Nordstahl @Nordstahl@qoto.org

They only lost a thousand troops yesterday, but they've been averaging about 1,500/day which at 1,500,000 per recruit for signing bonuses means that it is costing the Kremlin over two billion rubles per day.

They can not long afford that, but like the Russian propagandists are saying on TV they just have to hold out until Trump is inaugurated.

Hopefully, the Russian economy will crash before Trump bails them out!
https://mstdn.social/@noelreports/113525413178787305

This is big news:

Federal prosecutors in New York charge the Gautam Adani of India, one of the world’s richest people, with multiple counts of fraud, accusing him and associates of bribing Indian officials and later lying to investors about the scheme.

NEW: Trump has picked Dr. Janette Nesheiwat for Surgeon General. Nesheiwat has spread misinformation about vaccines, masks, and COVID.

I need a personal assistant that just comes up to me wherever I am and whatever I'm doing, at a reasonable time (say 10:30pm) and just puts me to sleep. Perhaps an injection of some kind? Or chloroform over the mouth? Or just swing a large cast iron frying pan straight into my face - boi-oi-oi-oi-oinggggg. Rather than me reading about grapes at 20 past midnight. I don't even need to know this shit. Bring on the frying pan and sleep me, baby!

It's shameful that some Democrats have supported mask bans. We need to be clear that anyone supporting a mask ban is supporting the suppression of democracy.

those beans aren't going to squish themselves

#Caturday #ToeBeanTuesday

This little coastal freighter had a rather eventful #history for a #ship of her kind, and quite an sad ending. She had an overall length of 66,5 m, a beam of 10,3 m and a capacity of just 744 GRT.

A #maritime thread:

Americans making maga withdraw pedo Matt Gaetz makes me think of the maga movement by large with the Arnold quote "If it bleeds, we can kill it."

@ianb Elizabeth Warren said it best.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elizabeth-warren-there-is-nobody-in-this-country-who-got-rich-on-his-own/

"You built a factory out there? Good for you," she says. "But I want to be clear: you moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for; you hired workers the rest of us paid to educate; you were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory, and hire someone to protect against this, because of the work the rest of us did."

She continues: "Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific, or a great idea? God bless. Keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along."

@introversion 😁

“The potential new secretary of defense has no experience running a large organization, lacks foreign policy experience, and has never worked in a meaningful way with Congress to pass billions in military budgets.”
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-cabinet-defense-secretary-pete-hegseth-fox-news-rcna180237

#PeteHegseth #SecDef #SecretaryOfDefense #nominee #politics #USpol #military #NationalSecurity

Education is the only solution to an ignorant, bigoted nation. That is why they are attacking education.
Republicans Target Social Sciences to Curb Ideas They Don’t Like https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/us/florida-social-sciences-progressive-ideas.html?smid=tw-share

Hateful, disgusting, evil bigots:
Speaker Johnson restricts use of Capitol bathrooms by transgender people https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/20/transgender-bathrooms-capitol-johnson/

BREAKING NEWS 🚨🚨

“Fire them deep boys!

The Biden administration JUST NOW gave Ukraine approval to fire long range weapons into Russia!

This will open up nearly 500 Russian military targets to the Ukrainian Defenders!

GIVE THE WEAPONS TO UKRAINE TODAY!
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war #Breaking #BreakingNews

Those who may want to know more about the little-known Wilmington story may also be interested in this new video from American Experience, focusing on the family of Alex and Carrie Manly. Alex was editor and publisher of The Wilmington Daily Record, the only Black-owned newspaper in the city. His offices were burned to the ground in the Wilmington coup and his family run out of town.

#racism #WhiteSupremacy #Wilmington #NorthCarolina
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1AuowPhTZM

The road to death and destruction is paved with book bans.

Florida officials report hundreds of books pulled from school libraries
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/11/17/2286199/-Florida-officials-report-hundreds-of-books-pulled-from-school-libraries

#ResistFascism #SupportPeopleInPain #TrumpKakistocracy #NaziTrump #GOPWeirdos #RacistGOP #DonaldTrump #Project2025 #NoRepublicansEverAgain #VoteBlueUpAndDown #USPol

How about I take a piss on Nancy Mace’s front lawn