Excellent (long) piece!

“Apocalypse From Within: How American Imperial Decay Fuels Nuclear Risk: Why US Dysfunction is the Greatest Nuclear Threat”

by Raja Sohail Bashir in The Geopolitical Compass on Substack

“High-profile warnings from figures like Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, suggesting a declining America is uniquely prone to nuclear first-use, underscore a visceral fear demanding rigorous analysis”

https://open.substack.com/pub/hailyb/p/apocalypse-from-within-how-american?r=27oltk&utm_medium=ios

Interesting that it is less prevalent among the young and the old but a notable prevalence among adults aged 30-60 years

Post-COVID Cough Linked to Neurological Dysfunction

Coughing appears to be more closely linked to neurological dysfunction than to classic respiratory involvement.

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/post-covid-cough-linked-neurological-dysfunction-2025a10003mq?ecd=mkm_ret_250214_mscpmrk_wildfire_etid7229056&uac=319490FK&impID=7229056

#webIndustry & #AI by @baldur

"Even the #paidjobs when they happen have much lower budgets and are employing fewer people.
This #dysfunction means that the “adjacent but still in the industry” jobs that used to pay for the #passionprojects are fewer and farther between. More and more people have to rely on unrelated day jobs (or spouses) to stay in the industry and the cold hard truth is that most of them will burn out and leave eventually."

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/2025/the-web-is-a-creative-industry/

#USA #healthcare

Annual ‘winners’ for most egregious #US healthcare profiteering announced

Selling body parts without consent and billing desperate parents $97,599 for air transport among worst examples

The 2024 “winners” of the annual #Shkreli awards, given each year to perpetrators of the most egregious examples of #profiteering and #dysfunction within the healthcare industry, have been released from the #LownInstitute, an independent healthcare #thinktank

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/07/annual-awards-healthcare-profiteering

The continued #Dysfunction in the #DemocraticParty paired with the #Ruthlessness of the #TrumpublicanParty will continue to drag the US down. Unfortunately for #Americans this #Asymmetry is a #DeathSpiral https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/aoc-loses-house-oversight-committee-vote-gerry-connolly-rcna184581

Media is useless. #TheFourthEstateIsDead, and acts just like the #DemocraticParty, as if #Trump and the #GOP are acting in #GoodFaith. #Poynter behaves similarly. The point of Trump's picks are to #DAMAGE_GOVERNMENT and create #Dysfunction-A #DecapitationStrike

fallow days take root
mounting to crushing summed weight
of emptiness borne

#MastoPrompt: #nourish #NegativeSpace
#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #loneliness #starvation #drought #dysfunction

#Catiline Was Wicked

The Catilinarian Conspiracy of 63 BCE was a symptom of #dysfunction in the late #Roman Republic. It foreshadowed the rise of Roman imperialism.

Instability & Corruption

The conspiracy emerged in a climate of intense rivalry and public corruption that was dominating the political atmosphere of the late #Republic.

http://inaniludibrio.com/2024/10/24/catiline-was-wicked/

As an engineer AND ESPECIALLY AS A MANAGER, I've encountered this so often.

Be wary. There's often **political** reasons for entrenched patterns like this, particularly when they are dysfunctional. You are likely to piss off someone who has motivated self-interest in keeping things this way.

Attempting to modify these sorts of behaviors risks activating an organization's immune system.

Ask me how I know...

#changemanagement #dysfunction #organizations
https://botsin.space/@picardtips/113080945461155083

A chief architect of #Project2025 is ready to shock Washington if #DonaldTrump wins a second term #federalgovernment #civilservants #federalemployees Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a New York University history professor and author of “Strongmen: #Mussolini to the Present,” criticized Project 2025 as “a recipe for mass #chaos, abuses of #power, and #dysfunction in #government.” https://apnews.com/article/project-2025-russell-vought-trump-federal-government-38fc446832062e40fc2ccad6f3348dfd #democracy #congress #executivebranch #dictatorship #fascism #legislation #regulations #justice #courts

The #BloodBrainBarrier, a network of blood vessels and tissues that nurtures and protects the brain from harmful substances circulating in the blood—is disrupted in #AlzheimerDisease. Now, researchers at #MayoClinic and collaborators have uncovered unique #molecular signatures of blood-brain barrier #dysfunction that could point to new ways to diagnose and treat the disease. Their findings are published in Nature Communications.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-06-vascular-brain-linked-alzheimer-disease.html #healthcare #publichealth #dementia

#Republican Rep #MarjorieTaylorGreene on Wednesday officially triggered a vote on her motion to remove House #Speaker #MikeJohnson.

There were audible boos from lawmakers in the chamber as Greene spoke at length about her grievances with Johnson on the #House floor.

#HouseRepublicans #Republicans #ChaosCaucus #TheDysfunctionIsThePoint #governance #dysfunction #VoteBlue
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-triggers-vote-motion-oust-speaker/story?id=110043228

Brain Acidity Linked With Multiple Neurological Disorders
https://www.sciencealert.com/brain-acidity-linked-with-multiple-neurological-disorders #psychology #BrainAcidity #Neurological #Disorders #metabolic #dysfunction #lactate #pH

DEMOCRATS AND MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE AND NOT MUCH ELSE

BOMBSHELL: House Republicans get the news they’ve been dreading
Brian Tyler Cohen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qydXIm23b98

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#briantylercohen #democrats #donothingcongress #dysfunction #houseofrepresentatives #marjorietaylorgreene #unitedstateshouseofrepresentatives #ushouseofrepresentatives

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