ELECTIONS Trump asks why US can't use nukes: MSNBC PUBLISHED WED, AUG 3 2016 8:05 AM EDT UPDATED WED, AUG 3 2016 3:01 PM EDT Matthew J. Belvedere @MATT_BELVEDERE WATCH LIVE VIDEO 1:20 Trump reportedly asks why US can't use nukes: MSNBC

Donald Trump asked a foreign policy expert advising him why the U.S. can't use nuclear weapons, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said on the air Wednesday, citing an unnamed source who claimed he had spoken with the GOP presidential nominee. "Several months ago, a foreign policy expert on the international level went to advise Donald Trump. And three times [Trump] asked about the use of nuclear weapons. Three times he asked at one point if we had them why can't we use them," Scarborough said on his "Morning Joe" program.

I will just say it out loud:

I am very concerned Trump will use a tactical nuclear weapon in his quest for a quick victory over Iran.

I am reminded of the story from 2016, when Trump reportedly asked three times in a single briefing why nuclear weapons couldn’t be used:

The People — And Research — Lost in the NIH Exodus - KFF Health News Government data shows the National Institutes of Health lost about 4,400 people — more than 20% of its staff — as the Trump administration slashed the federal workforce. Hear from six scientists on wh...

An incredible loss of talent. Self-inflicted brain drain. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

A post on X from the betting platform Polymarket that says “BREAKING: Anthropic CEO says Claude may or may not have gained consciousness, as the model has begun showing symptoms of anxiety.”

Literally as I’m arguing with someone about whether AI companies are misleading people into believing their technology possesses God-like super-intelligence I see this monstrosity

Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,500 of His Appointees - ProPublica Use this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team. The documents disclose positions officials have held outside government, their assets and their de...

NEW: Over the past year, we've been collecting thousands of financial disclosure documents from across the Trump administration. Now we're making them searchable. Look up names, assets, former employers across 1,500+ Trump appointees and 3,000+ ethics documents.

In every Republican presidency of my lifetime there's been a recession and a new war in the Middle East.

Trump will only get worse.

… I GUESS???? I GUESS?!?!!?!

Optical illusion of a woman bent over some papers. Her sunglasses are pushed up and she is wearing a hair band so the top of her head looks exactly like a Muppet face

Sorry I know the world is in a terrible fix but I've been laughing at this for ten minutes now

@propublica.org is one of the most important publications in the U.S. right now.

Freedom of the Press is a fundamental part of Democracy for a reason. This story is a major part of the reason Kristi Noem was canned.

From FT comments

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed...This is not a way of life...it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.”

-Dwight Eisenhower 1953

AOC: He impulsively went in on Venezuela. He impulsively went in on Iran. It led to increased global instability and every time he’s done that, it has been consistent with a spike in what is happening with the Epstein files. I think that he feels existentially tied to it.

From the theydidthemath community on Reddit: The cost of breaking traffic rules in Norway vs in India [Offsite] Explore this post and more from the theydidthemath community

Timeline cleanse 😂
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The mask is off

House Oversight Committee Votes To Subpoena Pam Bondi Over Jeffrey Epstein Records Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) and four other Republicans joined Democrats in voting for the subpoena.

The House Oversight Committee voted to subpoena Pam Bondi over the DOJ’s failure to make its Jeffrey Epstein records public

STOP. LISTEN. Seriously.

Maybe we’ve been going about this all wrong. Maybe this has to be dismantled from the bottom up. This rank corruption.

There needs to be a serious IMPEACH NOEM demand. These hearings have made any other choice complicity.

Balint to Noem: "You're the secretary of DHS -- for now. And you think you're immune from accountability. But I promise you this: one day he is not gonna be president anymore. And when that day comes, we will still be here. And in hearings like this, we are going to continue to prove your guilt."

BREAKING
The largest immigration detention center in the country, Camp East Montana, is now in a facility-wide quarantine due to the measles outbreak there. Visitation is suspended indefinitely.

Screenshot of an X post by journalist Jonathan Karl quoting a message heard when calling the State Department emergency number, advising Americans not to rely on the U.S. government for assisted departure or evacuation. Below is a video still of Karl speaking in a newsroom.

Rubio’s State Department had all this time to prepare but failed to consider what the impact would be. Just like what happened with USAID when they gutted it overnight. Criminal incompetence.

NOEM: Our federal detention centers are held to the highest standards in comparison to other detaining facilities

McBATH: Did you just hear me? He has to crawl through mold and feces and bodily fluids just to take a shower. This is absolute lunacy and you know it.

LIEU: Did Amalia commit a crime?

NOEM: She did not. She's with her family

LIEU: The reason she's with her family is because she almost died in ICE detention until folks brought a lawsuit forcing her release

Jayapal: DHS is supposed to be protecting our residents. You have actually turned the United States government against its own residents. Yours is a case of failed leadership secretary, you need to resign, be fired, or be impeached.

Sam Altman tells OpenAI staffers that military's 'operational decisions' are up to the government In an all-hands meetings with OpenAI employees on Tuesday, CEO Sam Altman said his company doesn't get to choose how the military uses its technology.

Publicly, Sam Altman claimed OpenAI is amending its agreement with the Department of Defense(lies). Behind closed doors, however, he told employees during a Tuesday all-hands meeting that the company doesn’t “get to make operational decisions” about how its AI technology is used by the DoD. #QuitGPT

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Watch this.

19 minutes and $12 to get meds at a public Chinese hospital. Without insurance.

As we slash Medicaid to start unnecessary wars and cut taxes for the rich. 🇺🇸

We should all be so much angrier than we are. It doesn’t have to be this way. #MedicareForAllNOW

The moon going from full moon to a red moon and starting to go back to a normal full moon, then my camera battery door fell off.

Here's my first edit on the March 3rd Lunar Eclipse. 15 moon shots, 1 foreground. Taken over a 3 hourish period.

He is like a hellish nightmare you can’t wake up from.

When Muslims Jews and Christians are at war God is on the side of innocent children.

We watched Netanyahu destroy Palestine. They bulldozed dead children into ditches. They denied emergency services. Simple food and water were stalled.
Now, he has used America to take out Iran while making deals with the Trumps to build hotels in Gaza, all while our children can’t get lunch…

So, in launching a huge bombing campaign on Iran they apparently didn't plan for:

- Who takes over;
- Interceptor shortages from sustained drone retaliation;
- How to defend US bases in the region;
- Threats to ships in the Strait of Hormuz; and
- How to evacuate Americans with airspace closed.