Haydon

This thread escaped containment and I would like to use this as an opportunity to address some misconceptions about stroke as a disease and recovery thereof I noticed in the replies. I'm going to use an example from my career where I was so glad to be so wrong about a patient's prognosis.

Y’all this is absolutely wild. You need to read this article. Coordinated targeting of firefighters on a 10% contained wildfire for immigration enforcement under the pretense of *padding their time cards*. This is insane.

I had the privilege of working and training under folks that responded to the pentagon on 9/11, and later with search and rescue folks that operated at the World Trade Center. The way they have to fight to be taken care of for the selfless service they provided is one of the roots of my cynicism.

I’m out in West Virginia for a family thing and all of my TikTok ads are for Fox News, crypto, or sports betting. That’s so, so sad. It’s just an absolute nightmare.

Man when I saw the date I gasped. Must’ve been something I saw at the time and then purged it from my brain.

Well this is a bit on the nose but I wrote in the margins “Lack of food = RIOT”. It’s probably nothing.

Like, I get a newsletter from the National Association of State Budget Officers and it is bleak. This screenshot may be hard to read because it's *so full of state and national level stories of impending suffering*

I see.

Attn: Supreme Court

The US exported ~25 million metric tons of soybeans to China last year. The regime successfully negotiated the our crop exports down by half.

Good for CATO to use the right tone here.

I have not seen, and do not expect to see, any indication that the traveling circus of degenerates of ICE/CBP is inflicting on cities to cause a drop in support for the opposition. I think it solidifies opposition strongholds and radicalizes people by community rather than individually.

I am curious when the Democratic Party will adopt an anti corruption platform like most opposition parties to authoritarians do. Not that some haven’t tried but it is notable to me the way that it’s not stuck yet. Though there may be reasons for that too, and worth cleaning house over.

Anyway my substantive response to whether or not Graham Platner ought to be compared to Byrd is that’s very stupid and no one is obligating you to be a dipshit on a public platform on behalf of a candidate this early in the primary.