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Posts by Laura Ruby

RFK jr & Eugenics Inc believe sick people and healthy people are fixed categories. Now people run around acting like long covid is something that only happens to Other people. Sure seems like even those who don’t admit to liking RFK Jr are still following his philosophy.

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if you are "sick" — which, again for RFK is a function of race, class and perceived purity — then there is nothing you can do in the face of disease and death, you are destined to succumb. the upshot either way is we do not need vaccines or most modern medical interventions.

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"Cleaning up the risk pool ... will lower prices."

A THREAD.

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This is a FRAUDULENT paper, AI-generated. My name was used as an author and I had nothing to do with it, never saw it until today e-pubmed.co.uk/journals/dig...
The "Editors" Angelo Rossi Mori, David Mensah, and Zarnie Khadjesari and this "Journal" should be reported.

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Drawing of a book with a desk printer on the cover with the title "The printer that simply worked and other fairy tales"

Drawing of a book with a desk printer on the cover with the title "The printer that simply worked and other fairy tales"

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Trump’s FCC Wants Input on Whether ‘Transgender and Gender Nonbinary’ TV Programming Is ‘Appropriate’ for Children The FCC, led by Trump-appointed chairman Brendan Carr, wants feedback about whether the TV industry's voluntary ratings need to be tweaked -- specifically with regard to how shows with child-friendly ...

Seems bad that the Trump administration is trying to use the FCC to scare media companies into actively avoiding stories related to trans people, tbh.

variety.com/2026/tv/news...

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BREAKING:

A Virginia judge just temporarily halted the implementation of the state's new voter-approved redistricting measure.

Election officials cannot move forward now unless the ruling is overturned by a higher court.

Virginia's AG has vowed to appeal the ruling.

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In the national divorce we are now adding "heterosexual marriage" to the NFL, butter, cooking oil, being attracted to adult women, standup comedy, Bud Light, and Catholicism. This list will update until morale improves.

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IS THIS MY MOMENT

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Present at our nation’s founding — but excluded from its promise Elizabeth Freeman demanded her rightful place among this country's founders and helped forge a tradition of forcing America to live up to its ideals.

“On August 21, 1781, she became the first enslaved woman to have her self-proclaimed independence validated in a court of law. She changed her name to Elizabeth Freeman to reflect her new status.” 19thnews.org/2026/04/revo...

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Congrats!

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A three-judge panel earlier found a similar Louisiana law was unconstitutional. But a majority of the Fifth Circuit’s 17 active judges voted to rehear that case, and heard arguments in both matters in January. In February, the full US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit said it was too early to weigh challenges to the Louisiana measure.
The Fifth Circuit’s decision “is an egregious example of motivated analysis,” says Elizabeth Sepper, a law professor at UT Austin who focuses on religion and law. “The court wants to give a win to Texas so it concludes that it can ignore controlling Supreme Court precedent—a case that banned Ten Commandment displays in public schools,” she writes in an email. “If the decision stands, the writing seems to be on the wall for Louisiana’s law.” 
The judges, she added, “seem dedicated to favoring conservative Christian causes, all other religious people and efforts be damned.”

A three-judge panel earlier found a similar Louisiana law was unconstitutional. But a majority of the Fifth Circuit’s 17 active judges voted to rehear that case, and heard arguments in both matters in January. In February, the full US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit said it was too early to weigh challenges to the Louisiana measure. The Fifth Circuit’s decision “is an egregious example of motivated analysis,” says Elizabeth Sepper, a law professor at UT Austin who focuses on religion and law. “The court wants to give a win to Texas so it concludes that it can ignore controlling Supreme Court precedent—a case that banned Ten Commandment displays in public schools,” she writes in an email. “If the decision stands, the writing seems to be on the wall for Louisiana’s law.” The judges, she added, “seem dedicated to favoring conservative Christian causes, all other religious people and efforts be damned.”

I said what I said

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Latest insane Islamophobic legislation comes from Geneva, Switzerland, where new rules dictate that women at public pools must wear, "one-piece or two-piece swimming costumes whose maximum length is above the knees and which leave the arms bare”.

So, women MUST show arms and legs. That's freedom!

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My hometown of Nashville -- a blue city which went about two-thirds for Harris-Walz in 2024 -- was gerrymandered by the TN GOP into three different districts all represented by Republicans now, so please get in line to complain about how unfair this all is, Virginia Republicans

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This is a mind-boggling amount of cash burn. Combine this with the cost of the war and terrorizing boats off of Venezuela.

Your healthcare, education, housing, roads, environmental protections, transportation support, parks - you know, the things we actually want - nah.

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Sources say that if Kash Patel cannot stop binge drinking and spending taxpayer dollars on his personal travel, Donald Trump is prepared to fire the highest ranking woman at the FBI.

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ICE in Chicago this morning at Elston and Kennicott—a masked agent tells a witness (on the sidewalk) not to get in front of his car.

