Tommy D

Husband, Dad, Sibling, Business Owner, Philly Sports Fan, Wine Enthusiast, Fitness, Travel, Laughter & Fun!

[Mark Penn @Mark_Penn]

Baked Alaska

The story of the fake candidacy seems pretty straightforward. The Peltola camp with outreach to the DSCC recruited a fake candidate to confuse voters into voting for the wrong candidate in order to win the election.

The candidate has no campaign and has disappeared.

This is not election high-jinx but outright fraud on the voters. It cannot stand and no one who okayed this should be elected.

And ranked-choice voting needs to be repealed in Alaska and everywhere else. It is a flawed social science experiment and a testament to how do-gooders can be fooled into backing something so easily manipulated. If you are concerned about candidates below 50 or 40 per cent getting elected then add runoffs - those give people a choice that’s clear and gets explored in an election setting.

Yes, you can complain about others and what they deserve, but it does not excuse this effort now caught red-handed as a blatant attempt to normalize fraud rather than win an election by convincing the voters.

[John LeFevre @JohnLeFevre]

Grok picked the quadrants...

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

A classic chart to counter the wisdom of crowds idea. US Americans are absolutely clueless about how common things are. They think over a quarter of Americans are Native Americans, one in five Americans is transgender, over a quarter of the population are Muslim, one in five households earn over half a million dollars. The right answer to all of these questions is 1%. They build their worldview on totally incorrect assumptions towards reality. Data literacy matters.

[The White Hats @realWhiteHats]

WOAH 🚨 Investigative journalist Catherine Herridge reviewed the documents just released by the Trump Admin on election integrity and finds CIA emails showing they were working against Donald Trump to aid China and the Democrats in the 2020 election

“I've been digging into the documents already and I found this November 2020 email, and it specifically states, it's a conversation among intelligence officials, it specifically states that they have, quote, deliberately massaged one of our pending PDBs. That's the president's daily brief. To avoid any direct links to the election”

“This was a massive effort, what they call a multi-domain operation. That means trade, it means diplomacy, it means open-source information, it means social media. So all the levers of power China had to influence the US election”

And our own CIA worked to make sure the r President wasn’t aware of any of this information, they literally removed it from his daily briefing

Literally treason

“In the summer of 2020, as we're heading into the election, in the intelligence community there were indicators of this Chinese influence operation. Influence operations means that you're trying to affect the outcome of how people vote or their sentiment about a presidential candidate.
It's different than an interference operation, which is penetrating voting rolls and voter systems. And this whistleblower was raising the alarm about the influence operation, and then suddenly it all was suppressed”

“In some of their reports, there were in officials' own handwriting that they wanted everything out that could help President Trump in his reelection. So there was clear evidence of political and personal bias”

They wanted to remove EVERYTHING that could possibly help Trump win reelection

Again, literally treason

Also if you remember awhile back, a former CIA officer named Pedro Israel Orta who worked at the CIA during the Trump Administration said the CIA didn’t even recognize him as the President, they wouldn’t even put his picture up on the wall which was customary for all Presidents

They were actively working against him

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[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

The center of the Brazil story is not Flavio Bolsonaro but rather Alexandre de Moraes, who has utterly destroyed the credibility of the Brazilian justice system and its democracy through years of escalating persecution against critics, dissidents and political opponents, all while the Brazilian left celebrated him for doing it.

That's why countries now routinely reject Brazil's extradition requests in Moraes' cases, and why international media has continuously warned of Brazilian authoritarianism as a result of the censorship and imprisonment regime that the Brazilian left built with Moraes as its leader. (And all of that is separate from the massive corruption scandal he's at the middle of, where his family received $40 million from the corrupt billionaire who caused Brazil's largest-ever banking collapse).

If you don't start your "reporting" about the Bolsonaro/US case by emphasizing that it was Moraes who ordered Bolsonaro's passport seized and banned him from leaving the country -- as an obvious prelude to arresting him even though he's been charged with no crimes -- then there's no way to understand what happened here let alone explain to readers and viewers why Flavio Bolsonaro would never have gotten anything remotely resembling a fair trial.

[Health Freedom Defense Fund @theHFDF]

Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo delivered a masterclass response to a lawyer challenging his decision to end four vaccine mandates.

Attorney Simone Chriss claimed it would have a “devastating impact.”

This was his response:

“I understand you’re not a clinician or a physician.”

“Did you say devastating impact?”

Chriss: “I did.”

Dr. Ladapo: “There are other states in this country that do not mandate three of the vaccines that we’re removing.”

“There are many, many countries that don’t mandate any vaccines.”

“Canada.”

“Australia.”

“Denmark.”

“Sweden.”

“The United Kingdom.”

“Many of these countries actually have life expectancies that are longer than this country has.”

“It’s actually sort of perverse to think that you could separate parental rights from public health.”

“Engaged parents are the reason that children eat healthier diets.”

“Engaged parents are the reason that children exercise.”

“Engaged parents are the reason that children go to school and learn, which is a huge predictor of future health.”

“This idea of a devastating impact, I mean, talk about not supported by evidence.”

Florida is refusing to back down from their plan to end mandates for Hep B, chickenpox, Hib, and pneumococcal shots.

@FLSurgeonGen @HealthyFla

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

Japan is often discussed as if it has uniquely low fertility.

Its fertility rate is very low, but several countries–including ones with reputations for being lively!–are now even lower.

[Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley]

In Michigan, Barack Obama campaigned for Abdul El-Sayed by denouncing Donald Trump for "deciding to start an unnecessary war that nobody asked for and nobody voted for." I am confused. In 2011, I represented members of Congress who opposed Obama attacking Libya without authorization... https://t.co/sUbbbZpiaJ

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

The foundational flaw of the climate narrative is the deliberate omission of context.

We were told current temperatures and CO₂ levels were unprecedented, yet geological history says the exact opposite. Earth has been locked in the Late Cenozoic Ice Age for the past 34 million years, triggered by the glaciation of Antarctica. On geological timescales, the world's climate state is overwhelmingly driven by tectonic shifts and changing ocean currents.

These ice age conditions intensified 2.58 million years ago into the Quaternary glaciation, characterised by long, brutal glacial periods of around 100,000 years, interrupted by temporary, warmer interglacials like the Holocene we live in today.

We live in a far cooler global regime than 90% of the past 541 million years of the Phanerozoic Eon. Global average temperatures today sit around 15°C - markedly cooler than the Phanerozoic average of approximately 24°C, which historically swung between cold glacial lows and thermal peaks over 30°C.

By historical standards, we are living in unusually cold times. The alarming predictions of extreme warming - such as projections of up to 5°C based on high-emissions models - are increasingly recognised across scientific literature as implausible upper bounds rather than realistic baselines.

Atmospheric CO₂ is the indispensable foundation for photosynthesis, agriculture and the rise of complex life on Earth. Rather than suffering from an excess of carbon, the modern Earth has emerged from a long-term geological carbon shortfall - a prolonged period during which lower CO₂ levels contributed to global aridity and the retreat of ancient green biomass.

An increase in atmospheric CO₂ represents life's biological resurgence. Acting as a natural fertiliser, it stimulates plant growth, improves water-use efficiency, and expands the planet's green canopy - a transformation clearly visible from satellite observation.

The natural world has endured genuine, cataclysmic upheavals in the deep past. The great extinction events and climate shifts of history - such as the Carnian Pluvial Episode or the End-Permian transition - played out over tens of thousands to millions of years. Yet through every transformation, the biosphere adapted, survived and ultimately thrived. These events became opportunities for new life forms to emerge, such as the dinosaurs, and us.

When the planet experienced sustained greenhouse conditions, life did not collapse - it flourished. During the Eocene Epoch 56 million years ago, palm trees grew in the Arctic, permanent ice disappeared from the poles and lush rainforests blanketed much of the planet's landmass.

Far from a barren wasteland, the Eocene was a time of astonishing biological abundance, dense vegetation and a massive evolutionary radiation of mammalian life.

The lessons of history show us that warmer conditions and elevated carbon levels are not the forces of destruction; historically, they have been the catalysts for biological growth and global greening.

IMAGE: Global mean surface temperature curve over the past 485 million years of the Phanerozoic Eon, showing Earth's current position within a deep icehouse regime. Data adapted from paleoclimate reconstructions by C.R. Scotese et al. (2021) and E.J. Judd et al. Science (2024).

[Erik Magnethi @ErikMagnethi]

BREAKING NEWS:

[Mazda Sabouri @msabouri]

Sweden is officially ditching mRNA vaccines, and they are not hiding their reasons for doing so.

https://t.co/qQzN68nhWA

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: The average cost of a family’s annual health insurance premium in the US is up +$1,303 YoY, or +5%, to a record $28,303.

This marks the 4th consecutive annual increase of at least +$1,300.

Over this period, the average annual premium for family coverage has surged +$5,884, or +26%.

To put this into perspective, CPI inflation has risen +13% over the same period, or half as much.

Since 1999, the average health insurance premium for a family has soared +$22,494, or +387%.

This represents an average annual growth rate of +6.1%, well above CPI inflation at +2.6% over the same period.

Health insurance has never been more expensive.

[Tommy D @phillycomtom]

@20th_Centurygal

[Tracy Beanz @tracybeanz]

The government pushed incandescent bulbs out. Now the Department of Energy is backing their return. Why? The science around artificial light, blue-light exposure, and what it may mean for our eyes and health is becoming impossible to ignore..
https://t.co/mNUS7m01oV

[Nicolas Hulscher, MPH @NicHulscher]

A MASSIVE Cleveland Clinic study found flu vaccination was associated with a 27% HIGHER RISK OF FLU.

Vaccines should NEVER have NEGATIVE EFFICACY.

Flu shots are a TOTAL FAILURE.

[Nicolas Hulscher, MPH @NicHulscher]

Pfizer and Albert Bourla were just SLAMMED with a State lawsuit over concealing 158,893 COVID shot adverse events, including deaths, strokes, heart damage, and miscarriages.

Bourla called COVID shot skeptics “criminals.”

Now he’s getting a taste of his own medicine.

[Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley]

The Hill is out with my column on the "Education Cartel" and how it is strangling the life out of the school system. https://t.co/OUSHKoWtja Everyone is getting windfall profits, from the unions to the politicians. Only the kids are being shortchanged by America’s school system.

[Mike Benz @MikeBenzCyber]

This is the end of the argument about voter ID.

[Erin Elizabeth Health Nut News🐭 @unhealthytruth]

MASSIVE Cleveland Clinic study finds those flu shots DO NOT work — and actually INCREASE your risk of flu by 27%.

I’ve interviewed RFK on this and it is fact. Health officials have to admit how wrong they were. 💉💉😬😬

[Danny Deraney @DannyDeraney]

47 years ago today, a masterpiece.

Taxi gave us one of the best scenes in sitcom history.

"What Does The Yellow Light Mean?"