jgrclarke 🏀Dubs!🌊🇺🇦

Time will tell, but my own experience is that when I use AI tools for my own area of expertise, the results are unsatisfactory and/or non-repeatable.

So very different a vibe from 1976…

Apparently owns properties in London, so there’s that

MMA attracts all the best people…

These are Olena Udovichenko and her son Hordii.

A Russian missile killed them today.

Olena was a teacher in a Kharkiv school, Hordii was a second-grader there.

Last night, Russia killed 11 people in Kharkiv, including Olena and Hordii.
RIP.

There are a lot of posts out there with the close-up visual of Markwayne Mullin on January 6, but this is a better perspective.

He’s not protecting others; he’s protecting himself and hiding. You can see plenty of people at the entry door, ready to take on the insurrectionists, but not Markwayne.

What the actual

🤦🏻‍♂️

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

Loss of soft power - and lives. The rest of the world will be a worse place without the US as a (at least somewhat) positive influence.

Perhaps a quick return to 19th century “great power” and “spheres of influence” geopolitics - certainly the (other) autocrats want that.

Religion, FoxNews and inequality broke 35% of the country’s brains permanently - and just enough of the rest didn’t care or understand enough about what’s going on to give tRump a try (twice)

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Yup

Great movie 🍿

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Idiocracy was prophecy

Christopher who? In May, a party founded eight years ago, with no record in national government and only eight MPs, will fight elections in Wales and Scotland, and for control of councils across England, with every chance of winning many of them. British politics is being reshaped by Reform UK. This is a result of Nigel Farage's personality and of Christopher Harborne's money - £9m, from a fortune amassed largely through cryptocurrency investments. The party would not be able to field candidates, run social media operations or door-to-door campaigns if it weren't for the Harborne war chest. There is a template for crypto-funded campaigning - in the US, where it is viewed as having led to securing crypto-friendly legislation and sweetheart deals to enrich crypto charlatans and undermine transparency and accountability in politics. Reform threatens to destroy the Conservatives as a party of government and divide communities, increasingly along ethnic lines and with overtly racist arguments. It also poses the most serious threat to Keir Starmer's government, Harborne lives in Thailand and owns a 12% stake in the Tether stablecoin. Little else is known about this intensely private man. Yet he can influence the course of politics, seemingly without either much of a business or life in the UK. It's a lot like overseas interference in British democracy. Didn't someone once say: "Take back control"?

From yesterday's Observer.

Luna-tic

(I mean it’s just right there)

Who won Div 2?

This is Benjamin Netanyahu's son Yair. While working class American service people are dying in the gratuitous war his father and Donald Trump started, Yair is poolside in Miami chilling.

No word on where Donald Trump's children were, just that they were 100% *not* wearing a uniform.

It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.

“Our president has been credibly accused of sexually assaulting a child, and his DOJ is hiding those accusations from the public. It is an outrage and a disgrace. Shame on them." ~ Dan Goldman ~

The Epstein survivors make it very clear that they have not exonerated Trump, despite the GOP’s bogus claims.

There is no amount of GOP spin that will make this go away and we won’t let it. Keep talking about it.

DJT is guilty. He is a serial sexual predator and he needs to be held accountable.

Tax wealth, not work

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and torches

This is a hideous betrayal of the country, in exchange for a bribe.

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Their measure of success isn’t profits, it’s the sheer cultural weight of disinformation they can deploy to politically protect and extend their monopolistic interests and the resulting oligarchy

So this kind of fraud by Senator Rick Scott isn’t a priority I guess

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Ah - in the same way that “Cash” Patel is?

It would be in the authoritarian playbook to do so, but Ukrainian perfidy?

Surely that’s a stretch for his (disappearing) base of support to believe even as a pretext?

Are all of Orban’s advisors Russians?