I’m glad other people are articulating this issue, because I see people often saying “we need a system where this can’t happen!” or saying the system is the problem, or that they think some “mechanism” should be put in place to stop things going wrong.
Tag: propaganda
AI doesn’t exist, but Republican politicians really want to replace human doctors.
I’m sure not for themselves, but certainly for the general public according to some doctor politicians.
Anti-vax influencer targets veterinarians and Catholics.
This is a most bizarre leak. McGill University Office for Science and Society – Exclusive Videos Show Dr. Joe Mercola’s Dangerous Ideas Whipped up by Alleged Medium Influential anti-vaxxer and supplement salesman Joe Mercola wants veterinarians killed as he blows CO₂ gas up his rear. Jonathan Jarry M.Sc. | 18 Mar 2025 This apparent takeover of […]
The Trump Musk Return To Office – closets, rooms without desks, wifi-fi, or even lights!
Back in January I said that the Trump administration was taking modern workplaces back to the dark ages, and I didn’t realize that would include also into the literal dark, that federal workers would be forced back to offices without even lights. ‘It was messy’: Federal workers ordered to return to offices without desks, Wi-Fi and […]
Energy Secretary embraces climate collapse as having benefits.
There are no pluses to climate collapse, and preventing, stopping, and mitigating ecological disasters is something that should be prioritized.
Rep. Rob Bresnahan has gone all in on the nightmare of data centers to fuel AI scams.
Rep Rob Bresnahan’s stock trades, including in tech companies, as of March 2025 are interesting.
Poison pill in a pro-mask bill.
Anti mask ban legislation shouldn’t undermine the entire reason for the protection, and it definitely shouldn’t introduce random “Stop and Unmask” checkpoints by law enforcement.
Out of touch Republican in Tennessee blames outsiders with nose rings for unpopularity of Trump & Musk policies.
I don’t live in Tennessee, but I live smack dab in Appalachia and I’ve had my nose pierced for 35 years.
Lancaster County Pennsylvania gets a Dem state senator for the first time since 1889.
This is a county that’s been taken over by some fringe right-wing extremists on the local level which might’ve gotten more voters engaged.
People who oppose public safety & human health are never right.
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.
Cryptocurrency has no deposit insurance.
FDIC insurance does not cover cryptocurrency. Pass it on.
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.
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
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”
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.
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.
Facebook is censoring articles about tech tycoons plans for monarchy.
Same memo that I included in my February 7th newsletter.
Annexation and invasion threats should be taken seriously — dump the normalcy bias.
It’s a mistake to think Trump is just fooling about Canada too.
We need to know how many lawmakers are aligned with Andrew Tate.
The New Republic Edith Olmsted / February 17, 2025 Trump Pressures Romania on Andrew Tate in Stunning New Low The Trump administration is harassing Romania about easing up on the far-right misogynist accused of sex trafficking. Donald Trump is urging a foreign government to relax restrictions on a right-wing influencer charged with human trafficking and rape. […]