cerebralcontext

Joseph Schwartz was convicted of healthcare fraud. His mom then donated $1 million to Trump. Then Trump pardoned him. Republicans don’t seem to care about fraud if it’s followed by bribes.

I JUST WANT TO REMIND EVERYONE THAT IRAN DID NOT HAVE ANY NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND THAT THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ WAS OPEN FOR BUSINESS BEFORE TRUMP STARTED THE EPSTEIN WAR 🤷

A Dept. of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica set new roadblocks to care for male veterans with breast cancer. The agency cited no new science, instead relying on an executive order about “restoring biological truth” in government: propub.li/4dfmMAk

With measles cases rising in the U.S., former U.S. surgeon general Dr. Jerome Adams says that “normally, we're able to control those outbreaks because of the CDC,” but “all of that has been cut.” And now, instead of one case turning into two or three and being stopped, it's turning into 20, and 50, and 100 cases. And we're also seeing falling vaccination rates, a broad group of states are falling below that 95% threshold for herd immunity for measles,” he says.

God he’s an embarrassment to this country and to his family name

A few moments ago, my phone rang. An unfamiliar number. I answered. “Is this Dr. Ezzideen?” “Yes,” I said. “Go ahead.” He spoke politely, almost carefully. “I got your number from someone. They told me you might be able to help me.” Then he paused.. and added: “Please don’t misunderstand me. I’m not asking for money. I just .. have a problem. And maybe you can help.” I told him to go on. He took a breath. “My daughter is six years old.” There was a weight in his voice even before he continued. “Two years ago, during the war, she was injured. Her face.. was badly burned. Her cheek .. most of it.” “She has had two reconstructive surgeries. Both of them failed.” For a moment, neither of us spoke. “She was four when it happened,” he said quietly. “Now she’s six.” “She has started to understand.” That sentence stayed with me. She has started to understand. He continued: “She is being bullied by other children.” “She feels ashamed when people look at her.” “Even on Eid .. she refused to go outside.” “She told us she is not as beautiful as the other children.” He stopped for a second, then added, his voice breaking: “She cries when she looks at herself in the mirror.” “She refuses to take pictures .. completely.” I could almost see her. A six-year-old girl, is standing in front of a mirror, trying to understand why her face is different. Trying to understand why the world looks at her differently. Trying to understand how something that happened before she even knew what war was .. has now become part of who she is. At six years old, she is already learning shame. Already learning to hide. Already learning that the world can be cruel to what it does not understand. The father said something I cannot forget: “I feel like I am watching my daughter’s life collapse in front of me.” He was not asking for sympathy. He was asking for a chance. “Anything,” he said. “Anything that could help her get a referral to leave.. maybe somewhere they can treat her.. maybe save her future before it’s taken from her.” War does not end when the bombs stop. Sometimes it continues.. in the face of a child who no longer recognises herself, in the silence of a girl who refuses to be seen, in the tears, she hides from everyone, except the mirror. She is six years old. And instead of dreaming about toys.. she is learning how to live with a face that the world has already judged. There is a kind of injustice that kills instantly. And there is a kind that stays.. and grows quietly inside a child. This is the second kind. Sometimes, what a child needs is not something extraordinary. Just a chance, to be seen without fear, to be treated, to grow up without carrying a wound that the world keeps reopening. And sometimes, that chance begins with someone choosing to care. #WoundedGaza

Dude just fucking STEALS $1.2 BILLION from tax payers and it’s barely news.

I find this very disturbing. Who in their right mind would send their teenage daughter to Mar a Lago? Fucking idiots!!

@EastEndJoe Trump loves little girls

He’s not trying to win anymore. He’s trying to make sure that if he burns, everything burns with him. Your children. Your water. Your vote. Your future. And we’re still arguing about whether we’re allowed to say that out loud.

New: Trump pardoned nursing home owner Joseph Schwartz just 3 months into his sentence for a $39 million fraud scheme. Meanwhile, families who won multimillion-dollar wrongful death suits against Schwartz haven’t collected a cent. propub.li/4di7xXs

In addition to everything else - his ignorance, his cruelty, his pathological dishonesty, his corruption, his narcissism, his lawlessness, his fear-mongering, his fascism, his cognitive decline, and his sociopathy - it’s almost certain the President of the United States, @realDonaldTrump, is a pedophile too. Well done America.

Claudia Goldin won the Nobel Prize in economics - as a treat, she took on volunteer role helping the WNBA players negotiate for the biggest pay increase a union has ever received - a nearly 400% raise. This is badass. wsj.com/economy/wnba-p…

Can we get this video of the #NoKings marches tweeted 1000 times?? Let’s show the world that America says NO to Trump!

What Nick Cannon said is exactly how misinformation spreads. Yes, the KKK was tied to Southern Democrats in the 1800s. That part is true. But leaving out what happened next changes the entire meaning. In the 1960s, after Lyndon B. Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the racists who supported segregation did not just disappear… They left the Democratic Party and shifted politically. That is a huge part of the story that keeps getting left out. AND THAT MATTERS. Because when we, especially Black voices with big platforms, repeat half stories, it does not just stay a conversation. It spreads and it can be used against us. We cannot afford to be loud and wrong at the same time, especially right now.

This interview is a uniquely valuable perspective. Please watch.

Tbh, the strangest thing about this whole mess is the fact that Iran has managed to close Hormuz AND continue to export oil, and the only substantive US response has been to relax sanctions on Iran, allowing it to make more money than it has in years.

I WANT TO THANK DONALD J. TRUMP FOR TAKING TIME OFF FROM FIGHTING WARS, DESTROYING THE ECONOMY, CONSTITUTION, FREEDOM, & LIVES - TO SHOW US PLANS FOR DESTROYING THE WHITE HOUSE. NO ONE IS BETTER AT MULTITASKING OUR DESTRUCTION THAN DONALD.

Rep. Thomas Massie says Trump called him on the House floor after he pushed to release the Epstein files. Trump told him three times: "I'm coming at you like you've never seen in your life." This video was deleted from twitter last week, you know what to do ‼️‼️ Retweet it widely 🙏🙏🙏🔥🔥🔥

Bad immigration economics assumes every extra person is one less seat. Good economics notices they also bring a seat, a side dish, and demand for the bloke selling drinks. ⁣ ⁣ The first story is fear; the second is how economies work.