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Actually only a quarter of them but I get the point.

Half of the half that is the most prominent half. Half of the pair most commonly identified as 'The Koch Brothers'. David Koch kicked it.

yep. https://factcheck.afp.com/prayforamazonas-thousands-people-are-sharing-old-pictures-posts-about-amazon-rainforest-fires?fbclid=IwAR3UOo0cLr0xMg5NlzLFEWC9LJjIy8Rx_DGtzkl7PJmiqdckVN3IywVPlo0

Pukes on Koch.

Missing the point is arguing that facts don’t matter. Seeing as you’re not too fussed by the details, maybe you missed the part where the radical right has been weaponising misinformation.

This isn’t a case of posting a photo from Thursday but saying it’s Friday. One of the main photos that went viral in this instance is from fucking 1989! When there’s a megalomaniac US President who claims that climate change isn’t real at every opportunity and that the mainstream press is full of fake news, the least we can do is pause and check our sources.

If a person is a climate change denier and they read an article that rightly points out that the viral wildfire photo is 30 years old, then that misinformation confirms their incorrect world view and only does more harm to the attempts of getting people to actually give a shit about climate change.

If a person is a climate change denier and they read an article that rightly points out that the viral wildfire photo is 30 years old, then that misinformation confirms their incorrect world view and only does more harm to the attempts of getting people to actually give a shit about climate change.

A real problem clearly explained. Check your sources, people.

If a person is a climate change denier and they read an article that rightly points out that the viral wildfire photo is 30 years old, then that misinformation confirms their incorrect world view and only does more harm to the attempts of getting people to actually give a shit about climate change.

Summed it up perfectly.

NYT reporter who covered Epstein (glowingly) solicited and received a
$30k donation for his kid’s school from Epstein. Vanity Fair
editor-in-chief Graydon Carter once found a bullet and a severed cat
head outside his home amid the magazine's push to report on the
Epstein allegations.

https://www.npr.org/2019/08/22/753390385/a-dead-cat-a-lawyers-call-and-a-5-figure-donation-how-media-fell-short-on-epstei

Great article

"I've been waiting for Boris Johnson to become Prime Minister for six years."

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/aug/27/bradley-wiggins-pursue-career-social-worker

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49493632

Government to ask Queen to suspend Parliament

(also in EU/Brexit thread)

As far as I see it, this has been Boris's plan all along so that he can steam roll a no deal departure straight through. When he became PM, he had a particularly long chat with the Queen to prepare her for this.

Meanwhile, Coca Cola not safe to be taken on planes, even in hold luggage, according to TSA.

Texas believes allowing guns to be carried in church is appropriate and nothing about the El Paso shooting has made them reconsider. Mormons say No.

When the Mormons are more reasonable than your state legislature, surely time to rethink.

Not putting my hand up in surprise at any of that. I take issue with the nature of the reporting though. When they brought in concealed carry permits back in about 2000, the law was clear that the permits related to public property unless otherwise prohibited. On private land it was always up to the owner/manager.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_Texas#Firearms_carry

See the sections on 30.06 signs.

The legislation you reference is a change to the existing penal code. It allows for churches to be treated as any other private institution.

"Senate Bill 535 amends the Penal Code to remove the premises of a church, synagogue, or other established place of religious worship from the premises on which the intentional, knowing, or reckless carrying of a handgun by a license holder constitutes an offense. "

Churches can still ban concealed weapons on the property with the appropriate signage.
Most probably will.

Every time I visit our Colorado office, I notice the "gun free facility" sticker on the doors of the office building. Even having grown up in NI, where every police officer is armed and until 1998 we had regular army checkpoints where full camo'd teenagers would empty the boot of your car while shouldering an automatic rifle, just in case you were thinking of shipping on some red diesel, that makes me think "FFS, of course, why would you bring a gun to work?!?!"

To show Debbie from accounts that its her fault for making you an incel?

I work from home, I have no one to blame but myself

red diesel

Dibs

red diesel

Dibs

Red hand diesel, shirley

Just a sideshow while the shooting continues https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/texas-shooting-five-dead-killed-injured-midland-odessa-police-white-male-a9087151.html

Well as a white male, you should have a serious chat with yourself about this.