The Ghost of Cricket
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Pro-democracy. Science is good.
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Republican congressman 👇🏽
December 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Republican congressman 👇🏽
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Meanwhile Bari Weiss’ outlet The Free Press is hilariously trying to tie Fuentes to “the progressive left”
December 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Meanwhile Bari Weiss’ outlet The Free Press is hilariously trying to tie Fuentes to “the progressive left”
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The Trump administration has nearly doubled the amount of formaldehyde considered safe to inhale under EPA regulations.
Formaldehyde causes far more cancer than any other chemical in the air.
www.propublica.org/article/epa-...
Formaldehyde causes far more cancer than any other chemical in the air.
www.propublica.org/article/epa-...
Under Former Chemical Industry Insiders, Trump EPA Nearly Doubles Amount of Formaldehyde Considered Safe to Inhale
Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or...
www.propublica.org
December 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM
The Trump administration has nearly doubled the amount of formaldehyde considered safe to inhale under EPA regulations.
Formaldehyde causes far more cancer than any other chemical in the air.
www.propublica.org/article/epa-...
Formaldehyde causes far more cancer than any other chemical in the air.
www.propublica.org/article/epa-...
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In her new media ascent, Erika Kirk whitewashes her husband’s legacy
In her new media ascent, Erika Kirk whitewashes her husband’s legacy
In recent appearances, Charlie Kirk's widow has hardly been asked about Turning Point USA's right wing mission.
www.motherjones.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:58 PM
In her new media ascent, Erika Kirk whitewashes her husband’s legacy
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I wrote about the very weird dyanmics of Erika Kirk's ongoing media tour: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
In her new media ascent, Erika Kirk whitewashes her husband’s legacy
In recent appearances, Charlie Kirk's widow has hardly been asked about Turning Point USA's right wing mission.
www.motherjones.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I wrote about the very weird dyanmics of Erika Kirk's ongoing media tour: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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In DC, Trump officials celebrated the decimation of USAID with a sheet cake.
In South Sudan, USAID budget cuts closed a health clinic in the middle of a cholera outbreak.
Tor Top had to take his sick mother to the hospital, 8 hours away. She died on the way.
www.propublica.org/article/usai...
In South Sudan, USAID budget cuts closed a health clinic in the middle of a cholera outbreak.
Tor Top had to take his sick mother to the hospital, 8 hours away. She died on the way.
www.propublica.org/article/usai...
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
www.propublica.org
December 15, 2025 at 3:09 PM
In DC, Trump officials celebrated the decimation of USAID with a sheet cake.
In South Sudan, USAID budget cuts closed a health clinic in the middle of a cholera outbreak.
Tor Top had to take his sick mother to the hospital, 8 hours away. She died on the way.
www.propublica.org/article/usai...
In South Sudan, USAID budget cuts closed a health clinic in the middle of a cholera outbreak.
Tor Top had to take his sick mother to the hospital, 8 hours away. She died on the way.
www.propublica.org/article/usai...
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As the film world and people of good taste around the world mourn the sudden death of legendary director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer, President Donald Trump jumped to make the apparent double homicide about himself.
Read: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Read: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
December 15, 2025 at 3:33 PM
As the film world and people of good taste around the world mourn the sudden death of legendary director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer, President Donald Trump jumped to make the apparent double homicide about himself.
Read: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Read: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Ohhh— so this is why Trump is being so nice to her. She’s going to help cover-up the Epstein files.
Sickening that the accomplice’s rights would be given priority over the victims. #TrumpEpsteinCoverUp
www.lbc.co.uk/article/ghis...
Sickening that the accomplice’s rights would be given priority over the victims. #TrumpEpsteinCoverUp
www.lbc.co.uk/article/ghis...
December 5, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Ohhh— so this is why Trump is being so nice to her. She’s going to help cover-up the Epstein files.
Sickening that the accomplice’s rights would be given priority over the victims. #TrumpEpsteinCoverUp
www.lbc.co.uk/article/ghis...
Sickening that the accomplice’s rights would be given priority over the victims. #TrumpEpsteinCoverUp
www.lbc.co.uk/article/ghis...
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‘Cultivate resistance’: policy paper lays bare Trump support for Europe’s far right
‘Cultivate resistance’: policy paper lays bare Trump support for Europe’s far right
Text signed by president seems to echo ‘great replacement’ theory, saying Europe faces ‘civilisational erasure’
Donald Trump’s administration has said Europe faces “civilisational erasure” within the next two decades as a result of migration and EU integration, arguing in a policy document that the US must “cultivate resistance” within the continent to “Europe’s current trajectory”.
