2026-06-12


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AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

Economicon / Business / Finance

Democrats

  • ActBlue CEO Pleads the Fifth During House Panel Hearing

    The House asked Wallace-Jones to testify after a recent New York Times report included memos from Covington & Burling, a law firm that worked for ActBlue, warning that she may have misled Congress about the process for screening overseas donations. Surrounded by attorneys, Wallace-Jones did not answer any questions posed during the hearing, citing the “attorney-client privilege and my Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution.” Wallace-Jones wrote an opinion piece in The Washington Post that appeared on the day of her hearing, saying she would invoke her Fifth Amendment “rights against self-incrimination.” This is a proceeding designed to build an illegitimate criminal case against us. I cannot and will not let my words be misused in that way,” she opined.

    Administrative Committee ranking member Joe Morelle (D-N.Y.) said Republicans are ignoring alleged problems with WinRed. He accused the platform of victimizing elderly Americans.

    • Where did Kamala's billions come from, where did they go?

Left Angst

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

  • US Military Shahed-136 Kamikaze Drone Clone Getting Hivemind Swarming Capability

  • Multiple Pentagon floors locked down, evacuated due to 'hazmat incident'

    Multiple floors and corridors inside the Pentagon have been locked down and others are being evacuated due to a “hazardous materials incident,” three sources familiar and the local fire department said. Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell confirmed Thursday that systems within the Pentagon “have detected an air quality issue necessitating precautionary measures until we determine its significance.” “The Department is executing standard protection protocols, including a shelter-in-place order for the affected area,” Parnell said. “Response teams are in place and ready to support building occupants.” Floors two through five in corridors four through seven of the sprawling Pentagon complex have been locked down, two of the sources said. The third source told CNN that police in the building are wearing gas masks and full chemical protective gear.

Health / Medicine

  • FDA OKs first new sunscreen ingredient in more than 25 years

  • Why You Should Say ‘No’ to Being an Organ-Donor. From a priest and ex-paramedic.

    In lay terms, Cardiac muscle goes so badly so quickly after the heart stops beating that transplant surgeons must find a way to anesthetize the patient so as to cut the heart out of that living body. It should be obvious that a dead body would not need anesthesia! But this sounds too creepy to exist without a cover. Harvard Medical invented the cover, “Brain Death” precisely so as to justify the harvesting of hearts from living people. The New England Journal of Medicine recently removed an article formerly found here where they admitted that transplant surgeons were cutting the hearts out of live patients. Their bioethical justification read word-for-word: “Many will object that transplantation surgeons cannot legally or ethically remove vital organs from patients before death, since doing so will cause their death. However, if the critiques of the current methods of diagnosing death are correct, then such actions are already taking place on a routine basis.” Let me translate that into lay terms: “Some people may think it’s wrong to cut organs out of living people, and they might be correct, but it’s irrelevant because they’re simply too late to protest, since we’ve already been doing it for quite a while.”

  • RFK Jr. Pledges Research Into Epidemic of Tick-Borne Red Meat Allergies

    Last week, I went to New Hampshire… to address this explosion of alpha-gal, and we take it very seriously. One of the epicenters is Martha’s Vineyard, where 50% of the adult population is now affected. It is really a devastating disease. You can’t eat red meat for the rest of your life. We are looking at medications that can serve as both prophylactics and also potentially cures for it.

  • One died, one hospitalized from leptospirosis, Berkeley officials say

    An outbreak of leptospirosis centered around a large encampment in North Berkeley has spread to at least two humans, killing one and hospitalizing the other, city officials announced Wednesday. The patients, who lived together in an RV about a mile from the homeless encampment at the intersection of Eighth and Harrison streets, represent the first known human cases of the disease in Berkeley in over a decade. The outbreak also seems to have spread far beyond the one-third-mile radius where health officials first warned Berkeleyans to take precautions in January following detection of the disease in rats and dogs in late 2025. The two people who are known to have contracted the illness were using their RV to trap, feed and breed wild rats, City Manager Paul Buddenhagen wrote in a memo to the City Council. Buddenhagen did not say where the two people lived or when one of them died. The city has not publicly identified the patients. Public health officials said the cases were confirmed in May. Leptospirosis infects about 1 million people a year globally, about 60,000 of whom die from it, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, though human cases are rare in developed countries.

    • "were using their RV to trap, feed and breed wild rats" ... why? I can't (legally) adopt a fawn if i find one; does CA allow people to farm wild game?
  • Some US employers drop coverage of GLP-1 obesity drugs in 2027 as use increases

  • First tablet version of weight-loss jabs to be available in UK in weeks

  • Mayim Bialik had ‘uncontrollable’ GI symptoms after taking a GLP-1. What doctors say about severe side effects.