Renee Cascada🥄

"This is, quite straightforwardly, a program for regime change in Europe, aimed at turning it into an illiberal polity."

@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social on the double-tap: "The notion that Hegseth didn't know what was going on for an hour or two is literally insane. In government, even at much lower levels, people are in instant contact—let alone at the level of being secretary of defense…It's ludicrous."

A Navy warship mistook US fighter jets for enemy missiles and opened fire. The targeted pilot saw his life flash before his eyes. New documents reveal how the USS Gettysburg shot down an F/A-18 and nearly hit a second one above the Red Sea last year.

So not only were we busy telling the world what we were doing on insecure Signal chats, we were shooting down our own people at the same time. It has costs to put incompetent people in charge of national security, and I fear we are just beginning to pay them.
www.businessinsider.com/navy-warship...

What the holy f**k!? Why isn't this a trending headline?!

Thank you for articulating clearly what my big fear has been for several years. They DO want to cull the weak and keep the rest of us uneducated & poor & desperate, we will be easier to control that way. Next, they're going to buy up the farms that are going under due to tariffs.

"The Pro-Death March: How the Ultra-Wealthy are Using Eugenics and Political Power to Cull the Herd"

An Unholy Alliance of MAGA Politics and Billionaire Eugenics Threatens Public Health, Democracy, and the American Working Class

open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

The only legitimate judicial response to challenges to birthright citizenship is “what, are you kidding, it’s in the Constitution.”

Though that also was the only possible legitimate response to claims that the president is above the law and cannot face punishment for crimes he definitely committed.

GUTFELD: “I love that the peace price went to Trump and not Greta Thunberg.”

TURNER: “Because it was created it for him.”

GUTFELD: “So?”

TURNER: “There were no other candidates.”

If Trump and Musk had a falling out, and if Musk is no longer involved in politics, why is the Trump admin using levers of US foreign policy to get Musk’s company out of well deserved fines?

This is the moment, Europe. Stand up for yourself, your laws, your freedom against foreign interference.

When you have universal healthcare, universal prenatal screening, paid parental leave, and infants not entering group care within weeks of birth, the risk environment is different. Public health decisions aren't made in a vacuum; they're built around the realities of the system they're trying to safeguard. And for a group that loves to compare the U.S. to Europe, they conveniently ignore the actual differences that truly drive health outcomes. Classic cherry-picking and stripping context away from risk: Tools of propaganda

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BUT THE VACCINE SCHEDULE IN EUROPE DOESN'T HAVE THE HEP B DOSE AT BIRTH! Sure.but is it because they don't need it.... or because their system removes the risks that make the birth dose necessary in the U.S.? @ niniandthebrain

Before it was banned for being woke, we used to talk a lot about the social determinants of health.

@niniandthebrain.bsky.social has a phenomenal summary of how these factors influence health and why comparisons to Europe miss the point.

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www.instagram.com/p/DR5k840DW3...

criminals are so bold in the US now

I had an enlightening conversation with a very smart lawyer friend recently about court reform, and he made a persuasive case for simple court expansion because it's the only plan that gets you the requisite change that's also completely, unquestionably constitutional.

Trump Is Poised To Privatize Legal Aid For Migrant Children Internal documents suggest Trump aims to undercut a key program for unaccompanied children and potentially outsource those legal services to a for-profit ICE contractor and Angelina Jolie’s NGO.

🚨We're sounding the alarm: privatizing legal aid for unaccompanied kids puts their lives & rights at risk. This RFP dismantles a network that has held the govt accountable for their abuses.

Read more: https://www.levernews.com/trump-is-poised-to-privatize-legal-aid-for-migrant-children/

This is what standing up for your neighbors looks like.

New York showed out 🔥
F*ck ICE.

Florida wildlife agency’s leaders claim they don’t have to follow science FWC's official estimate for the Osceola region wound up including bears from Georgia too, to allow bear hunting in that region of Florida.

#Florida wildlife agency’s leaders claim they don’t have to follow science. My @floridaphoenix.com column, picked up by @wmnf.org www.wmnf.org/florida-wild...

The National Park Service? jfc

Exclusive: Woman detained by feds in Keys says she was following agents’ orders “This is not the America that I grew up in, and this is not the America that we represent.”

Woman detained by the feds in the #Florida Keys -- despite being a U.S. citizen -- says she was following agents’ orders. She says the agents were masked and never identified themselves, heightening her “fear, confusion & sense of danger.”
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i... via @miamiherald.com

CNN Finds Israel Killed Palestinian Aid Seekers and Bulldozed Bodies into Shallow, Unmarked Graves Israel’s military is continuing to pound the Gaza Strip in violation of the October 10 ceasefire agreement. Al Jazeera reports Israeli ships opened fire toward the coast of Khan Younis, while air raid...

CNN Finds Israel Killed Palestinian Aid Seekers and Bulldozed Bodies into Shallow, Unmarked Graves

Video shows second strike hit before survivors could flip boat, lawmakers say The footage was shown on Capitol Hill, where Adm. Frank M. Bradley, who oversaw a deadly attack on alleged drug smugglers, faced a day of difficult questions about the operation.

2/ "'There was no boat. There was wreckage. There was no radio. There were two guys clinging to a tiny non-awash portion of the keel of a capsized boat,' said one lawmaker familiar with Thursday’s congressional briefings and the video that was shown."

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Reading this full PDF will make you angry beyond words

We do not have a Supreme Court anymore, not in the sense that concept was intended by the Founders

🔗: electionlawblog.org/wp-content/u...

Anti-Trans Activist Kirralie Smith Ordered To Pay Almost $100k & Issue Public Apology Following Vilification Ruling - Star Observer Anti-trans activist Kirralie Smith has been ordered to pay $95,000 and issue a public apology after vilifying two trans women.

Want another reason to head to Australia? Check out this article where an anti-trans figure there has had to pay significant compo to trans women she vilified! That wouldn't happen in the UK!
www.starobserver.com.au/news/anti-tr...

It's basically telling district court judges to abandon the law and become partisan hacks or else all their rulings will be overturned.

but they're not offering proof

So in 1991 Hepatitis B vaccination was recommended for all babies. New cases went from 1000s to 100s. The current recommendation works and it works well.

So why does RFKJ's ACIP want to change it? They refuse to answer this question directly. Some seem to believe the vaccine is harmful.

🦠What happens when you say you will only protect babies of infected moms, but you are bad at detecting infected moms❓

🚫You miss a lot of babies who needed protection.

This is exactly why in 1991 we went from only vaccinating babies of Hepatitis B positive moms to vaccinating all babies.

Agree with this thread. Worth reading in full.

25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.

Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.