former Point of Inquiry / For Good Reason host, scientific skeptic, aspiring humanist in both senses. RTs are not necessarily endorsements.
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13 Oct 2024
An old Bible college pal recently challenged me to explain how life can have any meaning whatsoever if God does not exist. This is my answer. (And nope, I did not give her a link to an old YouTube video of me talking, but it’s the same answer essentially) youtu.be/dAKa4Cxxzq4?si=YGQQ…
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The MOU is all carrots, no sticks. And the administration lied all week claiming the leaked versions weren’t the actual deal because they knew it was so terrible. Trump’s only choice is to blame Vance, which he’ll happily do.
Ben Shapiro called it a “disaster.” Bill Cassidy called it “the worst foreign policy blunder in decades.”
The agreement includes sanctions relief, oil export waivers, the release of frozen assets, and a $300 billion reconstruction commitment, while many of the administration’s original objectives remain unresolved or discarded. It’s bad!
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BLUMENTHAL: Was the Capitol attacked on January 6?
BERTHIAUME: Uh. We had activity outside the Capitol, protests and such
BLUMENTHAL: Was the Capitol attacked? You're supposed to be the inspector general
BERTHIAUME: There was protest activity
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So the MOU was exactly what everyone said it was. And it’s a disaster for us.
BREAKING: The US has released the full text of its 14-point "Memorandum of Understanding" with Iran.
Key terms include:
1. The US, Iran, and their allies agree to immediately and permanently end military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon
2. The US and Iran agree to respect each other's sovereignty and territorial integrity and not interfere in each other's internal affairs
3. The US and Iran commit to negotiating and reaching a final deal within 60 days, unless mutually extended
4. The US will begin removing its naval blockade immediately and fully end the blockade within 30 days
5. Iran will use its best efforts to ensure safe passage for commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz for 60 days with no charge
6. The US and regional partners will develop a mutually agreed plan of at least $300 billion for Iran's reconstruction and economic development
7. The US will work toward terminating all types of sanctions against Iran, including UN, IAEA, primary, and secondary sanctions
8. Iran reaffirms that it will not procure or develop nuclear weapons and agrees to address its enriched material stockpile under IAEA supervision
9. Until a final deal is reached, Iran will maintain the current status quo of its nuclear program, while the US will impose no new sanctions and deploy no additional forces
10. The US Treasury will issue waivers for Iranian crude oil, petroleum products, derivatives, and associated banking, insurance, and transportation services
11. The US will make frozen or restricted Iranian funds and assets fully available for use
12. The US and Iran will establish an executive mechanism to monitor implementation of the MOU and future compliance with the final deal
13. After signing the MOU and implementing key ceasefire, blockade, shipping, oil waiver, and asset-release provisions, the US and Iran will begin final deal negotiations
14. The final deal will be endorsed by a binding UN Security Council resolution
The memorandum will trigger a 60-day window to negotiate a final deal.
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D.J. Grothe retweeted
This agreement is far worse than I expected. To reopen the strait— a strait that was open before the war— we and our partners are transferring billions to the autocrats. We get nothing else— no elimination of enriched uranium, missiles, or terrorist support. And to add one final gift, we agree to not help the Iranian people pursue their democratic aspirations. Just incredible.
The full text of the Agreement between the United States and Iran to end the war:
nytimes.com/2026/06/17/us/po…
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D.J. Grothe retweeted
People here claim I advised U.S. generals poorly. (I never advised them at all.) But never in my career in national defense did the United States ever lose a war to one of our worst enemies in just four months and then completely capitulate on every major issue.
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D.J. Grothe retweeted
Jun 17
Super weird, and potentially wonderful.
We now have several natural experiments suggesting that the shingles vaccine significantly reduces dementia risk, or delays dementia risk, potentially by suppressing reactivation of the underlying virus, which can linger in nerve tissue and cause brain damage
Jun 16
Here's a summary of the 4 natural experiments which all report ~20% reduction of dementia
erictopol.substack.com/p/spo…
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D.J. Grothe retweeted
Jun 17
This is so bent. Democrats fought for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, labor laws, anti-pollution laws, voting rights, food-safety standards, equal pay—all to make this a better country and all over GOP opposition. Show some frickin' gratitude for that.
Vance: It doesn’t both me that Democrats disagree with our policies. It bothers me that they are just terrible people, so many of them. But what really does bother me is that they don't show gratitude for the United States. If you don't feel grateful to live here, what are you even doing being in public service. Too many Democrats don't show appreciation for the country
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SLOTKIN: Do you believe mail voting is safe and secure?
GALLO: Uh. That's a very good question. I would say, it's not -- under the proper guidance and monitoring, yes
SLOTKIN: Trump won my state in 2024 and there was a ton of mail voting. Was that voting for President Trump safe and secure?
GALLO: It was safe and secure
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Remember that nearly half of Trump voters sincerely believed that Hillary Clinton r*ped and cannibalized children in the back of a pizzeria in Satanic rituals so that she could achieve immortality. These are the same people Trump duped into believing Obama was born in Kenya and therefore constitutionally ineligible to be president, and that Trump actually won the 2020 presidential election, and that Dominion voting machines changed the vote tallies to fraudulently allow Biden to steal the election (a conspiracy theory Fox News paid a $1 Billion settlement for spreading). These are the same people who believe trans women are out to get our wives and daughters, that immigrants are eating our cats and dogs, and that Michelle Obama is a man. You can’t really identify with these people. It’s more than a culture shock that separates us from them. They are cognitive aliens.
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Jun 16
Obama unfroze $1.7 billion in Iranian assets. Trump is unfreezing $24 billion. Obama did not give Iran a penny of American money. Trump, lying again. And you can bet that they will extract something from Iran because for the Trump crime family, it’s always about the grift.
Jun 16
"I have the right to, if we want."
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Jun 16
Wow! Raskin just sent Kash Patel this letter. It’s umm… interesting. Read it twice. 👀
The House Judiciary minority says Patel has handed out more than $1 million in “bonus” payments to agents on his Director’s Advisory Team and his security detail. The letter calls it a personal slush fund.
Here’s the mechanism. Federal pay is capped by statute. The letter alleges Patel routed money around that cap. Nearly $8,000 per agent, every two-week pay period. Some collected five in a row. Roughly $40,000 each.
Then the accounts ran dry. Raskin says some of the payments bounced.
Who got paid? The letter points to the unit NOTUS reported as the “Payback Squad.” And it ties the cash to silence, alleging agents were polygraphed over whether they helped cover up Patel’s drinking.
Now the other column. The agents he fired include an FBI Medal of Valor recipient, the official who led the Jan 6 law enforcement response, a Marine combat veteran cut weeks after his wife died of cancer, and a counterintelligence unit that tracked Iranian threats.
Reward the loyal. Purge the rest.
Raskin wants every bonus, every authorization, and every legal memo on whether this broke federal law. Deadline June 29.
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You voted for it
Jun 16
If this is true, Iran wins. There should be zero sanctions relief day one.
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Jun 16
Markwayne Mullin had the FDA delete warnings about the dangers of kratom, an addictive and sometimes lethal drug found in gas stations.
Mullin holds an up to $1 million stake in a major kratom company.
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Jun 16
NEWSNATION: The Heritage Foundation has dug into this and they found a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent of fraudulent voters over nearly 40 years of elections. Doesn't that tell you our elections are secure?
SEN. MARSHA BLACKBURN: I have not looked at the Heritage Foundation data
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Jun 16
BREAKING: US officials have now confirmed in a briefing that Iran will get full access to a total of $100 billion in frozen funds and the $300 billion reconstruction fund, both included in the deal with implementation now underway, per WSJ.
More than $150 billion of the fund has already been committed, directly contradicting Trump's claims that the US would not contribute to the $300 billion fund, per Reuters.
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Jun 16
Y’all, not to be a huge nerd but for the reflecting pool you would need a minimum of about 8,000 liters of 12% hydrogen peroxide to reach the 50 parts per million concentration to kill algae…
Is this what happens when you have 0 scientists in your administration?
Jun 16
They're literally dumping hydrogen peroxide into the reflecting pool this morning... 😳
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Jun 16
My cautionary posts about SpaceX/Semiconductors seem to have struck a nerve.
Receiving many enraged/offensive e-mails.
Last time I saw this was in 2021 when I was warning about the meme stock/SPAC/ARKK manias.
History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes.
Jun 16
Insanity: with a market cap of $2.96 trillion, SpaceX just passed Microsoft to become the 4th largest company in the world.
Microsoft Sales: $318 billion
Microsoft Net Income: $125 billion
SpaceX Sales: $19 billion
SpaceX Net Income: -$9 billion
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Jun 15
The reflecting pool is now green, the color of all the money wasted on it. Painting the bottom has apparently heated the water and accelerated algae growth. Pure Genius.
people.com/reflecting-pool-g…
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Jun 15
Eric Trump has since deleted this post, which confirms it was clearly not fabricated.
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Jun 16
SpaceX's market cap crossed above $3 trillion today in after hours trading.
That's higher than the market cap of Amazon ($2.65 trillion) & Microsoft ($2.97 trillion).
Microsoft Sales: $318 billion
Microsoft Net Income: $125 billion
Amazon Sales: $743 billion
Amazon Net Income: $91 billion
SpaceX Sales: $19 billion
SpaceX Net Income: -$9 billion
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