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American Medical Association (AMA) The American Medical Association (AMA) is the largest and only national association that convenes 190+ state and specialty medical societies and other critical stakeholders. Our mission is to promote ...

The American Medical Association's youtube page is sharing information on disease spread, such as bird flu, that might not be shared by the CDC nowadays.

www.youtube.com/@americanmed...

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Also want to tag OP, so thank you @seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social

Trump administration ordered to fully comply with order lifting funding freeze A U.S. judge on Monday ordered the Trump administration to fully comply with a previous order lifting its broad freeze on federal spending, after a group of Democratic state attorneys general last week said that some funds remained frozen.

Federal Judge orders Trump to stop ignoring his previous orders. The constitutional crisis is beginning. It will reach its conclusion, one way or the other, when these cases reach the Supreme Court.

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

This storyboard at the US Army Women's Museum has been covered, pending a decision on whether is still allowed to be shown.

I have a feeling once the administration finds out we have such a thing as an Army Women's Museum the whole thing might get shut down...

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

A fun piece of trivia: Obama is the only US President who was born after 1946.

Measles outbreak expands in West Texas around county with low vaccination rate maga voters blames it on Biden A measles outbreak is growing in a rural area of West Texas where vaccination rates are well below the recommended level.In late January, two children in Gaines County were hospitalized for measles. O...

"Many maga voters believe Biden did not do enough awareness on the importance of getting vaccinated"

thenewsglobe.net?p=8488

'He gets to make the decisions!' Jim Jordan argues Trump can ignore judges Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) argued on CNN Sunday that the Constitution gives President Trump the power to make the decisions he feels are best for the country, checks and balances from Congress and the cou...

They're starting to argue that the Executive branch has no checks on its power.

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I Work in the Office Carrying Out the Government Purge. Here’s What I Want You to Know. We’re as freaked out and angry as everyone else.

slate.com/news-and-pol...

National Center for Missing & Exploited Children site scrubbed of transgender kids LGBTQ+ and missing? The Trump administration doesn’t seem to care.

www.advocate.com/politics/mis...

US immigration is gaming Google to create a mirage of mass deportations Thousands of press releases about decade-old enforcement actions topped search results, all updated with a timestamp from after Trump’s inauguration

They're altering Google results so that past immigration actions show up with recent dates, making it look like their mass deportation is deporting far more people than it is.

CDC Posts, Then Deletes, Data on Bird Flu Transmission Between Cats and People The data, which appeared fleetingly online on Wednesday, confirmed transmission in two households. Scientists called on the agency to release the full report.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

More data rescuing:

www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarde...

Announcing the Data.gov Archive | Library Innovation Lab Today we released our archive of data.gov on Source Cooperative. The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complet...

Librarians archived everything. Important work in times of information purging.

"The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complete archive of federal public datasets linked by data.gov "

lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/02...

A good reminder

Relevant xkcd

A federal judge just gave the Trump administration a sound spanking "The court can think of few things more disingenuous" than rescinding the spending freeze memo—but not the freeze itself.

Assuming he does what they say....

Just say you work for doge, they'll let you right in apparently.

If you're asking where the Dems are, you should go to Reuters or The Guardian. Some are standing up, quite vocally, but it's not turning up in social media feeds like X, Tiktok, or Reddit.

Elon Musk is a terrible president.

Elon's DOGE goons have apparently arrived at the Department of Education. I'm assuming tons of federal spending is (illegally) on the chopping block. Don't trusty your kids will have grants and loans for their college.

Musk Says He’s ‘Deleted’ Popular Free IRS Tax Filing Program The online tax filing option on the IRS website had a strong bipartisan 76% approval rating from registered voters.

An incredibly popular free program used mainly by low-income and minority Americans has just been "deleted" by Musk.

Trump signs executive order to create sovereign wealth fund U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday ordering the U.S. Treasury and Commerce Departments to create a sovereign wealth fund.

First of all, unconstitutional.
Second of all, isn't there a word used to describe governments that take over private business? Communism, maybe?

Sounds like he's angling for state media... Not that the media has been doing anything but bootlicking since his relelection...

I never thought I'd say this... but if Musk is gaining control of all the computers, we might really need to switch to paper ballots and hand counting. How can we trust anything computerized?

My new theory is that they're more than prepared to sack Trump and put Vance in charge if the public starts to turn against Trump. Then Vance can be a savior figure.

‘This Needs To Stop Now’—Elon Musk Confirms Radical Doge U.S. Treasury Plan Elon Musk has confirmed he wants to put the U.S. Treasury on a blockchain, the technology that underpins bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies...

Musk wants to put the US Treasury on a blockchain, as if the US dollar was crypto.

While not fully aligned with the MAGA philosophy - The Dark Enlightenment is much more libertarian - it feels like this is still a guiding philosophy of the tech oligarchs.

You can read about Curtis Yarvin and the Dark Enlightenment here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_...

Today I learned about Curtis Yarvin. He's a right-wing philosopher who promotes something called the "Dark Enlightenment" and has ties to Peter Thiel, himself the mentor of JD Vance.

The Dark Enlightement is meant to tear down democracy and replace it with "techno-corporate cameralism."

Trump is a useful idiot. He is making tons and tons of money for the billionaires, cutting their taxes, letting them buy chunks of America cheap during a recession/depression. But then they can get rid of him with the 25th amendment (or impeachment), and Vance will be the savior figure.

New theory, Dune reference.
Trump is being set up as Beast Rabban. Rabban was given control of Arrakis and told to squeeeze as much profit as possible out of it, causing widespread suffering. Then Feyd-Rautha was sent in as a savior.