Leaving MAGA requires an apology AND action #ileftmaga #leavingmaga #richlogis #maga #onebetrayaltoomany

This is the official copy that went out. Two things:

1) Mfer really underlined this shit with his sharpie before putting his ugly-ass sig on it.

2) Interesting that they clearly anticipate commanders requesting exceptions to the policy.

Trump once went on the Howard Stern show and joked about how he was able to dodge the draft. He claimed that he was a “brave soldier” for avoiding sexually transmitted diseases, and that this was his own “personal Vietnam”

Key Points Question Does acetaminophen use during pregnancy increase children's risk of neurodevelopmental disorders? Findings In this population-based study, models without sibling controls identified marginally increased risks of autism and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) associated with acetaminophen use during pregnancy. However, analyses of matched full sibling pairs found no evidence of increased risk of autism (hazard ratio, 0.98), ADHD (hazard ratio, 0.98), or intellectual disability (hazard ratio, 1.01) associated with acetaminophen use. Meaning Acetaminophen use during pregnancy was not associated with children's risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability in sibling control analyses. This suggests that associations observed in other models may have been attributable to confounding. Abstract Importance Several studies suggest that acetaminophen (paracetamol) use during pregnancy may increase risk of neurodevelopmental disorders in children. If true, this would have substantial implications for management of pain and fever during pregnancy. Objective To examine the associations of acetaminophen use during pregnancy with children's risk of autism, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and intellectual disability.

Design, Setting, and Participants This nationwide cohort study with sibling control analysis included a population-based sample of 2,480,797 children born in 1995 to 2019 in Sweden, with follow-up through December 31, 2021. exposure Use of acetaminophen during pregnancy prospectively recorded from antenatal and prescription records. Main Outcomes and Measures Autism, ADHD, and intellectual disability based on International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision and International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision codes in health registers. Results In total, 185909 children (7.49%) were exposed to acetaminophen during pregnancy. Crude absolute risks at 10 years of age for those not exposed vs those exposed to acetaminophen were 1.33% vs 1.53% for autism, 2.46% vs 2.87% for ADHD, and 0.70% vs 0.82% for intellectual disability. In models without sibling control, ever-use vs no use of acetaminophen during pregnancy was associated with marginally increased risk of autism (hazard ratio [HR], 1.05 [95% Cl, 1.02-1.08]; risk difference [RD] at 10 years of age, 0.09% [95% Cl, -0.01% to 0.20%l), ADHD (HR, 1.07 [95% Cl, 1.05-1.10]; RD, 0.21% [95% Cl, 0.08%-0.34%]), and intellectual disability (HR, 1.05 [95% CI, 1.00-1.10]; RD, 0.04% [95% CI, -0.04% to 0.12%]). To address unobserved confounding, matched full sibling pairs were also analyzed. Sibling control analyses found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with autism (HR, 0.98 |95% CI, 0.93-1.04]; RD, 0.02% [95% Cl, -0.14% to 0.18%]), ADHD (HR, 0.98 [95% Cl, 0.94-1.02]; RD, - 0.02% [95% CI, -0.21% to 0.15%]), or intellectual disability (HR, 1.01 [95% CI, 0.92-1.10]; RD, 0% [95% Cl, -0.10% to 0.13%1).

In short, acetaminophen exposure during pregnancy is not linked to the risk of developing autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability.

The study has been published in Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED.
• jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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So the peace talks in Pakistan appear to have no elected or Senate confirmed representatives from the U.S. and no representative at all from Iran. Not putting a lot of faith into this.

This Isn't Trading. It's Theft from Your Retirement. Someone keeps making perfectly-timed bets right before the President speaks. The victims are your pension, your 401(k), and the country I took an oath to defend.

Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them.
New piece ↓
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

"The idea that the movements of a president, the timing of a strike, the decision to call off a war, could be rented out to the highest bidder is not a financial story. It’s a betrayal story. And the evidence keeps piling up."

NEW: DNI Tulsi Gabbard was reportedly not invited to a White House meeting on the Iran war. But, as I report in my OUR LAND newsletter, she's waging her own war on the truth to serve Trump's revenge fantasies—and it could affect the future of American democracy.

link.motherjones.com/public/45288...

People keep capitulating to this man and getting publicly humiliated. And then the next guy comes along, doing the same thing and hoping they will be the exception. Because, despite all their money, they're stupid and cowardly.

