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RFK Jr. cannot be trusted to oversee or interpret legit scientific research.

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WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

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Modern-Day Peaceful Protest… TikTokers are hunting Cybertrucks—pulling up behind them and projecting anti-Elon Musk messages onto the tailgate. What’s genius: the driver has zero rear visibility & zero idea. The Cybertruck Hunters account launched a week ago and already dropped a dozen videos.

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Here we go

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Trump: Fire hundreds of thousands of career civil servants trying to keep America safe and running. Also, Trump: Give DHS a budget of up to $200 million to run anti-immigrant ads that repeatedly thank Trump for leading an immigration crackdown. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Heroin addict and roadkill enthusiast, RFK Jr. kills flu shot campaigns and cancels a major vaccination conference.

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This is how it’s done.

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Firing all of the JAGs (Judge Advocates General)—the top lawyers in each service branch—is just as bad as, if not worse than, firing (most of) the Joint Chiefs.

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This is so grotesque. Using Musk’s DOD fueled private company to pressure an ally to capitulate to our blackmail to benefit Putin.

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Maddow: All of this absolutely historically unprecedented. No president has ever come out of the gate with numbers like this ever before. And it is across the board

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🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

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With over ten years of service spanning five administrations, Amy Paris was dismissed on February 14, a casualty of tRump’s mass firings. “They said it was performance,” she explained. “I have clear proof I was one of the top performers in the entire federal government.” 19thnews.org/2025/02/amy-...

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Whether in the courts or by way of pressure on the Trump Administration, DEMAND evidence of these claims of fraud and waste. You’d think Trump would be running to Congress & to court to show what they’ve found, and yet…crickets 🦗

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There’s not a word in this story about the corrupt nature of this dismissal. Not a concern voiced, not a question raised, not even an acknowledgment that he’s the president’s biggest donor and he’s acting as an unelected, unconfirmed tyro wielding unchecked power over spending and the civil service.

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Share w/ anyone you know who falls into TikTok health bullshit, especially for #cancer. - Apple Cider Vinegar, JFC - Still owes $$$ in fines - One of the worst false health claims on social media @thankscancer.bsky.social apnews.com/article/bell...

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Here's @oliverdarcy.bsky.social describing how the big national newsrooms characterized Kash Patel as they reported on his appointment. www.status.news/p/cbs-evenin... "Conspiracy theorist" and "Trump loyalist" are both factually correct. So it becomes a question, not of accuracy, but of truth.

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Hi! Disability scholar here. IQ is a deeply racist and classist metric weaponized by eugenicists and used to claim the innate superiority of the white ruling class. Stop listening to ppl who crow about IQ. Intelligence means nothing without compassion, humbleness, and owning one’s mistakes.

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Vacation planning?

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Happy International Mother Language Day! My debut book The Lantern and the Night Moths has an essay about translating from the place of diaspora and translation as language reclamation. Support heritage speaker translators and translators of color 💜

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This is like opposing a joint resolution declaring that the Sun sets in the West America doesn’t just look like an idiot here, we look like goddamn Flat Earthers

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Taos County, although TBH my first guess would have been Mora

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I've said for years that anti-Blackness, racism and white supremacy should be considered as misinformation / disinformation. To study the history of race and journalism is to see that White supremacy was an effective disinformation campaign. And through that, we got Jim Crow, a fascist system.

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Tonight we proposed an amendment to ensure that the Republican budget doesn’t raise prescription drug costs for seniors on Medicare. And guess what? Republicans blocked it — just like they opposed us when we gave Medicare the power to lower drug prices.

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Put this on blast.

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Musk is such a lying sack of 💩 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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lol. Of course they did.

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Flu vaccines prevent: 7.5 million illnesses 2-6 million medical visits 40,000 - 120,000 hospitalizations 3,000 - 12,000 deaths EVERY YEAR in the US alone. That’s pretty incredible with flu vaccine rates not exceeding 40-50% of eligible people. 1/

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No, but if you’re looking for one, I am aware of a guy you work with that was indicted four times and convicted of thirty-four felonies.

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I'm more concerned about the a$$wipes that'll go off trail and do ecological damage, turn it into a dump site, threaten wildlife and floral, etc. Tempered only by the thought of MAGA tourists running up to grab selfies with the fluffy cows, especially ones with calves.

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Trump blames Ukraine for starting the war the way a rapist blames his victim for looking too sexy.

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Just more proof that this Administration doesn’t care if we survive it…

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Hi there. Are you someone who took the deferred resignation offer from Elon musk? Do you know someone who did? I'm trying to get a sense of how it's going. Please hit me up (DMs are open, am also on signal at asteinindc.09)

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

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stares in historian

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A harbinger

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👇🔥🔥🔥

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Truly never ceases to amaze that the first (!) Trump impeachment has fallen down a memory hole so deep that we can watch a bigger shakedown of the same Ukrainian president in real time without it coming up (guilty of this as I didn't mention in my own post yesterday).

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To paraphrase comedian George Wallace, this was not a timely death, it was about damn time. apnews.com/article/ralp...

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A Must Read👇 "Once our justice system is destroyed and replaced with one in which power and cronyism make adherence to laws optional, who will want to spend large amounts of money on highly credentialed and knowledgeable lawyers trained to counsel clients in how to comply with them?"

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Drunk judge in Southern California "loses it" and shoots his wife during an argument. Pleads not guilty (accident). Why do "alleged murderers" like him hire defense attorneys who look like this? Meet defense attorney Cameron Talley. apnews.com/article/cali...

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