The US is a net oil exporter, and has been consistently so since 2021

This is about getting more power and money for the rich.

The big expenses from getting Hepatitis B happen a decade or more from when you get the infection. A different insurer picks up the tab if you decline to cover vaccination.

The strategy of seeking out people at the margins, and then entrapping them, is one that’s long been used to collect scalps for the FBI

The NYT will never say that unless he’s actually convicted.

You mean it’s supposed to snow in Norway in the winter? Nah. Don’t say anything about why though.

Web.archive.org only captures the first paragraph or two of Washington Post articles. You’re missing most of the content if you depend on them.

That’s why I included the above two ways to access the full article:

• gift link — registration required
• archive.today

Its more of a “see how powerful I am” kind of thing

They’re divisive against the American people. Which is the point of bringing in Nazis and racists.

You remember correctly. They announced a reversal and then went ahead with it anyways

The ISP will get which news outlets you read, but not which articles. Not ideal, but perhaps not as bad as you fear

I think the amount of content scraping being done to feed the LLMs has led to a lot of news outlets making it harder for anybody who can’t easily show that they’re human to access their work

Threats like that aren’t terribly effective at motivating people to vote for you

It means that they’re taking revenge for imagined slights by attempting criminal prosecution on bogus pretexts

We do. And it prevents about 80% of cases for people who get the vaccine. Having mosquito control, a vaccine, and a treatment would be better than having only the first two. But it takes money to do a phase 3 trial of a drug, and its hard to get private funding for studies like that when a disease mostly impacts poor people

He got hundreds of people fired for not being sufficiently reverent of Kirk

He isnt stopping them; they just move the work oveeseas

There wasn’t…but we know what happened then and can try to do better

None. Its always been about the racism. They were just less blatant about it.

Yeah, the Republicans got Tate out of Romania to prevent a trial

He’s universally hated except by high-level Republicans who worked to protect him from prosecution