But what about Biden’s age!
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But what about Biden’s age!
In the nine months that I’ve owned a PHEV, my long term average is 140 MPG. (Our other vehicle for last five years is an EV)
Hmmmm. Perhaps something called “News media” could be invented to INFORM people…
Is “alternative medicine” based upon “alternative facts?”
This is beyond ignorant absurdity. Brilliantly conceived and executed clinical trials were conducted and results were published. This is pure bullshit for ignorant MAGA. www.cnbc.com/2025/09/01/t...
The old sleight of hand. This is how they conduct business.
But then who will win the Darwin Awards?
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
1A does not confer any "right" to lie. Creationism is grotesquely dishonest about massive evidence. It is a lie...a fraud. Any assertion that there was a Noah's Ark that carried dinosaurs is not just silly ignorance. It is dishonest, therefore immoral.
This from a Nature briefing in my inbox today should be seen as a test of the intelligence, morality, and sanity of Republicans.
Any society which actually gave a damn about human health would napalm the tobacco fields.
But it’s not just RFK Jr’s vaccine lies. It a whole package of dishonesty. Could be better fought, not as a “scientific” but rather as a moral issue. People don’t like to be lied to. Creationism is a lie, as is homeopathy, astrology, climate and election denial, etc. Demand honesty about everything!
This will sure Make America Great Again. Trump is a disaster…brought to you (and sponsored) by Fox “News” and the GOP.
🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon & adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did 🩸🩸🩸
If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.
After seeing this headline in local news this AM - University Heights mayor: Man in custody after backyard 'target practice' damages nearby property with bullets It occurred to me that the insanity of gun nuttery is the only psychopathology which is actively promoted.
Interesting discussion about the AMA. Would it be too radical for the AMA to speak out forcibly against make-believe…fantasies…lies…that threaten human health and results in premature death and avoidable disability? apple.news/APP46fmLbRbG...
In Bloomberg Weekend -
This raises serious question about the legitimacy of the U.S. government, which will be controlled by a smaller and smaller minority of wealthy, white, bigoted, regressive Christian Nationalists. So, the Democratic Party will issue strongly worded statements of concern.
Gerymandered state legislative districts magnify minority control in states, which can then gerrymander federal districts, leading to permanent minority control of US House of Reps. Minority controls Senate by original design. End of gov’t by democratic majority. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
From Nature Briefing today, August 29, 2025
It seems that it's not sufficient for Trump/MAGA/GOP to returns our economic system back to feudalism, but also to turn our medical system back to pre-scientific times. Conservatives are often described as "regressive," but what we are seeing now is regressive on steroids.
This from The Guardian article on the insanity in HHS and destruction of the CDC -
IT’s almost like pathogenic viruses have lobbyists and make campaign contributions to the GOP.
OK, but the overall cost of the system needs to be cut. One place to start is with the enormous % of the so-called health care dollar that feeds the health care insurance industry, which may actually filter out up to ⅓ of the dollars before payments for the actual delivery of health care.
Sorry Patty. You are letting RFK, Jr. burn down everything - by not organizing and promoting the only thing that will work: mass action. Only a real mass action - EVERY SINGLE employee of the CDC walking out - will fix this.
There is absolutely no hope unless there is mass action: every single employee of the CDC walking out and refusing to go back to work until he is gone. And this kind of mass action should not stop with the CDC. Other government agencies are being destroyed.
This will get worse until EVERY SINGLE employee at the CDC walks out. "Strongly worded statements of concern" won't fix it. Protest signs won't fix it. Phone calls to dishonest GOP politicians won't fix it. Only mass action may have a chance of fixing this. And it shouldn't just be the CDC.
Is the Tooth Fairy also listening? How about Tinker Bell? Or Santa Clause? Or Thor? How about Odin?
"Literally no one thinks prayer is a substitute for action." Then why is prayer, literally, *always* the substitute for action, you willfully obtuse asshole?
They could finish the phrase: "...a horrific attack by a 'deranged shooter' who had easy access to a device designed to maim and kill."
The Freedom From Religion Foundation - ffrf.org - and its publication FreeThought Today are commemorating 100 years since the Scopes Trial. From one article in the current edition -
"Trump Explodes in Rage" is nice, but even nicer would be: "Trump Explodes." newrepublic.com/article/1997... via @newrepublic.com
Starbucks CEO pay: $96 MILLION Starbucks worker pay: $15,000 Coca-Cola CEO pay: $28 MILLION Coca-Cola worker pay: $14,000 CEOs used to make like 20x the average worker. In 2024, the average CEO earned 632x more. The system is rigged.
It gets worse and worse. "Strongly worded statements of concern" do nothing. Only mass action will have any effect. Every single decent human being working at the CDC should refuse to work tomorrow.
