Maria Phillis, MD/JD FACOG

Jill Stein and Cornel West both disgust me — such goddamn, self-serving hypocrites.

Gavin Newsom is exactly right, Trump is doing everything we told you he would do and more. It's time to wake the hell up, America. Authoritarianism is here.

The thing about a lot of these never Trump Republicans is that, unlike a lot of institutionalist Dems who think the fever will break and we can all return to comity or whatever, these guys saw the rot up close and know the only appropriate response is to tear them out of government root and branch.

The role of COVID-19 vaccines in preventing post-COVID-19 thromboembolic and cardiovascular complications Objective To study the association between COVID-19 vaccination and the risk of post-COVID-19 cardiac and thromboembolic complications. Methods We conducted a staggered cohort study based on national...

#Episky @bmj.com #COVID💉 reduced the risk of #postCOVID cardiac & thromboembolic outcomes. These effects were more pronounced for acute COVID outcomes, consistent with known reductions in disease severity following breakthrough vs unvaccinated #SARSCoV2 infection.

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Hear, hear Carhartt be-toqued young gent! 🗣️

Why DIDN’T the other 44 democratic senators follow suit after Cory Booker’s marathon speech? Why aren’t they on chamber floor now? Why aren’t they shouting from the rooftops that fascism has arrived in America?

Their “colleagues” are ghouls. ACT LIKE IT!

The Techno-Fascist Soul of Marc Andreessen The uprising of 2020 didn't just challenge the systemic racism of American policing; they terrified the oligarchs of Silicon Valley. For Marc Andreessen, the billionaire venture capitalist, the sight ...

Part of how we got fascism in the United States is that a bunch of Silicon Valley oligarchs lost their collective mind in 2020 and radicalized into techno-fascists on group chats. Marc Andreesen is the epicenter of this shift.

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This is blatantly obvious but I'll say it anyways - if Texas Republicans pass an aggressively gerrymandered map OF COURSE they will face a lawsuit from us at the @redistrictfdn.bsky.social.

It is not a close call.

Last night, the Department of Health and Human Services sent termination letters to employees who were originally fired in April but temporarily reinstated due to a lower court ruling. The Supreme Court cleared the way last week for those firings to proceed.

GOP Wrecking Ball Slams Through Medical System Hospitals are shutting down, slashing programs, and laying off staff. And the worst parts of the spending law haven’t even hit yet.

"Hospitals are closing or actively considering doing so, cutting programs, and laying off staff. Planned Parenthood is warning patients it can no longer accept Medicaid insurance and in one region says it can’t provide services to Medicaid recipients at all…"

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Elizabeth Warren slams Trump’s attempt to fire Jerome Powell because of renovations at the Fed: “No one is fooled into thinking that Trump and his henchmen are suddenly really interested in the cost of plumbing and painting for a 90-year-old building.”

The political puzzle Noah points to here—why are Republicans sabotaging policy that benefits their constituents?—is because Rs are doing politics in the friend-enemy mode where harming enemies at a cost to oneself is worthwhile, & Dems still think of it in pluralist terms of interest & compromise.

For MAGA, Ignorance is Strength Research cuts aren’t about shrinking government, they’re about killing science

"two first-rate economists, David Cutler and Ed Glaeser, have made a stab at estimating the impact of cuts at NIH. Their analysis suggests that these cuts might save $500 billion in federal spending over the next 25 years — while imposing more than $8 trillion in losses."

They don't know what they've done. This will affect even those with private insurance.

Once again adults have failed to protect children.

Which federal crime did the President commit with this statement?

Was it 26 usc 7217, which prohibits the President or his aides from directing any tax enforcement action?

Or was it 26 usc 6103, which prohibits any government official from disclosing an ongoing tax proceeding?

Maybe both!

“Very fine people…”

'Catastrophic': Fast-Tracking of Line 5 Tunnel Under Great Lakes Denounced as Big Oil Gift From Trump | Common Dreams Environmentalists warn that over 40 million people's drinking water is at heightened risk due to Trump's fast-tracking of Line 5 oil pipeline tunnel project.

#ProudBlue #Voices4Victory

Drinking water for over 40M is now at greater risk

“The only ‘energy emergency’ the American people face is trump’s efforts to disregard clean air & water safeguards in order to rush through dirty, dangerous fossil fuel projects.”

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"We have nothing to lose but our chains."

—David Brooks

Bone chilling.

A court ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia to stay in the United States.

The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that he was illegally removed. Trump is pretending he won the ruling 9-0.

1/ You may not think this case means anything to you. But let me tell you why it does.

It's almost like oil is bad or something

congratulations to john roberts who is as responsible for the current state of affairs as any single person in the country

🚬😚💨💅🏼

RFK Jr.’s Prescription for Bird Flu on Farms: Let It Spread (Gift Article) The health secretary has suggested allowing the virus to spread, so as to identify birds that may be immune. Such an experiment would be disastrous, scientists say.

rfk jr's attitude toward anyone or thing that gets sick is "if he dies, he dies."

I feel like I'm a scientist in a disaster movie who spent years trying to warn people of the impending disaster. Only nobody listened. And now that the disaster is upon us, the authorities are like "Yo, smarty-pants, what should we do about this here disaster?"

And I'm like: "THE FUCK DO I KNOW?"

Mulder in the WW2 time travel episode yelling at a German soldier I DON'T SPEAK NAZI!" was fucking awesome and I don't care what anyone else says

if a friend vanished, who would you know to call? if you disappeared, would your friends know who to call? trading some emergency contacts is a thing to think about.

Axios post on X: EXCLUSIVE: The White House says it ignored a court order to turn around two planeloads of alleged Venezuelan gang members because the flights were over international waters and therefore the ruling didn't apply, two senior officials tell @MarcACaputo.

This is outrageous. Judge Boasberg’s order went against government agencies which were in the US, and which were in direct contact with the plane. He must hold them in contempt of court.