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RFK Jr. Vows To Make Measles Deaths So Common They Won’t Be Upsetting Anymore

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NEWS The FDA, which operates under the authority of Robert Kennedy Jr., canceled the meeting to discuss next year’s flu vaccines. This could interfere with or delay production of flu vaccines. 86 children and 19,000 adults have died from flu this season. About 430,000 people were hospitalized.

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What the actual fuck

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This is false. The US actuvely supported the creation of every stage of what is now the EU, bc we believed it was better for us to have a united Europe with us against the Soviets than to have a fragmented Europe obsessed w its own problems and vulnerable to the USSR

submitted 20 hours ago • 16 comments

Q: how to 6x DOGE savings ($2.5b)? A: Cut subsidies to Tesla ($15b)

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submitted 11 days ago • 781 comments

I know Stathis. He was a colleague of mine at the University of Chicago. He is a pretty buttoned-down scholar. For him to tweet this out is… something.

submitted 11 days ago • 85 comments

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

submitted 12 days ago • 5657 comments

The lead prosecutor in the Eric Adams case has resigned over DOJ's order that the case be dismissed. "I expect you will eventually find someone who will be enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 13 days ago • 63 comments

billy joel: we didn’t start the fire detective: I haven’t mentioned a fire billy joel: shit

submitted 491 days ago • 23 comments

Wildlife explorer.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

this is the sort of thing you post when you’re ramping up to defying lawful court orders

submitted 18 days ago • 3697 comments

The average Fox News viewer has no idea that Musk is tearing down a system that allowed this country to rule the world for the past 75 years. And when their standard of living slips dramatically in the next five years they still won’t understand because their TV will blame it on some poor scapegoat.

submitted 18 days ago • 197 comments

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

submitted 19 days ago • 270 comments

Just received this photo from a friend of a warehouse in Kinshasa. These are tuberculosis medications--ALREADY PAID FOR--that aren't being distributed due to the Trump Administration's stop work order. TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)

submitted 20 days ago • 169 comments

I can. In fact, the Canadian version is so great, I can't think of an American equivalent. 🧵

submitted 22 days ago • 285 comments

Love my city 🩷

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

My first and definitely last time working with the Los Angeles Times. Editing out the most urgent point of an OpEd in the minutes before sending to press while then also assigning a title and image that suggest an argument entirely opposite to the author’s clear intent is pretty shitty.

submitted 27 days ago • 510 comments

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

submitted 28 days ago • 2305 comments

It takes a long time to build functioning systems to confront hard problems. It takes a far shorter time to destroy them. Sooner than we think, in a time of need, we might wonder: what happened to that system, safeguard, or service? Expertise matters. Don't squander it.

submitted 28 days ago • 3 comments

Highly recommend this Oscar Nominated Documentary Feature on the crimes against families and children in Indian residential schools in Canada and the United States. Very personal community storytelling deftly handled by a First Nations film maker. films.nationalgeographic.com/sugarcane

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Loved this sweet little film ( nominated for best International film and best animated feature) flowthemovie.com

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

I’ll never get over that all of this was avoidable and our kids could’ve had a better future had voters just made the obviously rational choice in November. It’s water under the bridge now. But what the fuck, people.

submitted 33 days ago • 1585 comments

Goddamnit, Costco, I can only eat so many hot dogs.

submitted 34 days ago • 21 comments

The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH** * Currently paused by Executive Order ** Grant reviews now all canceled www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...

submitted 35 days ago • 2539 comments

He lost the youth vote by 11 points: www.cnn.com/2025/01/19/p...

submitted 35 days ago • 85 comments

The rise of Curtis Yarvin is a good example of the value of expertise and the problems when it's dismissed. People with philosophy and history training recognize him as an intellectual fraud. But he was able to convince enough VCs and software engineers who didn't have the chops to see his errors.

submitted 36 days ago • 49 comments

latest column is on the dipshit curtis yarvin

submitted 36 days ago • 195 comments

Chris Murphy: "Political violence in this country just become mainstream. It is now a fact of life in America. If you commit an act of horrific violence in the name of the POTUS, that president will make sure you get away with it. That is fundamentally un-American."

submitted 36 days ago • 332 comments

Trump just literally eliminated an Executive Order to reduce the price of prescription drugs. They are ripping you off, personally. They never gave a shit about the price of anything.

submitted 37 days ago • 227 comments

I’m old enough to remember this from last Sunday.

submitted 37 days ago • 14 comments

The Attempt to Hold Donald Trump Responsible for Election Subversion Ends with a Whimper, and With Renewed Dangers for American Democracy electionlawblog.org?p=148172

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NEW: Trump has boosted that incoming AI/Crypto czar David Sacks will protect "free speech online." But in deleted tweets we recovered, Sacks argued Trump's rhetoric on J6 violated the First Amendment, could be removed, and Trump could pay for it "in a court of law.” www.cnn.com/david-sacks-...

submitted 44 days ago • 7 comments

Germany’s four-day work week proves to be a massive hit; Efficiency was enhanced by four-day week, increasing production rates euroweeklynews.com/2025/01/12/g...

submitted 46 days ago • 2 comments

What is seen and what is unseen, democratic politics edition

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When I was a kid, around 1,800,000 people died every year of tuberculosis. Now, around 1,250,000 do. That's important progress. But at this current rate, it'll take a CENTURY to push TB deaths much below 500,000 per year. That's totally unacceptable for a curable, preventable disease.

submitted 52 days ago • 14 comments

for the potato fears not death

submitted 58 days ago • 588 comments

Trends Favor Butter

submitted 57 days ago • 12 comments

Jimmy Carter outlived one of his obituary writers:

submitted 60 days ago • 24 comments

We have one more episode to drop before the year is out but until then we have some very good stuff up on the pod. On the main, free feed, we’re talking Men in Black.

submitted 68 days ago • 19 comments