Literally all the gun safety that a child requires is:
We should teach that in school. Further gun safety (and usage) can be handled by a variety of organizations.
Those are along the lines I was thinking, but when you start approaching older ages, a few more lessons need to be taught.
Too many folks unfamiliar with firearms don’t appreciate that you keep EVERYTHING away from the trigger, unless you’re prepared for the gun to go boom.
Also, because people are idiots, the importance of not pointing a firearm at anything you aren’t prepared to destroy (including whatever’s behind what’s being pointed at).
For teens, it’d certainly be appropriate to instill the importance of firearms being kept locked in safes when not under other active control, and to discuss what to do when a gun owner clearly shouldn’t have a gun. (E.g., after my wife’s stroke, a social services person at the hospital took me aside, to check whether we had any guns at home, and to ensure that I was making sure they were inaccessible to my wife before they’d consider discharging her.)
Some “rookie mistakes” have bigger consequences than others. Lavrov is no rookie so will make mincemeat of Hegseth in Russia-US discussions on Ukraine unless Hegseth is muzzled.
Jesus, I didn’t know about
Wicker told Politico on Friday in Munich that he was ‘surprised’ by Hegseth’s remarks and ‘heartened’ to see him walk them back. Hegseth appeared to reverse the remark while speaking to reporters on Thursday when he said ‘everything is on the table’ when it comes to negotiations between Ukraine and Russia as the Trump administration pushed for a peace deal. But he then doubled down on his Wednesday comments on Friday, contradicting Wicker’s assertion that he walked them back.
Love this flip-flopping on our national defense in the tensest theater between the US and Russia.
Hegseth is a loose cannon. Rubio hopefully will be more careful in discussions with Lavrov. This is such a critical negotiation: too much at stake for amateur hour
I don’t normally get excited about bills introduced in legislative bodies until it’s clear that they have legs. However, I do think this counts as a darndest thing.
Two cults, one holiday.
If by “more careful” you mean “will leave no doubt he’ll curl up in Lavrov’s lap on command and look at least as weak as Trump did in Helsinki, if not far more weak” then don’t worry. Rubio isn’t just a pro at being impotent when he needs to stand up to someone else, he’s world-class at it.
If Pence isn’t careful, Trump will send his mob to try to lynch him again.
I thought it was a great move to link to Fox News. A lot of conservatives view Fox as liberal trash now ever since they called AZ for Biden in 2020, but a lot still hold to Fox as the ultimate source of truth.
If ever there was an unforgivable act… 
The Mississippi Legislature is not a public body and not subject to the state’s Open Meetings Act, a Hinds County Chancery Court judge ruled Tuesday, affirming a 2023 Mississippi Ethics Commission finding and rejecting an appeal from the Mississippi Free Press.
The decision clears the way for Mississippi’s Republican House majority to continue operating in secret, gathering a quorum of legislators to plan votes and shape legislative agendas without public access to their proceedings.
Should that belong in the Political Humor thread?
I don’t see the final ruling, but if it’s consistent with the Ethics Commission proposed opinion, the headline would be misleading.
The three findings in the linked document were:
…and that seems reasonable.
That a single political party effectively wields all power in a particular legislature is more a problem with the architecture of a government than something that should be subject to the sunshine law.
Yeah saying that the House of Representatives is a public body but the Republican Caucus is not is reasonable.
Now if the caucus is meeting with only caucus members then they can’t call a vote… that should only be done with the full House (including any Dems that exist) in a public setting and reporters allowed.
But if they do all the horse trading in a smoke filled back room somewhere and then, knowing that they have the votes, call for a vote in the public setting with the full House then that’s legit. (Not great, but allowed.)
I suspect they can call a vote, but that the vote is not legally binding on anyone. Gets much hazier if they then do have the public vote and they all vote for the caucus vote result, especially if they give that as their reason. But probably legal and probably should be legal.
Musk goes on Fox and starts his usual lies and propaganda. He gets called out directly by Andreas Mogenson. Mogenson was ISS commander, and also was a pilot for SpaceX.
He hasn’t gotten banned yet from X, but I imagine he won’t be flying for SpaceX again.
Meanwhile Musk is pitching a fit and calling Mogenson “retarded”
Right, they can do whatever they want behind closed doors but the official vote needs to be public, with press and Democrats and everything.
If they want to wait to call the vote until they’re sure they have the votes to get it to pass (maybe they have to appoint this Rep to a more prestigious committee and build a bridge in that Rep’s district to get them on board)… that’s just politics as usual.
Not super fantastic, but the way of the world.
Musk is now calling for defunding the ISS and accelerating it’s planned retirement
Depends on the wording of the open meetings law that applies. In my state, the law says even unofficial gatherings of elected officials are subject to disclosure. Our city council won’t meet with individuals/groups with more 1 (maybe2?) councilors present unless it is official. So it’s like a bunch of round robin if you want to build a concensus using in person meetings.
