Levine told NPR that it was an honor to serve the American people as the assistant secretary for health "and I'm not going to comment on this type of petty action." No notes needed Admiral.

What exactly is this force that compels these people to do the most asinine thing possible at just the wrong moment?

these cretins are oblivious to the simple fact that every act they take... from this desecration to murdering people in the Caribbean only highlights what scared cowards they truly are.

The Cruelty Is the Point (™Adam Serwer). How can it *possibly* bother a grown-up person that someone else has chosen a different path? I can understand, though I strongly disagree with, anti-abortion rights fervor. But this? How does it hurt anyone else? Jeesh.

I hope Bari Weiss asks Grift Laugh Love Kirk the real tough questions, like “what’s the right amount of pyrotechnics for an open casket funeral?” and “will eyedrops stain my leather mourning pants?”

since we're doing USPS discourse again, a reminder of what Dems should be saying

If the President can waive his magic executive order wand & erase a Constitutional amendment, fully passed by the legislature and the states, we are no longer governed of, by, & for the people. The document will belong to one man who can then erase the 22nd & any other that threatens him.

Using 'rural communities' as a pretext for eliminating a safe staffing mandate is diabolical; do we not deserve safe staffing? 'We can't afford staffing,' say the private equity firms snapping up nursing homes and treating them like ATMs while long-term care residents suffer.

honestly. anyone who pays for a smart poop picture camera kinda deserves what happens.

When I traveled in China I had to get a letter from my editor confirming that I wasn’t on assignment and wouldn’t be reporting while in the country. I was also advised not to travel with pens or notebooks. This new US rule IS MUCH WORSE

A great example of why you should never write off Staten Island: ICE agents’ tires were slashed while staging to disappear New Yorkers. The agent in the video isn’t fully visible but looks like Brendan Cuni. If so and this is his vehicle, he swapped license plates to avoid detection.

I enjoyed this book so much because I think it did exactly what Dr al-Rashid says she intended - conveyed her love of this topic in such a beautiful way for anyone to engage with. Get it someone for Christmas!

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let the year-end memes begin

Okay @erinbiba.bsky.social it’s time for my second-most anticipated annual thread: Cats in Christmas Trees (and Battling Menorahs). Starting off strong with Donut.

This new headline about findings from Roman Berenice is doing the most. 🐒 🐖 www.iflscience.com/roman-milita...

The decision by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to downgrade its recommendations to protect infants from hepatitis B is a dangerous move that will harm children. Click here to read AAP's full statement: bit.ly/3Y9ZQJT

The line between Moscow and DC is direct: yet another example. The US wants to block the loan secured by frozen Russian assets to provide urgent aid to Ukraine: an immediate effect of the meeting between Putin and the so-called “American” emissaries. A disgrace. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Yep, we posted the other day, and @altnehgov.altgov.info was kind enough to remind us of the wonders of the Wayback Machine!

Rep. Grijalva says she was pepper-sprayed by ICE

live. it is the least we deserve.

A quote post of a quote post? Sure. Looking for an editor to help you whip your script or comic or book into shape? I’m available, and have forty years experience (sigh, it’s true) in writing across every medium. Reasonable rates and turnaround times…

Bari Weiss is texting... hell. maybe sexting already.

fascism plays the long game while Democrats just want to 'get along'... Gore. HRC. stolen presidencies. frankly. i consider Jimmy Carter's 2nd term a theft as well.

Attorney Aaron Siri’s presentation at ACIP is, in my opinion, a direct case of corruption. He is a close ally of RFK Jr., whose law firm also profits from suing various entities about vaccines. He was RFK Jr.’s personal lawyer. And he has sued to take polio vaccine off the market

Attorney Siri applauds his client RFK Jr.’s change to the CDC website which now claims that vaccines may cause autism. He is showing his cards. IMO the change was made to make it easier to file lawsuits, and I suspect it was done in collusion with Siri.

People are in fact dying of measles, a disease we had previously eradicated. Little girls are dying with mouths full of sores, and they know they’re dying, and they’re suffering and dying for no reason.

At its core, MAHA is eugenics.

Oh wow Angus King was wrong when he said capitulating was the most promising path to success. Shocked! #MEpolitics

Our kids were little, and we lived in Malaysia, when current HepB vax approved in 1986. Our doctor in KL told us how great it was for our kids to get this protection so early in life. I got my shot too. Deb was then very sick w HepA, from trip through China. Got her shot later This ruling is evil

america? try the entire world.

This really was one of the most heartbreaking articles I’ve read in a while. I don’t think people comprehend the scale of destruction wrought by this administration already, not even close nymag.com/intelligence...

Why are things unaffordable? If the min wage increased at the rate of productivity since 1960, it'd be $27 today—not $7.25 Billionaires & Mega Corps have stolen at least $20/hour from working Americans for 65 years—an estimated $79T Things are unaffordable because billionaires are stealing from us

There’s this thing called public health that people know about. Entire institutions devoted to it. Dedicated experts have spent decades working out best steps in preventing disease. Worm brain acts like prevention is for sissies, but if you get sick it’s your fault, because processed food.

Sadly the best we can right now do is constantly sue to stop this regime from killing more people. Thank you @atg.wa.gov! We are here behind you. Take back the #SNAP! #snapback #usda #feedthepeople

It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.

Steal one book from a bookshop: get charged with shoplifting Steal millions of books to feed to your plagiarism machine: make a pile of money ⚖

My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.

“Yes, yes, we can see all your ‘facts’ and all the adorable little ‘evidence,’ but you failed to consider that none of that matters if we all close our eyes and pretend the Texas GOP actually had pure motives here, you stupid little rubes.”

As Justice Kagan begins her dissent by pointing out, what is even the point of trial, of fact-finding, of clear error, of standards of review, when the Supreme Court simply ignores every single part of that and decides everything purely on the papers without any real consideration of the facts?

It's not just liberal judges they're doing this to. They're doing this to plenty of conservative judges too; judges who actually spent weeks and weeks poring over the details and with their arms deep in the guts of thousands of pages of documents and days of testimony. Those judges are pissed.

Agree with this thread. Worth reading in full. 25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan. Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.

Many of you may have heard that trans girls are now banned from Girlguiding in the United Kingdom, their version of the Girl Scouts as we know them in the United States. It is a cruel new low in a country that has treated trans people horrifically in recent years. The latest from S. Baum.

"The Department of DOJ has instructed inspectors to stop evaluating prisons and jails using standards designed to protect transgender, intersex and gender-nonconforming people from sexual violence, according to an internal memo obtained by NPR." They want trans people raped.

THE MAN LITERALLY ACCEPTED A SOLID GOLD BAR TO DROP TARIFFS ON SWITZERLAND I FEEL LIKE I AM LOSING MY MIND AGHHHHHHHH

He also vetoed a bill that would allow people to enroll in marketplace health insurance when they become pregnant. HE OVERLOOKS AND DEVALUES WOMEN

that's okay... i would never vote for transphobic Newsome. did you know transphobia and misogyny go hand in glove.

Naturally, but the GOP and their MAGA fluffers on social media will have nothing to say about this, and Mike Johnson will pretend not to see this story until 2029. Trump Jr-backed startup gets $600 million dollar government deal.