No checks, no balances, just impulse.
The Senate voted 51-50 yesterday to let Trump do whatever he wants in Venezuela and Iran. Two Republicans who opposed him last week changed their votes after he screamed at them. That’s how it works now. One phone call, one threat, one capitulation.
This is the same man who suggested injecting disinfectant on live television. The same impulsiveness that produced hundreds of thousands of excess COVID deaths. Now he’s rewarded RFK Jr. with control of American health policy, and measles is doubling weekly in South Carolina. Officials there say they’re losing the ability to trace spread. The outbreak was 211 cases on January 6th. It’s 434 today, with over 400 people in quarantine.
With politicians abdicating their responsibilities, it falls to the rest of us. That means pushing back hard on the antivaxxers in your life who got a C+ in high school biology and now think they understand epidemiology better than scientists. They don’t. And the body count from indulging them continues when intellectually weak leaders like Trump are allowed to trade public health for political favors.
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Source: NBC News
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Source: Ars Technica
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Source: Axios
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Source: CNN
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Source: USA Today
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Source: Euronews
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Senator Slotkin says she's under federal investigation over November video advising troops they can refuse illegal orders, which Trump called "seditious behavior, punishable by death."
Source: Michigan Live
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Federal judges uphold California's Prop 50 congressional maps 2-1, rejecting claim that Democrat-favoring lines drawn to counter Texas gerrymandering violated Voting Rights Act.
Source: KCRA Sacramento
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Source: The Chicago Sun-Times
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Source: KMSP Minneapolis
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Justice Department apologizes for "mistake" in deporting Massachusetts college student despite court order, but argues error should not affect her case or require her return.
Source: The Associated Press
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Source: NBC News
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Source: K-12 Dive
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Senate defeats Venezuela war powers resolution 51-50 after two Republicans who supported it last week flipped under Trump pressure, with Vance casting tiebreaker.
Source: The Hill
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Source: UPI
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Source: The Washington Post
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Source: WAFB Baton Rouge
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