[unable to retrieve full-text content]Proud to see this coming from Rhode Island: “A new bill introduced to the United States House of Representatives would withhold federal funding for any American “operations to invade or seize territory from” Canada, Panama or Greenland — unless Congress agrees to it first, that is. “Introduced Thursday by Rhode Island Rep. Seth Magaziner, the […]
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]”Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”~Napoleon Bonaparte What should Senate Democrats do about the GOP continuing resolution? Filibuster and send it back to the house, which will certainly mean a shut-down? Or let it pass on the grounds that Democrats can’t be blamed for the consequences? James Carville’s argument is that […]
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Is Tesla a car company? An AI company? A projection of Elon Musk’s ego? In Europe, it’s a greenwashing company. Selling credits to other automakers looking to avoid paying penalties for not meeting European Union emissions targets has proved lucrative for all-electric Tesla. “Since its founding, the electric vehicle company has brought in billions from […]
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Candidate Trump promised he would not allow any cuts to Social Security or Medicare if elected. Looks like President Musk didn’t get the memo: “Despite reporting from The Washington Post on Monday suggesting that DOGE officials are starting to worry about bad “PR,” Musk suggested later in the day he could push for big cuts […]
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Oops! Poor RFK Jr. He’s had to tiptoe back his attacks on childhood vaccines in the face of a measles outbreak in Texas. What’s a poor anti-vaxxer to do. Well, since vaccine denialists can never be wrong, they can only be wronged, Kennedy blames the victims: “In later comments, Kennedy suggested that severe symptoms mainly […]
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]President Musk’s superpower is that elected officials (Trump, GOP Congressmen) can just claim to be out of the loop and cede the staffing of government and the power of the purse to an unelected billionaire. I can’t think of another example of such an egregious failure of Constitutional government in the US. All the historical […]
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Let’s call Medicaid by its real name. “While 80 million Americans are insured through Medicaid, many people don’t think of themselves as “on Medicaid” — even when they are. “Why? Because Medicaid is not branded as Medicaid in most states. If you tell a patient in South Carolina they might lose Medicaid, their eyes may […]
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]American universities are the envy of the world—for now. If President Musk’s cuts to the NIH budget hold, that will likely change*. But for JD Vance, that’s a feature, not a bug: “When President Trump and his allies think of the idealized version of highter education, they don’t look to the Ivy League or the […]
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Trump was only supposed to hurt “those people”: “Jennifer Piggott proudly hung a red-and-blue Trump campaign flag outside her one-story home during the November election race. Now, after she was abruptly fired from her civil service job, her days of supporting the president are over. “Piggott is among more than 125 people dismissed in February […]
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]When asked why he robbed banks, Willie Sutton simply replied, “Because that’s where the money is.” DOGE is targeting the IRS for massive cuts. And that’s where the money is, to be sure. But robbing the IRS of personnel will ensure that the wealthy and corporations will keep the money they were supposed to pay […]
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Toddlers will sometimes cover their eyes, thinking they are hiding. They think if they can’t see you, you’re not there. Using that toddler logic at the beginning of the COVID pandemic, the Trump administration at the time tried to curtail reporting of infections and death, on the toddler-tested premise that if you can’t see it, […]
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]HHS Secretary Kennedy wrote some comments about Vitamin A (e.g., cod liver oil) therapy for measles in a Fox News column about the measles outbreak in Texas. As we have come to expect from the anti-vaxxer RFK Jr, his medical advice was misleading: “But they lack important context, said Dr. Peter Hotez, a vaccine expert […]
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]What does one do if they possess valuable skills and lose their job? Well, intelligent, ambitious and entrepreneurial Americans market their skills to other employers looking to hire talent. But the NIH Office of Defensive Counterintelligence and Personnel Security thinks the people they fired shouldn’t hire themselves out to the highest bidder in a free […]
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Trust is sine qua non in a democracy. Citizens simply must trust that those in power will follow the law. When that trust breaks down, it leads to assassinations, coups and civil war. The idea that the SCOTUS is the final arbiter of what is and isn’t legal is based on nothing in the Constitution. […]
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]According to Yahoo Finance, the stock market has wiped out all the gains since Trump’s inauguration. Of course, the stock market isn’t the economy. What does the Atlanta fed project for GDP growth? Not good. Unless you’re Vladimir Putin. Or work for him. https://www.atlantafed.org/cqer/research/gdpnow
