NEW from Aaron Rupar & Noah Berlatsky in Public Notice:
'What’s most striking in the Time Magazine interview is that Trump, even after four years as president, has virtually no grasp on any policy issue beyond empty talking points, most of which are lies.'
publicnotice.co/p/trump-time-m…

Josh Marshall it's amazing how divisive it has become in leftist online spaces to merely point out that doing anything but voting for Biden this November is self-destructive. we seem disturbingly eager to self-immolate this year.

on MSNBC Ari Melber just (erroneously) referred to Karen MacDougal as 'Susan MacDougal'.

TV reporters make simple verbal gaffes like this every single day. Every hour on cable news.

But if Joe Biden did this, 'he has dementia!'

THREAD: A deeper look at Jared Kushner, and investments he has made with his Saudi-backed $3 billion fund. Let's walk through a few of them. First, here is the story we published giving an overview. Story with Jonathan Swan Maggie Haberman nytimes.com/2024/04/09/us/…

Deregulation strikes again!
'Ground-up chicken waste fed to cattle may be behind bird flu outbreak in US cows... Experts warn that lax regulations could also see the virus spread to US pig farms, with serious consequences for human health'
telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

I still think it's wild that Elon Musk bought Twitter with Saudi/Qatari money and turned it into a firehose of racism, anti-semitism, and eugenics and no elected Democrat has said a f'ing word about it. It's a pretty big deal!

Have we ever had a #H5N1 case jump to a human from a mammal, though?

'The good news is this is not a serious problem' -Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller stunningly told NPR about the #H5N1 outbreak, tearing a page from the Trump Covid playbook npr.org/2024/03/31/124….

#H5N1 updates

A person* in the United States has tested positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) A(H5N1) virus (“H5N1 bird flu”), as reported by Texas and confirmed by CDC.

*contact w/ sick cows reported

cdc.gov/media/releases…

This has the potential to be significant- watch for worsening of cases and animal to human transmission

Truly do not believe it's 'the pandemic' and schools closing for a few months in 2020 that has caused an epidemic of childhood anxiety, self-harm and social isolation.
The seeds were planted by unregulated tech in 2010.
theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

U.S. Embassy in Moscow put this out on March 7. Clearly they picked up signals intel about something being planned and they'll have even passed it onto the Russians as a matter of American law re: duty to inform on credible terrorism threats. ru.usembassy.gov/security-alert…

“In Raymond Chandler’s novel The Long Goodbye, the private eye Philip Marlowe breaks off a friendship with a searing farewell: ‘You talk too damn much and too damn much of it is about you.’ When historians write their epitaphs for Trump’s 2024 campaign, that could well be their…

Why did Trump flipflop on TikTok?

He was the one who first wanted to ban it.

But after meeting with a billionaire investor in the company, Trump is suddenly pro-TikTok.

Whatever you think of TikTok, this is why we need to know where Trump's getting the $ to pay his debts.

Simply stellar work by Merrick Garland here, beginning to end.

because the story was not related to Biden's age.

I wouldn't call myself a Biden stan but it is all a bit bewildering.
And as a woman, LOSING MY RIGHTS because of an extreme right-wing minority agenda, there is NO QUESTION who I will be voting for, enthusiastically and without hesitation.
gift link > nytimes.com/2024/03/04/us/…