Macro

I like mountains and music.

[Macro @MacroThoughtsUP]

Oasis 25'
Couldn't have asked for a better experience. Absolutely perfect 🤘🏽

[Macro @MacroThoughtsUP]

Well there's just no coming back from that. Atta boy RFK stand up for your name and your work.

[Secretary Kennedy @SecKennedy]

Sheryl. Your article exemplifies the biased reporting we have come to expect from you and @nytimes. It was unfair, inimical, and inaccurate. All one needs to refute your argument is to glance at my publicly available calendar and to review my unprecedented list of accomplishments on a wide range of issues, all of which I drove. You evidently never undertook these foundational due diligences. Why let facts obscure a good story?

You fault me for missing a couple of monthly counselor meetings. However, I meet one-on-one with my counselors every day to decide policy and strategy. We schedule the monthly meetings to give the divisions a chance to keep each other informed about HHS-wide policies with which I’m already intimately familiar. Had you read my calendar, you would have seen that I have back-to-back meetings all day, every day, with both career and political staff, with my counselors and with outside stakeholders, interspersed with press conferences and other policy announcements.

I am knowledgeable and active on every issue in every division of my department, and I always make the final decisions. I meet with the principals at FDA, NIH, CDC, and my senior counselor every morning, something, I’m told, is unprecedented in HHS history. I try to get out of the office between 4:30 and 6:00 PM, so that I can spend three hours, in quiet, responding to emails. I normally work until 11 PM every night, mostly on phone calls to staff.

In order to prove your preconceived case for my disengagement, you quote anonymous employees, some of whom I fired or who quit to avoid being fired. You also deceptively quote HHS employees without identifying whether they were among those I fired, thereby depriving your readers of the opportunity to make an independent judgment about their credibility.

I came into this job to change the culture of a broken agency that has presided over the worst decline in public health in American history. Of course I fired people—lots of them! It's an easy task for even the laziest journalist, to comb that flotsam and jetsam for malevolence toward the Trump administration. And of course, this species of journalist will always be able to find disgruntled individuals among the 70,000 employees of the Department from whom to cherry pick "facts" to flesh out a preordained hit piece. All that is required for this brand of journalism is the ethical elasticity that you seem to have in spades. You had a preconceived thesis, and you set out to prove it. This is a widely accepted technique in journalism today, but I grew up in an era when it would not have been tolerated by the New York Times.

Ultimately, God puts us all on this earth to search for existential truths. I've tried to instill this mission at HHS by implementing gold standard research to end the regime of politicized science that COVID exposed to the American public. There was a time that journalists were proud to be the fearless and uncompromising champions of truth. Standards have devolved, and journalism is dead. The Times now employs propagandists. Your capitulation to partisanship further compounds your journalistic challenges; since we all are aware of your predictable bias, we at HHS are unwilling to talk to you about the topics that are important. The fact that you have minimal access to decision makers leaves you covering trivia and relying on your own capacity for invention.

Btw. When I took this job, the building was empty. About 90% of the employees were not coming to work. I changed that, but your newspaper never covers my reforms. Nor did you cover the fact that my predecessor almost never showed up for work here during his four years in office. When we came in, there were still artifacts from the first Trump administration in many of our office drawers because no one showed up for work during the Biden years. Just as Rochelle Walensky spent her entire term as CDC Director in Cambridge, Xavier Becerra reportedly spent most of his term as HHS Secretary in California. (I live in California, but I’ve only been there once in fifteen months).

His only notable accomplishments here were losing 300,000 children, referred to HHS for custody and care, to human traffickers and drug runners, encouraging transgender surgeries, and disabling the entire program-integrity apparatus, allowing hundreds of billions of dollars of theft from my agency. I have set out to find the children Becerra lost. He is now the front-runner for the governor of California. These are not invented stories; they are genuine scandals that the Times will never cover, presumably, because the malefactors are Democrats.

