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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 1d

“I’m Just a File (Classified Edition)”
Schoolhouse Rock parody by channelpoor

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Mary Nasca @mnasca.bsky.social · 10m

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RFK Jr.: “Vaccines Don’t Save Lives”

In a recent post on X, RFK Jr. said that vaccines are overrated.

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Mary Nasca @mnasca.bsky.social · 32m

“Once a drug is approved by the FDA, it is legal for doctors to prescribe it to treat other conditions that could benefit from the medication. Off-label prescribing is a common and widely accepted medical practice, especially in pediatrics. “

And what about HIPAA?

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CHOP transgender care under scrutiny for ‘fraudulent billing practices,’ DOJ says

Federal officials are looking into whether doctors at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh lied to get insurance companies to cover gender dysphoria treatments.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 1h

"we are going to murder americans without due process"
~pam bondi, US attorney general

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 4h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 42m

“Independent Sen. Angus King of Maine said Wednesday that he and other members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, in a classified briefing this week, were denied access to the Pentagon’s legal opinion about whether the boat strikes adhered to U.S. law.”

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Trump has yet to provide Congress hard evidence that targeted boats carried drugs, officials say

The Trump administration hasn't provided evidence to lawmakers that recent U.S. military strikes on alleged drug-smuggling boats were justified.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 10h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 8h

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s claim about insurance costs checks out. Her characterization of GOP leadership also has the ring of truth.

You never know what will come out of a shutdown fight.

Democrats Are Winning the Shutdown Fight

Turns out Republicans still haven’t figured out the politics of health care.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 9h

A tweet from Mayor Brandon Johnson says Trump has tried to unjustly arrest a Black man and he’s not going anywhere. A reply from Donald Trump says the Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect ICE officers.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 8h

He skipped the part where he wants the hospital to force that citizen to wait for the brink of death in the hospital parking lot if the health care she needs is an abortion

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Mary Nasca @mnasca.bsky.social · 6h

They didn’t let people from Afghanistan take part in the talks with the Taliban. This is how they operate. Disgraceful.

Mary Nasca @mnasca.bsky.social · 6h

So much this.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 8h

“No warrant could authorize entering every single apartment, smashing down every door, and dragging every person out in handcuffs, which is what they did.”

The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 1d

As Trump and ICE unleash terror on Chicago, due process is nowhere to be found.

@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social unpacks ICE’s overreach
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/ice-is-out-of-control-aaron-reichlin

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Mary Nasca @mnasca.bsky.social · 7h

The “offering” of NG troops? It would be more like an invasion of NG troops from another state!

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 8h

He could have just said NO.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Mary Nasca @mnasca.bsky.social · 7h

That last part. There should be a massive ad blitz about how Republicans are not even showing up to try to end their shutdown.

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Rep. Jason Crow @crow.house.gov · 8h

Millions of Americans are going to lose their health care.

Premiums are skyrocketing.

Hospitals & clinics are closing.

Republicans have no plan and refuse to even show up for work.

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Senator Tim Kaine @kaine.senate.gov · 8h

We haven’t had a shutdown since the last time Trump was president—which was also the longest shutdown in U.S. history. Once again, Trump can’t lead, and the American people suffer as a result.

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Senator Elissa Slotkin @slotkin.senate.gov · 11h

President Trump’s big beautiful bill has resulted in a health care crisis that is now upon us. Next year, everyone is either at risk of losing their health care or paying more. So, we did a little math to estimate what that might look like for a couple in Lansing. (1/2)

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 8h

Setting aside the absurdly xenophobic framing, once again, there is ZERO truth to any of this. Everyone qualifies for Emergency Medicaid equally. Hospitals do not receive more for treating undocumented immigrants in an emergency than Americans. Speaker Johnson is flatly wrong.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

NOTABLE -- Pam Bondi refuses to answer direct questions about if the FBI has incriminating photos of Trump with half-naked young women, but instead deflects from them by attacking Sen. Whitehouse

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson: "This president is unstable, unhinged, a double-minded individual that quite frankly is a threat to our democracy. It's certainly not the first time that Donald Trump has called for the arresting of a Black man unjustly."

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Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 8h

States who will see the biggest increase in healthcare premiums. Notice a trend here? All red states. Dems fighting for EVERYONE!

West Virginia 387%
Wyoming 382%
Alaska 346%
Tennessee 320%
Mississippi 314%
Texas 289%
South Carolina 285%
Alabama 284%
South Dakota 235%
North Dakota 234%

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 12d

I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. 🧵

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Mary Nasca @mnasca.bsky.social · 7h

But I defer to Rick Wilson’s description:

Bondi strutted in, dialed the volume to eleven, and delivered the full martyrdom package: a sneering, venomous performance laced with sanctimony and shamelessness, larded with constant personal attacks against every Democratic Senator in the room, replete with wild accusations and wilder denials.

MAGA will think she won today, but on the biggest question in Trump’s cobwebbed brain, she blew it. On Jeffrey Epstein, she failed to exonerate Trump, defend the coverup with anything even vaguely logical, and made the stench of her ongoing coverup even more rancid.

Other than that, it went well.