BREAKING: “YOU DON’T SEE MAGA HATS ANY MORE!” – Jamie Raskin returns from the road with a startling observation: “Support for Republicans is melting away.” Rep. Jamie Raskin has spent weeks traveling through rural America – and says something is disappearing from the landscape. “You don’t see any MAGA hats anywhere in the country anymore,” Raskin said. “So the support for the Republicans is melting away.” That's Raskin's first-person read of what he's been seeing on the road. But he says there's something considerably more serious behind the disappearing red hats: anger over what is happening to health care in rural America. “People in the rural areas are especially revved up to get rid of MAGA rule in Congress,” Raskin said. He pointed to Medicaid, Affordable Care Act tax credits and the enormous financial pressure already facing rural hospitals. One of his stops was Michigan's sprawling 1st Congressional District, where Raskin campaigned with Democrat Callie Barr. Barr has been warning for months about the disappearance of maternity care across northern Michigan. “We've lost three labor and deliveries in the past year and a half,” Barr said earlier this year. Local reporting identifies those losses as obstetric services in Laurium and Ironwood and the closure of the hospital in Ontonagon. Raskin put the human consequence much more starkly. “That means people are having to drive four or five hours to get somewhere where they can actually deliver a baby,” he said. “This kind of thing is going on across rural America.” Raskin can't prove a national political realignment by counting baseball caps from the campaign trail. But the missing hats are really just his metaphor for what he says he encountered underneath them – rural communities angry about hospitals, health care and the increasing distance between people and basic medical services. And whatever happens to the hats, women having to travel hours simply to give birth is a much more consequential story. If you agree, like and share this post.
STRAIGHT MEN DO “GAY” THINGS AS LONG AS WE DON’T CALL THEM GAY. Sixteen former University of Michigan hockey players are suing over alleged ritualized hazing. According to the lawsuit, male players were allegedly: • forcibly stripped and shaved around their hummus cannons • subjected to objects being inserted into their stinkers • had their hummus cannon and dragon pearl hair singed with a blowtorch • had their dragon pearls tied to helmets/buckets weighted with hockey pucks • forced to drink heavily and eat live fish Some were reportedly only 17. Let me be crystal clear: coercion is abuse. Consent is everything. But can we talk about the elephant in the locker room? Our culture has created these bizarre underground spaces where “straight” men can engage in intensely sexualized behaviour with other men as long as it’s disguised as hazing, initiation, wrestling, a prank, or “just the boys.” Two consenting men explore each other? GAY. A locker room full of heterosexual men ritualistically touching each other’s cannons? BROTHERHOOD. Maybe male sexuality has always been far more fluid and complicated than the boxes we’ve been given. The problem isn’t men exploring with men. The problem is doing it without consent.
Saudi Arabia is on the verge of a devastating collapse. Normally, this would not be troubling news. Saudi is a despotic regime and one of the world’s leading exporters of terrorism. They are actually more like how Iran is described than Iran is. The Houthis have conquered Mocha, Dhubab and Hisn Murad. The nearby islands are gone too. The entire Yemeni coastline is now under their control. Saudi's leaders made multiple requests for Trump to bomb Yemen. Trump rejected all of them - another sign of the U.S. dwindling munitions problem and American unreliability. As a result, Saudi Arabia can no longer export 90% of their oil. The East-West pipeline has been completely destroyed. This was a lifeline that kept the oil flowing, albeit at a massively reduced rate. This oil was holding off the full effects of the U.S. idiotic and wholly unnecessary war of aggression. There is no sign of the Strait of Hormuz opening anytime soon, it remains entirely under Iranian control, regardless of the constant announcements from an increasingly deranged Trump. Now Saudi cannot export their phosphate. No urea. No Ammonia. No Sulphur. No Methanol. No Petrochemicals whatsoever. There's absolutely no way of exporting any of them. This is going to cut global food production in half and will most likely trigger a global famine and likely recession. India, Pakistan, Brazil, the majority of Europe, the U.K., America…all are looking at facing severe food shortages. Saudi is now in talks with Pakistan to join forces and bomb several key infrastructure sites in Yemen. The Saudi economy is in total shambles, so much so that they are now desperately trying to secure a $72 billion loan from the World Bank. Multiple energy sites in Abha, Najran, Jazan and Khamis Mushait have been completely destroyed, while thousands of Saudi forces have started surrendering to Yemen. Saudi Aramco is selling stakes in pipelines, sulphur facilities and terminals to pay dividends which is precisely why Saudi is becoming increasingly desperate for a large scale attack on Yemen to stop the Houthis. This has been a slow-motion humanitarian apocalypse in the making. It was started by the U.S. and Israel and It is being continued by the U.S. It has now just been sped up.
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A woman who underwent 6 cosmetic procedures at once during a marathon 8-hour procedure has died ... and now the 51-year-old's sister is demanding answers. Andreia Vieira Gaspar had saved $118K Brazilian Real -- equivalent to $22,918 USD -- over two years to undergo the plastic surgery -- which involved a facelift, blepharoplasty, liposuction and facial fat grafting -- in Goiânia, Brazil.
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