There is also the issue that a Republican accusation is a confession. Always. Ergo, he's having the Epstein files doctored to make Democrats look bad.
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There is also the issue that a Republican accusation is a confession. Always. Ergo, he's having the Epstein files doctored to make Democrats look bad.
Yay! Looking forward to this!
Antryg is a great character and I look forward to hearing your song.
JD Vance got his start holding the people who raised him--his own family--up to public humiliation for money. I don't think there's anywhere he would draw the line.
That's quite a turn from demanding Anna work extra hours--oh, sorry, "carry out extra 'reproductive' labor"--at home, which is what you sure seemed to be doing before.
Look over there!
Given the opportunity I'd make the same choice Annafroma2 did, and save more time in the day to rest and have fun, but you should feel totally free to spend more hours than necessary on your (work plus "reproductive" labor). I mean, you do you, boo! Just don't demand other people do it.
This argument would only apply if you don't consider housework "work."
One of the two? Because I hadn't read them either. But maybe I will go do that.
Sure, and more than that, Trump is likely to demand she accuse, oh, Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama for example.
Not to mention that we can't trust anything she says when we know she said it *just to get out of prison.* I mean, it might be true... but she knows damned well if it doesn't please Donald Trump, back into prison she goes, so how likely is it that she'll tell the truth?
Trying to distract his base from the Epstein list I see.
So "lies"-- a series of lies. Donald Trump's mouthpiece Tulsi Gabbard is lying for Trump. Again. It's okay to use the word; it's factual.
July 19th? Saturday?
To be fair, they just want to attack us--I mean, they voted for Trump "to make libs' heads explode"--so they're just assuming we think like they do.
Maybe the same thing you say to someone who was crippled in utero because artificial wombs do not exist?
Made me cry.
Once the procedure was well understood in other mammals they might move to primates--some lemurs are endangered, for example. Then chimpanzees, which are very closely related to human beings.
I'd expect if someone was trying to make an artificial womb they wouldn't start with a *human* womb; they would start with a sheep or cow womb. Or they might aim as a first step to produce more of endangered species: start with a cat womb frex, so the step to snow leopards wouldn't be so big.
I remember when Fox News was trying to make it sound like Portland Oregon was a smoldering wreck. I have family there--Dad was like, "what protests?" and Jake was like "Oh yeah, I drove past it; there's a block or two where there are some broken windows and graffiti; the rest of downtown is fine.
If I’m New Hampshire Public Radio, I’m putting this entire article on a tote bag.
Actually I think for them it's all about being able to punish people. They WANT people to sin/break the law, so they will have an excuse to hurt people. I think they get an almost sexual pleasure out of causing misery. On second thought scratch the almost.
It's all in whether they have enough money to gift him a gold plated airplane.
No. My parents were Dem / Rep, but that was to have an ear in both parties, not because their values were particularly different. Pretty sure Mom would NOT have put up with Dad supporting the current Republican party.
Presumably they just paid him a bribe. I mean, Qatar did it so...
Don't feel bad; it took me longer than it should have to realize we were talking meters too.
Happy Book Day! I loved the other books in this series and am so happy to have a new one to read!
If only.
We tried that the last three times and nope.
I should probably go get a drink of water. And walk away from the computer, or at least do the thing I was intending to do before I fell into my social media. Again.
I grew up in the Cascades, and have spent time living near the Rockies and now live near the Appalachians, and I'd like to say the latter aren't *tall* but they're definitely *concentrated.* The roads wind through hollows and double back on themselves and the whole thing feels "boiled down."
As far as I can see, women don't use AI because they can spot that it doesn't work, and can't afford to have the stupid mistakes AI makes associated with them, because people are *already* more likely to assume they are less competent than men.
Unfortunately, we'll know their *victims* by their smiles.
Who took the Von Trapp picture?
I think it matters, because Trump's popularity is a cudgel he wields to keep the rest of the Republicans in line. The damage he could do would be significantly less if the Republicans decide their job is safer if they defend the law than if they don't.
