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Post by mhbruin on Oct 9, 2023 11:53:10 GMT -8
I saw a rather large woman wearing a sweatshirt with 'Guess' on it. I said, "Thyroid problem?" FIghting Back Against Japanese Vaccine MosquitoesIn normal times, choosing a candidate to fill a voluntary mosquito control position on a local government board would not attract much attention. But these are not normal times in Shasta County, a rural northern California county whose Board of Supervisors is in the grip of a far-right majority determined to radically change local politics. Since gaining the balance of power, three far-right board members, who are linked to local ultraconservative groups, including a secessionist movement and a militia, have approved a set of proposals aimed at shaking off state control and making Shasta County a blueprint for ultraconservative values. This mostly rural county, home to 182,000 people, long a red bastion in a blue state, has now become a focal point for burgeoning right-wing movements across the country that aim to “take back control” of local government. On Sept. 26, the three far-right supervisors, Patrick Jones, Kevin Crye, and Chris Kelstrom made their latest move: appointing a local radical activist and hydroponics store owner to the county’s mosquito board, over an epidemiologist who was previously the county’s public health director. The appointment of Jon Knight, known for his involvement with local ultraconservative media and his attendance at the Jan. 6 insurrection, over Donell Ewert, a trained epidemiologist, grabbed national headlines, as did Knight’s conspiratorial comments. “I know a lot about this stuff. I know a lot about some of these Bill Gates programs. This is not conspiracy, this is a fact. There’s Japanese scientists who have created flying syringes that will mass-vaccinate the populations,” Knight told the board during public comment on his appointment, warning of the dangers of “genetically-modified mosquitoes.” “I would put my health in Jon Knight’s hands over Donnell Ewert’s any day of the week,” board chair Jones said from behind the dais. Far-Right Board Appointed Mosquito Conspiracy Theorist |
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 9, 2023 11:57:52 GMT -8
Hamas is a Nasty Organization, but the Palestineans Are Victims, Too.As the violence between Israel and Hamas rages on, groups and experts familiar with the Israeli government’s decadeslong apartheid against Palestinians stress that it is inaccurate for officials and media to call the attacks unprovoked. The Israeli military battled Palestinian fighters for a third day on Monday after Hamas broke through Israel’s security barrier ― with the help of thousands of rockets ― and attacked nearby settlements. At least 700 people have reportedly been killed in Israel, and dozens of Israelis are being held hostage in Gaza. Israeli soldiers have now launched powerful retaliatory strikes in the Gaza Strip, where the Hamas militant movement governs over 2 million Palestinian civilians. The U.S. and European Union have designated Hamas as a terrorist organization due to its armed resistance against Israel’s occupation, and the White House said Monday that at least nine Americans are among the dead. Currently, about 500 Palestinians have been killed and over 2,200 injured from Israeli airstrikes, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. More than 120,000 Palestinians have been displaced in Gaza as a result of Israel’s bombardment. The attack has resulted in strongly worded support for Israel from many Western nations, including the U.S., which along with the media are describing the violence as unprovoked and unprecedented. But experts on the region’s history, as well as groups supporting Palestinian liberation, say that description is false. IfNotNow, a progressive American Jewish group that opposes Israeli apartheid, said that while “we watch the unfolding horrors with heartbreak and dread for our loved ones ― Israelis and Palestinians alike” ― the attack by Palestinian fighters was a result of decades of oppression. “We cannot and will not say today’s actions by Palestinian militants are unprovoked,” the group said in a statement on Saturday. “Every day under Israel’s system of apartheid is a provocation. The strangling siege on Gaza is a provocation. Settlers terrorizing entire Palestinian villages, soldiers raiding and demolishing Palestinian homes, murdering Palestinians in the streets, Israeli ministers calling for genocide and expulsion.” “These are the provocations of the most extreme right wing government in Israel’s history and an emboldened fascist movement escalating this crisis across the land.” Media Calls The Attack On Israel Unprovoked. Experts Say That’s Historically Inaccurate.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 9, 2023 11:59:39 GMT -8
What's in a Name?
An award-winning Canadian author’s last name recently led an Alabama library system to flag her children’s book as potentially “sexually explicit,” according to a local news report.
The Huntsville-Madison County Public Library system added Marie-Louise Gay’s 2013 picture book “Read Me a Story, Stella” to a list of 200-plus books to review and possibly move out of the children’s section, Al.com reported.
The book centers on a girl named Stella and her little brother Sam, who read together in a “whimsical, humorous story” that creates “a world where reading enriches the beauty and natural wonders of a magical day,” according to Gay’s website.
Kirsten Brassard, a publicist for Gay at Groundwood Books, told Al.com that the book had never been “mistakenly censored.”
“Although it is obviously laughable that our picture book shows up on their list of censored books simply because the author’s last name is Gay, the ridiculousness of that fact should not detract from the seriousness of the situation,” Brassard said in a statement.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 9, 2023 12:01:37 GMT -8
A Lannister Always Pays His Debts. A Mace? No So Much.
Nancy Mace voted to oust McCarthy after McCarthy had raised five million dollars for Nancy Mace
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 9, 2023 12:05:47 GMT -8
Has This Person Ever Heard Biden Speak?
“I would vote for Biden even if he was dead.” — PA Republican swing voter tells @kwelkernbc after saying Biden is approaching or in the throes of senility and Trump is “an a—hole.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 9, 2023 12:07:50 GMT -8
Even Afterwards, Non One Should Listen to a Single Think They Say.
Until Republicans staff our military, allow an Ambassador to Israel to be appointed and elect a Speaker no one should listen to a single thing they say about the attack on Israel.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 9, 2023 12:08:51 GMT -8
Voters are Dying to Elect RepublicansRepublicans aren’t just at war with each other in the U.S. House of Representatives: They’ve been quietly at war with their own constituents for decades. The Washington Post has a lengthy case study of what this has meant for one state taken over by Republicans: Ohio. One study the Post cites estimates that roughly “1 in 5 Ohioans will die before they turn 65…. a similar life expectancy to residents of Slovakia and Ecuador, relatively poor countries.” The Post looks at Ashtabula County, Ohio, and compares it with its neighbor across the Pennsylvania border, Erie County, and the next county over, Chautauqua in New York state. The three counties have all experienced the same economic woes over the past several decades, as industrial jobs disappeared and wages fell. “But Ashtabula residents are much more likely to die young, especially from smoking, diabetes-related complications or motor vehicle accidents, than people living in its sister counties in Pennsylvania and New York, states that have adopted more stringent public health measures,” the Post found. The primary difference: Democratic versus Republican lawmakers and leaders. Democratic states have enacted legislation to protect public health—including measures like seat-belt laws, high tobacco taxes, and more generous Medicaid and safety net benefits. Ohio and other Republican states have not. The Post cites a study by Ellen Meara, a health economics and policy professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, in which she looked at geographic disparities in premature mortality over recent decades. It’s not just geography, she told the Post. It’s politics. Red state conservatives are dying thanks to the people they vote for
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