J. Michael Pontious

A Journey J.Michael Pontious M.D.

A Journey
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BREAKING

Former ICE agent:

On my first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant.

So, if multiple agents tackle a person to the ground, beat him, and then shoot him repeatedly, they cannot later say it was ok cause they later found he was armed - which is neither a crime nor one that carries the penalty of immediate execution.

There's no Nobel prize for killing civilians.

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

As they rewrite history...their empire begins to crumble...

Can we get him a handler...please.

How life changed in a rural town that lost its clinic after Trump’s megabill, even if the politics haven’t | CNN Politics As the final hues of autumn linger in the Blue Ridge Mountains, the 200-person community of Churchville, Virginia, is grappling with the loss of its only health clinic.

"The 200-person community of Churchville, Virginia, is grappling with the loss of its health clinic.

Augusta Medical Group cited the health care provisions in Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, for closing the rural clinics in Churchville and two other locations..."

www.cnn.com/2025/11/30/p...

Trump Administration Will No Longer Commemorate World AIDS Day

Every year since 1988, the United States has recognized World AIDS Day — until now.

Why not? Maybe because the Trump administration doesn’t want to acknowledge that its foreign aid cuts led to nearly 150,000 deaths from AIDS, according to Boston University researchers.

Shameful.

Scoop: The new #2 at CDC is a top ivermectin prescriber who ended Louisiana’s vaccine-promotion media campaigns. The current Surgeon General of Louisiana has made headlines recently, including for allegedly burying a whooping cough outbreak.

insidemedicine.substack.com/p/scoop-the-...

But they will ..they will.

And they still don't get it ..

“.. Virtually all major grocery categories are now more expensive than they were a year ago, some substantially so.”

@axios.com #ICYMI
www.axios.com/2025/09/11/t...

R.F.K. Jr. Cancels mRNA Vaccine Research

This maybe tops the list of reasons why Trump 2.0 is bad for your health.

R.F.K. Jr. Cancels mRNA Vaccine Research www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

Speaker Mike Johnson just called on the Senate to censure...Sen. Alex Padilla.

You read that right.

The American Fascist Party at work.

Angus: Canada can no longer view the United States as an ally. We know that Donald Trump doesn’t believe in liberal democracy—he doesn’t believe in the rule of law.

Prime Minister Carney is not welcoming the leader of the free world to Canada.

He is welcoming Vladimir Putin’s sock puppet.

"It was probably not the reception the president was hoping for with his debut at the cultural center he took over and now chairs — half full, half booing, and with a strong contingent of drag queens."
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

The Strategic Logic of the No Kings Protests By Leah Greenberg, Indivisible Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director

Why another protest? What is it going to accomplish? Shouldn’t we be [insert alternate tactic] instead?

These are good-faith questions, and they stem from very reasonable concerns. So let’s take a step back and talk about the role of a peaceful mass mobilization like No Kings.

Trump Pardoned Tax Cheat After Mother Attended $1 Million Dinner

This guy stole $10 million from the employees of his nursing home to buy himself a luxury yacht and Cartier watches. He PLED GUILTY.

And because his Mom gave Trump $1 million, he just got a pardon.

And this story barely makes the news today. WTF. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

Her stats line up with CDC data…

Truly stunning- usually the government *wins*!

Supreme Court Deadlock Halts Oklahoma's Religious Charter School Initiative A major ruling for proponents of the separation of church and state

NEWS: The U.S. Supreme Court deadlocked 4-4 on Oklahoma’s bid to create the first publicly funded religious charter school, leaving in place a state ruling blocking it over church-state separation concerns. Amy Coney Barrett recused herself from the case.

Greenland has signed a lucrative minerals deal w/ Europe in a blow to Trump. “despite the rhetoric from the Trump admin, no formal dialogue with [the US] had started nor brought about an increased interest in direct investment. Cooperation with both the EU and Denmark was progressing more smoothly”

Trump Republicanism at its finest.

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Why does the circus have three rings?

What thoughtful use of government logic....not

‘It’s been a tough period’: NIH’s new director speaks with Science Jay Bhattacharya discusses staff morale, grant cuts, and “rumors”

This is a great piece. Bhattacharya insisted that the reporter not "write about rumors" because "it spreads panic.” Hours later, those very leads were confirmed.
www.science.org/content/arti...

It keeps getting worse.

Scanlon: The Gulf of Mexico was so named over 500 years ago. If we want to update that name to reflect our current culture, maybe we should call it the Sea of Emoluments—you know, the place where we can board the Ship of Fools and navigate from a State of Ignorance to the Confederacy of Dunces…