rethinking.bsky.social

rethinking.bsky.social

@rethinking.bsky.social

“It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.” ― Bertrand Russell

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Lindsay Clancy - Legal logic dictates the only conclusion to be made is all the jurors are in favor of aquital, except for one,as the defense attorney argued the one is not following the law, and should be removed.

And then they need to take a break until the midterms, because, you know, the congresspeople need to not hold town halls and not interact with constituents. Then,c'mon, Thanksgiving and Christmas are coming, let's break through the New Year. Oh, and then our New Year break to catch up. Questions?

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com

A couple days ago, Mike Johnson mocked Thomas Massie for suggesting House leadership could keep Congress out to avoid the new Epstein Files Transparency Act, calling the idea “stupid” and “nonsensical.” Now he has canceled the final two weeks of September.

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We’re somewhere between General Esposito declaring underwear must be worn on the outside and Dr. Evil’s father claiming he invented the question mark.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Holy shit — the purpose of this Trump event is to announce that he’s changing the name of Lake Ontario to “Lake America.” It will be interesting to see which if any institutions and companies go along with this

Will John Ratcliffe resign?

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social

one of the supposedly damning docs the White House released tonight says Russia tried to undermine BIDEN. Also says China "prefers that President Trump be defeated" but actually "Beijing did not intend to try to affect the election" (!)

CNN, who has may issues, is doing a killer job on the NYC fireworks. They had to cover on the fly because of the weather. But whoever picked the music, has a great ear. And the drone shots, quite amazing. Compared with the milktoast muzak on NBC, CNN get a tip of the hat.

Certainly seems like an excellent idea to fire the Secretaries of the Navy - and the Army in the middle of a major regional war.

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

So Hegseth didn’t get along with the Navy Secretary and also doesn’t get along with the Army Secretary. He seems to be the common denominator.

Everything's destroyed. Never been anything like it Operation Epic Fail

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "With the longest range possible and they had some weapons that nobody believed they had. We just learned that out. We took 'em out. We took 'em all out so that no one would really dare stop them."

Not regime change, though the other day it was. Not boots on the ground, though maybe. Remove nuclear weapon threat, though we destroyed whatever they had, canceled our agreement not to create and there is no threat. So, what is the goal?

Hear me out. Escalator gate had to be masterminded by Big Pharma, specifically #Kenvue , who makes Tylenol. Has to be. Who else would have any motive to embarrass or inconvenience our President? What? It was a member of Trump's staff? Still... #Trump #escalator #UN

Ya know, a boy can hope this is all true. But in a world where these guys never tell the truth, my conspiracy meter fears they are setting us up. Why? Not sure. Depress TESLA stock price for cheap pick up? Crazed performative desires? Misdirection from a real catastrophe brewing? Let's see.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com

Elon Musk says SpaceX will decommission its Dragon spacecraft immediately following Trump's threat to cancel his government contracts.

Just a nice authoritarian town hall with the press labeled "moderate" #MikeLawler in an affluent Westchester County, New York, having the State Troopers remove this senior citizen constituent. Imagine if he wasn't moderate.

Jennifer C@thejenniwren.teamlh.social

🧵 NY-17 Rep. Mike Lawler had a local social worker physically dragged out of his town hall Sunday night. Emily Feiner was singled out by private security, lifted out of her seat, as the crowd chanted “let her stay” and “shame, shame.” She’s a constituent. Not a threat. Fascism again.

YES!

Jon Cooper@joncooper-us.bsky.social

@stealthygeek.bsky.social: “Democrats should be running daily press briefings from a shadow White House pool of the legitimate news agencies which have been locked out by the Trump coup. Their audiences will get real news, Dems will regain some messaging control. Why is this not already happening?”

MAGA Pandemic 2.0. Took them less than a month

Brian J. Karem@briankarem.bsky.social

A simple vaccine could prevent this. Deny science all you want. Reap the whirlwind. In rural West Texas, a measles outbreak grows with no end in sight - NBC News apple.news/AkspdFboOTa6...