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  • Does anyone know how I can donate to Trump?

    03/25/2024 1:56:24 PM PDT · by fwdude · 40 replies
    self | Mar 25, 2024 | fwdud
    I want to donate to Trump, both to his campaign and to his legal defense. Is there an official website to do this? I know there are a lot of charlatans out there and didn't want to get swindled by a bogus site.
  • No charges will be filed in nonbinary teen Nex Benedict's death, Oklahoma district attorney says

    03/25/2024 8:34:51 AM PDT · by fwdude · 25 replies
    CBS News ^ | March 21, 2024 | S. Dev
    An Oklahoma district attorney declined to file charges in connection with the death of nonbinary teenager Nex Benedict, officials said Thursday. Benedict, a 16-year-old student at Owasso High School near Tulsa, died by suicide on Feb. 8, one day after a fight in a high school bathroom. "Based upon the investigation of the Owasso Police Department, I am in agreement with their assessment that the filing of juvenile charges is not warranted," Tulsa County District Attorney Stephen A. Kunzweiler said in a statement. "From all of the evidence gathered, this fight was an instance of mutual combat," Kunzweiler wrote.
  • State adopts plan to let lawyers bypass bar exam to practice law [WA]

    03/21/2024 2:27:19 PM PDT · by fwdude · 26 replies
    World Net Daily ^ | March 21, 2024 | Bob Unruh
    Members on the leftist state Supreme Court in Washington have ruled that the bar exam for prospective lawyers is racist, so candidates can do something else to qualify, like do an apprenticeship or an internship. Fox News said the court decided the traditional test "disproportionately and unnecessarily blocks marginalized groups from entering the practice of law." Further, they said, it is "at best minimally effective for ensuring competent lawyers."
  • Overturning of Roe vs Wade Fails to Preserve Life as U.S. Abortion Deaths Reach Highest Level in a Decade

    03/20/2024 10:48:01 AM PDT · by fwdude · 23 replies
    The Gateway Pundit ^ | Mar. 20, 2024 | Ben Kew
    The overturning of Roe vs Wade in 2022 that returned the issue of abortion back to the states has failed to reduce the number of abortions, according to the latest research. According to a report released this week by the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute, there were over one million abortions in 2023, the highest rate in more than a decade and a 10 percent increase in 2020.
  • Has Anyone Tried Hungry Root meal kits?

    03/20/2024 10:09:17 AM PDT · by fwdude · 11 replies
    self | Mar 20, 2024 | fwdude
    Is it a good company? What are the servings like? Need some good, quick, healthy meals for a busy lifestyle.
  • Anyone else find that phone solicitors and service desks are now unintelligible foreigners barely able to speak English?

    03/19/2024 9:38:32 AM PDT · by fwdude · 77 replies
    self | March 19, 2024 | fwdude
    Almost NO ONE who now calls me is a native English speaker, and has NO phone skills. Low volume, sloppy script, and no supervisor who can relay and intelligible message. The same goes for service desks. When I get a professional, AMERICAN English speaker, it just makes my day.
  • Survey Shows Support for Same-Sex Marriage Declining

    03/15/2024 8:36:53 AM PDT · by fwdude · 29 replies
    The Daily Signal ^ | March 13, 2024 | S.A. McCarthy (news writer at The Washington Stand)
    Support for same-sex marriage in the U.S. has fallen for the first time in nearly a decade, according to a new survey. The Public Religion Research Institute published updates to its American Values Atlas on Tuesday, revealing that public support for same-sex marriage dropped from 69% to 67% from 2022 to 2023.
  • Email Cleanup: Is 'Unsubscribe' advised [vanity]

    03/14/2024 7:28:07 AM PDT · by fwdude · 37 replies
    self | 03/14/2024 | fwdude
    I've become super-careful and sensitive to online security threats in recent years, through personal experience an those who I love. One question I have advanced is the wisdom of "unsubscribing" to various junk emails from senders who I have no idea how I've been connected to in the first place. Many of them are political emails, which I can understand, since these orgs get names from databases in political donations and party affiliations. I will readily unsubscribe from org e-mailings I'm familiar with, but what about mystery ones? I'm very reticent to click on ANY link without knowing exactly what...
  • Millions of Americans' Work Hours Would Change Under New Plan

