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Much like everything lately, this is so unacceptable wtf
The current homepage of USDA. This is deeply and profoundly fucked up. And illegal. People need to go to jail.
October 31, 2025 at 12:27 AM
that aged horribly
It's kind of amazing that we showed we could cut child poverty in half for roughly 100 billion/year (absolute peanuts in a 7 trillion dollar budget), did it for a year, and then just stopped doing it.
The food security report is out, and it's bad news: 13.5% of households were food insecure in 2023, up from 12.8% in 2022. This is what happens when you abruptly end "pandemic" supports that should have been there all along.
www.ers.usda.gov/publications...
October 29, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross
October 8, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Hades II is better than I could have ever imagined. just wow
September 26, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Quoted in 2024 advocating for public executions and that children should attend them. My god meidasnews.com/news/charlie...
September 12, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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Just spoke with my CDC sources.

They said RFK Jr. has ordered officials to hide tuberculosis cases, even as three active TB cases were just reported in Maine. He’s also suppressing bird flu reports.

Pandemics don’t start with viruses they start with secrecy.

RFK Jr. must resign now!
September 6, 2025 at 2:07 PM
It seems the NYT is making a bigger headline of this unqualified person than Melissa Hartman's assassination
September 11, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Incredible thread on what's actually happening in China's economy, and it's not exactly good:
4/18 How can both be true? The answer lies in China's "investor state" model—massive resource mobilization that creates technological breakthroughs but devastating macroeconomic imbalances.
September 5, 2025 at 5:09 AM
The accuracy
Kids were shot dead in church today in Minnesota but people will not get as worked up about it as a Cracker Barrel logo change.
August 27, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Even when Trump succumbs to his horrible health, Stephen Miller will delight in controlling Vance and all the other puppets for his big nzi fantasy. He is maybe most evil of all of them.
August 26, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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Forbes: The Qataris have been trying to get rid of that ostentatious luxury jet for five years, but no one would buy it. It costs too much to fly, costs more to maintain, and needs too big a landing strip. They had another one they unloaded on Turkey.
Delicious.
www.forbes.com/sites/jeremy...
Why The Qataris Are Happy To Dump Their 747 On Trump
The president may be thirsting for a new four-engine jumbo jet, but many governments and royal families are unloading their fuel-guzzling palaces in the sky.
www.forbes.com
May 15, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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that bruise on trump's hand looks exactly like the one i had on my arm where my IV blew out. this can only mean one thing: he's got preeclampsia
February 26, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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Hero
February 26, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Over on X, simple tweets by my colleague Greg Bluestein of the Atlanta Journal Constitution have been blocked. They were nothing but video of a town hall held by Rep. Rich McCormick R-GA where he was asked questions about DOGE
February 21, 2025 at 3:11 AM
How is no major news outlet talking about this?

@nytimes.com do better. This is collectively scary
They did a mass firing of staff at the National Nuclear Safety Administration. These are the people who handle the safety of our nuclear stockpile. This is so catastrophically bad.

Read this, and read it again.
February 14, 2025 at 1:38 AM
This is being discussed nowhere on the larger media outlets. He is committing treason and nobody is stopping him
i think an important thing for people outside the US to understand is that elon musk seized control of the government today and most americans don’t even realize it happened.
February 1, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Thank god for the people who take action; this letter has more spine than 80% of our democratic representation

get it together @schumer.senate.gov
On the bright side, this excellent from the CA Dept of Education: "our offer is this: *nothing.*"
February 1, 2025 at 2:30 AM
The #cdc has eliminated all links having to do with lgbtq content.
January 31, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I don’t see anything about protecting people from #avianflu but let’s remove pronouns because it will surely make women more safe.

Godspeed to #cdc and all other federal workers in this time.
#CDC staff have been instructed to remove pronouns from their email signatures by 5 pm today.
This is part of the "Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government" Initiative.
January 31, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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I want the public to hear from every university president by 12 noon tomorrow. I am so serious
Exclusive: NSF this week began to search through billions of dollars of grants the agency has already awarded for anything touching on topics that President Donald Trump has criticized. And NSF has blocked grantees and trainees from accessing funds while the review is underway. scim.ag/3El0NZh
EXCLUSIVE: NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with Trump’s orders
Grantee accounts remain frozen, while union accuses NSF of ignoring rules governing peer review
scim.ag
January 31, 2025 at 2:00 AM
We need Elizabeth @warren.senate.gov as minority leader. Chuck @schumer.senate.gov has been absolutely useless, spineless, and cowardly. I’ve heard nothing out of him and he’s supposed to be the leader of this party? It is a disgrace.
January 31, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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In a call with Chuck Schumer, a half-dozen Democratic governors were "all but begging the minority leader to persuade Senate Democrats to block whatever they could." www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/u...
Schumer Is Pushed by Democratic Governors to Fight Harder Against Trump
On a call with Senator Chuck Schumer, the minority leader, six Democratic governors pushed him to slow down the confirmation of President Trump’s nominees and to do more to block his agenda.
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2025 at 3:35 PM