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Post by mhbruin on Oct 9, 2022 8:13:00 GMT -8
Optometrists live longer. They dilate.
You Have to Admire the Courage of These Young Women. They Aren't Stopping.
Schoolgirls chanted slogans, workers went on strike and street clashes erupted across Iran as protests over the death of Mahsa Amini entered a fourth week in defiance of a bloody crackdown.
Two members of Iran's security forces have been killed in continuing protests against the authorities, state media have said.
Videos on social media show students and schoolgirls joining the demonstrations across the country.
Dozens of protesters have been killed since unrest began last month following the death of a young woman in custody.
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A news bulletin on Iranian state television was hacked as footage of the country's supreme leader was being broadcast on Saturday, while protests sparked by the death of a young woman after being arrested by police continued across the country.
The hackers flashed an image of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Underneath was an image Mahsa Amini who was arrested by morality police on Sept. 13 for allegedly violating the country’s strictly enforced Islamic dress code. She died three days later.
Her picture appeared alongside three other women allegedly killed during the unrest.
Throughout the 15 second hack, a caption read “Join us and stand up!” and along with text criticizing Khamenei for their deaths. A song with the lyrics “Woman. Life. Freedom” — a common chant of the protesters — played in the background.
Social media details for a group calling itself “Edalat Ali” or “Ali’s Justice” were also posted on the screen.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 9, 2022 8:16:03 GMT -8
A Rising Democratic Tide is Lifting All Boats.
Even though there are still deeply rooted racial and educational fissures in the labor market, the jobs gains over the past twenty months have been widely spread. When Donald Trump left office, the unemployment rate among Hispanics was 8.6 per cent: last month, it hit an all-time low of 3.8 per cent. During the same period, the Black jobless rate has fallen from 9.2 per cent to 5.8 per cent. (The white unemployment rate is now 3.1 per cent.)
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 9, 2022 8:19:11 GMT -8
Fear Without Respect: Does That Sound Like Caligula?
“People are scared shitless around him. But it’s fear without respect. They haven’t had respect [for Putin] for two or three years now,” a source close to the Russian government told Meduza. Two other sources close to the government and one close to the Kremlin gave similar accounts of the mood in Moscow.
According to the sources, Russian elites’ feelings towards Putin soured after his decision to raise the country’s pension age in 2018 — a move a majority of Russians opposed. Formally, the Cabinet of Ministers was updated in 2020, when Mikhail Mishustin replaced Dmitry Medvedev as prime minister, but many mid-level government workers have held their posts since long before that. They still remember how Putin shifted the blame for the consequences of his pension reform on the ministers — ultimately accusing them of causing the entire government’s approval ratings to drop. “When people [in the government] hear the word ‘ratings,’ they still wince,” a source close to the government told Meduza.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 9, 2022 8:20:58 GMT -8
Note to MattGate: Looting Does Not Get the Death Penalty
ProPublica reporter A.C. Thompson documented a saga of racist white vigilante gun violence targeting Black Hurricane Katrina survivors in 2005. The local police also used the chaos as an excuse to shoot at Black people, leading to the infamous Danziger Bridge shooting. 17-year-old James Brissette and 40-year-old Ronald Madison were fatally shot by police. Four other civilians were wounded. All of the shooting victims were Black. None of them were armed. None of them had committed a crime. One of the deceased victims, Ronald Madison, was mentally disabled. He was shot in the back. There was a massive public outcry, and the New Orleans Police Department attempted to cover up their horrific and racist shooting, but failed.
The terms of service for Twitter strictly forbid using the platform to threaten or call for violence. It remains to be seen if they will take action in response to Gaetz’s Sunday morning tweet.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 9, 2022 8:23:54 GMT -8
A Visit to the Racist Town Tuberville
U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville on Saturday said Democrats are in favor of “reparations” because they are “pro-crime.”
Tuberville, R-Ala., made the comments while at a rally held by former President Donald Trump in Nevada.
“They want reparations because they think the people who do the crime are owed that,” Tuberville said as the crowd cheered behind him. “Bullshit!” he added.
The QOP Used to Only Hint at Racism. The Are Not the ROP (Racist Old Party).
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 9, 2022 8:25:11 GMT -8
Who Won The Week?
