Essay Title Contest
Submitted by snoopydawg on Fri, 02/01/2019 - 12:50am[video:https://youtu.be/BrapYLtkBhY]
"Part of the Russian agenda is to undermine democracy in the United States"
-- Nancy Pelosi
Diaries
More technical time wasting from Twitter
Submitted by arendt on Thu, 01/31/2019 - 10:50pmAll of the sudden there is this "embedded tweet" crapola.
Now, when someone "embeds" a tweet, all they embed is a URL to the tweet. If you try to roll over the text of the tweet, it automatically sends you to the tweet. But even there, you can't copy the text. You can merely copy the god damn URL of the tweet.
The truth about Mexican immigration
Submitted by Battle of Blair... on Thu, 01/31/2019 - 10:19pmI was talking to a Polish immigrant the other day and he was spouting off right wing talking points about how Mexicans need to follow the rules just like everybody else and the usual "I got mine, he has to get his" bullshit. So I flat up told him : "That's crap. You got in easy beacause you're a privileged white guy from Europe"
Europe officially defies U.S. sanctions
Submitted by gjohnsit on Thu, 01/31/2019 - 5:11pmThis is the exact situation any sane politician/diplomat will have wanted to avoid.
You never want to be in a position of sanctioning your allies, but that's what happens when you ignore them.
It really sucks to be the richest man in the world
Submitted by EdMass on Thu, 01/31/2019 - 5:06pmBezos Launches Investigation Into Leaked Texts With Lauren Sanchez That Killed His Marriage
Yes, Trump.
The Amazon chief’s security consultants suspect the leak to the National Enquirer may have been politically motivated.
The Evening Blues - 1-31-19
Submitted by joe shikspack on Thu, 01/31/2019 - 2:45pm
The UN Considers this Torture
Submitted by snoopydawg on Thu, 01/31/2019 - 1:45pm"By starving themselves, these men are trying to make public the very suffering that ICE is trying to keep hidden from taxpayers."
Kathy, oh Kathy...
Submitted by EdMass on Thu, 01/31/2019 - 12:48pmIt was perhaps problematic on the same day your abortion after birth bill got passed you also proposed this...
Hot Air
Submitted by magiamma on Thu, 01/31/2019 - 5:00am
Something to keep in mind…
Adults keep saying:
“We owe it to the young people to give them hope.”
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But I don’t want your hope.
I don’t want you to be hopeful.
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I want you to panic.
I want you to feel the fear I feel every day.
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And then I want you to act.
I want you to act as you would in a crisis.
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I want you to act as if our house is on fire.
Because it is.
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Greta Thunberg
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Trump Administration Secretly Shipped Radioactive Plutonium to Nevada Despite State's Opposition - Newsweek
Submitted by Amanda Matthews on Thu, 01/31/2019 - 2:30amWell so much for state’s rights. I know this crap has got to go somewhere but not like this.
Why do we need so much weapons-grade uranium anyway? We’ve already got enough nuclear-grade weapons to destroy life on Earth permanently. We (and a few other countries) can, and probably will, turn this planet into a barren hunk of radioactive rock hurling through space.
