James H McLaren @JamesHMcLaren@qoto.org

If you’re going to interview Donald Trump, you had better be prepared to fact check him in real time. Our media does a terrible job of allowing him to spew falsehoods and spread conspiracies without calling him out on them. This is not the time to platform Trump like he is some regular politician. He is an existential threat to our democracy, including to institutions such as the free press. Do better.

keming: (n) what happens to words when your font has poor kerning

A Pez dispenser for adults that's filled with ibuprofen

Too much to thread, but here’s a screen grab of most of the thread from prof. & author Jennifer Mercieca, or as @emptywheel put it, “ Useful thread on #MeetThePress’ supine interview of the accused coup plotter.”
#Trump

You can't tell me Tina Fey wasn't born to write comedy:
Fe = Iron
Fe + y = Iron + y
Do the math. And the chemistry, I guess.

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Via Fred Guttenberg:

#Trump said "Democrats are able to kill the baby after birth." Beyond this being a truly dumb lie, here are facts.

My baby was killed after birth because of #GunViolence. Republicans, by blocking gun violence prevention, apparently support killing babies after birth.

#ProLifeMyAss

It was raining when I took this in Glastonbury this morning. I was hopeful of a rainbow as the sun did come out briefly but no show. Still, a lovely stormy looking sky shortly after sunrise.
#glastonbury #glastonburytor #somerset #sunrise #sunrisephotography #stormy #landscape #landscapephotography

Dear journalists:

You continue to pour your work into Musk's business. You are supporting him. You are helping him.

You are doing this despite his demonstrated contempt for you, despite his support for extremists -- and, as of today, his rank anti-semitism (effectively blaming Jews for his vile site's loss of advertising)

I know that you believe you get value from being "where the people are" -- but sometimes principle requires sacrifice.

So much is at stake.

The Big Three automakers taking tens of billions in auto bailouts fully funded by taxpayers—and now refusing to share the resulting record profits with workers—is the epitome of what's wrong with our economy.

Socialism for the wealthy. Rugged individualism for workers. Absurd.

Jared Yate Sexton isn't buying the whitewashing of Mitt Romney's legacy by never-Trump Republicans and by Romney himself:

"Romney’s true legacy is that he was part of the GOP’s old guard in that he was most concerned with lowering taxes for the wealthy, enabling corporations, destroying governmental impediments on personal profits, shredding the social safety net,"

#Romney #republican
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https://jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-best-theyve-got-mitt-romney-and

The same people who understand that it's a Bad Thing if they mess up the economy so the banks can't lend any money and nobody is investing in anything, and then merry go round stops... will scoff and dissemble when encountered by this kind of study.

But this kind of "jump start" is less expensive, and probably more grounded in "sound economic reasoning" than your average bail out.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2222103120

"Even dumber is that the “lesson” that Walter #Isaacson seems to take from this little episode is not that #Musk’s impulsivity is a dangerous, out of control wrecking ball that is going to destroy some serious stuff, but that (ex)#Twitter’s employees had to learn how to better “manage” the man-baby in charge:"
by @mmasnick

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/09/12/the-batshit-crazy-story-of-the-day-elon-musk-decided-to-personally-rip-servers-out-of-a-sacramento-data-center/

Imagine getting mad about classrooms your children don’t even attend.
Imagine getting mad about a bathroom you don’t even use.
Imagine getting mad about genitals you don’t even own.

For no reason in particular I made this highly accurate Venn diagram during a college meeting today

https://xkcd.com/773/

“Just because I am helping Vladimir Putin by saving his Black Sea Fleet from drone attacks, so Putin can kill more Ukrainians, people suddenly think I am the bad guy. It is all very unfair.”

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#CzarLink🇷🇺

*Incredible* @CopernicusEU image of the day showing the effects of #StormDaniel in #Libya

https://www.copernicus.eu/en/media/image-day-gallery/storm-daniel-causes-flooding-libya

Credit: European Union, Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery