RFK Jr and his ilk hate vaccines because they are immensely successful for the vast majority. Anti-vaxxers want more sick people so they can peddle their OTC snake oil at huge profits.
RFK Jr and his ilk hate vaccines because they are immensely successful for the vast majority. Anti-vaxxers want more sick people so they can peddle their OTC snake oil at huge profits.
RFK Jr is the Bin Laden of public health and will fly medicine into buildings to maintain his crazy theories. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...
If the Supreme Court grants this request, they will also grant a future request to halt or modify 2026 elections under the emergency power act. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
From Harvard's President, court grants summary judgement against Trump Admin.
You can call it Beutiful but markets know the deficits are yuuge....
Lying is critical to their success and not a bug. www.facebook.com/share/r/14Jf...
Attack Congress, get pardoned and now comes the payola... www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
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MAGA is just code for making Russia and China great again...
Pushing boundaries? It's like putting the Spanish Inquisitor in charge of science vs religion. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
Will drop American life span by 10 years at least... www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/h...
If anything should have shown normal Americans that the Repub party was all about power and not child safety or pro-life, it's their posture on guns - 440 million guns are going to kill and maim even if 1% are misused and yet it's just thoughts and prayers.
Orange Julius like Adolf likes to think he is the chief of Art and architecture.
Australian press
There is the myth and there is reality. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Hmmm.
AZCentral: Immigration officials to again question neighbors and coworkers of citizenship applicants www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...
The profitability of Trump's immigrant deportations
RFKJr is to public health as Bin Laden was to US hegemony...the first domestic public health terrorist.
Easiest way to control the pop - get your own Brown Shirts. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/o...
If the federal reserve loses its independence, the US economy goes up in smoke and no wishful mirrors from the Lutnick's or Bessent's of the world will matter.
There is no downside for prosecutors bringing questionable cases - except embarrassment which is insufficient remedy against Trump Admin.
Even the not so left-wing Wall Street Journal recognizes grift when it is large enough...
The lower courts are not folding yet...
Is anyone accountable for this? Bloomberg The Trump administration exposed the Social Security data of the vast majority of Americans—more than 300 million—when its so-called Department of Government Efficiency uploaded private information to a cloud account not subject to oversight, the AP said.
Bloomberg - The Federal Open Market Committee, responsible for setting interest rates, also includes 5 regional bank presidents who—unlike the Guvnors—aren’t nominated by the White House or confirmed by the Senate. “This WH is turning over every stone to see where the levers are to change the Fed."
Bloomberg says Trump is looking to take over the Federal Open Market Committee by replacing regional bank Presidents....
Why not?
To understand Orange Julius, think only how does his action increase his power or money or both.
Remember Trump view on China? Apparently not so...
President Trump directed the DOD on Monday to take a larger role in domestic law enforcement, including by “quelling civil disturbances,” as he threatens to broaden deployments of the National Guard in cities run by his political enemies. It will include civilians... www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/u...
His kind of people - Kim Jong Un...
The Federal Reserve is done - welcome to Trump Reserve.
Buried in the long harangue was an announcement: The president had a plan to “get rid of” election procedures that he alleged were scams. He intended to dictate, apparently by executive order, how states should count and tabulate the votes. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...
Prof Timothy Snyder on how this admin's sado-populism is designed to make people more angry and look for revenge against those they hate rather than building a better future for all. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8BaYAs7/
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In the hands of a tyrant, every tool is just a hammer.
Todd Blanche got his "ask" from Ghislaine Maxwell! NY Times Maxwell — who, according to prosecutors, has a history of self-serving falsehoods said, “I never witnessed the president in any inappropriate setting in any way.” Maxwell’s statements appeared tailor-made to supportTrump’s contentions.
Don't like the truth so fire the truth-teller to send a message that lies are the norm.
What conflict - I am king... www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8BAL3QA/
There is a tipping point where the system of grift and corruption becomes endemic and long outlives the founder - the US is accelerating in that direction as systems and laws fall by the wayside.
When the hand of the Orange God decides, who are the Courts to dissent? Appeal coming to a friendly court...
From Evita - "and the money comes rolling in!" www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/w...
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s unusually large personal security requirements are straining the Army agency tasked with protecting him as it pulls agents from criminal investigations to safeguard family residences in Minn, Tenn and D.C., according to numerous officials familiar with the operation.
The fix is in... www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/u...
Nutlick knows how to attract new customers
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The way to financial hell (or nirvana is what Bessent hopes) is via crypto - Trump and family are deeply embedded in making money from this.
Witkoff "President Putin had commissioned a beautiful portrait of President Trump from the leading Russian artist and actually gave it to me and asked me to take it home to President Trump, which I brought home and delivered to him." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/o...
Trump, Bessent and Lutnick are all supporting a lot of questionable "asset classes" including crypto, meme etc bought by low net worth investors and not professionals. The market is going to correct dramatically when these ephemeral investments fall apart.
Why India fell out with Trump... www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
On Trump’s order, dozens arrested daily in D.C. The details are hidden.
