The current Democratic party is basically the Reagan Republicans with more emphasis on civil rights.

US politics have skewed further and further rightward for the last 50 years. On a global scale, Democrats are firmly center-right.

Bernie Sanders and AOC are barely left of center for the rest of the world, but in US politics they’re “off the deep end.”

I feel like The Satanic Temple would be willing to do this.

They did something similar with abortion rights, but I don’t think they have gained any legal traction with that argument. (That could also be because they’re waiting for a member who has standing to bring a case.)

404 Media doesn’t require payment for a subscription. Their content is behind a subscriber wall to keep AI bots from accessing their work.

I expect we’ll see more of this sort of thing as AI continues gobbling up everything on the internet so that it can write laughably bad term papers for high schoolers.

What’s your source for this? I find nothing that says therapists don’t have to report cases of child abuse.

I just responded to someone else with a long list of sources that indicate that therapists across the US are required to report child abuse.

I find zero sources that agree with your claim.

I find several sources that indicate that therapists in all US states are required to break confidentiality when child abuse has occurred.

https://psychcentral.com/health/what-do-therapists-have-to-report

https://www.remnantcounselorcollective.com/resources/86536/the-ultimate-guide-to-mandated-reporting-laws-in-all-50-us-states-child-adult-abuse-neglect

https://www.stopitnow.org/ohc-content/when-must-a-therapist-file-a-report

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/what-therapists-report-confidentiality_l_5d2cf063e4b0bca603641a62

https://www.mentalyc.com/blog/exceptions-to-confidentiality-in-counseling

So either you’re talking about another country’s laws (in which case I’d like to know which country), or you’re just incorrect.

I’m in Colombia, where psychologists are required to report “human rights violations, mistreatment or cruel, inhuman or degrading conditions of confinement of which any person is a victim and of which they become aware in the exercise of their profession.”

This sounds insane because it is insane.

It is also true. They don’t even try to hide it. Do they still have a weekly show about it on TBN?

Only accidentally Zionist. They don’t actually believe that Jewish people have a right to Israel so much as they believe that Jewish people need to inhabit Israel to fulfill Christian prophecy.

US evangelicals are treating an entire ethno-religious group as means to their desired end. It’s disgusting.

And the USSC has definitely ruled that money is equivalent to speech. So boycott activity is logically covered under this Amendment.

If this law passes, a lot of people are going to have a rough year or two until they can get a case all the way to the Supreme Court.

A cursory search for “liquid trees micro algae” led me here: https://liquidtrees.org/urban-solutions

Even with ideal light conditions, there’s still more to consider.

I lived in Louisville for many years. It’s fairly green as cities go. In older parts of the city, trees had been planted between the streets and sidewalks … definitely a long time ago, maybe 30 to 50 years? Maybe longer?

Every spring, we lost a number of those trees to thunderstorms. Enough rain, followed by strong winds, would topple multiple trees. Every single one that I saw had a root ball that was exactly the size of the opening where it had been planted, so maybe two square meters and maybe a meter or two deep. (For those keeping score at home, that’s not enough root volume to support a full-sized tree.)

So we’d lose those lovely trees and on a good day, we’d lose the use of the street for a while. On a bad day, someone would lose a car or a chunk of their house.

“Just plant more trees in the middle of the city” is not the brilliant fix that many people seem to think it is.

Russia doesn’t have nearly as much influence over global markets as the US.

Edit: But Putin has had a much longer political career and has probably set things into motion that we won’t ever be able to confirm his involvement in. So you might be right.

With Republicans in general, I think. It seems to be their best attempt at misdirection, and I think it works to keep their target audience from paying attention to their least savory activities.

They spent decades training the leopard, so they thought they had tamed it.

I recall that he was also in favor of charter schools, which made him non-viable for me years ago.

I hoped that maybe he had a real change of heart last month, but I guess that was just a publicity stunt.

If it’s really like Covid, toilet paper will be the first thing to go.

If you’re concerned about your anonymity, keep in mind that companies frequently put ID numbers on their return envelopes to help match the returned mail piece with your record in their database. Sometimes the number is invisible (UV ink) so it doesn’t look “mass produced” to the recipient.

I call this “the Fox News approach to reality.”

Ten-year-olds understand quite a lot of things. They don’t always think before they act, but they would absolutely understand this object lesson.

It’s water. It’s not harmful. Getting splashed with water is most ten-year-olds’ idea of a good time in most scenarios.

Is this the most constructive way to go about teaching a kid how to behave properly? No.

Is this going to scar the average kid for life? Also no.

I live in Colombia. People here self-identify as “white,” and they’re surprised that white people in the US think of them as a different race.

Because back in the day none of that shit would fly especially around people who fought in the war, but it does now.

I think that we’d be better off if the dads, uncles, and grandpas who came back and refused to talk about their war experiences had made it clearer to the next generation exactly how horrible it was. It didn’t fly with them because they saw what it brought. It flies with younger people because we were sheltered from the true horrors of the war.

I think a trip to the Holocaust Museum should be required for all high school seniors. If it isn’t closed by the clown show currently running the country, at least.