State energy policy bureaucrat and proud of it, part-time poet, grandma and ✡️. Also 🏳️🌈 and married. So they will be coming for me, one way or the other.
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No WAY!!!
senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽
He’s providing them with valuable mulching experience though.
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
@nealkatyal.bsky.social: “You’ve got the president who's imposed the largest tax increase on American consumers since 1993 … and he did it without Congress saying one word. That is not our constitutional structure.”
"January 6 survivor and former MPD Officer Michael Fanone launches a campaign demanding that federal officers remove their masks, advocating for transparency." Check out our new D.C. campaign demanding federal agents take off their mask! @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social www.wusa9.com/article/news...
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”
When Yeltsin was too ill/drunk to be seen in public, the official explanation was: "The president is working with documents." Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Nothing disrespectful about recognizing what works in the real world and what doesn't. You can have God in the picture either way.
That's what it is, folks
"This stuff at CDC and HHS isn’t getting me any more power, or glory, or money. And everything that’s happening is in the service of Bobby. Not me. It’s getting like it was with Elon. He became the story" - Trump right now?
We can hope!
But by far and away, the biggest priority for a Heritage Foundation-captured CDC is going to be using the agency's legal frameworks for access to medical data, and weaponizing them to control women. *Most* of the Project 2025 plan for CDC is a witch hunt against abortion on an unprecedented scale.
In the next Covid-19, mpox, H5N1, etc. - what scientists call "Disease X" - O'Neill's CDC won't even test people to try to track infections, let alone stop them from spreading.
The CDC is gutting a program that monitors foodborne illnesses. The program will now only track infections caused by two pathogens, rather than eight. Hello? How does this “Make America Healthy Again”?
Isn't he embarrassed already?
Louder Chuck!
omg
No point negotiating a budget to fund the government then.
Good riddance
The Trump Administration’s new spending cuts package is clearly illegal. David Super & Sam Berger explain four reasons why. www.cbpp.org/research/fed...
The South triumphs, 150 years later.
Trump’s Pentagon is reinstalling a 20-foot portrait of Robert E. Lee — with a slave guiding his horse in the background — at West Point. Trump and Hegseth are honoring traitors who fought against America to keep people enslaved. There’s nothing “patriotic” about this.
He’s trying to get her killed…
Well they are all complete idiots based on the evidence to date.
Details please
Has to get on the national news
Wow.
Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.
Republicans are trying to redraw congressional district lines to keep their grip on Congress in the midterms and beyond. Voters should pick their politicians, not the other way around. Get involved with the @democraticredistricting.com as they fight back: bit.ly/3HJ1ayW
Nope
Powerful.
Make America Great through Eugenics!
One part of the resignation letter from Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who formally resigned from his position as Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the CDC.
It is.
It just gets dumber every fucking day.
This is to punish the state for not sweeping the woods adequately.
I don't want to think about that question.
I'm leaving. I was born in a multi racial society that favored equality before the law, if imperfectly. Not this.
They already are. You can tell different factions are pushing their agendas without coordination.
This is true. Trump and Trumpism are accelerating the decline of the US as the primary world power.
Poor snowflake. If you are a vapid spouter of bullshit, don't live in a city where everyone's bullshit radar is always on.
Or a national divorce
Vaccines are safe and effective. RFK Jr. isn’t.
Sen Patty Murray (D-WA): “If there are any adults left in the White House, it’s well past time they face reality… We cannot let RFK Jr. burn what’s left of the CDC and our other critical health agencies to the ground—he must be fired.”
Curious what the reasoning for this could possibly be. My first thought it that it was a Putin request
#NIH is hanging by a thread. The #CDC has been decimated. #RFK Jr. and Russell #Vought are psychopaths--I don't say this frivolously--they are cold, calculating, inflicting violence on millions through public policy. It is where we are right now. These men are not normal. 1/
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Dr. Demetre, in his resignation from the CDC, said this: “I have never experienced such radical non-transparency, nor have I seen such unskilled manipulation of data to achieve a political end rather than the good of the American people”. It is an outrage that RFK Jr. remains as head of HHS.
It's guns you brainless automatons
Take back the House, impeach this vile nepo baby
I was wondering about the chances of there being plans in place already. I don't think Amtrak intentionally neglects its flagship station. Congress might, however.
