South Carolina Hospitals Aren’t Required to Disclose Measles-Related Admissions. That Leaves Doctors in the Dark. Physicians across South Carolina, home to the largest measles outbreak in decades, are advising patients without the benefit of real-time data on hospitalizations due to measles-related pneumonia, bra...

Physicians across South Carolina are advising patients without the benefit of comprehensive data about how many residents have been hospitalized due to measles-related pneumonia, dehydration, brain swelling and other serious complications.

Authoritarians wage wars to deflect public attention from their own scandals. Donald Trump is no different.

How the lack of newspapers feeds a rise in local corruption. Our study also found that digital media sites didn’t make much of a difference.

One large study found that when a major daily newspaper covering a federal judicial district disappears, corruption cases there—bribery, embezzlement, fraud—rise by more than 7%.

The researchers suggest officials feel emboldened when no one's looking.
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Oh god. Is *this* why GOP is OK with murdering school children & U.S. troops? To get Dems to fund DHS?

Note to Dave: Trump has gutted the entire natsec apparatus, the FBI, DNI, and no one will share Intel with us. Funding DHS does NOTHING but feed the mass deportation-for-profit machine.

Two weeks from now, Trump is also going to unveil his health care, infrastructure and tax plans; make public his tax returns and proof that Obama wiretapped him; and end the Ukraine war.

‘The Worst-Case Outcome Is Complete Chaos’ Donald Trump’s plans to oust the Iranian regime, which led to the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, made some of his advisers nervous, The Atlantic reports. Read about what went into the decision to at...

This is an analysis very much worth a read: www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

The most cursed ‘One of these is not like the other’ that you’ll ever see.

My law firm is currently litigating 86 voting and election cases in 41 states. I expect several more to be filed this week. Here are the states where we are currently most active:

Georgia 8
Arizona 6
Florida 6
California 4
Virginia 4
Wisconsin 4

FBI investigating 'potential nexus to terrorism' in 6th Street shooting that left two dead, 14 injured | Shooter also killed The Austin Police Department says 3 people are dead, including the suspect, and 14 were injured after a shooting just before 2 a.m. The FBI is also involved.

Austin mass shooting early this morning. FBI JTTF says “potential indications of terrorism”: www.kvue.com/article/news...

The "Peace Presidency" Aged Badly, Didn't It? March comes in with Epic Fury, but it is far from clear how it will go out.

The “Peace President” has now attacked or bombed seven countries (!!) since taking office — Venezuela, Nigeria, Somalia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan. And that does not count the ongoing extrajudicial killings on the high seas.

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world-altering decisions are being made by a cabal of gambling addicts hell bent on self enrichment no matter the cost to humanity, we should look into that.

They can just knock on the door next to them and ask them to knock it off if they cared

Vought Curve it is!

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Despite the clear intent of the law Trump himself signed the regime is holding back funding for science and research, and doing extraordinary harm to the country, our competitiveness, our health, and our future.

Well when you put it THAT way.

Washington DC theater kids 🇺🇸🎭🤣 #washingtondc #theaterkid #standup #comedy #standupcomedy TikTok video by Gianmarco Soresi

Are politicians just frustrated theater kids who didn’t get/earn a break? www.tiktok.com/t/ZThnqBKFp/

Here’s a radical idea for Congress: abolish ICE, dismantle DHS, then take that ICE/CBP BBB slush fund and rebuild our national security apparatus, joint terrorism task force, and alphabet agencies as independent entities. We’re going to need them again. Trump won’t sign it, but let’s write it.

Pretty wild if this is why Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was targeted

It's getting to be you can't even profit off war deaths on the insider trading app anymore

Mr. “No New Wars” has words about his new war.

Abuse of Power + Dereliction of Duty = MURDERER!

"Apparently Canadians take a dimmer view of the United States when its president arbitrarily hits their country with destructive, ill-conceived tariffs, recklessly blows up cross-border projects, threatens to seize it by force, and even daydreams openly about reducing it to a vassal state".

Netanyahu: “We are conducting a campaign in which we are deploying the full power of the IDF like never before to secure our existence and our future.
Joint efforts with the US allow us to do what I have been striving for over 40 y”

Israel intends to "intensify" strikes on Iran in the coming days

Freedom is never free? Did your pals sharing troop locations on unsecured networks over Signal chat tell you that?

Mideast clashes breach Olympic truce as athletes gather for Winter Paralympic Games Fighting intensified in the Middle East during the Olympic truce, in effect through March 15. Flights are being disrupted as athletes and families converge on Italy for the Winter Paralympics.

Fighting intensified in the Middle East during the Olympic truce, in effect through March 15. Flights are being disrupted as athletes and families converge on Italy for the Winter Paralympics.

Tejmp hasn't even tried to explain to the American people why he's taken our nation into war. Meanwhile, he's on vacation in Florida.

Over at his Strength in Numbers site @gelliottmorris.com has put together this historical comparison to show how little support there is in these early days for the Iran War compared to other recent conflicts. 4/

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So we have two polls so far on Trump's new war. Both show very little enthusiasm for the war.

YouGov yesterday found 34% of Americans supporting the war. 1/