Nobody Cares: PRS

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Not a parody.

The Supreme Court rules that state officials can engage in a little corruption, as a treat

Snyder v. US is the Republican justices’ latest decision weakening anti-corruption laws.

www.vox.com

Post hoc bribery.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Speaking of the SCrOTUS, there are just two days left of their current session, if I'm not mistaken, and they STILL have not ruled on whether or not a sitting president has total immunity for any and all crimes!

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Not a parody.

The Supreme Court rules that state officials can engage in a little corruption, as a treat

Snyder v. US is the Republican justices’ latest decision weakening anti-corruption laws.

www.vox.com

GOP core values at work. As to be expected by a Supreme Court with 3 judges appointed by 45, including that lovely chap Brett Kavanaugh.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

FDA to bread company: Stop warning for allergens that aren't actually in there

U.S. Food and Drug Administration inspectors found that Bimbo Bakeries USA — which includes brands such as Sara Lee, Oroweat, Thomas', Entenmann's and Ball Park buns and rolls — listed ingredients such as sesame or tree nuts on labels even when they weren't in the foods.

“Food labels must be truthful and not misleading,” officials said. The warning followed inspections late last year at Bimbo plants in Phoenix, Arizona, and Topeka, Kansas, that make Sara Lee and Brownberry breads.

The problem, as you can safely guess basically all the time for anything involving companies being bad, is a combination of laziness and profit-motive. It would take some effort and possibly at least some money to keep allergens from cross-contaminating the entire factory, so corporations often don't bother; some of them just deliberately put the allergens in all of their products and label them accordingly so they don't have to worry about it at all, while others just put warning labels on the products saying the allergen is in there even when it isn't, as a get-out-of-liability-free card.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

I think a warning like "not manufactured in a nut-free facility" should not require actual nut contamination.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

I think this is a predictable side effect of living in a litigious society where everybody sues everyone for everything. Yes, manufacturers could do much better at preventing possible cross contamination of known allergens, but how much is good enough? I can understand companies just trying to cover their asses here.

 

[Soen Eber]

FDA to bread company: Stop warning for allergens that aren't actually in there



The problem, as you can safely guess basically all the time for anything involving companies being bad, is a combination of laziness and profit-motive. It would take some effort and possibly at least some money to keep allergens from cross-contaminating the entire factory, so corporations often don't bother; some of them just deliberately put the allergens in all of their products and label them accordingly so they don't have to worry about it at all, while others just put warning labels on the products saying the allergen is in there even when it isn't, as a get-out-of-liability-free card.

Some of the Brownberry breads, such as Oat Nut, have seeds; so there is still some risk.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

North Korea executed a man who listened to 70K K-Pop songs.

North Korea executes man for listening to 70 K-pop songs: Report - Times of India

Rest of World News: A recent report by South Korea's unification ministry exposes North Korea's severe efforts to curb the influence of South Korean culture. The 2024 Rep

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

 

[Free]

North Korea executed a man who listened to 70K K-Pop songs.

North Korea executes man for listening to 70 K-pop songs: Report - Times of India

Rest of World News: A recent report by South Korea's unification ministry exposes North Korea's severe efforts to curb the influence of South Korean culture. The 2024 Rep

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

I thought for a moment he had listened to 70,000 K-Pop songs, and then asked to be executed. (Because really, that's way too much K-Pop to listen to.)

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

He flipped off a trooper and got charged. Now Vermont is on the hook for $175,000

Vermont has agreed to pay $175,000 to settle a lawsuit on behalf of a man who was charged with a crime for giving a state trooper the middle finger in 2018.

apnews.com

 

[Cindy Claveau]

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Did Putin clone himself and gift the fruit of this experiment to the US?

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Joining the Navy Seals might be dangerous to your physical and mental health, and in rare cases finally lead to suicide.

The Navy Seals are suffering a series of suicides of serving or retired members. In the last decade at least a dozen Navy Seals have died by suicide, either while still in service or retirement.

A grassroots effort by grieving families delivered 8 brains to a lab in order to investigate. Researchers discovered a striking pattern of blast damages in every brain.

