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Most viewed in the last 7 days from JAMA: US states that adopted abortion bans had higher than expected infant mortality after the bans took effect. https://ja.ma/3X711tB

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NEW: Public health teams are being gutted, imperiling efforts to safeguard organ donation and prevent maternal and infant death. Many workers expressed fear at what would happen to the work they left behind.

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Elon Musk's private security detail has been deputized as Federal Marshalls and can carry firearms on Federal property. What could possibly go wrong? www.cnn.com/2025/02/20/p...

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Media ownership is narrative and agenda-shaping power. Learn more about the media oligarch who runs Politico.

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Any countries building Starlink into their telecom systems should be thinking twice right now.

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“Hegseth suggested that Brown, who is Black, may have risen to his position through racial preferences. ‘We'll never know,’ he wrote, in a classic just-asking-questions dodge. But Trump should know. He’s the president who nominated Brown to be Air Force Chief of Staff in 2020.”

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Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

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The National Science Foundation fired all its experts. The National Science Foundation. Fired. All of its. Experts. And they weren't even told to! The leadership worked toward the Fuhrer and went beyond the cuts demanded of them in anticipation of many, many more firings—up to half its staff.

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I’ll keep pushing this line of analysis because I’m increasingly convinced the clearest path out of this mess is for Dems to adopt a relentless anti-corruption, anti-inequality, anti-oligarchy, pro-democracy platform. The Dem leadership hasn’t realized it yet, but they’re now a reform party.

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NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

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This is the now third deportation “detention” site outside the U.S. that the administration has disclosed. These are more than concentration camps; they’re what’s called “zones of lawlessness.” People being held in isolated facilities. Some if not all are de facto stateless.

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"Since last year, the US has dropped ten notches on the World Press Freedom Index. Now in 55th place, the country trails far behind many European and other democracies." theconversation.com/censorship-a...

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Jesus h tap dancing christ...

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you know, i am starting to think he didn't actually conduct a review process before arriving at his decision

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DOGE is claiming credit for killing Jimmy Carter. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/did-...

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This is Art! Art i tell you!

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In 1938, Nazi Germany held "peace talks" about Czechoslovakia with England, France, and Italy. The Czechs were not there. In 2025, Putin's Russia is holding "peace talks" about Ukraine with the US and Saudi Arabia. The Ukrainians are not there.

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JD Vance is so nauseatingly unlikeable that he’s literally dragging down the AfD’s approval rating

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Monsters: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Trump just blamed Ukraine outright for Russia’s invasion. ‘You shoulda never started it,’ he said. What a lie, a Russian lie—from the President of the US.

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Another fiery exchange from Judge Reyes in the trans military case:

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Things are not developing as I would wish. www.cnn.com/2025/02/18/p...

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NBC News Exclusive: The Trump admin is preparing to fire hundreds of high-level Department of Homeland Security employees this week as part of a move to rid the agency of people deemed to be misaligned with the admin's goals. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

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"the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip generated a life expectancy loss of more than 30 years during the first 12 months of the war, nearly halving prewar levels. Actual losses are likely to be higher." Horrifying findings by demographics experts in The Lancet. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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“The head of the Social Security Administration has resigned after she refused to by DOGE staffers access to sensitive information. Your information.”

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“U.S. Food and Drug Administration employees reviewing Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink were fired over the weekend as part of a broader purge of the federal workforce”

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Here's a note at Law Dork on tonight's developments: substack.com/@chrisgeidne...

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The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

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Feb. 15, 2025: Donald Trump makes his most explicit statement to date that he considers himself a dictator and will obey no laws.

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Yesterday — YESTERDAY — JD Vance visited Dachau and said it drove home “what unspeakable evil was committed and why we should be committed to ensuring it never happens again.” Today he met with AfD?? He made a mockery of his visit to Dachau. Disgusting. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Wait until I tell you what the Epidemiological Intelligence Service does www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/c...

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Headlines from today: Vice President Vance Accuses European Leaders of Censoring Free Speech White House Bars Associated Press From Spaces Like Oval Office and Air Force One

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Petty little men making petty little remarks when even a little push back is made

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