"I think it's worth it. I think it's worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights." -Charlie Kirk x.com/Ronxyz00/sta...

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ~Ray Bradbury Keep reading, friends. 📚

Fact check: mRNA vaccines for respiratory viruses are meant to prevent severe illness (bad Pneumonia). This means beefing up our immunity in the *lower* respiratory tract, eg the lungs. Kennedy talks about the *upper* respiratory tract and vaccine efficacy in nonsensical gibberish.

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "This party needs to wake up. These guys aren't screwing around... They're assassins when it comes to the way they weaponize grievance and the way they play politics. Enough! What more goddamn evidence do we need? They have rolled back the last half century in real time!"

This doesn’t really sound like how you conduct a criminal investigation. Which is what DOJ does.

Trump’s "artwork" included in Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday present where letters were written to him, congratulating him on his b-day, & all were bound in a big book to be presented to him at his party. Archived link in case you missed it: archive.ph/2025.07.17-2...

Neguse: Only in Washington, D.C. could politicians come to the floor and brag about cutting $9 billion from rural radio stations while two weeks ago they voted to increase the deficit by $4 trillion. Spare us these lectures.

Men are too emotional to govern

The .01% and income inequality. On Prof G Markets: link.chtbl.com/Markets

Today’s WSJ: #GoldenAgeOfAmerica 🥇

“Kennedy’s team requested that Marks turn over data on cases of brain swelling and deaths caused by the measles vaccine—data that Marks said doesn’t exist because there have been no such confirmed cases in the U.S.” www.wsj.com/health/healt...

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Off to a great start…

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aint no way we cut medicaid and housing assistance so jeff bezos could buy this shirt

People laughed a few days ago when @jamellebouie.net said we might not have flu shots next year, but:

The new New Colossus updated for 2025 America: “Give me your entitled, your privileged, Your affluent masses yearning to take advantage, The wretched affluent of your teeming shore, Send these, the oligarchs, private jetting to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”

Seems like an optimal time for the United States to cut back on science funding.

Sunrise over Angkor Wat, January 7, 2025. 🌅🛕☸️🕉️ #latergram

For any Republicans out there-- don't you see what's happening? Your elected officials, drunk with power, are quietly and quickly getting filthy rich. And in exchange, they're cutting your Medicaid, cutting your education funding, cutting SNAP benefits, cutting medical research.