Will this force ownership on the GOP for all of the bad stuff?

Voyager 1 calls home!
JPL announced today that engineering data was successfully received from the Voyager 1 spacecraft on Saturday April 20, the first time since Nov 2023. A new set of commands were sent on Thursday to relocate some code around a failed memory chip in the...
by AKALib 140 comments 461 Recs
Will it finally end here? Supreme Court tells Kari Lake and Mark Finchem to pound sand
For more than two years Arizonans have had to put up with the constant legal challenges to the 2022 election brought by Republicans Kari Lake and Mark Finchem. In a year that saw all of the state-level Trump endorsed candidates in Arizona go down, Lake...
by Mother Mags 70 comments 491 Recs
Russian stuff blowing up: Russia's old Czarist ship may have survived
I can understand not wanting to part with a Patriot system, but the chances that Russia will attack Spain or Greece anytime in the foreseeable future are remote. That’s a hell of a smoke screen. The “Kommuna” salvage and recovery ship may have...
by quaoar 48 comments 249 Recs
Trump’s Steep Mental Decline Should Be a Top Campaign Issue
(Please check out my Substack ) Dr. John Gartner, a former Johns Hopkins University professor of psychiatry, has gathered a boatload of evidence that Donald Trump is currently in the advanced ...
by kindler 303 comments 671 Recs
CRYBABY TRUMP is Miffed that His MAGA Cult Isn't Storming the Courts to Protest His 'Persecution'
On the first day of testimony in Donald Trump's election interference (aka "hush money") trial in New York, the defendant sat ruefully contemplating his fate. When he wasn't nodding off, he is reported to have appeared tired and annoyed as the opening...
by News Corpse 202 comments 390 Recs
DeSantis's Martha's Vineyard Stunt Allows Undocumented Immigrants to Legally Stay in US
Back September 2022, Ron DeSantis (aka Ron DeSatan) decided to pwn™ the libs by dumping a bunch of undocumented immigrants on the “librul enclave” of Martha’s Vineyard, figuring he would show them up as hypocrites and, not at all incidentally, burnish...
by Dan K 71 comments 411 Recs
Benny Thompson goes for the throat
I didn’t see this in a quick search, from 3 days ago: April 19, 2024 RANKING MEMBER THOMPSON INTRODUCES LEGISLATION TO ENSURE NO SECRET SERVICE PROTECTION FOR CONVICTED FELONS SENTENCED TO PRISON (WASHINGTON) – Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS),...
by Patriot4peace 120 comments 437 Recs
Quick Note about a pet grammar peeve of mine.
Grammar pet peeves: Affect vs Effect. This pair can be confusing because each word can be used as a verb or as a noun. Perhaps these definitons can help clarify. Affect - verb: Causing a change in something. e.g. "Trump passing gas affects the comfort...
by keepiru 670 comments 331 Recs
A day of whine and posers, as Donald violates gag order again, passing gaslight, 'lighting a match'
The criminal trial underway in New York centers on an effort to bury a story about an alleged affair — the uncharged crime undergirding Trump’s charges. And it’s still about falsifying business records. Jesse Watters claims Trump’s treatment is worse...
by annieli 28 comments 95 Recs
Ukraine Invasion Day 790: combat continues, spies arrested
The authorities in Poland and Germany have arrested at least five of their citizens and accused them of spying for Russia or of offering to help Moscow commit violence on European soil, including a “possible attack” on the president of Ukraine,...
by annieli 9 comments 36 Recs
Destruction of Russian-made Air Defense System Could Have Implications for Two Wars
The destruction of a Russian-made air defense system in Iran could have implications for both the Israel-Iran conflict and Russia-Ukraine war. S-300 missile defense systems have been important in former Soviet countries and other nations for decades....
by EricAZ 75 comments 460 Recs
Hillary Clinton says something true and the GOP freaks out
Reposted from my Substack If you haven’t noticed, Hillary Clinton still exists. �She still has thoughts. She even has opinions. She even speaks. �Apparently, that really freaks the right wing out.
by Frank Vyan Walton 71 comments 312 Recs

