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just a reminder of the initial, in the moment, right wing reaction to jan 6

my favorite is greg gutfeld saying republican condemnation of the jan 6 rioters is an example of their moral superiority over the left

www.mediamatters.org/media/4018641

Trump is to Venezuela as Putin is to Ukraine. They have resources / territory and I want them. So I take them.

At this point you can get an Android phone for the price of an iPhone cover.

Does “barely legal” not mean a small bit older than the age of consent? Definitely not some years younger.
And this from the woman he showed complete contempt towards at the debate.

2024 was a record-setting year for lifesaving vaccines - Vox

“Beneath the headlines, this is the story we should be paying attention to: the quiet, compounding power of vaccines — still the best, most effective bargain in global health — doing what they do.”

When a person takes a selfie, they commit a most unnatural act.

A series of tweets from Politico senior legal affairs reporter Kyle Cheney: BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored. YOUNG: "I am hesitant to draw this conclusion, but I have an unflinching obligation to draw it – that this represents racial discrimination. And discrimination against America’s LGBTQ community. That’s what this is. I would be blind not to call it out. My duty is to call it out." MORE YOUNG: "It is palpably clear that these directives and the set of terminated grants here also are designed to frustrate, to stop, research that may bear on the health – we’re talking about health here, the health of Americans, of our LGBTQ community. That’s appalling." YOUNG still going: "I’ve never seen a record where racial discrimination was so palpable. I’ve sat on this bench now for 40 years. I’ve never seen government racial discrimination like this ... I ask myself, how can this be?" "I have the protection that the founders wrote into the constitution, along with imposing upon me a duty to speak the truth in every case. I try to do that. What if I didn’t have those protections. What if my job was on the line, my profession... Would I have stood up against all this? Would I have said, 'you can’t do this?' You are bearing down on people of color because of their color. The constitution will not permit that." "Have we fallen so low? Have we no shame?"

Spitting FIRE holy shit 🔥

Interesting how both Tolkien and Lewis wrote so convincingly about addiction, to the ring for sure, pippin and the eye, Edmund and the Turkish delight. What was the scourge of Oxford in the 1920s? Opium? Morphine?

Andor might be the best insight into what life must be like in extreme right wing politics. Nobody is safe. There is no trust, there can’t be. Today’s top dog will in turn be eaten by tomorrow’s. There is no relationship.

Fun to see the same dynamic play out with these Ass hats in Washington.

Photo in back of a Tesla taxi with electrical wire dangling

Legendary Tesla build quality

A display at expo2025 inviting foreign students to study in the USA

The message of collaboration and mutual endeavour at the USA Pavillion of #expo2025 rings a little hollow this year

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

The McMurtry Spéirling Drives Upside Down, Finally Putting A High Downforce Theory Into Practice — Jalopnik Spéirling's success can be attributed to its proprietary 'Downforce-on-Demand' fan system that produces 4,400 pounds of downforce at the push of a button.

Very cool….

www.jalopnik.com/1832203/mcmu...

Tbh, I’d be surprised if he could finish a game of 2D chess.

🚨 Domestic renewable generation exceeded Irish electricity demand between about 3am and 6am this morning with wind output alone peaking at 103.3% of demand just after 5am, setting a new record on the Irish grid.

We'll have more analysis later today! 🏅

Mealymouthed response on the website to the effect “this is not what we were elected for”

A small piece of the UK remains in the EU customs union for goods. Just fyi.

Marshmallows are for team players

Chaos is the cheapest ingredient in a revolution.

It takes zero effort to destroy things. To sabatoge, throw a temper tantrum, & burn it all down.

Chaos agents are weak & have too vapid of an ideology to build a functional system.

Revolutionaries who come only with chaos, come with nothing.

🤍💙💚🟦⬜️🟩💚💙🤍

Her arms wide.

See found it endearing. From what we have seen of Helena, I don’t imagine she’d have had the same poop reaction.

Watch out, there’s poop…

This kleptocracy is enough to change minds (get the 29M eligible uncast votes to the polls). Why settle for hostile powers booking out a suite at your Washington hotel when you can launch a memecoin by which they can ingratiate themselves with you? Best sack all the IGs as well, just to be sure. 4/4

There is no equivalence here. The US (is not yet) authoritarian in the style of China or Russia. I can (I think) post this without realistic threat that I’m going to jail. But the direction of travel is in the wrong way. Let’s hope there’s enough democracy left in 4 years (and 2) and a taste of 3/4

But against the current backdrop, it’s hard to feel outraged at the Chinese AI threat, and be upset that the communists have corrupt intent in gathering data on us, given the rogues gallery of gurning fuckboys parading around the White House claiming moral high ground on America’s account. 2/4

I’m all for democracy and freedom and liberal values. Really. I thought Trump disqualified himself utterly when he was challenged on Putin killing journalists and interfering overseas, and responded that the US was no better. The US is meant to want to be. If you don’t you have no right to POTUS 1/4

Further proof, if any were needed, that despite what the manner and accent help us assume, this guy is a feeble minded half-wit.
Don’t fall for the Oxbridge schtick.

Not just “reported”, self-reported!

The thing is, I feel like if someone truly, accidentally, & unintentionally made a n*zi salute on a national stage, they would be appropriately horrified by it and apologize. And when they don’t ….. it says everything.