Justice Dept. warns #Texas against floating barrier on Rio Grande
“The #floating #barrier poses a risk to navigation, as well as public safety, in the #Rio #Grande River, and it presents #humanitarian concerns,” reads the letter, which also informs the state that the Justice Department intends to #sue if the barriers are not #removed.
AI is the wild card in Hollywood's strikes. Here's an explanation of its unsettling role https://apnews.com/article/e872bd63ab52c3ea9f7d6e825240a202
Pregnant woman killed, 4 injured in Houston shooting - UPI.com https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2023/07/22/pregnant-woman-killed-houston-shooting/1571690068479/
(Me: time after time, after time... too many guns) "One pulled a gun. When he pulled his gun, the other guy's girlfriend came out of her truck and came with a gun. They were talking back and forth about who would do what and however, and they started shooting at each other."
So I was a #Firefox hardliner back in the day, and eventually moved to #Chrome when it started kinda getting unusable in the late aughts.
Just fired it up on my phone and laptop and I gotta say I'm impressed. It feels lean and fast by comparison, and syncing my old Chrome stuff was completely painfree.
https://open.substack.com/pub/steveschmidt/p/praise-be?r=2nggq&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
Don the con is such a fool, so ignorant, a loser. He hides it by being fake and bullying the people looking for a “strong man” to help them through their understandable grievances.
The closing is most poignant: Don't let yourself be a mark for this con man.
#conman #evangelical
Migrants face misery in Tunisia. Rights activists fear that the EU deal will make things even worse https://apnews.com/article/4500616048008a4f5c4e85a84b2e82fe
@ai6yr I was following @nwsgsp_bot and it seems it’s no longer posting up over here. Is there another way I should be looking for the specific NWS bots?
#MAGA #TheHeadLiar #StupidInAmerica
It’s not White Privilege, it’s Racism directed at Whites… 🤔 https://news.yahoo.com/poll-trump-voters-racism-white-americans-problem-black-reparations-politics-090038973.html?ICID=ref_fark
#TheHeadLiar During an Iowa Town Hall yesterday, #Trump was asked how his faith has grown and who was his religious mentor? He responds rambling inept (“what’s a subpoena- haha”) with unmitigated BS, attacking the FBI and Dems, not answering the question, and this room full of morons clap and cheer.
If you want a shiver down your spine listen to this idiocy and if you feel like praying, pray that America can pull its head out of its ass.
https://www.politicususa.com/2023/07/21/trump-faith-iowa.html
Netflix kills off cheapest no-ads plan in the U.S. and U.K. https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/netflix-cancels-cheapest-no-ads-plan-us-uk-rcna95112
When I tell you that police are not designed to do what you think they're designed to do, you don't believe me.
81 kids, zip tied for hours, until some peed themselves.
While in other parts of the city, car break-ins happened.🤡
Later, you'll ask me why they don't trust cops.
https://www.tiktok.com/@jacqi_rose/video/7257969336365763883
Texas worker accused of being on drugs was actually dying of heatstroke
Infante began exhibiting #heatstroke symptoms including confusion, altered mental state, dizziness and loss of consciousness.
His friend and co-worker Joshua Espinoza began pouring cold water over him, trying to cool him down.
A foreman insisted Espinoza call the police, #claiming Infante’s bizarre behavior was due to #drugs, and the foreman pushed for a drug test when emergency medical services arrived.
On the day of the incident, temperatures in San Antonio reached in excess of 100F (37.7C) with humidity levels reaching as high as 75%, noted the lawsuit.
Infante later #died in a hospital from severe heatstroke and had a recorded internal temperature of 109.8F (43.2C). The Center for Disease Control states a body temperature of 103F (39.4C) or higher is a main symptom of heatstroke.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/20/texas-construction-worker-death-lawsuit-greg-abbott
Flammulated owls get their name from two ruddy markings that go down their backs, which look like flaming “racing stripes." The species nests in Utah's alpine and is teaching researchers about the state's changing environments.
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2023/07/18/meet-tiny-owls-that-nest-snowbasin/
Donald Trump faces midnight deadline to decide whether to face grand jury https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/20/donald-trump-january-6-grand-jury-deadline?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
I would *love* to work someplace that has a mission I genuinely think makes the world better, but that's hard to find, and those places usually don't pay very well. I have a student loan, a car loan, and a transition to pay for. Just because I decided working at your company is the best of many shitty options doesn't mean I think the company is a net positive in the world.
As has been said many times before, it's not possible to live ethically under capitalism
That's why I fucking hate it
#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.