AmberWavesoFlame @AmberWavesofFlame@qoto.org

@EdinEurope uh, he wasn’t even in office during that time, how would he know? Why are we even asking his opinion?

@NPR

We now have confirmation that #NPR is the first major media outlet to cut #Twitter out. They’ve issued a statement:

@Subaltern@mastodon.social but they didn't move Ukraine into NATO. Not only did Ukraine not join NATO, it didn't have an invitation, application, promise, or anything of the sort. Barely a vague "hey, right, maybe it'll work out someday..." All else is revisionist history to deflect blame.

Maybe if it HAD become part of NATO, it would have prevented the war, but that's not something we ever talk about. Maybe NATO should've pushed protection for Ukraine through, but that wasn't possible at the time.

Instead, because we treat the West as the only part of the world with any real agency in international affairs, we blame them for Russia deciding that Ukraine might someday join, NATO might allow it, Ukraine might not be willing to negotiate assurances about it, and that might threaten Russia more than the borders it already shares with NATO and that might end up worse for them then starting an ambush war after lying about their intentions. We're supposed to indulge this whole train of "mights" to justify Russia's own decisions. All for a scenario that hadn't happened, wasn't happening, wasn't even decided. You could also build a string of mights around Russia negotiating deals with Ukraine that drew them into Russia's orbit instead, since any membership was still years away at best.

But sure, speculation a generation ago about how things might end up based on Russia's track record is definitely proof this is all a 5-D Plot. Gj.

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Via @keithboykin :

A pregnant Anya Cook went to a hospital experiencing a pre-viability rupture, but because of Florida’s abortion law, the hospital would not treat her. She ended up having a miscarriage in the bathroom of a hair salon, losing half the blood in her body.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/04/10/pprom-florida-abortion-ban/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWJpZCI6IjEyNzk1MzY1IiwicmVhc29uIjoiZ2lmdCIsIm5iZiI6MTY4MTA5OTIwMCwiaXNzIjoic3Vic2NyaXB0aW9ucyIsImV4cCI6MTY4MjM5NTE5OSwiaWF0IjoxNjgxMDk5MjAwLCJqdGkiOiJhYWM1YmIyYS1jYWE1LTQ2ODQtOTUzNC0zNWVmYmE3NDk1YzciLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy53YXNoaW5ndG9ucG9zdC5jb20vcG9saXRpY3MvMjAyMy8wNC8xMC9wcHJvbS1mbG9yaWRhLWFib3J0aW9uLWJhbi8ifQ.p7R3szTOACe6dW4TYGhlSKPMDJP3tcaN6Ht0Z9nGJSU

The #abortion ruling on #mifepristone is an extreme example of the kind of judicial activism and unsupported overreach that responsible conservatives used to oppose, at least on paper. Even aside from the disastrous #healthcare consequences, it’s just plain objectively bad #law.

Read this #legal explainer on the baselessness of Judge #Kacsmaryk ‘s ruling.

https://adamunikowsky.substack.com/p/mifepristone-and-the-rule-of-law-9c4

@maxleibman I haaate those. Real life gives us enough ambiguity. We turn to entertainment for the rare catharsis of closure. No, I don’t want to “use my imagination”— that thing that mostly makes me miserable and confused?— when I specifically paid my time and emotional energy for YOURS. I’ll often re-write unsatisfying endings in my head, anyway, but lack of any resolution, unless I was knowingly seeking out such an experience, will generally make me regret I ever got invested.

@NPR seems to have quit Twitter! Their bio there now pointedly states: "You can find us every other place you read the news."

#NPR #twitter #journalism

Via Massimo:

That time photographer Scott Taylor caught an 'angry bird' in real life.

His camera captured a moment in which a cardinal’s wings were tucked tightly into its body, making the bird look like a fluffy red ball floating in midair

[read more: buff.ly/3CUPHGF]

#photography #nature #birds #AngryBirds #birb #cardinal