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    This is what you get for missing two kicks against Georgia.

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5 hours ago, pacman said:

Only the best people 

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Elon Musk is 100% having sex with at least one of these kids and that needs to go viral.

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Only the best people 

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It makes more sense now, if I had to defend my job to this broccoli topped muppet I'd quit too.

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1 hour ago, Incredulity said:

is that like a Loco Moco?

Don’t you dare insult such a good dish like that!

no DoE means the govt will just send all that money directly to states ? 

blue states will have to jump through hoops to get their funding ?

2 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

no DoE means the govt will just send all that money directly to states ? 

blue states will have to jump through hoops to get their funding ?

There’s not going to be federal funding for education anymore. That’s what “leave it to the states” means

2 minutes ago, Pig Bellmont said:

There’s not going to be federal funding for education anymore. That’s what “leave it to the states” means

The best part is each state can have a different curriculum, guaranteeing that we'll no longer have a shared reality or shared history. Further widening the divide. 

Since coming into power, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has barraged USAID, the international aid agency that dispenses food and supplies to nations all over the world. It is likely that the agency will soon be shuttered and could be subsumed into the U.S. State Department. Now, new reporting shows USAID was actually investigating equipment from one of Musk’s companies at the time that he attacked the agency.

 

 

https://gizmodo.com/elon-musks-enemy-usaid-was-investigating-starlink-over-its-contracts-in-ukraine-2000559365

Eldest is doing microbiological research at UT Health in SA. Federal funds have been cut. UT stepped up and filled in the gap.

She is concerned about the future of her doctoral studies.

 

13 minutes ago, Pancho said:

Why is this made up team now going to “upgrade” the aviation system per the Real World secretary? 

What does this even mean? 

They're gonna hot insert some shit to see if it works on the bet if it does there's a lot of money to be made in it and if it doesn't everybody will forget it.  After all who really remembers a few hundred people dying in a plane crash, or the aviation system being brought to its knees and hundreds of thousands of travelers having days ruined when they can't get anywhere they are trying to go?  They watched Texas re-elect the same government that oversaw the 2021 grid shitshow so they're probably not wrong.  

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38 minutes ago, troph said:

we covered the fact that spaceX didn’t seek a higher clearance for musk because of his prior drug use and interactions with foreign leaders? There’s like what 200 spaceX employees with a higher clearance than musk (prior to DOGE)?

Yeah but his is the richest man in the world.

Since coming into power, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has barraged USAID, the international aid agency that dispenses food and supplies to nations all over the world. It is likely that the agency will soon be shuttered and could be subsumed into the U.S. State Department. Now, new reporting shows USAID was actually investigating equipment from one of Musk’s companies at the time that he attacked the agency.
 
 
https://gizmodo.com/elon-musks-enemy-usaid-was-investigating-starlink-over-its-contracts-in-ukraine-2000559365

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Not the best idea to give an extremely impulsive narcissist control it seems.

14 hours ago, C-Man said:

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If our news media had a shred of its supposed leftist leanings, you'd be seeing this kind of story wherever you looked. Even if what remains of our press were purely concerned with profit, it would be inescapable. Good luck finding it anywhere but Surly. They could add to it an accounting of the billions Elon gets in government contracts. 

Michael Corleone : Tom, wait a minute. I'm talking about a cop that's mixed up in drugs. I'm talking about a - a - a dishonest cop - a crooked cop who got mixed up in the rackets and got what was coming to him. That's a terrific story. And we have newspaper people on the payroll, don't we, Tom?

[Tom nods] 

Michael Corleone : And they might like a story like that.

Tom Hagen : They might, they just might.

Except they won't. Because they're long since non-existent or they're part of this caper. 

What a time to be alive. I will say I’m interested in an audit of Medicare/Medicaid. UGAO reported 100 billion in improper payments in 2023. 

5 hours ago, Bojack said:

If our news media had a shred of its supposed leftist leanings, you'd be seeing this kind of story wherever you looked. Even if what remains of our press were purely concerned with profit, it would be inescapable. Good luck finding it anywhere but Surly. They could add to it an accounting of the billions Elon gets in government contracts. 

