Republican megadonors are doing all they can to take power permanently in hopes of never being held to account.
They fund the GOP to build a coalition with Putin to end American democracy.
Elon Musk
Larry Ellison
Charles Koch
Jeffrey Yass
Diane Hendricks
The connections, finances, & contacts of these billionaires with Russia need examination as much as Trump, Tucker Carlson, #MadMarjorie, Mike Johnson, Rand Paul, Matt Gaetz, and #MoscowMitch
Yesterday's thread, for those who don't want to wrestle with Mastodon search:
https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/112343320915722724
There is no birth rate crisis.
There are only a bunch of manufactured crises, because we don't want to fix immigration, and we don't want to treat women fairly, and we don't want to confront racism.
We could end every single problem related to the so called birth rate crisis, within a month! But we won't. 🤷🏿♂️
@spmatich @gilduran @newrepublic
Fascist movements are extractive by their very nature. It's a system designed to steal the assets of the many and place them in the hands of the favored few.
Fascism doesn't grow economies, improve the quality of human life, or innovate.
It destroys its host organism while it parasitizes.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism_and_ideology
There are no examples where a fascist government didn't loot the national treasury & worsen living conditions.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/03/fascism-has-never-thrived-in-britain-but-it-haunts-its-mainstream-politics
"Bird flu virus has been spreading in US cows for months, RNA reveals
Genomic analysis suggests that the outbreak probably began in December or January, but a shortage of data is hampering efforts to pin down the source." https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01256-5
Why are so many (legal) drugs in short supply? Because a cartel of pharmaceutical middlemen have rigged the market to ensure shortages.
Monopolies/oligopolies are killing people, deliberately, and the law -- including the lawmakers in Congress -- keeps letting them get away with it.
https://prospect.org/health/2024-04-17-our-uniquely-american-drug-shortages/
A growing number of House Republicans are accusing their conservative colleagues of enabling Democratic wins, especially after this weekend's foreign aid votes.
Multiple members believe they could have gotten concessions from Democrats on border policy in exchange for Ukraine funding, only to be blown up by backlash from conservatives.
GOP leadership brought up border security provisions alongside their foreign aid package — but the package was blocked by Republicansfrom reaching the House floor under normal rules.
It ultimately failed to get the two-thirds majority needed to pass the House under suspension of the rules.
"If you were a true conservative, you would actually advance border security, but what they want to do is they want to blow up border security," Rep. Andy Barr (R-Ky.) told Axios.
"[T]he members who scream the loudest about border security were actively and knowingly preventing us from getting it done," another member said.
"They're making us the most bipartisan Congress ever," a third member told Axios. "Because they are unwilling to compromise just a little bit in a divided government, they force us to make bigger concessions and deals with the Dems."
https://www.axios.com/2024/04/22/house-republicans-greene-border-security-foreign-aid
@serge The response should be "Jews deserve to feel safe." There is a period at the end of that and nothing needs to follow it.
8. Troy Balderson - election denier, homophobic bigot
https://ballotpedia.org/Troy_Balderson
https://accountability.gop/profile/rep-troy-balderson/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_Balderson
Endorses Trump
https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meetthepressblog/trump-reels-endorsements-ohio-rcna97500
Donors: #KochNetwork property
https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/troy-balderson/contributors?cid=N00042194&cycle=CAREER
Well, I get to "delight" you with a particular post #covid twist: raw milk may transmit #avianflu to humans:
https://www.barrons.com/news/h5n1-strain-of-bird-flu-found-in-milk-who-2ce2c194
There is a very old, very good reason why we pasteurize milk, and it seems to be forgotten in an age when everyone thinks everything is default safe. Because everyone with living memory of the hell before #vaccines and modern medicine and, in this case, food safety and sanitary science is dead, and ignorance reigns.
2/2
Friends, if Microsoft tries to squeeze you to buy a new computer to run version 11 when every new version of Windows gets worse and adds ads then please consider that more than 100 million people use Linux on their desktop computer, including people who make all sorts of projects with videos, illustrations, digital photographs, laser cuttings, animations, paper media, CAD, CAM, 3D printed stuff, circuit boards, etc.
Will it be exactly the same as Windows? No.
Can it be awesome? Yes.
🥳👏🏻
Via Kyle Griffin:
BREAKING:
#Democrats just won two special state House elections in #Michigan — Democrat Mai Xiong in the 13th District and Democrat Peter Herzberg in the 25th District — regaining their majority in the chamber with a 56-54 advantage and their trifecta across state government.
Tonight did a file sync to my server of about 1.8 GB and got 71 Mbps for several minutes. Then it dropped to about 25 for several seconds, then back up to 71. I like it.
Arizona Republicans are blocking Democrats' efforts to repeal the Civil War-era abortion law that is now in effect in the state.
Shortly before the Republicans on Arizona's supreme court upheld the 1864 law, a group of Republican state senators gathered on the floor holding what looks like a gibbering seance, praying that gawd would allow them to force children to carry rapist pregnancies.
Please spread this clip. This is the true face of the Republican party.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/anthony-kern-prayer-circle-abortion_n_6616590be4b02edf20089de3
Should add that up-speed increased to 10 Mbps. Uploading to my server I'm getting 11 to 12 sustained.
I like it when businesses don't lie. :-)
So. Cal. engineer (hardware/software since 1968, retired, he/him), born at 313 ppm, musician, chef, now living in West Virginia. KW2P ham radio (the original social network), father of three, grandfather, astronomy, solar dynamics, photography, writing, birding, birdwatching, eBird, fountain pens, cats and dog, reader of banned books, scary fast Python jockey, Chairman of the Charcuterie Board, Whisk Manager, Compuserve refugee, founder of The Church of The Unwarranted Assumption. Crypto is short for cryptography. Blog: shuttersparks.net
#HamRadio
#Morse
#MorseCode
#Birding
#BirdWatching
#eBird
#wv
#WestVirginia
#food
#cooking
#astronomy
#physics
#engineering
#photography
#FountainPens
"To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire
"I never understood wind. You know, I know windmills very much. Gases are spewing into the atmosphere. You know we have a world, right? So the world is tiny compared to the universe. So tremendous amount of fumes and everything." --Donald Trump