Yes. Vivek is a big fan of workers and unions, with quotes like these: - “Eliminate federal employee unions” - “I don’t have a lot of patience for union bosses.” - “I think we need to end teachers' unions.” Other than that, he’s a big labor guy….
So some people *are* above the law, apparently. Democracy can’t co-exist with oligarchy… I gotta meditate more. Dogs rule, ya know they do!🐾
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Yes. Vivek is a big fan of workers and unions, with quotes like these: - “Eliminate federal employee unions” - “I don’t have a lot of patience for union bosses.” - “I think we need to end teachers' unions.” Other than that, he’s a big labor guy….
NEW JERSEY: I know this goes without saying but Mikie Sherrill must win this November. I've been having some conversations with folks not born here recently, and there is rampant fear about what will happen here if she loses. Our work force will be decimated and lives will be lost.
Carol N in Santa Fe, NM! 🔥🔥🔥 Keep sending us you Labor Day protest pics to shout@thedangerousones.com
He’s clearly being shielded from significant public exposure while he recuperates from something, degenerates from something, or both.
If you enjoy… Weekends Safe working conditions Retirement benefits Paid vacations Breaks at work Sick leave Paid holidays … then you’re part of the labor movement. Happy Labor Day.
Nine former heads of the CDC—appointed by presidents of both parties—warn the nation of the immense peril RFK Jr is putting the country in. Gift link, please send to families and friends www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
Great Thread for Labor Day Thank you @drdind.bsky.social #UnionStrong #LaborDay
Not a single developer who invests in this nor tourist who visits will keep their souls. This is the most cursed venture since we colonized the US.
Pure fucking evil. Everyone involved in this shit needs to be held accountable.
I’m serious. This REALLY infuriates me. @nbcnews.com @cbsnews.com @cnn.com Do your job. You failed to lift this up in 2024. If farmers are hurting, explain why and who is to blame. And remind Americans that we paid BILLIONS for Trump’s first tariff blunder. It’s so irresponsible to ignore this.
Suppressed News!
the acting CDC director. These people have money and now power and are sicko NUTS—very dangerous!
not just that he has no constitutional authority, there isn't even any particular legal or institutional mechanism by which the president can make anyone treat this as anything other than a weird advisory opinion.
Harrisburg can't find $$$ to run your bus yet the state is giving up to $1.6 billion (!) to Shell's polluting, climate-crushing plastics plant that's a jobs bust and may even be for sale after less than 3 years Inside Pa.'s biggest boondoggle, ever. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/shel...
Trump/RFK are decapitating our public health system, a pillar of American greatness. So Dem Govs should scour every corner of the law for creative new ways to defend their people from this madness. Dems should polarize this debate to the max. Thoughts on this here: newrepublic.com/article/1998...
They’re doing all this to prevent people from MEMORIALIZING A MASS SHOOTING
SIGNS OF FASCISM 🪧
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.
Why do you appreciate unions? I’ll start: Weekends off Paid vacations Work breaks Sick leave Paid holidays No child labor Safer working conditions Health care and retirement benefits
The extent to which ICE is ignoring all civil rights and due process is astounding — and indicative of a culture where they’ve been told they can do literally no wrong. Agency and admin leaders must face sanctions and legal consequences.
If Republicans really think there is a national emergency to justify the tariffs, why don’t they just pass them in Congress like they are supposed to under the constitution. This is supposedly a national emergency, but they are gambling on the Supreme Court while doing nothing?
Happy b-day pretty lady! 🥳
CHICAGO…
Trump did this
NEW figures show that 61,226 people are currently in ICE detention — the highest number ever in US history. According to ICE data, 70% of these people have no criminal conviction.
no one wants to talk about how much the Fox-owned Tubi hoovers up user data, even though it's much of the reason the app remains free
As the U.S. becomes a fascist dictatorship isolating itself from the world, the United Nations needs to start looking for a new home.
