Aw, sad. Trump thought he could lead Putin around like a little toy donkey on wheels, and it turns out to be not that easy. Who could have known?

Russia cannot accept U.S. proposals to end the war in Ukraine in their current form because they do not address problems Moscow regards as having caused the conflict, a senior Russian diplomat said, suggesting U.S.-Russia talks on the subject had stalled.

The comments by Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov suggest Moscow and Washington have so far been unable to bridge differences which President Vladimir Putin raised more than two weeks ago when he said U.S. proposals needed reworking.

They come as U.S. President Donald Trump appears to be growing increasingly impatient with what he has suggested might be foot-dragging over a wider deal by Moscow.

Trump in recent days has said he is “pissed off” with Putin and has spoken of imposing sanctions on countries that buy Russian oil if he feels Moscow is blocking a deal.

I guess Trump is the kind of guy who has to drive his car at 90 miles an hour into a brick wall before he’ll believe that’s risky behavior.

Before the weekend, Trump had taken a more conciliatory stance towards Russia that has unnerved the United States’ European allies as he tries to broker an end to the conflict in Ukraine, now in its fourth year.

But in recent days, and amid lobbying by Europeans such as Finland’s president urging him to hold Russia to account, he has adopted a tougher tone.

“Ohhhhhhh, now I get it,” said the large noisy fool. “You mean Russia has been the aggressor this whole time. Who knew?”

(Just kidding about the “aggressor” part. His vocabulary doesn’t stretch that far.)

Who knew people are required to endorse trans ideology when they don’t even know how to tie their shoelaces yet?

A toddler was suspended from nursery after being accused of being transphobic or homophobic, The Telegraph can reveal.

Department for Education (DfE) data show the child, aged either three or four, was suspended from a state school in the 2022-23 academic year for “abuse against sexual orientation and gender identity”.

Age three or four. Children that age don’t know what “sexual orientation” even is – they don’t know what “sexual” means. Nobody knows what “gender identity” is. And anyway since when are children, let alone very young children, being kicked out of school for ideological reasons?

I could see it in the case of intractable bullying of other children – boys bullying girls, white toddlers bullying brown toddlers, that kind of thing. But how could gender identity even come up? How would any toddler be motivated to bully another toddler because of “sexual orientation and gender identity”? How would any toddler know what either of those labels meant?

Maybe because they’ve watched too much BBC programming?

Helen Joyce, director of advocacy at Sex Matters, said: “Every once in a while, the extremes of gender ideology throw up a story that seems too crazy to believe, and a toddler being suspended from nursery for so-called ‘transphobia’ or homophobia is one such example.

“Worse still, this is not an isolated case. Apparently 13 four and five-year-olds were suspended or permanently excluded from school for the same reason. Teachers and school leaders involved in this insanity should be ashamed of themselves for projecting adult concepts and beliefs onto such young children.”

The teachers must be entrapping the toddlers. They must be teaching them the silly ideological vocabulary and then punishing them for using words the way toddlers do use words. “Poopyhead” becomes “tranny” or similar.

Welp, get them young. Maybe in a generation or two trans ideology will have replaced reality.

Large strides into the new hellscape.

Employees across the massive U.S. Health and Human Services Department began receiving notices of dismissal on Tuesday in an overhaul ultimately expected to lay off up to 10,000 people. The notices came just days after President Donald Trump moved to strip workers of their collective bargaining rights at HHS and other agencies throughout the government.

A twofer – union busting and making people sick.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a plan last week to remake the department, which, through its agencies, is responsible for tracking health trends and disease outbreaks, conducting and funding medical research, and monitoring the safety of food and medicine, as well as for administering health insurance programs for nearly half of the country.

Well who needs any of that, right? Who needs disease outbreaks tracked? Who needs medical research? Who needs safe food and medicine? Who needs health insurance in a privatized health system?

At the FDA, dozens of staffers who regulate drugs and tobacco products received notices, including the entire office responsible for drafting new regulations for electronic cigarettes and other tobacco products. The notices came as the FDA’s tobacco chief was removed from his position.

Regulation is bad. The market should be free to add nicotine to cookies and candy. Get the people hooked early: $$$.

At the CDC, most employees have not been unionized, but interest rose sharply this year as the Trump administration took steps to reduce the federal workforce. Roughly 2,000 CDC employees in Atlanta belonged to the American Federation of Government Employees local bargaining unit, with hundreds more who had petitioned to join in recent days being added.

