Category: Twitter

Trump appointee who called Muslims ‘maggots’ booted from DOE

A massage therapist with no apparent experience of energy policy was terminated from the Department of Energy after it was revealed that he has a habit of making racially charged comments about Muslims and former President Barack Obama over social media. After working as a Trump campaign operative in New Hampshire, Sid Bowdidge was employed as an “assistant” to Energy Secretary Rick Perry shortly after President Trump’s inauguration, despite having no relevant experience, two employees at the nuclear weapons agency told BuzzFeed News on Friday .

Roger Stone, Trump confidant, acknowledges ‘innocuous’ Twitter conversation with DNC hackers

But on Friday, during a brief conversation with conservative newspaper Washington Times , Stone admitted to exchanging complimentary direct messages – i.e. palling around with Guccifer 2.0. “It was so perfunctory, brief and banal I had forgotten it”, the political consultant told The Times on Friday with respect to a private Twitter exchange he had with “Guccifer 2.0”, a pseudonymous entity explicitly tied to the DNC hack. Stone told The Times in an email Thursday evening.

WA 2017: the election that forgot health?

The Australian Medical Association of WA is “bitterly disappointed” at the 2017 election campaign’s lack of attention to the state’s biggest budget sector and one of its biggest employers.The Department of Health has an operating budget of $8.6 billion, which has almost doubled during the Liberals’ time in power. The public health system employs nearly 40,000 people and that’s just full-timers.

Medicaid’s top doctor defied his department and came out…

The decision to oppose the bill, the American Health Care Act, is a break from other leaders in the Department of Health and Human Services, which has shown support for the bill . “Despite political messaging from others at HHS, I align with the experts from @aafp @AmerAcadPeds @AmerMedicalAssn in opposition to #AHCA,” Dr. Andrey Ostrovsky tweeted.

‘I was wrong’: Pauline Hanson apologises for controversial vaccine allergy remarks

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has admitted she was wrong to suggest parents subject their children to a non-existent test for allergies to vaccinations.Senator Hanson was roundly criticised for her remarks at the weekend linking vaccines with autism, and saying the government’s “no jab, no pay” policy was akin to “dictatorship”. SHARE Share on Facebook SHARE Share on Twitter TWEET Link Pauline Hanson has apologised on Sunrise for claiming there is a test for vaccination allergies, but maintains parents should ‘do their own research’ on vaccines.

Medical procedures priced in Iphones, for the benefit of noted dumbass Jason Chaffetz

Yesterday, Rep Jason Chaffetz [R-UT; DC office: 225-7751; Utah office: 851-2500; email ; Twitter ] defended his plan to take away the health insurance of 22,000,000 Americans by saying “rather than getting that new iPhone that they just love and want to go spend hundreds of dollars on that, maybe they should invest in their own health care.” It’s a great talking point for reaching a base that already views poverty as a moral failing, but it fails to pass even the most glancing contact with reality.

Social Media Algorithm IDs Trump as Not Married

When scientists from Russia and Singapore tested an algorithm they created that that predicts marital status using data from three social networks, they found the program identified President Donald Trump as single. He is actually married to Melania Trump, his third wife.

Donald Trump tweets at wrong Ivanka — and she hits back

President-elect Donald Trump tweeted at the wrong Ivanka on Monday night, and the British woman on the receiving end of his praise has hit back. Trump had quoted a tweet praising his daughter Ivanka, but the account mentioned in the tweet belongs to Ivanka Majic, a digital consultant from the British seaside town of Brighton.