it’s so nice having a president who can walk and chew gum at the same time.
Today, we are mobilizing the next generation of clean energy, conservation, and climate resilience workers.
Join us at https://t.co/dp0NctSzPp pic.twitter.com/vKjvLalUbV
— President Biden (@POTUS) September 20, 2023
It’s almost like he has big ideas, hires great people, and lets them implement the plan.
Join the next generation of climate action at https://t.co/dp0NctSzPp. pic.twitter.com/ZtPEzQy7z1
— President Biden (@POTUS) September 20, 2023
In other news – speaking of good people – and not-so-good people:
She resigned and kept her silence for years. Needs to address it now because of her nomination to the state supreme court. Totally honorable, total class act. https://t.co/dQogRbC09E
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) September 21, 2023
Oh, and in case you are wondering, Rudy did not grope Cassidy Hutchinson on Jan 6. Just ask him – he would never do something like that! (Rudy says.) I hope he has plenty of time to think about that and everything else because Rudy has been ordered to appear in court, and he must remain in place for the duration of the defamation trial. I hope they all have to sit through their trials. You know, like regular people do.
Open thread.
MattF
Tsk. He keeps doing things.
mrmoshpotato
@MattF:
It’s like he actually wanted the job of President.
Jackie
I caught this on the news last night. It caught my attention because my dad was in the CCC 1936-37. He never stopped saying how much that year changed his life for the better.
WaterGirl
@mrmoshpotato: Democrats in office seem to understand that they are there to SERVE, not to reign and abuse power.
Ken
Yeah, but can he defend himself in five separate civil and criminal trials at the same time? I think not. Pwned, libs!
Mousebumples
Posting again from the earlier thread this morning –
And now I’m back to work…
mrmoshpotato
@WaterGirl: Yeah. So weird.
mrmoshpotato
@Ken: Haha! Well played!
NotMax
Admit to being of two minds about this.
Articles I’ve read (and it my be the fault of the reporters) lay out what its goals are envisioned to be in such vague generalities as to be non-informative.
Also don’t see why the scope and mandate of the existing AmeriCorps agency could not be expanded to include this rather than creating a whole new independent program.
Cheryl from Maryland
Here’s the FAQ URL for the Virginia site I use so one can write postcards at home – https://addresses.postcards4va.com/faq
Omnes Omnibus
@Ken: To be fair, Trump is going to have real difficulties doing that.
OzarkHillbilly
@WaterGirl: Hey now, the GOP is there to serve too. Just ask any billionaire.
NotMax
My understanding is that Georgia does not require defendant attendance during the length of a trial Whether as a matter of course or as a waiver which must be filed I can’t recall at the moment.
MattF
@Omnes Omnibus: The original (from LBJ) was ‘fart and chew gum at the same time.’ Honestly, if TFG tried that… I’d stand back a few steps.
WaterGirl
@Mousebumples: I’ll add to what Mousebumples said about postcards.
We also have a chance to return the favor to the Ohio Indivisible group who took ddresses – the ones I got from Voces for the Wisconsin Supreme Court and other races – and sent thousands of postcards for our Wisconsin effort.
They are going to send me their script, so if anyone is inclined to write for Ohio, that would also be a great choice!
On the Saturday post, I will try to lay out all the postcard options.
WaterGirl
@mrmoshpotato: They did not get the memo!
*the Republicans leave Dems out of everything they can get a way with.
WaterGirl
@OzarkHillbilly: I should have been more specific! :-)
Something about dancing with the one that brought you! You know, the ones who put you in office.
Tim Ellis
@NotMax: The core value proposition of the new program is two-fold imo:
1) A dedicated vehicle for large-scale climate mobilization lays important groundwork for us. The crisis is going to get substantially worse before it gets better; we need something we can scale up that is focused on addressing it and all the negative effects of it. AmeriCorps offers “stipended volunteer work”, which is nice but not appropriate to either the scope of the crisis nor to modern sensibilities among young people. They need an FDR style jobs program that can offer real careers doing meaningful work directly, not just passing them along to non-profits for volunteer. (I’m admittedly not well acquainted with AmeriCorps so this assessment relies on reading their wikipedia entry; any misunderstandings of AmeriCorps are my fault).
