This is a disaster. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...

Senators look at Trump's shameless corruption and say "give us some of that"

And now it appears it was John Thune, not Cruz, who is receiving more of the credit (or blame)

I'm told Sen. Ted Cruz led this effort. Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats weren't consulted on the addition of this language, per a source familiar. Committee's top Dem, Dick Durbin, was among the 8 Ds who voted to advance the spending measure last night.

Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

Not pro-life. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Pass these out at No Kings 2

You need to see this: “The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

Trending: James Dobson texaspaulschroder James Dobson is dead. Hell yeah it's a good day! www.threads.com/@texaspaulsc...

If you grew up in a household with an evangelical right-wing parent, as I did, you already know that the dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education, like the reversal of Roe v. Wade, is the culmination of a 50-year project.

He didn't wear a suit, but he received a pardon and was treated better than Zelenskyy was.

I'm sure RFK jr. is on it ...

Measles Outbreak Update: Officials told NBC News that it's likely that 200-300 residents of West Texas are infected and untested. www.chron.com/news/houston...

48? Just a few days ago it was just 24. With 9 in the hospital. That was an almost 40% hospitalization for those known to be ill. This is going to spread like wildfire. I'm reading of other states (NM and GA) also having outbreaks. Betting that people who weren't showing symptoms have spread it. 🤬

And if any of the infected kids were around elderly, cancer patients or immune compromised ppl before their symptoms became obvious, they have basically given them a death sentence. These asshole antivax parents have now brought back a disease that was thought to have been eliminated in US in 2000

Shame on the parents. The children are innocent.

2) “In the 2023-2024 school year, Gaines County had the lowest kindergarten MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccination rate (81.97%) among several West Texas counties” www.oaoa.com/local-news/t...

NEW—Despite pressure, GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson says he will not relent on forcing steep Medicaid cuts. Medicaid pay for over 40% of all births in the US, and over 60% of all seniors in nursing homes. All to pay for multi-trillion $ tax cuts for billionaires. www.politico.com/live-updates...

BREAKING—Updated report says *2 measles deaths* in Texas, not just one, according to RFK Jr cabinet briefing to the White House today.

Anti-vax parent charges: NEGLIGENT HOMICIDE, RECKLESS CHILD ENDANGERMENT.

BREAKING—RFK Jr’s FDA suddenly cancels meeting to update next season’s flu vaccines, with zero explanations. Any delays will jeopardize next year’s vaccine supply chain. God help us all.

🚨🚨🚨🚨😳

3) ➡️Read: this also includes wiping away immunity achieved thru past vaccinations for other diseases, not just past infection acquired immunity. Both the details above give me chills thinking about the larger consequences of a potential massive measles outbreak.

📌2. Measles infection partly wipes out memory B cells memory of how to fight past infections. Ie. Your immunity to past infections (that you’ve successfully defeated in the past) may be partly wiped out by measles.

I’m quietly meditating… yet there are 2 chilling thoughts keep haunting me— 📌1. Measles is not just highly infectious with R0 of 12-18, but it has a long ***2 WEEK*** INCUBATION period—ie Texas outbreak could be in the HUNDREDS or more already, and we are seeing just the early tip of iceberg.

⛔️NO PUBLIC COMMENTS ALLOWED—RFK Jr. announced plans to strip public participation from business that HHS conducts, despite pledge of “radical transparency” at HHS. The statement said HHS would rescind its longtime practice of giving members of the public a chance to comment on the agency’s plans.

2) “This is a direct attack on the idea that HHS — a gigantic agency — should have to tell the public everything that it’s doing," a watchdog says www.statnews.com/2025/02/28/r...

3) I’m going to say something some of you may not want to hear… I think each of you should consider also coming back to Twitter and fight against the disinfo that is still there. The rest of the world watches X and opinions there. Let’s not cede it to the disinfo folks. x.com/drericding/s...

Trump officials race to rehire bird flu employees. But the measures come as the USDA is struggling to rehire key employees working on the virus outbreak who were recklessly fired. Roughly a quarter of employees in a critical office for H5N1 were cut. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

Oh hey, lookie here RFK Jr—the “CDC estimates that influenza #vaccination prevented 📌9.8 million influenza-related illnesses, 📌4.8 million medical visits, 📌120,000 influenza-related hospitalizations, & 📌7,900 influenza-related deaths” in 2023-2024. ➡️Maybe don’t block flu vaccine production? 🙏

MEASLES OUTBREAK—Texas is reporting an outbreak of measles. At this time, 48 cases have been identified with symptom onset within 3 weeks. 13 of the patients have been hospitalized. 📌All of the cases are unvaccinated or vaccination status is unknown. www.dshs.texas.gov/news-alerts/...

3) It’s not just the flu that is going around… Gaines County, TX, where the epicenter of the measles outbreak is, has one of the lowest measles vaccination rates too. bsky.app/profile/drer...

⚠️WORST FLU SEASON ever since 2002-2003 when we began to track flu. Worst hit this year are children ages 0-4 and 5-17. ▶️We also have significantly LOWER flu vaccine uptake this year, one of the lowest flu vaccine coverages.

2) Trump is becoming more Der Führer day by day.

Trump administration wants to un-fire nuclear safety workers but can’t figure out how to reach them The individuals, who work in an agency that oversees the nation's nuclear stockpile, had been fired and lost access to their govt email accounts. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Egg🥚 rationing is here. As long as bird flu keeps spreading—egg priced will keep rising rapidly. There’s 0 sign of slowing anytime soon. Trader Joe's, Walmart, Costco are all limiting the amount of eggs individuals can buy. Maybe don’t ignore epidemics? www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...

The mass firing bloodbath at HHS continues. We will likely pay for these mistakes in blood of those who could have been saved. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

Welp—Asteroid ☄️impacting Earth 🌎 odds now 3.1%, says NASA. Yesterday it was 2.7%. The week before was 2.2%.

Heinous—Trump WH/HHS is planning to likely destroy $500 million worth of stockpiled COVID tests. They could give it out for free, but then Trump and RFK Jr would have to admit COVID is serious. And minimizers don’t have the guts to admit millions died. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

5) my point is that although Trump declares only 2 sexes… biology disagrees. Let’s not let Trump’s oversimplification trump over science. Science trumps & transcends politics. wapo.st/4hNwlFQ

4) this last part says that sexual characteristics goes beyond just the X and Y chromosomes… but a multitude of other genes 🧬— we cannot just bin people into M or F all the time, nor just based on XX & XY. Let’s all calm down. Basically, there are genetic exceptions that we can’t always measure.

Woke or biology? There are actually more than the basic “male” XY & “female” XX sexes. Why? Because biology also creates people with single X chromosomes, or extra chromosomes like XXX, XXY, XYY, or XXX+, plus many 🧬genes. 👉All I’m asking is— please be kind to others. Thanks🙏

Maddow: I think it is a bad mistake to let Joy Reid walk out the door. It is also unnerving to see that on a network where we've got two nonwhite hosts in primetime, both of our nonwhite hosts in primetime are losing their shows, as is Katie Phang on the weekend. I do not defend it.

Sadism isn't swagger. It isn't American. It isn't honorable. And contrary to what a whole lot of fatherless boys believe, it sure AF isn't manly. It's sadism.

Canada wins…

Yes 👏🏼