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Believes in 🧬 , facts, & history. Edu in public health & hcare. No quacks, conspiracies, or 4 letter cults starting w/MA. Sports & outdoors enthusiast. YNWA.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Trump is stacking the government with loyalists.

As acting Attorney General, Todd Blanche already gave Trump and his family a lifetime pass to commit tax crimes.

Imagine what he'll do with the full job.

Where the hell is Congress?

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Mike Johnson admits Republicans will cut Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security next year

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

Spencer Pratt losing is the win we all needed this week.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

If Democrats were rigging elections, that orange pedophile wouldn’t be president right now. Be fucking for real.

[Adam Parkhomenko @AdamParkhomenko]

It’s fucking shameful that Trump isn’t confronted on his election lies more often.

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

Trump is too emotional to be president

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

American Psychopath

[Covie @covie_93]

ivanka came out to remind everyone that she's just as corrupt as her father and her brothers.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

How much longer are we going to tolerate the way Trump speaks to female reporters?

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

MAJOR BREAKING: Canada bans Texas cattle over flesh-eating screwworm outbreak.

Remember that Trump/DOGE pushed broad USDA staffing and budget cuts that affected APHIS, which happens to be the the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service within the U.S. Department of Agriculture, responsible for overseeing screwworm in cattle at the federal level.

Thanks Trump for screwing us, you worm....

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

“Right now, CBS News is on fire”

Scott Pelley: “We need adult supervision and at the moment we don’t have it. We have people who’ve been installed in these jobs who through no fault of their own have no experience in television. It’s not their fault, but they don’t know what they’re doing. There’s a subtle political bias that I’ve never seen at 60 Minutes or CBS News before. That is my hope, a return to sanity. A return to honor, a return to courage. We used to have all of those things in abundance and now we don’t. We can save this. It’s possible to land this plane. But right now, CBS News, in my view, is on fire”

[Niall Stanage @NiallStanage]

This is a devastating interview.

Scott Pelley tells the NYT that Bari Weiss directly put a “thumb on the scale” for Trump over the killing of Renee Good.

Here’s his explanation of exactly what happened.

[PBS News @NewsHour]

Scientists across the country are expressing alarm as the Trump administration dismantles another tool for understanding how the planet is changing.

Starting this month, more than 900 deep-sea ocean sensors will be pulled out of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans off the coast of Washington, Oregon, Alaska, North Carolina, and Greenland.

Researchers say these are critical ocean observation tools.

William Brangham (@WmBrangham) explains.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

🚨BREAKING: The American Postal Workers Union (APWU) says it is “deeply alarmed” about the United States Postal Service’s (USPS) new rule created to carry out President Donald Trump’s plans for restricting mail-in voting. https://t.co/ZHYGFbkSCC

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is really stupid, and it’s not getting enough attention.

The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water, equipment taxpayers already bought, built, and sank into the deep ocean.

And they are doing it right when the oceans are behaving in ways that alarm the scientists who study them.

Record-breaking temperatures.

A system of Atlantic currents that may be lurching toward collapse.

The response?

Yank out the instruments and walk away.

That is not budgeting. That is smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire and calling it efficiency.

For what? The Trump administration dressed it up as a “nimbler approach” and “smart lifecycle management,” which is fancy nonsense for “we shut it off and hoped nobody would ask why.” There is no return-on-investment analysis. They cannot show taxpayers save a dime, because the gear is already paid for and the science it produces protects real money and real lives.

The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident.

That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first.
https://t.co/MzE4AW1QBv

[Democrats @TheDemocrats]

The bad moment in question:

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

A message for CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss and new owner David Ellison.

[Blue Georgia @BlueGeorgia]

Today, Jon Ossoff offered an amendment to stop insurance companies from denying or delaying medically necessary care.

Republicans blocked it.

[Democrats @TheDemocrats]

Of the 97, 14 were charged with sex crimes, including child molestation and possession of child pornography.

These are the monsters Trump released back onto our streets.

[Hey, Dave! @davegreenidge57]

In less than 18 months, MAGA has managed to bring back measles. They defunded the Ebola monitoring program that likely resulted in an what is an emergent pandemic. Now, they’ve allowed the food supply to be contaminated by a deadly parasite not seen in the U.S. since 1966.