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mRNA vaccines are safe, have been in development for decades, & have far broader applications than older vaccine technologies. New vaccine technologies evolve when scientists have tools & knowledge to make something more elegant or complex that wasnât possible before. 5/
Sam Vimes âBootsâ Theory of Socio-Economic Unfairness | Terry Pratchett share.google/emednDDWpCbP...
Thank you, Neil Young. More protest songs, please. www.youtube.com/watch?v=57WE...
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Oh! Funny story...I ended up with 42 peonies about 25 years ago. An elderly friend called me telling me to come dig all of hers up because she didn't like the people who bought her house! She was a character.
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I believe that tree arch was made by native or indigenous peoples. I thought I remembered that, but I Googled it to be sure đ.
Welcome to the many, many people who have found this campaign in the last week. My name is Graham Platner and Iâm running for US Senate to defeat Susan Collins and topple the oligarchy thatâs destroying our country. 2,900 volunteers. $1 million raised. In just over a week. Join us.
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A bouquet of peonies for you. It was a prolific year for them in Connecticut.
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Thank you for your hard work! I'm so relieved.
Recently, in a legally questionable move, the DOJ has sent letters to multiple states requesting access to their voter registration lists. Now, the department is escalating its efforts by threatening legal action if states refuse.
Wow! Terrific photo.
CDC leaders on why the left: âI resigned because I could not be part of the weaponization of public health and CDC⊠we should always be questioning - but you shouldnât have a preconceived idea before you have the data.â
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The new ICE song by Jesse Welles nails it. ICE isnât recruiting heroes, itâs recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures. Losers with power become the most dangerous kind. (c/o Caroline Codsi)
This is a really excellent, "America, what went wrong" article (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...
I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns donât kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.
Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey is now on my radar for the Next Generation of Democratic Leaders. Along with Jasmine Crockett. www.cnn.com/2025/08/27/u...
The fire sale at the end of the empire www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
Maybe one of the reasons Americans have so much trouble believing that violent crime rates are historically low is that American children are routinely taught that a guy with a gun is going to shoot them
Pharma companies like Moderna ought to push back and fund some advocacy on why gutting support for vaccines, particularly mRNA vaccines, is bad for America's health and its economy.
Can the health secretaries in the blue states organize themselves as the 23 Dem AGs do and start more aggressively pushing back on what Kennedy is doing? Their citizens are at risk.
This is evil -- the kind of evil you read about in history books, the kind of evil you would never mistake for a single second if you saw it in another country. When you ask, of historical evils, "how could they let that happen?" That's us. We're letting this happen.
âȘAfter watching and reading comments about the horrific Minnesota shooting, it appears most Americans people missed our stories about the secret roots to the madness. I pray this repost helps. www.propublica.org/article/gunm...
NEW: How did Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey get picked for a top post at the FBI? In part by bringing criminal cases against local and state Democrats. Smart story from @jeremykohler.bsky.social of @propublica.org. www.propublica.org/article/miss...
Steve is turning out excellent breakdowns week after week. This one is on another level... How the Trump admin is trying to play SCOTUS as fools. (No Paywall)
IMO many Americans don't even buy guns for personal protection or to defend themselves against a tyrannical government. They simply have a shopping addiction
Beautiful bumble đ. Wonderful photo.
Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:
AMERICA: âItâs a mental health issue.â REST OF THE WORLD: âWe have those. But donât have mass shootings.â AMERICA: âItâs video games.â WORLD: âWe have those too. But donât have mass shootings.â AMERICA B: âItâs cause they took Jesus out of the classroom.â WORLD: âGod, youâre stupid.â
My latest: www.foreignaffairs.com/russia/how-a...
this is the way.
This is very bad news. Louisiana won't even defend its own map in SCOTUS. It abandoned its own Black voters. Those of us committed to defending the VRA are now entirely on our own. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Hail to the bus driver, Bus driver, bus driver, Hail to the bus driver, Bus driver-man. He screams and he cusses At ICE like we mustes Hail to the bus driver, Bus driver-man. Come on, help a good man out:
The answer is 'yes"
For years, MAGA partisans have employed various tactics to prevent the imminent pain of cognitive dissonance. Now Newsom is forcing them to see what Trump looks like without the distorting force field created by Trumpâs showmanship: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Powell: "GDP growth has slowed notably in the first half of this year, to a pace of 1.2%, roughly half the 2.5% pace in 2024. The declining growth has largely reflected a slowdown in consumer spending ... higher tariffs have begun to push up prices in some categories of goods."
Justice Jackson is basically reporting live from inside a garbage fire www.ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/nih-c...
Jack White goes scorched earth on Trump and I'm here for it. If you needed a reality checkâa reminder that no, this is not normalâhere it is. Enjoy. I sure did.
âJohn Roberts knows exactly what he is doing,â says one of Robert's oldest friends, Luttig, who is also a judge, âand he knows exactly the message he is sending to America.â âThe chief justice has no higher obligation than to protect the federal judiciary...and in my view he has utterly failed.