Yeah, the rest of the world can always trade with each other--who are we going to trade with? On a personal level, I'm not looking forward to what is going to happen to the price of coffee, and chocolate. On a national level the lack of critical minerals and production capacity is going to hurt.
In theory he could make 2 trade deals with one country if that country was dumb enough to make a second deal with him after (since his word is worth nothing) he broke the first. So if he made a deal with every country, and there were five really dumb ones he could get to 200.
Yes, yes I do. Very normal stuff like allocating the funds Congress agreed to, people being able to say things the president didn't necessarily like without being snatched off the street, business being able to plan for where to source parts, that kind of thing. Good times.
Yes this
Also your reporter missed an opportunity when the pro-natalist organizer said people needed openness to new ideas: they should have asked for a one-sentence statement of what new idea was expressed. Because none of the pro-natalist ideas I see listed are new.
Very much this. Fuck the weathervanes, but I like the way the wind is blowing.
Note the White Supremacist slant to the "oh noes; humanity will DIE OUT" wails. Because, seriously? There are 8 billion people in the world--330 million of them in the US alone--but humanity will die out? What? No, folks; they're afraid white people will become a minority and not be in charge.
So when I met my first openly trans person it was like, okay, nice to meet you Jesse. I guess what really made me realize trans rights was an issue was the right-wing attacks on them, so that would be maybe about fifteen years ago?
I don't even remember, because there wasn't a particular event for me. I was raised to care about kindness and fairness and to at least try to be nice to people no matter how weird I thought they were, and ended up knowing/getting comfortable with lots of people who weren't mainstream.
Went to the 50501 protest in Morristown yesterday. I would guess about 60 or 70 people showed up, which I think is a pretty good turnout, and passer-by response struck me as 2/3 to 3/4 positive--both very good for this area.
I had someone I'd have otherwise described as a fellow member of the reality based community get mad at me for using the term once. He claimed it was looking down on religious people. I said it was a term thrown in my face by an enemy; they didn't want it and now it was mine.
A moniker I bear with pride.
The existence of a "New" MAD-rid, implies the existence of a previous or "old" MAD-rid. I wonder where it was.
Yeah, I was going to say New Madrid fault too, but maybe that means it is too well known? But anything big enough to make the Mississippi run backwards and create a new lake qualifies as "big" I think.
Done!
Best of luck convincing your fellow Christians of that and I say that with all sincerity. Nobody hopes for your victory more than I do.
Nah these guys are as white as it gets and 100% home-grown and 100% Christian (obviously.)
It isn't okay to send undocumented people to a gulag without a trial. It is also not okay to send citizens to a gulag without a trial. Trump is doing the first and wants to do the second. Never again is now.
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I think that is why they are doing it.
You voted for the SAVE act because you want to make it harder for women to vote. You realize some women don't change their names when they marry but you'll sandbag as many of us as you can get.
Of course they won't, because then it would quickly be revealed that they are lying.
Good; well done! It's great that you're getting started opposing this assault on the Constitution, and I hope to see a lot more opposition from you in the very near future!
You had me at "losing this judge race" you don't need to sell me on it.
Wow! Congratulations!
It sounds like Cory Booker has been doing an amazing job and I hope other Democratic Senators are taking notes, because since the Republicans won't stop Trump's all-out assault on the Constitution, we're all better off when the Senate is completely gummed up with filibusters.
I am sorry that he needs to do this but I agree that it is necessary. The fascists have turned on science and are gutting the CDC and the NIH. Hopefully a lot of scientists will be able to escape also.
He's in DC, right? So really it's only about an hour and 5 minutes!
Thank you!
I'm really sorry for your loss.
I am sad for this loss. I will miss Patricia at FilkOntario next week. Thank you for recognizing her as part of our community.
It's an interesting change of their Pravda, that suggests they are losing support among _voters they actually care about_ over the number of people whose jobs they have destroyed. It would be interesting to reach out to that sector of their support and see if we can wean it back to reality.
