History will not be kind to the Biden administration—in large part because of what it failed to prevent.

Schools are another area of total surrender. The teachers unions wanted safe classrooms. Instead, they were abandoned. Money was allocated for safe schools, but there was no oversight or systematic process for ensuring its effective use. And then Biden urged cities to spend COVID relief on cops

I realize, I somehow totally breezed over the administration’s decision to give up on masks—or how it had to be embarrassed into sending out free COVID tests after many thousands of Americans had already died on their watch. Or how Biden promised to mobilize OSHA to protect workers, but like…didn’t

The lesson is we have to fight every battle. If even one GOP lie is allowed to get absorbed into the mainstream—like the lab leak shit—we’re all worse off for it. Lives will be destroyed because of it.

Morens faces decades in prison because he wanted to move personal discussions to Gmail to protect them from lab leak-related FOIA requests to the NIAID. He is accused of conspiring with Daszak because he helped him edit language of a grant that was canceled and then restored by an Indy panel.

I just want to add, that the persecution of scientists we’re seeing today—like Dr. David Morens, the fmr. Fauci aide who was arrested in his home by armed FBI agents and stripped—can be directly traced back to the Biden administration and Congressional Democrats giving ground on the lab leak.

It just speaks to the need for better Democrats. Biden was never a fighter. I mean, I called it back in 2019–and was by no means alone. We need the next administration to be the best, most aggressive public health presidency in history. So we need to identify who the fighters are—and aren’t.

Like insisting on reopening. Like telling people they could vax and relax. Like telling a young girl that she didn’t have to worry about getting COVID at school and infecting her family. The list is long and depressing.

Trump 2.0 is the worst public health presidency we’ve ever had—and it’s not close. But it didn’t happen out of nowhere. The failures of the previous admin had ripple effects. Like ending pandemic relief as inflation hit, plunging millions back into poverty. Like giving ground on the lab leak.

Then there’s long COVID, which the administration effectively ignored in its push to get Americans back to work. A few years ago, HHS released a report finding that tens of millions of Americans were suffering with long COVID to one degree or another. That didn’t change the admin approach tho.

That the Biden administration gave ground on the lab leak amid a right-wing frenzy of innuendo and speculation and conspiracism, was a shameful moment. And it destroyed an organization that had been working to save lives since like, the AIDS crisis and had predicted a SARS-like pandemic.

But the biggest betrayal IMHO was when the Biden administration debarred EcoHealth Alliance and its president Dr. Peter Daszak (who now sits on AJI’s board) over what amounted to a late filing with the NIH. Bc the group was at the heart of lab leak conspiracy theories.

Meanwhile, the right was taking victory laps, declaring that its crank doctors (several of whom ended up in the Trump 2.0 administration) had been right all along about lockdowns. Trump was able to claim he wasn’t uniquely unqualified.

It was also as the omicron variant was ripping its way through the population. Omicron would kill even more than delta. But the administration was simply unwilling to stand by public health in the face of attacks from the right and industry pressure.

Biden’s priority was the economy. In his December 2021 jobs report, he boasted that his administration had “got people out of their homes and back to work, even in the face of wave after wave of COVID." This is after delta killed hundreds of thousands of Americans.

The 400K COVID deaths Trump presided over in his first term should have forever disqualified him. But remember the debate with Biden? Where he said his death numbers had been eclipsed? He was right. The Biden admin caved on public health and the results were disastrous.

The fact that Xavier Becerra is a serious candidate for public office is a testament to that lack of understanding. Becerra presided over 800K American COVID deaths as HHS secretary. I don’t care how much you like him, any way you slice it, that’s a catastrophe, and he bears responsibility.

I’m afraid that too many people don’t understand just how terrible the Biden pandemic response was—and how it contributed to Trump’s return. I also fear that given how much this administration has dismantled public health, the appetite for looking back and identifying points of failure is low.

I guess what sucks the most about all this is it's being done to prop up technology for people who are too stupid to learn a new skill or too lazy to do the job they already have. Oh and to make digital yes men and sex chatbots for lonely billionaires.

But guys the Data Centers are the same as <insert thing they are not the same as> so stop worrying about it.

