In my opinion, Tucker Carlson is no longer an option for the intellectually honest or stable-minded person. In the past several months as he has increased his anti-MAGA efforts Carlson and/or his production team have intensely avoided any guest who might challenge the outlandish nonsense he has been creating on his podcasts.
Occasionally CTH glances to see who Tucker is interviewing and generally check in on Carlson only to gain an understanding of the political network he represents. I find the dishonesty in his monologues now repellant. However, that said, President Trump Social Media Advisor Alex Bruesewitz stated he appeared on the Carlson podcast in order to finally push back against some of the malicious narratives the former Fox News host was promoting.
I watched to see how this ‘confrontation’ might unfold.
This is a first-rate overview of politics today in USA and the forces guiding it. Highly recommended for its brevity (especially considering the subject) and its completeness. If you have any interest in American politics and how our media-manufactured ‘reality’ positions its various parts, this essay is very much worth reading. ABN
Everyone is reading the Supreme Court’s Roundup decision as a fight about glyphosate. Much of MAHA called it a betrayal. The more I studied the opinion, the more I concluded it is not really about glyphosate at all.
The justices did not weigh epidemiology. They did not rule on whether glyphosate causes cancer. They did not pick IARC or EPA as the better science. They answered a narrow legal question with enormous consequences.
The question: when EPA approves a pesticide label under FIFRA, can a state jury later decide the manufacturer should have warned more strongly? The Court’s answer was largely no. EPA-approved labels now preempt most state failure-to-warn claims.
Why does that reach beyond Roundup? State failure-to-warn lawsuits have been one of the few mechanisms that surface emerging risk. Tobacco. Asbestos. Lead paint. PFAS. Discovery forced disclosure. Experts testified under oath. Regulators defended their conclusions in open court.
That pathway just narrowed dramatically. When an EPA label preempts the claim, EPA becomes the gatekeeper for deciding when evolving science justifies a new warning. That authority no longer rests with juries hearing new evidence. It rests with one federal agency.
So here is the real question, and it is a constitutional one: Can Congress create a system in which a single federal agency becomes the exclusive gatekeeper for whether evolving scientific evidence ever reaches an American jury?
This is hard to square with two decisions constitutional conservatives celebrated. Dobbs returned power to the states. Loper Bright said courts, not agencies, interpret statutes. Here, an agency’s determination became the basis for closing the courthouse door.
Note who stood where. The Biden administration did not embrace the broad preemption argument. The Trump administration did. Ironically, the Biden position sat closer to conservative legal principles: preserve juries, respect state common law, do not expand the administrative state.
The decision assumes EPA will revisit labels as science evolves. Look at the record. Glyphosate entered review in 2009. EPA reaffirmed “not likely carcinogenic” in 2020. The Ninth Circuit faulted that analysis. EPA withdrew it. More than fifteen years in, still no final determination.
Meanwhile the science moved past cancer. Researchers are now studying endocrine disruption, the gut microbiome, metabolic disease, reproductive and developmental toxicity, neuroinflammation, and cumulative exposure to many chemicals at once. The questions themselves have changed.
Freeze the courts to EPA’s pace and you freeze more than yesterday’s conclusions. You freeze yesterday’s understanding of which questions even deserve investigation. That is a dangerous place for science and for public health.
One more point. If EPA’s science now forecloses jury claims, EPA’s independence is no longer just a regulatory issue. It is a civil-justice issue. The FDA has faced years of scrutiny over capture and the revolving door. EPA has largely escaped it. This decision should end that.
This case is not really about glyphosate. It is about who decides when science has changed, and whether Americans keep access to the courts when new evidence emerges.
In a nutshell, the court’s decision puts all power to regulate (more than just) glyphosate in one agency — the EPA. This obviously risks the EPA becoming yet another captured agency. ABN
Exposing how far Israel’s reach goes into U.S. law enforcement. Four different ways to measure it.
I built a web based browsing tool that takes the same public records and measures them four ways. Each way gives you a different answer about which states have the strongest ties.
One way counts how many police agencies in a state have any documented connection. States with lots of small departments can rank high here even if most of those connections are small.
Another way looks at how deep the relationship actually runs inside departments. This one shows states where the connection has turned into normal, everyday procedure instead of occasional contact.
A third way follows the money and equipment. It tracks which states have brought in more Israeli technology and systems at scale.
The fourth way shows where these ties have already sparked open fights. Some states that look average on the first three shoot up here because people pushed back publicly.
Change which measure you use and the top states shift. The same records can make one state look heavily tied in or fairly average depending on what you decide to count.
Everything comes from public records that anyone can check. The tool just lets you ask four honest questions instead of pretending there’s only one answer.
This will probably get suppressed, but I don’t care. It’s time.