Won’t happen without an opposition party capable of convincing Americans that 2+2=4.
A woman I worked with was gushing thanks to “God” for saving her husband’s life, with not a word about the pinnacle of competence and professionalism of the EMTs, nurses, physicians, and technicians who actually saved his life, and who gained that capability only after years of study and training.
If reason and decency were the driving factors… But this is a political calculation by the GOP, which has no concern for fact, science, reason, or decency.
Nice. But while I see wonderful individual Democrats and “Democratic organizations,” where is the Democratic Party with its deep resources and organization? Hiding? We are in an existential fight. If this war is only fought by the GOP, while the Dem Party issues “statements of concern”…
Exactly. Trump has given political power to insanity and ignorance. And he has been aided by the GOP. Too bad there’s no opposition party with effective messaging.
Are you saying that Trump is breaking wind in the U.S.?
MAGA goons and loons are vectors of disease, like the anopheles mosquito which transmit malaria. www.cnn.com/2025/08/28/p...
The headline reads: “FBI investigating US school attack as domestic terrorism” The terrorism is from the right wing gun nuts and the Supreme Court. 2A, referring to a “well regulated militia”, gives the right to bear arms to “the people” (collective or pleural word), not to “individuals.”
Were those who wrote 2A not very well educated? They didn't know the word "individuals," so that's why that word is not in the amendment? They used the pleural or collective word "people" (rather than "individuals") by mistake? They were confused about the meaning of the phrase "well regulated"????
Champagne sales are up at the Putin residence.
37% approve of Trump??? 37% are ______ _______ _______ ______(fill in the blanks)
Thanks for letting me know. No Toyotas in our future.
This is what MAGA does: Decimate reason-based and scientific fact-based public health.
Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Headline on today’s mass shooting: Minneapolis mass shooting triggers outcry over gun violence prevalence An outcry won’t do anything because the gun nuts, the GOP, the Supreme Court, the NRA, etc just don’t give a shit.
I’ve posted a lot about giving up on the feeble Democratic Party But this campaign might get my support. www.science.org/content/arti...
Scientific American is 180 years old and has a new editor. This editorial is charming, poignant, and timely. The "full about face" is evidence of the honesty of the scientific process, which is honest about evidence, even when it upsets the apple cart. www.scientificamerican.com/article/180-...
Not nearly enough of just saying "no" to Trump, RFK, Jr. and the rest of the cabal running amok in DC. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
With economic development accelerating in many countries, the power of of humanity to harm nature grows, and we might deeply regret not paying attention to arguments like this one - www.scientificamerican.com/article/an-u...
Sort of a "must read this" - open.substack.com/pub/ryandbus...
Nespresso coffee pods are made from aluminum which is partially recycled, and the pods can easily be returned for recycling.
But it’s not just an effort to free the hostages taken by criminal Hamas. Many (maybe most) Israelis are nauseated by what the (minority) right wing Israeli gov’t is doing in Gaza. The right wing hyper-religious zealots are damaging Israel just as they are damaging the U.S.
My current favorite bit of right-wing Christian hypocrisy is Ken Paxton, a man whose wife is divorcing him for adultery, forcing Texas schools to unconstitutionally post "Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery." www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
Absolutely tragic for our democracy that this is NOT the mindset of the Democratic Party, which is doing little more than issuing statements of concern…from a supine position.
Every. Single. ICE agent. Every. Single. DHS agent. At Nuremberg. Every. Single. One.
If there really was some sort of “deep state” then this sort of refusal to obey Trump’s illegal commands would have been a daily, if not hourly, news story for the last several months.
I assume that the sandwich wasn’t toasted. If it had been, those prosecutors would allege those stiffened pieces of bread to be assault weapons.
I wrote about the manifestly illegal attempt to fire Lisa Cook 1/ paulkrugman.substack.com/p/in-the-mat...
Urban planners and other civil servants should have a strong professional responsibility - and moral obligation - to design a physical infrastructure that is not totally dominated by motorized transport.
After BoatUS magazine published an article on how Trump’s cuts to NOAA would endanger the lives of boaters, idiotic and malignant Trump cultists accused the editors of “political advocacy.” The editors basically replied that reality could not be ignored. www.science.org/content/arti...
Inflation rose by 22.6% from 2019-2024. In that same period, the 100 lowest-paying corporations paid their CEOs 34.7% more. They only raised employee pay by 16.3%. But they spent $644 BILLION on self-enriching stock buybacks. TRICKLE-DOWN IS A SCAM.
There needs to be much more transparency about how much of the American "health care dollar" goes to actual health care (preventing, diagnosing, and treating disease) and how much goes to parasitic activity like the health care insurance industry. I bet that most people would be astonished.
