put a sock in the whole 'old' conversation
Old Chinese gymnasts - 67 to 80 years old.
A senior defense official in Bahrain just told us that 10 minutes ago, the F-18 super hornets bombed 10 unmanned drones in western Yemen that were preparing to launch
US strikes 10 unmanned drones in western Yemen
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-strikes-10-unmanned-drones-in-western-yemen-cbs-news/ar-BB1hzM6u
House passes an expanded child tax credit bill and sends it to the Senate https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-vote-expanded-child-tax-credit-bill-rcna136545 via @nbcnews
Okay, did the “Blue Sky” experience and was unimpressed. Too many people either trying to convince people to self-disenfranchise or lying about laws, how laws work or how law is made.
So much stupid, so little time.
If you have to spend all of your time blocking bad actors, it’s just not worth it. And BOY are there a lot of bad actors. Pretty easy to spot; they’re the ones that don’t know recent American history or attempt to make it up.
Just awful.
Sinema remains childish and childishly naive.
https://www.axios.com/2024/01/31/sinema-senate-border-deal-asylum-parole-detention
Ranking Member @ RepRaskin issued the following statement after the Committee concluded a transcribed interview with Eric Schwerin:
https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/news/press-releases/ranking-member-raskin-s-statement-on-transcribed-interview-with-eric-schwerin
The world will have its first trillionaire within a decade, but poverty won't be eradicated for another 229 years, report finds
https://cnb.cx/4b3AQt4
Keith Boykin
White men make up 30% of the population, control 93% of venture capital funds, and give only 1% to Black-owned companies. That’s legal.
But if a Black woman tries to help other Black women who have been denied venture capital dollars, that’s illegal.
Speaker Mike Johnson says Ukraine aid and border policy reform "likely" to be split https://trib.al/54ZmnrL
Heart
Barracuda
❤️ Nancy Fucking Wilson!
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=bIoGWDzNHAI&si=wjo2F6M_jQTpezPm
Trump Classified Docs Case: Special Counsel Jack Smith Meets With Judge Aileen Cannon for Secret Closed-Door Hearing via @radar_online https://radaronline.com/p/donald-trump-jack-smith-judge-aileen-cannon-closed-door-hearing/
The Fentanyl Crisis
The war on drugs is the equivalent of a witch hunt conducted against imaginary witches, where the real witches show up 40 years later.
As to what to do about this, having a society in which fewer people felt impelled to destroy themselves with addictive substances would be the ideal solution, but how do we get there from here?
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/01/the-fentanyl-crisis
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