“If you haven’t heard Dr. Harper testify, she does a wonderful job. She knows her stuff,” Allard, who is also the head of the county attorney’s child abuse team, said at the summit. “We just barely try to keep up understanding what she’s talking about. So we just kind of let her go.”

When someone is given absolute power they become absolutely corrupted by that power.

Dr. Harper needs to stop believing she’s incapable of making mistakes.

Daddy’s gonna bring out the strap.

NBC has live updates.

The two people who died in the Cour d’Alene shooting are both firefighters, said Edward Kelly, the president of the International Association of Firefighters.

A third firefighter is in surgery, Kelly said. “Two of our brothers were killed by a sniper, and a third brother remains in surgery,” he wrote on X.

The condition of the third firefighter and the nature of his injuries were not immediately clear.

The union president said the firefighters were “ambushed in a heinous act of violence.”

I agree what happened is a travesty but here’s the thing that gets me most … it’s an unregulated business, so the onus is on the state to get their act together and make the rules.

I can’t think of one Republican who should stay in office. The whole party should be disavowed and disbanded.

You can blame whoever you want, but the real blame comes down to one simple thing. Religion.

Gov’ts stood against the mixing of church and state for years, so blaming religion alone neglects the whole story.

In reality it was politicians and gov’t pandering to the Moral Majority and Tea Party that set America on this particular road to hell.

One of the studies included in the new review found 1 liter of water — the equivalent of two standard-size bottled waters bought at the store — contained an average of 240,000 plastic particles from seven types of plastics, of which 90% were identified as nanoplastics and the rest were microplastics.

Sounds like platic bottle manufacturers aren’t rincing their product before the get shipped and filled.

It’s more than just take-out packaging.

Ripping the plastic wrap from the meat or prepackaged fruit and veggies you purchased at the grocery store may contaminate your food with micro- and nanoplastics, according to new research.

Plastic contamination may also occur when you’re unwrapping deli meat and cheese, steeping a tea bag in hot water, or opening cartons of milk or orange juice. Glass bottles and jars with a plastic-coated metal closure may also shed microscopic bits of plastic, the study found.

(Tuberville said) “And it’s time we find these rats and we send them back home, that are living off the American taxpayers, that are working very hard every week to pay taxes.”

Yeah, that’s what every American is working hard to do, instead of … you know … trying to make enough to pay rent and buy food.

What a fucking asswipe he is.

Every nation in the world should embargo Israel. Give it 6 months and I bet they change their murderous tune.

He’s gonna get slaughtered and will say the election was rigged.

Always gotta have a backup plan to excuse stupidity.

“I’m both” is the only acceptable answer.

Just gotta give kudos to all the media photographers who are taking pics of Trump when he’s got some seriously stupid facial expressions. If nothing else it makes me smile at the dumb chucklefuck.

Dude’s only unhappy he got caught.

They don’t know what the f— they’re doing’

Pot-kettle, punkin.

The US Department of Homeland Security has rejected Kitchen’s claim, calling it “unequivocally false.”

DHS is unequivocally lying through their teeth.

Trump is not interested in listening.

In 1997, the decision to store toxic waste in the mine was sold as a lifeline to miners: running a waste repository underground could provide them with continued employment. For years, officials reassured the public that the waste would only be stored down there for 30 years.

"We hoped that by storing the waste underground, we would find a solution to treat this waste and be able to recycle it in one way or another thanks to advances in technology. But work on this never saw the light of day,” says Hecht. Flyers distributed at the time described the project as “a mine to serve the environment”.

Preuss-AG should be held to account for this. But as usual it won’t.

Trust the Danes to stand up and do the right thing.

I mean at this point ICErs should just bypass a trial and go straight to jail … kinda like what’s happening to everyone else.