In 2023, Maryland lawmakers eliminated time limits on filing lawsuits against organizations for child sexual abuse. The change followed an investigation that detailed decades of sexual abuse against children in the Archdiocese of Baltimore. But now, the state finds itself facing around 6,000 claims under that law, with more expected. The claims are from people who say they were sexually abused in the state’s youth detention centers. State leaders say they did not anticipate they’d be facing complaints […]
If sitting in front of a machine and pulling a lever or pushing a button like a cocaine rat is your idea of fun, then something called “gaming” is probably for you. The dopamine high is enhanced as you slowly lose all your money. Face it: casinos are tacky and sad. Go into one on Thanksgiving morning and watch the forlorn push the buttons or pull the levers. Odds are—odds? yes, you can bet literally on anything now—someone […]
For all three years of the war between Moscow and Kyiv Europe has held to the pro-Ukrainian stance. Neither the lack of major progress of the Ukrainians on the battlefield, nor the internal crisis, experienced by the EU member states due to providing assistance to Kyiv, made the European leaders deviate from the initial political line. Europe even decided to distance from its long-standing ally, the US, that had reconsidered its top foreign policy priorities, and act on […]
“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist.” — President Dwight D. Eisenhower In the 1960s and 1970s when the US actually had an enemy, though possibly one of our own making, there was a peace movement. It might well have come from left-wing professors in the universities who did not think […]
https://preview.redd.it/nmsgsi412mse1.png?width=1179&format=png&auto=webp&s=5a33bb6c1fd1cb993a641324247c956a53554fb4 The country is hitting US first. You hit US they hit you back. Libertarian? No. Fair? Reasonably. What I want to happen next is those countries telling Trump that all American product has no tariffs if US withdraw all tariffs. Then we have true globalization. Anyway I just need quantitative easing for bitcoin to go up before I buy gold. C’mon. Do something feds. submitted by /u/Confident-Cupcake164 [link] [comments]
Ginny Garner wrote: Lew, Political activist and My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell continues to organize Americans to lobby state election board personnel to get rid of electronic voting machines. Problems with these machines have been known since at least 1988 when the New Yorker magazine published the article “Counting Votes” by Ronnie Dugger and Roy Saltman released his report “Accuracy, Integrity, and Security in Computerized Vote-Tallying.” James and Kenneth Collier’s 1992 book “Votescam: The Stealing of America” provided many […]