I'd say it's a deliberately misleading take on possibly solid science. There is nothing wrong with women having "stronger emotional responses". Unless you think that women need to be subservient.
I'd say it's a deliberately misleading take on possibly solid science. There is nothing wrong with women having "stronger emotional responses". Unless you think that women need to be subservient.
"Stronger emotional responses" is a) "not good", and b) "needs a warning label" I guess I read the word "stronger" much differently than these guys did.
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.
Trumps wants answers "NOW" that have been available for five years.
A large driver of the Democrats tacking right is the practice of so many DC staffers of basing their judgment of "what Americans think" by watching cable news while viewing FoxNews as "the right" and CNN as "the left". They have no feel for public opinion.
A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment. Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.
Ah yes, I remember the documentary movie about that.
That's...gobsmacking.
There's a limit to what lighting can do...
Actual slavery is also still a thing.
I see Tony Blair's legacy of elevating appearance over substance is alive and well in Labour.
'car jackings are down' in part because traffic is down, as nobody wants to go downtown. Regardless, even if one were to stipulate "turning the city into an army base" would cut down in the number of carjackings, that doesn't make it a good idea.
BO and BIden were _aggressive_ when it came to deportations, and not only did they 'get a pass', the media a) pretended it wasn't happening, and b) helped Trump make the false accusation that they favored an 'open borders' policy.
Preventing passengers from bringing a sealed bottle of water onto a plane surely has made all of us safer. If it's liquid, it might be explosive!
I was today’s years old thatI learned that Albert Einstein taught at an NCBU, Lincoln University, and received an honorary degree from the first Degree granting HBCU in 1946, and spoke out about racism. I know he was brilliant, but learning this touched my fucking soul ❤️
"I have to keep Miller out." 🙄
"We're going to tell a blatant lie and we demand five days so you can get less angry at us for lying." Seems to me if they had legal cause for these flights, they wouldn't need five days to figure out what that is.
DEVELOPING: Advocates are seeking a court order to block the Trump administration’s effort to deport hundreds of unaccompanied minor children to Guatemala. Judge abruptly moved 3 pm hearing up to 12:30 after she was notified that some children “are in the process of being removed" today.
Um, yeah, fascists are anti-intellectual. I thought everybody knew that.
Apropos of nothing: biggest Bond-style villain: Ron DeSantis, Greg Abbott, or JD Vance? If have to keep Miller out of the competition since he's already secured his place.
Nothing says "we're sure we're on solid legal ground" like sneaking around to present the courts with a fair accompli.
For me, it's not "hands Dems a weapon" so much as "hands the voters an obligation." What's happened at the CDC is an unmitigated disgrace. The reason to attack RFK and the Trump administration is not "voters might like us for doing so" but because these guys are bad for our nation's public health.
NEW: Since corporate media won't call for Trump's resignation, I will. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/trump-must...
Chapman has to be a near-lock to be in top 10, and he's a strong contender for #1, except among voters who do nothing more than look at save total.
Trump's game plan is to use the power of right-wing media to create powers in the imagination of the American public, which are then and therefore real. This is not a legal strategy. It's an anarchic strategy. It's pure lawlessness.
Or he's under Putin's thumb. (Or both, TBH.)
It's worse than that. The Constitution explicitly makes it clear that official acts are not above criminal prosecution. It mentions bribery. The SCOTUS majority, at least in theory, has legalized bribery.
The Constitution is famous for implying powers without making them explicit. 🙄
The only question this weekend is whether he's golfing or whether he's too sick to golf.
Once again, this is not a power the President has. He is deploying mob boss power, not Constitutional power.
It's worth saying, once again, that every tariff that Trump imposes is a shot in the foot. "I'm going to put tariffs on everybody and everything" is a policy that will end effect of economically isolating the US, while denying us access to the cheap imports that the economy is built on.
