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About this Florida vaccine story:
When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough.
We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated.
“Oh, they’d have died.”
When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough.
We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated.
“Oh, they’d have died.”
September 3, 2025 at 10:06 PM
About this Florida vaccine story:
When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough.
We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated.
“Oh, they’d have died.”
When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough.
We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated.
“Oh, they’d have died.”
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Joni Ernst, at her town hall last night.
When the crowd said people will die due to Medicaid and SNAP cuts, she said: "well we all are going to die." 🫠🫠🫠🫠
When the crowd said people will die due to Medicaid and SNAP cuts, she said: "well we all are going to die." 🫠🫠🫠🫠
May 30, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Joni Ernst, at her town hall last night.
When the crowd said people will die due to Medicaid and SNAP cuts, she said: "well we all are going to die." 🫠🫠🫠🫠
When the crowd said people will die due to Medicaid and SNAP cuts, she said: "well we all are going to die." 🫠🫠🫠🫠
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Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
May 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
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Had any of these three Democrats, who all are from safe Democratic districts, taken their health into consideration and decided not to run in 2024, such an egregious bill would have failed to pass. https://trib.al/pWmUoZw
Republicans Pass Horrid Tax Bill Thanks to Democrats Dying in Office
Republicans passed their terrible tax bill by one vote. Guess how many Democrats died in office this year.
trib.al
May 23, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Had any of these three Democrats, who all are from safe Democratic districts, taken their health into consideration and decided not to run in 2024, such an egregious bill would have failed to pass. https://trib.al/pWmUoZw
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Fact checking alone isn't enough when
these people speak
Fact-twist-checking is the new gold
standard.
Sheesh.
these people speak
Fact-twist-checking is the new gold
standard.
Sheesh.
May 20, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Fact checking alone isn't enough when
these people speak
Fact-twist-checking is the new gold
standard.
Sheesh.
these people speak
Fact-twist-checking is the new gold
standard.
Sheesh.
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Deeply concerning: US citizen lawyer getting detained and his phone searched on reentering the U.S. at Customs. www.freep.com/story/news/l...
Lawyer for U-M protester detained at airport after spring break trip with family
Dearborn lawyer says feds tried to seize his cellphone at Detroit Metro Airport as he returned from spring break trip with his family.
www.freep.com
April 8, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Deeply concerning: US citizen lawyer getting detained and his phone searched on reentering the U.S. at Customs. www.freep.com/story/news/l...
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As over $3 trillion was wiped from the market today, Trump spent the day golfing at his West Palm course
His trips to his golf properties over the past 11 weeks have cost taxpayers $30.4 million in transportation & security, according to HuffPost analysis
His trips to his golf properties over the past 11 weeks have cost taxpayers $30.4 million in transportation & security, according to HuffPost analysis
April 5, 2025 at 2:34 AM
As over $3 trillion was wiped from the market today, Trump spent the day golfing at his West Palm course
His trips to his golf properties over the past 11 weeks have cost taxpayers $30.4 million in transportation & security, according to HuffPost analysis
His trips to his golf properties over the past 11 weeks have cost taxpayers $30.4 million in transportation & security, according to HuffPost analysis
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3/ Here’s a screenshot from the Sovereign Individual (not from Thiel’s preface). This is what I quote in post 1.
March 10, 2025 at 11:15 PM
3/ Here’s a screenshot from the Sovereign Individual (not from Thiel’s preface). This is what I quote in post 1.
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2/ Here is Thiel’s Preface to The Sovereign Individual.
March 10, 2025 at 11:15 PM
2/ Here is Thiel’s Preface to The Sovereign Individual.
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“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 22, 2025 at 8:52 PM
“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.”
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President Trump says he's thinking of getting rid of the country's disaster response agency, FEMA. States say they can't replicate what FEMA does on their own.
Trump wants states to handle disasters. States aren't prepared
President Trump says he's thinking of getting rid of the country's disaster response agency, FEMA. States say they can't replicate what FEMA does on their own.
www.npr.org
March 21, 2025 at 8:21 PM
President Trump says he's thinking of getting rid of the country's disaster response agency, FEMA. States say they can't replicate what FEMA does on their own.
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Because of course.
March 22, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Because of course.
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American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
March 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
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NEW: The family of Mahmoud Khalil have just released footage of his arrest. It’s distressing.
“Stop resisting”
“He’s not resisting”
The men who take him are in plain clothes and in unmarked cars. They refuse to give their names or even say what agency they’re from.
He is just disappeared.
“Stop resisting”
“He’s not resisting”
The men who take him are in plain clothes and in unmarked cars. They refuse to give their names or even say what agency they’re from.
He is just disappeared.
March 14, 2025 at 9:18 PM
NEW: The family of Mahmoud Khalil have just released footage of his arrest. It’s distressing.
“Stop resisting”
“He’s not resisting”
The men who take him are in plain clothes and in unmarked cars. They refuse to give their names or even say what agency they’re from.
He is just disappeared.
“Stop resisting”
“He’s not resisting”
The men who take him are in plain clothes and in unmarked cars. They refuse to give their names or even say what agency they’re from.
He is just disappeared.
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In a world of Matts, be a Derek.
