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Retired general surgeon. Love the East Tennessee mountains, South Holston Lake, and Duke Blue Devils. Small blue dot. Friend of Bill 6/16/17.
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Nobel Prize Laureate Kip Thorne speaking yesterday at the Albert Einstein Institute in Postdam, Germany: "Donald Trump is destroying America's capacity for [leading science]. We are counting on Europe to take over here and elsewhere." ⚛️ 🧪

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Darren Beattie - the State Dept official who dismantled the US government's main center for fighting Russian and Chinese propaganda around the world - turns out to have personal ties to the Russian elite. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

submitted 1 day ago • 171 comments

Trump isn’t just “wrong” — he LIED. Just say it — TRUMP LIED. Come on, is it really that hard to say?

submitted 6 days ago • 71 comments

Evasion of peer review is a hallmark of pseudoscience. But even more insidious is the obviation of scientific scrutiny by publishing in pseudoscientific journals that exist to provide an illusion of scientific legitimacy. There’s nothing new about MAHA’s propaganda tactics.

submitted 7 days ago • 494 comments

NPR's lawsuit accuses Trump of “punishing” them for disliking its programming, which it says is illegal.

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

The DOJ is all in a kerfuffle over James Comey posting (in seashells), 8647. Made me think of the Book of Proverbs: "The wicked flee when none pursueth."

submitted 17 days ago • 455 comments

Sure, let’s dissect the mental and physical acuity of the former president who sought to make lives in America better while minimizing the reality of a deranged arsonist dismantling the country we’ve known and loved. What a failure to meet this moment.

submitted 17 days ago • 1117 comments

They've now made clear the Qatari plane is officially a bribe. Trump gets to take it with him for his personal use after he leaves office. The Times is really not being clear with readers abt how prez libraries work. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/qatar...

submitted 24 days ago • 157 comments

Just amazing: Trump grew angry over a Biden-era program with the word "equity" in its name, so he ended it. But a key part of the program was sending money to red states to expand internet access in rural/MAGA country. Now they might not get it. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1950...

submitted 25 days ago • 279 comments

staffers are still cleaning up the Kristi Noem mess after she got gutted/filleted by @chrismurphyct.bsky.social this is A MOMENT. #MustWatch 🧢 @trumpfile.org

submitted 27 days ago • 1400 comments

I think I'm going to stop saying Trump did something and just say the Republicans did it since they're allowing him to terrorize America Eg. Today Republicans took away funding for NPR and PBS, Make them feel important.

submitted 33 days ago • 63 comments

Trolling: A think tank founded by Stephen Miller sued John Roberts last week, asking a judge to declare that the White House should control the federal court system talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-a...

submitted 33 days ago • 101 comments

Marco Rubio is just as evil as Kissinger but much, much dumber.

submitted 33 days ago • 6 comments

GM says Trump's tariffs will cost the auto maker $5 billion this year.

submitted 34 days ago • 6 comments

Happiness is sitting in a warm full diaper

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

When the moment came, Harvard didn’t hedge or flinch—it stood up. A reminder that integrity isn’t complicated, it’s just rare.

submitted 41 days ago • 612 comments

The Food and Drug Administration is suspending a quality control program for testing milk and other dairy products. The agency is citing reduced capacity. It has 20,000 fewer employees as a result of the DOGE cuts under Trump and Musk. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

submitted 43 days ago • 2 comments