Want some good news? Heck yeah you do. CDC colleagues recently published a paper showing the decline in cervical cancer among young women in the US, thanks to effective prevention measures like the HPV vaccine. Huzzah for public health! #NationalPublicHealthWeek Read the abstract and text here:

I think ironic detachment is rotting our national soul, and it'd be really great for the adults in the room to stop this bullshit before it gets worse.

My kindergartners & I were discussing good vs. bad choices & the consequences. One said, “If you make big bad choices, you go to jail!” Another replied, “You’re supposed to, but sometimes you don’t. My mom said that The Big Jerk isn’t in jail yet.” If kindergarteners get it, why not Congress?

We will never stop demanding accountability for the Trump administration's sabotage of Social Security. Why? Because the benefits we earn over our entire working lives are promised to US, not corrupt billionaires.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is continuing to question Michigan’s energy companies, as Consumers Energy, one of the largest utilities in the state, seeks yet another increase to its electrical rates. From @kdavidsonjrn.bsky.social

I say this as a working class public servant and elected member of a Democratic Party parish level DPEC: What kind of person must you be to take in the enormity of this moment: the confluence of official cruelty, incompetence, and bigotry, the elite impotence, and decide the solution is "tax cuts?"

This man hands Dems a talking point every time he opens his mouth and Dem leaders are incapable of capitalizing on them. “I’m a businessman first….” says the president.

WTH?!?

nothing says decisive leadership in wartime like the 79-year-old doddering president who is unable to clarify his increasingly contradictory announcements you would take away the car keys if this was your parent. Instead, American voters gave him nukes

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1. I know the idea of "norms" went out with Cheers and technically there's no law about presidential medical disclosures, but the White House and its doctors covering up the president's true medical condition ought to be a Watergate-level scandal

Standing up for freedom by secretly believing it in buried deep in my heart of hearts as I am clapping like a fucking seal for totalitarianism at the big totalitarianism party

I genuinely can't wrap my mind around how pathetic this is.

unreal to realize that, in about 2 months, it'll be 2 years since The Originalism Trap came out I've sold 5,925 copies so far, which is probably pretty good for a Black girl nobody had ever heard of writing a book about the Constitution? hope I can hit 6K! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/735353...

A label has been created to describe what many of us feel. “Political Depression” is the sense that customary forms of political response no longer work either to change the world or make us feel better. Don’t give up. Vote, protest peacefully, and encourage others. zurl.co/00jiX

NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.

Good morning, BlueSky. Good morning, blue sky, new grass and blooms. ☀️🌱🌷 Years pass, we change, nations rise and fall, and even in the darkest times, nature reminds us how to grow, one little sprout, shoot or leaf at a time. Store the energy you need for when change and growth become urgent.

Even when Ds are playing "gotcha" with the bucks, they divide between the deserving and the undeserving - and this infuriates the working class. It's a lesson they absolutely refuse to learn. Benefits of society need to be universal, rich or poor, sick or well. If not, bad actors create scapegoats.

No real problem with ordinary folks asking about the 25th, but every time a congressman asks for the cabinet to remove a president you should read that as them abdicating their own duty to pursue impeachment through congress

This is a *terrific* piece which drives home two key points: People with special needs often have special skills, so hiring them isn't some noble sacrifice you're making but a savvy investment. Accommodations for people with special needs almost always wind up benefiting everyone else too.

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

Constitutional lawyer here. I don't think it would violate the Constitution for the VP/Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment, but the intended constitutional remedy for this behavior is impeachment & removal. The fact that that remedy is politically impossible is a scandal and a crisis.

This is particularly enjoyable because #Apple CEO, #TimCook, has so completely kissed the ass of the orange felon since day one. www.cbsnews.com/news/apple-d...

An opposition party would not be on vacation right now. They would have coordinated message to the public about the fact that a President in cognitive decline is threatening more war crimes. They would be BLASTING the message on all available platforms.

Dear American friends, your president commands all the attention, as usual, but let yourselves slip into an Easter mood and dream of the Promised Land.

