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My cousins lost their home to a fire. They are fortunately safe but they lost everything. Help is very much appreciated. gofund.me/a8294583

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Elon Musk's pinned tweet right now.

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My cousins lost their home to a fire. They are fortunately safe but they lost everything. Help is very much appreciated. gofund.me/a8294583

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Pay attention to this. Replacing JAGs with loyalists enables whatever orders Trump and Hegseth issue to be interpreted as lawful.

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Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

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Pro-life should mean supporting thriving infants and healthy mothers.

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The response to an Ebola outbreak in Uganda demonstrates the issues with dismantling USAID says Dr. @craigspencer.bsky.social. "It's our eyes and ears. In the past we had those relationships, we would know what was happening," he tells @cbsnews.com .

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NEW: The Trump Administration is firing thousands of workers who were hired in the past 2 years at HHS and the CDC today. Senior officials were informed in meetings Friday morning.

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Meanwhile in Russia: decorated state TV host Vladimir Solovyov wondered with great anticipation when Russia’s “boy and girl,” Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard, will finally get confirmed to their positions. youtu.be/DWE3Y2FI7EE

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Approximately 20 members of Elon Musk’s staff have begun working within the Education Department. They have gained access to multiple sensitive internal systems, including a financial aid dataset containing the personal information of millions of students enrolled in the federal student aid program.

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This dystopian banner is being shown on the CDC's website.

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Scientists at the CDC were ordered late on Friday to withdraw any pending publications, at any scientific journal, that mention terms such as “transgender,” “immigrant,” “L.G.B.T.” or “pregnant people.” www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

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NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE full access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.

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With science falling under increasing attack, this medical historian is here to remind people of the power of #vaccines. THREAD🧵 Hard-hitting polio advert from 1958. In the first half of the 20th century, polio was the leading cause of death in children and young adults. 1/7

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Remember that time the USA was under a cyber attack from the White House? And people rushed to save crucial scientific, educational, historical, arts, public health, and disaster preparedness information in multiple languages on the Wayback Machine web archive? That time is now. Go! web.archive.org

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1,100 EPA employees have been notified of imminent termination.

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"A group of researchers and students at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is gathered today for a data preservation marathon, scraping and downloading data related to health equity from U.S. government agency websites before they disappear." journalistsresource.org/home/researc...

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Con artist Sen. Ron Johnson submitted a list of “Doctors for Robert F. Kennedy” into the Congressional Record. But some have lost their medical licenses and many others are not (and never were) doctors.

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From a journalist friend: Just spreading the word. The CDC is purging data, so people should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, and reproductive health. Also health data involving climate. The youth risk behavior survey has already gone down.

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Trump unlawfully issues an executive order to withdraw the U.S. from the WHO. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... The U.S. first joined back in 1948 through a joint resolution from Congress. Presidents may not leave without the "express approval" of Congress. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Here’s what Jirair Ratevosian and I wrote last October, in TIME Trump has now issued the executive order to withdraw the US from the WHO time.com/7027503/harr...

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Executive Order to withdraw US from WHO. All done while discussing China, tariffs, EU, and waffle on BRICS (which according to Trump includes Spain)

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A good day to support people who are helping others. Follow @msf.ca for information about health and humanitarian crises and what you can do to help.

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Per the WSJ: “The incoming Trump administration is planning a large-scale immigration raid in Chicago next week” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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📚 Victoria Amelina’s book “War & Justice Diary: Looking at Women Looking at War” is recognized by BBC as one of 2025’s top reads. Published posthumously, it highlights women’s testimonies from the war in Ukraine.

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Recommended thread.

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Welcome to The Contrarian, a new media outlet not owned by anybody You won’t find cozy alliances, half-measures, or false equivalences here. We bend the knee to no one, vigorously challenge unchecked authority and champion transparency and accountability Join our venture at contrarian.substack.com

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RFK Jr made over $20,000 per week from Children’s Health Defense, a group that promotes vaccine denialism globally, works against sex education in Africa, and questions the link between HIV and AIDS, as RJK Jr has done himself. RFK Jr profited from making people sick www.statnews.com/2024/12/03/r...

