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Despite its popularity, Troodon is actually considered a wastebasket taxon and a dubious genus. One of the biggest factors to its dubious status is the fact that the holotype specimen is a single tooth.
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#Do some of you guys remember when I used to make lil update posts on the dates I went on? 👀❤️#And those updates stopped at person number 3? On January 6th? I forgot to mention it earlier but we’re officially together 🥺💕#This morning we were talking about books and I came to a realisation that I haven’t finished a single book this year so far#(After reading 58+ books last year 😳)#That conversation made me realise that it’s because I’m just so happy now 🥺#I read so much last year as a form of escapism and now I struggle to finish any book because I feel content 🥺🥺#2022 was the worst year of my life and so everyday now just feels like a blessing#While my bf was taking a shower this morning I went to grab us a baguette and I just felt so jolly in the sunlight and just full of love#I’m 1000% certain that things always get better and I wish I could scream that to my hopeless past self#I hope the rest of the year will be kind to us all 🥹
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Another great moment in presidential history. Based on an idea by Cathode Ray Tube on Twitte and carried on out Craiyon, an AI art tool. June 29, 2022.
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FDR throwing a plate against the wall, ketchup dripping down. #2. Based on an idea by Cathode Ray Tube on Twitter. June 28, 2022.
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Volodomyr Zelensky and the people of Ukraine stood heroically firm. The Iranian people bravely rose up. At home, the American electorate rejected the worst of the election deniers and continued its rebuke of Trumpism for the third straight election. Congress passed a fair amount of reasonable legislation, including the Electoral Count Act. The January 6th Committee conducted itself seriously and honorably and in the course of its work documented a great deal of important evidence which was not previously known. Partly as a consequence of their labors—which were dismissed both early and late as being obscure and inconsequential—the Department of Justice now seems likely to try to enforce some accountability not just for the foot soldiers, but for the leaders of the insurrection. And for Donald Trump.
What happened in 2022 was as remarkable as it was unexpected. And as a result, we enter 2023 in better shape than we could have reasonably hoped a year ago.
William Kristol writing in The Triad – a Substack by Bulwark+.
Yep, 2022 was not exactly perfect but it was WAY better than it could have been. When we’re united and positive and recognize our common core values we are more likely to make progress and resist authoritarianism.
#2022#a better year than expected#volodymyr zelenskyy#invasion of ukraine#failure of russia#nato expansion#resistance to iranian theocracy#mahsa amini#select committee to investigate the january 6th attack on the united states capitol#defeat for election deniers#election 2022#donald trump#electoral count act#respect for marriage act#inflation reduction act#infrastructure#ketanji brown jackson#expansion of healthcare for veterans#college debt relief#minimum corporate income tax
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Shonka Dukureh, who played Big Mama Thornton in Baz Luhrmann's Elvis, found dead in Nashville home
Shonka Dukureh, who had her first big screen experience with Baz Luhrmann's new movie 'Elvis', has died at the age of 44. Dukureh, who played Big Mama Thornton in the movie Elvis, was found dead on the floor in the house she shared with her two children, according to the Nashville Police Department. Read more details...
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they went after the trump org CFO Allen Weisselburg and nailed him down so he would testify against the trump org and trump himself.
then they went after the trump org and in that process got even more evidence against trump and his family.
and now they need to go after trump personally
#like to charge reblog to cast#i most sincerely hope they are following this strategy in the january 6th insurrection as well#it's how they prosecute the mafia- round up all the little fish to get the big fish#trump#trump organization#december 2022
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Steve Scalise, the GOP House Minority Whip has been on Fox News and talk radio and for months about how he couldn’t consider the legitimacy of the Jan. 6th committee because “they haven’t said whether Nancy Pelosi even called the National Guard to protect the Capitol”
now it comes out that he was literally standing there in the same room, cowering from rioters with Pelosi when she made the call
just a complete and total lie
his staffers either thought he was telling the truth when he spun that line of BS or helped him cover it up, which also makes them liars
#2020#2022#us#united states#jan 6#january 6th#dc#capitol riot#steve scalise#nancy pelosi#donald trump#so fucking stupid
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#mark hamill#Star Wars#star wars holiday special#If you aren't following the hearings this is shade#Idiot lawyer Eastman asked Rudy for a pardon#Actually put it in writing#Dumb ass is going to prison#January 6th#june 2022
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A Prescient Warning
I have been saying for more than two years now that the name “Trump” should not even be on the ballot in the next presidential election. More and more, it seems that name is the most likely to be on the ballot with a big “R” next to it in 2024. I am not alone … our friend Robert Reich agrees and perhaps his words carry more weight than mine …
Warning (if you needed it): Trump is nuts, and…
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Day 2 of the January 6th committee hearings: There's absolutely no proof that the 2020 Presidential election was stolen. Trump just repeated his own lie and refused to leave.
