Nordstahl @Nordstahl@qoto.org

"One of the weekend’s lowlights: Anti-Ukraine Republicans pretended to take great umbrage over members of Congress waving Ukraine flags on the House floor after the aid vote Saturday."

~ David Kurtz

#Russia #Putin #Ukraine #Republicans
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https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/awww-house-mows-over-mtg-on-way-to

Throughout 2023, House GOP leaders relied on the Democratic minority to pass every major bill that reached the White House.

So far in 2024, it's happening again — which says a lot about the parties' interest in governing. https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/options-republican-leaders-turn-dems-govern-rcna148757

Cool idea!

Just sitting here chilling reading the live Trump election fraud trial coverage from...

@GottaLaff >>> https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/112315091938632426)

and...

@Nonilex >>> https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/112315072067843512

...and had a great idea.

Created a new list called Trump Trial Live and added just these two accounts. Now it is up and the updates are just rolling in!

In their efforts to gaslight the Republicans' Putinism I saw that CNN is calling Speaker Mike Johnson our Churchill. Fuck that! That's like calling what Mike Pence did on #J6 the same as what General Washington when he crossed the Delaware.

You don't get to be turned into a hero by finally doing what you should have done months before!

Meanwhile, Russian state media are calling what Johnson did betrayal.

Doesn't betrayal mean that they had a deal?
https://cepa.org/article/putins-propagandists-rage-against-the-republican-betrayal/

Remember, with Republicans, every accusation is a confession

https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/donald-trump-has-unhinged-thugs-and-sleazebags-meltdown-gives-something-away/55626/

@GreenFire @kotaro Australia banned Murdoch from doing business there. They did it for a reason

So what IS Fascism?

"Fascism is government
- by the few and
- for the few.

The objective is seizure and control of the
- economic,
- political,
- social, and
- cultural life of the state.”

- PEOPLE RUN DEMOCRATIC GOVTs, but. (Vote, hold accountable)

- FASCIST GOVTs RUN THE PEOPLE. (Micromanage, scare)

From
Heather Cox Richardson. https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.

🔞 Hundreds of Ukrainian women have been victims of sexual violence during the war, but almost none talk about their experiences

"When women asked them, ‘Please don’t kill us,’ the soldiers answered, ‘We’re not going to kill you. We just want to relax and have fun’.”"

"I was scared. My mother started begging him, ‘Don’t, don’t’. He pointed a weapon at us. I climbed up the stairs. They raped me in the house and then brought me back to the basement.”"

https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/04/22/deafening-silence-en

#Ukraine #Russia

Google is a strangler fig, in the long term its only goal is to kill the World Wide Web.

First they help you find good content, so people visit and use and enjoy and participate in good web sites.

Then they insist on scraping every piece of value they can, and presenting it to the user such that they never have to visit the websites at all.

Then the websites die, having been choked to death by the strangler fig, and people blame the websites for dying, not the strangler who bled them dry.

That giant waste pile of American fast-fashion clothing dumped in Chile apparently caught fire: https://grist.org/international/burn-after-wearing-fashion-waste-chile/

I'm very glad we're giving #Ukraine aid, but we're still giving them "don't lose" aid.

We should be giving them overwhelming fire superiority aid. They should be able to fire 10 shells to Russia's 1. They should be able to launch himars every time they see a vatnik.

A drone operator from the 225th Assault Battalion of the Ukrainian Ground Forces eliminated a Russian soldier near Chasiv Yar.

#Ukraine️ #UkraineRussiaWar #Russia

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The pro-Russian caucus inside the GOP was defeated on Saturday. Now it's time for the US and Europe to join forces and win the war

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/04/republican-ukraine-russia-aid/678150/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK31Myo7gT0JLHWazLZU02WIY&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

American neo-Nazis are stupider than you can even imagine.

@GottaLaff

When the first buzz about Tesla started, I assumed they'd found some new battery chemistry & that this was a big deal. Then I found out that, no, they just used "COTS" cells … lots & lots & lots of them to the point that some of their vehicles look like there is a huge slab of cells under the passengers … because there is a huge slab of cells under the passengers.

Downhill from there, of course, esp w/"FSD".

Now it turns out they don't even know how to make decent cars at all.

@rbreich
Agreed, USA Today did a detailed study of 4,095 lawsuits back in 2016:
https://www.usatoday.com/pages/interactives/trump-lawsuits/

When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent ~ Isaac Asimov

Trump says former Presidents must have immunity or every former president will face indictment. Hmm, don't recall from the history books the indictments of other Presidents, but apart from Nixon (who was pardoned), there isn't a great deal of criminality from almost all previous presidents (international law excepted).