I was, uh, one of the authors of the Port Huron Statement. The original Port Huron Statement. Not the compromised second draft.
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BREAKING: On a 2-1 vote, D.C. Circuit denies the Trump administration's request to let Trump fire a Federal Trade commissioner during appeals. Citing Humphrey's Executor, about the FTC: "To grant a stay would be to defy the Supreme Court's decisions that bind our judgments. That we will not do."
“well this is certainly a bold departure from political norms!” as they are marched to the gulag
The Trump administration used Benny Johnson's claims that his house was "burned to the ground" and that "people were murdered in my front yard" to justify its federal takeover of DC. @kenbensinger.bsky.social found out that Johnson made it all up. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...
In @theatlantic.com the former First Lady advocating healthy lunches is just like the hhs head being an anti vaccine quack killing people. Stop the planet I want to get off.
Perfect encapsulation of the Trump administration: The guy suing Harvard for alleged antisemitism is a straight-up Hitler-admiring Nazi. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
White House says 2pm announcement is DoD related, now this.
Ports across the country were planning to become economic hubs for the growing offshore wind industry. The Trump administration is cancelling grants to build the infrastructure for it.
federal consumer protection is dead and the impact will be generational
a very high proportion of centrist punditry now just boils down to "progressives yell at me on the internet and i don't like it." you would think that getting paid millions of dollars per year would give you thicker skin
Just an astonishing, powerful op-ed that drives home what we are losing and what's already been lost. We are so incredibly fortunate to live with the advances modern medicine and health science. Destroying and stymieing it is just unforgivable. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
"Sending away the 'others' to make way for white people to flourish is at the literal center of Gast’s painted vision of the West. That vision is reproduced in Homeland Security’s own videos." ICYMI:
Deep upsetting, harrowing read www.thetimes.com/world/latin-...
There are two parties in the US: the authoritarian party and the liberal party
Is this the best Miami’s defense has looked since … 2003?
“Ok, everyone is going to assume he was drunk. What can we do to fix that?” “What if we say he rescued a domestic abuse victim?” “I love it.”
I'm sure everything about this will turn out to be extremely normal
And the crazy asshole putting us all in danger with his “health” ideas is cheering him on because he doesn’t like seeing an offshore wind farm from his multi-million dollar Hyannis Port compound.
Our idiot President is destroying our growing wind energy sector because he got mad once about one opening up near his golf course in Scotland, ruining his view
Outlets like NYT & WaPo will treat this like crazy talk while Trump reposts insane bullshit like this every night
Companies indicating price increases are coming, but shrinkflation is already back.
FIFY
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.”
https://youtu.be/giXQg1QgzaQ?si=SyLTsHnKnrQGyH9Q
If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you
How many lies can you fit into one sentence?
I wonder why Trump imposed secondary tariffs only on India for buying Russian oil while not caring about all the other countries who buy Russian oil?
It’s long past time you all stopped using “Congress” when you mean “Republicans”. Not a single Democrat voted for this hot mess of an appointment. This endless grind to maintain a non-partisan tone, despite the partisanship of our fascist reality, is willfully blind, & a betrayal of your country.
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When they say this shit they mean white conservative Christians.
You spelled ENDANGERING wrong, @nytimes.com. “Pushing the boundaries” is a *positive* frame implying unconventional innovations. There are no innovations here. Just medieval anti-science populist attacks on some of best methods of truth seeking we have.
Dr. Dmitri Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC says that RFKJr said he believes that Avian flu should be allowed to "burn through" the chickens and then children and others, so we can propagate a "stronger species". RFKJr believes in eugenics. RFKJr needs to resign or be fired.
Trump wasn't seen yesterday by the White House press pool. He wasn't seen today. He has no public events scheduled this weekend. Trump hasn't been seen in public since Weds, and it's unclear if he'll be seen in public until Tues. That's pretty damn weird.
Every time your electricity bill goes up for the next 10 years, it can be traced back to this Administration’s actions. They are making solar and wind power illegal to build in the United States. They are artificially restricting supply while demand is going up.
The Transportation Department on Friday canceled $679 million in federal funding for a dozen offshore wind projects, the latest attack by the Trump administration on the reeling U.S. offshore wind industry. https://to.pbs.org/45HtATc
"The first wave of grocery-price increases will likely hit this winter. Roberson predicted produce prices could rise 50% to 100% by early next year as inventories clear and new contracts kick in." fortune.com/2025/08/28/t...
“As the National Weather Service scrambles to hire up to 450 people to restore deep cuts by the Department of Government Efficiency, potential applicants are being asked to explain how they would advance President Donald Trump’s agenda if hired.” FEALTY. #Trump #fascism #USA #GOP flip.it/5fQtdd
A federal appeals court has ruled that President Trump’s tariffs exceeded his authority under an emergency powers law.
Something blue states will need to explore: how to create cross-state compacts dedicated to a functioning government as the Trump administration walks away from it's responsibilities.
The phrase “unconstitutional abuse of power” is right there
Trump take LEGO www.404media.co/lego-stops-s...
Major update: As of this morning, CVS says it's decided it can offer the vax in 13 of the 16 states IF you get a prescription. Still a big new barrier for many people, but a change from its "no vaccines at all in these states" position yesterday. The three remaining absolute-nos are MA, NV and NM.
Lisa Cook was confirmed twice by the Senate - who, last time I checked, were elected - after being nominated by the President. What Trump wants is to reverse a legitimate democratic process here.
Trump admin planning to change student visas from lasting for duration of academic program to fixed 4-yr term, and then much harder to renew Could destroy US ability to attract global talent, particularly those seeking advanced degrees in STEM. The median time to complete a PhD is 5.7 yrs per NSF.
Good. I have questions and the American people deserve answers.
