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Brooklyn-based snark enthusiast, a woman of many skills and many opinions. Hate has no home here!🗣️🖕🏽🙌🏽✊🏽🍷Yea, member of the 92% club. No, I won’t watch my mouth; my opinions/thoughts are my own. My pronouns are “Fuck/You”
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It has been a long and grueling week. Thank you to everyone who offered kind words of support. If you want to follow everything happening to democracy in court, while also supporting pro-democracy independent media, please sign up for Democracy Docket. www.democracydocket.com/me-subscribe...

submitted 6 hours ago • 355 comments

Why did Hegseth just fire every top military branch lawyer? What did they refuse to sign off on? A Pulitzer awaits the reporters and outlet who can tell the public.

submitted 5 hours ago • 211 comments

The poster child for white male mediocrity, Pete Hegseth, is firing qualified Black men and women from the military.

submitted 6 hours ago • 416 comments

If you look at all the firings across the government over the last two weeks it's frequently been taken as a given that any black or woman official or officer is either a DEI hire or supports DEI and is summarily fired on that basis. Seems like the same model here.

submitted 5 hours ago • 63 comments

BREAKING: Donald Trump just fired General CQ Brown (left) and has replaced him with the less qualified Lt. General Dan Caine. DEI isn’t a problem if you’re white.

submitted 7 hours ago • 404 comments

Tonight Trump fired the black general who served as chair of joint chief of staff. And Pete Hegseth fired as Chief of Naval Operations Lisa Franchetti. She made history in 2023 when she became first woman to lead the Navy. Trump is erasing people of color and women. How long will you take this?!

submitted 6 hours ago • 32 comments

In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine had no signs of relapse after three years. Dr. Vinod Balachandran from @mskcancercenter.bsky.social joins us to discuss the results and what they could mean for cancer treatment.

submitted 13 hours ago • 554 comments

Dear @cnn.com, The judge did not “vacate” the trial. He adjourned it. Then he appointed an amicus curiae to argue against dismissing the charges. Who writes your headlines?

submitted 14 hours ago • 905 comments

The @nytimes.com changed the story and has now added this info after I caught them last night. This is why I screenshot these stories. There was no editors note added nor did they point out that a stealth edit was made. h/t @shoq.bsky.social

submitted 20 hours ago • 24 comments

The talent drain will be immense.

submitted 1 day ago • 475 comments

According to ProPublica, dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since abortion bans were implemented, compared with maternal deaths in the state immediately before the pandemic.

submitted 1 day ago • 290 comments

🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!

submitted 1 day ago • 1930 comments

Well done Senator Duckworth fighting for fellow veterans. -- VA Crisis Line Employees Among Those Fired Amid Federal Workforce Purge www.military.com/daily-news/2...

submitted 1 day ago • 101 comments

I taught the Dixiecrats and their aftermath in my seminar on the political history of civil rights today. Kari Frederickson’s great book was the main text but I also assigned my southern strategy chapter from Myth America. That led to the Prager U video and then the D’Souza experience too. Fun!

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

RFK Jr. thinks that a clinical trial should be done for the entire childhood vaccine schedule. Here’s why that will never happen. 1. You can’t do a randomized trial of something that we already know is safe and effective. There would have to be a placebo group that didn’t get vaxxed. Unethical.

submitted 3 days ago • 696 comments

Elon Musk is dismantling the Social Security Administration. Expect delays or pauses in SS checks starting immediately.

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

EXCLUSIVE: A federal worker at the EPA sent an incredible email to Administrator Lee Zeldin. He's refused to stay silent, and has asked me to share the email - and his name - with the public. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...

submitted 1 day ago • 1116 comments

BREAKING: The 8th circuit is letting 17 states move forward with challenging the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act rule (h/t @gbbranstetter.bsky.social). We have new analysis out today showing that would impact nearly 3 million pregnant workers each year. nationalpartnership.org/report/attac...

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

Meanwhile in Indiana… Dolly Parton calls out Gov. Mike Braun for plans to ditch her Imagination Library 📚. Apparently, the new governor isn’t too keen on kids doing book learning and all that fancy schooling stuff. 😳🙄😥

submitted 1 day ago • 33 comments

Marocco has leadership roles at both the State Dept. and USAID — two agencies that sidelined him during the first Trump administration after he was accused of undermining U.S. foreign policy. This time, he answers to few besides Trump himself. By @annamaria.bsky.social and Brett Murphy

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

How we did it: Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did

submitted 1 day ago • 203 comments

The country singer started the “Imagination Library” nearly 30 years ago to encourage early literacy. www.thedailybeast.com/dolly-parton...

submitted 1 day ago • 210 comments

NY law firm Sullivan & Cromwell is enthusiastically joining Donald Trump's effort to undermine the justice system. It’s sad to see a firm clients have long turned to for counsel on how to comply with the law rendering itself into an instrument for promoting lawlessness, I diacuss in PN.

submitted 1 day ago • 200 comments