"Republican lawmakers in Oklahoma introduced legislation this week that would require every public university in the state to construct 'a Charlie Kirk Memorial Plaza', with a statue of the him and a sign calling him a 'modern civil rights leader'..." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Tried to get my real ID. I had my license, my SS card and my birth certificate. I was not allowed to get my real ID because my birth name is different than my married name. Now I have to go dig up a marriage certificate. You know who wouldn’t have to do this? A man. Never change your last name.

Does Erika Kirk forgiving the "young man" who murdered her husband mean that the various teachers and public employees being hounded out of their jobs for tweeting an offhand remark after Kirk's death can also be forgiven? Asking for a friend.

The Kirk memorial service is set up as a religious revival (his killing has been framed that way by Cardinal Dolan & others). The singer says: "We want the Kirk family to be healed, and we want our land to return to Jesus." Christian nationalism had become part of Kirk's brand - it's on full display

Inflation is so bad these days that taking a $50,000 cash bribe can't even get you indicted. SAD!! Thank you for your attention to this matter.

All headlines just from today 🇺🇸

The image below is from an actual government website, not some ad on TruthSocial.

Is air pollution keeping you awake at night? New international review from Johns Hopkins University identifies #airpollution as a contributor to poor sleep. Piece by me. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Kash Patel's notes during his congressional testimony as photographed by Getty: "Good fight with Swalwell"

Retsef Levi is ignoring the fact that both the frequency and severity of myocarditis are greater with COVID19 itself than COVID19 vaccination.

This is who is advising the president of the United States

The current ACIP is not a credible committee. It pains me to say this, but do NOT listen to them for guidance on vaccines. I am an infectious disease doc and will be roundly ignoring their misinformed and anti-scientific guidelines. Yesterday's spectacle was an insult to vaccinology and science.

It’s happening. The takedown of Jimmy Kimmel is likely the start of a campaign to use the murder of Charlie Kirk as a pretext to use the power of the White House to wipe out Trump’s critics and his political opponents. But we aren’t powerless. We can mobilize and organize. Now.

Folks, I don’t know what end is up right now.

New Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) members just dropped in advance of the meeting Friday. They are exactly what you would expect from RFK Jr. and this does not bode well for continued access to COVID19 vaccines.

Weird, indeed.

Whether it's Joe Biden condemning the killing of Charlie Kirk in 2025 or Charlie Kirk calling for the killing of Joe Biden in 2024, both men have issued strong words about the other's killing.

“Severance" actor Tramell Tillman has won the Emmy for outstanding supporting actor in a drama series. He is the first Black man ever to win the award #Emmys

One of the saddest things is when children have cancer, immune deficiency or need bone marrow or organ transplants. And to add insult to injury, they’re unable to receive vaccines. But YOU can do your part to help protect them by immunizing yourself & your family. We are ALL in this together.

Whether it’s Fox News’s Brian Kilmeade advocating killing homeless people by “involuntary lethal injection” or MSNBC’s Matthew Dowd bringing up things that Charlie Kirk said, both networks have crossed the boundaries of decency.

In a shocking on-air moment, a “Fox and Friends” co-host said homeless people suffering from mental health issues who refuse help should be killed

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

The governors of Arizona, Illinois, Maine and North Carolina on Friday joined the growing list of officials who have signed orders intended to ensure most residents can receive COVID-19 vaccines at pharmacies without individual prescriptions. apnews.com/article/covi...

While cervical cancer remains the most recognised HPV-related malignancy, the virus is also linked to many other cancers including the throat. This broad cancer risk explains why the widely available HPV vaccine is recommended for both sexes. www.sciencealert.com/the-virus-al...

How about that.

Spencer Cox: "Our nation is broken. We had political assassinations recently in Minnesota. We had an attempted assassination on the gov of Pennsylvania. And we had an attempted assassination on a president. Nothing I say can unite us as a country. Nothing I can say right now can fix what is broken"

So Texas sent us bus loads of migrants, and now Texas is sending their National Guard to arrest migrants?

Today it was confirmed that the president told the world's most infamous pedophile and child sex trafficker: "We have certain things in common." For any other president, it would be the biggest scandal of their lives, possibly career-ending. For Trump, it's just Monday.

Supreme Court rules ICE racial profiling is GOOD! Colleges considering race? BAD! My column on a big day for racism and hypocrisy: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

MASSIVE BREAKING: Lawyers for Jeffrey Epstein’s estate just provided a copy of the birthday book Trump Signed and placed a disgusting poem in for Epstein. Congress just released the full letter and signature! Trump must answer to the American people IMMEDIATELY and RESIGN!

Absolutely remarkable Americans favor immigration at the highest level of the past 24 years

The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, not a metaphorical one, on a major American city, and one governed by his political opponents. In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.

The President of the United States just essentially declared a war on Chicago because — wait for it! — Black and Brown people live here. This is not normal. This is not okay. And we are going to fucking fight back.

This hot mic Zuckerberg moment show their numbers are all lies, undercutting Trump’s entire economic agenda. In a rational world every media outlet would be leading with it.

In OUR Washington, we take the threat of COVID seriously. Anyone who wants the vaccine should be able to access it without a prescription!

RFK Jr. said, “If vaccines are working for somebody, I’m not going to take them away.” Then, he did. RFK Jr. is a liar.

Whether it's Democrats making it harder for kids to get cigarettes or Republicans making it harder for kids to get vaccines, both sides have imposed the will of government on America's children.

All the media has to do is ask a question like “tell me what kind of study you’d like to see that hasn’t been done before” instead of letting these losers just spew antivaxx lies on air. Markwayne Mullin couldn’t find his way out of a multiplication table let alone talk about research methodologies.

So maybe the problem wasn’t with the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics?

Ousted CDC chief warns that RFK Jr. is politicizing public health. "Parents deserve a CDC they can trust to put children above politics, evidence above ideology and facts above fear. I was fired for holding that line." www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

resistance through art

Bless all the people who ripped RFK Jr. a new asshole today.

An absolute barnburner by @gregggonsalves.bsky.social! www.thenation.com/article/soci...

"Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone." — Michael Okuda How quick we forget.

There is an increasingly stark divide emerging in the United States around vaccinations, with some Republican-led states starting to roll back or eliminate mandates while Democrat-led states split from the CDC to come up with their own vaccination guidance. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

People who consume the highest levels of artificial sweeteners during middle age show the fastest declines in cognitive functions, such as memory, as they move into their senior years. www.upi.com/Health_News/...