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#2951
Just now, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

add it to the fucking pile

Yep, there are zero consequences for anything trump & co do.  They are, literally, above the law in every way. 

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    Incidentally, “recess appointments” are what Matt Gaetz calls his dates. 

  • Radical Larry
    Radical Larry

    Gaetz thought he’d be working with JV Dance and bailed when he found out it was JD Vance. 

  • Ghost of LL
    Ghost of LL

    I genuinely don't understand why you post here. Literally everyone here thinks you're of significantly below-average intelligence.  Even the people who agree with your positions on a topic sigh a

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#2952
5 hours ago, Pancho said:

The best people

Advisors were told that an illegal warrantless NSA wiretap was used to out three officials that Pete Hegseth fired last month. When the advisors freaked about the unconstitutionality of it all, Hegseth's team backtracked.What a pickle. https://t.co/Sy84p9FSsm

 

I was coming here to post just this. The essence of the article is that TripleSecDef’s personal lawyer told the White House that a (very illegal, very unconstitutional) NSA tap of Hegseth’s aides outed them as the source of leaks surrounding Signalgate.

When pressed by the White House, the lawyer walked it back and said he never made any such claim and that he was just passing messages.  
 

The reality is that Hegseth’s executive team is fighting and backbiting and throwing each other under the bus. 
 

The level of amateurism in this administration is on par with Balkan countries. Just an inability to get shit together and be normal even for a minute. 

#2953
Duffy: "If you're liberal, they want you to take public transportation ... the problem is that it's dirty. You have criminals. It's homeless shelters. It's insane asylums. It's a work ground for the criminal element of the city to prey upon the good people."


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#2954
whoever did the advance work for this Kash Patel interview is about to find themselves with a one-way ticket to Guantanamo

 

#2955
whoever did the advance work for this Kash Patel interview is about to find themselves with a one-way ticket to Guantanamo

 

 

#2956
2 hours ago, HenryJames said:
whoever did the advance work for this Kash Patel interview is about to find themselves with a one-way ticket to Guantanamo

 

Why are they sitting in hi top bar table chairs on a basketball court?

#2957
4 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

Why are they sitting in hi top bar table chairs on a basketball court?

That is, apparently, the FBI gym at Quantico.

Y'know Kashyap's fantasy is to turn the FBI into an MMA league.

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#2958
8 hours ago, Pancho said:
Duffy: "If you're liberal, they want you to take public transportation ... the problem is that it's dirty. You have criminals. It's homeless shelters. It's insane asylums. It's a work ground for the criminal element of the city to prey upon the good people."


The Kid Mero What GIF by Desus & Mero

 

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#2959
Dan Bongino has a nice cry on Fox & Friends: "I gave up everything for this. I mean, my wife is struggling... I stare at these 4 walls all day in DC, you know, by myself, divorced from my wife. Not divorced, but I mean, separated. And it's hard." (Note that Brian Kilmeade has to encourage him lol)

 

#2960
17 minutes ago, HenryJames said:
Dan Bongino has a nice cry on Fox & Friends: "I gave up everything for this. I mean, my wife is struggling... I stare at these 4 walls all day in DC, you know, by myself, divorced from my wife. Not divorced, but I mean, separated. And it's hard." (Note that Brian Kilmeade has to encourage him lol)

 

"Being a shitty human being has costs.  Who knew?"

#2961
5 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

"Being a shitty human being has costs.  Who knew?"

But does it?

#2964

The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don't Exist

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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says his “Make America Healthy Again” Commission report harnesses “gold-standard” science, citing more than 500 studies and other sources to back up its claims. Those citations, though, are rife with errors, from broken links to misstated conclusions.

Seven of the cited sources don’t appear to exist at all.

Epidemiologist Katherine Keyes is listed in the MAHA report as the first author of a study on anxiety in adolescents. When NOTUS reached out to her this week, she was surprised to hear of the citation. She does study mental health and substance use, she said. But she didn’t write the paper listed.

