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RFK Jr finally recommends vaccination to deal with the measles outbreak hitting Texas right now.

This is quite the about face for a man who’s been spreading harmful anti-vaxx rhetoric for years.

www.axios.com/2025/03/03/k...
RFK Jr. urges people to get vaccinated amid deadly Texas outbreak
Kennedy has a long record of sowing skepticism about vaccines, but advocated for them in a Fox News op-ed today.
www.axios.com
March 3, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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BREAKING: The government will no longer require shell companies to disclose their owners and beneficiaries.

Wealthy corporations and individuals may now hide their profits from the public.
Trump Celebrates Destroying Anti-Money-Laundering Law
Donald Trump is excited about one of the Treasury Department’s most sinister moves yet.
newrepublic.com
March 3, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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The Senate just voted to confirm Linda McMahon as education Secretary. Reminder that she and Vince McMahon face a civil lawsuit where they are accused of knowlingly enabling sexual exploitation of children by a longtime employee.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
WWE facing another major lawsuit as 'Ring Boys' scandal case allowed to proceed
Linda McMahon, Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Education, has been accused of fostering a culture of sexual abuse while working at the entertainment goliath
www.independent.co.uk
March 3, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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The Trump administration is:
*breaking the law by not spending appropriated money from Congress
*breaking the law by ignoring a court order
*lying about it
*killing people
*silencing public employees who are pointing all of this out
NEWS: The USAID official put on leave for disseminating two memos about Rubio's failure to push through life-saving foreign aid was in the process of writing a THIRD memo when fired. We obtained it. It's far more alarming than the first two.

www.thebulwark.com/p/what-a-wee...
March 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Super-shocked. The ambush was a pretext to illegally impound Ukraine aid.
BREAKING:

WASHINGTON (AP) - Trump orders pausing of US military aid for Ukraine after Oval Office blowup, pressuring Zelenskyy on Russia talks.
March 4, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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SCOOP: Now that Linda McMahon is confirmed/sworn in as secretary, Trump will be imminently issuing an executive order eliminating the Department of Education.

I’ve obtained a draft of an email that McMahon will be sending to staff re: the EO and the department’s “final mission”.

Here is a portion:
March 4, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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January 29, 2023. It was all there for everyone to see, who cared enough to notice.
March 4, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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JUST IN: The White House has been clear that it intends to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education, and that it will be McMahon's job to oversee that effort.
Linda McMahon has been confirmed as Trump's secretary of education
The White House has been clear that it intends to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education, and that it will be McMahon's job to oversee that effort.
www.npr.org
March 3, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Authorities in parts of North Carolina and South Carolina issued evacuation orders as firefighters hurried to contain wildfires driven by dry, windy conditions
Brush fires across the Carolinas prompt evacuations as region faces continued dry conditions Sunday | CNN
Authorities in parts of North Carolina and South Carolina issued evacuation orders Saturday as firefighters hurried to contain wildfires driven by dry, windy conditions across the region.
www.cnn.com
March 2, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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✅Measles was declared eliminated in U.S. in 2000 due to the measles vaccine.

📍Today, Mexico has issued a warning to avoid traveling to the U.S. because of measles outbreaks in Texas and 7 other U.S. states.
March 2, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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CSPAN Caller from West Virginia: I’m a diabetic and I’m on Medicare. When Biden was in there, my insulin was $6 for a 28 day supply. I just went to CVS, it went back up to $80…
February 21, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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US consumer sentiment dropped more than expected in February to a 15-month low and inflation expectations rocketed as households worried that President Donald Trump's plans for steep and broad-based tariffs would eat into their purchasing power reut.rs/41gv4Aq
US consumer sentiment plunges in February on tariff worries
U.S. consumer sentiment dropped more than expected in February to a 15-month low and inflation expectations rocketed as households worried that President Donald Trump's plans for steep and broad-based tariffs would eat into their purchasing power.
reut.rs
February 21, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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BREAKING: The Associated Press sues three Trump administration officials over access to presidential events, citing the First Amendment.
AP sues 3 Trump administration officials, citing freedom of speech
The Associated Press is suing three Trump administration officials over access to presidential events.
apnews.com
February 21, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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My tolerance for Online is growing lower and lower every day.
February 17, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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MAGA acts like finding fraud in government is some new thing DOGE invented. They aren’t good at it, but experts who were let go were.
February 17, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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"Representatives from farm advocacy groups and cooperatives say they are hearing stories from their members, but most are unwilling to speak publicly for fear of retribution. Many large farm organizations backed Trump’s successful presidential campaign."
missouriindependent.com/2025/02/17/r...
Billions of dollars at stake for farmers hit by Trump funding freeze, foreign aid pause • Missouri Independent
WASHINGTON — Farmers across the United States are finding themselves in precarious economic positions, as they attempt to navigate a strained farm economy and a barrage of executive orders from the Tr...
missouriindependent.com
February 17, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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How was this contract awarded??!
February 17, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”.

This is a manifesto against disability.

This is the language of eugenics.
Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
www.whitehouse.gov
February 17, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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like *democrats do not control any of the formal levers of national power.* everyone on here is screaming "how do we stop this." sorry kids, it's way too late for that. the question is how do we take power back and *fix* what musk+co are about to break.
February 14, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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If you understand that apartheid was an economic system first, and a brutally violent system of social segregation second, you'll understand how Elon Musk is trying to update the principles from his homeland, and bring about a neo-apartheid system in the US.
My latest in @thenation.com
Elon Musk’s Vision Is Coming Into Focus—And It Looks a Lot Like Neo-Apartheid
Apartheid was, first and foremost, a business plan—one that the South African-born Musk seems to be reworking for the modern age.
www.thenation.com
February 13, 2025 at 4:11 PM