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Why do we even need vaccines, people don’t even get some of those diseases any more.

RFK Jr. knows amazingly little about autism For someone who's been talking about it for so long, the HHS secretary got many basic facts wrong.

Debunked, half-true, and deeply ableist. RFK Jr. knows shockingly little about autism.

It isn't that America lacks courage. It's that we’ve become so cut off from one another that many of us feel alone, which makes us feel afraid.

But when we are surrounded by courageous people, all of us become more courageous. 

Courage is contagious.

The White House has begun process of looking for new secretary of defense The White House has begun the process of looking for a new secretary of defense, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly.

BREAKING NEWS: The White House has begun the process of looking for a new secretary of defense, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly.

CARTOON OF THE DAY 😕🇺🇸

A federal court’s jurisdiction does *not* stop at the water’s edge. The question is whether the *defendants* are subject to the court order, not *where* the conduct being challenged takes place.

Were it otherwise, the government could act lawlessly overseas and courts would be powerless to stop it.

Star Trek The Original Series scene. We're on the bridge at the navigation console bank down and in front of the Captain's chair. There's a guy sitting in uniform working and he's sweaty! Standing over him and leaning down way too close and uncomfortably within sweaty guy's bubble is Sulu. Sulu, who looks pretty excited about something and also v sweaty here, is looking at the guy while the guy is looking at the view screen. Closed caption reads, "Hey, why don't you come down to the gym with me"

Chuck Schumer should have been replaced 8 years ago.

One of the main reasons for the rise of American fascism is the cowardice from appeasement ‘centrists.’

America’s clean air rules boost health and the economy − here’s what EPA’s new deregulation plans ignore Clean air has become one of America’s best investments, returning $10 for every $1 spent on regulations, by one estimate.

A professor of environmental sciences gives a quick punchy take on the "eye-popping" numbers re. how clean air promotes economic growth.

An EPA analysis of 20 years of the Clean Air Act (1970-90) found the economic benefits of the regulations were about 42X greater than the costs.

No pay wall.

MUST-WATCH: This is the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil from the perspective of his wife, who is 8 months pregnant.

This is federal agents in plain clothes dragging a man from his home as punishment for his speech.

@nyclu.org @ccrjustice.org @theimeu.bsky.social

KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN.

☎️: (202) 224-3121

Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid.

The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING.

Call retiring Senators too!

Someone tell Fetterman that the Dems are in the minority and are incapable of shutting down the government. Thanks.

International Women's Day!! 🫶🏽

That is exactly true.

and yet PETA is silent about tape made out of duck? interesting

Republican Rep. Mike Lawler who represents a swing district in NY gets booed ruthlessly after trying to use the 'waste, fraud, and abuse' line in response to voters' concerns about Medicaid cuts (via lohud)

In discussion of science fiction, a Big Dumb Object (BDO) is any mysterious object, usually of extraterrestrial or unknown origin and immense power, in a story which generates an intense sense of wonder by its mere existence.

Your regular reminder: A large proportion of the rising #disability bill is due to an ageing population—because disability increases with age. This isn’t a ‘crisis’ of fraud or overdiagnosis, it’s basic demographics.

Exclusive: U.S. CDC plans study into vaccines and autism, sources say The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is planning a large study into potential connections between vaccines and autism, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, despite extensive scientific research that has disproven or failed to find evidence of such links.

“The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is planning a large study into potential connections between vaccines and autism, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, DESPITE EXTENSIVE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH THAT HAS DISPROVEN OR FAILED TO FIND EVIDENCE OF SUCH LINKS.”

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I saw this earlier and chuckled because I thought it was satire... Then I looked it up, and sure enough, it's real. Who would have thought the end of democracy would be THIS fucking stupid. 🤦‍♂️

"NO KINGS LIVE HERE"

Every time I read a story like this I recommit to be louder and more defiant.

if you are a democrat who is retreating on and abandoning trans people, you are evil and throwing all trans people under the bus won’t stop them for coming after you next

After firing federal workers at the CDC, some 180 of them have received emails begging them to come back to work.

"Read this e-mail immediately" was the subject line according to the AP.

So much government efficiency going on.

What a joke.

Alas, poor country,
Almost afraid to know itself!

BREAKING: We're suing to block the Trump administration from requiring artists who apply to the National Endowment for the Arts for funding to have to attest they won't use any funds to "promote” what the government deems to be “gender ideology."

This is a violation of the First Amendment.

March 6, 2025 Google billionaire Sergey Brin, who wants staff to work 12 hours a day, has a $450 million megayacht which is so enormous that a crew member cleaning it looks like a tiny speck on the 465-foot monster’s superstructure. by Neha Tandon Sharma

They want you to work harder to make them richer.

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Yep, it’s hard to disagree with this.

Transphobic moron