James H McLaren @JamesHMcLaren@qoto.org

At least Trump won’t have to worry about Biden’s new minimum tax on billionaires.

#WompWomp #BillionaireMyAss

#Trump has been unable to get bond for $464 million judgment, his lawyers say

In a filing to an appeals court, Trump's attorneys said getting the bond needed to halt proceedings while they appeal is a "practical impossibility." #legal https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-unable-get-bond-464-million-judgment-lawyers-say-rcna143860

The cybertruck is a rare look directly into what Elon thinks and does not think are reasonable things car owners have to deal with

Reasonable:
- gunshots (NOT AT THE GLASS!)
- using it as a boat
- high speed crashes where you want the car to survive not the driver or any pedestrians

Unreasonable:
- rain
- puddle on the road
- off-road (can cars even do that??)
- dirt your maid--specifically the garage maid--hasn't cleaned off yet
-regulations in general

Hot take: if I can say "they just tested positive" and you don't have to ask "for what?" then the pandemic isn't over.

@Snowshadow

I group of 737s is referred to as a “negligence”.

#SilentSunday

Timothy Snyder, who lived in eastern Europe after communism fell and saw the effects of strongman rule at close hand, warns the many Americans who love to fantasize about a strongman dictator:

"Strongman rule is a fantasy. Essential to it is the idea that a strongman will be your strongman."

#strongman #dictator #authoritarianism #Trump

https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-strongman-fantasy

Re-sharing one of my cool shadows pics, cuz #SilentSunday.
#nature 💚💛💚

'I wish I had a little thing on my computer that just replaced the word 'woke' with 'treating people with respect' —Neil Gaiman

This browser extension quietly replaces the word "woke" on any web page with "treating people with respect." The results can be rather hilarious.

GOP denounces new policy as "treating people with respect."

Florida introduces the Stop Treating People with Respect Act.

Trump calls out Dems as treating people with respect.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/woke-respect/opnebfbgbhbndpmaeoiohhjnbjjbejlm?

I love passing by wind turbines. They are such an essential solarpunk element to me. Seeing one feels like a sign of hope: a different future is possible.

A place down the road is advertising a Ramadan lunch special and I suspect it’s possible they don’t know what Ramadan is.

Last year I stood outside a Poilievre "Axe The Tax" pep rally in BC and handed out a factsheet I made myself about the BC Carbon Pricing Tax Credit ... eligibility, how much you get, when you get it, no you don't have to apply for it to get it, etc. etc. #bcpoli

People were mostly polite if disbelieving, but clearly unwilling to admit they were standing there holding signs calling for axing the federal carbon tax in a province that doesn't pay the federal carbon tax.

If at first you don't succeed, don't sweat it, your parents are rich.

Wait. Your parents aren't rich?

Oh, man. This is embarrassing. Sorry, all of these success aphorisms are meant for people with privilege and resources.

You're on your own. Good luck.



#success #SelfHelp #advice

Dr. Roger Hodkinson’s claims — often cited in angry emails to government officials — include that COVID is no worse than a bad flu and vaccines and masks are useless.

In 2021, then-podcast host Danielle Smith likened him to Albert Einstein.

https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/03/12/Anti-Vax-Doctor-Faces-Music/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

@GottaLaff Brilliant.
I've never met Joe, but I knew a fellow, union shop steward, who had. He told a story about meeting Joe decades ago, when Joe mentioned playing football. He was asked what position he played. Biden says "Assback" The guys say "What?" Biden says, with a chuckle, "I rode the bench until I begged coach to put me in. I was sent in, and after one play, coach motioned me over. I ran up, "Yes, coach!" He yells "Biden! Get your ass back on the bench!" All those old working class guys all fell in love with Biden on that day because he's a regular guy. With a disarming self-depreciating twinkle.

The great thing about the SOTU rebuttal is that Republicans keep tapping their rising stars to go out and deliver a message like a human being but the only way to be a Republican rising star is to be a weird creepy freak that denies their own humanity by denying everyone else's.

I can't get enough Katie Britt mocking, and other infectious diseases.

#KatieBritt #RepublicanResponse #GOP #NoRepublicansEverAgain #Alabama

My Name Is Katie Britt, And I Am Singing ‘Tomorrow’ From ‘Annie’ In The Style Of ‘Birth Of A Nation’ https://www.wonkette.com/p/my-name-is-katie-britt-and-i-am-singing