rayckeith

rayckeith, 4 days ago to random

James Comer Helped a Donor Get Chinese Hemp. It Ultimately Tested as Marijuana

"Rep. James Comer (R-KY) has for months used his power as House Oversight chair to assail Hunter Biden’s involvement in a failed business deal with a Chinese energy company.

But The Daily Beast has obtained emails and other documents showing that when Comer was running for governor of Kentucky, he himself was involved in a failed Chinese business deal. It involved importing Chinese hemp seeds through Comer’s office, when he was Kentucky’s agriculture commissioner, to benefit a campaign donor’s company that Comer had fast-tracked for his industrial hemp pilot program."
https://www.thedailybeast.com/james-comer-helped-a-donor-get-chinese-hemp-it-ultimately-tested-as-marijuana

foone, 4 days ago to random

watching the latest Deviant Ollam talk, they mentioned wondering if you can just trigger carbon monoxide sensors with some chemistry.

Turns out you can just buy tester canisters! They're just spray cans of Carbon Monoxide! That sounds... somewhat dangerous.

https://www.amazon.com/Sdi-Carbon-Monoxide-Detector-Tester/dp/B007886ZME

rayckeith, 6 days ago to random

"Annie
@AnnieForTruth
Follow
I would do the same if I had daughters and lived in Texas.
I live in Portland, OR. Today I met a native Texan who was
shopping for a home. I said that I was originally from Louisiana, and asked, "what brings you here?" She said three words: "I have daughters."
5:17 AM • 6/3/24 • 14K Views"

rayckeith, 8 days ago to random

Black voters being purged from voter rolls

rayckeith, 4 days ago to random

"Flynn’s Lethal Alternate Reality Game - by Jim Stewartson"

I don't know if this guy is legit...

"Two weeks after I started investigating QAnon I wrote about how Q appeared to be modeled on alternate reality game techniques I helped to pioneer. I had the unusual skill set of being able to decode what was effectively a malevolent version of internet experiences I had previously built.

Nearly four years ago, I wrote that Flynn was going to “take control” of the QAnon movement, and laid out the themes he would use…"
https://www.mind-war.com/p/flynns-lethal-alternate-reality-game

rayckeith, 6 days ago to random

How United Sovereign Americans is Radicalizing an Anti-Voting Movement - Democracy Docket

"The strategy is to file as many lawsuits in as many states as possible, with the hope that at least one judge, somewhere, will rule in their favor, she told the Los Angeles Times.

“Marly Hornik has been quite open about what their stated goal is, which is essentially to create some sort of circuit split and get the Supreme Court to rule in their favor before the 2024 election,” Tulin noted. "
https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/how-united-sovereign-americans-is-radicalizing-an-anti-voting-movement/

rayckeith, 5 days ago to random

The “Originalist” Supreme Court vs Democracy

"The way you outline originalism’s rise is so plausible to me because it situates this story within the context of a broader counter-mobilization against the progressive changes of the 1950s and 60s. Inventing these legal theories and laundering them through legal academia is one dimension of this broader rightwing political project; another is the creation of an institutionalized conservative legal movement. And like you say, this also ties in with the grassroots mobilization of rightwing activists, and, by the 1990s, has managed to connect to, and take over, the power centers of conservative politics. We are not looking at separate stories coincidentally unfolding at the same time. We are dealing with a decades-long, multi-level effort to roll back the racial and social progress towards egalitarian democracy."
https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/the-originalist-supreme-court-vs

rayckeith, 6 days ago to random

https://www.salon.com/2024/06/03/texas-professors-to-fail-students-seek-abortions/

rayckeith, 6 days ago to random

Thread by @TimInHonolulu

"1. Unless the SCOTUS agrees with Trump that POTUS can harm justices with impunity, Trump's two federal trials will likely continue. If it is reasonably unlikely that the trials can be completed before the election then Jack Smith should consider the following:
2. In DC. Trump engaged in an organized violent attempt to overthrow US Constitution by attacking with a violent force with elements that were well-armed and waiting orders in Virginia. Whiskey Rebellion and Shays Rebellion support charge of Treason under the levies war clause
3. and statutory treason charge. Trump is likely under court supervision throughout the election and the addition of pre-trial supervision for a capital offense will be of little additional restriction NY won't have already imposed. There will be time for pretrial proceedings
4. to address superseding indictment in DC"
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1797332940416078074.html

rayckeith, 4 days ago to random

$1,700 'Spacetop' Laptop Uses AR Glasses Instead of a Display - MacRumors
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/06/04/spacetop-ar-glasses-laptop/

rayckeith, 6 days ago to random

ONLY WAY TO STOP THE BAD GUY WITH A GUN

IS TO VOTE
REPUBLICANS OUT
OF CONGRESS

tankgrrl, 4 days ago to random

And finally for dessert.
#DarkKnightEachNight
✅ Batman Begins
✅ The Dark Knight
✅Dark Knight Rises
✅ Batman
✅ Batman Returns
✅ Batman Forever 🤮
❌ Batman & Robin 🥶👿
✅ The Batman
🟩 Batman '66

