Philip Bump: How recent is America's past? Things that Americans think of as having long ago were, in fact, within the lifespans of most of us.

The thing about Palantir’s cultural chauvinism is also the thing about the anti-woke rejection of the effects of explicit racism. In each case, the victors often cheated — and not even a lifetime ago.
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Expert quits US HIV role, rebukes Trump's global health approach The chief science officer for the U.S. flagship HIV/AIDS program left his role this week and criticized the Trump administration's cuts ‌to foreign assistance and what he said was its use of aid as leverage for U.S. commercial interests.

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REPUBLICANS: "We are going to gerrymander the shit out of the next election!"

DEMOCRATS: "OK, so we will gerrymander back to level the playing field."

REPUBLICANS: "Whaaaaaa! Whaaaaaa! Not fair!!!!! You are beating us at our own game. So sneaky!"

RFK Jr.'s medical racism is to be expected - Salon.com Black doctors and medical community say RFK Jr.'s rhetoric poses real dangers to public health

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Ossoff: "You were talking earlier about Jared Kushner. The guy leading our diplomacy in the Middle East is bringing in billions from Middle Eastern princes and sheiks and going around the region asking for billions more while he conducts nuclear diplomacy on behalf of the country. It's obscene."

Maddow: "Do we think our servicemen and women are in good hands? Do we think that there is care being taken in terms of what they're risking their lives for?"

Outrage over Israeli soldier's vandalism of Jesus statue in Lebanon The Israeli military says it views with "great severity" the actions of the soldier, as the US ambassador demands "swift" consequences.

If you are outraged by a statue being vandalised but not outraged by genocide you may just be a hypocritical piece of shit.

Chief Justice’s Wife Made $10M+ as Legal Recruiter: Report At least one of the firms reportedly had a case before Chief Justice Roberts.

The corruption is just stunning.

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Who profits the most from Trump's #IranWarFiasco
Trump is making Russia & China GREAT!
The world now sees him as "untrustworthy & chaotic, if not insane"
He has embarrassed US all & rendered America impotent as a force for good
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Just rich boys playing Monopoly/Risk with our world. Ronald Lauder gave the Greenland idea to trump because he has holdings there.

Epstein was their Candyland. Silly silly rich white boys, can we just give them their own country to mess up instead of messing up ours?

Peter Thiel is building a parallel justice system — Powered by AI - Coda Story His investment in Objection.ai points to a new model: private investigations, AI verdicts, and accountability mechanisms that operate outside democratic institutions.

Recommended reading from @nicdawes.bsky.social.

SAVE Act Fails, Millions of Voters Retain Their Right to Vote for Now MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) applauds the U.S. Senate’s rejection of the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act, a sweeping anti-voter legislation pushed ...

SAVE Act Fails, Millions of Voters Retain Their Right to Vote for Now
Source: Southern Poverty Law Center
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

“It’s amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”

- Harry Truman

As Trump proves often, the reverse of this is also true.

It’s amazing how much you can fuck things up when the only thing you care about is getting the credit.

What You Can Do NOW The 10 Most Important Ways to Resist Now. (Revised, Updated, Expanded.)

In light of Trump’s increasingly cruel and bonkers behavior, many of you want to know: “What can I do now?” Here are 10 recommendations. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-you-can-do-f4a

We Need to Prepare for the Mammoth Task of De-Trumpification The damage he and his cronies have wrought could take decades to repair, particularly when it comes to science and public health.

The task of de-Trumpification of science and public health will take a generation and a "Marshall Plan" to rebuild. Without a bold, expansive vision to guide us, there is no coming back. Small-bore, poll-tested versions of the future will not help us. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Texas Matters: Sharia law rhetoric, abortion care fallout, and a contested death row case This week on Texas Matters: Why “Sharia law” has become a flashpoint in Texas politics. How the state’s abortion ban is tied to new scrutiny after three doctors were disciplined. And why a Texas death...

"Many of the state's biggest names in Republican politics" are claiming that Sharia law will be imposed in Texas "if they lose the coming election. This is their strategy to win."

@texaspublicradio.bsky.social on @joshkovensky.bsky.social's reporting

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So, Gill is awful, racist, and a white nationalist. He’s also married to a non-white woman (Dinesh D’Souza’s daughter), and they have a non-white child. Thanks to GOP gerrymandering, he represents a diverse DFW district.

How long til his white nationalist bros eat his face?

The racist ghouls that have glued their slimy asses to the walls of our governmental institutions are proclaiming their bigotry louder than ever because they feel safe to do so.
Think about what that means about this country. America is where racist cowards feel safe.
Shameful, dying country.

It's inexplicable that they can publicly commit war crimes, insider trading, domestic terrorism and there's just...no mechanism to stop it.

Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on? Suspicious wagers on the US-Israel war in Iran are creating huge windfalls and raising concerns among lawmakers

1/3. And this is one more reason the war goes on in some form — people close to Trump are making money from it.
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U.S. Installs a Trump Loyalist to Lead ‘Grand Conspiracy’ Case Into Trump Foes

Joe diGenova, an election denier and former Trump lawyer, will now lead the Russia conspiracy investigation after career prosecutor is removed. They aren’t even trying to make this look legitimate anymore. 🤦🏻‍♀️
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New Documents Undermine Trump Administration’s Claims About Offshore Wind Deal There was no new investment required from TotalEnergies, according to newly disclosed terms.

Sunday scoop from me before Burgum testifies in the House tomorrow:

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The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit The daily news can’t adequately convey the administration’s sabotaging of our government, economy, alliances and environment

“The United States is being murdered, and it’s an inside job. Every department, every branch, every bureau and function of the federal government is being fatally corrupted or altogether dismantled or disabled.”

A Protester Threw a Snowball. Federal Agents Responded With Tear Gas and Pepper Balls. A new investigation from ProPublica and FRONTLINE examines federal agents’ response to protesters and bystanders at the Trump administration’s immigration sweeps. “We see, just, use of excessive force...

On Jan. 12, a protester in Minneapolis threw a snowball toward federal immigration agents, who responded by tossing a tear gas canister and firing pepper balls into the crowd, hitting ProPublica & @frontlinepbs.bsky.social correspondent A.C. Thompson in the face.

Optimism is not a policy tool. If there’s no clear timeline for resolution, energy markets will price in uncertainty. And uncertainty is costly because firms can’t plan and households can’t budget.

Fragile Trump, 79, Insists No One’s Laughing at Him in All-Caps Rant The president started the day with his usual rant on social media.

Trump: “Nobody’s laughing!”

World: “If we’re not laughing it’s because we’re horrified and disgusted.”

If you watch and share one thing today make at this. Why is every democrat in the country not talking like this?

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.

Reminder: The Trump regime cancelled nearly $500 million in federal contracts for mRNA vaccine development last year.

Democrats being urged by politically toxic consultants not to oppose the politically toxic tech so as to not lose donations that are politically radioactive. Absolutely perfect Democrating.