#FUNFACT - We are not dealing with a 'Regime' until January 20th. Until then we are dealing with a 'Government' for the people by the people. And I fully expect that outgoing Government left standing and all it's agencies to either stay in the job to guardrail this son of a bitch, or have extra burn-bags on standby for January 19th.

Because on January 20th, we're all under a 'Regime'. Just like all those other places we used to liberate and PROTECT.

As USA.

As NATO.

^^^ And in completely unrelated news...

"Mediaite Obtains Full Police Report on Pete Hegseth Sexual Assault Allegation."

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/new-full-police-report-details-pete-hegseth-sexual-assault-allegation/

FUNFACT: The 'unidentified 'hacker' that obtained the unredacted testimony of Matt Gaetz's victiims didn't 'hack' shit.

Now... don't get me wrong, the unsub may be a 'hacker' but he/she was directed to it from the inside and the documents were very temporarily available to anyone who may have known where to find them.

Okay Carl, you made your point,...
😐

@gemswinc MA is the same. We've had a red flag alert for 3 weeks.

The Northeast Is Becoming Fire Country
*It was only a matter of time

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-northeast-is-becoming-fire-country

Republicans on the House Ethics Committee blocked the release of a report about sexual misconduct allegations against Matt Gaetz, President-elect Donald Trump’s attorney general pick. https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/20/politics/republicans-ethics-panel-block-gaetz-report

@InUnfunky @Bix IRS audits & being labeled’an enemy of the people’ notwithstanding there’s access, ratings, & job security on the line. Why does Meet the Press just let Republicans spew lies unchecked and confront Democrats?

@InUnfunky @singlemaltgirl @TheAbbotTrithemius That figure *was* at 1.9%. It’s now at 1.7% and falling.

#FAFO

Josh Marshall at TPM:

Miscellaneous Thoughts on a Democratic Path Forward

"I’ve been arguing pretty strenuously against getting taken in by these [..] claims of some overwhelming victory or mandate. Trump is now under 50% of the popular vote. "

""you don’t want to go into full baby-and-the-bath-water mode if you lose by a little over a single percentage point. And your coalition is hardly hopeless if you get between 48% and 49% of the vote in a bad year."

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/miscellaneous-thoughts-on-a-democratic-path-forward/sharetoken/b9be4f9a-ee8f-4664-bdb2-9ba57698030d

/nosanitize

Major geothermal bills pass House, widening path for clean energy drilling boom

#Environment #News #Energy #Politics #CleanAct #HeatsAct

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5000000-house-bills-ease-geothermal-drilling/

@feloneouscat

I've said it before but it bears repeating:

With him at the helm, we can expect to see another AIDS/HIV pandemic once the people who need it can no longer get the medications that keep it from being a death sentence any more.

@InUnfunky The next 3 months will be critical to see if BlueSky can remain non-toxic.
I am skeptical, simply because there are so many assholes desperate to find a place where they can Troll The Libs.

A Nazi is pissed because....BlueSky.
Wait until he finds out about CoSo, which is even more heretical.

“The legislation comes after the lawmaker who wrote one of Texas’ recent abortion bans wrote an op-ed in the Houston Chronicle defending the current exceptions as ‘plenty clear.’”

Yes, it’s clear they want to kill women. The law is written that you MUST be on the edge of death (“to save the life” clause)—it does not allow an abortion UNLESS it’s to save your life. Not potentially, NOW. Otherwise it is a crime.

https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-abortion-ban-exceptions-deaths

“BlackRock, the world’s biggest asset management company, faces a complaint at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) for allegedly contributing to environmental and human rights abuses around the world through its investments in agribusiness.”

We will have a dead planet, but at least we will be able to retire. 🤦🏻‍♀️

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/20/blackrock-climate-human-rights

What should we have learned from Covid-19? That oil is worthless in a society without consumption. That healthcare has to be public because health is public. That 50% of jobs can be done from home while the other 50% deserve more than they’re being paid. That we live in a society, not an economy. As usual, we learned nothing.

https://youtu.be/TRjH_gJbUqQ
Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song
#Cosomusic