San Francisco Just Decriminalized Shrooms
San Francisco unanimously passed a resolution this week that decriminalizes plant-based psychedelics like shrooms, ayahuasca, and peyote.
As reported by VICE News and elsewhere, San Francisco has become the latest U.S. city to decriminalize psychedelics like magic mushrooms and ayahuasca. A resolution passed unanimously by the city’s Board of Supervisors Tuesday says arresting people for using, growing, and distributing federally banned plant-based psychedelics like shrooms, ayahuasca, and peyote shall be “the lowest law enforcement priority” and that “no city resources should be used for investigations tied to the use of psychedelics.” The resolution also calls for the state and federal government to decriminalize psychedelics.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgya43/san-francisco-decriminialized-shrooms
“And on the eighth day, God said: Let Mastriano win Pennsylvania.” Uh huh…
Her name is Julie Green, and “she personally receives messages directly from God, sometimes … twice a day,” or so she says, when He instructs her to turn on certain recordings and then speaks to her through the music’s “frequencies.” In an entertaining, if not somewhat frightening, OpEd piece in the Washington Post, author and journalist Dana Milbank offers us a glimpse into the kind of support that the MAGA Gubernatorial candidate in Pennsylvania, Doug Mastriano, is leaning into, expecting it to take him over the finish line in November. Mastriano, as you may recall, is the ultra-MAGA Republican known for wearing a Confederate uniform, doing business with a white nationalist website, calling Roe v. Wade worse than the Holocaust, associating with militia figures from groups including the Oath Keepers, appearing at the Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection, sharing QAnon conspiracy ideas, anti-Semitic propaganda and anti-Muslim hatred. Other than that, he’s apparently got God on his side, as God plans to smite any competition.
God, “speaking through Green,” disclosed that “elites” have done “human sacrifices” and “manipulated even the weather.” Arizona’s Republican Gov. Doug Ducey supposedly “sold his soul to the devil” for not overturning Biden’s 2020 win in Arizona, therefore “treason will be written on you for all eternity.” Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) apparently “formulated plans to throw out [Trump] from his rightful position as president. … You will pay with your life,” says Green, whoops, was that God? So very Christ-like…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/09/doug-mastriano-prophet-julie-green/
Trump told aides he kept secret documents on Russia over fear Biden would ‘shred’ them, report says
In a classic example of “projection,” Donald Trump reportedly told his close aides that he felt the need to preserve documents related to the Russian collusion investigation over fears the Joe Biden administration would “shred” them. As reported by Rolling Stone and the Independent UK, Trump was "concerned" Mr Biden's administration, which he called the “deep state” would “shred”, bury, or destroy “the evidence” that could prove Trump was “wronged.” This information comes a month after the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) seized a trove of classified documents, which included nuclear secrets of an unnamed foreign nation, from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort and residence in Florida. Still missing are the contents of multiple empty folders found at Mar-A-Lago, with designations such as “Top Secret” and “Highly Confidential”…
Trump threatens to sue Fox News over ad that calls his supporters 'Suckers’
Trump announced last week on his reportedly financially challenged Truth Social platform that he is considering suing FOX News for “false advertising” after an “insulting” ad created by The Lincoln Project aired on Fox News, in one local market — where Trump owns a golf course. The ad did not air nationally. As reported by Huffington Post and elsewhere, the ad, titled “Sucker,” basically explains to MAGA Republicans why they are suckers for believing basically anything Trump tells them. Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson said Trump’s lawsuit threat was “just like the former president…impotent, flabby, and pathetic.” Here’s the ad, for your own review…
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