2) Like so much of what Biden has done, it’s not just smart policy but also smart politics. This sends a big message to young people that climate concerns are being heard and addressed, AND avenues of opportunity are being made for them. This program was one of the specific asks of the US climate movement’s youth wing so by delivering for them, Biden gives them more reasons to turn out for Dems next year and also shows that he listens to what they’re asking for and delivers – something we are frankly not used to from any president before now. It is this penchant of his for listening to us and delivering on our priorities that has converted me to a big-time Biden booster.
p.a.
She waited so long, she may have a book deal in the works if the State court thing falls through?
Baud
Republicans will now propose an American Fetus Corps in response.
The media will report that both sides are creating corps.
MattF
@Tim Ellis: And note that jobs promoting climate resilience are jobs with a future. It’s a bit uncomfortable to emphasize that particular point, but Biden et. al. should find a way to do it.
RaflW
Since it’s a politics open thread, I am just tickled by this man’s forthrightness. (warning, Politico)
Blimey, mate! You’re sooo close to getting it!
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
There’s a good reason for that, it’s right there in your sentence. “We” shut down the government.
Or do you think the relationship between causality and blame should change?
Eunicecycle
@Mousebumples: I just signed up for Postcards to Voters! I am excited to write postcards for Ohio Issue 1. I have a lot of anxiety about it because the Vote No people are already out in force in my area. Their message is Protect Parental Rights! and it is effective. Plus our disgusting SOS wrote the ballot language talking about “unborn babies” which is not the language in the statute AT ALL. Vote Yes people appealed it but the courts turned it down. This may be tighter than we thought. The fact that before they were supposed to vote No but now vote Yes is definitely confusing people. Sorry for rambling but it’s my anxiety!
MattF
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation: Does he support the ‘Greater Idaho’ movement? They need an anthem, like Idaho, Idaho, Über Alles.
WaterGirl
@NotMax: The defamation trial is in GA, and Rudy is required to sit there for the whole thing.
p.a.
Not Surprised
A bet on Wood flipping would have been a good bet.
by Atriosat 09:00
As someone, Atrios himself maybe, or someone else online, noted, Wood may not be a great prosecution witness since he’s seemingly clinically insane.🫨
I’m reminded of a comment I heard quite a while ago; juries can’t be too squeamish about prosecution witnesses against criminals since criminals tend to live and interact in their own, well, criminal cultures.
Ken
@RaflW: Anyone can see it was the government’s fault it got shut down, dressing in those slinky seductive entitlement programs.
HinTN
@Jackie: There’s a road behind my house that goes from the valley, elevation 1050, to the plateau, elevation 1950, in 2.5 miles. In the 70s I talked to an older farmer who worked on that WPA project. It was a game changer for him, providing work where was none, and it turned a barely passable wagon track into a real road, which had evolved into a main route for folks going to/from work today.
I expect the Climate Corps to have similar, far reaching consequences for the betterment of those employed and for folks further down the ages.
Yay, Uncle Joe!
mrmoshpotato
@RaflW: Wow! Can he really be that stupid?!
moonbat
I’m chuffed about this program! I’ve been telling my students in Cultural Ecology for YEARS that unfortunately the climate disasters we’re beginning to see the brunt of are their future and have had nothing specific to point them to if they want to make a difference about that.
ACC is more than smart politics and smart environmental policy. It offers a way to work our way out of the gloom and doom ‘Oh I guess this is the new reality we must accept’ despair that the GrOpers are peddling. It offers hope.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@MattF: I don’t know, but I personally don’t have a problem with giving anti-government zealots their own space to work the land. They just can’t bring any modern technological artifacts with them. And I prefer they have it in Antarctica rather than Idaho.
mrmoshpotato
@WaterGirl:
Gonna be sweating hair dye left, right, front, and back!
