Passing cars using the shoulder of the highway is a good way to kill someone working on a road crew or stranded in a inoperative car.
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Gotta be a catch somewhere, a qualified nominee???
Trump nominates Erica Schwartz as new CDC director
President Donald Trump nominated former Deputy Surgeon General Erica Schwartz, a physician, as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Dr. Schwartz is a retired rear admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps who served as a deputy surgeon general during the COVID-19 pandemic in Trump’s first term. Schwartz played a key role in the nation’s COVID response, helping coordinate national preparedness during the first year of the pandemic.
If confirmed by the Senate, Schwartz will lead the nation’s top public health agency amid changes to vaccine policy under Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Public health experts praised Schwartz’s credentials but questioned whether she would have the autonomy to lead the agency.
“This seems like a dream pick,” said Jennifer Nuzzo, a professor of epidemiology and director of the pandemic center at Brown University School of Public Health. “The bigger question is whether she’ll be allowed to do the job.”
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In the Gulf of Gin.
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Well, she’s female and black. Those seem like catches. /s
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I’m just waiting for the government to sell its shares for a couple of bucks to one of Trump’s cronies.
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… few developments better illustrate the situation Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu have gotten the US, the global economy and Israel into. What we see now is that the health of the global economy is, going forward, subject to fighting between Hezbollah and Israel. (Seeing the Hormuz Breakthrough in Its Full Light - TPM – Talking Points Memo ) [ed.]
Seriously, I question the framing.
IIRC, it’s been a truism since the 70s that the world’s petroleum based economy was vulnerable to instability in the Middle East, And, yet, we’ve kept on keeping on with it (and, if this regime has its way, will continue to do so.)
Unsurprisingly, the solution to that vulnerability is decoupling from it.
And, that’s also been an understanding throughout my adult life (thinking Jimmy Carter.in a sweater here.)
And, yet, it hasn’t happened, with one after another policy to prolong and prefer petroleum dependence (thinking Reagan having the solar panels removed from the White House, here.)
Certainly, a look at what has made this self-destructive course preferable to our political class, with corresponding legislation to redress the harms caused, is in order.
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PRESIDENT!
So needy!
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OK. $20B to Iran for uranium. What did we get from Argentina for $40B?
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It’s just another day for you and me in Trump’s paradise.
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From MM:
the Trump DOJ jumping in to investigate disgraced Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) smacks of retributive prosecution all the same, especially given the president’s own predilections.
Since when does the DOJ investigate or prosecute sexual assault cases? Aren’t those the jobs of the police and DA’s in the city/county/state jurisdictions where these crimes allegedly occurred?
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I suppose they could always congratulate him for his brave, expensive return to the status quo ante, and he’d think it was a compliment.
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Two separate questions.
Was the officer still on duty (he was gassing up his vehicle at the end of his shift)? There is reportedly legal precedent saying he was still on duty.
Regardless, was speeding past the car, on the shoulder, on the right, in an unmarked car, wearing no identification as a federal officer, and pointing a gun at the occupants of a moving car, all on video, part of his official duties? Sketchy.
This charge is a smart move on the part of Minnesota. There are no doubt countless examples of ICE agents’ violating state laws with their violent conduct and flouting due process. Good precedents for prosecuting the two shooting deaths and one wounding.
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Wow, just wow. Once again breaking all possible limits on stupidity. Trump is SOAT (Stupidest of all Time. ) Wow.
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The savage beast has stirred! America’s Resolve will never be shaken!
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Morgan told state police he “feared for his safety and the safety of others.”
I’ve been a passenger in a vehicle when the driver was routinely passing cars on the shoulder. That level of reckless driving is enough to make you fear for your safety and the safety of others.
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I’m sure that with a last name like Schwartz DonOLD has no clue that she’s not a lighter shade of pale.
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Paywalled but basically: he piece points to several right-wing figures amplifying these claims, including Tim Dillon, Tucker Carlson, Joe Kent, Candace Owens, and others, each pushing variations on the idea that the truth was hidden, that agencies covered it up, or that outside actors were involved. WIRED also notes that some of this rhetoric slides into antisemitic tropes, especially claims about Israeli control of the US government.
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A catastrophic collapse in the little organisms that keep forests working?
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