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[ad_1] President Donald Trump’s most recent pick for the office of U.S. Surgeon General, Nicole Saphier, is a source of tension between the MAGA and MAHA factions of his supporters. Given that she’s the president’s third pick for the slot, the administration would undoubtedly just like to put disputes over this one office behind them. But there’s an easy path to a conflict-free resolution: The Trump administration could leave the Office of the Surgeon General unfilled and push for its abolition. You are reading The Rattler from J.D. Tuccille and Reason. Get more of J.D.’s commentary on government overreach and…

[ad_1] In one of the scariest moments in modern history, we’re doing our best at ScheerPost to pierce the fog of lies that conceal it but we need some help to pay our writers and staff. Please consider a tax-deductible donation. Kate Morrissey for Capital and Main Elenilson Armando Coto Delgado believed that he would be imminently deported to El Salvador when he had a medical emergency in late April while in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Coto Delgado feared that the Salvadoran government would send him to a notorious prison called Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, or CECOT, where…

[ad_1] Photo by Annabel Podevyn As Americans age, we deserve the peace of mind that we can find nursing care for our parents or ourselves when we need it. But for private equity firms, that need isn’t a mission to fulfill — it’s an opportunity to profit at our expense. As private equity takes over more nursing care, studies show higher mortality rates, reduced staffing, and increased costs as a result. But seniors are fighting back. I live in Lincoln County, Wisconsin. For generations, our public nursing home — Pine Crest — has served our seniors. “Pine Crest is there for us…

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[ad_1] The DNC’s decision to scrap the autopsy on the 2024 defeat to Donald Trump is a political gift to the former vice president as she gears up for 2028, writes Norman Solomon.  U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris at a primary rally in Orangeburg, South Carolina, Feb. 20, 2024. (Eric Elofson / Biden For President, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 ) By Norman SolomonCommon Dreams More than four months after Democratic National Committee chair Ken Martin announced that he was breaking his promise to release its autopsy report on the 2024 election, the decision remains highly controversial.  Arguments swirl around whether it’s wise…

[ad_1] In one of the scariest moments in modern history, we’re doing our best at ScheerPost to pierce the fog of lies that conceal it but we need some help to pay our writers and staff. Please consider a tax-deductible donation. By Jim Mamer A few days ago (5-9-26), ScheerPost ran an article titled Gavin Newsom, A Candidate Fit for Dystopia. The title seemed curious to me because it suggested that Newsom would be the perfect candidate for a society where life is very, very bad and where most people are fearful of a totalitarian government. Given our present…

[ad_1] Photograph Source: Gotfryd, Bernard, photographer – Public Domain “We won’t be signing off until the world ends,” Ted Turner said in 1980, just before the launch of his latest media venture. “We’ll be on, and we will cover the end of the world, live, and that will be our last event.” Turner died on May 6 at 87. The world hasn’t ended yet, nor has his project, Cable News Network, but the latter changed the former in a big way. If you’re too young to remember the pre-CNN era, trying to describe it feels like pulling a fish out…

[ad_1] In March, the U.S. Senate passed a bill full of tweaks to federal grant programs and regulations. Although nearly all of the bill’s provisions are aimed at increasing the housing supply, one would undermine that goal. That provision, inserted at the last minute, bans investors from owning more than 350 single-family rental homes. Investors could still acquire homes built as rentals, but they would have to be sold off within seven years. Because of these restrictions, the Senate bill, which otherwise could be expected to have a modest positive impact on the housing supply, probably would reduce yearly home…

[ad_1] In one of the scariest moments in modern history, we’re doing our best at ScheerPost to pierce the fog of lies that conceal it but we need some help to pay our writers and staff. Please consider a tax-deductible donation. Women Leaders and Trump 2.0 Karen J. Greenberg Tom Dispatch It’s been a tough couple of months for women officials in Washington — or, more accurately, in Trumpland. In early March (Women’s History Month, by the way), in a Truth Social post, the president fired Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, the second woman ever to hold that title.…

[ad_1] Air power alone is not going to secure Hormuz or remove the Iranian government. Their command-and-control structure is a decentralized mosaic governed by preapproved wartime protocols, with a backup plan for every leader, including three to seven predesignated successors. Air power could not even dislodge the much smaller and poorer Houthis from Yemen. If the US is serious about having any chance of winning the war it started, it would require a big ground invasion. Remember, during the Iran-Iraq War (1980–1988)—back when Saddam was a “good guy”—he threw more than 500,000 Iraqi soldiers at Iran, had the backing of…