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Until the 20th century the United States had repeated epidemics of *cholera.* in the mid 1960s nearly half of Americans smoked. Now it’s just over 10%. Until the last couple years, measles was basically eliminated in the US. In 1952 more than 3000 people in the US died of polio; there 58k cases.
FOX: What would say is the last great success that our govt public health agencies have had?
RFK Jr: I don't think there have been successes
(Kennedy said days ago that Trump should get a Nobel for Operation Warp Speed)
RFK Jr: I don't think there have been successes
(Kennedy said days ago that Trump should get a Nobel for Operation Warp Speed)
September 7, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Until the 20th century the United States had repeated epidemics of *cholera.* in the mid 1960s nearly half of Americans smoked. Now it’s just over 10%. Until the last couple years, measles was basically eliminated in the US. In 1952 more than 3000 people in the US died of polio; there 58k cases.
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Over and over, the Trump-Vance administration is tearing down rules that protect ordinary people from mistreatment by corporations. Now it's happening in the airline sector.
September 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Over and over, the Trump-Vance administration is tearing down rules that protect ordinary people from mistreatment by corporations. Now it's happening in the airline sector.
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Trump hates his new nickname TACO so out of respect we made this song! 🌮 🕺🎶
May 30, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Trump hates his new nickname TACO so out of respect we made this song! 🌮 🕺🎶
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Here is UW - Madison's budget. Our <largest> funder is the federal government. 25%. It used to be the state. Either way, the university in its current form ceases to exist if these federal cuts really happen. But The. Public. Doesn't. Know. This. And our leaders are absent from the public debate.
March 8, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Here is UW - Madison's budget. Our <largest> funder is the federal government. 25%. It used to be the state. Either way, the university in its current form ceases to exist if these federal cuts really happen. But The. Public. Doesn't. Know. This. And our leaders are absent from the public debate.
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We import a boatload of Nickel and Vanilla from Madagascar - not stuff you can grow/mine everywhere.
We don’t sell them a much cos the average income is $510 per year.
Because Trump’s Tax is based on trade deficit, not tariffs, we’re now slapping a 90% tariff on Madagascar.
We don’t sell them a much cos the average income is $510 per year.
Because Trump’s Tax is based on trade deficit, not tariffs, we’re now slapping a 90% tariff on Madagascar.
Question: Réunion island is a French region. Why doesn’t it get tariffed with the EU?
Could the administration be confusing things with how much extra it costs to send things there UPS?
Could the administration be confusing things with how much extra it costs to send things there UPS?
April 3, 2025 at 12:08 AM
We import a boatload of Nickel and Vanilla from Madagascar - not stuff you can grow/mine everywhere.
We don’t sell them a much cos the average income is $510 per year.
Because Trump’s Tax is based on trade deficit, not tariffs, we’re now slapping a 90% tariff on Madagascar.
We don’t sell them a much cos the average income is $510 per year.
Because Trump’s Tax is based on trade deficit, not tariffs, we’re now slapping a 90% tariff on Madagascar.
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THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A “TRADE DEFICIT”—IT’S JUST CALLED “BUYING THINGS.” YOU DO NOT HAVE A TRADE DEFICIT WITH YOUR DENTIST JUST BECAUSE HE NEVER BUYS ANYTHING FROM YOU.
April 2, 2025 at 10:58 PM
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A “TRADE DEFICIT”—IT’S JUST CALLED “BUYING THINGS.” YOU DO NOT HAVE A TRADE DEFICIT WITH YOUR DENTIST JUST BECAUSE HE NEVER BUYS ANYTHING FROM YOU.
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Unkind men so often whither in the face of unkindness.
March 30, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Unkind men so often whither in the face of unkindness.
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Notice to flat-Earthers all around the globe: Please alert the authorities if tonight’s Total Lunar Eclipse looks like this:
March 13, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Notice to flat-Earthers all around the globe: Please alert the authorities if tonight’s Total Lunar Eclipse looks like this:
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Feels like I'm leaving money on the table by not doing a scam or swindle of some kind. Would you guys buy a car for $100,000 if I pretended it can drive itself. What about a fake currency
March 12, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Feels like I'm leaving money on the table by not doing a scam or swindle of some kind. Would you guys buy a car for $100,000 if I pretended it can drive itself. What about a fake currency
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Looking as crazy as this week feels.
