Yeah and If Ukraine wins how they gonna pay the US back wheres the plan us citizens get to see of that repayment. O wait we don't know they could be free loading and paying back only top officials and not the governments treasury.
Russia plans to take first Ukraine, then Balkans, then Poland, then Germany, and collapse the EU, which is a threat even to you in whatever miserable little coal-rolling corner of the United States you happen to be griping from.
You want your share of “those wasted taxes” back? Send me your info and I’ll Venmo your fucking $50, big guy.
On Tuesday evening, Dr. Hilary Cass released a final report commissioned by the NHS, widely expected to target gender-affirming care. The report met these expectations, calling for restrictions on gender-affirming care and social transition, and even advocated for blocking transgender adults under the age of 25 from entering adult care. To justify these recommendations, the review dismissed over 100 studies on the efficacy of transgender care as not suitably high quality, applying standards that are unattainable and not required of most other pediatric medicine. Conducted in a manner similar to the anti-trans review by the DeSantis-handpicked Board of Medicine in Florida, which Cass reportedly collaborated on, the report and its reviews are likely to underpin further crackdowns on trans care globally. (...)
In arguing for the reauthorization of Section 702 late last year, Turner, chair of the House intelligence committee, shockingly suggested in a closed-door briefing that the law could be used to spy on Americans protesting against the war in Gaza.
The spying law is messed up, but it's also really messed up how many Western countries are trying to make it impossible for people to criticize the actions of Israel's government.
So in other words, we should show up, swarm over the building, force them to flee for their lives, and spread literal shit on the inside walls, during oral argument. And that would not be "obstruction of an official proceeding".
A decision against the government could reopen some 350 cases in which defendants have been charged with “obstructing” an official proceeding by pushing their way into the Capitol in 2021. The charge can tack up to 20 years onto a prison sentence.
SCOTUS should be careful. Otherwise the next violent mob might be coming for them.
So this is the Cass Report I've seen mentioned over the last few days. Disappointing. I accept that there will be a lot of back and forth discussion amongst those in the relavent fields, but to disregard large bodies of evidence and to use outdated judgment models seems disingenuous at best. Sure, there can be disagreement about certain aspects, but the folks who this affects the most don't have time to dump what seems best now in exchange for only waiting. I can't imagine they will regret trying something now that, in ten years, may no longer be viewed as solid policy. We have so many examples of this that may not be directly related, but still saved and changed lives.
Cynically, while being terrible in the short term, this may be a long term, positive outcome. Arizona is going to be an important state, electorally, for the 2024 Election. It's one of the few States which can reasonably be called a "toss-up". While it has been trending Democratic in the last few elections, that is not a guaranteed outcome. However, a total abortion ban and a ballot initiative to fix it may be really good at driving Democratic and Democratic Leaning voters to the poll. While there, they could well hand the State's 11 Electoral Votes to Biden as well as sending a Democrat to the US Senate. This is why:
Some Arizona Republicans also expressed concerns about the ruling.
Kari Lake, a close ally of Donald Trump and a Republican candidate for the state's seat in the US Senate, said she opposed the decision.
Polling has her just about tied with the Democratic candidate (Ruben Gallego). Anything which increases Democratic turnout is bad for her.
We're generally just shy here in Pima County of a 60/40 democratic lean. On the ground it feels like more and more people from Cali are moving in and voting blue all the way down ballot. Biden himself isn't very popular, but the Democratic policies are however very popular. I'm in my 30s, and nearly 60% of the people I know are voting blue, with people in Phoenix seemingly trending more blue since 2020. A down ballot abortion issue (it looks like it'll make the ballot in November) will absolutely cause a surge that will push the election over the edge as I know how pro-abortion most people are here. The Democratic Party here is running canvassing and getting people involved; I feel cautiously optimistic about us going blue again this cycle.
They probably aren't, at least not really. They certainly aren't doctors, as it is a clear violation of the Hippocratic Oath. The whole process of lethal injection is cosplaying as medicine.
There's gotta be some ancient Babylonian precedent to allow Judges to be _____ by their _____ until ____ oozes from their ______ and then their spouses have to ________ the _______ until they also ________ into a Starbucks cup and ________ with it.
A lot of people blame climate change on fossil fuels but they are only one part of climate change... Forests cool the atmosphere and removing vasts of it to build cities cause the climate in the region to become hotter. Do it enough and then it spreads all over. California was bulldozed for land development and the Red woods dug their roots up to a mile into the earth to find water when the water supply dried up. Climate change and all we do to cause it, causes all the problems.
My opinion regarding the death penalty is that if it needs it exist, then the guillotine is probably the best way to carry it out. It's 100% effective, requires little skill on the executioner's part to use, and causes death extremely quickly with minimal suffering.
Taking someone's life is inherently violent, and it is cowardice to try to hide that fact. People claim that capital punishment exists to scare people into following the law. Well, what's more terrifying than a guillotine?
@NateNate60 I'd rather the few countries that still have it abolished it, but I agree that if they're going to have it, it should be more humane than this.
From the article:
The procedure involves an incision that could be several inches wide and several inches deep. Forceps are used to tear tissue away from a vein that becomes the injection point. “It’s surgery,” said Arin Brenner, a federal public defender and one of the attorneys representing Dorsey. “It would be surgery without anaesthesia.”
The primary argument for why capital punishment is kept around in the US is to terrify people into not committing crimes.
The guillotine is a classic terrifying death machine while still being more humane than other, more modern techniques. It's also difficult to fuck up and cheap to administer.
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