I’m sure he means evil, but wearables really can be a boon to health. His agency really needs to be more proactive with establishing privacy protections and certifying accuracy’s/correctness, to make this really take off.

I mean yeah, I didn’t claim this action was morally or even strategically acceptable, just that it seems consistent with the way past administrations have used the same power.

And that’s kind of a problem. As far as I see, this use of the war powers act is entirely consistent with previous uses. Trumps not wrong for once.

Maybe the part about not bothering to inform Congress because “they’ll see it in the news”.

Our outrage seems to be mainly that he chose poorly, or maybe even that we haven’t been conditioned to agree with it. Iran has been pursuing nuclear weapons for years(decades?) and I certainly agree the world becomes a more dangerous, unstable place as more countries obtain nuclear weapons. Sanctions haven’t been working, but you combine this with Israel’s assassinations and it should be effective at stopping their program.

Of course I don’t know that anyone tried negotiating from a point of respect for their sovereignty nor was this in response to hostilities against our Interests or any urgent threat (that we’re aware of). You can’t just bomb people you disagree with, but this really seems consistent with previous administrations and the only difference is the propaganda war to manipulate support

And is there any medical proof that can stand up to brainworm addled pseudoscience in court ? Would you bet your career and your freedom on that?

I suppose I don’t have any evidence, but think about it a little …

1. Do you really think doctors have the extra time to dedicate an afternoon to doing paperwork? What about your experience with medical offices led you to expect all this free time?
2. Do you really think doctors are deciding a contentious legal issue on their own? Do you understand why hospitals and other corporations even have a legal department?

Bullshit. They spent that time:

1. Doing the rest of their job, caring for all the other people
2. Talking to legal and collecting required paperwork to support the legal case that the medical case is legal

I think this actually plays into GOP hands. We’ve already seen Republican voters seem to vote with their feeling on their local situation, without much overall awareness or larger perspective. So now this situation gets worse for them and it’s easy to see karma at work. But from their perspective things suck and we see they’re easily manipulated by people claiming they have the solution, demonizing a scapegoat, claiming they’re going to disrupt and change, claiming it’s “a big beautiful bill”.

Isn’t this more of the same? Rural voters descend into ever worse situation, are unable to lift their eyes to see the full picture, get manipulated into ever more extreme actions.

• “millions and millions” is total bs
• technically they’re probably not. It looks like they have a bunch of new unqualified people and set impossible quotas.

While I would never have sympathy for any officers knowingly complying with illegal orders, it also fits with the current administration that management is by bullying, threats, impossible demands, and no concern for correctness until a scapegoat is needed

We’re already expecting the spite, personal attacks … even smaller places. My town is still pissed off from the last few weeks

• masked thugs kidnapped a guy off the street and left his kid abandoned on the sidewalk (neighbors got him home)
• other masked thugs roughed up and arrested a city councilor exercising his right to take videos from an appropriate distance

For the same reason they described it as ”New York and Philadelphia plus some small towns”, instead of “over 2,000 cities and towns”

I thought it was a “rewriting history” thing

My town was thousands. It was very inspiring

Edit: yep, I’m seeing estimates of 2,000 for my town

Right. Part of the problem is self-righteous people thinking in black and white.

Trump promised to deport illegals. Of course there won’t be any impact on documented immigrants.

People who think this way also tend not to be able to synthesize the larger answer based on other info, such as Trump promising to act as dictator from day one or trumps complete lack of empathy and respect for the law, or the amoral sycophants he put into leadership positions

Every president has deported undocumented immigrants and we don’t usually object too much. If that’s what was happening this wouldn’t be as big an issue. The problem is when it’s clearly racist , or depriving people of human rights and due process, or done by a bunch of thugs cowering behind masks while holding themselves above the law, or brutalizing witnesses and spreading terror., or kidnapping people from schools, churches, courthouses. Was this voter able to connect the dots?

Sure but Harris already win NY, so it doesn’t affect anything

You might also acquaint yourself with the actual religious beliefs of many founding fathers

• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theism

This is indeed deeply troubling. Whoever voted for that racist piece of shit should be ashamed

This may not be green but is at least green tinted. It would be a step forward.

Currently jet fuel not only emits a huge amount of carbon dioxide but does so at altitude that makes more difference. We need to do something.

Unfortunately there isn’t really a green solution (except high speed rail) and batteries may never be able to serve that use case. This is at least emitting carbon that is currently in the carbon cycle rather than digging up more carbon that was sequestered for hundreds of millions of years. It’s at least simplifying the problem to growing crops, which already need to be decarbonized. We need to do something. A less than ideal step is still a step.

This would be even better if the goal is to redirect ethanol for cars, which have better solutions, so we’re not changing the overall agricultural impact. Of course that assumes we’re effectively managing the transition to electric vehicles rather than hold on tight to our buggy whips

I hope I’m not giving too much credit for a strategy, npbut it might just be an attempt to provoke a reaction. Either California backs down or they resist and there’s an excuse to take over. Look for a bunch of masked thugs to try to arrest Newsom for “treason”

“Comprehensive “? It would need to be hundreds of pages longer

fear that the rift and public mudslinging between Trump and Musk could leave them vulnerable to political retribution and damage their future job prospects,

Maybe they should look at their own actions, listen to the response of citizens, consult whatever they call a moral authority, consult a legal authority…… if they’re able to develop any self-awareness they’ll realize that’s only the beginning