1. We agree with the bodyguard...
Simply self-declaring as media is not enough, in 2025, to earn access.
We have standards.
Those too lazy, too unethical, or simply unwilling to meet them don't deserve the access.
Texas Republicans have held just 1 hearing on flood response after they let people on the Guadalupe flood plain drown but 8 hearings on stealing House seats.
A colleague of mine, an ID physician, dropped by today to say goodbye. He is leaving medicine. I asked him, half jokingly, 'you don't want to help people anymore?'. His answer was serious: 'I learned during the pandemic that people don't want to be helped.'
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and NPR, established in 1967 to educate, enlighten and inform the public without political interference, will shut down by the end of September this year. Because the Fascist regime in power simply cannot tolerate an educated population.
RFK's reason for canceling $500m in mRNA vaccines is aggressively refuted by scientists
“Had we not used lifesaving mRNA vaccines, we would have had millions of more Covid deaths,” said Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the Pandemic Center at Brown University
nytimes.com/2025/08/05/hea…
There is a myth that private healthcare costs the taxpayer less because private companies are more efficient. However, as we can see from this comparison the AHS costs for hip, knee or shoulder surgeries performed at our hospitals cost far less than private options.
RFK Jr is systematically turning the USA from THE leader in science to an ideologically anti scientific backwater of quackery and pseudoscience
It will take years to come back from it.
For over a year, Ukraine has been carrying out active operations on Russian territory – in the Kursk and Belgorod regions. Once again, Ukrainians have managed to prove to the world that it is absolutely possible to put Russia in its place and to respond to its attacks with
🚨 Texas Rep. Giovanni Capriglione (R), who wrote the law banning abortion and built his brand on moral clarity, now faces scandal over a 17-year affair and allegations he funded abortions. He admits the affair but denies ever paying for the procedures.
open.substack.com/pub/theintelle…
On Epstein: AFTER reviewing the files, Bondi & Patel ordered agents to black out every mention of Trump. If Trump were mentioned in the files as simply an innocent bystander to Epstein's world, they'd want to release the files.
Trump was presumably not an innocent bystander.