JimDuncanRVA

John Denver, gone 28 years ago today.

“.. I was camping up in the mountains. We were in the Rockies … I remember looking straight up and seeing meteor showers and thinking, this is what it is to be alive. And that line ‘I’ve seen it raining fire in the sky’ — that actually came from that night.”

Tweet From Obama mentioning my firing from the Washington post. Wirh a photo of me

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama.

His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful.

Now he is tweeting in support of me.

This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*.

Or used to work.

Reading about things I have absolutely no control over is making me feel insane.

I'm not sure anything will ever illustrate the state of The Discourse quite as well as Stephen Moore misreading his own pie chart while opining about the state of our national statistics.

The WH press corp is a weak excuse for professional journalism anymore. No follow ups. Just move on to next topic. Always

Trump administration threatens to take Harvard's patents The federal government told Harvard University it could take control of the school's patents — the latest in a months-long feud between the Trump administration and the school.

The attacks on higher- ed intensifying.

www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-a...

Former surgeon general: The CDC shooting must be a wakeup call “When influential figures amplify falsehoods, they legitimize the anger that leads to violence,” writes former Surgeon General Jerome Adams.

www.statnews.com/2025/08/09/c...

Student loan policy sparks worries about medical school enrollment, physician shortage Provisions in the One Big, Beautiful Bill Act capping student loans will make it more difficult for medical students — especially those from underserved populations — to become physicians,...

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Major Medical Groups Pushed Out of Role Supporting CDC's Vaccine Advisors 'Liaison organizations are special interest groups' and likely biased, ACIP Secretariat says

www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...

RFK Jr. Reportedly Planning to Fire All USPSTF Members Move would come on the heels of abrupt cancellation of task force meeting

www.medpagetoday.com/primarycare/...

After Pledging to Keep Prices Low, Amazon Hiked Them on Hundreds of Essentials While Walmart cut prices on low-cost goods, Amazon raised them.

Amazon quietly raised prices on low-cost products in the five months after President Trump first announced sweeping tariffs.

The current 7pm needs work. Wish they would just give Michael Steele his own show vs the trio of anchors

Exclusive: Early US intel assessment suggests strikes on Iran did not destroy nuclear sites, sources say | CNN Politics The US military strikes on three of Iran’s nuclear facilities last weekend did not destroy the core components of the country’s nuclear program and likely only set it back by months, according to an e...

www.cnn.com/2025/06/24/p...

Channel surfing network news at 6;30pm. Major media just recanting storylines they’re told. The rare exception - Richard Engel on @NBCNews who as always does superb in-depth reporting from the front lines overseas

EPA will revisit Biden-era ban on the last type of asbestos used in US The Environmental Protection Agency will reconsider a Biden administration ban on the last type of asbestos used in the United States.

Haven’t posted in awhile. The story below seems worth a share.

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RFK Jr. names 8 new members of vaccine advisory panel Several of the new members appear to have a history of expressing anti-vaccine sentiment.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy today named 8 new members to serve on an influential federal vaccine advisory panel after firing all 17 of the committee's members.

Entire Fulbright Scholarship board quits, citing Trump admin actions The 12-member board alleged the Trump administration "usurped the authority of the Board" by denying Fulbright awards to some selected for the 2025-2026 year.

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NIH staff and biomedical community sound alarm about agency politicization, funding slowdown In test of NIH director’s support of dissent, NIH staff sign Bethesda Declaration urging reversal of grant cuts and freezes

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AMA Calls for Senate Investigation of RFK Jr. 'We do not want to be on the wrong side of history,' one delegate said

AMA Calls for Senate Investigation of RFK Jr. www.medpagetoday.com/meetingcover...

A Met promoting his tropical website showed the day 14 GFS output of this a few days ago. It was blatant hype purely to drive people to his page

(1/2) So the U.S. GFS model shows a hurricane developing and affecting Florida/Gulf next weekend....The European model, which is historically a little better, shows absolutely nothing in the same period. Why do you think the "social media-rologists" just post the GFS outcome?

National media has shown weakness in story coverage, falling into cliche traps set by those they’re covering,
eg - “Big Beautiful Bill”, “Liberation Day” etc. Hearing both endlessly in news coverage

Harvard sues Trump administration over ban on international student enrollment

Harvard sues Trump administration over ban on international student enrollment www.cnbc.com/2025/05/23/h...

Privatizing Medicare for every senior would be a disaster. We need to have the choice to not use so-called “Advantage” plans

Tapper’s selling lots of books. Hello 2025 version of “journalism” . Sickening

Moody's downgrades United States credit rating, citing growth in government debt Moody's had been a holdout in keeping U.S. sovereign debt at the highest credit rating possible, and brings the 116-year-old agency into line with its rivals.

Moody's downgrades U.S credit rating, citing rise in government debt www.cnbc.com/2025/05/16/m...

So Jake Tapper’s book has set the news narrative for days on his network since its heavily promoted release. Shame on @cnn.com

CNN is subtly morphing away from doing reporting critical of the current administration. Look at the headlines on their app lately and a trend this way can be seen