Ken
You see the (R-Idaho) after his name, don’t you?
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@mrmoshpotato: Rudy needs to find a good shellac.
NotMax
@Tim Ellis
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not averse to the concept. I await specifics, though, as in initial reporting it comes across as still being half-baked.
mrmoshpotato
@moonbat:
Much better than being gutted about it.
HinTN
@NotMax:
From the usual suspects? Hoocouldanode
NotMax
@WaterGirl
The upcoming defamation trial is in D.C. From AP:
mrmoshpotato
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation:
Inaccessible Island is a volcanic island located in the South Atlantic Ocean, 31 km (19 mi) south-west of Tristan da Cunha. Its highest point, Swale’s Fell, reaches 581 m (1,906 ft), and the island is 12.65 km2 (4.88 sq mi) in area. The volcano was last active six million years ago and is currently extinct.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@NotMax: Reporting, itself, always seems to be half baked. It’s hard to sell government programs when the news we ought to trust to report on them is asking us to be our own research and reporting team.
@mrmoshpotato: If it’s an American territory, I think we have our spot.
mrmoshpotato
@Ken: Yes, but it still boggles the functioning brain at times.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
Well, there’s your biggest problem, right there.
mrmoshpotato
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation: Yes. Damn you, (mostly) logical thinking!
lowtechcyclist
Too bad Biden’s so old. No wonder he can’t get anything done. ;-)
topclimber
Ever since TFG launched the Space Force, I have been waiting for someone to start organizing a much more important Earth Force to confront climate change. Biden comes through, once again!
Now if only the program could get a similar budget like the $30 billion for the space force.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
Wait, Biden’s old?!?!?!?
Stop the presses. Everyone needs to know. Get this breaking news on every TV screen in America.
narya
@WaterGirl: @Mousebumples: I’m looking for the language we should use on the Postcards to Voters for OH–I’m already on their list (so I can get addresses) but I couldn’t find the language on the website.
p.a.
Open thread Q for digital-knowers:
I have a dead 2014-2015 iMac, hard drive croaked abt 4 yrs ago. It’s been a $1,600-ish paperweight since then. My good friend tech-guy Matt died before he had a chance to play with it & possibly install a solid state hard drive.
I want to trash it but should I be concerned about someone trying to access the (once-again: dead) hard drive? Usually do my online $ stuff on my iPad but may have made some purchases from the iMac.
I know accessing the iMac hardware requires more than unscrewing some screws. I do have a heat gun and sharp multiple bladed implements but would rather avoid the soften-the-glue-pry-the-unit-open bullshit.
Thanks in advance!
Geminid
@NotMax: They may use the Americorps framework as the foundation for this program. I think they should.
I had thought Americorps was defunct before I stopped off at a coffee shop in Vicks burg in 2019 while on a trip west. Four young people in Americorps windbreakers showed up- two white women, a Black man and a white one. They gave a good impression. They seemed happy.
H.E.Wolf
@Eunicecycle:
Thank you and congratulations for signing up to write postcards!
For me, it’s a great mood-lifter to do one small, concrete thing. And I do mean small: I write postcards in batches of 5, once or twice a week as time permits.)
The PostcardsToVoters.org volunteers wrote more than 300,000 postcards to Ohio for the victorious (pro-choice) side in the August election – and other groups wrote huge numbers of cards too.
My 5 or 10 postcards a week (and somebody else’s single batch of 5, and someone else’s 100), multiplied by many writers across the country, made that happen.
