herid @herid@qoto.org

⚠️ Via Sherrilyn Ifill:

This is a VERY SERIOUS situation unfolding in #Nashville. Reps who stood w/their constituents who came to state house to demand #guns safety are facing expulsion from the House. Their Member ID badges have already been turned off. This is how #democracy ends.

Olivia Julianna:

...The Tenn. legis is planning to expel lawmakers who stood w gun control advocates today.

They've been stripped from committee assignments & their member ID’s shut off

THIS IS NOT DEMOCRACY.

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"The idea that Bragg..would bring a weak case against a man who was not only the leader of the free world but who is a career criminal who has been walking around in a suit of armor made out of impunity since 1973 is beyond absurd."

The Weaponization of Hypocrisy - by Mary L Trump https://marytrump.substack.com/p/the-weaponization-of-hypocrisy

OMG I love this https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/128i2hm/how_did_magic_the_gathering_influence_napoleons/ #AprilFools #MagicTheGathering #history

Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, fell for one of the greatest hoaxes of the 20th century when he became convinced that the "fairy photographs", taken by two girls from Yorkshire in the 1920s, were real. Mary Losure explores: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/sir-arthur-and-the-fairies #AprilFools #hoax #photography #fairies

here’s your visual explainer on the Fox v. Dominion decision

elements of the Defamation Per Se—

Teal: Proven as to FNN and FC
Purple: Proven as to FNN only
Yellow: Sent to the jury

also note Fox can’t invoke fair or neutral report privileges

if you open up the 130-page opinion above, you'll note that about 1/2 is a walk through each of the defamatory statements and the judge's comments on whether they are statements of opinion or fact. 🥲

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RT @AP
Mark Hamill is lending his Luke Skywalker voice to an app that warns Ukrainians of potential incoming attacks.

When the alert is over, Hamill closes with: "May the force be with you." https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-star-wars-luke-hamill-app-08ec03bf1a2c9c0378857090079f00f9?taid=6422ef5fcb00fe0001d8b82a&utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter
https://twitter.com/AP/status/1640711602306535424

The far right fanatics wearing and glorifying #AR15 pins in the halls of Congress should spare us their empty thoughts and prayers for the innocent young children killed in the horrific #Nashville school shooting.

The assault weapons used at the horrific school shooting in #Nashville were bought LEGALLY by the shooter while she was under care for an emotional disorder, according to the Nashville PD.

The #NRA and those promoting #Ar15s have the blood of innocent children on their hands.

The assault weapons ban must be reinstated — the greed of gun manufacturers be damned. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-lives-of-our-children-or-the

1/ CONQUERING CRIMEA: PART 1

Since 2014, Crimea has been under Russian control. Ukraine, naturally, wants it back. But what does history show about the challenges of reconquering it? In a series of threads, I'll look at the lessons of past wars.

Crimea's fascinating military history has been of interest to me for many years – I travelled there in the early 2000s to study its old battlefields, so some of this will be drawn from personal recollections and notes.

With all the talk of *waves around*, let's save a though for the extinction-level event percolating in the background...
https://globalnews.ca/news/9575793/bird-flu-pandemic-potential-canada/

Netanyahu is trying to subvert one of the core building blocks of democracy. That is the aim of authoritarians to be able to control their country’s judicial system. He must be fully stopped.

#Israel

@TheWolfe
"In the past 2 months, Doug Ford has made significant funding announcements for Magna [Kayla] & Runnymede Hospital [Kara]… and both just happen to employ his daughters in jobs that don’t require a University degree (but still pay extremely well). Ford also gave his nephew [Michael] a $166k cabinet minister position and gave cops (like his 2 son-in-laws) an exemption from #Bill124 to get higher raises than other public sector workers like nurses."
@TO_Resident
#nepotism #Dofo #onpoli