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Amen Sister Karine!

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/12/18/statement-from-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre-on-republicans-threatening-a-government-shutdown/?utm_source=link

The White House

December 18, 2024
Statement from Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Republicans Threatening a Government Shutdown

Sue Stone mastodon (AP)
Immigration is increasingly unpopular, even as labor forces depend on it | Semafor

https://www.semafor.com/article/12/20/2024/immigration-is-increasingly-unpopular-even-as-labor-forces-depend-on-it

Never have I felt so vindicated, or so shitty about being vindicated, as I do whenever I recall being loudly booed at an SF convention ten years ago for saying “Elon Musk is not Tony Stark, he’s not your friend, & he’s not out to save anyone or anything.”
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In my defense, I was left unsupervised.

Unicorn Riot mastodon (AP)
New: The parents of slain forest defender Manuel ‘Tortuguita’ Paez Terán filed a civil rights lawsuit Tuesday against three Georgia law enforcement officers they say are most responsible for the death of their child in January 2023

https://unicornriot.ninja/2024/parents-of-forest-defender-killed-by-police-file-civil-rights-lawsuit/

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Erik mastodon (AP)
This is why everyone needs a skeletor t-shirt
Skeletor t-shirt on midlifer who still does not use Bluetooth earplugs
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Jaden mastodon (AP)
What's yall favorite Christmas song?
Mine is Run Rudolph Run - Chuck Berry.
I first heard this on one a those home alone movies . Such a good song 🎵
Please reply and share and I see if I can compile a top 5 🤝🏾
#BestChristmasSongs
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LOL I love the “Hippopotimuses like me toooo” line. @Jaden3

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2024 Year in Review – Highlights from NASA in Silicon Valley by Tiffany Blake As NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley enters its 85th year since its founding, join us as we take a look back at some of our highlights of science, engineering, research, and innovation from 2024. Ames Arc Jets Play Key […]

Ben mastodon (AP)
Absolutely hate the lyrics 'holy infant so tender and mild'. Hate it. Disgusting.

KanaMauna mastodon (AP)
#FarSide desk calendar for December 18

#garylarson
#peterpan
Thirty years had passed, and although he had no real regrets about marrying Wendy, buying a home, and having two kids, Peter found his thoughts often going back to his life in Never-Never-Land.

AaronDavid mastodon (AP)
Eli the Bearded mastodon (AP)
Well of course not. Wrong gender.
AaronDavid mastodon (AP)
So K9's out then? 🙂
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Labour haven't a fucking hope....

#UKPOL #UKpolitics #Labour
Reeves says economic turnaround will 
 take time and Farage 'hasn't got a clue' 
 Chancellor pledges renewed focus on growth after Bank of 
 England warning that Britain is on brink of stagnation
The Swing Out Sister tribute act will be remembered for this by the voters, and not meaningless 'growth' which they never see the benefits of anyway.
Reeves has faced unhappiness from Labour MPs over her economic priorities 
 after cutting winter fuel payments for pensioners on modest incomes and 
 refusing to compensate Waspi women, as well as criticism from business 
 over increasing national insurance for employers.
she'll take our benefits away but she won't gaslight us about ever seeing the Good Times ever again, ....but oooo, she's the Iron Chancellor and we all like being abused don't we? Go on Miss, hit us again, we didn't go to Oxbridge, we deserve it...take away our coins, please....we deserve nothing but sadism after 14 years of Tory sadism, thanks....here's our votes you dumb bitch...
However, she declined to say exactly when people would start to feel better 
 off, suggesting it was a "subjective" matter and that she did not want to tell 
 the public the economy had recovered when that was not their own 
 experience. 
 "It will take time for that to be felt by people after the damage that's been 
 done the last few years. I don't want to gaslight people. I know that people 
 are really struggling."

