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Crockett: "Down in Alabama, who's broke. Down in Louisiana, who's broke. I can go through pretty much the entire south and tell you that they're broke and rely on a lot of welfare from the government. To be perfectly honest, it is tax dollars from these big blue states...we're in the find out phase"

submitted 2 days ago • 1346 comments

share.newsbreak.com/bme4kx29 How sad. Indiana wants to stop free books for kids. #FUINDIANA

submitted 2 days ago • 675 comments

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

submitted 2 days ago • 1214 comments

I can’t remember where I read this, but it’s important: Why is it that when people think about traveling to the past, they worry about doing something small that will drastically change the present, but no one in the present thinks that doing something small today can drastically change the future?

submitted 3 days ago • 663 comments

We have been careful to avoid using the word coup, but it’s time to call it what it is—this is a coup. Trump signed an executive order granting only the attorney general or the president the authority to interpret laws executed by the executive branch.

submitted 3 days ago • 802 comments

Sayings we'll have to explain to our grandkids in the future, all because of this shitty timeline: "Oh, you got that EGG money?!" That's it. That's all I've been saying for weeks now. I'm sorry.

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That night Toad looked out of his window. “Drat!” said Toad. “My seeds have not started to grow. They must be afraid of the dark.”

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A friend from the VA just sent this and asked me to share. PMDB is Prevention and Management of Disruptive Behavior in the workplace. THIS is the real war against women: being forced to say there are only 2 genders but not being allowed to mention 96% of violence is perpetrated by men.

submitted 4 days ago • 1227 comments

This is what oligarchy looks like.

submitted 5 days ago • 1061 comments

Measles high infection rate is the reason we have not yet been able to eradicate it. That rate means you need a very high vaccination rate to prevent outbreaks. It is possible, but not with current levels of institutional distrust.

submitted 5 days ago • 449 comments

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes…

submitted 5 days ago • 487 comments

The average person with the flu gives it to around 1.4 people. The average person with measles gives it to between 12 and 18 people.

submitted 5 days ago • 66 comments

That’s more like it.

submitted 5 days ago • 1170 comments

[The EO] announces a “Make Our Children Healthy Again Assessment”, which, among other things, will, “assess the prevalence of and threat posed by the prescription of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, stimulants, and weight-loss drugs.”

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Measles causes immune system amnesia asm.org/articles/201...

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The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

submitted 7 days ago • 410 comments

Take an honest look at the people around you, and let your gut feeling decide.

submitted 6 days ago • 61 comments

If you’re happy and you know it stay in bed If you’re happy and you know it stay in bed If you’re happy and you know it getting up will surely blow it If you’re happy and you know it stay in bed.

submitted 7 days ago • 106 comments

Many of us scientists in the Global South have been sciencing forever with limited resources, higher costs for infrastructure and reagents/consumables, high bureaucratic burden, no overheads, and still contributed to the generation of knowledge. We’ve developed adaptive strategies.

submitted 7 days ago • 39 comments

If you are "Blue no matter who" person, I'm probably not the one to follow. They're two sides of the same coin, two wings to a crashing plane. Doesn't matter which side is in office, we're still going to crash. We need real change, and 2 parties ain't doing it. 🫤

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Don’t lose hope. Remember, Watergate took over two years to fully unravel from the initial break-in to Nixon’s resignation. Just like then and now, Americans are losing faith in their government. We are documenting every illegal action and will hold this administration and Elon Musk accountable.

submitted 7 days ago • 669 comments