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Sky DancingLazy Caturday Reads: Mostly Musk News <a href="https://skydancingblog.com/paul-kulsha2/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a>By Paul Kulsha Good Afternoon!!As usual, there is so much bad news out there that I don’t know where to begin. Everything is awful, but we have to go on with our lives amid the madness. Honestly, I think Trump is insane. His dementia is progressing. He is obsessed with punishing anyone in or out of the government who ever criticized him or offended him in any way. It’s really hard to believe this is happening in America. I have no idea what will happen next, but it does seem that his erratic behavior is beginning to get to some powerful people. It also looks like there is some trouble in paradise for Elon Musk. That will be the focus of most of this post.Anyway, I’m just going to share some stories that hit home with me today, and then try to have a normal weekend while I still can.Yesterday, we learned what led to the deaths of Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa.CNN: <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/08/us/gene-hackman-wife-death-investigation/index.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Gene Hackman’s wife was protective of his health for years. She died of hantavirus and days later, he was gone</a>.<blockquote>For years, actor Gene Hackman’s doting wife Betsy Arakawa would do whatever she could to help keep him healthy, whether it meant wearing a mask everywhere she went or encouraging him to stay fit by riding his bike or doing yoga on Zoom.In late February, the couple was found dead in their New Mexico home, a heartrending end to the life they shared. Arakawa, 65, died of hantavirus and days later, Hackman, 95, died of heart disease, the New Mexico medical investigator’s office revealed Friday.Authorities, working to lay out a timeline of what happened, said Hackman had Alzheimer’s disease and may have not realized he was alone in the days before he died.Clues as to what the couple’s life looked like before their tragic deaths could be gleaned from their last interactions with loved ones. Close and longtime friends of the couple say they seemed to be in good health at their most recent encounter.“Last time we saw them, they were alive and well,” Daniel Lenihan told CNN’s Erin Burnett last week. Barbara, Lenihan’s wife, said she had last seen Arakawa a few weeks ago at a home decor shop the two had opened together in Santa Fe….Using evidence gathered from their home, authorities pieced together what they now believe happened, answering many of the questions behind what began as a mystery.</blockquote>What probably happened:<blockquote>Arakawa’s last known interactions were on February 11. She had a short email exchange with her massage therapist that morning and later visited a Sprouts Farmers Market, CVS pharmacy and a dog food store before returning to her gated community at around 5:15 p.m., Santa Fe Sheriff Adan Mendoza said Friday. After that, there was no other known activity or outgoing communication from her, the sheriff said.“Numerous emails were unopened on her computer on February 11,” Mendoza said.Arakawa died from <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/07/health/hantavirus-pulmonary-syndrome/index.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">hantavirus pulmonary syndrome</a>, a rare disease that results from infection through contact with rodents, according to Dr. Heather Jarrell, chief medical examiner for the New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator. Pills found scattered on the bathroom floor near Arakawa’s body were prescription thyroid medication and not related to her death, Jarrell said. Zinna, one of the animal-loving couple’s dogs, was found dead in a crate in the bathroom near her body.“Based on the circumstances, it is reasonable to conclude that Ms. Arakawa passed away first,” Jarrell said.What Hackman’s days looked like after his wife of more than 30 years left his side has yet to be fully pieced together, but the end came in a matter of days.Hypertensive and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease took the acting legend’s life, likely on February 18 when his pacemaker last recorded his heartbeat, according to Jarrell. The device recorded Hackman was experiencing atrial fibrillation, an irregular heart rhythm.His body was discovered on the ground near the kitchen, with a walking cane and sunglasses next to him, on February 26.Authorities said he was “in a very poor state of health.” Hackman had “advanced” Alzheimer’s disease, which was “a significant contributory factor” in his death, and it was possible the actor was “not aware” his wife had died several days earlier, Jarrell said.</blockquote>Was Arakawa really his only caregiver? That must have been really difficult. Did these two have close family members? If that was my Dad, I would have been checking in every day. I don’t understand how it took so long for the bodies to be discovered. <a href="https://skydancingblog.com/daydreams-by-laura-seeley/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a>Daydreams, by Laura Seeley The Washington Post: <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/03/08/hantavirus-gene-hackman-wife-death-arakawa/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Hantavirus killed Gene Hackman’s wife, Betsy Arakawa. What is it?</a> <blockquote>Betsy Arakawa, pianist and wife of actor Gene Hackman, died of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, New Mexico chief medical examiner Heather Jarrell <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CYd8MVG6hc" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">said</a> Friday at a news conference.Arakawa, 65, and Hackman, 95, were found dead in their Santa Fe home last month.