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The reason this is such a big deal is that Trumpism, an ideology of pathological insecurity and bullying, requires you to submit. When you don’t submit, it calls everything about them into question, and they can’t handle that. So don’t submit. Defy the fascist scum.

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Everywhere I’ve ever been, you could always just walk in whatever bathrooms there were. It’s not like they card at the door. The social stigma against being a creepy pest is all that ever stopped you, and that doesn’t change because trans people exist and need to use the bathroom sometimes.

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What we’re experiencing isn’t mass derangement, it’s a crisis of American elites. American elites have become unwilling to make or defend basic factual assertions if they collide with political narratives spread by far-right forces, especially online.

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Michelle Obama: Kids should have nutritious meals. The pro-life party: This is an outrage! RFK Jr: Kids should have measles, mumps, and polio. The pro-life party: Yes, king! Tell it like it is!

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Watching Trump decimate NOAA & NWS, I recall that accurate weather forecasts were the difference between success and failure of D-Day. www.rmets.org/metmatters/h...

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Obama and Biden may think they are honoring the office of the presidency by keeping quiet at a moment like this — if so that’s just preening vanity — they owe it to the office and to the Republic that until last month it served to speak up loudly and clearly and without relent.

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A guy who used to be a comedian & is good at improv and dealing with hecklers and who has also spent the last 3 years in a war zone turns out to be a guy you can’t out-alpha, imagine that

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setting aside the fact that the entire white house staff is utterly poisoned by online in a way that actually exceeds any democratic staffer, it is incredibly pathetic that they look at trump's temper tantrum and see "strength"

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Hmmm this guy is on to something

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Sometimes I think phrases like "dumbest timeline" have helped rob us of a more full, and deep appreciation of how maliciously, negligently uninformed and incurious the people who run our government are.

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The WHCA members refused to stand strong with the AP, so now they get to stand alongside bootlickers like Glenn here. I guess that’s where they think they truly belong, and not outside with the real reporters.

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Just a reminder that even while being Putin’s petulant stooge and shaming our country Trump is also inevitably a liar.

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This was a disgusting display by the soft, uninformed VP Vance trying to school Zelensky, the man who has led his country through the most surprisingly resilient and effective fight for sovereignty against a global superpower. Every negative stereotype about America is confirmed in this exchange.

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again, we know what it looks like when the media does a full court press on an administration we've seen it before these folks have all spent years hyping up Zelensky as a hero time to channel that energy and hammer them relentlessly, day after day, on every show and every channel

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yes yes yes yes “You can’t rally people to your side if you are behaving as a spectator yourself.”

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a few years ago if you said "college republican clubs are hotbeds of white supremacism and enthusiastic support for rape" people looked at you like you were wearing a barrel on a street corner and if you said it today most people would still do that because the newspapers won't print it

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I was privileged to know Gene Hackman because he played tennis with another Gene—Gene Wilder. And that Gene told him about a little role called The Blind Hermit in our movie YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN…

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“People will die, but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...

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I think about this headline all of the time.

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Anti-vaccination is literally a eugenics project that is the actual stated goal it's to kill your unworthy children

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Holy SHIT, that's good news!!!

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I don’t blame people for getting irritated, I get pretty irritated too, but if the media is going to treat Trump voters as the protagonists of reality I would much rather they focus on stories of those voters getting screwed over too they aren’t coming out of this any better than the rest of us

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it is pretty striking that despite a wholesale abandonment of Reagan foreign policy, aesthetics, etc, domestically the GOP is still doing the exact same 1980s routine of robbing the poor to give to the rich slate.com/news-and-pol...

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they think russia is big and powerful because it occupies a lot of space on a map

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"Amazon deliveries." This is Jason Calacanis, a venture capitalist & prominent Musk toady. And he does not know a big percentage of Amazon deliveries are made by the USPS. I will never get over how stupid the people at the top of US society are.

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People laughed a few days ago when @jamellebouie.net said we might not have flu shots next year, but:

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said this before and i wasn't exaggerating: RFK has the exact personality type of the kind of person that, in a different sort of regime, oversees mass starvation.

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Was just reading an assessment of the budget fight that was like “Trump’s team says tax cuts will boost spur growth that offsets them.” What it doesn’t say is that they said that last time, too, which everyone said wouldn’t happen and which didn’t happen. Seems important to note!

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When individuals and publications labor to construct the intellectual and moral justifications for genocide, I think they should be treated like people doing that.

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NEWS The FDA, which operates under the authority of Robert Kennedy Jr., canceled the meeting to discuss next year’s flu vaccines. This could interfere with or delay production of flu vaccines. 86 children and 19,000 adults have died from flu this season. About 430,000 people were hospitalized.

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Breaking: FDA's March meeting to select flu shot strains for 2025-2026 season has been canceled per email sent to committee members, a VRBPAC member told me. drug companies need about 6 months leeway to make shots in time for fall vax campaigns. #healthpolicy

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And by "local Democrats," I mean anyone -- a mayor or town council member, the school board, the local party, a former or future Democratic congressional candidate or, you know, even you Ask your Republican representative to hold one but if they don't, hold your own. Don't wait on anyone else.

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Fuck the American Nazis.

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Frodo if he had become a Nazgûl

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No one had died of measles in America for ten years, until yesterday. That 2015 death in WA was preceded by a 12y period of no US deaths. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... HHS Secretary RFK Jr. says it’s “not unusual.” apnews.com/article/meas... It is unusual. www.cdc.gov/measles/data...

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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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So any legit press in the White Press corps should deny him the microphone — walk out on this lying propaganda charade, and go do some shoe-leather reporting about him instead.

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When Musk’s role in govt or in FAA oversight was under consideration, perhaps it was fair to say “raising concerns about conflicts.” When he announced SpaceX would redesign the ATC system, that was at least a clear conflict. Now they’re buying SpaceX products to do it, it is just plain corruption.

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Your regular reminder McConnell could have taken care of this in January 2021

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We are, unequivocally, the Bad Guys. We have been before, and we will be again, no doubt, but this one is particularly repellent.

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Think I’ll pass on the piece in which a racist creep explains why a major party embracing the Nazi salute really isn’t a big deal.

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For all the white folks asking what yall can do. This. Use the power you have that we don't. Say the things that you can when we can't. That's what's helpful. Not following random Black people and hoping for a protest playbook. "Allyship" is cool, but what we need is overt solidarity. Show it.

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it's amazing how little fanfare it has, it's just this little guy!!! also, great thread this

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Useful resource for anyone in the US looking for a very strong legal rebuttal of the anti-DEI executive orders so far

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