Finally, you criticize me for spending time with the Indian tribes in Alaska. I consider that part of my job. I run the Indian Health Services, and I’ve had unprecedented success in transforming IHS from a backwater to a top priority for this department. I’ve made more trips to Indian country and to Indian health clinics and hospitals than any HHS secretary in history, and I’ve brought Indians into high positions on the sixth floor for the first time in agency history. This is another success story that the Times will never cover.

[Macro @MacroThoughtsUP]

I must not see color or I've fallen too far into the son of a boy dad pod universe, cause I genuinely read this as sas not SAS and was like well of course what else did you expect.a #notproudmanenough

[Jack Settleman @jacksettleman]

I have the displeasure of sitting in the section in front of SAS who is apparently running the nonchalant bit tonight

[Macro @MacroThoughtsUP]

This feels like 2nd degree if being rational

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

Anthony went into a tent where he didn’t belong, was told 15 times to leave and refused, then pulled out a knife and stabbed someone to death. Not only is he clearly guilty and the self defense claim a total farce, he should be facing the death penalty. First degree murder.

[Macro @MacroThoughtsUP]

@Kenny_Wallace Kenny you're entertaining and knowledgeable but you don't need me to pump your tires. My pops and I always bonded over nascar. When you filled in on dirty mo, I tossed it on for him and we were losing it over the kenny and Kenny bit. Keep on keeping on🤙🏽

[Macro @MacroThoughtsUP]

Tim Dillon #419-18:49-19:23. These people still don't get it. Lmao it's truly astonishing

[Joe Russo @joerussotweets]

Fuck Spencer Pratt.

[Macro @MacroThoughtsUP]

@d_tao Touche deleted

[Fifth Gear @NotFifthGear]

"Because you never know when the last one is." Rest in peace champ.

[Denny Hamlin @dennyhamlin]

Absolutely cannot comprehend this news. We just need to think of his family during this time. We love you KB.

[Macro @MacroThoughtsUP]

Man is that heartbreaking and tragic, RIP Kyle Busch. My pops called me and we are just in shock.

[Macro @MacroThoughtsUP]

@Polymarket Immaterial $

[Macro @MacroThoughtsUP]

@RBird101 @WildTurkey Well I already thought this was the only bottle I cared to hunt this year just like RR15 two years ago. After this review I now know that as a fact. Here's to hoping I can snag one🤞🏽

[Macro @MacroThoughtsUP]

Fist pumping and pointing the pinky all season. Leggo

[NFL @NFL]

Year 22.

[Macro @MacroThoughtsUP]

Lies

[Rarest @0xRarest]

A 36 year old warehouse supervisor i talked to who’s from Ohio put $650 every paycheck into a Roth IRA for 13 straight years.

Never sold, never checked the balance during crashes.

Just hit $412k.

Still drives the same 2009 Tacoma. Still buys his work boots at Walmart.

He told me he feels guilty because his coworkers think he’s broke like them.

The money just sat there and did its job while he kept showing up.

[Macro @MacroThoughtsUP]

Anyone who votes for a candidate who pulls out of a debate has no backbone. Bipartisan issue.

[New York Post @nypost]

LA mayoral debate in tatters as Nithya Raman joins Karen Bass in suddenly pulling out at last minute https://t.co/UZnnVOC2p1

[Macro @MacroThoughtsUP]

@insiderinvests Respect the move

[Macro @MacroThoughtsUP]

@BreidenFehoko Has vrabel been arrested for being a threat to the public?

[Macro @MacroThoughtsUP]

@xavi8ayala @gordondamer 6:08am here. Still not great

[Macro @MacroThoughtsUP]

@RBird101 @JackDaniels_US Just cracked my beacon last Friday for a buddy's bday. If playing a game of this or that? I have beacon at a 9.3 with my personal gold standard being the Russ 15.

[Macro @MacroThoughtsUP]

@unusual_whales Can you place shorts 2 hours ahead or something. Thought those options were at least a few days in advance. Trying to understand

[Macro @MacroThoughtsUP]

@zachlanebryan That's really not cool of them. We all know ya gotta be right next to em