uh shutting down MMWR is, in no uncertain terms, crisis level damage for dissemination of accurate info throughout the medical profession

When the most important things, the new Democratic regime will have to do in 2027 is aggressively prosecute FARA violations. It’s not just the Russians. The Israelis, the Qataris, the PRC, the Indians, all are operating unregistered influence ops in the US

You may have heard my arguments against the Electoral College before. Here’s a new one the Founders never anticipated: If the President is elected by popular vote, he probably wouldn’t selectively punish entire states for voting against him.

This. Trump has already arrogated to himself the power to: (1) not spend money appropriated by congress; (2) spend money without congressional appropriation; (3) place illegal conditions on spending money & extract concessions; (4) ignore firing protections; & (5) levy tariffs w/o authorization.

What DHS pulled in Chicago on Tuesday is wildly unconstitutional. They smashed down almost every door in the building, dragged entire families into the street, and detained people for hours ("Kavanaugh stops"). Ms. Fisher was held for five hours and another senior citizen was held for three hours.

NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka. I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws. Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”

The most unqualified SecDef in U.S. history would like to talk to you generals about merit

It shows how clear-eyed Coates is about how strong the forces of evil are. Meanwhile Klein is having a rolling crisis because he long thought those forces were both weaker and less evil than the rapidly-accumulating evidence suggests.

So just to be clear: The US is propping up Argentina’s economy, and now Argentina can eliminate its export taxes, so it can sell tons of soybeans to China, so China isn’t forced to buy soybeans from the US, so the US can pay subsidies to keep our farmers solvent. www.reuters.com/world/china/...

i challenge you to find cooler news today than “despite all odds against American scientific research rn, a CO researcher developed a temperature-stable, single dose rabies vaccine that works bc of particles coated in CANDY & SAPPHIRE, & it could help reduce rabies deaths in places w/o electricity”

The Trump-packed Supreme Court has once again allowed Trump to grab more power without deciding the case on the merits or providing any rationale.  This insane practice of giving Trump free rein while the court takes its own sweet time is a recipe for authoritarianism.

Sen. Murphy: "Tom Homan, Trump's border czar, literally accepted a bag of cash—$50,000—and the investigation was dropped when Trump became president. There are two standards of justice now in this country. If you are a friend of the president...you can get away with anything."

"An undercover sting operation was set up, and Homan was caught on a recording accepting a $50,000 bribe in a bag from the restaurant chain Cava, the sources said." www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

“A study of fatal mass shootings, incidents in which 5 or more ppl were killed, from 2014 to 2019 found 59% were domestic violence [DV]. In 68% of cases, the shooter was committing or had a history of DV. Fewer victims survive mass shootings tied to DV than ones where that dynamic isn’t present.”🧪🛟

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

This is what I mean when I talk about why all of talk of a modus vivendi or a negotiated surrender is futile; the driving engine of right-wing politics now is grievance podcasting. What they want is to have access to modernity, and also to be frothing with fury and hatred towards it at all times.

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

Ben Shapiro's new book "is a perfect encapsulation of Brandolini’s law that the energy required to refute bullshit is orders of magnitude greater than what it takes to produce it." Absolutely savage takedown of Shapiro from @mattpolprof.bsky.social: www.currentaffairs.org/news/ben-sha...

Decent start, now also explain how you're going to break up the TV-station conglomerates that gave Carr the leverage

Even thought there are plenty of reasons to be angry, prolonged anger is bad for you and makes you stupid. You have to fight it, you have to talk back against yourself.

Well, Kennedy is going to change the childhood vaccine schedule despite a promise not to—this month, ousted CDC head Susan Monarez says. Kennedy also wanted her to meet with his anti-vaccine lawyer friend, Aaron Siri, the guy who petitioned to revoke the polio vaccine. www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...

The amazing thing about Trump is that he says right into the camera on the White House lawn while stone cold sober the sort of stuff Nixon would only scream in solitude at the White House fireplace after a bottle and a half of whiskey.

