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White House cancels program which reduced sudden infant deaths
NIH cancels participation in Safe to Sleep campaign that decreased infant deaths. Exclusive via Ismael M. Belkoura for @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2025/04/30/n...
NIH cancels participation in Safe to Sleep campaign that decreased infant deaths
NIH has cancelled its participation in Safe to Sleep, a 30-year campaign to prevent babies from dying in their sleep
www.statnews.com
April 30, 2025 at 11:58 PM
White House cancels program which reduced sudden infant deaths
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"'What I’ve seen with Hegseth – never in my life have I ever seen this,' the former senior official said of the regular presence of the secretary’s wife..."
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Prominent role of Pete Hegseth’s wife at Pentagon draws scrutiny | CNN Politics
News over the weekend that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s wife Jennifer was included in a second group chat where he shared sensitive military operations details has focused attention on the promine...
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April 24, 2025 at 6:38 PM
"'What I’ve seen with Hegseth – never in my life have I ever seen this,' the former senior official said of the regular presence of the secretary’s wife..."
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A lot of very distinguished people who swore an oath to preserve the Constitution are watching it get cut to pieces.
April 24, 2025 at 11:54 AM
A lot of very distinguished people who swore an oath to preserve the Constitution are watching it get cut to pieces.
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i think it's great that this blubbering dilettante is responsible for maintaining the nation's most critical transportation infrastructure
Duffy on the shortage of air traffic controllers: "We have too many controllers that retire after 25 years of service. And so we have to look and go, is this a national security issue? Is this a safety issue? And should these air traffic controllers be retiring after 25 years of service?"
April 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
i think it's great that this blubbering dilettante is responsible for maintaining the nation's most critical transportation infrastructure
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meanwhile, prominent pundits continue to deny that there the administration adheres to a segregationist ideology
Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.
Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards
Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 17, 2025 at 11:57 AM
meanwhile, prominent pundits continue to deny that there the administration adheres to a segregationist ideology
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Former chair of the Tennessee Libertarian Party 👇🏽
April 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Former chair of the Tennessee Libertarian Party 👇🏽
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JUST IN: Judge finds 'probable cause' to hold U.S. in contempt over Alien Enemies Act deportations
Judge: 'Probable cause' to hold U.S. in contempt over Alien Enemies Act deportations
The government sent several planeloads of alleged gang members to El Salvador, including 137 people under the act, the White House said at the time.
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April 16, 2025 at 4:43 PM
JUST IN: Judge finds 'probable cause' to hold U.S. in contempt over Alien Enemies Act deportations
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Two American Airlines jets, including one carrying at least six members of Congress from New York and New Jersey, clipped wings on a taxiway at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington on Thursday, officials said.
Plane Carrying 6 Members of Congress Is Clipped at Reagan Airport
Two American Airlines jets clipped wings on a taxiway, officials said. Representative Grace Meng said that, in 10 years of flying to and from Washington, “This has never happened to me.”
www.nytimes.com
April 10, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Two American Airlines jets, including one carrying at least six members of Congress from New York and New Jersey, clipped wings on a taxiway at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington on Thursday, officials said.
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In a functioning democracy, these comments alone would be grounds for impeachment.
Trump brags about his shakedown of major law firms: "We have a lot of law firms that have paid me a lot of money... they paid $100m on average... hopefully I won't need that many legal fees. I may. Who knows? After it ends. After I leave maybe I'll need it, but if I do it won't be very pleasant."
April 10, 2025 at 8:48 PM
In a functioning democracy, these comments alone would be grounds for impeachment.
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We found the voter fraud!!!!!
NEWS
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard signed a sworn declaration stating that she was a resident of the State of Texas.
But then she voted in Hawaii.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard signed a sworn declaration stating that she was a resident of the State of Texas.
But then she voted in Hawaii.
