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Contagions?
I can see his mitochondrial challenges from my house.
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Media repeating lies and demonstrating arithmetic illiteracy. Tariff revenue, ie taxes on imports paid by US companies and then passed on to consumers, is now about $30 billion per month. To put that in context, the national debt increases by about $250 billion each month.
He’s getting a stent or bypass. It’ll add years to his life. We’ll know which by how quickly we see video of him walking. Both will be evident in a few weeks by his color/ankles. No video or photos posted this weekend are current.
Trump’s getting a heart stent or bypass surgery. Bets? Stent recovery pretty fast - we’ll see him seated by Tuesday. Bypass might take longer. Won’t see him walking until Friday. Who will leak it first?
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Corporate America’s playbook: 1) Exploit workers to maximize profits 2) Use profits to buy Congress 3) Use Congress to pass union-busting laws 4) Use these laws to further exploit workers 5) Repeat Let's break the cycle and keep building back a powerful labor movement.
California is grappling with another late-summer COVID surge — timing that collides with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s decision to delay authorization of the fall COVID shots and dismiss the CDC’s vaccine advisory panel.
I dislike my cynicism.
Foremost Kook.
🚨BREAKING: Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe (R) reinforced GOP power grabs sweeping the country, calling a special legislative session Friday to redraw congressional districts and weaken the ability of voters to pass laws through ballot initiatives. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
We are so fucked.
Touchy. 😬
And that explains why the U.N. is moving out of the U.S.
FOLLOW AND AMPLIFY
No one voted for this.
Meiselas: I saw a headline, “Trump Stamps Dictator Chic on Washington.” And they don't even see the problem with that. I feel like one of the last survivors sometimes in a zombie movie, where the zombie hasn’t gotten me yet.
They were putting their lives on the line, battling a 9,000 acre forest fire And then ICE arrested them We’re long past “getting the bad ones out” Now we’re at the “I don’t care if they’re keeping us safe, because our racist president says they’ve gotta go” stage of immigration enforcement
Republican opinion or polling doesn't dictate science. The MSM must stop treating them like they do. Fire RFK jr. Now.
RFK jr, a man with a laundry list of behavioral problems is running the HHS (including the CDC, NIH, FDA, CMS). If he wants to personally have cult-beliefs, that's on him – but we must not allow him to project his own pathological beliefs onto 345 million people of this country. This is not science.
RFK Jr. will kill Americans, sure as death. You have the GOP to thank you for that.
Ohh now I see, you are grossly misinformed and rising to troll/Russian status. Go comrade!
Unemployment will go up, small businesses will close. Wages will go down. Everyone will pay more. Factories won’t open here, materials/supplies still imported. Idea we’ll become a vertically integrated self sufficient nation is an unrealistic pipe dream. But yea, cheer “trickle down and gush up.”
There go my Cloud tennis shoes. 😢. Only shoe I’ve wore that stops knee pain. Well, guess instead of $150 I could pay $200+ Feels insane.
Can’t get a Covid shot at CVS - something about August 27 discontinued service?
He won’t be alive to serve it tho.
He can see “mitochondrial challenges.” 🤦🏻
They all use the “Noble” pronunciation for Nobel Peace Prize. Such a mean, petty and grossly incompetent crowd.
Is anyone suing over planned 90kSF ballroom? National Historic Landmark? NEPA? Anything? It must be stopped- it will destroy our beloved National symbol of this Democracy. 🙏
This is the way …
Clearly, he’s been watching War Chief on Apple.
Never give up hope.
Constituent: You need to take your head out of Trump’s ass.
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Ahwatukee (Phx, AZ) 5:15 pm 8-25-25 Biggest meanest Haboob in 50 years.
Stonewalling. So surprising. www.cnn.com/2025/08/23/p...
Cartoon by DaveGranlund.com.
Nichols: Even though these guys come across as clowns, they're clowns with flamethrowers.. They have the machinery of government behind them. These are people that normally would be struggling to hold on to middle management jobs in a department store somewhere
Only know Republican voters that bought into that. Their favorite response to criticism: never been hired by a poor man. 😢
To which I would add, Doctor, that our mentally ill president controls, among other things, an arsenal of roughly 3,700 thermonuclear warheads, with yields ranging from 8 kilotons to 455 kilotons.
Waiting for Newsom account response to this.
“Let’s see, I guess it’s possible for Switzerland and France to have a war, but they don’t. There’s another one I just settled!”
I'm not even saying the US investment in Intel is the wrong move—just pointing out how hypocritical they are about using the power of the federal government. We can use it to grab stock and boost private companies, but we can't use it to make sure people don't go bankrupt when they get sick.
I think the World Cup should seriously reconsider having their event in the USA.
"The United States paid nothing for these Shares" is an interesting way of describing "the U.S. released $8.9B in CHIPS funding intended for Intel in exchange for $8.9B in stock." Perhaps Congress could've demanded shares for CHIPS money, but POTUS adding this ad hoc is simply unconstitutional.
From "highly CONFLICTED" to "Highly Respected" in just weeks — and all it took was for him to give away 10% of his company
Powell has revealed the jobs market is suffering from a “much larger” slowdown than initially reported—in part due to tariff-driven inflation. Updated numbers showed the lowest three-month period since 2010 (other than the pandemic). trib.al/JSyM3Hd
These same liars on Fox claim Ukraine started the war against Russia. Fox lies nonstop and MAGA soaks up the poison.
The Nazis extorted German businesses as well, in a number of different ways. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
Career professionals who lead crucial units throughout the military and key positions in DOJ are being replaced by hyper-partisan loyalists willing to put Trump over the Constitution.
