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Peter Thiel doesn't believe drug abuse should thwart winning gold medals

He funds malign influence campaigns to corrupt amateur sports to benefit the sports-betting billionaires funding Trump.

Ruffin. Adelson. Bigelow. Wynn.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2024/01/31/billionaire-peter-thiel-backs-doping-friendly-olympics-rival---what-to-know-about-the-enhanced-games/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-05/peter-thiel-s-pro-doping-olympics-alternative-seeks-to-raise-300-million

This has the added benefit of finding willing guinea pigs to test treatments for his "live forever" goals for wealthy elites

It locks society at an immiserated level for the 99%
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/05/01/immortality-gilgamesh-bezos-thiel/

Trump is now the oldest POTUS candidate ever nominated by a major party.

He has repeatedly confused Biden with Obama and Nikki Haley with Nancy Pelosi. He fell asleep at his criminal trial.

Will the media scrutinize his age & mental decline with the fervor it focused on Biden?

People react with horror to the thought of women being forced to seek "back alley" abortions but not to trans people being forced to seek black market hormones and surgery even though the risks and the principle of bodily autonomy are the same in each case.

We're talking about scientifically and medically sound and even routine healthcare in both cases, but there's this underlying feeling among a lot of cis people that trans people could just stop if we really had to.

Christian Nationalist “New Columbia Movement” attacks contraception at annual forced-birth march

Allison Bailey shot this photo of the New Columbia Movement (Christian nationalists) at the big forced-birth march I prefer to call the "March4Death" on Jan 19 in Washington DC. Didn't see it on the day of because I am not on Instagram, someone sent it to me directy.

Here they are attacking contraception, having as predicted moved on from abortion. One trench is taken, the next trench comes under fire.

#cybersecurity zealots often shame humans for writing down their passwords, but as someone who just had to excavate the digital remains of a loved one who died suddenly:

*please* write down your credentials somewhere a trusted human can find them, especially your phone passcode and any primary passwords (like for email accounts, password manager, etc.)

the humans who care about you will need that access for many reasons; a "badass" threat model will only add helplessness to their grief