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“A video shared by Tarrio on social media on Saturday showed him following the officers, Michael Fanone, Harry Dunn and Aquilino Gonell, through … a Washington hotel that was hosting the Principles First summit, a conference where one of the officers received a ‘profile in courage’ award.”

Foreign relations expert Richard Haass says the United States' advantage over China and Russia is that it has an enormous pool of allies willing to collaborate. Trump's approach could change that.

February 16, 2025

We need Pete Buttigieg as a clear messenger, more than ever.

Musk is working on replacing contract workers in the Department of Education with AI chatbots, aiming to use generative AI to handle student and parent inquiries.

Ohio’s food bank operators say it’s only getting harder for people to afford enough to eat, and they’re serving more people than ever. So they're asking why state and federal leaders are considering steps that would put less money into food assistance programs

Thousands of investors in Trump’s crypto scheme lost $2 billion in just weeks while the Trump Organization racked up $100 million in trading fees. Just so happens that the CFPB, which Trump is trying to kill, recently announced new regulations for the crypto industry. Hello?

As the Trump administration and Elon Musk work to dismantle USAID, the government’s lead agency for delivering humanitarian aid for generations, right-wing influencers have flooded the internet with falsehoods about its work, promoting unfounded claims and conspiratorial thinking. nyti.ms/4htWHN0

Good news: CDC back to posting MMWR reports www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/... Bad news: The bird flu data and 3 studies were omitted, and 2 new household-cat transmissions unreported www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

February 6, 2025

"If the 'DOGE' endeavor is working, why can’t the White House just tell the truth about what it's doing?" www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

February 5, 2025:

Losing NOAA would be devastating. Project 2025 authors want to get rid of it because it monitors climate change, and privatize the information it currently provides for free, so you'll have to buy information about the weather and the winds (imperative for mariners).

The Treasury Department right now. People are turning out against Musk and DOGE staging a takeover of the Treasury’s payment system. This crowd is big. The whole block is packed. “Lock him up,” everyone yells.

In 2024, we invited you to take a peek at the terrible future Donald Trump would impose on America. That vision is now becoming a reality for us all, but we refuse to submit to his dark vision for our country.

Is this a way to silence his critics by jailing them in foreign prisons?

By 2035, older adults will outnumber people under 18 in the U.S. for the first time, the Census Bureau estimates. But the impending wave of boomers is either a crisis or an opportunity — depending on whom you ask. nyti.ms/4gr3GF9

Covid associated with acceleration of coronary atherosclerosis and developing high-risk plague, adverse cardiovascular events, by serial CCTA in over 800 participants and controls. pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/...

February 3, 2025

A new paper on microplastics accumulating in the brain was just published in Nature Medicine. I've reviewed the background and main findings in a new Ground Truths post erictopol.substack.com/p/the-microp...

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The Trump Administration will not renew temporary protections for more than 350,000 Venezuelans who were granted those protections in 2023, paving the way for them to potentially face deportation by spring, according to a Monday prepublished Federal Register notice.

Elon Musk’s staffers have gained unauthorized access to sensitive government employee data by installing a server at the OPM. They now have access to USAJOBS, the federal hiring portal where applicants submit personal details such as Social Security numbers, home addresses, and employment histories.

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February 2, 2025

“This is what we do at all my other companies.”

ATTENTION: All of my Lutheran friends and colleagues. All hands on deck.

The order bars the government from "any conduct that would unconstitutionally abridge the free speech of any American citizen" and orders an investigation into the Biden administration's actions.

In a world of nazi's, be an Allied soldier. From Heather Cox Richardson: January 24, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose is applauding the Trump administration for rescinding a 2021 executive order directing federal agencies to offer voter registration materials when they interact with citizens

Today in Politics, Bulletin 56. Gavin Newsom crashed Trump’s visit to CA, and it did not appear to be a friendly conversation. Here is everything you need to know about what happened today in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

Welcome immigrants from X interested in science to the friendlier skies of @bsky.app, as documented by a new @nature.com survey (but you already knew that 😉) "Bluesky is much better for science. There is much less toxicity, misinformation, and distractions." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

With social media companies rolling back their efforts to crack down on rampant falsehoods, misinformation, and disinformation, that can be incredibly dangerous and cost lives in times of crisis and natural disasters, but there's very little officials can do about it.