SCOOP: Two weeks ago, the head of the CDC delayed publication of a report showing covid vaccine cut likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations by half. Now that report is no longer allowed to be published in CDC’s flagship scientific journal. My latest. 1/2
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The Justice Dept’s theory of the case— that the group that single-handedly disassembled the Ku Klux Klan defrauded its donors by concealing that it was using paid informant to do that work and more— has about as much merit as the now-dismissed charges against Jim Comey.
"Dear America" letters from people who work at the besieged US Department of Housing and Urban Development:
dearamericaletters.org
Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more. www.wired.com/story/madiso...
"The arch is what happens when a powerful and deeply insecure man looks at hallowed ground and sees another opportunity for a monument to himself. The fallen buried at Arlington deserve better than to spend eternity in the shadow of someone else’s ambition."
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The fact that the ask is "joint control" and not "freedom of navigation" tells you everything you need to about the thugs running the US atm.
I am, and it is, and no, they don't
To conservatives who’ve objected when some of us have suggested Trump is a fascist, and who’ve complained when some us point out that much of real existing American conservatism has devolved into fascism, if you’re silent about Trump’s threat of genocide you’re proving the point you’ve objected to.
This is why I try to protect words for when they are needed to convey the immediacy and threat they represent.
What Trump is threatening in Iran is *genocide*, pure and simple.
Of course, that word doesn't land the way it used to.
this cartoon gets a lot of shit, but depending on your distance from the blast and heat pulse this actually does gives you a slightly better chance of surviving. especially if outside the heat pulse
mind you if it goes off over your head you're toast, but it'll be so fast you wont know it happened
Meanwhile Prof Tim Snyder is also issuing warnings about the same.
This was entirely foreseeable, and many of us warned that if the Department abandoned all of its principles, the decent public servants in its ranks would abandon the Department.
potus probably thinks it took attention away from him
"you cant regulate me if Im in space!" - elon, probably
“Dumping the Army chief of staff in the middle of a war, without explanation, is a reckless move even by Hegseth’s standards,” @RadioFreeTom argues: theatln.tc/u4Lw54Ut
According to the Times:
It seems we just bombed some residential buildings in an attempt to kill a former diplomat who was trying to facilitate negotiations.
A civilian trying to *end* hostilities, surrounded by other civilians in their homes.
We are completely lost.
Hegseth's repeated moves to purge the military of anyone not judged a Trump loyalist should set off major alarms. But, because Hegseth presents as such a buffoon, his role in Trump's authoritarian project is underrated.
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Watership Down gave me PTSD Doc.
You know you've made some peak new tech when you have the exact same fine print disclaimers as Miss Cleo.
This is what authoritarian control and lack of political accountability look like.
When government employees cannot report bad behavior, bad behavior proliferates, and all of society suffers.
An army of fans bent on broadening the white supremacist Nick Fuentes's audience are using social-media algorithms to amplify his message and to help him gain a following on the left, Amogh Dimri reports:
“[Pete Hegseth’s Chief of Staff] Buria told [Army Secretary] Driscoll that President Trump would not want to stand next to a Black female officer at military events.”
Not shocked, not surprised. The racism is a feature, not a bug, with these lowlifes.
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I'm expecting a wheelbarrow-full of pardons for insider trading on January 19, 2029.
Note that the prospect of those pardons helps to keep subordinates in line. Corrupt-cop style, make sure that lots of people get a little taste, then make clear that the pardon depends on continued loyalty.
Iran War to be paid for out of cuts to state and local programs for Americans.
It's just unreal how little thought or planning went into starting a new massive war in the Middle East.
I hate how stupid everything is.
“The Sheriff’s assertion that his deputies know how to count is admirable. The fact remains that he and his deputies are not elections officials.”
Bianco’s ballot seizure is “the sort of thing that should not happen in a healthy democracy...”
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