Wanderfound:
A point that is severely underappreciated in liberal discourse is that, for many American women, abortion is already functionally banned. Primarily working-class women, disproportionately women of colour, particularly but not exclusively in the South.per se ; it is the extension of the current lack of freedom to the previously-immune white middle class.
https://twitter.com/karamailman/status/1470524840280997899?s=21
https://twitter.com/karamailman/status/1470524841740619781?s=21
https://twitter.com/bbcnews/status/1470495558620037132?s=21
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The Miami Showband killings (also called the Miami Showband massacre) was an attack on 31 July 1975 by the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), a loyalist paramilitary group. It took place on the A1 road at Buskhill in County Down, Northern Ireland. Five people were killed, including three members of The Miami Showband, who were one of Ireland's most popular cabaret bands.
The band was travelling home to Dublin late at night after a performance in Banbridge . Halfway to Newry , their minibus was stopped at what appeared to be a military checkpoint where gunmen in British Army uniforms ordered them to line up by the roadside. At least four of the gunmen were soldiers from the British Army’s Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR), and all were members of the UVF. Two of the gunmen, both soldiers, died when a time bomb they were hiding on the minibus exploded prematurely. The other gunmen then started shooting the dazed band members, killing three and wounding two. It has been suggested that the bomb was meant to explode en route, so that the victim band members would appear to be IRA bomb-smugglers and stricter security measures would be established at the border.
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https://twitter.com/samfbiddle/status/1470449278191497219?s=21
Well-funded startup Brinc positions its use of robots as nonviolent, but an early promo video undercuts that message.
Est. reading time: 10 minutes
https://twitter.com/pierasselin/status/1470465002184359942?s=21
Hmmm…Krupp and the like were selling arms to other govts beside Germany during WWI, so much so that Kaiser Bill scolded them for doing so.
So employers will be covering the power bills for everyone who had to work from home during the plague, yes?
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Arming both sides of a war is a long-established and highly profitable tradition.
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I know, that’s why it amazes me whenever I read about it being “new”.
Oooh, the Greek fire-spitting gun - didn’t someone kidnap someone else for the formula?
I still wear mine. I don’t plan on dining out at a restaurant anytime soon. Maybe I’ll get the grill down off of the shelving unit on the front porch, lol. I can dine OUT.
Wanderfound:
Every USSC reporter (Bazelon etc) I have ever seen, over the span of several decades, has enthusiastically bought into the “USSC justices base their decisions on apolitical legal scholarship” nonsense.
It is absolutely blatant horseshit, and always has been.
https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1470405502517616641?s=21
https://twitter.com/revdefeat/status/1470643057477308416?s=21
The United States Information Agency (USIA) was a United States government agency devoted to propaganda which operated from 1953 to 1999.The agency's primary mission was to promote favorable view of the United States abroad, focusing exclusively on international audiences until 1990. USIA sponsored various educational and cultural programs, such as cultural exchanges and international broadcasting, aiming to influence foreign perceptions of American democracy and market principles.
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