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speak easy's JournalRick Wilson on Bob Graham
Rick Wilson
@TheRickWilson
RIP Governor Bob Graham.
In the history of Florida, you will find few men who governed and led with such grace, honor, and dignity. He knew and loved this state and its people like no other.
We will not see his like again. A tremendous loss.
Our condolences go out to @GwenGraham and the Graham family.
https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/1780538206905074099
"Ukraine needs to stand on its own."
Jake Sherman
@JakeSherman
JOHNSON, in the closed GOP meeting, says that Ukraine needs to stand on its own.
https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1779991549750698231
Guardian: Creating sexually explicit deepfake images to be made offence in UK
Seemed reasonable enough to me, until I read further - the creation of deepfake sexual images [is] “unacceptable irrespective of whether the image is shared”.
The offence will be introduced through an amendment to the criminal justice bill, which is making its way through parliament. Laura Farris, the minister for victims and safeguarding, said the creation of deepfake sexual images was “unacceptable irrespective of whether the image is shared”.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/16/creating-sexually-explicit-deepfake-images-to-be-made-offence-in-uk
NYT tomorrow: "Is Biden too alert and awake?"
Rick Wilson
@TheRickWilson
NYT tomorrow: "Is Biden too alert and awake?"
Scoop: Biden told Netanyahu U.S. won't support an Israeli counterattack on Iran
"You got a win. Take the win," Biden told Netanyahu, according to the official.
https://www.axios.com/2024/04/14/biden-netanyahu-iran-israel-us-wont-support
Wind and solar accounted for 76% of electricity in Texas last Friday.
Renewable Energy Shatters Records in the U.S.Within the last month, grid operators have reported record solar generation in the Midwest, record wind generation in New York and record renewable generation in the mid-Atlantic, according to data collected by GridStatus.io, a website that monitors electricity markets around the country.
The milestones represent a snapshot in time, a mere hour of a day when renewable generation surges on one of the country’s regional electric grids, all of which remain firmly dependent on fossil fuels.
But together they paint a picture of an evolving power system. Wind generated almost twice the electricity as coal last year on the grid managed by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which serves about 90 percent of the state's power demand. Rooftop solar regularly tops generation in New England on sunny days.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/renewable-energy-shatters-records-in-the-u-s/
NYT: Trump Says He Wouldn't Sign a Federal Abortion Ban, Criticizing Arizona Ruling
When Trump moves his lips, he's lying.
Speaking to reporters on an airport tarmac in Atlanta, Mr. Trump said he expected that the Arizona law would be “straightened out.” He also said he expected that a six-week abortion ban in Florida that he has criticized was “probably, maybe going to change.”
Yet even as he suggested his disapproval with the circumstances in both states, Mr. Trump defended the position he took in a video statement on Monday, when he said that states should weigh in on abortion through legislation.
“It’s the will of the people. This is what I’ve been saying,” Mr. Trump said in Atlanta, where he had traveled for a fund-raiser. “It’s a perfect system
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/10/us/politics/trump-arizona-abortion.html
Trump's "perfect system" leaves women unable to have kids after collapsing with sepsis in a hospital parking lot.
Arizona Republicans Thwart Attempts to Repeal 1864 Abortion Ban
Source: New York Times
A decision by Arizona’s highest court upholding an 1864 ban on nearly all abortions created chaos and confusion across the battleground state on Wednesday. Patients hunted for answers and Democratic lawmakers shouted “Save women’s lives!” as their efforts to repeal the law were frustrated by Republican leaders.
Democrats, who have criticized the decision resurrecting a 160-year-old abortion ban that has no exceptions for rape or incest, quickly tried to push bills through the Republican-controlled state Legislature that would repeal the ban — a move they said would protect women’s health and freedom and also force Republicans to take a formal vote to support the law or strike it down.
But Republican leaders in the Senate removed one bill from the day’s agenda on Wednesday, legislative aides said. In the other chamber, a Republican House member who has done a political about-face and called for striking down the law made a motion to vote on a Democratic repeal bill that has sat stalled for months. But Republican leaders quickly put the House into recess before any vote could be held.
Democrats on the Senate floor jeered as their Republican colleagues filed out of the chamber.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/10/us/abortion-ban-arizona-democrats-repeal.html
Trump Media & Technology Group down 12% on the day (Nasdaq up 1.24%)
Trump Media is ‘a scam’ and people buying its stock are ‘dopes,’ Barry Diller says
“I mean, it’s ridiculous,” Diller said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” when asked about Trump Media. “The company has no revenue.”
“It’s a scam, just like everything he’s ever been involved in is some sort of con,” he said of Trump.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/04/trump-media-stock-is-a-scam-barry-diller-says.html
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