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I wrote this first post pre election. But this is my refresh of a political blog I used to write and want to revive in new format. More to come.

RFK Jr. has hired anti-vaccine activist David Geier to lead a study looking to link autism to vaccines, although that link has been heavily studied and thoroughly debunked. Geier does not have a medical degree & was disciplined in Maryland for practicing medicine without a license. M(aking)AGA

The former ambassador to Denmark for the United States, Rufus Gifford, posted this video on his Facebook account: Ht: @hpsc24.bsky.social

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

This is the simple pattern in everything this administration has done: They don’t know what they’re doing. The chainsawing of agencies, the market-tanking stop-and-go tariffs, the war plans dumped unwittingly to a journalist on an open channel. They’re idiots. They have no idea what they’re doing.

David French: There is not an officer alive whose career would survive a security breach like the one that just happened at the fingertips of the secretary of defense.

Yeah no way they didn’t inform him of a massive security issue only to be blindsided at a press conference. Reporters need to push on this and ask how ALL these top officials just forgot to tell him (they didn’t and anyone who believes they did is a moron of epic proportion.)

This is insane. Genuinely insane levels of incompetence. The “but her emails crowd” can sit down and shut up forever.

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

The DOGE guys didn’t just make one $8B mistake in their savings list — “they are getting it wrong with alarming consistency” They don’t seem to understand how these things are calculated. 🧵: x.com/electricfutu...

European Parliament member 👇🏽

WTF

@juliusgoat.bsky.social

Instead of prosecuting the mayor of America’s largest city with the ample evidence that he took bribes from a foreign government, the Trump administration decided to leave him in office, and use the threat of charges to blackmail him into carrying out their agenda. And they did it all in the open.

Jeff Bezos’s increasingly meretricious newspaper stooped to publish a pathetic “both-sides” defense of the violent mob that stormed the Capitol.

Chris Murphy details that Trump pardoned David Dempsey, a guy who beat cops and even other rioters on January 6

Former chair of the Libertarian Party of Tennessee 👇🏽

Sergeant Gonell @sergeantaqgo.bsky.social sent me this picture. This is his call log. Each call is an automated Dept of "Justice" notification saying "The defendant you testified against is being released from the dept of corrections." Each defendant assaulted him.

The Jan. 6 rioter described by prosecutors as a "Nazi sympathizer" who once went to work with a "Hitler mustache" and compared Orthodox Jews to a "plague of locusts" has posted his invite to inaugural ceremonies.

It wouldn't be the first time he's been invited to a Trump event www.npr.org/2024/09/12/n...

“Back the blue”

Reed: "All of your public comments don't talk meritocracy. They talk about liberal democratic efforts that are destroying the military, 'those people are our enemies.' That's not meritocracy. That's a political view. Your goal as I see it emerging is to politicize the military"

Also this lol www.techdirt.com/2023/04/07/m...

Only Trump can take tragedy and make it into something incredibly stupid for the absolute rubes that believe his made up nonsense.

No lies detected.

New, from me: Elon Musk, a man who runs an imaginary government department, accused a real government employee of having a fake job. He is wrong about this, and other claims about what he can do to eliminate regulations and cut spending. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/fake-jobs-...

Indeed, veterans' health care is the single large source of expired authorization expenses. Ramaswamy has been named by the Trump admin as an appointee and the media shouldn't sanewash this by assuming he must not mean that; it's what he said and it should be reported. www.cbo.gov/publication/...