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This is a recurring thing where the second a former appointee says something mildly critical, Trump goes on a tear about how incompetent & traitorous they are. It never seems to occur to him that he’s announcing he’s unfit for his job.

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Please join us as we welcome Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson to discuss their book on the "worse than Watergate" scandal of Joe Biden's mental decline

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Cutting federal funding to cancer research to pay for an endless line of tanks filing past the Washington monument.

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kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes

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Wow no one could have predicted this. I’m sure AI will fix all this up. futurism.com/computer-sci...

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I helped explain to the Chicago Tribune the enourmous and irrational damage the NIH funding freeze is causing at Northwestern. “You’re at risk of losing an entire next generation of scientists" "it’s terrifying; it’s completely senseless." www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/07/w...

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Pre Trump administration: The assault on the Capitol to overturn an election was not an insurrection, but protests against ICE is an insurrection

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White flight ☠️😂

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people have raised extremely serious problems with his story (namely, that Lucre watermarked the worst CSAM on earth and was clearly lying about how he acquired it) and the response is to be snarky about the bluesky pileon what is going on in the newsroom there

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U.S. military fabricated evidence of alien technology and allowed rumors to fester to cover up real secret-weapons programs www.wsj.com/politics/na...

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"Sources said the administration is specifically considering a full termination of federal grant funding for the University of California and California State University systems." Pure vandalism. This could never happen in a country with functioning checks and balances.

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Re-reading Justice Robert H. Jackson's famous speech on the dangerous discretion of federal prosecutors in light of the dubious indictment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. This section stood out. www.roberthjackson.org/speech-and-w...

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We spent so long treating Americans data like a profit center and not a right that no one is terrified enough at this gross attack on our civil liberties www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/u...

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WOW. Breaking news from ABC that has the potential to cast serious doubts on today’s indictment of Mr. Abrego Garcia.

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not enough said about how, by turning the national government against states on the basis of ordinary political disagreement, trump is undermining the idea that the union is worthwhile. www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/p...

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Thanks to @ReporterGoodman for this excellent piece. A team of us compiled data on controlled vaccine trials: 258 so far (~1/2 of which used inert placebo), covering 45 antigens and 2.5M participants. Claims that vaccines lack placebo trials are false. 1/2

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So to review: 1. He never should have been deported. The admin admitted that. 2. The admin said he was an MS-13 member and also they couldn’t get him back. They lied. 3. They are now charging him with a crime that they did not mention until literally now.

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note that this completely inverts the public justification for the deportation scheme. they claim they’re deporting criminals, but they deported Kilmar without knowledge of a crime, and now that they supposedly found one they’re bringing him BACK.

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Pretty egregious error from this book: The authors say Swedish deaths fell by 2.3% during the pandemic, proving that the country's lax lockdown strategy worked. But they misread their source: Mortality is only down if you remove the COVID deaths. research.abo.fi/ws/portalfil...

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One striking thing from this (excellent) report on a DOGE employee's use of AI is that everything about it is antithetical to sound software engineering practices—an engineer hurriedly deploying an unfamiliar tool to meet an impossible deadline for a problem domain in which he has no expertise.

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Trump can't have it both ways. Either the economy is not only strong but "hot," and therefore doesn't need the Fed to stimulate it further. Or the economy is weak and struggling, and therefore the Fed needs to intervene and cuts rates. Which is it?

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In 2019, NIAID proposed an ambitious scientific network focused on pandemic preparedness, research, and response - the "CREID Network". Ten centers kicked off just as the pandemic was taking off, playing critical roles throughout. We were just notified the whole network is terminated. Reason? 👇

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Builder ai, once valued at $1.5 billion and backed by Microsoft, collapsed after it was revealed the company used hundreds of human engineers instead of actual AI to build apps. www.tweaktown.com/news/105593/...

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Day 56. 🇺🇸

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So he's nearing his release date again. Since his December 2020 conviction (sentence: 1 year & 1 month), they keep adding new charges, especially when a release date approaches. He has served all of them, & his 4 yrs 8 months sentence from a Jan 2021 arrest (while in prison) is close to ending.

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Midnight, June 7 is the deadline to comment on the revised Schedule F, Trump's plan to politicize the civil servants by converting them into at-will appointees that can be fired for the mildest pushback against illegal actions. It's easy - here is how: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/last-day-t...

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In 1936, FDR closed out his re-election campaign by bragging to a massive crowd at Madison Square Garden that “organized money” hated him “and I welcome their hatred.” He took 60% of the vote in a 523-8 electoral college landslide. FDR knew having the right enemies could be a useful thing.

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Yes, Mr. Roosevelt, there's a polio vaccine. Yes, sir, this man lies about vaccines. Yes, sir, we think you should embrace him. No? Okay, you're the boss. Now onto this next potential supporter. He's a car manufacturer. Yes, the fellow who did the Nazi salute. Sir, please stop yelling at me.

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“His history of advocacy on health issues is full of misinterpreting data, cherry-picking out-of-context snippets, moving the goalposts when his assertions are refuted, or simply ignoring research that contradicts his preconceived notions” 👏 @BruceMirken.mas.to.ap.brid.gy 48hills.org/2025/06/the-...

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And here’s what she said weeks ago to me:

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The US government needs a functional biomedical sciences apparatus... and yet. Here we are. My man Eric is puffing so hard on Rational Actor cope.

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The problem appears to be that some people across the political spectrum are really into the Cultural Affect of critiquing American healthcare and unhealthy nutrition behavior or consumerism... in lieu of doing the hard work of reading and understanding the literature, or talking to researchers.

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I am really tired of these "well, you gotta hand it to them..." pieces. It is hard to find anything accurate in the MAHA report, and the quality is appalling. They are correct that the evidence supports that a far greater fraction of Americans' diet comprises hyperpalatable ultraprocessed foods.

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Sycophants flabbergasted each and every time their idol fails to have a coherent plan.

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We made this episode public so everyone could hear us live-react to the White House's berserk conspiracy website www.whitehouse.gov/lab-leak-tru...

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Quite entertaining while managing to be more accurate than almost any other bit of popular media on the subject I've heard.

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working class: billionaires buy elections billionaires: i buy elections white collar centrist think tank guy who promotes himself as some kind of working class whisperer: nooooooooooooooo that's not how money in politics works

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Feels relevant.

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I have two wolves inside me and they both say: $%^* those two, and people can process this how they wish

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So, I know the answer to this and it sucks. It sits at the intersection of internet forums, large animal people, rural culture, and American healthcare. Rural people regularly DIY their medical and veterinary care. Horse people are exceptionally into DIYing their vet care, because horses are

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I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

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Thank you for the stern scolding but it’s actually possible to both enjoy two malignant rich fucks viciously falling out and understand it doesn’t fix every problem immediately.

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