"This is going to be, I think, like the release of the memo of the conversation Trump had with Zelenskyy, where it just raises many, many more questions."
Maxwell says she is innocent. Maxwell says Trump is innocent. Maxwell says the victims are liars. That is what you have to believe to accept her as credible. All of it.
JUST IN: President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says a Russian cruise missile hit a U.S. electronics plant in the far west of Ukraine. The strike was part of an overnight barrage of more than 600 drones and missiles.
“God’s Country.” 🤦🏻
Another judge points out that the government has the Epstein Files and the grand jury only got a “snippet,” so releasing the grand jury material doesn’t make sense. As MAGA Bondi and Patel knew when they cooked up this harebrained proposal.
"Among other changes announced by Gabbard, the restructuring eliminates the Foreign Malign Influence Center, which monitors foreign efforts to influence the US public." ODNI Fact Sheet here: www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/d... www.bbc.com/news/article...
That rider was added by Sen McCain on Friday at 11pm (before the Monday vote) to a hundreds of pages Defense bill. He had tried nine or ten times prior and couldn’t get his give away out of committee. His legacy is this kind of dirty politics.
-Trump just bought $100 MILLION in bonds -When Interest Rates go down, bond prices go up -Trump has been pushing for interest rate cuts he would personally benefit from Unheard of levels of corruption and grift. Yet Republicans say nothing.
Who is fighting harder to protect America: Gavin Newsom or Trump?
Trump is in those files, and that’s why he’s fighting so hard to keep them hidden.
Trump said he would end the war in 24 hours
New records reveal that White House budget director Russell Vought is set to have vast authority to approve or deny billions of dollars from federal programs approved by Congress. This is a clear overreach of executive power.
"Figures from a classified Israeli military intelligence database indicate five out of six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza have been civilians, an extreme rate of slaughter rarely matched in recent decades of warfare." www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
If you aren't following @jessicatarlov.bsky.social you should. Let's get her to 100k followers today.
REPUBLICAN Senator Thom Tillis on Trump’s D.C. invasion: “I don’t see how any limited government conservative could support this.” 🎯
The numbers are in. The new maps republicans just passed in Texas reduce Hispanic Texans to one-third of a white person and Black Texans to one-fifth of a white person.
Dining out is down… 30% last week
It’s been 10 days since Trump militarized DC. Crime is on the rise. Trump owns it.
Absolutely disgraceful and despicable. If you are a partner at Paul Weiss or Kirkland & Ellis you should be ashamed of yourself -- that is, if you had any shame left.
Such a small amount too. 😂
Very proud of 750 Civil Servants for this letter. More like this. abcnews.go.com/Health/750-h...
Shoot first is MAGA..
How is anyone supposed to reasonably believe these people are law enforcement? They're masked, anyone can buy a CBP hat and a POLICE patch, and why would a real gov't agent wear insignia suggesting they're both federal border patrol AND state/local police? They're dressed like amateur carjackers.
Thousands of Israelis stayed home from work, flooded city streets and blocked roads and highways across the country on Sunday, staging some of the largest anti-war protests in months as the military prepares for a major assault on Gaza City. wapo.st/4mvMVfK
Today: Anti-Trump protesters marched in Washington, all the way to the White House—peaceful, defiant, rejecting his occupation of D.C.
As he unleashes troops to combat "crime," Trump is simultaneously gutting the cops on the beat that stop corporations from harming us — the EPA, IRS, SEC, Labor Department, FTC, CFPB, Consumer Product Safety Commission, FDA, and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Hello?
How easy it is to con Trump by feeding him back his lies.
Incompetent cruelty is MAGA.
A tale of two vibes.
Fox News falls for it hook, line, and sinker.
Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice. It doesn't have to be this way.
tRump literally had our military roll out the red carpet for ICC war criminal Putin in Alaska. He should have been arrested as soon as he stepped onto American soil instead of applauded and excitedly welcomed like a fan boy crush! Luncheon "in honor of his excellency" and given a gift? Disgusting!
Perhaps an award for “Breakout Autocrat”?
The playbook of demagogues like Trump is to protect the Oligarchs by dividing us up based on race, religion, place of birth or sexual orientation. They want us to hate each other while they laugh all the way to the bank. Don’t fall for it.
Trump in 2014: “I believe Putin will continue to re-build the Russian Empire. He has zero respect for Obama or the U.S.!”
WATCH: “It’s not really a close call, is it? Why not just rip the band-aid off and endorse Zohran?” @timmiller.bsky.social presses @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social on why he still wont endorse @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Full @thebulwark.com ep: youtu.be/_szbshrgQHg?...
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The thing about Trump getting dismantled by Putin today is WHERE ARE THE EPSTEIN FILES???
open.substack.com/pub/levremem...
9 will close in Kyrene - a longtime “affluent” district.
“The Supreme Court’s war on the Voting Rights Act precedes Trump but it is simpatico with his aims. . . Both work to undermine the basis for the more politically equal era of American democracy [1965 to 2025] and clear the path to an American autocracy.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o...
Living a moral life in an age of bullies requires collective action; it cannot be done alone. Each of us must organize and participate in a vast network of moral resistance. From this solidarity we will grow stronger. This is what our current moment requires.
After firing the panel that makes vaccine recommendations, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced in a statement Tuesday that 22 projects, totaling $500 million, to develop vaccines for respiratory viruses like COVID-19 and the flu using mRNA technology will be halted. www.hhs.gov/press-room/h...
Quid pro quo. Because duh. Obviously. abcnews.go.com/US/trump-adm...
It is overwhelming to cover all of the Trump rollbacks of protections and funding that are being made public...imagine the stuff happening in secret that we don't even know about.