Louisiana's health department has been barred from advertising or promoting vaccines for flu, COVID-19, and mpox, according to reporting by NPR, KFF Health News, and New Orleans Public Radio WWNO. read more
For the first time in modern history, the House majority will rest on thinner margins than the Senate's in the 119th Congress. read more
With a surface area more than twice that of Greater London's, A23a is the biggest iceberg on the planet, having calved from the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf in 1986. The frozen leviathan is now on the move across Antarctica seas once more having spent the last few months going round in circles.
Federal officials say they're worried about sharing documents via email with Donald Trump's transition team because the incoming officials are eschewing government devices, email addresses and cybersecurity support, raising fears that they could potentially expose sensitive government data.
The House voted to support a measure to keep the government funded past Friday night's midnight shutdown deadline. The Senate is expected to vote on the plan later Friday evening. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Friday afternoon that the House would vote on a modified version of the bill that was defeated Thursday -- minus the debt ceiling provision pushed by President-elect Trump.
US Senate passes government funding bill, averts shutdown
www.reuters.com
... The U.S. Congress passed spending legislation early on Saturday in a down-to-the wire burst of activity that will avert a destabilizing government shutdown ahead of the busy holiday travel season.
The Democratic-controlled Senate in an 85-11 vote passed the bill to continue government funding 38 minutes after it expired at midnight (0500 GMT Saturday). The government did not invoke shutdown procedures in the interim.
The bill will now be sent it to White House, where President Joe Biden is expected to sign it into law. ...
@#1 ... tracked by the ESA ...
Aside, then there's the ESO is way cool ...
ESA - Eurpoean Space Agency.
ESO - European Space Observatory.
ESOcast 50: Chile Chill 1 (9 minutes)
www.eso.org
... This episode of the ESOcast introduces a new type of ESOcasts called "Chile Chill".
These ESOcasts offer a calm experience of the Chilean night sky and ESO's observatory sites, undisturbed by facts or narration. In this episode we follow a typical night of observing for ESO's telescopes. ...
Yeah, put that video on full-screen mode and sit back, mellow out and observe all we do not know ...
:)
And, fwiw ...
Statement by FBI Director James B. Comey on the Investigation of Secretary Hillary Clinton's Use of a Personal E-Mail System (2016)
www.fbi.gov
... In looking back at our investigations into mishandling or removal of classified information, we cannot find a case that would support bringing criminal charges on these facts. All the cases prosecuted involved some combination of: clearly intentional and willful mishandling of classified information; or vast quantities of materials exposed in such a way as to support an inference of intentional misconduct; or indications of disloyalty to the United States; or efforts to obstruct justice. We do not see those things here.
To be clear, this is not to suggest that in similar circumstances, a person who engaged in this activity would face no consequences. To the contrary, those individuals are often subject to security or administrative sanctions. But that is not what we are deciding now.
As a result, although the Department of Justice makes final decisions on matters like this, we are expressing to Justice our view that no charges are appropriate in this case.
I know there will be intense public debate in the wake of this recommendation, as there was throughout this investigation. What I can assure the American people is that this investigation was done competently, honestly, and independently. No outside influence of any kind was brought to bear.
I know there were many opinions expressed by people who were not part of the investigation"including people in government"but none of that mattered to us. Opinions are irrelevant, and they were all uninformed by insight into our investigation, because we did the investigation the right way. Only facts matter, and the FBI found them here in an entirely apolitical and professional way. I couldn't be prouder to be part of this organization. ...
@#15 ... There's a wildly popular hot chicken place in L.A. called Howlin' Ray's. They opened a new location in Pasadena at an old Adohr Farms location. When they were demo-ing the facade they discovered an old neon sign. They kept it. They light up the H and R ...
I don't see that ...
Howlin' Ray's Pasadena Is Already the Most Scorching-Hot Opening of the Year (2022)
la.eater.com
Is that link too old, or too new?
@#148 ... It's like a disease that rots anyone's brain that comes in contact with them. ...
At the risk of being repetitive ...