But on Thursday night, Trump, a Republican, signed an executive order that would end collective bargaining for a large number of federal agencies, including the CDC and other health agencies.

Haha! Fuck you, federal workers: the big boss says you can’t have unions at all!

Via James Esses – A person-centred approach is antithetical to gender critical beliefs.

Approach to what? That’s just the title, and already we’re in the presence of mushy thinking. Also they mean the other way around – gender-critical beliefs are antithetical to their “person-centred” approach. Approach to what? Therapy. So naturally you have to wonder what other kind of therapy there is – therapy centered on chairs and buttons and spoons?

But, believe it or not, it gets steadily worse.

Recently, we were struck, on finding a register of ‘gender critical’ therapists, by the fact that some of those therapists list themselves as person-centred, and so we start this piece with this statement.

One cannot both be ‘gender critical’ and ‘person-centred’.

Like hell one cannot.

Unless of course by “person-centred” they mean something so twisted and arcane that it actually has nothing to do with therapy that focuses on the person getting the therapy, which the naive outsider might think means all therapy.

Person-centred: a non-directive approach that believes that fundamentally the client is the expert of themself.

Ah. But what if the client is too profoundly mentally ill to have a clear view of her/his self? What if the whole point of therapy is to get help from someone outside one’s self? In other words it sounds way too touchy-feely and pro-narcissism to be useful therapy. But I know nothing about it so I could be completely wrong about the type of therapy. These particular writers though – their intellectual shortcomings are hard to miss.

Gender is a construct. But so is sex. So is money. We work with constructs all of the time.

Oops! Sex is real! If it weren’t you wouldn’t be here!

I don’t think I would recommend these particular therapists.

Civil liberties.

Always with the framing. So. much. framing.

Top Republicans on Capitol Hill poured cold water on President Donald Trump‘s talk of a potential third term, downplaying the prospect that he would pursue it.

Several lawmakers insisted that Trump wasn’t serious about it, even though he told NBC News on Sunday that he’s “not joking” about wanting another term, which is barred under the 22nd Amendment, and that “there are methods” to being able to run again.

What makes them so confident that he doesn’t mean it? It’s not as if he doesn’t say shocking horrifying appalling things all the fucking time. Why should anyone assume he’s not serious about this one?

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said Monday when asked if he believes Trump, 78, can serve a third term: “Not without a change in the Constitution.” He added that Trump doesn’t appear serious about that.

“I think that you guys keep asking the question and I think he’s probably having some fun with it, probably messing with you,” Thune told reporters.

Oh hahahaheeheehee he’s so hilarious. It’s always a riot when a demonstrably lawless evil greedy monster makes yet another grotesque threat. I mean it’s not as if Trump tried to steal the last election by means of a violent insurrection. No no, he’s just a funny guy, that’s all; everybody kick back and enjoy the hilarity.

Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., a close Trump ally, said that the president is being “tongue in cheek” about a third term.

“He can say he’s not joking, but it’s tongue in cheek of the president,” Mullin told NBC News. “I’ve known him for a long time, and I consider him a friend.”

So you’re a moral monster, so we know to ignore anything you say.

Across the Capitol in the House, Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., dismissed the idea of Trump actively pursuing a third term, suggesting that Trump floats ideas and concepts not necessarily with the hope of achieving those goals but in an effort to get a discussion going on the topic.

“I don’t know what he was referring to. I never saw it,” Scalise said when asked about Trump’s comments. “But, you know, you see it like with Greenland, like with Panama Canal.”

Why yes, he’s made other grotesque lawless threats which he is currently working to bring to fruition, so that doesn’t tell us he’s “joking” about the third term (at which time he will be 82).

It turns out that giving the green light to corporate spending on elections does have consequences. Who could have known?

Fifteen years ago, Justice Anthony Kennedy made a prediction. Writing for the majority in Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission, in which the court struck down key guardrails against corporate spending in American elections, Kennedy rejected the allegation that the court’s ruling would have deleterious effects on how Americans perceived their republic.

“The appearance of influence or access, furthermore, will not cause the electorate to lose faith in our democracy,” he wrote. Kennedy’s reasoning was stilted and formulaic: Because corporations were “willing to spend money to try to persuade voters,” he argued, that dynamic “presupposes that the people have the ultimate influence over elected officials.”

