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AZ Grand Jury indicts 20 in firearms trafficking conspiracy to Mexico
If Trump-Antionette and his court of fools were really interested in stopping drugs and gang violence, they would be doing what Arizona investigators, courts are doing: Bust the people trafficking guns and ammo to Cartels.
https://www.myheraldreview.com/news/border/arizona-indicts-20-in-firearms-trafficking-conspiracy-to-mexico/article_1befc51a-bb25-429b-92c6-e5cfb28a0e1c.html?]
The defendants allegedly provided funds to purchase firearms and compensated straw purchasers who forged Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives forms to conceal the true buyers, according to the indictment. The trafficking organization obtained approximately 334 firearms during the conspiracy, prosecutors say.
Law enforcement tracing through the ATF eTrace system revealed that many of these firearms have been recovered in Mexico, the attorney general's office says. The charges include misconduct involving weapons and other felony offenses under Arizona law.
We have border checkpoints a few miles north of the border on most, if not all northbound highways. Northbound vehicles have to go thru checkpoints. Sometimes you get a wave thru, sometimes a CBP sniffer dog gets to noise around your vehicle. Sometimes they pull you aside and tear the seats out of your vehicle and you get to put it all back together yourself. (by the way, these checkpoints can be put up anywhere in the special enforcement area, which is ALL the way around the continental US, including ALL coastal areas)
What is missing is standard inspection stations for SOUTHBOUND traffic. Makes it easy for gun traffickers to earn some gig income hauling guns into Mexico. As more traffickers are getting busted, maybe Sec Nome and her goons will stop harassing lawful citizens and immigrants and focus on the criminals making sure Cartels are well armed.
Nah, just wishful and practical thinking on my part.
Maybe DU needs a 'hear-say' forum?
General discussion is one thing, but stuff that has no evidence being posted more and more is getting pretty weird. It'd be nice if it was all in one place and then could be moved to General Discussion if some actually information comes up.
Just spit balling here.
Check on GOP House reps in your area/state. Let me know if they are espousing this 'concern' re medical care resources
Trying to gauge how many GOP Reps besides Seldom Seen AZ 6 Rep Ciscomani's are voicing 'concern' and invoking a new GOP talking point to blame DEMs when rural medical care all but disappears under GOP policies.
Rural reps must be feeling insecure as so many rural facilities face disaster due to GOP funding slashes.
https://www.myheraldreview.com/news/cochise_county/ciscomani-urges-cms-to-ensure-fair-rural-health-fund-distribution/article_9911d7ae-1768-4740-a108-e4e5d4a36fe4.html?emailmd5=a1ac3f8b54e4f38eac45f2e75f54651c&emailsha1=24315811922823421145739103116121352153160199146216&emailsha256=71f7f3c212c9e68005bbed1843b7ab0ad44028a222d6a2196b39af31a4e88db3]
The lawmakers sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz regarding the Rural Health Transformation Fund, according to Ciscomani's office. The $50 billion program over five years represents the largest federal investment in rural hospitals and was enacted as part of the Working Families Tax Cut Act.
The Republicans expressed concern that funds could be diverted to urban centers rather than rural healthcare providers facing financial challenges. The letter was signed by representatives from states with Democratic governors, including Arizona, Washington, California, Minnesota and Colorado.
Re Firefox browser: anybody else who uses it as default browser notice a change in browser home page?
Just opened it after being offline for a few hours. All the 'tiles' of sites I use most often are gone. Stuff like news sites I check regularly, social media sites I use, and a few retail sites I use. POOF, vanished. Can't get that browser opening page back
Did Firefox do this to comply with Trump Administration wishes/command to slow people down from getting onto trusted sites quickly? Anybody else have this blank page staring at them when they open firefox tabs?
Meta Stock Drops On News It Used Taylor Swift As Chatbot Without Permission
https://gizmodo.com/meta-taylor-swift-chatbot-no-permission-2000651450]Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway, and Selena Gomez were also reportedly impersonated.
Many of these AI personas engaged in flirtatious or sexual conversations, prompting serious concern, Reuters reports.
While many of the celebrity bots were user-generated, Reuters uncovered that a Meta employee had personally crafted at least three.
