Byron K McCurtain

Someone in a frog costume facing down a line of police in riot gear

George Orwell’s Animal Crossing

Mike Johnson says he'll swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social as soon as she wants. Okay, so how about today?

China’s Military Is Now Leading Wednesday’s parade proved the regional military balance has irrevocably changed.

The Sept. 3 Beijing parade provided just the latest revelations in a frantic year for observers of China’s military-industrial complex.

Putin hit by Tu-160 ‘emergency' as three Russian White Swan nuclear bombers fail at once - NewsBreak Reports claim Vladimir Putin was hit by a sudden "emergency" when three of his Tu-160 strategic nuclear bombers all broke down at the same time.

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HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?

NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country

HASSAN: That's incorrect

This video is making the rounds again for a reason.

A great example of how you make your voices heard—without saying a word. Power in numbers and it sends a clear message. This is what democracy looks like: standing up to fascism, tyranny, and racism.

This is the way!

Number 1 most evil thing in America...Faux media broadcasting. It's like having our very own Hanoi Hannah spewing propaganda at Americans every hour of every day.
#TakeFoxOffTheAir
#FoxLies
#LockUpMurdoch

"There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people."
- Commander William Adama, Battlestar Galactica

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Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act.

Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes?
Staffer: a DL and birth certificate.
Me: The documents don’t match
Staffer: Then a marriage certificate.
Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too?
Staffer: No
Me: See the problem?

Some states are banning forever chemicals. Now industry is fighting back. The chemical and consumer products sectors are sending lawyers and lobbyists to DC to protect their investments.

There are some new lobbyists in town and they are successfully altering legislation regulating PFAS.

from @wired.com via @climatedesk.org

Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss:

Australia 0
Canada 0
Denmark 0
Finland 0
France 0
Germany 0
Iceland 0
Ireland 0
Italy 0
Japan 0
Netherlands 0
Norway 0
Portugal 0
Spain 0
Sweden 0
UK 0
United States 530,000

There’s a lesson there.

Man accused of murdering priest is ‘Trump fan who wants to make church great again’ Gary Hermesch, charged with first degree murder over the fatal shooting of Father Arul Sarasala, reportedly wrote to his local paper in praise of the president

Oklahoma man accused of murdering priest is ‘Trump fan who wants to make church great again’

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Yes I have.

Marielitos selling their race.

Refreshing to see, know, a return if one will to early internet days of research and serious discussion on private dedicated website servers, all mostly on one's own dime. Internet subject today one of overt lack of curious intelligence by burying it beneath low brow sarcasm.

No sound??

WHEREAS: We the People must ask ourselves WHY have we allowed this Representative to continue being a Representative, of the People, up to this point?

There's no gaslighting your way out of this.

Humming along in an old church, the Internet Archive is more relevant than ever The Trump administration's erasure of federal data has put the Internet Archive in the spotlight. The organization, with its small but mighty team, is working to help save the world's digital history.

INTERNET ARCHIVES
Wayback machine. Our hope archived.

www.npr.org/2025/03/23/n...

Believe

Winchester, Crabwood Farm wheatfeild, Hampshire, UK. late August 2002.
Via website, Internet Archive, video archive.

Among the most profound, crop circle ever recorded. Part of image described as a data disc, a message encoded in binary, embedded along with this alien, other worldly being, image.

Putin's Party Gives Meat Grinders to Mothers of Fallen Russian Soldiers on Women's Day Outrage spread online after the bad taste gift

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The Russian word for the kitchen device, myasorubka, has the same double meaning as in English. Social media commenters called the gifts "shameful" and "inappropriate."