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RFK Jr. and Jay Bhattacharya must resign
NEW: On Friday, a gunman shot up the CDC campus in Atlanta. He reportedly believed himself injured by the COVID-19 vaccine.

The following day, NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya appeared on Steve Bannon’s War Room and called to end the mRNA platform while promoting misinformation about the shots.
NIH Director Spreads Vaccine Misinformation One Day After CDC Shooting
Jay Bhattacharya called to end the mRNA platform on Steve Bannon’s War Room.
www.importantcontext.news
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MAGA: Children shouldn’t learn about slavery.

Also MAGA: We’re reinstalling this monument of a confederate general who fought to preserve slavery.
New in PN: Trump's Confederacy rises again

"The straightforward explanation for Trump’s Confederacy fetish is that he’s a virulent racist who would’ve enslaved people himself. If you think that’s hyperbolic, just listen to the man."
Trump's Confederacy rises again
The Lost Cause doesn't seem all that lost anymore.
www.publicnotice.co
The. comments section gives a useful window into the editorial policies of the NY Times. Not what they contain, but what they censor. Sure ways to get your comment nuked, call Trump:
- corrupt
- senile or question his mental acuity
- mention his age and infirmity
Sorry, but the NYT supports him
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The Department of Justice is pretending it needed to talk to notorious liar Ghislaine Maxwell to know the truth about Jeffrey Epstein, when it is concealing thousands of documents about him that don’t lie. It’s a sick farce.
The human cost of China's chemical warfare attack on the US. Fentanyl is very tightly regulated in China, but they turn a blind eye or worse on exporting fentanyl and precursors to the West
www.mlive.com/news/kalamaz...
‘People overdosed,’ drug dealer texts friend who had already died in mass poisoning
They planned to open food trucks together. Now, one is dead and the other is in federal prison.
www.mlive.com
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Little known, America was a British penal colony. During the 17th and 18th Centuries, tens of thousands of convicts were sent to the colonies as indentured labor. England only started using Australia when the Revolutionary War closed American ports podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
When Britain Sent Its Convicts to America
Podcast Episode · American History Hit · 07/07/2025 · 28m
podcasts.apple.com
Public schools have been one of America's great strengths. The Trump administration continues its war on the fabric of our society.

Trump administration withholding $157M in funding for Michigan schools

www.detroitnews.com/story/news/e...
Trump administration withholding $157M in funding for Michigan schools
Michigan leader called for the funding to be released immediately, saying it supports economically disadvantaged and vulnerable students.
www.detroitnews.com
Human intelligence is the result of millions of years of biological evolution to create systems that can live and work with each other. AIs have none of that. In essence AIs are sociopaths.

The Monster Inside ChatGPT
www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
Opinion | The Monster Inside ChatGPT
We discovered how easily a model’s safety training falls off, and below that mask is a lot of darkness.
www.wsj.com
The costs of gun violence we too often ignore. Security guard suffered a shattered tibia and will be out of work for months, may well end up with a permanent disability. Deacon lost his truck.

GoFundMe efforts set up for 2 heroes who prevented mass church shooting

www.freep.com/story/news/l...
GoFundMe efforts set up for 2 heroes who prevented mass church shooting
A security officer injured in church shooting will be out of work for five months, while the deacon who ran over the gunman lost his truck in gunfire.
www.freep.com
Alert parishioner and a security guard averted a mass murder. Authorities said Browning was armed with an AR-15 style rifle, more than a dozen fully loaded magazines, a semi-automatic handgun with an extended magazine, and hundreds of rounds of ammunition. www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...
Police ID suspected gunman fatally shot at Wayne church
Officials said his mother was a member of the church.
www.detroitnews.com
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Nissan Leaf, on road since 2009 and best sold EV model worldwide on 1-1-2020: zero (!) people burned alive

27 fire victims in the cheap Ford Pinto half a century ago, "worst fire hazard car ever in automotive history"

And now 138+ burned alive in a Tesla:

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
People burned alive in a Tesla, by Ton Aarts
docs.google.com
Americans want and deserve secure borders and control over immigration, but as we clean up the mess of decades of failed border policy, we need ways to recognize people who have contributed to society and not caused trouble www.mlive.com/public-inter...
After driving 6 mph over speed limit on a rural U.P. road, couple faces deportation
More than 200 miles away from the Canadian border, in a remote corner of the Upper Peninsula, a couple was stopped by police and picked up by border agents.
www.mlive.com
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The Trump regime has quietly shut down the only federal agency that investigates industrial chemical explosions. Hazardous chemical accidents happen in the US just about every other day. Eliminating the US Chemical Safety & Hazard Investigation Board will come at a huge cost to safety—and lives👇
Trump quietly shutters the only federal agency that investigates industrial chemical explosions
The Chemical Safety Board, a federal agency that investigates large-scale industrial chemical disasters, will close under Trump's orders.
grist.org
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It’s always fun when the “anti government paranoia” switch gets flipped to the “actually we love our armed agents of the state, don’t we folks” side
Fox News host Will Cain: "The 'No Secret Police Act' would ban local, state, and federal law enforcement from covering their faces when interacting with the public. Officers would also have to wear identifying information on them, like name tags. Hard to believe this is real!"
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Amy Klobuchar (who got Mike Lee to take down his hateful tweets) speaking now.

www.c-span.org/event/us-sen...
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I worry about the disabling effects of the viruses RFK Jr wants to let run rampant

Long Covid surpassed asthma to become the most common chronic illness in children

Measles & polio both disable at an alarming rate

What will happen to these kids under a Regime that devalues disabled lives?
The apps are being distributed nationally. Where are the FBI and FCC? Why are we relying on state Attorneys General to file lawsuits blocking foreign actors putting malware in apps? www.wsj.com/opinion/nebr...
Opinion | Chinese Spyware, Only $6.99
Nebraska sues Temu for siphoning sensitive data from Americans.
www.wsj.com