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Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

I'm a little biased about this one, in particular:

www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/pre...

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional

ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

"Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone." — Michael Okuda

How quick we forget.

Waiting...

Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.

why not decommission it the usual way: launching it into a million pieces over protected wetlands

The disrespect for Congress and the law is glaring - and for our nation a threat to our public safety.

staffers are still cleaning up the Kristi Noem mess after she got gutted/filleted by @chrismurphyct.bsky.social

this is A MOMENT. #MustWatch

🧢 @trumpfile.org

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STEM fields, economics, law, polisci etc. are full of conservatives. Universities have incredible diversity of thought. The criticism is failure of imagination, boils down to the writer defining “university” as a few humanities depts. Business schools aren’t hiring Marxist economists for balance. 😂

Autism is not a disease.
Autism is not an epidemic.
Autism is a multifactorial genetic-based neurological condition.
And it’s not caused by vaccines or nebulous “environmental toxins.”

A thread 👇🏻

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I’m going to try to explain why, while I understand anger toward the parents whose unvaccinated children died of measles, I don’t share it. IMO it is a tragedy. My reasons for this hinge on 2 main points:

1. Public health requires the public

2. We can’t ignore the social determinants of health

🔥 Trump’s Deputy Press Secretary gets owned by guy who wrote the Financial Page for the New Yorker re: their tariffs calculations

My lord

Just figured out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us. So we have a $17.9 billion trade deficit with Indonesia. Its exports to us are $28 billion. $17.9/$28 = 64%, which Trump claims is the tariff rate Indonesia charges us. What extraordinary nonsense this is.

james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country

"...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."

With so many pending legal challenges to the Trump Administration's reckless actions, @stevevladeck.bsky.social's feed and newsletter are invaluable resources for updates and analysis.

Nice solidarity here when Greene calls on an American: "I'm an American journalist, and I'd like to hear your answer to what she's asking."

JQA was a real one. basically the jimmy carter of antebellum american politics.

I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired.

It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵

YouTube video by WIRED History Professor Answers Dictator Questions | Tech Support | WIRED

Terrific, timely explainer from @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social via @wired.com

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