The Crypto Con 0
From the Youtube page:
A story broke this weekend which exposed that the founder and leader of Reform UK, Nigel Farage, had been gifted £5 million by a Thai cryptocurrency billionaire shortly before announcing his intention to stand for election. It is another example of how while claiming to be a man of the people – Farage is actually raking it in, and beholden to the super-rich and exploiting their resource and control of media to make a bid for power and policies that will benefit them. On Sunday he withdrew from a BBC interview at the last minute, hoping that avoiding questions (before Thursday’s local elections across the UK) will allow him to benefit from voters’ anger at the failings of the main two parties.
Still Rising Again after All These Years, Reprise 0
The Rude One argues that the Supreme Supremacist Court has traded in their robes of black for the gray.
(Warning: Rudeness.)
Merchants of Death 0
Thom discusses the Trump maladministration’s recent actions that make it easier for nutbags to buy guns.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At AL.com. Kyle Whitmire reports that, in Alabama, the New Secesh are already planning to take advantage of the Supreme Supremacist Court’s recent decision further gutting the Voting Rights Act.
Image via Job’s Anger.
Artificial Intelligent—->Real Incineration 0
SFgate reports on a study showing that data centers being built to fuel the use of AI may do significant harm to the environment. A snippet:
Trumpled Allies 0
Trudy Rubin stands aghast at the mean for the sake of mean. Here’s how she opens her article:
After the suspension in November of a resettlement program for Afghans who helped U.S. soldiers and civilians, the Trump administration is now trying to send up to 1,100 of such Afghan refugees to the Democratic Republic of Congo. These include former interpreters for the U.S. military, former members of the Afghan Special Operations forces who worked alongside their U.S. counterparts, and families of U.S. service members — including about 400 children.
Turnabout 0
As my old professor of the early federal period, Professor Shade, was fond of saying, “History is irony.”
Republican Family Values 0
Thom talks with Alex Lawson about how Republican policies are destroying rural hospitals and eroding health care to enable billionaires to buy more yachts.
The Disqualifier 0
Robert Reich offers a theory as to what would disqualify someone from being a member of Donald Trump’s cabinet. A snippet; follow the link for his reasoning.
You can be in charge of public health and cause measles to reemerge as a major hazard to Americans, and still keep your job.
You can be illegally enriching yourself and your family as Commerce Secretary, and still keep your job.
But you’ll be fired for actively and unnecessarily getting bad press.
Stray Thought 0
Under a properly run government, citizens are not continually surprised by what their government just did and don’t find themselves worrying about what the heck it’s going to do next.
Suffer the Children 0
As has been well established by now, that’s not scripture. That’s a Republican family value.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
The hunt for politeness continues:
Guns and stupid, guns and stupid.
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you brother,
You can’t have one without the other.