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With the news full of Trump's territorial expansionism, his horrifying Cabinet nominations have receded from the headlines and feeds, implicitly normalizing them. As we move into the confirmation hearings, please keep sharing and resharing information about the nominees. Keep reminding us.

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RFK Jr made over $20,000 per week from Children’s Health Defense, a group that promotes vaccine denialism globally, works against sex education in Africa, and questions the link between HIV and AIDS, as RJK Jr has done himself. RFK Jr profited from making people sick www.statnews.com/2024/12/03/r...

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With the news full of Trump's territorial expansionism, his horrifying Cabinet nominations have receded from the headlines and feeds, implicitly normalizing them. As we move into the confirmation hearings, please keep sharing and resharing information about the nominees. Keep reminding us.

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Stanislav Aseyev, who survived nearly three years in the torture prison Izolatysiia in Donetsk, traveled last week to Sednaya, Asad's torture prison in Syria. It's enormously important that this story be told, and enormously meaningful that it's @stanislavaseyev.bsky.social who is telling it.

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Russian state disinfo bots are active on BlueSky for over 2 weeks now. They are posting fake videos using AI-generated voice to promote talking points of Russian state. Please help us to reduce its visibility: follow this labeler, choose Warn or Hide; spread the word: @ab4n-labeler.bsky.social

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One of my New Year's Day projects is a badly needed update here. But this list is now up to 360 organizations in all 50 states, DC and Puerto Rico. 20 days.

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Just in time for his presidency, Elon has changed his online avatar to a white-supremacist hate symbol, his screen name to a 4chan slogan neo-Nazis favor (“kek”), and his bio icon to two swords. This is your POTUS. Are these also gamer symbols? Yes. Does he know they’re far more? You bet your ass.

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Trump’s musings about Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal startled America’s allies and delighted foreign foes. In Russia, they were interpreted to mean that he isn’t really opposed to foreign wars of conquest after all. My latest for @thedailybeast: www.thedailybeast.com/kremlin-insi...

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Elon Musk publishes a text in the German newspaper "Welt am Sonntag," in which he endorses the far-right AfD for the upcoming federal elections. This man has a global agenda.

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An utterly damning and horrific image.

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Nothing to see here.

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Trump wants us to talk about Greenland and Panama, but what if this is actually more important?

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Idiotic move, which will endanger US & global health It will make America and the world more vulnerable to future health crises As I previously said, “it is hard to think of an action more destructive to public health at home & abroad than the U.S. severing ties with the WHO” 🧵

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ICYMI: An Alexander Dugin account (Russian fascist ideologue) reposting Musk's support for the AfD. In case you still had any doubts about Musk's political character and the reality of the far-right international.

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The suspected perp in the German Christmas market attack is an “AfD fan and likes Elon Musk,” per @derspiegel’s national security reporter: x.com/fideliusschm...

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Profiteering from sickness and cancelling funding for researching pediatric cancers and rare pediatric diseases go together. It is a core part of the incoming regime, not a coincidence. Exploit bodies for profit and let those whom the regime views as "unfit" or unprofitable die.

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Thanks to Elon Musk and Donald Trump, Republicans cut $190 million for pediatric cancer research from the funding bill. Congrats to DOGE on their first victory.

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No women will lead a House committee for the first time in two decades after House Republicans revealed their list of committee leaders for the 119th Congress. No people of color were selected, either.

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When I lecture about New Deal banking reforms, I note that some of the key measures — like Glass Steagall — were repealed by the right with disastrous results like the 2008 financial meltdown, but ha ha, no one will ever be stupid enough to kill FDIC and bring back the old bank runs.

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This is today, which should be an interesting discussion in light of recent events in Syria.

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