As federal workers and aid recipients suffer,
Trump’s assholes are unmoved:

“They get the one starving kid in Sudan that isn’t going to have a USAID bottle, and they make everything DOGE has done about the starving kid in Sudan"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/15/federal-workers-aid-recipients-reel-trumps-team-says-so-what/

⚡️ 46 thousand dead, 380 thousand wounded - #Zelensky announced #Ukraine's losses in the war with #Russia

The president also noted that the #Russians deported 19.5 thousand #Ukrainian children. The exact number of civilian casualties in the occupied territories remains unknown.

"Tens of thousands are missing or held captive. [...] Mass graves and crimes in the liberated territories only confirm the scale of #Russian terror," #Zelensky emphasized.

It’s not even clear if Trump cares if the world believes that with a few strokes of his sharpie he can changed the 400-year-old name of the Gulf of Mexico.

He gets a perverse thrill from watching bootlickers in his entourage repeat it on command. https://digbysblog.net/2025/02/15/bootlickers-anonymous/

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What a $2 Million Per Dose Gene Therapy Reveals About Drug Pricing
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Taxpayers and charities helped develop Zolgensma. Then it debuted at a record price, ushering in a new class of wildly expensive drugs. Its story upends the widely held conception that high prices reflect huge industry investments in innovation.

https://www.propublica.org/article/zolgensma-sma-novartis-drug-prices-gene-therapy-avexis?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Health #Healthcare #Medicine #Genetics #Biotech #Science

The DOGE website is wide open and vulnerable to hackers,
according to reporting from 404 Media.

Two coders had already infiltrated the site and left their own messages on it at the time of 404’s reporting on Thursday evening:
“THis is a joke of a .gov site,” said one, and
“THESE ‘EXPERTS’ LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN -roro” said another

https://newrepublic.com/post/191540/elon-musk-doge-website-hack

"it's a heist, wrapped in a coup, disguised as a political party"

🎯 yes, that's exactly what is is

#Heist = #musk, #Coup = #trump, #PoliticalParty = #republicans

#USpol #StopTheSteal #IAmDB