Judge Caprio and this man were friends until this gentleman's passing. Judge Caprio was one in a billion.
Elderly people living in nursing homes can experience increased feelings of isolation and loneliness. For nearly 40 years, Paul Falkowski has made it his mission to help fight loneliness in nursing homes, one visit at a time. n.pr/41fXStu
Florence and the Machine dropped a new video yesterday and it is very of the moment, for #MusicSky
He means âdemocracyâ but yes
I almost wanna run for President so I can burn this shit
Updated 1:30 PM CST, August 20, 2025 PHILADELPHIA (AP) â Sixteen critically endangered western Santa Cruz tortoises born to some very old parents got a slow walk and the red carpet treatment Wednesday at a Philadelphia Zoo event to show off the highly prized hatchlings.
The former head of Israel's military intelligence just praised the deaths of innocents as "necessary...as a message for future generations." If we do nothing, we will have to tell our children that we stood idly by as millions of people were sent to their graves. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Every Democratic member of Congress should be in the streets of DC saying this dangerous authoritarian escalation must stop. Do they not grasp whatâs going on here?
Thrilled to welcome @davidcayjohnston.bsky.social back to #TheWeekendShow for Part 2 of his analysis of Trump's collapsing dictatorship... 8pm ET/5pm PT @meidastouch.com www.youtube.com/live/ut2czRt...
Since @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social is so concerned about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social housing maybe he should address his own property tax bill of just $213 a year thanks to a sweetheart deal he supported when he served in the state Assembly that will last through 2032. nypost.com/2022/01/23/r...
The FDA never released a comprehensive list of the drugs it allowed into the U.S. even though they were made by banned factories. This week, we published that list.
A Democratic Party with any spirit would stage a press conference every single day to present Donald Trump with one sarcastic award after another. The Dennis Hastert Award for Enabling Pedophilia The Richard Nixon Memorial Trophy for Lawlessness The Blue Ribbon for Setting a Record Federal Deficit
The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?
Because I am angry I will share this again. One of the reasons that Israel is able to target individuals so precisely is that it collects every phone call in Gaza and stores the recordings in Microsoft Azure, then uses AI to analyze and pick targets.
Reposted w/correct numbers! Whatever youâve been doing, STOP & LISTEN (read). This is happening on our soil in our name paid for with our tax dollars. Every one of us should call our House members & Senators. 202-224-3121 And flood the call lines to Gov. DeSantisâ office: 850-717-9337
Wonderful by @mollyjongfast.bsky.social. (My next book, Hot Type, is set in Mark Twain's Gilded Age, when the average life expectancy for printers, for example, was 41.25 years. The age was not gilded for most.) Gift link: Letâs Not Make America Gilded Again www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/o...
"Americans already understood Trump to be corrupt, and proved themselves willing to tolerate that. But now they are coming to believe that he is inept. In American politics, that is an unforgivable sin." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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A return to Eisenhower era tax rates sounds like a better idea than âincentingâ these arrogant douche copters.
This is Ohioâs democracy in action. On Aug. 9, thousands lined 8 miles of High Street, hand in hand â for Medicaid, immigrants, truth, and justice. Against corruption, cruelty, and lies. Ohio doesnât sit down. We link up. We fight back. And weâre just getting started.
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The enthusiasm for socialist politics comes at a moment when popular opinion of the mainstream Democratic Party has reached its nadir. There are more than 250 democratic socialists in office across 40 states, with 90% of those elected since 2019. More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
RFK wants to lean into âwhole cellâ vaccine technology, which has existed for decades, comes with increased risk of side effects and can take years to develop. mRNA vaccine technology comes with far decreased risk of side effects and can take mere months to develop. Make it make sense!
We've launched a souped-up version of the Litigation Tracker on Legal Challenges to Trump Administration actions. Now includes overall totals of court outcomes and status of every case. The Table is also sortable by Case Status. Open public resource for any and all interested in U.S. litigation.
Earlier this year, I made two trips to Sudan, where a terrible civil war has displaced 14 million people. The state is absent, international institutions are weak.Outside powers, motivated by greed and nihilism, have stepped into the vacuum www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
To those of you who accomplished things today, I salute you. It can be hard to be productive inâŠ.such times. When you are, give yourself credit. Itâs a form of resistance against the seeming hopelessness of the present. It means you havenât given up. And we canât.
Such an important point: âProgressive policiesâŠare very popular in this countryâŠbut you have a segment of the Democratic Party that keeps trying to convince progressives weâre losing elections because their policies need to be more moderate.â Matt Dowd I wish more understood this. A confession⊠đ§”
The main thing you need to know about the "Russia hoax"? It's not a hoax from @dgraham.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
ICE agents disguised as construction workers in Danbury, CT. This isnât immigration enforcement , itâs state sanctioned entrapment. Disguises. Deception. Targeting workers just trying to survive. This is terror with a badge. This is fascism in a hard hat. Call it what it is.
