Wednesday Reads: Is it him?
Posted: March 9, 2022 | Author: JJ Lopez aka Minkoff Minx | Filed under: Black Women Lead, COVID19, GLBT Rights, morning reads, open thread, Political and Editorial Cartoons, Putin’s War, Russia-Ukraine War |30 Comments
I think it is…
The mysterious case of Vladimir Putin and Ronald Reagan | Russia | The Guardian https://t.co/wGJSGT9Iq0
— JJ Lopez (@MinkoffMinx) March 8, 2022
According to Obama’s photographer, this is Putin. According to Putin, this is not Putin | by Luisa Rollenhagen | Timeline https://t.co/j8ahxTfgkk
— JJ Lopez (@MinkoffMinx) March 8, 2022
Now then, cartoons from Cagle website:

























































— mike luckovich (@mluckovichajc) March 7, 2022
— mike luckovich (@mluckovichajc) March 8, 2022

A few more instagram for #InternationalWOMENSDay
In solidarity with the women of Ukraine.
— #WOMENSART (@womensart1) March 8, 2022
Artwork by Maria Oksentiyivna Prymachenko, Ukrainian folk art #InternationalWomensDay pic.twitter.com/nabxm40oBm
Textile artist Darci Read, “Feminist Quilt” #WomensArt#InternationalWomensDay pic.twitter.com/wt4fS3mVXV
— #WOMENSART (@womensart1) March 8, 2022
' I wanted to show the history and strength of all kinds of black women' Elizabeth Catlett #InternationalWomensDay pic.twitter.com/He9BdXbp6g
— #WOMENSART (@womensart1) March 8, 2022
"As long as I live I will have control over my being" Artemisia Gentileschi #womensart #InternationalWomensDay pic.twitter.com/vhRXz1pfm1
— #WOMENSART (@womensart1) March 8, 2022
Some updates:
A bomb cyclone could slam eastern U.S. Saturday with wintry blasthttps://t.co/t3sgcNKayg
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 8, 2022
IAEA says it has lost contact with Chernobyl nuclear data systems.
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) March 9, 2022
The Chernobyl nuclear power plant is no longer transmitting data to the UN watchdog, the agency says, voicing concern for staff working under Russian guard at the Ukrainian facilityhttps://t.co/rzgZhLjAij pic.twitter.com/kaZvsTN7bn
We will be temporarily closing all restaurants and pausing all operations in Russia. Click to read the message from our CEO in its entirety: https://t.co/ncoB2A8GC6
— McDonald's (@McDonalds) March 8, 2022
McDonald’s, Starbucks and Coca-Cola suspend business in Russia amid mounting public pressure https://t.co/ZvfCwOkA30
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 8, 2022
Pentagon all but declines Poland’s MiG-29 offer for Ukraine – The Washington Post https://t.co/pfmtyp8lLn
— JJ Lopez (@MinkoffMinx) March 9, 2022
A six-year-old girl died of dehydration in Mariupol. Her name was Tanechka. Her home was destroyed. Her mom died. The rescue service was too late because of continuous fighting. Imagine Tanechka’s last hours.#PutinIsaWarCriminal #StandWithUkraine️ #PutinsWar https://t.co/Oec3RV1JwH
— olexander scherba🇺🇦 (@olex_scherba) March 8, 2022
⚡️Russia suspends sale of foreign currency.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) March 8, 2022
Customers will be able to withdraw a maximum of $10,000 in foreign currency from their accounts. All other funds will now be paid in rubles.
