The news: Thursday, July 13, 2023

CRANKY OLD FART
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• H&R Block and other tax-prep firms shared "extraordinarily sensitive" data about taxpayers with Meta, lawmakers say
    End the entire racket, already. There's no reason tax can't be calculated by IRS computers, without forcing individual Americans to spend an afternoon battling forms or software or turning to these tax-prep firms that only exist because the system is intentionally over-complicated.

• "With prejudice": Judge dismisses lawsuit seeking justice for last survivors of Tulsa massacre
    Clever and accurate headlining, from Salon.

• Lawyers with Supreme Court business paid Clarence Thomas aide via Venmo
    It's difficult keeping up with the Supreme Court's ethical lapses, but we all know what'll come from it is bupkis. Like the rich are above the law, the Supreme Court is above ethics.

• Protesters build barricade blocking access to city dump where the bodies might be buried
    In Winnipeg, a serial killer is in custody, and the bodies of his several victims are believed to be in one or both of the city's two landfills. The authorities aren't willing to conduct searches there, so protesters have barricaded the road leading to one of the landfills, demanding a search for the bodies.
    "There are still women in there," says one of the protesters at the blockaded dump. "Would you [abandon the barricades] if your sister or your daughter was in there?"
    Cops usually investigate murders, so what's with the refusal — since late last year, fer cripessake — to search the city dumps? Doubtless the landfills are big and stinky, dangerous places to go rooting around, and maybe the odds are against finding the bodies, but since when don't crime scenes get searched?
    Either someone in authority already knows what would be found, or it's because the victims are all natives, and thus not worth the expense and bother of giving a damn when they're murdered.

• Iowa Republicans pass six-week abortion ban
    I've read that, on average, a woman might begin to suspect she's pregnant after about 5 1/2 weeks, so if she doesn't think it over, doesn't reach out for friends' advice, and doesn't put off thinking about it (like I do about every ache and unwanted invitation) all she'd need to do is get an appointment at a clinic within two days.

• Titan submarine victims realized they were about to die a minute before vessel 'popped like balloon'
    No comment.

• Plastic pollution on coral reefs gets worse the deeper you go, study finds 

• World's oceans changing color due to climate breakdown, study suggests 

• Psychology Today: The grim forecast for ecologically impacted dreaming 

• Gas stations caused a $20 billion toxic mess — and it's not going away 

• It took more than a year for a cop to be docked one day's pay and re-assigned, after arguing and peeing in public when a bar said 'No more beer, you're obviously drunk' 

• In Seattle cops' break room: Trump 2020 flag, and a mock gravestone for Black teen shot dead by police 

• Denver suburb that loaned cops for 2020 police riots demands no liability for its police misconduct 

• Cops' mental health peer-counseling program is suspended, because not enough not-under-investigation cops remain to staff it

 • Police chief is suspended with pay during investigation nobody will talk about
    No, this isn't the same police chief as two days ago. It's only the same headline, and same turn of events.

• Former homicide detective who criticized Memphis cops over Tyre Nichols killing is found dead in his front yard 

• Portland officer sure is sorry for hitting photographer during 2020 police riots
    "I'm sorry, Ms Jacobs, for unnecessarily hitting you in the head with my baton." (actual quote)

• Cop arrested under suspicion of beating his infant son 

• DC police officer guilty of sexually abusing underage girl for two years 

• Army veteran paralyzed in police beating wins $20m settlement from Yuba City 

• Cop suspended with pay after arrest for child porn 

• In Houston, it's illegal to feed the homeless 

• Idaho sued over law making it a crime to help minors get abortions without parental consent
    Sue 'em again, harder this time.

• Trump says Hunter Biden should've gotten the death penalty for not paying his taxes on time 

• Republican Congressman compares himself to civil rights hero Rosa Parks because he refused to sit in the back of Congress 

🖯  MY BROWSER HISTORY  🖯

• With the Supreme Court's bogus ruling against Affirmative Action, colleges may have to cut Black enrollment to avoid lawsuits questioning their compliance with the decision 

• The New York draft riots of 1863 

• America's push for the atomic bomb spawned enduring radioactive waste problems in St Louis 

• Can you walk a mile in Mark Bryan's skirt? 

• Nick Offerman is high on nature 

• Phyllis Diller crashed all-male roast at the Friar's Club dressed as a man

• "Either everyone at Trader Joe's wants to fuck me, or everyone at Trader Joe's is fucking each other, but something sexual is definitely going on there" 

• The Washington Post has demoted political cartoons 

♫♬  AUDIO  ♫

• Brazil — Michael Kamen 

• I'm Coming Home — Linda November 

• Mississippi Goddamn — Nina Simone 

• Seasons in the Sun — Terry Jacks 

• They Ain't Making Jews Like Jesus Anymore — Kinky Friedman 

👁  VIDEO  👁

• Dominatrix spanks schoolgirl, hard 

• I'm Not on Drugs, by Fidlar 

• Sketchpad — the beginning of computer graphics 
    This is a fascinating walk back in history.

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⚰️  THE DEAD  ⚰️ 

• Randall Wyn Fullmer 

• Mike "Mantaur" Halac 

• Mikala Jones 

• Carmen Sevilla 

• Gabriel Trujillo

7/13/2023   

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