Biology doesn't care about your feelings AND it is extremely messy and confusing. A field that requires a high tolerance for ambiguity.
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Biology doesn't care about your feelings AND it is extremely messy and confusing. A field that requires a high tolerance for ambiguity.
If Republicans gave any real thought to Labor Day, they would ban it.
My kid came home from college for spring break of his freshman year and basically never got to go back. He still graduated. I just wish he'd had more fun.
I wouldn't think so. They have to be seriously armored, right?
It's not even safe for legal permanent residents to go on vacation outside the US, because they might get arrested on the way home.
It does tend to make us look antisocial and sadistic in general. 😕
— Canadians calling to cancel their tours “explicitly told me that it was because of the policies and the behavior of our current president,” he said. — Surprised more aren't citing the new American Roulette of maybe getting shackled for a week bc CBP thinks your complexion is a bit dark.
It sounds like the real issue is not that there were "rules" that "changed", but that there weren't any rules, just a lot of different opinions all based on limited information, and the amount of information available changed.
That's pretty clear... A lot of doctors supported the protests and the cause, and urged people to use a number of safety measures, because they recognized and acknowledged there was a high risk of the protests spreading covid.
I was a temp during the summers after high school... Made like $6–$8/hr doing data entry or filing or whatever. That was 35 (! 👀) years ago. I wonder if those kinds of jobs pay more than that now...
Wow! You'd think the wildfire officials wouldn't be trying to sabotage their own efforts. Because it's not like this could possibly make it any *easier* to fight fires, but it very well could make it harder. Unless they're Trump guys who *want* to burn down all the forests, out of spite.
They tried to charge him with damaging property?! For dusty footprints? Seriously pathetic.
Very surprised to find out that derechos have been around since 1888. Considering I'd never heard of them until the SECOND time one damaged my house.
"they never seem to show these results to the public" Practically speaking, the "they" is FOX NEWS.
I suspect that anything Secretary Pestilence might do to "improve diet and lifestyle" would actually be draconian and harmful. Maybe everyone who is overweight will lose their insurance. Maybe public schools will be forced to hand out unregulated dietary supplements instead of free lunches.
That's so sad! I worried just like that during the 80s and 90s, and it really helped to stop watching the news at all. But that was just regular reporting... Fox is scaring people intentionally and deceptively, and it's just evil.
No wonder I worried so much more about crime when I was a teenager than I do now. It wasn't just my imagination.
Love what you're doing! I should check if anyone has done anything like it for the Union Pacific... I've been looking for ancestors in Wyoming newspapers from the 1890s, and the fatality rate (and quantity of loss of limbs) among brakemen is impossible to miss. 😳
Did you know you don't have to have a particular job to join a union? Turns out, anyone can a join a union! My family has been out of the mines for 3 generations, but I'm pretty excited to have my very own United Mine Workers of America membership card. 😊 #LaborDay #SupportUnions
Barry Goldwater was extremely sensible compared to the Republicans, well, I was going to say "of today" (obviously!), but he was also more sensible than the Republicans of 1980.
That was indoors.
Did health officials really say the protests were fine and safe? Because as I remember it, they were very worried it would cause a huge covid spike. They didn't have any power over what people did anyway. Everyone talked about "lockdown" but there wasn't any lockdown. It was just advice.
Not sure how much of the anti-education, anti-intellectual tendencies of fascists and Christian nationalists are the fault of the universities themselves. Though, the quantity of right-wing-pandering judicial extremists that've come out of Harvard Law hasn't helped my impression of that school.
If they didn't want to draw attention to Trump not wearing a tie, having everyone else take their ties off was maybe not the right way to go. All very strange.
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Reading Wyoming newspapers from the 1890s, I'm constantly amazed how much people traveled from Wyoming to Chicago or Minneapolis, or out to California. The trips were probably not quite as pleasant as the papers make it sound, but it sure seems like people were very mobile and connected.
Do the US Park Police lack training, or do they just choose not to prioritize public safety?
That's extremely Putinesque.
Yes, he wants us to start trusting the POLITICIANS instead.
That's entirely reasonable. Federal agents should've been at least informing local authorities of their activities all along. The local police should NOT have to guess whether someone is a real federal agent or an impersonator, and they definitely shouldn't assume.
Your post makes it sound like she was released after 5 days, but she wasn't. She's still in ICE prison after 30+ days, and was denied bond. Because of a misdemeanor a decade ago that she already served her sentence for. She's being punished twice for the same crime. Just without a trial this time.
"A green card is a privilege, not a right...our government has the authority to revoke a green card if our laws are broken and abused." Except they're revoking green cards 10 or 20 years AFTER the person served their sentence! The govt is literally just looking for excuses to hurt people.
I'm still convinced a Cubs fan made a wish on a monkey's paw in 2016.
If you're not even going to TRY to be believable, why bother talking, Stephen Miller?
OMG! Bears and sex offenders. 😳 "After a rash of lawsuits from Free Towners, an influx of sex offenders, an increase of crime, problems with bold local bears, and the first murders in the town's history, the Libertarian project ended in 2016."
It's just that DC hasn't had 500 murders per year since... ever.
🧵 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Coalition Politics. The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.
People have gone to prison for that, haven't they?
Dang, in that pic he looks closer to 90 than 80.
Oh dear, the govt is going to start handing out free ivermectin, isn't it?
Which neighborhood is that, exactly?
Why, so their new hedge fund boss can tell them in person that the mission of the agency has changed and their job is now to support the organ-selling industry?
You did all of that in one day? 👀 I'm exhausted just reading about it!
Yes! They're all over my kids' college campus. They're so cute and they have milkshakes inside them. 😊
What an incredibly inappropriate post from a President of the United States. He is SO irresponsible.
