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kegill, 1 month ago to random

Hunter Biden’s attorneys are going to sue FOX. About time.

Biden’s attorney issued the following statement.

May the force be with him!

https://open.substack.com/pub/statuskuo/p/hunter-biden-strikes-back?r=5wdm&utm_medium=ios

kegill, 1 month ago to random

Given the comments from SD Gov. Kristi Noem, now seems like a good time to boost this analysis:

What the NRA and GOP demagogues don’t want you to know about the Second Amendment.

It was about slavery.

https://kegill.medium.com/what-the-nra-the-gop-and-crt-demagogues-dont-want-you-to-know-about-the-compromise-that-is-the-6f69a95c7b03

kegill, 1 month ago to random

I’m gobsmacked. Framing FTW.

“If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations.

“If you're 45, that number is 74.7%.

“If you're under 30, the number is 100%.”

https://twitter.com/sundaedivine/status/1784630955723919484

kegill, 1 month ago to random

“This is how fascists campaign”

The campaign that Donald J. Trump is running in 2024 is a stark departure from 2016. It’s not just that he’s eight years older, chronologically. It’s the transformation in his rhetoric.

Reflection on a NYT magazine story with lousy headline.

https://themoderatevoice.com/this-is-how-fascists-campaign/

kegill, 1 month ago to random

The rewired-by-Trump RNC hired ONA's Christina Bobb to run its "election integrity" program. She's been indicted for election fraud.

https://themoderatevoice.com/rnc-election-integrity-legal-counsel-one-of-the-18-indicted-for-election-fraud-in-arizona/

kegill, 1 month ago to random

𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩’𝐬 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭. 𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐌𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥𝐥’𝐬.

Headline after headline Friday reflected political pundit reaction to Thursday’s Supreme Court oral arguments. The case? Former president Donald J. Trump’s claims of immunity from prosecution for his central role in the January 6, 2021 insurrection.

From “The Trumpification of the Supreme Court” to “Trump Melts Institutions, SCOTUS Edition” most link Trump with the 6-3 conservative majority.

1/3

kegill, 1 month ago to Israel

"You people are fascists!" Atlanta policeman shouts at Emory economics professor during Thursday protest.

The video is chilling but moves too fast and is too loud. So I made screen grabs and provided written commentary.

#Israel #Gaza #Palestine #PolicyBrutality #Emory

https://themoderatevoice.com/you-people-are-fascists-atlanta-policeman-shouts-at-emory-economics-professor-during-thursday-protest/

kegill, 1 month ago to random

Given the publicly-funded infrastructure and research that made US billionaire wealth possible… hell, yes.

“The world’s 3,000 billionaires should pay a minimum 2% tax on their fast-growing wealth to raise £250bn a year for the global fight against poverty, inequality and global heating, ministers from four leading economies have suggested.”

https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2024/apr/25/billionaires-should-pay-minimum-two-per-cent-wealth-tax-say-g20-ministers?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

kegill, 1 month ago to random

Who Wrote the Bible?

Why am I only now discovering this book by Richard Elliott Friedman, published in 1987?

Especially simce Friedman is the Ann & Jay Davis Professor of Jewish Studies at my alma mater, the University of Georgia.

"Remarkable. Friedman has written that most rare of books: a legitimate intellectual contribution that is also a good read. The field of biblical studies will be enriched by this book." —Dallas Times Herald

https://a.co/25xjSnl

kegill, 1 month ago to random

Mounted police being used against peaceful protesters:
Selma 1965, Austin 2024

https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social/post/3kqvz5tbxrf2t

From Kevin Kruse on BSky

Mounted police being used against peaceful protesters: Austin 2024

kegill, 1 month ago to random

“Prosecutors at the outset sought to emphasize the gravity of the case, the first of four criminal prosecutions against Trump to reach trial, by framing it as about election interference.”

CAN YOU SEE THE SKEPTICISM HERE?

GAG
“The opening statements also served as an introduction to the colorful cast of characters that comprise the tawdry saga…”

Do better, @AP

fatsam, 1 month ago to random

Asked elsewhere what I could talk on for fifteen minutes:

I'm a professional speaker, I can talk that long on a lot of subjects. Areas with actual expertise?

Writing science fiction; writing in general. Database scalability. Stand-up comedy. Raising children.

sundogplanets, 1 month ago to random

I'm reading Astrotopia by Mary-Jane Rubenstein and it's just amazing. I don't usually make it through books that are on depressing topics like the destruction of orbit, but this book is fascinating and real while also being completely hilarious. Like, I have laughed out loud multiple times while reading it and I'm only halfway through.