"Generation is global" No, it isn't. The US had a Baby Boom after WWII. The size of the boom affected how it developed. South Africa did not have a Baby Boom. So there was no Gen X. Why would anybody think that generation is defined solely by year of birth? A generation is a sub-population. n
"Unused"? Does he think they go offline? Has he taken any biology courses, ever?
We haven't "run out of" these people. They've just been inexplicably fired. They're still around.
Wasn't the purpose of the trade war to _reduce_ the trade deficit? Turns out Trump is killing our exports without providing a real way to address our need for imports. If I were a foreign power hostile to the US, I might just try to trick this country into doing exactly what Trump is doing.
The Olympics were terrible for Montreal but great for LA just eight years later. It all comes down to how they are managed. A city that falls into the trap of building a lot of new infrastructure with no plan for what will happen after the games will be in trouble. But it's hardly inevitable.
The problem is that the people working for the news media do not meet the definition of "journalist" any more than RFK JR meets the definition of "public health expert." Let's not forget that, legally, FoxNews is in the business of entertainment.
I took a look at WaPo's roster of op-ed writers recently. It's awful. Bezos has essentially stacked the dugout with Trump apologists and Third Way hacks.
As a Gex-Xer, I take no credit or blame for any of those people. Musk wasn't even born in the US.
Lysenko was a scientific genius compared to RFK Jr.
Dr. Dmitri Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC says that RFKJr said he believes that Avian flu should be allowed to "burn through" the chickens and then children and others, so we can propagate a "stronger species". RFKJr believes in eugenics. RFKJr needs to resign or be fired.
Reportedly that's not Trump from _today_ in any case.
Columbia has a history department, right?
That's a nice idea, but I don't see any legal support for it. For starters, it's nearly impossible to convict anybody of treason. It's a far higher charge than, say, espionage. The theory that the charge would take out Vance, too, is pure fantasy.
Aside from "because they wanted to", why? How much force do they need to interact with unarmed civilians?
Plain violation of the First Amendment to specifically seek out churches to give money to. Putting aside for the moment the fact that many American "churches" are PACs in disguise....
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"He has the ear of the President" understates things. He is personally the author of a good percentage of the worst Trump policies.
As a rule of thumb, you should not be reporting on what a person _doesn't_ do. When you make this your first sentence, you imply this is what Cook _should_ do. You are making your own opinion the lead of the story. And, as others have pointed out, this opinion is legal gibberish.
Rules are not for Trump and his ilk. It's not like Melania obeyed the old rules.
International students are typically further advanced than their American counterparts when it comes to graduate study. Still, 4 years would be very tight, and there's absolutely no reason for this change other than change for change's sake.
Fuck the Yankees, always and everywhere
The South should have done that after Gettysburg. Most overrated general in American history.
Remember - the woke mob caused this by calling Trump and his followers racist. By "this" I mean "Trump behaving like an avid racist."
Bergman approves
RFK is cutting us off from vaccines.
The only valid reason to read the NY Times is to be aware of how they are disinforming the public.
"It instead sought to paint the firing as purely political and not based on anything other than a desire to oust a governor who was not falling in line with the president’s directives on rates" So, it's truthful.
On the new acting CDC director. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I don't understand what her motivation is here. The city's voters are overwhelmingly against Trump.
RFK Jr should be forced out. If Trump is not willing to fire him, he should be impeached and removed by Congress.
Electrolytes!
She's validating a police state. This is a disaster. "Carjackings are down". Yeah, as is tourist trade. If cars aren't going to DC, they won't be jacked.
Illegally, mind you. Posse comitatus, etc. It's one thing to call out the National Guard in DC. It's quite another to send in the National Guard _from other states_ to "enforce law" in Illinois.
Let's please listen to the scoldy liberals next time when they say someone is bad, instead of saying they're overreacting, ok?
I wasted 5 years of my life trying to prevent this from happening. I blame medical establishment, organized medicine, & academic institutions that looked at us like we were crazy & never joined the fight. www.politico.com/news/2024/11...
Persistence! And it sounded like the cat was purring the whole time.
