Baked In

In 2022, there were more than 600 mass shootings in the U.S. in which at least four people were killed or injured, according to the Gun Violence Archive.

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A highly drug-resistant strain of gonorrhea has been detected in the U.S. for the first time, raising concerns among public health officials about the scarcity of treatments and a future when gonorrhea could become untreatable.
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health said on Jan. 19 that it had detected two cases of a novel strain of gonorrhea that was more impervious to existing antibiotics than any other strain previously recorded in the U.S.

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The families, who filed their suit on Thursday, say dealers used snapchat to communicate with their kids to sell fake prescription drugs, many of which were laced with fentanyl, and that the popular app ultimately helped lead to the deaths of their children.
According to a report by ABC News, Snapchat was implicated in 75% of overdose deaths among teens 13 to 18. The main reason for its popularity among drug dealers is that the app has features that are conducive to illegal activity – specifically, messages disappear after being sent, so there’s no evidence of deals.

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Baked In

Jack Phillips’ successful U.S. Supreme Court case concerned his refusal to make a same-sex wedding cake. He said he could not bake a cake for a ceremony his religion opposed. Not people, ceremony.

He now faces a civil lawsuit for declining to make a cake celebrating a purported gender transition of a transgender-identifying attorney. Again he states he is happy to make the person a birthday cake but can't make a cake celebrating something his religion opposes. (He doesn't make Halloween cakes either.)

So the edge of the culture is hunting this guy? Will he be subjected to social tests for the rest of his life? Is the idea here to break him? Make him change his mind? Is this the agenda for outliers?

And will we be forced to pay for these little projects?

What is wrong with these people?