I’ll never forget.
I’ll never forget.
Pardons weren’t good enough. Now they want a payout (like Ashley Babbit’s family got).
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
Of course. Consistent with their mentality.
But if he goes too far….
University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment index was 74.0 in December, now 58.2 in August. Conference Board’s consumer confidence index was 104.7, now 97.4. Government officials shouldn’t go on TV and blatantly lie like this.
Good question! Keep it up!
They are cowards and only want to do their dirty work in secret.
Exactly. In the before times, such a lie would not be the headline. Fact checking and other editing was journalistic standard. Now check it yourself or not is the standard. Some professions die by self-inflicted wounds, not the economy as they tell their shareholders.
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Both.
And some things just shouldn’t be a for profit commodity, especially if it’s for the public good or national security. I know the capitalists would cringe reading this, and that’s the root of the problem. Money has become the only arbiter.
Some of the folk you’ve known and perhaps liked are complicit. They are not in disagreement with what is happening politically. That’s what you are seeing and why journalistic standards seem to have eroded. They have because they are eroding them purposefully and intentionally.
One disabled Marine veteran has not had a primary care doctor assigned to him since his previous doctor left in the winter, his wife said. The VA “was never like this before. There’s a lack of staff, empty rooms, locked doors.”
Oh, I see. Willfully ignorant. Goodbye.
Strategizing is still necessary and key. Some are.
I think you missed Morrison’s point.
"She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it. She was not protecting lives at a gate in Iraq; she was forcing her way through windows in the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power." New from @markhertling.bsky.social:
Thousands of farm animals & livestock are going unattended. They aren’t being milked. They aren’t being fed. I feel a great deal more for those animals than for the farmers who voted for this shit. They KNEW who their workers were & where they came from. But they voted to hurt them anyway.
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Treat them like the traitors they are!
Yes, but first things first. The current rebellion must be put down.
Remember, though, even in the wake of 9/11, civil liberties were in peril in the creation of DHS.
This is why Trump’s Big Ugly Bill increased ICE’s budget by $170.7 billion More than the military spending of most countries, and more than the US appropriated for the FBI, DEA, ATF and Marshals-combined Trump is amassing an army to employ against Americans in blue states And Illinois is up first
It was.
JUST IN: Judge Cobb has blocked the Trump administration’s effort to extend rapid-fire deportation procedures to immigrants who have been in the U.S. more than two years — warning that it is a flagrant deprivation of due process that could ensnare anyone. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
New acting director of CDC Jim O'Neill expressed being pro paid organ donation. "There are plenty of healthy spare kidneys walking around, unused."
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Just admit it: You love your guns more than your children. The first step is acknowledging the problem.
Starbucks CEO pay: $96 MILLION Starbucks worker pay: $15,000 Coca-Cola CEO pay: $28 MILLION Coca-Cola worker pay: $14,000 CEOs used to make like 20x the average worker. In 2024, the average CEO earned 632x more. The system is rigged.
Trump is a psychopath.
"Pediatric Brain Cancer Trial Group to Be Phased Out" "A network of hospitals and cancer centers dedicated to early phase trials of novel treatments will no longer receive federal funding." 🎁🔗 Nina Agrawal for @nytimes.com
There’s a reason Dr. King's historic 1963 rally was called “The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.” As he warned the nation, "We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor." Real freedom requires economic freedom for all.
BREAKING: Trump’s attorney general and FBI director will *finally* be called to testify before Congress after deceiving their base and inadvertently sparking days of national controversy. trib.al/IX93jf8
The authoritarian checklist open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
New: In 7 months, Kennedy has broken the CDC, perhaps irreparably. For all he’s done with mass firings, gutting expertise, and attacking vaccines, Wednesday’s loss of its most senior and competent leaders—truly the CDC’s backbone—is the most consequential attack yet. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/c...
Elon isn’t sharing data. He’s feeding the same Great Replacement paranoia that fuels white nationalism. The map’s real story isn’t fertility rates. It’s inequality, poverty, healthcare, and exploitation. Racist panic dressed up as stats.
Walz says Harris "would have been a fantastic president... we wouldn't wake up every day to a bunch of shit on TV. We would wake up to an adult w/ compassion & dignity doing the work, not a manchild crying about whatever is wrong with him. May his fat ankles find something today. Petty as hell."
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There’s not much left to tell people about what is going on. This is it.
I don’t know, man. It’s hard to convince me that the democratic leaders included in this piece aren’t working for republicans. It’s either that or I need to give nihilism another look…
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/...
Now ask yourself why a man would drug his granddaughters’ ice cream with ecstasy and cocaine
No paywall:
Vaccines are safe and effective. RFK Jr. isn’t.
Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
Call the Capitol switchboard (202) 224-3121) every day and ask: Why isn’t my Senator/Representative calling to impeach? They all swore to defend the Constitution. When the president tramples democracy like a Nazi thug, our representative’s first duty is to call to impeach. (Please repost.)
One wonders if there is more than coincidence at play.
Why is the AMA so silent?
NEWS: Japan's top trade negotiator Ryosei Akazawa CANCELS his visit to the United States this week. (Kyodo)
FEMA employees were just placed on leave after criticizing the Trump regime in open letter. Their letter was meant to "sound the alarm" about inexperienced appointees and drastic cuts to agency programs. Like all tyrants in history, Trump wants to squelch dissent.
NEW: Yesterday, I posted that I was unable to get the COVID vaccine at my VA clinic, and many of you assured me that the new one would be available soon and that I was overreacting. I was not overreacting. I am no longer eligible for the vaccine. apnews.com/article/vacc...