“The paper cited is not a real paper that I or my colleagues were involved with,” Keyes told NOTUS via email. “We’ve certainly done research on this topic, but did not publish a paper in JAMA Pediatrics on this topic with that co-author group, or with that title.”

It’s not clear that anyone wrote the study cited in the MAHA report. The citation refers to a study titled, “Changes in mental health and substance abuse among US adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic,” along with a nonfunctional link to the study’s digital object identifier. While the citation claims that the study appeared in the 12th issue of the 176th edition of the journal JAMA Pediatrics, that issue didn’t include a study with that title.

As the Trump administration cuts research funding for federal health agencies and academic institutions and rejects the scientific consensus on issues like vaccines and gender-affirming care, the issues with its much-heralded MAHA report could indicate lessening concern for scientific accuracy at the highest levels of the federal government.

The Department of Health and Human Services did not respond to a request for comment on the report’s citation inconsistencies.

The anxiety study wasn’t the only one the report cites that appears to be mysteriously absent from the scientific literature. A section describing the “corporate capture of media” highlights two studies that it says are “broadly illustrative” of how a rise in direct-to-consumer drug advertisements has led to more prescriptions being written for ADHD medications and antidepressants for kids.

The catch? Neither of those studies is anywhere to be found. Here are the two citations:

Shah, M. B., et al. (2008). Direct-to-consumer advertising and the rise in ADHD medication use among children. Pediatrics, 122(5), e1055- e1060.
Findling, R. L., et al. (2009). Direct-to-consumer advertising of psychotropic medications for youth: A growing concern. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology, 19(5), 487-492.

Those articles don’t appear in the table of contents for the journals listed in their citations. A spokesperson for Virginia Commonwealth University, where psychiatric researcher Robert L. Findling currently teaches, confirmed to NOTUS that he never authored such an article. The author of the first study doesn’t appear to be a real ADHD researcher at all — at least, not one with a Google Scholar profile.

In another section titled, “American Children are on Too Much Medicine – A Recent and Emerging Crisis,” the report claims that 25% to 40% of mild cases of asthma are overprescribed. But searching Google for the exact title of the paper it cites to back up that figure — “Overprescribing of oral corticosteroids for children with asthma” — leads to only one result: the MAHA report.

The corticosteroids study’s supposed first author, pediatric pulmonologist Harold J. Farber, denied writing it or ever working with the other listed authors. He pointed to similar research he’s conducted, but said that even if the MAHA report cited that study correctly, its conclusions are “clearly an overgeneralization” of the findings.

“It is a tremendous leap of faith to generalize from a study in one Medicaid managed care program in Texas using 2011 to 2015 data to national care patterns in 2025,” Farber said in an email.

Spread across the footnotes of the 73-page document, those missing papers are listed alongside dozens of citations with more mundane errors like broken links, missing or incorrect authors and wrong issue numbers.
NOTUS also found serious issues with how the report interpreted some of the existing studies it cites.

In one section about mental health medication, which Kennedy has railed against for years, the report cites a review paper it claims shows that therapy alone is as or more effective than psychiatric medicine. But one of that paper’s statisticians told NOTUS that conclusion doesn’t make sense, given their study didn’t even attempt to measure or compare therapy’s effectiveness as a mental health treatment.

“We did not include psychotherapy in our review. We only compared the effectiveness of (new generation) antidepressants against each other, and against placebo,” Joanne McKenzie, a biostatistics professor at an Australian university, said in an email.

Another paper, which the report says shows “antipsychotic prescriptions for children increased by 800% between 1993 and 2009,” actually found an eight-fold increase from 1995 to 2005.

Another medical researcher whose work was cited in a section about how screen time affects children’s sleep told us the MAHA report mischaracterized her study.

“The conclusions in the report are not accurate and the journal reference is incorrect. It was not published in Pediatrics. Also, the study was not done in children, but in college students,” Mariana G. Figueiro emailed NOTUS. She added that she even had more relevant research the authors could have used: “I was not aware of the choice, or else I would have suggested one of the other ones.”