It's all about how the "NewSpace" tech bro billionaires are using the language of manifest destiny and see themselves as end-of-the-world prophets. Wowee.

kegill, 1 month ago to random

They could all be brothers, couldn’t they? The “younger” ones. WS buzzards, GOP candidates/electeds.

David McCormick, hedge fund leach & son of a college president, PA candidate for US Senate (2nd run, no experience just $$$$$$)

The latest origin story myth from (SHOCK!) the NYT. However, the caption writer repeats the myth in the first photo. So, yeah. On brand.

#GiftLink
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/19/us/politics/dave-mccormick-farm-pennsylvania.html?unlocked_article_code=1.l00.lfht.do3cIjuKeWjB&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Composite Nunes, Johnson, Moreno

kegill, 1 month ago to random

Landslide!

By a vote of 2,628 to 985, VW employees in Tennessee voted to join the United Auto Workers!

This is the first successful UAW vote in the South.

The next vote: May 17 at a Mercedes plant in Alabama. 🤞

https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2024/apr/19/uaw-wins-at-volkswagen-chattanooga-tfp/

kegill, 1 month ago to random

Why have you not identified the hospitals, @AP?

How many are Catholic owned or affiliated?

https://apnews.com/article/pregnancy-emergency-care-abortion-supreme-court-roe-9ce6c87c8fc653c840654de1ae5f7a1c

kegill, 1 month ago to random

“Trump’s covid response was even worse than you remember
In a sane country, it would disqualify him from ever again holding office.”

Yes. Amen. 💯

Trump “wasn’t a passive bystander. He actively worsened the situation.”

Trump “gutted the infectious disease defense infrastructure through … starting in 2018 … “recklessly pushed for the economy to reopen and used his disastrous White House covid press conferences to tout unproven and potentially dangerous “treatments.”

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-covid-response-revisited

Trump then spent most of February 2020 minimizing covid’s threat. He called the coronavirus Democrats’ “new hoax” at a campaign rally in South Carolina. By April, when everything was going to hell, he lamented that the pandemic was “something that nobody expected.” However, former President George W. Bush had warned in 2005 that “if we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare.”
Biden tweet warning - Oct 2019

kegill, 1 month ago to random

Louisiana state Rep. Roger Wilder (R, natch) owns “Smoothie King franchises across the Deep South.”

He sponsored a bill (HB156) that removes the mandate that minors* get a lunch break.

https://www.nola.com/news/politics/legislature/la-lawmakers-vote-to-remove-lunch-breaks-for-child-workers/article_ef234692-fd9e-11ee-99f5-771c7366107a.html

It’s a national “conservative” campaign
#GiftLink https://wapo.st/4aFyIaf

All state laws:
https://www.paycor.com/resource-center/articles/lunch-break-laws-by-state/

• non-exempt employees under age 18 who work 5 consecutive hours

kegill, 1 month ago to random

Sixteen states* and Washington, D.C., are pledged to deliver their combined 209 electoral votes to the presidential candidate who wins the nationwide popular vote.

The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact needs at least 270 votes to go into effect.

AP says it’s now on pause for the year, without sourcing the claim.

• CA CO CT HI IL MA MD ME MN NJ NM NY OR RI VT WA

https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/state-status

stroughtonsmith, 1 month ago to random

Here’s your AI astonishment/nightmare fuel for today:

"TL;DR: single portrait photo + speech audio = hyper-realistic talking face video with precise lip-audio sync, lifelike facial behavior, and naturalistic head movements, generated in real time.”

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/vasa-1/

video/mp4

sundogplanets, 1 month ago to random

One of my classes has their final projects due at 11:59pm tonight and the ramp-up of more and more frantic student emails is really depressing.

They had to choose topics in February and turn in drafts in March, and yet it seems that most of them didn't actually start until today...not that I was any better as an undergrad, but man it hurts to watch!

kegill, 1 month ago to random

Trump's first felony indictment in 2023 is the first to trial in 2024. Election interference is a serious crime, despite media framing as a 'hush money' case.

Because keeping Daniels quiet was important for the campaign, this expense was a “campaign donation” that should have been declared. It was not.

Cooking the books is a crime.

Election interference (failing to note campaign contributions, for example) is a crime, at both state and federal levels.

https://themoderatevoice.com/trumps-election-interference-trial-the-oldest-felony-charge-reaches-a-jury-first/

kegill, 1 month ago to random

News organizations continue to cherry pick quotes from Donald Trump’s speeches, and they paraphrase to make sense from nonsensical.

https://themoderatevoice.com/news-media-ignore-or-whitewash-trump-speeches-pennsylvania-event-on-saturday-followed-standard-procedure/