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kegill, 7 days ago to random

I was today years old when I discovered (a) this #JFK handbill was plastered around Dallas on Nov 21, 1963 (b) by the John Birch Society which (c) Fred Koch (the #KochBrothers dad) helped start.

https://www.npr.org/2016/01/19/463565987/hidden-history-of-koch-brothers-traces-their-childhood-and-political-rise

https://slate.com/human-interest/2013/11/jfk-assassination-flyer-distributed-in-dallas-by-edwin-walker-s-group-before-his-visit.html

https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-4806877

https://www.chisholm-poster.com/posters/CL40562.html

kegill, 7 days ago to politics

“Judge Merchan is not sentencing a defendant who merely cooked the books to hide one sordid affair, but a man with a proven pattern of abusing individuals, cheating at business and, most critically, corrupting the electoral process to gain and keep presidential power.”

Frank O. Bowman III is an emeritus professor at the University of Missouri School of Law and co-author of the "Federal Sentencing Guidelines Handbook."

#Trump
#politics

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/donald-trump-jail-sentence-trial-verdict-rcna155323

kegill, 8 days ago to random

What natural disaster comes to mind when you think of California?

I’m guessing earthquakes.

Flood risk - absolute, per catastrophic event - may be far more dangerous and costly.

If the Great Flood of 1862 were to happen today, it “would probably eclipse the devastation of a major California earthquake and cause up to $1 trillion in damage.”

However, it doesn’t show up in recent geologic records. Yet two bigger ones do. 😳

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-06-02/study-suggests-epic-potential-for-california-flooding

https://archive.ph/G3Gzy

1/2

kegill, 8 days ago to politics

YES!

@juddlegum deconstructs then skewers MAGA and political-chattering-class talking points (even from “libs”) about Trump’s guilty verdicts.

I’ve been saying that the judgment is rare not because Bragg is biased (out to get TFG) but because his ACTIONS WERE EXCEPTIONALLY RARE. Judd says is better and with a bigger mic.

#politics
#Trump

All the arguments against Trump's convictions, debunked
https://open.substack.com/pub/popularinformation/p/all-the-arguments-against-trumps

kegill, 8 days ago to politics

Yes he did (say "lock her up") and here's the video montage that proves it.

Sometimes technicolor and stereo eclipse mere words.

#Trump #politics #FOX

https://themoderatevoice.com/oh-yes-he-did-say-lock-her-up/

kegill, 9 days ago to politics

Spot-on!

Ann Telnaes, The Washington Post

#alito
#thomas
#scotus
#politics

https://x.com/eandpcartoons/status/1796930957255303172

kegill, 9 days ago to politics

Time to cancel @washingtonpost subscription.

New executive editor (breaking news) is ex-WSJ and will run the paper thru November. His replacement is from The Telegraph.

New publisher (late 2023) is ex-WSJ (Rupert Murdoch/FOX) and UK Telegraph (which has endorsed the Conservative Party in every UK general election since 1945).

This is how Bezos joins Wall Street billionaires who are endorsing Trump.

#politics
#media #MSM #ConservativeMedia

https://themoderatevoice.com/tell-jeff-bezos-nope-and-cancel-your-wapost-subscription/

kegill, 10 days ago to politics

Trump may not be eligible to appear on Washington state ballot

(snicker)

#politics

https://themoderatevoice.com/trump-may-not-be-eligible-to-appear-on-washington-state-ballot/

Yo, @seth

kegill, 12 days ago to random

Despite the belief of the New York Times editorial board - evidenced by this headline - NOTHING about the Trump trial was a SPORTING EVENT.

#TrumpIsGuilty

kegill, 12 days ago to random

Twelve anonymous New York citizens found former President Donald Trump guilty of 34 felony counts: falsifying business records with the intent to illegally affect the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.

Not Joe Biden. Not Alvin Bragg. Not Juan Merchan.

Twelve citizens.

#TrumpIsGuilty

https://themoderatevoice.com/trump-found-guilty-republicans-abandon-rule-of-law/

kegill, 12 days ago to random

Delicious timing. The NDA on #TheApprentice has expired and producer Bill Pruitt confesses.

As #TrumpIsGuilty tries “to persuade Americans to elect him again, in part thanks to the myth we created, I can finally tell you what making Trump into what he is today looked like from my side. Most days were revealing. Some still haunt me, two decades later.”

https://slate.com/culture/2024/05/donald-trump-news-2024-trial-verdict-apprentice.html

kegill, 13 days ago to random

Horrible headline, incredibly important story that had completely bypassed my radar.

In New Hamphire, a federal judge has ruled as unconstitutional a law prohibiting “government employees, including public school teachers, from promoting ‘divisive concepts’."

