Prof Feynman
There’s a huge difference between:
• education and intelligence
• knowledge and information
• understanding and memorization
• learning and studying
• ignorance and stupidity
The problem is not people being uneducated.
The problem is that people are educated just enough to believe what they have been taught, and not educated enough to question anything from what they have been taught.
RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE AND PROPAGANDA IN OUR ELECTIONS BY OWNED US SENATORS AND CONGRESS PEOPLE
Republicans are the worst of the degenerates
Daily reminder that the leader of the republican party is under investigation for espionage.
NO Constitutional Convention Far-right billionaires want this.
Disastrous Article V Constitutional Convention – an event unprecedented in U.S. history that could mean major constitutional chaos. If just six more states sign on, the Kochs, the Mercers, corporate funders, and their extremist allies will reach the two-thirds supermajority required to convene the convention they need to tear apart the U.S. Constitution.
FEC Rules Foreign Donors Can Influence Ballot Initiatives
Parler, part of a growing echosphere for rightwing conspiracy theories, is primarily financed by hedge-fund billionaire Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah.
So far, we’ve been able to stop them in a number of key states. BUT… given the political events of the past few years and the frightening rise of the right wing, we must now redouble our efforts.
“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
– – Charles Bukowski
#BOYCOTT CNN #BoycottCNN now!
CNN has gotten to be a scary place. It’s where Fox was pre-Obama. CNN is now owned by mega-media conglomerate Warner New Discovery, which is run by a major Trump/Trumpist funder and supporter. They now traffic in whataboutism, sowing doubt on established facts and sowing confusion among resisters. Soon the best of their best will be gone.
Periodic reminder to the press that if it’s raining and some batshit fascist cult leader says that it isn’t, your job is not to report to us that there are differing views about the weather. It’s to look out the fking window.
@DashDobrofsky CNN just aired a documentary that said Anti-Semitism is being used as a political prop by “both the right & left.” Now they’re blaming “both sides” for GOP-Nazism. The left doesn’t speak at Nazi rallies. The left isn’t banning Holocaust books. An Irresponsible, dishonest network. CNN said it multiple times — but failed to show any examples of Antisemitism on the left. It’s like blaming the Weimar Republic and Hitler for the rising Anti-Semitism in 1930s Germany. Absolutely horrible to “both sides” this issue. Disgusting. “The Right has “white nationalists” and violent extremists — but the left is bad too.” Then, the guy at the end blames the left — with an incoherent argument about climate change. Looks like CNN had to cut it up in the editing room to fit their new “both sidesism” MAGA doctrine.
Fascist GQP Party vs a Democratic Party
2022 Jan. 6 text messages wiped from phones of key Trump Pentagon officials
the Office of Inspector General letter suggests, key evidence in the form of the Secret Service’s electronic communications may never see the light of day. The Department of Homeland Security — the Secret Service’s parent agency — is subject to oversight from the DHS Office of Inspector General, which had requested records of electronic communications from the Secret Service between January 5 and January 6, 2021, before being informed that they had been erased.
Oath Keepers Leak Reveals Links To Elected Officials
A state senator in CO is resigning from the GOP and becoming a Democrat, saying: “I can’t continue to be a part of a political party that is okay with a violent attempt to overturn a free and fair election & continues to peddle claims that the 2020 election was stolen”. Sen. Kevin Priola also cited the Republican party’s lack of action on climate change, saying his GOP colleagues “consistently and proudly seek to impede progress, and I can’t, in good conscience, be silent about that.”
Why Biden is Unelectable on working with Senate Republicans: ‘I’ll never publicly embarrass them’
Problem is FASCIST REPUBLICANS DO NOT FEEL SHAME!
Texas has sued Barnes & Noble for not taking LGBTQ+ books off the shelf. This is fascism. The First Amendment says Barnes & Noble can have any books they want on their shelves. They’re also big enough to take on Texas.
Bill Barr Accused of Arresting Impeachment Witnesses to Shield Trump
2021 Garland Admits Barr Lied About The Mueller Report, But Insists On DOJ’s Sacred Right To Cover It Up | Above the Law
2020 American Oversight Sues Justice Department for Attorney General Barr Records
Judge Gleason Told Bill Barr He’s a Hopeless Hack Serving a Hopeless Crook
The Wheels of Justice May Turn Slowly But There Sure are a Lot of Them Spinning Right Now
“How are Trump-appointed Inspectors General working to undermine the investigations into the January 6th insurrection? Listen to the conversation between @MaraRudman, @steve_vladeck, and @djrothkopf
2019 Jeffrey Epstein’s Neck Bones Were Broken, Autopsy Shows
Epstein Had Multiple Broken Bones In Neck, Common In Homicide By Strangulation
Attorney General Bill Barr has said the Justice Department has learned of “serious irregularities” at the federal facility where Epstein was being held that are “deeply concerning.” He said officials “demand a serious investigation.” Barr also said the FBI and the DOJ’s Inspector General’s office will “get to the bottom of what happened and there will be accountability.”
Eliza Orlins @elizaorlins
Riley Williams, accused of stealing Pelosi’s laptop, was given permission to leave house arrest to attend a Renaissance fair. As a public defender, I represented a teenager who wasn’t given permission to leave jail to go to his dad’s funeral.
Two. Systems. Of. Justice.
SCIENCE
EPA Admits to Altering Science Under Trump, Pledges New Course
‘Yippee!’ Trump Officials Gloated After They Manipulated CDC Reports And Advice
House panel on COVID-19 accuses aides of “overruling and bullying scientists and making harmful decisions that allowed the virus to spread more rapidly.”
New evidence that water separates into two different liquids at low temperatures
A new kind of “phase transition” in water was first proposed 30 years ago in a study by researchers from Boston University. Because the transition has been predicted to occur at supercooled conditions, however, confirming its existence has been a challenge. That’s because at these low temperatures, water really does not want to be a liquid, instead it wants to rapidly become ice. Because of its hidden status, much is still unknown about this liquid-liquid phase transition, unlike the everyday examples of phase transitions in water between a solid or vapor phase and a liquid phase.
BITCOIN
Samsung Securities is launching a #Bitcoin and crypto exchange.
“BTW this was deliberately over simplified to get a point across. Any L1 network that wins significant DeFi activity automatically competes as a monetary base as the collateral in the network becomes money. The money partition then becomes most of the valuation.”~willy woo
WATCH Video “Bitcoin = Money + Time + Energy + Information by @dergigi
Why difficulty-adjusted proof of work is the nucleus of the genius innovation that is #Bitcoin.
“Just published “Flash Boys 2.0: Frontrunning, Transaction Reordering, and Consensus Instability in Decentralized Exchanges”
Key takeaways and some pretty graphs below!
Taproot Is Coming: What It Is, and How It Will Benefit Bitcoin
ETHERIUM
ETHEREUM WILL SELF DESTRUCT
Brock Pierce co-founder of Tether In 2011 Brock Pierce would go on to reportedly speak at Jeffery Epstein’s Mindshift Conference at Little St. James Island, at the time of Pierce’s visit Epstein was already a convicted sex offender.
Epstein reportedly invited Pierce to his conference because he was interested in the world of cryptocurrency but the big question is why would Pierce even accept an invite from a convicted sex offender? The strange saga of Jeffrey Epstein’s link to a child star turned cryptocurrency mogul.