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1/6 Comic - Thoughts
Disclaimer: The Very Canadian Brain Gremlin waxes political therein. Proceed ahead if you're not too exhausted by the North American climate. Feel free to skip this if you'd rather go for something more cheerful, I'll entirely understand.
Last year, and pretty much ever since, we've all had a series of painful reminders of how fragile democracy and peace can both be. January 6th 2022 is a day that'll live on in infamy in this aspect, no matter if you are or aren't American. As a Canadian, seeing the next-door neighbor more or less have a violent and self-destructive seizure that could've ended in far, far more blood than what was already spilled was chilling, largely because most of everyone who's grown up between the Ministerships of Pierre Elliott Trudeau and his son, we considered America to be the occasionally fractious, but mostly stable next-door relative we either loved, or loved to poke fun at.
A year ago, I and several others earned an object lesson on what it feels like to fear America. Not in the "I'm a terrorist hiding from drone strikes in a foxhole" sense, but in the sense that the entire apparatus that is democracy could go frightfully wrong at practically every Congressional session. The fact that it doesn't is both a small miracle and a testament of the effects of a handful of watchdog policies that a dwindling political elite still holds onto. With the Republicans now holding majority in the House of Representatives and Kevin McCarthy's role as Speaker needing several days' worth of a dog-and-pony show to be confirmed, we're again shown that there's major defects in the system, loopholes that allow charlatans to use a democratically-elected position as a sort of Reality Show of self-righteousness and jingoism - typically in the hopes of bolstering their brand.
It might pale in comparison to January 6th, but it still worries me. You shouldn't get to sit at the House of Reps to dunk on your rivals or to land Twitter buzzwords for the right crowd, but in order to speak for and to your constituents.
1/6 is what you get when a Black Harvard Law professor (Alan Jenkins) teams up with an Israeli American activist who's dabbled in comics (Gan Golan). It's effectively a speculative fiction, sketching out a late 2022 that unfolds very differently from our own version of the recorded events. Sometimes, the changes are as simple as suggesting that Officer Eugene Goodman could've actually failed in diverting the crowd for a few crucial seconds. Instead of going left, the MAGA crowd and the QAnon hardcore push right and overrun the single cop posted there.
They run into Mike Pence, who's just in the process of being ushered away from the Capitol.
Disaster follows.
Some aspects of the tale feel believable, to a degree. We're shown Stateside militias being given judicial powers by a now power-hungry Donald Trump, and TV news broadcasts being shut down in accordance to the "Fair and Balanced News Act" of 2022. The anchor protests, demands that the cameras keep rolling and cites his First Amendment rights to an Oakley-wearing and tacwear-sporting gentleman with a Union Jack festooned on his helmet.
He, snidely, asks the man if he's heard of the Second Amendment - and shoots him in cold blood.
In another part of Washington, we're shown that a rift is forming in the first-hour MAGA faithful. Most tow the line and willfully ignore blatant lies, but some have paid the insurrection's price with the blood of their loved ones. The truth of what happened is burned in their minds - and their allegiance is tested. Can you still bleed red when your compatriots hold up lies you, yourself, do not condone, even as a lifelong Republican?
We're also shown "blue plate specials" - as in, diners serving as fronts for a Democratic resistance, in the midst of their managing to save and account for 2022's electoral ballots. In this reality, it's the Democrats who know the election was stolen from them - and with hardcopy proof, this time around.
Then, there's what's arguably less believable. Take, for instance, banner-holding drones cruising down Pennsylvania Avenue as the Dotard-in-Chief has what's suggested to be one of several military parades in his honor, with other drones blasting snippets of Trump's various diatribes on a loop, to the glee of an exultant crowd. Not far from the Lincoln Memorial, a ten-foot gold-plated statue of Trump posing with a thumbs up and a Bible is the object of Instagram stories - with several panels having an almost Riefenstahl-esque tone to them. Triumph of the Most Bigly Will, if you would.
Jenkins has his "MAGAtstaffel" pin the sacking of the Capitol on Black Lives Matter proponents, and insinuates that bonafide death squads could've started prowling Democratic fiefdoms like Chicago. Another statue is unveiled, giving us a Neoclassic Jacob Chansley with horns, spear and all, carved out of granite for the next several generations to gawk at.
