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"A Clown Show": RFK Jr. Fires CDC Panel & Stacks It with Anti-Vaxxers, Cuts Funding for Int'l Vaccines

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The tool allows users to upload an image of a police officer’s face to search over 9,000 LAPD headshots obtained via public record requests.

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And now the grossly unqualified, laughably inept, tragically in-over-his-head partisan hack who inexplicably runs the National Archives and Records Administration on a day-to-day basis, Nixon Foundation CEO Jim Byron, has rescinded the policies, pretending they never said what they plainly did.

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Amid a new wave of resistance to ICE—and to the police, which fight alongside of ICE everywhere, including in supposed "sanctuary cities"—it's worth revisiting the history of the movement against police and white supremacy, which reached its previous peak in 2020. crimethinc.com/antipolice2025

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this makes me physically ill

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Today marks the third anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. What's happened since? A record number of women have been prosecuted. Pregnancy loss is now considered extremely suspicious, even when it has nothing to do with abortion.

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This statement by Iranian, Kurdish, and Afghani feminists argues that we must oppose the US and Israeli assault on Iran while also refusing to endorse the repressive Iranian government. Genocidal imperialist projects will never liberate us, nor will patriarchal nationalist regimes protect us.

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Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller June 23,1953

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Washingtonians should know Donald Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ now includes selling off our public lands — including national forests — to pay for tax cuts for billionaires.

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Damn right!!!

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ICE looking more and more like the American Gestpo.

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In February alone, the national suicide hotline's program for LGBTQ youth—who are four times more likely to attempt suicide than their peers—received an average of 2,100 contacts per day. Now the Trump administration is shuttering this critical resource.

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The PBS funding cuts are a blow to children who need it most. With more options than ever for kids' entertainment, producing research-backed, high-quality, non-advertising content for families—particularly those in low-resource areas—has never been more important.

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Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. just dismissed Dr. Helen Chu — a maternal vaccine expert and Washingtonian who helped lead the country on building up COVID testing — from the CDC vaccine panel.

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The GOP’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is Robin Hood in reverse: it takes from the poor to give to the rich.SNAP (used to be Food Stamps…which Tabby and I used back in 1972) is gone. Medicare is going.

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A federal judge has ordered the Department of Education to reinstate thousands of employees it fired in advancing President Donald Trump’s mission to eliminate the department.

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Good morning !

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Sesame Street is officially UNION! Workers at Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind Sesame Street, have voted 55-19 to join @opeiulocal153.bsky.social Huge congrats to @sesameworkersunion.bsky.social! “We can officially say that today, May 15th, is brought to you by the letter U!”

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Salvadoran Journalists Exposed Pres. Bukele's Ties to Gangs. Then They Had to Flee to Avoid Arrest

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Within the first few minutes of Tuesday’s House Committee on Energy and Commerce hearing on planned Republican Medicaid cuts—which would render more than 8 million Americans uninsured—a contingent of protesters entered the room in Washington. Here is what happened⬇️

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🚨 Today, a federal court granted a temporary restraining order to halt the administration’s dismantling of IMLS—a direct result of the lawsuit filed by ALA and @afscme.bsky.social. www.ala.org/news/2025/05... #ForOurLibraries #FundLibraries

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The Supreme Court ordered Trump to give men set to go to El Salvador a chance to argue their cases. Our investigation, talking with multiple ICE detainees, found a startling lack of due process.

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Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and now the United States. Autocrats always go after judges first because judges are the last line of defense for rule of law and due process. We cannot let this stand. Protect judges and constitutional judicial independence.

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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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testing, testing 1 2 first post! not sure how it all works here so feel free to enlighten me. insta’s got me in a loop these days, i rarely see content from outside of the states and my feed is one note, mostly of pages and not people. social media can be so fickle. anyway ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! 🏴

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