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We appreciate everyone who tuned in to yesterday’s Contrarians’ Day lineup. But we also want to recognize those who took to the streets for the aptly named ‘No Kings Day' protests. Across the nation, people rallied against unchecked power—take a look at the protests that unfolded.

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"Democracy isn't just about getting elected and meeting promises," Kim Lane Scheppele, professor of sociology and international affairs at Princeton University, told @amnanawaz.bsky.social. "You have to fulfill the promises, if you're going to do them, in the proper, legal way."

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Musk did a lot of tweeting yesterday about Contrarian co-founder and publisher Norm Eisen Norm’s response: No one is above the law See more from Jen & Norm’s Contrarians’ Day Livestream by Subscribing to our Substack now

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NIH funding at @UMich supports important medical research, such as extending the life of organs waiting for transplant, advancing treatments for cerebral palsy, and sustaining experimental genetic trials for children with brain cancer.

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Enough Let them clean up their mess

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Centers for Disease Control cuts expected to devastate Epidemic Intelligence Service, a ‘crown jewel’ of public health in U.S EIS officers investigate disease outbreaks and health threats in the U.S. and abroad www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...

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Our VP met with far-right German party AfP while in Europe. In case you don’t know who they are, I wrote about it when Musk argued that party, Nazi leanings & all, was Germany’s future. joycevance.substack.com/p/musk-in-di...

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In 2023, three states passed laws to prevent utilities from charging customers for lobbying, advertising, and other political influence activities. Customers have already saved hundreds of thousands of dollars. www.canarymedia.com/articles/uti...

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A lot of jumping going on...USDA has identified a third spillover of H5N1 from birds to dairy cattle in Arizona. The first spillover occurred in March 2024(B3.13), the second was detected in Nevada dairy herds last week(D1.1) & now we have this 3rd detection in AZ cattle(D1.1). #BlueSky #MedSky

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Worst avian flu crisis ever recorded spreads across Antarctica. A Spanish expedition finds the potentially lethal virus ‘in all animal species detected at each site.’ shorturl.at/Q20Zi #blueSky #MedSky 🧪 #IDSky #scisky #medtwitter #EMSky #nursesky

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The Trump admin wants to un-fire some nuclear safety workers BUT, they can’t figure out how to contact them! The employees lost access to their email accounts after being terminated abruptly, Thursday. No big deal, right? “NNSA is tasked with designing, building and overseeing #BlueSky #MedSky

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If you’ve ever taken the oath to uphold the Constitution, this is the time to live up to it.

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Reposting as Sagan is so prescient from 30 years ago.

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"The best and the worst thing about vaccination is that it 'makes nothing happen.' A child successfully inoculated against measles doesn’t fall sick with that condition, doesn’t miss school, doesn’t go to the hospital. They don’t suffer life-changing complications. They don’t die prematurely."

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“No American can be proud of a govt that carries out change in this way. Neither can these actions be rationalized by discussion of past grievances or appeals to efficiency. Everything can be more efficient, but adherence to the rule of law is paramount” www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

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intelnews.org/2025/02/03/0... Excellent! OPPOSITION to the White House is continuing on the state level where OPPOSITION might be most effective...

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We’re done here. Right?

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NYT OpEd: Five Former Treasury Secretaries: Our Democracy Is Under Siege "We take the extraordinary step of writing this piece because we are alarmed about the risks of arbitrary and capricious political control of federal payments, which would be unlawful and corrosive to our democracy." #BlueSky

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BREAKING: VIRUS FROM NEVADA DAIRY WORKER WITH BIRD FLU HAS THE SAME GENETIC MUTATION seen in the Nevada cows – a change of PB2 D701N that has previously been assoc with more efficient virus replication in ppl & mammals. CDC told Fortune that the D1.1 variant in this worker is the same strain of

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"America rejected kingly power once, and we must do so now,” writes Constitutional law expert @anthonymkreis.bsky.social. In 18th-century England, laws were changed at the king’s whim and legislative authority was subordinate to executive power. Deja vu?

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Good advice for sanity from @hcrichardson.bsky.social

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“Trump’s second-term message strategy seems to be throwing dictatorial spaghetti against a wall to see what sticks.” @davidlitt.bsky.social, a former Obama speechwriter, weighs in on Trump’s week-one rhetorical strategy—and how to beat it.

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As Jocelyn Benson gears up for her run to become Michigan's next governor, she joins Jen Rubin to discuss her campaign and her pivotal role in defending democracy as Michigan’s Secretary of State. Watch the full interview on Substack now. contrarian.substack.com/p/jen-rubin-...

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In “A Cold Day in Hell,” @jonathanalter.bsky.social, @normeisen.bsky.social, & @jenrubin.bsky.social size up Biden’s farewell before moving to the confirmation hearings and finishing w/ a long free-form discussion of the advent of Trump 2.0, all it portends, & what is to be done. Link: bit.ly/ColdTF

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( Fortunately, we don't have to choose. #LetThemFight )

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A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: The famous Adagio movement from Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Maj. (K. 488). Many pianists play this with such restraint that little themes and phrases get muddled—not so with this superb Hélène Grimaud performance. See you around. www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8e0...

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@adamkeiper.com needed ths. Thans !

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NEW: If people like Alexei Navalny "are willing to risk imprisonment, torture, and death to resist an evil empire, there is no excuse for us to back down from standing up for truth and principle" in the United States. www.thebulwark.com/p/even-in-de...

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We can have a beautiful world where we get free energy from the sun, or we can live in a literal hell where everything we love is lost to fire and floodwaters and withering heat. A few hundred Big Oil billionaires are deadset on condemning us to the hell. We can't let them win.

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Folks keep looking for crazy conspiracy theories re: climate disasters when we have stacks of internal company documents with Big Oil saying "we know our products will cause exactly this kind of disaster, and here's our plan for lying to the public to make sure that happens."

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If you're interested, you can find a summary of the latest research on wildfire and climate change in the US here: nca2023.globalchange.gov/chapter/2/

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How do we even prepare our kids for an unknown future 👀

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Michigan reports a new dairy herd infected with H5N1 bird flu, the first case in the state since October, according to USDA.

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Bird flu will be the next pandemic unless health officials take 6 critical steps, experts say - Fortune.

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Great letter in today's Guardian. What sort of free speech is prevented by factchecking, Zuck?

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“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” James Baldwin

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Earth recorded its hottest year ever in 2024, with such a big jump that the planet temporarily passed a major climate threshold, several weather monitoring agencies announced Friday. to.pbs.org/40sTqHW

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After he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957, Albert Camus wrote a letter of thanks to his favorite childhood teacher, whom he'd never forgotten. It's beautiful.

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The Good News ❤️

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The Judge & DANY prosecutors in court today are American heroes. They've put themselves squarely in the sights of a very powerful man. Their sacrifice & willingness to stand up for the rule of law is something we should all honor. It's a true act of courage. They refuse to obey in advance.

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Ted Mondale delivers a tribute to Jimmy Carter written by his late father, former Vice President Walter Mondale: "We came up with a sentence, which remains an important summary of our work: 'We told the truth, we obeyed the law and we kept the peace.' That we did, Mr. President."

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Once again, CNBC offers a clearly picture of what tech titans are doing than those covering politics.

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1/ DOJ has just filed with the 11th Circuit, asking them to set aside Judge Cannon's injunction on releasing the Special Counsel's report on the Trump prosecution and permitting them to go ahead and release it.

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