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He was incredibly passionate in this episode, and rightfully so.
It’s abominable, cruel, and irresponsible what has been done to USAID.
This administration is committing Watergate level crimes multiple times per week—and those are the ones we know about. It’s crazy to think about what else will come out after.
It’s absolutely essential these criminals are held responsible for their crimes. We must end elite impunity.
“There aren't a lot of hard and fast rules in life, but there are some:
The people bombing, starving, incinerating, evaporating, or trafficking children are never the good guys.
Never.”
The #SaveAct has not gone away. In fact, yam tits says passing it supersedes *everything else*.
Because it's not about election integrity, but about election control.
Yes, we have a billion things to worry about, but don't stop calling your MoC about this one.
www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
This is how our government has been corrupted:
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics. It’s the root of all evil in Washington.
Elizabeth Warren: "I am a hard no on a supplemental. This is not a war the American people want us to engage in. This is not a war that makes us safer ... No. No more money. The only thing Congress has the power to do is to stop actions like this through the power of the purse."
Reporter seeking freedom of speech in the US arrested for exercising freedom of speech in the US
Just have to say… the level of pushing right-wing content and scientific disinformation on other large social platforms (especially under one umbrella) is reaching a fever pitch.
I purposefully, repeatedly, highly curate my feeds with experts, but most content is all pushed propaganda now.
This is the most blasé admission of a war crime by a US president in history.
Trump has just disclosed, without prompting, that the US Military committed a war crime - literally just to brag & make his Republican audience laugh about unnecessarily killing 100+ Iranians instead of capturing them.
The idea of “medical freedom” weighs one parent’s decision to refuse vaccines as more important than another’s decision to protect their own children from contagious, vaccine-preventable diseases”.
@jimalwine.bsky.social and I in a new OpEd about AZ trying to ban childhood vaccine requirements.
Stand Up For Science Founder & CEO Colette Delawalla states three demands:
1. Remove RFK Jr.
2. Reinstate the American Dream of Science.
3. Science should be driven by scientists not political appointees.
Join the fight!
standupforscience.net/march7
The data is in: the NIH goalposts have shifted.
What were once almost certain fundable scores have become coin flips and what used to be likely grants have become aspirational, leading to fewer awards.
Another manifestation of how HHS policies have led to fewer awards and less science.
Let’s talk about bossware and if you haven’t heard that term yet, here’s what it is. Bossware is workplace surveillance software. Software that tracks your keystrokes, monitors what websites you visit, takes random screenshots of your screen throughout the day,
It took the full might of the Veteran community to get them to back down on this.
Otherwise, they were set to cut disability benefits... merely a week before throwing a new generation of troops into war.
And they really think we believe they care about those who serve?
So far the war on Iran has cost $9.4 billion.
That's $1 billion per day.
$41,666,667 per hour.
$11,574 per second.
Thousands of lives lost.
People don't want this. They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.
A terrible February jobs report. The U.S. economy LOST 92,000 jobs last month, while the unemployment rate rose to 4.4%, one of the highest levels seen in the past few years.
December was revised down to -17,000 jobs, while January was revised to 126,000.
Maryland is one of several states that are reporting cases of the infectious disease mumps, suggesting the return of diseases—like measles—that vaccines protect against
Yes. And we have to talk about this now, because talking about it is the first step to making it seem like a callous crime rather than a surprising emergency.
1. The New Hampshire House has passed a public building bathroom ban that says it is a violation of the state civil rights act for a trans person to "assert" their identity gives them access to a bathroom.
It bans them from public bathrooms across the state.
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For RFK Jr and his “measles isn’t serious” disciples:
“A number of them clearly said if they had known, they would have vaccinated themselves and their children against measles, but they didn’t realize how bad it was”.
I am frankly more concerned about the apathy of the American public and even more importantly the lack of leadership in the Democratic Party.
This is not a dress rehearsal. Every single American must speak out against this Facist administration.
Summary of recent HHS departures:
-Unqualified weirdo Jim O’Neill out as CDC Director
-“Measles outbreaks are the cost of doing business” Ralph Abraham out as his Dumbass Deputy
-Venomous podcaster Vinay Prasad out at FDA.
Yet human cassowary and denim enthusiast RFK Jr. remains.
Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs
The FDA's controversial vaccine chief, Dr. Vinay Prasad, is leaving the agency. It's the second time he has abruptly departed following decisions involving the review of vaccinations and specialty drugs. n.pr/4d6X6FQ
US crude just posted a 35% weekly gain, the biggest since 1983.
Qatar's Energy Minister just went on the record with the Financial Times and said: ALL Gulf energy exporters *will* shut down production within days.
Global economy is about to hit a wall.
Yam tits' response: UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER.
Whether you’re religious or not, this is refreshing to hear.
Oh.
“We have agreed” — how nice of them! Surely they’re doing this work pro bono right?
Our troops are dying this isn’t a video game. The White House is posting so-called “hype” videos that mix real footage from the war in Iran with clips from movies and video games like Call of Duty. It’s an absolute disgrace.
The federal government has approved new border wall construction in the Big Bend region of Texas, including stretches that would directly affect Big Bend National Park. Historically, Big Bend has not had a continuous border wall.