Elon Musk has been a walking SEC violation for a decade and no one cared. The entire Trump era could have been avoided if the US took white collar crime anywhere near as seriously as it does low level drug crime.

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When Nazi officials opened their "Degenerate Art" exhibition in 1937, they labeled modern art as ideologically impure. Now, nearly 90 years later, Trump's order targeting the Smithsonian uses similar language about "improper ideology" and "divisive narratives."

Well written and thought provoking

Trump just pulled Elise Stefanik’s nomination for UN Ambassador because he’s worried about her district flipping blue in a special election.

Her district voted for Trump by *20%.*

They know how deeply unpopular they have become.

Patricia Bauman died a year ago.

ActBlue is a payment processor. Almost anyone who’s given to a D candidate in the last 20 years could be mischaracterized as a “ActBlue funder.”

Listing five Jews, two of whom are long dead, as “ActBlue funders” secretly behind the Tesla protests is antisemitism.

That is exactly true.

@aoc.bsky.social: "Listen, if your representative is not doing a town hall, give me a ring... I'll say it right here, right now: if a deep red Republican district wants to have an honest conversation, even if it's with someone they disagree with, I'm willing to do that."

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.

Stupid. Not at all efficient. Dangerous.

Very worthwhile read

Yikes

DOGE’s Latest Casualty: The Government’s Texting Service For Urgent Reminders Code in the agency’s web site says the service is no longer available. Sources tell Forbes most of the team that manages it have been “fired, transferred, or have resigned.”

Musk's influence continues to be felt -- his DOGE team has now caused the imminent collapse of what should be an obviously beneficial federal communications service. (Read my latest for Forbes.)

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Happy Black History Month!

CDC Page: The page you're looking for was not found. Please try the CDC archives or the A-Z index. Search CDC.gov

The CDC has removed data on sexual orientation, gender identity, and health disparities from their website.

Pages removed include:
- Youth Risk Behavioral Surveillance System
- Social Vulnerability Index
- Efforts to Address Racism as a Fundamental Driver of Health Disparities

No no no no no

😡🙄🙄🙄😡😡😡

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Well the tiny bit of that press conference I caught made me horribly anxious

FEMA reform could increase cost burden on states Trump and Vance have made it clear that FEMA reform is high on their agenda.

The Trump administration is looking at ways to overhaul FEMA, the government's disaster management and response agency.

The move — which Trump has said could include dissolving the agency altogether — comes amid continued response efforts in the wake of Hurricane Helene and the LA area wildfires.

‘This Is a Dangerous Virus’ A bird-flu pandemic is far from inevitable. But health experts are closely monitoring an outbreak that could quickly escalate among people.

Great, another pandemic with the felon in chief running things
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