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Inyalowda@inyalowda· 29d

Called it.

"FIFA protocol states that only the team will be part of the team trophy lift after being present[ed] with the Jules Rimet, but they will not stand in Trump’s way if he desires to hand the trophy to the winning captain, and remain there for the initial celebrations."

What a jock-sniffer. 😒

Inyalowda@inyalowda· Jul 17

Todd Blanche is a lying liar who lies for a living.

The FBI is an agency within the Department of Justice (DOJ), and thus the director reports to the attorney general of the United States.

Inyalowda@inyalowda· Jul 16

Makes me nostalgic for the days when they only grifted on behalf of their donors.

Ivanka Trump violating the Hatch Act by holding up a can of Goya black beans while working as a WH aide.

Inyalowda@inyalowda· Jul 14

AOC's right: ICE/CBP stayed under the radar long enough to get their bag, now they're ramping up the violence again.

ICE/CBP haven't stopped terrorizing migrants, documented and otherwise - they've just eschewed the headlines, now that Bovino's ego is no longer calling the shots, and used the war with Iran, gas prices, the World Cup, and the Semiquincentennial to provide cover for their monstrosities.

Inyalowda@inyalowda· Jul 14

This is why they want to replace endangered species protection with DNA libraries instead: they can pretend to preserve the species while simultaneously destroying the ecological communities to which they're integral.

That reasoning reflects a remarkably narrow interpretation of conservation. Modern ecology does not view landscapes as isolated collections of interesting objects. Ecosystems function as interconnected wholes. Wildlife migration corridors, watersheds, fragile desert soils, archaeological sites, fossil beds, and native vegetation all depend upon the integrity of the surrounding landscape. Preserving a single canyon while exposing the surrounding plateau to industrial development is much like protecting a single room inside a house while allowing the foundation beneath it to collapse.

Inyalowda@inyalowda· Jul 13

The district court judges clearly understand the gravity of the moment and are securing their place on the right side of history.

Inyalowda@inyalowda· Jul 11

Wait, I think I saw this already . . . 🤔

Actors starring in the movie The Death of Stalin

Inyalowda@inyalowda· Jul 9

You might have more luck with this . . .

A ouija board, used to speak with the departed

Inyalowda@inyalowda· Jul 8

Don't trust; verify rigorously.

“ICE has released an initial account, but the facts must be independently and thoroughly investigated, including the circumstances that led to the use of deadly force,” Garcia said in a post on X. “All available footage, communications, and other evidence should be preserved and reviewed as part of a full and impartial investigation.”

U.S. Rep. Christian Menefee, D-Houston, echoed that call.

“ICE’s actions across the country have caused them to lose the faith and confidence of communities,” Menefee said. “We must ensure transparency in this investigation.

Inyalowda@inyalowda· Jul 7

#SocialEcology

The environment in Tahoe suffered after the Washoe were removed from the land. In the late 1800s, loggers essentially clear cut the forests around the Tahoe Basin, using the timber to fortify the silver mines at Nevada’s Comstock Lode, forever altering the forest and the ecology. As the forest began to grow back, American land managers implemented a policy that snuffed out every fire on the landscape, setting Tahoe up for the overgrown and dense forests that are so fire-prone and dangerous today.

Inyalowda@inyalowda· Jul 7

O RLY?

Results of the 2017 US Senate special election in Alabama: Doug Jones (D) 49.97%, pedophile Roy Moore (R, of course) 48.34% - Jones won by less than 22K votes

Inyalowda@inyalowda· Jul 6

Inyalowda@inyalowda· Jul 4

If 🇺🇸 doesn't learn some hard lessons from the experiences of 🇮🇷 and 🇺🇦, and fast, our vaunted military machine is going to be on its back foot in every conflict going forward. We can't create such a complex, costly logistics tail to engage cheap, plentiful munitions. Enough bloated MI contracts.

Between August 2024 and February 2026, hundreds of drones maneuvered in the airspace of a dozen NATO member states and Ireland, forcing repeated closures of major commercial aviation hubs and disrupting military activities, the International Institute for Strategic Studies said in a report issued Thursday. Germany’s Ramstein Air Base, along with bases involved in NATO’s nuclear deterrence mission, was surveilled in an operation designed to map allied vulnerabilities and probe for weaknesses in military-civilian decision-making, the IISS report said. Russia-linked ships, including vessels from its so-called “shadow fleet” of clandestine vessels, were used to launch drones as part of the Kremlin’s wider “unconventional war on Europe,” the report added. During the campaign, drones flew with “substantial impunity across European airspace — representing both a series of tactical successes for the Kremlin and a strategic failure of allied air defense,” IISS said.

Inyalowda@inyalowda· Jun 30

My mind keeps going to the beautiful replica of the Statue of Liberty on an island in the Seine, and how it makes Swamp Thing's Temu Arch look even more ridiculous.