Covidiocracy mastodon (AP)
Even some dildos from #Canada are getting in on the ass-kissing
ADSB Exchange screenshot showing C-GKCP registered to Canadian Pacific Railway Company having departed Palm Beach, perhaps after its executive(s) slobbered all over Donald Trump's shriveled little ding dong

The Hoover Dam is so impressive it should be called the Hoover Dayum.
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Dan Neuman hometown (AP)
@dabertime Add this to your resumé.

Gretchen Anderson mastodon (AP)
Sketched a friend’s house
A ranch house with trees behind and a flag in front


Edmonds_Scanner mastodon (AP)
Do you ever feel like the best Christmas present would be sleep?
Uninterrupted sleep, with no distractions, no responsibilities, just your atoms floating through the vast echo of time and space?
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Baloo Uriza mastodon (AP)
What a weird thing to say. If there's only room for two major consoles, then that's PlayStation and Xbox, because everything Nintendo put out after the N64 has been the biggest minor console.

https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2024/12/industry-analyst-argues-either-sony-or-microsoft-will-need-to-exit-the-console-market

#Gaming


kasdeya mastodon (AP)

Content warning: kinky shitpost, bratting

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Sally Strange mastodon (AP)
“You’re all horrible people. I’m glad y’all got this job to fuck with the homeless and not help society.”

--A homeless woman, in labor, being cited by Lt. Caleb Stewart for illegal camping in Louisville KY

“So I don’t for a second believe that this woman is going into labor."

--Lt. Caleb Stewart

The woman gave birth to a son (in the hospital) several hours later.

SCOTUS approved y'all! #USpol #Homeless #Misogyny

https://www.lpm.org/news/2024-12-19/pregnant-kentucky-woman-cited-for-street-camping-while-in-labor
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Christ, this is such bullshit. And, BTW, fuck you ABC. Fuck you a lot.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/trump-vows-pursue-more-defamation-claims-after-abc-news-settlement-2024-12-17/

Trump sues Des Moines Register, vows to pursue more defamation claims

By Helen Coster and Jack Queen

December 17, 2024 9:43 PM EST
Updated 3 days ago
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Lauren Weinstein mastodon (AP)
Apparently Musk will be joining Trump at an upcoming Pennsylvania rally, where the man whose companies do high security work for NASA and other agencies will presumably speak enthusiastically for a convicted felon and fascist who attempted to overthrow the U.S. government.

Musk's security clearances should be stripped and government agencies should cease doing business with any of his firms as rapidly as practicable. Not to do so is walking into a disaster, eyes wide open.
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Robert M mastodon (AP)
Revoke Musk's citizenship, seize his assets and deport him. #ElonMusk #uspolitics
From USCIS website. Link: https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-12-part-l-chapter-2

A person is subject to revocation of naturalization if he or she procured naturalization illegally. Procuring naturalization illegally simply means that the person was not eligible for naturalization in the first place. Accordingly, any eligibility requirement for naturalization that was not met can form the basis for an action to revoke the naturalization of a person. This includes the requirements of residence, physical presence, lawful admission for permanent residence, good moral character, and attachment to the U.S. Constitution.[1]

Discovery that a person failed to comply with any of the requirements for naturalization at the time the person became a U.S. citizen renders his or her naturalization illegally procured. This applies even if the person is innocent of any willful deception or misrepresentation.[2]
Petronis mastodon (AP)
To all those voters who thinks Trump is for the working class. Show me what Elon Musk has to do with helping the working class.
2 of the most devious and greedy oligarchs are already calling the shots in Washington. Tell me how its not all about benefitting them. This is how the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

OldAndcranky mastodon (AP)
tomorrow I put away my computer and attempt to not go online for a week (except to play spelling bee, connections, and wordle because I'm not.a masochist). Wish me luck. Family arrives on Monday. All hell breaks loose on Tuesday. Sugar coma begins on Wednesday.
Callalily mastodon (AP)
Good luck.

Dan Morgan :ksu: mastodon (AP)
Doing a DEEEP DIVE on some old hard drives here at the beginning of my vacay. I ripped my VHS copy of Queensrÿche’s Video: Mindcrime YEARS ago to a DVD. I had a single machine that would do that. Then sometime later I ripped that DVD to .m4v and saved it on an external HD. — Until today.

