https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/rfk-jr-trump-autism-research-b2814520.html

President Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. got things rolling on a marathon three-hour-plus Cabinet meeting Tuesday by appearing to fearmonger about autism — before the Health and Human Services secretary vowed to find a cause of what he characterized as an “epidemic” by September.

The grandstanding came even as HHS data sheets show that the Trump administration has actually cut grants to researchers focused on autism.

“I don't want to go too long, because we have a lot of people, but the autism is such a tremendous horror show,” Trump said to Kennedy, who he has tasked with reviewing the cause of the “epidemic.” During an April Cabinet meeting, Kennedy had also said he would “know what has caused the autism epidemic” by September.

Most researchers, including those at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which falls under HHS, agree that autism diagnoses have increased because of broadened diagnostic criteria and an improved availability of diagnoses for autism spectrum disorder.

https://apnews.com/article/conservative-christians-sin-of-toxic-empathy-c9ab96faf99605e010f487df61d92d8f
Empathy is usually regarded as a virtue, a key to human decency and kindness. And yet, with increasing momentum, voices on the Christian right are preaching that it has become a vice.

For them, empathy is a cudgel for the left: It can manipulate caring people into accepting all manner of sins according to a conservative Christian perspective, including abortion access, LGBTQ+ rights, illegal immigration and certain views on social and racial justice.

“Empathy becomes toxic when it encourages you to affirm sin, validate lies or support destructive policies,” said Allie Beth Stuckey, author of “Toxic Empathy: How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion.”

Stuckey, host of the popular podcast “Relatable,” is one of two evangelicals who published books within the past year making Christian arguments against some forms of empathy.

The other is Joe Rigney, a professor and pastor who wrote “The Sin of Empathy: Compassion and its Counterfeits.” It was published by Canon Press, an affiliate of Rigney’s conservative denomination, which counts Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth among its members.

These anti-empathy arguments gained traction in the early months of President Donald Trump’s second term, with his flurry of executive orders that critics denounced as lacking empathy.

As foreign aid stopped and more deportations began, Trump’s then-adviser Elon Musk told podcaster Joe Rogan: “The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy.”

Even Vice President JD Vance, a Catholic convert, framed the idea in his own religious terms, invoking the concept of ordo amoris, or order of love. Within concentric circles of importance, he argued the immediate family comes first and the wider world last — an interpretation that then-Pope Francis rejected.

SSA whistleblower lodges complaint against DOGE
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/us/politics/doge-social-security-data.html

https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/documenttools/a9f2afd18a79e330/b181d62a-full.pdf
Dear All:
The Government Accountability Project represents Mr. Chuck Borges, the Chief Data
Officer (CDO) at the Social Security Administration (SSA), and a whistleblower. Mr. Borges
presents the following disclosures to your attention pursuant to 5 U.S.C. § 2302 , 5 U.S.C. § 1213
and 5 U.S.C § 7211 for your respective offices to take appropriate oversight action.
In recent weeks Mr. Borges has become aware through reports to him of serious data
security lapses, evidently orchestrated by DOGE officials, currently employed as SSA employees,
that risk the security ofover 300 millionAmericans' Social Security data.1 Mr. Borges' disclosures
involve wrongdoing including apparent systemic data security violations, uninhibited
administrative access to highly sensitive production environments,2 and potential violations of internal SSA security protocols and federal privacy laws by DOGE personnel Edward Coristine
Aram Moghaddassi John Solly and Michael Russo.3 These actions constitute violations of laws, rules and regulations abuse of authority mismanagement and creation of threat to public health and safety. Since February 2025 it has been widely reported that DOGE officials have sought to access
the American public's Social Security data purportedly to address claims of fraud. A lawsuit has
been filed resulting in temporary restraining order to limit DOGE's access to this sensitive
data What has not been reported are DOGE's actions in violation of SSA protocols and policies
under the authority of SSA Chief Information Officer (CIO Aram Mogaddassi to create live copy of the country's Social Security information in cloud environment that circumvents oversight.

It turns out Bolton's home was raided because during Biden's presidency intelligence officials stole information from a foreign adversary's spy agency which contained emails sent by John Bolton containing classified information. They were sent over unclassified email, and he was leaking the information to write his book.
https://www.newsweek.com/john-bolton-investigation-update-biden-trump-foreign-emails-2120501
Joe Biden
Biden Admin Advanced Bolton Probe Over Foreign-Intercepted Emails: Report

he federal investigation into John Bolton, President Donald Trump's former national security adviser, gained new momentum during the Biden administration after U.S. intelligence collected evidence suggesting he mishandled classified material, according to a report in The New York Times.

Citing people familiar with the matter, the Times said U.S. agencies obtained information from a foreign adversary's spy service, including emails that Bolton appeared to have sent on an unclassified system while in the Trump White House. The messages, reportedly containing sensitive material from classified documents, were allegedly sent to people close to Bolton who were helping him prepare his 2020 memoir, The Room Where It Happened.

The revelations explain why FBI agents executed searches of Bolton's Maryland home and Washington office last week — a dramatic escalation in an inquiry that had long been viewed as dormant.

