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Gosh, that super believable.

Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies. 📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro

As if we needed any more proof of what an absolute weirdo Musk is.

People who don't understand biology making laws. 🙄

This is revealing of Trump’s real desperation: the President of the United States attending trade negotiations to try to get some kind of result.

So many slobbering goons wanting to be on the side of the "strong man", willing to throw democracy to the curb. So much depravity.

Starting to feel like a real life Minority Report.

They are doing this to people here legally and will absolutely start doing this to citizens too.

When you think of the core of American politics as a large collection of individuals who have enough social, political, and financial capital to speak up against despotism but don't wanna spend that capital because they're hoping someone else will, it all really starts to make sense.

To the world: We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom. —With love, Your American allies.

London, Paris, Lisbon, Berlin.

At the Salt Lake City Capitol building. I was proud of the turnout.

I think we have to confront the fact that tens of millions of Americans have pledged slavish allegiance to a man who says explicitly that his benchmark for when America was great is 1913. And then we have to think about the possibility that we are in the throes of a nationwide mental health crisis.

California Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D-Salinas): "there are currently more kids with measles in Texas than there are transgender athletes in the NCAA. That's the epidemic we should all be worried about."

My biggest frustration in terms of rising to this moment is: people obviously do not understand that there's a whole psyop strategy around DEMORALIZATION. I do not necessarily think that every doomcryer is insincere, but to steal hope is still to hand our enemies weapons.

This is fantastic news! Fuck the billionaires, and Musk in particular!

A fired HHS worker asks a senator about layoffs that are hurting services for “people with disabilities” and asks what he’ll do to help them. Once the senator is safely behind his staff in the elevator, he ignores the suffering & replies that the worker is a “clown” who “deserved” to be fired.

Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"

Murphy: "Democrats should stay focused on the central storyline. This week, Republicans are gonna be voting on a procedural step to try to cut Medicaid by $880b... it is not a coincidence that Trump is floating this idea of running for a 3rd term during a weak when an outright theft is happening."

EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration has acknowledged that it grabbed a Maryland father with protected status and mistakenly deported him to El Salvador—but claims that courts are powerless to order his return, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports: theatln.tc/Bot5mE4O

One thing to note about FDA firings is how little money is saved while doing extensive damage, economic and otherwise. FDA's budget is $7.2B, but that's not what it costs the government. $3.5B (48.6%) of that budget is covered by 'user fees' charged to companies for review / approval / etc.

Senior leadership is out across NIH, including: NIAID Director Marrazzo, Deputy Director Lane, & DMID Director Erbelding Acting NHGRI Bonham who only lasted 1 week NIMHD Director Pérez-Stable Eunice Kennedy Shriver NICHD Director Bianchi, from an institute named for RFK's aunt

THAT is how we should cover trump’s claims of inherent power or his intent to run for a third term. not as something allowed by some unforeseen loopholes (“the card says moops!”) but as a statement that he intends to ignore the constitution altogether in pursuit of power. (5)

the constitution enumerates powers for the executive. it was also amended to specifically limit executive service to two full terms. “i found a loophole that gives me unlimited power and also a third term” is just another way to say “i have decided to ignore the constitution in favor my will.” (4)

My industry has been touting AI and I'm like, y'all certify us and we pay a lot of money to you for the certification. If AI takes over, what will we be doing and where will you be getting all your money humans are paying you for cert? How am I supposed to get excited about that?

The true DEI 🙄🙄

Every single Democrat in Congress should be demanding the resignation of Waltz and Hegseth. Every single one. This is a massive scandal. There should be a serious price to pay. AND THERE IS ZERO DOWNSIDE FOR EVEN THE MOST SCAREDY-CAT CONGRESSPERSON.

1) The rate of sepsis rose more than 50% 2) they don’t break down data by race here—we need that info (generally BW’s maternal death rate is 3x that of WW, Native W is 2x) 3) they looked at hospital data. So missing greatest cause of pregnant/postpartum death: Murder. Abuse skyrockets w/pregnancy.

I'll take "What does a man with no soul look like" for $1000,Alex.

A friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.

The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought: - 1.65 million deaths from AIDS - 500,000 from lack of vaccines - 550,000 from lack of food aid - 290,000 from malaria - 310,000 from TB

I'm not crying... Yeah, I am.

Make children and the poor starve again.

If you’re pissed about Sen. Chuck Schumer caving to Trump and Elon Musk, take the pledge to boycott contributions to all Senate Democrats until they replace him as leader: chng.it/mZgjGv9rS9

Those of us who have been around long enough to remember his shenanigans back in the 80s (or earlier) and knew what a shitbird he was still probably could not have predicted how bad things would get.

🚨 We need you to call your Democratic senator ASAP if their name is on this list. Tell your senator you will have their back if they do the right thing and vote NO on the extreme MAGA spending bill that would give Trump more power to dismantle the federal government: indivisible.org/resource/cal...

a bunch of cops concentrated outside a self-exploding car lot. interesting

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To go along with our piece today, we published an extensive list of folks associated with DOGE. It builds off and adds to the strong work that Wired, WaPo, ProPublica and other pubs have been doing. The public has a right to know who is dismantling the government. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...