It's all certainly striking, it does have airs of a fairly well ruminated speculative fiction - but it's big. It's unsubtle. It misses the mark where any murder of a government official would've only been another marker on a slow downwards curve, and the fact that most left-leaning judicial bodies wouldn't have bowed down without a fight. God knows us Progressives like to wax concepts like ACAB, while forgetting that in extreme situations like this, we likely would've seen a few good souls step into view from the midst of even North America's most hated Civil Service corps, from cops to firefighters.
1/6 effectively posits the idea that America would've taken it lying down, that the international community wouldn't have weighed in on the matter. It skips over trade embargoes, locked borders and all the disadvantages of Isolationism, and is so preoccupied with yelling "Watch out!" - with good reason, I'll admit - that it forgets to actually make sense.
What struck me after reading through the first issue was this was effectively the American Left's little Red Dawn moment, in complete ignorance of the fact that playing with the same narrative devices as John Milius' doesn't exactly make for a good look.
I get it, we're all afraid of those self-styled zealots with M16s on a personal crusade to put the worst comb-over to ever grace the airwaves back into the White House. We're afraid of what they represent. I'm from Montreal, for God's sake, and even I wince and cringe whenever some moron shows up with a MAGA hat - even if I can see the dumb irony of unilingual Francophones thinking that the son of Fred Trump would give a damn about them.
The thing is, giving these chucklenuts any sort of attention that gets media coverage fuels them. The best defense I've ever found against airwaves from the chigger-infested backwoods of Northern Quebec that blast raw sewage and distilled hatred is to change the channel, to excise them from my mind.
We've had our own scares over the past years. Trump didn't just galvanize America's morons, his discourse found ears and hearts as far up as Baie-Comeau, where the Saint Lawrence's valley gives way to tundra and entire seas of dark green pines, and where anyone coming up from Quebec City - or God forbid, Montreal - feels like an alien. Lovecraft's Innsmouth, basically - just with less brine and more red flannel.
For a few years, La Meute (translated as "The Pack") represented French Canadian MAGATs, usually uneducated rubes with barely a fourth year in High School but decades of ingrained mistrust and hatred for practically anyone who wasn't local.
Did you make it to University? You were poisoned, according to them. Are you in favor of Montreal's famous open-mindedness and lauded multiculturalism? You're a sheep, or so they'd tell you. Quebec would only, only ever be truly saved the moment we'd renounce our secular ways, went back to Sunday Masses given in Latin, and locked our women where they belong. In the kitchen, naturally.
They showed up in campuses and parks, outfitted in the Sporting Goods section of the local Canadian Tire. Armed, dangerous and ready.
We laughed them out of town.
Occasionally, we hear about a few of 'em making a splash down West, grouping up with the equally-inefficient Far Right militias in Alberta or Saskachewan. Americans think of a few dozen guys, all well-drilled and in a well-stocked compound, when they hear that word.
We Quebec natives think of cowards hiding behind Facebook posts, who then come crying when the RCMP arrests them for fucking around with hunting pistols and rifles during an Instagram video upload. Most of them are barely in their twenties.
They're young and confused. Angry at things they can't even name.
We love our stand-up comics, up here. Laughter might be the best medicine, it's also a pretty badass weapon in its own right.
So, yeah. I understand what Jenkins and Galan are driving at, but it feels as dangerous to me, if not moreso, than actually trying to confront the problem on an equal footing.
I'd recommend as a thought-provoking exercise in speculative fiction, but nothing more.
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Adieu '22
Adieu ’22
I avoid ever saying this is the worst about anything because to me that is tempting fate.
Invariably life will answer you back with, really, then try this, and you will find yourself wishing and dreaming and hoping of what you once thought was the worst because in retrospect you had no idea how truly “worst” things could get.
Somehow it can still get worse
All that being said, 2022 was by no…
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I understand how important it is to be able to criticize the President, and am not at all of the belief he should be beyond critique, but the critiquing of Biden makes me so nervous. (That's not to say I agree with every decision he's made - I absolutely do not). But I feel like people see things he's done wrong and decide they won't vote for him because of it. I'm not sure if enough people have the ability to see that he's done things wrong but also is our only hope of staving off literal fascism.
So many people talk about how sick they are of it constantly being a lesser of two evils situation, constantly having to vote for a candidate they hate because the other side is worse (I heard it in 2020, 2022, etc), and I guess I just- I don't really get it? We're here because they didn't do that in 2016. All of this could've been avoided had the result been different then. I just feel like people don't comprehend how different of a place we'd be in if Hillary won and engage in all this cognitive dissonance to make themselves feel better about being part of the reason she didn't.
