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every person involved in this needs to be in prison
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
time.com
March 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Is this a new tariff day or a tariff pause day?

It’s tough to keep up.
March 12, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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*cries in public health*
February 13, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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I feel trapped in my own country with these people. Sincerely. I feel trapped. Surrounded by crazy people.
February 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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We could just be reading great books, watching good movies, and eating fruit. Instead we have to survive/fight miserable power hoarders. What a waste of limited time.
February 13, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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JUST IN:

Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com
February 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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This framing is their framing, and NYT took the bait. The correct and accurate framing is: “Deep cuts to medical research threatens progress on cancer and heart disease research, costs the economy $80B, and threatens 300,000 jobs across red and blue states”
February 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Now more than ever.
February 7, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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This is what revisionist history looks like, in real time. And this also is why it might appear that archaeologists and historians have to dig deep to discover the existence of powerful women and marginalized groups -- because their legacies are so often erased.
February 5, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Senator Raphael Warnock ahead of the vote on RFK Jr. for HHS Secretary:

"I simply do not trust him to oversee the CDC. He's unqualified, and I dare say that everybody here knows it."

BOOM!

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
February 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Pep talk time. For some of us this is incredibly new. For others, painfully familiar. Because we the people have been here before. Pushing back against government, systems, and even each other. Open a history book. Look at whose shoulders we have been standing on.

#Diversity #Equity #Inclusion
February 5, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Crockett: I am tired of the white tears. When you compare me to Marjorie Taylor Greene or me to Lauren Boebert, there is no comparison. So the only people that are crying are the mediocre white boys that have been beaten out by people that historically have had to work so, so much harder
February 4, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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Since I was laid off from Vox a few weeks ago, I no longer cover public health for that outlet -- but I sure do stay in touch with my many sources at the CDC and in public health more broadly

The overwhelming msg they're getting this week is that this admin simply has no idea how anything works
January 31, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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January 31, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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NLRB's Acting General Counsel just send this memo out to staff saying, "I cannot promise you that everything is going to be OK."

"I know that the past few days and nights have been extremely scary and distressing for some of us."
January 31, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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If it were legal to fire you, they wouldn't put so much effort into getting you to resign voluntarily.
January 31, 2025 at 8:00 PM
THIS IS INSANE.
This sounds like it was written by Musk. These emails risk government employee privacy.
January 31, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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RFK saying that “Blacks” have better immune systems and shouldn’t get the same vaccines as white people should be disqualifying. But we live in really dumb times.
January 30, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Y’all 😭☠️
January 30, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Open-air corruption. They’re just flaunting it.
January 29, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Man some days you just want to build a cabin and just live off the land. And also the cabin has WiFi and a PS5.
January 29, 2025 at 4:19 AM