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A bombshell report from @mapthepower.bsky.social has uncovered the names of those funding the super PACs attacking Zohran. The list includes companies like AirBnB, the owners of the New York Giants, and New York's richest man. Their collective net worth? Over $369 billion dollars.
Christian nationalists are trying to exploit the deaths of two Catholic schoolchildren for their own purposes. They’re doing so while insulting the Catholic faith that teaches prayer alone isn’t enough. That we are God’s hands & feet on earth now & have to push for solutions like gun safety laws.
I love Putin now Throw the Bill of Rights in the fire baby I love Putin now Screw medicine and vaccines and own those libs
I thank you for clarification. I hope I was not accusing her of rape. I was thinking inappropriate workplace sex and of her having more power in the relationship, Clintonesque. I do really appreciate you telling me about her background.
Her relationships as outlined in the article were inappropriate romantic relationships that she knew perfectly well were inappropriate. And as you said, many people knew and kept her sex antics quiet for access.
New acting director of CDC Jim O'Neill expressed being pro paid organ donation. "There are plenty of healthy spare kidneys walking around, unused."
Our reporting class just does not care about sexual abuse, and you can't force them to care. They always take the side of the abusers. It's pathological.
Waterwheels are too woke! Those Romans couldn't be trusted!
Ortho surgeons like their tax cuts.
Did you just do "Trump is against EVs but people buy them anyway. Here's why that's good news for Trump?" Is there an Economist pitchbot? Is it April Fool's Day?
Sex pests are sex pests, no matter their declared gender.
What even more wild about the original Ernst scandal is it was propublica that broke the story; think about how many hill reporters sat on it to preserve access
I had no idea the atheists were so powerful! They overcame every single religious person on Earth to the point they abandoned religion, that is an unheralded amount of power.
Many Fox viewers have family members who have desperately tried to lead them to the light. Why would they be turned by a D politician when they won't listen to their own adult children, who they are supposed to love and trust?
"Dyson's Law": Listen to a tech bro long enough and they will inevitably justify unsustainable, unjust, unhinged business practices by invoking science fiction levels of technology.
Who killed God now?
Instead of Silicon Valley, we could have a nation of small cities all working on different techs but no, that would make workers prosperous and encourage new ideas.
Yep. I watched what I believe was the moment when she flipped from grief to racist vengeance fantasy. That was also the moment when she went from ignored grieving mother to celebrated fascist icon. She never looked back.
You might call him... uppity.
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"We aren't allowed to say Wuhan flu. That means we need to get rid of the CDC and childhood vaccinations." That's decadence, that's the textbook definition of it.
Been thinking a lot lately about "decadence" and the downfall of society. Conservatives thought it would look like people indulging their vices, but in reality, it's privileged white people thinking that being asked to use correct pronouns or to wear a mask is the worst thing that's ever happened.
I don't care about costs, I care about surviving and not dying. I care about democracy. I know you care, too, Senator. Please don't let the light of democracy die in concerns over money.
On the new acting CDC director. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I'm just hoping for a good position in Hell at this point. I'm really pulling for being the person to direct Johnson to the penis flatteners.
Anyone else get the stare and the silent treatment yesterday when you tried to tell people that the CDC had resigned and walked out? We really need a name for the fascist blank stare when confronted with reality.
Today I will be doing a Q&A special on #vaccines especially respiratory virus vaccines : #RSV, #COVID, #Flu. For the next 24 hours drop your questions in reply to this post and I will do my best to answer them and clear up some of the confusion around changing guidance. #AskAnIDDoc
*Colonel* Robert E. Lee. He was only a general in an illegal army
So Maggie Haberman knows nothing about this, I guess. What is her job again?
"Nobody has had more pain than me. Nobody!"
Every 80-year-old man I know is erratic in taking their meds. They all think they know better than their doctors. Not to be sexist: about 75% of older women I know are the same way. Trump? You know he thinks he knows best.
That feud between Musk and Trump is as fake as a $4 bill. I'll bet Musk even stopped calling for the Epstein files.
