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Our country was specifically built around loyalty to institutions, not to the people who happen to be running them at the time. Nobody owes personal loyalty to the President. It’s disappointing to see the Congressional GOP act like they do.

Our country was specifically built around loyalty to institutions, not to the people who happen to be running them at the time. Nobody owes personal loyalty to the President. It’s disappointing to see the Congressional GOP act like they do.

Who am I kidding. It’s fucking infuriating.

Yeah, I know it’s mostly bad-faith. Half the time the “other guy” didn’t start it, didn’t do anything equivalent. It’s like, “Why are you on about my guy driving a getaway car for a bank robbery? Your guy drives a car too!”

Yeah, I know it’s mostly bad-faith. Half the time the “other guy” didn’t start it, didn’t do anything equivalent. It’s like, “Why are you on about my guy driving a getaway car for a bank robbery? Your guy drives a car too!”

And of course, they’re *deeply offended* if you flip their guy the bird when he cuts you off while driving his getaway car. Because rude gestures are sooooo much more important than reckless driving. Or, you know, bank robbery.

It’s bizarre how many people seem to think that “he started it!” is a winning argument in politics. If something needs to stop, it needs to stop. Your hand is on the wheel now, your foot is on the accelerator. Doesn’t matter if you turned the key or someone else did.

It’s bizarre how many people seem to think that “he started it!” is a winning argument in politics.

If something needs to stop, it needs to stop. Your hand is on the wheel now, your foot is on the accelerator. Doesn’t matter if you turned the key or someone else did.

How Finnish Skywatchers Discovered a Strange New Aurora

A new (or at least previously unrecorded) type of aurora has been identified, one that looks more like rippling sand dunes than the vertical curtains of light usually seen.

The current hypothesis is that it occurs when an atmospheric wave gets trapped in layers of the mesosphere, causing it to propagate horizontally, and that wave intersects with the charged particles that produce an aurora.

https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/citizen-scientists-discover-a-new-type-of-aurora-dunes

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/new-type-of-aurora

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Link: Choosing to be a citizen, not merely a profit-seeking agent or partisan. “leaving things better than you found them is a powerful step forward, because you’ll probably be back this way again one day soon.”

Link: Choosing to be a citizen, not merely a profit-seeking agent or partisan.

“leaving things better than you found them is a powerful step forward, because you’ll probably be back this way again one day soon.”

1. If you catch someone trying to cheat in a race, you don’t just watch and wait to see when they cross the finish line. You stop or disqualify them. 2. Elections and impeachment are about different things. Re-election is a job evaluation. Impeachment is about misconduct.

1. If you catch someone trying to cheat in a race, you don’t just watch and wait to see when they cross the finish line. You stop or disqualify them.

2. Elections and impeachment are about different things. Re-election is a job evaluation. Impeachment is about misconduct.

Remarks Translated (uspol)

“I can’t vote to convict without more evidence.”

“I have more evidence right here.”

“LA LA LA I CAN’T HEAR YOU!!!”

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“OK, he might be guilty, but what happens if we actually convict him? That would make some people mad! So let’s just let him off the hook. It’s not like that would encourage him to keep doing bad stuff, right?”

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“The process was rigged from the start, so instead of trying to make it a little more fair by calling witnesses, I’m going to help rig it further.”

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“I’m totally OK with the President doing whatever the hell he wants and walking all over laws and structures intended to prevent government abuse, as long as he’s in my party.”

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“Pressuring foreign governments for personal gain is totally ok because we pressure foreign governments for other stuff too!”

“The public should understand fully that the Republican Party has become the authoritarian party…unlimited executive power, executive domination of the other branches and selling our democracy to the highest foreign bidder.”

“The public should understand fully that the Republican Party has become the authoritarian party…unlimited executive power, executive domination of the other branches and selling our democracy to the highest foreign bidder.”

Red-Tailed Hawk (on transmission tower, early Jan.)

Red-Tailed Hawk: NOT a Birb.

And this hawk(?) is definitely *not* a birb…but I saw it on the same bike path in the middle of the suburbs. It landed on a transmission tower and looked around for a few minutes before flying off. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/37541270 #birds #nature

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This solitary hawk(?) landed in the scaffolding of a transmission tower above a suburban bike path, and stayed there, looking around, while I walked closer to it. After a few minutes, it flew off to another tower.

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