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July 22, 2025
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SO IF YOU’RE WORRIED ABOUT THIS, YOU’RE NOT CRAZY: US begins organ-transplant reform as ‘signs of life’ found before some retrievals. “The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has launched a reform of the organ-transplant system and threatened to close a major procurement body, after a probe found premature attempts to start organ retrieval while patients showed signs of life.”
VLADIMIR, YOU’VE LOST ANOTHER SUPREME COURT JUDGE?
BREAKING:
Irina Podnosova, head of the Russian Supreme Court, has died suddenly in Moscow
She was appointed to this position just over a year ago following the equally sudden death of the former head of the Supreme Court. She was personally nominated for the position by Putin. pic.twitter.com/CktEVKsVZA
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) July 22, 2025
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WYOMING: KelTec Gun Factory In Rock Springs Aims To Churn Out 1,000 Pistols Per Week.
Following a trend of firearms companies setting up shop in gun-friendly Wyoming, the KelTec factory in Rock Springs is up and running, with a goal of churning out 1,000 of the company’s new PR57 pistols every week.
The operation was years in the making. The Florida-based company announced plans for its KelTec West factory in Rock Springs in 2022.
Wyoming’s Second Amendment-friendly culture and politics played a big part in choosing Rock Springs when the company decided to expand its operating capacity, KelTec West plant operations manager Chris Williams told Cowboy State Daily.“At the time (2022), Florida was teetering purple,” he said about the political climate there. “Wyoming is a solid red state, and it looks like it’s going to stay solid for decades to come.”
Other firearms companies that recently set up shop in Wyoming, such as Weatherby in Sheridan, have cited similar reasons for setting up shop in the Cowboy State.
Wyoming is happy to do the jobs Colorado is no longer allowed to do.
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DON’T PUBLICLY RIP THE BOSS WHEN YOU’RE LOSING THE COMPANY MONEY:
One of my rules of thumb for conspiracy theories is: Always look for the lesser conspiracy. People cover up embarrassments, in ways that look like coverups of crimes. They lie to conceal smaller lies. Here, we have more than an adequate basis to explain why CBS decided to sack Colbert. But why now? I don’t know the answer, but I do know that if you are losing your bosses tens of millions of dollars a year, that’s not a good time to publicly criticize them on the TV show they are subsidizing. If you are hunting for reasons beyond the bottom line for why he got fired, maybe look past his criticisms of Trump (which he’s been lobbing for a decade now) and look at his public criticisms of the people who were in charge of deciding whether to keep his show on the air. If Colbert’s show was wildly profitable, you might rightly suspect that it was politics to cancel him. If Colbert’s show was wildly profitable, the network would probably have looked the other way at him ripping the suits — just as CBS (and NBC before it) long tolerated David Letterman’s use of the Late Night and Late Show platforms to beat up on his own networks. But when you’re losing that much money, politics is an easier explanation for why he didn’t get fired much sooner. And when you’re costing the company a fortune, that’s the wrong time to also become a public-relations headache.
If anything, the more sensible conspiratorial explanation is one we’ve seen before from failing pro athletes deciding to get political when they were on the verge of getting cut: Colbert could read the writing on the wall that his show’s days were numbered, and decided to make a big public stink about the CBS settlement either in the hopes of making it radioactive to fire him, or at least with the intention of constructing a martyrdom narrative for his show’s failure. That’s not much of a conspiracy, given that it’s just the interior motivations of one man. But it makes at least as much sense as anything the critics of his firing are peddling.
And that’s where Colbert is today:
Note that Colbert had his armada of writers had the entire weekend to prepare him to come out swinging last night:
RIP: Ozzy Osbourne dead at 76. “Osbourne recently performed his final concert with [Black Sabbath] in Birmingham, England. The ‘Iron Man’ singer was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 2003. However, he didn’t speak publicly about his diagnosis until 2020.”
TIPPI HEDREN, CALL YOUR OFFICE! Gull smashes cockpit of £73m Spanish fighter jet. “Bird collisions with aircraft are a regular occurrence, with 13,000 reported annually in the US alone – but for a bird to shatter a pilot’s glass window, and for a photographer to capture the scene, is exceedingly rare.”
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