@elizathewell
Former CDC exec. Public health taught me the power of we. Now I’m channeling that into democracy—because silence isn’t strength, and I don’t do sidelines. I’m here for data, decency, & taking back our country
The Clavicular saga shows what happens when masculinity becomes a competition to maximize looks, violence, and dominance — men torturing their bodies and souls chasing a hollow ideal, losing empathy, relationships, and humanity in the process.
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McConnell is using his procedural authority to prevent a filibuster‑blocked bill from ever getting to a vote, because even many Republicans — including centrists and those worried about federal overreach — aren’t sold on the hardline election restrictions it contains.
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🚫 Trump’s new Cuba blockade isn’t about security — it’s about cruelty. Strangling a nation when its people are most vulnerable is not policy, it’s punishment—and it is unethical.
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Ossoff isn’t just attacking Trump — he’s calling him a “symptom of a deeper disease” in American politics, saying a demagogue twice elected on false promises shows the system itself is broken and being “re‑rigged” for the powerful, not the public.
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Trump ramped up tariff rhetoric for years, even calling the word “tariff” his favorite — but today a court he helped shape through its justices rebuffed him. That’s a rare institutional check against a policy Trump had touted as a signature achievement.  www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The Heritage Foundation just redefined “conservative education”: hiring a former gay porn star to lecture on values. It’s peak MAGA absurdity—proof that when ideology empties the brain, chaos fills the office. Satire writes itself.
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⛸️ American Olympians aren’t mum — they’re speaking truth from podiums and pressers about immigration, human rights, and what it really feels like to represent the U.S. while its politics are in turmoil.
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🚨That’s shockingly vile, reductive, and misogynistic. Fuentes is not just misrepresenting history—he’s trying to erase half of human achievement to fit a narrow, dehumanizing worldview.
The man is a pig. 🐷
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🔹The “Board of Peace” became a vaudeville of vanity — macabre, self-satisfied, profoundly unserious. A stage set for self-applause. And then, as if on cue, the curtain fell and so did he—totally asleep.
Trump’s “Board of Peace” inaugural meeting looked less like a global olive branch and more like a high-stakes PR stunt: billions pledged, questionable memberships, and key Western allies sitting it out — all while Gaza’s violence and civilian suffering persist in the background.
📌 Trump unveils a “Board of Peace” and can’t keep his eyes open long enough to fake interest. The self-anointed strongman now nods off at his own launch events — projecting not dominance, but decline.
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Goldman’s former general counsel wasn’t just in Epstein’s orbit — she conferred with him on a Secret Service prostitution scandal while he was a convicted sex offender, forwarding draft emails with nonpublic details and swapping advice
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📌 The unexpected twist isn’t just that Republican turnout is slipping—it’s how sharply enthusiasm gaps favor Democrats even in districts the GOP normally dominates.
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3️⃣ Trump and the GOP seem to believe the American outrage over elite impunity is just background noise. Meanwhile, the rest of us are staring at a carnival of audacity, wondering how the powerful keep getting away with everything while the public eats dust. 😡
2️⃣ This isn’t a scandal; it’s a system. Trump’s DOJ redacts names, defends corporate crime, and seeks to block states from holding fossil fuels accountable — all while everyday Americans face harsher penalties for minor offenses. Elite impunity is the policy.
1️⃣ The GOP’s entire operation has collapsed into a single priority: protect the rich and powerful from consequences. From shielding Epstein’s circle to Bayer’s pesticide liability and Big Oil’s climate accountability lawsuits GOP is on the side of impunity
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2️⃣ Democrats on the oversight panel blasted Wexner’s testimony as implausible, saying extensive financial ties and file mentions contradict his claims of ignorance — raising fresh questions about how power and access shield the elite from accountability
1️⃣ Billionaire Les Wexner told House investigators he was “duped” by Jeffrey Epstein and knew nothing of the sex crimes tied to him, claiming a decades‑long relationship was purely financial despite evidence of his name over 1,000 times in the Epstein files
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3. David Boies: Brunel backing out “set us back a couple of years.” During that time, more than 50 girls were trafficked. Modeling visas. Private jets. Island trips. A network protected by fear and proximity to power. Silence had consequences
2️⃣ Epstein found out. Emails reveal him dismissing intermediaries as “scammers,” questioning credibility, and being fully aware Brunel might testify. DOJ coordination continued… but Brunel didn’t go in. He wasn’t arrested. Epstein remained free for 3 more years.
🚨 Jean-Luc Brunel — Epstein’s alleged recruiter of girls — was negotiating immunity with lawyers for Epstein’s victims. Notes show: “Brunel is afraid of being prosecuted.” He had incriminating photos and was ready to cooperate. And then… he vanished
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3. The public gets risk. Corporations get immunity.
Invoke “national security” to turbocharge a chemical facing tens of thousands of cancer lawsuits — and suddenly profit becomes patriotic
2️⃣ The order could shield manufacturers from lawsuits.
The Defense Production Act can limit certain liabilities. With tens of thousands of Roundup cancer suits pending — and the Supreme Court about to weigh federal preemption — this move has major legal implications.
1️⃣ Trump invoked the Defense Production Act to boost glyphosate production.
He declared glyphosate and phosphorus “critical to national defense,” arguing that losing access would threaten agricultural productivity and the domestic food supply.
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U2 has surprise‑released Days of Ash, their first new music in nearly a decade, opening with “American Obituary,” a protest song honoring Renee Good — the Minnesota mother shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis.
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That disconnect — hosting a celebration while sidestepping or minimizing why many are outraged over racial imagery and rhetoric — is why critics say the White House’s handling of Black History Month this year feels hollow or even offensive
RFK Jr. on a stationary bike with Kid Rock, shirtless, chugging whole milk like it’s a manifesto. Public health has never looked so much like a midlife crisis set to a rock soundtrack.
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🚨 The most unsettling detail isn’t just who treated Epstein’s victims — it’s how routine it all looked. White coats, appointment books, invoices. Abuse dressed up as healthcare. The scandal isn’t only criminal. It’s institutional.
New documents show Jeffrey Epstein maintained a network of medical professionals — including multiple NYC OB/GYNs and a dermatologist — who provided sexual health services to young women in his trafficking network and were paid directly by him.
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Cassidy thought backing RFK Jr. would curry MAGA favor. Instead, he’s stuck with broken promises, a chaotic HHS, and Trump plotting his primary. Politics: messy. Consequences: inevitable.
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