    03/13/2024 2:43:34 PM PDT · by fwdude · 77 replies
    Newsweek via msn ^ | Mar. 13, 2024 | Andrew Stanton
    Senator Bernie Sanders is introducing legislation that would change working hours for millions of Americans. Sanders, an independent senator representing Vermont, announced he plans to file a bill that would establish the 32-hour workweek as standard across the United States, while mandating that workers do not lose pay. In a press release on Wednesday, Sanders argued fewer working hours would be necessary to ensure recent technological advances, such as automation and artificial intelligence "benefit the working class, not just corporate CEOs and wealthy stockholders on Wall Street."
  • Court issues significant ruling on gender identity on driver's licenses

    03/12/2024 9:05:52 AM PDT · by fwdude · 9 replies
    A judge ruled Monday that barring Kansas drivers from identifying as transgender on their licenses did not violate their constitutional rights. Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach filed a lawsuit against Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly in July 2023 after the governor’s office said that the state would continue to issue driver’s licenses reflecting a person’s gender identity despite the Kansas Legislature passing a bill requiring only biological sex on government IDs, according to the Kansas Reflector. Judge Teresa Watson upheld her previous ruling from last year barring the Kansas Department of Revenue from adding options other than a person’s biological sex...
  • Nolte: Rob Reiner’s Fascist ‘God & Country’ Doc Grosses Pathetic $60K Worldwide

    03/11/2024 6:50:33 AM PDT · by fwdude · 45 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 10 Mar 2024 | John Nolte
    Producer Rob Reiner’s anti-Christian smear, God & Country: The Rise of Christian Nationalism, limped out of theaters after grossing a hilarious $60,464 worldwide. That’s fewer than 7,000 tickets sold, even after producer Rob Reiner got all kinds of free media from countless corporate media outlets.
  • 2.6-ton International Space Station junk plunging to Earth on Saturday

    03/09/2024 1:58:42 PM PST · by fwdude · 15 replies
    Interesting Engineering ^ | Mar. 8, 2024 | Mrigakshi Dixit
    This weekend, a massive piece of space debris is set for an uncontrolled return. In January 2021, nine old batteries were thrown from the International Space Station (ISS). It is reportedly the heaviest piece of ISS trash that will reenter Earth. This 2.6-metric-ton cargo pallet is now slated to naturally reach the Earth’s atmosphere between March 8 and 9, 2024.
  • Greg Abbott 'Blood Oath' Condemned By Texas' Largest Newspaper

    03/08/2024 3:44:52 AM PST · by fwdude · 18 replies
    Newsweek ^ | March 7, 2024 | Rachel Dobkin
    Texas' largest newspaper, The Houston Chronicle, condemned what it described as the Republican "blood oath" primary election where, it says, Governor Greg Abbott tried to get rid of GOP lawmakers who refused to side with him. The Lone Star State held its primary on Super Tuesday. Some conservative judges and Republican lawmakers were ousted for what The Chronicle saw as simply doing their job and not giving in to the wishes of Abbott and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
  • Here's How One Maryland Democrat Plans to Fund Reparations

    03/07/2024 10:37:36 AM PST · by fwdude · 42 replies
    Townhall ^ | March 7, 2024 | Madeline Leesman
    A Maryland Democrat has proposed increasing taxes to pay for reparations for black Americans. This comes as Democrats across the country have put forward efforts to start issuing reparations. Sen. Jill Carter, a Democrat from Baltimore City, sponsored the Maryland Reparations Act of 2024. According to Fox News, she is calling for a "certain amount of revenue from the State individual income tax and Maryland estate tax be distributed to the Community Reinvestment and Repair Fund." The money will come from an "additional State individual income tax rate on the net capital gains of individuals” and will service low-income residents...
  • Biden pledges $2 million to tackle HIV among 'racially diverse transgenders in deep south'

