NEW: The United States has reported its first outbreak of H5N9 bird flu in poultry on a duck farm in California. Perhaps this is not the best time to put an anti-vaxxer crackpot in charge of our public health agencies

UPDATE: The Air Force has reversed its decision to remove courses with videos relating to the legendary Tuskegee Airmen following backlash.

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this isn't journalism? There's no quotes from actual experts challenging any of the multiple false things he says? It just parrots a bunch of fake right wing grievance completely unskeptically, letting authoritarians pretend they're interested in populist limits on corporate power

This. 👇

Working on getting those prices down I see.

we have a president with a tenuous grip on small legislative majorities who is out of the gate with a flurry of dramatically unpopular orders and who has just demonstrated his weakness on the international stage. if i were an elected member of his domestic opposition, i might try to draw real blood.

I care

How’s everyone coping? I put my #Alocasia in a glass vase with LECA on the bottom. #PlantOfTheDa

Perception of self

Hello new followers! Here's one of my favorite older comics.

This photo was taken by a 16-year-old girl who snuck a camera into a Queen concert in 1978 🙌🏻

Cultist Who Posted Fake Photo Of Kamala Harris With Jeffrey Epstein Gets Arrested For Child Sexual Abuse www.joemygod.com/2024/08/cult...

I think the Reagan Thatcher era was the start of the end of the age of hope and the notion of the common good in America. It was the end of JFK's Camelot, RFK's work to end poverty, LBJ's War on Poverty. It wasn't Morning in America as he suggested but Mourning in America. It became all about $$$.

“They can’t mock my inauguration crowd if I hide inside.”

Well, well, well...🙄

I'm tired too but for the next four yrs the name of the game is oppose, confront, impede, & obstruct. I accept that this will be like climbing the tallest, coldest mountain, but i will not go quietly into autocracy.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekCforCostume Simba, our golden retriever. Wearing his James Bond costume. #DogsOfBlueSky #Dogs 🐾

Starting on Monday, how often am I going to say, “Boss, you were right about everything.”

This man is a profound danger. Every American should oppose his nomination.

Covering for Meals on Wheels and I spotted an amazing doormat. I want it.

Strength pride dignity vs Cowardice shame dishonor

As DHS secretary Kristi Noem will be responsible for FEMA After a record breaking flood, As governor, she left her own constituents, high and dry w/out National Guard assistance, but she did send the national guard to the Texas Mexico border 1200 miles away at taxpayers expense—5 times!

WOW. Allies of GOP Rep. Mike Turner, who was removed by Mike Johnson as chair of the House Intelligence Committee, told Fox News that Turner is furious and he’s “never going to vote for another blanking thing around here again.” Turner has missed all House votes in the last 48 hours.

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin gets a standing ovation at his farewell ceremony.

Please pay attention. Please consider sharing.

The temperature at noon on Monday will be 22 degrees which is the same temperature it was in 1961 when Kennedy was inaugurated. The ceremony was held outside.

In January 20, 1961, the temperature at noon was 22 degrees and 8 inches of snow had fallen in the morning. John F. Kennedy still had his inauguration on the steps of the Capitol.

Who agrees?

Christian nationalism isn’t a Black problem. It isn’t a Muslin problem. It’s not an Atheist problem, not a Jewish problem, or an immigrant problem. Christian nationalism is a White-Christians-living-in-America-who-care-about-the-teachings-of-Jesus, problem. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/white-jesu...

NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...

Half the people I know have worked for WaPo at one point. Some still do. We've subscribed for decades. This is most dramatic—and unnecessary—collapse of a vital institution I can recall. Short-term responsibility seems to lie w/ Will Lewis. Long-term it's all Bezos. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/b...

Forget DEI:

Mike Flynn seems to love being humiliated by courts. My lawsuit over single tweet is tied to Rick’s. Flynn and his stuoid lawyers will get nothing. Ever. floridapolitics.com/archives/715...

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social on Mike Johnson considering conditioning disaster aid: "Never in California did we question whether or not we, as taxpayers in the largest state in the Union, should support the people of Louisiana at a time of emergency and need. We’d never condition it."

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one thing i’m stuck on is this idea that “masculine” energy means license to act like a chud in public, as opposed to more traditional notions of public masculinity, such as those that put a premium on the performance of integrity, honesty, honor and generosity.

One of Meta’s attorney’s walking away. I like his strategy.

I just want to thank the democratic senators on the armed services committee who stood up and fought, despite the odds, for the American people today.

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