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]As a lifelong member of The Church of the Second Chance, I get this: “Then he calls his friends and neighbors together and says, ‘Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep. ‘ I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than […]
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Trump posted on his pseudo-twitter site: “I will make sure the U.S. is the Crypto Capital of the World.” He announced something he calls a US crypto strategic reserve. What, exactly, is a crypto reserve? Look, I get it. Money is whatever people use as a medium of exchange and a store of value. And […]
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Candidate Donald Trump promised not to touch Social Security if elected. But President Musk made no such promise, and is already spouting the usual lies to justify cutting Social Security benefits and privatizing the program: “The billionaire argued Friday on “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast that the United States government is “one big pyramid scheme” […]
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]When I was growing up, our vacations involved camping each night. With five kids, it was a way to maximize vacation travel while minimizing costs. We would often camp at national parks. And of course, having grown up in East Tennessee, I visited the Great Smoky Mountains National Park many times. Our national parks are […]
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]I grew up in Oak Ridge TN in the 1960s. It would have been hard to find any city in the world more pro-nuclear at that time*. Since then, nuclear power plant building went into decline in the US, partly because of concerns over safety. But any serious effort to decarbonize the world’s energy will […]
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Back in the early 80s, Marshall and Warren made the link between gastric ulcers and Helicobacter pylori infections. Suddenly, a painful chronic condition that increased the risk of stomach cancer was curable with antibiotics. A major public health scourge today in America is dementia, particularly Alzheimer’s disease. There’s growing evidence that periodontitis is linked to […]
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]As the American population ages, the burden of dementia care is increasing. While the GOP congress hopes to ease that burden by cutting Medicaid funding and letting those folks die*, RFK Jr is tackling the prevention side to make sure more Americans and their loved ones suffer from this awful condition: “Robert F. Kennedy Jr., […]
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]• Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has paused a multimillion-dollar contract from the Biden administration to create a new COVID-19 vaccine; • US health officials are reevaluating a $590 million contract for bird flu shots that the Biden administration awarded to Moderna; • A meeting of a committee that advises the FDA on vaccine policy has […]
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]“As the measles outbreak in Texas keeps spreading, parents who previously chose not to vaccinate their children are now lining up to get their kids the shots needed to protect them from the serious illness. “People are more and more nervous” as they watch the highly contagious virus spread in their communities, mostly among children, […]
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]A former mentor once explained to me why America would be better off if scientists ran the country. While technocracy isn’t inherently anti-democratic—America could simply elect scientists and engineers—the notion smacks of elitism. Of course, this country was founded on the idea of elitism. Only property-owning White men could vote. The president was appointed by […]
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]This appears to be a new and unfamiliar use of the word “efficiency”: “The Department of Government Efficiency run by Elon Musk last week published an initial list of 1,125 contracts that it terminated in recent weeks across the federal government. Data published on DOGE’s “Wall of Receipts” shows that more than one-third of the […]
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]“One point about the Musk firing spree that was barely getting any attention at first is now starting to break through into mainstream media accounts: veterans are hugely overrepresented among federal civil servants, and even more so among probationary employees. They’re getting hit hard by these erratic and needless firings.” So vets are DEI hires? […]
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]“Donald Trump plans a $200 million anti-immigrant ad campaign in the US and overseas. . . .Apparently we can’t afford to fully fund medical research at CDC or NIH these days, but we can find a few dollars under the sofa cushions to thank President Trump for closing the border.” We can’t afford Medicaid for […]
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]“Congress is considering proposals that could change Medicaid financing and eligibility. “Some of these proposed changes could cause millions of people to lose access to care under Medicaid. People without coverage often skip necessary care, leading to worse health outcomes. For people in poor health, the results can be dangerous. “Cuts will put a greater […]
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]This certainly isn’t pro-life: “The Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) is a federal data collection system, run out of CDC, “designed to identify groups of women and infants at high risk for health problems, to monitor changes in health status, and to measure progress towards goals in improving the health of mothers and infants,” […]
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