I suppose it’s impossible to entirely rule out contamination, but the scientists involved are trying their best, and science is always “as far as we’re able to determine at this moment…” never “that’s the truth, and that’s that.”

They gave Haro a hip hop beanie that stops his top flaps from opening to extend his arms.

The flaps will probably just open enough for the arms to extend.

Ban non-union delivery and non-union warehouse distribution centers.

I’m sure that will do a lot, because border crossings from Mexico were down almost 80% from December 2023 to August 2024 .

“‘Nothing can be done’ say officials in the only country where this happens regularly”

“‘Nothing can be done’ say officials in the only country where this happens regularly”

Hahaha, you think precedent actually means anything to SCROTUS.

We’d all better march down to the DMV and update our genders then…

It’s required by imperial edict now.

Predicting he’ll call Mexico an “American protectorate” or some other bullshit before/during/after he invades.

To be fair, $1.9 billion + $665 million in civil penalties is a good sized fine for laundering $881 million (that the Feds know of).

I’m sure HSBC won’t make that mistake again, unless the profit motive overrides the risk again.

Only if they follow up by shutting down gun stores because they’re aiding and abetting terrorist organizations by knowingly selling ridiculous amounts of arms that ultimately wind up in terrorist cartel hands.

Waiting for the SCROTUS to declare that the Comstock Act trumps state constitutions because that’s what the founding fathers intended /s.

“Quotations from Mao Zedong” the official name, and PRC nationals probably get deducted social points credits for calling it anything other than that.

But the fact that it’s published as a “little red book” fails to escape the obvious reference, if you’re familiar with Chinese history, and the Cultural Revolution.

One quotation from a French newspaper, even a respected one, doesn’t change that.

In fact, given the Chinese Communist Party’s control over education, I question what the “Mandarin speakers in Rednote” actually learned about the Cultural Revolution and its awfulness. Likely a similarly filtered version to what the Japanese today learn about what the Imperial Army did in WW2.

The picture of people across the globe doomscrolling religiously through the “little red book” on their phones without knowing where it came from is subversive(?), ironic(?). I can’t think of a good word right now.

The irony of the name which translates directly “little red book” is it’s the indoctrination document for Mao’s Communist China

Mao’s “little red book” of his quotes and philosophy was especially visible during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, where Mao’s followers became like a cult, reading the little red book every day, destroying historical artifacts and archaeological sites, property of alleged non-Maoists and non-conformists, and imprisoning the professional class in camps for “re-education” as farming peasants. Local massacres of “undesireables” as well as mass starvation from failed farming policies, led to millions of unnecessary deaths.

Think Communist Taliban taking over a country the size of China.

https://www.kinolibrary.com/clip/1960s-china-people-reading-the-little-red-book/555

That’s a steep drop. I’m glad you’re still alive.