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A pastor who rejects “established science” decided polio & measles vaccines should be optional Dr. Kirk Milhoan is the head of the Republican-backed Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, and he's completely out of his depth

A Christian pastor who spread COVID misinformation is now heavily influencing U.S. vaccine policy, and he’s openly questioning shots against polio and measles.

This is how public health collapses.

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To Noem Is To Love ’Em

This Weeks Editorial Cartoon: To Noem Is To Love ’Em

Not just Mexican restaurants. Many places are doing this, including some McDonald’s and supermarkets.

YouTube video by The Vaush Pit The Greenland Situation Is Escalating

The negotiations between Greenland, Denmark, and the US yielded no compromise.

The fascists, billionaires, and corporate special interests are trying everything in their power to justify the US annexing Greenland.

We must stand with Greenland and Denmark! 🇬🇱🇩🇰

#Greenland #Denmark #Vaush #youtube

Child abuse is a central plank in the conservative platform, because physical mastery of the weak is how they establish dominance, their only value. It's not just something a lot of conservatives do, it is part of being a conservative.

So now Russia’s the enemy again?

EPA to Stop Considering Health Impacts When Regulating Air Pollution In a major reversal, the Environmental Protection Agency is no longer considering health impacts and lives saved when regulating air pollution from new power plants. Instead, the EPA will focus on the...

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Key takeaways from Supreme Court hearing on trans sports bans Here are seven key takeaways from the Supreme Court's first oral hearing challenging two trans sports bans.

"Analysts and experts have argued the Supreme Court seems likely to uphold the state bans, which would have overarching implications for trans rights in the US beyond sports."

This will harm more people than just trans athletes who will be subject to invasive, discriminatory sex testing.
#trans #US

Big tech’s ‘elite victim complex’ [FREE TO READ] Acolytes of the broligarchs have a grip on key nodes of Washington’s power ministries

"Trumpian populism may be the story of our age but I'm increasingly convinced that we're underplaying the tech-authoritarian elephant in the room." My Swamp Notes newsletter. Free to read. as.ft.com/r/199e371f-8...

DoorDash, Uber Sue NYC Over Mandate to Show Tips Prompt Upfront Rivals DoorDash Inc. and Uber Technologies Inc. jointly sued New York City to block requirements that the delivery tipping option be available at the time of checkout and set to at least 10%, which th...

DoorDash and Uber have both sued New York City to block requirements that the delivery tip option be displayed at checkout and set to at least 10%.

These greedy companies don't want to be required to show the option to tip delivery workers.

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NEW DATA: Lower Prices, Bigger Paychecks President Donald J. Trump’s bold economic agenda is delivering real results for American families — with new data from DoorDash’s State of Local Commerce

🔥 The White House released an article on Monday citing a DoorDash report as confirmation that "inflation has been tamed."

I asked a DoorDash spokesperson today if the company had concluded from its report that inflation had been tamed. DoorDash spokesperson told me, "We did not write that."

4 months apart

"Stephen Miller confessed that when he uses such dehumanizing language he is, 'using this language to mark people. To put a target on them. … It is a message [he] is sending to all the crazies and lunatics out there' to go target the people he dehumanizes."

Trump fires US attorney who told border agents to follow law on immigration raids New York Times reports Michele Beckwith’s firing came after she reminded Border Patrol to comply with courts

Top paths to getting a job in the Trump administration
*Be a rapist
*Be a white supremacist
*Be a Fox News host

Top paths to getting fired by Trump
*Recommend that people follow the law

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New Bill Would Give Marco Rubio “Thought Police” Power to Revoke U.S. Passports Secretary of State Marco Rubio has already sought to punish immigrants for speech. New legislation might let him revoke passports from U.S. citizens.

Authoritarianism 2.0
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Cuomo hopes Trump will help him beat Mamdani "I feel good about that," the New York mayoral candidate told a closed-door Hamptons fundraiser.

Just embarrassing that anyone in Democratic Leadership would cape for this Trump apologist and sex pest www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

Trump Has Shielded 165 Companies From Federal Enforcement Actions Since January Tech giants have been the chief beneficiaries of the administration’s decision to drop lawsuits and investigations.

"A report released Wednesday by the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen found that the Trump administration has halted or ended a third of misconduct investigations and enforcement actions targeting technology firms — including behemoths such as Meta, Tesla..."

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Pennsylvania priest accused of rigging church's Corvette raffle Search warrants reveal Rev. Ross Miceli’s alleged scheme, lavish spending, and a winner who never bought a ticket

Step 1: Hold a church raffle for an $82,000 Corvette ✅

Step 2: Fake the winner’s name ✅

Step 3: Buy a Tesla, designer clothes, and hit the casinos ✅

Step 4: Preach against greed ✅

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‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe

Because I am angry I will share this again. One of the reasons that Israel is able to target individuals so precisely is that it collects every phone call in Gaza and stores the recordings in Microsoft Azure, then uses AI to analyze and pick targets.

One last point. The closest town to Aberlin Springs is South Lebanon. This is email testimony from 2014. “Every Black knew that South Lebanon was heavily populated (and still is) by the Ku Klux Klan...I am very much on guard while there. I tend to my business and get out as quickly as possible.”

Mark Zuckerberg @ • Follow ••• X 21h • © For our superintelligence effort, I'm focused on building the most elite and talent-dense team in the industry. We're also going to invest hundreds of billions of dollars into compute to build superintelligence. We have the capital from our business to do this. SemiAnalysis just reported that Meta is on track to be the first lab to bring a 1GW+ supercluster online. We're actually building several multi-GW clusters. We're calling the first one Prometheus and it's coming online in '26. We're also building Hyperion, which will be able to scale up to 5GW over several years. We're building multiple more titan clusters as well. Just one of these covers a significant part of the footprint of Manhattan. Meta Superintelligence Labs will have industry-leading levels of compute and by far the greatest compute per researcher. I'm looking forward to working with the top researchers to advance the frontier! Hyperion Data Center over Manhattan

I don’t know about you, but I feel comforted knowing that the guy whose premier product helped facilitate a genocide in Myanmar and which pumps tons of false, emotionally-activating reactionary propaganda into my feed because it thinks I’m a conservative white man, is spending billions on AI.

Big Tech is building massive data centers, and 40% of the planned and existing centers across the US are in areas with "extremely high" or "high" water scarcity.

Mounting evidence points to these data centers exacerbating water shortages across the country.

I've been very fascinated by Dua Lipa's moves for a while. (Great podcast, getting ownership of her master recordings.) And also Ed Sheeran does this too, and talks about taking *RyanAir* (actual hell on earth) rather than a private jet while schlepping his kids around. Interesting moves abound.

Will the Government Ever Do Right by Mahmoud Khalil? Khalil is suing the government for false imprisonment and other harms. He should win—but will the courts let him?

Mahmoud Khalil should win his lawsuit against the government for false imprisonment, false arrest, and malicious prosecution.

But the Supreme Court won't let him. They are too deep in Trump's ass to let Khalil walk away with $20M.

My latest in @thenation.com
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We have fascinating "public intellectuals" now

Should be called “Can having sex with a Nazi change their view?”.

Israel ain’t going to pay itself! lol.

Fetterman and Slotkin were among the absences, in case you were shocked to see them not on that list.

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