Fellating big oil while concurrently fucking sans lube the American (and global) consumers. And continuing to spread a planetary fossil fuel venereal disease for good measure.

Clearly, now kids aren’t going to be able to shower after PhysEd class anymore.

What I like most about this table is the term “included with taxes,” rather than the typical “free.”

Opponents of universal healthcare have always labeled proponents as just wanting free stuff. It’s paid for out of our taxes, just like roads, police, fire, public schools and libraries.

Here in AR, the shelf life of faux-victimhood by maga is infinity.

3. The focus on *lethality* is showing how myopic the Admin & DoD leadership are & how disastrous the ignorance of strategic decision making is. We will leave a leadership vacuum in Iran, a destabilized Middle East & the ingredients for decades more of war.

ADSMs win battles, politicians lose wars.

2. The decision to launch this whimsical war was a gigantic strategic failure, because the asshats who chose this course of action lack any strategic sense, and any ability (or patience) to grasp the importance of strategy, geopolitics or diplomacy.

1. While the Pentagon is taking seriously the proposal to *reform* (think “deform”) war colleges by eliminating development of strategic, geopolitical and diplomatic skills in favor of *increased lethality* and *improved tactics.*

1.21 gigawatts and a DeLorean?

Yes they have, and that didn’t work either. If only that whole trickle down thing worked like Mr. Reagan said it would. Maybe we just need to give billionaire tax cuts another 50 years to kick in?

I know each time I was in Afghanistan I really felt the love from back home when folks would skip a day at Starbucks to save gas for the war effort🙄. I miss Congress and our former representative governance structure.

Well, at least the right might not talk about the tan suit for a day.

He has wanted to destroy the alliance for more than a decade, ostensibly as a gift to Mr. Putin. He has repeatedly sought a pretense for “pulling the U.S. out of NATO” (hint: he *can’t* without Congress), and NATO opting to withhold support could be the latest story to dangle in front of his base.

*”was able” should have read “less able”. Edit button would be nice.

The difference is, by increasing wages, consumers are more readily able to absorb cost increases and still come out better off.

By keeping wages stagnant, increased costs caused by tariffs result in a net loss to consumers who are was able to absorb the increases.

What we also always hear is that increasing wages increases cost of business, and that cost is passed onto consumers.

What we never hear is that tariffs increase cost of doing business, and that cost is passed onto consumers.

Weird.

To ensure the path was cleared to issue unlawful orders, and that they would be cloaked in a vail of *lawfulness,* he relieved senior service JAGs and installed sycophants to provide pseudo-legal cover.

Union Veterans Council Calls for Transparency and Due Process in VA’s Use of AI for Claims Auditing The Union Veterans Council (UVC), AFL-CIO, released a statement this week addressing the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) plans to utilize artificial intelligence (AI) to review over one million…

Craig Romanovich, Executive Director of the Union Veterans Council: When we begin treating the VBA’s obligations as a budgetary line item to be managed by algorithms, we risk losing sight of the service and sacrifice those benefits are meant to honor. nycclc.org/news/union-v...

📌NEW: Trump is making ANOTHER run at finishing off Stars & Stripes, the editorially independent newspaper that has reported on the troops and their families since the Civil War.

This is outrageous, especially during a time of war, when troops deserve a paper they can trust, not WH propaganda.

Military Senior Service Colleges Require Reform, But There Sure Are Some Bad Ideas Out There “No one is thinking if everyone is thinking alike.” Gen. George S. Patton’s quip shows that he not only understood the advantage of audacious combat

Thoughtful piece by @bradduplessis.bsky.social. If you're in any way involved with PME, I recommend reading and reflecting on "Military Senior Service Colleges Require Reform, But There Sure Are Some Bad Ideas Out There."
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I’m an NIH whistleblower. The scientific community cannot afford to avoid politics “Scientists are often encouraged to avoid politics. But this advice is outdated, if it was ever correct in the first place,” writes Jenna Norton, NIH whistleblower.

Everybody should know who @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social is.
In this day and age it is more risky to keep your head down than to be the whistleblower that we needs.

Right now, being called "a radical leftist" is a badge of honor. And imperative.

Read her story here.
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Who don’t understand bowling or physics. That ball would most likely result in a 7-10 split, rather than a strike. But, probably a more accurate depiction of the cluster created by this admin’s foreign policy (if you want to call it that).

His *team* is exceptionally efficient at being exquisitely ineffective.

Flashback to the Rose Garden in 2020 when Mr. Trump announced “I don’t take responsibility at all.” Same energy. Same failure to act as a leader.

A transparent ploy trying to retain his honeypot job following redistricting. He will continue caucusing and voting with Rs. If re-elected in Nov, he will continue to be a reliable R vote in Congress and a vacuum for donor money that buys his votes on their (not constituents’) behalf.

I understand that there are a lot of folks on the left who instinctively recoil from religious language, and with good reason given its use by the right.

But please listen to this, and focus on how he's trying to realign "Christian values" so they align with and advance progressive policy goals.

It’s been years, but his supporters still can’t read a bio or your handle. Pathetic.

Disappointing, but predictable when, among the first personnel actions at the Pentagon, were to relieve the senior service JAGs and *review* each of the senior Flag officers for *appropriate loyalty*…not to their oath, but to the POTUS no matter what.

Leadership at DoD has yielded to sycophancy.

We can do like we did in Iraq and Afghanistan (and the U.S. with protesters) and label them as *insurgents* or *radical islamists* to sanitize and dehumanize the unlawful killing of non-combatants. We’ve moved far beyond *collateral damage* at this point. Too politically correct for kegseth.

Have no fear, Republicans will bail you out at some point with a huge chunk of taxpayer money to pay you for not being able to sell your products because of their policies. Then you can post on social media that you’re voting for them because you are against socialism.

We’ve already experienced attacks in U.S. cities perpetrated by DHS. If Markwayne is confirmed, then we’ll likely experience foreign attacks on top of increasing internal violence by our own government officials. This Admin doesn’t care about human suffering. To the contrary, they revel in it.