Colorado congressional candidate and sitting State Rep. Richard Holtorf ® received a tough grilling this week at the hands of local 9News anchor Kyle Clark over his apparent hypocrisy when it comes to abortion rights....
One justice takes so many bribes that he might have legitimately forgotten about several of them. Another has been recorded expressing views that show that he thinks he’s in some kind of holy war against his political opponents, which implies that he thinks his decision-making is somehow coming directly from God. Oh, and his wife is a “scream at your neighbors to own the libs” MegaKaren, and the rampant bribery justice’s wife is an election-denying lunatic. On what planet is that not news?
The liquidation of Jones’ assets does not mean that Infowars will cease to exist. Several outcomes are possible. The court-appointed trustee could sell the business to another owner, for instance.
Don’t celebrate too soon. Some shadowy investors are going to bail him out.
I’m all for protest votes and sending a message IF you don’t live in a swing state. People who live in swing states have the privilege of their vote actually mattering in the grand scheme. Please, please hold your nose and vote for Biden. We non-swing staters can take care of sending messages from the safety of our deep reds and blues.
The one exception to bribery being legal in American politics is the explicit quid pro quo, which he’s doing nakedly with the fossil fuel industry and no doubt many others.
Trump has figured out that by the time they can indict him for doing it, he might already be president and be able to pardon himself. He put an exact price tag on his policies in office, and there will be no consequences.
(May 23, 2024 / JNS) - Germany will detain Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if the International Criminal Court issues an arrest warrant against him, a German government spokesman said Wednesday....
LOS ANGELES, May 24 (Reuters) - Three weeks after a mob attacked pro-Palestinian activists encamped at the University of California, Los Angeles, police have made their first arrest in the violence, a man they say was seen in video footage beating victims with a wooden pole....
The problem with peaceful protests is that they attract violent people who attack them. So, TPTB ban the peaceful protestors.
What happens if a select few of the peaceful protestors happened to be armed in places where doing so publicly is legal? The peaceful protestors are protected from violence by a select few exercising their second amendment right to bear arms. Pretty hard to ban those peaceful protestors.
The debates are going to be hilarious. Biden is diminished, but Trump has completely lost the script. Debates last for an hour or two.
Biden might fuck up a name or other detail, but Trump is going to vomit insanity all over everyone who didn’t go into the debate already agreeing with his madness.
They would have won even more championships if Shaq hadn’t insisted on eating non-halal meat during team meetings. You could cut the tension with a knife.
A luxury yacht belonging to Ukrainian oligarch Viktor Medvedchuk was officially transferred to the Ukrainian state on May 15, said Ukraine’s Agency for Investigation and Management of Assets, known by its Ukrainian acronym ARMA....
“Not my big boat penis!” yelled the oligarch who got tens of thousands of Russians killed by siphoning gas and stealing tank parts to sell on the black market to buy said boat penis (probably).
This should not have happened. Google Cloud has identified the events that led to this disruption and taken measures to ensure this does not happen again.”
Our AI golem destroyed something important again, but we’re too big to fail so our mistakes don’t matter.
We promise it won’t happen again, but when it does happen again, it still won’t matter.
We’re a totally safe and responsible company and should be trusted with most of the world’s data management.
The intentionally-created famine and water shortage may be the worst war crime of all. There aren’t enough bombs to kill everyone, but starvation and thirst will.
Human beings should not be treated this way. At least allow humanitarian aide in for innocent civilians. Children.
That’s for the best. The unwritten rule has always been that children are off limits until they get involved. 18 is way too young to enter his father’s media circus.
The legislation is personal for Rehder, who was married at age 15 to her 21-year-old boyfriend in 1984. A year earlier, her sister, at age 16, married her 39-year-old drug dealer, she has said.
That’s the reality of child marriage. It’s exploitation and child molestation. Keep in mind these are the same people who want LGBT+ people exterminated for being “groomers.” The accusation is a confession.
You see, our stock price goes up when we buy other companies and it goes up when we fire people. We’re doing both at the same time, so our stock price will go up double. This is a sustainable business model and not at all a very dead canary in a very deadly coal mine.
There is no ceiling. It might go up 6 or 7C. The people who have the power to change things do not give a shit if the rest of us die. They don’t care, and they won’t change anything. That’s the world we live in.
Finally some good news on the climate. Our ability to fuck the Earth will mostly go away when our civilization collapses. We might even get a second Genghis Khan cooling when everyone dies.
