Quick thread:
I want you all to meet Vladimir Bondarenko.
He’s a blogger from Kiev who really hates the Ukrainian government.
He also doesn’t exist, according to Facebook.
He’s an invention of a Russian troll farm targeting Ukraine. His face was made by AI.
When I assumed chair of the Appointments Promotions &Tenure Cmte at Duke U, as I entered board room one of the committee members asked me for a coffee. So I went to the sideboard, got him a cup, then went to head of the table and called the cmte to order. Coffee was spilt.
I cannot believe this is real, but it is.
This USC Professor is on leave after students were offended that a Chinese word he used during a lecture on foreign languages sounded like an english racial slur.
Watch the video for yourself:
Looking again at the video I took of the mob storming the Senate, there’s a moment when the lead rioter looks right for a second, before continuing to follow the officer left, away from the immediate entrance to the Senate. This happened at 2:14.
The Supreme Court has voted to strike down Roe v. Wade, according to an initial draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito and obtained by POLITICO.
“We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled,” Alito writes.
First time I tweet something personal. When I was 4, a bomb fell 10 meters away from me and the memory remained indelible. I am thinking about the future of Ukrainian 4 year olds.
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@POTUS
: “When President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, eighty-one years ago today, it ushered in one of the most shameful periods in American history.”
Read the full statement:
Sidney Powell has moved to dismiss Dominion's defamation lawsuit. She argues that when she accused Dominion of being part of an election-rigging scheme with ties to Venezuela, "no reasonable person would conclude" those "were truly statements of fact"
BREAKING: The Colorado Supreme Court just threw Donald Trump off the state's 2024 presidential ballot — ruling that Trump engaged in an insurrection by stoking the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6.
A student from inside Oxford High School captured this footage of the possible shooter trying to get into the classroom by impersonating a sheriff
The students did not open the door and escaped through a window
安楽死発言の成田氏のこと、NYTが報じている。イエールからはコメントをもらえなかったようだが、While he is virtually unknown even in academic circles in the United States,(米国ではアカデミア界隈ですら無名)と事実を書いている。(ギフトリンク)
Trump: One of the presidents of a big country stood up and said, Well, sir, if we don't pay and were attacked by Russia, will you protect us? I said.. No I would not protect you. In fact, I would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want.
For children and adolescents aged 1 to 19, guns have become the leading cause of death in United States.
Gun deaths exceed all the deaths in young people caused by cancer, drowning, fire and congenital issues combined.
Source:
Web Browsers for the last 28 years.
via
Spoiler alert: Chrome now dominates almost like IE did around 2002, and innovation in browsers basically flatlined. Monopolies are bad, mmkay?
NEW: The Joint Chiefs of Staff have sent this letter to the U.S. military about the attack on the U.S. Capitol, and the forthcoming transition of power to President-elect Biden as "our 46th Commander in Chief."
このままでも20日正午に大統領は任期切れになるんだけど、議会に弾劾・解任されると、トランプは2024年に出馬できなくなるんです。憲法に、disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honorとあります。
あと、大統領経験者の年金も貰えなくなるんだったかもしれない(これは違ったかも)
The U.S. Capitol was breached today for the first time since 1814, when the British attacked it and set it on fire during the war of 1812, according to the director of scholarship and operations with the U.S. Capitol Historical Society. How shameful.