Hmm. Because the money bags pay for our vote, we are flattered by their deference to our “ultimate” influence. That is some twisted reasoning right there.

The last two months have proven him disastrously incorrect. Elon Musk, a South African billionaire who is considered to be the world’s wealthiest man, spent $288 million to reelect President Donald Trump last year. In return for his contributions, he has been given more power over the federal government than any other private individual since the founding.

With that power, Musk and his henchmen have dismantled entire federal agencies and directed the dismissals of thousands of civil servants. He has gained access to private data on millions of Americans from the Social Security Administration, the IRS, and other bedrock components of the federal government. He has used the Treasury’s payment system to cut off funds to congressionally authorized programs and disfavored recipients of federal funds.

The entire federal government now seems to bend to one man’s personal interests. Trump personally took part in a private car show for Tesla, Musk’s ailing electric car company, on the White House lawn. Attorney General Pam Bondi recently announced that the Justice Department would treat vandalism of Tesla cars and dealerships as “domestic terrorism.” Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick told Fox News viewers this month that Tesla’s stock price slide was a historic buying opportunity and urged them to take part in it.

Corrupt enough yet? No? Seriously, you’re going with no?

The court’s liberal members, for their part, were unpersuaded by Kennedy’s reasoning. Justice John Paul Stevens, writing for the dissenters, criticized the conservative majority for its dangerous nonchalance toward the corrosive effects of corruption. “The majority declares by fiat that the appearance of undue influence by high-spending corporations ‘will not cause the electorate to lose faith in our democracy,’” he noted. “The electorate itself has consistently indicated otherwise, both in opinion polls and in the laws its representatives have passed, and our colleagues have no basis for elevating their own optimism into a tenet of constitutional law.”

It’s almost as if bribery works, you know?

When Trump says he’s considering it, BELIEVE HIM, no matter what the “it” is.

Donald Trump’s suggestion that there are “methods” by which he could run for a third term as US president has been met with scorn – but also warnings that he could seriously attempt it, despite being explicitly barred from doing so by the US constitution.

There it is right there, even in the very act of warning against it. It’s not a “suggestion”! Calling it a suggestion weakens it, which is exactly what we should not be doing, journalism very much included. He’s not fucking suggesting, he’s shouting as loudly as possible.

“The biggest mistake of the last eight years is that we somehow failed to give credibility to Donald Trump’s whims and impulses, but we know it’s true,” David Jolly, a former Republican member of Congress, told MSNBC.

“January 6 was a perfect example. If he says he’s not ruling it out, then he’s not ruling it out, and we should consider it a constitutional threat.”

The second-biggest mistake is that journalists and pundits and talking heads kept translating Trump’s shouting into “suggestions.”

On Sunday Trump was asked on NBC’s Meet the Press about if there were plans for him to stay on in a third term as president. “Well, there are plans,” Trump said. “There are – not plans. There are methods – there are methods which you could do it, as you know.”

No they don’t know, and neither does anyone else, because it’s not true. It’s a flagrant lie.

Democrats have attacked Trump for his rhetoric, claiming it follows a pattern of authoritarian posturing by the president.

Another tricksy word. His authoritarianism isn’t posturing, it’s much much much too real. And yet a third: “rhetoric” – it’s not just rhetoric: he means it.

The Let Criminals Run Everything party is fuming.

Elon Musk lambasted the French court verdict that blocked Marine Le Pen from a 2027 presidential run after she was found guilty of embezzlement.

“When the radical left can’t win via democratic vote, they abuse the legal system to jail their opponents,” Musk said on Monday afternoon. “This is their standard playbook throughout the world.”

Or to put it another way, some criminals are prosecuted. What a shock!

The White House has become increasingly critical of democracy in Europe, with Vice President JD Vance delivering a withering speech in Munich in February in which he attacked European governments for their approach to a series of hot-button cultural issues.

Le Pen and 24 other codefendants were accused of illicitly siphoning European Parliament funds to pay for party employees who seldom or never dealt with affairs in Brussels or Strasbourg. The court estimated that the accused had over 12 years embezzled more than €4 million, €474,000 of which Le Pen was held personally responsible for as an MEP. 

Not a trivial amount. Not like charging a few lunches to the government.

The European right-wing also united in outrage — from the Netherlands to Spain to Hungary to Italy — over the verdict, with British anti-migration champion Nigel Farage describing it as what “looks to me like a very trumped-up charge.”

Oh well if it looks that way to him that settles the matter.

