Month: March 2022
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‘I can fight with a keyboard’: How one exposed a notorious Russian ransomware gang
‘I can fight with a keyboard’: How one exposed a notorious Russian ransomware gang
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/30/politics/ukraine-hack-russian-ransomware-gang/index.html
NPR: Teachers fear the chilling effect of Florida’s so-called “Don’t Say Gay” l aw
Teachers fear the chilling effect of Florida’s so-called “Don’t Say Gay” law
Now that Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed the Parental Rights in Education bill into law, teachers fear it will muzzle speech and further stigmatize LGBTQ youth.
Read in NPR: https://apple.news/AceUV8wg3QVqp-XNh2O2agg
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GOP Rep: Democrats Want To Replace White People
Mediaite reports:
Texas Congressman Pete Sessions (R) appeared on a far-right podcast where he embraced the “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory.
Sessions was speaking with Stew Peters, a right-wing shock jock who has been de-platformed by Spotify and Apple after pushing coronavirus conspiracy theories, calling for Dr. Anthony Fauci’s execution, and participating in the recent white nationalist conference led by Nick Fuentes.
The replacement theory is a conspiracy espoused by white nationalists who claim Democrats want to fundamentally transform American by “replacing” the white population through a combination of immigration and asymmetric birthrates.
Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch:
GOP Rep. Pete Sessions of Texas appeared Monday on”The Stew Peters Show,” where he agreed with Peters’ assertion that the “Democrat Party embraces racism against white people.”
Sessions went on to complain about an unnamed “white student” who is captain of the football team and “scored a perfect score of 36 on his SAT” and has been deferred by every Ivy League school to which he has applied.
“He’s being deferred by every single one of these schools.” Sessions griped. “And it makes you wonder whether education has caught on also on being woke.”
Sessions memorably appeared on JMG in 2016 when he claimed that Orlando’s Pulse nightclub wasn’t really a gay venue because “it was mostly Latinos” who were murdered. Watch the clip.
GOP Rep Files Resolution To Expunge Trump’s First Impeachment In Obvious Ploy For Senate Endorsement
Fox News reports:
Oklahoma GOP U.S. Senate candidate Rep. Markwayne Mullin Tuesday is introducing a resolution to expunge former President Donald Trump’s first impeachment – saying Democrats didn’t prove “high crimes and misdemeanors.”
Mullin’s nine-page resolution, if passed by the House, would declare “expunged” Trump’s 2019 impeachment over allegedly leveraging U.S. military aid to Ukraine for political favors involving investigations of the Bidens.
It accused Democrats of “flippantly exercising one of the gravest and most consequential powers with which the House of Representatives is charged.”
Mullin is seeking to replace retiring GOP Sen. Jim Inhofe and Trump has not yet made an endorsement in that race.
Mullin, a former MMA fighter, last appeared on JMG in September 2021 when he threatened US Embassy staff who objected to his mission to personally rescue five US citizens in Afghanistan.
Trump Asks Putin to Release Dirt on Joe Biden
Former President Donald Trump called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to release dirt on President Joe Biden amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
In an interview with Just the News founder John Solomon published on Tuesday, Trump reiterated his unproven claim that Yelena Baturina, a Russian oligarch and the wife of former Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov, gave $3.5 million to a business that Hunter Biden, a son of Joe Biden, helped found.
“She gave him $3.5 million so now I would think Putin would know the answer to that,” said Trump. “I think he should release it. I think we should know that answer.”
“How is it that the mayor of Moscow, his wife gave the Biden family three and a half million dollars?” he added. “I think Putin now would be willing to probably give that answer. I’m sure he knows.”
This is not the first time Trump has called on Russia to release damaging information on a political rival. While running for president in 2016, Trump called on Moscow to release the hacked emails of then-Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
Additionally in the interview, Trump remarked, “I’m the best thing that ever happened to NATO, because I made them pay. So NATO has plenty of money now.
“And by the way, that’s another, I’m the one who brought up Nord Stream 2 … . I’m the one that blocked it. I terminated it. They weren’t gonna have it. [Biden] then opened it.”
While Biden did waive sanctions against Nord Stream 2, a gas pipeline between Russia and Germany, in 2021, he implemented them last month following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Correction: A previous version of this story incorrectly said Trump claimed Yury Luzhkov gave $3.5 billion to a business Hunter Biden helped found. The claim holds Luzhkov gave $3.5 million.
Sex and gender are much more complicated than most people want to believe.
Daily cartoon / meme roundup: Why do other deveolped countries have what the US cannot seem to have for its people? Could it be a bloated military? A government that works only for the very wealthy?
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Scottie’s world today
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Billionaire bootlickers
Use tax revenues to rebuild America. Increase tax rates on the uber-wealthy for poisoning our society for decades with their greed.
Republicans and conservatives have created a world where all their crimes go unmentioned on their own media. Then those crimes are projected in their rivals.
It is marge Greene for those wondering. She mistakenly said Gazpacho when she meant Gestapo.
Ethics? Integrity? The Thomas’ only have their hyper-partisan lies and corruption.
Figures this happens in Florida.
Not just women, it drives me crazy also!
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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes
The Republicans tried to have a gotcha moment and a sound bite for right wing media. KBJ did not give it to them as she is far smarter than they are. But her answer was true, legally what a woman is doesn’t follow what the average maga cult member thinks a woman is. For them if it has inside sex parts if is female. That is their criteria. They go on looks, it is pretty and has boobs so much be a woman. That stupidity I thought was long behind us, but the education system in the US has been hijacked to promote right wing ideology instead of reasoning and research.
The right wing wants you to think that what Biden said was a gaff. I don’t think it was. I think it was planned, and so was the statements afterwords. Biden got to put a lot of emotion, a lot of outrage into the speech exciting the world and getting people talking about what he was saying without doing any real harm. Biden gets to look tough, look morally angry at the harm to the people. He looked good, and that the right hates.
Do you ever notice that right after tRump gives an off the wall outrageous speech or sends out a crazy press release the right wing media immediately tries to portray Biden as out of touch and as a doddering old man. I think it is more right wing projection.
Putin, who sent death squads into a neighboring country to assassinate their leader whilst simultaneously invading that country without provocation, is sure having a hissy fit because someone said something to offend his fragile ego. The Republicans are getting nervous because Biden is saying some of the things that they expect a Republican to say and it may play well with part of their base.
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And now some for fun
CNN: They tried to reveal what life was like under Russian occupation. Then they disappeared.
They tried to reveal what life was like under Russian occupation. Then they disappeared.
When there was a knock on Yulia Olkhovska’s front door at 5:30 a.m., she knew who would be waiting for her in the pre-dawn darkness outside. But she was still terrified.
Read in CNN: https://apple.news/APqIyC8OBTC6tEeouXVlQnw
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