Janis Jaquith
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there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
RFK Jr.’s damage to the CDC is ‘past the point of no return,’ Dr. Demetre Daskalakis warns
“The CDC you knew is over,” the infectious diseases doctor told The Advocate. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.”
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August 29, 2025 at 8:53 PM
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
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Epstein survivor Sarah Ransome on Ghislaine Maxwell: “I have spent the last 17 years in my own prison for what she, Jeffrey, and all the co-conspirators did to me. I was raped three times a day. Ghislaine must die in prison.”
August 24, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Epstein survivor Sarah Ransome on Ghislaine Maxwell: “I have spent the last 17 years in my own prison for what she, Jeffrey, and all the co-conspirators did to me. I was raped three times a day. Ghislaine must die in prison.”
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At GSA, in the Biden administration, we were determined to build as much federal EV infrastructure as quickly as possible: buy vehicles, run greater power capacity to facilities, install chargers. Because a Republican administration wouldn’t undo all of *that*.
Yet here we are:
Yet here we are:
👀 Scoop: Trump and Republicans want USPS to sell off its brand new EVs and chargers.
That would mean literally **ripping up post office parking lots** to auction off assets with no private-sector value.
It’s buried in the Senate’s “One Big Beautiful Bill.”
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
That would mean literally **ripping up post office parking lots** to auction off assets with no private-sector value.
It’s buried in the Senate’s “One Big Beautiful Bill.”
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
June 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM
At GSA, in the Biden administration, we were determined to build as much federal EV infrastructure as quickly as possible: buy vehicles, run greater power capacity to facilities, install chargers. Because a Republican administration wouldn’t undo all of *that*.
Yet here we are:
Yet here we are:
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We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.
June 22, 2025 at 12:24 AM
We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.
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SCOOP: Since SSA installed new anti-fraud checks on claims made over the phone, only 2 claims out of over 110,000 were found to likely be fraudulent, according to internal documents I obtained.
The policy has slowed down payments, though. Retirement claim processing is down 25%
The policy has slowed down payments, though. Retirement claim processing is down 25%
May 15, 2025 at 6:21 PM
SCOOP: Since SSA installed new anti-fraud checks on claims made over the phone, only 2 claims out of over 110,000 were found to likely be fraudulent, according to internal documents I obtained.
The policy has slowed down payments, though. Retirement claim processing is down 25%
The policy has slowed down payments, though. Retirement claim processing is down 25%
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Oh, no, we've seen this movie, after the SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act in 2013's Shelby County v. Holder. Southern states said "hey, we don't need federal restrictions on elections law, it's 2013!" And then they added hundreds of restrictive voting laws. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/u...
Some Republicans Push to Put School Desegregation Officially in the Past
www.nytimes.com
May 16, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Oh, no, we've seen this movie, after the SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act in 2013's Shelby County v. Holder. Southern states said "hey, we don't need federal restrictions on elections law, it's 2013!" And then they added hundreds of restrictive voting laws. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/u...
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Senator Warren remarks on GENIUS Act
YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren
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May 20, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Please Paramount: DO NOT CAVE TO THIS SCAM-ARTIST EXTORTIONIST!!!
Stand strong so other companies will do the same.
And DO NOT pay Trump millions just so Shari Redstone can collect her $1B buyout payment!
IT
IS
A
SCAM
Paramount Board Clears Possible Path for Settling Trump’s ‘60 Minutes’ Lawsuit
Stand strong so other companies will do the same.
And DO NOT pay Trump millions just so Shari Redstone can collect her $1B buyout payment!
IT
IS
A
SCAM
Paramount Board Clears Possible Path for Settling Trump’s ‘60 Minutes’ Lawsuit
Paramount Board Clears Possible Path for Settling Trump’s ‘60 Minutes’ Lawsuit
Paramount’s interest in settling has dismayed CBS’s news division. The executive producer of “60 Minutes” abruptly resigned last week.
www.nytimes.com
May 1, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Please Paramount: DO NOT CAVE TO THIS SCAM-ARTIST EXTORTIONIST!!!
Stand strong so other companies will do the same.
And DO NOT pay Trump millions just so Shari Redstone can collect her $1B buyout payment!
IT
IS
A
SCAM
Paramount Board Clears Possible Path for Settling Trump’s ‘60 Minutes’ Lawsuit
Stand strong so other companies will do the same.
And DO NOT pay Trump millions just so Shari Redstone can collect her $1B buyout payment!
IT
IS
A
SCAM
Paramount Board Clears Possible Path for Settling Trump’s ‘60 Minutes’ Lawsuit
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I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did.
April 2, 2025 at 12:00 PM
I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did.
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This is a United States Senator
MACK: I was laid off from HHS and now people aren’t getting social services, especially people with disabilities
BANKS: You probably deserved it
MACK: Why did I deserve it?
BANKS: Because you look like a clown
MACK: I was laid off from HHS and now people aren’t getting social services, especially people with disabilities
BANKS: You probably deserved it
MACK: Why did I deserve it?
BANKS: Because you look like a clown
April 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM
This is a United States Senator
MACK: I was laid off from HHS and now people aren’t getting social services, especially people with disabilities
BANKS: You probably deserved it
MACK: Why did I deserve it?