Michael Corleone : Tom, wait a minute. I'm talking about a cop that's mixed up in drugs. I'm talking about a - a - a dishonest cop - a crooked cop who got mixed up in the rackets and got what was coming to him. That's a terrific story. And we have newspaper people on the payroll, don't we, Tom?

[Tom nods] 

Michael Corleone : And they might like a story like that.

Tom Hagen : They might, they just might.

Except they won't. Because they're long since non-existent or they're part of this caper. 

FWIW, the WSJ is doing a pretty good job of reporting this.  Yeah they’re subscription based, but maybe that money keeps them level?

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5 hours ago, Revolution512 said:

What a time to be alive. I will say I’m interested in an audit of Medicare/Medicaid. UGAO reported 100 billion in improper payments in 2023. 

You are interested in an audit on Medicare and Medicaid because the GAO already audits Medicare and Medicaid?

15 hours ago, UpperWestside said:

Not the best idea to give an extremely impulsive narcissist control it seems.

You’re gonna need to be more specific. America has >1 person at the highest levels of power that meets this description.

A 25-year-old engineer named Marko Elez, who previously worked for two Elon Musk companies, has direct access to Treasury Department systems responsible for nearly all payments made by the US government, has resigned from from his post in the Trump administration. The WSJ is reporting that he was the author of social media posts that called for the abolishment of the civil rights act, and a return to racism and eugenics.

Why would the FOTUS associate with these kind of people?

https://www.wsj.com/tech/doge-staffer-resigns-over-racist-posts-d9f11a93

 

 

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Abandoned in the Middle of Clinical Trials, Because of a Court Order

The stop-work order on U.S.A.I.D.-funded research has left thousands of people with experimental drugs and devices in their bodies, with no access to monitoring or care.

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Asanda Zondi received a startling phone call last Thursday, with orders to make her way to a health clinic in Vulindlela, South Africa, where she was participating in a research study that was testing a new device to prevent pregnancy and H.IV. infection.

The trial was shutting down, a nurse told her. The device, a silicone ring inserted into her vagina, needed to be removed right away.

When Ms. Zondi, 22, arrived at the clinic, she learned why: The U.S. Agency for International Development, which funded the study, had withdrawn financial support and had issued a stop-work order to all organizations around the globe that receive its money. The abrupt move followed an executive order by President Trump freezing all foreign aid for at least 90 days. Since then, the Trump administration has taken steps to dismantle the agency entirely.

Ms. Zondi’s trial is one of dozens that have been abruptly frozen, leaving people around the world with experimental drugs and medical products in their bodies, cut off from the researchers who were monitoring them, and generating waves of suspicion and fear.

The State Department, which now oversees U.S.A.I.D., replied to a request for comment by directing a reporter to USAID.gov, which no longer contains any information except that all permanent employees have been placed on administrative leave. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said that the agency is wasteful and advances a liberal agenda that is counter to President Trump’s foreign policy.

In interviews, scientists — who are forbidden by the terms of the stop-work order to speak with the news media — described agonizing choices: violate the stop-work orders and continue to care for trial volunteers, or leave them alone to face potential side effects and harm.

The United States is signatory to the Declaration of Helsinki that lays out ethical principles under which medical research must be conducted, requiring that researchers care for participants throughout a trial, and report the results of their findings to the communities where trials were conducted.

Ms. Zondi said she was baffled and frightened. She talked with other women who had volunteered for the study. “Some people are afraid because we don’t know exactly what was the reason,” she said. “We don’t really know the real reason of pausing the study.”

The stop-work order was so immediate and sweeping that the research staff would be violating it if they helped the women remove the rings. But Dr. Leila Mansoor, a scientist with the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (known as CAPRISA) and an investigator on the trial, decided she and her team would do so anyway.

