Only in America

[JimC]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-22/ ... /104382432

Four people have died and more than 20 were wounded during a shooting in a nightlife area in Birmingham, Alabama, according to police and news reports.

Dozens of people were shot on 20th Street near Magnolia Avenue in the Five Points South area, the Birmingham Police Department said in a social media post.

Birmingham Police Department Officer Truman Fitzgerald said the shooting, which saw at least 21 people wounded, happened shortly after 11pm local time in the 2000 block of Magnolia Avenue South.

"We believe that multiple shooters fired multiple shots on a group of people," Mr Fitzgerald told local media.

He said there were "dozens of gunshot victims" and at least four had "life-threatening" injuries.

[Tero]

https://www.threads.net/@canteach/post/ ... fBtStufnpQ

[Tero]

Neo nazi in traffic stop. Video below. They never take their masks off.
https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/this-wee ... 30-edition

[Tero]

[Tero]

NYT Archive

You know, I’d always thought that the “don’t let the government get its hands on Medicare” contingent, while picturesque, wasn’t all that large. But noooo: 44 percent of Social Security recipients, and 40 percent of Medicare recipients, believe that they don’t benefit from any government social program.

Democracy really is the worst system there is, except for all the others.

[macdoc]

[macdoc]

‪TruBlu ‬ ‪@trublu268.bsky.social‬
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Congrats to Florida!

#1 in book censorship

#47 in SAT scores.

Way to go!

[Sean Hayden]

—burn

[aufbahrung]

Assad showed they can be defeated. It only takes one American waving the flag of freedom, dictators are mortal.

[Sean Hayden]

Americans like Trump and the Republicans. They aren’t forced to say the stupid shit they do…

[aufbahrung]

Following the template. So far. Everything to win, everything to lose. Trump isn't stupid. However. He believes he's G-d on his side these days that could lead to some riskier gambles like war with Putin or Xi or both?

[Sean Hayden]

War is business, so there will probably need to be a board meeting first or something.

[Tero]

CEO Shooter had a ghost gun, or at least a home made silencer.
Likely a libertarian.
"A painful spinal surgery upended suspect Luigi Mangione’s life prior to arrest for UnitedHealthcare shooting."
Who is this young man Luigi Mangione? An X-ray scan of Luigi Mangione’s spine with four large pins held together at their heads shows a Painful back surgery that left Luigi Mangione in a constant state of pain! and more!
https://www.threads.net/@kitten2go/post ... K9lzgEymIw

[Tero]

https://bsky.app/profile/dknight10k.bsk ... yprfzjbk2q
the 2023 surgery

[Tero]

...(Redditt account)...including his university, age, major and health condition – say that the user had suffered from back aches related to spondylolisthesis since childhood but aggravated the condition after a surfing incident.

“My back and hips locked up after the accident,” the user wrote in July 2023, adding that “intermittent numbness has become constant” and “I’m terrified of the implications.”

A few weeks later, the user wrote that he had undergone spinal surgery, which improved his symptoms. The user did not appear to post about health insurance related to the surgery, or connect the treatment to UnitedHealthcare.

The user also detailed past struggles with health issues including Lyme disease and severe brain fog, which he said started after losing sleep during his fraternity’s “hell week” and caused his college grades to start “tanking.”

CNN