Abortion must be Legal to be Safe @dalylvr

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Senator Patty Murray @PattyMurray

7 months ago

Donald Trump sent more money to bail out Argentina than it would have cost to extend the ACA tax credits for just 1 year.   I don't plan to let anyone forget it.

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FED UP Millionaires FLIP THE SCRIPT With SHOCKING Proposal youtu.be/1xOxtVvNTOA?si… via @YouTube WOW! Yes!

Financial Market Crisis, Kash Patel, JD Vance & Katie Miller youtu.be/yBbKUrtA6G8?si… via @YouTube Max is the best at weekly roundups, and putting economic news in understandable terms. Everyone should watch him, and subscribe to his channel.

@atrupar

CHECK YOUR FRIDGE! The salmonella rules have been removed. Thank you to my friends at Farm Forward for bringing this to my attention! PETITION HERE: act.link/gi-uMDqd3

Trump's shutdown con gets EXPOSED youtube.com/shorts/lp3pPlR… via @YouTube

Sorry for the essay, but this is my last word on Charlie Kirk until they catch someone. When I listen to the news outlets call him "provocative" and a "young conservative Trump ally" it's whitewashing and I think about the TPUSA machine and the different contexts in which people would see Charlie Kirk: - Video clips of Charlie asking dumb questions to college students on his tours - Episodes of Charlie on his Podcast - Charlie speaking at Evangelical Churches like Dream City - Charlie speaking at CPAC and his TPUSA Conference - Charlie Posting on this Platform Beyond even quotes people are circulating from him speaking, on this platform Charlie was hideous. Search for "rape" on his profile, hundreds of posts over years about how brown immigrants are coming to rape your white women. If a crime occurred that was black on white he would post about it 20 times in a day. He called refugees "Rape-u-gees" He made up stats and talked endlessly about "trans violence" He amplifed hoxes like the Haitians are eating cats and dogs. He continuously spoke of Islamic plan to take over America. He said no immigrants assimilate, they all hate America, and on and on. He said women shouldn't work, shouldn't vote, and constantly raged about women not wanting "conservative" men or to have kids. He sent Kyle Rittenhouse on a college tour that was a total troll and ended disastrously. Recently he cheered arrests, imprisonment, guns, and government violence. There is so much more, he was busy. He used his big social media base to pump out hoaxes and disinformation. Charlie was basically a mix of Andrew Tate and Libs of Tik Tok with prayer circles. If there was a bad take unsupported by data, Charlie was pumping it out to 5 different platforms all day, every day. He didn't care who got hurt or that what he was saying was untrue. He was in it for outrage and clicks, recruitment to his high school cult and mostly to instill fear. He constantly amped up the fear. TPUSA is involved in trying to rig votes and get their people into every level of government, but as a person out in the world Charlie's legacy is basically as a holy rolling ragebaiter trying to make everyone scared so they would vote for Donald Trump.

@mkraju

This goes ALL THE WAY TO THE TOP‼️ 1000 PERSONAL FOR 2 WEEKS 24 HOUR SHIFTS TO FLAG TRUMPS NAME ‼️ I can’t believe no charges have been brought on him‼️ How much more proof do they need?

I know this sounds crazy, but shouldn’t the Secretary of Energy know something about energy?

@weskrantz @carbared Why wouldn’t you want to, Dave?

Donald Trump LOSES big time in court. Would be very terrible if this went viral!

TORNADO WARNING for Palatka, Florida! Seek shelter immediately if you’re in this warning!

