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Bonus points for Marty Makary (a surgeon with no particular experience in infectious disease) being the spokesperson for this. I wonder if he's the only licensed doctor they could find in the government willing to advocate for this policy?

... I have one of those wearable devices that monitors my heart rate, sleep quality, activity level, and calories burned. Mine is called an Oura ring, and at the end of the day, it told me what I already knew: I had been “unusually stressed.” When this happens, the device asks you to log the source of your stress. I scrolled through the wide array of options—diarrhea, difficulty concentrating, erectile dysfunction, emergency contraceptives. I could not find “financial issues,” or anything remotely related to money, listed.

No other Democrat senator supported convicted felon Charles Kushner for a top diplomatic role.

Michael Sainato Tue 20 May 2025 07.00 EDT

The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division is in upheaval amid a mass exodus of attorneys as the Trump administration moves to radically reshape the division, shelving its traditional mission and replacing it with one focused on enforcing the president's executive orders.

The US Department of Health and Human Services said on Monday that it was terminating $60 million in federal grants to Harvard University, saying the Ivy League institution failed to address antisemitic harassment and ethnic discrimination on campus.

Who's a pussy-wussy snowflake? Yes you, yes you are..

After the Trump administration charged a sitting judge and a sitting mayor in separate cases, a Democratic member of Congress has joined the list.

President Donald Trump’s most ardent supporters are motivated by their prejudices, not economic concerns, social scientists contend. Will Democrats stop trying to win their votes?

Progressive members of the Democratic supermajority in the Illinois General Assembly are pushing forward a bill to reverse the decade-old state ban on boycotts of Israel, Capital News Illinois reported on Sunday.

We know you're gonna fuck us so fuck you first.

from #AssociatedPress #APNews By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Updated 5:46 PM EDT, May 19, 2025

Johana Bhuiyan Mon 19 May 2025 14.27 EDT

I created a new word, it's called repercussions...

WTF

US President Donald Trump has been increasing pressure on Israel over recent days, an anonymous source told The Washington Post on Monday.

On May 12, California Governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, demanded that cities throughout the state adopt anti-camping ordinances that would effectively ban public homelessness by requiring unhoused individuals to relocate every 72 hours.

Or how America imports White Supremacists.

Snowflake

It's like they can't help being assholes.

Donald Trump Jr. and MAGAworld pounced on the news of Joe Biden’s cancer diagnosis with wild speculation about a long term “cover-up” of the former president’s disease.

from #TheSeattleTimes May 19, 2025 at 12:42 pm Updated May 19, 2025 at 4:32 pm

Americans: I recommend calling your congressmember today and asking that they vote against the current budget bill. The Capitol switchboard is 202-224-3121

Chris Murphy says Trump strategically visited Gulf states ‘willing to pay him off’ as backlash rises against luxury offer

https://archive.is/WFFt1

Former President Joe Biden was diagnosed with an “aggressive form” of prostate cancer, according to a statement from his personal office Sunday, and it has spread to his bones.

The U.S. is in talks with 19 nations, including Libya, Kosovo, Rwanda, and Moldova, to accept deportees from other countries. Nick Turse, Jonah Valdez May 15 2025, 11:03 a.m.

According to a bombshell report from the Washington Post, the Department of Justice under Attorney General Pam Bondi is considering a plan that would let federal prosecutors investigate and indict members of Congress unfettered by traditional oversight designed to stop political persecution.

Biden's office announced his illness Sunday afternoon.

The Food and Drug Administration has issued a long-awaited approval of Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine but with unusual restrictions.

Critics say the administration is breaking the law and sidestepping the rulemaking process that presidents of both parties have routinely followed.

Trump is still seething at the Supreme Court for halting his efforts to deport immigrants under the Alien Enemies Act without due process

If you have a brain and can think, you find that you too would extremely hate this shitbag.

May 16, 2025

The Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section is charged with ensuring cases against elected officials are not politically motivated. The Trump administration is considering changing that.

Donald Trump is raging against the Supreme Court after it temporarily blocked his administration from using a centuries-old wartime law to fast-track migrant deportations. On Saturday, Trump ramped up his attacks by highlighting a plan to move “terrorists” near justices’ homes.

Police say explosion outside American Reproductive Centers fertility clinic was ‘an intentional act of violence’

The Jackson, Kentucky, office is one of a growing number of forecast offices unable to cover an overnight shift since the Trump administration cut staffing levels through buyouts and firings.

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok, integrated into X (formerly Twitter), sparked backlash after promoting the debunked “white genocide” myth and expressing skepticism about the Holocaust death toll.

Leaders in the Republican-led Oklahoma Legislature introduced a resolution to reject the standards, but there wasn’t enough GOP support to pass it.

The Government Accountability Office told the DOGE acting administrator that it is part of the legislative branch.

Legislation would establish fees to seek asylum, care for a minor in US custody or apply for humanitarian parole

... while many have speculated that the Qataris have offered Trump the luxurious plane to curry favor with the famously transactional president, there may be a simpler rationale: they just don’t want it anymore.

The life-size sculpture near Sevnica in central Slovenia, where Melanija Knavs was born in 1970, was unveiled in 2020 during US President Donald Trump's first term in office.

No buddy, the Constitution is supposed to protect the people from fuck nuggets like Trump.

The original article: https://www.axios.com/2025/05/16/biden-hur-tape-special-counsel-audio

Fingers crossed for Mar-a-Lago. Preferably with the owner in it.

Many of those who were loudest in denouncing cancel culture then are now curiously silent in the face of Donald Trump’s assaults on free speech.

Flinched

Oh I think I know how this will end.

Justice Elena Kagan appeared baffled by Team Trump’s legal strategy.

The new pick for surgeon general, Casey Means, doesn’t have an active medical license. But she does have ‘impeccable MAHA credentials’

12 republicans joined all 60 democrats in the Texas house to vote to formally repeal the gay sex ban that was ruled unconstitutional in 2003

7-2 ruling

NBC News, citing five unnamed US officials, reported on Friday that the Trump administration plans to permanently "relocate" up to one million Palestinians to Libya.

DOGE is continuing its attempts to expand its reach beyond executive branch agencies, this time seeking to embed in an independent legislative watchdog that finds waste, fraud and abuse in the government.

the right-wing Republicans ... are demanding more spending cuts from Medicaid and from federal clean energy programs

The House Budget Committee voted down the massive party-line package, with a critical band of Republicans pushing for deeper spending cuts.

FBI Director Kash Patel announced in a Fox News broadcast Friday that he’s redeploying 1,500 FBI agents, analysts and other personnel from Washington to posts throughout the country, and shutting down the bureau’s storied headquarters because it is “unsafe for our workforce.”