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Jama Jurabaev

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Today is Day 129 of the attempted Fascist coup against America. There are 523 days until the midterms. We are winning. (see below)

Last night, after the news broke about the three judges in the Federal Court of Trade having declared all his “Liberation Day” traiffs and all since to be unconstiutional and therefure null and void and after he reacted angrily earlier in the afternoon to a reporter’s question about the “TACO trade,” a weakened Dimbulb reached out to his alt-right base in a desperate attempt to demonstrate dominance. He posted a meme on Lies Anti-Social showing an image of himself walking toward the viewer on what appears to be a wet, nighttime city street. Pepe the Frog, a symbol of the far right, stands in the background. At the top of the screen,in all capital letters, are the words: “HE’S ON A MISSION FROM GOD.” At the bottom of the screen, below his feet, and also in all caps, the message continues: “& NOTHING CAN STOP WHAT IS COMING.” This phrase comes from the right-wing QAnon conspiracy community and refers to the idea that members of the “Deep State” and its collaborators will soon be arrested. The truth is, the legal decision yesterday and the humilation at the press conference are just the two latest demonstrations of how he is losing losing losing. He has lost the vast majority of the legal cases Maladminstration II has been involved with, including legal brakes being put on every illegal assault on the government since Enshittification Day. The only people who would be stupid enough to think he is strong are the lifetime losers of such bullshit cults as QAnon and ignoramus losers from the lumpenproletariat like the Proud Boys and other inbred rednecks among the Militia Morons. The truth is, Donnie is losing at every crime against the country he tries to commit.

This morning, alleged Chairman of the National Economic Council, Adjunct Professor Kevin Hassett - who couldn’t even make it to Associate Professor at the cow college he was teaching at - managed to demonstrate again why he hasn’t got the brains god promised a crowbar when he went after the tariffs decision, vowing that the decision would be overturned when he was on fellow drooling moron Maria Bartiromo’s “Mornings With Maria” on Faux Snooze, saying: “This trade negotiation season has been really, really effective for the American people, and it’s unfortunate that people would attack it, as the journalists did, or the way the judges just did. These activist judges are trying to slow down something right in the middle of really important negotiations.” He went on: “What’s going to happen is, first, we’re going to see what happens on appeal, and we’re very confident in our success there, because, after all, hundreds and hundreds of thousands of Americans have died because of mostly Chinese fentanyl and Chinese fentanyl coming in from Mexico and Canada. FACT CHECK: As the court pointed out, this is not a thing that allows Donnie to fuck with the world) There are different approaches that would take a couple of months to put these in place and using procedures that have been approved in the past or approved in the last administration, but we’re not planning to pursue those right now, because we’re very, very confident that this really is incorrect.” This moron has proven so far that he doesn’t have an IQ above ambient room temperature; I now think it’s not even that high.

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Doctor Mengele, aka The Wrong RFK Got Shot, has announced that federal scientists will no longer submit papers to leading medical journals, saying: “We are probably going to stop publishing in the Lancet, the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA and those other journals because they are all corrupt.” He went on to say such publications are “vessels” for pharmaceutical companies. In place of that, he proposed creating “in-house” publications by the department that will become “the preeminent journals” in their field. “They are going to become the preeminent journals, because if you get NIH funding it is anointing you as a good, legitimate scientist.” Not any more it isn’t, Brain Worm Boy. A week ago, he released Maladministration II’s “Maka America Healthy Again” report, which said the following: “There is a concerning trend of overprescribing medications to children, often driven by conflicts of interest in medical research, regulation, and practice. This has led to unnecessary treatments and long-term health risks.” This is all another attempt to drive world-class American medicine back to the 19th Century.

But that’s not even the worst of what Secretary Brain Worm has done: RFK Jr’s highly-touted “Make America Healthy Again” report turns out to have misinterpreted some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors. The report was written with AI, further proving my father was right 68 years ago when he said at a scientific conference, “Them that think computers think, don’t.” He claimed the 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, and seven cited studies don’t actually exist. For instance, epidemiologist Katherine Keyes is listed in the MAHA report as the first author of a study on anxiety in adolescents; when contacted, she said: “The paper cited is not a real paper that I or my colleagues were involved with. 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.” A section describing the “corporate capture of media” highlights two studies 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 - however neither study exists. Kennedy said about the report, “Never in American history has the federal government taken a position on public health like this.” He’s right, but not the way he thinks he is. “Them that think computers think, don’t.”

Lydia O'Connor at HuffPost:

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Wednesday he’s planning to ban government scientists from publishing in established medical journals, which are some of the most important ways doctors spread knowledge and advance patient care. Kennedy made the comments on the Ultimate Human podcast to host Gary Brecka, a fellow vaccine skeptic and anti-fluoride conspiracy theorist. “We’re probably going to stop publishing in The Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA and those other journals because they’re all corrupt,” Kennedy said, listing off some of the biggest medical journals and claiming they’re controlled by the pharmaceutical industry. “Unless these journals change dramatically, we are going to stop [National Institutes of Health] scientists from publishing there, and we’re going to create our own journals in house,” he continued, claiming that those will “become the preeminent journals.” The Lancet, the New England Journal of Medicine and JAMA were all established in the 1800s and say they’re viewed by tens of millions of people annually.

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Exposing pregnant mothers to fluoridated water may increase the risk of neurobehavioral problems in their children, according to a new study published in the JAMA Network Open medical journal.

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