The Trump administration commissioned the report to investigate the root causes of chronic illnesses in the U.S. From exposure to pesticides and microplastics to cell phone radiation and food coloring, the report points to many potential culprits — and claims it offers “a clear, evidence-based foundation for the policy interventions, institutional reforms, and societal shifts needed to reverse course.” The commission is also scheduled to release a “Make Our Children Healthy Again Strategy” report in August.

Kennedy has enthusiastically promoted the report, calling it a “milestone” in a post on X after its release.

“Never in American history has the federal government taken a position on public health like this,” Kennedy wrote.
 

Shocking. Who could've predicted this?

#2965
5 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don't Exist

Shocking. Who could've predicted this?

This is literally the governing principle of the Regime controlling our country right now:

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They reach the conclusion they want.  Then find the 1% of people out there who say something consistent with that authority, and cite them as "the gold standard."  What makes them "the gold standard?"  Well, they're the ones who say what we want them to say.  Duh.

We are committing cultural suicide by stupidity, and doing it with passion and vigor.

#2970
he wrote this about Andrew Tate. this is not even the entire post. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

 

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#2971
This young woman took Karoline Leavitt to church, yanked her out of church, and pulled her back into church in under two minutes. 🤣🤣🤣

 

#2972
3 hours ago, Mittens said:
This young woman took Karoline Leavitt to church, yanked her out of church, and pulled her back into church in under two minutes. 🤣🤣🤣

 

Oh snap!

#2976

Yo SEC peeps.

LOL WHAT "Staff of the Federal Emergency Management Agency were left baffled on Monday after the head of the U.S. disaster agency said during a briefing that he had not been aware the country has a hurricane season..." https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fema-staff-confused-after-head-said-he-was-unaware-us-hurricane-season-sources-2025-06-02/

 

#2978
Reed: I’m not a great mathematician but I think you were talking about a trillion dollars. I believe 1.5 billion times ten is 15 billion. McMahon: I think the cut is 1.2 billion Reed: That would be 12 billion not a trillion McMahon: Okay

 

#2980

Huh. How odd. 
 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-official-shut-down-russia-095504636.html
 

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A senior official who dismantled the US government’s Russian disinformation unit is married to a Russian woman with links to the Kremlin, The Telegraph can reveal.

Darren Beattie has provoked alarm within the State Department since being appointed in February for his ardent pro-Russian views.

He has been noted for his focus on destroying the agency tasked with tackling Kremlin propaganda.

Mr Beattie, the acting under-secretary for public diplomacy and public affairs, is married to a woman whose uncle has taken several roles in Russian politics and once received a personal “thank you” message from Vladimir Putin.

In the years before joining the government, Mr Beattie wrote social media posts suggesting Western institutions should be “infiltrated” by Putin, while he also attacked what he described as the “globalist American empire”.

Donald Trump is under pressure from many in his party, particularly senators, to take a tougher stance on the Russian leader while he continues to refuse to sign a ceasefire deal as the war in Ukraine drags on.

Many of Mr Beattie’s social media posts also concern China, repeatedly calling on the US to surrender Taiwan to Beijing, and labelling Britain a “poor and pathetic kingdom” that would be “far better off under Chinese dominion”.

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State Department sources expressed scepticism over whether he had undergone security vetting, a process which has been relaxed under Mr Trump.

Mr Beattie was a member of the first Trump administration, but after being sacked in 2018 for allegedly attending a white nationalist conference, he reinvented himself as an “alt-Right” media figure.

In May 2021, public records show, he married a Russian woman called Yulia Kirillova in a ceremony in Broward County, Florida.

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Ms Kirillova, who according to her Facebook page was educated in Moscow before studying abroad in Canada and Washington DC, is the niece of Sergei Chernikov, a Russian drinks magnate who part-owns a flat with her mother, Natalia.

