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Stephen

@stevenwiththeph.bsky.social

So St. Louis. Gaming, Sports and Horror Film Junkie. La vida es buena 🌴

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Larry Glickman@larryglickman.bsky.social · 2y ago

I keep coming back to this pithy 1854 statement by Abraham Lincoln about “the legitimate object of government,” which the Trump administration is undermining by offloading to individuals tasks, including life or death matters, that are more effectively, efficiently and fairly done collectively.

The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but not do, at all, or can not, as well do, for themselves—in their separate, and individual capacities. Abraham Lincoln, 1854
Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · 2y ago

This public health nightmare continues. “Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. advised parents of newborns to “do your own research” before vaccinating their infants during a televised interview in which he also suggested the measles shot was unsafe and repeatedly made false statements”