Justice Ketanji Brown-Jackson, for boldly wading into arguments on wetlands and affirmative action, correcting the historical record in front of the 6 fuming Federalist Society gaslighters
President Biden: visits FL and PR as Ian response gets thumbs-up; new reproductive rights guidelines; pardons pot offenders; announces $120B in new tech manufacturing plants; frees 7 Americans held in Venezuela
Democrats' prospects of keeping control of the Senate, as Herschel Walker (GA) is revealed to be a closet abortion funder, and Dr. Mehmet Oz (NJ…er, PA) is revealed to be a puppy murderer
Ukraine, which continues chasing the drunk, disheveled, and disorderly Russkis all over the damn place
The schoolgirls in Iran who continue demonstrating off-the-charts courage as they push back against the male mullahs and their morality police at great personal risk
Obamacare, as Republicans discover that everyone loves it and quietly drop their attempts to repeal it so everybody won’t hate their guts even more than they already do
The Nobel Prize recipients, including the Peace Prize winners: human rights advocate Ales Bialiatski from Belarus, Russia's human rights organization Memorial, and the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties
USMC Col. Nicole Mann, who led this week's launch to the Space Station, becoming the first native American in space and first woman Marine to lead a NASA space flight
Aaron Judge, for breaking the American League single-season home run record with #62
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 9, 2022 8:26:45 GMT -8
Ab-Butt Likes Seeing People in Jail, Because Smoking Pot Is Violent
Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said he won’t consider pardons for low-level marijuana offenders after President Joe Biden called on governors across the country to consider pardons.
“Texas is not in the habit of taking criminal justice advice from the leader of the defund police party and someone who has overseen a criminal justice system run amuck with cashless bail and a revolving door for violent criminals,” Abbott spokesperson Renae Eze said in a statement Thursday.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 9, 2022 8:28:10 GMT -8
Real Men Pollute
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) was in the Detroit area last Saturday, as part of the road show that former President Donald Trump brings to his political rallies these days. When it was her turn to speak, she decided to take a swipe at Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and the Biden administration’s efforts to support the purchase of electric vehicles.
“Democrats like Pete Buttigieg want to emasculate the way we drive and force all of you to rely on electric vehicles,” Greene said.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 9, 2022 8:32:54 GMT -8
Oz and Lie-Walker
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 9, 2022 8:34:17 GMT -8
Dumbest Lawsuit of the Week (And Yes, That is a Low Bar.)
Texas Pete hot sauce isn’t as Texas as one Los Angeles man thought, according to a class-action lawsuit.
Los Angeles resident Philip White filed a lawsuit in September in California Central District Court against the hot sauce’s producers, North Carolina-based T.W. Garner Food Co., alleging false advertising after he believed the brand was “a Texas product,” according to North Carolina news station WGHP-TV.
White bought a bottle of the hot sauce — which has a label featuring a white star (like the Texas flag) and an all-red cartoon cowboy — and “relied upon the language and images on the front label” before his purchase, according to the complaint.
The lawsuit alleges the man believed the label’s look made it appear to be “distinctly Texan.” However, the hot sauce originated at a Winston-Salem barbecue restaurant in 1929.
Last Night I Was Shocked to Find Out My Moscow Mule Wasn't Made in Moscow.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 9, 2022 8:38:32 GMT -8
Putin's Bridge Turns into Smoke on the Water, a Fire in the Sky
It was a media extravaganza, Putin-style. At the lead of a small truck convoy, Russian President Vladimir Putin drove an orange dump truck flying Russian flags across a portion of the Crimean Bridge in 2018, proudly inaugurating a 12-mile colossus of steel and concrete connecting the Crimean Peninsula he illegally annexed from Ukraine to mainland Russia. At the end of the ride, he was met with cheers and applause.
Even during the reign of the Czars, “people dreamed of building this bridge,” Putin boasted. “Finally, thanks to your hard work and talents, this project, this miracle, has come true.”
Early Saturday, a giant explosion sent a fireball rolling across Putin’s crown jewel thanks, it could be said, to Putin’s own hard work in launching an invasion of Ukraine in February. Portions of the bridge, among the longest in Europe, could be seen sinking in the water.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 9, 2022 8:41:43 GMT -8
Putin Picks a New War Criminal
The general, born in 1966 in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk, was announced as the head of Russia’s southern military grouping in its war on Ukraine in June.
He received the title of Hero of Russia and was awarded a medal for his service in Syria in 2017, where he led the Russian military expedition as commander of the Aerospace Forces.
He is known for being totally “ruthless” in the Russian military, according to a report (PDF) by the Jamestown Foundation, a US defence policy think-tank.
“Surovikin made a stellar career in the top echelons of the General Staff and defence ministry after 2008, during the radical military reform that required ruthlessness,” read the report, adding that his “readiness to vigorously execute any orders trounced any potential questions about his checkered curriculum vitae”.
Surovikin was jailed twice. The first time was for six months after soldiers under his command killed three demonstrators in the Russian capital, Moscow, during the August 1991 coup that preceded the end of the Soviet Union. He was later released without trial. Four years later, he received a sentence – later overturned – for illegal arms trade.
The general was accused of overseeing a brutal bombardment that destroyed much of the city of Aleppo in Syria, where Russia intervened on the side of Bashar al-Assad. In a report published in October 2020, Human Rights Watch listed him as one of the commanders “who may bear command responsibility for violations” during the 2019-2020 offensive in Syria’s Idlib.
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