Daily Dose of Doom Thread

[MU82]

The University of Florida is purging and replacing "woke" classes.

Courses covering issues related to class, inequality, race and gender no longer count toward graduation requirements, while new classes offer a more "conservative vision."

[TallTitan34]

[Hards Alumni]

Building the carnival for a clown show

[Uncle Rico]

Happy Jefferson Davis Birthday Day to any of the scoopers who celebrate!  Big day this Wednesday!

[TallTitan34]

Cool Cool.  Gutting USAID is hampering the Ebola response in Congo.

Bump

[Shaka Shart]

Bump

How will I be able to tell the difference between Ebola victims and dental victims when I encounter people on the street bleeding from all their orifices 

[cheebs09]

Happy Jefferson Davis Birthday Day to any of the scoopers who celebrate!  Big day this Wednesday!

Are dental offices closed?

[Uncle Rico]

Are dental offices closed?

They are in Alabama today

[TSmith34, Inc.]

Oh hey, there's another $100M in taxpayer dollars stolen right out in the open.

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-truth-about-trumps-birthday-bash
"Like the White House ballroom project, Trump's "Freedom 250" is also a pay-to-play scheme. People and companies with financial interests likely affected by Trump are encouraged to make tax-deductible donations to gain access to, and seek favors from, him.

Corporations pay between $500,000 and $10 million to become Freedom 250 "sponsors." A corporation giving $1 million or more will be invited to a "private Freedom 250 thank you reception" hosted by Trump. For $2.5 million or more, sponsors will even get a speaking role at the Fourth of July celebration in Washington. (Major donors so far include Lockheed Martin, ExxonMobil, Oracle, Palantir, Mastercard, and United Airlines.)

Tucked away inside last year's sprawling 870-page "One Big Beautiful Act" was an allocation of $150 million for "events, celebrations, and activities surrounding the observance and commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States."

Most of those funds are going to Trump's "Freedom 250" rather than to the nonpartisan "America250." Why? When Congress appropriated the $150 million, only America250 was planning celebrations for the 250th. But now that Trump's Freedom 250 is up and running, Trump's Interior Department has doled out $100 million to it ($25 million has gone to the nonpartisan America250)."


Remember when Republicans spent the better part of a decade screaming about the impropriety of the President and his wife netting $100,000 on an Arkansas land deal? ha ha, good one.

[Shaka Shart]

Bad news for meat summits

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c936r25grrlo

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

Bad news for meat summits

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c936r25grrlo

The Atlantic ran this story 6 years ago and it stuck in my head.  We had it beat back to Panama where the sliver of the isthmus helped make it easy to keep in check then budget cuts .....


https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/05/flesh-eating-worms-disease-containment-america-panama/611026/

[Hards Alumni]

NWS is no joke, and if it has been spotted in Texas, then it is everywhere down there.  If you thought beef was expensive before... boy, let me tell you.

[Hards Alumni]

[Uncle Rico]

NWS is no joke, and if it has been spotted in Texas, then it is everywhere down there.  If you thought beef was expensive before... boy, let me tell you.

It's only a few pennies

[Shaka Shart]

Thank u doge