March 12, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Looking as crazy as this week feels.
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does anyone else think of wayne’s world when they do this?
March 7, 2025 at 4:58 AM
does anyone else think of wayne’s world when they do this?
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you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
March 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
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This memo makes the Trump Admin’s goal crystal clear: they want to roll back the PACT Act by cutting 80,000 jobs—including 20,000 veterans—while starving VA’s ability to meet increased demand in order to justify privatizing VA.
apnews.com
March 5, 2025 at 7:19 PM
This memo makes the Trump Admin’s goal crystal clear: they want to roll back the PACT Act by cutting 80,000 jobs—including 20,000 veterans—while starving VA’s ability to meet increased demand in order to justify privatizing VA.
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An internal memo shows that Trump & Musk are planning to fire 80,000 employees from Veterans Affairs.
Two out of touch billionaires who have never served in uniform slashing an agency that serves our nation’s veterans. This would be disastrous. Our vets deserve better.
Two out of touch billionaires who have never served in uniform slashing an agency that serves our nation’s veterans. This would be disastrous. Our vets deserve better.
Trump Administration Plans To Cut 80,000 Employees From Veterans Affairs, Internal Memo Shows
The VA's chief of staff told top level officials at the agency that it had an objective to cut enough employees to return to 2019 staffing levels of just under 400,000.
www.huffpost.com
March 5, 2025 at 8:59 PM
An internal memo shows that Trump & Musk are planning to fire 80,000 employees from Veterans Affairs.
Two out of touch billionaires who have never served in uniform slashing an agency that serves our nation’s veterans. This would be disastrous. Our vets deserve better.
Two out of touch billionaires who have never served in uniform slashing an agency that serves our nation’s veterans. This would be disastrous. Our vets deserve better.
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🚨 Trump’s VA is planning to cut 83,000 employees—slashing staffing back to 2019 levels, before the PACT Act expanded care for over a million Veterans.
This will mean longer wait times, worse care, and more red tape for those who served.
Veterans won’t stand for this.
This will mean longer wait times, worse care, and more red tape for those who served.
Veterans won’t stand for this.
March 5, 2025 at 8:47 PM
🚨 Trump’s VA is planning to cut 83,000 employees—slashing staffing back to 2019 levels, before the PACT Act expanded care for over a million Veterans.
This will mean longer wait times, worse care, and more red tape for those who served.
Veterans won’t stand for this.
This will mean longer wait times, worse care, and more red tape for those who served.
Veterans won’t stand for this.
Fired by a Fox news personality, drunkard, that ran 2 veterans organizations into the ground...Hegseth hasn't done 1/100th of what this patriot has done. Merit my ass... www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Exclusive: Trump administration pushed out US military health agency head, officials say
U.S. Army Lieutenant General Telita Crosland, the head of the military's health agency and one of the most senior Black female officers in the Army, was forced to retire on Friday, two sources told Reuters.
www.reuters.com
March 5, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Fired by a Fox news personality, drunkard, that ran 2 veterans organizations into the ground...Hegseth hasn't done 1/100th of what this patriot has done. Merit my ass... www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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If Russia wants peace, they should end the invasion.
March 5, 2025 at 3:54 AM
If Russia wants peace, they should end the invasion.
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Galileo giving side-eye to the nonsense he heard last night.
March 5, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Galileo giving side-eye to the nonsense he heard last night.
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finally an administration that will shit talk veterans. i have waited my whole life for this
Alina Habba on veterans who have been fired from government jobs: "Perhaps they're not fit to have a job at this moment."
March 4, 2025 at 6:52 PM
finally an administration that will shit talk veterans. i have waited my whole life for this
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"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."
February 28, 2025 at 9:25 PM
"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."