When reached for comment, Zuckerberg told reporters, “Don’t waste my time with this shit. It’s not even in the top 10 of evil shit I did in the last hour.”
Their tax rate isn’t the real issue. The fact that they extract that much wealth out of the labor and production of others is the real problem.
No human being should have a billion dollars. The workers who got you to your level of privilege and status should be paid based on their worth.
A boss that pays fairly would never become a billionaire, and their workers would live good lives being paid the actual value of their labor. Increased demand from increased household discretionary income would create a boom on the supply side.
But it will never happen, because billionaires own everything and will always manufacture consent. Democracy will die to thunderous applause.
Bobby Kennedy will take even more votes from Trump as time goes on. The reason is simple. He’s been entirely locked out of the left wing information sphere by being labeled anti-vax. That’s a plus in the right wing sphere.
An ally of President Vladimir Putin warned Europe on Tuesday that Russia has already drafted legislation to retaliate if nearly $300 billion of Russian assets were seized by the West and used to help Ukraine....
Good for Speaker Johnson. It was a mistake for the far right to support him. He’s an evangelical, but he’s also a true believer, rather than a grifter. When fully briefed on the intelligence, he ultimately chose to do the right thing.
Donald Trump’s main 2024 White House campaign fundraising operation sharply increased spending at the former president’s properties in recent months, funneling money into his businesses at a time when he is facing serious legal jeopardy and desperately needs cash....
The financial squeeze is to make him desperate enough to either make a mistake or take a guilty plea. The feds have unlimited resources, and they never stop.
But Trump always gets away with it. He has “Boeing murdered its whistleblower while he was being deposed” billionaire status in the “justice” system.
The neverending prosecution meets the lawless billionaire. Shades of Al Capone and Elliot Ness, except it’s important to remember that Capone could have won.
Wealth and status buys basically everything in America, even more so now than in the Gilded Age. Economic inequality in America passed pre-Revolution France a long time ago. We’re in uncharted waters.
Netanyahu has been adamant about going after Iran’s nuclear capability for over a decade. It wouldn’t surprise me if this drone attack was to probe the air defenses around those facilities.
Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking to trap the west into a total war across the Middle East that would have incalculable consequences for the region and the world, Iran’s top diplomat in the UK has claimed, in his first interview since Tehran launched an unprecedented missile and drone attack against Israel at the weekend....
While Netanyahu would love to draw all of NATO into a giant Middle Eastern conflict, I think he knows that goal isn’t realistic. What he’s likely aiming to accomplish is to destroy as much of Iran’s nuclear program as possible. That’s been his goal for over a decade.
If Biden attacks Iran, he is at fault for starting a war. He’s the commander in chief. If he doesn’t attack Iran, he’s not at fault, because he did not start a war.
Colorado Republican Brutally Grilled By Local News Anchor: ‘Why Is Abortion Good For Your Girlfriend? Bad For Other Women?’ (www.mediaite.com)
Colorado congressional candidate and sitting State Rep. Richard Holtorf ® received a tough grilling this week at the hands of local 9News anchor Kyle Clark over his apparent hypocrisy when it comes to abortion rights....
ProPublica Reporter Defends Work After Samuel Alito Accuses Outlet of Politically Motivated Coverage (www.democracynow.org)
Republicans pitch tax cuts for corporations, the wealthy in 2025 | Trump has asked wealthy donors for donations, promising large tax breaks in return if he retakes the White House. (wapo.st)
Alex Jones agrees to liquidate his assets to pay Sandy Hook families, in move that would end his ownership of Infowars (www.cnn.com)
Joe Biden suddenly leads convicted felon Donald Trump in multiple battleground states (www.newsweek.com)
Okay, this 'mycelial network' thing has gone WAY too far... (lemmy.world)
Trump ends speech to 'mostly boos' after going 'off prompter' and 'making fun of' his host (www.rawstory.com)
The Bubble Directive (images3.memedroid.com)
Trump doubles down, seeking fossil fuel cash at private Houston lunch (www.motherjones.com)
Germany: We will execute ICC warrant against Netanyahu (www.jns.org)
(May 23, 2024 / JNS) - Germany will detain Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if the International Criminal Court issues an arrest warrant against him, a German government spokesman said Wednesday....
UCLA police make first arrest in mob attack on pro-Palestinian encampment (www.reuters.com)
LOS ANGELES, May 24 (Reuters) - Three weeks after a mob attacked pro-Palestinian activists encamped at the University of California, Los Angeles, police have made their first arrest in the violence, a man they say was seen in video footage beating victims with a wooden pole....
