@COSOCOM just activated for DC.

Anti-Abortion Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson Says He Paid for Abortion After Impregnating Woman in 2012

https://www.thedailybeast.com/north-carolina-lt-gov-mark-robinson-anti-abortion-firebrand-says-he-paid-for-an-abortion-in-2012

To paraphrase the beginning of Martin Niemöller's famous poem:

"First they came for the Ukrainians, and I did not speak out - because I was not a Ukrainian"

Spoiler alert, the ending of the poem is about the Nazis coming for everyone eventually, because people just refused to participate in stopping them early.

I really, really hope we don't make this mistake again.

@Botanic

Even if you were too small to understand why.

But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn’t. They kept going because they were holding on to something.

What are we holding onto Sam?

That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for.

It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end it’s only a passing thing this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the Sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you, that meant something.

It is with no regret that I announce https://counter.social no longer provides services to Belarus.

Russia has been excluded since inception, over 4 years ago, before it was cool.

https://counter.social/faqs.html

The dude bro on the right at the table is Valery Gerasimov. Chief of Staff of the Russian Army, and Deputy Defense Minister.

His son, Major General Vitaliy Gerasimov, the chief of staff with Russia’s 41st Combined Arms Army has just been converted to a grease stain in Ukraine.