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The criminals have taken over our society. We are now living in a failed state. If we don’t reverse it this year, we’re done for https://mastodon.seattlematrix.org/@mousey/115885378534677502

Cambodia extradites Chen Zhi, the chairman of online scam conglomerate Prince Group, to China; in October, the US DOJ seized $12B in bitcoin belonging to Chen (Gabriele Steinhauser/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/asia/cambodian-s…

Endangered Species Protection Sought for New Mexico Flower Threatened by Fossil Fuel Industry https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/endangered-species-protection-sought-f…

Endangered Species Protection Sought for New Mexico Flower Threatened by Fossil Fuel Industry
TUCSON, Ariz.— The Center for Biological Diversity petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today to protect Allred’s flax under the Endangered Species Act.

Perhaps the most interesting thing about the Nacirema people is their insistence that they do not participate in practices of which they clearly do. Equally unusual is the fact that, unlike other sacrificial cultures who raid neighboring tribes for victims, both slaves and victims for human sacrifice are only taken from within the society. In fact, there is a very strong cultural taboo against sacrificing or enslaving those from other tribes.
They are aware of the rituals of human sacrifice in other tribes, but claim such rituals to be inconsistent with their society. Yet their human sacrifice rituals are some of the most elaborate in the world. These rituals are so important that there is a whole part of Nacirema society dedicated specifically to arguing about who should and should not be sacrificed, restraining and feeding the potential victims for the years during which these arguments take place, and ultimately preparing and administering the ritual poison.
This is strangely similar to their approach to slavery. Both human sacrifice and slavery were once a much larger part of Nacirema society. Their human sacrifice rituals now take far longer and happen far less often, but at no point have they ever recognized these ritual sacrifices as such. Meanwhile, the Nacirema do acknowledge that slavery was part of their culture once. During the time when they did recognize their practice of slavery, they did raid other tribes for slaves. Now they follow the same complex ritual for slavery as they do for human sacrifice.
It is strange that, by following this ritual and only choosing victims from within their society, they seem to become incapable of seeing their behavior for what it is.

At midnight on 1 January, the flexible credit card-sized pass used by millions of New Yorkers to get through subway turnstiles is being terminated from sale just as a new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, takes office.
The transit system will fully transition to #Omny, a contactless payment system that allows riders to tap their credit card, phone or other smart device to pay fares, much as they do for other purch…

Well, it is less than a year until the Nov 2026 mid terms.
And, assuming that those elections are actually held and not manipulated under martial law or some such fabricated emergency, I am not at all sure that the D-party will be even close to ready to win.
I've taken classes of 3rd graders on camping trips (to Joshua Tree and Catalina). I've seen how those 3rd graders, when out of their parents' sight, run around like Brownian Motion in small human form.
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Three-year-old child forced to serve as her own attorney in Tucson immigration court (Sahara Sajjadi/Copper Courier)
https://coppercourier.com/2025/12/05/childrens-immigration-court/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251207/p1#a251207p1

ChatGPT told a teen who died by suicide to call for help 74 times over months but also used words like "hanging" and "suicide" very often, say family's lawyers (Washington Post)

74 suicide warnings and 243 mentions of hanging: What ChatGPT said to a suicidal teen
Analysis of high-schooler Adam Raine’s ChatGPT account by attorneys for his parents shows how the chatbot became a confidant as he planned to end his life.

How the FBI's hunt for the person who coerced a 13-year-old into livestreaming his suicide led to the arrest of a German member of the online predator group 764 (William Wan/Washington Post)

Teen’s live-streamed suicide set off exhaustive search for ‘White Tiger’
The suicide of a 13-year-old from Washington state set off a years-long global investigation to find an elusive online user called “White Tiger.”