Polls: Society & Politics

In the state of North Dakota, Republican Gov. Doug Burgum has signed into law a near-total ban on abortion.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/texas-family-asked-neighbor-stop-144437808.html
After a Texas family asked a neighbor to stop shooting a gun in his yard because their baby was trying to sleep, he came over and killed 5 people with an AR-15 style rifle, police say.

Neighbors came to a Texas man's fence and asked him to stop firing his gun in his yard because they had a baby next door who was trying to sleep.

In response, police say the man drunkenly went next door and killed five people with an AR-15-style rifle, ABC News reported. He remains at large.

It is the latest in a string of shootings resulting from seemingly normal and even mundane interactions.

In Kansas City, 16-year-old Ralph Yarl was shot in the head after he accidentally went to the wrong house to pick up his younger siblings. In New York, a 20-year-old woman was shot and killed after she and her friends pulled their car into the wrong driveway.

Authorities from the San Jacinto County Sheriff's Office told KTRK-TV, a local ABC News affiliate in Houston, that the yet-unnamed suspect had been drunk and firing shots from his front porch in Cleveland, Texas. At about 11:30 pm on Friday, neighbors intervened.

"My understanding is that the victims, they came over to the fence and said 'Hey could [you not do your] shooting out in the yard? We have a young baby that's trying to go to sleep,'" Sheriff Greg Capers told KTRK. "And he had been drinking, and he says 'I'll do what I want to in my front yard.'"

That's when the agitated man retaliated, police said.

When police arrived on the scene, at least 10 people were in the home, several of whom had been shot "from the neck up almost execution style." Five victims are dead, including an 8-year-old child, KRTK reported. Three others are injured, and their condition is unknown, KHOU-11, another local TV station, reported.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/newsmax-reportedly-planning-offer-tucker-181516037.html
Newsmax Is Reportedly Planning To Offer Tucker Carlson A Lot More Than Just Money

It’s been less than a week since Tucker Carlson was given the boot from Fox News, ending a 14-year career with the conservative news network. While details have been scarce in regards to the reasons behind Fox News’ shocking move, the network has been tasked with replacing one of the leading anchors in all of cable news. Carlson, meanwhile, might not have too much trouble finding a landing spot. Reports indicate Newsmax would love to swoop up the former talk show host, and they’re allegedly willing to offer him more than just a nice paycheck.

Newsmax, a fellow conservative leaning media organization, is reportedly interested in not just giving Tucker Carlson his own primetime show on their network, but allowing him to program the whole channel, per TMZ. That would give the former Fox News employee a huge amount of power, including making decisions about what shows would precede and follow his own. Network executives have apparently made it clear to the people around Carlson that he would play a big part in rebranding their channel.

Tucker Carlson is still under contract with Fox News, so no formal discussions with other networks are allowed at this point. However, when looking at other players in the conservative news game, Newsmax has reportedly seen a good bump in the numbers in the days following the Tucker Carlson Tonight host’s dismissal.

The Nielsen company showed (via Fortune) that Eric Bolling, whose Newsmax show shared the 8 p. m. ET timeslot with Tucker Carlson, saw his viewership increase from 122,000 on April 18 to 562,000 on the Tuesday following Carlson’s Fox News exit. On Wednesday, Bolling experienced a similar situation, with the week-over-week numbers increasing from 168,000 to 510,000.

Full story here

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zarastone/2017/11/07/everything-you-need-to-know-about-sophia-the-worlds-first-robot-citizen/?sh=2920dca146fa

And oppose the so-called military-industrial complex and war in general, in all its forms? After all, every life does matter.

"Senators voted 51 to 47 to invoke cloture on a motion to proceed, falling short of the 60 votes it it needed.

Sens. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) and Susan Collins (Maine) were the lone Republicans to vote with every Democrat.

[...] The Senate resolution would have removed the deadline so that the ERA could become the 28th Amendment. Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Murkowski were the resolution’s lead co-sponsors."

These two would be Fox News’ next anchors if not for the gestapo arresting…well criminals.

And also that stupid argument that republicans freed the slaves. Liberals freed the slaves and want equal rights for everyone. NOT conservatives.

If someone was asking people about you, do you think they'd all say your intelligent, in their opinion, is what I'm asking for clarification

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/texas-lawmakers-religion-ten-commandments-classroom_n_644999e3e4b04997b57599c4
Texas Lawmakers Want Religious Indoctrination In Schools — May God Help Us All

In a disturbing yet not exactly surprising move, Republicans in the Texas statehouse have taken the first steps toward passing three bills that inject religion into public schools. One requires public schools to display “in a conspicuous place” the Ten Commandments in every classroom. Another measure will allow schools to require prayer and Bible reading time each school day for students and employees who give their consent to participate.
A third bill would ensure school employees the right to “engage in religious speech or prayer while on duty.”

It’s not the first effort by Texas Republicans to inject religion into public schools. In 2021, the state passed a law requiring schools to display donated “In God we trust” signs.

And if you think these bills don’t have a shot at passing muster in the U. S. Supreme Court (should they be appealed on constitutional grounds), guess again.

Texas lawmakers noted that the Supreme Court paved the way for these bills after it sided with Joe Kennedy, the high school football coach in Washington state who was fired for praying at football games. The court ruled that Kennedy was praying as a private citizen, not as an employee of the district.

Know who represented that coach? The First Liberty Institute, the organization that brought us Matthew Kacsmaryk, the federal judge in Texas who lit the legal fuse to ban the abortion medication mifepristone from the marketplace.
How delightfully incestuous.
Texas state Sen. Phil King, author of Senate Bill 1515, said the Ten Commandments are part of American heritage and it’s time to bring them back into the classroom.

Try to leave feelings aside and think about your own personal life. Have things gotten better or worse for you?

Overall things have gotten much more difficult in my own life. Ever since Biden took over I’ve had the following happen:

• Inflation has devastated my real earnings. I have only gotten two tiny 2% raises at my company in the last 3 years. However like everybody my own expenses have skyrocketed. I am not wealthy but I am trying to be upper middle class. The Biden administrations policies have now knocked me down a peg or two where everything is much more of a struggle. I have much less savings
• I work in the tech sector and there has been a ton of paranoia and stress. The direct company I work for is actually outperforming expectations. However the conglomerate who acquired us is suffering and pushing undeserved suffering on us as a result (no raises, less benefits, etc.). This is the hardest I’ve worked in 7 years with zero appreciation.
• Although I work 100% remote I was forced to vaccinate two years ago. I was on the fence about this initially however as a condition of employment I was left no choice. This was direct Biden mandate and was authoritarian. The fact I had no choice really pissed me off.
• Homeless and crime has skyrocketed in my home state (which has gone far left in the last few years). Fortunately I live in a nice and overall safe neighborhood. However the crap is starting to make out to where I live. I see more and more sketchy people at the grocery stores and there has been in increasing reports of crime. Now I know that’s local not federal politics. But still the “woke” attitude has infiltrated my state and the Biden administration propagated this crap.
• I was recently forced to take a DEI course at my job online. This was mandated company wide. For the most part I don’t care. But they got deep in the “non binary/trans” section. The “lesson” made up a definition that “gender is socially created” which I believe is complete bullshit.