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The large clinical trial of a new Covid vaccine pill (not shot) was halted by RFK Jr www.aol.com/multimillion... The Covid nasal vaccines may be next up to be axed.

submitted 10 hours ago • 332 comments

House Rs just passed the budget resolution, the first step in their process to enact a bill that'd kick millions off Medicaid & cut SNAP down to just $1.60 per person per meal on avg while cutting taxes for the top 0.1% by $278k - all while increasing the debt 🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT

submitted 1 day ago • 591 comments

…especially the last part about repair, which we in the #USA failed to do in the aftermath of #Trump’s first #coup (unlike #Brazil and #Bolsonaro) while we had a much better chance than we will for quite some time now.

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

My fellow historian of early America, and fellow student of the very conservative historian Gordon Wood, wrote a very sober piece recently that came to a similar conclusion. It's truly crazy-making how many of our fellow Americans look upon what's happening as if it's totally normal.

submitted 23 hours ago • 45 comments

This is a hard but necessary read: ending USAID means children starve to death.

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Podcast: risky.biz/RBNEWS391/ Newsletter: risky.biz/risky-bullet... -Signal threatens to leave Sweden over backdoor request -EU sanctions North Korean APT head honcho -Australia bans Kaspersky on government systems -Google will use QR codes for Gmail authentication -TVs defaced at US HUD agency

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

Basic authoritarian stuff: the government revolves around protecting the President and punishing his enemies. Completely inconsistent with democratic norms, but will barely be a blip in the news in our new regime.

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

House Republicans just voted to gut Medicaid, which covers 1 in 5 Americans overall, including 41% of births and 63% of nursing home care. They also just voted to gut SNAP, on which 41 million food insecure Americans rely. This won’t just harm people. This will kill people. They own this.

submitted 1 day ago • 222 comments

Genuinely, is there a meaningful difference between the terms at this point? No point in labeling statements by #Trump #racist when that is implicit.

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🌈 most reversals of democratic breakdown (1977 India; 2022 Brazil; 2023 Poland; [France 1934-38]) have been accomplished by radically large-tent, cross-ideological coalitions w/ little in common except a desire for the continuation of a Constitutional order shatterzone.substack.com/p/democratic...

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Illinois public schools are not changing curriculum as it relates to LGBTQ+ issues, despite a warning from the federal Department of Education. (wgntv.com/news/illinoi...)

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

It's from collecting all the egg.

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Pritzker: "We're talking about the death of a constitutional republic. That's what happened in Germany in 1933, 1934. And we're seeing today that we've got an administration in Washington that's ignoring court orders."

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www.propublica.org/article/nati... 2021, @propublica.org: > One of President Donald Trump’s lesser known but profoundly damaging legacies will be the explosive rise in the national debt that occurred on his watch. […]

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Obliviousness is a key trait of #fascism

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👿🗯️ WHO TRYING MAKE MORE EQUAL?! U FIRED!! “I'll say it again: America has lost its fucking mind” [1] www.motherjones.com/politics/202... [1] hachyderm.io/@djnavarro/1...

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Is this a "you can't fire me, I quit" type situation? As in, would not be surprised if our allies had gotten more skittish about sharing intel with us, with Tulsi Gabbard as DNI, Kash Patel leading FBI, etc.

submitted 1 day ago • 42 comments

Operatives working for Elon Musk’s DOGE appear to be editing the code of AutoRIF—software designed by the Defense Department that could assist in mass firings of federal workers, sources tell WIRED.

submitted 1 day ago • 70 comments

#Trump = #KKK = #Nazi duckduckgo.com?q=fred+trump...

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Those are brownshirts and concentration camps and the people writing these stories need to start calling them what they are.

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Amazing lack of self-awareness from Clarence Thomas, who takes a dig at Oklahoma's attorney general for appointing a "personal friend and campaign donor" to review Glossip's case. I guess he has realized that friendships and money can influence personal judgment? www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

submitted 1 day ago • 124 comments

HAPPENING NOW: A federal judge who ordered the unfreezing of USAID contract spending is voicing frustration as a Trump administration lawyer repeatedly refuses to say whether they have actually taken any steps to implement his 12-day-old order.

submitted 1 day ago • 471 comments

ding ding ding

submitted 2 days ago • 66 comments

Usually the counterpoint to “president says false thing” is not “BUT he believes it.”

submitted 1 day ago • 135 comments

Designed for maximal failure…

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Scoop: As federal health agencies are gutted, Kyle Diamantas, a Florida attorney w/ a slim resume + no prior gov't experience, is the new head of food safety at @US_FDA. Turns out, he's Donald Trump Jr.'s hunting buddy, @vanityfair.com is reporting exclusively: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/f... /1

submitted 2 days ago • 167 comments

“Canada-U.S. Cross-Border Surveillance Negotiations Raise Constitutional and Human Rights Whirlwind under U.S. CLOUD Act” A very insightful and timely analysis by my incredible @citizenlab.ca colleagues @cyn-k.bsky.social & Kate Robertson citizenlab.ca/2025/02/cana...

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You're plugged in and have heard comparisons of DOGE and Gamergate in passing. I took a deeper dive — but still a short, breezy read — explaining how it goes much deeper than a comparison. Gamergate was whiner boot camp. DOGE is the Loser Invasion. www.salon.com/2025/02/24/w...

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

Google obliterated their search function for this

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Bari, whose book ‘How to Fight Antisemitism’ made the ludicrous claim that left-wing antisemitism was more dangerous than Neo-Nazis because it was more “insidious”, is publishing articles arguing we shouldn’t be too concerned about Republicans giving Nazi salutes on stage at political conferences.

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Bari Weiss showing she's the main Jewish person in charge of fighting antisemitism by (checks notes) apologizing for Nazis.

submitted 2 days ago • 39 comments

This is such a good piece. It threads the needle to explain a complex concept in a relatable way. And despite the title, I found it hopeful and reassuring that we CAN combat the urge to justify humanity's worst impulses.

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CSPAN Caller from West Virginia: I’m a diabetic and I’m on Medicare. When Biden was in there, my insulin was $6 for a 28 day supply. I just went to CVS, it went back up to $80…

submitted 5 days ago • 1257 comments

Gov. Mills: I’ll comply with the state and federal laws Trump: We are the federal law. You better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funds. Gov Mills: See you in court

submitted 5 days ago • 2304 comments

AZ AG Kris Mayes: This is a coup by Trump against our Constitution, because they are violating not only the separation of powers but also the court orders We have federal judges saying to Donald Trump and Elon Musk, “Stop this now,” and yet we believe they are violating those orders.

submitted 4 days ago • 152 comments

Balint: And now the United States stands with Russia and North Korea against Ukraine and all of our allies in Europe? It’s sick

submitted 2 days ago • 271 comments

in my experience judges love being told that something is at once both (1) undefined and maybe knowable and (2) totally above board

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

[Silence.]

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