Sammy

I 📖 👀🌎 news, sci/tech, the ISS, & ⚽️#Arsenal. 🎼/art, ☕️ essential.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

The Southern Strategy has come to Virginia.

[Sammy @Leisering]

I don’t care if it Halloween ! Get this off of me now!
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[Slate @Slate]

"It was a bucket of water in the face." https://t.co/2i1hmn1LCX

[Sammy @Leisering]

@Merrydith5 thanks for following. F B✅.

[Sammy @Leisering]

@PadraigKenny thanks for following. FB✅

[Sammy @Leisering]

@mrsDugskullery thanks for following! F B of course✅

[Adam Parsons @adamparsons]

I've spoken to various EU diplomats about 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 fishing spat. All of them have said they'll back France.
"There's no trust in the British government, so there's no sympathy either," said one.

[Sammy @Leisering]

Chief Dana Tizya-Tramm’s climate change fight - Washington Post https://t.co/rIQYphoZt7

[Richard Blumenthal @SenBlumenthal]

You can run, but you can’t hide, @Facebook. 

A new nom de plume may confuse & distract, but won't erase years of devious practices & disregard for privacy, kids’ wellbeing, spreading hate, & genocide. 
https://t.co/noZweHjIMP

[Sammy @Leisering]

✍️ ‘At one point another guest on the program suggested that building an “English-language Christian Russian American channel, targeting the [conservative, pro-Trump] audience” would present a business opportunity for Russians.’ Spy or spaced out? https://t.co/XBT5wd8Bad

[John Moffitt 🌊🌊🧢 🇺🇦 @JohnRMoffitt]

Russian spy (Russia?) directly involved in the Jan 6th insurrection.
https://t.co/C5nFuUQnb9

[Mother Jones @MotherJones]

MYTH #1: “Almost all kids who get severe cases of COVID-19 have pre-existing conditions, so we don’t need vaccines for healthy kids that age.”

5 infuriating myths about kids' COVID-19 vaccines, debunked: https://t.co/gKv2fUcnkB

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Meta as in “we are a cancer to democracy metastasizing into a global surveillance and propaganda machine for boosting authoritarian regimes and destroying civil society… for profit!”

[Sammy @Leisering]

@ElectricChimp You mean there isn’t?! Builder error no doubt. Cheers 🍷!

[Allen Y. Tien MD MHS 田一彦 @allentien]

Hey kids. I'm in my 60s. You've not lived in America when wealthy paid their #FairShare. I have. We did great things
- cut poverty rate
- built new schools
- built new highways
- led world in technology
- eliminated polio and smallpox
- LANDED ON MOON SIX TIMES! #SharedFacts

[Sammy @Leisering]

Mixed judicial messages.

[Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney]

Chief Judge HOWELL, in her first Jan. 6-related sentencing, says prosecutors seem "schizophrenic" in describing the Capitol attack in harsh terms but then seeking less-than-maximum sentence / cutting 'petty offense' plea deal.

[Sammy @Leisering]

@FridaGhitis @davidakaye It’s a term in Buddhism for loving-kindness, it’s a similar meaning in the Upanishad and in Jainism. It seems a misapplication in this case. Perhaps immaculate conception would have been a better choice.

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

Only Daily Express could carry a front page headline today

“Cheers! Rishi on a mission to cut taxes”

after he’s just raised taxes to their highest level in seventy years

[Sammy @Leisering]

It was a biggie

[Sammy @Leisering]

X-CLASS SOLAR FLARE: A global eruption on the ☀️ Thursday . started with a powerful X1-class solar flare from sunspot AR2887. The blast created a massive tsunami of plasma in the atmosphere, which rippled across the entire solar disk. CME headed👉to 🌎 for Halloween!