It’s good to remember that when the little fish organize, they can chase off the big fish. :-)
https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.1205146309.0697/pp,840×830-pad,1000×1000,f8f8f8.jpg
RaflW
I’ve been thinking about the GOP climate denial folks this morning, as the Canadian wildfire smoke once again blankets like 40% of the US, including our current location. I’m supposed to have our last kayak of the season with my 75 year old mother-out-law this afternoon. Maybe the AQI will get back down to below 70 so I can go*, but it’s been a whole efing summer of checking Purple Air and smoke forecast maps.
This new normal is ugly and going to get worse, even as the GQP continues with their ‘nothing is happening!’ bullshit. I think it was here last night that there was a link to Sec. Pete just witheringly asking the Repub to repeat himself on that ‘yeah, the climate change is autumn’ nonsense.
*I’m in decent health, but I find that upwards of about 75 PM2.5 that persists, I get a pretty annoying though not strong headache. Over 100 and my lungs have that ‘smoked at a bar’ feeling (which I haven’t had from actually smoking at a bar in over 22 years).
mrmoshpotato
@p.a.: Could one of those ubreakifix places crack it open for you to pull out the hard drive for destruction before you junk it?
H.E.Wolf
@narya: “I’m looking for the language we should use on the Postcards to Voters for OH–I’m already on their list (so I can get addresses) but I couldn’t find the language on the website.”
I went to their Facebook page and looked at the Photos section to see what other writers were posting.
https://www.facebook.com/TonyTheDemocrat.org/photos
I don’t have a Facebook account, so I just close the “sign up for Facebook” window and then proceed.
narya
@p.a.: Apple will recycle it for you.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
I believe that’s called composting.
lowtechcyclist
@p.a.:
Take the defunct hard drive out, and trash the rest of the computer. (ETA: With PCs, this is quite simple. I assume it’s true for Macs, but I’ve never owned one.) Hard drives aren’t that big, I’ve got bigger paperback books. Put it in a zip-lock bag, and stick it in the back of a closet shelf or somewhere else out of the way.
I’ve got a related question, so I’m gonna piggyback here: if you’ve got an old hard drive from a dead computer, they make these devices that look kinda like toasters that you can put a hard drive in, and it’s got a USB connector that you can plug into a live computer and pull the data off the old hard drive.
But the ones I’ve seen really only work for desktop hard drives. I need a way of doing the same thing with hard drives from defunct PC laptops. Any suggestions from the jackaltariat?
NotMax
@p.a.
Really, dropping it off at a reputable e-cycling location should be fine.
If you’re that seriously concerned about if, bringing it to a nearby computer repair shop and asking them to remove and hand over the hard drive to you should not be all that pricey (guessing maybe 50 clams). They may also be willing (depends on the shop) to drill holes through the removed hard drive as an added deterrent.
NotMax
@NotMax
Also, SSDs are a real bargain right now (glut on the market) but may not be for much longer.
Mousebumples
They’ll send you language with the addresses. I haven’t started postcarding yet, but I’ll try to do at least a few tomorrow night to get some art for WaterGirl. 😊
@WaterGirl – any word from Ohio on if they’ll have their own addresses/language, or if we should go with Postcards to Voters, or another group?
rikyrah
@RaflW:
One side: Nothing is happening.
Other side: It’s real. We know it is. We’ve taken these steps. And now, here is this program to build on.
I love having definite choices.
WaterGirl
@Mousebumples: Yes, the Ohio peeps (who wrote for us for Wisconsin with addresses we got from Voces) definitely have their own script. And addresses.
I expect to receive the script at any times and they asked how many addresses and I didn’t how many to ask for, so I asked for the script first.
CaseyL
Sadly, I don’t think MazeDancer’s Postcard Patriots will be able to do postcards this year. They want to, but I’ve heard they have some health issues and will need to sit this one out.
That sucks for me because I really like their pre-printed postcards. I can send out batches of 25 or more at a time and not worry that my handwriting is illegible. I think Postcard Patriots is the only organization that does pre-printed cards – if anyone knows of any others, i’d love to hear who that is!