March 10, 2025 at 7:44 PM
In a world of Matts, be a Derek.
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Also what he said: bsky.app/profile/opin...
if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.
March 10, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Also what he said: bsky.app/profile/opin...
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Mahmoud Khalil's rights should be defended for their own sake, and for his unborn child's sake, but they should also be defended on principle and for all of our sakes. The slope is slippery; the rights are crucial.
if you as an American Jew do not want to be used as the excuse for Trump's destruction of civil liberties and basic democratic protections, the time to speak out is right now
March 10, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Mahmoud Khalil's rights should be defended for their own sake, and for his unborn child's sake, but they should also be defended on principle and for all of our sakes. The slope is slippery; the rights are crucial.
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Christine, 33, explains that young scientists will be hit hardest by these cuts.
"If you don't get grants and bring in money, you're not seen as a viable scientist, and so that's the career to becoming a professional and being able to stay in the field."
"If you don't get grants and bring in money, you're not seen as a viable scientist, and so that's the career to becoming a professional and being able to stay in the field."
March 8, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Christine, 33, explains that young scientists will be hit hardest by these cuts.
"If you don't get grants and bring in money, you're not seen as a viable scientist, and so that's the career to becoming a professional and being able to stay in the field."
"If you don't get grants and bring in money, you're not seen as a viable scientist, and so that's the career to becoming a professional and being able to stay in the field."
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NEW: For years, a Connecticut towing company got to cut the line at the DMV in exchange for selling towed cars at deep discounts, according to a DMV report, allowing one DMV employee to resell them for steep profits.
With @ctmirror.org
With @ctmirror.org
How a Connecticut DMV Employee Made Thousands by Selling Towed Cars
For years, a towing company cut the lines at the DMV in exchange for deep discounts on towed cars, according to an internal DMV report, showing the agency’s oversight failures.
propub.li
March 7, 2025 at 1:45 PM
NEW: For years, a Connecticut towing company got to cut the line at the DMV in exchange for selling towed cars at deep discounts, according to a DMV report, allowing one DMV employee to resell them for steep profits.
With @ctmirror.org
With @ctmirror.org
I’m so disturbed by the latest turn of events. Slashing the State Department, closing offices in other countries, possibly sharing our intelligence with Russia.
I didn’t know that the real slogan is:
Make America Russia Again
I didn’t know that the real slogan is:
Make America Russia Again
March 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I’m so disturbed by the latest turn of events. Slashing the State Department, closing offices in other countries, possibly sharing our intelligence with Russia.
I didn’t know that the real slogan is:
Make America Russia Again
I didn’t know that the real slogan is:
Make America Russia Again
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NEW: DOGE put a not-so-secret CIA training facility up for sale, apparently in error.
"Obviously, someone did no research about the long and well-documented history of this property," says the chairman of the local county board of supervisors.
"Obviously, someone did no research about the long and well-documented history of this property," says the chairman of the local county board of supervisors.
A Sensitive Complex Housing a CIA Facility Was on GSA's List of US Properties for Sale
Plans to redevelop a Northern Virginia warehouse site have long been complicated by the area’s worst-kept secret—the presence of a CIA facility. The GSA put the site up for sale anyway.
www.wired.com
March 6, 2025 at 9:43 PM
NEW: DOGE put a not-so-secret CIA training facility up for sale, apparently in error.
"Obviously, someone did no research about the long and well-documented history of this property," says the chairman of the local county board of supervisors.
"Obviously, someone did no research about the long and well-documented history of this property," says the chairman of the local county board of supervisors.
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March 6, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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NEW: The GSA and DOGE listed a sprawling property for sale that included a secret CIA facility—then quickly scrubbed the list.
www.wired.com/story/gsa-sa...
www.wired.com/story/gsa-sa...
A Sensitive Complex Housing a CIA Facility Was on GSA's List of US Properties for Sale
Plans to redevelop a Northern Virginia warehouse site have long been complicated by the area’s worst-kept secret—the presence of a CIA facility. The GSA put the site up for sale anyway.
www.wired.com
March 6, 2025 at 9:47 PM
NEW: The GSA and DOGE listed a sprawling property for sale that included a secret CIA facility—then quickly scrubbed the list.
www.wired.com/story/gsa-sa...
www.wired.com/story/gsa-sa...
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Today, the House GOP censured me for speaking out for the American people against @POTUS’s plan to cut Medicaid. I accept the consequences of my actions, but I refuse to stay silent in the face of injustice. #WeShallOvercome x.com/repalgreen/s...
Congressman Al Green on X: "Today, the House GOP censured me for speaking out for the American people against @POTUS’s plan to cut Medicaid. I accept the consequences of my actions, but I refuse to stay silent in the face of injustice. #WeShallOvercome https://t.co/sVklRmPCJl" / X
Today, the House GOP censured me for speaking out for the American people against @POTUS’s plan to cut Medicaid. I accept the consequences of my actions, but I refuse to stay silent in the face of injustice. #WeShallOvercome https://t.co/sVklRmPCJl
x.com
March 6, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Today, the House GOP censured me for speaking out for the American people against @POTUS’s plan to cut Medicaid. I accept the consequences of my actions, but I refuse to stay silent in the face of injustice. #WeShallOvercome x.com/repalgreen/s...