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I get the feeling that Tylenol's parent company is getting ready to sue the federal government.

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"He had joined the anti-ICE protests, he said, in part due to his convictions and ideals."

We are not dazzled, or controlled by the powerful, and we’re only statewide media outlet not run and/or controlled from outside Mississippi. LOCAL matters. Growing up here matters. Knowing and centering the people over powerful people matters. The lack of condescension matters. 🙏🏻 for your gifts.

@caeras.bsky.social you gotta watch this

This didn’t age well.

I went to war to defend the rights of people to say things I may disagree with. What is more American than the ability to question authority? Questioning authority is, in fact, our foundation and how we came about as a nation.

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There's always been good reasons to get off academia.edu, but this one is the best. Delete your account now, if you value your personal information.

WTF! Aren’t these the people who have spent the past decade demanding free speech and decrying cancel culture?? www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

I had no idea.

“We’re witnessing a rapid erosion of press freedom and free speech in the United States. Trump and his MAGA entourage are launching all-out attacks on journalists. Their behavior is alarmingly reminiscent of authoritarian regimes”, says chairman Mika Beuster.

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Terrorism to make America white again. So to speak.

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This. Watch. 🔥

Re-sharing a 🧵 we write about the history of eugenics in public health. Make no mistake: RFK is a eugenicist and his beliefs all echo the monsters of the past.

OMG

Jesus

Went to Walgreens in KY today to get my flu shot, and was amazed to hear they had the new batch of Pfizer Covid vaccines in. I went ahead and got mine. I prefer the Novavax, but it's unclear when it will be available, and RFK could do any number of shitty things before then to restrict access.

I kinda wish we had seen this sort of thing from Cassidy *before* he was the deciding vote to appoint RFK Jr. to head America's health agency.

Migrant Farm Workers (my experience) - a thread When I was 13 years old my parents allowed me to join a friend (Ben) and work for a summer on a migrant farm crew in Tule Lake, California. I suspect my parents had the wisdom to know that this would be a good learning experience for me. It was!

ICYMI

"There's only two choices in this: resist or concede"

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@drdemetre.bsky.social has resigned as Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. His letter is a must-read.

This is 100% correct.

I am sounding the alarm on the real crisis we face today. Donald Trump’s overreach is what our founders warned against – it is unprecedented, unwarranted, and un-American. There’s no emergency here that calls for military intervention.

@caeras.bsky.social I swear the WOW! signal totally wasn't me and my astronomy friends, shooting off bottle rockets over Big Ear! (Which we might have done in the late 70s)

Pritzker makes a crucial point here: Members of the National Guard have full-time jobs outside of their service and responsibilities. By frivolously calling them up, Trump is upending their lives just to weaponize them against their own neighbors and fellow Americans. It's appalling.

BREAKING — Dept. of Defense civilian employees all received an email a short while ago offering them the opportunity to support ICE and CBP “as they fulfill the President's intent to ensure a safe and orderly immigration system.” Full text of email and attached memo from Sec. Def. Pete Hegseth:

Hell yeah! What a video and damn, I hope he wins.

This is Texas:

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“During the course of the 26-day sit-in, the Black Panther Party played a leading support role in providing food for the demonstrators. Over and over again, the disabled protesters credited the BPP with literally sustaining their struggle, “keeping us alive body and soul,” as one person put it.”

You’re not seeing a bot “develop a personality” or “learning boundaries”, you’re seeing the faint echo of actual people talking about their actual lives, filtered through a gigantic averaging and prediction machine. It’s an insult to our humanity and frankly obscene.

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This is horrible, and Marissa writes about in the most honest, plainspoken way possible. Don't look away. Read and follow Marissa.

NEW: Video shared with me from a bystander in DC shows multiple masked federal agents (at least one of whom appears to have an ICE badge) violently attacking and handcuffing a delivery worker in the street outside Bluestone Lane cafe near Logan Circle this morning. Please take care when watching.

@caeras.bsky.social this would be fascinating for Science Night

This is truly fascinating -- a quick read, too.