You'd think they'd hear the bulldozer and wake up. I mean, that's not really a stealth type operation? Maybe if someone has so much land the boulder is really far from the house, or maybe they go for boulders whose humans are on vacation?
Hurray for youtube videos; this would have been much harder without watching that friendly person with the Indian accent walking the viewer calmly through the process.
What it _doesn't _do is remember the house WiFi password, which is annoying because the house password is long and has to be entered on the printer solely with up and down arrows. But oh well nothing is perfect, and quick connection at OVFF is more important.
I got a laser printer. Thanks to youtube videos I set it up successfully both in WiFi Direct mode (where the printer also acts as the WiFi network) and and connected to the house WiFi. Then I did it again, and the WiFi Direct address/pwd is stable, yay! Quick connection at conventions!
He should not have power over a goldfish, much less a human being, but he should not be hanged; I don't believe in the death penalty. And he CERTAINLY should not be hanged without a trial; some people are monsters but we don't have to be!
Trump destroyed the Obama economy and now he's destroying the Biden economy and everybody who has been paying the slightest bit of attention saw this coming from election night last year. A president can't necessarily save an economy, but with tariffs and layoffs he can certainly wreck one.
I read every one of those books multiple times and Murderbot considers itself an "it." Not "she," not "he," but "it." I seem to recall some members of the Preservation team having some trouble with this, but it was very definite about it.
Yeah, I would check out FilkCast. I mean I can suggest filk artists--Mary Crowell, Three Weird Sisters, Kari Maaren, The Faithful Sidekicks, Heather Dale, Alexander Adams, but there are so many... FilkCast is a good place to try a lot of them for free and figure out which ones you like.
I have 2 new bowing patterns to practice with it. I am pretty sure I can make this work.
His mouth is full. Probably hamburger, with ketchup.
So... a bribe. Can we say "bribe"? But realistically, of course Republicans take bribes--I mean, Republican Supreme Court Judges take bribes, so why wouldn't Republican Vice Presidents?
There is no doubt it is a rather startling lurch toward transparency on the part of an administration that has been remarkably secretive in the past.
Great violin lesson today--I didn't have a lot of time to practice this week so I thought I would concentrate on something I could do in short bursts, so I memorized the Etude I had been working on. My teacher was very pleased; it was much easier to pay attention to his suggestions about bowing.
I had this same experience except it was American cheese--it took me YEARS to figure out that Cheddar looked exactly the same but was delicious. Until I was about twelve I thought all cheese tasted like spoiled milk.
So in other words it won't be a human rights report anymore.
I have continued my walking, and added a backpack, with gradually increasing weight. Today I upped it from 15 to 18 pounds, and walked for an hour, covering about 3 miles. More than usual, because no hike tomorrow. I'm keeping up the squats and stand-on-one-foots and counter push-ups too.
Working on learning an Etude by heart. This one is at least reasonably melodic.
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Bigots always think they are good, normal people.
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I think they were emboldened by the corrupt 2/3 of the Supreme Court giving Dirty Donald immunity for crimes committed while president, myself.
I think it is obviously a pretext to go after an openly queer person, yes.
Yes that is absolutely what it looks like to me also.
I don't go, and when they demand to know why I tell them. If they're going to marry a Nazi, they better get used to people refusing to associate with their spouse.
Thanks!
I read the NPR piece on this with great pleasure.
Yeah I need to bring the chairs on my porch inside and secure the cover over the grill. Let me just go do that thing.
There is a book out called Careless People which Meta and thus FB are trying to suppress. I'm not going to tell you to get it or not get it but I will say it would be a thumb in the eye for FB if it caught on, and it might be worth checking it out and seeing if it is something that appeals.
I seem to recall Giraldus Cambrensis saying this exact thing in either _A Journey Through Wales_ or _A Description of Wales_ which he wrote in the 1190s. I will say old Giraldus appears to have been the most gullible man alive.
I am so sorry but I think this is a fair call.
You would think a historian would still know how to look basic stuff up though.