Congress has passed legislation that would bolster the U.S. Postal Service. The bill approved by the Senate would also require six-day-a-week mail delivery. It now goes to President Joe Biden, who is expected to sign it into law.https://t.co/SE19eklOGh
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 9, 2022
i don't even have words https://t.co/pqj7DEbkI9
— ⚓️Imani Gandy⚓️ (@AngryBlackLady) March 8, 2022
A Florida landfill worker died after a colleague in a bulldozer accidentally ran over the port-a-potty he was using, authorities say. https://t.co/xiONPRVFyU
— NBC News (@NBCNews) March 9, 2022
Florida's monstrous 'Don't Say Gay' bill passes final hurdle and heads to governor's desk https://t.co/RRorRcBhNo
— PinkNews (@PinkNews) March 9, 2022
Dying from COVID robbed each American of…9 years of life at the lowest end of estimates and 17 at the highest. U.S. life expectancy fell by two years the largest such decline in almost a century. Why America Became Numb to COVID Deaths – The Atlantic https://t.co/esb5dzYK1H
— JJ Lopez (@MinkoffMinx) March 8, 2022
Billionaire-backed group enlists Trump-supporting citizens to hunt for voter fraud using discredited techniques https://t.co/QZbgK1NSMc
— JJ Lopez (@MinkoffMinx) March 8, 2022
Tea Pain has maintained from day 1 that everythin’ about Rand Paul – includin’ his Toupee – has Russia written all over it. https://t.co/kzMiLAXNKu
— Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) March 8, 2022
Some juicy names here. https://t.co/cg6kz6lCit
— Stacy Stateham (@StacyStateham) March 8, 2022
Thousands of Australians evacuated their homes after record rainfall caused what authorities are calling "one-in-a-one thousand-year" floods. pic.twitter.com/nOqowjkdli
— AJ+ (@ajplus) March 9, 2022
You should follow the his photographer:
Brave of @nytimes to put this shocking, jarring @lynseyaddario photograph on the front page. That poor family, trying to escape, all killed by #Russian mortar fire.
— Robert Lusetich (@RobertLusetich) March 7, 2022
There is no both-sides in this #RussianUkrainianWar #Putin killed these people. These are war crimes. pic.twitter.com/WLZnXdNmkV
Lots of elderly making it out of #Irpin today. Also lots of makeshift white flags | #Ukraine #Kyiv @AFP pic.twitter.com/CR5nwn7tGB
— Dylan Collins (@collinsdyl) March 8, 2022
Civilians evacuate the city of #Irpin, northwest of #Kyiv, during heavy shelling and bombing on March 5, 2022. #Ukraine #UkraineRussianWar pic.twitter.com/LzHt087Hli
— Aris Messinis (@ArisMessinis) March 5, 2022
Evacuation of the city of #Irpin, west of Kyin on March 7, 2022. #Ukraine #UkraineRussianWar pic.twitter.com/OlqOGEduzX
— Aris Messinis (@ArisMessinis) March 7, 2022
I have to end it here…
This is an open thread.
I’m so sorry that none of the instagram embeds are working. Please take the time to click on the link and check them out.
This is horrifying:
Putin using nukes without using nukes. He’s desperate to use nuclear terror, since it’s the last big card he’s got.
I just read an article in the London Times about how much chance there is of radiation coming from the waste just because it’s lost power to circulate water for cooling. Apparently, not much. But it doesn’t discuss what the situation will be if they decide to blow up some of those masses of concrete. Anyway, it could be worse. Here’s hoping Putin pops off and the situation can be solved.
Really terrifying.
Seems like there’s an 80s song for everything these days.
Yup, Entergy is blaming an “animal” again.
WordPress is completely messed up for me. I really had a hard time with my post yesterday and I’m having trouble seeing the embedded tweets. I hope it will be better tomorrow.
I can’t click on any of the links in the comments because the site refreshes and goes back to the top of the post.
For me the going back to the top of the post after refreshing has been going on for a couple of years. Annoying, but at least I could see the tweets. Then about a month ago I couldn’t see the tweets. I was using Safari. When I switched to Firefox I could see the tweets, but it still puts me back to the top of the page when I refresh — or after I post a comment.
What’s weird is another WordPress site in Safari handles the tweets just fine, although it stopped showing any emojis I put in. Technology — great when it works.
