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My fury for these folks is limitless.

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Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

submitted 15 hours ago • 346 comments

It’s just so goddamned pointless. There’s no policy justification on which to fall back — it’s just about the cruelty…the abject, senseless, flippant cruelty.

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Fealty to Donald Trump will not spare you from his cruelty. It's strength — not weakness — that curbs his baser instincts. Now is the time for us to be strong.

submitted 11 hours ago • 146 comments

One of my favorite ongoing traditions, officially confirmed for me again this year: DC trip in April, just after an election. 🗳️

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

🎶 “A stark naked light bulb / hangs over my head / there’s one lonely pillow / on my double bed / Yeah, I’ve got a ceiling / a floor, and four walls / Ahh, who says / you can’t have it all? / “ 🎶 Modern country music could never.

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After the FDA canceled its vaccine committee meeting, should we be worried about next season’s flu shot supply? If strain selection happens later, it’ll be tight, but manufacturers will scramble to make it work, said Litjen Tan — though not any later than March. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

submitted 15 hours ago • 8 comments

I'm stepping on the theme of Chris' book here but, we have an extremely toxic information environment controlled by wealthy oligarchs who have aligned themselves with Trump, the whole point is to manipulate people into making poor decisions. bsky.app/profile/chri...

submitted 17 hours ago • 88 comments

🚨🚨🚨 Among the cuts from USAID last night: PEPFAR programs in South Africa. “Though PEPFAR funding support makes up around 17% of South Africa’s HIV budget, the entire program is at risk" www.thebulwark.com/p/a-midnight...

submitted 21 hours ago • 28 comments

USDA still hasn't hired back all the avian flu researchers that they need, and some that were re-hired still haven't been given their laptops back, so can't work. Not a good sign for this ongoing outbreak. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

This from @jamellebouie.net nicely sums it up www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/o...

submitted 20 hours ago • 14 comments

Frankly, I couldn’t care less about where they might differ on issues — I’m curious as to how they’ll respond when they inevitably get ignored. And make no mistake, it’ll happen. If you’re trying to truly consolidate power, you have to neuter those responsible for sharing and/or checking it. TBD.

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

Update on scramble to rehire federal bird flu researchers: "The dismissals have already helped trigger a partial shutdown at one of the department’s research facilities...Some of those who were rehired this week still don’t have their laptops." Great reporting from @politico.com

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Glad to see USDA is listening to my calls to bring Avian flu under control by starting to vaccinate laying hens. Wish RFK wasn’t simultaneously disbanding the effort to vaccinate people from the seasonal flu…. 🐓💉🤧

submitted 21 hours ago • 24 comments

So many legendary performances by Gene Hackman — and, yes, I’m stereotypically a sucker for 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘽𝙞𝙧𝙙𝙘𝙖𝙜𝙚 — but may I submit an underrated performance, a favorite of mine, with top-tier character name too? Rankin Fitch, 𝙍𝙪𝙣𝙖𝙬𝙖𝙮 𝙅𝙪𝙧𝙮 (2003)

submitted 23 hours ago • 2 comments

Iconic actor Gene Hackman, 95, and his wife were found dead in their home outside Santa Fe, authorities say.

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Among many brilliant performances in Gene Hackman’s career is his turn as a conservative Senator stuck in a drag bar in The Birdcage (1996). The Birdcage was a rare LGBTQ-centred Hollywood studio movie, made at a time of far greater and widespread homophobia. It topped the US Box Office for 4 weeks.

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Correction. ALL millennials love the Bridcage unless you are a psychopath.

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🦇 or 🐈‍⬛

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Y’all ever just sit & think about the First Amendment?

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i genuinely think the pro-vaccine republicans who voted to confirm RFK are more evil than the anti-vaxxers anti-vaxxers genuinely (but incorrectly) think they are helping people the pro-vaccine republicans made a calculated decision to kill thousands to marginally boost their hopes in a primary

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There’s A LOT happening on the ground & behind the scenes that doesn’t get the media coverage of, say, a dysfunctional cabinet meeting so — while I vehemently disagree with the framing that “we’re all just 🤷🏻‍♂️” — I do agree that folks need to better understand the system is already destabilized.

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Again, folks seem not to grasp how much this is a total collapse of the Constitutional order. A random private citizen is running the "Cabinet" meeting of POTUS & the Principal Officers of the Executive Departments, & going around unplugging large portions of the government. And we're all just 🤷‍♂️

submitted 1 day ago • 190 comments

Sedition next?

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Now is the moment to DO MORE, not less, in the fight against Alzheimer’s. Urge your members of Congress to reaffirm their commitment to the Alzheimer’s community. Take action & help ensure the voices of those impacted by dementia are heard: bit.ly/alzaction

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The Know Nothings knew more.

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Just experienced what has to be one of the most hilarious situations of my gay adult life, objectively, & it didn’t even involve me. 🤣

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Ensure the voices of people living with dementia and their caregivers are heard. Urge your members of Congress to reaffirm their commitment to the Alzheimer’s community today. We’ve made great progress and we cannot afford to stop now. bit.ly/alzaction

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BREAKING: A school-age child has died of measles in West Texas, the first death from the disease in a decade in the United States. nbcnews.app.link/paXT0Dg4iRb

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🏡🏢🏘️ “•The last annual count of the nation’s homeless population showed an increase of almost 20 percent over the previous year. •By contrast, Milwaukee County’s homeless population decreased by nearly as much over the same period.” That’s my county executive, @davidccrowley.bsky.social! 👏🏼

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spotted this at the gay bar in NOLA over the weekend and i’ll never stop thinking about it as long as i live

submitted 1 day ago • 72 comments

Seems like the relevance of this Reagan-era Herblock cartoon has risen by 200%. Washington Post, 12/22/1988.

submitted 2 days ago • 240 comments

The climate is fragile, all kinds of weather events are intensifying, meteorologists (among many other professionals) are speaking up — but the current administration wants to keep its head in the sand instead. We’re all losing.

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Something that I’ve just learned exists & will now be sharing updates from regularly: The PEPFAR Impact Tracker (pepfar.impactcounter.com) —> Demonstrating the daily, deadly impact that Eln, Trmp, & the bootlickers are needlessly inflicting.

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Bezos destroying the post opinion pages is just another reminder: Conservatives think free speech is when they can say what they want and when you can say what they want.

submitted 1 day ago • 156 comments

Heck yeah, "personal liberties and free markets." Looking forward to op-eds like "Trans Rights Are Human Rights" and "Elon Musk Should Go To Jail For Securities Fraud." Oh, right, I forgot, Bezos and his ilk don't actually believe in either personal liberties or free markets.

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

America’s oligarchs got historically rich and powerful off the federal government and are now carrying out an aggressive coup. We’re in a class war and unless we stop them they will plunge us into a nightmarish authoritarian reality. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-birth-...

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🔥 @aoc.bsky.social : “The numbers don’t add up. $880 BILLION is a devastating cut to Medicaid, and an attack on Medicare. Anyone who votes for this budget is voting to cut Medicaid and gut health care for Medicare recipients in 🇺🇸.” Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGg7cr0...

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All opinions about Newsom, specifically, aside…I am admittedly fascinated by the construct. 🎙️

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A friend of mine has a daughter with Down syndrome, and thanks to these programs she recently made the transition from high school and living at home to an internship at a major pharmaceutical company and an apartment of her own. But the techbros think that's all "waste"

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Teens with disabilities were getting help with life after high school. Then DOGE started cutting. www.chalkbeat.org/2025/02/26/t...

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