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The US and Russia will be holding "peace negotiations" regarding Ukraine.

The Ukrainians themselves have not been invited.

Trump and Putin plan on carving up Ukraine for their own repulsive goals.

This is looking much more like the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact in which two stronger frenemy powers divide up the caught-in-between smaller power. But there's another player here: Europe, which is rightly reacting with alarm and sees, accurately, a alliance of autocrats.

There's no escaping the dumbardment.

On Feb 15, a critical line of defense was eliminated: the CDC's Laboratory Leadership Service (LLS). This program trained highly skilled scientists to be "disease detectives," deploying them to respond to public health threats & test for everything from viruses to toxins.
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Plaintiffs have made a sufficient preliminary showing that the loss of funding at issue in this litigation “threatens the very existence of [their] business.” Wisconsin Gas Co. v. FERC, 758 F.2d 669, 674 (D.C. Cir. 1985). And they have likewise shown that the “obstacles” created by Defendants’ conduct “make it more difficult for the [plaintiffs] to accomplish their primary mission.” League of Women Voters of United States v. Newby, 838 F.3d 1, 9 (D.C. Cir. 2016). The Global Health Plaintiffs have also adduced evidence indicating that terminations and resulting harms have continued, and possibly increased, in the two days since this lawsuit was filed. Since the filing of their motion for a temporary restraining order, multiple plaintiffs that had not previously received terminations or stop-work orders have started to receive them. See Glob. Health, ECF No. 19 at 3. At the request of the Court, Defendants submitted documentation showing that just in the two days after they were sued, they have cancelled roughly 230 additional contracts, which Defendants say do not include the contracts cancelled by the State Department and may not reflect all the contracts cancelled by USAID in those days. Glob. Health, ECF Nos. 20, 20-1. Absent temporary injunctive relief, therefore, the scale of the enormous harm that has already occurred will almost certainly increase. Plaintiffs have made a strong preliminary showing of irreparable harm.

This order, from Amir Ali, really gets to the core of what is happening: The government is, wholesale, canceling existing contracts.

No Republican should endorse this. Neither should they try to pretend something else is happening.

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The unitary executive theory is about to get its test case. SCOTUS will decide whether to give Trump the keys to the destruction of our federal government.

RFK Jr. rescinds Indian Health Service layoffs The last-minute decision to rescind the layoff order for IHS came as healthcare workers waited for bad news

Beyond the cruelty, there’s the dumbfounding incompetence.

First, they push through an announcement that 2200 employees would be fired from the Indian Health Service, removing doctors & nurses from our poorest citizens.
Then they reduced it to 950 layoffs.
Now it’s zero
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I hope this email causes you to spontaneously combust

Madness

Can't wait until all the diseases we were keeping at bay with USAID start spreading unchecked and the Zombie World War starts.

Silver lining is the tech-hoes are going to overestimate their power to control the outcome in their own lives.

I have started to hear about specific National Cancer Institute firings of experts and professionals that will have immediate impacts, like regarding the safety of drugs in clinical trials and so on.

They are trying to kill people with cancer.

!!!

I'm running out of words that aren't swears over here

buffoon wrapped in a turd

What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

I got my tx refund before the dodgy one got his greasy claws on it!

Also, a friendly KMA to everyone one you sad ostriches who thought we hysterical loons for hollering FASCISM IS COMING for 4 + 4 years.

AMERICA FIRST!

Will no one rid us of this turbulent boer?

Thought Crime Unit musta got shit-canned in the purge-o-rama

In addition to being civic degenerates these people are in every case infantile, sloppy and incompetent. Grand flourishes of performative cruelty followed by entitled pleas of "I don't know how to do this. Can you help?"

You know Kate Winslet in Contagion? Where she runs into a hot zone, risking her life, so Americans could be safer?

She was an EIS officer. That’s who was just fired at CDC today. EIS officers. And many, many more public servants fighting every day for your health.

Nature abhors a vacuum.
That's a thing, right?

It is really short-sighted and stupid to be gutting public health and outbreak surveillance capacity right now:
- H5N1 nationwide - uncontrolled
- TB in Kansas - largest U.S outbreak
- Measles in Texas - Expanding
- Seasonal flu - Worst in 15 years
- Pertussis - outbreaks in multiple states.

Welp, in case there was any doubt

It's only week FOUR.
We're all gonna fucking die