“These individuals have a heightened risk of long-term health complications...their classification as having obesity is clinically appropriate.” I get it, but a public policy hater reads this and thinks: We can eliminate hunger by declaring everyone obese. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Under a regime of massive, ideological-driven deregulation it's reasonable to expect we'll see more, probably many more, toxic industrial disasters at factories, processing facilities, and on surface streets and interstates -- and along every other mode of transport. www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/n...

The value of U.S. beef sent to China fell to just $8.1 million in July and $9.5 million in August, Chinese trade data showed, compared to $118 million and $125 million in the same months a year earlier.

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Nails why accusations of hypocrisy never land with MAGA: “But the real secret is locating the animating impulse behind contemporary fascist sexuality: Hedonism for me, puritanism for thee.”

Will the real Victor Davis Hanson (lol) please stand up?

No paywall, gift link wapo.st/4nidndf

Your health care bill is about to explode. The notices will start arriving next month. A $7,000 bill could jump to $24,000. Democrats are fighting to stop this. Republicans are fighting to guarantee your costs go up. We need to fix this. Now.

Government of the people, by the people, and for the people… www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Yeh! Good news.

seems to me the main reason bluesky has a lot of desperately unhappy people freaking out about politics and world affairs on it instead of being like twitter was in the middle of the last decade is that you are using and discussing it in 2025 instead of in the middle of the last decade

KASH PATEL: you falsify that evidence with messages that are anti-ICE in nature yet? LOW LEVEL FBI AGENT: sure did, boss. wrote the words "ANTI-ICE" on them nice and big, just like you asked KASH PATEL: what

it's just a fact. you can't have a global hegemon who every few years is at risk of electing a lunatic government that will undo treaties, start murdering people in international waters on a whim, stop aid programs, and slap wanton tariffs on the world capriciously. we have no credibility anymore

Zombie apocalypse test of true character and true friendship: I won't tell the others you're hiding a zombie bite. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bu7...

Data’s striking on metformin to avoid chronic illness from Covid. Two papers on people w/BMI >25 cut risk by up to 64%: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37302406/ academic.oup.com/cid/advance-... One on low-risk ppl didn’t meet primary endpoint but cut Long Covid dx by 50%: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

The Death of Democracy

Haven't read because I don't like being compelled to give up my email address but from reading the quote-posts, people are missing that this works both ways. If a US citizen has their passport revoked while traveling outside the country, they have been effectively exiled.

Lies.

Truth.

Wildflowers too...

Time to recommit to sharing mushroom pics.

I'm the one to the far right

Charlie Kirk became a wealthy man by punching down. He was a professional right-wing troll: a racist, a homophobe and a misogynist. Having said that, being an asshole is not a crime--least of all a capital crime.

NEW: I wrote about the physical and psychological harms of Hollywood male beauty standards that idealize dehydration.

another consequence trump and RFK haven’t thought about: other countries will eventually require strict proof of vaccination for americans. and if RFK succeeds and vaccines are no longer available, a lot of international travel will be off limits to families with kids who can’t get fully vaccinated

Only 40 days have passed since Democratic lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband were tragically killed by an unhinged Trump supporter, yet this story has largely faded from national awareness. We must not allow that to happen.

Hilarious long tail of comments and quote posts trying to correct SCJ ACB's error-ridden historical references.

Free link "...absences are due at least in part to a growing military presence in American cities." wapo.st/4p60a8J

SMH

it’s pretty nuts that 9 months into trump 2.0 we need a whisper network just to get a fucking covid vaccine

"The president of Russian America for Democracy in Russia, an organisation that supports political refugees,… believes that US immigration authorities are now working with the Russian FSB."

If tipping-point disasters of climate crisis and civilizational decline have got you curious about prepping but you've avoided the scene for being saturated with racist ammosexual wannabe ninjas and MAHA homesteaders, new guy here might be a tolerable (so far) alt. www.youtube.com/shorts/Srcpf...

It's remarkable how many people were actually exposed to propaganda from the Heritage Foundation w/o realizing the source. The people that just took your vaccines away are the same people who deliberately misled you at the behest of the Brownstone Institute. RFK Jr on Twitter back during COVID.

Terrorist threat. I recall seeing analysis somewhere of alt-right communication tactics of threatening violence and harassment then playing it off as a joke. This looks like that.

Jobs report: Various analysts say hiring is "frozen" or "stalled out" (free link). www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

This polarization is going to produce some pretty dramatic statistics pretty soon.

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Want to buy a musical instrument from Italy? Will the tariff tax be 4.2% or 40 %? Who can say. And if you figure the correct answer to that, who's to say the poor bastards at US Customs trying to make sense of this might not charge you some other random amount? 🤷‍♀️

Tariff reporting in the US has been dishonest, framed entirely as a business story -- whether or how much ennobled companies will absorb the tariffs -- with costs maybe dribbling up later in the form of rising prices. Tariff bills are coming to people now if they buy something that crossed a border.

Scavenger capitalism: Auctions for packages abandoned by US citizens who can't pay the tariffs may become an even more lucrative side hustle than buying at auction the contents of storage units seized because the owners could no longer afford inflating monthly fees. www.reddit.com/r/CustomsBro...

Trump makes promises to MAHA, does exactly opposite, haha. Trump’s EPA also rolled back parts of the national drinking-water standards implemented during the Biden administration and it extended the deadlines set by Democrats to comply with new limits on the use of PFAS. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Free link: related to my previous post. www.wsj.com/business/ret...

Any reporting yet about Americans getting smacked in the face this weekend with tariff blocks, right in the middle of Labor Day promotional sales? When you go to check out, you might get a message like "This store can’t accept payments right now," or "Whoops we crashed" (and it never resolves).

Japan Post just announced they will no longer deliver mail to the United States, joining Germany, Austria, Denmark, Italy, France, and Sweden.

The employee who helped shape the letter is a caseworker for disaster survivors. During the Texas floods she was unable to process applications and approve assistance because she was diverted to answering help lines, a result of Trump policies that had delayed call-center contracts. wapo.st/4mu7HfL

“To defense lawyers and even some prosecutors, many of the cases that have landed in court have raised concerns that the takeover seems intended to artificially inflate its effect because govt lawyers have been instructed to file the most serious federal charges, no matter how minor the incident.”