if i had the opportunity to ask a question of anyone in the administration, given this "war in chicago" messaging, i would ask them how many americans the president intends to kill in his war

Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment. Jared Polis has failed Colorado.

RFK: "Diabetes has gone up 98% in 20 years. Nobody is doing anything about it. CDC's job was to make sure this didn't happen." Under RFK's watch, the NIH cancelled funding for an ongoing 30-year study tracking patients with diabetes.

This whole discussion (diet, health, diabetes, obesity) is somewhat complex and RFK Jr doesn't engage seriously on any of it. He says whatever he wants and then lies to the senators about it.

Contrary to what RFKJ yelled in the hearing today, COVID vaccines will not be free and available to everyone due to his decisions. Here’s what you can do to get one, and how annoying it’ll be. What better way to give him a big🖕 and protect yourself for respiratory virus season than getting a 💉?

We are thrilled to see science-based coalitions grow. But it is a damning statement on HHS that states have to do this. Time to #SacktheQuack

For your situational awareness.

Today's hearing with 🧠🪱 was a true dumpster fire, so we could use a good news palate cleanser. And we have one for you! Trump admin just lost another lawsuit & now must restore 100+ federal websites it erased for “DEI" This includes some CDC ones, too! 🥳🎉 www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...

Trump and his coverup crew, lead by Mike Johnson, are spitting in the faces of the voters who care about this issue. Hold them accountable.

Best piece I've read so far on Dem strategy for the shut down fight this month. The one thing I'd add is this: Dems need to state their demands ASAP. Last time they promised they had a plan...and then they surrendered at the last minute. Say what you're fighting for! bsky.app/profile/jenr...

I don't think anybody covered the Feb/Mar Dem debacle over the GOP funding bill with better, earlier, or more actionable insights than @joshtpm.bsky.social. So this is very much worth a read.

One of the most conservative courts in the country blocked Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to remove hundreds of Venezuelan immigrants from the U.S., ruling he incorrectly claimed the Venezuelans were carrying out an “invasion” against the U.S.

THAT'S WHAT JOBS ARE FOR!!

The Justice Department's acting deputy chief was caught on a hidden camera saying that the government will "redact every Republican" from an Epstein client list and "leave all the liberal, Democratic people."

Ohhhhhhh so that’s what this was about

We’re only a few years removed from creatjng a vaccine to protect against a deadly airborne virus in a matter of months. Now, we have a scion fail son running the CDC into the ground not because it failed, but because its success conflicts with RFK Jr’s eugenicist ideology.

Somewhere in Iceland.

In honor of sandwich guy getting out of his legal pickle, here is the original video synced with Freedom - George Michael 1990.

So the sandwich guy ... beat the wrap

Update: it got funny again

remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature

As @jamisonfoser.bsky.social rightly notes here, the story on the politics of Trump's military takeovers and masked kidnapping is that the public doesn't like them, not that Trump has got Dems in a clever trap: www.findinggravity.net/donald-trump...

Of course, some collections are fairly benign. Like Tom Brown, an Appalachian man who collects rare apples.

IMO many Americans don't even buy guns for personal protection or to defend themselves against a tyrannical government. They simply have a shopping addiction

“I am not able to serve in this role any longer because of the ongoing weaponization of public health,” wrote Demetre Daskalakis, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases.

Why do we think a criminal will stop crime?

he outright states that what he views as the "disproportionate" hiring of nonwhite faculty constitutes "circumstantial evidence of discrimination." one imagines what he thinks about the presence of nonwhite students on grounds. they, too, probably represent "discrimination."

i have said before that the fracas at UVA is a product, in large part, of a set of alumni who believe that the university was at its greatest when it was a segregated finishing school for white men. i was not exaggerating, as you can see here in this letter from Scott Douglas Gerber

Jackson, Mississippi, has the nation's highest homicide rate, more than 3 times the rate in DC

Bill Kristol has spoken out more for transgender people than like half of the Democratic leadership

“It’s a signal that identity, not ability or achievement, determines who stays in uniform and who gets a fair shot.” Forget about merit or achievement. The Trump-Hegseth military is all in for identity politics. www.military.com/daily-news/2...

Governor Ross Barnett looks up from Hell with a tear in his eye, as the segregationist shitbag finally sees his dream come true.

Make D.C. Mar-a-Lago: A Mad King’s Blueprint

President Trump's recent actions to deploy National Guard troops and federalize the local police force are dangerous political theatrics that threaten democracy nationwide.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “If the United States abandons mRNA, it will not simply be forfeiting a public health advantage. It will be ceding a strategic asset,” writes Rick Bright, the former director of BARDA, a U.S. pandemic response agency.

RFK Jr. exploits MAHA followers’ real health fears for power and profit - John Oliver nails it. #FireRFKJ

The same Republicans and conservatives who have spent the past few days insisting we don’t mention Jan 6th because ‘it was four years ago!’ have also spent the past few weeks obsessing over the *2016* election and indicting Obama for treason.

This is authoritarianism. 👇 Side note: as a federal employee, I feel for the poor agents there. Some look really lost and know they have no reason to be there. It’s easy to villainize these organizations, beware of condemning all employees, some who are resisting from inside and may be needed.

Donald Trump refused to call in the national guard on January 6th.

As Social Security turns 90, nearly 8 million Veterans — 13.5% of all adult beneficiaries — depend on it. #HandsOffOurSocialSecurity

“I’m realizing it ain’t the setting, it ain’t the state. It’s just me.” Thunder Ranch is one of the best-known shooting schools in American gun culture, offering firearms as a way to change your life when all else fails.

From Epstein’s network to America’s campuses, power protects power.
 And when the watchdogs are gone, the only thing stopping a predator is whether the institution fears a PR hit. Full deep dive here on Trump's civil rights purge.

“After reviewing the files, Bondi and Patel ordered FBI agents to black out every mention of Trump. Why? If Trump only pops up occasionally as an innocent bystander, why the blackout if the mentions? If Trump did nothing concerning, why not just release the files?” www.thebulwark.com/p/drinks-app...

Columbia and Brown will share race and admissions data with the Trump administration as part of the administration's settlements with the two Ivy League universities.

And this is how it's done.

I am outraged that the price of standing up to Trump — of standing for democracy — is to be subjected to endless lies, attacks and false accusations by people who know better. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/im-n...

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