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Hey everyone fucking red alert. Who can see this happening and remain silent?

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Must read 🙏⬇️ www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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Thought-provoking. And it's a gift article. :-) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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THREAD: The Trump administration's DOJ has removed a study from the NIJ website that found that immigrants, and particularly undocumented immigrants, commit crimes at significantly lower rates than U.S. citizens. The study is at odds with the Trump regime's propaganda about immigrants & crime. (1)

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Good way to see the current tariffs, as of literally today, is no tariffs on high value add manufactured goods marketed to middle and upper middle classes. Massive tariffs for cheap consumer items which amount to the biggest economic privilege of working class/middle class life in US.

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The U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services has repeatedly claimed: “If you’re healthy, it’s almost impossible to die from an infectious disease in modern times.” That is dangerously false. www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

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there is simply no amount of child death that will move RFK to change his mind because he is a predatory narcissist who cares less about health than the gratification of his own ego

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Me, June 6, 2024: “Conway envisioned [that if reelected] Trump would ‘try to violate every law,’ [and] predicted to host Ronny Chieng … ‘You’re gonna see capital flow, both human and financial, like we’ve never seen from the U.S. before.’”

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Reminder re pro-natalism: Elon Musk quietly donated $10 million to UT-Austin, per the Musk Foundation's 990 form. What was it for, exactly? University would not say. @sooophie.bsky.social and I called people and filed records requests--Musk's $$ helped set up UT's sites.utexas.edu/pwi/research/

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DEMOCRATIC ELECTEDS: You need to be holding hearings like Raskin/Schiff did but on the bloodbaths at Social Security and IRS. DOGE can now pocket everyone's personal information. IRS is being set up to make billionaire taxes optional; no more phone support # at SSA. HOLD THE HEARINGS.

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When you don’t feel safe living in a G7 country, that country is becoming a “shithole” country. Not feeling safe’: Growing numbers of Americans seek Canadian citizenship www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

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Trump and Musk are eliminating 90% of Social Security’s regional staff—and, at the same time, will now only post public updates from Social Security on a platform owned by Musk, where more than 90% of seniors won’t see them. Corrupt, cruel, and wrong.

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Hysterical.

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This is a recipe for financially ruining U.S. research universities: 1) Vastly and rapidly reduce funding for research and infrastructure; 2) Scare international students, whose tuition helps fund PhD students (as TAs), away. These folks know exactly what they're doing.

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NEW: Entire scientific fields have been wiped out by the nearly 800 grants cancelled at NIH, finds a @nature.com analysis of the unprecedented cuts. About half of all 2024 NIH projects related to LGBT+ health or vaccine hesitancy — gone. See the other topics and US states hardest hit here:

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Not kidding when I say it's not entirely clear that the Administration knows what current tariff rates are. Apparently the China tariffs were more punitive than the White House led folks to believe yesterday. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

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This is so fucking gross. This is a cult.👇

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Trump adviser: 15 countries have sent him trade deal proposals

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So absurd: Trump's aides are telling him working class voters love his tariffs. But recent polls actually show majorities of non-college voters say tariffs raise prices, and disapprove of his handling of them. I looked at the data. It's striking. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1937...

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🧵Today, countless Missourians traveled from all over the state to testify in opposition of HJR 73, the MO GOP’s latest attempt at overturning Amendment 3, which restored abortion rights within the state. 1,538,659 Missourians voted for A3. Republicans think their voice is more important. #MoLeg

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When the head of ICE starts talking about how great it would be to have Amazon Prime for shipping human beings to a concentration camp in El Salvador that no one ever leaves, you’ve gone way past “it could never happen here.”

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Trump has signed an executive order targeting Susman Godfrey, the law firm that helped Dominion Voting Systems obtain its $787 million settlement from Fox for the network's 2020 election lies.

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Rising star Democrat @maxwellfrost.bsky.social just outlined the two things we need to do to stop authoritarianism. Watch:

submitted 6 days ago • 30 comments

God bless the Toronto Star

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Paul Krugman: Even if research funding is restored, U.S. science will have suffered huge long-term damage. So will the world trading system, and the effectiveness of the federal bureaucracy, which will be impaired for many years even if DOGE’s depredations stop.

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via AP: “‘Under the First Amendment, if the Government opens its doors to some journalists—be it to the Oval Office, the East Room, or elsewhere—it cannot then shut those doors to other journalists because of their viewpoints,’ [District Judge] McFadden wrote. ‘The Constitution requires no less.’”

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

You know EXACTLY what you were voting for when you voted for this convicted felon 📣

submitted 6 days ago • 296 comments

Thanks @NPR @1a for the opportunity to talk abt the effect of the overwhelmingly destructive cuts to HHS are having on all Americans. Grateful to fellow guests @ddiamond.bsky.social & @julierovner.bsky.social for saying what isn’t said nearly enough: This is all illegal. the1a.org/segments/if-...

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‘“Once you make concessions once, it’s hard not to make them again,” Christopher Eisgruber, the president of Princeton University and a legal scholar by training, said when discussing the attacks on higher education.” Courage and character are needed. So is solidarity of righteous purpose.

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All of you deserve the nations best to step up and help guide us. That’s why I asked recent former FDA chief and respected cardiologist Rob Califf to join me for episode 2 of Meidas Health! No nonsense, just the facts. @meidastouch.com @robcaliff.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/6NZM...

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Dozens of federal employees tell WIRED that Trump's federal return to office order has resulted in chaos (including bad Wi-Fi and no toilet paper), with productivity plummeting and public services suffering.

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Well this seems like a fantastic plan. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/h...

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"So Trump will impose these tariffs and sit back and wait for other world leaders to petition the king with their offerings that will ultimately expand his own power, all the while we are the collateral damage. We all get thrown under the bus; 350 million people suffer so that one man can benefit."

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“A CDC white paper on antibiotic resistance released during the first Trump administration listed drug-resistant gonorrhea as one of five urgent threats facing the country.” Why? What possible rationale could there be for such a decision?

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