Not for the past, but for the future: Merrick Garland completely failed us. He failed us because he didn't drive change in DOJ culture to prosecute insurrectionists, coup plotters, and white collar criminals. And everyone who said "Just Wait! Garland's doing it!" should be disregarded forever.
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
Goddamn Confederates tried to kill my ancestors JUST because they wore US Army uniforms.
This pedophile story is incredibly disturbing. How do Republicans get the illegal drugs they use to dose children anyway? So many questions! Prison for this creep.
Their owners are correct. The beginning of fascism is very profitable. The end, not so much.
Not trying to call this individual out in a quote post, hence the crop, but I've seen several versions of this sentiment and it's wrong. The list is red and blue; it literally includes Massachusetts and New York. The distinguishing factor is esoteric laws on pharmacists' scope of practice.
For 12 months, America had a limited proof of concept for universal healthcare, and it was so uniformly successful we had no choice but to obliterate our society
Always has, probably always will.
"The question—how will he talk to Trump voters?—is one that only makes sense if you’ve never lived near many. It’s a question off an SAT proctored by political consultants: a test you have to pass to be taken seriously by people who think “real America” is a riddle to solve."
Oh shoot, it's Will Saletan? I have to go read this now. He always brings receipts.
That's weaksauce. Cassidy's medical license should be in danger. Our medical boards are so weak.
Their families are vaccinated. You can bet the farm on that.
It would be great to push RFK out now. Also: If we had pushed RFK out after the CDC shooting, we wouldn't have to worry about four open leadership positions at CDC with whoever steps in next. Every crisis where we wait to make this the objective means the damage will be worse when we regain power
I've seen Senators Patty Murray and Elizabeth Warren be loud. That's it. Very, very, very disappointing and I won't forget it.
Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), top Dem on the Senate health committee, on this evening's chaos at CDC: “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."
Also I lived in Charlottesville and first saw David Matthews Band for free in a field with a keg of beer.
First Lollapalooza, my friend climbed up on stage when Jane's Addiction came on. They let her down easy.
Overnight, this extremely well-funded tech company run by a billionaire has gone from “There’s no way we can possibly stop our plagiarism machine from convincing children to kill themselves” to “If you type anything we don’t like, we’re calling the cops.” Either way, they take zero responsibility.
CVS scheduler Every last one of you is “high risk” Tell your friends, family, coworkers, randoms at the bus stop…
I have a different take. They are laying a trap for Republicans to walk into. ANY way Republicans answer this letter is bad for them. I assume they ignore it, and then Chuck says, oh well, we tried.
It is a travesty that the CDC employees had nobody in government with them today. We are leaving them to hang separately because we won't hang together.
The only question I have is how fast are you impeaching him? Thanks, Senator!
It is not just that these employees are risking being put on leave or even fired for standing up for science (see EPA/FEMA officials), they are standing in front of a workplace that was the subject of a terrorist attack a couple of weeks ago, by a man who believes what their boss believes.
The life expectancy of the English King is like 30 if you average in all the head choppings and defenestrations and hunting accidents and bad eel pies and the like.
Then what would the National Guard do?
Where is my horse senator?
Every issue of the Farmers Almanac would have some witty aphorism about planting Trump in a hole before spring.
Hey anyone know how to reanimate some corpses? Lincoln, Washington, Adams, and Roosevelt have some ass to kick.
demanding a do-over military parade because your birthday military parade was a huge flop is the kind of thing that the undead corpse of george washington would smash through his coffin and murder you with his bare hands for, if he could
One thing people never ask after a mass shooting: “What is her name?”
Trump voters are lying about that
The CDC has fallen. www.wired.com/story/center...
I wish when polls report that 39 or 40% of Americans approve of Trump they could split out what percentage approves of what he’s actually doing and what percentage approves of what Fox News and the rest of the right wing media behemoth says he’s doing.
I will bet my house that every single person in this screenshot is on drugs.
I don't have it in me to hate. He's just another routine sellout, they are a dime a dozen these days and Brett Stephens Jr. is nothing unusual. Fascism won temporarily, and the men who want money will follow the money. Always have, always will. More contempt for those enthralled by his racism.
