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JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.

JD Vance is a lying snake.

People who advocate for electing the president by popular really are saying that federalism shouldn't matter - largely because they like the way that big cities would control elections. (For now.) This is dumb, especially now, when federalism has been a godsend. A thread. /1

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

When did 100 days start to feel like an eternity?

Infectious disease scientists are amazing humans!!

The penguins on the Heard and McDonald Islands announce they are putting 30% tariffs on US goods.

I know people are justifiably focused on the weakness of federal leadership, but there are other things going on that require immediate attention. This is one of them….#stopSB21 #StopElon actl.ink/sb21?ref=lm youtu.be/orLlW33lQKs

@golden.house.gov voting for the cr is allowing musk to continue his illegal work. Shame on you 🤬

I did this too! Felt good!

He says here that "he'll act quickly to correct mistakes." Has he publicly corrected his 'condoms for Gaza' mistake? Apologized? How about Trump seated a few feet away, who claimed Hamas made bombs from US condoms? Any correction? Apology? Of course not. These people lie & lie & lie & lie.

Call your R reps. If you have a regional accent, make the most of it. Tell them you didn't vote for CANCER and ask them what the hell they're gonna do to stop Musk and Trump. reps.fyi

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This is also a valuable resource for sky users theblue.report

This might end up being Trump’s most historic mistake: Foreign aid is not just charity—it’s an investment in stability, diplomacy, and American interests and it saves American lives too.

This language describes a coup. You have to be a government employee, subject to the rules & procedures that bind gov employees, to do this kind of work. This is a blatant abuse of the public trust by the Trump administration, a true 5-alarm fire. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

I love Dawes!

There's a petulant idiot from Queens, New York in the White House who is going to tank the American economy because he's too simple-minded to understand how tariffs work. There's another petulant idiot from Pretoria, South Africa trying to dismantle the US government. Most Americans: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

More than 21 million American adults lack easy access to a passport or birth certificate. Requiring these documents to register to vote could disenfranchise millions of eligible Americans — which, of course, is the GOP’s intent.

The thing to understand about Trump is like in his first term, he doesn’t want to govern. He doesn’t want to learn. He wants to campaign and look good. Republicans know this. So there are battles going on right now to take control of the actual process of governing.

Incredible stuff. Evangelical leader Franklin Graham spent yesterday blasting Rev. Budde and claiming the cathedral had been “taken over by gay activists” — unaware that Trump had frozen a refugee program that Graham supports, and was one of the things Budde was referencing in her sermon.

NEW: My staff just got ahold of this memo from House Budget Committee Republicans. It's lengthy and hard to digest but it tells us exactly how Republicans plan to sell out the American people for another round of tax cuts to the rich. We're breaking down the highlights as we go:

1) chimps DO develop cancer. 2) Chimps have different expression of tumor suppressor genes. 3) chimps have different length of telomeres—“caps” that protect DNA. 4) chimps live to ~40 years. Median age of cancer in humans is 61. Oh — and humans are NOT chimps. Hope this helps! 🙃 1/

Character is who you are, when no one is looking. Taylor has both character AND compassion. To all of her bashers, "compassion for her fellow humans is NOT a bad thing." ❤️

I really, really don't want to do this, but let's do a bit (just a LITTLE BIT) of fact checking about what Zuck said on the Joe Rogan podcast, because this is something I not only followed closely, but also spent time *talking to the actual people at Meta who dealt with this* which WAS NOT ZUCK.

“A Shot in the Arm” is a must-watch exposé on vaccine denial and RFK Jr.’s deadly role in the Samoan measles outbreak. Now streaming FREE on PBS.org and the PBS App. This documentary includes damning evidence and footage of RFK Jr. Call your senators—urge them to watch and take action!

We are asking Ukrainians to defeat the armies of Putin and Kim Jong Un. In their efforts to do so, Ukrainians helped bring down Assad. Ukrainian resistance is one of the most stunning military achievements in modern history.

With another possible pandemic, bird flu, about to spread, the last thing the USA needs is the anti-vaccine misinformation grifter RFK Jr. 1 million died from Trump’s mismanagement of the response to COVID. Let’s not do that again www.today.com/today/amp/rc...

Regimes seem solid until they are not. Every resistance act matters because often regimes are crumbling from within from corruption and yet good at hiding that fact. cc: Russia

When they talk about privatizing Veterans’ care and Medicare, they mean allowing companies to provide healthcare for a profit. But how do companies make those profits? By *denying* care to many who need it. Don’t get fooled by the “privatization” label. It means “for profit” and YOU are the cost.

Of course. The billionaires protect themselves.

i’m gonna just watch this at least once a day and i recommend everyone do the same

Today, #KashPatel sent a letter to my counsel @markzaidesq.bsky.social threatening to sue & demanding I retract my MSNBC comments on his unfitness to serve as FBI Director. This follows his threats against media & political opponents, showing how he might act if confirmed. I stand by my statements.

Aluminum metal is the most abundant metal on Earth and makes up 8% of the Earth’s mass. Adults naturally have between 30 to 50 milligrams of aluminum in their body at any time, simply through living. We consume 7-9 mg every day, because it is everywhere: food and water. 1/

“Don’t feed the trolls” also extends to bad opinion pieces in papers of record. They run them bc people react to them the most. If we stop linking to bad columns and instead post thinkers we find valuable (& generate convo around it), incentives change. It’s not easy and takes constant practice!

Who will the next awful trump nominee be? 🙄

Leana Wen with another problematic take in her uninformed opinion column. She suggests RFK Jr.’s lies about fluoride harms have merit. She’s wrong. She ALSO isn’t aware that most European countries fluoridate their salt, yet claims they don’t use fluoride. 1/

Nightmare incoming 1/20/25

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Today's science fact: #Fluoride in public drinking water reduces cavities & was one of the greatest health achievements of the 20th century. This article is a few years old, but worth a read. www.cbc.ca/news/health/...