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Countdown With Keith Olbermann, S2E162: Now Trump Wants His Mobs To Occupy The Courthouse
Episode 162 has been uploaded. iHeartRadio this podcast all podcasts Omny.FM this podcast all podcasts ivoox this podcast all podcasts Apple this podcast all podcasts Preview: YouTube, later A-Block SPECIAL COMMENT: Stochastic threat number one...
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Itzl Alert Network: Tuesday, 23rd of April, 2024: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Tax Benefits
A few weeks ago, one of my many brothers-in-law posted a thing (that I call a poster, like you would hang on your wall, but I think folks call them memes), on our Facebook family group chat. It was ...
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Ukraine Invasion Day 790: combat continues, spies arrested
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Can Canadians drive voters to the polls?
Any election lawyers out there — is it legal for Canadians to cross the border and help drive people to the polls? I live close enough to help in Niagara Falls or Buffalo or Rochester areas and could likely corral a few friends.
by open sky 3 comments 3 Recs
Her husband's on trial, but Melania Trump is online selling $245 necklaces for Mother's Day
Melania Trump might as well have been walking around Mar-a-Lago wearing her “I really don’t care, do u?” jacket on the opening day of testimony in�her husband’s election interference/hush ...
by Charles Jay 19 comments 46 Recs
West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Daily Special, River City Hash Mondays Podcast (Audio)
Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, River City Hash Mondays is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump will face the witness he fears the most in his criminal...
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Waging War on Woke — The Week in Editorial Cartoons, Part 2 (Update #3)
I expect to post at least another 15-20 editorial cartoons in the comments section of this diary. Scroll down a bit for manual updates. Thanks for supporting this diary series. In case you missed my recent diaries, here are the links. Restricting...
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Top Comments: Earth Day 2024 Reducing Plastics Edition
Happy 54th Earth Day ! According to Earthday.org, the official site for Earth Day , this year’s theme is Planet vs Plastics. From the website: For Earth Day 2024 on April 22nd, EARTHDAY.ORG is ...
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PWB Peeps Open Thread: Earth Day
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'First Domino Falls' With TN Win in Landmark UAW Effort to Unionize the South: 'BradCast' 4/22/2024
Guest: Labor journalist Steven Greenhouse Also: House finally passes aid package for Ukraine Prosecutors accuse Trump of 'election fraud' in NY criminal trial opening statement... Nothing but huge news -- all of several different sorts -- on today's...
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A day of whine and posers, as Donald violates gag order again, passing gaslight, 'lighting a match'
The criminal trial underway in New York centers on an effort to bury a story about an alleged affair — the uncharged crime undergirding Trump’s charges. And it’s still about falsifying business records. Jesse Watters claims Trump’s treatment is worse...
by annieli 28 comments 95 Recs
Coal to Newcastle. A Colorado State Open Thread, 4/22/2024
Sure, Colorado has quartz and fools gold. I have never seen it arranged in such a pretty pattern. So this 11 pound rock is coming to my home in Colorado. I found it in a rock shop in Hong Kong, which was crowded with all manner of beautiful spheres,...
by ColoTim 4 comments 8 Recs
"Cohen did it" "It was a legal expense" "Biden" and other lies - analyzing Trump's post-court rant
After napping through a short day in court, Trump was rested enough to comment on his case from the courtroom steps. If you like whining and repetition, it was a treat. Anyone expecting something new was disappointed. Let us look into the mind of a...
by TheCriticalMind 18 comments 67 Recs
WHAT THE MEDIA ISN'T TALKING ABOUT
Donald Trump is living on borrowed time. He lives on greasy, fatty fast food. His sleep pattern is erratic. He doesn’t exercise, unless you call waddling from a golf cart to a green exercise. It is amazing that he has lived as long as he has. But he...
by MeJean 18 comments 21 Recs
Social Media, AI, and the Unraveling Trust Fabric
In an era marked by unprecedented connectivity, the erosion of trust stands as a defining tragedy. When social media influencers Sheena Melwani and her husband, “TRID” spoke about how they met, they described how TRID’s father had gone through the...
by antiempire 3 comments 3 Recs
Kitchen Table Kibitzing ~ 4.22.24
It was national road work awareness week last week. There were signs all over the highway. I had no clue how to celebrate, so I bought a bunch of little orange traffic cones and tossed them on the sides of the highway as I drove about.
by ZenTrainer 145 comments 29 Recs
The Language of the Night: Existentialism, in Space!
From the ground, we stand. From our ships, we live, By the stars, we hope.” —�mantra of the Exodan fleet My apologies for the long delay between installments of LOTR; I’m doing my best, ...
by DrLori 4 comments 20 Recs
Where are the F-16s?
www.nytimes.com/....
by CombatGuido 13 comments 3 Recs

	Dude, brilliant, how can we lose?
29%	11 votes
	We dont have the votes, you do know that dont you?
5%	2 votes
	Dems ;ll be fine we know how to win.
0%	0 votes
	Win the House back, are you kidding Muah ha haha
2%	1 votes
	Nnadir is right
2%	1 votes
	Houndog says WOOF
2%	1 votes
	ROj, you need to learn some self control and stop posting these ridiculous diaries
5%	2 votes
	Sekritarmy thinks this is the shiznit
5%	2 votes
	Roger, you obviously dont understand how Washington works, sigh
8%	3 votes
	why is pie way down here?
10%	4 votes
	Wipe the floor with the GOP !
27%	10 votes

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