The following is no exaggeration. I had noticed this phenomenon, in part because FOX NEWS plays silently on several monitors when I’m at the gym and I can read the closed captioning.
Christian Post website is similar.
This also explains why studies show that far-right-media consumers are the least informed concerning current news events, even if they watch/read hours per day.
Meanwhile, the 5-day 10-year T-bond graph tells its own story. I think even Trump realized that this may be even more frightening than stock market trends.
Experts say that food prices will be among the first to rise in response to the new tariffs (especially on Mexican imports.) So I imagined a more interesting world where there was a “Total Tariffs within the above:” line at the bottom of the receipt from Walmart, Target, Kroger, etc.
It would force MAGAs to ask, “Why aren’t the other countries paying these tariffs like Trump promised?”
The United States will identify the cause of autism by September, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Thursday, setting a deadline for an answer that has eluded scientists for decades.
Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. has suggested that Americans who eat doughnuts, guzzle sodas or smoke should not be provided with health care.
‘If you’re smoking three packs of cigarettes a day, should you expect society to pay when you get sick?,’ the leader of the Make America Healthy Again movement asked.
In a CBS interview this week, the nation’s top health official noted that it is the American people’s choice to ‘eat doughnuts all day’ and he would not to take it away.
However, he went on to say that doughnut and soda lovers cannot expect ‘society to care for them’ since there is possibility for them to get ‘very sick’.
Kennedy had previously said that he wants to stop the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly called food stamps, from subsidizing unhealthy foods, like soda .
That might make some sort of, admittedly very callous, sense in a country with socialised medicine, where “society” actually paid for health care. In the US, with predominately private health care, it would seem to make no sense whatsoever.
What is RFK Jr even proposing? Forbidding people who smoke, eat doughnuts or drink soda from getting (and thus paying for) health insurance? I’m sure that would go over well with the ‘Freedom Caucus’, let alone the general public.
It’s like the Trump Administration is staffed pervasively by people lacking an inner censor – so blurt out any old mad thought without stopping to make sure it makes sense first.
I wonder what sort of drop in attendees there will be for various academic conferences in the U.S. this year. In my working years, so many scholars from Europe (and lesser numbers from Mexico and Central America, Australia, Taiwan) attended the major academic conferences. But I’m seeing so many horror stories like this of people experiencing crazy Gestapo-like conditions. Some tell of finally being released but after being detained for many hours after already being exhausted from a long international flight.
It reminds me of the stories people brought back after travels to Germany in the late 1930’s as the environment became more frightening. (Needless to say, what had previously been a popular tourist destination became a country most stayed away from. You didn’t have to be Jewish to be apprehensive about travel there.)
I’m only at the very early research stage but I’m finding myself looking into possibly becoming an expat with friends in Indonesia or Malaysia.
A few days before they were to submit a scientific paper together, an evolutionary biologist in Europe received an unexpected request from two co-authors in the United States.
After much thought, the co-authors said they preferred not to risk publishing at this time. One had just lost a job because of a canceled government grant; the other feared a similar fate if they went ahead with the paper. Although both were legally in the U.S., they worried they might lose their residency if their names appeared on a potentially controversial article.
