President Trump just repeated his lie that China only builds windmills to export them to "stupid people from the United States, the suckers."
Reality: China has installed by far the most wind turbines of any country and is installing more of them far faster than any other country.
Doctors nationwide are encountering more children with whooping cough, bacterial infections, and other serious vaccine-preventable illnesses.
There were more than 28,000 cases of whooping cough reported last year, compared with around 7,000 in 2023.
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Actor, Dennis Franz Schlachta was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1968 at the height of the Vietnam War. Serving both with the 82nd and the 101st Airborne as a recon scout. Specialist [E-4] Franz served 11 months in combat. Dennis Franze, forever Airborne, forever a veteran 🇺🇸
Trump's Agriculture Secretary claims that the flesh-eating New World Screwworm "is not a threat to our food supply" despite it being known for decimating herds of cattle
As I first reported in “The Return of Great Powers”, the U.S. assessed that Russia was considering the use of tactical nuclear weapons in late 2022 as its forces were losing ground rapidly in Kherson. China and India took the threat seriously as well and communicated those concerns directly to Moscow.
2. Mehmet Oz is a moron or a liar. It's unclear which. In any case, he's wrong. You cannot – literally cannot – commit Obamacare fraud. Anyone saying otherwise is scamming you. Tuesday, Oz said:
Yesterday Donald Trump tripled the size of his personal political army inside the government. Illegally. And almost no one noticed.
Here's what happened:
He signed an order converting ~8,000 of the most senior career officials in government into employees he can fire for any reason, or no reason at all.
These aren't rando's. They're the directors, chiefs of staff, and the people who write the rules or decide who gets federal money, i.e. the lieutenants right below his political appointees.
Until yesterday, they answered to the law. Now they answer to him.
A president normally gets ~4,000 political appointees. People he can bring into government and fire at will. I was one of them at DHS. You serve at his pleasure, full stop -- so if you're gonna speak truth to power, you're prepared to quit (or get fired if he doesn't like it).
The rest of the federal government is PROTECTED from firing if they tell the truth.
But Trump just stripped those protections. Adding 8,000 more people to his personal army. Overnight. Without asking Congress.
With the stroke of a pen, those people now serve at the pleasure of the president. They're "his" people, whether they like it or not.
And the chilling effect is real. An official who can be fired this afternoon for "subversion of presidential directives" (the order's own words) doesn't need to be hand-picked to know what's expected of him or her.
The threat does all the work.
By the way, this order is illegal. The law only lets Trump reclassify jobs when "necessary" in exceptional circumstances. And this blows an 8,000-person hole in the merit hiring / firing system created by Congress.
Without permission, Trump has created a whole new category of stormtroopers inside the Executive Branch.
If this doesn't get challenged in court, you're going to see the U.S. government become a very different place.
Here's the full story: https://t.co/mJzrvzhxGR
Republicans in North Carolina just proposed a bill that says if a woman is caught with an IUD or attempts to get an abortion then men are allowed to use DEADLY FORCE to try and stop her. They are proposing a bill that will allow men to kill women for using birth control. It’s House Bill 1232. Keith Kidwell is the Republican who proposed the bill. He claims it counts as self defense to use deadly force to stop abortion. This is a man who claims to be pro life. Feel free to give his office a call and let him know how you feel about his opinion.
And for anyone who says “obviously this will never get passed” that’s not the point. The point is it’s fucking insanity that a government official would even try to make a law like this. It’s insanity that there are men out there who are trying to make it legal to kill women for making decisions for their own bodies. This is real and it’s happening right now in front of our eyes.
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner’s business partners, the Alexander brothers, have been convicted on 19 counts of sex trafficking.
It’s odd how often sex offenders appear in the Trump family’s inner circle.
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"This may be a good time to remember that, as research and experience show, growth in power and wealth strips folks of empathy and compassion, turning them into psychopaths."
"Also see the Hubris Syndrome."