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he/him, independent family physician in Midcoast Maine, lucky husband, empty nest dad, Direct Primary Care (DPC) small business owner, learning POCUS, USCG and USAF veteran, former Republican, like Mastodon but this place is busier
Major update: FBI Deemed Trump accuser credible.
Up to 20 Republicans may vote to hold Bondi in contempt.
Democrats push for impeachment or criminal charges for Noem.
China prepares to support Iran. Russia already is. Stocks plunge to worst week since April. open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
I would really love it if we moved past having podcast hosts without germane expertise running our regulatory apparatuses. Anyway, take 2, I suppose. Let’s see how long this one lasts.
Oh eat shit bessent
The Trump administration is targeting Maine as part of its "government-wide approach to crushing fraud." But the administration of Democratic Gov. Janet Mills dismisses the inquiry as little more than a political vendetta against Trump's critics.
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One of my old-school conservative views is that the government has no business being involved in college sports or any sports.
That’s out of fashion.
“Young people still have human rights, and that includes the right to access information and to associate with other people and to speak to the world. These laws are designed to diminish those rights,” EFF’s David Greene told @TheIntercept. theintercept.com/2026/03/05/...
Bullshit. The forearm tattoo rule was in effect. If he had been barred because of the skull he would have been prohibited from joining the army, which has even stricter extremist tattoo rules. He wasn’t.
There have been some very bad developments today.
NEW: Russia is reportedly sharing intelligence with Iran to support Iranian attacks against US forces in the Middle East in contrast to the Kremlin’s recent attempts to frame Russia as a potential US ally and US-Russia relations as increasingly friendly. (1/8)
Read more: isw.pub/UkrWar030626
On Friday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News that reports of Russia giving Iran intelligence to target U.S. assets didn’t matter—a baffling answer given that Iran has already killed multiple U.S. service members in retaliation.
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A now-defunct Minnesota company that abandoned 1.4 million chickens in 2024 — leaving many to starve — must pay $13,575 for mistreating animals, a Wisconsin judge ruled after the firm no-showed in court earlier this week.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has worked hard to villainize the infectious disease expert, but a year into the job as the country’s top health official, he still holds less sway with Americans than the esteemed physician-scientist.
Doctors routinely use the *evidence-based* USPSTF guidelines to help their patients.
Guidelines for: colonoscopy, depression screening, paps, etc.
And now - yet another ✨gold standard institution being quietly gutted by this No-Science Administration. Don’t let this happen.
Speak up, speak out.
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NEW: The PRC is experimenting w/ using aerial drones to transmit false aircraft signals to confuse adversaries’ threat awareness and to disguise malign activities. This cognitive warfare tactic mirrors similar signal spoofing by PRC seaborne vessels around Taiwan & elsewhere. isw.pub/ChinaTaiwanU...
Extraordinary use of the word extraordinary.
So Iran now has, perhaps for the first time, information about the location of our most sensitive covert sites in the region.
A completely foreseeable, unnecessary consequence of unnecessary war with Iran.
There was an exemption to the rule banning forearm tattoos for "currently serving Marines.” But Platner had already left the Marines when he tried to reenlist so the exemption did not apply. This is a baseless smear. 🧵
The Army's extremist tattoo policy was the same as the Marine Corps’ policy in 2009 when Graham joined the MD National Guard. The military did not flag the tattoo as a right-wing extremist tattoo.
There was an exemption to the rule banning forearm tattoos for "currently serving Marines.” Platner had already left the Marines when he tried to reenlist so the exemption did not apply.
NEW EPISODE: In North Carolina, Roy Cooper just won his Senate primary — and he may be Democrats' best shot at flipping the U.S. Senate. Cooper and I discuss why he's running, what's at stake, and why North Carolina is the #1 red-to-blue Senate seat in the country. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i-h...
/4 Also, Parker’s snit that it’s ridiculous to be found guilty of killing someone if you didn’t pull the trigger is the sentiment of someone absolutely unfamiliar with how criminal law has worked for half a century.
/3 It also omits some of the most striking evidence, like the fact that the mother specifically told the father to lock up the guns after she watched a documentary about a school shooting and he refused because he didn’t want to deal with the “shitstorm.” That’s depraved indifference right there.
/2 For instance, she treats it as an unanswered question why the mother wasn’t charged as well, even though prosecutors explicitly answered that: because the mother didn’t have custody, possession of the weapons, or the capacity to lock them up.
This column reads like Parker read a few headlines about the case and got mad about it. It’s quite misleading.
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