WHY ISN'T YOUR PARTY DOING THIS ON BLAST THOUGH?????? STOP BEING A FUCKING COMMENTATOR. YOU HAVE POWER. USE IT.

The other element here is that there are innumerable ways those in formal positions of power can engage in non-cooperation that would jam up the administration but very few of those are actually happening.

Not sure how these "journalists" live with themselves with their sanewashing, especially when his actual post was beyond deranged.

This round belongs to the liars and fact-twisters. There are ominous developments on our planet, driven by climate change, but all we can talk about is oil and gas supply and the price of gas. FF companies love the profits and laugh at our vain warnings. www.msn.com/en-us/weathe...

We can fault congressional Democrats all we want. And we should. But we're not pouring out into the streets to say end this war now. And we absolutely should be. I absolutely should be.

This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

There is clearly something very wrong with him. This is horrifying. Shame on the entire Republican party, his administration and his family for not stopping him.

No one cares, but I'm stewing over how Trump effectively distanced himself from the filth of the GOP brand by running against the forever wars of W. and the Medicare/Medicaid cuts of Romney/Ryan. And now he's just the most basic bitch Republican carried by the worst dry drunks and neo-Nazis alive.

This economy does not work for people with real jobs. We're priced out of homes, we can't afford childcare, healthcare costs are rising—even gas and groceries are hurting our wallets. This whole game has been rigged for people who make money off their money, and I'm sick of it.

This Day in Labor History: April 5, 1956. The anti-union columnist Victor Riesel was blinded in an acid attack. Riesel claimed this was because he was attacking corrupt unions. He completely lied about this. Historians have uncovered it was a mob attack on Riesel, due to his own connections!!!

"They’re pushing the Ten Commandments, organized prayer sessions and the use of taxpayer dollars to fund faith-based charter schools." Betsy is living the dream, especially that last part. Not only do they believe in forced Evangelicalism, they expect you to pay for it.

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I'm a bit of a broken record on this, but usurping the power of the purse isn't just one constitutional violation among all the many others. It is, uniquely and singularly, the death of constitutional government altogether. Game over, end of story, you now live in an autocracy.

Scandinavians are often mentioned as the happiest in the world. A Swede once explained that: "It isn't that I'm happy, it's that I'm not afraid. I'm not afraid I'll be injured, and my family will be homeless. I'm not afraid that my children will not be able to get a quality education, I'm not afraid

Nope, not how this works www.wsj.com/world/middle...

“Seven cases may not seem like a lot, but it is, and it’s hundreds and hundreds of contacts that our staff have to follow up on and monitor,” Jimena Loveluck, the department’s health officer, told the Washtenaw County Board of Health on March 27.

I’m sorry that my posts are often so sad and tragic. These are difficult times. But we, Ukrainians, are here - we are not giving up, and we strive for peace. Thank you to everyone who stands with Ukraine. Wishing you a blessed Easter.

As a Christian, I don't think federal agencies should be referring to "Christ, our Savior" in any context. I don't need my government to validate my faith. That's why it's called faith. More importantly, my government shouldn't be invalidating the religions of other Americans.

After taking time to connect with the Pretti family and with their consent, we are honored to share that we have created the Alex Pretti Nursing Scholarship. For those interested, you can learn more and make a gift here: crowdfund.umn.edu/campaigns/Al...

Letitia James is still an Attorney General. Pam Bondi is not.

Yes please. The only way Ds can ever be seen as "tough on crime" is to actually be tough on crime, starting with the biggest criminals of all.

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look at that you son of a bitch thats all we have. thats it. that's all there is, this impossibly delicate little egg in the endless black nothing. this water droplet. its our home, its where we all live and hating each other just makes no sense when its this precarious

Donald Trump won the presidency by promising to lower costs and end wars. A year and a half later, he is a wartime president contemplating whether to send U.S. ground troops into an expanding conflict in Iran.

Today, the "original" Starbucks at Pike Place Market in Seattle, is announcing they're organizing their union. ✊ Read the letter workers addressed to CEO Brian Niccol about why they're joining thousands of workers nationwide fighting for a better Starbucks: