TheOldGuy @TheOldGuy@qoto.org

You’ve got to admit: adding a new colour pill to the weekly organizer is a little bit fun

"Power attracts corruptible people more generally, and power centers with a history of abusive, militaristic, and racist violence disproportionately attract people who want to abuse minorities, or use lethal force. Those are the exact people who shouldn’t be in uniform, because they see that kind of culture as an attractive profession. But that’s too often who applies. People who should never be in uniform self-select into it."
@brianklaas

https://brianklaas.substack.com/p/how-to-reduce-police-violence

It is clear that if Ilhan Omar weren't a practicing Muslim, she wouldn't have become a central figure for the right and, therefore, wouldn't have been someone who McCarthy saw value in targeting. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/01/30/ilhan-omar-mccarthy-religion/

"The Manhattan district attorney’s office on Monday began presenting evidence to a grand jury about Donald J. Trump’s role in paying hush money to a porn star during his 2016 presidential campaign, laying the groundwork for potential criminal charges against the former president in the coming months, according to people with knowledge of the matter."

Hurry up every chance you get.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/30/nyregion/trump-stormy-daniels-grand-jury.html?smid=tw-share

One of the original Mercury 7 selected in 1959 but sidelined due to a heart condition, Deke Slayton was named for the primary crew for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project along with Tom Stafford, and Vance Brand #50YearsAgo today.

More: https://go.nasa.gov/3HjMge7
#NASAhistory

Instead of: no one wants to work anymore. Try: no one wants to be exploited anymore.

#onu
#women

A HS student to their TX school board, which is banning books:

“I’m not going to sit here and talk about the slippery slope that book banning leads to because I learned from a book, that I checked out from my school’s library, that I don’t need to resort to logical fallacy to make a point. I’m simply going to say that no government – and public school is an extension of government – has ever banned books, and banned information from its public, and been remembered in history as the good guys.”

Anyway, as @pbump put it in summation of an opinion piece he wrote:

“The details of the Pelosi attack, like the rebuttals of a stolen election, don’t matter. They are baseless conspiracy theories that adherents won’t reject because they share an unshakable root belief: Democrats are evil, and everything flows from that.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/01/27/democrats-conspiracy-theory-paul-pelosi/?itid=ap_philipbump

found https://www.indiegamereadingclub.com via @OohDirectory , read about Goblinville, saw a sale on the physical editions (https://narrativedynamicspress.com/collections/zines/products/goblinville-gazette-issues-1-4), ordered. the good internet ain't dead yet :)

NEW: Donald Trump has filed a $49 million lawsuit against journalist Bob Woodward and Woodward's publisher for selling recordings of his interviews as an audiobook, claiming he agreed to be taped but not for public release. With @MarioDParker@twitter.com:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-30/trump-sues-journalist-bob-woodward-over-rage-book-interview-recordings