Cognitive Dissonance

162 lies and distortions in a news conference. NPR fact-checks former President Trump Trump Has Brand New Excuse for Why His Voice Sounded So 'Strange' in Musk Interview The big question touching a nerve this election: "Can my husband find out who I am voting for?" | Salon.com 31% of Republicans say vaccines are more dangerous than diseases they prevent | Ars Technica Tim Walz is giving MAGA a master class in manhood Stephen Miller Just Invented a Deranged New Conspiracy Theory Arizona and Missouri join states with abortion amendments on the ballot. What would the measures do?

Adin Ross, the streamer, learns what fascism is… : r/JoeRogan Trump Declines to Back Away From 'You Don't Have to Vote Again' Line - The New York Times Trump says he'll debate Harris on Fox News or not at all after weeks of back-and-forth over ABC News event | CNN Politics Trump proposes 3 presidential debates in September. Harris' campaign hasn't confirmed a deal Tim Walz's background feels like it was crafted in a lab for Democrats at this moment Trump Campaign Criticizes Walz for State Law Providing Tampons in Schools : r/politics 'Very big deal': Georgia OKs rules that could allow local officials to 'subvert' elections - Raw Story Disinformation Fed Far-Right Riot in England After Deadly Stabbing - The New York Times What Do Conspiracy Theorists Do When Proved Wrong? Double Down or Move On.

The Rise and Fall of the Trad Wife Meet the queen of the 'trad wives' (and her eight children) Opinion | 'Tradwife' Content Isn't Really for Women. It's for Men Who Want Submissive Wives. - The New York Times

http://creatoraccountabilitynetwork.org/ Clip resurfaces of Vance criticizing Harris for being 'childless,' testing Trump's new running mate - ABC News Conservative Women Turn on JD Vance for Attacking 'Childless' Democrats - Newsweek "Old and quite weird": Democrats finally discover new effective attack — and Republicans hate it | Salon.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP5Gx18D4-c Project 2025 would destabilize public education | First Focus on Children Project 2025's Elimination of Title I Funding Would Hurt Students and Decimate Teaching Positions in Local Schools - Center for American Progress

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Biden just made the hardest decision any politician can make | CNN Politics Democrats Donate More Than $50 Million Online After Biden's Exit The facts about Kamala Harris' role on immigration in the Biden administration - CBS News What to know about Kamala Harris' record as California attorney general - CBS Sacramento Nick Fuentes Slams J.D. Vance For Having A Non-White, Non-Christian Wife 'I was not voting before, now I am': gen Z voters on what they think of Kamala Harris | US elections 2024 | The Guardian Project 2025. - Section: Department of Health and Human Services Who wrote this (from wikipedia) Written by: Roger Thomas Severino (born 1974/1975)[1] is an American attorney who served as the director of the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) at the United States Department of Health and Human Services from 2017 to 2021. He is currently a Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and a contributor on health policy, including abortion, to Project 2025.[2] In March 2017, President Donald Trump appointed Severino as Director of the Office for Civil Rights at the United States Department of Health and Human Services.[8][9][10] He left the position on January 15, 2021.[11] --- Goal #1: Protecting Life, Conscience, and Bodily Integrity. The Secretary should pursue a robust agenda to protect the fundamental right to life, protect conscience rights, and uphold bodily integrity rooted in biological realities, not ideology. From the moment of conception, every human being possesses inherent dignity and worth, and our humanity does not depend on our age, stage of development, race, or abilities. The Secretary must ensure that all HHS programs and activities are rooted in a deep respect for innocent human life from day one until natural death: Abortion and euthanasia are not health care. A robust respect for the sacred rights of conscience, both at HHS and among governments and institutions funded by it, increases choices for patients and program beneficiaries and furthers pluralism and tolerance. The Secretary must protect Americans' civil rights by ensuring that HHS programs and activities follow the letter and spirit of religious freedom and conscience-protection laws. Radical actors inside and outside government are promoting harmful identity politics that replaces biological sex with subjective notions of "gender identity" and bases a person's worth on his or her race, sex, or other identities. This destructive dogma, under the guise of "equity," threatens American's fundamental liberties as well as the health and well-being of children and adults alike. The next Secretary must ensure that HHS programs protect children's minds and bodies and that HHS programs respect parents From Section - OFFICE OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND RENEWABLE ENERGY (EERE) Who wrote this (from wikipedia) Bernard L. McNamee (born 1967) is a government official who served as Commissioner of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission from 2018 to 2020.[2] McNamee was confirmed to the position by the United States Senate on December 6, 2018. He previously served in various state and federal legal and policy positions and practiced energy law in the private sector. --- Under the Biden Administration, EERE's mission is "to accelerate the research, development, demonstration, and deployment of technologies and solutions to equitably transition America to netzero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions economy-wide by no later than 2050" and "ensure [that] the clean energy economy benefits all Americans. Needed Reforms End the focus on climate change and green subsidies. Under the Biden Administration, EERE is a conduit for taxpayer dollars to fund progressive policies, including decarbonization of the economy and renewable resources. EERE has focused on reducing carbon dioxide emissions to the exclusion of other statutorily defined requirements such as energy security and cost. For example, EERE's five programmatic priorities during the Biden Administration are all focused on decarbonization of the electricity sector, the industrial sector, transportation, buildings, and the agricultural sector. Eliminate energy efficiency standards for appliances. Pursuant to the Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975 as amended, the agency is required to set and periodically tighten energy and/or water efficiency standards for nearly all kinds of commercial and household appliances, including air conditioners, furnaces, water heaters, stoves, clothes washers and dryers, refrigerators, dishwashers, light bulbs, and showerheads. Current law and regulations reduce consumer choice, drive up costs for consumer appliances, and emphasize energy efficiency to the exclusion of other important factors such as cycle time and reparability. New Policies Eliminate EERE. The next Administration should work with Congress to eliminate all of DOE's applied energy programs, including those in EERE (with the possible exception of those that are related to basic science for new energy technology). Taxpayer dollars should not be used to subsidize preferred businesses and energy resources, thereby distorting the market and undermining energy reliability. Reduce EERE funding. If EERE cannot be eliminated, then the Administration should engage with Congress and the House and Senate Appropriations Committees on EERE's budget. Eliminate energy efficiency standards for appliances. The next Administration should work with Congress to modify or repeal the law mandating energy efficiency standards. Before (or in lieu of ) repealing the law, there are steps the agency can take to refocus on the consumer by giving full force to the provisions already in the law that serve to limit regulatory overreach and protect against excessively stringent standards.

