This is an example of Kaiser Family Foundation and MedPage Today conforming to manufacture consent, by introducing the topic this way in a PR piece that is of course outrageous clickbait material.
Health disinformation & pseudoscience promotion will likely get much worse.
It’s really unlikely that there will be any policy reforms in the US to combat medical misinformation any time soon.
Trump administration FTC dropped rulemaking against predatory surveillance pricing.
If the FTC is not going to help consumers on this, because Elon Musk decided he didn’t want them investigating him, well that means we need legislation.
Cryptocurrency has no deposit insurance.
FDIC insurance does not cover cryptocurrency. Pass it on.
Rep Rob Bresnahan’s Tele Town Hall, PA-08
The tele town hall recording is available on Facebook
Elon Musk has sued Tesla customers who complain, and also journalists who criticize.
And he’s won the suits for lots of money.
Alternative crisis pregnancy centers can ignore HIPAA.
They can ask you for all sorts of private do what they want with people’s private health info.
Gavin Newsom is pushing state workers to get butts in seats downtown for fossil fuel and business interests.
This guy’s sad podcast platforming a far right bigot isn’t the first or only extremely anti progressive garbage from Gavin Newsom. Just write this guy off.
Selling immigration and “golden passports” — NOT a new idea.
It seems like a way to promote international bribery and prioritize foreign rich people over ordinary Americans.
Republican Rep. Rich McCormick in Georgia says health should be handled by AI.
A GOP congressperson in Georgia, who identified himself as a doctor, actually said that the massive firings and downsizing of healthcare and public health workers at the CDC are justified because those people can be replaced by chatbots.
Fossil fuel, commercial real estate, and mid level megalomaniacal managers are behind anti-telework RTO.
The REAL Reasons CEOs Hate Remote Work – SOME MORE NEWS Feb 12, 2025 “Hi. We’ve been told that 2025 is the year that remote working will die, despite it often being good for workers and their employers. CEOs hate it though, and they’re working to get rid of it.“
Culty politics and the mismanagement of water.
“perhaps a better way to think about it is a political ideology and of course it had religious overtones – cult’s perhaps the wrong word because it suggests something kind of small-scale and extra-governmental this was political ideology front and center”
Don’t fall for propaganda shaming people into inaction.
There are always people who will mock civic engagement, and you better believe that the opposition is the beneficiary when people get shamed into inaction.
Don’t shove dubious stuff up your nose, just put on an N95 mask.
“Unproven products can seem attractive, especially when social media marketing overhypes potential benefits, without mention of risks or uncertainties.” – Kaitlin Sundling
Trump fired the people who investigate fraud waste and abuse.
Any claims that this new Elon Musk dog crew is actually looking for fraud or waste is a lie. We already had positions that were all about rooting out corruption, and the Donald got rid of them. THEY FIRED THE WATCHDOGS. NOW, NO ONE IS WATCHING. | RepresentUs – Mar 12, 2025 Trump fired 19 […]
Slashing staff at Social Security has really serious consequences that will hit senior citizens most, but nobody’s going to happy about this.
I expect more stories like this hitting the news, and attempts to normalize or justify it.
Rob Bresnahan’s comms director defamed constituents in order to make excuses for not having a public town hall in the district.
Indivisible’s Ezra Levin has pointed out that Republicans will do tele town halls because then they can tightly control who can speak. So of course: U.S. Rep. Rob Bresnahan has announced he’s holding a “Telephone Town Hall”
What the heck is wrong with Dave Mccormick?
I thought this guy was supposed to be the straight-laced finance business mogul guy. But he sent me this in a letter to probably in reply to one of my complaints about the Elon Musk ransacking. SENATOR DAVE MCCORMICK (R-PA): President Trump promised to shake up Washington and rein in the federal bureaucracy. With our […]
Can we please end loser leftism and extol the public good?
Stop thinking “if only we could convince people” of something, that things would change. Just stop that. It’s not about explaining.
Of course Trudeau is right that Trump is serious about wanting to take over Canada.
Why shouldn’t any of these people take this seriously?
We need a shadow government to scrutinize everything that happens at HHS.
Every policy decision and everything that comes out of that entire HHS department, and all the agencies within, needs to be scrutinized.
Political abuse of psychiatry.
Authoritarians always target mentally disabled people as low hanging fruit, and the definition of mental disability is always flexible. People are rightfully upset about the Minnesota bill by state lawmakers to try to dictate a medical diagnosis of “Trump Derangement Syndrome” toward any Republican detractors. And I’d like to point out that this slide toward political […]