I also found my copy of Van Halen “Live Without a Net”, Tori Amos “live at Moureaux” and the stage play “Give ‘Em Hell Harry” starring James Whitmore.

Sure these are probably on YouTube now, but… hey still cool and my copies look pretty damn good… for 4:3 20 year old VHS rips. #genX #vhs
Alternate cover of Queensrÿche’s Operation: Mindcrime
#VHS #genx
Tywyll Seren mastodon (AP)
Good job!

Stefan Münz mastodon (AP)

Content warning: Wer noch auf X aktiv ist, unterstützt aktiv Nazis.

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Content warning: Wer noch auf X aktiv ist, unterstützt aktiv Nazis.


Sue Stone mastodon (AP)
"House Dem Accuses Musk of Killing Initial Spending Deal to Protect His Investments In China, Musk Hits Back With AI Image
"

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/house-dem-accuses-musk-of-killing-initial-spending-deal-to-protect-his-investments-in-china-musk-hits-back-with-ai-image/

Hey, we should totally build a leftover soup-powered cow milking machine!
Joel Michael mastodon (AP)
what do you think @trib ?
Stephen Collins mastodon (AP)
@jpm first question: is there enough leftover soup? After that, I don't much mind what the power source is so long as the vacuum/hydraulics all work.

MEActNOW mastodon (AP)
🚨THE HOUSE HAS PASSED a bill to avert a midnight shutdown.

THE BILL passed 366-34-1

170 Republicans voted yes, 196 Democrats voted yes. 34 REPUBLICANS VOTED NO. A total of

ZERO DEMOCRATS VOTED NO. DEMS SAVED AMERICANS AGAIN FROM the GOP 🤡s

Chuck Darwin mastodon (AP)
- @pluralistic

https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/20/clinical-trial-by-ordeal/

Realistically, few people are going to read a 900-page group work of neofeudalist fanfic shit out by the most esoteric Fedsoc weirdos the world has ever seen.

But one person who did read Project 2025 was the leftist historian Rick Perlstein, who was the first person to really dig into what a fucking messthat thing is:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/14/fracture-lines/#disassembly-manual
Perlstein's excellent analysis doesn't claim that Project 2025's authors aren't sincere in their intentions to wreak great harm upon the nation and its people;
rather, his point is that Project 2025 is filled with contradictory, mutually exclusive proposals written by people who fundamentally disagree with one another,
and who each have enough power within the Trump coalition that all of their proposals have to be included in a document like this:
https://prospect.org/politics/2024-07-10-project-2025-republican-presidencies-tradition/
Project 2025 isn't just a guide to the masturbatory fantasies of the worst people in American politics
– far more importantly, it is a detailed map of the fracture lines in the GOP coalition, the places where it is liable to split and shatter.
🔥This is an important point if you want to do more about Trumpism than run around feeling miserable and scared.
If you want to fight, Project 2025 is a guide to the weak spots where an attack will do the most damage.
Perlstein's insight continues to be borne out as the Trump regime makes ready to take power.
In a new story for KFF News, Stephanie Armour and Julie Rovner describe the irreconcilable differences among Trump's picks for the country's top public health authorities:
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/trump-rfk-kennedy-health-hhs-fda-cdc-vaccines-covid-weldon/
The brain-worm-infected-elephant in the room is, of course, RFK Jr, who has been announced as Trump's head of Health and Human Services.
RFK Jr is a notorious antivaxer, chairman of Children’s Health Defense, a notorious anti-vaccine group.
Kennedy's view is shared by Trump's chosen CDC boss, Dave Weldon, a physician who has repeated the dangerous lie that vaccinations cause autism.
Mehmet "Dr Oz" Oz, the TV "physician" Trump wants to put in charge of Medicare/Medicaid, calls vaccines "oversold" and advocates for treating covid with hydroxychloroquine, another thoroughly debunked hoax:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2024/12/17/hydroxychloroquine-study-covid-19-retracted-trump/77051671007/
However, other top Trump public health picks emphatically support vaccines.
#Marty #Makary is Trump's choice for FDA commissioner;
he's a Johns Hopkins trained surgeon who says vaccines "save lives" (but he peddles the lethal, unscientific hoax that childhood vaccines should be "spread out").
#Jay #Bhattacharya, the economist/MD whom Trump wants to put in charge of the NIH, supports vaccines
(he is also one of the country's leading proponents of the eugenicist idea of accepting the mass death of elderly, sick and disabled people rather than imposing quarantines during epidemics).
Then there's #Janette #Nesheiwat, whom Trump has asked to serve as the nation's surgeon general; she calls vaccines "a gift from God."