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
Any nun in a second grade classroom knows the answer to that. Keep copying over that circle. Again. Again.
jimmiraybob
@MattF:
Potatoe, Potatoe ÜberAlles!
Maxim
@Jackie:
Mine too! Though I think he was probably a year or two behind your dad.
Biden just keeps Bidening. Good for him.
NotMax
@jimmiraybob
“Boise will be Boise.”
//
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@NotMax: Many deserved plaudits to you.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Twitter sucks a little more every week, but it’s still useful when David “Applebee’s Salad Bar” Brooks, who apparently still has a regular column in the NYT, ventures out to do some more populism, with a top-shelf double scotch.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: This is why you don’t eat at the airport. Shop at the supermarket, buy only items with the big yellow tags that say “sale” (but still make sure it’s a good deal), eat a meal before you leave, then subsist on pop corners they give you for free during your flight.
ETA: I never want to be shamed for avocado toast again. That’s a delicious way to get soke morning fruit.
Sure Lurkalot
@WaterGirl: @Mousebumples:
Thanks to you and MazeDancer (I use Postcard Patriots to print cards) for the info and scheduling the Saturday get together thread. I bought a bunch of colored pens and I’m ready to go!
Alison Rose
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: God, what a tool. Also, I love this from the “readers added context” section:
Also, why did he wait to take the photo until after he’d taken a couple bites from the burger? And why are the squeezed-out ketchup packets on top of his food? What a weirdo.
Kay
That anyone expects me to believe that Giuliani turned into a racist, sexist, slimy crook authoritarian piece of shit at 70 years old is just insulting.
It’s who and what he always was. I understand that people don’t want to admit they got snookered by a sophisticated media campaign to turn him into something he never was, but don’t expect me to go along.
People don’t go from being decent and having character their whole lives and then “turn into” a Giuliani. That’s just bullshit. He was a slimy US attorney, a slimy mayor and now a slimy GOP operative. Always a crook and a fraud.
Steeplejack
Nitter.net nuked for anyone else?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Alison Rose: I think it was sips more than bites that made the weirdness of that episode, but who knows….?
I don’t drink a lot of whisky, but that looks like a huge pour to me, especially for an airport bar, where I know bartenders are heavily monitored. My brother got carded at 60 and when he rolled his eyes at the bartender she grinned and said, “Every move we make is on camera”
Omnes Omnibus
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: A couple of double scotches in the airport will do that to you.
HinTN
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: And he put ice in it. What a nimrod.
Kay
@Alison Rose:
They have to explain why the public (when asked) says the economy is terrible when it quite obviously isn’t. The public thinks that because media (like the NYTimes) told them over and over the economy was bad, but as we know they have zero accountabiity in that industry, so none of them will ever admit it.
People never behaved like it was a bad economy, which should have been a tip off that it was a bullshit, invented narrative that people just parroted It’s amusing that conservatives don’t even trust markets- market behavior never said “bad economy”.
artem1s
Infrastructure and WPA – how Bidenomics is fueling inflation!
Good news for John McCain. /s
jonas
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Brooks is shocked by the price of airport terminal food (“You mean the booze *aren’t* included?) because he’s only ever had the complementary canapes and champagne offered in the first class/business lounges.
trollhattan
@Kay: Is he not the champion of the NYC stop-and-frisk initiative? That was quite awhile back.
Alison Rose
@Kay: Yeah, it’s aggravating, isn’t it? Or people who might have a difficult situation financially in their own lives, and they extrapolate that out to say “the whole economy is bad” and blame Biden. And most of the news media is happy to encourage that way of thinking, rather than, you know, tell them the facts.
CaseyL
@Steeplejack:
Yes. Bad Gateway time.
trollhattan
@NotMax: Many like their speakers.
mrmoshpotato
@Steeplejack:
Still broken as of me writing this.
Scout211
It’s never worked for me.
Ruckus
@mrmoshpotato:
Yes, yes he can.
