A new Zillow study says that renters who make minimum wage have two options to keep rent under 30% of their income: either find 3 roommates (with 2 people per bedroom) or work 4 full-time jobs.

Poor MAGAts can't win fer losin' 🤣

GOP’s Hunter Biden Laptop Obsession Accidentally Reveals How Twitter Helped Right-Wing Speech Flourish

Republicans’ “Twitter Files” hearing on Wednesday was supposed to reveal how the left colluded to suppress a New York Post story about Hunter Biden’s laptop. Instead, witness testimony revealed more ways the social media company accommodated right-wing speech and even took directions from Trump White House

#CosoPolitics

https://newrepublic.com/post/170510/gop-hunter-biden-laptop-obsession-reveals-twitter-helped-right-wing-speech

#Dharma #ThichNhatHanh #BuddhaNature

“ In his book "The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching," Vietnamese Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh said, "Deep listening is the foundation of Right Speech. If we cannot listen mindfully, we cannot practice Right Speech. No matter what we say, it will not be mindful, because we'll be speaking only our own ideas and not in response to the other person."

This reminds us that our speech is not just our speech. Communication is something that happens between people.”

Say, what’s on the TV?

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The international team investigating the 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17) by a missile has convincing evidence that Russian President Vladimir Putin personally signed off on a decision to allow the Russian missile system into Ukraine, Dutch prosecutors said on Wednesday.
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2023-02-08/putin-approved-supply-of-missiles-that-shot-down-mh17-in-2014-investigators-say

#arts I'm a sucker for stained glass windows.

#CoSoMayday

If a large incident occurs, and you're stuck somewhere, need help, (AND ONE OF US IS AVAILABLE - Not guaranteed)

Type the Hashtag #CoSoMayday and one of us will try to assist you with public safety, preparedness advice, or connection to local resources.

Adam Kinzinger #fella
@AdamKinzinger

I was in a meeting where Donald Trump asked a group of us to lay off XI and China telecom ZTE because he promised XI, and he doesn’t want to disappoint him. Bolton wrote about this, I can confirm. I was shocked.

#CatsofCoSo #Aliens

February is...

"Never interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake."

#RandomThoughts

#humor

So um...

*backs away slowly*

#Ukraine

Ukrainian decathlete Volodymyr Androshchuk will not be representing his country at the Paris Olympics because he was just killed by the Russian armed forces. In other news, the IOC announces that Russian athletes are welcome in Paris.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-mourns-athlete-soldier-amid-opposition-russians-olympics-2023-02-01/

About 60% of rural Texas hospitals no longer deliver babies -- no safe place to give birth -- but Texas spends 100s of millions of dollars on anti-choice "pregnancy centers."

https://texastribune.org/2023/01/05/jasper-east-texas-maternity-crisis/

Elections have consequences