BrainDead
en.wikipedia.org
... BrainDead is an American political satire science fiction[1][2][3] comedy-drama television series created by Robert and Michelle King.[4]
The series stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Laurel Healy, a documentary film-maker who takes a job working for her brother Luke (Danny Pino), a U.S. Senator, when the funding for her latest film falls through.
Assigned as his new constituency caseworker, she discovers that Washington, D.C. has been invaded by extraterrestrial insects which are eating the brains and taking control of people, including members of Congress and their staffers.
Much of the internal comedy of the series was that, in the altered reality of Washington, D.C. politics, only a few people noticed. ...
Back when I watched that series, I noted a couple of things...
1) the satire was obvious, but not all that far-fetched.
2) the series was showing then candidate-Trump on TV screens in the background of many scenes.
So, as that CBS TV-series seems to have predicted, the MAGA brain-worm seems to have taken over the United States.
Wow.
Pastor Arrested for Possession of Child Pornography
www.manateesheriff.com
... Based upon further investigation, one of charges of Capital Sexual Battery has been changed to Lew and Lascivious Molestation. Detectives have also added 4 charges of Production of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) and the number of counts of Possession of child porn now exceeds 20.
UPDATE 6/27/24:
As part of an ongoing investigation, Jonathan Elwing is charged with two counts of Capital Sexual Battery, six counts of Production of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM), and six counts of Possession of CSAM, commonly referred to as child porn. ...
Maybe the Florida legislators are looking in the wrong areas?
@#26
Almost 1,700 priests and clergy accused of sex abuse are unsupervised (2019)
www.nbcnews.com
... Nearly 1,700 priests and other clergy members that the Roman Catholic Church considers credibly accused of child sexual abuse are living under the radar with little to no oversight from religious authorities or law enforcement, decades after the first wave of the church abuse scandal roiled U.S. dioceses, an Associated Press investigation has found.
These priests, deacons, monks and lay people now teach middle-school math. They counsel survivors of sexual assault. They work as nurses and volunteer at nonprofits aimed at helping at-risk kids. They live next to playgrounds and daycare centers. They foster and care for children. ...
@#45 ... What's with the glass of blue kool-aid when you open the article? ...
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." -- George Santayana (1905)
americanart.si.edu
Whoa, just saw this...
'Trump is in charge!': MAGA activists push 'hyperpartisanship' and reject compromise
www.nbcnews.com
... As Congress struggles over a deal to keep the government open, the message coming from the beating heart of Trump world is clear-cut: Don't compromise.
Speakers at a conference of conservative activists here this week said that Donald Trump's election victory should be a warning to those who try to block his agenda " Republicans and Democrats alike " that they need to give way.
"We don't need partisanship now; we need hyperpartisanship now," Steve Bannon, a former Trump White House senior adviser, told a raucous audience gathered at the Phoenix Convention Center for AmericaFest. ...
Senators take aim at big private equity landlords as rents soar (October 2024)
www.nbcnews.com
... As Wall Street financiers snapped up huge swaths of the nation's rental housing market in recent years, the deals sailed through unchallenged. Now, with the costs of renting an apartment or home out of reach for a growing number of Americans, four Democratic senators say these transactions need more scrutiny.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., sent a letter to private equity giant KKR on Wednesday, demanding information about its recent $2.1 billion purchase of 5,200 rental apartments across eight states. Among her questions: How does KKR plan to ensure that long-term tenants will be able to stay in their homes and what proportion of profits does KKR expect to generate from hikes in rents and fees at the apartments?
"KKR is just the latest private equity firm using the housing crisis to rake in profits while squeezing families," Warren said in a statement to NBC News. "I'm sounding the alarm because we can't solve the housing crisis unless we crack down on predatory practices by Wall Street investors."
Three other Senate Democrats signed onto Warren's letter: Raphael Warnock of Georgia, Peter Welch of Vermont and Ron Wyden of Oregon. ...
Sonny Sharrock - The Past Adventures Of Zydeco Honeycup (1989)
www.youtube.com
imo, a guitar virtuoso.