Global Warming Update: “Once in a century” snowstorm underway in Madrid
Went to a concert last night and the snow ended up shutting down the main highway around Madrid. Left at 11:45 PM and arrived home at 10:30 AM! Everyone was forced to abandon their cars and were taken by the army to a temporary shelter. And it’s still snowing!
Madrileños are skiing from Plaza de Castilla to Atocha and then using the subway as a chairlift to go back and do it again
Not a usual sight at Puerta de Alcala
T-Rex sighting
Spaniards definitely making the most of this “nevada del siglo”
NSFW
Basically Braveheart
Macarena en Sol
More NSFW
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CNN’s @brianstelter endorses Silicon Valley censoring the U.S. president
@brianstelter In his monologue yesterday, Stelter simultaneously endorsed tech companies deplatforming conservatives as well as denounced conservatives for ending up on fringier websites where they’re “radicalized”
I always expected this kind of Big Tech purge to come once a Democrat was in office. But their inability to wait even that long shows just how dangerously power hungry and vengeful they are. Things will only get worse from here.
Hate to break it to you but if Trump had won, there would have been violence on Wednesday, and it most certainly would have been worse. How do I know? Because Democrats have been endorsing violence as a political tactic throughout the Trump Administration.
In 2018, @tedlieu threatened “widespread civil unrest” if Trump fired Mueller. This wasn’t a fluke, either. He repeatedly said people should “take to the streets” if Trump did so (which as we know he didn’t).
@tedlieu James Clapper echoed Lieu — and many other Democrats — saying Trump firing Mueller would result in a “firestorm … in the streets”
I don’t know what the correct terminology is for those who engaged in storming the Capitol yesterday, but CNN has settled on “terrorists” — having used it 31x thus far this AM.
Strikes me as yet another needless escalation. Terrorists use violence — particularly the mass death of civilians — to seek political ends. These people were anti-democratic hooligans, but they weren’t driving trucks through crowds or flying planes into buildings.
Much of this morning’s news coverage has focused on the role Trump’s rhetoric played fomenting yesterday’s uprising. But as usual, they’re completely lacking in self-awareness as they are themselves employing the most charged, incendiary rhetoric available. Why?
For those who missed @karol’s tweet last night, Twitter suspended me after I criticized @NYGovCuomo for denying NYC’s request to make vaccines available for senior citizens.
@karol@NYGovCuomo .@Twitter falsely claimed I was violating their rules against “abuse and harassment [which] includes wishing or hoping that someone experiences physical harm.” My tweet was explicitly doing the opposite; trying to protect NY’s most vulnerable from Cuomo’s deadly vaccine rules.
@karol@NYGovCuomo@Twitter Rather than agree to their demand to delete the tweet, I appealed. Twitter’s appeal process bizarrely limits you to 240 characters, which is hardly enough space to explain the stupidity of their Thought Cops.
Federal govt opts against revising its obviously incorrect recommendation to consume sugar regularly wsj.com/articles/new-u…
These dietary recommendations — which shouldn’t exist in the first place — are one of the seldom mentioned reasons diabetes, heart disease, and Covid hit harder in minority communities
Just noticed the @USDA doubles down on its usual mistake of discouraging saturated fat — i.e., where vitamins and minerals are most densely concentrated — & encouraging vegetable oils, which cause heart disease. Why is America fat & disease ridden? A: The USDA.