Rural America is full is surprises. Is that Putin?

This is key. The diminishment of SCOTUS will become a sociological fact before it becomes codified in law. That process is now very well underway.

Honey what’s wrong you’ve barely touched your Malort sno-cone

Hi everyone I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing

Breaking:   WASHINGTON (AP) - Health secretary removes every member of scientific committee that advises the CDC on how vaccines should be used.

So RFK Jr’s “special advisor” is claiming that the COVID vaccine “will be completely pulled off the market for EVERYONE very sooN. THEN an investigation” while abandoning the millions of Americans disabled by SARS-CoV-2.

New, by me: Data broker giant LexisNexis has revealed that its risk solutions unit (think "know your customer," risk assessing, due diligence, and law enforcement assistance) was breached, affecting the personal data and Social Security numbers of at least 364,000 people.

Democrats don’t canvass in my rural community, but neither do Republicans. The difference is that churches often do the work of the Republican Party three times a week…

In the (free to read) charts newsletter this week, I went long on age and death in Congress. s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?tra...

UnitedHealth secretly pressured nurses to change patients' records to include DNRs (Do Not Resuscitate) without their consent, so those patients would die instead of being saved with medical interventions that could cost UnitedHealth money. This is murder. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to evade it.

Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...

The freight guys have really started freaking out over the past 48-72 hours:

2026: "I'm going on an overseas vaccination." "Don't you mean vacation?"

At this point, I think we can safely assume China, Russia, North Korea, any foreign intelligence service really, also has full access to every government system that DOGE has touched. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

I feel like this isn’t getting talked about enough. White House is flooding the zone with tariff talk and covering up a lot of shocking stuff www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

strange women lying in ponds distributing swords starting to look like a reasonable basis for a system of government

Welp, got an answer to this question: Apparently the answer is no tariffs are being collected. Trump broke the system www.cnbc.com/2025/04/11/c...

Trump Orders DOJ To Investigate Prominent Critic in Shocking Oval Office Remarks: ‘I Think He’s Guilty of Treason’

@kenwhite.bsky.social seems like this is going to keep getting worse www.freep.com/story/news/l...

If there is a right to notice and judicial review before being removed to a Salvadoran prison, but habeas is the only avenue for vindicating one’s rights not to be unlawfully removed, then what happens if the government *violates* one’s substantive and procedural rights before removing someone?

Did you know that over 60% of medical devices used in the US are imports? And 61% of fresh fruit? If you thought healthcare was already too expensive in the US, it’s only going to get worse. open.substack.com/pub/epiellie...

The Marshall Islands, the last UN member without a national football team, have locked in their first games 🇲🇭 Springdale, AR—home to the largest overseas Marshallese community—will stage the Outrigger Cup in August, also featuring Turks and Caicos, US Virgin Islands and Guam ⚽️

Thousands of US Department of Agriculture employees, including food inspectors and disease-sniffing dog trainers, remain out of work, leaving food to rot in ports and pests to proliferate.

Galveston County law enforcement is asking residents if they can stay in their homes for free: www.chron.com/news/article...

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a dual-antibody treatment that remains effective against ALL SARS-CoV-2 variants by targeting a less-mutable part of the virus. This breakthrough could lead to longer-lasting therapies that OUTPACE viral evolution. 🧪🧵⬇️

NEW: I helped Brian Krebs trace the background of one of Elon Musk's top loyalists, Branden Spikes, head of IT at X, who spent 2 mo at DOGE. Spikes and his ex-wife were involved with Russian diaspora websites and groups linked to pro-Kremlin KSORS players, Russian state media while he was at SpaceX.

Trump administration terminating leases for Social Security offices in Batesville, Forrest City, Jonesboro & Texarkana as part of Elon Musk's cost-cutting rampage, 40/29 News reports. #Arkansas #arnews #arleg #arpx www.4029tv.com/article/arka...

This is going to wake up a whole lot of people

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people: 18f.org

The Fulbright Foreign Student Program invites graduate students from abroad to come study in the US and guarantees funding for them to do so paid in a monthly stipend. Yesterday, some FFSP scholars received notification that they're only getting a week of their stipend.

"It’s worse than you think because by the time the courts catch up, the damage will already have been done. It’s worse than you think because the people running the government seem to have no higher mission than to watch it burn," @brbarrett.bsky.social writes:

Long COVID protection #Medsky

The U.S. has threatened European govts as follows: agree on the terms of Ukraine's surrender within three weeks or we withdraw from Europe. The source is Mika Aaltola, Member of the European Parliament, formerly Director of the Finnish Inst. of International Affairs. I know him, he's solid.

Over the past week, several recent ex-State Dept officials reached out to me with a major concern. DOGE could soon access a huge defense-export database that represents a massive, if not transformational corruption opportunity for Musk & allies. Meet USXports:

Y'all who have taken herd immunity for granted are about to FAFO. #Medsky

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On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down. For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now Meanwhile...

NEW — In an alarming email last night reviewed by me, Coast Guard members learned that 1,135 members' direct deposit account routing information was compromised due to a data breach from unauthorized access. It was only discovered because an officer “reported anomalous activity” on their account.

there might not be flu shots this year www.biocentury.com/article/655011

"...it’s only a matter of time until DOGE’s meddling inadvertently triggers a catastrophic failure of Bureau of the Fiscal Service systems," writes @lizthegrey.com in an op-ed for @thebulletin.org. thebulletin.org/2025/02/why-...

Here's my piece with @rooseveltinstitute.org colleague Emily Divito on how the Musk-Treasury payments scandal is worse than it appears. When people lose trust in the money and payments systems, that's how panics, bank runs, and financial crises happen. 1/ news.bloomberglaw.com/tax-insights...

A teen DOGE staffer recently given access to government systems worked at a startup known for hiring convicted hackers. Someone using a Telegram handle associated with him also solicited a cyberattack-for-hire service in 2022. All raising questions about his vetting. www.wired.com/story/edward...

If you want a long, but very thorough, read on just how crazy dangerous the situation is with Elon, @brockm.bsky.social has laid it all out in a single article. Please read it. www.techdirt.com/2025/02/05/t...

Tickets for the show at Robinson Center go on sale at 10 a.m. on Friday.

What’s his beef against USAID in particu….oh. Wow.

The men carrying out Musk's coup are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran. Make them famous. And, eventually, when possible, arrest them and charge them with multiple felonies. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...