1/ I'm a physician, so I'm following the measles story closely.

And RFK Jr (no surprise =sigh=) is making things worse.

So pardon me if I make a longish 🧵on the subject.

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Thank you Meg Frederick…I agree with you.

WIRED has been doing vital work.

If you’re looking to support good journalism right now, subscriptions are cheap.

“The systems include a vast database called Enterprise Human Resources Integration, which contains dates of birth, Social Security numbers, appraisals, home addresses, pay grades & length of service of gov’t workers…We have no visibility into what they are doing with the computer and data systems”

Dude. I'm Pissed.
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“Inspectors general are charged with rooting out government waste, fraud, abuse and preventing misconduct,” Senator Elizabeth Warren, Democrat of Massachusetts, said in a statement. “President Trump is dismantling checks on his power and paving the way for widespread corruption.”

This is a thread meant to be useful to nerds. Here is Trump's list of revoked Executive Orders. I am about to make a thread with links to all of them. (Why should anyone else have to repeat this work?)

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Welcome to the era of gangster tech regulation

To start things off, corporations got a huge tax break from Trump and Republicans in 2017. Now Republicans want to give them another handout at a cost of $522 billion:

Congress also inexplicably missed a golden opportunity to improve patient care by refusing to include prior authorization reform in the final package – a reform w/ vast bipartisan support. This is an unnecessary gift to the insurance industry at the expense of patients.
#MedSky

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“We should pay attention to how far Trump and Congress go in acquiescing to Musk. It will tell us how quickly they’re working to end our representative system of self-governance and how fiercely this billionaire takeover should be a focus of the opposition.”

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“This is an enormous heist. They’re just backing the truck up to the government in front of all of us. A massive bailout to the crypto world,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on the GOP crypto bill.

Please, y'all repost this 1st one! Likes don't do much.

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John Buss @johnbuss.bsky.social

There’s only one cure that can remove Elon Musk from our body politic — put the parasite out of business. Getting rid of this whiny Afrikaner fascist, the Ultimate Welfare Queen, is easy-peasy — just follow this recipe!

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#ElonMusk #Tesla #SpaceX

The rules of the internet clearly state that when you see Tom Holland’s lip sync battle, you must re-post it.

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