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February 6, 2025

Tuberculosis outbreak in Montana

This is so not good.

Reported by outbreak updates on twitter.



Multiple cases of tuberculosis reported in Ashland, Montana

The cases emerge alongside widespread outbreaks of influenza, RSV, and H1N1.

February 6, 2025

This might be a hopeful sign.

Obama White House photographer Pete Souza on Instagram:

"I’ve probably been to 100 political protests like this in my life, & there have always been counter protesters that show up. Until today.⁣⁣

NO ONE came to support Trump/Elon. Not a single counter-protesters. ZERO"⁣

February 5, 2025

One last one tonight.

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February 5, 2025

This seems appropriate too.

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February 5, 2025

When the Levee Breaks....

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February 4, 2025

Yes. And they plan to severely reduce the population. With the tinkering with the payment system,

We can expect to see no more Medicare or Medicaid or any help for the poor. No more social security, no more fed or veteran pensions.

No more pay for active duty military or Feds.

The economy will crash, tens of millions of us will die, and then there are the pandemics and lack of medicine, vaccines, and warnings.

This is the end, not only of the US, but of most of us as well.

February 4, 2025

Seen on r/fednews, sharing for a laugh (humor helps us deal with all this stress.)

Hey chat, what happens when you try to force 300 million people into being impoverished vassals of feudal tech bros when they have a culture of violence, a creation myth of violently resisting authoritarianism and relatively inexpensive access to magic fire sticks that can put down an elk at 700+yards? Is it good?

February 2, 2025

Ruth Ben-Ghiat

https://open.substack.com/pub/lucid/p/a-new-kind-of-coup-trump-and-musk?r=p3e2a&utm_medium=ios

Excerpt:

When I wrote my 2017 CNN essay, “Trump and Bannon’s Coup in the Making,” that described Donald Trump’s intent to give power to “a small group of loyal insiders, who take orders directly from the leader’s inner circle and…bypass those of the existing federal government and party bureaucracies,” Musk was not on my radar. Today, Musk would replace Steve Bannon in the title.

What is happening now builds on classic authoritarian dynamics as I described them in Strongmen and in many essays for Lucid. There is always an “inner sanctum” that really runs the show, with its mix of family members and cronies, some with histories of working with or for foreign powers. And there is almost always a purge of the federal bureaucracy. That is now being carried out on a mass scale.

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