Two new studies suggest that Parkinson's disease can potentially be treated with stem cells placed in a patient's brain.

"The goal is to encourage these people to 'self-deport' by enshrining a lie in law. Kafka couldn’t have made this up." Trump's Social Security death list and more in the latest Huddled Masses from @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social:

Source at VA tells me an emergency data request went out demanding info any on relationships the 2nd largest Fed department and largest healthcare system in the US has with Harvard. We know there are significant research connections. This won't hurt Harvard. It will kill veterans. They don't care.

Trump and musk plan to fire 83,000 from the department of veterans affairs. Remember all those times the GOP said we couldn’t care for refugees because we needed to take care of our veterans first? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

AARP has created an easy way to contact your lawmakers and tell them Social Security must be protected. Learn more.👇

The president United States just made a threat of genocide.

This is the way. Write your pension fund, school, city comptroller and demand divestment from Tesla.

Deir el-Balah’s mayor Nizar Ayyash warns that without fuel, treating sewage and pumping clean water will be nearly impossible, five days after Israel cut supplies to Gaza. 🔴 LIVE updates:

Glad I have my own orange tree!

There were certainly signs

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Today, in a meeting at the White House, the only person actually defending American interests was Zelenskyy. Let that sink in.

Never forget this day, February 28, 2025, when an American president abused and betrayed a democratic ally in the midst of a barbaric war with Russia. This grotesque stain will never wash away.

Weak men who enjoy Elon Musk in the WH dressed like a 90s coke dealer are deeply upset at Zelensky's WH attire.

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Just read this graf. Share it with people you know who don’t pay attention to politics or news.

Marco Rubio today.

"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

We could have had Kamala!!! AGHHHHHH!!!!

NEW: RFK Jr.'s "radical transparency" means ending a 54-year-old transparency policy. A Nixon-era policy gave the public the ability to comment on HHS decisions relating to “public property, loans, grants, benefits, or contracts.“ RFK Jr. ended that on Friday. www.lawdork.com/p/rfk-jr-rad...

Truth!!!!

The Capitol Hill townhouse is owned by a major Republican donor. It's the headquarters of a little-known political influence project that has reached a number of powerful Republican politicians.

This sort of thing happens I would say…. Never. Flagrant weaponization, and kudos to career prosecutors for standing up to it.

In a sane universe, no politician would want to be within a continent of anyone as vile as Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan. This would especially apply to politicians who had pledged to crack down on sex trafficking; and who had demagogued immigrants as rapists. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

“Nature finds a way”…

NEW: “Kennedy paused a multimillion dollar project to create a new Covid-19 vaccine in pill form on Tuesday, and the Food and Drug Administration canceled an advisory committee meeting on updating next season’s flu vaccine.” newrepublic.com/post/192059/...

Exclusive: FBI agents this week questioned Environmental Protection Agency employees regarding a Biden administration grant program for climate and clean-energy projects, escalating a criminal probe that already caused one veteran prosecutor to resign.

Marco Rubio’s self-gelding proceeded apace this week, as he signed off on massive cuts in foreign aid programs that he had previously supported. (I’m tempted to call the Rubio this year’s Lindsey Graham, but I’m afraid that may turn out to be unfair to Lindsey.) open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

New book by RFK Jr, a sequel to his first book, The Very Hungry Brain Caterpillar.

what the actual

The Social Security Administration is preparing to lay off at least 7,000 people from its workforce of 60,000, according to a person familiar with the agency’s plans. The workforce reduction, according to another, could be as high as 50%.

"Roll over and play dead"? Democrats and other Trump opponents debate how to respond to his blitz on Washington -- take to the streets to protest or lie low and assume he will self-destruct. @sbg1 www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

A tough one to see, especially because it’s so accurate.

@drneilstone.bsky.social 🤦🏻 #measles #MedSky #IDSky #PedSky #PediSky #AcademicSky

Hamas has called on the international community to put pressure on Israel “to immediately enter the second phase of [the Gaza ceasefire agreement] without any delay or hesitation”. 🔴 LIVE updates ⤵️

"Musk has decided to make it his personal mission to elect Brad Schimmel to ensure that the far right has a rubber stamp in the Supreme Court of Wisconsin.” @benwikler.bsky.social explains why WI is the "Fulcrum of the United States" & makes the case for his pick in the state’s Supreme Court race.

So you’re telling me there’s a chance

We love merit, don’t we folks?

Plus Joy and Lester Holt? Looks like the slide deck of a Power Point presentation at an employment discrimination webinar. Not a good look @msnbc.com Not a good look at all. A betrayal of your loyal audience & a disaster for your network. www.thedailybeast.com/new-msnbc-bl...

Sign of the day…

Here’s a prop bet that I wouldn’t take the other side of: That within two years there’ll be wars over Taiwan and the Baltics. And that the Trump administration will stand blame the Taiwanese and Baltic states for starting the conflicts against their larger neighbors.

We are in this current nightmare in part because too many members of the media were more interested in access than seeking the truth.

“I wanted to say thank you to the Ukrainian people for reminding the world what it looks like when a citizenry comes together to fight against evil in defense of decency and democracy. Glory to Ukraine! “ ncnewsline.com/2025/02/24/n...

For those of you who watched the video of an Idaho woman experiencing handmaid‘s tale treatment, now is the time to decide what you would do in that situation—whether it's you or whether you're nearby when this happens to someone else. We are in a moment where we all have to decide who we are.

tbh I don’t see why we waste all this money guarding gold in Fort Knox when we can just buy a lot of crypto with it and keep track of it on a server in the trunk of one of Elon’s cybertrucks

HUGE BREAKING NEWS: Pete Buttigieg is seriously considering running for Senate in Michigan after Gretchen Whitmer says she wouldn’t run for the open seat. Smash that RT if you agree Secretary Buttigieg would make a FANTASTIC Senator!! 💙💙