It’s always funny seeing nerds across the world gravitated independently to certain things (this developer’s name is a spinal tap reference)

Update: Them…..

being a liberal is a kind of mental block where instead of comprehending what you're reading you whine about completely unrelated things because what's in front of you is obviously in conflict with the basis of your worldview. it's the 'have problem, don't care, don't have problem' of politics

I think these people might have brain damage

this article was written intentionally this way to attempt to get you to be so mad at Gen Z that you don't read the rest of the extremely worrying numbers from these studies. don't fall for it

further, the sources linked to in this piece are all articles about how poorly the housing market is doing, from which Gen Z's slightly rising numbers have been cherry picked as the only positive data point and presented as proof that things are Good Actually

1) "without help from their parents" is not even true for the guy the article is about 2) the numbers are taken from a study by the national association of Realtors, which does not even include this data 3) once you do find the data, the massive, national news-worthy difference is 2%.

dude we cant lose to fascists this wet and embarassing man i won't allow it

kind of embarassing that in the uk we dont even have homegrown racism anymore and we have to import it from america. putting hard working british racists out of a job

"GAMEOVERSE" PILOT: *gives the hero's principal rival a powerup sequence where her robot partner graphically tears her to pieces and devours her in order to trigger her Phase 2 form* ME: Oh, okay, we're aiming for THAT side of the furry fanart community.

32 House Democrats joined the GOP to vote to criminalize bail funds. clerk.house.gov/Votes/2026169

Caught in a barb wire fence, twisted sideways, pants ripped down to my ankles. Outsmarted again by gophers. Suddenly, I see dust billowing up from the horizon. It’s a convoy of rental cars! Hundreds of national reporters are on their way to ask me about gas prices and woke

"reading is tankie" is quite literally a Nazi belief btw like if you're this adverse to research then you are following in your hero Hitlers steps

Caving means your spine is weak enough in Phase One to be the subject to getting it broken in Phase Two. No one is surprised by this except the institutions that caved a la "I can't believe I aimed and shot myself in the kneecaps while being chased by a leopard."

And it'll never be enough to the anti-trans crowd. They will always demand 'more' because they want blood. The 'concept' of trans people is offensive to them, and that thought drives them. Someone will always come along that's more extreme, more anti-trans, demand more of a police state, etc.

Texas Children's caved and ended care under pressure in April 2022, over four years ago and they still got targeted by DOJ and Paxton. NYU caved and they still got served with a grand jury subpoena. Caving and abandoning will not save you. You have to fight these bastards or they will destroy you.

Seeing Dril enter his Reply Guy Era is the only reason to ever log into Threads

Do any of these guys ever answer when you ask "Hey, what would President Kamala Harris be able to do about this?"

And also wrote legislation which exacerbated mass incarceration, which lead to mass disfranchisement. Vote!!

Kamala famously was the Vice President for the man who put Clarence Thomas on the bench

The thing I love about this is the reason this is possible is thanks to the Supreme Court. Was it leftists who said they didn't "give a fuck" about the Courts 15 years ago? Or was that Rahm Emmanuel?

yea, except it is more than that. the vast majority of these hateful people are just that. hateful because they enjoy the feeling of hate. they look for excuses to indulge their hate and settle on certain targets. their hate dissolves the moment their hate is no longer fun for them

they use the loaded concept of "trans ideology" when they talk about eradication which is obvious genocidal language when you apply it to other things if matt walsh says "i want to eradicate jewish ideology" he obviously means kill or closet anyone who believes they're jewish until they don't exist

The ultimate goal of all ethno eugenicists is to go back to inbreeding.

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that this is an impossibility on its face - eliminating a benign form of difference that simply exists within humanity - unfortunately does not mean that profit cannot be generated by pursuing it, that labor cannot be disciplined, that lives cannot be ruined, that people cannot be killed

around the time the US frontier 'closed' - a time when the French state was itself doing all kinds of fun shit with the erosion and destruction of colonial societies - there was a nearly hysterical obsession with criminal youth in the major cities who were called, and called themselves, Les Apaches

i think murder is just the end goal that's comforting to think about. They also kind of want to breed us out of the gene pool and destroy any form of culture that resembles us, even within their own mainstream

they’ll never admit it but the transphobic agenda end point is murder of trans people. the transphobe wants society alienated away from us, repulsed by us, so disturbed by us that the only thing that can enter their mind is our literal eradication