Jaw-dropping. The Sussex University Vice Chancellor bleating about the right and indeed the need of universities to create respectful and inclusive communninies when that is exactly and precisely the very thing Sussex University entirely failed and indeed refused to do for Kathleen Stock and thus implicitly for all staff and students who are aware that humans can’t change sex.

The self-admiration of people like this is breathtaking.

Trump is breezily telling major news outlets that he plans to be dictator for life.

Trump did not rule out the possibility of seeking a third term in the White House, which is prohibited by the Constitution under the 22nd Amendment, saying in an exclusive interview with NBC News that there were methods for doing so and clarifying that he was “not joking.”

“A lot of people want me to do it,” Trump said in a Sunday-morning phone call with NBC News, referring to his allies. “But, I mean, I basically tell them we have a long way to go, you know, it’s very early in the administration.”

It’s not about “people want him to do it.” It’s about the law. He can’t do it. He’s officially constitutionally limited to two terms.

“I’m not joking,” Trump said, when asked to clarify. “But I’m not — it is far too early to think about it.”

No; it’s never the right time to think about it.

Amending the Constitution to abolish the two-term limit would be exceedingly difficult, requiring either a two-thirds vote of Congress or two-thirds of the states agreeing to call a constitutional convention to propose changes. Either route would then require ratification from three-quarters of the states.

Yeah that’s not happening.

Also by then he would be 82 and he would have used up the world supply of brown makeup.

The president pointed to his poll numbers, saying that “a lot of people would like me to” hold office for a third term.

His poll numbers don’t translate to people wanting him to serve an illegal third term.

Ok, classic. Absolutely classic.

Do you see it? The two paragraphs after “Mate I really don’t wanna get involved or argue” –

We are all “pro-women”. Birdy, you, me, all of us. All of our little festival family are. Of course we are. Great!

But when Birdy uses the word “woman”, she only means people who were born with biologically female genitalia. The vast majority of our festival family (including me) think that other types of women exist too, and that Birdy is denying their identity and rights.

The stupidity just overwhelms. The stupidity and the blank obstinate deranged absurdity of it. Imagine saying that about other familiar nouns – daffodil, brick, dog, airplane, house, lion, banana, moon, bicycle, garlic, rain, hat, fire, walnut. Imagine blathering away like that about a word that people have understood for centuries to mean “people who were born with biologically female genitalia” and then saying that we the cool ones think it means other things too and that’s why we can’t be friends with you any more.

What are these other types of women? Men who claim or pretend to be women remain men, because claiming and pretending doesn’t change anyone’s sex. What are the other types? He said types, plural, as if there were a whole bouquet of types of women. Well what’s in that bouquet?

The word “women” still means women, and it would be stupid to make it mean men who claim to be women too, because then we would need a new word for “women” and when we introduced such a word, goons like this would just steal it too.

Get your own god damn word for men who pretend to be women. If you don’t like “trans women” come up with something else. That would be good, in fact, because men are not any kind of women, so “trans women” just confuses people.

But don’t go around trying to force people to agree that there are lots of “types” of women who are not the kind of women who have female genitalia. It’s stupid, it’s a lie, it’s an insult. Stop it.

Musk expects everyone to sympathize with him because Tim Walz was not sad that Tesla’s stock fell.

Tesla’s stock price had fallen by half and “he was overjoyed.” Pause. “What an evil thing to do.”

Ah yes – evil. Evil is not Musk abruptly shutting down USAID with the result that thousands of people in poor countries were plunged into illness and misery, no no no, that’s not evil at all, what’s evil is to be pleased that the man who shut down USAID lost some of his billions.

His whine continues. “What a creep. What a jerk.”

Seriously, this shit is mind-boggling. He’s thrown thousands of civil servants out of useful jobs and here he is whining because an actual human being expresses dislike for him. Walz is the creep and jerk in this scenario??

Mind entirely boggled.

Not a bug but a feature.

Human rights organizations on Thursday denounced the visit by the US homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, to the notorious prison in El Salvador that is holding hundreds of Venezuelans deported from the US earlier this month without a hearing, calling her actions “political theater”.

Critics condemned Noem’s visit as just the latest example of the Trump administration’s aim to spread fear among immigrant communities, as the cabinet member stood in a baseball hat in front of a line of caged men bare from the waist up.

