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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 11h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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WKNO-FM | Public Radio for the Mid-South @wkno.bsky.social · 6d

Mississippi recently declared a public health emergency because its infant mortality rate has surged. And with Medicaid cuts coming, experts fear the crisis may worsen in other states.

What Mississippi's infant mortality crisis says about the risks of Medicaid cuts

Mississippi recently declared a public health emergency because its infant mortality rate has surged. And with Medicaid cuts coming, experts fear the crisis may worsen in other states.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 17h

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.

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John Walke @johndwalke.bsky.social · 10h

Trump EPA head Lee Zeldin's professed concern for health & environmental protections and cooperative Federalism are so many empty words. Worse, they are bald lies.

The states know. insideepa.com/remaking-epa... ($)

Headline from InsideEPA about state concerns with EPA actions harming their environmental protection mission.

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 14h

It looks like Trump's EPA is stonewalling the release of a major scientific report on the health effects of "forever chemicals" in our drinking water.

www.propublica.org/article/epa-...

Scientists Completed a Toxicity Report on This Forever Chemical. The EPA Hasn’t Released It.

Agency scientists found that PFNA could cause developmental, liver and reproductive harms. Their final report was ready in mid-April, according to an internal document reviewed by ProPublica, but the ...

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John Walke @johndwalke.bsky.social · 10h

U.S. businesses already know that any notice of violation letters purporting to be from the Trump EPA are fake.

Scammers are sending fraudulent EPA notice of violation letters to businesses alleging environmental violations & resulting fines. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene... ($)

E&E News: EPA watchdog warns of ‘increasingly common’ phishing scam

Fraudsters are sending letters to businesses saying they are in violation of environmental regulations and owe thousands of dollars.

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John Walke @johndwalke.bsky.social · 10h

"I asked my therapist why I always feel so inadequate. She said, 'It's because you're objectively pathetic.'"

MAGA rage over Bad Bunny at Super Bowl sparks alternative show. Turning Point USA will host counterprogramming to the Super Bowl halftime show.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... ($)

MAGA rage over Bad Bunny at Super Bowl sparks an alternative show

Counterprogramming, hosted by Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA, spotlights the growing political polarization surrounding one of the biggest events of the year.

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John Walke @johndwalke.bsky.social · 11h

One big cube.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 18h

27. I’ll close with this. You cannot debate professional liars like Stephen Miller. You cannot find common ground. Why? Because *they are too weak to be worthy of trust*. They can only be opposed. Trump said JB Pritzker should be jailed. In reply, Pritzker said

www.rawstory.com/trump-jb-pri...

'Come and get me': Dem gov dares Trump to make good on arrest threat

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) spoke to an MSNBC reporter on the ground in Chicago for protests around the deployment of federal agents to raid the city. President Donald Trump issued a Wednesday mor...

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 18h

21. (Greg’s latest in The New Republic is about how Democratic Governors JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are taking Miller’s “theory of fascist power politics” at face value and devising a strategy to combat it.)
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Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Miller believes that if he supercharges the debate over Trump's abuses of power with enough propaganda, he can polarize it and force low-info voters to embrace authoritarianism. Pritzker/Newsom have accepted that this requires an information war in response.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 18h

7. But I haven’t talked about how those malicious and unaccountable forces can pull his strings. Well, this is how. And Stephen Miller is doing it in plain sight.

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John Walke @johndwalke.bsky.social · 11h

Plan coming during Infrastructure Week.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Thune: "The president would like to overhaul Obamacare and give people health insurance that is higher quality and more affordable."

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Judy Stone @drjudystone.bsky.social · 1d

RFK Jr's "Whopper of the Week" is about babies and #Hepatitis and ACIP's plan to disallow the HepB vaccine. www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whop... Thanks, @defendpublichealth.bsky.social for debunking all their lies!

Whopper of the Week: RFK Jr. is Dead Wrong Babies Won't Get Hepatitis B | Defend Public Health

RFK Jr does not want the CDC to recommend newborns be vaccinated against the Hepatitis B virus (HBV). HBV infection early in life, especially as a baby, puts a person at a high risk of developing a ch...

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18h

How's that plan coming?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Thune: "The president would like to overhaul Obamacare and give people health insurance that is higher quality and more affordable."

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John Walke @johndwalke.bsky.social · 11h

Old Fashioned remedies are the best.

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Basav @basavsen.bsky.social · 1d

Yet another way in which Big Tech is socializing the immense social, environmental, and safety costs of their business model.

Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 2d

"The fire department in Jerome Township, Ohio has grown increasingly annoyed at two Amazon data centers...Since the first site was approved by local officials in 2021, first responders have answered a combined 84 emergencies...on top of regular safety inspections" #AI futurism.com/future-socie...

First Responders Are Being Overwhelmed by Data Center Fires

First responders in a small Ohio town have answered 84 emergencies between two Amazon data centers, all on the taxpayer's dime.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 13h

All conspiracy theories eventually lead to antisemitism.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 14h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."