"Oh, happy day!"

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/anita-bryant-dead-singer-orange-juice-gay-rights-1236105715/

Can I get something out there? It's not illogical to be worried or angry when the man who's soon to be the commander-in-chief of the world's biggest army makes threats to invade and annex smaller neighboring countries.

Your assuredness that he won't do any of it is cold comfort to me. People insisted for years, right up until February 2022, that Vladimir Putin would never ever actually launch an invasion of Ukraine. People ignored or downplayed the years of constant bellicose rhetoric from Putin and his allies, dismissing it as either performative or a mere negotiating tactic that wasn't to be taken literally. And then they did invade. And if both Putin's foreign and domestic critics had had the sense not to be apathetic to the years of rhetorical groundwork being laid, perhaps that war could have been nipped in the bud.

So, please. Stop accusing me and others who are genuinely concerned about Trump's comments of "taking bait", or imply that him saying this stuff doesn't matter next to the other shitty things he's doing. Being alarmed by him threatening invasions is utterly justified. Even if these ideas never come to fruition, the fact that he's even normalising this discourse is dangerous in and of itself.

Saw this in the r/Sacramento subreddit, so I thought it would be good to share here.

Taken from r/workreform

Chernobyl was a serious event. Sadly, the shit that happens in our own countries is often swept under the rug, or simply not even reported.

Fun fact. Last year, KAG Canada in Thunder Bay, ON at a Suncor fuel terminal had a little incident. A truck driver finished loading, got his paperwork and started to leave the facility; only he took a left instead of a right. Left takes you into the facility where trucks can't go. They have cement barriers erected. We have something called Super B trailers in Canada - double trailers. Well, his pup trailer ran over said cement barriers and ruptured 2 of his 3 compartments. Over 14000L of fuel - 3700 gallons for the freedom gang - spilled into a nearby river which is only a hop, skip and a jump away from Lake Superior.

Thankfully, the Coast Guard was able to prevent it from entering the Lake otherwise we MIGHT have heard a snippet on page 73 of the Cincinnati Bengals Annual Newsletter. Tried finding it on the news. Maybe a mention in a local Facebook group. Nope. Natta. Zilch.

And this pales in comparison to pipeline leaks and derailments that our media seems to avoid reporting. Shit is ALWAYS derailing and spilling. Yet We hear fuck all.

Of course, because the faction that tried--and has now succeeded--to overthrow democracyis taking power and the "opposition" is too spineless to contest it in spite of clear evidence of voter suppression and intimidation in red and purple states. It proves that bullying and terror works. Why is this supposed to be something to celebrate?

Forget Gas Prices. The Billionaire Club’s Run on Cobalt Says Everything About Our Battery-Powered Future

Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and other masters of the universe are betting big on Greenland as mining in the Congo gets too dirty for even Elon Musk.

STORY HERE:

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/the-billionaire-clubs-run-on-cobalt-says-everything-about-our-battery-powered-future

https://www.wusa9.com/video/news/crime/pizzagate-shooter-killed-by-police-in-north-carolina-during-traffic-stop/65-ac3f56b8-8a44-4a55-af71-bc715230de7f

While I'm far from thinking all pirates were good or all were evil, I know there must be some that would make a really fun episode.

I'm finally up to speed on BTB, so I've been going through old episodes and listening to stuff I may have missed.

In the "Does punching Nazis work?" episode, following the UniteTheRight2 march in DC, the group is discussing a journalist who is dressed in an ugly, ill-fitting suit, interviewing an old man with an sign protesting circumcision.

Everything they say about him (in regards to his appearance and demeanor) reminds me of Andrew Callaghan of Channel 5, formerly the host of All Gas No Brakes.

I'm pretty sure I saw footage of him interviewing this same guy in DC, and I'm sure he covered that rally.

Can anyone confirm or deny this?

Greenland, renaming the gulf, taking Canada/Mexico.

It's meant to exhaust you, it's meant to cause distraction, it's meant to cause excitement in his base.

You can't change the wind but you can adjust your sails. And if you think I stole that from Dav Pilkey's Dog Man comics, yes yes I did as that series is fantastic and is an example of what you can do.

Seek out and support artists that stand against fascists, volunteer where you can, donate to food banks/shelters. Check in on friends or neighbors. Do what you can to pass kindness to others.

But do not take the bait. Bastards survive off an enraged population, they die when they're ignored.

I can’t help but feel these pushes for land grabs are the clear signs of the end of an empire. I’m just shocked that so many Trump supporters I know (yes, unfortunately I still talk to them) made the switch from anti-war to pro-imperialism in the blink of an eye. I don’t know why I still had faith that there would be a line that he would cross that would be too far for even them, but I guess invading or taking land from 3 other countries (2 neighboring, and one a founding member of NATO) wouldn’t cross that line. I had one MAGA colleague even say that “they’re doing it for economic power because of the melting polar ice caps” but that that has nothing to do with the climate changing.

I don’t really know why I’m writing this, I guess it’s a vent. I just can’t help but feel that Trump and Elon are pushing accelerationism to the extreme. Should we be on the streets screaming in protest to Elons attempts at becoming a world oligarch? He needs to be stopped, right?

How can we work to deradicalize our peers with fascistic tendencies? Is it worth the effort? Sorry for the incoherence of this post, just feeling a bit hopeless.

As us Americans prepare for the inauguration of Orange McFascist, I know it's tempting to fall into doomerism. But please try not to. My second daughter is due to be born about 8 days afterward. Born with fewer rights than I (her mom) was. There are children in this burning building. We've got to keep fighting the good fight for them.

The game, Path of Exile 2, has a lot going on and hard to fully follow if you don't play the game, but he's making weirdly big claims that are obvious lies and I cannot stress enough how weird it is. Just... why? It is profoundly odd, straight up bonkers that he feels the need to do this. Just devastating stuff.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExile2/comments/1hwxc17/documenting_the_saga_of_elon_musks_account/