“My first thought when I saw this order was, There are rings in people’s bodies and you cannot leave them,” Dr. Mansoor said. “For me ethics and participants come first. There is a line.”

In the communities where her organization works, people have volunteered for more than 25 years to test H.I.V. treatments, prevention products and vaccines, contributing to many of the key breakthroughs in the field and benefiting people worldwide.

That work relied on a carefully constructed web of trust that has now been destroyed, Dr. Mansoor said. Building that trust took years in South Africa, where the apartheid regime conducted medical experiments on Black people during the years of white rule. Those fears are echoed in a long history of experimentation by researchers and drug companies in developing countries and in marginalized populations in the United States.

The Times identified more than 30 frozen studies that had volunteers already in the care of researchers, including trials of:

malaria treatment in children under age 5 in Mozambique

treatment for cholera in Bangladesh

a screen-and-treat method for cervical cancer in Malawi

tuberculosis treatment for children and teenagers in Peru and South Africa

nutritional support for children in Ethiopia

early-childhood-development interventions in Cambodia

ways to support pregnant and breastfeeding women to reduce malnutrition in Jordan

an mRNA vaccine technology for H.I.V. in South Africa

It is difficult to know the total number of trials shut down, or how many people are affected, because the swift demolition of U.S.A.I.D. in recent days has erased the public record. In addition to the disabled website, the agency no longer has a communications department. And the stop-work order prohibits any implementing agency from speaking publicly about what has happened.

In England, about 100 people have been inoculated with an experimental malaria vaccine in two clinical trials. Now, they no longer have access to the clinical trial staff if that vaccine were to cause an adverse reaction in their bodies. The trial is an effort to find a next-generation vaccine better than the one now used in Africa; that shot protects children against about a third of malaria cases, but researchers hoped to find a vaccine that offered much more protection. Malaria remains a top global killer of children; 600,000 people died of the disease in 2023, the latest figure available.

Had the trial not been frozen, the participants would be coming to a clinic routinely to be monitored for adverse physical effects, and to have blood and cell samples taken to see whether the vaccine was working. The participants are meant to be followed for two years to assess the vaccine’s safety.

A scientist who worked on the trial said she hoped that partners at the University of Oxford, where it was being conducted, were shuffling staff to respond if any participant fell ill. But she was fired last week and no longer has access to any information about the trial. She spoke on condition of anonymity because she feared jeopardizing her ability to work on malaria research the U.S. might conduct in the future.

“It’s unethical to test anything in humans without taking it to the full completion of studies,” she said. “You put them at risk for no good reason.”

Had the stop-work order come later this year, the newly-vaccinated volunteers might have been in an even more precarious position. They were scheduled to be deliberately infected with malaria to see if the experimental vaccine protected them from the disease.

Dr. Sharon Hillier, a professor of reproductive infectious diseases at the University of Pittsburgh, was until this week director of a five-year, $125 million trial funded by U.S.A.I.D. to test the safety and efficacy of six new H.I.V. prevention products. They included bimonthly injections, fast-dissolving vaginal inserts and vaginal rings.

With the study suspended, she and her colleagues cannot process biological samples, analyze the data they have already collected, or communicate findings to either participants or the partnering government agencies in countries where the trials were conducted. These are requirements under the Helsinki agreement.

“We have betrayed the trust of ministries of health and the regulatory agencies in the countries where we were working and of the women who agreed to be in our studies, who were told that they would be taken care of,” Dr. Hillier said. “I’ve never seen anything like it in my 40 years of doing international research. It’s unethical, it’s dangerous and it’s reckless.”

Even trials that were not funded in whole or part by U.S.A.I.D. have been thrown into turmoil because they were using medical or development infrastructure that was supported by the agency and is no longer operational. Millions of dollars of U.S. taxpayer funds already spent to start those trials will not be recouped.

The shutdowns have business consequences as well. Many of those trials were partnerships with U.S. drug companies, testing products they hoped to sell overseas.

“This has made it impossible for pharmaceutical companies to do research in these countries,” Dr. Hillier said.