Tulsi Gabbard declared her residency in Texas. Then she voted in Hawaii | CNN Politics
Election law experts said Gabbard’s vote, coupled with her claiming a homestead tax break on her Texas home, raises questions about whether she properly cast her ballot and illustrates the complexity ...
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April 9, 2025 at 8:22 PM
We found the voter fraud!!!!!
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WATCH: “And they haven’t gotten a single permit.”
Rep. @justinjpearson.bsky.social says Elon Musk’s XAI supercomputer is operating 35 gas turbines in MEMPHIS without a permit —
asks folks to speak up and show up for an environmental town hall Saturday.
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Rep. @justinjpearson.bsky.social says Elon Musk’s XAI supercomputer is operating 35 gas turbines in MEMPHIS without a permit —
asks folks to speak up and show up for an environmental town hall Saturday.
www.instagram.com/reel/DIPomGj...
April 10, 2025 at 4:22 AM
WATCH: “And they haven’t gotten a single permit.”
Rep. @justinjpearson.bsky.social says Elon Musk’s XAI supercomputer is operating 35 gas turbines in MEMPHIS without a permit —
asks folks to speak up and show up for an environmental town hall Saturday.
www.instagram.com/reel/DIPomGj...
Rep. @justinjpearson.bsky.social says Elon Musk’s XAI supercomputer is operating 35 gas turbines in MEMPHIS without a permit —
asks folks to speak up and show up for an environmental town hall Saturday.
www.instagram.com/reel/DIPomGj...
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Only a mentally ill person would think they can be a draft dodger, consistently insult veterans, active duty military, and dead heroes, and think they deserve to have a military parade in their own honor…
Just sick!
Just sick!
April 9, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Only a mentally ill person would think they can be a draft dodger, consistently insult veterans, active duty military, and dead heroes, and think they deserve to have a military parade in their own honor…
Just sick!
Just sick!
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From a source at NIH:
“Right now NIH’s ability to buy things is dead. Nearly all people with the power to make an order — purchasing people — have been removed.
The NIH hospital can’t buy medicines, the labs can’t buy petri dishes. X-Ray machine breaks? Too bad.
Everything is stopped”
“Right now NIH’s ability to buy things is dead. Nearly all people with the power to make an order — purchasing people — have been removed.
The NIH hospital can’t buy medicines, the labs can’t buy petri dishes. X-Ray machine breaks? Too bad.
Everything is stopped”
April 4, 2025 at 12:10 PM
From a source at NIH:
“Right now NIH’s ability to buy things is dead. Nearly all people with the power to make an order — purchasing people — have been removed.
The NIH hospital can’t buy medicines, the labs can’t buy petri dishes. X-Ray machine breaks? Too bad.
Everything is stopped”
“Right now NIH’s ability to buy things is dead. Nearly all people with the power to make an order — purchasing people — have been removed.
The NIH hospital can’t buy medicines, the labs can’t buy petri dishes. X-Ray machine breaks? Too bad.
Everything is stopped”
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Other universities can’t financially afford to do something like this necessarily but since Harvard has a massive endowment that could power the sun for a year if it wanted it to, wouldn’t this be the kind of moment to open up those ungodly reserves in the name of saying “fine. go ahead”
Here’s the email that Harvard University’s president, Alan Garber, sent to members of the Harvard community in response to this news.
April 1, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Other universities can’t financially afford to do something like this necessarily but since Harvard has a massive endowment that could power the sun for a year if it wanted it to, wouldn’t this be the kind of moment to open up those ungodly reserves in the name of saying “fine. go ahead”
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Schools with barely any endowment are standing up for DEI, so this is disappointing from an obscenely wealthy school.
April 1, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Schools with barely any endowment are standing up for DEI, so this is disappointing from an obscenely wealthy school.
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Meanwhile, they're pausing enforcement on foreign bribery.
Attorney General Pam Bondi says Justice Department is seeking a *20 year* prison sentence for 24 year old Colorado man accused of vandalizing a Tesla dealership
April 1, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Meanwhile, they're pausing enforcement on foreign bribery.
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African Americans didn't lose or squander wealth on the ongoing road from enslavement to equality. Instead, each time the American economy changed, agents of that change dispossessed, disinherited, or decapitalized Black people.🙏 @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social
www.americaamerica.news/p/plundering...
www.americaamerica.news/p/plundering...
Plundering Black America
An excerpt from an important new book chronicling the history of the racial wealth gap
www.americaamerica.news
March 31, 2025 at 5:05 PM
African Americans didn't lose or squander wealth on the ongoing road from enslavement to equality. Instead, each time the American economy changed, agents of that change dispossessed, disinherited, or decapitalized Black people.🙏 @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social
www.americaamerica.news/p/plundering...
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"Health workers have never been a target. And yet we’re here today digging up a mass grave of first responders and paramedics. Seven days ago, Civil Defense and PRCS ambulances arrived at the scene. They were hit, they were struck. Their bodies were gathered and buried in this mass grave.”
April 1, 2025 at 12:49 AM
"Health workers have never been a target. And yet we’re here today digging up a mass grave of first responders and paramedics. Seven days ago, Civil Defense and PRCS ambulances arrived at the scene. They were hit, they were struck. Their bodies were gathered and buried in this mass grave.”
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"Their vehicles, their ambulances, U.N. vehicles, Civil Defense vehicles are crushed and dumped, covered in sand next to us. It’s absolute horror what has happened here."
April 1, 2025 at 12:50 AM
"Their vehicles, their ambulances, U.N. vehicles, Civil Defense vehicles are crushed and dumped, covered in sand next to us. It’s absolute horror what has happened here."
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One of the defining feelings in American life, for decades now, is elites doing plainly criminal shit and nothing at all happening as a result. It is deranging in a way that virtually nothing else is. Media fixates on perceived street lawlessness but shit like this matters much more in my opinion.
Dereliction of responsibility by the court. It is so flagrantly illegal. www.huffpost.com/entry/us-wis...
Wisconsin Appeals Court Won't Stop Musk's $1 Million Payments To Voters After AG Sues
A Wisconsin appellate court has denied the state Democratic attorney general’s request to stop billionaire Elon Musk from handing over $1 million checks to two voters at a rally planned for Sunday, ju...
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March 30, 2025 at 11:14 PM
One of the defining feelings in American life, for decades now, is elites doing plainly criminal shit and nothing at all happening as a result. It is deranging in a way that virtually nothing else is. Media fixates on perceived street lawlessness but shit like this matters much more in my opinion.
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As I wrote, elite lawlessness also proves out the basic premise of Trumpism, which is that all of governance is finally just rich creeps doing whatever they want, whenever they want; the degeneracy of the people doing it, and what they do, is a self-perpetuating thing. defector.com/kingdom-of-t...
Kingdom Of The Biters | Defector
The summer after I got married, one of my bosses bit me on the arm. I had a lot of jobs that summer, and a lot of bosses; at the time, I was recreating the sort of interchangeable, poorly paid jobs I’...
defector.com
March 30, 2025 at 11:32 PM
As I wrote, elite lawlessness also proves out the basic premise of Trumpism, which is that all of governance is finally just rich creeps doing whatever they want, whenever they want; the degeneracy of the people doing it, and what they do, is a self-perpetuating thing. defector.com/kingdom-of-t...
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feel like there's a precedent for this in mississippi
A sheriff in Mississippi, the highest paid and most powerful public figure in his county, staffed his mother’s commercial chicken farm with inmates from the local jail and used taxpayer-purchased equipment to improve it, an investigation by The New York Times and Mississippi Today found.
Mississippi Sheriff Used Inmate Labor for Family Farm
In Mississippi, incarcerated trusties cleaned chicken houses, fixed cars and installed flooring for the benefit of a local sheriff and his associates, a new investigation found.
www.nytimes.com
April 1, 2025 at 12:56 AM
feel like there's a precedent for this in mississippi