The Île aux Cygnes replica of Liberty Enlightening the World was given to France by Parisian expatriates in the United States to celebrate the centennial of the French Revolution.

Inyalowda@inyalowda· Jun 30

From eight years ago. For no particular reason. 😒

Inyalowda@inyalowda· Jun 30

The señorita and the sheephead are two of our better-known kelp forest wrasses here in SoCal.

Señorita Wrasse (Halichoeres californicus) in a kelp forest - source marinelifeid.com

Male (l) and female (r) California sheephead wrasses, Semicossyphus pulcher, near a rocky reef - source oceanlight.com

Inyalowda@inyalowda· Jun 23

But that was little comfort to tech investors, who are concerned that short-term inflation will increase the debt burden of mega-cap companies that have borrowed large amounts of money to fund their artificial intelligence infrastructure.

Bloomberg News reported Monday that SpaceX was looking to raise at least $20 billion through a bond sale.

The move spooked investors who are “wary of the substantial cash required to fund technological ambitions,” Jose Torres, a senior economist at Interactive Brokers financial group, said in a note to clients Monday afternoon.

Inyalowda@inyalowda· Jun 23

Are they going to give him an honorary Golden Boot, too? 🙄

Inyalowda@inyalowda· Jun 20

#TheExpanse #IlusIV

A view of the planet Ilus IV from season 4 of the sci fi series The Expanse, showing the ruins of an alien civilization as far as the eye can see, including several conical towers.

Inyalowda@inyalowda· Jun 17

The Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace declined to comment.

Rasmus Jarlov, whose term in parliament had just ended, called for the consulate to be shut down immediately. “It is utterly insane that we allow their presence,” he wrote on X. “The new, very large American consulate in Nuuk has one clear mission and task, and that is to pave the way for an American takeover.” The policy of treating the United States as the ally it once was has merely paved the way for more subversion. “The only thing that has worked,” Jarlov emphasized, “was when we, along with our allies, made it clear that we would rather go to war with the United States than let them have Greenland.”

Inyalowda@inyalowda· Jun 17

Watching him negotiate with himself in real time.

Swamp Thing's demonstrated, over and over again, that if he can't succeed by bullying, then he's out of ideas.

The real Art of the Deal with Trump is, don't take the deal. He'll just keep negotiating with himself, in an endless loop.

Inyalowda@inyalowda· Jun 16

Inyalowda@inyalowda· Jun 15

#ImmigrantsMakeAmericaGreat h/t @kackbro.bsky.social

17 months of mass deportations. Rent is still outrageous. Groceries are still more expensive. Power bills are climbing. Maybe it's time to admit immigrants were never the problem.

Inyalowda@inyalowda· Jun 15

This wasn't focus group tested. It wasn't recommended by a team of consultants. There wasn't polling. Joyce Beatty just did it because it was the right thing to do, to stand up to a would-be tyrant and a malignant narcissist.

Inyalowda@inyalowda· Jun 13

Walking the walk.

Rep Joyce Beatty sits on a planter, bearing witness to the removal of DJT's name from the Kennedy Center.

Inyalowda@inyalowda· Jun 12

From the archives:

Inyalowda@inyalowda· Jun 12

MAGA's sense of invulnerability and destiny continues to show cracks in its foundation.

Two headlines: Brad Lander found not guilty in NYC immigration court protest trial

Man pleads guilty to killing a top Minnnesota Democrat and her husband while posing as [a police] officer

Inyalowda@inyalowda· Jun 11

There’s something the markets seem to understand, even when the administration won’t admit it: some places are too costly to touch. Not just financially — though the legal battles, the remote terrain, the reputational risk have all driven away every major oil company. Every major bank in the United States and Canada has adopted policies refusing to finance Arctic Refuge drilling. Global insurers have followed. Chevron and BP walked away from their Arctic leases — some paying millions of dollars to do so.

You see, even these industry giants get the point. We cannot ravage everything.

Inyalowda@inyalowda· Jun 10

There are no simple lessons, and we have our #CAGOV candidate, so it's on us to see Becerra elected in November and push him leftward as needed. I hope Steyer will be part of both those efforts. So far, so good on him.

Rob Pollard: Yes, good statement. Now we’ll see if many people on this app reckon with the fact a guy spent $200M and took the leftmost position on pretty much every issue and he couldn’t get out of 3rd in *California*.

‪Cynthia Skye: With no prior political office, at a time when the lefty Dem electorate is highly polarized against billionaires, he put up a good fight for 2nd in the biggest state in the country.

I think any attempt to draw a big, simple lesson from this is…fraught, no matter what that lesson is purported to be

Inyalowda@inyalowda· Jun 9

And of course Swamp Thing found a way to (1) lie and (2) make it racist.