FRIGHT NIGHT (1985) dir. Tom Holland
Patroclus fights and dies (2023)
Inspired by Jordan Soles’ (DOOMKIND) song “Patroclus fights and dies”…
Soon Soon Soon the wave of thrashing bronze
By the will of deathless gods
I lay my head on ancient stone
Far from the shores of my own home
Haggard specters swirling down I’ll join them soonBefore the day lays to waste
My body as it’s torn away
Before my sight begins to fade
And the night closes in
Did I lead us into ruin?
Was I cursed beyond my mortal reach?
Oh my desperate straits
The top Republican in the House overseeing criminal justice issues said that he doesn’t think Congress can—and doesn’t even really want to try—to resolve the persistent problems with American policing in the wake of Tyre Nichols’ death.
Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, the far-right Republican chair of the House Judiciary Committee, said Sunday that he’s skeptical that “any law, any training, any reform” at the federal level is going to prevent another event like the killing of Tyre Nichols by Memphis police.
“Preventing people from comitting murders isn’t our business
We need to focus on really important things like trying to control what books people are allowed to read and whether trans people are allowed to exist in public”
A new bill rolling back child labor laws in Iowa to allow 14-year-olds to work hazardous jobs in mining, meatpacking, and logging sectors as long as they are done under an approved training program has been harshly criticized by Democrat state senators and labor rights experts.
According to the existing state law, teens under the age of 18 in Iowa are prohibited from doing dangerous jobs such as working in slaughterhouses, operating power-driven metal forming, punching or shearing machines, and being involved in roofing operations and demolition work.
The new bill sponsored by Republican State Senator Jason Schulz—Senate File 167—wants to amend a section of Iowa’s code on child labor to allow teens to work in these prohibited jobs when “participating in work-based learning or a school or employer-administered, work-related program.”
Ah yes, children operating mining equipment, meatpacking machinery, and the various sharp spinny things in the lumber industry. What can go wrong?
And, yeah, while there may be some morally bankrupt folk who’ll say that these are jobs kids that age would have able to work 100+ years ago or whatever, there were also a whole bunch of campaigning to make sure they wouldn’t have to AND I can guarantee that the politicians and their backers who wrote up this bill would never be in a position where their kids would have to decide to take these jobs if they didn’t want to.
Republicans whenever they’re pushing something fascistic, misogynistic, homophobic or transphobic: We’re doing this to PROTECT THE CHILDREN!
Also Republicans: We don’t see any reason why children shouldn’t be used as a cheap and readily available source of labor in jobs where they’ll be forced to operate chainsaws and buzzsaws and be sent down into horrifically unsafe holes in the ground where they might get buried alive
You can look—but we suggest that you *not* touch the blue glaucus (Glaucus atlanticus). Also known as the blue dragon, this tiny sea slug packs a powerful punch. Though it typically measures only 1.2 inches (3 cm) long, it specializes in eating venomous siphonophores—like the Portuguese man o’ war. It then repurposes the toxic chemicals from its prey as a defense for itself. The blue glaucus’ sting has been known to induce nausea, vomiting, and agonizing pain. Their venom can remain active even after death!
Photo: Daniel Mietchen, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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