And another day of those at Fox knowing they were lying, Jimmy Carter in hospice, Russian crimes against humanity, waiting to watch their baby die, Spain approves menstrual leave, nonmonogamy, men’s penises getting longer, and the case for hanging out comes to a close:
“Dear Every and All Republican/Conservative mocking or ridiculing President Carter, He's better than you.” — John Pavlovitz
“At different points in time, a majority of Americans believed slavery was ok, that being gay was morally wrong, and that multiple diseases could be biologically cured by applying leeches. Popular sentiment is not a proxy for science or reality.” — Elizabeth Spiers
Tucker Carlson and Fox News Knew They Were Lying About Election Fraud. Tucker Carlson—the Fox News host who has made a wildly successful career out of pushing white nationalism on what is arguably the most racist show on television—is an entertainer, not a reporter. Carlson’s lawyers said as much when he was accused of slander for falsely claiming that Stormy Daniels had extorted President Trump.
Fox News has been exposed as a dishonest organization terrified of its own audience. A trove of newly-released text messages and emails have laid bare how the right-wing media giant operated with little regard for fact in the weeks and months following the 2020 presidential election. The correspondence reveals that the network’s senior-most executives and highest-profile hosts chose not to disclose what they believed to be the truth of the election out of fear that that the facts would alienate Fox News’ audience and throw the highly profitable business into ruin.
"Fox news is not entertainment and it certainly isn't journalism. It's a coordinated attempt to undermine our democracy by spewing hate and division to an audience that was waiting for hate and division to be normalized." — Joe Lockhart
“So can we finally get some reassurance that Fox News won’t be shown on military bases, the FBI, USSS, or any other government agency? Or are we paying taxes for civil servants to consume lies and “entertainment”?” — Ashley Rangappa
“No other democracy would allow a propaganda outlet to intentionally poison its citizenry under the cover of 'news.'” — Rachel Bitecofer
“Arguing with a Trump supporter is like playing chess with a pigeon. No matter how good you are at chess, the pigeon is just going to knock over the pieces, crap on the board, and strut around like it won…” -- Omar Rivero
Proud Boys leaders facing Jan. 6 charges say they intend to subpoena Trump. “Donald Trump called on patriots to stop the steal. We’re calling on Donald Trump to take the stand.”
Jimmy Carter, 39th US president, enters hospice care at home. After a series of short hospital stays, the statement said, Carter “decided to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive hospice care instead of additional medical intervention.”
US: Russia has committed crimes against humanity in Ukraine. The United States has determined that Russia has committed crimes against humanity in Ukraine, Vice President Kamala Harris said Saturday, insisting that “justice must be served” to the perpetrators.
Sheriff: Gunman kills 6, including ex-wife, in Mississippi. A lone gunman killed six people including his ex-wife and stepfather Friday at multiple locations in a tiny rural community in northern Mississippi, the sheriff said, leaving investigators searching for clues to what motivated the shocking rampage.
Turmoil in courts on gun laws in wake of justices’ ruling. A landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision on the Second Amendment is upending gun laws across the country, dividing judges and sowing confusion over what firearm restrictions can remain on the books…The Supreme Court’s so-called Bruen decision changed the test that lower courts had long used for evaluating challenges to firearm restrictions. Judges should no longer consider whether the law serves public interests like enhancing public safety, the justices said. Under the Supreme Court’s new test, the government that wants to uphold a gun restriction must look back into history to show it is consistent with the country’s “historical tradition of firearm regulation.” — Fuck the current Supreme Court GOP justices.
Despite decades of mass shootings in Texas, legislators have failed to pass meaningful gun control laws. In the past six decades, the state has experienced at least 19 mass shootings that have killed a total of nearly 200 people and wounded more than 230 others. Yet state leaders have repeatedly batted away measures that would limit access to guns, opting instead to ease restrictions on publicly carrying them while making it harder for local governments to regulate them. — Republicans actively try to get more people killed.
Mississippi Cops Beat, Waterboarded Handcuffed Black Men, Shot 1 For ‘Dating White Women’: Lawyers. Multiple white police officers in Mississippi falsely accused two Black men of selling drugs and “dating white women” before handcuffing and brutally torturing them last month, including shooting one of them in the mouth in what should result in attempted murder charges, a group of lawyers said this week. — This can not be reformed. Wow.
Florida couple unable to get abortion will see baby die after delivery. It has been deemed a “doubly lethal diagnosis” because babies with malfunctioning kidneys can’t remove deadly toxins from their bodies and can in turn experience renal failure. Additionally, the absence of amniotic fluid in a womb causes a baby to be born without the ability to breathe. — Thanks GOP. Fuckers.
Lawsuit: Mentally ill man froze to death in Alabama jail. A mentally ill man froze to death at an Alabama jail, according to a lawsuit filed by the man’s family who say he was kept naked in a concrete cell and believe he was also placed in a freezer or other frigid environment.
Spain approves menstrual leave, teen abortion and trans laws. The Spanish parliament on Thursday approved legislation expanding abortion and transgender rights for teenagers, while making Spain the first country in Europe that will entitle workers to paid menstrual leave...The changes to sexual and reproductive rights mean that 16- and 17-year-olds in Spain can now undergo an abortion without parental consent. Period products will now be offered free in schools and prisons, while state-run health centers will do the same with hormonal contraceptives and the morning after pill. The menstrual leave measure allows workers suffering debilitating period pain to take paid time off. In addition, the changes enshrine in law the right to have an abortion in a state hospital. Currently more than 80% of termination procedures in Spain are carried out in private clinics due to a high number of doctors in the public system who refuse to perform them — with many citing religious reasons.
