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Losing elimination status is a sign that measles is a big problem again, bigger than just outbreak response as needed

The virus has taken root in the community, like a weed

And the unseen roots - all the cases that don't get reported and spread measles to others - keep measles going

Greg Sargent tweet on Mikie Sherrill's statement "slamming the Senate's proposed shutdown deal"

Statement from Mikie Sherrill "sharply criticizing Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as 'malpractice' and a betrayal of the people who are 'counting on us to fight for them'." bluevirginia.us/2025/11/sen-... h/t @gregsargent.bsky.social

Tech Billionaire Mocks Pope Leo’s AI Warning — and Reveals Silicon Valley’s Original Sin A billionaire tech guru openly mocked Leo's call for moral AI — and quickly backtracked after backlash. It’s a telling collision of Silicon Valley hubris with a pope they cannot buy, bully, or ignore.

A tech billionaire mocked Pope Leo XIV’s call for ethical AI.

The post was deleted — but not before exposing Silicon Valley’s deeper discomfort: a pope they can’t buy or bully.

It also revealed something older: the Valley’s original sin — the desire to be God.

In addressing whether removing Senator Schumer as leader should be an issue in Democratic primaries, Senator Sanders broadens the focus: "We need to take on the Democratic establishment all over this country."

Some nights we sign off with hope and inspiration.

Tonight, we sign off with anger and betrayal.

To the senators who caved... twice... May you have the night you deserve.

And to the rest of you...
Rage, rage against the dying of the light

Night, folks 💚

Four Years 10 Nov , 2025

Four years ago today, I started my Substack newsletter The Good in Us. What a long, strange trip it continues to be!

Everything is at stake in the next three years. Let's stick together and fight the good fight.

www.marytrump.org/p/four-years...

YouTube video by Lawyer Oyer Trump’s mass pardon of election deniers

Trump’s sham Pardon Attorney, Ed Martin, announced a mass pardon of at least 77 people involved in efforts to overthrow the 2020 election results. This is another unprecedented and extremely dangerous use of the pardon power. Please watch and share. youtube.com/shorts/cHkqw...

Now there are TWO lists the White House won't release.

First it was the Epstein Files. Now it's who's paying for Trump's Golden Ballroom.

Apparently, the only promises the President keeps are those that benefit himself and his billionaire friends.

"These breaks come in addition to the roughly $4 trillion package of tax cuts that President Trump signed into law in July..."

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...

A tweet from Sara McGee for Texas House (@SaraMcGeeTX) says: “My ovaries just shriveled up and yeeted themselves into the sun.” Below it, Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) had posted: “Dr Oz: ‘We’ve dropped the infertility drugs to make lots of Trump babies I’m hoping by the midterms.’” The accompanying photo shows Dr. Oz speaking at a podium with others behind him, and subtitles reading: “European company. We’ve dropped in fertility drugs to make lots of…”

“Why are so many young women Democrats?”

Trump Officials Accused of Bullying Tactics to Kill a Climate Measure

Our "government" is just a bunch of thugs, who also happen to be complete idiots.

Nothing, nothing that is good and helpful to the health and prosperity of the world as a whole will be allowed to stand.

McCONNELL said Trump's Truth Social post was essentially an admission of his "intent to defy the court order when he said 'SNAP payments will be given only when the government opens.' As a result "people will go hungry, food pantries will be burdened and … suffering will occur."

HAPPENING NOW: Judge McConnell is sharply rebuking the Trump administration for what he said was defying his order to make full SNAP payments by Nov. 5. He has ordered USDA to make the *full* payment to states by tomorrow.

Income Inequality Is Surging In The U.S., New Oxfam Report Shows The richest 1% of households have accumulated almost 1,000 times more wealth than the poorest 20% over the last three and a half decades.

www.forbes.com/sites/josiec...

About Last Night: MAGA Reeks of Death There are nights in politics when the country leans over, taps you on the shoulder, and says, “I told you I was sick of this.” Last night was one of those nights.

About Last Night: MAGA Reeks of Death
open.substack.com/pub/therickw...

House cancels votes next week, including vote on Epstein files.

Tracking Anticipated Deaths from USAID Funding Cuts Brooke Nichols has launched online tracking tools that capture estimated increases in mortality and disease spread for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other diseases as a result of the near-total...

By this time next week, the estimated deaths due to the illegal destruction of USAID and the shuttering of its aid efforts will breach 400,000.

More than 260,000 will be children.

Source: www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...

One thing Trump is actually the best at: long shutdowns that impact tens of millions of people across the country. Oh, and blaming everyone but those actually at fault! So I guess that's technically two things...

Free Electricity. Like, at no cost. For everyone. Now. Let's talk about affordability, abundance, and Australia--and why thanks to Trump we can't have nice things

If I were running in next year's midterms, I'd be saying: Aussies are getting free electricity, and we're getting huge price spikes.

Because they built solar, and Trump is blocking it.
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Demetre Daskalakis (left) and Deb Houry (right) take a sardonic selfie in front of a "Make America Healthy Again" mural on the side of a building. Deb and Demetre are public health heroes who refused to compromise their scientific integrity during their tenure at CDC, despite pressure to warp the agency and science to RFKJr's twisted whims

Just like Deb and Demetre, we're all looking forward to the day we can put the MAHA movement behind us for good

Then we can get back to the real work of actually improving Americans' health instead of side-eyeing quacks 🦆

After Trump’s major losses yesterday, the White House says it’s preparing executive orders aimed at changing how U.S. elections are run, citing so-called “blatant fraud” as the reason. It’s clear they just can’t accept losing.

Pile of red and white bankers boxes reading Impeach RFK JR and FIRE RFK.

Pile of red and white bankers boxes reading Impeach RFK JR and FIRE RFK. A row of 5 yellow stand up for science ducks are perched on top of a box.

TODAY IS THE DAY. We’re gathering with science organizations to call for RFK Jr to be impeached and removed — with boxes of 150,000 petition signatures in tow.

Join us for our march in half an hour! www.youtube.com/live/3Hi18Fv...

And that’s why we here see a Court that can suddenly use normal logic and perceive the consequences of its own actions.

Meaning they know *exactly* what they're doing when they allow Trump and Vought to destroy NIH, and thus destroy most or all US cancer research. /end

And on top of everything else, what is the deal with this administration hiring ONLY people with voices that makes any normal person pray for deafness?

This is a very big deal. This is an incredibly segregated state with massive disparities in infrastructure across racism and economic lines and this is one step closer to ending that

"I have four words for you: Turn the volume up."

Zohran Mamdani delivers a message to President Donald
Trump during his NYC mayoral victory speech

www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...

Hey, Republicans - Suck it. Suck it all the way down. This is the start of the next wave, which will see you despised, done, buried.

Maybe dumping poop on voters from an airplane is not a surefire electoral strategy

BREAKING: PROP 50 HAS PASSED IN CALIFORNIA

California voters OK new congressional lines, boosting Democrats ahead of midterms California voters have approved a ballot measure to redraw the state's congressional map to favor Democrats, marking the party's biggest victory to date in a national battle over redistricting ahead of the 2026 midterms.

JUST IN: California voters have approved a ballot measure to redraw the state's congressional map to favor Democrats, marking the party's biggest victory to date in a national battle over redistricting ahead of the 2026 midterms.