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Cake day: June 1st, 2023

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  • The other option was to disperse them as previously done…

    In a statement shared with NPR, the State Department confirmed that the U.S. will spend $167,000 to destroy the contraceptives at a French facility that handles medical waste.

    Several international humanitarian organizations, including MSI, Doctors Without Borders and UNFPA — the United Nations’ sexual and reproductive health agency — say they tried to buy the supplies from the U.S. but were rejected.

    Never forget the cruelty is the point. This isn’t about “saving money”.

    Honestly, the UN should just confiscate the supplies and disperse them.









  • In a memo sent out earlier this month, acting Assistant Secretary Tyler Hassen asked exiting Interior staff with a firefighting certification — also called a “red card” — to help the agency respond to wildland fires through the end of the year.

    Sort of ironic, given trump’s criticism of California’s handling of wildfires.

    Also incredibly depressing. Here we are, the secretary of a department begging those they asked to leave to do a job they were asked to leave.

    If you need help, you shouldn’t have told the help to leave, you idiots.











  • …and the late show was the only one getting larger and larger viewership.

    Financially, the cancelation makes no sense.

    Edit: Just to provide some reference to the viewership

    Second-quarter Nielsen ratings show that the program helmed by comedian Stephen Colbert had 2.42 million viewers across 41 new episodes, taking some 9% of the audience share and besting other shows in his timeslot. It was also the only show to rake in more viewers than in the previous quarter. And earlier this week, it received a Primetime Emmy nomination for outstanding talk series. - Source