Labor Day ruined: Beaches across the U.S. closed for fecal contamination. RFK Jr. would say it’s a “detox cleanse.
Labor Day ruined: Beaches across the U.S. closed for fecal contamination. RFK Jr. would say it’s a “detox cleanse.
The US needs to treat Russia like the pariah they are. Sanctions, no access to foreign cash, no foreign markets, no Olympics, no FIFA, no nothing.
There used to be a web site that shows GPS jamming in real time. It’s a dangerous thing, and easily done.
Luckily they were able to land with paper maps.
Russia tried to assassinate the head of the European Commission by jamming the GPS on her plane.
The Hoary Marmots were genuinely soaking up the warmth this afternoon - while I was thinking this may be our last time together in 2025 as they will soon be sacking out for the fall and winter. #Ab #Mammals
My hot take on Gavin Newsom is there’s over 30 special elections coming up THIS year alone. secure.actblue.com/donate/speci...
This reminds me of the time Darcy banned durians from all Secret Society rehearsals forever after an...incident.
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.
Rudy Giuliani suffered severe injuries in a car accident last night, according to his spokesperson
To read the 337-page transcript of Ghislaine Maxwell’s interview with the Deputy Attorney General, Todd Blanche, is to be horrified, even enraged, by Maxwell’s brazen airbrushing of her conduct, and by Blanche’s placid acceptance of her rendition of events.
ABC News is still calling RFK Jr. a “vaccine skeptic.” The dude was one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists for decades. There’s video of him in 2023 saying that there’s no vaccine which is safe and effective. You can call him an anti-vaccine activist!
Trump’s plan to rename the Department of Defense as the Department of War shows (once again) that his self-characterization as the “pro-peace” candidate was complete bullshit. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
“ILLEGALS” MY ASS! Green card holder Rami Othmane speaks out after being snatched off the street by ICE while driving to the grocery store. He’s a documented immigrant and the husband of Dr Wafaa Alrashid, chief of staff at a local hospital. He was locked in detention for 13 days.
Heed this @marcelias.bsky.social warning.
Found a bra called "Inside Job"--of course I had to buy it to write another chapter on conspiracy theories.
As @m-b-petersen.bsky.social told me a few years ago, "anyone can believe the truth, but only loyal members of the group can believe something that is blatantly false." www.salon.com/2021/08/08/a....
The Kant Car
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!
People really just need to laugh in their faces when they say nonsense like this.
@jollygoodginger.bsky.social is in DC with other vets right now standing up for democracy. He's playing General Milleys speech on repeat for them today đź’ś #LoveTheVets!
Seen on my run in Rock Creek Park today. Parking lot near Beach and Tilden. Paper taped on over a Harris 2024 sign.
Business at DC restaurants and bars and the like has plummeted. To whatever degree crime is "down," if any, it's because people in MD and VA are literally too scared to come into DC, and those in DC are being terrified into staying home and off the streets as much as possible.
This is always what the right meant by their Epstein fixation: they did not mean for justice to be done against sexual predators etc. They meant that right wingers would use charges based on Epstein to sweep up all the liberals and Democrats they hated and dispose of them.
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."
Pritzker out here giving a master class in countering the right wing propaganda machine’s efforts to justify further federal invasions and occupations of American cities: he’s effectively reframing the discussion (beyond debates re: crime rates) to one of rising authoritarianism & federal overreach.
The antihero trend in prestige TV warped us to the point Thiel won’t deny being the Antichrist.
Judge Sparkle is my drag name now
He’s providing them with valuable mulching experience though.
Donald Trump is once again threatening to issue an executive order targeting voting. This is an effort to subvert the Constitution and the 2026 election, which grants states and Congress but not the president power to regulate federal elections. If he does this, we will sue and we will win (again).
People think the big theme of QAnon is the pedophile cannibals. They’re the antagonists, but the protagonist is Donald Trump coming back to kill them all. That’s the Storm.
Trump's contribution to our politics was exposing that conservatives don't care about any of the principles they've said are sacrosanct for 100 years, and all they wanted was to be openly evil instead of circuitously evil. The Democrats who win will be the ones who understand this and act like it
Trump has moved to criminally investigate crime statisticians so why would we believe anything he says about crime rates?
What is coming, in QAnon lore, is the Storm. The orgy of bloodletting in which Trump will liquidate his political enemies. That’s what he’s playing with.
DEVELOPING: Advocates are seeking a court order to block the Trump administration’s effort to deport hundreds of unaccompanied minor children to Guatemala. Judge abruptly moved 3 pm hearing up to 12:30 after she was notified that some children “are in the process of being removed" today.
Yeah, man, totalitarianism is when people listen to experts. Good talk, always a pleasure to hear from you.
Conspiracy theories also make it easy to whip up hate based on zero evidence because no evidence is just proof the conspiracy is working.
Conspiracy theories delegitimize all independent sources of authoritative knowledge from virologists to historians to FBI investigators. The Strong Man is the last one standing, the final arbiter of truth.
Conspiracy theories are the connective tissue of fascism. RFK is fighting the imaginary deep state that brought us vaccines, fluoride, and the rule of law.
