tingilinde

portraits of traitors

 

alien thing transmission

Covid-19 in North Korea

 

commentary on isdt

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear Moore v. Harper.  Before the current court it wouldn't have been taken up, but now people are talking about the independent state legislature theory. Here's some commentary.

a tip of the hat to Jim

 

I'd bet on the Supremes killing democracy.

 

 

 

the most common languages

Out of over 7100 languages, 23 are the native tongue of over four billion people.

 

 

some truth here

 

 

very close to reality

Realistically the death of privacy will be a bigger hammer to prosecute doctors and women.

 

what's next?

Many things in the works on the rightwing war on anyone who isn't a straight white male who votes Republican.  Contraception seems likely.

 

 

 

summing up quite a bit

“Sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. That’s what sin is.” 

            Granny Weatherwax

― Terry Pratchett

 

it's just business

McKinsey and the opioid disaster.

snip

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McKinsey’s opioid clients already wanted to grow their businesses. What the firm offered was know-how and sophistication, the documents show, and, as it noted in one presentation, “in-depth experience in narcotics.”

The Massachusetts attorney general, Maura Healey, who helped craft the settlement, said in a statement that “as Americans were dying from the opioid epidemic, McKinsey was trading on its reputation and connections to make the crisis worse.” She added that the newly released documents “expose McKinsey’s role in the opioid crisis and will inform policymakers’ efforts to prevent this from happening again.”

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falconry where you don't expect it..

.. on the Jersey shore.