And the criming goes on and on...
In May, cabinet officials and West Wing aides brought President Trump a potential settlement with Columbia University. But instead of giving his sign-off, he issued a new demand. The school needed to pay $200 million, Mr. Trump told his team. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/u...
Keystone cops married to the mob.... www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/u...
Not just this, Bondi is into everything...
NYTimes sums it up
Trump begins his war against American voters who vote against him.... apple.news/AOst0H-MxQZS...
@gtconway.bsky.social Trump will regurgitate all of Putin's demands mindlessly when he meets Zelenskyy.
Plus Zelenskyy doesn't know what Trump's deal with Putin was...
FT "Putin has many demands, but we do not know all of them . . . it will take time to go through them all,” the Ukrainian president said in Brussels on Sunday. “It’s impossible to do this under the pressure of weapons. So it’s necessary to cease fire and work quickly on a final deal,” he added.
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Mercenaries coming to a town near you
WSJ - remember Betsy DeVoss and her brother the mercenary? www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...
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His Master's Voice
Political negotiations are painstaking progress inch by inch and have a framework for reaching an agreement- they are not based on "chemistry" and "friendship." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/u...
The thing with dictators is that when they get weak, their replacement will quietly work behind the scenes to destroy and supplant them ruthlessly.
Who could guess😂
Putin accomplished everything he wanted - red carpet, no sanctions, no cease-fire and world stage while Trump got played, looked worn-out as if Putin presented him with new kompromat he had on Trump.
Now that Putin got all he wanted and Trump got nothing, does he lash out at Putin or will he as usual go after Ukraine and Zelensky?
Watching Trump's Putin dance affirms all the work that Dunning-Kreuger did...
The propaganda arm of the Administration will "interview" him
DHS Secretary Kristi L. Noem is living for free in a military home typically reserved for the U.S. Coast Guard’s top admiral, officials familiar with the matter said. The highly unusual arrangement has raised concern within the agency. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Taco Trump is already at work
Everyone says "peace" but defining it is extremely important. There is short-term peace with huge long term losses (Trump views this as a win) and long term peace (think Balkans today) with short term pain which tends to be more enduring. MAGA will declare victory even if he concedes mass territory
A normal negotiation with Russia would be where a US President demands and gets a suspension of fighting before any meeting.
Trump going to cave... Opinion | Why Putin Wants All of Donetsk in Ukraine - The Wall Street Journal
Many think that Trump world will reverse once he exits. Iran throws cold water on this. In the 70s Iranians flooded American universities, danced in Teheran etc. Once the Ayatollah took over, these Iranians either fled or reverted to the mean. Almost 50 years later, the mullahs are still in charge.
It's like Jack the Ripper calling the Royal College of Surgeons for an award in surgery. Donald Trump cold-called Norway’s finance minister last month to ask about a nomination for the Nobel peace prize, Norwegian press reported on Thursday.
Another one bites the dust, and another, and another....
This isn’t rational industrial policy. This is intervention into who runs companies and threatening businesses with penalties if they don’t do what Trump says,” Ann Harrison, a former dean of the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, told The Times
Andrew Ross Sorkin The legality of granting a company export permissions in exchange for a piece of sales is unclear. At its worst, it is akin to a shakedown, some trade experts say.
Pete Hegseth's Pastor. The body of churches he co-founded includes pastors who believe that the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote, should be repealed and replaced by something called “household voting,” where it’s no longer one person, one vote, but one household, one vote.
It ain't inflating because US don't measure it anymore.
Sounds like he has conceded everything Putin needs already
He is going to cave to Putin without even knowing it.
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Self help is good but has limitations in medicine apple.news/A_hEOemG-Rta...
It’s a place of genteel affluence — think Martha’s Vineyard or Napa Valley — with more than 200 villages and hamlets, and, reportedly, Britain’s poshest farm shop.
JD Vance laps up the perks of VP. This picture-perfect stretch of southwest England is famed for its rolling hills, countryside living, thatched roofs and cozy pubs. Even the sheep look as if they are contemplating a second home. apple.news/Ayf6F4xTlQaW...
This guy met the most important of Trump's requirement apple.news/A-LFachQYRHm...
A macho-man for all reasons www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/t...
The National Security Council, which would typically lead preparations for summits, is grappling with the loss of dozens of experts on staff after they were fired in May.
He is going to make a deal regardless of the terms Putin demands. Trump’s purging of the US federal workforce has hollowed out the number of knowledgeable Russia specialists in Washington, sparking concern ahead of his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday.
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In ripping up numerous business regulations, Trump seems intent on replacing them with himself. The recipient corporations don’t necessarily want Trump’s meddling, particularly given his fun house view of economics, but they can’t get away. They won’t necessarily benefit, and neither will we.
Not content to steer the ship of state, our president apparently wants to run the ship of commerce, too. Literally. The entire Fortune 500.
It's another red herring.... apple.news/An_b43Yr7Qy-...