@nealkatyal.bsky.social: “You’ve got the president who's imposed the largest tax increase on American consumers since 1993 … and he did it without Congress saying one word. That is not our constitutional structure.”
📣 #VIRGINIA Dems need to keep control of the legislature and regain the Governor's office. Massive protest turnout won't mean ANYTHING unless people also VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS UP & DOWN THE BALLOT. Donate today: #Blue25 secure.actblue.com/donate/vablu...
Promise tariffs ⟶ faff around ⟶ announce tariffs ⟶ pause tariffs ⟶ promise deals ⟶ court rules tariffs illegal ⟶ appeal ⟶ court order stayed ⟶ make no deals ⟶ 90 days expires ⟶ delay tariffs again ⟶ announce tariffs again ⟶ appeals court rules tariffs illegal again ⟶ you are here
Don’t trust the experts”? That’s not democracy, that’s recklessness. On a plane, I want a pilot. In a hospital, I want doctors and scientists who understand the evidence. Expertise isn’t religion or authoritarianism — it’s training, accountability, and data. Ignore it and we all pay the price.
So, let me get this straight: a for-profit corporation gets to pocket MY tax dollars for the "service" of finding ways to deny people the healthcare that I was paying for them to have with my tax dollars.
Medicare will start requiring prior approval for certain procedures — and will hire private AI companies to determine if patients are covered. The AI companies would have financial incentives to deny claims, because Medicare plans to pay them some of the savings from rejections.
Interim CDC Director Jim O’Neill thinks we should be able to decide to sell our own organs if we want since there are “plenty of healthy spare kidneys walking around, unused”. Which is problematic enough, but just wait until *he* decides he should be able to sell your organs.
Thief warns of 'embarrassment' if burglary ruled illegal
An SSA source tells me chief data officer Charles Borges sent out his involuntary resignation email to select offices within the agency a short while ago, but then a few minutes later the email disappeared from the inboxes of those who received it with no explanation.
NEW: Social Security’s chief data officer, Charles Borges, has resigned, three days after submitting a whistle-blower complaint that alleged members of DOGE had uploaded the confidential personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans to an insecure cloud server.
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Seems like just a month ago that people were furious because CDC Director Susan Monarez “only” had a PhD in microbiology and immunology. Wait…it was. Now we’ve got this guy, with degrees in humanities who wants to build villages on the ocean so they are outside of any country’s laws.
I’m not sharing this to scare people—though it’s fucking terrifying. I’m sharing it because we all need to be on guard. We won’t be getting reliable data from the CDC anymore. Worse, the guidance could be harmful. RFK Jr. has no medical training, no scientific background…
This explains the CDC resignations.
This is the peak Axios AI story. Workers are getting stressed because they’re under pressure to find something useful to do with AI. If they don’t investors will have bought into a bubble. Why do workers hate investors?
There will be a crucial voting rights referendum on the ballot in Maine this November in what will be the first true test in Trump's war on mail voting. EVERYONE IN MAINE needs to be made aware of 'Question 1'. Here is a @boltsmag.org deep dive on the subject. boltsmag.org/maine-questi...
*mind your own business* says guy in everyone else’s business
WSJ Page One: @wsj.com www.wsj.com/business/ret...
I don’t remember feeling any need to change my MORALS by visiting history museums or learning history! 98% of the population being immoral racists seems a little high but I guess her opinion’s influenced by her company…
They're now saying it out loud: The Administration's goal is to undo the political independence that Congress granted the Fed, so that the President can directly set rates.
