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Willfully Horn

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  1. Blatten won’t be the last alpine village that meets this fate. https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/glacier-crumbles-above-evacuated-swiss-village-prompting-huge-rock-slide-2025-05-28/ Blatten is first mentioned in the written record in 1433.
  2. https://www.acog.org/news/news-releases/2025/05/acog-statement-on-hhs-recommendations-regarding-the-covid-vaccine-during-pregnancy Are you surprised? I’m not surprised.
  3. Figured this thread had been bumped because Leon is xitting all over the big beautiful bill and its deficit exploding tax giveaways to billionaires, but was pleasantly surprised by Chop’s post. Damn straight, government can be efficient. Medicare and medicaid overhead costs should have been a clue.
  4. Purple is associated with honor and bravery. TIL, the Purple Heart’s history evolved from the Badge of Distinction and Merit, which was conceived by George Washington. That badge gave way, over time, to congressionally enacted awards, the Medal of Honor, the Distinguished Service Medal and Distinguished Service Cross. It was US Army Chief of Staff Douglas MacArthur who repurposed and renamed Washington’s badge to the Purple Heart in 1932. https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/history-of-the-purple-heart
  5. Congress has passed laws later ruled to be unconstitutional. Until such a ruling, those laws, at a minimum, provide cover, and perhaps immunity, for some individual official acts.
  6. Link to a video with this description: https://bsky.app/profile/dannyderaney.bsky.social/post/3lq3pr6vk6227
  7. Is this the legal Rubicon? I’m not gonna read the bill, because what’s the point? The parts about restricting the judicial branch from effectively balancing the executive have been reported: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/republican-led-us-house-votes-limit-judges-power-block-trumps-agenda-2025-04-10/ Might as well lock this thread, posted at 12AM PST, Memorial Day, May 26, 2025 fin
  8. This seems prudent. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/judges-consider-own-security-force-threats-1235347919/
  9. Knew a guy whose wife’s cat would shit on his pillow … while he was sleeping.
  10. You have to love this story. Kittens, slated to be euthanized, were introduced to inmates who then were allowed to raise them. Inmate behavior improved dramatically. Kittens became cats, not to mention pets. Win-win. https://bsky.app/profile/sadgirlcassi.bsky.social/post/3lpxa6dedk22c
  11. A dry heaven is no heaven at all. -Bill, paraphrased
  12. The higher Republicans can push the national debt, the greater the number of idiots who will support the unraveling of society’s safety net.
  13. I did not know that. I have high hopes for James Talarico.
  14. Injunctions that are not honored in too many cases. While I’m not condemning the legal profession as a whole, it is past time for contempt declarations and jail time until compliant. Forgive me if I think federal judges are reluctant to know what will occur if they exercise their power,
  15. Exit polling in the last Senate race concluded a majority of native Texans voted for Beto. The last presidential election showed rural Hispanics shifted their support to turnip in numbers that could mean the majority of native Texans voted R. I haven’t seen, and not for lack of trying, a report definitively saying so, one way or another. But, I too am represented in Washington by a carpetbagging coprophagist. Paxton and goeb are both carpetbagging grifters. While Abbott is believed to be born in Wichita Falls, many people are saying his mother actually pushed him out in Oklahoma, but sucked enough ass in Wichita Falls to get his birthplace changed,
  16. Fuck this, and every other, payday-bar fueled armed conflict. And fuck that guy for killing the two Israelis. This country doesn’t fight religious wars. -PSH Seems like a strong policy. We should stick with it.
  17. What is wrong, indeed. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/21/unitedhealth-reportedly-paid-nursing-homes-to-reduce-hospital-transfers.html
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