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I’m an old Hoosier living in a little rainbow drop surrounded by a sea of red. Counting on Kurt Vonnegut being my spirit animal-
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Kansas is enjoying a tuberculosis comeback, Texas is hosting its biggest measles party in decades, and bird flu’s got us importing eggs from Turkey. But sure, the smartest play is to pull flu campaigns and cancel vaccine advisory meetings. Genius leadership.

That ASMR video from the White House..a little girl in TX kills herself….an Afghan woman pleading from a hotel window in Panama.

Among those Trump and Musk fired at the FAA: - Lawyers who help keep drunk or reckless pilots out of the skies - Air traffic control support staff - Employees who track potential new flying hazards like cranes - Staffers who medically clear pilots to fly www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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

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Well, @joshgondelman.bsky.social made me almost choke on toast listening to @thebugle.bsky.social this morning.

This is an especially good episode. If you’re unfamiliar with the Bugle, or you fell off after John Oliver left, this is a good place to jump in.

This is the story.

Blumenthal: "What world is he living in? It is not only contrary to the facts and the truth but utterly despicable. A disgusting betrayal of a country that has bled and fought and died for freedom ... the president's surrender is pathetic and weak."

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8YqJJT7/. Keep calling that liar out! He doesn’t speak for me & a whole bunch of people in the US- we stand w/ukhraine🇺🇦

That’s how you write a headline, people.

"One USDA bird flu scientist kept a job but had to say goodbye to ... colleagues. “We all work on high pathogenicity avian influenza—seems like an absolutely reckless time to fire qualified scientists...directly involved in monitoring and responding to this virus right now,” the scientist wrote."

I am not making this up: Republicans have introduced legislation… to increase your bank fees.

Mentioned on Serious Trouble today that when the administration wins these cases it seems to be on procedural issues like standing or sufficient urgency to merit a TRO. Have there been any significant SUBSTANTIVE victories for the administration?

Trump just blamed Ukraine outright for Russia’s invasion. ‘You shoulda never started it,’ he said. What a lie, a Russian lie—from the President of the US.

Judge Chutkan won't issue a sweeping TRO against Elon Musk & DOGE—but fires this shot across the bow: "Plaintiffs legitimately call into question what appears to be the unchecked authority of an unelected individual and an entity that was not created by Congress and over which it has no oversight."

Yes👇 let’s have that lipless press Secretary waive a list of expenditures to Elon & his many entities. What’s good for the golden goose is good for that randy gander-

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Just to be crystal clear ~~ This MF needs to be taken down off his make believe throne 💀 #SheShed #MuskNotPresident

Here’s the thing. Every one of these people in tears heard Trump on the stump before Nov. They knew he was cruel. But they were fine with it, thinking he’d only hurt the people they didn’t like. The problem with cruelty—It spreads. You don’t get to control it. Sooner or later, it comes for you too.

DOGE in practice: Disabled Army veteran who has 4 kids and did 3 tours overseas is fired from his job at Bronx VA hospital

@washingtonpost.com Money and Greed Over Truth and Freedom of the Press

Over at the other place, JD Vance is calling me a ‘dummy’ for pointing out his administration’s attacks on journalists and free speech here at home. Musk literally today called for the jailing of CBS journalists. The VP clearly has a lot of time on his hands.

Hi @washingtonpost.com Is this the ad your pig of an owner stopped from print? Freedom of the press my ass.

Meta is reportedly censoring videos about the ICE ethnic cleansing operations.

Is President Musk getting impeached???? WTF is happening?!!!! www.axios.com/2025/02/18/m...

Oh so now with all the fuckups that have been committed by DOGE- suddenly we find that Musk really isn’t the head of DOGE- just an advisor to the prez- what a fucking coward-“not my fault your cancer treatment got cancelled, your farm went bankrupt- I just advise”.

Headline: Exploding rocket company to oversee changes to airplane safety. buff.ly/3X86gt4

Ain't this the truth!!

🚨BREAKING: Michelle King, the acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration, was ousted after denying Elon Musk access to “sensitive files,” the Washington Post reports This. Is. Insane.

At least 20 FDA staffers reviewing Neuralink, Elon Musk's brain implant company, were fired in an ongoing DOGE purge of federal workers.

"Law and order" in the Trump era: if you bow down to the head of the U.S. government, he may help you - whether you're awaiting trial for sex crimes in Europe or doing time in the USA for physically assaulting police.