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Leaving Twitter after 15 yrs. Mom of 4 hoping for a purple Texas.
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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 37 days ago • 2540 comments

If we wanted to make people sicker, on purpose, this is what we would do

submitted 37 days ago • 57 comments

One downside of living in the richest country on Earth is how we're permanently stuck with substandard infrastructure because our plutocracy won't allow any improvements.

submitted 90 days ago • 15 comments

James Bond movies never show the part where the supervillain collects government subsidies to build his death tech.

submitted 94 days ago • 714 comments

Hegseth, according to his books, could be counted upon to ignore threats to America from abroad, and to use a purged and politicized military against “enemies within.” Essay: "Pete Hegseth: 13 Steps to National Destruction" snyder.substack.com/p/pete-hegse...

submitted 97 days ago • 72 comments

submitted 98 days ago • 3826 comments

How many with Madison Cawthorn

submitted 102 days ago • 431 comments

So apparently they’re considering having Stuart Fischbein join HHS. For those who don’t know, this man lost his license for inappropriate sexual relations with patients. He also doesn’t believe birthing people should get epidurals bc he thinks it disrupts their connection with the fetus.

submitted 103 days ago • 29 comments

The idea that Bluesky is insular and X is a place for diverse views is a fallacy. X is based on an algorithm rigged to push the views of Musk and others on the far right. Bluesky is open. You can make it whatever you want it to be.

submitted 103 days ago • 359 comments

I really don't get how Democrats can be handed the easy layup of "Republicans are uniting to suppress the underage sex trafficking report about an unliked and unqualified nominee" and decide the best thing to do is minimize its importance.

submitted 103 days ago • 158 comments

“Trump EPA transition” is the grimmest part of this bio. Milloy is what you could reasonably call an “air pollution truther,” who got paid lucratively by Exxon and Phillip Morris because he thinks inhaling particulate matter from burning substances is fine and you’re crazy to think otherwise

submitted 103 days ago • 2 comments

Democrats keep being punished for not cheating

submitted 106 days ago • 183 comments

Sen Mullin on Gaetz: “When he was accused of sleeping with an underage girl, there’s a reason why no one in the conference defended him. We all saw videos he was showing us on the House floor of girls he slept with & brag how he would crush ED medicine so he could go all night.”

submitted 107 days ago • 562 comments

In the late 1990s, the gun industry launched a secret project. To elect firearm-friendly politicians, manufacturers gave political operatives sensitive, intimate information on their customers without their consent. The story behind the data sharing had never been revealed. Until Now.

submitted 113 days ago • 16 comments