Echinocentric @Echinocentric@qoto.org

If MTG is everything that isn’t woke, I’m delighted to be wokity-woke-woke-woke.

“Let me be clear,” EPA Administrator Michael Regan told reporters, “Norfolk Southern will pay for cleaning up the mess they created and for the trauma they’ve inflicted on this community.” https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/epa-orders-norfolk-southern-east-palestine-cleanup-1234683572/

What can/should Big Journalism do? For starters:

-- Fox "News" and its employees should be kicked out of any press organization or association in which they hold official status or membership.

-- News organizations that care about journalistic integrity should announce publicly that they will not hire from Fox.

Why are we letting Lil’ Tyrant DeSantis get everything he wants?

A war on our trans children, a war on education, a war on immigrants

And now he wants to TRIPLE the size of Florida’s state guard?

Are we going to stop fascism or…?

Took off from Austin, Texas, US.

@LeRoyWesterling @harleygold @mongoose @shelenn @PeggyJoan It's great to have places locals get together for mutual aid. But bringing in the requirement of belief in supernatural beings who're actually in charge but let it be like this? You end up with people thanking god when another human risks their life for them; homeless people with 'god bless' on all their signs, hoping to appease the religious enough to afford a room for the night, or at least a pack of smokes.
It's up to us, not gods

At the pandemic’s start
I bought a new bed frame
it was a cheap one
but the choices were limited
and my finances low
so I told myself
it didn’t have to last long
it just had to outlast the pandemic
and now I can add my bed frame
to the list of things
the pandemic has outlasted

Last RT:

Once again I think it's pretty hilarious that we know:

A) that the leader of the Proud Boys was an FBI informant

B) that the leader of the Proud Boys was in contact with a DC police department who more or less let a coup attempt happen.

But I'm still "crazy" for saying "I am pretty damn sure the FBI, and thus, loosely, the President, was running the Proud Boys."

But hey, it's not like I'm an expert of fascist paramilitary terrorism and Brownshirts or anything...

oh wait, I am.

GOPers can blather about "gender ideologies" all day, but what they really want is that #LGBTQ+ people no longer exist. And they're trying to accomplish that by making us invisible so more #LGBTQ+ kids succumb to despair.

Choose life, so someday you can dance on their graves.

So much to unpack in this treasonous tweet by a MAGA extremist member of Congress:
•USA GDP is 29% Red states—71% Blue states
•9 of top 10 states on federal welfare are Red—10 lowest Blue
•9 of top 10 states w/high infant & maternal mortality are Red—10 lowest Blue
•40% higher murder rate in Red states than Blue states

And not only did we already decide in the Civil War that we are ONE nation, Georgia voted Blue in the last Presidential election.🙃

“National divorce” would crush Red states. Smh

The Onion is on a roll. https://www.theonion.com/evangelical-leaders-announce-j-k-rowling-finally-bigot-1850129128

@QasimRashid She should probably check which party’s candidate won her state, and check on who her senators are.

The DeSantis administration demanded female high school athletes to provide information about their menstrual cycle. They proposed laws requiring schools to out LGBTQ students. They’re demanded colleges give medical records revealing who is trans. And they ordered books removed from school shelves

Now?

The Florida legislature wants to give DeSantis control over the high school athletics board

The same DeSantis who groomed children he drank with when he was a teacher. https://www.miamiherald.com/sports/article272528123.html#featured-carousel-1estions-about-school-athletes-menstrual-histories

Just a thought: How about we nix Presidents Day and make Election Day a national holiday instead?

“One year later, Kyiv stands. And Ukraine stands. Democracy stands,” Biden said.

Dark Brandon is in #Ukraine

When is the last time a sitting president visited an active war zone that didn’t have American boots on the ground?

Suck it, maga.

"Woke mind virus" is how billionaires describe the idea that you should give even the tiniest bit of a shit about how your actions will affect other people.

President Carter’s viral essay:
“My decision to sever my ties with the Southern Baptist Convention, after six decades.…was…unavoidable…when the convention's leaders, quoting a few carefully selected Bible verses and claiming that Eve was created second to Adam and was responsible for original sin, ordained that women must be ‘subservient’ to their husbands and prohibited from serving as deacons, pastors or chaplains….”
#feminism #SouthernBaptist #misogyny #JimmyCarter
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/losing-my-religion-for-equality-20090714-dk0v.html

A woman who claims the wind talks to her and put forth claims of election fraud that she admitted were "pretty wackadoodle" turned out to be a key source of baseless claims that Fox News aired night after night in 2020.
https://t.co/UwvCiquxNI

We are thrilled to embark on the journey of exploring the fascinating field of Deep Learning in population genomics and phylogeography through this week´s course with Manolo Perez
& @MatteoFumagalli

#Genomics #Bioinformatics #Python #MachineLearning #DeepLearning

#Dutch expel Russian diplomats, close trade mission: statement #Russia

https://breaking.iavian.net/article/330195