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Trump's Department of Homeland Security is now sending around emails with what appears to be a $75 million U.S. Coast Guard cutter crashing into a dock. For budgetary reasons?

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I'm compiling a list of money wasted by Elon's mass firings in National Parks, forests, wildlife refuges, and other public lands. If you know of an example, please add it here. I'll publish the result.

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

The measles outbreak in Texas has reached 124 cases, almost all in unvaccinated children. This is Fox News telling you to get your kids vaccinated. Measles is a deadly disease. www.fox4news.com/news/texas-m...

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Measles is not just a childhood illness. Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c... It can lead to devastating complications even years after recovery. @pauloffit.bsky.social joins Dr. Therese Markow on Critically Speaking. #Measles #Vaccination #encephalitis #contagious #virus #infectiousdisease

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This is a seat to which I would gladly appoint Elon Musk.

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Honestly it's enraging. Call your representatives and tell then to take Donald Trump's "One Big Beautiful" tax cut for the rich and shove it up his fat, lazy, anti-American butt. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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This is an attack on Medicaid, & ANYONE who votes on this budget this week is voting to cut Medicaid in America, and voting to gut healthcare for Medicare recipients in America. As a recipient of Medicare and Medicaid, I PLEAD with you to call your member of Congress at 202-224-3121 & say NO CUTS!

submitted 8 hours ago • 179 comments

Neal: "Look at the alignment. $1.2t here for cuts, but $1.2t for tax cuts. Oh, let me figure that one out. They are going to cut Medicaid to justify what it is that they want to do."

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MSNBC worries about the perception that they’re not fair to R’s while Fox eats an $800m libel settlement to preserve its ability to lie about Ds. That’s the asymmetry that gives illiberalism a structural advantage. open.substack.com/pub/readtpa/...

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Trump's minions are pushing to extend his tax cut for the rich & add $11 TRILLION to the national debt even while trashing necessary federal programs. Call your representative & say, "No!" www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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If you have ever heard the bugling of sandhill cranes or taken heart from their springtime return, you will know how sad this must be for those who are witnessing it--and for the cranes. richardconniff.substack.com/p/bird-flu-m...

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1500 hundred dead just in Indiana richardconniff.substack.com/p/bird-flu-m...

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The Bible says it shall not profit a man to give his soul for the whole world. But for a seat in the U.S. Congress country club? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/o...

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I keep reading that America has turned its back on Ukraine. But I haven't, and I bet you haven't either. Just one guy, Donald Trump, is making this cowardly retreat. Stand by Ukraine!

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is protected against measles by the vaccination his parents were smart enough to get him. The people who listen to him aren't. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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RFK Jr. responds to major Texas measles outbreak by ignoring it, and goes back on promise not to re-examine the childhood vaccine schedule. www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...

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He is going to waste so much time and funding to go down his conspiracy rabbit holes, while important conditions are pushed to the wayside and H5N1 is likely to be completely ignored. And we know his idea of "unbiased science" is "science that agrees with my preconceived notions."

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

In 2019, RFK Jr visited Samoa to spread anti-vax lies, spurring a measles outbreak that led to the deaths of 83 people - mostly children. We can’t let that tragedy repeat in Texas. The MMR vaccine is 97% effective at preventing measles. Let’s stop the spread. www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-m...

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Trump surrenders Ukraine to Russia. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

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Good stuff on the terrible danger of measles: emilysmith.substack.com/p/neighbor-t...

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"Rebarbative" and "recursive" are showoff words that most readers don't understand--and that writers should avoid. Prove me wrong.

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People in West Texas are re-learning the lesson about how dreadful measles can be, especially for young kids--but they aren't learning fast enough. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/making-mic...

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Chant of the day was “hey ho, Elon Musk has gotta go”

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Trump's ferocious attack on public health will kill Americans, mostly children, mostly, at first, in Red states. Red and Blue need to unite to say, "Stop!" richardconniff.substack.com/p/trump-chao...

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I don't care about your politics. This is about protecting all our kids (grownups, too). We know how to prevent disease. Let's just do it. richardconniff.substack.com/p/trump-chao...

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The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

submitted 10 days ago • 411 comments

Here’s the lifesaving story Robert F. Kennedy Jr doesn’t want you to know. Read it while you still can. www.amazon.com/Ending-Epide...

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The history Robert F. Kennedy Jr. doesn't want you to know. Read it now while you still can. www.amazon.com/Ending-Epide...

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You remember #measles? You remember whooping cough? Get your kids and grandkids vaccinated now, because old diseases (and new ones, too!) are part of Trump's big plan for America. substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Way worse than Nixon's "Saturday Night Massacre." Trump is trying to turn the Department of Justice into 'a piece of captured battlefield artillery he is now able to turn against his attackers" www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/u...

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Way worse than Nixon's "Saturday Night Massacre." Trump is trying to turn the Department of Justice into 'a piece of captured battlefield artillery he is now able to turn against his attackers" www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/u...

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Frivolous lawsuits have become a mechanism for extorting bribes. www.wsj.com/tech/musks-x...

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Celebrating Charles Darwin's birthday, #217, I think. That Latin slogan means "While we live, let us live," and when not actually partying, check out the website for a complete collection of Darwin photos, cartoons, etc. darwin-online.org.uk/Caricatures....

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