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Mamihlapinatapai.

[Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @PeterHotez]

There was no misuse: Covid mRNA vaccines saved 3.2 million American lives during the pandemic. Instead of 1.2 million Americans dying from Covid it would have been 4.4 million deaths. As it is 200,000-300,000 Americans died needlessly bc they refused Covid vaccines 2021-22. They were victims of a terrible disinformation campaign as detailed in our recent book #ScienceUnderSiege @MichaelEMann @PeterHotez

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Trump is suspending exercises with South Korea because he says he has a “really good relationship” with Kim Jong-un.

Meanwhile, North Korea has nuclear weapons, threatens our allies, supplies Russia’s war against Ukraine, and has sent troops to fight alongside Putin.

This is how American alliances get destroyed — and how you convince countries like South Korea and Japan that they may need nuclear weapons of their own.

The damage from this could last generations.

[Scott Dworkin @funder]

The Big Ugly Bill blocks minimum staffing standards at nursing homes.

Not "delays." Blocks.

So the next time your grandma waits 40 minutes for someone to help her to the bathroom, you know exactly who arranged that.

#RepublicansCutMedicare

[PACO @PacoOnPause]

I think that every parent should be aware of this information.

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

It's strange. No photos of Mitch McConnell leaving the rehab center. None of him arriving at the departure airport. None of him at the arrival airport. None of him arriving at his Kentucky home. None whatsoever.

Just a statement and reporters giving a quick salute.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

🚨🚨💥NEW VACCINE AND AUTISM PAPER OUT 💥🚨🚨

Its one of the BIGGEST EVER

2.5 MILLION KIDS STUDIED

And it's AMERICAN 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

It shows....NO LINK BETWEEN MMR VACCINE AND AUTISM

Like every other study this size

So MMR doesn't cause autism

We

Already

Knew

It

Didn't

[Jerome Adams @JeromeAdamsMD]

Funny how the “constitutional rights vs. public health” debate forgets its own origin story.

In 1777 George Washington ordered the mass inoculation of the Continental Army against smallpox - the first large-scale mandatory immunization in American history -because the disease was killing far more soldiers than the British! 🤯

Without that prioritization of collective survival over individual choice, there almost certainly would be no United States and no Constitution. 🤔

[DK.Murph @shantyire]

@BulwarkOnline

[charlos @loscharlos]

If the NFL is implementing technology to reduce airborne transmission, don’t you think we all deserve this technology?

Maybe it’s not “just a cold”?

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Vibrio vulnificus — a deadly, flesh-eating bacteria with a staggering 20% mortality rate — is now being detected in multiple U.S. waterways.

And here’s the part you’re not supposed to ignore: this comes after the Trump administration dismantled critical water monitoring systems and gutted CDC programs that were tracking this very threat.

When you defund science and silence public health experts, Americans pay the price.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

(🚨) So to be very clear, FIFA rules do *not* allow the USMNT to appeal the Balogun red card *on the basis of claiming the referee erred*.

But.

Under the circumstances, the USMNT should appeal on the very different grounds ESPN just reported on: misapplication of VAR protocols.

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

Increased scrutiny of Supreme Court finances could have a chilling effect on future Justices' ability to take free luxury vacations with right-wing billionaires.

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

Critics of the Supreme Court say that today's Slaughter ruling will give future presidents far too much power. They're wrong—the court will reverse itself as soon as there's a Democrat in the White House.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.
George Orwell, 1984

[Craig Unger @craigunger]

1/ Last month I told a room of Baltic intelligence officers and diplomats that Donald Trump is an asset of Russian intelligence. Not one of them blinked. "Of course," they said. Ho hum. But in America, saying it out loud is still taboo. Why? 🧵

[Micah Erfan @micah_erfan]

Vance Boelter, the man who MURDERED Melissa Hortman, just confessed it all.

Talking to a right wing publication, he explained that he shot Melissa and other Democrats that night because of their support of mRNA vaccines.

Right wing misinformation is killing people.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Not getting enough attention: the one-page order from Todd Blanche to wipe out every audit of Donald Trump.

Many experts believe it’s illegal, and here’s why.

Federal law prohibits the President or his aides from directing or halting an IRS audit. Agents who carry out a politically motivated audit, or stop one at the direction of the White House, can face prison time. That is the statute on the books.

Now look at what just happened.

Todd Blanche, the Acting Attorney General and Donald Trump’s former personal criminal defense lawyer, signed a one-page order demanding the IRS drop every existing audit of Trump, his family, and their “affiliates.” One of those audits reportedly could have cost Trump more than $100 million.

The Treasury Department’s top lawyer resigned over it.

The acting top IRS lawyer had to recuse himself because he previously represented Trump in his tax cases.

There is no precedent for an Attorney General ordering an end to audits of a group of taxpayers. Many experts say the Attorney General has no authority to do this.

So we have a likely illegal order, signed by the President’s former lawyer, on behalf of the President, protecting the President. And the only people with jurisdiction to investigate it work for the President.

I will fight this with every tool I have.

[Jess Margera @jessmargera]

Elon musk is about to get charged in France for election rigging.. yeah. Election rigging… you don’t think… nahhhh

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

I’m old enough to remember when Fox News threw tantrums and Republicans called for endless hearings when Joe Biden received a $40,000 loan repayment check from his brother.

Trump has made over $4 billion from various grifts and shady deals, from just his second term.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson didn't invoke Weimar Germany as a rhetorical flourish. She cited a specific scholar by name in a footnote: Ernst Fraenkel, a Jewish labor lawyer who observed the Nazi legal system from the inside, smuggled his manuscript out of Berlin in 1938, and published "The Dual State" at the University of Chicago in 1941.

Fraenkel's framework is precise. The Nazis didn't immediately collapse Germany's legal system. They left courts functioning - particularly in contracts and economic matters - while placing Jews and political enemies in a separate lawless zone where no legal protection applied. Most Germans lived in the law-bound "normative state." The targeted lived in the "prerogative state." The facade of normalcy was the mechanism of control.

Jackson invoked Fraenkel to name what the court's Republican majority is doing in real time. In 21 consecutive shadow docket cases, the six conservative justices have let Trump opt out of the law - often with no explanation given at all. They blessed ICE racial profiling without citing a single legal justification. They allowed Trump to ignore $4 billion in congressionally appropriated foreign aid. They stripped lower courts of the ability to issue universal relief, meaning only those with resources to file individual lawsuits get protection from illegal presidential action.

Constitutional law professor Evan Bernick put it plainly: "The court is adjusting the law to make place for arbitrary power."

Jackson's dissent is not hyperbole. A footnote citing a 1941 manuscript about Nazi legal architecture is a Supreme Court justice blowing the cover on what her colleagues are building.