11/ What can you do? Go call your member of Congress. Ask them to get briefed. Ask for oversight. And on a personal level? Apple's Lockdown Mode & Android Advanced Protection both offer some serious security benefits but neither is a silver bullet..
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11/ What can you do? Go call your member of Congress. Ask them to get briefed. Ask for oversight. And on a personal level? Apple's Lockdown Mode & Android Advanced Protection both offer some serious security benefits but neither is a silver bullet..
NEW: Mercenary spyware is coming to the US. ICE just quietly unsuspended their contract with spyware maker #Paragon. Remember them? Caught earlier this year being used to hack Italian journalists. This is bad, let's talk about how we got here 1/ jackpoulson.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
Well it does allow one to demonize both public education and public health at the same time so win-win for efficiency in the culture wars 🫠
Central Coast Farm workers wish you a happy #LaborDay Campesinos de la Costa Central les desean un feliz Día del Trabajo. #WeFeedYou #SoyEsencial
Enormous impoundment-related changes in Trump/Vought's Circular A-11 update from Friday, which is OMB's guidance to agencies They: -removed the definition of impoundment -said GAO's impoundment determinations don't matter -claimed pocket rescission authority -claimed profound deferral authority 🧵
No big whoop, just Donald Trump pissing away three decades of U.S. diplomacy due to a fit of personal pique. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/donald-tru...
Whether or not these people are actual foreign agents is almost irrelevant. Their actions are observationally equivalent to & indistinguishable from the actions actual foreign agents would be taking. The consequences of our total Article I constitutional crisis, right here:
www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri... lmao they’re activating them for 29 days over and over so they don’t get full active duty pay
Jones: I want to bring theology into this because you have all these people that want to give thoughts and prayers. But I was a minister, and that is a form of theological malpractice—when you pray for something you have the power to change.
I really hope this becomes the black eye it deserves to be www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The Voting Rights Act is the crown jewel of the civil rights movement. Experts unpack its origins, its impact, and the challenges it faces today in our latest Brennan Center Live episode. Listen: bit.ly/469k7nI
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The average American simply has no idea how quickly the infrastructure that keeps us safe and healthy is collapsing. These systems run in the background thanks to government employees who quietly do critical work. Those employees are being purged and systems are being destroyed.
BREAKING: California lawmakers have reached an agreement with Uber and Lyft that will open the door for app drivers to form unions and organize for increased pay and better benefits. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
The sheep in red hats tho esp the top one baaahahaha 😆
Okay, my 101-year-old grandfather is really enjoying the responses he’s gotten here, so I’ve finally convinced him to let me share something he’s been working on for years; a series of sculptures he calls “Trumpinnochios.” Here’s one of his best. I’ll share a few more in this thread.
I miss the old brand #CDC
With O'Neill (apparently) taking over CDC (if they ever get around to firing Monarez), I think it's worth looking back to Project 2025 and asking what they actually intend to *do* to CDC. So, I went to remind myself today. Here's what's in store:
“This is a victory for the #TPS community. We’re here bc our country is in crisis—this is exactly why TPS was created,” said a plaintiff. “The Ninth Circuit has made it clear that the Trump admin can’t just eliminate TPS bc they disagree w/it. We will continue to fight for our rights under the law.”
Not only is our new acting director of the CDC NOT a scientist, but he also has deep ties to Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s techno-utopia movement. One epidemiologist compared Jim O’Neill’s appointment to “making Elon Musk head of the FAA.”
This is good: With Trump/RFK destroying CDC, JB Pritzker's officials are exploring the possibility of buying Covid vaccines from manufacturers and distributing them in-state themselves, source tells me. Dem govs must step up and fill the void. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1998...
Oh. abovethelaw.com/2025/08/inte...
yo this guy is cooking
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she said that “black” with a hard r
We have been almost-entirely grassroots funded since we first became a real organization in 2021. The 8.4M voter contacts that we did in 2022, and the 32M we did in 2024, that was all thanks to thousands of folks giving $5, $10, and $15 bucks to support our efforts.
Literally no one wants this guy to be President or in any public office except Peter Thiel. He has the appeal of a used dog waste bag that's been sitting in the sun after being run over. Odious, flat & full of $hit.
Well he's helping to set up a Hillsdale College "classical" curriculum private school in ANC which I'm sure both he & the Gov would love to give public funds. I just got a post tagged for misinformation for linking to HC's ultra rightwing magazine. So he'd fit right in w the administrations goals.
lol they are so bad my post is labeled for misinformation for linking to this 🙃🤣
This guy is helping to start one of those "classical" private schools in ANC teaching the uber rightwing Hillsdale College curriculum--here's Hillsdale's magazine in case you aren't familiar w them--the first article is about the "Russia hoax" and it goes downhill from there imprimis.hillsdale.edu
The problem with figures like RFK Jr. isn’t just that they spread bad information. It’s that they sustain disordered counterpublics, spaces where falsehoods are reinforced through imitation of legitimate democratic processes.
