Hopefully the good people in Israel can bring them to justice and give them long prison sentences. If not then they are also not worthy of any support from good people in other countries.
Book of the Day
Found my copy from 1976
The original strip was published May 29th, 1973, 51 years and 1 day before the 34 guilty verdicts against Trump
The Reason Why the GOP Hates Section 230
It’s right in this fine article:
Section 230 allows platforms to avoid liability for removing bigoted speech that drives away customers. Now why the heck do some Democrats want to disappear Section 230?
Real Information for Kids Online Safety
Hat tip to Mike @ techdirt for pointing me to the free book that has actual information and not pseudoscience. It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens by danah boyd.
Oh, and as always, do read Mike’s whole great article.
Rep. Justin Humphrey of Oklahoma is Obviously a Racist
There is no way a non-racist could write something like this:
From HB 3133, introduced Tuesday by Oklahoma state Rep. Justin Humphrey:
https://reason.com/volokh/2024/01/19/oklahoma-bill-would-specially-target-hispanic-gang-members/
Any person who:
1. Is of Hispanic descent living within the state of Oklahoma;
Science is purposely constructed to be slow and contradictory
I stole the title from this very well reasoned and written article.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/01/the-key-to-fighting-pseudoscience-isnt-mockery-its-empathy/
MAGA Keeping Up With Killing Republicans
Since they’ve already gotten as many Republicans as possible to not accept life saving vaccines, now they are going to out all Republicans who don’t conform to their belief system.
The way they’re going they will absolutely have to end elections because the MAGA boosted Republican death rate will lead to permanent minority status for the Republican party via early deaths
Sadly Not Surprised
The tragic crime playing out in Lewiston Maine makes me sad but I’m not at all surprised. Maine, like nearly all the States in the USA has gun laws far more lax than required by the 2nd Amendment. So they have far more gun deaths than Massachusetts by nearly a factor of four! Maine ranks 17th of 50 while Massachusetts ranks #1 for gun safety.
Since Maine was originally part Massachusetts, and it’s population in the southern region is increasingly migrants from states in the top 5 for gun safety, I hope they will wake up and adopt some the successful gun safety laws that Massachusetts has had for decades.
Sadly, this is likely to be the common response from the gun nuts.
Impeach Judge Andy Oldham
(the only point on which they are consistent is that “it’s okay when Republicans do it, and not okay when Democrats do it”)
I Hope Mike’s Wrong About this
https://www.gocomics.com/mikeluckovich/2023/09/08
Unfortunately the Saudi’s do have the financial ability to boost the gas prices to help Trump.
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