My resignation letter from CDC. Dear Dr. Houry, I am writing to formally resign from my position as Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), effective August 28, 2025, close of business.   I am happy to stay on for two weeks to provide transition, if requested. This decision has not come easily, as I deeply value the work that the CDC does in safeguarding public health and am proud of my contributions to that critical mission. However, after much contemplation and reflection on recent developments and perspectives brought to light by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., I find that the views he and his staff have shared challenge my ability to continue in my current role at the agency and in the service of the health of the American people. Enough is enough. While I hold immense respect for the institution and my colleagues, I believe that it is imperative to align my professional responsibilities to my system of ethics and my understanding of the science of infectious disease, immunology, and my promise to serve the American people.  This step is necessary to ensure that I can contribute effectively in a capacity that allows me to remain true to my principles. I am unable to serve in an environment that treats CDC as a tool to generate policies and materials that do not reflect scientific reality and are designed to hurt rather than to improve the public’s health.  The recent change in the adult and children’s immunization schedule threaten the lives of the youngest Americans and pregnant people.   The data analyses that supported this decision have never been shared with CDC despite my respectful requests to HHS and other leadership.  This lack of meaningful engagement was further compounded by a “frequently asked questions” document written to support the Secretary’s directive that was circulated by HHS without input from CDC subject matter experts and that cited studies that did not support the conclusions that were attributed to these authors.  Having worked in local and national public health for years, 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 untenable to serve in an organization that is not afforded the opportunity to discuss decisions of scientific and public health importance released under the moniker of CDC.  The lack of communication by HHS and other CDC political leadership that culminates in social media posts announcing major policy changes without prior notice demonstrate a disregard of normal communication channels and common sense.  Having to retrofit analyses and policy actions to match inadequately thought-out announcements in poorly scripted videos or page long X posts should not be how organizations responsible for the health of people should function.  Some examples include the announcement of the change in the COVID-19 recommendations for children and pregnant people, the firing of scientists from ACIP by X post and an op-ed rather than direct communication with these valuable experts, the announcement of new ACIP members by X before onboarding and vetting have completed, and the release of term of reference for an ACIP workgroup that ignored all feedback from career staff at CDC. The recent term of reference for the COVID vaccine work group created by this ACIP puts people of dubious intent and more dubious scientific rigor in charge of recommending vaccine policy to a director hamstrung and sidelined by an authoritarian leader.   Their desire to please a political base will result in death and disability of vulnerable children and adults.  Their base should be the people they serve not a political voting bloc. I have always been first to challenge scientific and public health dogma in my career and was excited by the opportunity to do so again.  I was optimistic that there would be an opportunity to brief the Secretary about key topics such as measles, avian influenza, and the highly coordinated approach to the respiratory virus season.  Such briefings would allow exchange of ideas and a shared path to support the vision of “Making America Healthy Again.”  We are seven months into the new administration, and no CDC subject matter expert from my Center has ever briefed the Secretary.  I am not sure who the Secretary is listening to, but it is quite certainly not to us.  Unvetted and conflicted outside organizations seem to be the sources HHS use over the gold standard science of CDC and other reputable sources.  At a hearing, Secretary Kennedy said that Americans should not take medical advice from him.  To the contrary, an appropriately briefed and inquisitive Secretary should be a source of health information for the people he serves. As it stands now, I must agree with him, that he should not be considered a source of accurate information. The intentional eroding of trust in low-risk vaccines favoring natural infection and unproven remedies will bring us to a pre-vaccine era where only the strong will survive and many if not all will suffer.  I believe in nutrition and exercise.  I believe in making our food supply healthier, and I also believe in using vaccines to prevent death and disability.  Eugenics plays prominently in the rhetoric being generated and is derivative of a legacy that good medicine and science should continue to shun. The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning.  My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so.  I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud.   I am resigning because of the cowardice of a leader that cannot admit that HIS and his minions’ words over decades created an environment where violence like this can occur.  I reject his and his colleagues’ thoughts and prayers, and advise they direct those to people that they have not actively harmed. For decades, I have been a trusted voice for the LGBTQ community when it comes to critical health topics.  I must also cite the recklessness of the administration in their efforts to erase transgender populations, cease critical domestic and international HIV programming, and terminate key research to support equity as part of my decision. Public health is not merely about the health of the individual, but it is about the health of the community, the nation, the world. The nation’s health security is at risk and is in the hands of people focusing on ideological self-interest. I want to express my heartfelt gratitude for the opportunities for growth, learning, and collaboration that I have been afforded during my time at the CDC. It has been a privilege to work alongside such dedicated professionals who are committed to improving the health and well-being of communities across the nation even when under attack from within both physically and psychologically. Thank you once again for the support and guidance I have received from you and previous CDC leadership throughout my tenure. I wish the CDC continued success in its vital mission and that HHS reverse its dangerous course to dismantle public health as a practice and as an institution.  If they continue the current path, they risk our personal well-being and the security of the United States. Sincerely, Demetre C. Daskalakis MD MPH (he/his/him)

Jesus Christ. If your credit isn’t frozen at all three bureaus, I would strongly consider doing that now.

Steve Inskeep @NPRinskeep

10 months ago

Wow. On NPR, @gbrumfiel reports a Social Security official “copied the Social Security numbers, names and birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private section of the agency's cloud.” The source is a whistleblower, who is named: Charles Borges, SSN chief data officer.

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Host: On the anniversary of the deadly Charlottesville riot, the man who helped organize that march tweeted this. 'Eight years ago you were an extremist if you protest being replaced by immigrants... now it is official White House policy. Never give up.'

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Not Your Average Liberal @NotAvgLiberal

10 months ago

For the thousands of National Guard Troops preparing to deploy in U.S. cities on Trumps command… Listen up, pay attention. “We Don’t Take An Oath to a Wannabe Dictator….We take an oath to the Constitution” - General Mark Milley

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Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein could not have sold women and girls for sex without wealthy men buying women and girls for sex. I feel like more people should mention that.

Robert Reich Reacts to Bill Burr's Billionaire Takedown youtube.com/shorts/QZy6Tmr… via @YouTube

On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵

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