beat-army.bsky.social
Retired đ âď¸. Advocating for disabled vets and assisting separating ADSMs. Public health scientist, PhD microbiology and MPH, dismayed by denier ascendency. Facts matter.
Twitter: @Beat_Army. Iâm still there.
Split time between AR and UT. đşđ¸ Democrat.
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Yes, we need more leaders untethered to the major parties. Men & women of integrity & commitment to public service.
The politics of evisceration pushes the factions further apart, demanding we join one over the other. Most of us reject that paradigm, wanting to address problems that really exist.
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Our leaders in the earliest days of our Republic feared political parties and devolution of society into factions. Of course, it didnât take long for parties to form and dominate national politics. Their fears about factions have been fully realized. More parties is not the answer.
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In grand Arkansas style!
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He tried this with military personnel assigned to WHMO in his 1st term and his WH Counsel wrote an opinion advising it would be unlawful. Any ADSM who signs such an oath would be subject to disciplinary action under the UCMJ for carrying out an unlawful order. We are obligated to refuse the order.
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Yeah, but *mom* and *dad* have hit a rough patch, may be getting divorced, *Daddy Elmo* has the money to give them, so the *kids* are flocking to him. Broken homes can often be messy.
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Oh honey. You already have so much to apologize for, being white didn't even make the list.
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I trust science to keep me strong and healthy for as long as possible. If there is an *afterlife* and *heaven/hell,* then I trust my deeds during this time on earth, and not the act of sitting in a pew 1-hour/week, will sort me appropriately upon my death.
Iâm not a âweâ in search of the answer.
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I grew up in the Catholic Church, read their book cover to cover more than once. I left the Church long ago, but live a more *christian* life than most modern-day US Christians. We donate time, labor and money to help vulnerable populations and discriminate against nobody.
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We get mired in tax rates & ignore deductions & exemptions that, irrespective of *marginal* tax rates, maintain the *effective* rates for wealthy individuals & corporations at indefensibly low levels.
The *regressive* tax code needs overhauling to eliminate welfare to the rich & enslavement of us.
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I had the same reaction last month.
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âThe lady doth protest too much, methinks.â
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Im not sure Iâm reading either âmay Iâ or âpleaseâ in that stare.
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The opening of Jacksonâs dissent:
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We had field-expedient fixes for weapons regardless of rules to the contrary. Weâd rather live to face a court martial. In reality, no repairs were ever challenged.
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The previous Republican POTUS before Mr. Trump recognized the threat and directed HHS to lead the nation in preparing for avian influenza.
Scientific illiteracy and anti-science rhetoric is ascending. Itâs a national suicide pact.
georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/homeland/pan...
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Every operational plan we worked on included vulnerabilities we could exploit. Mr. Trumpâs are obvious, very easily exploited, and he falls for it every time.
Coupled with his aversion to ever admitting a mistake just amplifies the risk to our national security and system of governance.
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Hereâ s the NAS report on its review of the revised monograph (the 2nd review). This report by NTP was never successful in peer review.
Yes, at high levels, fluoride is a neurotoxin; however, it has been found both safe and effective as municipal water additive. ntp.niehs.nih.gov/sites/defaul...
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National Academies of Science for 2 straight years identified dozens of flaws in the meta analyses, data sets, mostly from China among populations relying on groundwater wells contaminated with industrial waste, leading to fluoride levels far above municipal drinking water. Hereâs just 1 article:
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And when Means withdraws or is not confirmed for Surgeon General, this guy will probably be at the top of Trumpâs list as his 3rd SG nominee.
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He continues to make Arkansans proudđ.
Congress abdicated its Art I Sect 8 Cl 1 authority to impose tariffs to the asshat in the WH & French doesnât know who Mr. Trump is recommending it to. Letâs be clear, Trump bleats out this đ đŠ like a fart just to manipulate markets, distract people & enrage.
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And if the experts in that area provided her with a report that concludes that the Qataris are behind a shit ton of the antisemitism, then she would fire them and demand a new report. The cycle would repeat until she got a *report* that suggests Qataris arenât.
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Yes, but the mere act of announcing the ban was a *win* in the eyes of MAGA world, and courts ruling against the administration will be portrayed as yet another court engaging in *anti-Trump* politics.
Everything about this administration is performative and unserious. Sadly, innocents suffer.
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Importantly, children and adults with severe allergies and those who are immunocompromised and unable to safely receive vaccines.
This is the fundamental difference between public health, and selfishly intentional ignorance.
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*roundly discredited report on fluoride. Sorry.
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He doesnât care how long or how much it will cost to refit the plane. He may even get Congress to pass a resolution consenting to the gift *to comply with the Constitution.* Theyâll include Fed maintenance, which will allow Mr. Trump and descendants to use it at taxpayer expense post-presidency.
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Yes, itâs clear. But watch the next case to come to The Court on this issue, but with the state represented by a different firm. Barrett wonât recuse & may tip the scales to a 5-4 opinion permitting public funding of religious charter schools.
4-4 isnât cause for grand celebration. Itâs a warning.
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If Oklahoma finds a different law firm to represent a new effort, then Barrett may join a majority, leading to a 5-4 opinion that guts the Establishment Clause. Itâs disturbing that The Court was split 4-4 in a case that, a decade ago, would likely have been 7-2. It should have been 8-0 this time.
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Even if funding is restored within the year, it will take years, or a decade or more, to regain what will be lost. Undergrads, graduate students, post-docs, faculty and staff members will follow funding overseas. Clinical investigations and research programs canât just restart overnight either.
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I used to complain about our homeownersâ association restrictive covenant until atrocities like this started popping up across the country. Living in deep red Arkansas, this neighborhood would look like a Trump rally were it not for the HOA.
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And thatâs a big part of their appeal to MAGA world.
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Theyâre already ignoring the Emoluments & Establishment Clauses, Freedom of Speech & Press, the 5th, 6th, 8th, 10th & 14th Amendments, so why not just ignore the Speech or Debate Clause as well? Shit, heâll probably order soldiers be boarded in private homes along the border soon (3rd Amendment).
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Your point is correct, but itâs a steeper hill to climb. Removal requires a 2/3 vote in the Senate, so 67 senators have to vote for removal. They want him gone, but are far too cowardly to take the necessary steps to achieve that goal. Their jobs and perks are more important to them than is the U.S.
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Yep. And theyâll likely get many of them, because their âjobsâ & âfinancial interestsâ are more important to them than US prosperity & constituentsâ well-being.
Going home wonât provide them with feedback from constituents they represent, because theyâve been told to not meet with us.
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đŻ!
I spent much of my career as an epidemiologist & infectious disease researcher, then leading thousands of other scientists, after leaving the Line. We live by the motto âcorrelation is not causation.â But itâs so easy to convince rubes that 2 things happening together means 1 caused the other.