Florida's 6 week abortion ban went into effect. The graphic in the article is sobering.The impact does not stop at the FL border.

#GiftArticle #Abortion #Florida

"Women in Miami who are beyond six weeks will now need to travel more than 700 miles to reach the nearest clinics — in Charlotte, N.C., where state law requires two visits spread over three days."

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/01/upshot/florida-abortion-ban.html

#Dachau #AuschwitzMemorial
#NeverForget

“April 29 marks 'the Day of Polish Clergy Martyrdom During World War II'. 
It is observed on the anniversary of the liberation of Dachau where 868 Polish clergymen perished.”

RIP. Memory Eternal.

' An Arizona grand jury has indicted former Donald Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows and lawyer Rudy Giuliani along with 16 others '

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/arizona-grand-jury-fake-electors-trump_n_662994a0e4b005d7bf0c72a6

15 years ago, at a local PMI meeting, I found myself on the same table as an automotive I.T. consultant.
His view was that in 10-15 years, auto manufacturers would be giving away cars for nothing, because they would be making their revenues from onboard software.
Tesla appears to be the most aggressive with this model. However, other auto makers are occasionally trying it.
The era of your controlling ownership of any object controlled by vendor software may be ending quite soon.

#ClimateChange

Bill McKibben on Climate Crisis: How we got here and what we can do now
https://youtu.be/q-d296gUjgM

Here's the thing: Navalny was a threat to Putin. But he was not a threat to Russian imperial pretensions.

The rot in Russia is not any one man; it's Russian culture writ large.

Ensure justice: Jail Trump and sequester the jury. Now.

@White_Rabbit
Alfred is sure handy, for those pesky reference look-ups.

It would take me at least 20 minutes to find the correct book, and index.

Apparently Trump is taking that gag order literally and gagging everyone in court with his toxic farts.

I believe that one of the core issues with modern economies - and globalized capitalism in particular - is that they put very little if any focus on resilience.

Way I see it, resilience is actually more important than any other factor with respect to the economy and governance; it is *inevitable* that things will go horribly wrong in one way or another over the long term, so setting up society to minimize/withstand the consequences when that happens is absolutely crucial.

An adult sized dump in the pants near you is hard to take. Olfactory Warfare.
#TrumpNYcriminalTrial

#TrumpNYcriminalTrial

We have a full jury.

It is strange that Sen. Rand Paul always supports #PutinIsaWarCriminal in the US Congress.

#TrumpNYcriminalTrial
"Trump and his team are not playing for an acquittal."

#PutinIsaWarCriminal
USA & NATO it is time to stop Putin's madness - it is past time.

DW News
DEVELOPING: Germany's Foreign Ministry has summoned the Russian ambassador following the arrest of two German-Russian nationals on suspicion of plotting sabotage attacks, according to media reports.
https://www.dw.com/en/german-police-arrest-two-suspected-of-spying-for-russia/a-68854481

Handy cheat sheet

The Arizona House of Representatives has failed to advance a repeal of the state's 160-year-old abortion ban, a blow to GOP candidates in competitive races. https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/17/politics/arizona-house-abortion-law-repeal/index.html

Any employer would be crazy (for a thousand different reasons) to hire a person who's posted on their social media or who's said on camera what Tom Cotton has said in the last 36 hours. Don't ever let Fascists normalize violence.

The Senate has killed the first article of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. He still faces one other article in the Senate. https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/17/politics/senate-mayorkas-impeachment-articles/index.html