Wes, Eneasz, and David discuss the news from the last two weeks from a rationalist perspective

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News discussed:

Ohio court blocks six-week abortion ban indefinitely 

Paypal will seize your assets to punish speech they don’t like. Anything that in their opinion promotes intolerance or is discriminatory.  

US Treasury Dept. bans math

Crimean Bridge blowed up

Kyiv bombed with long-range missiles in apparent retaliation 

And Belarus’ MoD talking about joining in the invasion 

Taiwanese MoD clarifies that they consider airspace incursions to be violations on Taiwanese sovereignty, to which they will respond with force 

Hurricanes are actually decreasing in number and intensity. 

EIA figures out some of what’s going wrong with ERCOT. It’s renewables. 

US getting into a slap fight with OPEC, Saudi Arabia in particular.

The Onion filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court. Quotes

Happy News!

A federal court issued an injunction against most of NY’s post-Bruen gun laws

A couple were mistakenly sent several crates of select-fire M16’s.

Biden pardoning everyone for weed possession 

Ontario extends the life of the Pickering Nuclear Power Plant 

House Republicans introd uce a bill to delay payment of startups’ NRC bills until after the conclusion of the NRC’s review process

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