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The FDA Let Substandard Factories Ship These Medications to the U.S. ProPublica identified more than 150 products that were exempted from import bans since 2013. Our list provides the names of the drugs or ingredients and their manufacturers, many of which are no longe...

NEW: In June, ProPublica reported that the FDA has given more than 20 foreign factories a special pass to send drugs to the U.S. even though they were made at plants the agency had banned.

Today, we’re publishing a list of those exempted drugs.

RFK Jr. in interview with Scripps News: ‘Trusting the experts is not science’ HHS Secretary RFK Jr. sat down with Scripps News for a wide-ranging interview, discussing mRNA vaccine funding policy changes and a recent shooting at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

every attempted explanation this guy gives for his decisions is total nonsense. just gobbledygook. www.scrippsnews.com/health/rfk-j...

Trump puts DC police department under federal control, deploys National Guard President Trump holds news conference Monday to discuss crime in Washington, D.C., after days of railing about the nation’s capital being “out of control.”

President Trump said the police can do “whatever the hell they want” to our DC communities.

Let us be clear: Local and federal law enforcement are not above the law, no matter what Trump says.

Here are my top 10 big stretches!

#FreeDC

F A T A L I T Y

What a great line from Judge Engelmayer in slapping down govt request to unsear grand jury materials: "The one colorable argument under that doctrine for unsealing in this case, in fact, is that doing so would expose as disingenuous the Government’s public explanations for moving to unseal." OUCH

Another Black Internationalist and Revolutionary socialist for Black August.

Fred Hampton, who murdered by Chicago Police Department at 21 years old.

THE FORSYTES Starring Joshua Orpin and Millie Gibson | First Look - Tom + Lorenzo If you love opulent period dramas like The Gilded Age and unforgettable stories and characters like those in Downton Abbey, then THE FORSYTES is for you!

First look images for the Masterpiece production of #TheForsytes (click for more) tomandlorenzo.com/2025/08/the-...

Congratulations, Artemis and Pan!! Wishing you many wonderful adventures of the corgi kind! 🎉🎊🥳

Bowser: "I think I speak for all Americans -- we don't believe it's legal to use the American military against American citizens on American soil."

This is Basil. She just wanted to let you know that you can run, but you can't hide. 13/10 (TT: christaniner)

Raskin: In any event, if he really cared about public safety in DC… he would not have pardoned 1600 insurrectionists and violent cop beaters on his first day in office. 

Back to school: How local schools, libraries will be affected by Supreme Court books ruling - WTOP News D.C.-area school systems will be expected to offer alternative reading options if parents have religious objections to books chosen for a particular unit.

Back to school: How local schools, libraries will be affected by Supreme Court books ruling? wtop.com/local/2025/0...

Photo of a guy in a kayak or canoe smiling and giving a thumbs up. He has a mustache, and a blue zip fleece, and is wearing a Sierra Nevada hat.

Bluesky folks... can anyone help me figure out who this nice person is? This weekend, me eldest dropped their phone (in a waterproof pouch) in Wright's Lake, and we spent hours hunting the lake for it, only to find it at the ranger's the next day with this photo as the last photo added...

STFU, RFK Jr, you ridiculous idiot. You don't care about the wellbeing of patients. You care about politics. You are actively undermining doctors' ability to protect their patients from measles and COVID. Your party forces women who have miscarried to bleed out in parking lots over your politics.

Imagine being born in slavery and living up until 5 months before the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Anna Julia Cooper is one of my favorite people in history. She was born on August 10, 1858, and lived to the age of 105.

I can't sum her up in a single post, but she was born 167yrs ago today

While we’re still figuring out life on Earth, Voyager 1 is 15 billion miles away, cruising on 69KB, an 8-track, and 1977s Fortran like it’s nothing.

Grandpa is right. ICE is a private paramilitary group engineered by the Republican Political Party. Find out what their rights are and are not, and how legal and illegal this is. And please, educate your fellow citizens. www.law.georgetown.edu/icap/wp-cont...

“Lack of use, plus three bouts of COVID, probably phased out the plectrum for me”: Mark Knopfler tells why he’s ditched the pick in favor of fingerpicking The former Dire Straits guitarist told us why he moved away from the plectrum but still regards the pick as “a superior thing”

“I probably wouldn’t be able to play them so well now [..] Lack of use, plus three bouts of COVID, probably phased out the plectrum for me”

Legendary Dire Straits guitarist Mark Knopfler on how SARS-CoV-2 infection affected his ability to play music

#LongCovid

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Radar the cat

We just walked into an animal shelter because we drove by and saw they were having an adoption drive. Then the volunteers there told us that this sweetheart has been in the shelter for over a year. But they’re waiving the adoption fee for folks who come in to adopt Radar or another cat today.

This is Row and Mr Jingles. They look a little different and don't have much in common. But like all good friends, still find a way to see eye to eye. 13/10 for both #SeniorPupSaturday (courtesy Martin Critchlow)

From the Bluey episode ‘The Pool’, the artist has done a great job of conveying the heavily chlorinated water in which Bluey and Bingo are skylarking around in. Those goggles are not just for show!

From the Bluey episode ‘Swim School’ in which Bluey (aka Karen and Margaret) teaches her family how to swim, and also not to dob. Bluey is wearing a particularly colourful swimming cap and goggles with lobster claw trim. Very Dame Ednaesque.

Though thou canst swim like a
duck, thou art made like a goose.

Tempest 2.2
#ShakespeareSunday

Narrator: Sadly though, SCOTUS has now exempted the president from the founders’ intent to criminalize bribery.

A video arguing that women shouldn’t be able to vote was just shared by Trump’s Secretary of Defense, the guy in charge of our whole military.

And Democratic Party leaders still can’t stand up to this administration?! Our rights are on the line and all our party leaders offer us is silence.

Happy b’day, “Give Me the Night” — the iconic LP released by George Benson 45 yrs ago today

“After a month in the studio,” he said, “I’d packed my bags when Quincy [Jones] called & said they had one more song for me. I wanted to go home but he insisted: “Man, it’s a good song. It won’t take long.”

I'm sorry.
I couldn't resist.
And yes, that sound is people groaning and slapping their foreheads all over the world.

Jim Lovell has passed

(Gemini 7, Gemini 12, Apollo 8, Apollo 13)

Apollo 13 movie poster

everyone watch apollo 13 today in honor of jim lovell!!!!

Astronaut Jim Lovell, famed Apollo 13 commander, dies at 97 Lovell was also the first astronaut to go to space four times and part of the Apollo 8 crew, the first to launch on the Saturn V rocket and first to orbit the moon.

He didn't get to the moon but he got his crew home, and that was the more remarkable task.

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