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Another view of the thousands calling for an end to the militarization of DC. Chants of “Free DC! Down to Trump!” (🎥 WashingtonianProbs)
#DC DEEP TODAY… Marching to the White House 🏡
Chicago, you showed up tonight what an amazing turnout! ✊
Presenting: the Vice President of the United States
In the lead-up to the American Revolution, throughout the colonies, people understood that the punishments Britain waged against Boston were against ALL of them. Chicago is all of us.
Just spoke with my CDC sources. They said RFK Jr. has ordered officials to hide tuberculosis cases, even as three active TB cases were just reported in Maine. He’s also suppressing bird flu reports. Pandemics don’t start with viruses they start with secrecy. RFK Jr. must resign now!
People from all over are showing up for DC. This is not a moment. It’s a movement. We are united in our demands. We are all DC! #FreeDC
if i had the opportunity to ask a question of anyone in the administration, given this "war in chicago" messaging, i would ask them how many americans the president intends to kill in his war
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FYI: The White House isn’t a club. It’s ours.
Attempting to rig elections on his behalf. Turning the military on citizens. Toying with the idea of declaring martial law. Attacking political enemies and punishing those who speak out against his regime. If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?
#FreeDC Mass march hitting the streets of DC now.
This is an actual exchange from a VP who took an oath to defend the constitution and, as a citizen, is expected to abide by the law. May we one day have accountability for the grotesque lawlessness of this regime.
Instead everyone just reposts.
The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, not a metaphorical one, on a major American city, and one governed by his political opponents. In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.
Incredible showing for democracy and against occupation today.
It was bad enough when government officials claimed that journalists incite violence by reporting. But now, they’re accusing reporters of actually committing violence. The supposed violence by reporters? Recording videos.
Yale Law School never beating the “they don’t teach law at Yale” allegations
Anyway in addition to teaching the law maybe elite legal institutions should also focus on teaching aspiring lawyers not to be morally bankrupt
32 USC § 502(f)(2) would violate Article IV of the Constitution if applied to support deployment of un-federalized out-of-state National Guard troops into a state that didn’t want those troops there, as with Trump’s proposed use of the Texas National Guard to invade Illinois
Trump’s bid to blackmail SCOTUS into giving him the tariff powers he wants regardless of the law is really a bid to get the case rerouted to the Court of Claims while he keeps violating the Constitution and laws of the United States. I wouldn’t bet against him here. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Immigrants help keep California’s $4T economy running. Trump’s mass raids and stripping people of legal status risk tearing it apart — gutting our workforce and raising costs for everyone while separating American families. End these senseless policies now, Donald Trump.
Cartoon by @adamzyglis.bsky.social.
This is frankly one of the worst things Donald Trump has ever posted, which is really saying something
Massive! #FreeDC
This @washingtonpost.com editorial doesn’t make it past the second paragraph without a glaring (and telling) factual error. President Washington didn’t create the War Department in 1789; *Congress* did: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
In America, we like the smell of democracy in the morning. This is DC today showing up to protest against autocratic militarization. Rally in Chicago later today. We will keep going. @democracyforward.org #wearealldc
Thanks to Trump's funding cuts, PBS will lay off 15% of its staff. Trump wants to exert control over the news and information that the public receives – or doesn’t even receive at all. It’s a hallmark of dictatorship.
All kidding about this nonsense answer aside: The regime is asserting the power to murder without trial a boat full of people suspected of drug trafficking, who easily could have been intercepted and arrested instead. That is unconscionable and horrifying even assuming everyone aboard was guilty.
The Trump administration’s plan to use 600 military lawyers as temporary immigration judges, with some starting as soon as this week, will deprive immigrants of a fair hearing and further erode the line between military personnel and civilian government. 1/14
Attorney General Kwame Raoul issued a statement in support of a lawsuit @dcattorneygeneral.bsky.social filed today against the Trump administration in response to their unlawful deployment of National Guard troops in Washington, D.C. Read the full statement: tinyurl.com/4a9h9m3n
Mark Nevitt, former naval line officer and JAG writes: "Applying a new label to an old problem does not transform the problem itself – nor does it grant the U.S. president or the U.S. military expanded legal authority to kill civilians." www.justsecurity.org/119985/label...
Woman w no criminal history detained by ICE after a routine check-in discovered she was pregnant and had a miscarriage while in custody. Judge ordered her released yesterday, citing apparent due process violations. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
BREAKING: Judge Chen has blocked the Trump administration from canceling protected status for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans and Haitians. Chen found both decisions were preordained, with baseless pretextual explanations. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Another example of civil society censoring itself, creating a simulacrum of normality when things are not normal
Whoa
I'm pretty sure anyone who renames the Department of Defense to Department of War doesn't deserve a Nobel PEACE Prize.
