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A bit of good news: the administration has restored funding to Gavi, the organization that distributes vaccines in poor countries. The money has already been appropriated; the State Department just wasn’t disbursing it. www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

there's a weird charade-like quality to the whole blanche thing: a) he can likely continue in the role even if he's not confirmed (as trump says here); b) any future president could simply disregard the immunity agreement anyway

Trump says he may withdraw Todd Blanche for AG if John Cornyn & Thom Tillis don’t come around, at least until they’re out of office. Their key demand has been to rewrite the IRS settlement so as to kill Trump’s weaponization fund. Not clear the president is willing to do that.

you know which state had the second most Trump voters in 2024? over six million of them? almost beat out Texas for first? that’s right, deep blue California the man won’t even help out his own voters if their neighbors didn’t vote for him

I grew up in a proper country, in which Gore Vidal had beef w everyone & Lillian Hellman sued Mary McCarthy for something MM said on the Dick Cavett Show ("every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' & 'the'"--honestly an all-timer of a burn). Srsly critics fighting is a sign of cultural health!

NEW: The US government is on the hook for potentially millions of taxpayer dollars in legal bills sought by successful challengers to some of the Trump administration’s most controversial actions and policies www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

dems holding shadow hearings to get this info out is good politics

VITALI: Trump says he thinks this is because you don't like him CORNYN: I've voted with him 99.3% of the time. That has nothing to do with it. This is about making sure that even if you're the president, you don't get favorable terms from the government, like protections from audits

News: The U.S. economy grew at a disappointing 1.5% in the 2nd quarter of 2026. Congratulations to @sarahbca.bsky.social for her “Bookmark this” comment last December when Howard Lutnick said 2Q of 2026 would be “amazing.” @atrupar.com

For a brief moment, there was Congressional and governmental support to ensure that children didn't face deportation alone. Then the Trump administration moved to gut the programs, and tens of thousands of kids who have lawyers now may lose them, while hundreds of thousands more go without counsel.

The HIV/AIDS epidemic killed approximately 700,000 Americans before medication became effective and at least somewhat affordable. That’s roughly the equivalent of Cleveland proper, twice over.

This is a very stupid man whose wife picks up his prescriptions.

This is coming from the halls of Congress. The people that Republicans are sending to Congress from their gerrymandered districts are bugfuck insane

Terrific piece as usual from @gregsargent.bsky.social "We’re simultaneously getting inundated with nonstop trivialities and pratfalls, all of them direct outgrowths of Trump’s personal obsessions and pathologies, even as he’s cratering by just about every personal polling metric you can think of."

An unfortunate lag buries the perfectly clear signal that tariff walls do not encourage, but in fact smother manufacturing. (25/n)

The overwhelming right wing sentiment is that COVID was an engineered bioweapon that was also harmless. Trump overreacted to it by shutting down the country, then engineered a drive to create a vaccine that was the real bioweapon that killed millions, and it's Joe Biden's fault.

99% of the time, when someone accuses you of selective outrage, it’s a way of politically demobilizing you and shutting you up “Why are you angry about data centers instead of fast fashion” isn’t about making you care about fast fashion. It’s about shutting you up about data centers And visa versa

When your "mediators" are cutting their own deals:

If this gets instituted, we’re going to see a study in a few years that says, “Black children, and children of color, were pepper sprayed at nineteen times the rate of white children,” and mfers are going to act surprised, despite how clearly every data point says this will be the case.

What “they” did to your kids. Remind me again, who was president in the spring and fall of 2020 when the majority of in-person school closures happened?