This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I can’t overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.
MO Gov Mike Kehoe is calling a special session to gerrymander the 5th District which encompasses Kansas City. He is specifically violating Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which bans any voting practice that denies or weakens the power of a racial minority to elect its preferred candidates.
Tulsi Gabbard is *very obviously* a foreign intelligence asset and I hope we all live long enough to see her tried and convicted for it.
Reason 4857 why health care should never be for profit: AI DEATH PANELS. This is the same kind of program used to deny claims at United Health, and they want to use this for VA claims, too.
Trump told voters all that was broken in government and that he knew how to fix it. Now, his regime is unwilling or unable to do the actual work of governing. Also - Epstein files?
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Read Borges' letter - what was so threatening to the regime that they disappeared it? tinyurl.com/yk8h6b9b TLDR: MIT grad, Navy combat veteran, 22 years military & civil service. But... calling out a potential huge data breach of every American's SSA information, done by 20-something DOGE bros
It’s peak cricket Symphony time in New England
I wonder how Chump will try to distract from this. Invade Chicago probably. Let Fox cover Chicago. Everyone else pay respect to the victims.
Stephen Manning, this guy’s lawyer, is one of the best in the country. It’s very good news that he’s taken this case.
MAGA: “… they weaponize their faith and lure them in.”
You’ll hear “Metadata” mentioned, often along with “we don’t collect individuals’ information”. Don’t be lulled into complacency.
I’m glad he’s doing what he’s doing - it’s pitch perfect. But he’s like Flavor Flav. We need Chuck D. too.
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Don’t look away
Here he goes.
CDC employees standing up and walking out in light of the mass shootings, firings, and *waves hands in the air* everything else. #USAnotRFK Lets gooooo
"This is not the future the American public desires or deserves."—Seth Berkley @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
If only they protected children as well as they're protecting the Epstein files
Are vaccines safe? Let's ask this guy who sounds like a dying refrigerator compressor
Note: Trumps’s own Judicial appointee!
Behind? No… really?!? I’m sure Hegseth fired all the people who were working on them too, because they weren’t Christian nationalist ‘warriors’. In drone warfare, the last 3 years in Ukraine has been like the Spanish Civil War before WWII: new weapons and tactics being tested and perfected.
No wonder he TREASURED Kim Jong Un’s love letters.
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This is an amazing image: someone has now actually seen a young planet about 5x Jupiter's mass (the bright dot) actively in the process of picking up dust from its protoplanetary disk (leaving the dark gap). (Further data even directly detected hydrogen gas actively falling onto the planet!) Cool!!
Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her. Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.
Referring to yourself in the third person is weird. Saying you are always right is dishonest. Wearing a ball cap in the Oval Office is tacky. Using your left hand to cover up medical issues on your right hand is concerning. And has he stopped being able to tie a tie?
Military rule is not a fucking stunt. Get real. The president is burning our constitutional order down and Democrats are shrugging it off. This isn’t an opposition party, it’s a group of incompetents. Everyone should just move aside and let @aoc.bsky.social and @raskin.house.gov run the show.
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Virginia Giuffre’s family denounces “DAG Todd Blanche’s bizarre interview” of Ghislaine Maxwell in a statement. www.allrisenews.com/p/maxwell-tr...
A concise summary
Who can resist the shrine of St. Viateur?
So isn’t it just the PERFECT time to gut all of our biomedical research support, shut down the labs, scatter the researchers, let the MAHA dark age dawn and hand leadership in researching new cures off to China? 🤬 Forget ‘MAGA’. The honest slogan is “Take America Back”… to the late 19th century.
The State of Illinois at this time has received no requests or outreach from the federal government asking if we need assistance, and we have made no requests for federal intervention.
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My name is Captain Dylan Blaha, and this message is for members of the National Guard across the USA. I've served in the Illinois Army National Guard for over 12 years, including a deployment to Afghanistan and three years on active duty in Europe. What's going on right now is not normal.
Be aware. Be prepared.
Here’s what was NOT released today: - the proffer agreement between Maxwell and the DoJ - the agreement transferring Maxwell to club fed - communications showing who waived Maxwell’s sex offender status allowing her transfer and possible work assignments outside prison - the Epstein files
I am really begging media and Dems and political commentators: Recognize that key quality of the modern GOP is radicalism and extremism. This is arguably the most radical government in US history. Stop letting them claim the mantle of conservativism. There’s nothing conservative about this.
THIS! 👇👇👇
Eight vacations in seven months by a member of the current regime but we can't afford health care for millions of Americans. 🙄 The unconstrained spending in this regime is obnoxious & unconscionable! Want better, educate yourself & VOTE BETTER! #ReleasetheEpsteinFiles #Voices4Victory
Full post from Jacqui Heinrich at Fox News of the next stage of military deployments for domestic law enforcement assistance. I will leave her reporting of the application of the Posse Comitatus Act to others who have analyzed the relevant statute. I need to go read up on it again.
Uganda??
