Huntn00 @Huntn00@talkedabout.social

My Dad was a big gearhead — just *really* into cars.

This meant learning basic car stuff was part of my childhood, even though I was never especially interested/good at it.

He knew this, so he’d always low-key fix my car whenever I came home. And he also left stuff in my car he figured I’d need — cables, gear, a helpful note in a manual, etc.

Dad died in 2018, but I keep finding stuff he left behind when I need it — I found another this morning.

Thanks for still looking out for me, Dad.

So now I’m taking Ergocalciferol.

What a name for vitamin D2.

50,000 units sounds like a lot. Officially I’ve got osteoporosis like Mom and Grandma. I think it means I’m going to be one of those old ladies who gets shorter and shorter. I lost 1” in height within last year or so. Drat. I liked being tall: 69” sounded great. Have to be more careful to avoid breaking a bone. It’s also used to treat rickets (softening of the bones caused by vitamin D deficiency). First time I actually feel old.

This tree must have one hell of a story #ThickTrunkTuesday

Gift link from Washington Post: “Northeast storms dump over 2 months’ worth of rain on Vermont”
#VTwx #Vermont #Flooding

https://wapo.st/3O6W9PZ

United States Attorney’s Office
Southern District of New York

PRESS RELEASE
U.S. Attorney Announces Charges Against Co-Director Of Think Tank For Acting As An Unregistered Foreign Agent, Trafficking In Arms, Violating U.S. Sanctions Against Iran, And Making False Statements To Federal Agents

Monday, July 10, 2023
For Immediate Release
U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York

Gal Luft, a Dual U.S.-Israeli Citizen, Allegedly Evaded FARA Registration While Working to Advance the Interests of China in the United States and Sought to Broker the Illicit Sales of Chinese-Manufactured Weapons and Iranian Oil to China

Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Matthew G. Olsen, the Assistant Attorney General for National Security, and Christie M. Curtis, the Acting Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced today the unsealing of an...
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/us-attorney-announces-charges-against-co-director-think-tank-acting-unregistered

📢 #RestoreNature 🌱👩🏼‍🌾🧑🏾‍🌾🧺🍲🌿🌳🌊🐟

@gretathunberg and activists from all over Europe at European Parliament remind @eppgroup and RenewEurope of their responsibility. #NoNatureNoFood

🎥 Thomas Waitz. Thread with Gretas speech ⏬

"Jeff Bezos, Feed the Poor"
Seen on an Amazon delivery van in Philadelphia

Chinese Legislation Takes Aim at US Trade Sanctions https://www.voanews.com/a/chinese-legislation-takes-aim-at-us-trade-sanctions-/7175546.html #voanews #voiceofamerica

#evangelicals #ChristianPrivilege #fascism #Authoritarianism #republicans #ChristoFascism #AmericanTaliban #RightWingExtremism #ConservativeChristians #unamerican #BigGovernment

Joyce Vance looks at what Alabama Republican senator Turbeville is doing, holding up more than 250 military promotions and, as of yesterday, causing the Marines to be without a Senate-confirmed commandant. Tuberville opposes the military's policy permitting enlistees to access reproductive health care of ouf state when necessary.

Republicans as a party supporting the military? Hardly, she concludes.

#Tuberville #Alabama #Republicans #military
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https://joycevance.substack.com/p/tommy-tuberville-whats-wrong-with

"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."

#Republicans #Trump
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~ Heather Cox Richardson

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-10-2023

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.

researchers discovered that bombing people, causes them to hate you

At this Cleveland forum, Jewish and Black people discuss religion, politics and privilege

https://www.ideastream.org/race-gender-identity/2023-07-05/at-this-cleveland-forum-jewish-and-black-people-discuss-religion-politics-and-privilege

Interesting results. Either the fediverse is healthier than the world in general, or the responses were way too limited.

Why is Barbie getting so much attention?

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

I may have a model problem …

#BattlestarGalactica

"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

#Tuberville #Alabama #Republicans #military #LawandOrder
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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-10-2023