#Republicans

https://popular.info/p/judge-defends-right-to-teach-beyonce

kegill, 13 days ago to random

WTH???

“There are more than 100,000 ships moving goods worldwide, and the number could grow by as much as 1,200 percent by 2050.”

And they kill sea life with impunity. Because the world’s governments treat the oceans like an unregulated commons.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/article/whale-sharks-endangered-ship-collisions

https://archive.is/3aL41

kegill, 13 days ago to random

Powerful arguments for #recusal (#Alito and #Thomas) come straight from former justice #AnthonyKennedy.

“In Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co., from 2009, the court held that a state supreme court justice was constitutionally disqualified from a case in which the president of a corporation appearing before him had helped to get him elected by spending $3 million promoting his campaign.”

#GiftLink

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/29/opinion/alito-thomas-recuse-trump-jan-6.html?unlocked_article_code=1.v00.QYs4.af3llmkVYpo7&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

kegill, 13 days ago to Texas

Holy ****

The #hail in #Texas was so big Tuesday that it required a new description

Forecasters warned of “DVD-size hail” as stones larger than grapefruits bombarded an area near Lubbock.

#ClimateChange

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/05/29/texas-hail-dvd-size-record-nwws/

kegill, 13 days ago to Israel

“The former head of the #Mossad, Israel’s foreign intelligence agency, allegedly threatened a chief prosecutor of the international criminal court in a series of secret meetings in which he tried to pressure her into abandoning a war crimes investigation, the Guardian can reveal.”

This is yet another reason why the government of #Israel does not represent all of #Judaism.

#politics

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/28/israeli-spy-chief-icc-prosecutor-war-crimes-inquiry?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

kegill, 14 days ago to random

Emily Baden is a brave woman.

Jodi Kantor is like a terrier with a bone. Bravo!

And the WaPo gives new meaning to “lame”

#GiftLink
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/28/us/justice-alito-neighbors-stop-steal-flag.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vk0._R0t.O6crK1RojKoP&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

kegill, 17 days ago to random

When The New York Times broke the story on May 16th that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito had an upside-down American flag flying at his suburban DC home three days before President Joe Biden’s inauguration, my first question was “why now”?

In other words, what had happened to trigger this story, three years late?

We still don't know. But we do know that The Post sat on the story for more than three years.

https://themoderatevoice.com/strike-three-wapost-sat-on-the-alito-flag-story-for-more-than-three-years/

kegill, 18 days ago to H5N1

“raw milk containing #H5N1 can remain infectious for weeks when stored at refrigerator temperatures”

Common sense substantiated by research, that.

Researchers also gave mice raw milk containing H5N1. The virus almost immediately began affecting them.

Euthanized on day four, and still:
“the mice had high levels of H5N1 bird flu virus in their respiratory tracts, as well their hearts, kidneys, spleens, livers, mammary glands, and brains.”

#health
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/after-mice-drink-raw-h5n1-milk-bird-flu-virus-riddles-their-organs/

kegill, 18 days ago to politics

“Sixteen years ago, I was tasked with leading [Alito’s] confirmation process in the Bush White House.

“Let me be clear. I am deeply ashamed of my association with this wretched man and unfit justice. Along with Clarence Thomas, he is a totem and a towering one in this atrocious era of corruption, dishonesty and betrayal.”

Steve Schmidt essay is a must-read

#politics

https://open.substack.com/pub/steveschmidt/p/flags-of-alito

kegill, 18 days ago to random

Has anyone seen this #OpticalIllusion or know it’s source? Google images points to Twitter.

If you see a “red” Coke can, it’s apparently your brain at work. Zoom in. There appears to be no red ink, just an interesting blue and black on a white background.

Close up of optical illusion

kegill, 19 days ago to random

The International Court of Justice has ordered Israel to stop its assault on Rafah. South Africa complained of genocide.

"The State of Israel shall, in conformity with its obligations under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide... Immediately halt its military offensive, and any other action in the Rafah Governorate…”

It is unlikely to comply.

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2024/05/24/Netherlands-icj-orders-israel-rafah-genocide-order/6801716561606/

Graffiti, UW, Seattle, today
©️ Kathy Gill

kegill, 19 days ago to random

In Oregon, a citizen whistleblower turned to The Guardian to share recordings tying at least 66 candidates for local GOP leadership to the group organized by militant militia leader Ammon Bundy.

CENTRAL Oregon: Deschutes, Crook, and Jefferson counties

Did the Oregonian turn it down? The NYT? WaPo?

Or did the citizen turn to @theguardian_world_news because it regularly speaks-truth-to-power (unlike US media)?

TY @jasonwilson

Oregon map featuring Deschutes, Crook, and Jefferson counties