FLORIDA: Americans are so generous that We The Taxpayers give needy families money for food and other necessities via EBT cards. Until now, the “other necessities” part has been treated as cash to be used at the card owner’s discretion. Trump has asked states to put limits on such spending. Gov. DeSantis has taken the lead, blocking use of the cards for things like tattoos, theme park tickets, video games, vaping products, psychic and fortune-telling services, and other items not generally considered basic needs.
HYPOCRISY: Mark Ruffalo (net worth: $35 million) has said, “It’s not my fault America is a capitalist hellhole, it’s those dirty billionaires who fund all my movies and establish the studios I film in.”
SAG-AFTRA “base dues” are a fixed amount, but the “additional work dues” are calculated at 1.575 percent of covered earnings up to $1,000,000. IOW, they are capped so that the wealthy, most successful actors and actresses pay a much smaller percentage of their total earnings than do poor, struggling actors.
- https://www.sagaftra.org/membership-benefits/membership-costs
- https://www.outkick.com/culture/mark-ruffalo-thinks-we-have-too-many-billionaires-socialism-answer
LINDSAY CLANCY: @CaliRN619 posted, “As a nurse, I’ve been around thousands of psychotic people and none of them would have had the mental capacity to carry out one murder like this, much less 3. Think about what happened in those final moments.
“Lindsay Clancy calmly wrapped her rubber exercise band around 8 month old Callan’s chubby neck as her two other children looked on.
“As she pulled the band tighter and tighter, he couldn’t understand what was happening. For about 15 seconds, the pain was localized to his neck as his airway was crushed and his skin painfully pinched. 15 seconds later, his little lungs felt intense burning due to the build up of carbon dioxide. As he gasped for air and struggled to escape, the blood trapped in his skull started pounding, causing excruciating pressure and his eyes began to bulge. She continued to squeeze while he endured unimaginable pain and terror until he finally lost consciousness after 3 tortured minutes. Once he finally stopped fighting, his mother kept the pressure on his neck for 2-3 more minutes until she thought she’d finished the job. One body down in 6 minutes.
“Little Dawson, 3, must’ve sensed what was about to happen to him because he ran to his father’s office, likely seeking a safe space. That’s where Lindsay caught him and wrapped an exercise band around his neck. A three year old is stronger than an infant and she’d have had to use much greater force to subdue him even though the timeline would have remained similar. Three minutes of horrific pain and terror until a loss of consciousness then 3 more minutes of pressure to finish the job. Two kids down in 12 minutes.
“It would have been even more difficult to with her only daughter, Cora, 5. The little girl would have witnessed one, if not both of her brothers, being systematically strangled by her mother. But fight as she might, she was no match for her mother. Lindsey Clancy caught her, held her down, and began the killing ritual. As the band went around her neck and the life was squeezed out of her over the next 6 minutes, she’d wondered why her mommy was hurting her. Imagine the pain, the confusion, the horror the little one endured in her final moments.
“It took Lindsay 18 minutes to kill all three of her children.”
MAHA: Dr. Alex writes, “Sepsis is your body’s response to an infection turning on itself, and it kills tens of thousands of people in the UK every year. Speed of treatment is everything, and every hour of delay in giving antibiotics increases the chance of dying.
“The signs are not subtle once you know them, and the tragedy is how many people wait.
“In an adult, be worried about slurred speech or confusion, extreme shivering or muscle pain, passing no urine all day, severe breathlessness, a feeling of being about to die, or skin that is mottled, blue or very pale. In a child, add fast breathing, a rash that does not fade when you press a glass against it, a fit, or a child who is cold and very unwell to look at.
“Now the practical part, and this is the bit I want you to keep.
“If someone has an infection and starts to look badly unwell, go to A&E [ER] or call 999 [911], and when you get there, say the words ‘I am worried about sepsis.’
“That sentence changes the speed of the response. It triggers a pathway. I have watched it happen.”
- From Dr. Alex Wibberley’s “The Long Game” newsletter
PORTLAND: Eighty percent of the defendants who have been federally charged with trafficking fentanyl in Portland since 2023 have been illegal aliens from Honduras and Mexico. During the arrests, authorities seized enough fentanyl to kill everyone in Oregon eleven times.
SCIENCE: Scientists at Southern Illinois University Carbondale figured out a way to transform carbon in plastic bottles and crop waste into protein-rich, 3D-printed snacks called µBites. I’ll let you know when they figure out how to make cup of Earl Gray good enough for Captain Picard.
- https://notthebee.com/article/scientists-now-have-a-process-that-transforms-plastic-bottles-into-edible-cookies
- https://mashable.com/tech/plastic-cookies-scientists-pet-edible-bottles
STATE DEPARTMENT: Posted to X – “It was brought to our attention that Lake America was erroneously labeled as Lake ‘Ontario’ on our website. We have corrected this mistake and apologize for deadnaming the lake.”
In other news, Google Maps has changed the name to “Lake America.”
- https://notthebee.com/article/state-department-apologizes-for-deadnaming-lake-america-on-its-website
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