Fixed
Indeed it can, and should be!
can also run this backwards: we watched the development of mass incarceration, waves of repression of anti-police brutality protests, and a spiraling post 9/11 surveillance and detention apparatus. we shouldn't wonder how a president in 2025 could decide the guys with guns can do whatever they want
Heads up, @washingtonpost.com @nytimes.com @latimes.com -- here's how to inform your readers with a headline, and make them want to click for the details. Fist bump to @bostonglobe.com and thanks to @sulliview.bsky.social for spotlighting media normalization of Trump
Good morning all. Epstein files yet?
A hugely important point is that international students pay full tuition, so they actually make it CHEAPER for US students to attend college, by allowing for more money for scholarships. Across the board, the reality is we need MORE international students.
…and at the start of hurricane season. What could go wrong?
“Look Closer” is the motto for this administration.
“… treat LLMs as useful but fundamentally unreliable tools…”
Do these guys think they’re in an 80’s cop comedy? They’re obviously stalking Letitia James’ house and they’re obviously feds. Jesus.
Outside Dupont north metro
👀 It was only a matter of time before this happened.
So who got fired over this? Bueller… Bueller… Anyone…?
Ghislaine Maxwell’s attorney - addressing me directly - says there’s no such thing as prisoner work details outside the facility in the federal prison system. Yes there are. I have receipts.
Folks, the law belongs to you. Not the president and his Authority Royal. Not the Supreme Court. The law belongs to you.
As the tweet says, this isn’t a cash strapped regional school that needs to focus on career oriented majors to attract dollars and students. It’s one of the premier universities in the country.
I cannot emphasize enough that the playbook being used against mRNA vaccines (and vaccines in general) is IDENTICAL to the playbook used to restrict voting rights after the 2020 election: actively sow public distrust, then cite the distrust you sowed as an independent reason for your desired policy
This theocracy crap is literally anti-American and is an existential threat to our representative democracy. There’s a reason it’s in the 1st Amendment of the Constitution, and James Madison’s “Memorial and Remonstrance against Religious Assessments” explains why.
Anyone see details about the Epstein emergency meeting?
To my just-posted point:
Release the Epstein files! What’s in them that makes that so hard? Subpoena of NY AG, FBI after TX Dems, meeting with Putin, etc, etc. - all attempts at distraction and decoy so the public attention moves on. Stay focused and vocal.
The next part of the plan to steal the midterms and/or the 2028 election - an attempt to do a mid-decade census to take seats and electoral votes away from blue states. I knew this was coming.
More dictator-adjacent authoritarianism.
As a former lieutenant who operated in major theater, can confirm
#speedwaysobibor Take the cute marketing name away from them. Like Alligator Auschwitz, it’s unconstitutional, unlawful and immoral.
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Keep those books people, and if you see something online that’s valuable to you - especially from a government website - download it, print it, take a screen capture. This is the ultimate control of online history and knowledge - book burning at the flip of a byte.
We all have to become used to looking up documents, history and other facts up online. Convenient, but it can be corrupted or deleted in the blink of an eye. It’s the ultimate mis-information, book-burning at the flip of a byte.
mRNA tech is some of the coolest, most powerful, most promising scifi shit humans are currently doing. They are being investigated to help with cancers, autoimmune diseases, M.S., stroke recovery, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and high cholesterol.
Epstein made a call the evening before he died on an unmonitored phone line from prison. He called a US number, but it rang through to Belarus. Anyone Epstein would have associated with that traveled to Belarus would be one degree from Lukashenko. That equally means two degrees from Putin.
#speedwaysobinor Like #alligatorauschwitz, it’s illegal, unconstitutional and immoral. Don’t let them hide behind cute marketing - take the name away from them.
#speedwaysobinor Like #alligatorauschwitz, it’s illegal, unconstitutional and immoral. Don’t let them hide behind cute marketing - take the name away from them.
#speedwaysobinor Like #alligatorauschwitz, it’s illegal, unconstitutional and immoral. Don’t let them hide behind cute marketing - take the name away from them.
#speedwaysobinor Like #alligatorauschwitz, it’s illegal, unconstitutional and immoral. Don’t let them hide behind cute marketing - take the name away from them.
#alligatorauschwitz
#alligatorauschwitz
#alligatorauschwitz
#alligatorauschwitz
#alligatorauschwitz
#speedwaysobibor
Speedway Sobibor. Along with Alligator Auschwitz, we need to keep blowing up their marketing attempts and call it for what it is: illegal, immoral, unconstitutional. Names matter.
[Adding to my Anti-Corruption syllabus for Spring 2026...] This is an important article. And, when I was serving as the U.S. Anti-Corruption Coordinator, many of these cases were perennial headaches when we went abroad to talk about fighting corruption internationally. SCOTUS was often unhelpful.
IRS commissioner Billy Long has a real Boss Hogg vibe in that picture.
one of the single best deals in streaming. i've been paying for PBS Passport for years. it rules
Meanwhile, in Texas…
Yes! 💥
>>>”Also, and related, social media posts do not trade agreements make”<<< 💯🔥🔥🔥 Show me one lawyer who said social media is binding.
‘1984’ is upon us
Worthwhile
ATTN: If you’re a DoJ employee and have knowledge of the missing minute (or 2:53) of Epstein jail video, feel free to reach out to me via signal (in my bio). I’ll keep you anonymous- as I have the thousands of current and former federal workers who have sent me tips. Please share this widely. 🙏🏻
