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After 18 years of family law, I made my hobby my living. BA Philosophy. Former VA IT secure configuration baseline lead. Science and Sci-fi. Former board member of interfaith camp. Proud dad of two LGBTQ kids.
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RIP, Norm.

Q: Who would believe payment to the family of a deceased insurrectionist? A: anyone paying attention.

More details are emerging as Rep. Joaquin Castro meets with the deported family of the 11yo U.S. citizen girl in Mexico. CBP agents *confiscated her seizure meds.* That’s not law enforcement—it’s abuse. Keep reposting. Keep raising hell. Be a voice for the voiceless. #OnYourSide

Our trade deal so far is no tariffs on Rolls Royces and Bentleys and our refugee policy is white South Africans only.

also you all need to see this, because this is something I don't think *anybody* could predict for where this ad goes

The summer pest series continues! It's the time of year when folks see swarms of termites out on their mating flights. How can you stop your home from becoming a termite buffet? Read on! 🧪 news.ncsu.edu/2025/05/prot...

The text of the presidential oath of office is: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

The VA has abruptly ended the only low-interest, affordable loan modification option for thousands of vets who are behind on their mortgages. If you're a vet at risk of foreclosure, we want to hear your story.

A spoof interview between a policeman and a pro-Palestinian protestor... Highlights how lacking in knowledge and fed on mostly online propaganda Palestinian protestors are. Subscription FREE. Dive in a prove Elon Musk wrong for sidelining Substackers. scribejohn.substack.com/p/the-interv...

apnews.com/article/army... Black woman first to compete.

Another impact of “return to work”: There’s no parking spaces left at the Hampton Virginia VA medical center. Employees are now being shuttled from a remote lot to free spaces for veterans.

Court cases have opening statements and closing arguments. An opening statement tells gives a forecast of what a party intends to prove to the jury (or judge in a non-jury trial). Journalists should avoid this common mistake.

A new class of non-addictive pain medicine is a welcome addition. But it is recommended for relief of acute pain only. We need action on meds for chronic pain. www.fda.gov/news-events/...

I'm humbly asking Stephen King to write us out of this horror novel. John Patrick Leaman Cummings

Again the Onion gets uncomfortably close to reality.

On April 12, 1955, Dr. Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine was declared safe and effective. It marked a turning point in medical history and Salk—refusing to patent it—gave his cure freely, famously saying “Could you patent the sun?” #StayCurious #Skystorians #DiveIntoDiscovery

Due process matters

Vaccines save lives

Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq

I just finished watching Star Trek: The Animated Series. I never watched it before because it was broadcasted with the Saturday morning cartoons when I was in HS. I was wrong to discount it, and now have watched all shows and movies.

GOP Rep. Bacon: "Everybody that reads the messages knows that it was inappropriate for the secretary of defense to put when we were gonna bomb Yemen, when the aircraft are taking off ... I have no doubt that Russia and China are able to read those messages. I would be very surprised if they did not"

A new class of antibiotics which appear to be effective against resistant bacterial infections healthsci.mcmaster.ca/a-breakthrou...

"[D]ifferent spanks for different ranks." Service members have gone to jail for “spillage”. This is another of the problems you get when unqualified people are put in charge.

A Pentagon-wide advisory that went out one week ago warns against using the Signal, the messaging app, even for unclassified information.

47 is again characterizing important news reports as “a witch hunt”.

A CDC clone website is filled with false and misleading vaccine claims. The site uses CDC logos, real CDC social media links, and authoritative language, raising serious legal concerns under federal impersonation statutes. It even may violate federal law. bit.ly/4bQLBzP

on the department of efficiency… or something like that…

Meanwhile over on the other place, rightwing free speech warriors (this guy is a former DeSantis campaign staffer) are calling for me to be denaturalized and deported because they don’t like my political speech. This is what fascism and racism looks like, folks.

I strongly suspect this recent piece from Prof. David Knoll is about to be come extremely relevant and widely read. "Even a rogue marshal’s service, in other words, is not an insurmountable obstacle to courts enforcing the rule of law. If courts have the courage, the legal tools are there."

We have cut the Federal budget before: www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2...

This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position. Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."

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Experts Weigh in on Microsoft’s Topological Qubit Claim link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/...

This pernicious cancer killed my first wife, almost 40 years ago. It is good to finally see progress in treatment.

Ten years ago if you had written a dystopian SF story in which the person in charge of U.S. public health did a press event at a fast food joint to say that fried food is good but measles vaccines cause measles the ghost of Philip K. Dick would have said that you were being too bleak and unrealistic

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