The thing about AI is that it is designed to be agreeable. It feels nice when someone listens to you, especially when people don’t. I can understand why that is attractive, but the reason we interact as different kinds of people is to pull each other back from the abyss instead of pushing someone in
Reminds me of Cambridge Analytica (CA), Breitbart, & Brexit. I wonder who will help with the data analytics this time…
Republicans are trying to redraw congressional district lines to keep their grip on Congress in the midterms and beyond. Voters should pick their politicians, not the other way around. Get involved with the @democraticredistricting.com as they fight back: bit.ly/3HJ1ayW
If you thought gutting FEMA was bad, the administration is now staking its ground explicitly on the side of the fires
Portugal’s President Rebelo de Sousa: “The top leader of the world’s foremost superpower is, objectively, a Soviet or Russian asset. He operates as an asset.”
🚨ICE agents are racially profiling and arresting Hispanic drivers in the DC area today, targeting work vehicles like trucks and vans. A friend who was targeted sent me video today. Here’s a picture that shows one of two agents before he pulled on his mask. Unmarked black Ford truck, plate: NTV9211.
She was a criminal and now they are giving her the honors of an American hero at the same time that the Republicans in the House refuse to hang a plaque honoring the hundreds of Capitol Police that defended them. Just disgusting. thehill.com/policy/defen...
I will never understand how American elites managed to convince themselves that uncivil debate — not fascism, not impunity and not widespread indifference to facts — is the defining problem of our time. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...
Seems like the kind of thing federal agents could handle if they weren’t busy tracking down America’s most wanted DoorDash delivery drivers in DC.
Landlords say they can’t afford a rent freeze, but have $2.5M to give to Cuomo. Reminds me of corporations that spend millions to bust unions instead of just raising wages and offering benefits. Doing the right thing is always cheaper than the cost to block it.
Trump to honor Ashli Babbitt who was killed while attacking the Capitol on Jan 6 in support of Trump’s coup. Hitler honored those who were killed in his 1923 failed coup attempt. Trump is literally copying Hitler’s playbook.
1) This dangerous lunatic is spouting Naomi Wolf-like woo-woo bullshit. 2) A president in his right mind would fire this dangerous lunatic. 3) A non-chickenshit Congress would impeach and remove this dangerous lunatic. 4) Instead, this dangerous lunatic is attacking the CDC. Right now. Tonight.
I'm tired of this theater where Donald Trump asks Republicans to do something, they seem to push bank and then cave. The only two factions of the current GOP are proud MAGA and scared MAGA. Anyone who thinks Republicans are acting in good faith is delusional.
New development on firing of CDC Director 👇
In a functional government, this would be a five alarm fire where Congress calls in Kennedy and asks him what the fuck is going on
CHAOS ERUPTS AT CDC CDC Director Susan Monarez has been ousted after RFK Jr. demanded she change her policy on the COVID vaccine. Top officials from the Vaccine Unit, Zoonotic Division, and the Chief Medical Officer are resigning, per reports. Horrifying news for public health.
I've taught so many young people like this woman in the Charlotte area. So many are from Honduras, Nicaragua, and El Salvador, and so many go into programs like nursing. Just completely inhuman policy and economic sabotage for our health care system.
Wow this is going to be a whole lot of people to be sued or jailed or expelled
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
*don’t politicize our domestic terrorism* -GOP
The Minneapolis shooter was apparently a fan of several mass murderers who were motivated by the same "Great Replacement Theory" that has pretty much taken over the Republican Party.
I picked "The Plot to Enslave America" as an intentionally provocative and maybe even hyperbolic illustration of conservative plans for unfreedom but like, they are literally plotting to enslave Americans here:
AMERICA: “It’s a mental health issue.” REST OF THE WORLD: “We have those. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA: “It’s video games.” WORLD: “We have those too. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA B: “It’s cause they took Jesus out of the classroom.” WORLD: “God, you’re stupid.”
Almost every day there’s a Trump scandal that skates by that in any other moment of presidential history would launch endless follow-up stories, congressional investigations, and sink an administration. I zeroed in on just two of them from this week: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/a-watergat...
In less than a week, Gov. Greg Abbott and GOP lawmakers will make it even harder in Texas to prevent school shootings, suicides, and murders by domestic abusers.