What I’m describing happens when I simply try to read a comment or click on a link. It doesn’t involve me refreshing, just trying to read comments. When writing my post Tuesday, it was a struggle just highlight text or insert links. WordPress did something the last couple of days that screwed things up.
Too true.
When Razzputin installed the Muscovite Candidate in the WH, he started believing his own mythology. That he is invincible and infallible. If he was ever a brilliant strategist (debatable) he is not one now. He is an infantile tyrant smashing things till he gets his way.
Atrocious! Putin’s bombing hospitals now, including a maternity hospital. Mothers, babies, pregnant women, nurses — very threatening to Putin. And only 18 other hospitals. War criminal. The US must do something more.
Putin has no morality. That’s been there to see ever since he became head of state. (Maybe he lost it. Maybe like the Dump he never had it. Doesn’t matter at this point.)
Putin’s stated goal from the outset was total demoralization which would result in surrender. It was supposed to take two to three days.
So instead of taking on board that he’s lost, he’s doubling down. He’s going to use worse and worse and worse tactics in hopes of snatching total demoralization from the jaws of his defeat. It doesn’t bear thinking about. But unless someone does the public service of removing him, we’ll find out anyway.
Does that art.brat.comics include men in their Women’s Day graphic? Sigh.
Re: “gender affirming” care. Idaho’s going about it in the wrong way, as are the other conservative states. They’re right about one thing: There are no ‘trans’ kids. What kid didn’t dislike their body during puberty? Especially girls, who have had a 4,000% increase in gender dysphoria in the last decade.
80%-90% of children outgrow gender dysphoria by the end of puberty, and most of them are lesbian or gay. Used to be that if a girl liked maths and the color blue, it was OK. Now it’s taken as a sign she’s ‘trans.’ Same with boys who like ballet and pink. Used to be the stereotypes were torn down. Now the stereotypes are confabulated with ‘gender.’ Gender = stereotypes. Sex is determined at conception. No one ‘assigns’ sex at birth — it’s observed.
“Puberty blockers” prevent natural maturation, and cause irreversible damage, including sterility. Lupron — brand name for one of the “puberty blockers” — is the drug forcibly given to Alan Turing to surgically castrate him. They also increase risk for osteoporosis and heart disease.
These kids aren’t old enough to vote, join the military, or buy alcohol — yet they are supposedly old enough to consent to plastic surgery and cross-sex hormones which will sterilize them? Does. Not. Make. Sense.
Sweden, Finland — those bastions of progressive thinking — have stopped “prescribing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to gender-dysphoric patients under the age of 18″ due to lack of evidence these are helpful, and due to evidence these are harmful.
Let children be children. Let them wear whatever colors they want, like whatever toys they want, and indulge in whatever interests they have without limiting them to stereotypes.
Exactly. Lost in all the Republican shit of inserting Republican legislators into every room in your house, is that they’re just scoring points in a stupid culture war they ginned up. Some kids really do need help with gender dysphoria, for some it’s a phase (you know how it is. Kids since forever.), for some it’s something else entirely.
The kids need useful and understanding adults for their specific situation. Not Republican (or even Dem!) legislators playing Sexist Straitjacket.
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy Dancing to Beyonce’s All the Single Ladies | In women’s heels | WW3
Now there’s a man who is secure with who he is
Yes! A man who knows he’s a man regardless of what he wears! Love this.
https://www.ft.com/content/2852b800-4a03-4cf6-a47f-65c306a22657
Why your gas costs so damned much! They’re not drilling they’re doing stock buybacks and record dividends which means also bonuses to management. Because of the tax structure, actually doing your business is disincented while playing around on Wall Street gets a lot of incentives.
“Big Oil on course for near-record $38bn in share buybacks
Seven majors set for supercharged stock purchasing on top of estimated $50bn of dividends”
Since the 1980s and definitely this decade, they’re better doing tricks like this than actually doing positive net present value (i.e. profitable) projects in the core business. Most extraction companies have active hedge fund activities that go well beyond hedging risk on price changes.
Was wondering. Thanks for the explanation.