Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.

History gives us plenty of examples of disease used as a weapon. There are fewer cases of governments deliberately using disease against their own citizens. We are living (or dying) through one right now.
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Worth your time.

Once they understand that it is an unelected bureaucrat carrying out a coup, who knows.

There is only one warmonger on the European stage: Vladimir Putin | Letter Letter: Experts on Russia, Ukraine and international security respond to a letter that criticised Fiona Hill for her assessment of the Russian threat to Britain

On 13 June, @theguardian.com published a collective letter concerning Russia’s war & attacking Dr #FionaHill, the chancellor of Durham University & one of the principal authors of the UK’s strategic defence review. As UK-based or British-educated experts in matters pertaining to Russia, we disagree.

Stephen Miller’s Fingerprints Are on Everything in Trump’s Second Term The president ’s deputy chief of staff has played an outsize role in immigration—and amassed more power than almost anyone else at the White House.

As I have argued for months: The person calling the shots in this admin was never Musk or Bannon or Susie Wiles. It's always been Shadow President Stephen Miller. Anything Trump says on e.g. immigration is cheap talk; Miller is the decider.
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Venetians know something about oligarchy.

Of all motherfuckers, I can’t believe the country is going down with this motherfucker.

There’s been a kind of…fashion of late to view anti-Trump libs as lame and cringe and just annoying, aesthetically. I remember this exact same aesthetic judgment in the run-up to the Iraq war. The earnest libs were right then and they’re right now.

Donald Trump and Elon Musk believe their power is unchecked and unaccountable to Congress and the courts. The scary thing is at this point I’m not sure they’re wrong.

Note how Trump creates new crises and responds with new excessive measures Every. Single. Day. This is how his chaos mode of governance works.

Get Used to the Whiplash: Trump Clearly Improvising as He Goes For those trying to give Donald Trump's second administration a chance to prove it knows what it’s doing, the last 24 hours haven't been reassuring, writes Philip Elliott

"The awful optics [of the funding freeze mess] made spectacularly bad timing for a parallel effort to force millions of federal workers off payrolls through an unfunded buyout program, as many of those workers doubted the administration officials behind the offer are equipped to see it through."

Trump’s approval rating dips after rush of executive orders, poll finds Poll shows disapproval of immigration policies and Gulf of Mexico renaming

Now imagine if there were some kind of strategic, coordinated effort to get out in front of voters and explain why all this shit is bad instead of just assuming people will get it. Like, an organized "opposition" possibly led by some kind of "party"?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump says he wants to fly American criminals to other countries who will incarcerate them for "a small fee"

Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this.

Smashed records.

Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.

I’m hearing from constituents whose jobs are at risk because they do agency outreach to minority communities.

Consider what this means for public health, national security, agriculture and justice.

The war on DEI has become a war on public service and government for all.

A windswept fox in a snowy landscape with the caption 'It heckin wimdy'

The UK & Ireland this weekend

Oregon Coast sunset 🌅 #Photography #Photographer #oregon #oregoncoast #visitoregon #ocean #sunset

2025 has been my least favorite decade so far.

The Gulf of Mexico said No!

Right out of the gate they are detaining U.S. citizens and saying their “papers”are fake. It was always a lie.

Nice life you got there, Mike Pompeo. Would be a shame if something happened to it.

It’s amusing that anti-intellectualism and artificial intelligence can both be abbreviated as AI because the way the latter is being marketed to the masses is “why don’t you just stop thinking?”

Trump: "We don't want windmills in this country. We're putting an order on it. I've already sort of done it. We don't want windmills ... you know what else people don't like? Those massive solar fields."

Deplorable

Big surprise.