Paul Graf
Retired lawyer. Moderate. Dog lover, cat tolerator. Grandfather. Vietnam vet. History, international relations, national security, high-profile litigation, economics, and a little politics.
- In Australia, the captain of this soccer team went into the stands after his team won the championship to get their waterboy, who has Down's Syndrome, so they could celebrate together. 🍻
- This is what school districts sometimes do when they're dissatisfied with the performance gap between high achievers and everyone else, claiming that one course will give "everyone" a better foundation. It rarely does, and parents know it.
- If you're interested in more background on South African "refugees", extremism researcher Jenny Cohn has you covered in this thread. 🧵⤵️
- This is one of those "lies, damned lies, & statistics" articles. What they say is accurate. DOD says it spends $5.2M on GA care & $42M on AD meds. I don't know (or care) how many trans troops there are, but ~1K have been told to leave, so we can probably assume that those are the ones receiving GA
- "The judge overseeing the case against the Defense Department's firing of transgender service members revealed that the military spends eight times more on erectile dysfunction medication than on gender affirming care." www.newsweek.com/us-military-...
- American side (via Trump): Blah, blah, blah, very friendly, blah, blah, blah, great progress, blah, blah, blah, total reset.... Chinese side: ... Make of this what you will.
- No. Trump is an inveterate liar. His statements should never be put in headlines. News outlets must find out what actually occurred, put that in the headline, and then put Trump statements, with fact checks, at the end of the article. apple.news/AGkI8kRVEQC6...
- This is chilling.