This is fascism. Never forget and never forgive the so-called “normie Republicans” who enabled this monster, fully aware of how dangerous he was, all for their own political and personal gain.
Yes- This is not normal. This has to stop. President Trump and his cabinet acting like thugs (ALL of THEM!) is disgraceful, disgusting and heartbreaking.
The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
> @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
“There is no Constitutional Crisis" is exactly what someone would say if they created a Constitutional crisis.
NPR Founding Mother Susan Stamberg is retiring. She became the first woman to anchor a nightly national news program in 1972, and helped loosen up the serious, stodgy sound of radio hosts.
If you were writing a script for a movie about healthcare and needed a batshit crazy anti-vaxx character, you would have to make it less batshit crazy than RFK JR to be believable.
Reminder: At the start of his legal career, RFK Jr. failed the bar, was forced out as a D.A., and got arrested for heroin. Without the Kennedy name, that story ends there.
We used to be a serious country, although it does seem like that was a long time ago.
I’ve spent a good chunk of my career relying on American science and engineering to keep me alive. Yesterday, RFK Jr. testified at the U.S. Senate Finance Committee. It was sad to see him try to destroy the life’s work of so many American scientists. He shouldn’t be in this job.
Trump thought firing the people who crunched the numbers would change the truth, but it didn’t: his tariff chaos is slowing the economy and costing jobs. Today's report is just the latest sign of Trump’s failing economy — and it's only getting worse.
Takes a special level of stupid to believe that everybody is lying about vaccines except the ex-heroin addicted anti-vaxxer.
'Sheer embarrassment': Judge declares 'constitutional crisis' as Jeanine Pirro drops case www.rawstory.com/jeanine-pirr...
Remember: The recipe for economic growth isn’t tax cuts for the rich. It’s investment in our people — in health care, infrastructure and education — to build a strong middle class. You don't grow the economy through trickle-down nonsense.
JB Pritzker: “The president knows so little about the government and he cares so little about delivering anything that talking to him is a useless endeavor. I’m about delivering for the people of my state, he’s about delivering for himself.“
Deborah Fuller, a microbiologist from UWash, wrote this article pointing out many of the false statements made by RFK in his senate hearing yesterday and explaining why they were false.
It's extraordinary how Trump is refusing to coordinate with Illinois leaders. If he cared about fighting crime, he would double down on efforts like our FBI partnership — not putting our own troops on American city streets.
Yesterday, President Trump said of RFK: “I like the fact that he's different." Yes. RFK is *different.* He’s the first HHS secretary to actively endanger children by undermining what doctors & scientists around the world know to be true: Vaccines have saved millions of lives.
More people are getting laid off and unemployment rose to 4.3%—the highest level since 2021. These are the impacts of President Trump’s economic policies—and they aren’t “Making America Great Again.”
Americans don’t want wars, Mr. President. Renaming the Department of Defense is a waste of time and resources – and an unnecessary vanity exercise.
CNN put together a clip of RKF Jr denying today he linked antidepressants and mass shootings, followed by a clip of RFK Jr last week linking antidepressants and mass shootings
Just passed a semi north of Des Moines with “No Kings” scrawled into the dirt on his trailer… ✊🏻
Hegseth: "Maximum lethality -- not tepid legality. Violent effect, not politically correct. We're gonna raise up warriors. Not just defenders."
Unbelievable. This is totally insane.
I think what RFK Jr. meant to say was “the CDC director refused to put kids' health at risk when I told her to, so I fired her."
It says so much about RFK Jr that he thinks *this is a remotely plausible exchange *that would make him look good as a supervisor *and something he should share with the Senate, under oath
Multiple Medical Societies Demand RFK Jr.'s Resignation — "American people will needlessly suffer and die," infectious disease, immunization groups warn www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...
Man, this is just next level political communication
“The immigration operation brought construction to a halt at the battery plant” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/u...
BRUTAL JOBS REPORT: Just 22,000 jobs added in August. Unemployment rises to 4.3%. Broader jobless rate jumps to 8.1%. Slowest 4-month growth since 2020. Plus, downward revisions for June and July of -21,000. Yikes.
Mamdani has raised the max he’s allowed to spend. So he’s created this brilliant ad.
California, Oregon and Washington announced yesterday they’ve created their own health alliance, saying the CDC has become “a political tool that increasingly peddles ideology instead of science.” New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island have now done the same.
