🇹🇼🇺🇦🇮🇱Duck Dodgers
My social media interests include humor, current affairs, politics (we live in interesting times), history, art, cinema, and technology.
Joined Apr 2022
@Alfred Do geoligists recommend eating one small rock a day? If so, why?
Clarence Thomas attacks Brown v. Board ruling amid 70th anniversary
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Why it matters: Thomas attacked the Brown decision in a concurrence opinion that allowed South Carolina to keep using a congressional map that critics say discriminated against Black voters.
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The 9-0 [Brown v. Board] decision declared the "separate but equal" doctrine unconstitutional and helped usher in the Civil Rights Movement...
Virginia Becomes the First State in the South to End Child Marriage
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Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) signed HB 994 into law. The law completely ends child marriage in the state by establishing a minimum marriage age of 18 without exceptions and removes a legal loophole that previously allowed emancipated minors to marry in Virginia. The law will go into effect on July 1, 2024..
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Only 12 states ban child marriage.
Another Provocative Flag Was Flown at Another Alito Home
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Also known as the Pine Tree flag, it dates back to the Revolutionary War, but largely fell into obscurity until recent years and is now a symbol of support for former President Donald J. Trump, for a religious strand of the “Stop the Steal” campaign and for a push to remake American government in Christian terms.
#Politics #News #SamuelAlito #January6 /nosanitize
"Gift" NYT report
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/22/us/justice-alito-flag-appeal-to-heaven.html?unlocked_article_code=1.uE0.WgWa.cAoVQU6O0LXg
@Alfred Colombian necktie, eh?
@Alfred Who is Roberto Escobar and what scams does he run?
This Man Did Not Invent Bitcoin
For years, Craig Steven Wright, an Australian cryptocurrency enthusiast, claimed to be Satoshi Nakamoto, the mysterious creator of Bitcoin. Then the courts got involved.
#News #Bitcoin #CraigStevenWright #SatoshiNakamoto /nosanitize
"Gift" NYT article
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/21/business/bitcoin-satoshi-craig-steven-wright.html?unlocked_article_code=1.tk0.y_3l.yoTKLQc-huG-
Red Lobster files for bankruptcy after missteps including all-you-can-eat shrimp
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Thai Union later cited this as the main cause of its $11 million loss that quarter. The goal was to get more people in the door, which did happen. But many diners then stayed for hours, picking at plate after plate of shrimp dishes and — critically — buying little else.
https://www.npr.org/2024/05/20/1252426585/red-lobster-bankruptcy
First they came for the pronouns and I could say nothing, because I is a pronoun.
@Alfred Do you need an upgrade?
Pope Francis says conservative critics have a ‘suicidal attitude’
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If the Pope thinks conservative American Catholics are bad, just wait until he finds out about our conservative evangelicals.
@Alfred Did Vladimir Puton provide support to terrorists while he was a KGB officer in Dresden?
Reality show idea, "The Real Insurrectionist Wives of the Supreme Court."
(Not original with me.)
#Politics
Newly Released January 6 Tapes Destroy MAGA Republians’ Biggest Lie
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House Republicans have inadvertently debunked one of their biggest lies about January 6—that the police opened the doors of the Capitol building so the rioters outside could enter.
https://newrepublic.com/post/181570/january-6-footage-republicans-biggest-lie
Excess mortality: Cumulative deaths from all causes compared to projection based on previous years.
If you're looking for a good indicator of how many people died from Covid.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-excess-deaths-covid
The Misfits Russia Is Recruiting to Spy on the West
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Now Russia is using chat platforms such as Telegram to recruit young, marginalized people, often immigrants and mostly men, to undertake mundane yet damaging acts of spying and sabotage. The approach—low-cost and low-risk for Moscow’s spy services—allows Russia to stoke anti-Western sentiment and reap potentially important intelligence while letting their recruits take the fall.
This might be too esoteric. There are scenes that stick in my mine involving cars from each brand. It's by no means a scientific selection, and there's no right answer.
🇹🇼🇺🇦🇮🇱Duck Dodgers
My social media interests include humor, current affairs, politics (we live in interesting times), history, art, cinema, and technology.
Joined Apr 2022