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It's hard to overstate how destructive the reflexive "this is a distraction!" stuff that politicians and commentators and people are always peddling.

Everything is happening all at once. That's how authoritarianism works. If you can't navigate and synthesize this, you're not meeting the moment.
June 9, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Another quote from the MAHA Report that should set off alarm bells all over the U.S.:

“Unlike other pharmaceutical products, vaccines are unique in that all 50 states enforce some form of vaccine mandate for public school enrollment”.

This is because they PROTECT CHILDREN FROM CONTAGIOUS DISEASE.
May 22, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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nothing good has ever come from presenting disabled and sick people as a literal threat to the nation
Mehmet Oz just said on Fox News that:

“It is your patriotic duty to be as healthy as you can”.
May 9, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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"I didn't vote for" you did. Sorry. You did. Should have listened to the woke libtards instead of your roided out imaginary friends who told you kids were pooping in kitty litter at school
April 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Everyone who works for PRAMS (the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System) at CDC was terminated today. That appears to be the end of a critical program which monitored infant and maternal health nationwide across pregnancy, childbirth & postpartum. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/prams...
PRAMS Shuttered for Good
In the first weeks of the administration I wrote a number of...
talkingpointsmemo.com
April 1, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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The annual State Department human rights report “will remove all sections covering the rights of women, LGBTQ+ people, and the disabled as well as sections dedicated to discrimination against indigenous people and corruption in government.”

www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/03/marc...
Marco Rubio removes LGBTQ+ people & women from annual human rights report - LGBTQ Nation
He also removed sections on women, people with disabilities, and government corruption.
www.lgbtqnation.com
March 20, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
March 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Not pro-life
February 27, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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No, I will not read “your substack.”

Stop calling your written work by a name that is synonymous with “funds nazi speech.”

Because what I read when you say “check out my substack” is “check out how I’m helping fund Nazi speech!”

No. I will not do that.
January 31, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.

If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
February 17, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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The NIH funding cut puts at risk about 600 current and ongoing clinical trials at Hopkins. That includes open clinical trials in cancer, pediatrics and children’s health, heart and vascular studies and the aging brain.
Johns Hopkins sues federal government over NIH funds
Johns Hopkins University joined several universities in a lawsuit on Monday evening suing the federal government over NIH funding.
buff.ly
February 14, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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the idea that these tech guys are opposed to "government waste" is so completely fucking ridiculous. they feast on government waste. DOD budgets are a bloated mess. the pentagon has failed 7 straight audits. the big beneficiaries are tech companies providing defense services.
February 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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They were lied to, but with, like, the LEAST amount of effort or credibility. If you believed a guy screaming "They're eating the cats!" that's on you.
February 13, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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There’s a whole portion of the country that seems willing to explore the idea that Auschwitz might have been have been okay if it was done ironically.
Father Calvin Robinson finished his remarks at the National Pro-Life Summit by throwing an Elon Musk salute, much to the delight of the crowd.
January 29, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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“i got the cvs app that lets me unlock the plexiglass for soap so i don’t have to bother the cop who works there anymore but honestly i think *you’re* being a little hysterical about all of this.”

“yeah, well even the bulwark admitted my uterus isn’t overly uppity. eat a sock of loose shit.”
January 29, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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We wanted to understand the advances that make DeepSeek such a powerful AI tool. So we talked to three Tesla owners at a Panda Express in Cherry Hill.
January 29, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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you'll see a lot of this photoshopped bullshit, especially from resist grifters. to reinforce assumptions you may prefer about democrats' losses being the fault of: latinos, muslims, trans people, black men, marxists, &c.

the election was largely the result of cishet white christians voting trump.🧵
January 28, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Here I am, a factory worker enjoying his lunch in the North End of Boston on January 15, 1919. I’ve survived the influenza pandemic, I’m feeling good about life, and I’ve never been more confident I will not be swallowed up by a flood of liquid sugarcane extract
January 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Terrible week to give a shit
January 25, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.
January 24, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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I finally stopped using Amazon a few months ago, and it's been so much easier than I imagined
Hey while megaretailers profiting one of the richest men in world are out here doing this shit www.advocate.com/news/amazon-...

maybe it's a fun time to switch to @librofm.bsky.social for audiobooks. Select the indie bookstore you'd like to support, listen away. Comp prices to aforementioned jerks
Amazon removes 'equity for Black people' and 'LGBTQ+ rights' from company policies
Amazon has quietly removed protections for Black and LGBTQ+ workers from its company policies.
www.advocate.com
January 24, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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I’m Thea Colman, BabyCocktails on Ravelry and in my pattern design business. If you already know me, you won’t be surprised that I’m donating all the proceeds from any self pub pattern sales on Rav or from my website (BabyCocktails.com) to the ACLU until this Sat at midnight EST.
BabyCocktails
BabyCocktails.com
January 21, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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I guess the question is how long Republicans can keep convincing people that their lives suck because a trans kid is playing sports or Ohio has a black person or women are allowed to talk or whatever
January 17, 2025 at 6:34 AM