Did you know in 1890 manufacturing employees worked on average 100 hours a week? It would be decades before the eight-hour workday became real. It took labor activists and labor unions to turn the cry for change into policy and practice. www.americaamerica.news/p/a-labor-da...
This Weeks Editorial Cartoon: Causing a Führer
Joined my former boss @drtomfrieden.bsky.social and @mkraju.bsky.social on @cnn.com today to discuss recent CDC changes youtube.com/watch?v=3zKG...
#CDCSavesLives - specifically, the CDC staff who work tirelessly every day. 💚💚💚 Thanks to the anon CDC-er who created this graphic. 😉 (Wording from today's NYTimes oped: "We Ran the CDC: Kennedy is Endangering every American's Health)
And ask them why POTUS would take away treatments that saved his life. #FireRFKjr
Do you have Trump supporters in your life? Remind them of this.
I don’t know what did or didn’t happen to Trump, but what I do know is the country has the right to know the truth.
RFK Jr. is "like the guy you never wanted to have to partner with in science class. He thought he knew the answers and he's ultimately the guy who would light his hair on fire, and now he's lighting all of HHS on fire," says Michigan Senate candidate Dr. @abdulelsayed.bsky.social.
Photo passed along from a federal employee from inside the Dept of Labor building, where a giant Orwellian image of Trump's face is now draped outside. Big Brother is watching.
The United States is now Putin's deportation partner. Russian political refugees who sought safety in the U.S. are being returned on charter flights. Upon return, they face hours-long interrogations by security services. 🧵Here's what is known about the latest flight:
ICE detains green card holder—days after she passed citizenship exam. She was awaiting the official ceremony—when agents tricked her into coming in for appointment—only to arrest her. She and her husband have owned their Los Angeles balloon shop together for almost 20 years.
The Chinese are gonna out-play most of their trade partner.
Two years after the oil deal was signed, it collapsed — with the Taliban accusing the Chinese company of breaching the contract and some Chinese employees likening the Taliban's actions to robbery.
We cannot remain silent in the face of expanding authoritarian assaults. Our democracy depends on us speaking out. We must recognize our collective power to drive change. www.americaamerica.news/subscribe
❗️The plane Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu was on was forced to land in Bulgaria due to suspected Russian GPS interference -FT There are reports that the pilots even had to use paper maps due to GPS jamming as they made the emergency landing.
Join us in celebrating the people who labor in the fields to put food on our tables. Únase en celebrar a la gente que trabajan en los campos para poner comida en nuestras mesas. #WeFeedYou #LaborDay
The 6.0 magnitude quake late Sunday hit a series of towns in the province of Kunar, near the city of Jalalabad in neighboring Nangahar province, causing extensive damage.
This says it all.
As a U.S. federal judge blocked the deportation of unaccompanied Guatemalan children, the government of Guatemala says in a statement it suggested the U.S. return its children to their home country.
Generations of workers in America bled and died to win dignity on the job. They stood together against those who refused to recognize their humanity. On Labor Day, as fascism rises again, we honor those who came before us and carry forward their spirit of solidarity & defiance. Fight like hell. ✊
Campaigning for president, Donald Trump assured workers he would fight for them, write Robert L. Borosage and Sara Steffens. But ahead of Labor Day weekend, it is worth summarizing how extensive his assault on labor has been in his first months in office.
Were you to ask Leavitt etc, they would identify themselves as patriots whose beliefs rest on the country’s foundation. But with their talk of demons and evil, they are framing reality in a way that would justify Donald Trump’s campaign for fascist power. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/tragedy-br...
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 🧵
President Trump has ended collective bargaining rights for more than one million federal workers. Unions have sued to block the move, but agencies are terminating contracts as litigation continues.
That was just nauseating to watch.
Gotta hand it to the artist.
KKKaroline Leavitt refers to Dr. Monarez as “Ms. Monarez.” For women with a doctoral degree (not an MD), this is extremely offensive coming from a woman whose biggest accomplishment seems to be suckling from the teat of a weird man-baby with cankles and horcrux hands. #sexism #tradidiots
Workers at the CDC have been told to return to the office by September 15 — a little over a month after a gunman attacked the agency’s Atlanta campus, firing almost 500 shots and killing a police officer before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
And amerikkka continued in its racist ways during the war.
RFK is a threat to everyone’s health. #FireRFKjr
FAFO.
People were forced to leave their pets behind during Hurricane Katrina, creating an unprecedented animal welfare crisis that has shaped the country's disaster response ever since.
CHICAGO…
We can only hope. And I’m praying to my pet rocks…
This is never going away, is it?
Without congressionally approved funding, public media stations say communities will be left with aging infrastructure amid growing risks from extreme weather.
And negligent homicide.
Little kids with brain cancer. That’s who Donald Trump and RFK Jr. are screwing over by cutting health care.
Good fucking god. He’s committing genocide.
I spit up my tea.
This is the result of having a mentally ill quack in charge.
Well, Trump IS insane, you know.
We have lost the country.
USCG is under DHS. Does this horrible policy also hit Coasties?
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Release the Epstein files!!!!
Jill Stein and Cornel West both disgust me — such goddamn, self-serving hypocrites.
