A friend bought Amtrak tickets to Chicago. She called Amtrak to either confirm or ask a question. Amtrak had no record of those tickets. Scammers are setting up fake sites pretending to be Amtrak. Some can even redirect a call to the correct number so it goes to them. Amtrak was well aware of this and she will get a refund. #scam
WORD OF THE DAY:
Unstudied
Definition: (adjective) Not contrived for effect; natural.
Synonyms: uncontrived
Usage: She walked with an unstudied grace that the other models envied and imitated.
Racial Injustice
The Orangeburg Massacre: A Tragic Chapter in the Civil Rights Movement
November 15th, 1968, marks a somber anniversary in the struggle for racial equality in the United States. On this day, the Orangeburg Massacre took place on the campus of South Carolina State University, a historically Black college. This tragic event saw three unarmed Black students killed and 28 others injured when state highway patrolmen opened fire on a crowd of peaceful protesters.
Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin (D) urged the House Ethics Committee to โpreserve and shareโ its report on former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) after Trump tapped the Florida congressman to serve as attorney general.
#News #Politics #LiarsAndCheaters #LawAndCrime
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4990433-durbin-gaetz-house-ethics-report/
I swear to god, Kennedy is going to kill people with his wackamole theories. One thing he vows to do is make raw milk more widely available. This causes a burden for stores who have to reconfigure layouts. Plus, the environmental implications are horrible because no one except Q Anon idiots are going to drink this shit. Dumping unpasteurized milk down drains introduces disease into our water supply, period.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/11/15/rfk-jr-views-conspiracies-false-claims/
Ringo Starr has a new song out called Thankful. Alison Krauss is also on it, but her voice is in the background through most of it. It's not a "brilliant" song by any means, but it's sweet and he's 84 and doesn't sound like it at all. #CoSoMusic
https://youtu.be/Wp4qWnpGar0
Just watched an old Veritasium video about how gravity is an illusion, that the ground we walk on is actually pushing us up, etc. If gravity isn't a force, what is the explanation for a launching astronaut being "pushed" into his seat by G "force"? Shouldn't he feel like he's stationary?
#science #physics #relativity #ExplainItToMeLikeImAFirstGrader
@poemblaze
"Did you get anything worthy of note on your birthday?"
"Sure, autocracy"
#NewZealand #Maori #protest #parliment
New Zealandโs parliament was halted after a controversial bill that proposes to radically alter the way the countryโs treaty between Mฤori and the Crown is interpreted was tabled.
Mฤori, doing the haka in protest
See if you can return it. ๐
The inauguration is about a week before my birthday. Sucky present.
#Christian. Theoretically a #poet. #Genealogy nut. ๐บ๐ฒ(๐ฎ๐ช๐ซ๐ท๐ฌ๐ง๐ฉ๐ช) Theoretically a photographer of #birds. But now I have a dog, George, whom birds flee.