</blockquote> <blockquote>Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome is a rare illness spread by rodents that was first detected in humans in the United States about three decades ago. Here’s what to know….Hantaviruses can develop into hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, a lung disease that kills about 38 percent of people who develop respiratory symptoms, <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/hantavirus/about/index.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">according</a> to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Symptoms typically start to show between one and eight weeks after first contact with the virus. The disease presents with flu-like symptoms, such as fever, muscle aches and a cough, Jarrell said. About half of patients experience headaches, dizziness, chills and abdominal problems such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and stomach pain, according to the CDC. As the disease progresses, it attacks capillaries in the lungs and can cause them to leak, damaging lung tissue, causing fluid buildup and severely affecting heart and lung function, <a href="https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/hantavirus-pulmonary-syndrome/symptoms-causes/syc-20351838" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">according</a> to the Mayo Clinic. Symptoms of this stage of the illness can include difficulty breathing and an irregular heart rate.There is no specific treatment. Breathing support, including intubation, may help some patients…. Hantavirus disease is rare. There were <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/hantavirus/data-research/cases/index.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">864</a> reported cases in the United States between 1993, when the CDC began tracking the illness, and 2022, the last available CDC data. The states with the highest number of cases during that time were New Mexico (122), Colorado (119), Arizona (86) and California (78). The vast majority of cases originate west of the Mississippi River, <a href="https://www.lung.org/lung-health-diseases/lung-disease-lookup/hantavirus-pulmonary-syndrome/learn-about-hantavirus-pulmonary-syndrome-hps" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">according</a> to the American Lung Association. In New Mexico, authorities have documented between one and seven cases in humans annually in recent years, state public health veterinarian Erin Phipps said Friday. </blockquote> The disease is transmitted through rodent droppings, urine, or saliva. This whole episode is so sad. It kind of reminded me of <a href="https://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/11/17/Oscar-winning-actor-William-Holden-was-killed-in-a-drunken/5053176822304/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">what happened to William Holden</a>–not that the deaths are similar, but Holden was a famous person who died alone in his home and wasn’t found for some time. He was very drunk and fell and hit his head on a table. His body was found by his building superintendent several days after his death. He was only 63.Where is the famous Swedish Ivy?Dakinikat shared this crazy Trump story from Mother Jones: <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/the-countrys-most-famous-houseplant-is-missing-what-did-trump-do-with-it/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Country’s Most Famous Houseplant Is Missing. What Did Trump Do With It?</a><blockquote>After the Washington Post ran a front-page photo of President Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu sitting in front of the Oval Office fireplace on February 4, careful reader Thomas M. Sneeringer fired off a letter to the editor. “It appears the fireplace mantel in the Oval Office has been subjected to President Donald Trump’s Midas touch,” <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/02/21/rent-seeking-anthony-mackie-spaz-harry-stewart/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">he wrote</a>. Sneeringer observed that the spray of Swedish ivy that has adorned the mantle for more than half a century had vanished, replaced by what he speculated might be… golf trophies? <a href="https://skydancingblog.com/ellen-haasen-scandinavian-cat/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a>By Ellen Haasen “I was instantly offended and instantly understood how it happened,” Sneeringer told me in an interview. “It was just so consistent about what we know about Trump’s taste.”He knew that the missing ivy was no ordinary plant. Irish ambassador Thomas J. Kiernan had given it to President John F. Kennedy as a gift in 1961, and ever sinceit has been a consistent backdrop to some of the most famous White House meetings. Back in 1984, during the Reagan administration, Kurt Anderson wrote a tribute to “The Plant” in <a href="https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,950221-1,00.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Time magazine</a>:“The Oval Office may be the headiest place in America. When the President, sitting in his desk chair at the southern tip of the Oval, stares dead ahead to the far wall, he sees The Plant. Anywhere else it would be a robust but unremarkable Swedish ivy. But there on the marble mantelpiece, day after consequential day, it basks in the power and the glory. No matter who has been inaugurated since 1961, The Plant has always stayed…The Swedish ivy, given its potential for leaks, is an Administration team player first and last.”The hardy plant’s scalloped green leaves are center stage in photos of Ronald Reagan meeting Gorbachev, George H.W. Bush schmoozing with Bruce Willis and Nelson Mandela, and Jimmy Carter conferring with Yitzhak Rabin or having lunch with his wife Rosalynn. Nelson Shanks painted Bill Clinton leaning next to the ivy in his <a href="https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.2006.1" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">official presidential portrait.