Billed as “a roadmap to ensure America remains the greatest and most successful nation in human history and the home of freedom on earth”, the US National Security Strategy makes explicit Washington’s support for Europe’s nationalist far-right parties. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:54 PM
‘Cultivate resistance’: policy paper lays bare Trump support for Europe’s far right
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At the end of this clip, Berman had Cotton taking the position (which is de facto the Administration’s position) that the President on his own can declare who he wants to to be terrorists and to kill them under inherent Article II authority.
BERMAN: Would it be legal for police in Arkansas to kill suspected drug dealers on a boat in a lake?
TOM COTTON: The premise of your question is not well-founded
BERMAN: The answer is no. It would not be legal to kill them.
TOM COTTON: The premise of your question is not well-founded
BERMAN: The answer is no. It would not be legal to kill them.
December 5, 2025 at 3:54 PM
At the end of this clip, Berman had Cotton taking the position (which is de facto the Administration’s position) that the President on his own can declare who he wants to to be terrorists and to kill them under inherent Article II authority.
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Today is Trans Day Of Remembrance
#TransLivesMatter #TDoR #TDoR2025 #TransDayOfRemembrance #TransAwarenessWeek #SayTheirNames
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#TransLivesMatter #TDoR #TDoR2025 #TransDayOfRemembrance #TransAwarenessWeek #SayTheirNames
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November 20, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Today is Trans Day Of Remembrance
#TransLivesMatter #TDoR #TDoR2025 #TransDayOfRemembrance #TransAwarenessWeek #SayTheirNames
*** Trigger warning for the following thread: Violence against trans people (especially TWOC) * * *
#TransLivesMatter #TDoR #TDoR2025 #TransDayOfRemembrance #TransAwarenessWeek #SayTheirNames
*** Trigger warning for the following thread: Violence against trans people (especially TWOC) * * *
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Trump says 'seditious' Democrats urging US troops to refuse illegal orders should face death reut.rs/4ibDwIU
Trump says 'seditious' Democrats urging US troops to refuse illegal orders should face death
President Donald Trump on Thursday assailed Democratic lawmakers who told members of the U.S. military they must refuse any illegal orders, calling them traitors who could face execution.
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November 20, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Trump says 'seditious' Democrats urging US troops to refuse illegal orders should face death reut.rs/4ibDwIU
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"Maxwell has received custom meals personally delivered to her cell, after-hours time in a private exercise area, access to a service puppy, and private meetings with visitors arranged by the warden, complete with snacks. Visitors were allowed to bring computers..."
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/d...
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/d...
Democrats reveal whistleblower details of Ghislaine Maxwell prison ‘luxuries’
In a letter to the president, House Democrats say Maxwell’s treatment as she prepares a clemency request makes the convicted sex offender look like a “guest at a Trump hotel.”
www.msnbc.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:26 PM
"Maxwell has received custom meals personally delivered to her cell, after-hours time in a private exercise area, access to a service puppy, and private meetings with visitors arranged by the warden, complete with snacks. Visitors were allowed to bring computers..."
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/d...
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/d...
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"Hundreds of billions of dollars in new breaks for big businesses and investors... contributing hundreds of billions of dollars to the federal deficit, on top of the trillions that the legislation signed by Trump in July is already adding to the deficit..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
"Hundreds of billions of dollars in new breaks for big businesses and investors... contributing hundreds of billions of dollars to the federal deficit, on top of the trillions that the legislation signed by Trump in July is already adding to the deficit..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
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The Trump administration is setting a dangerous precedent.
The world is watching this administration's attempts to limit our constitutional and human rights.
The world is watching this administration's attempts to limit our constitutional and human rights.
US skips human rights review by UN body as countries appeal for its return next year
The United States on Friday snubbed a U.N. body charged with keeping tabs on the human rights records of all its member countries, on orders of the Trump administration — which has turned its back on the Human Rights Council.
apnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:31 PM
The Trump administration is setting a dangerous precedent.
The world is watching this administration's attempts to limit our constitutional and human rights.
The world is watching this administration's attempts to limit our constitutional and human rights.