I dread that day
Disgusting and un American
Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:
Whoa. *needle scratch*
"Just" 38%??! That's appalling!
Ban assault weapons! Tax the rich!
And everyone else should just get sick?
Apparently
While you were sleeping, Iowa Democrat Catelin Drey flipped a ruby red state Senate seat with a 20 point swing against Trump, breaking the GOP supermajority. If you’re wondering why Republicans are rigging maps, this is what they’re afraid of.
Frey: And don't just say, this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying. It was the first week of school. They were in a church.
Schools Theaters Concerts Malls Churches Synagogues Mosques Parks Nightclubs Offices Festivals Stores Military Bases Bars Post Offices Yoga Studios Super Bowl parades Nowhere is safe from the scourge of gun violence in America. You can't tell me we must simply accept it.
“The 2nd amendment guarantees the right to a militia to guard against federal tyranny. But if a president can use that force against its own state, against the wishes of that state, then it is no militia at all and a clear violation of the 2nd amendment.” -Adam Kinzinger
Airports are next.
Undermining the Fed to get lower rates now is like ripping the batteries out of your smoke alarm because it’s beeping. It’s quiet for a bit. Then your house burns down. Credibility anchors expectations; expectations anchor inflation.
Making America poorer and sicker.
You mean punish American consumers for buying products from India because India bought oil from Russia.
Unfortunately we still need to be reminded of this lesson by #Superman
How can the people watching not vomit?
I think it's coming--might take the form of sleeping in separate rooms first, but the situation is not sustainable.
The Confederate States are occupying Union cities
It's capitalism if there's big money involved?
Hahaha business community, this is what happened to your predecessors in Germany.
Blech
It doesn't make sense in the real world. Try not to think about it.
Agree. Lower courts need to explore Trump's patently absurd fictions and start limiting their deference to his assertions of non-existent reality. They don't have to be complicit in this.
Trump wants Koreans to stop asking for retribution for Japan's sexual enslavement of Korean women.
Astonishing
A lot of people are saying Mussolini's finale would suit him.
Read Klemperer's memoir of 1933--41 in Germany for a thousand examples.
The Fed was designed to be insulated from politics to maintain the stability and credibility of our financial system. The President is breaking the law, abusing his power, setting a dangerous precedent, and undermining our economy.
Now we know how easy it is for a beacon of liberty to become a banana republic.
I'm genuinely glad for Canada and this is a smart business play by Moderna but it also stings when you consider the Moderna vaccine exists because of $10 billion dollars of US taxpayer money. And RFK Jr. might kill our access.
“This is about the President of the United States and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.” – Gov. J.B. Pritzker
Japan Post just announced they will no longer deliver mail to the United States, joining Germany, Austria, Denmark, Italy, France, and Sweden.
Constituent: You talked about abuses in the medicare and medicaid system and I found interesting that the president pardoned someone that defrauded the medicaid system for $1.3 billion
People stopped wearing watches when they got smart phones.
Florida bans "The Diary of Anne Frank" in school libraries. Whoever made this decision should have to eat every page of that amazing book, page by page.
Some notes, from an airport, on this dumb performative decision, which is calculated to appeal to vapid totalitarian twats. /1 www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
/9 Here is Texas v. Johnson, 1989, specifically rejecting 36 years ago this verminous administration’s stupid, dishonest arguments: supreme.justia.com/cases/federa...
1) ABC/NBC should lose license or pay hefty fees because their reporting is mean to him. 2) MD should maybe lose bridge repair funds because Wes Moore was mean to him. 3) The feds should investigate Chris Christie for Bridgegate because he was mean to him.
This is 100% correct.
They already did.
J.B. Pritzker got it exactly right, Donald Trump is sending the military to blue cities because he wants to undermine free and fair elections in 2026. Trump believes that military deployments in blue cities is his path to keeping power and Republican victory.
The Second Amendment wasn’t written for executive orders and barbed wire around the Capitol—it was written to ensure a well-regulated militia that answers to the people and their states. Today, that balance is being pulled apart. My latest: adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/who-really...
TACO
I’ve heard military law experts advise, if you are given an illegal command as a soldier, do not blindly obey. Call your attorney. Obeying an illegal command can result in a court martial.
The prolonged public torturing of a single man because the state cannot admit to its errors is not something that occurs in a free country