"Low-income households will get [free] plug-in solar panels to cut their energy bills, the Government has announced."
This is how you do a just transition.
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Rep. Veasey (D, Texas) just rinsed RFK Jr. on his anti-vax bullshit, and RFK Jr. responded “everything you said is a lie”.
Veasey said that RFK Jr.
1. Claimed the measles outbreak has been fabricated by government officials to create fear.
2. That Hank Aaron died from the COVID19 vaccine.
“Robert F. Kennedy Jr. likes to lecture Americans about the need to eat real food…but for many Americans, it’s advice divorced from reality and helps mask an assault on public health by RFK Jr. and the Trump administration”.
My friend @brucemirken.mas.to.ap.brid.gy and I in our OpEd, out today.
If only we had a button that would tase RFK Jr. every time he lies in a congressional hearing.
We could charge for a chance to push the button and pay for 100 years of single-payer healthcare.
Image is a close up photo Victorian era painting of a woman with dark curly hair and dark eyes wearing a cap or headdress with gold bangles (leaves?) in the front on her forehead. The Victorians were always painting “historical” scenes so this might be intended as a portrait of young woman in ancient Greece or Rome. She is looking at the viewer with a direct gaze. Clearly, she has thoughts. Will she express them or keep them to herself? Text: Sugar and spice and everything nice is so yesterday. Instead be salty, defiant and extremely noncompliant.
For me these days this mood is evergreen.
#art
In February 1777, General George Washington ordered the first mass immunization campaign in American history by mandating that his troops be inoculated against smallpox. He protected the Continental Army from an epidemic that was deadlier than British forces.
249 years later, we have this idiot.
Not the best picture but this is my little buddy. He lives out in my backyard. I see him often. He's head of rodent control. A beautiful and harmless little black racer. #photography #wildlife #ECK #snake #snake #herping #SnakeConservation #reptiles #SnakeLover
Welcome little one: Coquerel’s sifaka are native only to the island of Madagascar. They spend most of their lives in the treetops in two protected areas in the sparse dry, deciduous forests on the northwestern side of the island. As with many species of lemur, Coquerel’s sifaka are endangered.
One of my favorite rescues by Niall and his team. Look how happy he is now.
#Dogs #HappyDoggo
Rep. Pat Ryan: "The fact that the president did not understand that closing the strait would be the obvious and immediate leverage point for the Iranians just shows how out of depth they are in initiating this war."
Jan 6 terrorists climbing the walls outside the Capitol. Caption: "More pardoned J6ers have been convicted in child SA cases than trans people in the last year."
When I call Republicans "the party of child rapists," I'm not only talking about Trump.
These incredible Buff Tip Moths blend in so well with branches that you might mistake them for sticks. Nature's masters of disguise are truly fascinating!
palantir should be viewed as the enemy of modern society
Mother in law. She went down fighting.
This could be awesome.
I've always thought it was an emetic.
12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.l. is set to begin. 13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet. 14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war.
15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia. 16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk's interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves .... Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn.
17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives. 18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena —and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within.
Points 12-18 of the Palantir plan include:
12. The atomic age is ending.
and
17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime.
Palantir @PalantirTech X.com Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible.
3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software. 5. The question is not whether A.l. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed.
6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost. 7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm's way. 8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive.
9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness —a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret. 10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed. 11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice.
Points 1-11 of the Palantir plan include:
5. The question is not whether A.l. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose.
and
6. National service should be a universal duty.
and
10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray.
21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures ... have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful. 22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?
⚠️ Palantir released what it describes as a vision for “The Technological Republic” in which it argues AGAINST democratic and cultural pluralism and FOR militaristic supremacy enforced by a technocratic elite who produce AI weaponry.
These points stand out:
Dear fellow Brits, from this Brit-American:
Please don't come here. It's dangerous. You may be targeted, arrested and unlawfully detained - likely courtesy of ICE - without access to legal representation.
I've told my family to stay away.
Please boycott America. 🇬🇧💙
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Kash Patel tweet: see you and your entire entourage of false reporting in court... But do keep at it with the fake news, actual malice standard is now what some would call a legal lay up.
The person who wrote the Kash Patel story teaches journalism at Columbia University and used to be a producer for 60 Minutes. I don't think Kash is going to win this one
The grift never ends. Most corrupt regime in history
ART2Section4 “The President,Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States,shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for,and Conviction of,Treason,Bribery,or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”Let's get the whole gang! If not us, Who? If not now, WHEN?
If you weren't thinking this all along, I question your judgement.
I am engineer. Can design mower that will autonomously hunt down and destroy garden gnomes. Will work for beer.
The two people on the left in this pic, hung with the Epstein crowd…YES! They have participated in countless atrocities against children…up to, and including cannibalism. The couple on the left is now the President and First Lady. We must come together (regardless of party) & take back our country.
