Burningbird
Trust. Once won, not easily lost. But once lost, forever gone. In his first month in office, Trump’s greatest harm has been to trust. Our allies are no longer our allies, but our enemies, and trust between us has been shattered. We supported Ukraine…until we didn’t, and somehow Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is the fault […]
Winning. “This will decimate our ability to function as an institution,” says one senior NIH scientist who had to notify staff that HHS was firing them. “Whatever the opposite of government efficiency is, this process will take us there.” ‘Wrecking ball’: RFK Jr. moves to fire thousands of health agency employees “The actions taken against […]
Both Joe Rogan and Donald Trump call Musk a genius. In fact, they call him a ‘super genius’. Except that Musk is no such thing. As Bill Clayton wrote in November of 2023 Musk’s strength is having the enormous wealth to breathe life into existing ideas by hiring experts who do have the expertise to achieve his […]
We’ve been through two major weather events in the last few months in Savannah: Debby and now Helene. Our home didn’t flood during Debbie, and didn’t lose power in either system since our subdivision has buried lines. We did have several hours of power cycling and had to turn major appliances off at the breaker […]
A whole lot changed since my last defense of President Biden. Last week he decided to step down from his re-election attempt and put all his support behind his VP, Kamala Harris. Democrats came together behind Kamala Harris in enthusiastic numbers I haven’t seen in a long, long time. Within two days, she had enough […]