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That’s Texas. Here’s Oklahoma: The molar pregnancy Jaci Statton had would never become a baby. It was cancerous, though. At the last hospital in Oklahoma she went to during her ordeal last month, Statton says staff told her and her husband that she could not get a surgical abortion until she became much sicker. “They were very sincere; they weren’t trying to be mean,” Statton, 25, says. “They said, ‘The best we can tell you to do is sit in the parking lot, and if anything else happens, we will be ready to help you. But we cannot touch you unless you are crashing in front of us or your blood pressure goes so high that you are fixing to have a heart attack.'” Jaci Statton’s pregnancy ordeal began in late February. She’s a stay-at-home mom living near Shawnee in central Oklahoma. She and her husband, Dustin Statton, have three kids – two seven year olds and an eight year old. Dustin is an oil field technician, and they have a fishing guide business – she says she and her family go fishing every day.

Australian Opposition leader, the Dark Lord Peter Dutton, has called on Australia to go nuclear in order to boost the tourism industry, after hearing the news that the Chernobyl nuclear site was seeing a boom in tourism. ”Anthony Albanese needs... Read More ›

First Amendment retaliation is hard to prove in court, but DeSantis was explicit about punishing Disney for its stance against his “Don’t Say Gay” law.

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More stimulating environments for captive fish could improve scientific research.

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What the COVID-19 pandemic portends.

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In a bonus podcast episode for supporting subscribers, David speaks with an expert on large retirement programs.

Christo Grozev of Bellingcat gained a front row seat to a bungled Ukrainian intelligence operation that left a friendly airfield destroyed and soldiers dead. His narrative about his role in the plot is filled with holes. Criminal charges of treason and abuse of power have been leveled against an unspecified number of Ukrainian servicemen by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). In a bizarre plot to seize Russian aircraft and transfer the planes to Ukraine, the accused soldiers disclosed sensitive […]

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Harry Belafonte, the pioneering singer, songwriter and actor who began his career singing calypso before turning to political activism, has died at the age of 96.  Beyond his groundbreaking contribution to the arts, Belafonte was a committed in the fight against imperialism, worker oppression and racial discrimination, using the platform his artistic talents afforded to him […]

The US must be told that we will not be involved in any way in a war with China over Taiwan. After Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan the signs of our entrapment again in US war planning are everywhere. The 2014 Force Posture Agreement with the US cedes control of certain military operations from our territory to the Continue reading »

In recent years, commencing in the pre-COVID period, Australia’s balance of payments has consistently recorded a surplus on the current account. This has confounded some commentators, especially those who followed the compelling ‘debt and deficit’ (and especially the ‘twin deficits’) narrative that emerged in the mid-1980s. Does it mean that that narrative should no longer Continue reading »

The statistics released by ABC journalist, Stephanie Dalzell on April 20, define a national disgrace and expose a massive hole in the once intact Medicare safety net. The figures are as disturbing as they are worth reading in detail. Only four states release data: Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia and Queensland. As a sample, the average Continue reading »

I find it deeply disturbing that the tech industry represents 9% of the U.S. GDP and only five Big Tech companies account for 25% of the S&P 500. Prior to Covid, most of the growth in stock market came from Big Tech (not the Trump Administration…). Now, as the U.S. economy is all sorts of […]

The American Hospital Association feted the former House speaker for “advancing health care” following her years-long effort to obstruct Medicare for All.

The lawsuit’s long game — beyond instilling fear — is establishing fetal personhood, the holy grail of the anti-abortion movement.

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I am an AI-generated human female laughing alone with salad. Hahahaha. What could be better? Why are you looking at me like that?

Is it because I have eight fingers on my left hand? Who doesn’t? After all, this is AI. And thanks to AI, we can have all the fingers and salad and finger salad that we want. Anything is possible.

Why are you staring? Is it because my mouth is opened wider than the alien’s mouth in Alien? Is it because I appear to have a million teeth on the roof of my mouth? All the better to catch the leaves that appear to be blasting out of my bowl, my dear. Hahahaha.

President Joe Biden is also considering Sarah Bianchi, Ann O’Leary, Emmy Ruiz, and Carmel Martin to replace Susan Rice as domestic policy adviser.

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