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There was a thread on the forbidden site a while back where a doctor found out that a doctor working for one of these insurance boards used to be a surgeon until he put in somebody's hip replacement completely backwards.

Ron DeSantis' donors and allies question if he's ready for 2024 WWW.NBCNEWS.COM At a recent gathering of 16 prominent Republicans, a number of DeSantis supporters discussed if he should run against Trump or wait until 2028. This dude is toast

Abortion bans in Wyoming and Ohio are getting blocked by judges because of language Republicans put in their state constitutions about "individual health care rights" after the ACA got passed. How Attacks Against Obamacare Turned Into Tools to Protect Abortion Access | Bolts BOLTSMAG.ORG Conservatives amended state constitutions to affirm broad rights for people to choose their health care. Now abortion rights proponents are taking them at their word.

Still wild to me that after alll that (gestures at entire Trump presidency), it's the Stormy Daniels hush money stuff that's gonna get him perp walked

Regulators close New York's Signature Bank, citing systemic risk WWW.CNBC.COM U.S. regulators on Sunday shut down New York-based Signature Bank in a bid to prevent the spreading banking crisis. Another one. I looked up futures for the markets and it looks like they're all up, so it doesn't seem like there's any real concern that there's going to be a snowball effect

"Name a shrub after me. Something prickly and hard to eradicate."

By all accounts this should be 100% cringe, but it 100% goes imo

Twitter’s Revenue, Adjusted Earnings Fell About 40% in Month of December WWW.WSJ.COM The drop came after many advertisers left the social-media platform following Elon Musk’s takeover. is that good

Well, so this bill would have lowered the maximum penalty for carjacking from 40 years to 24, but would've increased the penalty for attempted murder from 5 to 22.5 years (5th paragraph from the bottom in the Slate article). If we're gonna say that long sentences have a meaningful effect on deterring crime, which one of those is going to have more of an impact?

Some more info here. The reform bill actually would've increased the penalties for some gun crimes, including attempted murder, but apparently that doesn't count as "tough on crime" Why Biden Stabbed D.C. in the Back SLATE.COM D.C.’s 700,000 residents have no senator to lobby against the bill. We can only plead, like subjects of a colony.

Remember how much flack AOC got for opposing this in NY?

Biden tells Democratic senators he won't veto effort to rescind DC crime law | CNN Politics WWW.CNN.COM President Joe Biden surprised Democratic senators Thursday when he told them that he won't veto GOP-led legislation to rescind a controversial Washington, DC, crime law, a move that comes Democrats are divided over the contentious issue and Republicans are aggressively accusing them of being soft on crime. I've been reading about this today, and my god is this shit cowardly. It passed the DC City Council with a 12-1 vote, and now congress is going to sweep in and override that. And somehow it's able to pass the Senate with 50 votes instead of 60 in another example of how completely arcane and arbitrary the rules around the filibuster are. Anyway, what seems to be spooking BIden and other Dems into supporting this is that part of the bill lowers the penalties for carjacking, but in actually what it's doing is lowering the maximum possible sentence from 40 years to 24 years, and *under the existing law* judges already weren't actually sentencing people to as long as 24 years.

Been to Japan. Going to Italy this May. Beyond those, maybe Scotland and Ireland are where I'd like to go to most next, but really there's a lot of places I'd love to go to

It would definitely be a nightmare if we won. He's a charter school chud as well. Saw some people drilling down into the results by precinct who seem to think that Brandon Johnson can pick up enough of what Lightfoot and Chuy Garcia got to beat him. Hopefully that's true and not just wishful thinking.

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There's some speculation that Elon is going to hand over CEO duties to the CEO of the Boring Company In latest round of Twitter cuts, some see hints of its next CEO WWW.PLATFORMER.NEWS Is the job Steve Davis' to lose? PLUS: A smart new tool to fight child exploitation online

Call up Del Toro and see if he still wants to make his version of The Hobbit

There was a weird thing a couple of days ago where an NYT reporter was seemingly trying to retcon James O'Keefe into a creation of Trump. Described him both in the story and in the tweet about the story as having "risen to prominence during the Trump era." Eschaton: Just Blame Everything On Trump WWW.ESCHATONBLOG.COM BREAKING: O'Keefe has been ousted by PV's board. He had risen to prominence during Trump era as Trump and his followers embraced his controv...

I like Civ a lot. Having played VI a bunch lately, and kind of reaching burnout with it a little bit, I think the number one thing I'd like to see them try to do is give you some new options in the late game. There are a bunch of games where somewhere in the mid-game whatever strategy you were going for kinda locks in, and you get yourself into a position where you have a clear advantage over everybody else, but it still takes a lot time to actually hit the win condition you're going for. Whether it's actually getting your missionaries to haul their asses around the map to convert cities, or getting enough tourists for a culture victory (the math to which I still don't understand at all), whatever it is. And at this point, you usually have a bunch of cities to assign work to, and at a certain point some of them just become completely inconsequential. I think they need to find a way to either make it feel like what you're doing on each turn still matters and you're not just sort of running the clock out, or just have you hit win conditions faster once you've gotten close, while still making it possible for people lagging behind to come back if the leader isn't THAT close.

The new thing today is that you're being forced off of text message 2FA if you're not a blue check because Elon is too cheap to send the texts out. You can still use 2FA via authentication app, but I'm probably gonna make more of an active effort to stop using this site. Making big unannounced changes to 2FA when there's recent precedent for them breaking the site trying to make an update kinda seems like a red line.

Astronaut with a gun meme: "Wait, they're ALL George Santos?" "Always have been." Businessman, economist, cop, international sex crimes expert? The stories of Congressman Andy Ogles WWW.NEWSCHANNEL5.COM An exclusive NewsChannel 5 investigation discovered that Andy Ogles' personal life story is filled with exaggerations, a story that's often too good to be true.

Some highlights, Basically every on-air personality called Sydney Powell insane in private conversation but then kept putting her on TV Everybody knew there was no actual fraud, but a bunch of people were aware that Fox accurately calling Arizona had hurt "the brand" with its viewers and that they were turning to Newsmax instead Sydney Powell sent Maria Bartoromo an e-mail from a source where the source said they had information about the election that they got from "time-travel in a semi-conscious state" and gets messages from the wind Rupert Murdoch sent an e-mail saying, "Trump will concede eventually and we should concentrate on Georgia, helping any way we can" They knew it was a lie: The behind-the-scenes happenings at Fox while the network pushed false claims about Dominion WWW.MEDIAMATTERS.ORG https://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/D8File/2023/02/16/2023-02-16-redacted-dominion-opening-sj-brief.pdf?VersionId=KqP__Mm3hJOV3pvOAUCf_Yf3RVxhHRve

Hundreds of MSU students gather at Capitol for sit-down protest following shooting WWW.WXYZ.COM Hundreds of people, including Michigan State University students, gathered at the Michigan Capitol on Wednesday for a sit-down protest and rally following the mass shooting on MSU's campus Monday.