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RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM.

They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone.

www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
RFK Jr.'s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research
NIAID's Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s departm...
www.wired.com
April 30, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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When a @reuters.com drone flew over the Bluebonnet Detention Facility in Texas—where Venezuelans at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling are held—detainees used their bodies to form a message:

SOS

www.reuters.com/world/americ...
SOS: Migrants held in Texas fear notorious El Salvador prison
Venezuelan detainees in Texas fear the Trump administration will send them to El Salvador's notorious CECOT maximum security prison.
www.reuters.com
April 30, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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SCOOP:

HHS has been gutted leaving critical health systems in danger of collapsing overnight. And no one's in charge:

“Those in charge are AWOL. I’m doing nothing productive. This ship has no captain whatsoever, and I’m playing in the band while the Titanic sinks.”

www.wired.com/story/depart...
HHS Systems Are in Danger of Collapsing, Workers Say
The purging of IT and cybersecurity staff at the Department of Health and Human Services could threaten the systems used by the agency’s staff and the safety of critical health data.
www.wired.com
April 15, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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We must all stand as a united front against the kidnapping and illegal detention of Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador.

Senator, I am willing to join you and help Organize other members of the House to do the same. @vanhollen.senate.gov
Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen is demanding a meeting with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele over the detention of Kilmar Abrego Garcia and says he’ll go to El Salvador himself if the Marylander isn’t returned.
April 15, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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Hannah Arendt from her grave:
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
April 9, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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This is hugely horrifying.
NEW: Yesterday, the Justice Department sent armed marshals to warn former U.S. pardon attorney Liz Oyer not to disclose internal DOJ information during her Senate testimony.

Today, Oyer is speaking out to condemn the DOJ’s actions and defend the rule of law.
April 8, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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I was having dark doubts about what the Hands Off rallies actually accomplished. Jamie made me feel better.
This is exactly right. Watch @raskin.house.gov explain how we can stop Trump’s coup:
April 8, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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They’re going to keep pushing until something stops them.
April 8, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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The BEST sign ever!! Tune stuck in my head now!! Thank you @maddow.msnbc.com for airing this!
April 8, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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The Fourth Circuit is famously succinct. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
April 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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It’s the birthday of Billie Holiday, a survivor of abuse & an enemy of the state who was targeted by the FBI through her use of narcotics for bringing lynching to light, & died handcuffed to her hospital bed.
April 7, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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This seems like a bad idea
April 5, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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The whole point is to ruin farms…a fire sale on farmland that can be sold to corporate farms who can pollute the water and air with impunity.

There will be no one left in these communities to demand these corporations be regulated or pay taxes.
Any farmers out there that can speak to whether they can get info for planting season ? Or loans to help them get through this ?

Are federal offices open to even process loan requests ?
April 3, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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April 3, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Bill Burr is a national treasure 🎯!

"You journalists need to get your balls back"
April 3, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Two of FDA’s top cancer regulators to depart, heightening worries about drug reviews www.statnews.com/2025/03/27/f... via @statnews.com
Two of FDA’s top cancer regulators to depart, heightening worries about drug reviews
Deputy directors at the FDA center that oversees the regulation of cancer drugs plan to leave, adding to a flood of top talent in recent months.
www.statnews.com
March 29, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Clearly they meant to invite “Jeff Goldblum” to the Houthi Group Chat…
a man wearing glasses and a brown jacket sits on a couch with a spotify logo in the background
ALT: a man wearing glasses and a brown jacket sits on a couch with a spotify logo in the background
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March 25, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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It is a sad day for the legal industry. Paul Weiss, didn't just bend a knee, it set a new standard for shameful capitulation. This is a stain on the firm, every one of its partners, and the entire legal profession.
March 20, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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"It's so bizarre to me how obsessed you are with the federal government," sneered the woman to the people who elected her to be their voice in the federal government.
Holy shit. Republican Harriet Hagemen got torn apart at a town hall in Wyoming last night. In a state that voted for Trump by 46 points.

She tried defending DOGE and it went as well as you’d imagine.

“Deport Elon, Deport Elon!”

Watch to the end…
March 20, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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I wrote about the Tampa Bay Young Republicans inviting Andrew Tate to speak and the relationship between rape and the authoritarian right. Read at @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/guys-win-and...
Guys Win: Andrew Tate, Rape Politics, and the Authoritarian Right
Misogyny is a preeminent feature of authoritarian politics.
www.liberalcurrents.com
March 19, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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🚨NEW: This is horrific.

Musk & DOGE closed the specialist unit at Yale tracking down Ukrainian children kidnapped & stolen by Russia.

HOWEVER, it now emerges the entire database may have been DELETED, destroying years of research needed to find missing children.

If so, there should be arrests.
March 18, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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A simple, one-paragraph summary of 21st century Democratic Party
March 17, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.

We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.

They own what happens next.
March 14, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Does anyone know when the CR vote is happening?
March 14, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Indeed.
March 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM