1/7. US warns that Russia will invade Ukraine. General disbelief, daily Russian mockery. (December 3, 2021-February 24, 2022)
"He will define one group after another as the enemy. This might feel good, so long as you feel that you are on the right side of the line. But now fear is the essence of life. The politics of us-and-them, once begun, never ends."
Trump associates pay Russian agent who lies to Republicans who want to impeach Biden www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
Alexander Smirnov was paid $600,000 in 2020 – the same year he allegedly began lying to FBI about Bidens’ role in Ukraine business
Sharing Razom's guide for calling your elected representatives to support aid for Ukraine. www.votervoice.net/mobile/RAZOM...
this is a good thing. framing it as being weird and gross and reductively calling it cancer sucks!!! this is an opportunity for humanity to move past killing animals for food and people are treating it as a joke
Great news everyone! There's now a form of artificial meat that's extruded in a continuous, undead tube, and it grows by itself because scientists gave it cancer. freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...
This is mildly interesting: scientists have modified muscle cells in culture so that they produce their own growth factors. This is a major cost reduction, because now you won’t need to const…
i think it is great that we have an unelected supra-legislature that is completely unbound by precedent or public opinion or tradition or text and that effectively cannot be disciplined or checked by any other political actor in the system
"The Supreme Court has effectively replaced a very high bar for allowing insurrectionists into federal office — a supermajority vote by Congress [as specified in the 14th Amendment] — with the lowest bar imaginable: congressional inaction." www.nytimes.com/2024/03/04/o...
Its ruling on Trump’s eligibility for the presidency contradicts the clear language of the 14th Amendment.