Like.... this has been a long-running topic of discussion on my blog, not least because it is so inexplicable and maddening. It also shows how terribly shallow most people's understanding of the American political process is, and how toxic the "I can only vote for a candidate if every single personal belief/position of theirs matches mine" belief is, as well as how much damage it has done to American democracy even (and indeed, especially) by people who technically don't identify as right-wing. Yell at Republicans all you like (God knows I do, because they're the worst people on earth) but they vote. Every time. Every election. Every candidate. Whereas the Democratic electorate still holds out for Mister Perfect, and it very definitely is Mister Perfect. The amount of "evil HRC!!!" Republican-poisoned Kool-Aid that so-called progressives drank in 2016, and then afterward when they insisted they could have voted for someone like Elizabeth Warren and then didn't do that in 2020, is... baffing.
Frankly, I don't care if Hillary Clinton's personal positions on XYZ issue were the most Neoliberal Corporate Centrist Shill to Ever Shill (and Online Leftists' intellectual skills being what they are, I seriously doubt that they were using any of those words correctly and/or accurately). American policy is not made by "personal dictate of the ruler," or at least it shouldn't be, because we are not an absolute monarchy. We rely on the operation of a system with input from many people. As such, if Hillary had been elected, we would have 2-3 new liberal justices on SCOTUS and have secured civil and environmental rights for the next generation. Roe would be intact, and all the other terrible rulings that SCOTUS has recently handed down wouldn't have happened. We wouldn't have had January 6th, the attempt to stage a coup, all the tawdry scandals, our national security being at risk because of Trump stealing classified documents and probably selling them to Russia and/or Saudi Arabia, etc etc. If you think that's in any way an equivalent amount of evil to what would have happened if Hillary was elected, or if she was "still evil!!!," then I honestly don't know what to tell you. She could fucking murder puppies in her spare time if she had preserved SCOTUS for us, WHICH SHE WOULD HAVE, BECAUSE SHE WARNED US EXACTLY WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN.
(Hoo. Sorry. Still steamed. 2016 war flashbacks, again.)
In short, Hillary would have been a solid continuity Democrat and she would have signed whatever legislation a Democratic House and Senate passed, not to mention been hugely inspiring as the first female president. But because it's so important to the Online Leftists' moral sense of themselves that BOTH PARTIES ARE THE SAME!!!, they can't possibly acknowledge that ever being a factor, and/or admit that they have any culpability in not voting for her in 2016. It's like when you read the British press about any of the UK's equally numerous problems, and they BEND OVER BACKWARD to avoid mentioning that Brexit might be a factor. They just can't mention it, because then that means they might have made the wrong choice in pulling for it as hard as they did, and blah blah Sovereignty.
Basically, if HRC had been elected president, everything would be so much less terrible and terrifying all the time, we would be talking about her successor in 2024 as someone else who could be the "first," we could explore handing the reins over to Kamala as a Black/Asian woman, we could promote Buttigieg as the first gay president, etc etc. But because 2016 was so catastrophically fucked up, we are in damage control mode for the immediate future and every election is just as pivotal. And yet, because people think that the only thing that matters is a presidential candidate's personal views, we're stuck having the same old arguments and desperately begging people over and over to please vote against fascism, since that somehow isn't self-evident enough on its own. Yikes on Bikes.
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Democrat Elaine Luria’s closing campaign message.
Ms. Luria is running for re-election from VA-02 in what may be the closest US House race this year. Her opponent is Trump Republican Jen Kiggans who is following the Elise Stefanik playbook of abandoning previous moderate views and going full MAGA in a fit of putting ambition ahead of decency.
Rep. Luria is on the House January 6th Committee. Obviously the Trump Republicans don’t like having her expose their complicity with the pro-Trump terrorists who assaulted the US Capitol.
People may remember Rep. Luria as the committee member who made public the cowardice of Trump Republican Senator Josh Hawley.
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So the far right has targeted Elaine Luria for making one of their icons look like an object of national ridicule. Hawley memes quickly proliferated after she showed that clip.
Late night comedians had fun with the footage of the hypocritical wingnut. Trevor Noah’s reaction was classic.
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Elaine Luria is a genuine protector of democracy and human rights including LGBTQ rights. She has a 100 rating from the Human Rights Campaign. Contributing to her campaign is easy via ActBlue. ActBlue accepts donations as small as $1.
#elaine luria#va-02#us house of representatives#lgbtq rights#the closest house race in 2022#assault on the us capitol by pro-trump terrorists#select committee to investigate the january 6th attack on the united states capitol#trump republicans#josh hawley#trevor noah
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