health insurance should be not-for-profit, and then CEO and executive salaries should be limited or tied to how well they perform for consumers - these two things would solve most of the problems

if Roberts is concerned about his legacy as Chief Justice of #SCOTUS, this is it - he presided over the dismantling of democracy in the U.S. and gave nearly unlimited power to an obvious sociopath

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based on some of the drug seizures in Southern Arizona in the past few months, the border is not even remotely secure, but it was not less secure a year ago - it's business as usual for the cartels, it's only the immigrants who are being denied entry

pretty sure the "fog of war" is not about waiting for the smoke to clear - according to professor Google, it means: "the chaos and confusion that makes it difficult for commanders to have a clear understanding of their opponent's capabilities and intentions" - seems their intentions were not to die

for a man his age, it was either the brain or the prostate, but since he immediately said it wasn't the brain, it most assuredly was the brain

the wanna-be dictator loves all of the authoritarian leaders around the world, from Putin to Orban to Bolsonaro to Modi to Erdoğan - the more brutal they are, the more he wants to be just like them

bald eagles
grizzly bears
mountain lions
humpback whales
moose

let's keep it clinical - trump is a malignant narcissist with antisocial personality disorder (sociopathy) and frontotemporal dementia

Not to defend rfk jr (he is the worst thing to happen to science since the dark ages), but he only killed NIH funded research into mRNA vaccines for respiratory diseases (which sucks) - there is still a lot of mRNA research in the cancer domain, and even in HIV TX and prevention