Repeat it for those at the back: Republicans on the Supreme Court gave the grandson of a Russian double-agent with ties to criminal hackers access to all of your social security data.
Your reminder that 350+ LEOs stood outside in fear of one kid with an assault rifle in Uvalde and allowed him to kill so many school children. They don't do shit. We had multiple city cops at my "inner city" high school and they didn't do one goddamn thing the entire time I was there.
Frey: And don't just say, this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying. It was the first week of school. They were in a church.
You know it’s close to fall in America once school shootings start. Republicans offer thoughts and prayers to the families of dead children. But they want the military to carry guns in our cities while crime is down and we aren’t at war. Republicans are NOT pro-life. It’s a goddamn death cult!
it's important to realize that DOGE and Trump affirmatively *want* there to be more identity theft and foreign infiltration of our government. Identity theft and pig butchering pushes up crypto prices (huge Trump donors) and foreign infiltration has overwhelmingly benefited Trump in elections
A source told CST ~30-40 ICE agents had been practicing riot control at the base for months, using flash-bang grenades and marching in phalanxes with shields. The source said the planned op would likely involve more agents than had been running drills, noting the barracks can house 200 people.
“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...
WIRED spoke to a self-proclaimed leader of an online group called Purgatory, which charged as little as $20 to call in fake threats against schools. www.wired.com/story/purgat...
Me, trying again, on how John Roberts gave Big Balls access to all our Social Security data. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzdH...
Pay attention to this.👇
Something like this is likely. It's not a power the lame duck House has. The members-elect, all of them, meet and the House must organize itself anew Jan 3. And if they are physically ejected from the Capitol, they should meet elsewhere and organize themselves as the real House with a real quorum.
At some point Trump is going to call for the removal from congress of dozens of Democrats, all of them accused of mortgage fraud, and Corporate Media will obsess over details of the accusations rather than just calling it a partisan purge and fascist consolidation of power. Stop taking the bait.
The sit in by veterans in Washington D.C. protesting Trump’s military take over is growing!! Jay Carrey, the army veteran who was arrested for burning the flag has been released and is there! These veterans will continue their sit in until the National Guard leaves DC!! 💪
DOGE staff at Social Security have put the sensitive data of hundreds of millions is at "high risk," which could have “catastrophic impact,” according to internal SSA docs. This was not only foreseeable, but widely predicted. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
I was this man’s business staffer. He knows nothing about business and he’s actually rather stupid about the private sector altogether. All he knows is how to curry favor with private sector leaders to fund his campaigns. By “pro-corporate” he means pro grift.
Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day. Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day. It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.
Republicans will gaslight you about punishing criminals they pardoned.
there’s seemingly NOTHING they won’t fall in line behind him on. Popularity or rationality of his ideas—irrelevant. And he’s behaving as if he’s fully aware of this
Trump is like Stalin. When Stalin found out the census bureau showed the Russian population was 10 million people less than expected, he purged the census bureau. Everything coming out of Trump, out of DOGE, out of this thug regime is a purged and manipulated lie.
please no. Endless boasting and bragging would be even worse than endless whatever you call this
this stuff is such a disgrace. a free citizen of a free country should be ashamed to engage in it.
This is the second day in a row he’s said this. This is an intentional normalization effort.
The messaging from this administration has the same vibe as a cross set ablaze in someone’s front yard. It’s about communicating menace and instilling terror, the opposite of what the government of a free and democratic society should be doing.
These AI products are so not ready for prime time. And we are boiling our planet and pillaging the world’s intellectual property to let them loose on the world.
"It's going to be dangerous if the financial markets perceive that Donald Trump, of all people, the most erratic man on the planet, is in charge of monetary policy."
It's clear that Trump and his minions are mining the vast trove of information the federal government holds on each and every one of us to find "crimes" which they can level against political opponents (or just against those that are inconvenient, like Fed Governor Cook).