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I understand that "Dems in disarray" has a rhythm that "GOP in disarray" doesn't. But in 40+ years there's been no Dem-disarray remotely comparable to Trump/Musk/Leo/etc fratricide. Has there been even one "GOP in disarray" big headline? Maybe I've missed it.

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Fraud , waste, and abuse right? www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

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This is why 🌮 stated very clearly that he didn't care about Elmo's drug addiction.

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SecState Rubio claims that no on has died because of USAID cuts and suggested that I had lied in my reporting. So here I show him photos of specific children who have died because of the Trump administration's reckless cancelation of aid: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/o...

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Death by 1K cuts for sure, but: @nerd4cities.bsky.social: "20% of gas tax revenues have traditionally gone into (H'way Trust Fund's Mass Transit acct., but this (budget) package proposes to put 100% of the new EV/hybrid fees straight into the h'way-only acct." 🤬 www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Hh1...

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22 years ago I pivoted from working on antibiotic resistance to pandemic viruses. Since then, I've argued that if we care about saving US lives in expectation, advance capacity for producing bird flu vaccine offers by far the greatest expected return on investment. ... We were so goddamn close.

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4-year-old Bakersfield girl facing deportation could die within days of losing medical care - Los Angeles Times Don’t ever tell me that Christians support the GOP. There is nothing Christian or Christ-like about this. Just plain old cruelty and callousness:

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There’s a lady selling batteries in the park. She sells C cells by the see-saw.

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Los Angeles's Deputy Mayor for Public Safety called in a bomb threat to City Hall last year in an attempt to frame pro-Palestine organizers.

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it's state propaganda now

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Just read this sentence. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/o...

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Anybody else remember that time the Bush administration manufactured intelligence to "prove" Iraq had weapons of mass destruction to justify going to war with a nation that had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with 9/11?!? Not sure what just made me think of that... weird.

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The NYC subway is like a tabula rasa for conservative culture war stuff. It can be a rolling shelter for the unhoused or a luxury conveyance for urban elites, depending on which grievance you want to inflame

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Carl Sagan. One of his final interviews. This wise, learned man left us at age 62. Meanwhile the bleating ignoramus that Sagan correctly predicted would come lives on and on and on.

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The #supplychain went from a tad well in February to totally failed in April... #Manufacturing #Container bookings. #econsky #businesssky

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Mind-boggling corruption. Trump is brazenly selling access to the White House to the highest bidders (and with no guardrails on nationality). And Republicans remain dead silent. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/t...

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If only we had studies on autism and vaccines using nationally-complete healthcare data showing no association between the two. Like, uh, this one from Denmark.

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This is horrifying. Workers will pay the price.

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You guys Elon Musk appointed the head of the IRS and President Trump didn’t even know about it.

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🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

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this administration is the closest thing to pure evil that the world has witnessed in generations

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I want to tell you why the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia should matter to you. The one power you cannot give the executive is the ability to imprison or expel anyone regardless of their legal rights. That is our key check against autocracy. And we are watching it disappear.

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The fact that the government is using charges of antisemitism to justify sending people to concentration camps is the most enraging manipulation of discourse that the current fascists have engaged in thus far. They’ll live out their Nazi fantasies all while claiming they are doing it for the Jews.

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