How long is it going to be before Moderna and Pfizer start making noises about moving their operations outside the US because HHS secretary RFK Jr and his minions are making it too hard to do business in the US because of excessive regulation? Bird Flu is not going away and having a vaccine is going to be critical to controlling it but the regulators are making it hard to test and get to market. Maybe the prospect of losing big profitable companies to other western nations due to excessive arbitrary regulation would get Republican's attention.
Trump will never do the smart thing (he can't) and back off all his tariffs. He just loves them too much. They have everything he lusts after: power and chaos. He has the world watching his every move. He can be the bully and hit another nation hard and disable all it's trade with the US, or he can back off when the bond market wobbles and claim he's pausing while he negotiates deals. Of course he hasn't negotiated any actual deals, just the barest hint of one or two. And the one with China is already falling apart because he can't take a minor win and always has to be at the center of the stage as a showman using his favorite tool - the tariff. He just won't give it up.
Did anyone else read Jennifer Palmieri's piece to the end and then sign up for the free online Harvard courses? NO? Get it in gear, people! We need to compare notes!
Re the fabricated MAHA studies: citing nonexistent studies in legitimate journals by authors who have written on a related topic is a sure sign that they used AI to "find" studies. Ask any librarian (like me) -- this is something AI does prettty consistently. It makes up studies when it can't find real ones.
RFK, Jr. is determined to prove that "die sooner" will be the Administration's solution to problems in Social Security funding. Will "soylent green" be far off?
Good post. The common folks like us can help with the fight by supporting the legal groups that are winning in the courts. ACLU, Brennan Center, Protect Democracy...
Interesting that Europeans are already boycotting tesla. Why are Americans still buying tesla? Buying tesla only enables musk to destroy America. Want to help the environment? Buy a hybrid, which can get 50+ mpg. Eat zero beef, if possible...
The reality is that poor folks like this monk can only afford low priced gas cars. And, most Americans cannot afford EV's and the convenience of home-based chargers.
So, do the Bulwark readers here have the "guts" to fight?
Actually, plug in hybrids do way better than that, depending on usage. My Mom has a plug in hybrid that only has 18 miles of charge, but I would say that over 90% of the trips she or my Dad make never burn a drop of gas. Then the ones that do use a fairly minimal amount because if the trip is 25 miles round trip then they only use like a quarter gallon of gas.
Many people in Germany did not like Tesla from before it began to make them here. His bulldozing of a natural reserve and use of half of the potable water in the immediate vicinity did not endear him to people living there, even when they go jobs (at his conditions, of course).
If anyone from a Democratic administration said that universities should "be able to do research as long as they're ... in sync ... with the administration and what the administration is trying to accomplish," Republicans would call it "Stalinist." But every MAGA apologist will defend McMahon's statement by saying that the universities were already "in sync" with Demorets and that Trumpers are only demanding political neutrality.
On the other hand, some Trump allies have been fairly open in their belief that the president should commandeer the universities and every other cultural institution he can, and use them to push the culture in a reactionary direction.
What a lovely Morning Shots! Bill shared a Frost anecdote I’d never heard before, Andrew wrote the sharpest, clearest analysis of Trump’s character, and judges are doing their best. Now CBS should stand up to him. I’m thinking of canceling my Paramount Plus subscription. I wonder if a boycott would be useful at all?
I read in Civil Discourse this morning "Stay informed, not overwhelmed." But with the rate of insanity coming from the Oval Office you have to really devote a large portion of your daily intake on this one topic. Thanks for keeping the overlooked items also in view.
"We may soon have our answer for how much it costs to bribe a president into getting a merger approved and how much ritual humiliation a major company is willing to endure along the way."
This, of course, assumes that the merger is ultimately approved.... I'm not willing to take that bet.
"Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says his “Make America Healthy Again” Commission report harnesses “gold-standard” science, citing more than 500 studies and other sources to back up its claims. Those citations, though, are rife with errors, from broken links to misstated conclusions.
Seven of the cited sources don’t appear to exist at all."
We read this before. Remember the lawyer who let AI write a brief that was ripped to shreads by an incredulous judge? On the other hand, what is the difference between letting AI write it and having a heroin addict with a brain worm present his Commission's report as the "gold-standard"? Can he even read? Has anyone seen him read something and then answer one or two basic questions about what he just "read"?
DARVO Donald (Wiki be your guide to DARVO), loves to rail against "radical, unelected judges" when rulings go against him. Perhaps we should remind him (and the rest of the MAGAworld) that he has his "immunity" as President thanks to "unelected judges", some put on SCOTUS by him, some by short-sighted previous occupants of the Oval Office, all of whom he is counting on again to be his shield against the current widening push back he is experiencing from other "unelected judges".
How long is it going to be before Moderna and Pfizer start making noises about moving their operations outside the US because HHS secretary RFK Jr and his minions are making it too hard to do business in the US because of excessive regulation? Bird Flu is not going away and having a vaccine is going to be critical to controlling it but the regulators are making it hard to test and get to market. Maybe the prospect of losing big profitable companies to other western nations due to excessive arbitrary regulation would get Republican's attention.
