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It has taken medical science 200 years to advance humans to the point where people are so healthy and living so long that they can deny that science and medicine is what got us here.

To be clear, this now a massive cover up involving the President, the Attorney General, the FBI Director, and the GOP Congress.

Should you buy it? If you answer 'yes' to these questions, probably not Sometimes we want to buy things we want, not what we need, and that's OK. When you're unsure whether to swipe that card or walk away, this guide can help you make a mindful decision you won't regret.

Sometimes we want to buy things we want, not what we need, and that's OK. When you're unsure whether to swipe that card or walk away, this guide can help you make a mindful decision you won't regret.

Skeptics can be persuaded by evidence. They don’t believe a claim at the start, but if they see enough proof, they come around.

Ideologues and conspiracy theorists cannot. They start with their conclusion and push it, no matter what the evidence says, distorting as needed.

RFK Jr. is the latter.

You have to fundamentally realise what is really going on in America.

Democracy doesn’t work for the wealthy.

They want to rule. Democracy doesn’t allow that.

So destroy democracy by controlling what people see and hear. Particularly effective for non critical thinkers.

How the US president and his clan ushered in a new golden age of corruption | The Observer The presidency and personal gain now go hand in hand – and no one has been able to do anything about it

For the first time in its history, America has a president and first family who are unabashedly corrupt, and a dominant political party that is convinced that large-scale corruption are just the perks that go with power. America never conquered the Middle East but the Middle East conquered America.

It was always performative outrage.

Hegseth orders makeup studio installed at Pentagon Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has not given any press briefings in the briefing room but has used the room as a backdrop for TV hits with Fox News.

Pete Hegseth is treating the Pentagon like it’s a Fox News set—ordering a makeup studio while leaking sensitive information in Signal chats.

This is what happens when you put clout-chasers in charge of national security.

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They told me if I voted for Kamala the market would crash, and then we’d probably have a recession. They were right.

I’m no economist, but…

Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

The question of if a country could fuck itself harder than the UK did with Brexit has today been answered.

It got worse after Sexton? How is that possible?

YouTube video by PoliticsGirl 20 Lessons on Tyranny: by Timothy Snyder / read by John Lithgow

You have to see this.

PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.

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5 Ways AARP Is Fighting for Social Security We're mobilizing our members, calling for answers and opposing harmful customer-service cuts

if ever there was a time to throw your (much vaunted!) weight around, this is it...

www.aarp.org/politics-soc...

To anyone living in a state that doesn't respect you for who you love or who you are: Illinois has a place for you.

You are seen, you are celebrated, you are protected, and you are welcome here in our state.

Security leaks brought to you by insecure people.

When the majority of your cabinet is made up of washed out actors, moonlighting as “news personalities” who are trying to pretend they have starring roles on the WEST WING!!

The Sweet 16 began in 1975.

This is the first year the men's tournament has seen only power conference programs remaining in the field at this stage 🤯

H/T @optastats.optajoe.com

It's always wrong to vandalize personal property and that certainly includes Teslas, and also: your government is actively disappearing innocent people without due process, so, you know, that second one is taking up my empathetic bandwidth at the moment.

U.K. Tourist Returns Home in Chains Like ‘Hannibal Lecter’ Becky Burke was released in chains and handcuffs after spending 19 days in an ICE detention facility

U.K. tourist Becky Burke finally returned home to Wales on Tuesday after spending 19 days in a U.S. ICE detention facility. Her parents relayed their daughter’s description of her release from ICE, saying how she was taken in “leg chains, waist chains and handcuffs,” which left her “traumatized.”

YouTube video by DW News Germany updates US travel advice following arrests | DW News

Germany has issued a travel advisory for United States. Previously, this special honor was reserved for countries like Afghanistan, Yemen, and Syria etc.

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How firm is the hold of antivax beliefs?

From the parents of the 6 year old unvaccinated child who died of measles:

“Don’t do the shots,” the girl’s mother said. Measles, she added, is “not as bad as they’re making it out to be.” She noted that her four other children all recovered…

The Slow Kill: How the GOP is Dismantling Social Security Without a Vote Delay, Deny, Discourage.

Elon Musk called Social Security a “Ponzi Scheme.” To be clear: the Muskrat & Trump want to make it harder for you to get what you paid into. 72 MILLION Americans are about to feel this. Social Security is under attack. Medicare and Medicaid are next in line…

Can House Republicans Cut $880 Billion Without Slashing Medicaid? It’s Likely Impossible. - KFF Health News A Republican House resolution, which needs the Senate’s buy-in, directed a committee to propose ways to reduce the deficit by at least $880 billion over a decade. Lawmakers have taken Medicare off the...

Know your GOP lies. One GOP talking point on the budget: “the word ‘Medicaid’ isn’t in the bill.” True—but the bill directs the committee overseeing Medicaid to cut an amount impossible to hit WITHOUT cutting Medicaid. They are lying. Again.

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Euros won’t buy his cars because they hate him & he tampers w/their elections. Dems wont buy them for same reason. His sales in China are tanking because they can buy the same car for half the price from others. Officers & big shareholders are dumping stock-including his brother.

This is the kind of thing Trump can do even if he can't pull us out of NATO. He can render our membership in it almost trivial by using his Article II powers.