Keep in mind that the American side of the Catholic Church is almost at right angles to the RCC nowadays, to the point where some in the Church hierarchy are starting to see it as a schism.

Lions Led By Donkeys! Weird and usually stupid military history, featuring everything from Roman warfare up to Vietnam.

I’ll also toss in Well There’s Your Problem. It’s an engineering disasters podcast. With slides (if you’re watching on YouTube).

Omnibus is also good in this vein. Ken Jennings and his friend go over some weird and obscure history you might not know about. It’s not very in-depth a lot, more factoids, but always pretty cool.

In an administration run by a man who has stated he wants to be a dictator, we shouldn’t assume the rule of law will hold any force, including whistleblower protections.

Eh, Ramsay’s attitude is mostly put on for American audiences. If you watch his stuff that isn’t exclusively for American TV, he’s still fairly foul mouthed, but fairly chill and humble about a lot of shit. His Last Meal episode on Mythical Kitchen’s YT channel is well worth a watch for a decent insight.

I’ll also say that especially with the upcoming recession we might be facing, mutual aid is incredibly important. If you’re in a big city, find your local Food Not Bombs chapter, or just Google “mutual aid [your area]”. I guarantee you that someone has put something together in your city or county.

Don’t forget trying to start a war with Iran (and maybe Iraq too) by assassinating an intelligence head during a peace conference with Iraq.

The answer there is easy and horrifying. Since they’re “not subject to” the law of the US, you can basically declare them outlaws. The od-school use of the term, basically meaning “this person exists outside of legal sight, so anything that happens to them is entirely legal because they don’t exist as a legal entity in our sight.”

The end game is open season on anyone who “looks illegal”.

Indiana. Don’t forget that South Bend is basically the home of the third wave of the Klan.

Bingo. I wasted time with a huge, multi-day, multi part interview process with a huge local manufacturing conglomerate. Multiple interview panels over a week, and finally just got rejected because the first two panels I had sat in had no allowance to reject anyone. According to a friend that works there, “it tests how persevering you are”.

There’s also the fact that they reached a “ceasefire” with Lebanon and still had soldiers and tanks shooting at people there literally the day after.

Nah, a good chunk of them know it would hurt them. They hope it would hurt the people they hate worse.

Having quite a few family members like this, trust me when I say there’s plenty of them who THINK they would happily deal with an economic crash if it meant that black/brown/gay/leftist people starved to death.

Not with a lot of the modern GOP. They’re fully convinced the “establishment” is out to get each and every one of them, personally, and Trump being accused of interfering in an election is just fuel on that fire.

Actually this is not entirely true. It’s anything that happened to any patient during any phase of testing. This is why so many “side effects” include death, because if you’re doing an n=1000 study or whatever, SOMEONE is going to die, statistically, and you can’t provably show that the drug you’re testing didn’t lead, at least in part, to that death. Good intentions with the reporting regulation, but not a good execution.

Y’all are missing the big lead: this stops ANY regulation that costs over $100m. Which is…a good chunk of them. Just monitoring can cost a huge chunk of cash.

What this is, is the GOP attempting to rip the heart out of specifically OSHA and the FDA.

Corporations feeling comfortable enough to support LGBT+ people is a good barometer of how we stand in society as a population.

See, this is part of why I agree with things like the corporate death penalty. A company will not care how much it is fined, unless that fine forces it to close. Our justice structure when it comes to actually dealing with corporate entities is WOEFULLY behind the times, and has been artificially kept so for decades. Besides, fining a company that was scheming to keep rents artificially high brings no benefits, nor relief to the actual tenants who were forced out because of high rents.

This particular episode owes its life to Ira and Avery Brooks, from what I understand. The writer’s room and studio execs wanted it to be a trite little episode featuring Benny just trying to write the stories of Deep Space Nine and get them published. Avery said “hell no we’re doing an episode in the 50s with a black man, it really needs to be uncomfortable because that’s what Star Trek does best”.

Remember, one of the first things she did when she got on the ship was get into an argument with the chief engineer and break his fucking nose.

He had been diagnosed with rectal cancer of some form in 2021. Presumably, it was a case of “well it’s not responding to chemo that well, so I either take myself out quickly or die slowly in a prison hospital.” I don’t like the idea, but I understand it.