So.... 1)The state of Florida spent >$200 million to build the facility it calls "Alligator Alcatraz" 2) It opened in early July, christened by Trump. 3) Now it is closing, due to a judge's order. 4) It will cost $20 million to dismantle the center, which was used for about 2 months.
BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout. They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base. (🎥 AP)
🙋🏻♀️ I was a uni grad adult when I first saw the concept of "Herrenvolk democracy" ref to USA & apartheid via reading Levitsky & Ziblatt piece--that & arg Nazi race law taken from US race law changed my life (L & Z also used "aspirational"). We should be teaching US & S African/sim history together.
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If you want to know where we are on autism, I was just interviewing a child psychiatrist for a piece who told me that parents are afraid of getting their kids an autism diagnosis because they are afraid of the stigma and RFK Jr.'s talk about an autism registry.
Never fear, if that all seems too normal, he also has a side gig as an "Antichrist" truther--Greta Thunberg apparently currently in the lead for his nomination as the Beast www.thenerdreich.com/is-peter-thi...
"The report zeroes in on 16 cases where people have been arrested by government agents and held for extended periods of time without access to a lawyer, or to the outside world. The legal term for such detentions is “enforced disappearance." www.kuow.org/stories/secr...
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
HOLD THE PRESSES: Even though HHS says Monarez is out (see tweet) her lawyer says otherwise. What a shitshow. bsky.app/profile/mark...
one that annoys me is that what these people think is cutting edge new political thinking is just warmed over slaveholder ideology
She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse. ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.
After 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...
It has been wild to see what were always the two most paranoid pro-Second Amendment scenarios—the government snatching people away and sending occupying armies into communities—literally happen this year, to the delight of conservatives
Losing one of CDC’s most experienced flu experts while the US is still counting child flu deaths in the deadliest non-pandemic pediatric flu seasons since we started keeping records? The US is sabotaging itself.
Where have I seen this trajectory before... Oh yeah. Post-Soviet collapse in Russia. This, plus all the other stupid stuff happening, is how you shave 5 years off mean life expectancy in a country.
“Denmark's foreign minister has summoned the top US diplomat in Copenhagen, following a report that American citizens have been conducting covert operations in Greenland.” www.bbc.com/news/article...
Trump's false claim here--about how "radical left globalists" (i.e. Soros) are the puppeteers who fund & organize civil rights protests--is the same basic story that the fascists of the 1950s and 60s told about the civil rights protests of that era. It's a familiar cocktail of racism & antisemitism.
CDC is no longer surveilling outbreaks caused by campylobacter, cyclospora, listeria, shigella, vibrio and Yersinia. What could go wrong?
A perfect essay about a city I love 💗
I am literally getting texts from my brother about his friends being on lockdown because of an school shooter while I'm trying to respond to a wholly different school shooting. What the fuck?
Context: The guard is picking up trash in DC because Trump and the Republicans gutted DC & the parks budgets.
On any given day, 95% of this administration is just trolling. It is government by & for the worst people in the comments section & conspiracy theorists. That they wear suits, carry Louis Vuitton bags & put gold leaf on the basement paneling while doing it just makes them "fancier" $hitposters.
Which circle of hell are we in now? Is it the one where we all die of measles and relearn why they used to call tetanus "lockjaw"? Pretty sure it's that one.
On the ‘Nerd Reich’ - the tech billionaires and the Trump White House: latest Politics Weekly America is a conversation with @gilduran.com on Musk, Thiel, Yarvin and co open.spotify.com/episode/0U0I...
I wrote about God and Cracker Barrel johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/christ-in-...
GOOD NEWS! For the FIRST time ever, and after MORE THAN 30 YEARS of HIV vaccine clinical trials, researchers have developed a vaccine that has SUCCESSFULLY generated TIER 2 broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) against HIV and BLOCKS viral infection in vaccinated PEOPLE.
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The political reason Trump is doing the fascist assault on the Fed & trying to fire Lisa Cook is because he’s a fascist. The economic reason is that he’s locked himself in a policy trilemma where the only way to not blow up the economy was to not touch the stove in the first place.
Americans paid a record $30B (or $360B annualized) in tariffs this month, as the costs of Trump's trade war continue to escalate. Tariff revenues are now up more than 230% from this time last year and still rising.
This alone should be an extinction-level lawsuit for Elon Musk
We just had a two-year-long impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden and whether he and his family were improperly profiting from the presidency. Meanwhile, here is Trump's media company announcing that it has entered a "strategic partnership" with Crypto dot com.
The National Guard is being slowly—or not so slowly—turned into the president’s own rapid domestic deployment force. Once again, none of this is business as usual. Today's Morning Shots from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/dictator-f...
I keep seeing the Trump-Intel deal called socialism, but there’s a term for this. This parallels what Mussolini did—the Italian state was one of the world’s largest industrial owners while keeping private companies. Nazi Germany did this too. So did Francoist Spain. It’s called state corporatism.
