How Much Further Can U.S. Forces Go in Mexico?
A drug kingpin’s arrest in Mexico shows Trump using the war on drugs to justify intervention. Will he deliver on his military action threat?
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Coffee Break: Science and Medicine, Bad and Good
Part the First: Predatory or Not? Over the past six years the biomedical literature has accumulated 494,547 scientific “publications” with “COVID” (case insensitive) somewhere in the paper. A search using “AIDS HIV” as the query returns 204,559 papers over the past forty-five years. Something does not add up here. And that something is the nature […]
Read more...Q&A: Tech Billionaires’ AI Space Empire Fantasies Are ‘An Insidious Form of Climate Denial’
Science journalist Adam Becker dissects offensively crazy tech billionaires’ schemes that greenwash their planetary looting.
Read more...American Society for Plastic Surgery Position Statement Withdraws Support for Transition Surgery for Those Under 19 as New $2 Million Judgement Points to Looming Liability for Hospitals
How large is the exposure of gender transition doctors who were quick to provide treatments to teens? A $2 million award says pretty big.
Read more...The US of AI: How Energy Laws and Oversight Are Being Trashed to Benefit the Broligarchy
Billionaire tech libertarians have long sought “freedom cities” free from government oversight. It increasingly looks like they’re going to get a “freedom country” instead.
Read more...Trump Support Negative Even Among White Working Class; Approval of His Agenda at Only 27%
Trump’s approval ratings continue to slide, even before polls register the effect of the ICE executions. But does that mater to him any more?
Read more...ICE Not Only Looks and Acts Like a Paramilitary Force – It Is One, and That Makes It Harder to Curb
Why it is important to recognize that ICE is a paramilitary operation. Among other things, they are harder to reform than traditional police.
Read more...Science and President Trump: Year Five and Counting
According to the news article in Damage Assessment (paywall that may be surmounted by registration) in Science by Jeffrey Mervis, the stated goals of Trump v2.0 have been consistent and were implicit during Trump v1.0. These have been: (1) shrink the size and scope of the federal government, (2) expand the power of the presidency, […]
Read more...Retro Fever: Cranking Back the Years
From Trump on down, the US is particularly keen on the retrograde.
Read more...Trump Does a Soft TACO as Republicans, NRA and Law Enforcement Officers Oppose ICE Thuggery. A Gambit or a Real Climbdown?
Trump for the moment is signaling a climbdown on his hyper-aggressive ICE tactics. But how long will this show of contrition last?
Read more...Is Being Virtuous Good for You – or Just People Around You? A Study Suggests Traits Like Compassion May Support Your Own Well-Being
Is being virtuous more than just its own reward?
Read more...Blue Monday Isn’t Real, but Sadness Is – And It Plays a Vital Role in Children’s Development
Examining the commercial interests surrounding the concept of sadness.
Read more...Black Sites and Black Days
More on how the US looks to be running ICE-related black sites, as in torture sites, in the US.
Read more...As the UN General Assembly Turns 80, Can Ordinary Citizens Change How the World Is Governed?
A permanent Global Citizens’ Assembly met and is getting more and more participation. Does it have any hope of being effective?
Read more...3 Trump Administration Health Policy Changes That Will Worsen Care for the Elderly
One Trump rule rollback alone will kill an estimated 13,000 nursing home residents a year. Welcome to what passes for health care in the US.
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