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I need Danny McBride to play JD when they inevitably make a movie about all this.

Now that I am finished screaming into the void about schooling for kids with disabilities being assigned to RFK: understand what this means. He’s lumping accommodations into HHS, meaning those needs are now considered medicalized. Different from everyday education. This is eugenics.

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Openly ignoring and defying the Judiciary. Breaking his oath to preserve and protect the Constitution of the United States. Granting himself unchecked power. This is authoritarianism.

Timeline cleanse.

The center of gravity in Evangelical theology is Jesus “paid a debt he didn’t owe.” He “went to the cross with you in mind as the ultimate sacrifice.” If you genuinely believe that (and I believe many do) then you should loudly reject the “empathy is a sin/weakness” narrative with your whole chest.

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“I won’t forget” ?

What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isn’t whether he’s lying about this, the question is why. What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?

This is a bigger issue than people realize. Not just jobs lost. But their families losing benefits. Landlords losing tenants. Cities and towns losing revenue. This is how recessions start Ready Fire Aim is no way to govern.

“DO YOUR JOB!” TEXAS: @RepKeithSelf’s turn

I owe an apology to all James Bond movies. I mocked them for having completely unrealistic, cartoonish villains that simply weren't believable. 2025 has made it impossible to levy that criticism anymore.

Yes

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James Donald Bowman cosplaying a tough guy™️ while berating and insulting an *actual* leader is just the thing my blood pressure didn’t need today.

So increasing the minimum wage to a livable wage is “socialism”? But Amazon union busting, keeping wages low, and forcing workers onto public assistance while its founder increases his net worth by $7.9M an hour is the "free market"? Perhaps this could be a WaPo opinion piece.

The wages of the richest 1% have skyrocketed 182% since 1979.  Meanwhile, the wages of the bottom 90% have seen just 44% growth.  Trickle down economics was always a hoax.

It’s obviously Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Wile E. Coyote.

Welcome to the RFK Jr Era of Public Health.

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I guess I’m an Eagles fan now? 42 years of being a Cowboys fan hasn’t give me much to cheer about. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

Here's video of Steve Bannon doing a Sieg Heil today at CPAC. It is what it is and it's what Bannon intended. Don't let yourself be gaslit.

Trump calls himself “THE KING”

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

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Why does a 38-year old U.S. Attorney in SDNY, who is also a die hard conservative, have more guts and integrity than the entirety of the GOP Senate Conference combined?! Shame on the shameless sycophants and enablers there, who can’t find the spine to stand up to common MAGA bullies.

Yesterday I did a rewrite on a blog post for an eye care tech company. I pulled the CDC and NIH links in the original, replaced them with research journals and non-profit health orgs. US gov data is no longer the gold standard - or even consistently available. How far we have fallen, and how fast.

DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY SCIENCE: 1. Chickenpox 2. Diphtheria 3. Measles 4. Pertussis 5. Pneumococcal Infection 6. Polio 7. Tetanus 8. Typhoid 9. Yellow Fever 10. Smallpox DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY RFK JR. OR PRAYER: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Done.

Thank goodness for the American Medical Association. Here is their YouTube page. Please share far and wide. Right now bird flu is spreading throughout our country and most people have no clue. Please stay updated and bookmark this page for your health and well-being. www.youtube.com/@americanmed...

We only know this man is in Gitmo because Noem tweeted a propaganda photo that included him and his sister saw it. He has no criminal record. He entered the US in January and immediately made an appointment with CBP to claim asylum. They sent him to a concentration camp bc of his basketball tattoo.

The AMA has a YouTube page where you can catch up on all the fun, ongoing TB & bird flu outbreaks, since the CDC is no longer allowed to do that: youtube.com/watch?v=HlPB...

**Saquon Barkley bear-hugs his coach on the sideline after winning his first Super Bowl** Tom Brady: Reminds me of the time I won my first Super Bowl as a young Black man. #SuperBowlLIX

Great point.

**Equipment manager brings water onto the field for players** Tom Brady: I remember when I took a drink of water on the field in 2007 when we were playing the Giants in New York and I had just led our team down the field for our third score of the quarter and then I….

He is describing a dictatorship. One key difference between the US and Hungary has to do with that first bunch of Constitutional amendments.

this is the sort of thing you post when you’re ramping up to defying lawful court orders

People are getting up off the mat.

Great job by Ruben (@rubenbolling.bsky.social).