Making Coffee with a Candle—and Other Notes from a Cuba Gone Dark The Cuban government has been blaming the United States for its problems since 1959—sometimes rightly, sometimes not. At this point, my only position comes from seeing a grandmother's coffee…

New from @jankcurbelo.bsky.social: Cuba is in the dark. Literally—for most of the day, most of the country has no electricity. The national power grid, known by its Spanish acronym, SEN, has collapsed 7 times in the past 18 months.

a good 75% of the U.S. press operates either in blind fealty or timid normalization of him, yet he's such a narcissistic black hole it's just never enough

Palantir wants to bring back the draft (And also the Axis Powers.)

Palantir wants to bring back the draft

Hawks keep talking about how this or that is going to prevent Iran getting a nuclear weapon forever. That's sneaking in a fallacy or at least an unexplored premise. Can anything stop Iran getting a nuclear weapon forever? Seems unlikely.

Every #Friday, #Trump announces a deal to end the war.
It gives the stock market a bump before closing for the weekend and corporate media reports it as fact every week.
#Resist #RemoveTrump

Not off to a great start

Southwest Airlines jets involved in close call near Nashville Two Southwest Airlines jets were forced to take evasive action late Saturday afternoon just north of Nashville International Airport to avoid a potential midair collision, NewsChannel 5 Investigates h...

VIDEO POSTED: Two Southwest Airlines jets were forced to take evasive action late Saturday afternoon just north of Nashville International Airport to avoid a potential midair collision, NewsChannel 5 Investigates has discovered. www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

Gil Duran tweet: TLDR: Fascism in response to Palantir's long fascists screed on X.

"Your Account is Suspended" Message on X

The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X.

I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!).

So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.

The mighty @gilduran.com, one of the great modern chroniclers of the broligarchy, was suspended from Twitter for the tweet below against Palantir!

He joins The Left Hook at 530 pm ET

@tparsi.bsky.social joins us at 6 pm ET to discuss the Iran War debacle.

thelefthook.substack.com

No paywalls.

'One of The Scariest Things I Have Seen': Alarms Over Palantir's War-Mongering 'Technofascist' Manifesto Scholars alarmed by Palantir's technofascist manifesto promoting AI weapons, mandatory national service, and authoritarian dominance.

'One of The Scariest Things I Have Seen': Alarms Over Palantir's War-Mongering 'Technofascist' Manifesto

We can’t trust Palantir with our NHS data Is this really the company we should be entrusting with our health service’s digital architecture?

"Palantir is not just a problem of profiteering from our national healthcare system— it's a fundamental threat to the democratic control of our public infrastructure + the privacy of every citizen. By giving our taxes to this company, we are aiding their operations everywhere."

tinyurl.com/3ejuyv89

Exactly!

Karp wants to be the prime government contractor for surveillance just like Musk is the prime government contractor for space.

Unlimited funding, no bid contracts and zero accountability.

Palantir Pays Zero Federal Income Tax Despite Explosive Growth, Largely Due to Trump Tax Law Palantir reported $1.5 billion of U.S. income but paid exactly zero federal income tax in 2025. Despite explosive growth, tax breaks from the Trump tax law helped Palantir avoid paying even a dime of...

Thank you, Don.
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Similarly, Palantir calls for national military service. This is a common and unfortunate affliction of middle-aged and older men, akin to an interest in the Roman Empire or World War II. Its simply not something you see many men in their 20s promote for obvious I-would-prefer-not-to-die reasons. Charitably, it reflects a sense of a desire for creating shared meaning among the young that the elderly perceive is lacking, or to coerce the elite into sharing the cost of military conflict. Uncharitably, it is the old telling the young how to live and risk their lives.

We all have personal views, but the manifesto completely merges Palantir and Karp's vision. Why should a tech company have a manifesto that includes rearming Germany or Japan, or calls for national military service?
Turning opinions into political manifestos demands allegiance or opposition.

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This is just the top of the iceberg of bullshit. Hiding under the surface of the water is a mountain of parallel institutionalist Nazi's waiting for their chance to take over other areas of knowledge as Trump's Administration destroys all established institutions.

www.reddit.com/r/cognitives...

The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

This quote is brilliant, “One of Trump’s extraordinary skills is to recognize and recruit those whose greed and vanity outstrip their principles, and who are happy to shout righteously for a cause they once abhorred.” 💯

Danger to society, and humanity bsky.app/profile/chri...

Tech bros are such a frantic endorsement of mandatory Humanities classes.

Power without accountability: The Palantir manifesto The problems with our tech philosopher kings

New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally.
It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-w...

This is exactly right. It’s not a dilemma though. It’s a line in the sand that will at once once collapse what remains of the rule of law and regulatory infrastructure designed to protect the public.