Robert Link

@phaedral
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"Robert is an attorney. Prior to entering law he worked as a personal
development seminar trainer, and was lead trainer and course designer
for Neuro-Linguistic Programming practitioner and master-practitioner
level certification courses. Material from before his legal career can
be found at http://semanticrestructuring.com
RFK Jr faces calls to quit as CDC chief fired and senior staff resign: ‘an embarrassment’

Susan Monarez’s ousting and four top resignations follow vaccine confusion, leaving US health agencies in turmoil

The Guardian
Inside the C.D.C., a Growing Sense of Despair

After six months of turmoil, the loss of the new director and a round of high-profile resignations marks a new low, some employees said.

The New York Times
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/cdc-turmoil-monarez-senior-officials-1.7620484
The courageous resistance shown by these CDC officials is what we should expect from scientists generally. My greatest respect to them.
#CDC #ScientificIntegrity #Disinformation #Fascism #USPol #RFKJr #Trump
Chaos swirls at U.S. CDC amid messy Trump admin effort to oust director | CBC News

The top U.S. public health agency was left reeling and leaderless as the White House works to expel its handpicked director from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and three senior officials were escorted from its headquarters on Thursday.

CBC
@phaedral @muckrack The big money goes to those Third Way assholes, too :-(
If you are building a product with a feature that had previously been scrapped because of "ethical concerns" and the company has suddenly decided to just shrug and do it anyway, you are building the Torment Nexus and you should fucking stop.

Killed #J6 Roiter #AshliBabbitt Will Receive Military Funeral Honors

The Babbitt family also received a settlement of $5 million earlier this year.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ashli-babbitt-jan-6-military-honors_n_68b0662de4b0d635adb435d9

#OMFnG #Traitor #Tump2.0 #BlackMastodon

Jan. 6 Rioter Killed As She Stormed Capitol Will Receive Military Funeral Honors

The Babbitt family also received a settlement of $5 million earlier this year.

HuffPost

I’ve always loved the way Patti Smith does gender. Doesn’t need anyone to tell her who she is & clearly gives zero fucks about the way women are meant to package themselves in order to be acceptable. As an old woman who knows her power, owns her wisdom & values herself just as she is (that’s both of us 😎), I still feel joy that she exists.

In the 1970s Patti Smith was rare manifestation of what life could look like for a woman who creates herself. Her presence was oxygen. Her work is 🔥🔥🔥🔥

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/aug/28/patti-smith-20-greatest-songs-ranked?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Defiance, desire and devastation: Patti Smith’s 20 greatest songs – ranked!

As the punk poet prepares to tour and reissue Horses for its 50th anniversary, we count down the best of her rich, rabble-rousing work

The Guardian

@cavyherd @Richard_Littler Aksherly, Anthropic AI *already caved*—they admitted liability, it's not going to trial, what's happening now is wrangling over the size of damages and who is involved in the settlement.

(Of course, this now means the weight of scrutiny will fall on OpenAI, Meta, and other thieves—with an unfavourable precedent, too …)

#OtD 28 Aug 1844 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels met in the Café de la Régence in Paris and, although they had met a couple of years before, began their lifelong friendship and revolutionary work together that would inspire radicals to the present day https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9981/marx-&-engels-become-bffs
Working Class History

@phaedral

Maybe they keep things “exciting” by having an occasional threesome with a divan. If they really want to spice things up, they bring an Ottoman into the mix!