These two grafs are from 'The Great Influenza,' a book about the unfathomably deadly epidemic that many of us read in the spring of 2020.
A recurrent theme of the book is how rapidly, and lethally, the disease spread among soldiers readying for or serving in World War I
In February 1777, General George Washington ordered the first mass immunization campaign in American history by mandating that his troops be inoculated against smallpox. He protected the Continental Army from an epidemic that was deadlier than British forces.
249 years later, we have this idiot.
He killed over 160 young girls at a school and threatened to end their entire civilization out of respect and admiration
"...signs of low character." Really? Do you think so, Tucker?
Tucker Carlson: I’ll be tormented for a long time by the fact that I played a role in getting Donald Trump elected. We’re implicated in this. I misled people.
As I argue in this piece, Trump has transformed the presidency into a giant Bribe Delivery System.
One reason that we cannot have professional diplomats representing the interests of the United States is that it would disrupt a pattern of personal enrichment for the Presidents allies and families.
Damn. 😕🇺🇸
I watched Eastman, in real time, testify to the Georgia General Assembly that it was their *duty* to overturn my vote in 2020. He lied about evidence. He misled his client about the law. Law profs who back wannabe coup leaders and authoritarians should retire because what’s the point of law at all?
Trump six weeks ago:
I demand UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER.
Trump today:
I basically surrender on regime change, the nuclear program being gone once and for all, missiles, proxies, sanctions, and paying off the Iranian regime.
But memo to my followers: Let’s pretend it’s all good!
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Lack of accountability is how we got here in the first place. There’s been so little of it, the latin phrase of it should be on our coins.
An apt illustration of the bind Trump has gotten the US into. The global economy is now subject fighting between Israel and hezbollah. Iran didn’t know quite how easy this wld be until Trump forced them to try. www.cnbc.com/2026/04/17/i...
If you are worried that China is beating us, then take a look at this. China is investing heavily in renewable energy. The USA is fighting all forms of green energy.
Reducing dependence on fossil fuels, and diversifying our energy sources could help us get ahead.
It could prevent wars over oil.
I notice the Fake News Media refuse to report on Trump’s plan to settle all future geopolitical disputes through the power of dance
An Israel-Lebanon ceasefire is a weird thing to tout, since Lebanon isn't a combatant. There is no Lebanese fire for the Lebanese government to cease.
THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT
“Of all the prevailing media narratives around @gavinnewsom.bsky.social, the one that is most conspicuous by its absence is how under its two-term governor California became the top performing economy not just among its 49 siblings but also any developed nation.”
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Who is/are the other candidate/s who could win the seat?
A WHOLE CIVILIZATION WILL DIE TONIGHT My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools. Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's "keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's "we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight." It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before. "It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time. A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead. @michaelfdubois Mukad A QuBoy @michacifdubois
Brutal.
Regardless of whether it’s all talk, when the leader of our country expresses plainly genocidal intent, everyone has to do something.
For citizens of all political stripes, it means rejecting this madness. For Congress, it means taking action to rein him in. Now.
cont. 'Asked same official why Trump apparently feels he has right to kill Iranian shopkeepers, farmers, teachers, policemen, etc.—and their families, including children—who live a thousand miles from Tehran and have had nothing to do with any of this their entire lives? No response.'
89% of Americans HAVEN'T been raising hell with their legislators about it.
Make the calls.
202 224 3121 call Congress
202 456 1414 call WH
Text SIGN PDRWIM to 50409
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Susan Collins grimly standing up, walking across her office, and with a heavy weight bearing down on her weary shoulders, moving her doomsday clock from "concerned" to "worried."
Millions of American voters wanted to be villains. They came to believe it’s the key to success, while goodness is weak, woke, loser stuff, done only to signal.
Offered the option of unvarnished villainy, they enthusiastically took it. Seeing others suffer more made them feel big.
And here we are.
🚨BREAKING: A new lawsuit filed Monday by the Republican National Committee (RNC) seeks to strip voting access from a group of U.S. citizens living abroad. It’s the GOP’s latest move in its growing campaign against overseas voters.
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BREAKING: @democracydefendersfund.org & @ldadorg.bsky.social — w/ bipartisan group of 129 former federal & state judges — called on Blanche to withdraw a proposed rule exempting DOJ attorneys from state ethics oversight
No lawyer should be exempt from ethics oversight--not even DOJ attorneys -TN
“You know what's a war crime? Allowing a sick country with demented leaders to have a nuclear weapon.”
Tell us about it!
The Iranian embassy in Iran quote tweets Trump's insane 'Fuckin Strait tweet with the comment: "This low level of civility and intelligence shown by a leader of a country is regrettable; the shameful fervor with which intentions to commit war crimes are repeated is staggering; and the fact that the Divine is invoked regardless of ill intentions clearly exposes deep fanaticism. Apologies for sharing this language." Trump's tweet reads: "Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP"
my entire timeline on x is now just iranian embassies demonstrating a facility with the english language that puts everything i've ever read from the trump administration to shame
