Fareed Zakaria: "#ElonMusk choosing, thru #DOGE, to cut #USAID is a case of the world's richest man being involved in the deaths of the world's worse [off] people."
Bill Gates: "If you show up and say in a few months you can cut $2 trillion out of a $7 trillion budget, you're not going to succeed... He's a genius in some domains but in global health, it hasn't been a focus."
Can we start a pool on what disease(s) he'll pick up there? Hopefully something non-lethal, but extremely painful and long-lasting. https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/114495800775231103
#Trump has halted virtually all #refugee admissions for people fleeing #famine & #war from places like #Sudan & the Democratic Republic of #Congo. But he has created an expedited path into the country for #Afrikaners, a #white ethnic minority that created & led the brutal #apartheid regime in #SouthAfrica.
The refugee process often takes years. But only 3 months have passed from the time Trump signed an EO establishing refugee status for Afrikaners….
#Protests continue outside the concentration camp where they illegally abducted the mayor of Newark.
Katherine Wells, the public health director in Lubbock, Texas, describes her fight to stop the largest measles outbreak since 2000, despite a chaotic reorganization of federal health agencies.
#HealthScience #Healthcare #National #News #Texas #Cdc #MeaslesOutbreak #MeaslesVaccine #PublicHealth #TexasMeaslesOutbreak
Gov. Abbott supports a bill in Texas that is being hyped as a "furries" bill.
When you read it, it's a draconian ban on a common form of children's play: dressing up.
But really, the goal here is to stoke anti-LGBTQ hysteria.
https://www.salon.com/2025/05/12/texas-wants-to-ban-kids-from-playing-dress-up-yes-really/
FAA CHAOS IN THE SKIES >>> THANKS MAGA CULT VOTERS: #OMG... #Trump Has A Guy Named #SeanDuffy From #Hayward, Wisconsin That Was A Competitive #Lumberjack Athlete And An #MTV #RealityTV Actor And #FoxNews Contributor As #America's Guy In Charge Of The #FAA....
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/nyregion/newark-airport-flight-disruptions-duffy.html
#Trading records examined by NYT show that a flurry of purchases of the $TRUMP token started the day before the coin’s backers disclosed the contest. Information had leaked about the upcoming promotion, allowing certain parties to make early bets that the market price was about to jump, the records suggest.
This Republican administration is attempting to find someone corrupt enough to be their IRS director as there has now been four different tries in four months.
https://wbhm.org/npr-story/trump-is-looking-to-use-the-irs-for-his-own-political-ends-nixon-tried-it-too/
Translation from trump to English: Let's just invite all the Nazis in the world here To the US.
Why ICE grabs people off the streets:
If an officer knocks on your door:
Do not open the door.
ICE “warrants” are not signed by judges;
they are ICE forms signed by ICE officers
and they do not grant authority to enter a home without consent of the occupant(s).
https://immigrantjustice.org/know-your-rights/ice-encounter
https://bsky.app/profile/worcestermainfo.bsky.social/post/3lot5cakdnk2h
“We can do this the easy way (cutting Medicaid benefits) or the hard way (RFK Jr. actively trying to kill you).”
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One of the weirdest digital things about moving to a new country has been all the App Store region locked apps that are totally essential for basic utilities, shopping, and digital ID. If you have any Apple Care plans, you cannot switch region -until they expire-. So the only thing I have figured is making a second icloud in Australia and scheduling hours (because of the timer) to deregister and reregister my phone, install the apps in bulk, then switch back.
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