“Do something!”

News blues - on war!

With Republicans supporting the morally corrupt National Rifle Association and shutting down Congress, Michigan Senator McMorrow, shut out from speaking at her state’s capital, takes to Twitter to challenge all of us >> (5:05 mins)
And, an interview with Senator McMorrow >>  (10:20 mins)

Lawrence O’Donnell news anchor >> 
List of school shooters in the US, their ages and their killing locations

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"How about we treat every young man who wants to buy a gun like every woman who wants to get an abortion - mandatory 48-hr waiting period, parental permission, a note from his doctor proving he understands what he's about to do, a video he has to watch about the effects of gun violence, and an ultrasound wand up the ass (just because). Let's close down all but one gun shop in every state and make him travel hundreds of miles, take time off work, and stay overnight in a strange town to get a gun. Make him walk through a gauntlet of people holding photos of loved ones who were shot to death, people who call him a murderer and beg him not to buy a gun.
(I do not know who wrote this, but vote this person into Congress! Hell, why stop there, put her on the Supreme Court!)

Broken hearted

Worldwide (Map) 

May 26, 2022 - 527,735,435 confirmed infections; 6,284,340 deaths
May 27, 2021 - 168,418,000 confirmed infections; 3,499,000 deaths

US (Map) 
May 26, 2022 - 83,817,220 confirmed infections; 1,004,110 deaths
May 27, 2021 - 33,190,300 confirmed infections; 592,000,000 deaths

SA (Coronavirus portal) 
May 26, 2022 - 3,941,050 confirmed infections; 101,045 deaths
May 27, 2021 – 1,645,600 confirmed infections; 56,100 deaths

Post from 28 May 2020: “Viruses respond to science, not politics” 

News blues

For nearly two years, as the Covid pandemic disrupted life around the globe, other infectious diseases were in retreat. Now the viral and bacterial nuisances are returning — and behaving in unexpected ways >> 

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The Lincoln Project: Beto fights back  (1:00 mins) (What Beto said >>)

Meanwhile, back at the ranch…

Today, I’ve nothing to say. Too broken hearted. The shooting deaths of children by children – while politicians take money from the gun lobby – is just too much.

Jimmy Kimmel >>  (8:40 mins) (And the effort to shut down Jimmy >> )

We all know the old story from politicians by now: "thoughts and prayers" .

F**k 'em, I say.