DerekAiredale

People from not New York hear about the LIRR strikes and complain that 130k is too much money… they do not realize that 130k on li is not the same 130k in other places. Those people deserve to own homes where they work.

A peer-reviewed paper published last year in the journal Bioethics by two professors at Western Michigan University School of Medicine argues that it is "morally obligatory" to genetically engineer ticks to spread alpha-gal syndrome, a permanent condition that makes you violently allergic to red meat. The paper is called "Beneficial Bloodsucking." Their argument: if eating meat is morally wrong, then preventing the spread of a disease that forces people to stop eating meat is also morally wrong. Scientists should gene-edit lone star ticks to enhance their ability to carry alpha-gal syndrome and expand their range into urban environments to infect more people. They call this a "moral bioenhancer." They frame releasing genetically modified disease-carrying ticks as a "vaccination" that only "infringes" on your bodily autonomy rather than "violating" it. The distinction, apparently, is that a tick bit you instead of a government official holding you down. Alpha-gal syndrome is not mild. The CDC estimates up to 450,000 Americans are already affected. Cases have surged 100-fold in the last decade. Symptoms include anaphylaxis. There is no cure. Alpha-gal cases are exploding across the United States. The lone star tick's range is expanding far beyond its historical territory. And two academics at a medical school published a paper arguing this is a good thing that should be accelerated. At what point do we stop treating papers like this as fringe academic exercises and start asking whether anyone is already acting on them?

YouGov: 25% of “very liberal” Americans say violence can be justified to achieve political goals compared with 3% of “very conservative” Americans.

Stacey Abrams explains why Democrats are so distraught over the SCOTUS ruling against racially gerrymandered districts: "We could lose 19 to 20 congressional seats, but we could lose up to 191 state legislative seats." Now you know why the vile rhetoric has ramped back up. Everyone stay safe out there.

Accountability and opportunity must go hand in hand. Janeese Lewis George voted against giving DC a curfew tool to respond to youth gatherings that have, at times, erupted into violence. And when the Council had the opportunity to extend rec center hours, she shut it down, choosing politics over our youth. As Mayor, I won’t tolerate this kind of disorder, and I’ll make sure our young people have safe, constructive places to go.

This is the Dudley campaign getting ahead of itself. The Dudley Kotek contest happens IF AND ONLY IF he wins the primary on Tuesday. A poll just days ago shows the race 40% Drazan 37% Diehl (+_3.8% so a dead heat) with Dudley in the teens. The match up of Kotek and Dudley doesnt matter if he loses Tuesday