Zachary Bretton

“The Vice President, Secretary of Defense, and several Cabinet members and high ranking White House officials were conducting war strategy in a group chat on an iphone app” is such a perfect scandal for Democrats to go scorched earth on. I can’t wait to see how they fuck it up.

I think this is the disconnect.

Schumer still focused on POLITICAL STRATEGY.

Democratic grassroots focused on the SUBSTANTIVE HARM being done to the United States.

Okay, not that this matters AT ALL since the base idea here is fucking insanely rude, stupid, and ridiculous... but the idea that THE WHOLE COUNTRY OF CANADA WOULD BE A SINGLE STATE IS INCOMPREHENSIBLE. His complete lack of awareness of the structure of one of our closest allies is mind-boggling.

Duterte flown to The Hague after arrest over Philippines drug war killings Ex-president to face charges of crimes against humanity over ‘war on drugs’ that rights groups say left 30,000 dead

Duterte flown to The Hague after arrest over Philippines drug war killings

Ex-president to face charges of crimes against humanity over ‘war on drugs’ that rights groups say left 30,000 dead

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Armed government agents went to the home of a lawful resident of the United States without a warrant and arrested him over the content of his speech. This is a five-alarm fire for civil liberties.

man he's a perfect synthesis of patrick bateman and gob bluth, isn't he? so perfect that i don't have to say his name for you to know exactly who i'm talking about

Somehow this story is even worse than it first appeared: “When the acting head of the Bureau of Reclamation did not relent, the DOGE agents flew to California with the goal of turning the pumps on themselves, in what people familiar with the incident characterized as a stunt for a ‘photo op.’”

I am proud to learn that my department chair (and former NIMH director), psychiatrist & neuroscientist Dr. Josh Gordon, will be addressing the NYC rally.

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Why is our entire political class constantly telling us to put truth and morality aside to focus on optics

New York Times headline "Trump Called for I.V.F. to Be Free, How Would That Work?" August 30, 2024. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/30/health/trump-free-ivf-treatment.html

CNN headline "Trump proposes making government or insurance companies pay for IVF treatments." August 29, 2024. https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/29/politics/trump-ivf-treatment-proposal/index.html

Washington Post headline "Trump says he wants to cover IVF costs as president." August 29, 2024. https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/trump-says-he-wants-to-cover-ivf-costs-as-president/2024/08/29/d480c9ec-d495-4ee7-a1fe-9142ab0334d0_video.html

NBC News headline "Trump says he wants to make IVF treatments paid for by government or insurance companies if elected," August 29, 2024. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-says-wants-make-ivf-treatments-paid-government-insurance-compani-rcna168804

How could that Trump voter have believed electing him would make IVF free? She must've been into fringey alternative media, maybe saw it from some influencer, professional media outlets would never oh no.

Democrats should call this "the Stupid Recession." I know they're scared of big mean words but its time to belittle Trump for once

“And therefore, we will _____.”

First measles death is reported in the West Texas outbreak that's infected more than 120 people A person who was hospitalized has died from measles in West Texas. It's the first since the outbreak began late last month.

First measles death in the West Texas outbreak reported. The patient's age hasn't been released, but most of the cases have been in children. apnews.com/article/meas...

Yes! The people defending this as trolling don’t understand what trolling is. “Libs will get offended by ANYTHING these days” only works if the thing you’re doing isn’t offensive!

yes we know, that's the problem

This would be insanely dumb on so many levels... embarrassing, truly.

Every scientist, long before they were a scientist, was a little kid who stood in front of a fish tank or stared up at the stars or turned over a rock to look at the bugs underneath and said “wow”. On the best days, working in science still feels like that.

Remember how Trump said he "sent the military in and opened up the water flow" in CA? It appears he forced the Army Corps to just drain reservoirs into recently flooded farmland without telling local farmers or leaders. “In 25 years, I’ve never seen anything like this.”
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dogs playing basketball tweet

As true today as it was nearly seven years ago

Let me give you a perfect example of why I think Musk’s approach is so dangerous. As everybody knows, there was a plane crash in D.C. on Wednesday. A helicopter collided with a passenger plane and almost 70 people died. When this collision occurred, the Federal Aviation Administration was leaderless. Why? Musk had Trump fire the former FAA leader as soon as he got into office, because the former leader had investigated and fined one of Musk’s companies, Starlink. This was a sheer vengeance firing. This was not about competence or even truly about political affiliation. Elon Musk was just mad at this guy for investigating his company and wanted him gone on Day 1. Because of that, the FAA was leaderless during the biggest aviation disaster in this country since 2001. The agency had to scramble to figure out how it was going to respond to this without anyone at the top. And by the way, the day after the crash, FAA employees—including air traffic controllers, who are already badly short-staffed—got an email encouraging them to resign and find work in the private sector.

Elon Musk thinks he can gut the U.S. government like he gutted Twitter without facing any real consequences. He is dangerously wrong. His ransacking of the federal workforce is going to get people killed. slate.com/news-and-pol...

EXCLUSIVE: NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with Trump’s orders Grantee accounts remain frozen, while union accuses NSF of ignoring rules governing peer review

This is not business as usual.

It’s not just a change in funding priorities going forward; it is the reneging on funding agreements and is profoundly disruptive for even those grants that will be found to be compliant.

Meanwhile, trainees who often live paycheck to paycheck are going unpaid.

Boy, these last eight days feel like a good reminder why democracies generally avoid letting people who attempt a coup come back to power….

It feels that folks operate with 2 vastly different sets of rules. One side is process oriented & manifestly nonpartisan (if blind to its own political biases). The other side is partisan & willing to use any means necessary.

Both sides fantasize that the other side plays their way.

It takes the Acela 6.75 hours to travel from Boston to DC, and in Japan this would take less than 3. This is arguably the most important economic center of the world, with trains as slow as 80 years ago. There’s no “golden age of America” with rail this slow.

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