Florida's Republican Governor bans sex ed classes from mentioning anatomy and contraceptives
Then what's left to be taught?
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In Alabama, prison guards accused of violence and misconduct carry out secretive executions
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Attention Kmart shoppers:
The last full-size Kmart in the mainland United States is closing
It's not nostalgia. It's the scene of a crime.
Remember that DNA you gave 23andMe?
Ohio residents flock to Springfield’s Haitian restaurants: "They are family"
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It's unclear who paid Melania Trump $237,500 for a campaign speech
OpenAI looks to shift away from fake nonprofit roots and convert itself to for-profit company
A court reporter wrote about a few trials. Then an AI decided he was actually the culprit.
Republican attorneys general from 17 states join Texas in defending politicians' right to ban books
US public schools banned 10,000 books in most recent academic year
As death rate surges, Texas asks Supreme Court to let it keep denying care to pregnant women
Hundreds of women were prosecuted over pregnancy-related crimes the year after Roe v. Wade fell
Freedom from Religion Foundation:
Your body belongs to you — not the church, not the state
Trump says he'll use federal forces to invade U.S. cities over immigration policy
Trump says people who criticize Supreme Court justices should be jailed
Childless Republican candidate borrows friend's wife and kids for photo ops
The New York Times kinda sucks.
As a lifelong reader and ex-subscriber to the Times, my opinion is that its ordinary day-to-day reporting has problems, but it's generally within arm's reach of accurate. The Times' coverage of politics, however, is so laughably hollow and bend-over-backwards subservient to America's right-wing lunatics, it's best ignored.
Scientists have finally worked out how to save earth from a huge asteroid
Hilton, Marriott and Chipotle bankroll climate opposition, despite green claims
It's so startling to hear this, yawn.
Pollen allergies drove woolly mammoths to extinction, study claims
From 2000, and still a classic:
"The only moral abortion is my abortion"
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⚰️ OBITUARIES ⚰️
bear
shot and killed
John Boos
in county jail
Melvin Chavez
shot and killed
Frances Conley
neurosurgeon without penis
Santino Contreras
shot and killed
Frank Coppa
squealer
Paul Cripple
rock'n'roller, Reagan Youth
Clive Everton
snooker journalist
Andrea Nicole Garcia
in county jail
Nick Gravenites
rock'n'roller, music for The Trip
John Green
shot and killed
Fredric Jameson
author, Postmodernism
Minhaj Jamshidi
shot and killed
Carrie Marie Kwok
shot and killed
William Lucy
"I am a man"
Ricardo Martinez Olguin
shot and killed
Malik Mebane
kid who played football
Message Tree
tree
Dick Moss
baseball's free agency
Coby Palmer
activist
Anthony Rivera
shot and killed
Jordan Alvin Simon
shot and killed
Maggie Smith
actress, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Michael Valentine
accomplice to vehicular mass murder
Marcellus Williams
probably not guilty
9/28/2024
Logo illustration by Jeff Meyer. All opinions fresh from my ass. Click any image to enlarge. Comments & conversations invited.
Tip 'o the hat to the Anderson Valley Advertiser, Atomic Raunch, Bleepity-Bleep, Breakfast at Ralf's, Depsidase, Ensalada de lengua de pajaritos, A Sudden Violent Jerk, Mr Souza's Happy Place, Voenix Rising, and anywhere else I've stolen links, illustrations, or inspiration.
Special thanks to Linden Arden, Becky Jo, Wynn Bruce, Joey Jo Jo emeritus, Jeff Meyer, John the Basket, Dave S, Name Withheld, and always extra special thanks to my lovely late Stephanie, who gave me 21 years and proved that the world isn't always shitty.
Jill Stein is coasting along on what some tiny fragment of the left imagines something called "the Green Party" could be rather than what it is. It's not a working class party, there's little intra-party democracy and Stein is an absolute ignoramus, as revealed last week when she couldn't remember how many members of the House of Representatives there are (she guessed "about 600"). The Green Party itself is practically invisible when it comes to organizing around environmental issues in this country. It just doesn't exist in that context or any other. The party is a fraud and there's an actual socialist on the ballot if one wants to go that way.
ReplyDeleteI'd probably be a member, if we had a genuine Green Party in America. But I keep seeing nothing from them, except the Jill Stein Show every four years. If I can afford it, and they promise not to sell my name, I might pay $25 to be a member of Democratic Socialists of America.
DeleteI'll confess, I couldn't come up with the number of Reps without Googling it. It's 435. I thought it was 441, which is at least lots closer than 600. Plus if Putin invited me to dinner, I'd say no.
So many congressmen and senators are elected paupers and leave multi-millionaires on a $180,000 salary. The Justice Department has to know something fishy is going on but don't seem to pursue the big fish.
ReplyDeleteHi Anon. There are bigger fish than a senator, but not much bigger. The senator from New Jersey is out of a job and likely headed for jail. Unfortunately, there are other ways to make money than out and out bribery: speaking engagements, board positions, campaign funny money. . . there does need to be more enforcement.
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The Mayor of New York now. Lots more such arrests and prosecutions are needed.
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