Noem visited the so-called Cecot, or Terrorism Confinement Center, an infamous maximum-security prison. The prison, built in 2022 during a brutal government crackdown on organized crime, is where nearly 300 migrants, previously in US custody, were recently expelled and are currently detained.

Trying to immigrate without permission is not organized crime and it’s not brutal crime either. Most white Americans, in fact, are Americans because their great-grandparents immigrated without permission. Nobody sent engraved invitations to Ireland and Italy and Poland, but people made the trip anyway. On the other hand America violently abducted thousands of people to “immigrate” here in a condition of enslavement. We don’t have the moral high ground on this issue.

Noem’s visit to the prison “was a typical gross and cruel display of political theater that we have come to expect from the Trump administration,” Vicki Gass said. Gass is the executive director of the Latin America Working Group (LAWG), a human rights organization based in Washington DC. “That the Trump administration is flouting judicial orders and denying due process to people within the US borders is outrageous and frightening.”

Earlier this month, Donald Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act, a wartime provision that allows the executive to detain and deport people coming from an “enemy” nation. Despite a federal judge blocking the invocation of the act, shortly after, planes from the US landed in El Salvador, filled with men and women in immigration custody. More than 250 men, mostly from Venezuela, were quickly and forcibly shuffled into the Cecot, where officials shaved their heads and placed them in cells.

Trump and his administration have repeatedly claimed that the men were members of transnational gangs. When invoking the Alien Enemies Act, Trump – without proof – accused the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua of having “infiltrated” the US at the behest of the Venezuelan government. US intelligence agencies contradict Trump’s claims about ties between the gang and the Venezuelan government, the New York Times has reported, and the Venezuelan government has also denied it is connected.

Well if the Venezuelan government did have such ties I don’t suppose it would say so, but one has to wonder why it would want a criminal gang to “infiltrate” the US in the first place. Step one, get criminals to infilatrate; step two…….uh……..

“I also want everybody to know, if you come to our country illegally, this is one of the consequences you can face,” Noem said in a video posted on X from the Cecot prison. “Know that this facility is one of the tools in our toolkit that we will use if you commit crimes against the American people.”

The use of another country’s vast, maximum-security prison to detain immigrants from a third country is unprecedented, especially considering the grave allegations of abuses at this and other Salvadorian prisons.

“Amnesty International has extensively documented the inhumane conditions within detentions centers in El Salvador, including the Cecot, where those removed are now being held,” the organization said in a statement on Wednesday. “Reports indicate extreme overcrowding, lack of access to adequate medical care, and widespread ill-treatment amounting to cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment.”

In other words the US is violating human rights on a massive scale. Right now.

When unions lose the plot:

The academics behind a gender-critical documentary have launched a discrimination claim against their own union after officials branded the film “transphobic” and campaigned against screenings at Edinburgh University.

Deirdre O’Neill, a lecturer at Hertfordshire University, and Michael Wayne, a professor at Brunel University, directed Adult Human Female, which they described as the “first UK documentary feature to look at the clash between women’s rights and trans ideology”.

It defines sex as being determined by biology and says women’s rights have been damaged by aspects of the trans movement.

Well it’s not that the film defines sex that way, it’s that that is the definition. A person’s sex is what it is, and playing Let’s Pretend can’t change that. Humans can’t change sex any more than they can change species.

The film-makers claim the University and College Union (UCU) treated them “detrimentally” to other members and non-members who hold opposing views on sex and gender.

Detrimentally compared to others, surely?

In 2023, screenings of the documentary at Edinburgh University caused a furore when pro-trans activists twice blocked access to the venue, forcing their cancellation.

Well…who or what really caused the furore? Was it really the screenings? Or was it the fatuous set of people who think we can change sex just as we change clothes.

The UCU opposed screenings of the film at Edinburgh University in December 2022, describing it as “hate speech”.

…

O’Neill said: “Although UCU claims to uphold academic freedom, it only upholds that freedom for those who agree with their views on gender identity, namely that a man can identify as a woman and thereby should be treated as a woman in law and policy.

“We respectfully disagree with that view and think it is bad news for women. But apparently, our film is ‘hateful’ for making that point.”

Trump identifies as a genius; is it hateful for sane people to point out that his intellect is not all that impressive?

After the second cancellation of the Edinburgh screening, the film-makers wrote to Jo Grady, UCU’s general secretary, requesting clarification on the union’s stance towards members who hold “gender-critical” beliefs.