Another H.I.V. trial, called CATALYST, has thousands of volunteers in five countries testing an injectable drug called long-acting cabotegravir. Participants were receiving bimonthly injections to maintain a sufficient level of the drug in their bodies to prevent H.I.V. infection. Without regular injections, or a carefully-managed end to use of the drug, the participants will not have enough cabotegravir to stop a new infection, but there will be enough in their systems that, if they were to contract the virus, it could easily mutate to become drug-resistant, said Dr. Kenneth Ngure, president-elect of the International AIDS Society.

This is a significant threat to the trial volunteers and also to the millions of people living with H.I.V. because cabotegravir is closely related to a drug that is already used worldwide in standard treatment of the virus. Development of resistance could be catastrophic, Dr. Ngure said: “It’s wrong on so many levels — you can’t just stop.”

A clinical trial run by the development organization FHI 360, which implemented many U.S.A.I.D.-funded health programs and studies, was testing a biodegradable hormonal implant to prevent pregnancy. Now there are women in the Dominican Republic with the devices in their bodies without continuing care.

Another trial, in Uganda, was testing a new regimen of tuberculosis treatment for children. The stop-work order cuts those children off from potentially lifesaving medication.

“You can’t walk away from them, you just can’t,” a researcher in that trial said.

Fucking gibbets for every fucking person who voted for him and every other asshole who maybe didn't but sat back and cheered about how cool it was to see everything burn, and that'll be more mercy than they deserve.

1 hour ago, Satchel said:

A 25-year-old engineer named Marko Elez, who previously worked for two Elon Musk companies, has direct access to Treasury Department systems responsible for nearly all payments made by the US government, has resigned from from his post in the Trump administration. The WSJ is reporting that he was the author of social media posts that called for the abolishment of the civil rights act, and a return to racism and eugenics.

Why would the FOTUS associate with these kind of people?

https://www.wsj.com/tech/doge-staffer-resigns-over-racist-posts-d9f11a93

 

 

Why did he resign?  That shit is de riguer to work in the Trump administration.  It's totally acceptable now.

2 minutes ago, Ojo Rojo said:

Why did he resign?  That shit is de riguer to work in the Trump administration.  It's totally acceptable now.

Only the ones at the top can say that shit out loud.

On 2/3/2025 at 2:52 PM, Bozo_Casanova said:

Blue sky or Threads huh? Sure, because it’s important to ignore the largest platform. 

Do you drive a Tesla or something?

Your fixation with Twitter/X is quite odd.  Almost as odd as your choice in burgers.

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2 hours ago, wildcat09 said:

Abandoned in the Middle of Clinical Trials, Because of a Court Order

The stop-work order on U.S.A.I.D.-funded research has left thousands of people with experimental drugs and devices in their bodies, with no access to monitoring or care.

Fucking gibbets for every fucking person who voted for him and every other asshole who maybe didn't but sat back and cheered about how cool it was to see everything burn, and that'll be more mercy than they deserve.

We’re now actively abandoning our position of helping people around the world that desperately need our assistance and intervention. People will start to die because Elmo is getting revenge on a government agency that he has a grudge against. Screw the people who chose this. 
 

The thing I care most about in life is doing good for others. Everything else is a distant second. Seeing this just really, really makes me even angrier with those cretins who voted for this. The simpleton morons that chose this path decided that harming others is the way to go. All 77 million plus of them hopefully lose everything they hold dear in life. What happened to Job would be too good for them.

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43 minutes ago, DDD Dad said:

Do you drive a Tesla or something?

Your fixation with Twitter/X is quite odd.  Almost as odd as your choice in burgers.

I drive your mom crazy

7 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

I drive your mom crazy

I hope you buy her breakfast. 

26 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

That woman can EAT

She was really something before electricity. 
 

Congrats on the sex. 

We’re now actively abandoning our position of helping people around the world that desperately need our assistance and intervention. People will start to die because Elmo is getting revenge on a government agency that he has a grudge against. Screw the people who chose this. 
 
