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If Democratic congressional leadership don’t lead an en masse halt to all legislative business after today, I don’t know why they’re worth supporting. What moment could more demand a response of intractable and tedious opposition? Shut it all down, and refuse to budge.

Rep. Steven Horsford to Greer: "So the trade representative hasn't spoken to the POTUS about a global reordering of trade, but yet he announced it on a tweet? WTF! Who is in charge? It looks like your boss just pulled the rug out from under you. There is no strategy ... is this market manipulation?"

The vaccine against Shingles helps protect against dementia, results of a natural experiment, adding to prior evidence
"implications are profound"
New @nature.com
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nature.com/articles/s41...

Trump says he's "not joking" about the possibility of a third term, despite it being blatantly unconstitutional: "There are methods which you could do it," he told NBC

Trump's ally Steve Bannon recently said he wants to see Trump stay in the WH for another term, adding, "We're working on it”

RFK Jr. has hired anti-vaccine activist David Geier to lead a study looking to link autism to vaccines, although that link has been heavily studied and thoroughly debunked. Geier does not have a medical degree & was disciplined in Maryland for practicing medicine without a license.
M(aking)AGA

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

Aside from the obvious direct harm, what's so irritating is that a handful of spoiled ignorant assholes are breaking things that we all built together. They weren't content to own almost everything, they had to wreck what little they didn't own. It's vandalism on a mass scale and has to be punished

Trump's Joint Address by topic:

0 mentions of health care affordability
0 mentions of housing affordability
0 mentions of veterans
0 mentions of prescription drug costs
2 mentions of the "Gulf of America"
3 mentions of annexing Greenland
3 mentions of Elon Musk
6 mentions of the Panama Canal

(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025!

Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!

#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

Some remarkable folks have helped organize this. Some remarkable folks i know are organizing in Santa Fe, where I’ll be hollering all day.
I hope we all can make the time, take a day, and let them know what they can look forward to when they force us out of our jobs and we all have more time.

The CFPB is one of the American people’s best defenses against waste, fraud, and abuse.

Demolishing it will, of course, lead to more waste, fraud, and abuse.