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Saturday, March 25th, 2023

    Time Event
    12:17a
    (satire) Politicians Explain Why They Oppose Free School Lunch Programs

    (satire) *Politicians Explain Why They Oppose [Gratis] School Lunch Programs.*

    12:17a
    (satire) Congress Rules Food Stamps Can Only Be Used On Rutabagas

    (satire) *Congress Rules Food Stamps Can Only Be Used On Rutabagas.*

    12:17a
    Court Rules Greta Thunberg, Others Can Sue Sweden for 'Insufficient Climate Policy'

    *A Swedish court … ruled that … youth climate activists including Greta Thunberg can collectively sue Sweden for the government's "insufficient climate policy."*

    12:17a
    Putin says Russia ‘will respond’ if UK supplies depleted uranium shells to Ukraine

    *Putin says Russia "will respond" if UK supplies depleted uranium shells to Ukraine.*

    I can't imagine what sort of "response" Russia could actually make? Try to destroy the tanks that would fire these shells? The Putin forces will try their best to do that anyway.

    Ukraine should say "no thanks" to these shells, since using them would pollute Ukrainian territory with Dirty Uranium fallout for a long time.

    It causes various sorts of diseases for anyone who breathes it in.

    12:17a
    Critics Warn Another Fed Rate Hike Would Be the 'Straw That Breaks the Camel's Back'

    The Federal Reserve plans to keep raising interest rates, though perhaps not as quickly. It may not succeed in curbing inflation,

    but even if it doesn't cause more bank failures, it will put millions of Americans out of work.

    12:32a
    UK fishing vessels ‘underreporting’ whale, dolphin and porpoise by catch

    *UK fishing industry underreporting whale, dolphin and porpoise by catch.*

    12:32a
    Curbing Bad Behavior of Bank CEOs Isn't as Hard as They Make It Seem

    Proposing a specific change in the law to enable the US government to confiscate the money that executives of failed banks (such as Silicon Valley Bank) personally extracted by putting the banks at risk of failure.

    12:32a
    Multiple civilian deaths linked to 2016-17 British airstrikes against IS in Mosul

    The UK government has claimed for years that it was totally successful in fighting PISSI in Mosul. Now there is proof that some of its bombing killed civilians. The British government did wrong to deny the civilian casualties. It should have admitted those consequences.

    That does not necessarily imply that those attacks were wrong. This was a necessary and justified war; fighting PISSI was necessary and called for. Military action always has a risk of going awry, which could kill bystanders. That doesn't imply that fighting is always wrong.

    Whether the UK forces acted with proper care to reduce that risk, I don't know. It may have made mistakes. Everyone makes mistakes, and mistakes are very common in the fog of war.

    No army is perfect. Knowing that, we should think carefully before fighting a war.

    12:32a
    Gunned down and burned by the Nazis: the shocking true story of Bambi

    Before Maus, there was … Bambi.

    12:32a
    Low-income Americans face a ‘hunger cliff’ as Snap benefits are cut

    *Low-income Americans face a "hunger cliff" as Snap benefits are cut.*

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