Mr Chernikov, whose net worth was estimated to be $150 million in 2005, reportedly received a letter of thanks from Putin for his help in the election campaign which first brought the Russian leader to power.

Spoiler

According to Ms Kirillova’s Facebook page, she moved to Washington on Jan 28, roughly a week before her husband began his role at the State Department.

Despite his wide-ranging brief at the heart of the US government, Mr Beattie is said to have focused a disproportionate amount of time on seeking to dismantle the Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference hub, known as R/Fimi, while building cultural ties with Russia.

‘Censorship network’

R/Fimi, which tracked and countered propaganda from sources including Russia, China and Iran, was a relatively small agency with a budget of just over $50 million at the time it was shut down.

The US’s adversaries are estimated to spend tens of billions of dollars a year on foreign disinformation.

Mr Beattie’s news outlet Revolver had spent years attacking R/Fimi, accusing it of being part of a “censorship network” designed to silence conservative voices.

Sources said Mr Beattie had doggedly pursued the agency after being appointed, taking it apart piece by piece.

Contractors were sacked and officials were ordered to stop communicating with others in the State Department or external partners without explicit permission.

Even before it was disbanded in mid-April, when Mr Beattie told staff in a brief speech that it was “severely misaligned” with the administration’s priorities, its work had essentially wrapped up.

Mr Rubio confirmed in an interview distributed by the State Department the same day that Mr Beattie had played a major role in abolishing R/Fimi.

At the same time as Mr Beattie was working on dismantling the agency, he is said to have pushed to rebuild relations with Russia, insisting on instituting cultural exchange programmes in fields such as ballet and hockey.

He is also said to have taken a significant interest in classified material related to Russia, prompting widespread concern about turning over sensitive information to him.

Sources were highly sceptical if it had undergone a security vetting process, which the State Department’s website notes can take anywhere from a couple of months to over a year to complete.

 

#2982
There’s probably not an open bar. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/03/hegseth-skip-ukraine-meeting-nato-00384220

 

 

#2983
4 hours ago, Gil Bang said:
Reed: I’m not a great mathematician but I think you were talking about a trillion dollars. I believe 1.5 billion times ten is 15 billion. McMahon: I think the cut is 1.2 billion Reed: That would be 12 billion not a trillion McMahon: Okay

 

Ladies and gentlemen I give you the secretary of education 

 

#2984
1 hour ago, Gil Bang said:

Unlike the current Secretary of The Navy, Milk actually served in the navy, in subs.  Sure he was gay, but it's a sub!  

150 men go down, 75 couples come up.

#2985
5 hours ago, Gil Bang said:
Reed: I’m not a great mathematician but I think you were talking about a trillion dollars. I believe 1.5 billion times ten is 15 billion. McMahon: I think the cut is 1.2 billion Reed: That would be 12 billion not a trillion McMahon: Okay

 

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#2986
2 hours ago, Gil Bang said:

Unlike the current Secretary of The Navy, Milk actually served in the navy, in subs.  Sure he was gay, but it's a sub!  

Opinion | An organization as staunchly heterosexual as the UN Navy should not have a boat named after Harvey Milk. by Pete Hegseth

 

#2987
15 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Huh. How odd. 
 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-official-shut-down-russia-095504636.html
 

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According to Ms Kirillova’s Facebook page, she moved to Washington on Jan 28, roughly a week before her husband began his role at the State Department.

Despite his wide-ranging brief at the heart of the US government, Mr Beattie is said to have focused a disproportionate amount of time on seeking to dismantle the Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference hub, known as R/Fimi, while building cultural ties with Russia.

‘Censorship network’

R/Fimi, which tracked and countered propaganda from sources including Russia, China and Iran, was a relatively small agency with a budget of just over $50 million at the time it was shut down.

The US’s adversaries are estimated to spend tens of billions of dollars a year on foreign disinformation.

Mr Beattie’s news outlet Revolver had spent years attacking R/Fimi, accusing it of being part of a “censorship network” designed to silence conservative voices.

Sources said Mr Beattie had doggedly pursued the agency after being appointed, taking it apart piece by piece.

Contractors were sacked and officials were ordered to stop communicating with others in the State Department or external partners without explicit permission.

Even before it was disbanded in mid-April, when Mr Beattie told staff in a brief speech that it was “severely misaligned” with the administration’s priorities, its work had essentially wrapped up.

Mr Rubio confirmed in an interview distributed by the State Department the same day that Mr Beattie had played a major role in abolishing R/Fimi.

At the same time as Mr Beattie was working on dismantling the agency, he is said to have pushed to rebuild relations with Russia, insisting on instituting cultural exchange programmes in fields such as ballet and hockey.

He is also said to have taken a significant interest in classified material related to Russia, prompting widespread concern about turning over sensitive information to him.

Sources were highly sceptical if it had undergone a security vetting process, which the State Department’s website notes can take anywhere from a couple of months to over a year to complete.

 

Three posts above you. ;)

#2988
KENNEDY: Tell me your understanding of the Trade Expansion Act?LUTNICK: I don't have a really good understanding of the termKENNEDY: You're not familiar with the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 that gives the president almost unlimited authority to impose tariffs?

 

#2989
45 minutes ago, Pancho said:
KENNEDY: Tell me your understanding of the Trade Expansion Act?LUTNICK: I don't have a really good understanding of the termKENNEDY: You're not familiar with the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 that gives the president almost unlimited authority to impose tariffs?

 

The word "honorable" next to Lutnick sure brings a laugh.

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#2990
NEW: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating violent extremism. https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dhs-thomas-fugate-cp3-terrorism-prevention?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=6-4

 

#2991
1 minute ago, HenryJames said:
NEW: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating violent extremism. https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dhs-thomas-fugate-cp3-terrorism-prevention?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=6-4

 

We're pretty much at "appointed his horse consul" territory:

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....but the press is going to continue to sanewash this utterly insane batshittery.

#2996

It really is perfect that the idiot the orange asshat put in charge of the Dept. of Education is quite possibly the dumbest of all his idiots.

Lee: Would say it would be “illegal DEI” for a lesson plan on the Tulsa race massacre?McMahon: I’d have to get back to you Lee: Do you know what the Tulsa race massacre is? McMahon: I’d like to look into it more and get back to you on it.Lee: How about the book from Ruby…

 

#2998
2 hours ago, Mittens said:

It really is perfect that the idiot the orange asshat put in charge of the Dept. of Education is quite possibly the dumbest of all his idiots.

Lee: Would say it would be “illegal DEI” for a lesson plan on the Tulsa race massacre?McMahon: I’d have to get back to you Lee: Do you know what the Tulsa race massacre is? McMahon: I’d like to look into it more and get back to you on it.Lee: How about the book from Ruby…

 

The dumbest SO FAR. 

#2999
Not a word from @FBIDirectorKash about the Nazi group here in Washington state who attacked a military base to steal weapons, hitting a soldier in the head with a hammer. They've been selling military weapons online for years and have a thousand followers on Instagram. 1/

 

#3000

Meet Thomas Fugate: 22-year-old ex-gardener and grocery store assistant to lead US terror prevention 
 

 

US President Donald Trump has reportedly picked 22-year-old ex-gardener Thomas Fugate to lead the Centre for Prevention Programs and Partnerships at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Fugate was working as a neighbourhood gardener just five years ago and in a grocery store as recently as August 2023, Daily Beast reported.

Fugate, who graduated from the University of Texas at San Antonio just 12 months ago, is currently heading up the Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships at the DHS. 

Who is Thomas Fugate?

Acccording to the youngster’s LinkedIn page, Fugate has almost no experience in this field—and in 2020 was working as a self-employed ‘Landscape Business Owner.’ According to his LinkedIn, he would “perfo .. 
 

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