A little something about that thing we euphemistically call Climate Change...

Quote: “A nightmare scenario is unfolding.”

Those are not words you want to hear from the National Hurricane Center. Otis was supposed to hit Acapulco, Mexico, as a tropical storm, but when it made landfall on Wednesday, it was a Category 5 hurricane—stunning the scientists who had been tracking it.

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Number of mass shootings this year:

Canada: 4
Australia: 1
United Kingdom: 1
USA : 560+. FIVE HUNDRED AND SIXTY!

Next time you're chanting. "USA, USA" ; you should consider chanting "please don't shoot, please don't shoot"

Disclosure: I'm a gun owner.

Personally, I don't think it's a violation of shit to remove someone's access to guns if they threaten to shoot up their workplace and are experiencing a diagnosed mental health crisis.

Screw up your credit once and it's perfectly legal for businesses to charge you usury rates for seven years.

We do more to protect money than people.

Mike Johnson = a male analog of Amy Coney Barrett

NRA contributions to GOP Politicians.

#NRA #Politics

Judge orders new congressional and state legislative maps in Georgia, ruling the boundaries improperly diluted the political power of Black voters. https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/26/politics/georgia-legislative-maps-order/index.html

Professor Reich...

knows some things 👏

#GOP

Matt Gaetz may be despised even by a good percentage of the Republican House members — but by getting McCarthy removed, allowing chaos (and fatigue) to ensue, he managed move the GOP House further right.

This is how Fascism grows.

When a shooter murdered a woman who had a pride flag on her business, Twitter took days to suspend the account that was filled with anti LGBTQ posts. When the Maine shooter had his social exposed as a far right Elon fan, it was taken down instantly.

Muskie alwayso slow off the starting line when it comes to women....but let a former Army do something and he's right on the mark....

f-him

Dan Whitfield
@ DanWhitCongress
via Bird
'The Maine mass shooter had a Twitter account. Elon Musk scrubbed it. Why?

Here is a list of accounts that the mass shooter visited on Twitter:'

#Israel

Gaza is plagued by poverty, but Hamas has no shortage of cash. Where does it come from?

#Hamas has an investment portfolio of real estate and other assets worth $500 million, say experts, and an annual military budget of as much as $350 million.

...Hamas has filled its coffers with hundreds of millions in international aid, overt and covert injections of cash from Iran and other ideological partners, as well as cryptocurrency, taxes, extortion and smuggling..

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/gaza-plagued-poverty-hamas-no-shortage-cash-come-rcna121099

Biblical Republic
The Republicans are anti-American, this is not at all what the founding fathers wanted.

Deep Thread Via Chris O-Wiki:

#Ukraine
Hundreds of Russian soldiers may have mutinied in recent weeks as the Russian army accumulates huge losses in offensives in several regions of Ukraine. At least 173 men are reported to have been detained for refusing orders, and this may be just the tip of the iceberg.

ASTRA reports that it has received almost daily messages from the relatives of men who have been detained in occupied regions of Ukraine after refusing to join assaults.

The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.

The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate.

Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.

The list goes on...

Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

Ok last one.
#floodthefirehose

Here is my anger at the voters that pick Republicans which make us live like this - let's give almost everyone a gun, even if they are hearing voices.

retooting

Nahel Belgherze

Before & after: This residential building in Acapulco, Mexico has been shredded by Category 5 Hurricane Otis’s extreme winds.

If you go into the FBI Academy cafeteria (a family member works there), you will find Fox News playing. Why does the federal government play these lies to their workforce?

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-clarence-thomas-motorcoach-loan-ethics-afed2073e0d7cf4a994256ce35d5063f

Most of Justice Thomas' $267,000 loan for an RV seems to have been forgiven, Senate Democrats say

Frozen snickers camouflage