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Two babies have died from whooping cough in Kentucky. Neither they nor their parents had been vaccinated. The current whooping cough outbreak in the U.S. hasn’t grabbed the media spotlight as much as measles has, but it’s important to update your vaccination if you’re going to be around babies.

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It's hurricane season. Own a real flashlight.

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#booksky

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once again I must tap my own sign

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Tempted to get back on that other site just to watch the meltdown

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This is MADNESS! What are they thinking? White House proposes shutting down chemical safety agency - The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

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Welp, if @merriam-webster.com says so, I'm good with it.

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The goal is plainly and literally to cut the number of people involved in basic science in the US by 70%

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Apparently states’ rights stop the moment women board a plane with autonomy in their carry-on.

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We're all going to die from preventable illnesses because the government is using ChatGPT. Jesus.

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Somewhere between 60%-70% of those on Medicaid are actually working. So upwards of 140k of your own constituents are doing what you want, but you’ll strip them of healthcare anyway. Good news is, that will just make your state sicker and cost taxpayers more which is the Republican project so … yay!

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BBB both grows the deficit and cuts food for poor kids

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Exclusive: Musk’s DOGE expanding his Grok AI in US government, raising conflict concerns. DOGE team allegedly pushes Grok at DHS without approval. Experts warn of potential unfair advantage for Musk's xAI in federal contracts. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

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Unreal: To sustain his lie about a "genocide" of "white farmers" while meeting with the South African president, Trump used a photo of war deaths in the Democratic Republic of Congo. I looked into this a bit more. It's worse than it first appeared. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/1956...

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If you haven't seen "In Bruges" this is the exact plot

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College degrees can be revoked. Your move harvard

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"Is that it?" -- Trump did that thing again today where he signs a bunch of executive orders but doesn't seem to know what he's signing and needs to have it explained to him

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Racket's omitting the best part of this article, the subheadline:

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Good god. This is unconscionable. This will mean so many more STIs, cases of cancer, so many more cases of maternal mortality, so many more people not getting any healthcare at all. I'm mortified. @smith.senate.gov I know you are leaving but the cowardice of the DFL did this.

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An apt demand from someone who I am pretty sure has never once soul searched abt a generations worth of fatuous columns

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Adriana Smith’s story MUST be told so America can understand what’s at stake when draconian abortion laws like the one in GA keep a brain dead pregnant woman on life support just so the fetus can be delivered. What kind of dystopian hellscape has Dobbs created? m.youtube.com/watch?v=wNYT...

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I don't want this to get lost: after RFK Jr. finished with his tantrum, he ADMITTED he is blocking BILLIONS in federal child care funding. That needs to change IMMEDIATELY.

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MAKE NOISE ON THIS ONE‼️ They didn’t just deport him—they sent him to CECOT in El Salvador. Agelviz came here legally through the refugee resettlement program—fully vetted. But when he landed in Houston, CBP snatched him over a tattoo: a clock and a rose. No charges. No record. Just a suspicion.

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😹 come on

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"Some National Weather Service offices, including Jackson, no longer have overnight staff from midnight to 7AM. All three Kentucky offices - Jackson, Paducah and Louisville - are short-staffed. There is no meteorologist in charge at any of the three offices..." www.kentucky.com/news/state/k...

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we manage 341 miles of sewer and now they're all texting me, what am i supposed to tell them

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If you voted for anyone other than Kamala Harris last November, I don’t want to hear Joe Biden’s name coming out of your mouth. Joe Biden was a champion for cancer research funding. Your vote is why that funding is being slashed. Your feelings about his diagnosis are less than worthless.

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It's remarkable how much of this administration's agenda has been laser focused on simply making life worse for ordinary Americans.

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My favorite person in the world is immunocompromised and this shit is galling and terrifying.

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Surprise guest speaker at today’s Macalaster College commencement gave a shoutout to the keynote speaker, Bob Mould, for “being a major part of why the Twin Cities has become an epicenter of alternative music.”

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Trump fired over 1,000 National Park staff in February, and most still haven’t been reinstated. The $45 million he’s wasting on a military parade for his birthday could have paid their salaries for over a year.

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Turns out there ISN'T rampant Social Security fraud, but Elon's witch hunt, driven by his insane conspiracy theories, IS keeping seniors from getting their benefits as quickly as they should be. THIS is Republican governing: hunting for nonexistent fraud while breaking Social Security.

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Sarah Ortiz has spent years trying to prove that her ex used her personal information to rack up $45,926 of debt in her name without her knowledge. Unfortunately, Sarah's story isn't new. Scores of women across the country are victims of coerced debt—and it's ridiculously hard to crack down on.

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The sitting president has been on an anti-constitutional crime spree since his first hours in office, but “leading Democrats” are supposed to focus their time and energies on … sorry, what?

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friendly reminder from your pal who loves waste treatment: there’s no such thing as flushable wipes! 🧻

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We finally agree.

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if your Wordle game is weak, maybe your #InfrastructureWeek game will be stronger. sewerdle.neorsd.org

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Happy Tuesday! Who's ready to hear about 1. Flesh-eating maggots (mostly go after cattle) 2. They're native to the US 3. The USDA has kept them out of the US since the 1960s 4. But the flesh-eating maggots are making a 21st century comeback. And believe it or not it may be thanks to MAGA.

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My daughter’s speech therapist went out of business because Medicaid reimbursement rates were too low. We do not have Medicaid. I’m going to keep posting this until people understand that when Medicaid gets cut everyone loses services.

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This is obviously thinly-veiled racism. But it’s also a bullshit premise. Haitian refugees were thriving in Springfield. Bhutanese, Congolese, other refugees from Africa & Asia have reinvigorated Rust Belt towns and cities. Trump wants to send them all back.

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Two men claiming to be newly appointed Trump appointees were blocked from entering the US Copyright Office this morning. Scoop from @knibbs.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/us-cop...

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Team Gus here

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The Trump administration has made clear it wishes to gut NOAA’s research enterprise, which is at the center of climate research globally. After 67 years of battling to keep the program funded and provide the data to other scientists around the world, the program faces its most dire threat ever.