It's worse than that. RFK Jr. is getting rid of drugs so he can make money on their alternatives.
I think there's a core problem with the idea that anyone - **especially straight men** - feels entitled to "debate" the existence and rights of trans people.
House Democrats could force a vote on impeaching RFK any time they want. Of course it would fail. But do you want to make an issue of it or not?
Oh look, actual research. If a political party adopts anti-immigration positions, does that “win back” some radical right voters? NO. An accommodation strategy actually pushes voters to radical right parties more than it pulls voters to mainstream parties. In other words, accommodation backfires.
So their solution is the police state. Wow, what a surprise, never saw that coming, etc, etc...
“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ~Ray Bradbury Keep reading, friends. 📚
Back in 2020, YouTube suspended OAN's channel, demonetized it, and noted it was not an "authoritative" source. Now, five years later, the Google-owned platform has inked a deal to put the MAGA propaganda network in millions of living rooms. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/youtube-oa...
these attacks aren't accelerationism, at least not in the way that some of the progenitors imagined it. they are acute and horrific expressions driven by the creeping tendrils of social rot, enabled by the mountain of weapons we have built instead of a safety net, aimed toward nothing but death
Tom Clancy's The Handmaid's Tale
Yes they do, Senator, especially when they're approving of us setting up concentration camps in other countries.
What I want you to see in this speech is that Pritzker never, eve gives Trump the benefit of the doubt. He does not accept any of his lies as true in order to put himself in a phony middle position. ALL THE DEMOCRATS better pay attention to this.
And is that not horrifying? We can quibble about the small percentage difference between polls, but we are still talking about a third of our country in thrall to fascism.
>bombard the public with propaganda claiming everything short of Donald Trump getting to publicly rape you to death is socialism >socialism becomes more popular >I bet that woke cartoon with the black Spider-Man did this
I’ve thought about it for a while, and I want to say most those people who insist that they did not vote for this is “What would have needed to change in order for you to know what we knew?” What would *you* have had the agency to change? Do you really think you behaved responsibly here?
Shades of Valley Forge in their shared hardships with the American people.
Just a couple miles from where I now live. At least we can take comfort knowing that our powerful GOP leaders will marshal all their resources and do whatever it takes to ensure that this continues to happen again and again and again.
i think it’s really great how every media outlet with more than 3 people working for it takes the fascist framing on every single issue. probably doesn’t have anything to do with why we’re here
Killing children, raping children, it all seems OK with a certain section of the population.
Do you know why the crime rates are down? Some of it is improved psychiatric meds.
The one upside of this is that we never have to pretend Republicans believe in the constitution, freedom, states rights, freedom of speech, America, democracy, the economy, jobs, children, decency or family values ever again.
The best part of this photo — which is a good example of how photographers make art — is the slogan “American workers first” on the banner observed by troops who’ve been forced to pick up trash and do landscaping because the president on the banner illegally fired the American workers who did that.
Try chanting "I have cash, I have cash". That might work.
Judge rejects Andrew Cuomo's efforts to scuttle the $450K settlement reached between the state and Brittany Commisso, the former gubernatorial aide who alleges the ex-governor forcibly groped her. A reminder of how Cuomo scandals continue to cost NY taxpayers millions in settlements, legal bills.
Sure, but they have entertainers on to talk about the law and lawyers on to talk about entertainment.
We've had a Civil War before that established the American belief in inalienable rights at BIRTH no matter where you are born or to whom. That means vulnerable people in the South deserve American government, and you bet they will fight for it.
A MUCH clearer sense. Every time I read an article where a pundit is surprised by something Trump does, I've already been hearing about it "on the street" for weeks. It's not surprise now as much as reluctance to report they were completely wrong.
This is Trump pushing the idea that Black people protesting policing were simply dupes of nefarious Jewish financiers.
We got the COVID checks, and some people got their loans forgiven. But yes, it was an uphill battle to get the tiniest thing done in today's environment.
They think being the preferred race will give them economic benefits, and they think that because it does.
