Chef Jim Dodge

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Not a single word to help the 33m small businesses in this country. Not from anyone in the administration.

So many buy from China, and don't have alternatives.

So many didn't have the cash to front run the tariffs and buy inventory

Well this seems like a fantastic plan.

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This!

Top FDA Vaccine Official Resigns, Citing Kennedy’s ‘Misinformation and Lies’ Dr. Peter Marks, a veteran of the agency, wrote that undermining confidence in vaccines is irresponsible and a danger to public health.

“The Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine official, Dr. Peter Marks, abruptly resigned Friday, saying in a searing letter that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s aggressive stance on vaccines was irresponsible and posed a danger to the public.”

We wonder if there were many others on the chat ?

Ruth Ben-Ghiat
‪@ruthbenghiat.bsky.social‬

When you are aligned with those foreign powers that is by design. It is sabotage of our country.

Ask yourself:

Why would anyone who wasn’t an asset of the Russian government do this?

Why would any decent human being do this?

Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained Fabian Schmidt’s family said they are unsure of why he is being held. They said he has a recently renewed green card, and no active issues in court.

ICE stripped a German green card holder naked, drove him from Boston to Vermont to Rhode Island, put him in a cold shower, deprived him of medication, sleep and food until he collapsed.

No one knows why he was detained.

Former Texas Megachurch Pastor Is Indicted on Child Sex Abuse Charges Robert Morris, the former senior pastor of the Dallas-based Gateway Church, abused a girl over several years in the 1980s, the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office said.

Robert Morris, the founder of a Texas megachurch and a former faith adviser to the Trump White House, was indicted Wednesday on charges that he molested a girl over several years in the 1980s, the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office said.

Republicans just dropped the act—they’re slashing Medicare and Medicaid.

$880 billion in cuts while Trump’s tax breaks for the rich stay untouched. This isn’t about “waste.” They’re cutting you.

If you rely on Medicare, pay attention—because they’re coming for it next.

The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate.

The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.

Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.

The list goes on and on.

Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

One of my companies informed me they cancelled a $2m conference in Florida. Why ?

They didn’t feel they could pass on the incremental cost of tariffs. So they are cutting expenses.

That’s a city that lost a ton of tourism revenue.

The cost of tariffs isn’t just the cost of the tariff

Did you know?

There’s a directory of Black farmers: “The Black Farmers Index.”

Buy and uplift local. Many are small-scale specialists and located in urban areas. I found an organic resource in my area that I will definitely check out.

Influencer Tate brothers, who face human trafficking charges in Romania, arrive in the US Influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate have arrived in the U.S. from Romania after authorities lifted travel restrictions on the siblings, who have millions of online followers.

Of course a rapist president would accept human traffickers and rapists into the country… I wonder Matt Gaetz met them at the airport.

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Thousands of U.S. Agency for International Development staffers who worked at the agency’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. were given 15-minute time slots to gather their belongings and were escorted out of the building by federal officers on Thursday.

If your employer self insured, share this with your management.

Your CEO doesn't realize they are getting ripped off on their pharmacy benefits.

Here is how

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TOMORROW- Friday, February 28th is BLACKOUT FRIDAY!

If you believe we are in danger of losing our Democracy forever, FIGHT BACK!

Let's make our voices heard in numbers too big to ignore.

JOIN US if you've had it with Comrade Krasnov. 🤬 🇷🇺

#24HourEconomicBlackout

DOGE recommends cuts to the FAA.

Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps.

Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems.

See how this works?

Musk’s Cabinet Cameo: The Elephant in the Room Wore Black

THIS is how you write about the absurdity of this administration.

It’s brilliant prose, full of irony and subtle humor, with a meticulous eye for the farcical details. No other approach could have adequately captured what happened in that room.

All who chronicle this era should take note.

“Especially in light of the billionaire’s other blatant efforts to cozy up to Donald Trump, Bezos’s move is more than a gut punch; it’s more like a death knell for the once-great news organization he bought in 2013.”

She Lobbied for Formaldehyde. Now She’s at E.P.A. Approving New Chemicals. Lynn Dekleva, who recently took a senior role at the agency, once led an aggressive effort by industry to block regulations on formaldehyde.

The Trump EPA person in charge of approving new chemicals ( Lynn Dekleva) once led effort by industry to block regulations on formaldehyde.

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This doesn’t exist and will literally save $0

So increasing the minimum wage to a livable wage is “socialism”?

But Amazon union busting, keeping wages low, and forcing workers onto public assistance while its founder increases his net worth by $7.9M an hour is the "free market"?

Perhaps this could be a WaPo opinion piece.

I told you all @jeffbezos was feral. He’s now killed the Graham/Bradlee legacy of justice, the First Amendment and basic humanity in a vomitous spew of nonsense, testosterone fueled (and HGH) double talk that is more than a little pathetic and utterly shameless.

JD Vance’s Vice Presidency: A Masterclass in Lapdog Politics

Vance’s hometown paper just torched him for trashing U.S. allies, cozying up to extremists, and embarrassing America. When even Ohio calls him Trump’s lapdog and asks, “Seriously, what is wrong with JD?”—you know it’s bad.

In Latest Attack on Media, Trump White House Takes Control of Press Pool | Common Dreams The Trump administration's move to control the presidential press pool sparks outrage.

Jenna Leventoff, senior policy counsel at the ACLU, said that "this is not just about silencing reporters but about dodging accountability and keeping the American people in the dark about important news that impacts each and every one of them." www.commondreams.org/news/white-h...

so far going anti-woke leads to less money and planes falling out of the sky

Stand with science. Always.