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Whining and complaining is an ancient tradition
It occurred to me this morning that whining and complaining is nothing new:
«The whole congregation of the Israelites complained against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness. The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat and ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”»
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exod.16.2,Exod.16.3&version=NRSVUE
Context: all the bitching and moaning about the Democratic party before the election, and now the rationalizations.
How to prepare to stop a flight if it includes deportees?
Ok, so, question for the collective wisdom of social media (read: mastodon):
Suppose the current administration actually does start putting deportees on commercial flights instead of chaining them up on military transports. How should I, as clueless passenger, prepare to make some good trouble?
I guess I should start by assuming I’m going to be arrested, too? Or at least ejected from the current flight?
So, I guess, before flying…
- Speak to an attorney?
- Make an earlier flight reservation so I have time for these shenanigans and still make my meeting or sales call or whatever?
- Set aside some bail money? Or speak to a bail bonding agency to get some ducks in a row?
- What else? I really am clueless about how to help here.
And as part of my agitation…
- Ask for documentation as to why they’re being deported? How should I read it? What should I look for?
Wait, maybe I should google. Ha!
https://www.gettingthevoiceout.org/how-to-stop-a-deportation/
https://www.antiatlas-journal.net/anti-atlas/05-brewer-how-to-stop-a-deportation-flight/
Ugh, too much to read.
[Update: this over-protected, white-bread man is probably never going to be on a flight to Colombia, Venezuela, Guatemala, Nicaragua, etc. (maybe Costa Rica), so… never mind!]
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez lays out battle plan against ‘shockingly dim’ Trump White House – Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-2671031806/
Thanks, AOC, good reminder.
Oppose Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Secretary of Health and Human Services – Senate Hearing on 1/29 ⭑ 5 Calls
Great rant on ebooks and DRM
@ifixcoinops 🔗 https://retro.social/users/ifixcoinops/statuses/113913560170941693 – Putting books on my kid’s vintage ereader and my vintage ereader too and good grief an epub for a fiction book does not have to be thirty megabytes yikes
America: 1. Trump: 0. Trump’s Funding Freeze Melts Away.
And after all the hilarity:
«We were promised a newly efficient crew of flying monkeys who’d have all their ducks in a row and get right to work making with the creative destruction. They don’t seem yet to have arrived.
But do not get comfortable and Do Not Congratulate: These sick bastards never get tried of trying.»
https://www.wonkette.com/p/america-1-trump-0-trumps-funding
Nailed it, Wonkette; thank you.
SURPRISE SURPRISE, Project 2025 Was The Plan All Along!
«The New York Times was at least skeptical of Treasontits’ disavowals, but, headline:….»
https://www.wonkette.com/p/surprise-surprise-project-2025-was
You go, Wonkette. New insult with every other breath.
«weaponized incompetence»
https://www.wonkette.com/p/america-1-trump-0-trumps-funding
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«Wonkette prefers to weaponize dick jokes. Please become a paid subscriber if you too believe that the penis mightier than the sword.»
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Throw Biden Under the Bus | Yglesias
Not a giant fan of Yglesias when he seems to be being a contrarian just for the sake of it. Also, his voice sets my teeth on edge, so I can’t listen to his podcasts.
BUT. I think he’s right here. I think *one* of the criteria by which we might want to judge future Dems is how willing (and able) they are to detach themselves from Biden.
The StoryGraph has “buddy reads”
Just discovered that The StoryGraph has a thing called “buddy reads”. Let’s see how *this* works out.