Congress Just Made It Basically Impossible to Track Taylor Swift’s Private Jet (gizmodo.com)
Legislation just signed into law has made it exceedingly to difficult to track private jet activity.
Trump on Restricting Access to Contraception: 'We're Looking at That' (www.rollingstone.com)
Trump's social media account shares a campaign video with a headline about a 'unified Reich' (apnews.com)
Iran's president, foreign minister and others found dead at helicopter crash site, state media says (www.yahoo.com)
Greg Abbott declares open season on protesters in Texas (www.motherjones.com)
Medvechuk's yacht officially transferred to Ukrainian state (kyivindependent.com)
A luxury yacht belonging to Ukrainian oligarch Viktor Medvedchuk was officially transferred to the Ukrainian state on May 15, said Ukraine’s Agency for Investigation and Management of Assets, known by its Ukrainian acronym ARMA....
Google accidentally deleted a $125 billion pension fund's account (qz.com)
'Children Are Starving': Rafah Suffers as Israel Halts All Aid and Escalates Assault (www.commondreams.org)
Melania Trump reveals son Barron, 18, has pulled out of being a delegate nominating his father for president because he has 'prior commitments' (www.dailymail.co.uk)
Missouri bill to ban all child marriages runs into resistance from House Republicans (www.kansascity.com)
Xbox president: Studio closures will ensure 'business is healthy for the long term' (www.gamedeveloper.com)
77% of Top Climate Scientists Think 2.5°C of Warming Is Coming—And They're Horrified (www.commondreams.org)
“I expect a semi-dystopian future with substantial pain and suffering for the people of the Global South,” one expert said.
House quickly rejects Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's effort to remove Speaker Johnson from office (apnews.com)
Meta employees say internal posts on support for Palestinians have been 'censored,' in an open letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg (www.businessinsider.com)
An open letter by Meta employees claims the company censors Palestinian-related content internally and externally.
TD May Face US$2 Billion Money Laundering Fine, Third-Largest Ever: Analysts - Better Dwelling (betterdwelling.com)
From creating D&D to making Baldur's Gate 3: meet the man who coined the term XP (www.eurogamer.net)
Hugh, one to Borg up. (slrpnk.net)
Source...
'Absurd!': US Billionaires Pay Lower Tax Rate Than Working Class for First Time (www.commondreams.org)
Star Trek = Combs (lemmy.world)
A Few Weyouns More (someone make a fanfic with that title!)...
YouTube could roll out ads while videos are paused after “strong traction” in experiment - Dexerto (www.dexerto.com)
Trump seems to get cold feet about testifying in New York hush money trial (www.independent.co.uk)
Game devs praise Steam as a 'democratic platform' that 'continues to be transformative' for PC gaming today (www.pcgamer.com)
Posters promoting theft from Loblaws circulate online (atlantic.ctvnews.ca)
LOL marvelous
Republicans are starting to worry about RFK Jr. (www.politico.com)
Russia warns Europe: if you take our assets, we have a response that will hurt (www.reuters.com)
An ally of President Vladimir Putin warned Europe on Tuesday that Russia has already drafted legislation to retaliate if nearly $300 billion of Russian assets were seized by the West and used to help Ukraine....
These 112 House Republicans voted against Ukraine aid (www.businessinsider.com)
The House passed a more than $60 billion bill that provides more military aid to Ukraine....
Part 1: Would Betazoids get a telepathic contact buzz? (tesseract.dubvee.org)
Trump is funneling campaign money into cash-strapped businesses. Experts say it looks bad. (archive.ph)
Donald Trump’s main 2024 White House campaign fundraising operation sharply increased spending at the former president’s properties in recent months, funneling money into his businesses at a time when he is facing serious legal jeopardy and desperately needs cash....
Ethics panel investigating whether Matt Gaetz got high at Florida party (www.independent.co.uk)
Iran and Israel playing with fire as old rules of confrontation are torn up (www.theguardian.com)
Reported Israeli drone strike on Isfahan may signal that this widening conflict has become more dynamic...
Netanyahu aims to trap west into war across Middle East, warns Iranian diplomat (www.theguardian.com)
Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking to trap the west into a total war across the Middle East that would have incalculable consequences for the region and the world, Iran’s top diplomat in the UK has claimed, in his first interview since Tehran launched an unprecedented missile and drone attack against Israel at the weekend....
Biden’s renewed embrace of Israel threatens to deepen Democratic divide (www.theguardian.com)