Is it too much to ask that the Right be as upset about school shootings as they are about restaurant logo changes?
WSJ Page One: @wsj.com www.wsj.com/business/ret...
The techbro takeover of the US continues: while CDC employees "clap out" their principled leaders who resigned, Trump swears in a 2-decade Peter Thiel advisor to lead CDC. Thiel's Palantir already has all your data. He controls your Vice President. Now he controls your public health too. 1/
Ok, pass a law disbanding the Fed and making the president the nation’s central banker, if that’s your view.
got some speculation as to where some of that slush fund money is going
Jon Lovett’s face when LA City Councilmember Imelda Padilla said she forced an affordable housing project to go down from six stories to three stories and add in EV charging spaces
Jan. 6 insurrectionist Ashli Babbitt offered full military funeral, Air Force confirms www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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)
Three senior CDC leaders who resigned told The Post they were asked to participate in an unscientific vaccine recommendation process that they believe could harm the health of Americans.
Cassidy voted to confirm RFK after supposedly buying the lie that as HHS secretary he wouldn’t touch the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. It took him like three months to fire the whole committee.
Horrible people
absolute king shit from lacazette.
And, if you're chasing a game, do you possibly move Cal back to LCB and bring on Madueke?
...pushed the optics of the presidency in a monarchical direction...as he remakes the contours of the presidency...telling his advisers that he is having fun...Trump era is marked by concentrating federal power in the Oval Office. 'I have the right to do anything I want to do'" 2/
So many ways not to say fascist in the #MurdochJournal: "Bolder President charges ahead...riffing on authoritarianism and ignoring caution...flirtation with a type of government that the U.S. shed at its founding, flexing federal muscle and busting through the norms... 1/
not everyone has a clear record, but kennedy did, and every politician/pundit who did this put themselves on a list of people who should be shunned and mocked (because that is all us shitposters can do)
If it was possible to just eyeball someone and determine they have "mitochondrial challenges," those of us with ME/CFS, who actually do have wonky mitochondria, wouldn't constantly be told by able-bodied people, including doctors, "But you don't look sick."
Huh I wonder why Trump fired him oh there's a picture included, nevermind, same as usual
Great work, everybody
Coffee is basically my one luxury (I quit drinking soda in 2021) and I could totally be a single-issue inflation voter over this shit.
Important to understand that Republicans do not want a functional, orderly, law-abiding immigration system. They want an excuse for the arbitrary exercise of government powers. The more chaotic and inconsistent our immigration structures are, the better for their purposes.
This is what integrity and dedication to public service looks like. CDC has now lost most of its leadership that was actually committed to the health of the American people. The CDC is nearly gone.
Sure why not
Five years ago, YouTube suspended MAGA propaganda outlet OAN, saying it was not an “authoritative” source of information. But today it celebrated a carriage deal beaming the network into millions of homes on YouTube TV. The timing is no coincidence, via @status.news www.status.news/p/youtube-oa...
"Gabbard didn’t know the CIA officer had been working undercover, according to a person familiar with the fallout from the list’s release. Three other people with knowledge of the situation said that Gabbard’s office didn’t meaningfully consult with the CIA before releasing the list."
Full resignation letter from Demetre C. Daskalakis, a CDC leader, does not hold back. "The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud."
Medicare Will Require Prior Approval for Certain Procedures www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/h...
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
“I know what a healthy child is supposed to look like. I’m looking at kids as I walk through the spaceports today...and I see these kids that are just overburdened with midichlorial challenges...and I know that’s not how our children are supposed to look."
What is going on
🚨 The CDC as we know it is being severely altered tonight. In addition to the CDC director being ousted, the Post is reporting that several senior leaders are leaving as well. Here are from two of the resignations:
Sigh
Reported
ICYMI: Trump has just about decimated the federal workforce, with more than 199,000 people pushed out since Jan, per a new report. Nearly 10% of the entire federal civilian workforce gone. “The services that Americans have come to expect are not going to be there.” www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Hey is it good that FEMA is suspending employees that warned publicly that the agency isn't ready to manage disasters with the peak of hurricane season two weeks away
"When is everyone going to say we have had enough of Islam once and for all?" asks Loomer. Imagine a top ally of President Biden saying: "When is everyone going to say we have had enough of Judaism once and for all?" Would there be media silence? Wouldn't every Democrat be asked to denounce it?
"Honey, I don't have much time. I've been arrested by ICE and they are sending me to a detainment center. I love you and the kids, I will be OK, please call our attorney" -- John Shin, DACA resident, speaking to his wife last week. She hasn't heard from him since www.fox13now.com/news/local-n...
Well, this is where we are now, w/ the 2nd most powerful man in the US outright talking like a fascist. Not even hiding it anymore, and we’ll get a collective yawn from the mainstream media. But god forbid a woman call MAGA supporters chanting to lock her up “deplorable.” That’s over the line.
Well, this is where we are now, w/ the 2nd most powerful man in the US outright talking like a fascist. Not even hiding it anymore, and we’ll get a collective yawn from the mainstream media. But god forbid a woman call MAGA supporters chanting to lock her up “deplorable.” That’s over the line.
What if Russia sends sharks with lasers on their heads and they grab onto the windmill at the bottom and then the centrifugal force hurls them onto our territory and then boom, there's laser sharks right on your street, President Trump is very concerned about that and every American should be too
Why are they so dumb?
Trump's insane beef with clean energy is going to wreck both planet and economy www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
So good
😂😂😂
What a goal. The pass, the dummy, the finish, all of it.
The transformation of the Washington Post editorial page appears to be complete.
Atlanta United in one of its “0.3 xG created at home against bottom dwelling opponents” phases, which we have seen many times since 2019. Not a lot of great arguments left against blowing everything up.. again?