This was interesting in the news today...

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https://www.npr.org/2023/02/16/1157480905/spain-menstrual-leave-teen-abortion-trans-laws

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The abortion law builds on legislation passed in 2010 that represented a major shift for a traditionally Catholic country, transforming Spain into one of the most progressive countries in Europe on reproductive rights. Spain's constitutional court last week rejected a challenge by the right-wing Popular Party against allowing abortions in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy.

The debate will be heated in Spain, I imagine, as the conservative opposition pushes back. My daughter had horrible menstrual pain during her adolescence and young adulthood.  I'm certain that she would have benefitted from that time. 

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toomuchbaloney said:

No you aren't waiting on anything.  That remark was disingenuous too. 

I get the Columbia alumni magazine and they have reports on the research activity going on.  I'm sure you could find it somewhere.  You can't expect all those research scientists to do the work for free or pay for their own labs.  When Elon's lousy AI system goes through all the new research, a whole bunch of things get deleted from the NIH becauce they offend his majesty.  And Trump or Musk can't read medical research anyway....hence, the transgender mice speech.

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Beerman said:

Thank you.  You said it better than the effort I was going to put into a reply.

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Beerman said:

Not a NGO.

DC police answers to the Mayor of DC who is a Democrat elected by 75% of the vote.  So, doubt they helped DOGE break in to anything.

  Do you think the police of DC are Democrats?  The Institute of Peace is not part of the executive branch; it's an independent agency.  Maybe that will help  you find the story which was breaking when I wrote the post.  Armed police and the FBI made sure that DOGE was permitted to break into the building.  Now the level of conflict has increased to people with guns standing by watching the law being broken.  I used to think that people who spoke of civil war were hysterical but now I'm no longer sure of that.

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Do you remember the story I posted about Maine changing policy about getting SS#s for newborns, and then almost immediately changing it back? It seemed odd at the time.

Here is another story about that. 

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/leland-dudek-social-security-maine_n_67d9e370e4b0177e4d711221

Trump Social Security Commissioner Suggests Anger At Janet Mills Contributed To Contract Cancellations

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WASHINGTON ― The acting head of the Social Security Administration said he was "upset" with Maine Gov. Janet Mills, a Democrat who clashed with President Donald Trump at the White House last month, and suggested their feud played a role in a controversial policy change at Social Security. 

Social Security Acting Commissioner Leland Dudek canceled contracts his agency had with the state of Maine for automatically processing Social Security numbers for newborns as well as death certificates from funeral homes.

Dudek has previously offered no rationale for the cancellations, which looked like political retaliation against the governor. He quickly reinstated the contracts and apologized. 

On Tuesday, Dudek said he canceled one of the contracts by mistake because it was for $70,000 and didn't know what it was for. Asked if the cancellation had something to do with the governor, Dudek suggested it actually did. 

"I was upset at the governor's treatment, and I indicated in an email as such, but the actual facts of the matter, was it looked like a strange contract,” Dudek said Tuesday on a press call in response to a question from HuffPost. 

Every state has similar contracts. Only Maine's were canceled.

 

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nursej22 said:

Do you remember the story I posted about Maine changing policy about getting SS#s for newborns, and then almost immediately changing it back? It seemed odd at the time.

Here is another story about that. 

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/leland-dudek-social-security-maine_n_67d9e370e4b0177e4d711221

Trump Social Security Commissioner Suggests Anger At Janet Mills Contributed To Contract Cancellations

 

Petty vindictive behavior from a Trump official?  Maybe he'll get promoted.  

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Trump Derangement Syndrome is a fabricated condition designed to project the deranged thinking of those who believe the lying felon onto their critics.  The cult believes that it describes those who use facts and evidence to criticize Trump without having a clue that the made up condition best describes their own behavior.  It's a source of amusement for people who are aware of reality. Now apparently they are trying to extend the nonsense to include Musk.  Those poor billionaire victims.  

Hahaha

They're eating the cats.  They're eating the dogs.  They're eating the pets of the people who live there.  

LOL deranged indeed.  

 

toomuchbaloney said:

Trump Derangement Syndrome is a fabricated condition designed to project the deranged thinking of those who believe the lying felon onto their critics.  The cult believes that it describes those who use facts and evidence to criticize Trump without having a clue that the made up condition best describes their own behavior.  It's a source of amusement for people who are aware of reality. Now apparently they are trying to extend the nonsense to include Musk.  Those poor billionaire victims.  

Hahaha

They're eating the cats.  They're eating the dogs.  They're eating the pets of the people who live there.  

LOL deranged indeed.  

 

Why would someone buy their own Tesla only to destroy it?  Why protest high paying jobs coming to your community?  Why set a business in your community on fire?

Your rant doesn't explain any of those things.

 

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I'm not in a panic but grown enough to know Trump is causing volatility in the market.  But not to worry we are in a "correction" mode.  Which I'm also grown enough to know happens   

https://www.Yahoo.com/news/don't-panic-over-stock-market-080358444.html

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Beerman said:

Why would someone buy their own Tesla only to destroy it?  Why protest high paying jobs coming to your community?  Why set a business in your community on fire?

Your rant doesn't explain any of those things.

 

To where are these high paying jobs going?  Are you speaking of Texas?

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The Intellectualist.com

The Poisoning of the American Mind: How Fox News Conditioned A Nation for Tyranny

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In this video, we expose how Fox News conditioned millions to accept authoritarianism. Through fear and repetition, it eroded trust in democracy and normalized lawlessness.

 

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Beerman said:

It's his money.  One less piece of ugliness on the world.  But he should have donated it to another country instreading f destroying the ugy beast.  

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subee said:

It's his money.  One less piece of ugliness on the world.  But he should have donated it to another country instreading f destroying the ugy beast.  

Who cares, really?  

The boycott of Tesla is having a decidedly negative effect on it's value.  Since Tesla stock was a big portion of the collateral that Musk used to purchase Twitter, this could be problematic for Musk.  It's okay though. Musk has the federal government to push money and contracts toward his businesses.  The POTUS now is selling his cars and babysitting for him.  

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