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Denise Walker
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Solid blue, Pro democracy, empathy is not a toxic trait. Resister. Read banned books. “Let nothing dim the light that shines within.” Maya Angelou Your courage doesn’t need to be loud to be powerful. We are in this together.
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I like to think that some day these people will be held accountable.
Mass federal layoffs. Food aid programs facing imminent disaster. Mounting recession indicators.

But while previous shutdowns saw late-night efforts at the White House to try and break the impasse, Trump administration officials are spending lavishly on self-serving priorities.
What shutdown?
Kristi Noem's new private jets. A shocking White House demolition. The Trump administration's gilded priorities are clear.
www.motherjones.com
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The president of the United States posted a video of him defecating on the American people. Many in my profession normalized it. This is a big reason why we are where we are.
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“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government…”

~Patrick Henry
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We got $20 billion for Argentina though.
Science under siege.
In the 1995 book The Demon Haunted World, Carl Sagan warned that the US was turning its back on science, and that the consequences would be dire.

Near the start of their new book, Michael E. Mann and Peter J. Hotez argue that what the astronomer feared is now coming to pass.
Two top scientists tackle Trump's idiocracy
In a new book, Michael Mann and Peter Hotez examine the risks posed by entrenched beliefs, corporate greed, and regressive governments.
www.motherjones.com
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There is no doubt that vaccines save lives, and that RFK Jr has no business in government. It appears he is trying to promote his fringe theories over fact based science.
On Monday, RFK posted a rambling video on the HHS X account showing a series of graphs and directly stating that vaccines have had minimal impact on human health and saving lives.

Today, in response, we brought our own graphs.

We will not let his dangerous nonsense go unanswered.
“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” Jane Goodall

RIP to a woman I’ve looked up to since I was a child. An inspiration to all.
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Folks — this is not a normal government shutdown.

Let me explain the stakes and how we got here.
RIP to an inspiring and great woman.
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The CDC made reporting listeria optional. Listeria in ready-to-eat pasta has killed four and hospitalized 19.
Trader Joe’s and Walmart Frozen Meals May Have Listeria Linked to Outbreak
www.nytimes.com
We already are full of microplastics, what’s a few million more?
RFK Jr. promised to take on plastic. Now he's part of an administration embracing it.

“The administration’s explicit goal to unleash the fossil fuel industry will also unleash plastic pollution.”
RFK Jr. promised to take on plastic. Now he's part of an administration embracing it.
Plastic is everywhere—including in us.
www.motherjones.com
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It’s gone so quickly from ‘boat people’ to all immigrants. So quickly from ‘I don’t mind if they come here legally and pay taxes’ to ‘actually it’s anyone foreign’. We are living in the ‘first they came for’ poem. All to give the population a scapegoat so the super rich can hoard yet more wealth.
Why was this man confirmed?
Long before he became HHS secretary under Trump, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was laying the groundwork for his war on vaccines.

Now, in mere months, he’s transformed conspiracy theories into action and reshaped American policy.
A non-exhaustive timeline of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s war on vaccines
He's transformed conspiracy theories into action and reshaped American policy in just a few months.
www.motherjones.com
“I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.”
Simone de Beauvoir
The love of money is the root of all evil.
Lowering the standards. He apologized. He doesn’t deserve praise for it. His statement about homeless people was reprehensible.
You do not in fact have to praise the guy who said homeless people should be murdered with lethal injections and then apologized four days later to save his job. Let's get a grip here.
Brian Kilmeade deserves praise for his apology.
“Rather than standing idly by while constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent.” Justice Sotomayor
“We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino.” —Justice Sotomayor.

The Supreme Court, in blessing racial profiling by ICE, adds to its long string of cases supporting the Trump administration’s power grabs.
Supreme Court blesses racial profiling by ICE
The conservative justices don't explain a decision that green lights detaining people for how they look.
www.motherjones.com
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Also creepy, old, rich, white guy,
John Paulson
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@leahlitman.bsky.social said it best: “Political culture imagines that the Supreme Court safeguards the Constitution, when in reality it is chipping away at the constitutional rights of historically marginalized groups."
The Supreme Court is really “just vibes”
In a new book, legal podcaster Leah Litman describes how the GOP and its jurists are "just not that into democracy."
www.motherjones.com