George Santos, that darling of chameleons everywhere, has finally been thrown in gaol (jail).

Not for his defrauding of the American voters to become a Congressperson though; nly for defrauding people out ofntheir money to support his preferred lifestyle.

The defence wanted 2 years, but the judge gave him 7 (87 months) followed by 2 years of supervised release. George has indicated previously that if he went to gaol (jail) he wanted to be in solitary - he might be regretting that request now.

He spent the time leading up to sentencing claiming the trial was a "witch hunt", etc, which didn't help his claim that he was sorry and regretted his action at the sentencing hearing.

#GeorgeSantos #USA #Justice #Courts

Daughter, PhD student in Australia and member of PhD student groups involving folks all around the world, has been warned (as have all the others) not to travel to or even via the USA for conferences without scrubbing ALL social media and private info (e-mail, etc).

This is government advice, not just students talking to students.

The world is going to have to align around the USA, rather than with it.

#USA #University #Travel #SocialMedia #Fascism #Gilead #PHD

@BLTpizza

"President Trump is a candidate who is not afraid of hearing from new, loud and often critical voices, and I think we all can agree, whether people like him or they don't like him, in light of what happened to him on Saturday, he has proven to be one tough S.O.B.," O'Brien said.

That Sean O'Brien? 🙄

@w7voa

@BLTpizza

Yeah, the union is great, but O'Brien is a numbskull who thought sucking up to Trump (while slamming big corporations) would protect his members.

@w7voa

@Sinistar7510

@georgepenney

Don't look now, but there's a ghost cat in your coffee ... 😻

How could you possibly drink that? 😄

Well, that didn't take long.

We had a similar thing start down here in Australia, that was thankfully stomped on.

For the people in the back: 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗻 𝗼𝗻. 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗯𝗶𝗿𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁.

https://azmirror.com/2025/01/24/reports-of-navajo-people-being-detained-in-immigration-sweeps-sparks-concern-from-tribal-leaders/

#USPol #NavajoNation

@inthehands

Those folk can afford the insurance that will let them rebuild lickety-split. The average person can't.

@heiseonline

For those wanting to see it in action ...

https://youtu.be/VvmmkAKWnfk?si=HEYE2pQPWRQvGb-Z

Pretty darn cool!

@vegos_f06

No, but you can buy a bit of kit that lets you have fun. You remember 𝘧𝘶𝘯, right?

And yes, for some of us, it IS a pain to learn guitar; literally.

@ahoernchen @heiseonline

@ahoernchen

Alternatively: Good for folks like me who could never get the hang of playing guitar in all my 60+ years.

It's really no different to Guitar Hero, or using a midi keyboard. If it gets people playing, who cares?

@heiseonline

"Just Google it!" Is no longer an acceptable answer when someone asks a question. Google's LLM-driven responses are neither accurate nor trustworthy. People are a much better source of information now. As always, verify with secondary sources.

#Google #LLM #AI

Denialism isn't a political stance, it's a philosophical one. That's why both right- and left-wing people indulge in it.

Anybody who can be convinced that something is true against evidence otherwise is wide open to being convinced regarding denialism — of anything. HIV/AIDS, COVID, transgender, sexism, racism, etc.

Which is why political efforts to defeat denialism will never work. The only way to defeat it is through education, from kindergarten up. All age groups, all the time.

#Denialism #Climate #Racism #Bigotry #Sexism #Hate #Health #Religion #Science #Facts #Education

@persagen

It's going to be random people in jobs they know nothing about, isn't it?

@jeffowski

Absolutely! One must not tolerate intolerance, and I see no paradox in that statement.

@jeffowski

That's a little biased; there are other book clubs just as violent. The Quran club is very popular in many places, and its members can be just as gung ho.

@Alex_D

They sorta were. Then Viktor Mihály Orbán happened. 😒

@TarkabarkaHolgy

@bacchus1234

«70-year-old Bob Judson explained, “I didn’t put much credence in [the evidence about Mark Robinson's porn site posts]. We’ve all done things in our past that we’re sorry for. Some of the things are crazy,” before adding, “I mean if we just went on that, we wouldn’t be here for Trump, would we?”»

Therein lies the root problem with modern US Politics; indeed, politics around the world. People are willing to forgive their populist leader anything, as long as that leader promises to give them what they think they want.

#USPol #MarkRobinson #NorthCarolina #GOP

@Kozmo

Return to the lion's den; good move. If Trump refuses (and I think he will) it can only be because he is scared of her. After all, he knows the CNN folk favour him and he beat Biden there.

#USPol #Trump #Harris #CNN

Over the next few years, more and more of the "Active Shooter Drill" generation are going to be eligible to vote. Right along side them are the youth growing up understanding climate change and the overt and covert roles the US plays in other countries.

Change is coming.

And there's nothing Republicans can do about it.

#USPol #Republican