Dr. Demetre, in his resignation from the CDC, said this: “I have never experienced such radical non-transparency, nor have I seen such unskilled manipulation of data to achieve a political end rather than the good of the American people”. It is an outrage that RFK Jr. remains as head of HHS.
The idea that the director the CDC is barred from speaking to a Senator who has oversight responsibilities over said agency is utterly ridiculous. How is the Senate supposed to be informed when the Secretary of HHS is behaving in a reckless manner that will literally do harm to the nation?
Huh? The director of the CDC is serving the nation, not the pleasure of the President. She's not a White House advisor.
I don't think you need a law for that. Cassidy has oversight duties over the CDC.
Wait - talking to a Senator is _leaking_? He understands it's a _science_ agency, right?
People need to remember that Trump does have a tendency to back down when faced with resistance. Don't play into the Trump framing that everybody needs to please him, personally. That's really not part of his or her job description.
Monarez is playing her weak hand perfectly, and should be a model for institutional resistance for the next four years: 1. Make them fire you 2. Don’t go along to get along 3. Don’t apologize, have confidence in your own integrity and the importance of your role 4. Always escalate the conflict
Winning is a lower priority than holding back "the Left".
That would include at a significant part of his voter base. Have they looked at the polling data by age? Oh, and Trumpists are more likely to die of diseases, since they've been trained to be anti-science.
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:
Never is a long time. (But it'll likely be a while.) I'm hopeful the party will move back leftwards when the Boomer influence wanes. But it might be a few decades.
The Third Way doesn't want Democrats to win.
You joke, but this is what's behind all the people talking about 'natural immunity' with respect to diseases that have both significant mortality and significant spread rates. I mean, yeah, once everybody who's going to die has died, the remainder will be immune. Until the disease mutates...
Remember how the media last year downplayed RFK's anti-vax stances? If we had actual news delivery, instead of an attempt at stealth autocracy, we'd be much better off.
CHAOS ERUPTS AT CDC CDC Director Susan Monarez has been ousted after RFK Jr. demanded she change her policy on the COVID vaccine. Top officials from the Vaccine Unit, Zoonotic Division, and the Chief Medical Officer are resigning, per reports. Horrifying news for public health.
If you ever want to accept science, let us know.
The word "defying" implies he expects to have some kind of authority over them.
It would be the Center of Disease Weaponization if they weren't so incompetent.
A good polydactyl kitty will have multiple thumbs on each forepaw.
I hear that guy once was an actual Democrat. (In the long, long ago....)
Surely the Hudson Valley _is_ central NY. Map: ________________ |Upstate | =========== |Hudson Valley | =========== | The City | =========== 😉
It's the same serious approach to statistics when they find one undocumented alien has committed a violent crime. OK, guys, now the ratio is only 10,000:1 instead of infinity:1.
As an Irish-American from Boston, this is weird to me, too. But it's a big country.
Their logic is nothing more than lust for power.
There can’t be any gun restrictions because we have to protect against federal government tyranny, and if kids get shot we just have to live with it. Also the President can send troops to cities because the federal government can do whatever it wants. These two ideas are consistent and reasonable.
There are large regions of the US where "Catholic" is seen as distinct from "Christian". Even just among Baptists, there's a lot of variation. Which is how we ended up with Jimmy Carter leaving the Southern Baptists.
It varies from denomination to denomination. Some denominations are very focused on actions and community. Others are all about "submitting to God". If you do that, nothing else matters. In practice, the latter group are extremely authoritarian. Also, they run the Republicans now.
OK, Curtis, I'm your dictator now. Oh, you didn't mean me? You just meant somebody who agreed with you? And you know that such a person could never win an election in a functioning democracy, so you have to seize power using stealth and then declare victory? What a blight.
"processing people into biodiesel" isn't a "joke". It's an insight into his general disgust with humanity.
The general problem here is that Yarvin is yet another tech bro who thinks his knowledge of tech gives him insight into every other aspect of life. It doesn't. His ideas are absurdly simplistic and would not have survived if he'd ever been forced to take ordinary liberal arts courses.