This is personal: "Appointing the 4 Horseman of the Scientific Apocalypse — RFK Jr. as Sec of #HHS, Dr. Oz to run Medicare & Medicaid services, Dr. Makary as head of the #FDA & Dr. Bhattacharya to run# NIH — has signaled the end of any serious approach to biomedical #science & public health by the federal govt. Together & separately, they have taken a wrecking ball to our august scientific institutions that were previously considered to be the best in the world."
Salon.com
Donald Trump goes nuclear in the GOP's war on science
Billions of dollars in cuts to research are leaving lives at stake
 #USPol
The administration would like the focus to be on fictional #FEMA camps rounding up white #Christians and not the concentration camps destroying the lives of kidnapped #immigrants -- and more on #Texas, #Noem, and #fascism from the amazing @npub19uv5...0rmu
Salon.com
Why Kristi Noem hates FEMA
No, Trump has not given up on the conspiracist mania to kill the popular agency
#Noem, dog killer, as @Nonilex always and correctly identifies her, is on a killing spree -- attacking anyone, any species that breathes. #Miller, too. "Federal immigration raids, primarily targeting Latino communities, began roiling Los Angeles in early June, animal rescues and care providers across the county are hearing desperate pleas for help."
Yahoo News
ICE raids are leaving some L.A. cats and dogs homeless
Chuco, a pit bull, was dropped at a shelter after his owner was deported last month. Many other dogs and cats in L.A. are facing similar circumstan...
 #DogsOfMastodon #CatsOfMastodon
Trump's Victory 45-47 is an idiotic fragrance that he is selling. Makes me think of Sex Panther (without any of the humor). #Trump
I think a lot about Emerson's quote, "the corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language" (Nature). With this in mind, I ask that people not use "Alligator Alcatraz" to identify the concentration camp in Florida. Do not use the language of the fascists. It masks (like the ICE agents who wear them) the reality of what is happening. Don't let them do that. #ConcentrationCamps #Fascism
Could not agree with this more. I now get my information from media that doesn't pretend that Lindsey Graham (or Josh Hawley and Tom Cotton, two other media darlings for some reason) has anything useful and accurate to say.
Salon.com
For the love of God, please stop interviewing Lindsey Graham - Salon.com
Trump's abused sycophant has nothing to say — but he's a symptom of a much bigger media problem
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"The creation of a network of concentration camps is . . . a politics, among other things, designed to draw businesses into a fascist order by normalizing dehumanization."
Concentration Camp Labor
Cannot Become Normal
 #TimothySnyder #Fascism #ConcentrationCamps
#ThreeGoodThings 1. The fediverse rallied around @npub16el8...n8vf and swatted away a social media meanie. 2. Wrote up an abstract on Shirley Jackson's "The Tooth," and it was quickly approved for a literature conference in November. 3. Took a 3 mile walk with a friend.
Curb appeal your enthusiasm #ShowsAndMoviesTheSuburbs #HashTagGames
We are under seige in #LA: A suspected fed. agent is seen exiting a Dodge Charger @ an intersection & pointing his gun @ members of the public. Acc. to #Pasadena officials, the vehicle's license plate is a "cold plate," or untraceable, which is typically used by law enforcement in undercover criminal operations. "One question is this a law enforcement agent or someone pretending to be a law enforcement agent, & there is no good answer" (Mayor Gordo).
Yahoo News
'Who are these people?' Masked immigration agents challenge local police, sow fear in L.A.
Local police have little or no insight into where the federal enforcement actions are taking place. In some cases, local cops have been mistaken fo...
 #USPol #Fascism