GottaLaff

GottaLaff, 6 days ago (edited 4 days ago) to random

About time! But would SCOTUS ban this one too? Or is that just for women… [Folks, that was rhetorical. We know the answer]

“A male birth control gel is one step closer to reality

Researchers at Endocrine Society’s conference in Boston presented encouraging earlystage clinical trial results of a male birth control method that takes the form of a hormonal gel.” #contraception
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/08/male-birth-control-gel

GottaLaff, 7 days ago to random

Omg.

#RIP Retired Maj. Gen. William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic “Earthrise” photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, was killed Friday when the plane he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington state. He was 90
https://apnews.com/article/6d3800130ef4e67d761f96b328f7c263

GottaLaff, 7 days ago to random

'Night all.

Still enduring the cold that apparently has become very attached to me.

I'll post alerts if they come my way.

GottaLaff, 7 days ago to random

“The Republican Senate candidate #KariLake addressed supporters with a Confederate flag displayed behind her during a campaign event at a #Trump merchandise store in Arizona last week, where she repeated false claims about election fraud.” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/07/kari-lake-confederate-flag?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

GottaLaff, 7 days ago to Wyoming

😫🤦🏻‍♀️ #Wyoming Secretary of State Chuck Gray (R) sent a letter to county clerks on Wednesday urging them to eliminate the use of mail-in ballot drop boxes ahead of the November election.

• Democracy Docket https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/wyoming-secretary-of-state-seeks-to-eliminate-ballot-drop-boxes/

GottaLaff, 7 days ago to random

Enough already!

Danish PM hit by man in Copenhagen: office- AFP

GottaLaff, 7 days ago to random

Can’t get clearer than this:

Businessman Tells Jury He Bribed Senator #Menendez With a Mercedes-Benz

Jose Uribe said he had provided the car to Senator Robert Menendez’s girlfriend in exchange for gaining his “power and influence.”

Gift: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/07/nyregion/jose-uribe-menendez-trial-bribery.html?unlocked_article_code=1.x00.D3mX.Aw1T2m8WTe-c&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

GottaLaff, 7 days ago to random

The #Biden administration tightened fuel mileage standards as part of its effort to get carmakers to produce more electric vehicles. The new rule requires automakers to achieve an average of 65 miles per gallon across all models by 2031 -NYT

GottaLaff, 7 days ago to random

They're even projecting about THIS!

Via Patriot Takes:

MAGA used a deceptively edited video posted by “RNC Research” to claim Joe #Biden was sitting in an invisible chair or “pooping” on stage.

Fox News host Jeanine Pirro later deleted her tweet. Politifact lists others who pushed the fake narrative.
#ClusterFox

GottaLaff, 7 days ago to Arizona

Via CNN's Zachary Cohen:

News: #Trump's former White House chief of staff Mark #Meadows just pleaded NOT GUILTY to multiple state-level felonies in #Arizona after he was indicted for alleged role in a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election. #legal

GottaLaff, 7 days ago to random

“One of two Black contestants chosen for that season in 2010, Folkes was insulted that #Trump had called him inarticulate and accused him of illiteracy in a lengthy boardroom tirade minutes earlier.

As the crew member, a Black woman who worked as a contestant manager, consoled him, Trump suddenly appeared at the bar.

“He came up and he asked me: ‘Is this your woman? Because you two would make a really great couple. You both have the same background’” https://apnews.com/article/d962dfce1220920681ede63b90058f5d

GottaLaff, 7 days ago to random

Gift link wasn’t available. Sigh.

Justice #ClarenceThomas discloses two 2019 trips paid for by Harlan Crow

2023 financial disclosure reports for Supreme Court justices also show six-figure book payments for Kavanaugh, Gorsuch and Jackson #SCOTUS

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/07/supreme-court-financial-disclosures-gifts-thomas/

GottaLaff, 8 days ago to random

Unbelievable.

Via Rupar:

46 House Republicans voted to defund NATO two days before the 80th anniversary of D-Day