Democrats Beat Expectations By Massive Margin In New Swing-State Election Results https://bipartisanreport.com/2023/07/20/democrats-beat-expectations-by-massive-margin-in-new-swing-state-election-results/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
everyone is entitled to my own opinion
what the fuck is wrong with Marjorie Taylor Greene
trash is as trash does
JEFF TIEDRICH
JUL 20, 2023
nobody needs to see Hunter Biden’s dick.
there is no legal or ethical rationale for it.
Hunter Biden could be the world’s most notorious criminal, the Republicans could have him dead to rights, there could be mountains of evidence, and still — there would be no need to see his dick.
and yet, yesterday afternoon, on the floor of the United State House of Representatives — the so-called “greatest deliberative body in the world,” as we are taught in school — Marjorie Taylor Green, shithole representative from Georgia, went there.
in front of the House, in front of live TV cameras, in front of the world, she displayed poster-sized enlargements of nude photos of Hunter Biden.
ladies and gentlemen, what in actual fuck.
https://open.substack.com/pub/jefftiedrich/p/what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-marjorie?r=fyvv4&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
#shade #sail experiment so far. It's not a large amount of shade (12x12x12 triangle), but it IS strategic. Keeping morning sun out of one room and back patio is pleasant instead of searing. #heatwave #adaptation
He really is too dumb to serve in Congress.
'54 Years Ago Apollo 11 Crew Walks on the Moon' image from the #NASA_App
https://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/about/history/jsc50/as11-40-5875.html
Once again, the US public says NASA should prioritize asteroid defense
Just 7 percent of US women want NASA to prioritize humans to Mars.
Sanctions announced by the US government to inhibit access by #Russia "to products that support its military and war efforts; reduce Russia’s revenue from the metals and mining sector; undermine its future energy capabilities; degrade Russia’s access to the international financial system; and starve Russia of G7-produced technology needed for its technology, aerospace, and defense sectors." https://ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actions/20230720
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/20/kevin-mccarthy-donald-trump-impeachment-expunge-promise-00107236 Inside Kevin McCarthy’s secret promise to expunge Trump’s record
#DictatorTrump is angry that the speaker hasn’t endorsed his campaign. To placate him, McCarthy privately vowed to hold a vote to clear Trump’s impeachments. Now, that promise is coming due.
#SeditiousKevinMcCarthy told the #TraitorTrump team that he can’t back Trump, because he wants to look neutral while the House clears his name on impeachment.
Trump will only buy his BS for so long #MAGAfascists
U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak apologized Wednesday for the treatment of gay veterans, saying that a previous ban on LGBTQ+ people serving in the U.K. military was “an appalling failure of the British state."
Moon House Ruins
Cedar Mesa, Bears Ears National Monument UT
Continuing with my theme of ancient puebloan ruins for #ThrowbackThursday. Moon House is the most unique and best preserved of the ruins I've visited in SE Utah. It is halfway up a steep cliff in a narrow sandstone canyon.
The photo looks down a narrow common room. The wall on the right is on the outside. The back wall of the rooms on the left is the cliff itself. There are other structures on the ledge not pictured here.
The ruins are reachable via moderately strenuous trail; 3.2 miles roundtrip; after a very bumpy drive in a high clearance vehicle. PERMIT REQUITED from https://www.blm.gov/visit/kane-gulch-ranger-station
Rep. Jamie Raskin destroys the GOP's 'Hunter Biden cover-up' malarkey.
Why didn't the government see the Jan. 6 attack coming?
Molly Reynolds and Quinta Jurecic were joined by Ryan Reilly to discuss a recent Congressional report that tried to understand the intelligence failures in the lead-up to Jan. 6 and where we go from here. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-lawfare-podcast-congress-investigates-january-6-again
Apple will shut off iMessage, Facetime in UK if new law passes
Apple has said that it will not make changes to security features for one country that would weaken a product for all users. Elaborating on its point, Apple says that the law and changes that would have to be made to iMessage and FaceTime — and likely other products — "constitute a serious and direct threat to data security and information privacy" worldwide.
On Fox and Friends, Chris Rufo echoed the increasingly common anti-trans idea that trans people are somehow destabilizing reality itself.
I wrote about whether it's possible to change a person's sex (sure, in theory, why not?), whether trans people are claiming it is (nah), and why conservatives create these grand fantastical narratives that cast their targeting of a vulnerable minority as some grand heroic battle for reality. #trans #journalism
Well my psychiatrist rang, he does not want to discharge me after all. He was slightly cautious about my eventual work trip to Australia and is going to speak to a specialist pharmacist and formulate a plan to minimise disruption to my sleep and medication so the risk of me spectacularly relapsing is reduced. He’s also going to write me a letter for my new university confirming my #bipolar diagnosis and treatment, so that I can get student disability support. I like that when he rings he introduces himself as “Firstname Lastname”, not “Dr Lastname”. He’s a good egg.
FROM THE PULLED Documentary of #desantis at Gitmo. He's a ghoul.
"the network said the episode contained allegations from “former detainees that he was present at force-feedings that were condemned as torture by the UN” raised the “role of Navy JAGs in the investigation of the detainee deaths.”
#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.