-sources/index.html
"If much of contemporary life is wrapped up in plastic, and the result of this is that we are poisoning our kids, ourselves, and our ecosystems, then contemporary life may need to be rethought."
How Plastics Are Poisoning Us - The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/07/03/book-reviews-plastic-waste
Thousands of flowers
Single sunflower blossom.
Every one a seed.
Judges Block Transgender Care Bans for Minors in Kentucky and Tennessee: The rulings extend a winning streak in court for transgender-rights advocates, who are trying to block new state laws that ban gender-transition care.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/28/us/kentucky-tennessee-transgender-bans-blocked.html
As I keep saying, liberals have to give up the idea that they are combatting Republicans. They are at war with Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch, and the plutocratic elite they want to protect and enlarge. When we start aiming at them, and not the noisy nonsense they generate, we’ll start winning.
The U.S. already spends more than twice Russia and China's combined military budget. Cut the bloated US military budget. https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/ro-khanna-house-military-defense-bill-rcna90653?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma&taid=649cc29d25570b0001164e2a&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
Boston Skyline from Fan Pier
The Boston skyline at night is breathtaking to see. The view from Fan Pier captures the city's beauty perfectly.
https://jordanhillphotography.com/featured/boston-massachusetts-skyline-harborwalk-jordan-hill.html
#boston #fanpier #bostonmassachusetts #massachusetts #skyline #nightlife #pic #photography #photoart #nightphotography #photo #bostonharbor #bostonma #city #art #cityscape #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #travel #outdoors #travelphotography #travelgram #landscapephotography #wallart #walldecor #homedecor #nightlights #architecture
Water dripped from the gumshoe’s fedora and raincoat as he plodded up the familiar stairs to see his name on the privacy glass on his second-floor office window. He could hear it again as he approached – the sound always there at his arrival. The skeleton key opened the creaky door. And there was the tenor saxophone player. #MiniDetectiveStories
#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.