One Seal, David Metcalf, killed himself at age 42 after being 20 years in the navy. He arranged a stack of books about brain injury by his side, and taped a note to the door that read in part what he's been suffering: “Gaps in memory, failing recognition, mood swings, headaches, impulsiveness, fatigue, anxiety, and paranoia were not who I was, but have become who I am. Each is worsening.”

Then he ended his life by shooting himself into the heart, so that his brain can be analyzed undamaged post mortem. The lab then found an unusual pattern of damage seen only in people exposed repeatedly to blast waves.

The vast majority of blast exposure to Seals comes from firing their own weapons, not from enemy action. The damage pattern suggests that years of training intended to make Seals exceptional was leaving some barely able to function.

The Navy due to miscommunication was unaware about it, and shocked.

“We have a moral obligation to protect the cognitive health and combat effectiveness of our teammates,” Rear Adm. Keith Davids, commander of Navy Special Warfare, which includes the SEALs, said in a statement. He said the Navy is trying to limit brain injuries “by limiting blast exposure, and is actively participating in medical research designed to enhance understanding in this critical field.”

But without the data on suicides, a key piece of the problem was never discussed at the briefing.

Pattern of Brain Damage Is Pervasive in Navy SEALs Who Died by Suicide

David Metcalf’s last act in life was an attempt to send a message — that years as a Navy SEAL had left his brain so damaged that he could barely recognize himself.

www.seattletimes.com

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

People who are fed up with the ever increasing wokism at NYSE now finally can feel relieved: some investors want to fund and erect a new national, anti-woke stock exchange in Dallas, Texas.

Corporate heavywights like Blackrock or Citadel Securities are already on board of the fledgeling new company. The new market, which hopes to start trading next year and list stock in 2026, is meant to be an alternative to NYSE and Nasdaq. It also wants to avoid certain rules, like board diversity targets.

It aims to be neutral, CEO-friendly and anti-woke.

MSN

 

[Free]

Finders, keepers.

 

[Free]

Not getting kicked out for being a Trumpster. More for his Pontiff hating.

Pope Excommunicates Trump-Loving Ultra-Conservative

The Vatican’s former ambassador to the U.S. refused to recognize Francis’ legitimacy–so he got thrown out of the Catholic Church.

www.thedailybeast.com

The Vatican on Friday informed a Donald Trump-supporting archbishop that he is being excommunicated for refusing to recognize Pope Francis' authority after years of outspoken public attacks.

Carlo Maria Vigano, an ultra-conservative who served as the Vatican’s diplomat to Washington, D.C. between 2011 and 2016, was formally accused last month of schism, which is one of the most serious offenses in canon law. Schism is “the refusal of submission to the Supreme Pontiff or of communion with the members of the Church subject to him,” according to the Vatican.

“His public statements manifesting his refusal to recognize and submit to the Supreme Pontiff, his rejection of communion with the members of the Church subject to him, and of the legitimacy and magisterial authority of the Second Vatican Council are well known,” the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith said in a press release confirming that Vigano was found guilty and excommunicated.

 

[Soen Eber]

Finders, keepers.

Actually all other battle flags were returned a very long time ago. Minnesota is being a butthead for keeping theirs.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

No. They captured them fair and square. Neo-Confederate assholes don't need them back to get all teary-eyed over when they could own people. Most are in Confederate shrines (I worked in museums that had a few) where they prop up the Lost Cause myth and celebrate segregation.

 

[Free]

MAGA Gov Candidate’s Ugly, Hateful Rant: “Some Folks Need Killing!”

Mark Robinson, the GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, has a long history of incendiary comments. But he may have topped himself this time.

newrepublic.com

Mark Robinson, the extremist GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, appeared to endorse political violence in a bizarre and extended rant he delivered on June 30 in a small-town church.

“Some folks need killing!” Robinson, the state’s lieutenant governor, shouted during a roughly half-hour-long speech in Lake Church in the tiny town of White Lake, in the southeast corner of the state. “It’s time for somebody to say it. It’s not a matter of vengeance. It’s not a matter of being mean or spiteful. It’s a matter of necessity!”

Nice. I guess that 10 commandments thing (THOU SHALT NOT KILL) doesn't go for some of them. Even in church.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Actually all other battle flags were returned a very long time ago. Minnesota is being a butthead for keeping theirs.

Aim for super butthead. Send back a white sheet and say it was their last battle flag and they can use it to make a pointy hat.