I get it. I just want to play with Sparky, listen to audio books, and work on my little projects. I don’t want to think about a credible plan to destabilize America. It’s probably going to work, at least to some extent.
It’s hard to ignore that the world is messed up, and has been for decades. Chaos is speeding up, and something is going to happen.
The New Republic: Ilhan Omar Is the Right Kind of American. Trump Is the Wrong Kind.
Ilhan Omar seems to have married her brother and lied about her age to manipulate the US immigration system. It made me laugh that The New Republic considers her to be the “right kind of American”.
Trump is male, pale and possibly a ginger, so that’s the wrong kind of American.
I tried to read the article, but got 400 words in, and it still wasn’t getting to any kind of point. I miss the top-10 list articles on Buzzfeed.
Sarat reports that over those 120 years, 8,776 people were executed and 276 of those executions (3.15%) went wrong in some way. Lethal injection had the highest rate of botched executions.
Unnecessary suffering is sadistic and hardens the heart. I don’t have strong feelings about the death penalty, but do feel strongly about incompetence. Get it right.
A 3% failure rate for something done deliberately and with few unknowns, is incompetence.
Fort Hood Shooter’s Execution Will Be Public and Streamed Live
Pentagon officials said on Thursday that the Army officer convicted in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting would be executed in public,
Life should be treated with dignity. We should not become callous to the taking a human life.
CDC: 12 Month-ending Provisional Number and Percent Change of Drug Overdose Deaths
It should be a bigger story that drug overdose deaths are down 40%.
Three reasons come to mind:
That’s all supply-side. There may be demand-side reasons as well. Everyone should be in favor of this.
Bill Gates thinks that he is a Big Brain, who can fix the world if we let him. If Gates is predicting vague doom from AI, then the threat is to him, not us.
I’m being repressed.
I went to the board of elections site to get a sample ballot, and the link in English was broken. Only the Mexican ballot was available.
They are making their move. The grand replacement is complete.
It only works because the mouse doesn’t understand why the cheese is free.
I saw this bit of wisdom on Twitter/X, so pass it along as Twisdom.
I had never seen this clip or heard this story, so I pass it along.
This is from the Sage Steele podcast with Texas congressman Wesley Hunt and Florida congressman Byron Donalds in 2024. Hunt tells the story of President Trump negotiating with Taliban leadership to get out of Afghanistan.
PBS: Trump announces all 50 states joining Medicaid drug pricing model
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump announced Friday that all 50 states will join in on a program set to provide Most Favored Nation pricing to some drugs within the Medicaid program, bringing the net price of selected drugs down to prices paid in certain other countries.
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