Notices by Marv Clowder (marvclowder@mstdn.jp)

@sennoma

It's only stupid if they're well-intentioned. They're not.

@inthehands

@br00t4c

Because Brexit has worked out so well!

Only two (2) days until the Ides of March! Look sharp!

@WarnerCrocker

We may be in more trouble than I thought.

@WarnerCrocker

The King's English or?

@br00t4c

*Now* they figure it out?

I'm starting to think politicians aren't the best we've got.

@br00t4c

Effectual.

@hn50

Very North Korea, there Lar.

Thanks for suggesting it.

@bmacDonald94

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/20/us/cecile-richards-death-planned-parenthood/index.html

Cecile Richards, the former president of Planned Parenthood, has died, her family said Monday in a statement. She was 67.

“This morning our beloved Cecile passed away at home, surrounded by her family and her ever-loyal dog, Ollie. Our hearts are broken today but no words can do justice to the joy she brought to our lives,” it read.

@br00t4c

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-transition-news-11-17-24#cm3lmlt1300003b6mdwza9gtb

[...]

Pressed on the allegations against Gaetz of sexual misconduct, Miller replied, “I put the allegations aside. He’s never going to get confirmed. I’m looking at him as a member of Congress and the job that he has done here, and it has been abhorrent.”

Despite saying Gaetz’s actions should be disqualifying for the position, Miller was clear he wouldn’t break with Trump over the decision.

Rep. Austin Scott, another House Republican who has criticized Gaetz in the past, said the former Florida congressman would not have been his choice, naming Rep. Trey Gowdy and former Rep. Doug Collins as potential alternatives. But, he added, “I’m not Donald Trump.”

“It wasn’t my decision to make,” Scott said.

@br00t4c

The old conspiracies are the best!

(Or should I say what is old is new again!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation_controversy#Communist_conspiracy_theory_(1940s%E2%80%931960s)

@persagen

“We will build new pipelines, oil and gas facilities, petrochemical plants, hydrogen plants, and more because Alberta is an energy superpower, and we will not apologize for it,” said the premier, who was defiant against the federal government and any attempts to regulate energy and greenhouse gas emissions.

@Daojoan

We could just start over.

@amaditalks @Bellison22

Mitch McConnell enabled Trump every step of the way, refusing to convict him in impeachment — twice – creating and then immediately disregarding a rule to help him pack the same court that is blocking the effort to hold him accountable for his crimes. Nothing he has to say about Trump, short of an apology to the American people and an endorsement of Kamala Harris, is worthwhile. He is complicit In every Trump crime.

@JuliusGoat

They don't call it Jupiter for nothing.

@JuliusGoat

The money quote, as it were:

"What's extraordinary about this is that it's all just assumed. Republicanism or American Nazism or white supremacy or whatever you want to call it is normal because it has to be normal, because if it wasn't normal than we'd have to say it wasn't, and then we'd have a lot of things to unpack and fix and solve, and that might get us into time and money."

@WarnerCrocker @pbump @davew

You have, of course, seen this:

(Could we email it to every ""undecided" voter?)

https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/autocracy-and-poverty