You’re looking at studies of the impact at far higher fluoride concentrations than are used in the US. We’ve known that those high concentrations are problematic for a very long time…which is why they’re not used. They remain a problem in some parts of the world where fluoride is naturally present.

Steyer’s been a significant climate advocate for a long time, but has not held elected office.

Katie Porter has been too, but has been rather mean to her staff (though not a sexual abuser)

Lots of choices, and really important that Democrats figure out how to at least somewhat consolidate so that we don’t end up with an R vs R general election.

FWIW, the anti-fluoride thing started off when the John Birch Society, a right-wing hate group, started pushing it decades ago.

The military has long had some of it at particular facilities — the Air Force academy is notorious. But it’s long been illegal, and was quite rare outside the military.

Because researchers got data. We know flouride helps prevent tooth decay, and a bunch of Republicans are lying about it so they can harm kids

They won’t say it’s really kidnapping until there is a conviction

He’s got a whole staff to create this stuff, but I expect staff would have noticed the demon at the top center, so I figure he actually prompted “trump as healer” or something.

He forgot that the faith healing he was supposed to do was UFO-based. It’s hard to keep track when you lie so much.

I hope this means they’re able to reverse a bunch of the press consolidation and constitutional changes that kept Orbán in power for so long, and change the constitution so that no party in power can so easily do what Fidesz did.

The oil industry owners have long been the patrons who fund the Republican party, and paid a billion dollar bribe to get favorable policy from Trump

Probably in the Fox Cinematic Universe

A big chunk of the US population is quite literate in a language other than English. Another big chunk never got appropriate instruction for learning when you have dyslexia

The typical American worker has wages withheld and gets a refund, so yes

They’re afraid to insist on shoes that fit, but instead wear a size based on Trump’s guess. No way anybody in Trump’s orbit can be honest with him

A big chunk of the country prioritizes racism over almost anything else, and lives in the Fox Cinematic Universe, where this kind of thing gets mentioned once at 3am so they can say they covered it, and then never again.

The NYT didn’t even quote the statement initially, but paraphrased it to make it seem saner. They only added the quote to the article after pushback

So long a somebody else has to fight; he’s not out there fighting a buffalo himself.

They have minorites in both houses of Congress. Can’t actually stop anything under those conditions

Problem is that when you disperse research teams, it takes a decade or more to get back to where you were

Utah?