Feds are continuing kidnappings across the city & burbs after increased activity this month.

No flashy CBP caravans, just a steady stream of covert ICE arrests.

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IN A TIME OF PEACE

Inhabitant of earth for fortysomething years
I once found myself in a peaceful country. I watch neighbors open
their phones to watch
a cop demanding a man's driver's license. When the man reaches for his wallet, the
cop
shoots. Into the car window. Shoots.
It is a peaceful country.
We pocket our phones and go.
To the dentist,
to pick up the kids from school,
to buy shampoo
and basil.
Ours is a country in which a boy shot by police lies on the pavement
for hours.
We see in his
the nakedness
open
mouth
of the whole nation.
We watch. Watch
others watch.
The body of a boy lies on the pavement exactly like the body of a boy-
It is a peaceful country.
And it clips our citizens' bodies
effortlessly, the way the President's wife trims her toenails.
All of us
still have to do the hard work of dentist appointments,
of remembering to make
a summer salad: basil, tomatoes, it is a joy, tomatoes, add a little salt.
This is a time of peace.
I do not hear gunshots,
but watch birds splash over the back yards of the suburbs. How bright is
the
sky
as the avenue spins on its axis.
How bright is the sky (forgive me) how bright.

-Ilya Kaminsky

IN A TIME OF PEACE Inhabitant of earth for fortysomething years I once found myself in a peaceful country. I watch neighbors open their phones to watch a cop demanding a man's driver's license. When the man reaches for his wallet, the cop shoots. Into the car window. Shoots. It is a peaceful country. We pocket our phones and go. To the dentist, to pick up the kids from school, to buy shampoo and basil. Ours is a country in which a boy shot by police lies on the pavement for hours. We see in his the nakedness open mouth of the whole nation. We watch. Watch others watch. The body of a boy lies on the pavement exactly like the body of a boy- It is a peaceful country. And it clips our citizens' bodies effortlessly, the way the President's wife trims her toenails. All of us still have to do the hard work of dentist appointments, of remembering to make a summer salad: basil, tomatoes, it is a joy, tomatoes, add a little salt. This is a time of peace. I do not hear gunshots, but watch birds splash over the back yards of the suburbs. How bright is the sky as the avenue spins on its axis. How bright is the sky (forgive me) how bright. -Ilya Kaminsky

Ilya Kaminsky

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Jay Bhattacharya has ordered that a paper showing the effectiveness of COVID19 vaccines in preventing severe disease and hospitalization be suppressed and hidden.

This man has been crying nonstop about political censorship for 6 years.

But he’s the one who is actually doing it.

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Any Dem who runs on a platform of ending every single government contract with Palantir, then hiring a team of experts to undo the damage these fascist dorks have done to our infrastructure, communications and personnel, not only has my vote, but has my donation checks and volunteer hours as well.

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This is horrific. I feel physically ill.

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Oh, no! I’m so sorry.

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Mayor Mamdani and a group of children hold hands while running through red tape in a hallway.

Mayor Mamdani and a group of children hold hands while running through red tape in a hallway.

For too long, bureaucracy kept 7 child care centers across our city empty — spaces that should have been alive with laughter instead collected dust.

We've run through that red tape. This fall, all 7 will open their doors, bringing an additional 240 free 3-K seats & real relief to working families.

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In particular, if there's anyone out there interested in talking about what New Deal policies could look like now, expanding social programs, what it takes to make life more affordable, etc. I'd love to chat! It's a big topic and I'm trying to get specific and solutions-focused. Email below:

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Hmmm, I wonder if that’s the reason it took her three months to drop my charges? Nah, couldn’t be. Just because people have a D next to their names does not mean they are committed to the same things as you. They will sell you out unless we make them pay a political price for doing so.

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DeSantis is an AI skeptic and is pressing the state legislature for an AI bill of Rights to protect consumers during the special session he called for the end of the month. He frequently employs lawfare to move issues that stagnate in lawmaking. For once, he’s on the right side. Entirely by accident

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You know who else famously used paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups?

The Justice Department.

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The real failure to look in the mirror is academics falling back on comfortable “we’re partly responsible because we enforced left wing orthodoxy“ thinking rather than the less comfortable truth that Trump/MAGA are bad faith actors who will only be satisfied with resegregated MAGA academies

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During Trumps first admin I interviewed Carlson and talked to him about how his rhetoric specifically hurt my life and he treated it like a big joke. Remorse that only comes when it’s convenient isn’t remorse at all.

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Secretary of War 
@SecWar
X.com
The War Department is once again restoring freedom to our Joint Force.
We are discarding the mandatory flu vaccine requirement, effective immediately.
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Secretary of War @SecWar X.com The War Department is once again restoring freedom to our Joint Force. We are discarding the mandatory flu vaccine requirement, effective immediately. 1:59 8:21 AM • 4/21/26 • 648K Views

The military was an infection vector in the Spanish flu pandemic that killed 50 million people.

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