The Editorial Board

As new Medicaid requirements loom, one Ohio recipient warns the complicated system will get worse People pushing cuts to the safety net in Ohio and nationally say they want to stop freeloading and waste. Ohioan Tarrezz Thompson does everything those people say they want.  She owns a small business...

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Trump’s Total War on Wind Power Since July 4, the federal government has escalated its assault on wind development to previously unimaginable heights.

Scoop: The Trump administration is now pushing for national mandatory land use restrictions on all wind projects — including those on private land — by claiming they present a risk to critical communications infrastructure.

RFK Jr’s confirmation begins America’s Dark Age Superstition, fear and ignorance reign supreme.

The last election was decided not on policy or platform, but on information, and given the result of that election, it’s safe to say that we have entered a new era, a kind of American Dark Ages, in which superstition, fear and ignorance reign supreme.

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Under Trump, life is going to get shorter and more painful. Liberals must explain what happened “Education is everything,” says Lindsay Beyerstein.

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Owning the libs by helping the next pandemic begin Kennedy and Oz befriend diseased ostriches, writes Lindsay Beyerstein.

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The next election can’t mend the harm done by Kennedy's lies In science, four years is a lifetime, Gabrielle A. Perry tells me.

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RFK Jr. pulls $500 million in funding for vaccine development The Department of Health and Human Services plans to cancel contracts and pull funding for some vaccines being developed to fight respiratory viruses like COVID-19 and the flu.

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At the doorstep of the Trump Greater Depression...

This is not sustainable.

He is acting like a man who does not fear accountability from the law, from the press or from voters.

@charlesgaba.com to me: “Everything [Kennedy], the Trump administration and congressional Republicans are doing seems to be intended to ensure that sick people simply die off, which presumably would make those who survive healthier on average, thus achieving his ‘maha’ goal.”

We can’t imagine a future in which the government is actually trying to hurt us. We say that only happened in times like the early 20th century, in places like Soviet Russia or Maoist China. The government can’t possibly seek to inflict mass suffering and death.

Unsaid: ‘Make America Healthy Again’ means kill the sick Charles Gaba tells me that that, for Robert F Kennedy Jr, “would make those who survive healthier on average, achieving his ‘maha’ goal.”

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Unsaid: ‘Make America Healthy Again’ means kill the sick Charles Gaba tells me that that, for Robert F Kennedy Jr, “would make those who survive healthier on average, achieving his ‘maha’ goal.”

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House republicans fled DC to protect a pedophile. Texas democrats fled the state to protect democracy. The two sides couldn’t be more different.

Jesus and we’re supposed to admire these people.

ILLINOIS GOV. J.B. PRITZKER (D): "If they're gonna cheat, then all of us have to take a hard look at what the effect of that cheating is on democracy . And that means we've all got to stand up and do the right thing. So as far as I'm concerned, everything is on the table."

As the FT noted, Trump recently told a leading Jewish campaign donor that "MAGA is really starting to hate Israel." That seems to be accurate.

A once-great nation literally committing suicide. bsky.app/profile/jben...

Jesus.

Blue state GOPers shudder

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US may require visa applicants to pay bond of up to US$15,000 - Jamaica Observer WASHINGTON, United States — The United States (US) Department has proposed a pilot programme that could require business and tourist visa applicants from certain countries to pay a bond of up to US$15...

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They are not acting like this matters.

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Sweetheart Deal of the Century

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@josepagliery.bsky.social of NOTUS clued me into a story the other day that bears amplifying.

It really is a stunning revelation: the sweetheart plea deal with Jeffrey Epstein,

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A stairwell with a wrought-iron banister, large gilt-framed paintings of clouds on the walls and a suspended sculpture of a bride clinging to a rope. A headline reads: "Inside Jeffrey Epstein's Manhattan Lair."

Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s seven-story Manhattan townhouse, the sex offender hosted the elite, displayed photos with presidents and showcased a first edition of “Lolita,” according to previously unreported photos and letters. nyti.ms/3GXMlrZ

When I say don’t mess with Texas women, I’m talking about State Rep. Jolanda Jones.

They will pay more attention to the alleged wrongs done by the Democrats.

I'll have more to say later, but I'm guessing @elliottness47.bsky.social and @dandadad.bsky.social would have an idea or two.

Trump knew Epstein used Mar-a-Lago ‘to try to procure girls’ The nation is consumed by speculation about the Epstein files. Trump’s admission may provide a critical clue, writes Lindsay Beyerstein.

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