BANKS: Because you look like a clown
MACK: I was laid off from HHS and now people aren’t getting social services, especially people with disabilities
BANKS: You probably deserved it
MACK: Why did I deserve it?
BANKS: Because you look like a clown
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I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.
March 29, 2025 at 11:52 PM
I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.
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Mike Johnson is now floating eliminating federal courts:
"We do have the authority over the federal courts, as you know. We can eliminate an entire district court. We have power of funding over the courts and all these other things."
"We do have the authority over the federal courts, as you know. We can eliminate an entire district court. We have power of funding over the courts and all these other things."
March 25, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Mike Johnson is now floating eliminating federal courts:
"We do have the authority over the federal courts, as you know. We can eliminate an entire district court. We have power of funding over the courts and all these other things."
"We do have the authority over the federal courts, as you know. We can eliminate an entire district court. We have power of funding over the courts and all these other things."
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This isn't how gov't is supposed to work: The acting commissioner of Social Security admitted “I was ticked at the governor of Maine for not being real cordial to the president,” so I ended a program in Maine. www.pressherald.com/2025/03/25/s...
Social Security official ended program for Maine newborns because he was ‘ticked’ at Mills
U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree said the rationale given by Lee Dudek, the acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration, is 'infuriating and absurd.'
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March 25, 2025 at 8:51 PM
This isn't how gov't is supposed to work: The acting commissioner of Social Security admitted “I was ticked at the governor of Maine for not being real cordial to the president,” so I ended a program in Maine. www.pressherald.com/2025/03/25/s...
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Anne Applebaum also urged us to stay vigilant and proactive, saying: “Stay engaged. Call your Congressman, call your Senators … and make a plan to be involved in local politics.”
Anne Applebaum on Democracy's Tipping Point
A fascinating conversation with the Pulitzer Prize-winning author
www.dworkinsubstack.com
March 19, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Anne Applebaum also urged us to stay vigilant and proactive, saying: “Stay engaged. Call your Congressman, call your Senators … and make a plan to be involved in local politics.”
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The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific.
If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved
If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved
benefit.me
March 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM
The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific.
If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved
If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved
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The whitewashing of US history continues at Pete Hegseth’s Department of Defense
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Amid ‘DEI’ purge, Pentagon removes webpage on Iwo Jima flag-raiser
Pages celebrating Navajo code talkers and other minority service members were also erased.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 19, 2025 at 8:47 PM
The whitewashing of US history continues at Pete Hegseth’s Department of Defense
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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So it appears DOGE has decreed that Social Security administration will no longer provide phone support. At all. This is in addition to shutting down a ton of local SSA offices. www.axios.com/2025/03/17/s...
Leaked memo: DOGE plots to cut Social Security phone support
Changes could break the system, former officials say.
www.axios.com
March 17, 2025 at 11:16 PM
So it appears DOGE has decreed that Social Security administration will no longer provide phone support. At all. This is in addition to shutting down a ton of local SSA offices. www.axios.com/2025/03/17/s...
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I have long worked with people at a lot of nonpartisan good-government NGOs. Those people have never revealed to me any partisan leanings. But that's really shifted in the past few weeks. Belief that the US government should function now makes you a Democrat. Republicans believe only in destruction.
March 16, 2025 at 1:25 AM
I have long worked with people at a lot of nonpartisan good-government NGOs. Those people have never revealed to me any partisan leanings. But that's really shifted in the past few weeks. Belief that the US government should function now makes you a Democrat. Republicans believe only in destruction.
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March 15, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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So on brand for these people. Never trust anyone who doesn’t love dogs.
guys they're going to stop feeding TSA's bomb-sniffing dogs, per Fox News nat security correspondent:
March 14, 2025 at 6:21 PM
So on brand for these people. Never trust anyone who doesn’t love dogs.
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i honestly have never seen a political leader so thoroughly destroy their credibility so quickly and, on the other side, it is abundantly clear that if anyone can claim a genuine leadership of large parts of the democratic party, it is AOC.
Folks is it good when your own party's leadership in the House is dropping "listen to the women" and MLK quotes on you while swing state members of your caucus are talking about new leadership
March 14, 2025 at 5:07 PM
i honestly have never seen a political leader so thoroughly destroy their credibility so quickly and, on the other side, it is abundantly clear that if anyone can claim a genuine leadership of large parts of the democratic party, it is AOC.
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Extraordinary moment — Nancy Pelosi issues a statement calling on Democratic senators to reject the House funding bill, i.e. to defy Chuck Schumer.
"Democratic senators should listen to the women," she says, referring to Murray/DeLauro who want a 1-month stopgap bill instead.
"Democratic senators should listen to the women," she says, referring to Murray/DeLauro who want a 1-month stopgap bill instead.
March 14, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Extraordinary moment — Nancy Pelosi issues a statement calling on Democratic senators to reject the House funding bill, i.e. to defy Chuck Schumer.
"Democratic senators should listen to the women," she says, referring to Murray/DeLauro who want a 1-month stopgap bill instead.
"Democratic senators should listen to the women," she says, referring to Murray/DeLauro who want a 1-month stopgap bill instead.