Looks like patients that receive hemodialysis treatment have lower pfas levels, so that actually might be viable!

I know pfas levels are immediately lower after the donation. I’m not under the impression that pfas levels stay low for very long i.e. long enough to safely donate blood again.

Plasma donations can be done more frequently, though, so that might be actually effective way to reduce contamination.

But, it’s kind of messed up that we’re donating contaminated blood and/or plasma. Is that good for the people that use our blood? Who knows!

There are other ways to lower the amount of plastic in you. If you donate your blood you can measurably lower your pfas levels. Really just removing blood which carries plastic through your whole body will also lower your concentration of plastics.

I’m pretty sure regular blood letting is actually not great for you either.

No, it’ll go the way of carbon emissions i.e. the world “knowing” the problem but not taking action except for useless emissions targets that we blow past constantly.

But not all labor is getting removed, and they won’t really try to do so. Deportations are basically at the same level as they were under Biden iirc, the difference is that we now have spectacle in our media.

It’s fundamentally just terrorism.

Sure, I wasn’t saying that it’s good for the US because I think it’s good.

Yup, learned that when I was a pesticide handler for one of these operations. Pretty fucked up that they fly these lead gas planes over our crops, huh?

Right, but Trump thinks it’s magic. I suspect he saw a demonstration of the material by some construction company (he is a real estate guy) and it blew his mind.

And now we get asbestos brake pads.

Labor discipline. By terrifying migrant workers it allows employers to treat them even worse and pay them even less.

Good news for US gas producers and exporters.

Trump actually has a personal fascination with asbestos and thinks it’s a miracle material. He’s talked about it a lot in his speeches.

They’re making accusations based on reasonable suspicion. That’s still not going beyond suspicion - it’s not like anyone is calling for any action to be taken against him. He’s not losing his job, or being doxxed, or has protesters outside his house.

It’s just an accusation in the extremely low stakes Court of public opinion.

The office of the presidency isn’t inherently legitimate, it gets its legitimacy because civil society groups like the NAACP give it legitimacy.

But, also? Why didn’t they invite Trump this time?

But it’s not unreasonable to suspect sexism, even if we don’t know for sure one way or the other. Suspicious behavior isn’t proof of guilt, but it’s still pretty sus 😒

And sometimes idiots are sexist.

Why are you dismissing this as a possibility?

They could mobilize their base for unending mass demonstration and a general strike. Shut down the country until the fascists capitulate.

They won’t. Instead they’ll side with the regime and criticize protesters for being too violent.

Either that, or ICE detention centers will become forced labor camps.

It also gives them legitimacy and lets them pretend they aren’t horrible racists.

Never gave up on any of the other demons the Republican Party produced, though.

If they had any hope in them it’s embarrassing.

The fact that they invited Nixon, Reagan, Bush 1 & 2, and even Trump the first time around is appalling.