::shaking my head::
Sorta think something HAS to be done about tech run amok. We have too many people already living in delusions instead of reality. This stuff isn't going to help over all national mental health.
Foul wind commin. Haboob-warning for a pretty big swath of our county and into some others
Put the vehicle in garage. I leave it out to cool off after running errands before putting it in the garage so garage doesn't get too hot . Put the dog cots in a safe place in the back yard so they don't take flight. Hoping neighbor's trampoline is well anchored. Have seen crashed trampolines in pretty weird places after big wind around here.
It's a big, long front, stretching for miles and miles. Phoenix gets these sorta regularly but they are rare where I live. This is second one this summer. Doesn't bode well for our futures.
Fingers crossed it won't be as bad as all the weather alerts said it might.
Glad I haven't dusted and vacuumed already today.
American Millennials Are Dying at an Alarming Rate - Updated
https://slate.com/technology/2025/08/millennials-gen-z-death-rates-america-high.html]But what surprised us was that, from today’s postpandemic vantage point, the American health disadvantage doesn’t look like a pandemic story at all. The U.S. mortality disadvantage has been growing at about the same rate for years, and while it spiked during COVID-19, it still continues to rise.
Here’s another way to put this: In 2023 there were about 700,000 “missing Americans”—those who died in 2023 but would be alive if they had lived somewhere else. And that 700,000 is almost exactly the number that we could’ve predicted back in 2019, based solely on prepandemic trends. COVID and relatively low vaccine adoption are a problem for Americans. But our country seems to be, at a deeper level, a deadly place to live. What’s more, all of the studies we have (with some limited exceptions, like a study specific to California) stop before Donald Trump began his second term with enormous cuts to medical and health research and, now, to Medicaid.
There is a heated—and productive—debate about exactly why the U.S. is so much worse than our peers at keeping its populace alive. One influential theory focuses on deindustrialization and the way that Americans without a college degree in particular have been left behind. Another focuses on the way that social safety nets in this country, such as for unemployment, sickness, and pensions, remain small and insufficient compared with other wealthy countries. Others point to problems in the U.S. health care system, such as uninsurance, underinsurance, and high co-payments and deductibles, and to underlying trends in chronic diseases that might be caused by nutritional policy failures. Still others highlight America’s permissive gun laws and the large amount of time we spend in our cars.
Missing from the info they provided: In the US, health insurance is mostly tied to employment. Would like to know the % of US jobs that actually provide the opportunity to get health insurance. Older people generally have help from the Medicare they paid into throughout their working years (and still pay for out of their Social Security benefits) and that helps, even when it requires supplemental insurance. As the corporate owned GOP moves to gut Medicare, olds will be dropping dead of treatable conditions much faster. One assumes that is part of the plan of the 'Pro Life Party".
If 'LIFE' is so precious that we must abolish bodily anatomy for women, why do we, as a nation, tolerate the dismal financial arrangements for helping to provide health care while shoveling money at corporate execs who hoard it all, thus keeping it out of circulation in the economy?
And safer gun laws? Don't make me laugh. That will only happen when more CEOs get dropped and the corporate ownership class starts buying pols who will put life ahead of the gun & ammo sector.
Trump admin flunkies resort to new take on worn out GOP 'libs can't take a joke' theme
White House responds to report of Alaska summit papers left on public printer: ‘Hilarious’
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5456381-white-house-responds-to-report-of-alaska-summit-papers-left-on-public-printer-hilarious/]
NPR reported that the eight papers, which contained information about meetings and locations of the summit, along with phone numbers of three U.S. government workers, were found on a hotel printer before the Friday Trump-Putin meeting at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson near Anchorage.
The first page of the papers showed the sequence of meetings for Friday, including information that the president would give Putin a gift. Pages two through five showed the names of the top U.S. and Russian officials in Alaska on Friday. Page two showed the phone numbers of three U.S. advance staffers. Pages six and seven showcased the lunch seating chart and the menu.
Yeah, the White House Boo-Boo-Clean-Up-Crew trying to brush off a security leak re meeting of leaders of the two most powerful nations as a menu? That sounds like 2025's version of the ol 'You libs can't take a joke' when a GOP pol trips over the foot he/she put in their own mouth.
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