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So the feds ARE NOT considering an mRNA vaccine for the flu, which could save countless lives, but ARE backing research into whether horse dewormer can cure cancer, because the right views vaccines as elite and ivermectin as populist.

Cool.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
FDA won’t review Moderna application for first mRNA-based flu vaccine
The decision, which shocked company officials, comes as the FDA says it will take a stricter approach to federal vaccine approvals.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:24 AM
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This is what we’re doing to people. We are the bad guys.
February 9, 2026 at 11:48 AM
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Lawyer people: A bunch of the people DOJ is prosecuting for alleged assault in MN are being prosecuted by brand spanking new Jags, John Arboleda and Michael Hakes-Rodriguez. What precedent is there for that?

@stevevladeck.bsky.social @moedavis.bsky.social

emptywheel.net/blood-spatte...
Blood Spatters and Newbie JAG Officers - emptywheel
Pam Bondi appears more interested in rolling out one after another flimsy criminal charge as trophies than actually proving any of the cases she has charged in Minnesota, all while covering up Renee G...
emptywheel.net
February 7, 2026 at 7:49 PM
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.
February 5, 2026 at 2:48 AM
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Yet more pointless, despicable cultural vandalism of public property by Republicans in their all-out war on the very idea of general knowledge
The CIA World Factbook, a reliable source of information about the countries of the world, has been publicly available since 1997. It is now going away.

Please consider supporting @wikipedia.org and @ourworldindata.org. The world desperately needs trustworthy data.

www.cia.gov/stories/stor...
February 4, 2026 at 10:56 PM
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In less than a week the Kennedy Center has effectively closed and our local DC paper has been gutted, both by billionaires.

I don’t think immigrants are our problem in this country.
February 4, 2026 at 5:38 PM
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the Bring Back Shame Popular Front is expanding
"Since prison for Epstein’s fellow abusers gets unlikelier over time, America’s deeper question is whether it can restore a culture of shame." - marvellous, marvellous column by @edwardluce.bsky.social:
The Epstein rot goes deep
America must now ask itself if it can restore a culture of shame
www.ft.com
February 3, 2026 at 2:23 PM
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IF YOU ARE A LAWYER AND ARE INTERESTED IN BEING AN AUSA DM ME!
January 31, 2026 at 10:38 PM
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Epstein is the most garish and harrowing manifestation of this but oligarchy makes life miserable in a thousand other ways. A core point of democracy is that no one should have so much power that they can make themselves everybody's problem. We should have a political party that believes that
The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll
January 31, 2026 at 9:55 PM
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Great crowd today at the @progressivemass.bsky.social annual meeting! #mapoli
January 31, 2026 at 11:33 PM
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Absolute amateur hour at DOJ; they didn’t even respond to a “hey you forgot to attach the thing” request.
January 31, 2026 at 10:26 PM
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New survey from Pew 🧵

Trump's approval is down to 37. He's 24 points underwater.

Only 27% of Americans support most/all of Trump's policies.

By two-to-one margins, Americans say the Trump administration has made their life worse, not better.
January 30, 2026 at 1:48 PM
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It’s the latest in a growing number of protest incidents that have turned violent. trib.al/NgqCJgV
Car With Trump Flag Rams High School Student Protesting Against ICE
The student was taken to a hospital for her injuries.
trib.al
January 30, 2026 at 11:21 PM
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Deportations themselves are big business. It requires a fleet of planes, and they’re virtually all owned by private air charter services who look the other way when people are treated like cattle on their planes.

Read @gbrockell.bsky.social on the prolonged shackling of people being deported.
These Omni ICE trips include the removal of dozens migrants to Ghana, a country they have never been to, and the transfer deportation of legal asylum seekers back to Russia and Iran, via Omni flights to Egypt, Qatar and Kuwait.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
ICE Deportation Flights Are Getting Longer and Crueler
A private equity-owned airline profits off Trump’s migrant crackdown.
www.motherjones.com
January 30, 2026 at 11:26 PM
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“When in doubt,” Catherine O’Hara learned, the secret was to “play insane.”

O’Hara, the actress and comedian who delivered deliciously silly performances, died Friday after a brief illness. She was 71. https://wapo.st/3NUTQCT
January 30, 2026 at 11:30 PM
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Elon Musk last year: "Epstein tried to get me to go to his island and I REFUSED"

Musk to Epstein emails:
• “What day/night will be the wildest party on your island?”
• "I really want to hit the party scene"
• "Is there a good time to visit?

Story: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
January 30, 2026 at 11:10 PM
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“We haphazardly scaled up a poorly trained police force to storm into neighborhoods that voted against the president, where we antagonize the local population until someone resists arrest, and then we kill them” is how writer Derek Thompson summarized the White House’s M.O.”
Tread on Me
Alex Pretti and the end of conservatism.
thedispatch.com
January 27, 2026 at 4:32 AM
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the poetry one is pure gold. “Special Note: If your publication record is primarily free verse, please do not apply, as the position requires a deep understanding of classical forms and poetic techniques.” job-boards.greenhouse.io/xai/jobs/501...
Writing Specialist
Remote
job-boards.greenhouse.io
January 30, 2026 at 11:19 PM
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Elon Musk publicly slandering that cave diver as a "pedo guy" after he begged Jeffrey Epstein for island party invites is just incredible
January 30, 2026 at 11:57 PM
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Sorry I cannot alt-text this one. Here's the link. Pretty remarkable.

www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...
January 29, 2026 at 8:35 PM
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MELANIA has been nominated for Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Screenplay, and Best Cinematography in the FIFA Oscars
January 28, 2026 at 5:16 PM
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There was a real chance I could have had Liviu Librescu as a professor. I nearly went to Virginia Tech for aeronautical engineering. Years later, I learned how a 76-year-old Holocaust survivor used his body to save his students.
1/10
January 29, 2026 at 6:41 PM
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RFK Jr: "Mr President, we're in the process of implementing your great American healthcare bill." (There is no healthcare bill.)
January 29, 2026 at 5:24 PM