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Ladies and gentlemen, the new Secretary of Education… Oh, and she’s one of the normal ones compared to the other Trump cabinet picks 🤦‍♂️

Trump's mandate? It's very shallow. Trump's now under 50% in the popular vote. His margin ranks 44 of 51 since 1824. Weak coattails: 4 Dems won for Senate in states Trump won. (It was 0 in 2016 & 2020.) The GOP is on track for smallest House majority since there were 50 states.

More broadly, pushing Hegseth, Gaetz and all the other abusers and harassers signals to women -- intentionally -- -- there are in fact no consequences to men, not even when reported, not even when made public. You're on your own, you lose, forget #metoo.

"To be as clear as I can be, the second Trump administration with Elon Musk embedded within it represents the most direct and sustained threat to the First Amendment and the freedom of the press any of us will ever experience." status.news/p/nilay-patel-…

Scathing admonishment of Republicans by the National Review: "The idea that the Speaker would collude with the President to undermine the Senate’s constitutional role and make the legislative branch a passive plaything of the executive should outrage." nationalreview.com/corner/senate-…

A majority of the electorate has rejected Trump three times in a row. x.com/Redistrict/sta…

Have you ever watched a baby die of pertussis? I have. Several. This is what it looks like: A newborn baby can’t stop coughing. They can’t catch their breath and they can’t eat. They get dehydrated and stop peeing. They sometimes have pauses in their breathing. Parents are terrified so they come to the ER. In the ER, labs show they have a dangerously high white blood cell count. Their blood has become thick from the white blood cells and doesn’t travel through organs like it should. Less oxygen gets delivered to vital organs. They start to seize. Imaging reveals they had a stroke. They can’t pump blood to their lungs and body. A breathing tube gets placed in their trachea. They get put on a ventilator. A plastic catheter is placed in their veins and arteries to give them medicine and measure blood pressure. If they are lucky, they can make it to a #PedsICU that provides #ECMO, or full heart lung bypass. They are attached to machines that take over all their body functions. But it’s too late. Their hands and feet turn black because they can’t perfuse their bodies. Their faces turn grey/green. They won’t stop seizing from the brain injury. They are attached to too many machines to hold while alive and parents lay their bodies on top of them and cry until they fall asleep then cry again. There is nothing to do but stop the machines. Antibiotics to treat pertussis were given but were no match for the infections effects on a newborn baby. Parents finally hold their baby after the machines have turned off and their baby is cold and lifeless. Is this what you want? This is what RFK Jr will bring to American families.

For the ‘this is what America voted for’ crowd, it’s worth remembering that the chair of Trump’s transition promised that RFK Jr. would not be in charge of HHS. The Trump campaign explicitly lied to voters.

Dems are like, “we take institutions seriously so we’ll nominate Merrick Garland who will be meticulous and slow so no one will ever suspect him of political bias” and GOP is like “LOL MATT GAETZ AS AG”

George W. Bush retains his title as the only Republican to win a majority of the vote in a 21st century presidential election

Russians see Donald Trump’s win as a victory for conservative, isolationist forces in the world against a liberal, Western-dominated global order.

The LGBTQ youth suicide prevention and crisis intervention group The Trevor Project said in a statement it had "an approximately a 125% increase in crisis contact volume" on Election Day through Wednesday morningcompared to typical days.

Last year, the number of OB-GYN resident applicants in Texas dropped 16%. “Not only do they not want to train here, but that also means that they won't want to practice here,” says Dr. Emily Briggs. cbsn.ws/4hyPICR

“Anyone who has lived in the Soviet Union or in Putin’s Russia will tell you what it’s like to fear publicly condemning the government. In Trump, I hear echoes of Soviet leaders past and Russian leaders present.” By ⁦@Kasparov63⁩ thedispatch.com/article/us-des…

Abortion bans kill another woman. On the day of her baby shower, Nevaeh Crain went to the ER bleeding & feverish. She was diagnosed with sepsis, a deadly infection - but her fetus still had a heart beat. She was sent home. After her 3rd ER visit, she died. propublica.org/article/nevaeh…

Billionaires spend nearly $2 billion on the 2024 US presidential election (60% more than during the 2020 election). Almost three quarters of billionaire campaign spending goes to Republicans. Such massive billionaire campaign spending is not a sign of a healthy democracy.

Georgia SOS Raffensperger, a Republican, on fake video of purported Haitian immigrant claiming to have voted multiple times: “We ask Elon Musk and the leadership of other social media platforms to take this down. This is obviously fake and part of a disinformation effort.”

A frank and productive exchange of views with my counterpart on key issues like expanding the global supply of candy and toys and tightening sanctions against chores.

Trump’s literal website:

The Honorable Thomas B. Griffith of the United States Courts of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (ret.): “I yearn for the day when traditional conservatives argued that character counts in our political leaders,