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Zanna
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Proud, worried PNW Dem
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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.

Digital billboard in West Texas
March 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Thank you Meg Frederick…I agree with you.
February 24, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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WIRED has been doing vital work.

If you’re looking to support good journalism right now, subscriptions are cheap.
February 3, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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“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”
January 31, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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What The F***?!
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January 26, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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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.”
Trump Fires 17 Inspectors General in Late-Night Purge
The internal government watchdogs were believed to have been dismissed at several major agencies, though the Justice Department’s was not said to have been among them.
www.nytimes.com
January 25, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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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...
Initial Rescissions Of Harmful Executive Orders And Actions – The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as
www.whitehouse.gov
January 21, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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Welcome to the era of gangster tech regulation
Welcome to the era of gangster tech regulation
Trump has offered tech a way to buy itself out of consequences.
buff.ly
January 20, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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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:
January 17, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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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
AMA: Congress fails patients and physicians
The AMA faulted Congress for allowing cuts in Medicare reimbursement to go into effect on Jan. 1.
www.ama-assn.org
December 28, 2024 at 1:51 PM
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Plz repost this 1st one!

Daily🧵of editorial cartoons: when you get to last one, click on Continue Thread.

If you save a cartoon for reposting, keep caption w/ artist's name & handle.

Previous 🧵s under Feeds tab of my profile.

🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄

Andy Marlette creators.com
December 20, 2024 at 3:03 PM
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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.”

www.americaamerica.news/p/what-elon-...
What Elon Musk's Billions Have Bought
Unelected, the world's richest man is flaunting his new power and proximity to Trump
www.americaamerica.news
December 9, 2024 at 1:51 PM
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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.
December 7, 2024 at 1:34 AM
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Please, y'all repost this 1st one! Likes don't do much.

Daily🧵of editorial cartoons: when you get to last one, click on Continue Thread.

If you save a cartoon for reposting, keep caption w/ artist's name & handle.

Previous 🧵s under Feeds tab of my profile.

John Buss @johnbuss.bsky.social
December 7, 2024 at 3:29 PM
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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!

▶️ www.gregpalast.com/elon-musk-ba...

#ElonMusk #Tesla #SpaceX
How to put Welfare Queen Elon Musk out of Business
There’s only one cure that can remove this parasite from our body politic — put Elon Musk out of business.
www.gregpalast.com
December 2, 2024 at 4:57 PM
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The rules of the internet clearly state that when you see Tom Holland’s lip sync battle, you must re-post it.
November 27, 2024 at 4:19 AM
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Daily🧵of editorial cartoons: when you get to the last one you see, click on "Continue Thread" to open up the next batch. Rinse, repeat.

If you save a cartoon for reposting, save the caption w/ artist's name & handle.

Jack Ohman @jackohman.bsky.social
November 20, 2024 at 4:33 PM
I am happy to be here and that there’s an alternative to Twitter
November 10, 2024 at 5:55 PM