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Update: CNN reports that the State Dept is now *confirming* cancellation of the contract tracking abducted Ukrainian kids, claiming it's not in US interests. Also, a State spox claims data is with a subcontractor. If true, pressure will now intensify to reinstate the program.

Experts say the verdict has relevance for free speech issues nationwide.

You can remove Navajo Code Talkers, The Tuskegee Airmen, the Holocaust and Jackie Robinson from federal databases, but we know the truth! You can call it DEI. We know it's racism. IT'S. FUCKING. RACISM.

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I hate to say ‘I told you so’ but… I told you so. Seven years ago:

ICE stripped a German green card holder naked, drove him from Boston to Vermont to Rhode Island, put him in a cold shower, deprived him of medication, sleep and food until he collapsed. No one knows why he was detained.

This is exactly what I have been saying for a while now. At this point, it’s not left vs right that matters, but fighters vs non-fighters. The Dems, and the American people, need fighters.

In a world of Schumers, be a Green. Because courage is the only weapon that can defeat evil.

My favorite things about spanish (as a non-native speaker) are the objects that are literally translated as their functions. The umbrella? You want a paraguas (for water). Need a sink? Find the lavamanos (wash hands). It makes me so giddily happy when I have to use these. 😊

This is bad. Really bad. These actions eliminate rules on clean air and clean water. The only good news would be if they follow the process, then none of the changes take effect immediately, and nearly all will require a long rulemaking process.

I don't know who found this photo, but top secret used to mean top secret.

A doctor has been serving one of Baltimore’s poorest neighborhoods for decades — and if his patients can’t pay, that’s OK with him. So when he was diagnosed with cancer, his community rallied to raise $100,000 for his treatments.

NEW: The murders of two people outside an LGBTQ+ bar at first looked like the act of a lone shooter. A ProPublica and @frontlinepbs.bsky.social investigation shows they were, in fact, the culmination of a coordinated, international recruiting effort by online extremists.

Might save a life.

Cartoon by successpictures.

Wyoming H5N1 bird flu case uploads to GISAID —PB2 E627K mutation detected Partial sequence from a Wyoming patient confirms H5N1 D1.1 genotype with PB2 E627K It’s a key adaptation for mammalian replication.

My staff and I are closely tracking the potential measles exposure in San Antonio that originated with a visitor from West Texas. If you visited any of the locations listed below, please watch out for symptoms (including fever or unexplained rash) and contact a doctor right away if they occur.

Possible measles exposures happened at various locations in San Antonio on Saturday, Feb. 15, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services.

We’ve had 4,635 people sign our strike card today! Will you be one of them to get us to atleast 5K? Our average daily strike card count ranges from 5-15K+ btw. 🪧 generalstrikeus.com 🪧

Sunday is MA day here, and on our page (🔗 in cømments)! If you're queer, trans/non-binary or disabled and you have a funraiser, or you're struggling in general, cømment and 🔗 below.

I just imagine waking up one day to see some guy I went to hs with and hated on the "new DOGE employees" list and being like "aw, man, that guy was the WORST!" And then remember that someone else is prob already saying that. Personally knowing them is so much worse than just knowing they like Elon.

Hilarious. After the DOGErs set up the new government-wide all employee email system in late January OPM, where it is housed, sent out an advisory which states explicitly that no employee ever has to respond to any of the emails. See 4.2 and 4.3. www.opm.gov/media/kfpozk...

He's everybody's favorite daddy for a reason. 🏳️‍⚧️

Crockett: "Down in Alabama, who's broke. Down in Louisiana, who's broke. I can go through pretty much the entire south and tell you that they're broke and rely on a lot of welfare from the government. To be perfectly honest, it is tax dollars from these big blue states...we're in the find out phase"

share.newsbreak.com/bme4kx29 How sad. Indiana wants to stop free books for kids. #FUINDIANA

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

I can’t remember where I read this, but it’s important: Why is it that when people think about traveling to the past, they worry about doing something small that will drastically change the present, but no one in the present thinks that doing something small today can drastically change the future?

We have been careful to avoid using the word coup, but it’s time to call it what it is—this is a coup. Trump signed an executive order granting only the attorney general or the president the authority to interpret laws executed by the executive branch.

Sayings we'll have to explain to our grandkids in the future, all because of this shitty timeline: "Oh, you got that EGG money?!" That's it. That's all I've been saying for weeks now. I'm sorry.

This is what oligarchy looks like.

Measles high infection rate is the reason we have not yet been able to eradicate it. That rate means you need a very high vaccination rate to prevent outbreaks. It is possible, but not with current levels of institutional distrust.

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes…

The average person with the flu gives it to around 1.4 people. The average person with measles gives it to between 12 and 18 people.

That’s more like it.

[The EO] announces a “Make Our Children Healthy Again Assessment”, which, among other things, will, “assess the prevalence of and threat posed by the prescription of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, stimulants, and weight-loss drugs.”

Measles causes immune system amnesia asm.org/articles/201...

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.