DianaTripper

@tripperday.bsky.social

Liberal AF. Politically irritated Midwesterner. Determined America will not be destroyed by fascists. Gardener. MAIR/MPA

Ohio here. Max Miller will probably get elected. My neighbors will soon be dusting off their anti communism signs and trying to run me off the road again. We’re also a top voter suppression state and Miller is near Cleveland, ripe for picking off D voters. Don’t hold your breath waiting for Ohio.

I’m going to miss the characters on Grantchester. They all overcame serious crises with loyalty & love. Alphy is my favorite vicar b/c he had the most integrity and the strongest character. Mrs C is my favorite all round though. What the dickens Leonard is also incredible. What a fine bunch!

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2/3 August 1944 | The Germans liquidated the so-called Gypsy camp (Zigeunerlager - sector BIIe) of Auschwitz II-Birkenau. Some 4,300 children, women and men - the last Roma prisoners of the sector - were loaded onto trucks and driven to the gas chambers.

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"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."

Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington

I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities

theguardian.com

I don't want a "Smart Fridge" that orders milk for me. I want a fridge that lasts 25 years and doesn't have a privacy policy that allows it to share my late-night snacking habits with my health insurance provider.

Evidence from this fascinating 2022 study I read at the time, found that the original COVID cases in China are linked to samples from animals sold at a Huanan seafood market, not human to human. Of course Dr Fauci had to follow the research like anyone else. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

New Research Points to Wuhan Market as Pandemic Origin (Gift Article)

Two new studies say the virus was present in animals at the Huanan seafood market in 2019.

nytimes.com

Trump has been pumping out AI slop for hours to fill the void where his foreign policy should be. A panic response now the military has told him he’ll run munitions stockpiles down to dangerous levels if he does a major strike on Iran. That leaves him out of options.

Can't wait for the morning I wake up, have my coffee, and he's nowhere in the news. Just an orange stain in the history books. And the stuff that actually matters to people gets to be the headline again.