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JB Pritzker signs order to fight RFK Jr.’s data collection on autism The Illinois governor denounced the health secretary’s autism registry as creating “fear of surveillance or discrimination.”

“Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is leading the charge to protect residents in his state from Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s controversial autism database, signing an executive order on Wednesday to shield Illinoians’ medical information from the feds.”

Uh fuck no???

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Death and Taxes is just so full of gender goals

AXIOS highlighting an inescapable truth: Republicans have turned voter suppression into an art form in Tennessee.

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James Harrison, whose blood donations saved over 2 million babies, has died Harrison, whose plasma contained a rare antibody, rolled up his sleeve 1,173 times from 1954 to 2018. The Australian is credited with helping 2.4 million babies and advancing scientific research.

Harrison, whose plasma contained a rare antibody, rolled up his sleeve 1,173 times from 1954 to 2018. The Australian is credited with helping 2.4 million babies and advancing scientific research.

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Republican lawmaker cites scripture in opposition to bill outlawing the hitting of disabled children ‘Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him’, declared State Senator Shane Jett during a debate of Senate Bill 364

Welcome to America…

Where the Bible is used as a defense of the indefensible (abusing those who are the most vulnerable).

DOGE has tapped social security administration offices in NASHVILLE, COLLIERVILLE, and CHATTANOGA for closures.

doge.gov/savings

I’m sorry to say it but:

The emporer is actually naked.

party time!!

found in the wild

No More Female 4-Stars: Franchetti Firing Leaves Top Ranks Filled by Men Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the Navy's first female chief, last week without any clear explanation -- part of a purge of top uniformed leadership that included the Joint...

NOTE: The opponents of DEI are purging anyone who is not a white man from military leadership

This is not about merit; it’s about normalizing racism and misogyny

WATCH: “I don’t give a fuck what the wears… Forgive us. I can’t believe what I just witnessed in our White House.”

Powerful reaction to Trump & Vance ambushing Zelenskyy as Marge Greene’s bf Brian Glenn attacked him for not wearing a suit.

Full: www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2HmYxmH/

Texas Bill Seeks to Ban Gender-Affirming Care for All Ages Texas’ H.B. 3399 seeks to ban all gender-affirming care for minors and adults, marking an unprecedented attack on transgender healthcare rights.

NEW: Texas has introduced a bill to ban gender affirming care for all ages. www.transvitae.com/texas-bill-s...

Gray fluffy cat covering his face with his paw and sleeping on top of a cat tree

Sleepy kitty!

Across the government, probationary employees and Schedule A workers—including individuals with severe physical, psychiatric, or intellectual disabilities, as well as veterans—are being let go.

The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.

Screenshot from Elon’s Twitter

According to Elon, if you are affected by the current federal programs being slashed you are…

*checks notes* *gulp*

“A member of the parasite class.”

A post from Washington State Governor Bob Ferguson, saying, “very proud to announce the Washington state. Department of Health will now process all request to change gender designation on birth certificates within three business days. Previously, there was as much as a 10 month wait. A team of more than a dozen people work through the weekend to clear the departments backlog of more than 500 requests. We’re speeding up government and centering the people.“

If you needed something positive today, here it is.

Well the award for most cowardly, boot-lickingest academic society has squarely gone to the American Society of Microbiology, who has taken down features of various non-white scientists. Absolutely pathetic behavior. Those articles are now coming up as “under review”. Truly sickening cowardice here.

We live in the ✨ world of tomorrow ✨

Came across this character playing "Death & Taxes." I know they're a skeleton, but why are they low key kinda hot?