It's okay to ban guns from PARKS, and it's okay to ban guns from BARS, but you can't ban guns from HOSPITALS!?

MAKE IT MAKE SENSE.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/06/us/california-gun-laws-court.html

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#cosohumour #irony 🤣

My local photographer friend:

The rocket right at liftoff from Vandenberg, ~200 miles away as the crow flies.

Coffee Pot fire to the left. Three Rivers down below. The fire base camp in Three Rivers is the bright glow. They have to keep it lit up as a safety precaution.

The Milky Way was partially hidden by clouds. #CoffeePotFire #SequoiaNationalPark

@Minholkin i have been trying to find the right words for the joy sunflowers provide.

Today I found it!

The Influence of Austrofascism on JD Vance: Where many of the ideas buzzing in his ear come from.

...some of those who seem to speak to him the loudest—the journalist Sohrab Ahmari, blogger Rod Dreher, and Notre Dame professor Patrick Deneen, among others—belong to an elite coterie of illiberal Christian conservatives animated by an attitude reminiscent of what historian Fritz Stern once called the “politics of cultural despair.”
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Long read.

#JDVance #AustroFascism

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/influence-austrofascism-on-jd-vance

From the Intertubes (regarding *another* sentencing delay):

This is SO cool!

Kinetic Sand Art

https://grounded.so/

PSA:

Use the "Archive page" extension to get over paywalls.

This is for Chromium-based browsers, there doesn't appear to be a version for Firefox, not that I've found so far.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/archive-page/gcaimhkfmliahedmeklebabdgagipbia

We're all entitled to change our mind.

From Jennifer Carter, a teacher at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia.

Holy sh*t!!

What the hell are we doing?

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something to consider

Just saw this groovy spider outside!

^^ January 6th is second on the list of reasons why must never be POTUS again.

His complete disregard for the security of the nation's most closely guarded secrets is the first.

That list is long, but these two things should be absolutely disqualifying.

It's insane that they aren't. #politics

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"We've tried nothing and are all out of ideas."

This nation and guns....

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