I'm starting to suspect that the AI race is a feint on the part of China, so that we'll waste our time while they work on tools that are actually useful.
I was just about to type that very sentence.
True. And it would be a good use of their money too.
You think they should desert and go to prison over picking up trash? Their time is being wasted, but the National Guard are not putting people in cages. The ones doing that actually CAN walk away, without going to prison.
Given how obvious it is that Mamdani loves New York City, I think it's safe to say that he also loves America about a billion times more than Vance does. But then, only a few people hate America as much as Vance does. And they're all in the federal govt right now.
"They said the boy was a suspect in a crime" I'm confused by this. Immigration control agents aren't police. Looking for crime suspects isn't their job. Were they lying?
Is New Hampshire the one that's the chosen land of libertarian freeloaders?
Concise description of the entire internet these days.
Yep, there are plenty of young people. Median age in most African countries is under 20.
Not to worry, when the wet bulb temperatures in south Asia get so high that huge swaths of it become uninhabitable, there will be plenty of children in the UK. Assuming the Gulf Stream doesn't collapse, of course.
You're absolutely right. There's plenty of money. It's just not being used to promote the general welfare. Even when Republicans pretended to support the Constitution, they never believed in that part.
They aren't very convincing, are they? I've seen speculation that DHS is hiring contractors, which is certainly something the govt does; a lot of federal jobs are done by both civil service employees and contractors who cost taxpayers 3x as much. No confirmation though.
Maybe they're afraid Texas is too dangerous for ICE. Maybe the two masked men with tactical vests and badges who were killed while "impersonating police" in Houston have made DHS think twice.
Wow! Wonderful story. And so sad. But friendships don't really show up in the records, so maybe she did have people who were there for her. I hope so. I LOVE the maps!
Isn't she gorgeous though!
Same! And I didn't realize that I'd read it wrong until I glanced down and saw your post. I was pretty puzzled there for a minute. 😂
Maybe he hates himself as much as he hates the rest of us.
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
How common are thunderstorms there?
They can't walk away. That's not how the military works.
Heaven forbid anyone suggest that women are people.
Seems to me this administration is demanding that a whole lot more than 2% of us "adjust our morals" or even get rid of them altogether.
Jerome Mullaney, an 18-year-old Navy seaman 2nd class who was presumed lost at sea when his ship hit a mine off the coast of Normandy, will be buried in his hometown of Scranton, Pa., by relatives he never knew. Read his story here:
The Republican Party is the Confederacy. It all kind of makes sense when you look at it from that angle.
We need a Schoolhouse Rock on how executive orders aren't laws.
You forgot the part where all liberals are "baby murderers".
I'm sure Trump voters are very accepting of their "woke" relatives and show them great love and support. Meanwhile, some Harris voters I know were talking about building hiding places for trans family members, just in case. Which seems less crazy every day.
There are plenty of conservatives on here — the ones who are too rational and/or decent to have remained in the GOP (which is now extremist rather than conservative, and no longer republican).
Ah, there's the fatal flaw.
So, by "legally untested" you mean "clearly UNCONSTITUTIONAL but we don't want to make the dictator angry".
How about that... "To drag or pull, especially forcibly." Can you hale inanimate objects, or does the word necessarily imply that it's being done against the will of the haled?
He chose to be faceless evil.
For-profit healthcare is almost as immoral as for-profit prisons.
Oh, excellent, that's what healthcare has been missing — medical decisions made by fully amoral non-humans. Forget death panels! People having a discussion is too inefficient. Deathbots instead!
And the 400+ people who were shot at the concert in Las Vegas in 2017 were outside, while the shooter was in a hotel, so hotels should have metal detectors. Or maybe people shouldn't go outside?
Right? License, registration, insurance. Pretty basic level of civic responsibility. It's not too much to ask for.
Mass surveillance of minors so that we can keep doing nothing about all the guns.
He specifically exempted oil companies from that law during his first term. So they wouldn't have to pay for remediation to save birds after oil spills.
Goodness, that's from November last year. Clearly, Timothy Snyder knows what he's talking about.
There's really no other explanation.
“Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time rather than his current ability to kill by the thousands. Why is it that killing a single person is seen as murder but killing masses is excused if you are a politician?” Dr Bill Foege
JD Vance 2016: Trump could be the next Hitler! JD Vance 2024: I could be the next Hitler!
Also because actual reality is a lot more complicated and less sensational than the reality TV version that Fox presents. It's just plain easier to sell flashy lies.
That's depressing. But true.
I thought Meidas Touch was already doing the latter...
Couple years ago I looked at firearm death rates by state and compared them to automobile accident death rates (since overall they were about the same), and was surprised to find that the states with higher rates of one also had higher rates of the other. And vice versa. Alabama not doing great.
Attacking America gets you military honors from what's left of the DoD. Standing up for America gets you investigated by the remnants of the FBI. What a country.
YES. I have been thinking of him as a horseperson of the Apocalypse for what now feels like forever. Secretary Pestilence.
Kennedy: "the agency is in trouble, and we need to fix it … and it may be that some people should not be working there anymore." Yes, HE needs to not be working there!!!!
Please, please, please get him OUT. Shut down the Senate, shut down EVERYTHING, until he resigns or is fired. Lives depend on it.
—Babbitt warned that “nothing will stop us” and referenced a coming “storm.” In QAnon conspiracy theory lore, “the Storm” was to be a final, violent reckoning for so-called deep state pedophiles and their associates— Depressingly ironic.
I'm so sorry. We really need this to be a better country.
I can't help but think they're all part of the same thing. Professionalism in law enforcement requires clear identification, adherence to the law, and protection of public safety. We should have damn high standards for agents of the state.
If you're in the National Guard, you are!