He's done what he could with the Republicans fighting him every step of the way. Better to spend this last month doing what he can to Trump-proof stuff.
"Social murder" is a term coined by Friedrich Engels in 1845 and used to describe murder committed by the political and social elite where they knowingly permit conditions to exist where the poorest and most vulnerable in society are deprived of the necessities of life and are placed in a position in which they cannot reasonably be expected to live and will inevitably meet an early and unnatural death.
It depends on what the medication is. Mostly I just crush it up and mush it into a Churu or their food or something. If they need to be on an empty stomach, like if I need them to have some gabapentin before a vet visit but they need to be on an empty stomach, I'll dose their water.
Depending on the cat, you may need to look into a different medication, especially if it's one of the ones with weird flavors, like cherry Clavamox; I'll see if I can get an abx injection instead.
Worse comes to worse, you can try getting the medication compounded into a different form or a different flavor. The one thing I absolutely insist on getting compounded are appetite stimulants: the cat doesn't want to eat anyway, and me forcing something down his throat is going to make him more likely to try to avoid both me and the food. I get transdermal ciproheptadine (mirtazapine can make some of them agitated, and I'd rather be certain that any weirdness is their illness and not the treatment). You just gently rub some on their inner ear and an hour later they want to eat :)
Interestingly enough, social security's disability trust fund has enough money to continue paying out until 2098; it's the old person part that's running out.
I didn't find the peanut rubber, but did find that
Dr. George Washington Carver's work resulted in the creation of more than 300 products from peanuts, contributing greatly to the economic improvement of the rural South. source
OP's article states that
He helped Henry Ford make peanut rubber for cannons for World War II.
But I can't find a actual source for that just endless repeated comments to that effect. I wonder if whoever-originated-that-idea conflated Carver's peanut work with his other work with Ford:
By the time World War II began, Ford had made repeated journeys to Tuskegee to convince Carver to come to Dearborn and help him develop a synthetic rubber to help compensate for wartime rubber shortages. Carver arrived on July 19, 1942, and set up a laboratory in an old water works building in Dearborn. He and Ford experimented with different crops, including sweet potatoes and dandelions, eventually devising a way to make the rubber substitute from goldenrod, a plant weed. Carver died in January 1943, Ford in April 1947, but the relationship between their two institutions continued to flourish. Source
Ooh - Jeff Bezos, and some way to irreversibly triple every non-executive Amazon worker/contractor's pay, plus full healthcare. He can afford it and Amazon has enough direct and indirect workers that it'll be felt throughout the country and the economy, and other companies will eventually be forced to compete, raising living standards for most people (and increasing tax revenue).
End with a tweet supporting an inflation-linked living wage, Medicare for All, and UBI.
Vance is an opportunist and would cheerfully go along with the Project 2025 folks in order to be their figurehead and grab a bunch of loot. And they'd be happy to have him as a figurehead, so long as he does what they tell him to.
So, I read the article, and all those stupid, blind, privileged people telling him not to worry, they'll protect him, he's "one of the good ones". And they don't understand that that's not going to matter; once the round-ups begin, the government's not going to care about any of that.
I keep thinking back to Hitler, who said something vaguely like, "There cannot be any exceptions. If we allow exceptions, then everyone has their 'one good Jew' and we'd never make any real progress."
Honestly, I just don't care anymore. I've spent over a decade caring, helping, warning, working and trying - in addition to decades of activism before that - and I just don't have it in me any longer. They wanted this? Then fuck it, let it all burn.
Aka, "we just want to do this little opportunistic land grab while Syria is focused on other matters. Don't mind us, we're just gonna slide right in here .... "
So, sometimes (like now) I get these posts and there's just no link for me to see the picture that's supposedly there. Anyone know what's going on or how to fix it? [I wanna see the camping kitty!]
Well, the Democrats don't have an entire media echo-system in place - multiple tv 'news' channels, a coast-to-coast network of local conservative radio propagandists, an entire chain of ever-so-slightly-increasingly-radicalized YouTube "hosts" leading from self-improvement and self-appreciation through to denigration and hatred of others - turns out, the easiest way for the alt-right to make someone feel better about themselves is for them to tell their acolytes that they're great and that someone else is beneath them - doesn't matter if the 'other' are blacks or women or Jews or Muslims or LGBTQ or Hispanics or immigrants or whatever. Just know that "those people" are beneath you, it's okay to physically, legally, emotionally, and socially attack them whenever you feel like it to 'remind them of their place' (especially if you think they might be inclined to overstep it), and everything will be fine ...
Seconding Simon Tatham's Puzzle Collection. Quite a number of different puzzles, very lightweight.