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From @stevanzetti.bsky.social: In February, the Texas Observer confirmed that James “Jim” Joseph Rodden—an ICE assistant chief counsel in Dallas—operates a white supremacist X account. Now, ICE refuses to tell us, or members of Congress, if he's still employed.

In fairness, the Supreme Court’s Republican appointees regularly “hallucinate” bogus facts without using AI. The praying coach ruling shows that Gorsuch doesn’t need a sloppy robot to make shit up that’s directly refuted by the record!

People keep telling me that we are post-pandemic, but the hoarse voices with which they say this keeps telling me that we are still in the pandemic.

if we all just wrote in Luigi Mangioni’s name, would that get us healthcare

Standup comic John O'Donnell does a better job explaining NSPM-7 than basically all of major media:

A Secret Weapon for Improving Student Outcomes: Better Air Quality. Research shows that test scores and attendance improve when schools install air filters and upgrade ventilation. Thanks to @davidcarel.bsky.social for this reminder. www.the74million.org/article/a-se...

A man was wrongfully imprisoned for a crime he did not commit for more than 40 years. As soon as he was exonerated, ICE picked him up to deport him to a country he has not lived in since he was a baby www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

I think back to how the cops roughed us up in 2018 when we protested saying this and no one cared. And I think about how ICE routinely brutalizes and disappears and murders people now, and. Pay attention when state violence is leveraged against liberatory protesters. Everyone else is next.

Honey wake up the orcas are back!

Top VA officials testified that they don’t know how many doctors and nurses have left. We do. The VA is down 600+ doctors and 1,900+ nurses this year. After years of growth, the number of docs has declined each month since Trump took office. www.propublica.org/article/vete...

1. Trump has dug in on anti-trans provisions in the shutdown fight this morning, cancelling a meeting with Dems unless they cave on trans people. His post to Truth Social is a clear indication that Republicans are making targeting trans people a priority. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Connecticut: still revolutionary

I wish that every time I saw someone write a post/thread like this that they also included the fact that there’s nothing wrong with being autistic and that’s part of the fear-mongering and harm.

FOIA offices are being decimated across federal agencies, leaving the government unable to fulfill public records requests. Don’t let this blatant attack on transparency fly under the radar. Use our new, easy tool to tell your representatives to safeguard FOIA.

🚨NEW STUDY: Large media outlets systematically omitted mention of data showing corporate profits helped drive inflation, instead citing industry talking points. Lawmakers then cited those media narratives to justify ending aid to the working class. www.levernews.com/greedflation...

My friend who is an Iraq war veteran was out tonight walking his dog in DC and came up on this scene – with federal agents, including secret service, hassling a citizen and violating his rights while intimidating the public

Really important piece by D.C. Shadow Senator @ankitjaindc.bsky.social about how Trump's attempted takeover of D.C. is a test run for his broader, unlawful assault on cities around the country. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Kid at young doctor camp a few weeks ago told my kid it is good to inhale SARS2-COVID. Teacher: Tell us all about your most recent infection? SARS2 huffing kid: Liver infection. My kid: I can't remember the last time I was sick.

What's different about the other country's health care systems? SAY IT MOTHERF***ER!

1. State AGs have sued Trump for intimidating providers from providing trans care. Meanwhile, institutions are dropping trans people left and right out of fear of Trump. Suing Trump isn't enough. State AGs MUST enforce equality laws against cowardly orgs. Subscribe to support my journalism.

Mandy Patinkin delivers an emotional message to Jewish communities around the world.

So Medicare is about to use AI to determine if you're allowed to have a certain medication or procedure.

It is truly surreal knowing the research on COVID-19 and being in a doctors waiting room filled with high-risk and elderly patients and seeing no one else masked. And hearing multiple people coughing. It is shameful how little public education there is on COVID-19’s ongoing risks.

STDs are about to shoot through the STRATOSPHERE without free testing and treatment through Planned Parenthood and the health departments.

The federal government is trying to kill 150,000 trans people in the United States. I can count the number of cis people talking about this on one hand.

Last night, we were one of the first outlets to report the ADULT ban on gender affirming care for Medicaid recipients who depend on it to access it. This morning, that bill passed 215-214-1. It now goes to the senate. It's a bleak day for transgender Americans.

Resistance to New Rules Fades Once They’re in Place neurosciencenews.com/rule-resista...

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We need to stop making concessions to the right bc right-wingers get mad. There’s this big effort to rewrite school closures. Even in ostensibly liberal media, we get solemnly acknowledgments that schools were closed too long. Not bc of data, but bc right wingers screamed about it long enough.

RFK Jr. also falsely claimed that “healthy Americans were not dying of Covid... It was a disease that attacked the sick, as with all infectious diseases.”" 1) Well, that's definitely not true. 2) Pretending it were, that would've made it okay that they'd died? This is just monstrous.

The Administration for Community Living, housed in HHS, is shutting down. I spoke to disability experts for @motherjones.com about questions they have for what’s next, the services ACL provides, and how this move may lead to more folks being institutionalized. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

It’s all bullshit. The ppl tearing down DEI left and right don’t care about antisemitism. But American imperialism + anti-Palestinian racism = the perfect Trojan horses to dismantle universities at the margins (LGBTQ studies, Black studies) to the center (STEM research)

The irony is the feds are punishing schools which hardly could have been more punitive at trying to snuff out Palestinian activism. They physically beat the shit out of, drew guns upon, fired, expelled and/or deported students, faculty & staff www.thefp.com/p/exclusive-...

If you are trans and want to get involved in politics, let me know and I will set up a time to chat with you about the process and how to take those first steps.

ABC News: 'Long COVID impacting more than 1 million children: CDC study suggests' 'Another theory is that virus particles may be persistently active, causing people to suffer long-term symptoms.' abcnews.go.com/Health/long-...

Hospitals (and anyone else), this is why you shouldn't act preemptively and weakly like this. You just become his pawn.

I saw this yesterday (credit to Roberta Sam, a native two spirit). This is my mantra going forward. "If you don't have hope, HAVE SPITE"

For those who need to hear it today 🏳️‍🌈

I wonder if they were nervous or laughing when they wrote this. Could see it either way

These executive orders on banning federally funded entities from recognizing trans people or disallowing them from using the bathroom are not self-executing or immediately enforceable. They require formal rule making at a minimum. They are a scare tactic. Ignore and do not comply in advance.

This is ridiculous. Hospitals going back on mask mandates due to backlash and leaving it to “personal choice” We know all too well what “choice” people will make. It’s a hospital. People need to ask themselves why they’re SO unwilling to wear a mask in the place the sickest people are.

Changing the filters in my CR boxes. This is about 6 months of use. Air filtration isn’t just for covid, my loves. No one wants to breathe all that shit.

1929 is entering the public domain in the USA next week and will pretty much wrap up the silent era as far as Hollywood films are concerned. Foreign markets like Japan and the USSR kept releasing silents and there were a few holdouts like Charlie Chaplin but for the most part, silents will be free

My dad's been a psychiatrist for almost half a century, but he's hanging up the white coat finally because BCBS wants him to share his patients' deeply personal psych notes to make sure he knows what he's doing. Easier for him to just quit. www.wsj.com/health/healt...