</a>The plant survived Trump’s first term, and it was even there to bear witness to that awkward meeting between Trump and Joe Biden after the 2024 election.But no more.So where is it now? The White House did not respond to several inquiries about the plant’s whereabouts or the gold statues that replaced it.Like so many things that Trump and his DOGE team are heedlessly destroying, the Oval Office ivy has a constituency that may not be immediately obvious to those wielding the chainsaws. With its own <a href="https://www.instagram.com/ovalofficeivy/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Instagram account</a> and generations of progeny that even Elon Musk can’t rival, the humble houseplant enjoys a cult following.</blockquote>I hope he didn’t just throw the plant in the trash. Trump really does destroy everything he touches.Could Trump be tiring of Elon Musk pretending to be president?Yesterday The New York Times published one of those White House insider stories by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/us/politics/trump-musk-doge-power.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Inside the Explosive Meeting Where Trump Officials Clashed With Elon Musk.</a><blockquote>Marco Rubio was incensed. Here he was in the Cabinet Room of the White House, the secretary of state, seated beside the president and listening to a litany of attacks from the richest man in the world.Seated diagonally opposite, across the elliptical mahogany table, Elon Musk was letting Mr. Rubio have it, accusing him of failing to slash his staff.You have fired “nobody,” Mr. Musk told Mr. Rubio, then scornfully added that perhaps the only person he had fired was a staff member from Mr. Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.Mr. Rubio had been privately furious with Mr. Musk for weeks, ever since his team effectively shuttered an entire agency that was supposedly under Mr. Rubio’s control: the United States Agency for International Development. But, in the extraordinary cabinet meeting on Thursday in front of President Trump and around 20 others — details of which have not been reported before — Mr. Rubio got his grievances off his chest. Mr. Musk was not being truthful, Mr. Rubio said. What about the more than 1,500 State Department officials who took early retirement in buyouts? Didn’t they count as layoffs? He asked, sarcastically, whether Mr. Musk wanted him to rehire all those people just so he could make a show of firing them again. Then he laid out his detailed plans for reorganizing the State Department.Mr. Musk was unimpressed. He told Mr. Rubio he was “good on TV,” with the clear subtext being that he was not good for much else. Throughout all of this, the president sat back in his chair, arms folded, as if he were watching a tennis match.After the argument dragged on for an uncomfortable time, Mr. Trump finally intervened to defend Mr. Rubio as doing a “great job.” Mr. Rubio has a lot to deal with, the president said. He is very busy, he is always traveling and on TV, and he has an agency to run. So everyone just needs to work together.The meeting was a potential turning point after the frenetic first weeks of Mr. Trump’s second term. It yielded the first significant indication that Mr. Trump was willing to put some limits on Mr. Musk, whose efforts have become the subject of several lawsuits and prompted concerns from Republican lawmakers, some of whom have complained directly to the president. </blockquote> A bit more:<blockquote>In a post on social media after the meeting, Mr. Trump said the next phase of his plan to cut the federal work force would be conducted with a “scalpel” rather than a “hatchet” — a clear reference to Mr. Musk’s scorched-earth approach.Mr. Musk, who wore a suit and tie to Thursday’s meeting instead of his usual T-shirt after Mr. Trump publicly ribbed him about his sloppy appearance, defended himself by saying that he had three companies with a market cap of tens of billions of dollars, and that his results spoke for themselvesBut he was soon clashing with members of the cabinet.Just moments before the blowup with Mr. Rubio, Mr. Musk and the transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, went back and forth about the state of the Federal Aviation Administration’s equipment for tracking airplanes and what kind of fix was needed. Howard Lutnick, the commerce secretary, jumped in to support Mr. Musk.Mr. Duffy said the young staff of Mr. Musk’s team was trying to lay off air traffic controllers. What am I supposed to do? Mr. Duffy said. I have multiple plane crashes to deal with now, and your people want me to fire air traffic controllers?</blockquote> Jess Bidgood wrote a follow-up to the Haberman/Swan story, also at The New York Times:<blockquote>Yesterday, President Trump did something he’s seemingly been loath to do in the first seven weeks of his new administration: He reined in Elon Musk.My colleagues Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman have the details of the extraordinary cabinet meeting where everything unfolded, and you’re going to want to <a class="" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/us/politics/trump-musk-doge-power.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">read every word</a>….What was clear was that some of the nation’s cabinet secretaries had hit their breaking point with Musk’s efforts to steamroll the federal government. And while Trump said he still supported Musk’s mission, he gave his secretaries something they wanted. As Jonathan and Maggie wrote:“From now on, he said, the secretaries would be in charge; the Musk team would only advise.”The encounter stood as the first indication that Trump is willing to put some limits on the billionaire, even if those limits would do little more than bring the realities of Musk’s wide-ranging role more in line with how the administration’s lawyers have <a class="" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/us/politics/judge-musk-doge.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">described it in court</a>. <a href="https://skydancingblog.com/2025/03/08/lazy-caturday-reads-mostly-musk-news/johncielukowski-fat-cat-electric/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a>John Cielukowski, Fat Cat Electric But the limits, if they hold, could raise bigger questions about the role Musk will play in the government going forward — especially if his history in the business world is any guide.