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My law firm is currently litigating 55 voting and election cases in 24 states. The Supreme Court will issue orders tomorrow that could affect this number. Stay tuned.

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Saw this whole out doing errands today

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Sam Altman has never had an original thought in his life. He's pure con man, his only real achievement is being in the right place at the right time. i don't hold out tremendous hope but i do think he's been sloppy enough that there's a chance he has an Elizabeth Holmes style ending

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@nwayne66.bsky.social If you know any art afficionados who might want a Vyboud etching, I'm selling this one. www.facebook.com/share/15ej94...

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Neuroimmune pathophysiology of long COVID Free full text: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... "we provide a narrative overview of the nervous system in COVID-19 and how the immune system contributes to the pathophysiology of neurological #LongCOVID" #PASC

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This seems a lot like a vehicle for bribery, like everything else in the Trump personalist regime. Want relief from tariffs? Payola to Trump. Reasonable drug approval reviews? Payola. Science grants? Payola.

submitted 17 hours ago • 16 comments

A significant portion of this is that they simply did not experience direct, meaningful consequences for their actions. We have privatized decisions and socialized the impact, and that’s how aristocracies/monarchies function

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“The rule, as reportedly rewritten by Senate Commerce Chair Ted Cruz in an attempt to comply with budgetary rules, would withhold federal broadband funding from states if they try to enforce AI regulations in the next 10 years.”

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Incredible how Cuomo is absolutely DWARFING everyone else in money and spend and yet it’s still close enough that they’re pulling these stops out. They’re scared.

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Dad's nursing home in Massachusetts did great covid mitigation. Careful visits on the patio, regular testing & stats. Then Omicron hit, people thought they wouldn't get it at Christmas dinner b/c they were vaccinated. Dad died in January 2022. Don't give Cuomo another chance to harm.

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It’s happening and it hurts.

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This is the exact thing— these people are just going for broke and achieving personal hatred goals because yolo? They can fuck all kinds of shit up & walk away smiling because we don’t do consequences for government people here

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“I feel like I’ve been lied to,” Kiley told his wife as his fever rose to 104 degrees. He tried to manage his symptoms at home with cod liver oil and vitamin D, supplements endorsed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr… and coughed and dry-heaved his way through the night.” cc @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

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LET THIS SINK IN: The U.S. just bombed Iran. Cities are on high alert. And Trump put a 22-year-old ex-gardener and grocery clerk—Thomas C. Fugate—in charge of domestic terror prevention. He graduated last year. This is who’s supposed to keep us safe. www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...

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I was briefed on the intelligence last week. Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon. The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success.

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World War 3 kinda sucks, but you know, it was either this or pronouns

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Reminder that the justification for DOGE was propaganda.

submitted 23 hours ago • 2 comments

Trump did this. Don’t let anyone ever forget it. When we are burying American dead, don’t let anyone ever forget who’s to blame.

submitted 23 hours ago • 6 comments

The American evangelical right is absolutely shitting themselves with excitement over this. There is nothing on planet earth that they want more then a destabilized Middle East at war to trigger the rapture. This is 100% fact even though it sounds ridiculous.

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🤣🤣

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Oh, swell.

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We have a madman in the White House who is actively trying to trigger total war. If Jeffries, Schumer, or any other Democratic leaders try to justify this, shrug indifferently, or write a strongly-worded letter and call it a day, they need to step down or be aggressively primaried.

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MSM doing a bang up job right now of ignoring the fact that a criminal POTUS unilaterally declared war and instead focusing on Iran’s nuclear capabilities which had a deal w/USA until same criminal pulled out of it because it was achieved under Obama. Trump is a threat to peace.

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ABC’s Jay O’Brien is reporting that republicans in Congress were briefed ahead of the strikes, but that democrats were not briefed until after the attack was underway.

submitted 1 day ago • 349 comments

This is reckless, illegal action from the president. He does NOT have the authority to enter us into a war with Iran. He MUST consult Congress. This is not what Americans want. I’m thinking about our troops tonight.

submitted 1 day ago • 106 comments

The funniest line here is “the risk of war has now dramatically increased.” It’s not war yet when you drop a bunch of bombs on a country?

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

"I want answers" on a blatantly illegal, historically consequential, and disastrous action undertaken by the president is worse than no statement at all.

submitted 1 day ago • 37 comments

RFK Jr. resignation watch. From 2023 NYT questionnaire 2023:

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it will get papered over, but trump briefing johnson and thune but not schumer or jefferies is another example of congress having essentially given up on any pretense of oversight — this would not be in any way acceptable to republicans if the situation were reversed.

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A suggestion about your relatives. Ask your parents, your grandparents, to talk about their past. Not only what they did, but WHY they did it. Record it. Down the road, it will mean more than you know.

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Bernie Sanders did in fact find out about the attack on Iran during his speech in Tulsa. This is that gut wrenching moment when he stopped his speech and announced Trump’s post then informed the audience that we are now at war with Iran. Sanders made clear it’s unconstitutional.

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Anyhow, obviously Congress is really busy trying to gut Medicaid, but it would be great if they could have a fucking war powers debate about Iran this week.

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This is not about the merits of Iran’s nuclear program. No president has the authority to bomb another country that does not pose an imminent threat to the US without the approval of Congress. This is an unambiguous impeachable offense.

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Everything is fine. Top Men are on the case. FBI. WE ARE FUCKED. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-a...

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Been nice knowin’ youse.

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We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.

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David Kaye ⬇️ is a former United Nations Special Rapporteur, law professor and expert on international humanitarian law, human rights and international criminal justice. "Aggressive war" is a legal term of art.

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@repmcgovern.bsky.social Sorry to bug you on a weekend but, um, did you & your colleagues vote on a declaration of war? I don’t recall seeing any news about it. EGADS. Heaven help us.

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