Federal officials say more than 100 children worked in dangerous jobs for slaughterhouse cleaning firm. The Labor Department said Friday it found 102 children as young as 13 working hazardous overnight jobs cleaning slaughterhouses in eight states in what it called a “corporate-wide failure” by one of the largest food sanitation companies in the country, Packers Sanitation Services Inc.
Immunity acquired from a Covid infection is as protective as vaccination against severe illness and death, study finds. The immunity generated from an infection was found to be “at least as high, if not higher” than that provided by two doses of an mRNA vaccine.
GOP bill would jail publishers for distributing ‘sexually explicit materials’ to schools. A bill introduced this month by Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.) would amend the federal criminal code to prohibit a publishing house from knowingly furnishing “sexually explicit material” — a term that the legislation does not clearly define — to an elementary school or high school. Publishing houses that violate the proposed law would be subject to a maximum $500,000 fine, while individuals in the company’s higher management would face similar monetary penalties, as well as up to five years imprisonment. — Read that again…carefully. They don’t define “sexually explicit material” (which is relative to each individual) but instead make it vague so then almost anything can be considered breaking the law. Republicans are fascists. It’s way past time to fully understand this fact.
Roald Dahl books rewritten to remove language deemed offensive. Puffin has hired sensitivity readers to rewrite chunks of the author’s text to make sure the books “can continue to be enjoyed by all today”, resulting in extensive changes across Dahl’s work. Edits have been made to descriptions of characters’ physical appearances. The word “fat” has been cut from every new edition of relevant books, while the word “ugly” has also been culled…Augustus Gloop in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is now described as “enormous”. In The Twits, Mrs Twit is no longer “ugly and beastly” but just “beastly”. Hundreds of changes were made to the original text – and some passages not written by Dahl have been added. But the Roald Dahl Story Company said “it’s not unusual to review the language” during a new print run and any changes were “small and carefully considered”. — Does this mean other books, across all genres, could suffer the same fate? If something is deemed as “offensive,” a subjective word, then will the original text be relegated to Orwell’s Memory Hole? Hold on to your physical books people.
Meta to launch monthly subscription service priced at $11.99. Meta Platforms (META.O) on Sunday announced that it is testing a monthly subscription service, called Meta Verified, which will let users verify their accounts using a government ID and get a blue badge, as it looks to help content creators grow and build communities.
Irregular sleep may be harmful to your heart, study finds. Poor sleep — including poor quality, abnormal quantity and fragmented sleep — has been linked with cardiovascular disease and cardiovascular disease-related deaths before, but less had been known about the specific associations between sleep regularity and atherosclerosis.
Men’s penises are getting longer. Here’s why this is actually a problem. In a new study that was published rather ironically on Valentine’s Day, they learned that over the last 30 years, the average erect penis length has increased by nearly 25% globally. The problem? This phallic enhancement is correlated with a steep decline in sperm counts and testosterone levels, which has many experts worried that a reproductive health crisis may be looming…For optimal fertility, a healthy concentration of sperm is required of the order of about 40 million sperm per mL…The researchers in Israel report a drop in mean sperm count from 104 to 49 million per milliliter of semen, which is dangerously close to a tipping point in global fertility…”What we found was quite different from trends in other areas of male fertility and health. Erect penile length is getting longer, from an average of 4.8 inches to 6 inches, over the past 29 years.”…Such a huge jump in penis size over such a short time is obviously unnatural and could be a physical symptom of a host of problems that may plague men’s reproductive health. It’s not clear at all what is causing this great lengthening, but scientists have a hunch that exposure to pesticides and chemicals in personal hygiene products that may be disrupting the body’s natural hormones could be to blame. The same forces may also be responsible for the decline in sperm counts and testosterone.
Can a monogamous couple happily become nonmonogamous? It’s possible but not easy, experts say. No matter the reason, interest in nonmonogamy — participation in nonexclusive sexual relationships — is on the rise. In a 2020 study of 822 currently monogamous people by Kinsey Institute research fellow Justin Lehmiller, nearly one-third said that having an open relationship was their favorite sexual fantasy, and 80% wanted to act on it.
It’s not a darning tool, it’s a very naughty toy: Roman dildo found. Archaeologists believe they may have found the only known lifesize Roman dildo, discovered in a ditch in what were the farthest northern fringes of the empire. If it was not used as a sexual implement then the 2,000-year-old object may have been an erect penis-shaped pestle, or it could have been a feature from a statue that people touched for good luck. What it definitely is not is what it was catalogued as after its discovery at the Roman fort of Vindolanda in Northumberland in 1992: a darning tool.
Brighter and Brighter: How Light Pollution Is Erasing the Stars. In January, Kyba and his team published an analysis in the journal Science of the data collected between 2011 and 2022, revealing a dramatic increase in light pollution, with the night sky brightening nearly 10 percent annually over that decade. The striking trend means that, at least in some areas, the sky’s brightness is doubling every eight years.
The Case for Hanging Out. There’s a growing crisis in our social lives. Could the cure be this simple? But it was not because I thought her book was interesting that I had reached out to Liming. It was because I passionately believed that her book was right. “I’ve become an accidental witness to a growing crisis,” she writes in Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time. “People struggling to hang out, or else voicing concern and anxiety about how to hang out.” I, too, see a crisis brewing, among not only people my age but among the peers of my teenage children and the college students I teach. Pushed further into isolation by the pandemic, we’re all losing the ability to engage in what I view as the pinnacle of human interaction: sitting around with friends and talking shit. I agree with Liming that no one is down to hang out anymore, and agree with her that it’s a “quiet catastrophe.”
Life’s short. Live, love, create, and help others.
Until next time, my friends. Stay safe and stay sane. Good night.
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