Linkee-poo if I had a heart I could love you

"Over the last few days, users have posted false claims that they were attacked by blacks while going to see 'Black Panther,' the first movie from Marvel Studios led by a predominantly black cast." Remember that guy that carved letters into his cheek, only to forget about the mirror image effect? It's that again, only in this case they're not even willing to beat themselves up about it.

"Europe has seen a big surge in measles cases in 2017, which the World Health Organization says is a tragedy after a record low of 5,273 cases in 2016… Cases increased four-fold, with more than 20,000 people affected and 35 deaths." Whispers, "it's also on the rise in the US."

"Among adults 55 and younger, women may be more likely than men to experience lesser-known acute heart attack symptoms in addition to chest pain, a new study has found… And more than half of the doctors seeing women who seek care for those symptoms, prior to being hospitalized, might not even realize that the symptoms are heart-related, the study suggests." I can't tell you how many times I've had to assure people that it was the right decision to come to the ER (even though most are not heart attacks). I've seen enough people come in on the Lucas. You do not want that.

There's trouble, my friend. Trouble right here in the UK. With a capital T that rhymes with C and that stands for chicken. "Until 13 February, KFC's chicken was delivered by specialist food distribution group Bidvest… But after the contract switched to DHL, many of the food giant's outlets began running out of chicken products." How's that union busting going for ya, KFC?

"Theresa May surpassed nine reports proving immigration has little effect on employment or wages." Conservatives gonna conservatate or something like that. (Grokked from Laura J Mixon)

"One of the most common themes among the Fox fans was that the students were being paid by a shadowy left-wing donor to speak out, while other commenters accused the students of swallowing too many Tide Pods." Fox News is not sending us their best… (Grokked from Elizabeth Bear)

"Large majorities of Americans say neither President Donald Trump nor Congress are doing enough to try to prevent mass shootings like the one that took 17 lives in Parkland, Florida, last week, with improved mental health screening and treatment leading the public’s preferences for action." Just a reminder that the GOP let the assault weapons ban expire in 2004 and dismantled the public mental health system in the middle 80s. NRA money is a powerful drug. Remember after Vegas how everyone was for banning "bump stocks"? See how far that got us?

"'The lives of the richest people in the world are so different from those of the rest of us, it's almost literally unimaginable. National borders are nothing to them. They might as well not exist. The laws are nothing to them. They might as well not exist.'" A Hidden Brain podcast repeat on the lives of the wealthy as told through their wealth managers.

A story from about a year ago. "A month before Donald Trump clinched the Republican nomination, one of his closest allies in Congress — House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy — made a politically explosive assertion in a private conversation on Capitol Hill with his fellow GOP leaders… 'There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump,' McCarthy (R-Calif.) said, according to a recording of the June 15, 2016, exchange…House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) immediately interjected, stopping the conversation from further exploring McCarthy’s assertion, and swore the Republicans present to secrecy… Before the conversation, McCarthy and Ryan had emerged from separate talks at the Capitol with Ukrainian Prime Minister Vladi­mir Groysman, who had described a Kremlin tactic of financing populist politicians to undercut Eastern European democratic institutions." So what does that make the Majority Leader and Speaker of the House? (Grokked from Kathryn Cramer)

Why look, it's another shoe. "Van Der Zwaan allegedly lied about his last communications with Gates and then deleted emails requested by the special counsel’s office, according to the indictment… He allegedly did so as part of his work for a firm hired by the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice to prepare a report on the trial of Yulia Tymoshenko, a former prime minister of Ukraine." (Grokked from Dan)

"For a few weeks in late November, as speculation over whether President Donald Trump would fire his secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, reached a fever pitch, Trump and his chief of staff, John Kelly, also considered pushing out another top national security official: H.R. McMaster."

"In a tweet on Monday, the president endorsed Romney to fill the U.S. Senate seat left open by the retirement of Utah's Orrin Hatch." That's probably the shrewdest move I've seen Trump make. So while you see Romney make the case for how he's "anti-Trump" you can be confident it's all an act for the cameras. Plus I wonder how many times we need to see the video of "Corporations are people, my friend" again?

"Over the weekend, Rep. Mike Bost (R-IL) delivered a bagful of thoughts and prayers to Donald Trump, presumably as a response to the tragedy in Parkland, Florida. (I think this is now the official GOP response to all mass shootings.)" Oh. My. God. (Grokked from Joshua Parker)

Tweet of my heart: @NicoleK8686 The same people that said 13 and 14 year olds were perfectly mature enough to date Roy Moore are now saying 17 and 18 year olds are too immature to have opinions on gun control. (Grokked from Kathryn Cramer)