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About this Florida vaccine story:

When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough.

We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated.

“Oh, they’d have died.”

I kinda sniffed at the headline—suicidal teen commits suicide is tragic but not necessarily the machine’s fault— and then the article and especially the logs are so so much worse than I thought they would be.

i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.

Trump doesn't believe in consent.

I am so glad "why tariff banana" thought is reaching members of Congress. It's the most obvious example of how insane this administration's trade policy has been—officials like Lutnick can't give a good justification for it because there simply isn't one

New York Times’ Style Guide Substitutions for “The President Violated the Constitution” “The president remained steadfast in his novel interpretation of constitutional law.” “Faced with the choice between clinging to the letter of the ...

“The president’s solutions-focused approach to legal roadblocks necessitated thinking outside the constitutional box.”

I'm reading the report behind these headlines about glyphosate and it may be the most scientifically illiterate thing I've come across (although it's a close thing with the recent MAHA report). 1/n

Do you think you can counter "you consider them men in sports contexts, how are they not men in bathroom contexts"?

Because that is a logical haymaker Dems are sleepwalking right into. Argue the science, explain how transition works, please!

The WITAOD Chronicles Anna Bower Thursday, May 29, 2025, 4:06 PM Share On: f X in $ One woman's maddening search for the head of a non-existent federal agency.

Some women want love.

Some seek power and money.

Some seek attention and fame.

Me?

I just want to know who the administrator of DOGE really is.

My manifesto, my magnum opus—“The WITAOD Chronicles”—is out now. ⬇️ 👇

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

They did it last week!

Request: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...

Roberts' order granting: www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

Docket: www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docke...

“‘정치인 체포’ 지시 받았다는 홍장원 1차장, 정치적 발언 문제돼 국정원 차원 인사 조치” 정치인 체포 지시 받았다는 홍장원 1차장, 정치적 발언 문제돼 국정원 차원 인사 조치 정보소식통 尹, 洪차장에 직접 전화로 지시

Korea's preeminent *conservative* paper of record exclusively reports that President Yoon ordered someone at the National Intelligence Service (Korean CIA) to arrest the head of his own party (who would later vote against martial law) and when the NIS man refused, ordered his dismissal.

by the Editorial Board Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has used chemical weapons and waged a bloody campaign of ethnic cleansing in his brutal suppression of an uprising that has killed half a million people, many of them civilians. In Myanmar, military dictator Gen. Min Aung Hlaing and his army have been responsible for bombing civilian villages in its war against the long-persecuted Rohingya minority. And in Sudan, a new potential genocide threatens the Darfur region's Black Masalit people at the hands of Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, who is known as Hemedti, and his Rapid Support Forces. So who does the International Criminal Court wish to arrest for war crimes? Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense chief Yoav Gallant.

WaPo Editorial Board thing starts with this. Stepping past the "what about"-ism going on here, many of these other atrocity cases are jurisdictionally hard for ICC--sadly ICC doesn't have (but should, imo have) universal jurisdiction to investigate any atrocity.

So why not let's walk through them

Here’s Why I Decided To Buy ‘InfoWars’ Today we celebrate a new addition to the Global Tetrahedron LLC family of brands. And let me say, I really do see it as a family. Much like family members, our brands are abstract nodes of wealth, int...

The Onion has purchased InfoWars.

Does anybody need millions of dollars worth of supplements?

The Onion Buys Alex Jones’s Infowars Out of Bankruptcy The satirical news site planned to turn Infowars into a parody of itself, mocking “weird internet personalities” who peddle conspiracy theories and health supplements.

Hi everyone.

The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars.

We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website.

We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off.

I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.

Me, cheerfully opening that “origins” tab thinking it can’t be that bad and immediately getting hit with racism so intense my brain shorts out and I Kubrick-stare for a solid 20 seconds

We watched 20 Trump rallies. His racist, anti-immigrant messaging is getting darker. A POLITICO analysis of more than 20 of his rallies and campaign events shows Trump has demonized minority groups in all of them.

I see Politico has decided not to f**k around with headlines anymore. www.politico.com/news/2024/10...

Better a hundred innocent men be lethally injected than two prosecutors be impugned

MAGA torn between glee at a Democrat being charged and horror at a cop being held accountable

Emails Raise Questions About WaPo Fact Checker The Post corrected Glenn Kessler’s column questioning reporting about a child rape victim, shortly after The Lever obtained emails showing inaccuracies.

Anyway congrats to Glenn Kessler for at least fact-checking adults, as opposed to lying about what his sources told him about a ten-year-old rape victim.

www.levernews.com/emails-raise...

Classic American political dialogue is premised on the idea that we share fundamental values but disagree on how best to promote them.

I haven’t believed this for a while. Other than “I prefer to be alive and not dead” and “I like pudding,” I do not share values with these people.

Roberts: wait Bruen says WHAT? Fuck fuck fuck I gotta stop voting on shit when I’m drunk. Okay. You can do this Johnny. You went to Harvard. Let’s parse our way out of this mess. Fuckin’ Thomas, I should have known better.

The Federal Trade Commission, of all entities, is out here writing absolute bangers about AI snake oil. www.ftc.gov/business-gui...

Average American president has been convicted of .74 felonies

Congress still won't stop automakers from selling your driving data to data brokers and insurance companies, but they want to make sure @elonjet.net can't tell you if Elon is flying to Texas.

We have reached the "anti-Israel protesters are paid" by Jews portion of the program.

I found a group of 17,000 people called "Facebook complaints center" and every single post on there is amazing

Gag order aside, Cohen literally has been prosecuted for lying. He pleaded guilty to 18 USC 1001 for lying to Congress www.justice.gov/archives/sco...