Before she was targeted by President Donald Trump, Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook published research centering on race and inequality and advocated for other Black women in economics. @gracepanetta.bsky.social via @19thnews.org
I just want a reporter to ask a question that begins with, “Many people say you are dying…”
🚨The National Guard is now picking up trash in D.C. These images will not make recruiting brochures.
I refer to it as that treacherous and treasonous immunity decision. The Roberts Supreme Court is corrupt—bought and paid for by billionaires and their sycophants.
They especially hate smart, Black women like it’s in their DNA.
It's important to understand that he singles out Black women because there are few negative consequences for him when he does. It's his most frictionless lane for bullying. The broader public has shown him few, if any, will step up to defend us, and it's only ramped up since his first term.
note how Trump on a daily basis is trying to normalize the idea that he's a dictator
They all need to be removed from office.
If you're lucky, you have no idea just how insanely expensive it is to be poor.
UPDATE: Lisa Cook says she's not going anywhere and Trump's bid to fire her is baseless. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
That’s fine. He’s one of them. Still.
Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her. Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
My heart breaks into 10,000 pieces once again.
It’s hard to overstate how big a deal this is - for the economy (ours and globally), for the rule of law, and for the proper and efficient function of government. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
CNBC: So we should expect the US government to be taking more equity stakes in businesses around the country? KEVIN HASSETT: It's possible, yeah. That's absolutely right.
A dangerous decision. "Some National Guard units patrolling the nation’s capital at the direction of President Donald Trump have started carrying firearms... Some units on certain missions would be armed — some with handguns and others with rifles." apnews.com/article/trum...
Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre’s memoir to be published posthumously
If a president wanted to become effectively a dictator, he’d likely: 1. Purge govt of non loyalists 2. Weaponize law against opponents 3. Use military to police opposition strongholds 4. Threaten media, schools, businesses w penalties to get them to heel 5. Change election rules in his favor.
Kamala Harris warned you and they called her a liar.
And to be clear this has been going on for some time. There are many segments of the party doing serious, strategic work.
They are so exhausting. In the little southern town of my youth, they closed the soda fountain in the little drugstore before they would integrate it. If they can’t have it their way, they are undone. And will deny access to everybody.
The federal government doesn't have the authority to trample on our rights. No matter what uniform they wear, federal agents and military troops in DC are bound by the Constitution. Full stop.
"Twenty-three Democratic attorneys general now gather on near-daily Zoom calls at 8 AM Pacific, which means the East Coast officials are already on their third coffee. They divide responsibilities and share templates for lawsuits they’ve been drafting since last spring."
Trump’s minion trying the same tactics in France. Kushner is a convicted felon too. Of course.
No, it’s not. And as much as you so called progressives want it to be, it’s not. You are as destructive to democracy as those traitorous republicans.
They gaslit you all throughout the election.
Neither are you, Jombo. And that fact is irrelevant to why question. You still haven’t explained how this has everything to do with now. Keep fighting windmills.
You’re addressing a different issue than the above.
How does this have everything to do with now? I think Clinton’s “crime” in this incident is underestimating Trump’s ability to appeal to white folk and their racism.
Walmart spent $35.3B on stock buybacks from 2019 to 2024, enough to give each of its 2.2M employees annual bonuses of $2,719. Last year, Walmart CEO Doug McMillon pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay of just $29,469. Textbook corporate greed.
🚨Adolf Hitler rose from political outcast to absolute ruler by exploiting fear, division, and public despair. As democratic institutions bowed to his will, freedom vanished. His rise is more than history—it’s a warning of how tyranny takes hold in plain sight. open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
A lunatic.
I power walk a mile in 17 mins on the treadmill. With elevation. If they can’t run fast enough to catch a fleeing person aren’t they more likely to shoot them?
This isn’t education, it’s indoctrination. The Trump administration gutted PBS and NPR not to save money, but to control the narrative. In their place, PragerU is moving into more classrooms. Already in Florida, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Idaho schools.
The only thing I can say about this paragraph is read it. Sit with it. Read it again. @michaelharriot.bsky.social
Chief Justice “Calvinball” Roberts has earned this ignominious place in American history, thanks to the incomparable Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson:
May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.
He is too dangerous. Fix the fall out of that later.
There was a Yale psychiatrist who sounded the alarm over and over during the first term and no one cared. She was, of course, demonized and threatened. We have to stop using the old rules to combat this, i.e. only a provider who examined him can make this call. That doesn’t make sense now.
Supreme Court Traitor. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Have you seen that clown cabinet? Not one would ever invoke the 25th. Trump made sure this time to assemble the very worst. I hope their names are mud in the histories.
I have been amazed that the loved ones of all those lost to Covid haven’t and aren’t raising hell about how he enabled so many deaths by his atrocious handling of the pandemic. A genocide.
Buffering himself is a way of life for Trump. His father, his father’s money, his legion of lawyers. Now the Supreme Court, the White House, Congress. Corrupt enablers will continue as long as he’s breathing because they’re getting what they want. Democracy dying is a goal. Impediment anyway.
This is very true and important. Trump is not a coincidence. Because of his psychopathy, he is a perfect tool.
Bolton enabled this madness in the first term.
As Donald Trump attempts to create chaos that distracts from his problems, we’ll call it out for what it is. Trump and Republicans are trying to distract from the pain they’re causing — from tariffs raising the prices of goods to stripping away healthcare and food from millions.