I am amazed at just how inept the Democrats’ congressional leadership is on this moment of crisis. Trump is moving troops into blue cities and declaring war against the left, and these guys are complaining that the GOP Congress is pushing a partisan budget. Jesus Christ, wake the hell up.

This is the same guy.

I am just going to keep posting that the TX governor recently pardoned a political murderer. The dude texted "I'm going to shoot protestors", then went and shot a Black Lives Matter protester. He was convicted in a jury trial. Hard to find a more blatant example of celebrating political violence.

We’re frogs in the pot about this, I think. We’re so hardened to eliminationist, fascist rhetoric from the right that it hardly makes a dent when a prominent host on a major network suggests exterminating a large group of people. But he did. And nobody on modern Right gives a shit.

Someone should probably let the Dems on HASC and/or SASC know that there's currently a witchhunt going on at the other place involving senior DoD leadership (pete on down) for what is clearly speech that doesn't violate any published Dept social media policy, but that did mock one each charles kirk

'captain planet villains are so unrealistic,' we said, 'even the right doesn't want pollution just for the sake of pollution'

Shady. Newsday.com/matt

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

To put this loan amount in perspective: California is spending $500 million to widen a 10-mile stretch of Highway 37 in the northern Bay Area (through a wetland, no less). But $750 million to save the *entire* Bay Area’s transit systems is apparently infeasible.

The Trump administration has canceled the Biden era rule where airlines would have to compensate passengers for flight disruptions.

This is, I swear to Christ, the lead story at the Atlantic Monthly right now

Harrisburg can't find $$$ to run your bus yet the state is giving up to $1.6 billion (!) to Shell's polluting, climate-crushing plastics plant that's a jobs bust and may even be for sale after less than 3 years Inside Pa.'s biggest boondoggle, ever. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/shel...

Today’s Executive Order creating a *nationwide* military “quick reaction force” and setting up an online portal to permit random fascist vigilantes to join soldiers is one of the scariest things I’ve seen in U.S. politics in my adult life. Why is it not getting more attention?

Hard to convince younger generations, but for decades, Republicans went on and on about how two of the worst things imaginable were (1) state intervention in the market and (2) DC using federal troops against US states; both so bad the people should be ready for armed rebellion in case it happens.

They gaslit you all throughout the election.

I think the DoD is making the same calculation that every other societal institution is; if Republicans get mad at you, they will try and crush you, if Democrats get mad at you, they will try and appease you. Nobody actually believes that there will be consequences for this from a future Dem admin.

“Determining who should be allowed to work or live here therefore requires forcing everyone to prove who they are at regular intervals, which, by the numbers, overwhelmingly means making citizens do so.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-totalita...

“Michael Hooper, an associate professor at the University of British Columbia, has found a direct link between disgust and how people perceive cities. The propensity to be disgusted in turn predicts voting for conservative parties.” — www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

thanks to the New Yorker

I cannot emphasize enough that the playbook being used against mRNA vaccines (and vaccines in general) is IDENTICAL to the playbook used to restrict voting rights after the 2020 election: actively sow public distrust, then cite the distrust you sowed as an independent reason for your desired policy

A common thread of seemingly disparate MAGA policies, including some of the latest policing moves, is that big Dem-run cities are violent hellholes incapable of self-government that threaten to outvote real American patriots, and need to be taken over whatever their voters may think about that.

How about half a trillon dollars to put more beat cops on the streets, & a record of lowering violent crime while in office, & a bipartisan compromise to boost legal immigration while controlling illegal immigration? I bet a Democrat who did all that would convince voters to reject Trump!

The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.

Yeah this would probably radicalize me in ways I dont want to fully contemplate if I was in this man's position

"Hey, you know how we left all those girls to die in floodwaters after our local equivalents turned down disaster prep funding that might've saved them? Anyway we're showing you we CAN swing into action immediately IF it means we can steal some seats. Can't save your kids, though, to be clear."