wow so surprising

“Meningococcal disease is a terrible, terrible disease,” explained Walter Orenstein, MD, of Emory University in Atlanta and former director of the U.S. Immunization Program. He recalled seeing pediatric cases during his infectious diseases training in the 1970s “that were just awful and unfortunately led to a number of children dying and the potential for brain damage in those surviving.”

The acute, severe disease is driven by the Neisseria meningitidis bacterium. Infection can lead to bacterial meningitis, sepsis, and pneumonia. About half of people with the disease present with meningitis, which can include sudden onset of fever, headache, a stiff neck, nausea, and altered mental state.

Pathetic

Who needs the diet version of fascists?

The obvious play here is for Machado to give Trump a blatantly fake knockoff of her Nobel Prize. If Trump doesn’t immediately realize it he will be unable to admit he got duped later and double down on his prize being real.

In my opinion seeing this through the lens of nations is nearly meaningless.

What is happening is the end of oil has begun and the Ukrainian war has made it very difficult to keep oil prices high. China is moving towards alternative energy and massively investing into EVs, the writing is on the wall. If you don’t secure a buyer for your oil even if you have lots of oil it is going to become harder and harder to sell it.

The way I see it, Trump is at the end of the day attacking Venezuela and seizing tankers in order to try to introduce enough instability into the world oil markets that prices don’t crash further for the oil companies actually running all of this. I don’t really even see this as a true hostile action against Russia, it feels like a purely cynical price manipulation move that Russia just happened to be the convenient target of.

All of the other context people are providing are the details built upon this core reality.

Well to be fair Steve Bannon is a literal nazi and his brain is a smooth sphere of angry mushy hate so…

All of that is a large, large amount of capital expenditure, and the people who can put that money down will want solid assurances that the Venezuela arrangement will continue for years and decades.

Right and I think Trump doing this was mainly about introducing instability into Venezuela to reduce the likelihood foreign investors will help make this happen that aren’t US companies, and I don’t think US oil companies by and large want oil supply to increase on the world market.

Yeah it is definitely about more than the oil, but insofar as it is about oil I am completely unconvinced this is actually about pumping more oil, it doesn’t make basic sense in the context of the oil market and the glut of US oil production supply being extremely poorly positioned for the current oil market.

This only makes sense if Trump is trying to keep oil prices from dropping further, not drive them down even more.

Instead, I’d like to focus on two specific claims made in the article, which are presented as clear-cut evidence that NPR has lost its way—and which echo arguments that are regularly trotted out by conservatives as evidence of left-wing media bias in modern American politics:

1. The number of self-proclaimed Republicans who listen to NPR has plummeted and its listener base is now mostly from the left-wing of the political spectrum. (This is true).

2. The number of people in the newsroom who are bona fide Trump supporters is zero, which is a crisis of “viewpoint diversity” that must be urgently fixed.

…both represent a fundamental misunderstanding of what’s going on in American media—and how journalists and the press more broadly should behave in an era of hyper-polarization, where the distribution of truth and lies are not equally balanced between political parties.

In my opinion no and that is the point.

Drive up prices by artificially constricting supply…

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If the US faces no consequences for the invasion of Venezuela, experts believe it could embolden other countries to carry out operations which may contravene international law.

“The most obvious consequence is that China will take the opportunity to invade Taiwan,” Robertson said. “This is the most appropriate time for it to do so, bolstered by the precedent of Trump’s invasion of Venezuela and of course his appeasement of Russia in its invasion of Ukraine. In fact, I would say that Trump’s invasion of Venezuela is the crime of aggression, the same crime Putin has committed by invading Ukraine.”

This is an overthrow of a foreign government. It’s an act of war. It is an open-ended declaration of foreign occupation. And as all at the microphone either proudly declared and reluctantly admitted, it was pulled off without consultation with anyone outside their little circle.

That’s what’s impeachable. If Trump understood what he was saying, he was violating all concepts of checks-and-balances. If he didn’t understand, he is incapacitated.

If the only choice you ever make is to fold than what meaning can time possibly have for you anyways? Every moment is every other moment, all one synchronous performance of cowardly capitulation to fascism.

Either that or “cognitive behavioral phrenology”

The enemy of your enemy… can still be your enemy.

I am a human being who actually has autism which is why I type like this.

I unfortunately think we are entering an age of systems that are extremely hostile to any kind of neurodivergence, mostly because of layers and layers of bullshit automated categorization schemes based on measurable superficial differences that capture nothing deeper or essential about people.

Phrenology by another name dressed up in techbro nonsense, it is dangerous as fuck.

Shitting pants, “acing” dementia tests and arbitrarily toppling the governments of other nations.

Yeah except what if we just try to shame everybody into voting for a centrist candidate they aren’t inspired by at all?