Prosecutors sought the warrants to determine if Bolton, a vocal Trump critic, possessed evidence corroborating the foreign spy service's cache, the Times reported. While no charges are pending, the Times said the FBI searches were aimed at verifying whether Bolton still holds documents matching the intercepted material, which would bolster the case.

(I can't even make up a funnier headline lmao)
Federal prosecutors on Tuesday were unable to persuade a grand jury to approve a felony indictment against a man who threw a sandwich at a federal agent on the streets of Washington this month, according to two people familiar with the matter.

The grand jury’s rejection of the felony charge was a remarkable failure by the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington and the second time in recent days that a majority of grand jurors refused to vote to indict a person accused of felony assault on a federal agent. It also amounted to a sharp rebuke by a panel of ordinary citizens against the prosecutors assigned to bring charges against people arrested after President Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops and federal agents to fight crime and patrol the city’s streets.

The rejection by grand jurors was particularly noteworthy given the attention paid to the case of the man who threw the sandwich, Sean C. Dunn. Video of the episode went viral on social media, senior officials talked about the case, and the administration posted footage of a large group of heavily armed law enforcement officers going to Mr. Dunn’s apartment.

It remained unclear if prosecutors planned to try again to obtain an indictment against Mr. Dunn, 37, a former Justice Department paralegal. They could also forgo seeking felony charges and refile his case as a misdemeanor, which does not require an indictment to move forward.

>https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/us/politics/trump-sandwich-assault-indictment-justice-department.html

Remember shills, these are the real polls.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5471284-drey-victory-breaks-gop-majority/

Democrat Catelin Drey has flipped an open Iowa state Senate seat, adding to the party’s successes in special elections this year, Decision Desk HQ projected.

Drey defeated Republican Christopher Prosch in the race to replace the late state Sen. Rocky De Witt (R), who died in office in June from cancer. Democrats homed in on the Republican-leaning district as a pickup opportunity given their overperformance in many smaller elections through 2025.

Drey’s victory breaks a GOP supermajority in the state Senate, giving her party more power despite its minority status in the body. In particular, the extra Democratic vote, which will bring the margin in the chamber to 33 Republicans to 17 Democrats, will ensure that nominees from the governor can’t get approved on a party-line vote.

A two-thirds majority is needed for nominees to be confirmed.

The DNC celebrated Drey’s win on Tuesday night, noting that the district voted for President Trump in 2024 by more than 11 points. Martin said in a statement that Iowans are seeing Republicans as a “rubber stamp” for Trump’s agenda and want change.

“They are putting Republicans on notice and making it crystal clear: any Republican pushing Trump’s unpopular, extreme agenda has no place governing on behalf of Iowa families,” he said. “That’s why all year long, Iowans have been electing Democrats ready to fight for working Iowans. Make no mistake: when Democrats organize everywhere, we win everywhere, and today is no exception.”

The flip marks the second Iowa state Senate seat this year that Democrats won, after flipping another seat in January in a district that Trump won by more than 20 points. The party has also outperformed in other special state legislative elections throughout the year, winning in another Trump-friendly state Senate district in Pennsylvania in March.

Not a fan of the druggie public image
But looking for someone who distrusts and questions all politics and politicians
Who doesn't suck anyone's dick and is entertaining
HST did eventually suck Dem dick, yeah I know
He also disliked Clinton as much as he disliked Nixon and wasn't afraid to say it
https://www.theatlantic.com/past/unbound/graffiti/hunter.htm
I'm looking to read/watch someone who isn't simping for either side
Does a journalist like that even exist anymore
Probably not, they're dying with the boomers

I hope Fox News isn't considered a radical leftist news source.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-opens-door-600000-chinese-students-amid-beijing-trade-talks

Donald Trump said 600,000 Chinese students would be allowed into the U.S. to study at colleges amid ongoing trade talks with China.

Speaking at the White House Monday, the president's announcement signals a potential thaw in U.S.-China relations after escalating tariffs and restrictions on Chinese students.

"I hear so many stories that we're not going to allow their students," Trump told reporters.

"We're going to allow their students to come in. It's very important, 600,000 students. It's very important. But we're going to get along with China," he added

Trump’s student visa offer comes against the backdrop of trade talks with the Chinese government.

Earlier this year, the administration imposed a 145% tariff on all Chinese goods, prompting Beijing to retaliate with a 125% tariff on U.S. exports.

Negotiators in Geneva agreed in May to pause additional levies, but Trump has continued to warn of further penalties.

Last week, he floated a 200% tariff on Chinese-made magnets, citing what he described as Beijing’s "monopoly" over the global market.

"I don’t think we’re going to have a problem with that," Trump told reporters.

"China, intelligently, went and they sort of took a monopoly on the world’s magnets. It’ll probably take us a year to have them," he said.

Currently, about 270,000 Chinese students are enrolled in U.S. universities.

In May, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced plans to "aggressively revoke" visas for Chinese nationals, particularly those tied to the Communist Party or sensitive research fields.

Trump has since shifted tone, telling reporters in June that he has "always been in favor" of welcoming students from China.