We’ve got one shot, one opportunity

To lick the boot of thine oppressor

You know how sometimes you have a “contact and then it, and then somehow it gets sucked in” to another contact on your phone? You know?

An 8-year-old girl with measles died Thursday morning, the second measles-related death in an ongoing outbreak that has infected nearly 500 Texans since January.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic, is expected to visit Texas Sunday, NBC News reported.

The child was not vaccinated and had no known underlying health conditions, said a spokesperson for University Medical Center in Lubbock, where the child had been hospitalized. “This unfortunate event underscores the importance of vaccination,” the statement read. “We encourage all individuals to stay current with their vaccinations to help protect themselves and the broader community.”

This disease was beaten. This is child abuse and should maybe even be considered manslaughter given the willful negligence.

Do they want torches and pitchforks? Because continuously allowing open corruption to go unchallenged in full view of the public is how you get torches and pitchforks.

“I’ll just put that with the other fire”

It’s soul crushing at this point to see how effectively a bad actor can fuck up the US. A carnival barker is nominating arsonists and telling everyone the bonfire is going to be amazing and loved by all, and instead of giving consideration to what the fuel for the bonfire will be, the half of the Senate comprised of arsonists and pyromaniacs has decided the bonfire must be funded at all costs and should be the biggest bonfire ever.

I fucking hate this. Fuck fascists.

This is the baseline standard we should be expecting in these trying times. Extenuating circumstances call for extenuating measures, and our representatives need to start showing up for the job in visible and historic ways just like this. Set the standard and hold the line. Fascists are not honest negotiators.

I believe we are rapidly headed toward smoking counterfeit Cuban cigars laced with unknown amounts of formaldehyde inside stuck elevators, sadly

“Nobody knew health care could be so complicated”

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Nobody expects the Trumpian Inquisition!

That we know of.

The outgroup must grow to feed the machine

I kinda assumed they had either already exfiltrated whatever they wanted to add to their AI dataset or had backdoor access at this point. But that’s the neat part! No one knows!

9 votes. 2 (maybe) recuse, leaving 7. 3 of those 7 appointed by Trump, another a swing voice but also the same one that apparently thought t had kingly immunity in a way that in the past most reasonable folks thought was un-American.

I mean, better odds are better odds. But I’m not confident this isn’t a bought court already, recusal or not.

I am about to read the article, I’ve not read it yet, my comment is based solely on the actors in this particular description.

Edit:

Vox’s Ian Millhiser reported Wednesday that “if the Supreme Court accepts an argument raised by a federal appeals court, which struck down the federal program, it would bring about one of the biggest judicial power grabs in American history, and hobble the government’s ability to do, well, pretty much anything.”

Yup, so far, I’m of the same low confidence

Edit2, I’ll try and stop after this, sorry:

While “all six conservatives now sitting on the Supreme Court can credit Leo with helping to shepherd their confirmations,” the watchdog’s report states, the right-wing legal activist is “close personal friends” with Alito and Thomas.

Exactly, it’s instinct for him. The planners are all the people around him, and they are pushing their plans (see Project 2025, for example), but for Trump all the stuff he says and does is automatic. That’s my read, anyway.

Are any known backups of the data available for archiving?

Anyone know the number for it?

Edit: /s obviously I hope

It’s so frustrating that Camila doesn’t deserve any of this, but the person saying they wouldn’t change their decision and does deserve to see consequences will refuse to actually feel them.

Like, I want her out, but how dare this asshole say he regrets nothing while asking others to bail him out for the thing he voted for and still wants more of? Why is a social safety net OK in this case to this guy, but not for anyone else?

The detentions are a for-profit endeavor, the people are being treated inhumanely, and this is all some Nazi-level shit. I want all the allies that can be won away from the neofascists. I fucking hate this particular dude’s refusal to recognize the taste of boot leather though, even as it impacts his supposed loved ones. It’s maddening.

Free Camila.