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If hepatitis B is contracted in infancy there is a 90-95% chance of it progressing in to the chronic form which results in liver cirrhosis and cancer. As few as 16 DNA copies/mL of blood have been shown to be sufficient for transmission.

They’ve arrested judges and mayors in service of their mass deportation regime and we have political consultants urging people to ignore this.

The president is a person who would be unable to survive in this country if he had to live independently for a day. He wouldn't know what to do at a grocery store. Never mind applying for a job. What good is he to us

RFK Jr: “autism destroys families” and is “an individual tragedy as well”

NBC News: “he raised the profile of autism”

Almost 2,000 children die every day from air pollution, report finds Global study reveals dirty air is second only to malnutrition as cause of death among under-fives

“Nearly 2000 children under 5 are dying every day from air pollution, which has become the 2nd biggest health risk factor for young children around the world.”

“More than 8 million deaths of children & adults were caused by air pollution in 2021.” @TheGuardian.com

Federal layoffs stymie local efforts to combat homelessness Trump administration cuts are putting pressure on housing-focused nonprofits.

"Many people don’t understand that 40% of households in Atlanta are a week away from homelessness, and that a disruption to any stabilizing program could be catastrophic."

DOGE Put a College Student in Charge of Using AI to Rewrite Regulations A DOGE operative has been tasked with using AI to propose rewrites to the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s regulations—an effort sources are told will roll out across government.

SCOOP

DOGE has put a kid who has not finished college in charge of using AI to rewrite America's hugely complex housing regulations....what could go wrong

with @telliotter.bsky.social

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'Bees are good,' Obama says as children scream

Also by god, still one of the funniest Obama-era headlines.

During the campaign, President Trump said, “As soon as I get to office, we will make housing much more affordable.” But his budget proposes a devastating cut to rental assistance — which makes rent affordable for 10 million people — reducing funding by $27 billion below the amount provided in 2025 across five programs. This would cause millions of people to lose assistance they need to pay the rent each month, placing them at risk of eviction and homelessness. These cuts would likely grow even deeper over time, since the budget would also consolidate multiple rental assistance programs into to a block grant that would be more vulnerable to cuts in the future. The budget also would impose a two-year time limit on rental assistance (apparently except for seniors and people with disabilities), a policy that would abruptly evict or end assistance for many low-paid workers and others who aren’t able to afford market rents after that period. In addition, the budget proposes severe cuts to other housing programs, such as sharply reducing funding for housing and other services for people experiencing homelessness, cutting housing resources for Indigenous people, and eliminating funding for local agencies protecting people from housing discrimination and other fair housing violations, and block grants that fund affordable housing and community development at the local level.

This administration is pro-homelessness because the threat of homelessness is will keep Americans working in sweatshops for poverty wages www.cbpp.org/press/statem...

I’ve been banging this drum for years.

A coast-to-coast-to-coast high-speed rail project could revive national unity.

John Fetterman’s Struggle The senator insists he is in good health. But staffers past and present say they no longer recognize the man they once knew.

‘Fetterman went on to make statements that shocked people. In opposing a cease-fire, he said, “Let’s get back to killing.” A person who heard the conversation told me, “He said, ‘Kill them all.’”’

Stephen Miller wants to create a vast, unreviewable WH rendition authority. His big story is that unchecked power is essential for public safety. But Trump's admissions reveal that all this is really just lawless, arbitrary and dictatorial. The stuff of Mad Kings.

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Another attorney for the Abrego Garcia family says Trump's lawyers "appear to be obeying Stephen Miller and not the Supreme Court. Miller himself should be deposed under oath in federal court to determine his role in this ongoing affront to due process.”

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Small Packages From China Are Now Subject to US Tariffs. Here’s What to Know President Donald Trump has ended the de minimis exemption, which previously allowed Temu, Shein, and other online retailers to send packages from China to the US valued under $800 duty-free.

President Donald Trump has ended the de minimis exemption, which previously allowed Temu, Shein, and other online retailers to send packages from China to the US valued under $800 duty-free. www.wired.com/story/tariff...

This is not something the President can decree. Reporting like this makes it seem as if Trump has more power than he does. He does not have the power to do this. His wishes and obscene desires are not, in fact, policy. He’s just talking— essentially braying at the moon like an enraged wolf.

This concern that you’re articulating to me is very vague. I don’t actually know what you’re worried about. People have been questioning these narratives for a long time. David Irving has been challenging the Holocaust for a long time. Is it better to not have those conversations? I don’t think it is. I think we should just let it out. It can exist in the world. Douthat: This is the last thing I’ll say. You started out talking about your sense — I think you would put it this way — that there was anti-white racism at work in progressive politics and culture in the last five or 10 years.

Have we talked enough about how the New York Times broadcast the views of a Holocaust denier with zero pushback from its columnist?

Is the paper going to investigate antisemitism in its own building?

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/o...

Big Media's resistance to just give the basic courtesy of credit to someone not in their presumed social class who broke a story first is absolutely pathological.

Opinion | The End of the Free College Lunch The GOP begins to rein in student loans and forgiveness plans.

The right-wing hates education for everyone but their legacy, trust-fund nepo-babies. Lachlan: Princeton. James: Harvard. #MurdochJournal
Republicans introduce reforms to hold colleges accountable for student outcomes and curb the open-ended loan buffet. www.wsj.com/opinion/hous...

Kristi Noem stands in an taxpayer funded ad designed to trick and intimidate people who are likely better Americans than she is.

This is what you’d expect in a dystopian film set in the near future. Shitty cyber-esque graphics, insanely dark fucking policy, unbelievably Bratz-ass Homeland Security secretary, maybe put some little flying cars in the background.

Having been a teenage boy at one point in time what confuses me about the Tate phenomenon is that he's obviously a monster, his whole brand is that he's evil. If that's appealing I feel like something is going wrong in the years leading up to that point

they are trying to kill as many americans as they can

Remember, the rules of American politics are simple. Republicans are allowed to do or say almost anything you can think of, however offensive, because it is "priced in". Democrats meanwhile must be held to account for anything even vaguely awkwardly phrased

This is torture

All of this, every single bit of it, comes from an assumption that there MUST be a "better medicine" that they should be able to access exclusive/ahead of everyone else by virtue of being rich enough (and white) because that's how everything BUT SCIENCE works for them and they CANNOT accept "no."