Rachael French

Someday he'll fire RFK Jr. too, because he's a savvy politician, and RFK Jr. is viscerally disgusting to the human sensibility. When he does - and he will - public health will have to grapple with the fact that it was doable, and we could have tried harder, sooner

Trump just gave Oklahoma Dems such a golden opportunity, filing deadline (unlike most places) hasn't passed yet. Any appointed Sen is easier than Millionaire Mullin

If they wanted to [they don't] they have 4 whole weeks to find someone. Maybe @runforsomething.net has someone great in their rosters

[Exit Murderer.]

CNN: Approval for President Trump's East Wing ballroom project – from a government commission that oversees planning for federal buildings and land in the nation's capital – is delayed after it received over 32,000 comments from the public overwhelmingly opposing the construction.

Trump fires Kristi Noem as DHS chief, names Sen. Markwayne Mullin to replace her Stepping in as acting secretary is GOP Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma who Trump said had "Wisdom and Courage required to Advance our America First Agenda."

Stepping in as acting secretary is GOP Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma who Trump said had "Wisdom and Courage required to Advance our America First Agenda." n.pr/4s2Covt

1. As a colleague said, we know peer mentorship works.

2. So wild the way kids grow up into whole people.

Kid 2 filled out his high school schedule request last night. Opted out of Honors English despite my advice.

This morning, I failed to change his mind. But then I hear his sister talking to him…in 90 seconds she’s got him erasing his form and writing in Honors English.

So ChatGPT tells people to kill themselves, and OpenAI's response is to shift responsibility to unpaid, untrained, non-professional friends and family members.

So if you get designated as the "trusted contact," you're doing terrifying unpaid work for this evil company.

Shut it all down.

WALZ: What a 'stop payment' meant by what the administration did last week is 400,000 children without healthcare

COMER: We believe that's your fault

WALZ: Our Medicaid error rate is lower than your state

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So... A friend was supposed to give a PURELY SCIENTIFIC talk at NIH within the next couple of weeks and it was cancelled because of a "new process" where all speakers/talks have to be CLEARED BY A POLITICAL APPOINTEE.

‘He Was Very Convincing’: Over 600 Mostly Black Women Sterilized and Cut Open for No Reason, Lawsuit Claims — Now Virginia Hospital Faces $6B Lawsuit "Over 600 Black women sue Virginia hospital for $6B over unnecessary surgeries. Shocking details emerge in lawsuit. #JusticeForWomen"

A Virginia hospital faces a $6B reckoning after an abusive doctor is accused of systematically sterilizing hundreds of Black women without cause.
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Our school made the decision to continue with remote learning through at least the end of spring break, which starts next Friday.

They will then reassess based on events.

That's a green light for us to go but again: THERE ARE NO FLIGHTS.

State is saying to leave, but THERE ARE NO FLIGHTS.

No arguments from me. Again, my professional drummer of a dad thought he was the best drummer he’d ever heard.

My dad was a rock ‘n’ roll drummer, so I have a whole list of these. As well as the standard argument for why Ringo Starr is one of the greatest drummers of all time.

May I direct you to The Eagles? 😉

The complete idiot Kaitlan is interviewing here is … {checks notes} … a United States Senator

Jim Jordan: "When people step back and evaluate it, they say, 'This was the right decision. This was consistent with what the president told the American people when we the people elected him. He said he was going to do this.'" (Trump literally campaigned on no war with Iran!)

Tim Kaine dogwalked Joe Kernen in this interview

KAINE: To wage offensive war, the framers of the Constitution were absolutely plain that you gotta come to Congress

KERNEN: But it's almost a moot point

KAINE: Let me just underline the fact that I made an argument about the Constitution and you said it's a 'moot point.' I don't believe that

Mendelian genetics.

It’s every type of organization. List-making. Triage. Categorizing. Knowing how to stop at “good enough.”

It’s not sexy. But…slow is fast.

OMG this. You have no idea.

This isn’t contradictory if you believe that both women and children are property

QUICK RECAP for everyone who doesn't understand what is happening with Iran:

- Israel has openly claimed their desire to create a failed state in Iran so they could seize power over the region to expand Israel's territory

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What's hilarious about this is that California, which is the tech and AI capital of the country, has a state income tax, the highest rate of which is 12.3% (vs 9.9% in the WA proposal), and the tax is on all income, not just income over $1 million. Yet somehow Silicon Valley is doing just fine.

When asking people to do things for you, especially things that are extra (not part of our usual job duties), it's best to make that EASY to do.

Like, don't include a required field on your google form for information you could look up and that I will HAVE TO look up to do the thing.

These assholes are really gonna go with “war is peace, actually.”

I do actually think there is a serious imbalance on this app. A lot of politics and not enough culture. Some of that has to do with the fact that Black Twitter mostly went to Threads.

Though I suppose you could make an argument for Pakistan.

Not me. I was alive for Nixon. His wars were all in Southeast Asia.

(Reasonably sure.)