February 7, 2025 Idiocracy, Medicine
Ars Technica reports: As of mid-day February 7, the outbreak total reached nine confirmed measles cases in the South Plains Public Health District (SPPHD) that includes Gaines County, according to Zach Holbrooks, Executive Director for SSPHD. In an interview with Ars, Holbrooks reported that there were three additional probable cases that are linked to the confirmed cases. Gaines County has …
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February 7, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
The New York Times reports: President Trump announced his intention on Friday to bring the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington more firmly under his control, saying he would dismiss several board members and install himself as chairman. “At my direction, we are going to make the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., GREAT AGAIN,” Mr. Trump …
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February 7, 2025 Christianists, Infighting Is Funny
Current reports: Thousands and thousands of Christian organizations, including Trump acolyte Franklin Graham’s Samaritan’s Purse, have taken federal money to help advance their missions. Christian charities have lost funds as a result of Trump’s cuts to USAID. They include World Vision, World Relief, International Justice Mission, Samaritan’s Purse, and Catholic Relief Services. Some Trump evangelicals are also attacking evangelical organizations …
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February 7, 2025 Extremists, Trump cultists
The Daily Mail reports: MAGA favorite Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene signaled she could have ambitions to run for higher office as President Donald Trump loyalists move to lock in control in Washington. Greene acknowledged she is thinking about challenging Democratic Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff who is up for reelection next year in the battleground state. She is also considering a …
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February 7, 2025 LGBT News, Trump Administration
Boston’s PBS affiliate reports: The annual State Department report documenting the severity of human trafficking around the world will not include a section on LGBTQ victims this year, one of its authors told GBH News. Each year the State Department publishes what it calls the Trafficking in Persons Report — also known as TIP — to gauge how individual countries …
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February 7, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
Mother Jones reports: Last year, Kash Patel, the MAGA provocateur whom Donald Trump has nominated to head the FBI, received $25,000 from a Russia-linked production company to participate in a documentary in which he assailed the FBI and called for closing its headquarters. In this film—which credits Patel as an executive producer—he offers a blistering attack on the FBI. He …
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February 7, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
Politico reports: A federal judge today ordered an immediate halt to key aspects of President Donald Trump’s effort to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development, blocking Secretary of State Marco Rubio from placing 2,200 employees of the agency on leave in a matter of hours. “They should not put those 2,200 people on administrative leave,” U.S. District Judge Carl …
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February 7, 2025 Racism, Republicans
“I cannot overstate how much I loathe this emotional blackmail pretending to be concern. My kids, god willing, will be risk takers. They won’t think constantly about whether a flippant comment or a wrong viewpoint will follow them around for the rest of their lives. “They will tell stupid jokes. They will develop views that they later think are wrong …
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February 7, 2025 Democrats, LGBT News
The Associated Press reports: Three Democratic states sued the Trump administration on Friday over its order to ban federal funding for gender-affirming care for transgender people under 19. Washington state Attorney General Nick Brown filed the federal lawsuit in the Western District of Washington. The attorneys general of Oregon and Minnesota, and three doctors, also joined as plaintiffs. The complaint …
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February 7, 2025 Immigration, Trump Administration
NBC News reports: San Francisco officials filed a federal lawsuit on Friday against the Trump administration, arguing Trump’s executive orders that promise to withhold federal funding from sanctuary cities and prosecute local law enforcement officials who refuse to comply with federal immigration enforcement efforts are unconstitutional. The suit, co-led by San Francisco and Santa Clara County officials, comes as the …
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