Still working my way through Three-Body, the Chinese TV adaptation of The Three-Body Problem. Sometimes it gets slow but it is so much better than the Netflix version. Especially if you read the book(s). #scifi
"People need to understand dementia is a progressive illness, which means the Trump you see today is the best Trump you’re ever going to see. It’s all downhill from here. Trump’s rate of decline is accelerating, and if he’s typical, at some point, he will “fall off a cognitive cliff”"
If Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson flew a BLM flag over her home would Congress hold hearings about her impartiality?
If the Second Gentleman, Doug Emhoff, flew an upside down flag over the VP's home, would Congress hold hearings?
How do you suppose the right wing media sphere would handle such events?
#SCOTUS Justice Samuel Alito has used flags to openly proclaim his support for a white supremacist theocratic takeover of the U.S. and it's pretty much guaranteed nothing will come of it.
It's often said that America became a full democracy after the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (Yes, Chad, I know the word "republic," if you come at me with juvenile bullshit you'll be blocked).
I was born before the U.S. became a modern democracy, and I want to live the rest of my life without the U.S. going further backward. But that's the road we're on. #SCOTUS is working hard on taking rights away. Even if they're not your favorite in all respects, please #vote for all Dems in November.
They were never "losers" or "suckers." They were great human beings who chose a hard path for many different reasons. They loved their country. They made sacrifices for the person on their left and right.
A person who doesn't even attempt to understand that bond should never be Commander in Chief. #MemorialDay
I'm confused as to why yesterday MSNBC had Crowdstrike & think tank guy Dmitri Alperovich (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Alperovitch) on as a Chinese strategy expert wrt Taiwan reunification. There are hundreds of top retired DOD or State Dept personnel more qualified to discuss this topic. How did he end up in MSNBC's rotation of talking heads? Well, apparently he recently wrote a book it even though it doesn't seem to have been a top focus of his career. Wonder what I should write a book on?
@Nonya_Bidniss fwiw his book was pretty good (and there were some pertinent tie-ins with his career) but I’d read books by you even faster. Get writin’ please! 😉
Amazing. I was just listening to Jasmine Crockett on The Bulwark and she related a story of two members of Congress who'd had their student loan debt relieved and they DIDN'T KNOW WHY. They were trying to figure out what happened. And we wonder about how low-info our voters are when we have Congress members so completely uninformed about what #Biden has done?! 🤦♂️ 🤬 😩 #USPolitics p.s. someone tell Tim Miller "emigrating" is a word. Jeez. Americans aren't planning on "immigrating" from the U.S.
"More people were killed by U.S. law enforcement in 2023 than any other year in the past decade, outpacing population growth eightfold. But despite a focus on urban areas, fatal police violence is increasingly happening in small town America at the hands of sheriffs, the top law enforcement officials in counties nationwide." #policehttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/county-sheriffs-deaths-accountability/
No-paywall archive link.
WSJ: Foreign Purchase of U.S. Ammo Maker Sparks National-Security Battle; Opponents of deal stress need for American ownership amid gunpowder shortage and concern over China-Russia influence
Brings back memories. Years ago I provided input to CFIUS for the Pentagon office that I worked for. Important process. Many reporters pronounce it wrong. It's "SIF-ee-us." #military#CFIUS#natsec https://archive.is/HmxtA
Babies are suing the South Korean government over weak effort to combat #climate change. “It will send a message: all countries need to take action in order to tackle this global crisis, and there are no exceptions,” https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01457-y
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone seems to be a popular #scifi book lately so I've been working my way through it but tbh so far it's pretty awful. I hope it gets better as I'm tempted to stop. #bookstodon
"Multiple phenomena are at work, but the two most important are these: First is the fact that members of the mainstream #media whose job it is to both inform and contextualize the nation’s politics have lost their nerve. Terrified of accusations of being “out of touch” at best and “liberally biased” at worst, they have abdicated any responsibility to render even the most fundamental judgments of what is and isn’t true when it comes to Trump." https://newrepublic.com/article/181287/can-america-possibly-elect-trump-again