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Trump’s pick for surgeon general sells supplement with ingredient banned by Pentagon | Trump administration

Trump’s pick for surgeon general sells supplement with ingredient banned by Pentagon | Trump administration

"Amazon opens an inquiry into Nicole Saphier’s product compliance following Guardian inquiry. White House says she will be a ‘powerful asset’ for Maha agenda."

“Nobody who prides themselves as rigorous about science is in the supplement business,” said Dr Peter Lurie of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a food and health watchdog organization. 

theguardian.com
u/GreenerMark — 9 hours ago
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Justice Department agrees not to pursue any tax claims against Trump as part of IRS deal

Is this the single largest incident of political corruption in history? If not, I'd like to know what is.

"In a sweeping one-page addendum to Monday’s settlement agreement establishing a nearly $1.8 billion 'anti-weaponization' fund, Blanche agreed that the U.S. is 'FOREVER BARRED and PRECLUDED from prosecuting or pursuing, any and all claims,' including 'monetary relief,' that 'have been or could have been' asserted by the IRS against Trump, his family or his businesses."

nbcnews.com
u/GreenerMark — 3 days ago

The smoking guns in Trump’s new financial disclosure

"at the time of Trump’s effusive remarks about Thermo Fisher, he had purchased as much as $215,000 worth of the company’s stock over the previous month."

popular.info
u/GreenerMark — 4 days ago

A U.S. Senate Candidate Says Foreign Truckers Are Making America’s Roads Unsafe. His Own Truckers Have Caused Harm.

"Mike Collins, a congressman from Georgia, wants to take away commercial driver’s licenses from noncitizens. Over the past 25 years, truckers for his businesses have been involved in crashes that killed five people and injured more than 50 people.

... Collins has opposed rules that experts say actually would reduce the odds of serious crashes. Those rules could have required that Collins’ family business sink substantial money into new safety measures for its fleet."

propublica.org
u/GreenerMark — 10 days ago

The CDC Fired All Its Cruise Ship Inspectors Before the Hantavirus Outbreak

"Targeted by sweeping cuts like other agencies as part of Elon Musk’s crusade to gut federal spending, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cleared out almost its entire Vessel Sanitation Program, a key group that ensures ships are properly sanitized to prevent them from becoming the type of plague frigate the world is now dealing with."

futurism.com
u/GreenerMark — 11 days ago

FBI probing leaks to journalist who wrote explosive article on Kash Patel, sources say

“They know they are not supposed to do this,” one source said. “But if they don’t go forward, they could lose their jobs. You’re damned if you do and damned if you don’t.”

ms.now
u/GreenerMark — 12 days ago
▲ 60 r/thebulwark+1 crossposts

Utah's data center could create a massive heat island that could devastate the Great Salt Lake, scientists say

“That’s the difference between Utah’s semi-arid climate and the Sahara Desert,” said Ben Abbott, an ecology professor at Brigham Young University who has reviewed Davies’ estimates. “This would absolutely change the landscape.”

sltrib.com
u/GreenerMark — 12 days ago

Voting rights activists shocked by speed of US states moving to stifle Black voters

"Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee and other southern states stun residents with all-out charge to redraw congressional maps to favor white voters after supreme court ruling"

theguardian.com
u/GreenerMark — 14 days ago

"We have lower taxes than every other deep blue state, and nine red states too, including Kansas, Kentucky, Utah and West Virginia.

Second, our taxes disproportionately coddle the rich, while simultaneously stiffing working families. Until recently, Washington was the most regressively taxed state in the union, which meant that the poor pay a much bigger share of their income than the rich. Thanks to the tax on capital gains windfalls over $250,000 in a year, we are now only the second most regressively taxed — just above Florida."

u/GreenerMark — 16 days ago

"Stephen Miller is the fevered brain that is pushing a Trump dictatorship.

He’s the head cheerleader for white nationalism, the architect of state terror against immigrants, and a determined enemy of the rule of law, except for the law of the jungle — the law of brute force.

He’s the 21st century American version of a Nazi."

u/GreenerMark — 19 days ago
▲ 1.5k r/television

We stopped watching their tired dramas. We stopped watching their vapid and biased newscasts with Tony and Gayle. The only show we still watch on CBS is the Late Show with Stephen Colbert. After his final show, nothing more.

David Ellison and Bari Weiss have killed a once great network. The network of Walter Cronkite, All in the Family, MASH, David Letterman, and 60 Minutes will be no more.

reddit.com
u/GreenerMark — 20 days ago

"When adjusted for inflation, global worker pay declined 12% between 2019 and 2025, the equivalent of 108 days of free work during that time period. In comparison, CEO compensation increased by 54% between 2019 and 2025."

u/GreenerMark — 21 days ago

"Only around 5 percent of those taken into ICE custody had any violent conviction."

u/GreenerMark — 23 days ago