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Posted: January 22, 2020 Filed under: just because 15 Comments
Yesterday’s Senate showdown? Didn’t see it, but my dad had it on the TV all day. From his heated “criticism” at the people on the screen (he fact-checks the GOP during the hearings/trial) it seems like I did not miss much.
Just a side note, as of now 1:43am the trial shitvote is ongoing:
Yeah, #ImAwake status update is trending on Twitter!
Then there is this,
The whole thing is a joke.
Stepping away from our failing democracy, could it be said that the final stage of a tRump dictatorship has been tripped with this official first day of his impeachment trial?
Also:
Some science related pictures and videos:
You can play with an interactive map here.
More on earthquakes:
This is an open thread.
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I was just coming to post this link Dak
That Tapper tweet to the Saudis … Powerful.
Agree we should air-drop all the climate-change deniers.
Tulsi Gabbard is suing Hillary because Tulsi will never win the popular vote. Interesting choice of law firm, eh?
Josh Marshall has a very interesting POV on this:
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/this-is-super-big-and-its-not-impeachment
I don’t think it’s possible to be too cynical about Dump and Co.
Thugs with nuclear weapons. What could go wrong? But Hillary was a hawk and had emails.
(Looks like an interesting article, but maybe flag stuff which is paywalled in future. Frustrating to click on a link and find out they just wanted to use up some of my bandwidth.) Maybe somebody who subscribes can give us the gist?
It’s behind a paywall for me too.
Sad news:
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/jan/22/terry-jones-monty-python-founder-and-life-of-brian-director-dies-aged-77
Terry Jones has passed.