Geaux Navy!

*”was able” should have read “less able”. Edit button would be nice.

The difference is, by increasing wages, consumers are more readily able to absorb cost increases and still come out better off.

By keeping wages stagnant, increased costs caused by tariffs result in a net loss to consumers who are was able to absorb the increases.

What we also always hear is that increasing wages increases cost of business, and that cost is passed onto consumers.

What we never hear is that tariffs increase cost of doing business, and that cost is passed onto consumers.

Weird.

To ensure the path was cleared to issue unlawful orders, and that they would be cloaked in a vail of *lawfulness,* he relieved senior service JAGs and installed sycophants to provide pseudo-legal cover.

Union Veterans Council Calls for Transparency and Due Process in VA’s Use of AI for Claims Auditing The Union Veterans Council (UVC), AFL-CIO, released a statement this week addressing the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) plans to utilize artificial intelligence (AI) to review over one million…

Craig Romanovich, Executive Director of the Union Veterans Council: When we begin treating the VBA’s obligations as a budgetary line item to be managed by algorithms, we risk losing sight of the service and sacrifice those benefits are meant to honor. nycclc.org/news/union-v...

📌NEW: Trump is making ANOTHER run at finishing off Stars & Stripes, the editorially independent newspaper that has reported on the troops and their families since the Civil War.

This is outrageous, especially during a time of war, when troops deserve a paper they can trust, not WH propaganda.

Military Senior Service Colleges Require Reform, But There Sure Are Some Bad Ideas Out There “No one is thinking if everyone is thinking alike.” Gen. George S. Patton’s quip shows that he not only understood the advantage of audacious combat

Thoughtful piece by @bradduplessis.bsky.social. If you're in any way involved with PME, I recommend reading and reflecting on "Military Senior Service Colleges Require Reform, But There Sure Are Some Bad Ideas Out There."
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I’m an NIH whistleblower. The scientific community cannot afford to avoid politics “Scientists are often encouraged to avoid politics. But this advice is outdated, if it was ever correct in the first place,” writes Jenna Norton, NIH whistleblower.

Everybody should know who @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social is.
In this day and age it is more risky to keep your head down than to be the whistleblower that we needs.

Right now, being called "a radical leftist" is a badge of honor. And imperative.

Read her story here.
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Who don’t understand bowling or physics. That ball would most likely result in a 7-10 split, rather than a strike. But, probably a more accurate depiction of the cluster created by this admin’s foreign policy (if you want to call it that).

His *team* is exceptionally efficient at being exquisitely ineffective.

Flashback to the Rose Garden in 2020 when Mr. Trump announced “I don’t take responsibility at all.” Same energy. Same failure to act as a leader.

A transparent ploy trying to retain his honeypot job following redistricting. He will continue caucusing and voting with Rs. If re-elected in Nov, he will continue to be a reliable R vote in Congress and a vacuum for donor money that buys his votes on their (not constituents’) behalf.

I understand that there are a lot of folks on the left who instinctively recoil from religious language, and with good reason given its use by the right.

But please listen to this, and focus on how he's trying to realign "Christian values" so they align with and advance progressive policy goals.

It’s been years, but his supporters still can’t read a bio or your handle. Pathetic.

Disappointing, but predictable when, among the first personnel actions at the Pentagon, were to relieve the senior service JAGs and *review* each of the senior Flag officers for *appropriate loyalty*…not to their oath, but to the POTUS no matter what.

Leadership at DoD has yielded to sycophancy.

We can do like we did in Iraq and Afghanistan (and the U.S. with protesters) and label them as *insurgents* or *radical islamists* to sanitize and dehumanize the unlawful killing of non-combatants. We’ve moved far beyond *collateral damage* at this point. Too politically correct for kegseth.

Have no fear, Republicans will bail you out at some point with a huge chunk of taxpayer money to pay you for not being able to sell your products because of their policies. Then you can post on social media that you’re voting for them because you are against socialism.

We’ve already experienced attacks in U.S. cities perpetrated by DHS. If Markwayne is confirmed, then we’ll likely experience foreign attacks on top of increasing internal violence by our own government officials. This Admin doesn’t care about human suffering. To the contrary, they revel in it.

Nobody who requires a waiver of the most essential requirement should ever be appointed as a Medical Officer in the USPHS, let alone, allowed to pin on 3 stars as its Service Surgeon General.

This quack is every bit as dangerous to public health as rfkjr, but with a medical degree.

Who are the 12%-ers? They’re likely mostly “I would have joined, but…” asshats, or folks who did serve and just didn’t get enough (and never would get enough). We neither want, nor need members from either cohort among our ADSMs. And, yes, I’ve been there.

I *wouldn’t* have joined, but I wanted nothing to do with having someone else take my place & my family instilled in us a duty to serve the nation that has given us so much. And the Afghans I met in country were mostly beautiful, generous & family oriented human beings. Screw those who dehumanize.

Seriously? He’s undercut his entire argument that Iran posed an *imminent* threat by stressing that it’s been ongoing for years. Yet these 4th grade graduates get returned to office, frequently unopposed.

The People of the United States are ineffectively represented. How’s that for understatement?

Yeah, there was an imminent threat *there,* but there was no imminent threat *here,* or to US forces, personnel or assets.

There sure was plenty of time to move more Navy and Marine Corps assets into the region than we’ve had there in decades. A carrier strike group takes weeks to navigate from the east coast…once all ships, supplies and personnel are ready to get underway. I call 🐂💩

Let them have to write the letters home and then ask how they feel about “just four” US servicemembers having died (as of now). Perhaps some of them might reassess. Most who say such crap lack the ability to reassess, or even care.

I’ve written 2 of those letters. They haunt me still.

And “under budget,” because, consistent with his practice throughout his life, he won’t pay contractors for the work they’re doing.

As usual, they’ll declare victory and leave the region in chaos/ruins.

“Could” spiral out of control!? Has any action of this Admin failed to spiral out of control? Nobody in this Admin is even remotely qualified for their position. FFS, his Surgeon General nominee will require a waiver of the requirement to hold a medical license in order to be appointed in the USPHS.

I’ve written “the letters” to the families of 2 Marines who served with me. Each was heart-wrenching & painful. Were it my responsibility to write any of these, I would struggle most with understanding *why* these servicemembers were placed in this situation to begin with. 🙏🙏🙏🙏 and, sadly, counting.

He was rambling on about the war he got us into and veered off into curtain talk, then seamlessly continued on to discuss the men that have lost their lives.
He did that so easily because he doesn’t care about the dead. His ability to pick curtains is just as important and must be mentioned.