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RFK Jr. said in his Fox News OpEd that “Good nutrition remains a best defense against most chronic and infectious illnesses”. The best diet in the world will not prevent infection if you are unvaccinated and sharing air with someone who has measles.

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It is an amazing world where the United States has allowed an unelected billionaire and w/o an official Senate confirmed position to play with the lives of starving children by witholding Congressionally allocated American tax payer dollars. Just like the Founding Framers imagined.

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Not a way to run a foreign policy.

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I will never get past how he conflates the Mariel Boatlift, and the idea that refugees are mentally ill people breaking out of asylums-- and not what they are-- people seeking asylum into his dystopian nightmares.

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This is like an undergrad paper. The guy cherry picks a definition of realpolitick and then cherry picks history to "prove" his flawed concept. By the way Teddy Roosevelt would have despised Trump.

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The U.S. Dept. of Ed's new "End DEI" portal, which invites the public to complain about DEI initiatives in K-12 schools, has sparked an online backlash. Critics call it a "snitch line," with some likening it to programs in Nazi Germany. www.newsweek.com/department-e...

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New York Times, Jan. 26, 1935.

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Richest guy in the world telling us we can’t afford to have our government fund cancer research.

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The image of Vance touching down in Vermont and immediately getting yelled at by the whitest people imaginable in puffer vests and Merrill boots with wall-to-wall lifetime Vermont Public Radio memberships is extremely gratifying

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Went to look up German AfD campaign commericals for my students on Youtube. And this showed up on the list. I am thinking I will show this instead. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TN-...

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Trump yesterday, repeating something he’s been saying for years (re: tariffs, which he said would make the US “rich’): “it’s going to stop us from being a laughingstock all over the world because we have been taken advantage of like no country has been taken advantage of.” Let’s unpack this a bit./1

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Literally all he did was quote someone. Defining criticism of the government as treason is what authoritarians do. Turning a publicly funded news outlet into a state media propaganda machine is what authoritarians do.

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New, from @pamherd.bsky.social & I: Trump said "Social Security would not be touched." Now the Trump admin proposes a 50% cut in Social Security employees. This will absolutely gut SSA's ability to serve everyone who depends on the program - which is everyone. 🧵 open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

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So if the White House spin is true, then Trump is going to help an authoritarian empire conquer a democratic country because Zelenskyy didn’t acknowledge how much Trump and Putin suffered at the hands of Robert Moeller and Adam Schiff? I assume that’s what the media is reporting, no?

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“European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said: ‘Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.’”

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The sanewashing headlines have already started: No one in particular is to blame for Trump/Vance's appalling effort to humiliate Zelensky with disgraceful lies and open extortion, it just happened, it just devolved

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reality show host president, podcast host vice president

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ZELENSKYY: Putin broke the ceasefire. What kind of diplomacy, JD, are you speaking about? VANCE: I think it's disrespectful to come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media

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At this juncture I am going to need 20 miuntes before every American foreign policy class-- screaming in my car and listening to thrash metal-- so I am mellowed out to sufficiently teach w/o anger.

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I always enjoyed this Hackman film. www.youtube.com/watch?v=elJL...

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Let’s set aside the human cost of wholly needless suffering and death and focus on the much more interesting business of the horserace

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The Medicaid programs of 27 states don’t have the word “Medicaid” in their name, perhaps out of politeness. Much as my students in Arizona would occasionally discover to their surprise that they were Protestants, quite a few people might soon find out—once it goes away—that they’re on Medicaid.

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I wrote my Congressman to express my disgust of the destruction of USAID. I got a response that basically saud "we will have agree to disagree" www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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After spending the day talking about global trade and tariffs I have discovered that people struggle with the idea that America exports things-- and in a trade war they are going to get punished as well.

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Starting?

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Striking how easily you can get millions of people to vote for a boot on their own face just by lying to them about the boot going on someone else's face.

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NEW 👏👏👏 Christian nationalism among (only) White Americans predicts greater racial identity salience, believing their racial group has much to be proud of, share much in common & importance for their racial group to work together to change laws unfair to their racial group 👉 doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...

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Literally the liason of the White House to the Department of Homeland Security. These are dangerous people with no business anywhere near the government, let alone as part of the security apparatus.

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“She asked too many questions that the president didn’t like. She reported too much about criticism of his administration. And so, before long, Yelena Tregubova was pushed out of the Kremlin press pool that covered President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

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These would be concentration camps, and that's exactly who I would have expected to pitch this.

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Alternate headline: Republicans unaware that white people receive Medicaid.

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Montana House Bill 609 would make it illegal to travel from Montana to obtain an abortion that would be illegal within MT. legiscan.com/MT/text/HB60...

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White genocide in South Africa: Court rules claims 'not real' www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Repeating something many Black journos have said already, but never underestimate how much white journos+editors willingness to play nice w/ varied iterations of “anti-wokeism” was b/c they got really uncomfortable from 2012 to 2020 when called to account for racism w/in their outlets/profession.

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No one tell Trump. He will demand it all back.

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Listening to MAGA foreign policy reminds me of "Apocalypse Now." Willard: They told me that you had gone totally insane, and that your methods were unsound. Kurtz: Are my methods unsound? Willard: I don't see any method at all, sir.

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Worried about ongoing fascist take-over of our government? These one pot spätzle will make you feel like you're in a Munich beer hall.

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Criminal behavior.

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“Your voice is meaningless right now. ... I can talk over all of you” said the emcee at the GOP event as the woman objecting to Medicaid cuts was dragged out.

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The US government is now nonstop performative idiocracy.

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“Shortly after Friday’s exchange, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced that it launched a Title IX violation investigation into Maine’s Department of Education and one of its school districts.”

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Yeah this is how you know Republicans are starting to see the same shift in polling the rest of us are seeing.

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Fresh polling shows that 63% of Ukrainians are against elections during war time, despite what Trump and Musk want. www.pravda.com.ua/rus/news/202...

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The United States Constitution reads, “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice”. Here is a helpful explainer from the Reagan Library—>

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I’m sure all the “free speech advocates” will be all over this one

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"In less than a month’s time, Rubio has presided over America’s willing abdication as leader of the free world. It’s a shameful legacy that cuts against everything he once proclaimed to stand for."

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Orwell's "1984" is not perfect, and it is not a crystal ball into the future. But damn if he didn't come up with some bangers (it is that what the kids say?) "The Party told you to ignore the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

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What a surreal encapsulation of anti-Palestinian racism. A Jewish and pro-Israel man shoots and injures 2 people because he thinks they're Palestinian. They're actually Israeli. The two victims respond by assuming the shooter was Palestinian and an antisemite, with one posting "death to Arabs."

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