My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
Can these numbers be changed with a Sharpie? Shouldn't whoever came up with these numbers be fired? Surely if we can find some "expert" somewhere, no matter how crackpot or insanely partisan (or corrupt) they are who says the numbers are wrong, then isn't there scientific doubt?
Screw their damned "anxieties." Ignorance is ignorance. Fantasy is fantasy. Lies are lies.
The proof of science being far more moral than most human activities - certainly far more moral than fundamentalist religion - is that science admits its mistakes when better evidence is established...even publishes corrections very openly.
The second amendment guarantees the right to a militia to guard against federal tyranny. But if a president can use that force against its own state, against the wishes of that state, then it is no militia at all and a clear violation of the second amendment.
No they won't. Those in the right wing/"libertarian" cult won't even realize it then.
Unless of course the investments were made with cryptocurrency.
Diary of Anne Frank is now banned in Florida schools, I assume it is because (1) negative portrayal of Nazis (2) positive portrayal of hiding innocent people being hunted by Nazis (3) general hatred of free speech (4) good old antisemitism
Legal Fictions are often blithely accepted by society, but any such fiction which distorts reality should be rejected by sane, moral people. Corporations are not people, and therefore cannot be citizens. It is a legal fiction created to make extreme wealth dominate the rest of the population.
THANK YOU FOR WATCHING THE LYING LIARS & NEWS STINKERS OF FOX "NEWS" SO WE DON'T HAVE TO! IT IS VERY MUCH APPRECIATED BY THOSE OF US WHO VALUE HONESTY, INTEGRITY & DECENCY WHILE ALLOWING US TO CONSUME ACTUAL FACTS WITHOUT THEIR BRAINWASHING TECHNIQUES & ABILITY TO TRIGGER BOUTS OF VIOLENT NAUSEA. 🤮
Welcome to The Republic of Gilead.
John Roberts is truly one of the greatest villains in American history.
The media - not just the right wing propaganda machine - is destroying this country when they fail to make it a headline that one side is lying. The public is supposed to be informed by the media. What is more important than being informed that one side is making false claims?
Moral and ethical Israelis have been feeling the emotional pain for a long time. Many Israelis are disgusted by the policies of the right wing government of Israel which is supported by cultish, extreme "orthodox" Jews.
This will surely Make America Great Again. stocks.apple.com/AhvHgZRksQVu...
If you read this, or countless other similar discussions, you will notice two words missing: "honesty," and "dishonesty" (about facts). The absence of those words is found in innumerable discussions of Creationism, climate science denial, election denial, etc. apple.news/Adqbj5GdLSHe...
It’s interesting that people don’t even blink when the expression “even he understands” is often used to refer to Trump. It should be Earth-shaking when that expression is used about the President of the U.S. In addition to wanting honest and decent leaders, I want smart and well-educated leaders.
Who is behind the curtain, pulling the levers which operate this Lizard of Odd?
For the millionth time in their pathetic stupid lives, MAGA believes what they hear from the likes of Stephen Miller.
Is there a long thread detailing how the Democratic Party has successfully stopped Trump and the GOP from eroding democracy, undermining public health, empowering corruption, severely damaging academic research, and made a mockery of the rule of law? Oh, I forgot those “statements of concern.”
But according to RFK, Jr. I will be able to resist viruses if I eat my vegetables. It’s a good thing people started eating their veggies decades ago and stopped the polio epidemic. There should be mandated vaccinations against the virus of intentional ignorance, such as watching Fox “News.”
My wife and I are in our 70’s and live in Cleveland, OH. Two weeks ago we felt safe walking the streets and in Central Park in NYC. We are going back in October, and will likely take the Subway with no fear, because we don’t stupidly watch Fox “News.”
How about something as simple and basic as honesty about facts? I refuse to “see eye to eye” with a dishonest person who chooses to lie about proven facts, such as evolution, climate science, risk:benefit ratio of vaccination, election results, measured crime rates, increasing wealth concentration.
Gee golly, let’s all get our understanding of climate science from Fox “News.” It might damn us to hell to read, say, Scientific American, or Science Magazine (weekly from AAAS), or, heaven forbid, a Nature journal. Goodness gracious!
Yes, but Trump is doing everything possible to justify utter contempt for intentional ignorance, “alternative facts,” indecency towards “the other,” and turning a blind eye to corruption.
Nice try, but like trying to reason with a rabid bat.
This illustrates why our household dropped two NYT subscriptions.
Anyone who believes Judith Curry is remarkably stupid and abysmally ignorant… Maybe even less intelligent than those who believe Trump.
Second, via @carbonbrief.org: interactive.carbonbrief.org/doe-factchec...
Ohio GOP chair is a piece of feces. “Unwarranted”??? For the crowd to be pissed at being lied to? Fox “News” viewers seem to enjoy being lied to, but not City Club members. www.cleveland.com/open/2025/08...