🇹🇼🇺🇦🇮🇱Duck Dodgers
My social media interests include humor, current affairs, politics (we live in interesting times), history, art, cinema, and technology.
Joined Apr 2022
Elon Musk trying to back out of Twitter takeover deal. Twitter wants to consumate deal.
https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-twitter-inc-technology-4193a27d86458952542dfa2176150a01
Tesla sued for screwing laid-off workers out of legally-mandated severance pay.
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/laid-off-tesla-workers-file-emergency-plea-allege-small-severance-pay-2022-07-06/
In the US, this is our Independence Day. Flawed though the republic may be, it still functions and may it continue to do so for many years to come. Have a happy and safe holiday!
An island of wet wipes has formed in the Thames river causing British officials to ask people to stop flushing wet wipes down the toilet.
Not discussed, the only way wet wipes are making it from toilets into the river is if large amounts of untreated raw sewerage is finding its way into the Thames, which seems a bigger problem than people flushing wet wipes.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/a-huge-mass-of-used-wet-wipes-has-formed-an-island-that-has-changed-the-course-of-england-s-second-longest-river-mp-says/ar-AAZ7mIT
Very different perspectives on the Supreme Court concealed gun decision.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/nyc-mother-death-murder-stroller-b2112820.html
As the Ukraine war becomes one of artillery and attrition, Ukraine is running low on ammunition faster than Russia is.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/27/ukraine-ammunition-becomes-defining-issue-in-battle-for-donbas
When a culture is saturated with guns, people die.
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/landscaper-killed-in-dc-road-rage-shooting-authorities/3087487/
According to the Washington Post, the secrecy around today's 1/6 committee hearing is "in part due to credible security threats to a witness."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/06/27/jan-6-committee-announces-surprise-tuesday-hearing-offers-few-details/
Post-Dobbs poll shows Democrats have taken a 7 point lead in the Marist generic congressional poll. This is up 2 points, from May, after Alito's draft opinion leaked.
https://maristpoll.marist.edu/polls/npr-pbs-newshour-marist-national-poll-the-overturning-of-roe-v-wade-june-2022/
Disapointing as the Supreme Court decision is, progress on abortion rights is being made elsewhere in the world.
https://www.statista.com/chart/13680/the-legal-status-of-abortion-worldwide/
If the Ukrainian's don't get him diabetes will.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/obese-retired-russian-general-67-27328697.amp
It's good to be Crown Prince. Foreign dignitaries just hand you bags full of cash.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/charles-accepted-1m-cash-in-suitcase-from-sheikh-j2pgnfsgx
Sure, the movies were unwatchable, but American International Pictures made great movie posters.
Looks like someone is posting messages from the old Q account on 8kun, again.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/qanon-creator-q-returns-after-nearly-two-year-hiatus
Gallup poll: Belief in God drops to 81%, a new low. The greatest drops are among the young, liberals and Democrats, but all demographics show a decline.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/393737/belief-god-dips-new-low.aspx
The classroom door at Uvalde wasn't locked even as police waited for the key during the mass shooting.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/classroom-door-uvalde-school-shooting-was-not-locked-official-says-2022-06-21/
🇹🇼🇺🇦🇮🇱Duck Dodgers
My social media interests include humor, current affairs, politics (we live in interesting times), history, art, cinema, and technology.
Joined Apr 2022