Jackie
@HinTN: Yes, I’m really excited for this! Once the Climate Corps gets going it’ll be a game changer for so many!
mrmoshpotato
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation:
You should be shamed! Have the respect for your taste buds to at least make it a mild guacamole toast!
Bruce K in ATH-GR
@lowtechcyclist: You can get cases to hold 2.5-inch laptop-sized hard drives that essentially turn them into USB external drives. Some of those cases are even tool-less, basically amounting to sliding the case open, dropping in the drive, sliding the case closed, plug in your cable and you’re good to go.
Also, I’ve seen some “toaster” style docks that will accept both 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch hard drives.
trollhattan
@lowtechcyclist:
Have an external dock like you describe for reading standard HDDs (happens to lie flat) and another one for SSD memory cards, so I have to believe there’s something similar for 2.5-inch laptop HDDs.
[Pause.]
Here’s one that reads either 3.5 or 2.5″. Cheap, too.
Steeplejack
@H.E.Wolf:
Great graphic!
jonas
@artem1s: I forgot now where I saw it, but a few weeks ago I came across an interesting interview with the economist Joseph Stiglitz who was talking about inflation and the Fed. He observed that the Fed fucked up with its current round of interest rate hikes because the bad inflation of 21-22 wasn’t caused by a rise in demand that supply couldn’t meet (e.g. everyone spending their free government $$) and that higher interest rates would check, it was caused by labor, material, and transportation shortages created by the pandemic. (Which we all know.) OTOH, he suggested that the Fed may have unintentionally solved a problem going forward, namely that the IRA, Infrastructure bill, CHIPS, etc. have actually seen a much larger investment response from the private sector than the Treasury/CBO anticipated (mostly taking advantage of subsidies, tax credits, and loans) that potentially *could* lead to real demand-side inflation down the road. IANAE, but Stiglitz is a pretty sharp guy and has generally been right about stuff like this in the past (e.g. the 2008 financial crisisl), so we’ll see.
mrmoshpotato
@Kay:
Isn’t Ghouliani responsible for NYC’s 90’s(?) Stop and Frisk?
ETA – I see trollhattan was wondering the same.
scav
@jonas: By turning this meal & Single Malt into a Xweet, does it all magically become a work expense and reimbursed anyway? Man of the people and all that.
trollhattan
@Scout211:
Nitter stopped working for me last night around 11 PDT.
Had been functional for at least a month, after serially being borked by the Muskman.
rikyrah
This entire story is CRAZY!!!
The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) posted at 7:23 AM on Thu, Sep 21, 2023:
NEW from @formvscontent: “Records show @CityOfFranklin Alderman and mayoral candidate Gabrielle Hanson. was charged with money laundering, organized crime, in addition to her admission of conviction(s) of promotion of prostitution.”
Lies upon lies.
https://t.co/9eNgmPo3cN https://t.co/VzAPrc7EcW
(https://x.com/TheTNHoller/status/1704833654864703928?t=R8Uep6bFMZwLTEbDeOcmlA&s=03)
jonas
@Alison Rose: Well, as they say, if your neighbor loses his job, there’s a recession. If you lose your job, it’s a depression. Right now, the problem is, everyone has a job, their neighbors have jobs, there’s close to full employment, 401ks are looking good, but gas and eggs still cost more than they did a couple of years ago, so fuck everything.
trollhattan
@rikyrah:
Crazy is the right word. And isn’t that pic of her apropos, her being clad in orange and all.
mrmoshpotato
@scav:
I’m sure he’ll try.
mrmoshpotato
@rikyrah: Party of family values.
Steeplejack
@lowtechcyclist:
Yes, there are SSD “harnesses” available. I can’t look in more detail now, but here’s a pretty good video with links.
trollhattan
October 14 brings an annualar solar eclipse across the western U.S. As these things generally go, much of the path of maximum annularity is in very sparsely populated territory but hey, watch the sky you northwestern Nevadans!
