Yes all cops. Do Piracy. Trans rights.

His conversion to national socialism and the Nazi party was catalyzed by his belief that modern capitalism was a Jewish invention, and that Jews upended Europe's historical economic order in pursuit of profits.

As a Marxist he blamed Jews for capitalism, and consequently found it an easy switch over to Nazism.

"The 50-degree rule came from good intentions, but it was always more intuition than science. We now have real data. A 2025 study by Ferlauto and Burghardt found that insects continued emerging in large numbers well past a 50-degree soil temperature, which pretty much pulls the rug out from under the whole guideline.

The same study found that raking leaves reduced moth and butterfly emergence by 45% and cut species richness by 40%. Spiders dropped by 67% in low-maintenance areas. The leaf layer is a microhabitat insects are biologically dependent on. Removing it causes direct mortality.

Stems tell the same story. About 70% of native bees nest in the ground and the other 30% use hollow stems, hibernating inside your dead flower stalks all winter. If you want to cut stems, do it in spring, leave them 8 to 24 inches tall, and let them naturally break down over time. That is intentional habitat management. Cutting everything to the ground in the fall is just destruction.

Leaves, stems, standing plant material, bark crevices, every layer of organic matter in your yard is doing something for something. The science across all of it points the same direction.

Last week, the Trump administration quietly released a sweeping new federal rule that would use funding threats to force institutions across the country to reject transgender people. The 400-page proposed regulation would codify the administration's anti-trans executive orders into binding federal policy, imposing a blanket prohibition on federal funds going toward "gender ideology"

The proposed rule, formally titled "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance," rewrites the government-wide framework governing all federal grants across every agency. Among its most consequential provisions, it requires that before a federal grant recipient can receive money, the award must pass a "pre-issuance review" conducted by a political appointee—not a career expert or peer reviewer—to ensure it is "consistent with applicable law, Federal agency priorities, and the national interest." The regulation explicitly instructs these appointees to screen for "denial by the recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic." [...] An institution that acknowledges transgender people exist—through its policies, its training, its healthcare, its bathroom access, its HR procedures, its name-change processes—could be deemed to "deny the sex binary" or to “support the notion that sex is mutable” and have its federal funding blocked.

This torches everything. And I do mean everything.

A very abbreviated list of its ramifications include (but are not limited to):

ending funding for ALL DEI related initiatives

allowing the government to terminate grants at any point for any reason

preventing researchers from publishing, going to conferences, and being part of academic societies

requiring that topics must support the president’s agenda.

What this means, and if anything I’m under selling it, is the death of science and research in America. It allows the government to restrict any topic they please at a whims notice, putting officials who have no background in the topic in charge of deciding funding continuity. It controls what gets researched and if/how researchers are allowed to share their discoveries. There are no books to burn if the government never allows them to be written. This is fascism plain and simple.

Public comments are not a vote, it is a chance for you to say "here is an issue with this law I think you need to address" and provide justification for legal challenges if it goes forward:

"Comments raise the bar that agencies have to meet when making a rule; “if an agency fails to adequately respond to significant, relevant comments in a final rule, members of the public may seek to challenge the rule in court on that basis and claim it could be struck down.ˮ"

Red-billed Oxpecker (Buphagus erythrorhynchus) on a rhino, sound asleep.

Here on land there are only so many ways a creature can move, and by the time you're six or so, you've seen pretty much all of them that you're ever likely to.

Now I need some sources (tried to get both sides but it's hard to tell anymore)

Second home:

USA today

Ny post

Balanced budget:

CBS

Forbes

The second time I heard about it and realized that it was serious, I just stared at the screen for a good minute.

Why?

Because the "You can wager on anything and everything--wars, death tolls, conflicts, anything, there's no subject too taboo to put money on" concept was not new to me.

Where I'd run into it before, however, was in fiction.

Specifically, the Star Wars Bounty Hunter Wars trilogy written in the late 1990s.

Where it was deliberately done as a plot and setting point showing the corruption and inhumanity of the seedy underbelly of Imperial society--the sort of environment that the Star Wars bounty hunters moved in. It was deliberately shown as corrupt, rife with insider trading, betting manipulation, and cruelty.

And now it's real.

@thewolvesrunwild, the money comes from the people who lose their bets.

In one case, there have already been death threats against one reporter, because his (accurate) reporting would have made a bunch of gamblers lose a LOT of money.

But I wish more people would grasp that this isn't a function of being RIGHT-wing, it's a function of being any-fucking-WING. The idea that you don't have to understand how something works in order to judge whether it's Good or Bad, and in fact trying to understand something Bad is going to contaminate you spiritually, is very much in evidence on the left as well.

TL;DR version: Stalin’s favorite scientist decided that evolution wasn’t communist enough so therefore genetics and natural selection were fake. This led to thousands of scientists being fired or imprisoned and entire fields of agricultural research being thrown out.

there's been a housing showdown in my city recently where popular rent freezes didn't pass because lawmakers recognized that it actually exacerbated housing issues in practice, based off of observations of trials elsewhere. But people freaked out because it sounds good and was struck down.

They don't want to know about its ineffectiveness, and don't care to listen, and it's likely to shake up the local government significantly.

The left wing will ignore Platner's nazi tattoo, ignore Galindo's internment camps, ignore Piker's bigotry, ignore the holodomor, ignore antisemitism when it comes from the left, all because they don't want to understand something that isn't convenient for their worldview.

(The fact that these people never have a cute nickname for trump or hold him and the GOP responsible for ANYTHING let alone blaming them for the Gaza War to the degree they do Dems, and Biden and Harris specifically is an indicator that they and the people who buy their framing are deliberately attempting to suppress dem votes and get Dems to turn on Jews in the meantime. They have no smoke for the GOP, they don't care about black democratic voting rights, and they sure as shit don't care about Palestinians either. It's about their view count and reward for blaming 'Mommy' while the world burns around them like we fucking told them it would)