"I live on a street with a lot of elderly neighbors. Mrs. Higgins lives next door. She’s 90. Every night at 5 PM, she turns on her porch light. If the light isn't on by 5:15, I go over. It’s our silent code. Last week, 5:30 came. No light. I ran over. I knocked. No answer. I used the spare key she gave me. She was in the kitchen, confused. The power had gone out in her section of the house, and she couldn't reach the fuse box. She was sitting in the dark, afraid. 'I knew you’d come,' she said when she saw my flashlight. I fixed the fuse. We had tea. 'You’re a good neighbor,' she said. 'No,' I said. 'I’m just watching the light.' We are all just walking each other home in the dark. Look for the lights. And if one goes out, go knock. It takes five minutes to save a life."
@Lazarz12@StevenPeakeKSR You articulated my feelings exactly. Not certain a coach can suss out the grifters when recruiting? How do you read their heart? They know they can't cut it in the NBA, so this is the next best paycheck. Like mercenaries in an Army!
Are you telling me we can spend $40B on Argentina, $1B on Trump’s Qatar jet, $250M on Trump’s ballroom, $150M on Trump’s golf, $520M on Trump's National Guard deployments & $172M on Kristi Noem’s jets - but we can’t spend a penny on lowering our healthcare premiums. Oh, hell no.
Why would the US Justice Department remove a study from its website last week that concluded that far-right extremists have killed far more Americans than any other domestic terror group? .
The now-archived report, titled "What National Institute of Justice Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism," was reportedly removed from the DOJ's website between September 11 and 12, according to Jason Paladino, an independent investigative reporter. Conservative activist Charlie Kirk was killed on September 10 while speaking at a campus event at Utah Valley University.
In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s death, President Trump and others in the administration have repeatedly claimed that “the radical left causes tremendous violence” and that they “seem to do it in a bigger way” than groups on the right.
This study, based on research spanning three decades, represented one of the most comprehensive government assessments ever of domestic terrorism patterns. It found that “militant, nationalistic, white supremacist violent extremism has increased in the United States” and that “the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism”.
Amidst all the accusations from the administration, we republished a piece examining political violence by Art Jipson and Paul J. Becker from the University of Dayton, which found that most domestic terrorists in the US are politically on the right, and right-wing attacks account for the vast majority of fatalities from domestic terrorism. You can read the piece down below.
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Feeling down about the world? This is Chicago teenager, Dorothy Jean Tillman. She is the youngest person in the world to obtain a PHD at 17 years old.
In a world with Dr. Tillmans, there is hope. 💙
Friends! The Triplets are still Suspicious of the NanaPhones so I thought I should try and convince Percy first that they are Great Toys. I laid them out in front of him, but he behaved really strangely… hiding in the Tunnel! And I’m not sure whether he was trying to Jump Scare me or the NanaPhones! Very Odd! 🙀 *please share 💛
Folks, we're celebrating the 2024/2025 fiscal year ending in Kentucky with a surplus of $312.5 million. We brought in more revenue while spending less, showing we're responsible with taxpayer dollars.
I'm proud to say we've secured a surplus every year I've been Governor.
The Murdochs have decided to take him out. They’ve long had all the sordid dirt on Trump’s criminality and corruption. They’re going to empty their munitions stockpiles. This is going to be scorched earth.
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The federal cuts taking place are a betrayal of rural America. Cuts to Medicaid will hammer rural economies, cut health-care jobs and strip families of coverage. Cuts to the US Dept. of Education will hurt rural public schools, leaving kids behind.
America deserves better.
Wow. Justice Sotomayor wrote a chilling dissent: “When the Executive publicly announces its intent to break the law, and then executes on that promise, it is the Judiciary's duty to check that lawlessness, not expedite it.”
We should all be alarmed.