Nobody Cares: PRS

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Per annum retirement rate for the Federal work force is 3%, meaning 2% would be able to retire in 8 months, and yet only 1% took it, or roughly half. There must be a lot of dedicated employees.

How to turn a lie into truth with one easy context.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

lol, this will get some knickers in a twist.

Cocaine is 'no worse than whiskey', says Colombia's president

During a six-hour government meeting that was broadcast live, Colombian President Gustavo Petro said legalised cocaine could be "sold like wine".

www.euronews.com

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

lol, this will get some knickers in a twist.

Cocaine is 'no worse than whiskey', says Colombia's president

During a six-hour government meeting that was broadcast live, Colombian President Gustavo Petro said legalised cocaine could be "sold like wine".

www.euronews.com

No worse than whiskey. Really, really addictive whiskey.

 

[Free]

What is President Elon's view on this?

Feds putting the kibosh on national EV charging program

DOT orders states to halt plans to build federally funded EV stations.

arstechnica.com

The US Department of Transportation has ordered states to kill their implementation plans related to the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure program, according to a memo obtained by WIRED that was later made public. The decision appears to halt in its tracks a $5 billion program designed to fund state projects to install electric vehicle charging stations across the United States.

Officials at the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), which manages the program, ordered state transportation directors to “decertify” the plans that all 50 states have used to outline where and how they will build their charging stations, and with what companies they’ll contract to do so. States have followed those plans to build more than 30 charging stations across the US, with hundreds more on the way.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

What is President Elon's view on this?

Feds putting the kibosh on national EV charging program

DOT orders states to halt plans to build federally funded EV stations.

arstechnica.com

Republicans seem so hell-bent on setting back progress in the US, I'm wondering when we'll return to the horse and buggy.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Meanwhile the anti-vaxxers are quite successful in reviving gone diseases...

1. Tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas City (Current Tuberculosis Outbreak in Kansas City, Kan. Metro Area)
2. Measles outbreak in West Texas (https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/07/health/west-texas-measles-outbreak/index.html)
3. Tuberculosis outbreak in Ohio (Tuberculosis case identified at Ohio high school)

By the way the outbreak in Kansas is one of the largest recorded in US history, a crowning achievement (Kansas faces one of the largest tuberculosis outbreaks in US history).

All of this is happening in counties with low vaccination rates.

 

[Myradyl Muse]

How's that 'ProLife', raw milk, sanctity of all children, dumb and dumber philosophy working out for them so far? Oof.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Infant mortality in the US has increased by 7% since the 2022 SCOTUS decision to overturn the right to abortion according to an October 2024 study.

There is a large increase among infants born with birth defects. This suggests that women are delivering more children without much hope to survive few hours or weeks after birth.

Stricter abortion laws may cause increased infant deaths − 2 maternal and child health researchers explain the data

The new study reinforces warnings from doctors about abortion laws with limited or no exceptions.

theconversation.com

 

[Free]

WTF is going on with Nancy Mace?

Mace alleges sexual abuse, rape in stunning House floor speech

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) made a series of allegations of sexual abuse, rape and voyeurism perpetrated against herself and other women by her former fiancé and three other men in a personal — and highly unusual — speech on the House floor Monday evening.

Mace, who has served in the House since 2021, spoke for nearly an hour in the lower chamber, accusing four South Carolina men of being “predators” and displaying their names and photos on a poster board on the House floor.

“You have bought yourself a one-way ticket to hell. It is nonstop, there are no connections, so I and all your victims can watch you rot in eternity,” Mace said on the House floor, in a speech she said she titled “Iron Sharpens Iron.”

She made a number of specific allegations, including finding thousands of intimate photos and videos of women and underage girls that were captured without their consent. Mace also said she was raped herself after blacking out one night, and believes she was “purposefully incapacitated.”

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

WTF is going on with Nancy Mace?

Mace alleges sexual abuse, rape in stunning House floor speech

Shit like this is why nobody believes us women when we make a valid sexual assault claim.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Katheryne Helendale (@khelendale.bsky.social)

What fresh fucking hell is THIS shit??? Are we seriously paying these guys' salaries with our tax dollars for this??? https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1161

bsky.app

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1161

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Mikael Thalen (@mikaelthalen.bsky.social)

NEW: A group known as the 'puppygirl hacker polycule' has leaked thousands of police training & policy manuals from departments across the country https://www.dailydot.com/debug/lexipol-data-leak-puppygirl-hacker-polycule/

bsky.app

 

[Soen Eber]

Mikael Thalen (@mikaelthalen.bsky.social)

NEW: A group known as the 'puppygirl hacker polycule' has leaked thousands of police training & policy manuals from departments across the country https://www.dailydot.com/debug/lexipol-data-leak-puppygirl-hacker-polycule/

bsky.app

Some takeaways from the Daily Dot article (rewritten for length):

Lexipol has also caught the attention of civil liberties groups that have accused Lexipol of helping violent officers evade justice by crafting policies that provide broad discretion in use-of-force situations.

... has been accused of discriminatory profiling as well. In 2017, the ACLU demanded it “eliminate illegal and unclear directives that can lead to racial profiling and harassment of immigrants.”, such as in 2018 leading an officer in Spokane to unlawfully detain and hold the victim of a car wreck to be questioned by immigration authorities.

 

[Beebo Brink]

House Republican Wants To Speak With Investigators of JFK Assassination – Who Are Dead

The Warren Commission had seven members, all of whom are dead, as are the majority of counsels who worked on it. Also deceased are the doctors at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas – Charles Baxter, Robert McClelland, and Malcolm Perry – who examined Kennedy when he was brought in after being mortally wounded. Later that day, an autopsy was performed at Bethesda Naval Hospital by Drs. James Humes and Thornton Boswell, who are also dead.

 

[Soen Eber]

House Republican Wants To Speak With Investigators of JFK Assassination – Who Are Dead

Reality is an "opt in" for some many of them.

 

[Tigger]

Feels like they've fallen a long, long way since the days of "Don't be evil" and into "Be evil, even in petty ways"

Google Calendar removes Black History Month, Pride and other cultural events

 

[Free]

US inflation unexpectedly increases

US inflation increased by more than expected last month, pushing up the cost of living for Americans.

www.bbc.com

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

lol right? I mean hey okay maybe I'm just a really lucky wild-ass guesser but I expected the heck out of that.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

The US aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman collided with the Besiktas-M, a bulk commercial cargo ship today in the anchorage just off Port Said, Egypt.

Both ships took damage but neither seriously, and there are no reports of injuries.

 

[detrius]

Republicans seem so hell-bent on setting back progress in the US, I'm wondering when we'll return to the horse and buggy.

Next up is bringing back leaded gasoline.