https://jezebel.com/we-should-probably-talk-about-lauren-duca-1831805219

Interesting. I get the feeling that sometimes people’s passions come from a darker place (or with a darker side) and sometimes that darkness shows through. But also, so many of our idols have clay feet, and our forward motion is only approximate (lotta zigzags).

«Many of Duca’s former coworkers see her as symptomatic of a bigger issue, and as just one of the many people that the Twitter Resistancesphere has elevated into something approaching true fame—and for whom fame is seemingly a bigger motivator than politics or social change.

“The whole thing has actually been very revealing for me,” one former co-worker said recently, with a note of resignation. “In terms of what traits are valorized and rewarded in the media, and the mainstream liberal resistance.”»

https://www.tulsaworld.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/hearing-to-get-nowata-county-jail-reopened-ends-in-confusion/article_06eb50a9-3c41-53f3-a4d7-822cbdb10912.html

Craziness. I understand that grand juries (the ones that indict ham sandwiches) are empowered to inspect jails. I was on such a grand jury for six months in Orange County, North Carolina, and we were told that we had that power but please not to exercise it because the jails were fine and it would be a huge inconvenience.

https://twitter.com/GaryLegum/status/1108862118957338625?s=17

Gary Legum (@GaryLegum) Tweeted:

YOU: Why the rise in depression and anxiety among teenagers?
ME: *frantically gestures at everything in the world*
YOU: Is it the vaccines? Must be the vaccines. https://t.co/M4ky3aIddy

• @RobertKennedyJr

  What are we doing to our children? @CBSNews reports sharp unexplained rises in #depression + #anxiety in American teens. Shouldn’t we ask whether these trends are associated with the neurotoxic aluminum we are giving young teens in Gardasil #vaccine?

https://warisboring.com/navy-enacts-almost-all-changes-recommended-after-fatal-uss-fitzgerald-uss-mccain-collisions/

I wonder if this is fallout from the Pro Publica articles.

https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=4482

Better than “F”, anyway.

https://www.charitywatch.org/

«RATING: F

Downgraded for High Assets

This rating has been downgraded from “B-” due to the charity having 7.20 years worth of available assets in reserve.»

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-reckoning-of-morris-dees-and-the-southern-poverty-law-center

Wow. I wonder if I should move my SPLC donation to another group, and which group that should be?

https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/03/21/murderous-white-nationalism-isnt-insanity-new-zealand-christchurch/

The Blob speaks on Christchurch:

«During the West’s extended war against jihadism, many of us implored policymakers to think more broadly about the grievances, policy failures, and other drivers that made acts of violence more likely.»

Maybe they have a point. (But also, maybe the assailant and partners are just a bunch of immature kids who have video games and real life confused.)

https://twitter.com/larsloving/status/1106655851631308800

On the one hand, it’s a real shame this sort of advice is necessary these day, but on the other hand… huh, maybe I should take the class.

«and i hope you never even hear a gun. that’d be nice.

but i’ve seen people fall through glass doors. saw a kitchen worker put his chef’s knife through his palm. once saw a factory worker lose an arm–i’m just saying, shit happens.

https://www.bleedingcontrol.org »

https://nyti.ms/2k4NzkQ

😥