Thomas Matthew Crooks Had Donald Trump Signs in His Yard—Neighbor - Newsweek Donald Trump Does Not Get Post-Shooting Poll Boost - Newsweek Trump Hasn't Called Family of Supporter Killed at Rally, Wife Says - Newsweek One in Three Biden Supporters Think Trump Shooting Might Have Been Staged - Newsweek Judge Cannon Has Gotten It Completely Wrong Project 2025: The myths and the facts Direct quotes from the project: "Pornography, manifested today in the omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology and sexualization of children, for instance, is not a political Gordian knot inextricably binding up disparate claims about free speech, property rights, sexual liberation, and child welfare. It has no claim to First Amendment protection. Its purveyors are child predators and misogynistic exploiters of women. Their product is as addictive as any illicit drug and as psychologically destructive as any crime. Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned. Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed as registered sex offenders. And telecommunications and technology firms that facilitate its spread should be shuttered." "Conservatives should gratefully celebrate the greatest pro-family win in a generation: overturning Roe v. Wade, a decision that for five decades made a mockery of our Constitution and facilitated the deaths of tens of millions of unborn children. But the Dobbs decision is just the beginning. Conservatives in the states and in Washington, including in the next conservative Administration, should push as hard as possible to protect the unborn in every jurisdiction in America. In particular, the next conservative President should work with Congress to enact the most robust protections for the unborn that Congress will support while deploying existing federal powers to protect innocent life and vigorously complying with statutory bans on the federal funding of abortion. Conservatives should ardently pursue these pro-life and pro-family policies while recognizing the many women who find themselves in immensely difficult and often tragic situations and the heroism of every choice to become a mother."

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When Therapists Lose Their Licenses, Some Turn to the Unregulated Life Coaching Industry Instead They Spent Their Life Savings on Life Coaching - The New York Times The seedy underbelly of the life coaching industry

Joe Biden campaign official: 'He's not dropping out' Biden Told Ally That He Is Weighing Whether to Continue in the Race - The New York Times Black Americans demand to know what 'Black jobs' are after Trump debate comment 'A terrible disservice': Biden slams Supreme Court immunity ruling and says it leaves presidents free to ignore law | The Independent Three female GOP state senators who filibustered S.C. abortion ban lost their primaries The Pentagon's Antivaccine Propaganda Endangered Public Health and Tarnished U.S. Credibility | Scientific American