Compelling Carl๐งโ๐พ๐พ๐ณ
Looking for reasons to be optimistic. Always seeking to know more history, science. Always striving to live more sustainably. Parent and permaculture enthusiast
Joined Nov 2022
The degree to which #Ukraine โs international partners sustain Ukraineโs ability to sustain an effective weight of fire relative to Russian forces will be a key determiner of respective capabilities in 2024. http://isw.pub/UkrWar102323
The Republican meeting to choose their next Speaker of the House candidate begins in 10 minutes behind closed doors. (As if that really works.) The prospective candidates are shown below.
My money's on Emmer. Who do you think gets the nod?
"If you live by extreme MAGA rules, you die by extreme MAGA rules."
Rep. Jamie Raskin
Anne Applebaum:
Poland's ruling party, PiS, just lost an election which they themselves organized and manipulated to their advantage. Now PiS propagandists are suggesting *they* were cheated and somehow deserve to stay in power. Sound familiar?
https://twitter.com/anneapplebaum/status/1716370301817167994
Author Joe Harding of Florida's who sponsored 'Don't Say Gay' Bill Sentenced to Four Months in Federal Prison for Loan Fraud"
Charges
Be sure to keep an eye on your School Committees and School Boards. Moms for Liberty is serious about infiltrating, forcing their twisted ideologies on parents and kids, and destroying the public school system in America.
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/moms-liberty
Jamie McLeod-Skinner is an engineer, public servant and small business owner running for Oregon House District 5. She is endorsed by Progressive Democrats of America.
Here are the nine Republicans running for House speaker
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I've put a check next to the names of the two who did not try to overturn the election:
Rep. Tom Emmer (Minn.) โ๏ธ
Rep. Kevin Hern (Okla.)
Rep. Pete Sessions (Tex.)
Rep. Austin Scott (Ga.) โ๏ธ
Rep. Byron Donalds (Fla.)
Rep. Jack Bergman (Mich.)
Rep. Mike Johnson (La.)
Rep. Dan Meuser (Pa.)
Rep. Gary Palmer (Ala.)
#News #Politics #SpeakerOfTheHouse
"Gift" Washington Post link
https://wapo.st/3Scu8Ke
Forgot I had this cued up on the 19th...
Anyway, who's yer Render?
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This is the drug Hamas terrorists took to help them slaughter Israelis
โThe past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.โ
Wendell Berry
NewScientist: Schools cut covid-19 sick days by 20 per cent using HEPA air filters.
Placing HEPA air filters into classrooms in the Bradford area of the UK reduced the number of covid-19-related absences among students by more than 20 per cent.
#hepa #covid
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2398713-schools-cut-covid-19-sick-days-by-20-per-cent-using-hepa-air-filters/
Utilities Have Been Lying to us About Gas Stoves Since the 1970s โ Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/10/utilities-lying-gas-stoves-health-risks/
Once hate is riled up, once anger is stoked, it lashes out, empowered, and strikes the most vulnerable, including the people who have committed their lives to being open and present for their communities.
May her memory be a blessing.
May they find the perpetrator(s) swiftly.
May none of us forget that this is not a game, and that what's whipped up online has legs in the real world.
"Detroit synagogue board president found dead outside home"
This is an info graph from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), updated September 2023.
There are 2.2 million, give or take. This info graph focuses on poverty & mobility. Other UN data measures the population as 40% under 15, around 50% under 19.
Video & on-the-ground reports show civilians terrified because they don't know if IDF can be trusted. There *are* civilians hit while evacuating. None of this is as easy as it looks.
Fugitive suspected of gunning down judge who granted ex-wife a divorce and custody of their kids was previously accused of abusing his 11-year-old daughter for years
Detroit synagogue president found fatally stabbed outside her home
Russia and Iran are allies, but neither one trusts the other at all and at the moment all are aware that Russia is not in a position to give orders to its remaining allies.
The second that Putin begged Iran and North Korea for ammo and weapons the entire Axis of Evil power structure shifted.
Remember the MV Evergreen, that got itself stuck in the Suez Canal?
It's currently transiting the English Channel northbound.
No, it cannot get stuck there.
It's also being used as camouflage for a Russian Kilo class sub that left the Med and is also heading north.
Apparently the Russian navy didn't like all of those USN anti-sub planes flying around the USS Ford in the Med.
Compelling Carl๐งโ๐พ๐พ๐ณ
Looking for reasons to be optimistic. Always seeking to know more history, science. Always striving to live more sustainably. Parent and permaculture enthusiast
Joined Nov 2022