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Yes, it is an issue “of right & wrong”, and Ladapo is clearly wrong.
Correction - No facts drive Mike Lee. Just more lies as the liar in chief’s congressional lapdog.
FAFO - cannot say it frequently or loudly enough
Scout says: Step away from the slipper…. slowly… this slipper is now mine… #catsofbluesky
I posted this same thought earlier. This clearly violates the Hippocratic oath.
Finally! Nothing in NYT or WAPO yet. Didn’t see anything on cbs or abc. WSJ appears silent also.
The lack of mainstream media coverage is absolutely deafening.
This describes most major media outlets, I believe. As of this evening, NOTHING in the NYT. The media yet again shows us its fecklessness in the face of tyranny. Kinda like Congress and scotus.
Both can be true…
Imagine, being such an coward you’ll ask for domestic military occupation in exchange for the illusion of “safety”. F-wits.
Boycott the US. Open!!!
Trying to apply logic to this outrageous and frankly stupid claim risks indirectly legitimizing it. Any “logical” rebuttal implies there was some logic to the ridiculous claim in the first place.
Be nice if the media covered this!
78,000 manufacturing jobs lost in 2025. Turns out when you tariff each raw input of a product, it compounds into making the cost of production and selling of the product non viable! Who knew! www.usatoday.com/story/money/...
This is entirely consistent with China’s and Russia’s foreign policy goals. Nice work, Don!
Isn’t it interesting that there virtually no national coverage of these demonstrations? Has the press been cowed that easily?
What part of this do Republican legislators think is good for the US? Or constitutional? Or ethical? Or helpful in any way?
I’m betting that Trump and his cabinet members couldn’t have passed the old test apple.news/AC8SI-xl0QZC...
I used to be skeptical that the “Epstein files” contained anything clearly incriminating about Donald, but his and the republicans’ chaotic grasping at straws to dismiss them persuades me I was wrong. Trump is guilty AF.
Will the FBI please release the records of Trump’s recruitment as an informant against the sex crime ring in which he was a participant - but only so he could bring them to justice?
This needs to be reposted. As many times as possible.
Informants are typically also participants. So I guess he’s ironically honest - Trump did it!
So what’s up with what appears to be a media blackout on these demonstrations!?
Yes - informant in the sense that informants are typically also participants.
It’s in poor taste by any standard except a tacky emperor’s. A national embarrassment.
That would be one side of the story. But also: www.npr.org/2025/08/21/n....
This ass is a physician!?? No professional body to discipline “Dr.” Ladapo for malpractice and violating the Hippocratic oath?
Nice!
I guess no one told him this doesn’t really fit with the whole Nobel Peace Prize thing…
Interestingly, this is not being widely reported in the press.
NOW he says something!?
Openly acknowledging he’s using “The Department of War” to invade Chicago. WTF, Scotus and Republican legislators!!??
And can’t figure out what to do. I’ve written letters, made calls, bout buying seems to be crystallizing in terms of mass opposition. Could 70 years of prosperity have made us soft?
Oil companies in Texas requested permission to burn off or release more than 195 billion cubic feet of natural gas per year — enough to power more than 3 million homes and generate millions in tax revenue had the gas been captured. W/ @insideclimatenews.org & @texastribune.org
I’m willing to bet the sites shown for China and Russia are a mistaken release of classified information on the location of US safe houses. Hegseth was “distracted” when he approved this for release.
Way to embody “the evil empire”!
My skepticism is not about teachers, but about administrators and politicians using this as a tool to further increase class sizes and further reduce teachers’ direct involvement in teaching. Used correctly AI can be a blessing - exactly what experience suggests politicians will use it as such?
He already has!
Maralago north?
Don’t get me wrong - I recognize plastic containers are a pox on the environment, but our system has adjusted to the lightweight and cheap production costs of plastics. Gonna really hurt to change it.
I’ve wondered about the practical economics of a return to glass. It’s a much greater weight per bottle than plastic, meaning reduced shipping volumes and increased shipping costs. Seems like it would make distribution costs prohibitive, and glass costs more than plastic to produce.
Read that again - “motivating rather than teaching”. This is bullshit. We don’t need teachers to be “influencers”, we need them to teach. And this is not a criticism of teachers, but of asshats who repeatedly, despite history, try educating without really teaching.
At this point, the most reasonable explanation for Trump’s behavior is that the Russians have been blackmailing him with details of his Epstein adventures. Explains both his rapid disassembly of our institutions and his contortions on the Epstein files.
At this point, the most reasonable explanation for Trump’s behavior is that the Russians have been blackmailing him with details of his Epstein adventures. Explains both his rapid disassembly of our institutions and his contortions on the Epstein files.
At this point, the most reasonable explanation for Trump’s behavior is that the Russians have been blackmailing him with details of his Epstein adventures. Explains both his rapid disassembly of our institutions and his contortions on the Epstein files.
If you haven't seen the latest episode of Southpark, go watch!
Well thanks for using your decades of experience and knowledge of arcane chamber rules to DO NOTHING about his excesses. And you didn’t vote to impeach!?
Statistics don’t make you safe but do accurately describe that the likelihood of being a victim of crime is highest in about seven red states before you get to a blue state. And higher in a place like, say, Pine Bluff AK than in Chicago IL. Caring about our safety starts with understanding stats.
