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It’s the year of our lord 2023 and the Jesus rides a dinosaur party wants to protect their voters from demons. Please don’t be cynical and suggest it’s a dumb stunt to appeal to right wing rubes. that would be mean and bad.
Republican Speaker Mike Johnson was an attorney for the creationist museum… …you know 🎶 🎼 “Jesus rides a dinosaur” 🎵
I hate it when Jesus rides dinosaurs in my house.
Johnson is a Young Earth Creationist
Earth was created 6000 years ago, when Jesus was riding dinosaurs.
New House Speaker Mike Johnson’s Biblical Worldview is shaped by this reactionary, anti-democratic Christian Nationalist movement.
@kathsstewart, author of THE POWER WORSHIPPERS: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism, discusses.
https://twitter.com/BucksCoBeacon/status/1717909285550604317
Wow. It sure looks like Mike Johnson (the new House speaker) gave a videotaped interview from Harlan Crow’s private library (inside his residence). Great eye! Thread.
Is Harlan Crow the new Zelig? There appears to be a Mike Johnson / Harlan Crow connection. (I knew that room looked familiar.) @propublica
$600 BILLION could pour into #Bitcoin and crypto when a spot Bitcoin ETF is approved – Bernstein Research
Everybody Please Get On The Ark
JUST IN: Google searches #Bitcoin have surged globally in the last 3 weeks. Probably nothing… 👀
A year ago today, @elonmusk acquired Twitter for $44 billion.
If he’d bought bitcoin instead he would now have $72 billion.
Let that sink in.
LESSON LEARNED the true definition of Good vs Evil.
For some people …. if they are asked to let loose their darker instincts without consequence, they will do it..
That’s why Garland and the DOJ and Judges need to smack down all those Jan6 people hard and fast.
Without consequences all the bullies on the playground rampage.
NY AG James @NewYorkStateAG
Our case against Donald Trump is simple.
You cannot engage in fraud to succeed in business.
VOTE There are important elections happening right now in states across the country.
This Vote Early Day, make sure you’re registered to vote at http://IWillVote.com,
vote early if you can, or make a plan to vote on Election Day, November 7th.
Colorado judge rejects Trump‘s bid to toss lawsuit aimed at keeping him off 2024 ballot.
SBF says he called his fund Alameda Research because it flies under the radar. Nobody knows what it is. He says it was a better choice than calling it “Sam’s Crypto Trading Firm”
Should have been Sam’s Scam Trading Firm.
In March 2020, Jared Kushner took charge of key aspects of the Covid-19 response, often relying on private companies. We obtained records that show the private sector’s easy access to top officials, including Kushner and then-Treasury Sec. Steve Mnuchin.
Substitute teachers in Florida no longer need college in most counties to combat shortage: While teacher shortages plague Florida finding substitute teachers to temporarily fill vacancies is just as difficult. Their solution? Lower job requirements.
Rep. Katie Porter @RepKatiePorter
Big Pharma is suing to keep Medicare from negotiating drug costs.
But two companies, @Merck and @bmsnews, raked in a collective $7 BILLION in profits in just the past three months.
When Big Pharma says we can’t lower prices, it’s the greed talking.
Republican Congressman Anthony D’Esposito introduced a resolution to expel George Santos from Congress. Let’s go!
ProPublica
How the Ultrawealthy Use Private Foundations to Bank Huge Tax Deductions While Giving the Public Little in Return
A real estate mogul keeps his nonprofit museum in his guesthouse and hadn’t shown it to a member of the public since before the pandemic.
Someone Compiled Maine Shooting Suspect’s Twitter History—And It’s A Who’s Who Of MAGA
A new analysis shows Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee have received more than $450,000 from the same GOP megadonor who has lavished Justice Clarence Thomas with undisclosed gifts.
Leah AntiTrustButVer1fy Nylen @leah_nylen
On Day 29, we got the figure. In 2021, Google paid $26.3 billion to ensure its search engine was the default on web browsers and mobile phones.
Meredith Whittaker@mer__edith
Holy shit. (Speaking of the near-unfathomable profitability of the surveillance business model, take a min to contemplate what the ability to pay tens of billions to cement their dominant position means vis-a-vis the revenue that dominant position redounds to Google.)
The Missing Namesake Of North Philly’s Lost Necropolis
The last memorial stones of Monument Cemetery, about two dozen grave markers, reveal themselves at low tide on the western bank of the Delaware River under the Betsy Ross Bridge, a strange and unnerving sight (see them in this Hidden City photo gallery, HERE). Several thousand other grave markers may be on the opposite bank of the river, submerged. But what of the grand monument the cemetery was named for?
Monument Cemetery was the city’s second largest Victorian era rural cemetery–designed for strolling and reflection. Laurel Hill Cemetery was the largest; Woodland Cemetery is another Philadelphia burial ground of this type. Established before the consolidation of the city, in 1837, the cemetery was situated in what was the far northern reaches of Philadelphia–15th Street and Montgomery Avenue today.
Important context: As a reminder there are 2M Arabs that have citizenship in Israel. This woman is one of them, and she went on to get a degree in EE from Stanford. An Arab Muslim addresses the claims about Israel being an apartheid state.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLzsIFPVVKw
Elon Musk wants your “entire financial life” on X by 2024
DO NOT PARTICIPATE
Robert Morton @Robert4787 Oct 24
Chinese intelligence turns China’s professors into #spies via bribes and financial incentives, coercion via threats or vulnerabilities, and blackmail to ensure compliance- a complex world of recruitment unfolds behind the scenes. #Espionage #spying
The spy agency Asio says it has disrupted a plot by China’s intelligence services to “infiltrate a prestigious Australian research institution” with officials forcing an academic to leave the country before any harm was done.
The Asio chief, Mike Burgess, provided broad details of the alleged plot while also accusing China of engaging in “the most sustained, scaled and sophisticated theft of intellectual property and expertise in human history”.
BBC News: China: Police rescue 1,000 cats, bust illicit trade of feline meat
NCSC @NCSCgov Oct 24
#OTD 2022, PRC intelligence officers Guochun He & Zheng Wang were charged with obstruction of justice in a scheme to pay $61K in bitcoin to a
@FBI double agent to steal files from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn related to the pending federal prosecution of Huawei.
NCSC@NCSCgov Oct 24
NCSC Wall of Spies Artifact: One of the 16 IBM Selectric typewriters at the US Embassy Moscow found to have KGB bugs in them in 1984. NSA’s Project GUNMAN discovered the bugs after removing, replacing, and examining every single piece of communications equipment at the Embassy.
Former NSA Employee Pleads Guilty to Attempted Espionage
Swedish Rekt Bank
STEALING THE ECONOMIC ENERGY OF Sweden for many many years
In this video, I discuss the Swedish central bank (Sveriges Riksbank) blowing itself up through its own incompetence and needing a $7 billion bailout. The Swedish central bank has had a long and fabled history, stealing the economic energy and savings of the people of Sweden for many hundreds of years. It gained the monopoly on money and then failed to control price stability for the country. To add insult to injury, it is now asking for a taxpayer funded bailout.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d2BopwH-CI
Tristan Snell @TristanSnell
“Cars kill people too,” say the gun extremists?
Okay let’s play this game:
— Drivers must carry insurance
— Drivers must pass safety/skill tests
— Each car has a unique vehicle identification number (VIN) that allows it to be tracked
So let’s pass all the same rules for guns