Trump will never do the smart thing (he can't) and back off all his tariffs. He just loves them too much. They have everything he lusts after: power and chaos. He has the world watching his every move. He can be the bully and hit another nation hard and disable all it's trade with the US, or he can back off when the bond market wobbles and claim he's pausing while he negotiates deals. Of course he hasn't negotiated any actual deals, just the barest hint of one or two. And the one with China is already falling apart because he can't take a minor win and always has to be at the center of the stage as a showman using his favorite tool - the tariff. He just won't give it up.
Did anyone else read Jennifer Palmieri's piece to the end and then sign up for the free online Harvard courses? NO? Get it in gear, people! We need to compare notes!
That defamation case against the Pulitzer board - be nice if it triggered the Streisand effect. . .
Re the fabricated MAHA studies: citing nonexistent studies in legitimate journals by authors who have written on a related topic is a sure sign that they used AI to "find" studies. Ask any librarian (like me) -- this is something AI does prettty consistently. It makes up studies when it can't find real ones.
RFK, Jr. is determined to prove that "die sooner" will be the Administration's solution to problems in Social Security funding. Will "soylent green" be far off?
If it looks like a dead bear, it is a winner in RJKland.
Good post. The common folks like us can help with the fight by supporting the legal groups that are winning in the courts. ACLU, Brennan Center, Protect Democracy...
Interesting that Europeans are already boycotting tesla. Why are Americans still buying tesla? Buying tesla only enables musk to destroy America. Want to help the environment? Buy a hybrid, which can get 50+ mpg. Eat zero beef, if possible...
The reality is that poor folks like this monk can only afford low priced gas cars. And, most Americans cannot afford EV's and the convenience of home-based chargers.
So, do the Bulwark readers here have the "guts" to fight?
Thank the gods for the Bulwark folks.
Actually, plug in hybrids do way better than that, depending on usage. My Mom has a plug in hybrid that only has 18 miles of charge, but I would say that over 90% of the trips she or my Dad make never burn a drop of gas. Then the ones that do use a fairly minimal amount because if the trip is 25 miles round trip then they only use like a quarter gallon of gas.
Many people in Germany did not like Tesla from before it began to make them here. His bulldozing of a natural reserve and use of half of the potable water in the immediate vicinity did not endear him to people living there, even when they go jobs (at his conditions, of course).
If anyone from a Democratic administration said that universities should "be able to do research as long as they're ... in sync ... with the administration and what the administration is trying to accomplish," Republicans would call it "Stalinist." But every MAGA apologist will defend McMahon's statement by saying that the universities were already "in sync" with Demorets and that Trumpers are only demanding political neutrality.
On the other hand, some Trump allies have been fairly open in their belief that the president should commandeer the universities and every other cultural institution he can, and use them to push the culture in a reactionary direction.
What a lovely Morning Shots! Bill shared a Frost anecdote I’d never heard before, Andrew wrote the sharpest, clearest analysis of Trump’s character, and judges are doing their best. Now CBS should stand up to him. I’m thinking of canceling my Paramount Plus subscription. I wonder if a boycott would be useful at all?
To your own self-esteem, undoubtedly. To the soon-to-be-fleeced head of Paramount, not a chance.
I read in Civil Discourse this morning "Stay informed, not overwhelmed." But with the rate of insanity coming from the Oval Office you have to really devote a large portion of your daily intake on this one topic. Thanks for keeping the overlooked items also in view.
Where do I find this Bove thread from Nunziata?
This is what we used to call the Democratic wing of the the Democratic Party
"We may soon have our answer for how much it costs to bribe a president into getting a merger approved and how much ritual humiliation a major company is willing to endure along the way."
This, of course, assumes that the merger is ultimately approved.... I'm not willing to take that bet.
"Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says his “Make America Healthy Again” Commission report harnesses “gold-standard” science, citing more than 500 studies and other sources to back up its claims. Those citations, though, are rife with errors, from broken links to misstated conclusions.
Seven of the cited sources don’t appear to exist at all."
We read this before. Remember the lawyer who let AI write a brief that was ripped to shreads by an incredulous judge? On the other hand, what is the difference between letting AI write it and having a heroin addict with a brain worm present his Commission's report as the "gold-standard"? Can he even read? Has anyone seen him read something and then answer one or two basic questions about what he just "read"?
DARVO Donald (Wiki be your guide to DARVO), loves to rail against "radical, unelected judges" when rulings go against him. Perhaps we should remind him (and the rest of the MAGAworld) that he has his "immunity" as President thanks to "unelected judges", some put on SCOTUS by him, some by short-sighted previous occupants of the Oval Office, all of whom he is counting on again to be his shield against the current widening push back he is experiencing from other "unelected judges".
In addition to railing against vaccines, RFK, Jr. apparently wants to bring ostriches from Canada that may have been exposed to avian flu to the USA.
Make America Sick Again!
A sick, uneducated, uninformed populace is easier to control.
Make America a Graveyard Again?
Will there be tariffs on the ostriches?
Let's ask our esteemed Mr. Kennedy