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/eclipses/2023/oct-14-annular/where-when/
I watched the last one from a campsite in the Lassen Park backcountry. It was swell.
jonas
@Kay: Oh, he was a racist POS from the very beginning. He and Trump are two peas in a pod and deserve every bit of what’s coming to them. Giuliani should die poor and penniless and be haunted on his deathbed by the ghost of Amadou Diallo, like Roy Cohn in Angels in America.
strange visitor (from another planet)
giuliani, 1994. the fascism of “america’s mayor” was clearly visible from LEO even back then. when i was in high school, we called him generalissimo giuliani.
…and he’s gotten worse.
jonas
@rikyrah: Lol — I saw this story the other day and had a good chuckle. Claims she had “no idea” the “modeling agency” she worked the phones in college for was in fact a prostitution front.
*Rolls eyes*
All things being equal, it was a long time ago, she was young, she pleaded out and moved on with her life, so wev. *Except* now of course she’s a holier-than-thou, god-bothering MAGAt nutjob, so please proceed, investigative reporters!
rikyrah
Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) posted at 10:41 AM on Thu, Sep 21, 2023:
Just to put this in context, republicans cannot even agree to debate the pentagon spending bill. This bill usually passes by big margins.
It failed twice this week.
Kevin mccarthys House Republicans are in a state of crisis.
Jordan Weissmann (@JHWeissmann) posted at 10:58 AM on Thu, Sep 21, 2023:
This is the level of governance people kind of expected from McCarthy before he pulled off the debt ceiling deal.
We’ll see if he finds a path to salvaging his speakership, but right now, it’s a shitshow.
(https://x.com/JHWeissmann/status/1704887771331006951?t=TksXvub9WUFU8ZDJ0jCD7Q&s=03)
Yarrow
@Steeplejack: See my comment in Betty Cracker’s thread. It’s not broken. it’s just that server.
jonas
@strange visitor (from another planet): Good god, if I didn’t know the source, I would have guessed it was a quote from 1984 or something. Holy shit.
I recall a speech by Bill Barr a few years ago to some rightwing Catholic outfit where he expressed largely the same sentiments. These people are fucking scary…
Timill
@lowtechcyclist: Something like this should do the trick.
I should get another one myself…
Ruckus
@Kay:
Earlier in life he was more capable of hiding who/what he is. As we age out we lose that ability to hide as much of what and who we are. And he was never all that good at it back then…..
strange visitor (from another planet)
@jonas: ten years too late. but yeah. scary AF
eta- and you can see how dingus con wants to make himself akin to big brother.
Steeplejack
@Yarrow:
Thanks! Looking into it, as Elon would say.
Yarrow
@Steeplejack: I’m using a different instance and it’s working fine for me. It’s only the nitter.net instance that’s broken.
Steeplejack
@Yarrow:
Nitter.cz working 👌 for me. Did change the theme to “Twitter” to get rid of the ghastly black and red.
Eunicecycle
This is the language for the Ohio Vote Yes Postcards to Voters.
Vote YES on Issue 1 to end Ohio’s abortion ban.
Give others the freedom to make personal medical decisions.
Please vote YES starting October 11 through November 7.
rikyrah
@Kay:
There is nobody Black in America who always didn’t see THIS Rudy.
We been knew who he was.
Never once fell for that ‘ America’s Mayor’ bullshyt.
lowtechcyclist
@Bruce K in ATH-GR:
I think I’ll try to track down one of those cases specifically designed for 2.5″ hard drives. One of those “toaster” style docks that supposedly takes both sizes is what we’ve got, but I’ve never been able to get it to work on my laptop drives.
mrmoshpotato
@Steeplejack: Thanks!
LiminalOwl
@mrmoshpotato: Someone posted recently about the Gell-Mann effect. The “America’s Mayor” BS about Giuliani is a related example. No New Yorker of my acquaintance ever bought into it