I thought this was a congressional function?
Third, you STILL don’t get the difference between raw numbers and population corrected rates. I’d rather be in a large blue city with a 1/2,000 chance of crime than in a small ted city with a 10/2,000 chance of crime. Oh, punctuation and sentences are real things. Expand your horizons & try them.
But not enough to actually bag the fool.
Cresting or renaming cabinet departments is yet another legislative function republicans appear willing to abdicate to the president. Boy are they gonna be bummed when a democratic president gets elected.
First, I’m a life-long independent. Second, the constitution is literally about the prohibition of the government “doing ANY action” under the guise of “law and order”. Restrictions on police powers are as American as the Bill of Rights. Very sad you clearly don’t know that.
Certainly not Congress!
The new republican credo: The best way to convince people government is incompetent is to elect and appoint incompetents to run it.
And not a word from major media outlets. And we wonder how crooks are able to take over?
The republican credo: The best way to convince people government is incompetent is to elect and appoint incompetents to run it.
As we may be about to learn…
Ok. Crazy thought. Isn’t Congress the body that, through appropriate legislation, creates and names federal cabinet level departments? And not the president?
What a guy!
Of course they are abso-f’ing-lutely racially profiling. Unless they’re stopping an equal number of white folks. Haven’t seen any complaints of that yet.
Yeah. I think his response, predictably, was “that didn’t happen Senator”…
MAGA folks do not get the concept that crime RATE per 100,000 tells us Chicago ranked 80th in major cities for crime rates. I wonder when we’ll have national guard invade Little Rock or Memphis. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news....
And, in a free society, we should know.
Hey - these f/wits managed to make $3.5 trillion in deficit spending “disappear” through the creative “current policy baseline” dodge - they’ll find a way to doctor these numbers too.
Still “winning”
The two coasts should collaborate - sends a much more ominous message.
And how much did it cost for the slo-mo video of her riding horses in Argentina? More Fraud, waste and abuse.
Fraud, waste, and abuse.
Wasn’t that in fact one of the qualifications the Trump administration considered when selecting him?
Given the relatively complete sentences and largely correct punctuation, it’s pretty obvious trump himself did not compose this message.
And many of the people who object now were equally vocal about Obama’s drone strikes on individuals. There are literally dozens of news stories about it.
To the extent Obama did it without due process and the ability to show they were terrorists, that was wrong too.
I agree with you both
Bizzaro opposite world.
Unfortunately, I’m pretty sure that the flow of that tax money is directly from taxpayers to the feds. So it seems like “soft secession” would require individual tax payers to refuse to pay, or underpay, federal taxes at their peril. But I really, really, like the underlying concept and intent!
It’s been an exhausting day of sleeping….
Too bad we’ve cut staffing for US public health - because this wasn’t predictable at all.
He’s shown trump his many qualifications to join the team of grafters and thieves.
“The unusual exchange comes as Cassidy walks a political tightrope.” The tightrope created by his cowardice and abandonment of the Hippocratic oath. And NBC is soft walking his failure to confront RFKJr about lying to him and the senate in his confirmation hearing.
Amen!
I don’t believe it without question. I believe it as long as the data support it. In science, new data can change conclusions. If I have an “ideology” here, that’s it. Seems like you’re the one who has drawn the conclusion without data, but you do you.
You appear to be someone who is distrustful of democrats, but is wholesale willing to parrot unsupported right wing tropes. I have a strong research background and value data. Kinda like the crime stats of blue cities, and the crime rates of red states.
This bloody presents a pretty solid methodology and analysis - too much information for you?
These republicans express “concern” but DO NOTHING to stop this, and it IS within their power to do so. Remember this when you lose a relative or friend to communicable diseases or cancers for which treatments have been delayed by his anti-science policies.
www.cato.org/blog/no-rela...
Not sure of your basis for asserting that, but we already see you require a lot of basis for your claims. Of course, I didn’t access highly credible peer review sources like northcentralpa and patch to support my opinion.
I literally gave you a quote of my comment. The internet does have a memory
He did lie today. Repeatedly, provably. But Republicans don’t care.
Think of what they could do if they devoted that money to homelessness or increasing police and safety net services. You know, sustainable stuff.
The trump administration’s attack on science continues. apple.news/AoaDFR8GiSZe...
No I said: “And yet no major outbreak of any disease attributable to these supposedly unvaccinated immigrants.”
Sorry dude, I’m just pointing out that you clearly made a “claim”, as in an assertion of fact, notwithstanding the lack of empirical support.
They have agreed to start scheduling Covid booster appointments next week. Massachusetts rules!
“democrats have no argument after importing millions of unvaccinated, disease ridden, invasives.” Looks like a a claim, dude. The internet - it stores your comments.
Read the crv report on the measles outbreak in Texas. You’re thx one claiming data about immigrants causing these things, and yet the Texas outbreak started in an unvaccinated Mennonite community.
Nothing in this article presents data showing that immigrants are responsible for increased communicable disease on the IS. The article quotes authorities as speculating. The internet is your friend if you have refine comprehension. Otherwise, it’s dangerous.
These 2025 numbers are the highest since measles was declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000, rivaling the 2019 record and largely driven by outbreaks linked to low MMR vaccination rates. And we’re only in September.