Rose Rudd @roseannerudd@qoto.org

Brian Fallon comments on Roy Woods's statements,

"A billionaire named Harlan Crow is flying Clarence Thomas all over the world on unreported trips like an Instagram model taking Clarence to the Maldives and the beaches and all – paid for his mama’s house – a billionaire paid for Clarence Thomas mama’s house. This man bought a Supreme Court justice.”

Fallon: "As that Roy Wood monologue suggests, this is a comedic level of corruption at this point.”

#ClarenceThomas

https://www.alternet.org/comedic-level-of-corruption/

Good morning everyone! It’s nearly 5am, I’m standing at a lonely bus stop and I’m in my way to try and visit every train and Metro station in Montreal in a day.

Follow along here to share in the mirth, and we’ll also see how long a single Mastodon thread can become!

🚇🚉

#Montreal #transit

A jury of their peers, mind you.

Congratulations to AG Garland and his Justice Department team. To those critical of Garland's tenure, this is a strong counterargument.

May Tarrio and his counterparts have a long stay in prison. Imagine losing your freedom for Donald Trump, a guy who wouldn’t stop his limo to help you if you were on fire, much less give a single penny in your legal defense.

Jury convicts Enrique Tarrio of the Proud Boys on seditious conspiracy charge-
https://www.npr.org/2023/05/04/1172530436/proud-boys-jan-6-sedition-trial-verdict

Biden administration issues new warning about medical credit cards https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/050423_medical_credit_cards/biden-administration-issues-new-warning-medical-credit-cards/
The Biden administration on Thursday cautioned Americans about the growing risks of medical credit cards and other loans for medical bills, warning in a new report that high interest rates can deepen patients’ debts and threaten their financial security.
#Tucson #Arizona

Mexicans don't understand why you're celebrating Cinco de Mayo https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/050515_cinco_de_mayo/mexicans-dont-understand-why-youre-celebrating-cinco-de-mayo/
South of the border, Cinco de Mayo is no big deal.
#Tucson #Arizona

Good Day!
On the Cliffs by Dame Laura Knight 1917
Oil on Canvas
(Private Collection)

Went to a donut shop in Japan today.

They had a CO2 monitor on the counter and a UV light on, plus circulating air through the ventilation system.

Also all the staff and most of the customers were masked. 😷

It's really not that hard and if a donut shop can do it we can certainly do it at least in schools and hospitals.

#CovidIsNotOver

Do you read people's profile info before you follow them? Please boost for a bigger sample size, because I'm really curious about this

Via Michael McFaul:

There was no assassination attempt on #Putin. First, the drone used had no capacity to do major damage, let alone kill someone in the building. Second, Putin does not live (or sleep) in the Kremlin. Please stop repeating this Russian propaganda line. Thank you.

#Russia #Ukraine

Start with SCOTUS

#EU looks to create sanctions 'blacklist' on corrupt individuals worldwide

https://breaking.iavian.net/article/335735

Via Taniel:

Big news in #Michigan: A county clerk who was an election denier faced a recall election. (She was accused of mishandling equipment.) She massively lost tonight & will be out of office.

(This is a very red area.) https://t.co/qZx7UnbkSI

I boost like a mug, even though there’s always some crank in the gallery who smugly announces “I’m muting you because you boost too much.” Go kick rocks, you anti-boostite. https://isfeeling.social/@matt/110293764114902837

Ukraine can win, even in Crimea. And if they do, the reverberations will be felt around the world. Jeffrey Goldberg and I reported from Mikolaiv, Kherson, Odessa, Kyiv:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/06/counteroffensive-ukraine-zelensky-crimea/673781/

First thing in the morning

Who wants to go for a walkie? SOUND UP
#Greyhounds
#GreyhoundsOfMastodon

The world’s attention should be focused on Ukrainian soldiers at Bakhmut, Avdiyivka and Mar’yinka. They are fighting the Russian fascist invaders tenaciously. They’re our brothers and sisters who deserve our respect, admiration and most of all – support.

In the Texas Hill Country folks are crazy for bluebonnets, but my favorite wildflower is the winecup. They’re rarer, and more adorable, and the color is just outrageous. Like if a tulip got busy with a rose and their progeny went off-grid.

#plants #wildflowers #texas

Disney sending the lawyers down to the mouse vault to use their tiny hammer to break the "find out" glass and go for the governor lololol, extremely here for this

Breaking from EJeanCarroll for sec, this from Angry Staffer, and it breaks my heart/makes my blood boil. Navalny is a damn hero:

According to #Navalny’s daughter, Russian prison officials are destroying the food he purchases and are not letting him eat more than a little bit at a time while he’s in solitary confinement.

He’s lost a *ton* of weight. #Russia