Like "Bidenism," Trumpism is a fragile coalition of people who thoroughly and irreconcilably disagree with one another.
During the Biden administration, this resulted in self-inflicted injuries like appointing the brilliant trustbuster Lina Khan to run the FTC,
but also appointing the pro-monopoly corporate lawyer Jacqueline Scott Corley to a lifetime seat as a federal judge,
from which perch she ruled against Khan's no-brainer suit to block the Microsoft-Activision merger:
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/judge-rules-for-microsoft-mergers
The Trump coalition is even broader than the Biden coalition.
That's how he won the 2024 election.
But that also means that Trumpism is more fractious and off-balance, and hence will be easier to disrupt,
because it is riven by people in senior positions who hate one another and are actively working for each others' political demise.

World map of paper sizes

(creator: unknown)
A world map showing the global usage of paper sizes, with US Letter format (215.9 x 279.4 mm) shown in blue and A4 format (210 x 297 mm) shown in yellow. The map indicates that only the United States, Canada, and parts of Central America use the US Letter format, while the rest of the world uses A4. The sizes of both paper formats are displayed in a legend in the top left corner.

Jeri Dansky mastodon (AP)
When your state’s surgeon general is an anti-vaxxer, you get horrible policies like this one in Louisiana, where the health department is forbidden to promote critical vaccinations.
https://www.wwno.org/npr-news/2024-12-20/louisiana-forbids-public-health-workers-from-promoting-covid-flu-and-mpox-shots

Per Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. "It's gotten to the point of parody, where a public health agency doesn't promote the public's health."

h/t @czarbucks
#Louisiana #PublicHealth #Covid
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I'm #celebrating my #1000th #toot with a #gif of a #cat #fart, as seen through an #infrared camera. I'm feeling classy like that.

Enjoy 🐈💨🎉

(it's probably all downhill from here, but feel free to #follow for more highbrow content)
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Sue Stone mastodon (AP)
'Bent to the will' of Elon Musk: Not all House lawmakers happy with spending bill - Raw Story

https://www.rawstory.com/house-passes-funding/

House Republicans defy Donald Trump, join Democrats in voting for new stopgap bill to avert pre-holiday government shutdown

Several dozen Republicans provided all of the votes in opposition to the measure. The rest of the Republican conference voted to pass the appropriations legislation, which doesn't adhere to eleventh hour demands made by Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

https://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2024/12/house-republicans-defy-donald-trump-join-democrats-in-voting-for-new-stopgap-bill-to-avert-pre-holiday-government-shutdown.html

#Budgeting #FiscalResponsibility

Adam Bell :catPOWER: mastodon (AP)
There's this bug in macOS 15.2 that's driving me insane.

Safari just starts saying "This webpage was reloaded because of a problem" and never loads anything anymore. Then lots of other processes start locking up (probably because they're using WebKit).

I still can't quite figure out what daemon or process I need to kill to fix it, so I just end up restarting my MacBook 🙁


unusual_whales mastodon (AP)
BREAKING: After the spending bill passed the house, Speaker Johnson said: "I was in contact with President Trump and Elon Musk. This is a good outcome for this country."

#news #finance #economics #stocks #options
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