Exclusive: Sweden has intelligence indicating Russia's systematically manipulating data to fool Ukraine’s western allies into believing its economy has withstood the strain of its war spending & western sanctions, Thomas Nilsson, head of Sweden Military Intelligence, told me & @maxseddon.bsky.social
Gotta love an analysis of why hospitals are overwhelmed post covid that completely ignores the health impacts of old and new infections of covid
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If the accepted baseline for ‘low’ covid infections exceeds 200,000 PER DAY in the USA, and covid is known to damage hearts and brains and other organs, how might this be impacting hospital systems?
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Why America is a dangerously dysfunctional nation: belief that Trump is incompetent or even dangerously mentally unstable is now commonplace even among Republicans. But he continues to wield power that was never accorded to any president before him. www.sueddeutsche.de/meinung/dona...
‘more, and sicker, patients’
Patel is threatening to sue @theatlantic.com which could open the way for the discovery of documents and testimony under oath.
A frivolous lawsuit would be unpleasant for The Atlantic, but great for democracy, letting in much needed sunlight
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#FBI #Alcohol
Great that the NYT published (finally) and article pointing to Trump’s mental unfitness. But then, @peterbakernyt.bsky.social , it just disappears from the front page. And the NYT moves on.
It should be headlines every single day.
(Compare with relentless coverage of Biden.)
Do better.
Palantir.
Lost Art Search Requests for artworks currently in the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC
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#provenance #artlaw #NGA #LostArt
On multiple occasions Patel’s security detail had difficulty waking him because he was seemingly intoxicated, according to info supplied to DOJ and White House officials. A request for “breaching equipment”was made because Patel had been unreachable behind locked doors
Lots of $$$ made on Credit default swaps in the subprime crisis even as the markets sped straight into a wall.
How long until some bright soul suggests bringing the perpetrator and the victim together so that they can reconcile and heal?
#fuzzy #toys
By falsely portray prosecutions of FACE Act and seditious conspiracy as “weaponization” of law enforcement, DOJ is normalizing vigilante violence. My thoughts in @opinion.bloomberg.com
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How is Trump State Media Fox News dealing with his Jesus Christ post?
#foxnews #Murdoch #blasphemy
No one believes that Trump, who pardoned the convicted criminals who attacked that Capital, including the DC police, has any desire to improve security in Washington DC.
Any idea what in the world The Economist thinks it’s doing.
Articles are unsigned so can’t track it back to it’s author and ask.
#peptide #infomercial
Large parts of the business of keeping the US military fed were privatised to civilian contractors.
And then last year DOGE started making cuts in those civilian contractors.
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Christian nationalist defense secretary elevated from his role as a weekend Fox News television host plucks fake Bible verse from violent Hollywood blockbuster and presents it at a Pentagon prayer session to rally the troops for the “holy war, Guardian reports
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"Defunct startups are being liquidated for their Slack archives, Jira tickets, and email threads—operational exhaust that AI labs now treat as premium training data."
ICE Arrests 85-Year-Old French Widow Who Married Her G.I. Sweetheart. It's called a "Trump special."
“The last night I was a pediatric resident, a child came in with Hib and promptly died by the next day. I didn’t work for 50 years to have everything destroyed by one man.”
-Dr. Kathryn Edwards, Vanderbilt University
This is what RFK Jr. and the anti-vaxxers have wrought.
"You're spending taxpayer dollars to drink milk shirtless in a hot tub with Kid Rock. Somehow you think that's a better public health message than informing the public about the benefits of vaccines. Really? -- Rep. Linda Sanchez to RFK Jr
This is not how a public servant talks in a democracy. This is how a dictator’s henchman talks.
This is why Russia is still fighting, why the war continues and why people are dying: Because Trump and Vance encouraged Putin to believe he could win
‘Families are unable to access files of survivors who died without requesting their IAP files. Walker said that makes this project even more urgent. ’
The United States is in an unprecedented crisis.
A convicted criminal has attained the presidency.
And he has decided that a crime is not a crime if it is committed on his behalf.
U.S. Vice President JD Vance faced hecklers during a speech at a Turning Point USA event, where he said Pope Leo should "be careful when he talks about matters of theology."
Why is The Economist citing a 20 year old study on 76 people?
These ‘health’ articles are weird.
