US continues to go backward...

[CowboyJD]

Tennessee SB6002/HB6001 would make it a felony to VOTE for sanctuary policies regarding immigration.

Tennessee General Assembly Legislation

From the official summary (emphasis added by me)

Present law prohibits state and local governmental entities and officials from adopting or enacting a sanctuary policy. A state or local governmental entity that adopts or enacts a sanctuary policy is ineligible to enter into a grant contract with the department of economic and community development until the sanctuary policy is repealed, rescinded, or otherwise no longer in effect. This bill creates a Class E felony, punishable by a sentence of imprisonment not less than one year nor more than six years and a possible fine not to exceed $3,000, or both, if a person violates such prohibitions. Additionally, this bill provides that each official, in their capacity as a member of the governing body of a local government, who votes in the affirmative to adopt a sanctuary policy is also in violation.

This bill passed the Tennessee Senate today. It criminalizes the voting for sanctuary policies by elected officials.

This is nuts.

 

[Big Huck]

Michigan priest defrocked by church after mimicking Musk's straight-arm gesture

A priest in Grand Rapids, Michigan, had his license revoked by the Anglican Catholic Church after the priest mimicked a straight-arm gesture performed by Elon Musk earlier this month.

www.cbsnews.com

 

[mugatu]

Michigan priest defrocked by church after mimicking Musk's straight-arm gesture

A priest in Grand Rapids, Michigan, had his license revoked by the Anglican Catholic Church after the priest mimicked a straight-arm gesture performed by Elon Musk earlier this month.

www.cbsnews.com

Figured that was coming

 

[mugatu]

Trump Administration’s Halt of CDC’s Weekly Scientific Report Stalls Bird Flu Studies - KFF Health News

An unprecedented freeze on the agency’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report sparks new concerns about political meddling in science.

kffhealthnews.org

Hiding the start of the next potential epidemic.

 

[Big Huck]

Figured that was coming

Yep, that's what I kept thinking. I guarantee there were a whole lotta conservatives jokingly throwing up Nazi salutes last week. Ya know, it's funny now because Elon did it! We're just throwing our hearts out!

 

[mugatu]

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www.npr.org

FCC is opening investigations into PBS and NPR. Two very a-political groups. The claim is the stations are running advertisements vs broadcast underwriting announcements.

Pledged control over news and media, this is step 1 to limiting opposing views.

 

[mugatu]

When RFK Jr. was presented with the science on vaccines he said needed to see, he dismissed it

The man who hopes to be President Donald Trump’s health secretary said he needed to see data showing vaccines are safe, but when an influential Republican senator did so, he dismissed it.

apnews.com

Our next head of Health and Human Services. Still claiming vaccines aren't safe when grilled in Senate confirmation. Not sure why he isn't just lying like the rest of them do. If he lies the GOP can claim ignorance later on when nothing that was promised happens.

 

[PF5]

VP Vance makes confirmation predictions for Gabbard, Patel and RFK, Jr: 'Have to fight for each one'

Vice President JD Vance discusses the Senate confirmation hearings for three of President Donald Trump's most controversial nominees on 'Hannity.'

www.foxnews.com

Vice President JD Vance delivered blunt advice to Republican senators considering voting against President Donald Trump’s nominees to lead key three-letter agencies: "You don't get to make these decisions."
...
He praised Senate Republicans for being "freethinking and "independent" but argued the commander-in-chief is the one who gets to decide who he wants in his Cabinet. WTF: (you can be independent freethinkers, just can´t act on it...)
"...The president has made his selections and the advice and consent power of the United States Senate should not be used to block people because you have one policy disagreement on one issue," Vance told Hannity Thursday. "You don't get to make these decisions. President Trump gets to make these decisions, and he already has."
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[osuwhit]

When RFK Jr. was presented with the science on vaccines he said needed to see, he dismissed it

The man who hopes to be President Donald Trump’s health secretary said he needed to see data showing vaccines are safe, but when an influential Republican senator did so, he dismissed it.

apnews.com

Our next head of Health and Human Services. Still claiming vaccines aren't safe when grilled in Senate confirmation. Not sure why he isn't just lying like the rest of them do. If he lies the GOP can claim ignorance later on when nothing that was promised happens.

Some or all vaccines?

 

[mugatu]

Some or all vaccines?

Says vaccine schedule needs to be by race, measles causes autism, mRNA is dangerous, HPV vaccine causes cancer... refuses to acknowledge peer reviewed study results.

 

[PF5]

Federal employees told to remove pronouns from email signatures by end of day

Employees at multiple federal agencies were ordered to remove pronouns from their email signatures by Friday afternoon, according to internal memos obtained by ABC News.

abcnews.go.com

 

[cowboyinexile]

Federal employees told to remove pronouns from email signatures by end of day

Employees at multiple federal agencies were ordered to remove pronouns from their email signatures by Friday afternoon, according to internal memos obtained by ABC News.

abcnews.go.com

That will get egg prices down for sure!

 

[PF5]

Pentagon intelligence agency pauses observances for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Juneteenth

The Pentagon’s intelligence agency has put on hold observances of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Juneteenth, Holocaust Days of Remembrance and other annual historical or cultural events due to Preside…

thehill.com

Wait…what?!… I mean, WTF?!

 

[Vakarian74]

Pentagon intelligence agency pauses observances for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Juneteenth

The Pentagon’s intelligence agency has put on hold observances of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Juneteenth, Holocaust Days of Remembrance and other annual historical or cultural events due to Preside…

thehill.com

Wait…what?!… I mean, WTF?!

They don’t need to hide the racism anymore.

 

[cowboyinexile]

They don’t need to hide the racism anymore.

It might be malicious compliance. And honestly that needs to happen to show how idiotic and disastrous some of his new policies are.

 

[PF5]

I knew/know a lot of people are/were opposed to DEI practices, but I had no idea that it was the Devil to so many!!

 

[mugatu]

 

[cowboyinexile]

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There are so many reasons he would want access to that sort of data and none of them are good.

I've joked about Musk being a Bond villian but he's approaching moon base with space lasers status here.

 

[Pokey]

Pentagon intelligence agency pauses observances for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Juneteenth

The Pentagon’s intelligence agency has put on hold observances of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Juneteenth, Holocaust Days of Remembrance and other annual historical or cultural events due to Preside…

thehill.com

Wait…what?!… I mean, WTF?!

Make
America
Racist
Again

 

[steross]

Another pretty good one from Maher. The beginning is just silly, but then it hits. Something in there to piss off anyone who is on a side. He ends with this fundamental truth, "There is almost always a reasonable centrist position that would go a long way to making everything not f-ing broken if we could just get there. If everyone would just stop being such a d!(k about it."

https://twitter.com/x/status/1885543139131220118