As we mark the 80th anniversary of WWII's end, Iâve come to believe that in losing that Greatest Generation, we are losing more than just the memories of combat. We are losing the memory and experience of what it means to fight fascism and authoritarianism. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/what-we-lo...
Pretty infuriating that we told you all RFK was an enormous danger to public health and he was lying and they were like "no, no, he's not lying" and then he was absolutely lying
đGift Link Opinion by Will Bunch | Columnist Brownâs Trump surrender shatters a dream | Will Bunch Newsletter Plus, about those âTrump accomplishments ⏠Published Aug. 5, 2025, 11:17 a.m. ET share.inquirer.com/fMZ6DJ
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I read recently about the many recorded instances of humpback whales rescuing other species from predatory orcas. And I canât help but think that this behavior mirrors some of the best we can be as humans too. (Thread) xploreourplanet.com/news/humpbac...
Question for Mike Flood: With $450 million being allocated to Alligator Alcatraz, and ICE burning through $8.4 million a day to illegally detain peopleâHow much does it cost for fascism? How much do the tax payers have to pay for a fascist country?
Reupping my piece from a couple of weeks ago on how SCOTUS has made it easier, not harder, for bad faith presidents to go after their predecessors www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Hey Americans, if this passes you'll be uploading your ID to every social media and website to access it.
Letâs get something straight first about the Fed.
âShe had assets that were being murderedâŠand she couldnât come home and talk about thatâŠFor her to be a professional and be a mother and wife through all those years, itâs a pretty exceptional story and tells you a lot about who she was.â (gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/u...
w/ SCOTUS's reargument order in Callais, reupping my piece in Sharon McMahon's The Preamble: "The Court's Next Big Decision on Race." tl;dr: "Callais, like Shelby County, is an effort to launder white racial grievances against Black voters into the law of the land." thepreamble.com/p/the-courts...
![Callais, like Shelby County, is an effort to launder white racial grievances against Black voters into the law of the land. The white voters donât want Black voters to have the political power, and the political opportunities, the VRA provides. To that end, their brief refers to the Black opportunity districts as âodious racial gerrymander[s]â and âa racial quota.â But it treats white opportunity districts as normal, legal, and something they are entitled to. They urge the Court to say that âSection 2 should no longer supply a compelling interest for racial gerrymandersâ; in plain English, they are asking the Court to declare that it is unconstitutional for the Voting Rights Act to try to ensure Black voters have political opportunities to elect the candidates of their choice. The white votersâ arguments in the case parrot a recent executive order from the Trump administration that says that civil rights laws that require entities to avoid policies with detrimental effects on racial minorities are themselves racial discrimination.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qwxftspzayyqtmwv5t4rtdsm/bafkreidzfpjtcos33l246uejf2r5nlxdroja6pxj6iadh3qnnou65mgm7e@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Donald Trump Declares Victory Over Statistics
This is moving. Kamala Harris feels the pain we feel. Not just from her loss, but from the trauma and abuse our country is living through. What could have beenâŠ
ANOTHER MEDICAID CUT During the Covid outbreak, I became eligible for Medicaid. They recently cut me off, and then my ins co TERMINATED my âextra benefitsâ card which provided $220 per month. That benefit was actually paid for by Medicaid. So, get ready everybody. #ProudBlue #ResistanceUnited đđŒ
BREAKING: Donald Trump officially terminated nearly half of all Education Department staff. This is an all-out assault on our public schools and Americans with student loans.
I could not agree more. We need to ban gerrymandering nationally, but that'll never happen as long as Republicans are using it to cheat their way into a perpetual majority.
đŹThe Supreme Court will consider whether the intentional creation of a majority-minority congressional district violates the 14th or 15th Amendments. If the answer is yes, SCOTUS will effectively declare that what remains of the Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional. This is very, very ominous.
From T Snyder: >>Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given... Individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.<<
Following Ghislaine Maxwell's secret meeting with Todd Blanche to suborn her testimony against Donald Trump, America's most notorious living pedophile was rewarded with a move to a cushy minimum security prison. It has lovely landscaping and features lots of fun activities. She now awaits a pardon.
State Dept is now requiring babies to be present at visa interviews now. This will make it harder for people on valid work visas to enter/exit the country. But hey, Trump needs to interrogate those infants about any anti-American sympathies. Government efficiency! www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
I canât begin to enumerate the ways the Corporation for Public Broadcasting made my life better, literally from my earliest memories until today. This is gut wrenching.
"WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) â The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations" cpb.org/pressroom/Co...
Healthcare workers are distressed and scared to speak up. We have to find a way out of this, together.
Absolutely batshit that the NY Post is reporting that the Durham report *actually proves* Clinton was involved in some sort of wrongdoing, pushing Trump's current effort to prosecute his former political opponents.
Motherfucking wind farmsâŠ
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD 