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"Frankly, these parasites simply had it coming. A reminder: the US has the #1 most expensive healthcare system in the world, yet we rank roughly #42 in life expectancy."
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Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.

Public health teams are being gutted, imperiling work to safeguard organ donation and prevent maternal and infant death. “We are hollowing out our government in a way that is going to hurt people and is going to get people killed.” https://propub.li/4370xr2

CDC Shutters PRAMS Program on Maternal and Infant Health talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/cdc-s...

NEW: Public health teams are being gutted, imperiling efforts to safeguard organ donation and prevent maternal and infant death. Many workers expressed fear at what would happen to the work they left behind.

NEW: Elon Musk’s team has descended on an already understaffed Social Security Administration, which now faces further workforce cuts and closures of vital local offices. The consequences could be significant for millions of the most vulnerable Americans.

Remarkable: Trump's own pollster just found that in swing House districts, Dems lead by 5 points and voters want tax policy to prioritize working people, per Politico. Yet GOP is about to brutally slash the safety net and give the rich huge tax cuts! New piece: newrepublic.com/article/1918...

The worst part of this North Korean style sycophancy is that we all know Lutnick doesn’t believe a word of this and Trump knows Lutnick doesn’t believe a word of this.

Stopping the doomscroll to review 6 antifascist history and tactics books. Timothy Snyder (meh), Robert Paxton (sharp), Paul Mason (compelling), Mark Bray (inspiring), and Spencer Sunshine (super practical). www.conspirituality.net/episodes/brief-antifascist-woodshed

It's not okay to be a grown adult in the year 2025 and still believe unevidenced allegations made by the state of Israel.

So DOGE's 'wall of receipts' is riddled with errors, falsehoods and distortions. big shock. about what you'd expect from 6 tech bros dragged over from the strip club www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

Yep

Federal workers launch a new site to share inside information about DOGE

Choose your fighter

Trump Unable To Focus In Meeting As Pressure Of Booking Kennedy Center Summer Jazz Series Looms theonion.com/trump-u...

“The State of Maine will not be intimidated by the President’s threats.” www.pressherald.com?p=7428090&uu...

Don't throw stones when you live in a glass cancel culture.

Trump and Musk have like 8 working neurons between them.

From southern Lebanon, Drop Site's Sharif Abdel Kouddous reports on the gratuitous and total destruction wrought by Israel, much of it since the "ceasefire" began in November 🔽 www.dropsitenews.com/p/southern-l...

You can't replace the income tax with tariff revenue, and even if you could, it would be just about the most wildly regressive tax burden change imaginable.

Because they want you dead www.ems1.com/public-healt...

Every day more of the few remaining checks and balances are shredded. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...

I was never comfortable with this thing going viral, but if Musk is going to start calling people parasites I thought that I would share it again.

Oh

These stories showing up nonstop on local TV news youtu.be/N23KVyaSoLw?...

Anyone else find it weird that Delaware Democrats are tripping over themselves to rewrite state law so Elon Musk can get his $55 billion pay package? Bueller? prospect.org/justice/2025...

Trump's SEC and DOJ dismissing lawsuits against crypto scammers and Musk's companies is too on the nose.

Delaware is worried that corporate exits would remove a major source of income from the state. So it's poised to pass a bill written by Elon Musk's lawyers that would weaken shareholder rights and likely give Musk a $55 billion payday. From @ryanlcooper.com: prospect.org/justice/2025...