https://abcnews.go.com/US/kansas-city-chiefs-parade-mass-shooting-2-adults/story?id=107379141
«Mays was in a “verbal argument” at the parade with someone he had no prior history with, Baker said at a news conference. “That argument very quickly escalated to Mays” pulling out his handgun, and “almost immediately, others pulled their firearms,”»
Awesome. Good guys with guns, y’all.
A CHILD IS SHOT.
«”One red flag for spiritual directors is, ‘Then God said this.’ Not everything that pops into your head during prayer is from God.”»
https://www.newsweek.com/priest-red-flag-warning-mike-johnson-remarks-1868284
«”I find Air Canada did not take reasonable care to ensure its chatbot was accurate,” tribunal member Christopher C. Rivers wrote, awarding $650.88 in damages for negligent misrepresentation.»
Chump change, even with lawyers’ bills included, because the lawyers already work for the company, probably.
Until they lose more than they saved by laying people off (a LOT more), the corporate calculus is still correct. Cheaper to lay people off and use “AI”.
«Green said he’s not ruling out a future bid for higher office, but he’s currently working to get former President Trump elected in November.»
https://www.axios.com/2024/02/14/mark-green-retire-congress-mayorkas-impeachment
This just blows my mind. Ok, dude. You’ve just stamped yourself with all the isms, permanently.
We’re past the point of assuming “I support Trump” is just lip service and his team won’t actually be able to do much damage.
«Roy also complained about the number of “foreign-born” people in the United States.
The demographic conspiracy espoused by Roy, a variant of the explicitly white supremacist “great replacement theory,” is becoming an increasingly popular talking point in the GOP. What was once confined to the hinterlands of white nationalist message boards has been adopted whole cloth by the Republican mainstream and is now repeated by lawmakers like Roy on television.»
«Roy’s and Netanyahu’s comments are emblematic of a global right obsessed with conspiratorial ideations of civilizational decline and collapse. For Fox, it makes for a good segment.»
https://newrepublic.com/post/178981/republican-congressman-chip-roy-western-civilization-migrants
This from the US’s flagship “make everything cheaper and more efficient, just in time, with lower taxes” newspaper:
No discussion of how we got that way, of course.
«researchers from Victoria University in Australia and the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences predicted that China will have just 525 million people by the end of the century. That’s down from their previous forecast of 597 million and a precipitous drop from 1.4 billion now.»
«One factor missing from Song’s population math was human behavior. The government’s sometimes brutal enforcement, including forced abortions and sterilizations, as well as decadeslong propaganda about the benefits of having a small family, left a lasting one-child mindset. The modeling also failed to take into account the traditional preference for sons. If couples could only have one child, they would prefer to have a boy.
Young women are now at the core of China’s demographic dilemma. They are increasingly reluctant to have children—and there are fewer of them every year.»
«the failing defense in Avdiivka was a choice—by Russia-aligned Republicans in the U.S. Congress.»
“Russia-aligned Republicans” is the correct phrasing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/10/us/politics/trump-nato-russia.html
«”You got to pay your bills.”»
(According to Donald Trump.) That’s rich.
«And, oh my my, honey, everybody dies
But you’ve got, you’ve got see
That you can live your life walking in a straight line
But it’s more than just A to B.»
https://open.spotify.com/track/5m2YE3tDnwkmQEAXQndzbS?si=_FGvwDPzTiao29JAYpDZ0Q
«Who we gonna end up being?
How we gonna end up feeling?
What you gonna spend your free life on?»
https://open.spotify.com/track/330Kzw5pmUVxn3AAd66Zd9?si=AlfR0WFwRuenzuxoh3ipYA
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