Grady defended the Edinburgh branch’s right to block the screening.

Wayne said the film is “not hate speech nor punching down”.

“The only way that UCU can try and justify its stance, is to claim that our film is outside the boundaries of acceptable speech,” he said. “The problem is that for UCU, it is simply not possible to call into question the mantra that trans women are women.”

And that’s awkward, because universities and university unions should not be dealing in mantras.

Oh dear oh dear guess who is joining Bill Maher in making fun of The Leader.

John McWhorter??? But surely he’s on Team Trump with all the other best people, isn’t he?

Isn’t he?

Helen Webberly:

Said with extreme clarity and precision and nodding:

Ethnic cleansing, that’s what this is.

[Drama pause for everyone to gasp and flinch and send money]

Just like wartime, where you had to queue up and prove that you were pure enough to be able to live.

Except not like that at all. There are no extermination camps for trans people. There are no calls for extermination camps for trans people. There is simply the refusal to agree that people are whatever they say they are (in all circumstances no matter what) and the refusal to agree that sex is something anyone can swap out as easily as returning one library book and checking out a different one. There is simply profound anger at the contempt and hatred for women that so many trans activists share.

And now we have to queue up and have a test to see whether we’re female enough to take part in female sports.

Who is “we”? In other words no we don’t. The vast majority of us don’t have to do any such thing. Some athletes have to do that, that’s all, and the reason they have to do it is because of the cheating by men like “Lia” Thomas. It’s not life or death, it’s not Zyklon B, it’s not starvation and typhus, it’s just a cheek swab. Even the queue is not likely to be very long. Really not at all like ethnic cleansing.

The ridiculous stagey fervor with which she informs us of the ethnic cleansing is quite repellent. When you remember she’s doing it for the sake of wrecking women’s sports, it’s repellent squared.

Peak stupidity. Any stupider and the universe would blink out.

It’s also not about randomly “banning” Asian people from facilities; it’s about banning men from facilities where women are vulnerable. Men can hit harder than women can. Willoughby of course knows this perfectly well. Some men are dangerous to women, especially in private spaces.

Willoughby is dangerous to all women, because he hates us so much.

Bad Kennedy is converting the FDA to a center for quackery.

The Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine regulator was forced out of the agency Friday and sharply criticized Robert F. Kennedy Jr., his boss at the Department of Health and Human Services.

“It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies,” Dr. Peter Marks wrote in his letter of resignation, which was obtained by NPR.

Marks has long steered the FDA’s regulation of vaccines as director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research. He became especially well known during the first Trump administration for his work with Operation Warp Speed, which was credited with the fast development of COVID-19 vaccines.

Well there you go – vaccines. He should have said eat more oatmeal and wear a snakeskin around your left ankle.

In response to Mark’s resignation, an HHS official released a statement that if Marks “does not want to get behind restoring science to its golden standard and promoting radical transparency, then he has no place at FDA under the strong leadership of Secretary Kennedy.”

Wow. More poisonous every day.

“Undermining confidence in well-established vaccines that have met the high standards for quality, safety, and effectiveness that have been in place for decades at FDA is irresponsible, detrimental to public health, and a clear danger to our nation’s health, safety. and security,” Marks wrote in his resignation letter to Sara Brenner, acting commissioner of food and drugs.

The announcement was met with disappointment by other doctors.

“In forcing Peter Marks to resign, RFK Jr. is now the wolf guarding the hen house,” said Dr. Paul Offit, a vaccine expert at the University of Pennsylvania and long-time FDA advisor who directs the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Wolves guarding hen houses = what Trump and co are all about.

The project to alienate allies is flourishing.

Denmark on Saturday said it did not like the “tone” of US Vice President JD Vance‘s comments that Copenhagen had not done enough for Greenland during a visit to the strategically placed, resource-rich Danish territory coveted by US President Donald Trump. 

“We are open to criticisms, but let me be completely honest, we do not appreciate the tone in which it’s being delivered,” Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said on X.

Really? Denmark doesn’t like having some snot drop in uninvited to berate and threaten it? How eccentric and European.

“Our message to Denmark is very simple: You have not done a good job by the people of Greenland,” Vance told a press conference. “You have under-invested in the people of Greenland and you have under-invested in the security architecture of this incredible, beautiful landmass,” he added.

That’s how the trumpies see themselves? As investing in people? That’s funny, because the rest of us see them as using or bullying or harming us, or mostly all three.