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KimPerales, 9 months ago to random

Texas again easily met energy demand amid brutal heat yesterday. Renewables are a high & rising share of capacity & are THE reason we're not in (more of) a crisis this summer, renewables have meant a still solid buffer b/w supply & demand, an astonishing improvement…Moving past the irony of the red state renewable boom... +solve existential challenges is hopeful. W/o: renewable boom we'd have more deaths & suffering, surge pricing in utilities & lost productivity. #CleanEnergy -Julia Coronado

GottaLaff, 9 months ago to iowa

UM…

😳Via Michael Beschloss:

Standing next to Trump at #Iowa State Fair, #Gaetz today says, “We know that only through force can we make any change in a corrupt town like Washington DC.”
Anyone have a reaction?

flexghost, 9 months ago to random

Meet Michigan state rep. Matt Maddock (R)

His wife was the MI GOP chair—she’s charged as one of the 16 fake electors

What’s his response?

To call for civil war.

“If the government continues to weaponize these departments against conservatives…you know what's going to happen to this country? Someone's going …going to shoot someone. That's what's going to happen. Or we're going have a civil war or some sort of revolution”

The GOP is a clear and present danger to the United States of America.

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auschwitzmuseum, 9 months ago to random

9 August 1942 | Edith Stein, St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, Discalced Carmelite nun OCD, patron of Europe, was murdered in a gas chamber of the German Nazi Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp.

Edith Stein was born on 12 October 1891,. She was a German Jew from Wrocław, doctor of philosophy specialising in phenomenology. Converted to Christianity in 1922, she joined the Carmelite convent in Cologne in 1933.

GhostOnTheHalfShell, 9 months ago to geopolitics

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GottaLaff, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to random

"History will judge them harshly."

Do you really think that matters to them? They'll be long gone when History--which can't judge anything, it can only be recorded and people learn/remember what took place--"judges" them.

And it'll be too late by then anyway. And they don't care. At all.

Can we maybe choose a different phrase? Like, say, "These vile fascists are total assholes who are destroying democracy and need to be stopped STAT"? How's that?

You're welcome. #ImPissed THREAD🪡 1/…

TheRealElvira, 9 months ago to random

Goodbye to my dear longtime friend, Paul Reubens. I am crushed. The world has lost one of the funniest human beings who ever lived. Paul, I hope wherever you are, you have reunited with John and Phil and are laughing your asses off - together again. I love you so much Paul. I will miss you and all the wonderful times we spent together more than you’ll ever know. 💔RIP

flexghost, 9 months ago to random

High school boys are trending conservative

It’s almost as if telling boys they’re big and strong and total alphas—while also telling them they’re always the victim—works

Either boys grow out of Andrew Tate worship or they remain alone and angry and judgmental and full of hate

Because a majority of girls remain liberal

Image of graph Political identities of 12th-grade boys. Percent identifying as liberal or conservative It’s amazing boys have time for anything but jacking off like a Bonobo and turning their blankets into cracker-dry crumbles
Image of graph Political identities of 12th-grade girls. Percent identifying as liberal or conservative. Women ages 18 to 29 are more likely to identify as liberal now than at any time in the past two decades, according to Gallup surveys. Young women are almost twice as likely as young men to claim the liberal tag, a widening gender gap in political beliefs. Girls: saving your dumb ass from yourselves since forever.

taylorlorenz, 9 months ago to random

The largest public school district in Texas is eliminating librarian positions and converting the libraries into 'discipline centers' at 28 schools this upcoming year https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2023/07/26/hisd-to-eliminate-librarians-turn-libraries-into-discipline-centers-at-28-campuses/

Skepticat, 9 months ago to random

Friend: There’s somebody I want you to meet.

Me: I know enough people.

lawfare, 10 months ago to random

Why didn't the government see the Jan. 6 attack coming?
Molly Reynolds and Quinta Jurecic were joined by Ryan Reilly to discuss a recent Congressional report that tried to understand the intelligence failures in the lead-up to Jan. 6 and where we go from here. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-lawfare-podcast-congress-investigates-january-6-again

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flexghost, 10 months ago to random

MONDAY CHALLENGE

Post something more likable than Ron DeSantis

• multiple submissions welcome *

mcnees, 10 months ago to random

Good afternoon.

lowqualityfacts, 1 year ago to random

Thanks for all the birthday wishes! If you want to help celebrate my birthday, you can:

1. Tell me your favorite thing about my cat Fishy. Yes, I will read all of your comments to him. English is not his first language, but I believe he has a basic understanding of most of the words.
2. Subscribe to my Patreon so I can continue to write all the dumb silly things that I write.

I may create Low Quality Facts, but I am very grateful for all of my high quality friends here.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

lowqualityfacts, 1 year ago to random

That makes sense.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

TonyStark, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago) to random

There are two very wrong, very dangerous claims being made in my mentions right now. One is that nothing ever happens on gun safety. The other is that Democrats have done nothing on the issue.

There’s even an odd third one claiming Democrats haven’t been bipartisan enough on it. These claims are not only wrong but dangerous to efforts to elect people to office who will bring more change. They’re dangerous to efforts to save more lives. Don’t spread such things if you care about helping. 1/3

pivoinebleue, 1 year ago to random

My God! The Republicans want to ban books but are going to train 3rd graders in battlefield trauma care!!!!!!!! 😳🤬 This is insane!

Texas HB1147 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature

https://legiscan.com/TX/text/HB1147/2023?t=tgOZAax6IlGfgKVTuOAhcg&s=09

>Bill Text (2023-03-13) Relating to the regulation of bleeding control stations in public schools. [Left pending in committee]

axeshun, 1 year ago to random

Serious question for trans individuals: generally, when the media reports that someone has a "transgender son", does that mean they now identify as male (*and vice-versa daughter/female), or is this usually +/-transphobic mis-genderization?

TonyStark, 1 year ago to random

Dueling used to be a perfectly legal and acceptable form of conflict resolution among men. However, it was wisely outlawed since 1859 in DC, and it was outlawed in most states thereafter.

Nothing beneficial about bringing it back.

79-year-old man charged with 'senselessly' murdering his neighbor who was doing yard work near Antioch-
https://www.lakemchenryscanner.com/2023/04/25/79-year-old-man-charged-with-senselessly-murdering-his-neighbor-who-was-doing-yard-work-near-antioch/