Scott Woodcock

Scott Woodcock

@osott.bsky.social

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A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

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Interesting that the Trump administration is laying down a marker that a military attack on an unarmed craft can be the basis for prosecuting senior government officials who supervised the attack in home countries of the vehicles' occupants.

Here’s a brief list of legislation I’d like to see implemented the next time Dems have full control. *Add 10,000 members to the House of Representatives *Add 4 new Supreme Court justices *Add 2 new states *Aggressive campaign finance reforms. Fixes gerrymandering, electoral college and more.

The Constitution allows 1 Representative for every 30,000 Americans. Simple majorities in the House, Senate and a Democratic President could add 11,000 new members to the House, let them gerrymander that. Would permanently fix the Electoral College too.

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social

Trump and his allies are doing everything they possibly can to strengthen the forces in the center-left that are urging Dems to embrace procedural Total War. Trump and the GOP are doing this to our country. Every last shred of damage that results from escalation is their fault.

The only way to force the gulf open is to go in on the ground, and that’s not likely to work either. As bad as it is now, there’s a good chance it’s about to get a whole lot worse.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

RAPIDAN: “.. We now assign 70% odds to military escalation as Washington moves to reopen Hormuz by force, 20% to continuation of the status quo – no Hormuz flows, no escalation – and 10% to a deal that leads to a resumption of flows.”

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We only rate dogs. This is a miniature horse practicing his jumps. We are not qualified to comment on his form, as we are merely dog experts. Please only send dogs. Thank you… 13/10 (TT: alfy_da_weeny)

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Liberalism is the unrelentingly radical belief that humans stand equal as brothers and sisters in a shared and open society, governed by laws and leaders of their own choosing, free to live lives of their own choosing, finding their own truth and fortune, vested with rights universal and inalienable

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social

Unironically we need to reclaim the historical sense of liberalism as a radical ideology, not the squishy sensibility that it denotes to most people today.

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Imagine reducing the need for knee replacements by 62%! A groundbreaking injection could rejuvenate your cartilage using your own cells. What if aging joints could be treated without surgery? This research might just change everything. 🦵✨

sinapti.caStanford finds the switch for joint aging: an injection could prevent millions of knee replacements - SinapticaA team from Stanford University has identified a key protein that controls the aging of joint cartilage and developed an inhibitor capable of reversing it, open

Never again a country without consequences! I like it.

András Tóth-Czifra@minczifra.bsky.social

Perhaps Magyar's most important promise, and the one that certainly resonates with voters: "never again a country without consequences!" The crowd chants: "To prison! To prison!" [with the corrupt officials of the outgoing government]

I’m a pretty simple guy, I just don’t want to live next to assholes.

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social

I quite happily live in a neighborhood where most people do not share my religion, where multiple languages are represented, and where people have come from a lot of different countries. Bigoted assholes always assume everyone else actually shares their bigotries.

Really captured RFK Jr.’s essence here. Nice.

The Onion@theonion.com

Swollen RFK Jr. Warns Americans Not Eating Enough Bees https://theonion.com/swollen-rfk-jr-warns-americans-not-eating-enough-bees/

800 freighters at $2 million each to pass… I bet if the Iranians went into the casino business, they wouldn’t go bankrupt.

Iran holds all the cards. Trump’s rich friends in the Arab world probably aren’t too happy about the real threat of Iran blowing up all the infrastructure their billions are tied up in.

union person@junlper.beer

this is the ceasefire agreement that trump agreed to, which to me looks like an insane strategic defeat for the US

Byron Allen’s success reminds me of the old saying, “Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.”

CBS finishing off their destruction of their late night comedy era by replacing The Late Show with the void of comedy known as Comics Unleashed.

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A very good piece on how Pete Hegseth believes that we lost the war in Iraq and Afghanistan because we were stabbed in the back by Black and Women Generals.

Eric Michael Garcia@ericmgarcia.bsky.social

Really good piece by @vermontgmg.bsky.social about Chuck Norris, Rambo and Pete Hegseth. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-mythol...

Pretty much…

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social

Iran FM: ‘Striking civilian structures, including unfinished bridges, will not compel Iranians to surrender. It only conveys the defeat and moral collapse of an enemy in disarray. Every bridge and building will be built back stronger. What will never recover: damage to America's standing.’

What part of “you broke it, you own it” do these guys not understand?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Hegseth: "The president was clear this morning in his Truth that there are countries around the world who ought to be prepared to step up on this critical waterway as well. Last time I checked there was supposed to be a big bad Royal Navy that could be prepared to do things like that."

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RUBIO: “Imagine if Iran spent billions on its people instead of weapons... They’d have a much different country.”🤔😕 Unreal. @marcorubio Do you even hear yourselves? Your shameless hypocrisy is killing us

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Trump has potentially ended free maritime trade, a literally world-changing development that, if it lasts, may do more damage than anything else he has done so far What a phenomenally, historically evil and incompetent failure The Republican Party is a party of failure, defeat, and idiocy

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