Elon Musk promised DOGE would save taxpayers $1 TRILLION. But, it actually just paved his path to become a trillionaire. Let’s follow the money.
“Claimed savings”: Final DOGE claim was $214B saved. The independently verifiable amount was less than 5% of that, not including the actually costs.
Costs
The firing-and-rehiring churn cost ~ $135B.
Week one: 17 inspector generals fired who return $26 per $1 spent and catch the very things happening right now with the Trump family ventures, Elon’s ventures, AI, etc.
They didn’t touch the $850B Pentagon budget that has never passed an audit.
Also untouched were the $38B in government contracts flowing to Elon.
Data privacy breaches by DOGE employees
And before you say that he worked for free, he did not have to file a financial disclosure because he “worked for free”. This looks more like a workaround.
Elon donated over $290M to Trump’s campaign. The morning Trump was sworn in, Musk’s companies faced $2.37B in legal exposure across 11 federal agencies.
Then he was handed power over those same agencies. Inside the first quarter, six of the regulators investigating Elon’s companies were cut, closed, or told to stand down.
So, he spent ~$290M to elect Trump and he left office with his cases dead and SpaceX ~$6B RICHER in NEW defense contracts. That is not a Department of Government Efficiency.
And as someone who was on the inside when this all went down, the strategy behind finding these contracts was incredibly inefficient and just caused defense contractors, such as Booz Allen Hamilton, to merely change their name from consulting to technology. It merely caused word changes in contracts. Contracts that are bloated and should be cut, weren’t even looked at. And in the end, it cost tax payers exponentially more than it saved, including data privacy,
Just want to call out the reality of how Space X and this shady IPO even came about.
In this effort, USA has the ironic advantage of coming from behind in many areas. This both forces and allows us to build with the newest and best. ABN
The first trillionaire in human history – Elon Musk – Born in South Africa – Bullied relentlessly as a kid – Immigrated to North America – Arrived with a backpack and a dream – Built Zip2 with his brother – Sold it 4 years later for $300 million – Co-founded PayPal with the profits – Revolutionized digital payments – Sold PayPal to eBay for $1.5 billion – Bet everything on Tesla and SpaceX – Got mocked for electric cars – Got laughed at for reusable rockets – Nearly went bankrupt in 2008 – Kept building anyway – Turned Tesla into the world’s most valuable automaker – Made EVs mainstream and transformed the automotive industry – Made reusable rockets a reality – Reduced the cost of reaching space by 95% – Sparked the modern commercial space race – Built Starlink and connected millions around the world to high-speed internet – Turned SpaceX into the most valuable private company in history – Bought Twitter for $44 billion – The world said he overpaid – He was called reckless, stupid & crazy – Advertisers fled, media declared it dead – Critics called it the worst acquisition in tech history – Renamed it 𝕏 – Rebuilt the platform anyway – Turned it into one of the most influential platforms on Earth – Launched xAI and accelerated the global AI race – Sent astronauts to space – Is trying to get humans to mars – Created millions of jobs – Generated hundreds of billions in value – Inspired an entire generation of builders Before: – Failed repeatedly – Worked insane hours – Slept in factories and offices – Got bullied, laughed at and mocked – Constantly told “it’s impossible” – Kept building anyway – Made it possible Today: – Richest person on Earth – First trillionaire in human history – Largest IPO in history $1.77 trillion Most people quit when the world laughs at them. Elon Musk built the future instead. Love him or hate him… Nobody has changed more industries in a single lifetime. Payments. Cars. Energy. Space. Social Media. Communications. AI. History won’t remember the people who said it couldn’t be done. It will remember the people who did it anyway. Congratulations Elon. The first trillionaire.
Once people learn how powerful media-based mind control is, they will start to see it everywhere and quickly become aware that most of it can be avoided or seen through. At it’s core, mind-control rests on the very deep human need to communicate and be understood. This need is easily met if everyone agrees on the same information. That is the source of culture and what maintains whole civilizations. Mind-control becomes evil when it uses this basic need to selfishly control or undermine civilizations. ABN
Trump just signed an executive order to shrink the U.S. hyper-vaccination schedule by ~55 doses.
A new study indicates that this could prevent ~35,000 autism cases per year.
Across 12 countries, the study found: −1% infant vaccine load → −0.47% autism rate.
The U.S. is stuck in the CRITICAL RISK ZONE with Canada, Australia, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore—the highest vaccine loads and highest autism rates.
We should be in the PROTECTIVE ZONE with countries like Norway, Finland, Denmark, and Sweden — lower infant vaccine intensity and far lower autism rates.
HHS had already begun shrinking the childhood vaccine schedule months ago — but rogue Judge Brian Murphy blocked the changes.
This new executive order should help put the vaccine overhaul back on track despite radical judges standing in the way.
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