    03/05/2024 5:56:48 AM PST · by fwdude · 24 replies
    The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is spending millions on encouraging “racially diverse trans women” in New Orleans to take PrEP, a HIV prevention medication. HHS pledged approximately $2 million to Public Health Foundation Enterprises, a public health nonprofit based in California now known as Heluna Health, to “develop, implement and measure the impact” of a social media campaign aimed at increasing the awareness of HIV-prevention medications among “trans women” in New Orleans, according to a federal grant listing. The goal of the program, which will include a year-long test run serving 200 “trans women,”, is to “adapt...
  • Va. Democrats fast-track marriage equality, gun bills headed to Youngkin

    03/04/2024 12:25:55 PM PST · by fwdude · 5 replies
    Virginia Mercury ^ | March 4, 2024 | Graham Moomaw
    Gov. Glenn Youngkin has until the end of this week to act on dozens of bills the Democratic-controlled General Assembly sent to him on a faster-than-normal timeline. The governor has until 11:59 p.m. Friday to take action on a batch of more than 80 bills that includes measures to preserve same-sex marriage, restore Virginia’s participation in the multi-state ERIC voter roll maintenance program, ban legacy admissions preferences at public colleges and universities and require local school boards to inform parents about the importance of safe gun storage.
  • Education Department to open investigation into Nex Benedict's Oklahoma school district

    03/03/2024 8:48:05 AM PST · by fwdude · 18 replies
    NBC News ^ | March 2, 2024 | Matt Lavietes
    The Department of Education is opening an investigation into whether the Oklahoma school district where the late 16-year-old transgender student Nex Benedict attended high school failed to appropriately respond to sex-based harassment, according to a letter obtained by NBC News on Friday. The letter was addressed to the Human Rights Campaign, the country's largest LGBTQ rights group, which had filed a complaint with the department following Benedict's Feb. 8 death. Benedict died a day after engaging in a fight with three other students in a school bathroom at Owasso High School, in a case that has drawn intense media attention...
  • Students describe heartbreak, frustration after Keller ISD cancels spring play [Homo-play, Texas]

    03/02/2024 12:40:58 PM PST · by fwdude · 37 replies
    Fort Worth Report ^ | February 29, 2024 | Jacob Sanchez and Matthew Sgroi
    Neither Timber Creek High School sophomore saw Keller ISD’s decision to cancel their performance of “The Laramie Project” — which included more than 70 students — coming. Students plan to voice their concerns to the school board Feb. 29. “I was a little blindsided,” Sampson, 16, told the Fort Worth Report. “It was a role I really wanted to perform. I was a little dejected when I heard it was being canceled.” “The Laramie Project” is a play that recounts the aftermath of the murder of Matthew Shepard, a gay University of Wyoming student who was beaten and tied to...
  • Ted Cruz Stung by New Texas Poll

    03/02/2024 7:47:56 AM PST · by fwdude · 80 replies
    Newsweek ^ | March 1, 2024 | Ewan Palmer
    Republican Ted Cruz is neck and neck with his expected Democratic challenger in the race for the Texas Senate seat, according to a poll. A University of Texas at Tyler (UTT) survey found that incumbent Cruz and Texas Representative Colin Allred, the current frontrunner to be Democratic challenger in November's Senate election, are both tied on 41 percent when potential voters are asked who they may support in the race, with 12 percent saying they are still unsure.
  • Gen Zers are waving goodbye to ‘soul-sucking’ 9-to-5 jobs as social media convinces them to ditch corporate careers

    03/02/2024 7:03:12 AM PST · by fwdude · 100 replies
    Fortune ^ | March 1 2024 | Orianna Rosa Royle
    It’s official: After dipping their toes into the working world and spending a handful of years on the job, Gen Zers are already over the traditional nine-to-five grind. You may remember that TikTok video of a young woman crying over her “crazy” nine-to-five schedule—described as “Gen Z girl finds out what a real job is like”—which went viral last year.