What’s wild to me: NOW, media outlets & medical organizations are “stunned” by the damage RFK Jr. is doing to CDC, other health agencies, & public health. Me & my colleagues have been screaming about him for years. Years. Even more so in the last year. We were called hyperbolic. 1/
Dozens of immigration courts across the country have become epicenters of the Trump administration's efforts to increase the rate of immigration arrests.
One week ago, thousands of New Yorkers tried something new. They heard about it last minute. They didn’t know where it would take them or who they would meet. It was free, earnest, even educational. It was the #ZcavengerHunt and it was a thing of beauty.
Donald Trump incited a violent coup to overthrow the 2020 election and hold onto power. It will never be ok that he was not held accountable, including banning him from ever again holding public office.
Xi always has the look on his face that says “you’re just another sucker.”
After this administration hangs a portrait of Robert E. Lee at West Point, perhaps they could put up a nice one of Al Capone at the FBI. Or Mary Mallon at HHS.
That Trump and Trumpism are fascist doesn’t explain the sheer vandalism of unleashing mass murdering mayhem via RFK to replace medical/scientific institutions of immense value and prestige with medieval peasant superstitions. That is a criminal madness facilitated by but above and beyond fascism.
RFK Jr looks like he’s been sampling the diseases at the CDC
If the Lower Ninth Ward was a white neighborhood, it’d have recovered years and years ago.
My question is this: WTF is going on?
As a SA survivor, I’ve dealt with intrusive thoughts for decades.
I hope something horrible is going on with him.
THIS IS NOT NORMAL FOR TRUMP. Something very strange is going on.
Um maybe blame banks, REITs, corporations which don’t pay living wages, corrupt politicians and republican policies.
I guess he changed hats and won’t go anywhere near the press for 5 days for no particular reason. Also can’t get any video of him actually playing golf from the usual sources.
Personally, I prefer tan suits to brownshirts.
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!
Authoritarians don’t coordinate with anyone. They just invade.
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
That was just nauseating to watch.
A collection of clips from MSNBC of multiple Republicans getting booed at town halls this week.
Trump has not made any public appearances in the last several days. His public schedule shows no public events or appearances scheduled on August 29 and 30. Makes you wonder…
Cartoon by @dennisgoris.bsky.social.
Trump wants you to forget Epstein. Or at least, trust the lady whose been convicted of the crime. My latest adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/maxwell-th...
You heard the lady! zohranfornyc.com/events
One group of Democrats knows how to run — and win — Trump’s crime debate Big-city mayors are in the best position to push back on Trump's overreach.
The disappearance of U.S. aid in Nigeria's northeast has threatened a school that supports children who are victims of Boko Haram extremists.
“…I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.” My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
Jamie, Ewan and Lachlan Maclean completed the fastest unsupported row across the Pacific, arriving in Cairns, Australia, on Saturday. They rowed over 9,000 miles non-stop from Peru.
“Has America run out of actual health practitioners with demonstrated experience improving public health outcomes?”
Just waiting for the next one because politicians value reelection and money more than lives.
Nothing quite like all the Stepford Wives Standing around him. This is the image: entitled white people being “victimized” by people who aren’t white or entitled.
📲 Now is a moment to call your Senators and Reps! 5calls.org/issue/rfk-hh...
At this juncture, I’m driven by outrage.
Are You More Driven by Inspiration or Outrage? I draw on Martin Luther King, Jr.’s iconic speech to explore the power of squarely confronting oppression and injustice, as well as envisioning positive change and a better world. Join the conversation. www.americaamerica.news/p/are-you-mo...
A senior Pentagon official in the Trump administration had a months-long extramarital affair with a woman claiming to be “the internet’s most notorious astrologer” — and claims in a defamation lawsuit filed in Florida that she cyberstalked him and his wife after they split up.
Whoever heard of restrictions on vaccines. All thanks to that quack in charge of HHS.
The Food and Drug Administration approved the next round of COVID-19 vaccines, but they come with restrictions. NPR wants to know your questions about the new guidance.
This week’s Just for Skeets and Giggles is out! Have a great weekend. statuskuo.substack.com/p/just-for-s...
I love this so hard. ✊️
Our leaders in Washington could learn a thing or two from some of the best elementary school students here in Illinois.
Not true. We have a growing number of brand meds. The only reason we don’t have all brand meds is because the big PBMs threaten to reduce sales of the brand’s meds if they work with us. They know we will do to brand pricing what we did to generics.
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A Ukrainian FPV drone blows up a hidden Russian stock of TM-62 anti-tank mines. The resulting kaboom is beautiful! Glory! 📹: drone operators of Rubaka unit, 77th separate aeromobile brigade
No one except him that is…
Hurricane Katrina exposed longstanding flaws in the New Orleans criminal justice system. In the 20 years since, there has been dramatic change in the public defender office.
Kim Jung-un, eat your heart out.
People are often surprised to learn that Lee was an officer who never made it past colonel. The purported promotion to general was awarded by a treasonous cabal calling itself the "confederate states of america" which was put down by force by the Union army, which also had superior generals.
National Guardner? National Park Service workers laid off, and now the National Guard is doing landscaping in DC. Felon Trump really turned soldiers into gardeners.
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...
An even dumber person than donnie.