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Say it as many times as is necessary

A nice thread in which an actual expert patiently explains why the Secretary of Health and Human Service is not simply a liar, but an especially stupid one.

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I understand that kitchen table issues are big factors in voters' perceptions. And the Epstein files are significant, as they should be. But - I have to tell you - IMO - listening to Trump speak to and paraphrase Putin - there's nothing else that shouts his unfitness as loudly.

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It’s not “patriotic” to bail out Argentina while Americans are struggling, to build a ballroom while cutting SNAP benefits, or to pad your own pockets while claiming “affordability” is a hoax.

It’s truly amazing how Zelensky is able to see up close and personal what Putin is doing to his country and its people day after day with barbarity and cruelty, then stand next to Trump without losing it while he makes asinine statements expressing sympathy for the mass murderer.

A power shift in the making. Thorium is considered the great green hope of clean energy production . www.youtube.com/watch?v=suHT...

Trump’s Christmas Day attacks on Nigeria a complete failure and cost nearly $30 million. Witnesses report the US struck fields and farmland in areas with no history of terrorist activity or presence. On top of that multiple US missiles failed to detonate & sunk into the dirt.

Canada understands the danger the world is under and has allocated $2.5 billion to help Ukraine overcome the fascist Russian invaders. Be like Canada. 🇨🇦

🇺🇦 Zelensky: These are some of the most active diplomatic days of the year, and much can be resolved by the New Year, and we are doing everything we can to achieve this, but whether there will be solutions depends on our partners.

We have less than 5% of the world’s population but almost 33% of its billionaires. Meanwhile, 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. 40% cannot cover any emergency expenses. Our systems have failed the majority of Americans…and that disparity is being accelerated by this administration.

I think this is called a robbery.

Dec 26, 1941. Churchill addresses Congress: "I have been in full harmony all my life with the tides which have flowed on both sides of the Atlantic against privilege and monopoly...In my country as in yours public men are proud to be the servants of the state and would be ashamed to be its masters."

AI boom adds more than half a trillion dollars to wealth of US tech barons in 2025

I worked for DOJ. I don't think people realize how dangerous it is for the White House to takeover the daily operations of the Justice Department.

Six districts in Russia's Yakutia risk being left without heating during extreme cold of -42°C. Districts are facing a critical coal shortage at boiler plants. Fuel reserves have been nearly exhausted amid severe cold.

If only we had a mental facility to allow us to see ourselves the way we see others

They’re drug pushers

“They don’t have the time, expertise or sufficient number of loyalists to effectively prune the trove of damaging Trump material.”

Will this mean we can finally talk publicly about his mental illness?

“this order is perhaps the clearest signal yet of how the US government and Silicon Valley are one and the same and European liberal democracies are now the enemy”

The rich and powerful don’t get their wages garnished when they default on a loan. They declare bankruptcy and end up paying pennies on the dollar, if anything. Like Trump did many, many times.

Kavanaugh stop

Pancreatic cancer is still one of the deadliest cancers. However, there are promising strategies currently under investigation that have been delayed or harmed because of the Trump administration and Elon Musk's DOGE. CDMRP cuts left no money for many forms of cancer research including pancreatic.

20 State AGs have sued Russell Vought for trying to starve the CFPB of funding. Since 2011, the CFPB has returned over $20B to consumers. Without the Bureau, financial predators and scammers will have an easier time picking your pocket.

I’m sure this will be popular. 5 million people are in default right now. The Dept of Ed estimates as many as 10 million by end of next year because of job market.

it must have felt so good to be the digital media manager when the word came down to unschedule the piece from the 60 minutes feed but no one said anything about unscheduling it from the international website

How low can he go?

Turning Point USA has built 100s of high school chapters, backed by national funding and paid staff whose job is to recruit teenagers and pressure schools to approve clubs. 2/

In YouGov polling this week, less than half of Republicans said they strongly approved of Trump. www.ms.now/opinion/poll...

WOW. Trump's approval rating is now 36%. And I don't remember ever seeing him underwater with white people.

Wrong. The First Amendment protects our right to record law enforcement activity in public — full stop.

People often ask why Democrats don’t have something like TurningPoint USA — so before the year ends, let me introduce you to Voters of Tomorrow. We’re on campuses across the country, organizing over 10,000 Gen Z members to engage our generation. 🧵THREAD

This could wind up being the most-watched newsmagazine segment in television history!! Congratulations to the Ellisons and Bari Weiss!!!

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“Trust Thyself. Every heart vibrates to that iron string.” —Emerson

An inalienable right

Whether we’re Muslim, Hindu, Christian or agnostic/atheist, we all want to be able to follow our own conscience. But JD Vance says we must follow his interpretation of the Bible. Together we can show the real light of our own consciences is brighter than the weak light of one religion.

“If lawmakers could destroy the right of freedom of conscience, they could destroy all other unalienable rights.” Read about James Madison’s reasons for the wall of separation between church and state.

So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.

People who've been as badly wrong as Ezra Klein has been should be ashamed enough to go away forever flaminghydra.com/ezra-klein-d...

Rewatching The Night Agent after a couple of years and it’s as good as the first time. John Le Carre story and a perfect cast. Amazon Prime

Ominous clouds enveloping the harbor somehow maintain their beauty. — in Cape May.

(1/2) I think Stefanik's downfall is a bigger deal that ppl think. Casting aside all principles to kiss Trump's ass was the smart move (Tessio was always smarter) and it destroyed her career. Washington Republicans are amoral sociopaths and they notice things like this.

Hitler vows no more territorial demands in Europe if Western allies give him Sudetenland.

one of four in a week www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...