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This is what's so aggravating — yes, it was not working in extracting a policy concession but it was working in *driving down trump's numbers and provoking GOP infighting* which is what's important if you take Dem rhetoric about the perils of MAGA remotely seriously.
weirdly honest messaging from the breakaway mod/institutionalist leaders who blew up the party strategy
they're explicitly giving up. "It wasn't working so we quit" that's the message
they're explicitly giving up. "It wasn't working so we quit" that's the message
November 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
This is what's so aggravating — yes, it was not working in extracting a policy concession but it was working in *driving down trump's numbers and provoking GOP infighting* which is what's important if you take Dem rhetoric about the perils of MAGA remotely seriously.
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Unfortunately I am here to tell you: it's time to worry about what the Supreme Court is going to do to mail ballots postmarked by election day that arrive after election day, in states across the country. This could be enormous.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
SCOTUS to Hear GOP Lawsuit That Could Radically Restrict Mail Voting
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Unfortunately I am here to tell you: it's time to worry about what the Supreme Court is going to do to mail ballots postmarked by election day that arrive after election day, in states across the country. This could be enormous.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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The President wouldn't last five minutes as an air traffic controller, and after everything they've been through - and the way this administration has treated them from Day One - he has no business shitting on them now.
November 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The President wouldn't last five minutes as an air traffic controller, and after everything they've been through - and the way this administration has treated them from Day One - he has no business shitting on them now.
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The fight for healthcare right now can’t end with ACA subsidies. It HAS TO BE bigger. Too many Americans are suffering over medical debt and spiraling costs.
It should be nothing short of Medicare for All.
It should be nothing short of Medicare for All.
November 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
The fight for healthcare right now can’t end with ACA subsidies. It HAS TO BE bigger. Too many Americans are suffering over medical debt and spiraling costs.
It should be nothing short of Medicare for All.
It should be nothing short of Medicare for All.
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Standing up to a tyrant - who is willing to impose pain as leverage to compel loyalty or acquiescence - is hard. You can convince yourself that yielding stops the pain and brings you back to "normal".
But there is no "normal". Submission emboldens the tyrant. The threat grows.
But there is no "normal". Submission emboldens the tyrant. The threat grows.
November 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Standing up to a tyrant - who is willing to impose pain as leverage to compel loyalty or acquiescence - is hard. You can convince yourself that yielding stops the pain and brings you back to "normal".
But there is no "normal". Submission emboldens the tyrant. The threat grows.
But there is no "normal". Submission emboldens the tyrant. The threat grows.
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TENNESSEE FARMERS: “The tariffs pass down to the consumer… had to take on 2nd & 3rd jobs… 4 blood pressure pills a day…”
Why won’t Republicans fight for them and ask Trump to stop the pain instead of supporting this like @MattForTN Van Epps & @rustygrills & @MarshaBlackburn?
Why won’t Republicans fight for them and ask Trump to stop the pain instead of supporting this like @MattForTN Van Epps & @rustygrills & @MarshaBlackburn?
November 10, 2025 at 5:20 PM
TENNESSEE FARMERS: “The tariffs pass down to the consumer… had to take on 2nd & 3rd jobs… 4 blood pressure pills a day…”
Why won’t Republicans fight for them and ask Trump to stop the pain instead of supporting this like @MattForTN Van Epps & @rustygrills & @MarshaBlackburn?
Why won’t Republicans fight for them and ask Trump to stop the pain instead of supporting this like @MattForTN Van Epps & @rustygrills & @MarshaBlackburn?
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I was tagged in this to see what I could find out on my side by @altcdc.altgov.info. 🧵🧵🧵 I want to first say that the ppl that were working on this worked on the weekend and past 10pm most nights without fucking pay! I am so proud of them!!! Yesterday HFP (human foods program) around 4pm confirmed…
🚨🚨 INFANT FORMULA RECALL 🚨🚨
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Please share widely
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ALERT: Baby Formula
13 cases of infant botulism reported from Aug through Nov 2025 coming in 10 states thus far. Please see web content for specifics on lot numbers and more.
Special shoutout to our friends and colleagues at CDC and FDA who got this out quickly all while not being paid.
13 cases of infant botulism reported from Aug through Nov 2025 coming in 10 states thus far. Please see web content for specifics on lot numbers and more.
Special shoutout to our friends and colleagues at CDC and FDA who got this out quickly all while not being paid.
November 10, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I was tagged in this to see what I could find out on my side by @altcdc.altgov.info. 🧵🧵🧵 I want to first say that the ppl that were working on this worked on the weekend and past 10pm most nights without fucking pay! I am so proud of them!!! Yesterday HFP (human foods program) around 4pm confirmed…