<a class="" href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/ryan-mac" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ryan Mac</a>, a colleague of mine who covers big tech, has reported on Musk for a long time. Today, I asked him if Musk had ever been content with an adviser-style role, one in which he doesn’t run the show.Ryan’s answer was simple: No.Musk has never liked being one voice among many, Ryan explained. Vivek Ramaswamy, who was initially going to be Musk’s partner in leading the Department of Government Efficiency, is long gone. Musk doesn’t sit on a lot of boards. And throughout his corporate history, whenever he hasn’t initially had control over a company, he’s tended to seek it.At Tesla, where he was an early investor, he became the chief executive. Before he bought Twitter and renamed it X, he almost joined the company’s board. Then he decided to acquire the company outright, fire its board of directors and executives and become the chief executive. (He later named a new C.E.O. but retains considerable control over the company.)Not all of Musk’s bids for control have worked. Decades ago, for example, he was forced out as the chief executive of PayPal. His effort to get control of OpenAI — a nonprofit he co-founded in 2015 — failed, as did his <a class="" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/technology/openai-elon-musk.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">more recent bid</a> to buy it.Musk, it seems, prefers to be the bride, not the bridesmaid. The question now is whether he’ll stick to Trump’s directive that he simply advise — and whether he’ll be content if he does.</blockquote>Read more at the NYT.Jonathan Lemire at The Atlantic: <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-musk-power-restraints/681974/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Is DOGE Losing Steam? The Department of Government Efficiency lives. But Donald Trump is reining in Elon Musk.</a><blockquote>President Donald Trump’s shift on the Department of Government Efficiency began with a warning from an unlikely source.Jesse Watters, a co-host of the Fox News hit show The Five, is usually a slick deliverer of MAGA talking points. But on February 19, Watters told a surprisingly emotional story about a friend working at the Pentagon who was poised to lose his job as part of the Trump administration’s sweeping cuts to the federal workforce. “I finally found one person I knew who got DOGE’d, and it hit me in the heart,” said Watters, who urged his Fox colleagues to “be a little bit less callous.”Although Watters soon resumed championing DOGE, the moment went viral. Trump watched the clip and asked advisers if it was resonating with his base of supporters, according to one of three White House officials I spoke with for this story (they requested anonymity so they could discuss private conversations).Over the ensuing weeks, the president grew unhappy with the television coverage of cuts affecting his voters, according to two of those officials, while the White House fielded calls from Cabinet members and Republican lawmakers frustrated by Elon Musk, the billionaire tech mogul empowered to slash the federal government. Some of Trump’s top advisers became worried about the political fallout from DOGE’s sweeping cuts, especially after seeing scenes of angry constituents yelling at GOP members of Congress in town halls.All of this culminated in Trump taking his first steps to rein in Musk’s powers yesterday. The president called a closed-door meeting with Cabinet members and Musk, one that devolved into sharp exchanges between the DOGE head and several agency leaders. Afterward, Trump declared that his Cabinet would now “go first” in deciding whom in their departments to keep or fire.DOGE lives. Trump has made clear that Musk still wields significant authority. And those close to Trump say that the president is still enamored with the idea of employing the world’s richest man, and still largely approves of the work that DOGE is doing to gut the federal bureaucracy. Some in the White House also believe that clarifying Musk’s purview might help the administration in a series of lawsuits alleging that Musk is illegally empowered.But Trump’s first public effort to put a leash on Musk appears to mark the end of DOGE’s opening chapter, and a potential early turning point in Trump’s new administration.</blockquote> Maybe.Politico: <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/07/musk-trump-federal-workers-firing-00218733" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">‘I don’t trust a word of it’: Federal workers deeply skeptical that Trump will rein in Musk.</a><blockquote>Federal workers, Democrats and even some Republican lawmakers want to believe that President Donald Trump clipped billionaire adviser Elon Musk’s wings Thursday.But many of them aren’t counting on it. <a href="https://skydancingblog.com/martin-leman/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a>Roller skating cat, by Martin Leman After Trump <a class="" href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/06/trump-cabinet-musk-025093" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">privately told his Cabinet</a> that they are in charge of their departments and Musk does not have the authority to fire government workers — a stunning shift in their alliance should it pan out — rank-and-file federal employees said they were skeptical in light of weeks of confusing and contradictory guidance. None of the more than a dozen federal workers POLITICO spoke to reported being told by their supervisors or labor unions that anything had changed directly due to Trump’s Cabinet meeting and subsequent comments.