rayckeith, 4 days ago to random

"DEAR REPUBLICAN PARTY:
You sold your soul:
You used to stand for patriotism, but you sold your soul to a traitor who conspired with an enemy to destroy our democracy.
You used to stand for our armed forces, but you sold your soul to a draft-dodger who mocked their courage and sacrifice.
You used to stand for hard working Americans, but you sold your soul to a con man who made his fortune by cheating them.
You used to stand for the American Dream, but you sold your soul to a racist
who traded the Statuo of Liberty for walls and cages.
You used to stand for family values, but you sold your soul to a predator who betrayed all three of his wives
And you used to stand for Jesus,
but you sold your soul to a wolf in sheep's clothing who makes a mockery of christianity.
Whatever he paid you for your soul;
I hope it was worth it.
But knowing him,
you're probably still waiting for your check."

rayckeith, 6 days ago to random

"Bombshell investigation discovers that at least nine witnesses in Trump's numerous criminal trials have received massive pay raises, expensive severance packages, job offers, and shares and cash from Trump’s media company.

And it gets so much worse...

ProPublica discovered the blatantly corrupt operations by digging through public disclosures, court records and securities filings.

They found that one campaign aide saw his pay double to $53,500 a month. Another employee received a staggering $2 million severance package that prevented him from voluntarily cooperating with law enforcement — an obvious bribe to buy their silence.

ProPublica reports that these payouts and perks could be evidence of witness tampering, although it may be hard to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt.

Notably, the pay increases and other alleged bribes often came at times when the legal proceedings against Trump were particularly tenuous. …"
https://x.com/occupydemocrats/status/1797670449666826552?s=12&t=3d9pIKw692D3Dy-4Ms4pFA

rayckeith, 4 days ago to random

GOP will defund DOJ in retaliation for Trump conviction: Johnson - Alternet.org

"The embattled Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is vowing to use the arsenal of tools at his disposal, including defunding, to target the U.S. Dept. of Justice after ex-president Donald Trump was convicted in a New York State prosecution on 34 felony charges last week.

In a Tuesday meeting behind closed doors with his House Republican conference members, Johnson said “he will do everything he can to go after the Department of Justice,” CNN reported, “and said the verdict has ignited support for the former president, two sources familiar with the comments told CNN.”

The Speaker “presented a three-pronged approach of oversight, funding and legislation,”"
https://www.alternet.org/johnson-gop-trump-conviction/

rayckeith, 4 days ago to random

"Whenever someone threatens you, like "If you do/don't do X, we're going to do Z to you!" you've already got them bent over a barrel. Trust me.

They know that if you go ahead and DO what they're warning you not to do (speak out against Trump, post anti-Trump and anti-MAGA posts on social media, protest against SCOTUS, Trump, etc...and last but not least, VOTE for Donald Trump, their house of cards comes tumbling the fuck down. People threaten others...because THEY are scared.

This is Human Behavior 101.

For that reason, I love it when people threaten me. They're handing me a road map for the most effective things I can do to help defeat their cause. They have said, "This is what scares me/us the most, and here are the things that will defeat me/us...if enough other people do them.""
https://x.com/thejackhopkins/status/1798069476409364961?s=12&t=3d9pIKw692D3Dy-4Ms4pFA

rayckeith, 5 days ago to random

The “Originalist” Supreme Court vs Democracy

"In this crusade to entrench and maintain discriminatory hierarchies of race, gender, religion, and wealth, conservatives are deploying “originalism” as a key weapon to dismantle the civil rights order. They are trying to turn the clock back – as far back as to before the Reconstruction Amendments that were adopted after the Civil War – by repealing whatever racial and social progress they say is not in accordance with the Constitution’s “original public meaning,” not “deeply rooted in American history and tradition.” And somehow, they got much of the legal establishment, mainstream political discourse, and liberal America to accept “originalism” as a coherent intellectual project and the dominant philosophy of constitutional interpretation."
https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/the-originalist-supreme-court-vs

rayckeith, 4 days ago to random

One in Three Republicans Now Think Donald Trump Was Wrong Candidate Choice - Newsweek
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-republican-candidate-poll-1907298

rayckeith, 5 days ago to random

World-first tooth-regrowing drug will be given to humans in September
https://newatlas.com/medical/tooth-regrowing-human-trial/

rayckeith, 5 days ago to random

Frequent mowing puts poisonous weed into survival mode | ScienceDaily

"the more silverleaf nightshade was mowed, the more it developed ways to avoid destruction, Kariyat said. The taproot went down further, nearly 5 feet deep, in the first generation of mowed plants. More spikes popped out on the stem as a defense against caterpillars feeding on the flowers. The flowers became more toxic to caterpillars, leading to less pressure from natural predators.

Like time bombs, the plant produced some groups of seeds that germinated faster and others that were delayed. This "staggered" germination was the plant's way to ensure survival over the long haul.

"You are trying to mow these plants so that the plants are getting eliminated," Kariyat said. "But what you are actually doing here, you are making them much worse, much stronger.""
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/06/240603195751.htm