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Brent Spence Bridge to be closed for several days after fiery semitruck crash, officials say

Covington Fire Chief Mark Pierce said one of the trucks was carrying 110 pounds of potassium hydroxide and 400 gallons of diesel fuel, causing the bulk of the fire.

Pierce said the potassium hydroxide won’t have an impact on anyone in the area and most of it has been diluted with water.

Covington Police Chief Robert Nader said a “code red” was put out in the area because officials weren’t sure what chemicals had leaked. It has since been lifted.

Bridge inspectors and EPA officials have responded to the scene but have not started their inspection due to the extremely high temperatures of the bridge. Officials said the fire burned at up to 1,500 degrees.

A truck fire can’t melt steel beams!!!

Also, have been crossing that bridge since the late 1980s and I have never heard it called the Brent Spence bridge.


Epic Matt Welch rant via Liz Wolfe

Comments bitch about Rand Paul and the hairstyles of both Welch and the other one.


The Right-Wing App That Rocketed to No. 1 After the Election

For years, some right-wing pundits have tried to orchestrate a conservative exodus from established social media networks to greener and less fact-checked pastures. Finally, in the aftermath of an election that President Donald Trump is trying to contest in part through a barrage of disinformation, a platform looking to siphon off right-leaning users is now seeing a boom in downloads.

The aftermath of Joe Biden’s election victory saw Parler, a social network “without violence and no censorship,” rocket to the top of the Apple App Store’s download charts over the weekend. Parler is a microblogging platform that closely resembles Twitter with its endless feed of short posts (there’s a 1,000-character limit), verified “influencer badges” for well-known pundits and politicians, and hashtags. The main difference is that the platform is far more permissive when it comes to misinformation and hate speech.

Slate has discovered Parler and they are shook! Shook, I say!

The sober and sage Slate comments are more proactive. Calls for it to be banned from the App store, for the FBI to investigate it, that it will “generate” a mass-shooting soon, that it is a Trump conspiracy to spread conspiracies, and that everyone there are Nazis.

Social media is cancer. Choosing a different form of cancer still means you have cancer. When Twitter bans you, they are actually attempting to cure your cancer. Don’t break open an old transformer and start chugging PCBs.