“This is fine” says person promoting book they got a $2m advance for to person (Bari Weiss) about to take control of a news organization in a deal the President had brokered. Nothing to worry about.
Some reflections and rarely-shared photos from the 1995 Beijing conference on women, 30 years on. www.instagram.com/p/DOOT-E3Dgb...
RFK JR: You’re just making stuff up Hassan: Sometimes when you make an accusation, it’s kind of a confession
What if every person who understands the nightmare that’s unfolding contacted a friend or relative and made them aware that we’re descending into a dictatorship? Most of America is sleepwalking into this disaster. The media isn’t doing nearly enough to warn them. Tell your family and friends.
RFKjr has clearly proven that he's not even qualified to clean-up road kill in a safe and sanitary manner – he's not fit to look after anyone's health. He must be impeached and removed from the HHS immediately.
RFK Jr. said, “If vaccines are working for somebody, I’m not going to take them away.” Then, he did. RFK Jr. is a liar.
Four years ago, I tested for COVID. I'd had dinner with someone with cancer the night before. Thanks to the vaccine, I did not give that dinner companion COVID. And I only ran a low-grade fever for a few days. Fuck that idiot RFK Jr. and the equally stupid buffoon who hired him.
Toddler behavior
Hard to say whether RFK Jr is the worst appointee of Dept Secretary ever. But what was on display yesterday is something that doesn't get talked abt much or enough because there's so much else bad. He's definitely the most entitled and arrogant guy I've ever seen in a congressional hearing.
Ossoff: He never should have been confirmed by the senate and he needs to resign. It is one thing to be a skeptic or a reformer. It is quite another to be a fool…
Trump confirmed it. Chicago is next. And now, he plans to let his ICE agents operate out of Naval Station Great Lakes—where thousands of new recruits train every year. @durbin.senate.gov and I are demanding a meeting with the Secretary of the Navy. Our troops deserve answers.
Republican cuts to Medicaid and SNAP won’t just hurt middle-class families—they’ll tank our economy. Soon, we’ll lose: ➡️ 1.2 million jobs ➡️ $12.2 billion for state and local budgets Plus, more expensive health care and food. All for tax cuts billionaires don't need.
Why stop there? Let’s rename all Depts after what Trump is inflicting on America. Dept of HHS -> Dept of Hepatitis and Human Suffering Dept of VA -> Dept of Veteran Abandonment Dept of Education -> Dept of Erasure of History Dept of Commerce -> Dept of Corruption Just a start.
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Kennedy’s vaccine crusade isn’t about health...it’s about sowing chaos. Confusion equals control. Repeat until it’s tattooed on your brain: It. Is. Part. Of. The. Op. To. Destabilize. The. United. States.
Here in Evanston—and Chicago is doing this as well—the city just sent out a notice “strongly urg[ing]” residents to call police if they see any masked agents on the streets, as they’ll be considered to be impersonating law enforcement. #HandsOffChicago
resistance through art
During the RFK Jr hearing Sen Daines referenced a study showing that mifepristone is much more dangerous than the FDA has said. As per usual, it turns out to be a study that a) was done by an anti-abortion group, and b) was widely reported in right wing media but ignored elsewhere.
GOP Rep. Thomas Massie says if the Epstein survivors create a list of names, he'll read it out on the floor of the House because it will be protected by the speech or debate clause. Rep. Khanna says he’s willing to help. If she can hold on to her integrity for a few days more, so should MTG.
“Even in a term marked by political performance art, Trump’s plan to rename the Department of Defense as the Department of War might be a new high—or low,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues:
The medical community understands that vaccines are safe, effective & have led to the elimination of polio, measles & small pox. Secretary Kennedy does not. President Trump must ask for his resignation.
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Excited and proud. wapo.st/4p89Xes
Our world is heartbreaking After Afghan Quake, Many Male Rescuers Aided Men but Not Women www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/w...
6 physicians who are members of Congress calling on RFKJr to resign "You have failed to uphold your promise to follow the science." #FireRFKJr
I just can't help but reflect on Bobby Kennedy's 1968 campaign and how focused and deliberate he was on making vulnerable American lives better and using government as a means to do so. And how what's left of him must be a goddam turbine right now spinning furiously between the grass at Arlington.
Justice Jackson: "The Government wants to give DOGE unfettered access to this personal, non-anonymized information right now—before the courts have time to assess whether DOGE’s access is lawful."
It's easier to buy an AR-15 in most parts of this country than it is to get mental health care.