Tabs and Takes
- Via AL.com: 16th Street Baptist Church bombing survivor, community reflect: ‘How long?’
- Via TPM: There’s Videotape! Annals of Feral Lauren Boebert …. This raises the question of how hard is it to just show a little caring about those around you.
- Via The Atlantic is a reminder that there are a lot of retrograde types making money off of people retrograde: Nobody Should Care About a Woman’s ‘Body Count’.
- The truth is, I don’t actually believe anything he says. He is basically a performance artist (and I use the term loosely). Via Politico: Ramaswamy wants to end the H-1B visa program he used 29 times.
- Quite a system Musk has going there, via the Intercept: UAW Temporarily Loses Twitter Verification as Union Strikes Against Big Three.
After members of the United Auto Workers walked off the job at midnight, Twitter stripped the union of its account verification without notice, according to a UAW official. The account, as of publication time, lacked verification — but its blue check was restored shortly after the story began circulating widely. Twitter’s verification policy temporarily removes verification from accounts that change profile pictures, which the UAW did in conjunction with the walkout.
- Via The Atlantic: America Just Hit the Lithium Jackpot.
There are also political complexities. The region where the lithium deposit was found is sparsely populated today, but both the Paiute and the Shoshone claim it as unceded ancestral land. They lost it during the Snake War, one of the lesser-known and bloodiest conflicts of America’s westward expansion, which was partly triggered by white settlers’ dreams of mineral riches. The tribes, environmentalists, and local ranchers have all recently sued to prevent the creation of an open-pit lithium mine nearby. They’ve been unsuccessful, but litigation concerning this new deposit may unfold differently. Srinivasan stressed that the process will be unpredictable and time-consuming. If history is any indication, it could take a decade.
Re Ramaswhatshisname, it seems like much of modern politics, especially on the right has become performance art. I’ll believe and vote for what I find most entertaining. Especially so on the right, but far from exclusively.
That’s socialism! Didn’t we learn that with the righteous refusal to mask during the trump pandemic (which was a hoax and a bioweapon and just the flu)!
As Musk commented when asked about the discovery, lithium deposits at usable concentrations aren’t hard to find now that we’re looking for them. The hard part is refining. Lithium ore from various sources is shipped to China for refining. I was more excited when I came across this company the other day. Living downstream from century-old mining and refining sites that still leach nasty stuff into surface water makes you paranoid.
I’ve been a fairly regular theater goer for over 30 years – SF, NYC, London – I don’t think I’ve ever even seen someone get so much as a warning from an usher about unacceptable behavior.
Boebert’s weak mea culpa – using her divorce as an excuse – is thin. We all go through bad situations in life, it’s no excuse. Unfortunately, this is who she really is.
That reminds me of one of the definitions for LOL-
Laugh out loud
Lots of laundry
Leftover Lasagna
Lesbians on Lithium
@anjin-san: Boebert seems to have that Rand Paul thing going – delighting in causing someone pain simply because they know they can get away with it. All this performative stuff seems to have happened after the pregnant woman asked her to stop vaping.
Remember when that neighbor attacked Rand Paul and Paul pretended to have actual injuries and sued the guy? It was instigated because the neighbor kept a fastidious yard and once asked Paul not leave piles of hedge clippings and other yard debris next to his property line. Paul then made a point of piling debris up there. The neighbor then started to clear and bag Paul’s debris as well as his own. Then Paul took to hiding half his debris behind his garage, and would wait until the neighbor had cleaned up and ended his yard work for the day, and then come dump the other half there.
Open pit mining is an environmental and ecological disaster, but I guess that’s okay as long as it’s for a “green” goal*, right?
*Green in both senses, in this case.
@MarkedMan:
Well, that’s the denotative definition of an asshole, isn’t it?