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"It's Weird That People Ever Voted in Elections" "It's Weird That Planes Ever Landed Safely" "It's Weird That We Ever Vaccinated People Against Diseases" "It's Weird That Retirees Ever Received Social Security Checks"

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📱Congressional switchboard is (202) 224-3121. We have a number of comments we’d like to share. HHS works for you! It’s funded by you!

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Now reading: Traveling to Mars (Ablaze) by Mark Russell, Roberto Meli, Chiara Di Francia, and Mattia Gentili. Humanely cynical satire about a dying man sent to claim Mars by a corporation. Very Vonnegut. The best thing I've read in some time.

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ok, cis folks—if you said you'd stand with trans folks, it's time. S.9 is the senate's sports ban bill—a big step to making trump’s executive order a federal law, which is much harder to undo. it can be stopped monday. short call scripts for dem & GOP senators ⬇️🧵 legiscan.com/US/bill/SB9/...

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It's like a Russian nesting doll of illegality: Musk holds no office running DOGE, DOGE has no lawful authority to direct OPM, and OPM has no legal power to insert itself in the chain of command from agency heads to their employees.

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I don’t think you should remove mention of marginalized people from your applications and boilerplate if you have federal funding but there is a utilitarian case to be made for removing specific words and phrases because of the way the text is scraped and run through ChatGPT by wealthy illiterates

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"officials at the Dept. of HHS... have pressed staff at the agency to ignore court orders, according to nearly a dozen former and current NIH officials I spoke with. Even advice from NIH lawyers to resume business as usual was dismissed by the agency’s acting director, those officials said."

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The Trump administration terminates funding for polio, HIV, malaria and nutrition programs around the world. “People will die,” said Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi of the African Population and Health Research Center, “but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”

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a cloture vote for the way-harder-to-undo-than-an-executive-order federal anti-trans sports ban is now set for monday. that means there's more time to make calls. no on cloture means it doesn't get a vote. the GOP needs 7 dems to advance it. please call. there is so much evil downstream of this.

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New Mozilla TOS diff. This is what they just removed: * Does Firefox sell your personal data? > Nope. Never have, never will. The purpose of the new TOS appears to be to enable them to do this - such as for their advertising and AI sidelines. github.com/mozilla/bedr...

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The National Weather Service is THE ONLY source of weather data in the US. Every weather app, local broadcaster, and weather forecast map is based on NWS data from NOAA. This is a ridiculously stupid own goal for the US that will disrupt all kinds of social and economic activity, and endanger lives.

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🚨SCOOP: Elon Musk's DOGE has just imposed a $1 limit on firefighting officials' credit cards, blocking them from buying emergency firefighting supplies & travel to wildfires. Trump has fired 3,400 forest service employees ahead of wildfire season.

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We’re witnessing a Brexit-level instance of completely unnecessary economic destruction. A country that’s not hit by any shock, but simply chooses policy self-harm.

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NEW: Trumpworld sources say Stephen Miller is effectively the prime minister, and that he and his wife Katie are the White House's point people on the DOGE takeover. The couple are seen as glorified babysitters; one source describes Elon Musk as a preteen child. This is from @jakelahut.writes.news

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The U.S. #NationalWeatherService, housed within #NOAA, is a truly world-class meteorological predictive service, perhaps singularly so. It costs only ~$3/yr per taxpayer, & yields ~10:1 return on investment--saving economy 10s-100s of billions, not to mention thousands of lives.

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Not pro-life

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Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

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Hope I can read all these comics before I die of avian tubercumeasles.

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Dark money groups funded by Elon Musk spending over $4 million to buy Wisconsin Supreme Court race GOP-dominated courts on verge of overturning election of Democrat Allison Riggs in NC Supreme Court race There's a constitutional crisis in the states as well www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Every news outlet reporting Elon Musk's comment about accidentally canceling Ebola prevention efforts and quickly restoring them should also say they haven't been restored, they're still canceled, the outbreak-fighting teams are dismantled, the money is gone www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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The US is heading towards a presidential order to shoot protestors. Trump wanted to in his first term, the sort of officials who opposed it aren't in the second administration, and he doesn't fear criminal law anymore. But I don't know how it'll go. Real human beings would have to pull the triggers.

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February/Fractions Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man (1964) Arnold Drake and Bruno Premiani

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The first measles death in the US in a decade -- the tragic, preventable death of a child whose parents chose not to protect them with vaccination -- should spark an immediate nation-wide campaign to ensure all children are protected against preventable diseases. Anything less is unconscionable.

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China and Russia both have designs on Antarctica. We are witnessing nothing less than the purposeful destruction of the United States as a global power, directed by the hands of our adversaries. Musk must be physically stopped.

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every person I know who’s worked for USAID is so proud to represent the U.S. in their roles. this would be a shitty way to treat them if they all HAD been fired for cause, but instead they’re being treated this way because a group of unelected thugs has seized control of the federal government

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Christ. They're trying to kill us all, that's how they'll cut the federal budget. I wonder if the reason the Phase 1/2 data isn't public yet is because the Trump admin nuked all the meetings at which such data would be presented and discussed. Now they want to nuke the Phase 3 trial just for fun.

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When the United States becomes Red Lobster

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Terrible news about Gene Hackman, Betsy Arakawa, and their dog.

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If you work in a legal, medical or government office in one of these trials: RELEASE THE FUCKING DATA HOLY FUCK LEAK THE DATA SAVE THE FUCKING WORLD WITH A SINGLE USB STICK AND AN EMAIL ADDRESS HOLY SHIT FUCK IP

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No democrat should vote for anything in Congress until Musk is fired and all the federal funding he zeroed out on a whim is restored. We simply cannot have a democracy when the Executive's zonked-out Vizier moves fast and breaks things he doesn't understand, which is all things, because he's stupid.

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Getting so mad I'm turning into whatever shade of red RFK Jr is.

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With another set of news headlines about political elites using “””Roman salutes””” I just want to note that the Nazi salute means “I want to murder your family” and the n-word means “I want to lynch you.” That’s what they mean, they make me righteously angry, and I won’t let anybody minimize them.

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First measles death in a decade. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

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Yep. “Fraud" is the new "DEI"... is the new "groomers"... is the new "stolen election"... is the new "parents' rights"... is the new "big government"... is the new "personal responsibility"... is the new "welfare queens"... is the new "states rights".

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We can still stop the GOP from destroying Medicaid But it's going to a national pushback that scares Republicans more than Trump. What you need to know about this fight that truly just began last night, informed by the awesome @bbkogan.bsky.social's monster thread.

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Oh no. Horrible.

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Infuriating.

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This vote was to start the process of the cuts. It WILL come back for a final vote. There are some chances to slow or potentially stop it. Need constant pressure on GOP Focus on GOP swing seats & key committees. Energy & Commerce is where the Medicaid fight will go down. Ways&Means for tax fight.

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Thread on how to stop, or at least impede/defang, the Republican attempt to destroy your family’s healthcare

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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.

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To be clear: this was a chat room where trans people discussed medical procedures and surgeries. There was nothing "pornographic" about it, except in the imaginings of the bigots who deem every aspect of trans life pornographic. This is a purge of all trans employees, and nothing less.

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I called my republican rep and I hope you’ll call yours! Even if they’re as dyed in the wool as mine is, they need to hear from dissenting voices.

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very cool that the federal government is now a wholly owned subsidiary of elon musk. they probably will try to make it illegal to not advertise on twitter too.

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