“I don’t really expect them to necessarily start implementing what they say they will,” said David Casserly, an employee at the Department of Labor who said he was speaking in a personal capacity. “I’ll believe it when I see it.”The news of Thursday’s Cabinet meeting set off rampant speculation within the federal workforce about the true intent of Trump’s comments, which come amid growing legal and political scrutiny. A pair of lawsuits argue that the empowerment of Musk within the Trump administration is so far-reaching that, barring confirmation from the Senate, it exceeds constitutional limits. A U.S. Department of Agriculture worker chalked up Trump’s comments to “damage control” after the president said in his joint address to Congress Tuesday that Musk is the “head” of the Department of Government Efficiency. That could prove to be a legal liability after Trump’s White House previously argued in court that Musk was not the leader of DOGE <a class="" href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/17/doge-administrator-elon-musk-00204639" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">and had no authority</a> to make distinct policy decisions himself.Musk’s popularity is also sinking in polls, and Republicans in Congress have faced angry constituents at town halls who have complained about DOGE’s slash-and-burn approach to cutting the bureaucracy.“It’s total bullshit. I don’t know what else to say,” quipped a second Labor Department employee. “I don’t trust a word of it,” said a third federal worker, who described it as Trump “attempting to insulate himself a bit from the court losses and the shift in public opinion, but I don’t think it will change anything.” </blockquote> We can only hope.That’s all I have for you today. I’m going to try to take my mind off all the horror stories for the rest of the day. <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://skydancingblog.com/tag/betsy-arakawa/" target="_blank">#BetsyArakawa</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://skydancingblog.com/tag/doge/" target="_blank">#Doge</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://skydancingblog.com/tag/gene-hackman/" target="_blank">#GeneHackman</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://skydancingblog.com/tag/hantavirus/" target="_blank">#hantavirus</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://skydancingblog.com/tag/oval-office-swedish-ivy/" target="_blank">#OvalOfficeSwedishIvy</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://skydancingblog.com/tag/trump-cabinet-meeting/" target="_blank">#TrumpCabinetMeeting</a>

Nonilex<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpCabinetMeeting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TrumpCabinetMeeting</a> notes 🧵<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> announced that President Volodymyr <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Zelensky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Zelensky</a> of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ukraine</a> will visit on Friday to seal a deal granting the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UnitedStates</a> rights to Ukraine’s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/mineral" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mineral</a> resources.Trump repeated <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#disinformation</a> about how much the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#US</a> & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Europe</a> have contributed to Ukraine’s defense against Russia’s invasion since 202/, claiming inaccurately that the US has invested 3X as much as Europe. Per the Kiel Inst, Europe has allocated $138B to the war effort, the US has given $119B.

NonilexDuring questioning after <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a>’s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/cabinet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cabinet</a> meeting, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Health</a> Secy <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RFKJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RFKJr</a>, a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/vaccine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vaccine</a> critic, said the government was closely watching the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/measles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#measles</a> outbreak across <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Texas</a>. He said measles outbreaks occur every year.[not at this scale & rate in the US, not before the outbreak of the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ConspiracyTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ConspiracyTheory</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#propaganda</a> from idiots like Kennedy]<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FactCheck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FactCheck</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TrumpLies</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AntiVaxxers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AntiVaxxers</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PublicHealth</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#medicine</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/disease" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#disease</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GetVaccinated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GetVaccinated</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/vaccines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vaccines</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USpol</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HHS</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/idiocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#idiocracy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpCabinetMeeting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TrumpCabinetMeeting</a> 🧵

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