I loved @vermontgmg.bsky.social's latest piece so much that I asked if I could republish it on The Handbasket and he so generously said yes. If you haven't read it yet, please do. It's essential:
The EU must use the anti coercion instrument now, or be humiliated. Europe must be free to enforce its own law on its own soil.
D.C. and L.A. are showing us the way. They're giving us the playbook. And every single city, town, and village can use it. Read the playbook. Implement it now. Do not wait. 📣
Stephen Miller pushed white nationalist conspiracy theories and publications that trafficked in claiming Black people were subhuman and the main cause of crime in "the West." Everything he's doing in DC, a majority Black city, needs to be seen in this context. itsgoingdown.org/what-you-nee...
CA folks can take action to provide a tiny bit of protection to people impacted by ICE family separations- share the graphic below & make calls to these appropriations committee members— ask them to vote YES on AB495. Background on why & the organized opposition we’re fighting in the 🧵
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NEW: Utah judge orders legislature to redraw GOP's 4-0 congressional map in time for 2026 elections. Republicans are hoping to appeal and at least slow things down to run out the clock for this next election.
The mainstream media has absolutely failed the First Amendment that exists to protect them
I haven't seen it emphasized enough, but it's important to take a step back from Trump's ongoing seizure of autocratic power to see it's all emergency politics. All of it. The Constitution is being suspended bit by bit the same way autocrats have always eliminated them: declaring fake emergencies.
So in sum, Trump signed exec. orders today that are blatantly unconstitutional (criminalizing flag burning), probably unconstitutional (using federal funds to prohibit bail reform), and exacerbating a previous illegal order (expanding the use of the military for domestic law enforcement).
Great to learn the huge TX outbreak fueled a similar one in Mexico that killed almost as many + that lg numbers of the Mennonites in TX are here illegally, which adds to their rejection of state help. Multiply that by all such groups in the US and we can expect much more of these sickening results.
The administration isn’t just taking vaccines away. They aren’t responding to outbreaks. They are not preventing disease. They are enabling it. Essential reading from @amymaxmen.bsky.social. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
he literally thinks he is a king. i mean, this entire media blitz for when he signs executive orders is meant to create the impression that they are royal decrees
As you watch the extraordinary spectacle of Trump's government attempting to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda, let's not lose sight of just how lawless and indefensible Trump's misconduct has been all throughout. Here's a thread recapping all of it. 1/
NEW: Florida and Texas asked Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk to join the ongoing lawsuit against the FDA over the abortion drug mifepristone. They say they seek to challenge the drug's APPROVAL from 2000—going way farther than wanting to end telemed prescriptions storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Slideshow of today in Washington DC, and how it looks when a terrorizing government scares people away. By me, no paywall: fallows.substack.com/p/a-summer-a...
Another way you know this total nonsense about How Democrats Talk is total nonsense is that Republicans call people “cockroaches” & “vermin” & talk about urban Americans as if they’re not real citizens & ever says that they are alienating Real Folkz by talking like real Nazis
So DJT, having been responsible for the development of said vaccines & also a recipient of the same, will be dead by 2028? This will solve many of the world's problems and one for the US in particular.
“Assholes, all of you — and I’m not even drunk yet,” a man tells the FBI and MPD.
every public health agency is now run by somebody called like Jeff Thalidomide
With all due respect to the New York Times, the only reason anyone outside the movement knows Kevin DeAnna writes under the pseudonym is me. I outed him in 2020. You can read on his central role in the alt-right here: www.splcenter.org/resources/ha... www.splcenter.org/resources/gu...
"Americans have long glorified their constitution and the rule of law. But Donald Trump’s volatile and vindictive presidency has increasingly replaced that philosophy with something very different – call it “governing by shakedown”. - @greenhousenyt.bsky.social
I would imagine many, now & in the future + exposure for past decisions. Like, who is pilot guy? Does he have a medical license or ? I wasn't aware these were political appts but 0 ppl from outside Southcentral, no women & 2 vacancies is ludicrous for a public board & AKs unique health landscape.
Trump proposes to rescind AIDS funds. Congress rejects the proposal. So Trump and his henchman Russ Vought just refuse to spend the money and try to hide that decision from Congress and the public. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/h...
Remember that after the anti-trans SC ruling some 30 thousand people protested in London, on a few days' notice, and almost the entire media ignored it until they noticed a bit of graffiti on a statue and then reported on it but only within the context of "criminality."
Look, this administration just has a zero tolerance policy for improper handling of classified materials. Bolton should have known that.
FFS, just had to go tarnish the Coast Guard with this shit…
After a protester started yelling “ICE is here” inside Rhode Island station, police told her to stop disrupting commuters and made her exit, then left themselves.
There are so many problems on display here: violation of law re board makeup; blatant political grandstanding by someone running for office who should have resigned & was instead given a megaphone; all of above aligning w Gov D's Fox News admin vs AK law. Why would anyone trust this body now?
Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who has been released, have been informed by ICE that he could now be subject to deportation to Uganda, and he's been told to report to ICE next week, a source confirms to me. A few points about this, because there will be a lot of bullshit about it. 1/
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