The thing I care most about in life is doing good for others. Everything else is a distant second. Seeing this just really, really makes me even angrier with those cretins who voted for this. The simpleton morons that chose this path decided that harming others is the way to go. All 77 million plus of them hopefully lose everything they hold dear in life. What happened to Job would be too good for them.

I also like the helping people, but helping people around the world is also a way to further US interests around the world without putting boots on the ground. Unfortunately, that tool may go away and it will be supported by a lot of Americans because the agency paid for some subsciptions.
17 minutes ago, Woland said:


I also like the helping people, but helping people around the world is also a way to further US interests around the world without putting boots on the ground. Unfortunately, that tool may go away and it will be supported by a lot of Americans because the agency paid for some subsciptions.

This is something that bothers me as well. I have long understood this and I am okay with us buying influence, especially if it is helping the local populace out. There are areas I will be living in where our influence has waned and under this idiot we will completely lose that positive influence in areas of the world where we cannot allow that to happen. 

Oh. Trump and that cunt press director were lying on behalf of a racist, shocking.

 

 

10 minutes ago, Ted Lange said:

Oh. Trump and that cunt press director were lying on behalf of a racist, shocking.

 

 

Somebody find that idiot and let an Indian friend beat the piss right out of him. The only reasoning you can do with a racist at this point is something that ends with them getting a face full of left hooks and body blows.

I am so beyond tired of free speech allowing the freedom to spew crap like this. I will NOT defend their right to say these things and I don’t care what happens to racist clowns like this. Someone can light a dumpster on fire and toss in all these like-minded people for all I care about their well-being.

2 hours ago, UpperWestside said:

We’re now actively abandoning our position of helping people around the world that desperately need our assistance and intervention.

From what I hear the Chinese have massively expanded their infrastructure construction "for hire" across the globe (but it ain't free).  They'll do the same with aid.

 

15 minutes ago, Bullneck said:

From what I hear the Chinese have massively expanded their infrastructure construction "for hire" across the globe (but it ain't free).  They'll do the same with aid.

 

And here we are pulling back aid in the same areas that these corrupt authoritarians will fill the gap at. There are some consequences that have grave repercussions for us and the people who live in these countries we are abandoning.

On 2/4/2025 at 8:27 AM, Fastbreak said:

In Singapore you get a text message. “You owe X in taxes. Press 1 to pay now. Press 2 to pay by the month”

That’s it.

Singapore is doing pretty well. Last I checked it has the highest percentage of millionaires in the world.

And if you don’t pay it you get publicly caned right?

19 minutes ago, UpperWestside said:

And here we are pulling back aid in the same areas that these corrupt authoritarians will fill the gap at. There are some consequences that have grave repercussions for us and the people who live in these countries we are abandoning.

It also helps keep foreign diseases from reaching American shores.  

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/03/nx-s1-5284978/usaid-agency-international-development-trump
https://time.com/7213288/what-is-usaid-what-impact-does-it-have-across-the-globe/
 

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1 hour ago, bolverk said:

Logo on the cap checks out. Comments convey frustration at US SENATORS following the orders of a rent-a-cop.

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Those are not your typical rent-a-cops, those are Mercs.

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4 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

walk in with us marshals 

The U.S. Marshals are under the U.S. A.G., good luck with that request.

Just keep walking. Should be good footage to see a US senator in his mid-70’s getting assaulted while trying to do his job he was put there by his constituents to do. 

Saw a billboard on the way to the airport that said something like, Elon, want to cut the government permanently? (Something like that). It’s calling for a Convention of the States. Also saw a black truck driving around the 71/45 interchange near the Tesla building with the same message and a picture of Elon appropriately holding a chainsaw up to the American flag with the same message

On 2/5/2025 at 6:23 PM, Willfully Horn said:

Eldest is doing microbiological research at UT Health in SA. Federal funds have been cut. UT stepped up and filled in the gap.

She is concerned about the future of her doctoral studies.

 

She needs to study the power of prayer and its lethality on microorganisms. 

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