Florida Gov Ron DeSantis has discussed potential roles in Trump’s administration, including attorney general, defense secretary or even a future Supreme Court seat, Axios reports.

Hell naw
Rebrand this as the 45th annual Clip, monetize it

@SecWar: The War Department is once again restoring freedom to our Joint Force. We are discarding the mandatory flu vaccine requirement, effective immediately. 21 Apr 26

Washington ordered smallpox inoculations for the Continental Army beginning in 1777.

Hegseth, therefore, is taking a mid-18th century, pre-Industrial Age approach to medicine and warfare.

the referring us to his newsletter, or course, generates clicks

it's like saving enough box tops to get the decoder ring, only to find out its a fucking marketing gimmick for Ovaltine

even if the news of media is nothing more than reporting about shills on steroids, tossing softball questions

giggles and cocktails with overt fascists normalizes them

this is not hard to understand unless your financial success is dependent on being obtuse to the ethics

The evolution of the shill

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.

Yup

one talking head gig after another

™️

Anyone who gained fame by wearing a “conservative” bow tie

is an opportunist

‘Mercian Totalitarianism

I think it’s totalitarianism

It’s all a racket

The fact that Jared Kushner derives nearly all his income from the Saudi government while he purports to be negotiating issues of acute interest to the Saudi government allegedly on behalf of the US is simply swept under the rug by US mainstream media.

I mean

For the love of Riley, these talks were never going to be talks

infuriating to think Wall St and/or punditry had ever considered it sincere

“We will remember this” - Trump

Hey Dmitry, tell us something we haven’t heard before

A lot of us discovered our passion and our calling after 40. Well after 40! And we were each inspired by someone who did the same. We’ve got balls. Let’s talk about us!

… and into the next

“Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it.”

― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

No one has ever asked if Epstein had animals on his island, dead or alive

Allow yourself the excitement bc it’s not weird

weird is fucking couches

A vaccine for Lyme disease could be on the horizon The vaccine candidate is the furthest any shot has gotten since the last one was pulled in 2002. Scientists are testing other ways to block infection.

New clinical trial data from vaccine makers show that their Lyme disease vaccine reduced cases by about 70%.
www.sciencenews.org/article/lyme...

Truth

My biggest pet peeve

We >are< in it

Fake Daily mail headline. We blame migrants so you don’t blame billionaires

Kabuki face

Kabuki

Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

<sarcastic voice>

But is it silk?

and comparatively w today’s marketing power & reach, that aesthetic can be introduced & delivered more directly, more persistently into the eyes, ears and palms of targeted “consumers” than perhaps at any time in history, thanks in no small part to the same tech lords

The technological republic as Palantir presents it is an aesthetic argument th same way that fascism is (cf. Eco). It aims to make the world look a certain way