Butterflies and Wheels – Discussing all the things

Pro Publica reports:
At the morgue, the babies were brought in with their diapers and blankets and with their hospital ID bracelets still wrapped around their tiny ankles. The pathologists’ findings were like those you would typically see in ailing adults, not newborns ...

Oh goody, another news story about pronoun people feeling seen at last.
It was at a ClimbingQTs event that Luce first felt “proud” to tell people they were non-binary.
Well-placed scare-quotes. People don’t need to “feel proud” to tell people they are [whatever tedious item it is]. People don’t need to feel proud all the time, especially not about invented fashionable idenninies that are of no interest to anyone but...

No, see, that’s where you go so very wrong.
It’s that “the comedic nature of everything he says” bit that’s so wrong. That’s one of the things that’s so repellent about him. Not one of the most important, for sure, but definitely one of the most annoying. Maddening. Make you twitch infuriating...

No opportunity for graft left unused.
Trump has trademarked the name “Donald J. Trump International Airport”—and could soon generate millions of dollars for his family.
Palm Beach County commissioners will vote on Tuesday on whether to use taxpayer dollars to rename Florida’s Palm Beach International Airport the “President Donald J. Trump International Airport.”...