Merrick Garland to transfer power during back surgery

The Justice Department’s No. 2 official will briefly take over as the attorney general undergoes a procedure on his spine this weekend.
Justice Department spokesperson Xochitl Hinojosa said in a statement Monday that Garland is scheduled to have a “minimally invasive back procedure” Saturday to treat spinal stenosis — a narrowing of spaces in vertebrae.

#News #DOJ #CoSoNews #Politics

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/29/merrick-garland-to-transfer-power-during-back-surgery-00138461

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Spooky specters

Three US troops killed in drone attack on Jordan base named

Tributes poured in as Pentagon named Georgia reservists Sgt. William Jerome Rivers (46) Specialist Breonna Alexsondria Moffett (23) and Specialist Kennedy Sanders (24) as victims of attack

All three of the troops who died were army reservists from 926th Engineer Brigade, based in the US state of Georgia: Rivers was from Carrollton, Sanders from Waycross and Moffett from Savannah.

#News #Georgia #Military

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/29/kennedy-sanders-georgia-soldiers-killed-drone-strike

#Ukraine

Ukraine is on the hunt for more soldiers to join its army — but a new bill could backfire on Volodymyr Zelenskyy

While many democracies have conscripted their citizens during times of wartime peril, military institutions still have an obligation under these circumstances to ensure their citizen soldiers are trained, equipped and led appropriately, and employed on appropriate military missions.

By Mick Ryan

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-30/ukraine-russia-war-zelenskyy-mobilisation-more-soliders/103400054

There’s a new bobcat in the area. (There always is.)

#bobcatsofcoso

Last shoe render for now #wombo #aiart #boots

Cut paper #Art by Angie Pickman

And they showed it on TV too. 😂

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A cyberattack that hit government systems in Fulton County, Georgia, over the weekend affected the offices of the district attorney who is prosecuting former President Trump on election interference charges, local officials say. #News
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/cyberattack-hits-georgia-county-where-trump-faces-election-interference-charges/ar-BB1hs5xH

@NorthernInvader

a recent video with Daniel Swain mentioned that we are already at about 1.3-something degrees C, getting close to blowing past the 1.5 C Paris Agreement (which is still too much/too disruptive of a benchmark), and this extreme weather goes with it.

#climatechange #climatescience #extremeweather

#ClimateChange #fascism #authoritarians

Online, I've warned about this for over 2 decades. In desperate times people seek desperate solutions and that makes them prime fodder for any wannabe despot.

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28012024/with-world-warming-scientists-warn-of-unrest-and-authoritarian-backlash/

Scientists Warn Climate Shocks Could Trigger Unrest and Authoritarian Backlash
Most of the public seems unaware that global temperatures will soon push past the target to which the U.N. hoped to limit warming, but researchers see social and psychological crises brewing.

This place is going to seem downright prescient as we learn more about how big social media is weaponizing our interactions against us. #CoSoRocks

𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐠𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐬' 𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐟𝐟 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐁𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧

Who's going to stop Greg Abbott's lawless power grab?

Abbott now has the full-throated support of conservative elected officials who don’t believe the federal government should have any authority if Democrats are in power, and he has private citizens willing to show the same eager violence as those who supported Trump’s insurrection. There’s just no way in which this ends well.

#poltics #border #FakeOutrage

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/greg-abbott-border-standoff-biden-explained

@p3R1n01D @stueytheround

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