John Hatle

If Paul Allen is retained on the broadcast, I will stop listening.

Senate Dems needn’t come to agreement on everything right now. That’s a path to the lowest common denominator. They simply have to agree to filibuster DHS approps. As to which of a host of anti-brutality and anti-authoritarian proposals to advance, let a thousand flowers bloom.

I don’t want to be political…
#iceout

I wonder if she put a listening device in it like the Russian kids did back in the 1940s?

RFK Jr. is going to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines.

It will take a few years before the deaths and disabilities ramp up to a level that even the most vile Republican cannot tolerate.

RFK Jr. will be long gone and unaccountable, as our babies die from preventable illness.

Rick Scott of Florida: Care to comment?

No institutional design can overcome a lawbreaking president, a Congress defending lawbreaking and forfeiting its own power, a Supreme Court that pretends legal text doesn’t count to facilitate lawbreaking, and a citizenry that votes for all that.
Need at least one that wants rule of law. Maybe two.

What an appropriate book title.

Life in the USA in 2025: I looked up 'rubella' because I had only ever heard about it as a disease targeted by a required vaccine for school kids. But now I expect to hear about it because of someone actually getting the disease, so I looked it up. Answer: German measles.

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I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose???

This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

US-AID made me proud to be an American.

It's a nauseating irony that Rick Scott—perhaps most famous for defrauding Medicare and Medicaid in the '90s—is now the architect of the Republican plan to slash Medicaid.

Not sure it's a matter of short memory. As I've said since 2016, we should think of T as a con.
- In a successful con, the grifter gets away before the mark realizes he was taken.
- In a great con, the mark never realizes.
- But in an exceptional con, like this one, the mark thinks he was in on it.

I mean this is what it would sound like if you asked a fourth grader to imagine what a ceasefire would be like. and yet our entire political class is committed to never mentioning that the man is an imbecile

Opinion | Where to go for accurate, up-to-date vaccine information Concerned about federal government websites? Here are some trusted alternatives.

Since HHS can no longer be trusted....

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1000% this. 👇👇👇

Exclusive: US aid cuts leave food for millions mouldering in storage The food stocks have been stuck inside four U.S. government warehouses since the Trump administration's decision in January to cut global aid programs.

Absolutely abhorrent that food which could be feeding 3.5 million children a month is tottering because of Donald Trump while those families starve

www.reuters.com/world/us-aid...

This is how to honor teachers.

I was just about to submit an R16. They updated the funding opportunity notice on March 31, so I thought the program was going to be retained. Now on May 15 they cancelled it before the May 28 deadline for application.

Florida 5th District Representative Rutherford: As your constituent, I ask that you use the Constitutional power of the Congress to regulate gifts and emoluments to the President from foreign countries.

Luther College, why have you not signed?

This is atrocious. Also, to regulated attendance, they cannot confirm who you voted for, just that you voted. So Dems should show up in force and try to get the checks. Then donate the money to a good cause.

That headline implies that they actually *thought* about it before starting.

Tagging Marie Schrader.

Remember, a good lawyer never asks a question they don't already know the answer to.

Why in the ever-lovin hell is United Healthcare sending out a holiday message that is titled 'less is more'? This year?
Why kind of moronic Communication Dept do they have?

After years of talking to Trump supporters my view of them has become very simple: They want socialist, even sometimes progressive reforms but they want them from someone who makes those reforms feel powerful and masculine and they want to make sure the people they don't like don't benefit from them

Doomsaying is lazy. Hope requires work.