Counterpoint: yes it does, it explains everything, this is what fascist regimes do. This really could be a description of Nazi Germany, and if that is not widely understood—particularly by reporters!—that is a problem.
Raddatz asks how anyone could object to the National Guard in DC because carjackings are down 87%. Brilliant. If they hermetically sealed all DC residents inside their homes, they could get that stat down to nothing at all. Should we do that, Martha?
WELKER: Do you have 100% confidence in Secretary Kennedy? LANKFORD: I believe he's who the president picked. He's challenging some of the assumption - what is it about autism? He seems to be following the science WELKER: The science has debunked links between autism & vaccines for more than 20 yrs
I also miss things that aren't actually gone, such as my mother's face when she hides it behind her hands
Not a very long path from "Why wouldn't you want the regime to deploy federal troops in your city when it reduces carjackings?" to "Why would you be opposed to the erection of internment camps for deviants when it reduces crime?" And a good chunk of mainstream media will just follow along.
Refuse to be called woke by someone who talks like a Harry Potter side character having a stroke. “Noshing on a poncy porous plimsoll?” Go to a hospital.
The most frustrating thing about Harris’s alleged gaffe on trans prisoners is that almost no one bothered to defend it on the merits. But the policy is fine: When the state provides healthcare it should also provide transition care!
JB Pritzker uses the word "invasion" to describe what Trump has planned for my city, Chicago. And that's exactly what it would be – an autocratic government trying to crush our dissent because we oppose his corruption, cruelty and incompetence. It's what dictators do.
NEW: A week or so ago, one federal agent kept popping up in videos from Trump's violent DC crackdown—so @jsweetli.bsky.social and I investigated. Turns out he's a 26-year-old US Parks Police officer, a lesser known law enforcement unit currently championed by Interior Sec. Doug Burnum. Our report:
If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.
The more outrageous the lie, the more it becomes a badge of group loyalty to assert it. Because there’s zero chance anyone who wasn’t in the cult would repeat it just because it makes sense.
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
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This Administration doesn't care about the laws. They don't care about due process. All they care about is power and exerting control over cities they don't like. Los Angeles will not stand for it.
Households earning between $50,000 and $100,000 are trading down, cutting back and feeling increasingly strapped, while high earners keep on spending.
Iconic
Fevered speculation about whether a political leader is dying seems to be part and parcel of authoritarian regimes. When you lose confidence in voting the bastard out, the fantasy that he's about to drop dead become extremely appealing.
Saddened to hear of the passing of Dr. Rossiter, who told the stories of the many forgotten and underappreciated women of science. Like many women of her generation, she survived academia by developing a tough exterior, but her support for jr women, myself included, was unwavering. RIP, Margaret.
The ethos behind Kennedy’s Make America Healthy Again movement blames individual people for their chronic diseases—particularly by associating health conditions with choices like vaccination—and links Medicaid users’ value to their economic productivity.
The shooting of Andriy Parubiy occurred around noon local time in Lviv, prompting immediate condemnation from Ukraine's highest officials.
The purpose of a system…
From @markhertling.bsky.social — retired Three Star General, veteran of our modern wars. www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
Youth pastor voice: you know who else everyone thought was dead for three days
Why the Texas AG is trying to lock me up and what we're doing to fight back and win. open.substack.com/pub/betoorou...
Trump just sent this email to his supporters. @briantylercohen.bsky.social
He’s alive, sorry to spoil the fun
Maybe ICE shouldn’t have lowered their standards for new recruits.
I think it's the confluence of the chronic venous insufficiency diagnosis and the bruising and the fact that he hasn't been seen in public for a few days. And the internet's tendency to move from a reasonable question "Could he be sick?" to the most extreme variant, "He's already dead."
"His mother told NBC4 that the agent told her son they had confused him with someone else, but to “look at the bright side: you’re gonna have an exciting story to tell your friends when you go back to school”." WTF www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The best time for the greatest president in our lifetime to have his head cryogenically frozen is before death…to preserve the most neurons for the future. Anyone who disagrees is woke.
This German Nazi is not a mass shooter, but he's playing the same game by disingenuously labelling himself as trans to trick his enemies into rejecting the right to self-identify:
There's also the complicating factor of Nazis like the Colorado nightclub shooter disingenuously claiming to be trans to mock their enemies.
Approximately 1% of school shooters are trans, compared to 3% of high schoolers who identify as trans.
For those unaware: RFK Jr has been spreading anti-vaccine lies for over 20 years. This is not new. This is not “since COVID.” He wrote a 2005 article in Rolling Stone blaming vaccine ingredients for autism. Be aware of this history. He is a millionaire because of the disinformation HE created.
This is why "civility" has such a bad name. It has become a euphemism for obtuse and cruel.
After a slew of affairs with defense contractors, and numerous other "mistakes," was Joni Ernst unelectable? She seems to think so. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
“The CDC you knew is over,” Dr. Demetre Daskalakis told me today. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.” www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
The story is even worse because Pusser and his fan boys have claimed for 60 years that she was killed in an "ambush" when her husband appears to have shot and killed her, then staged an ambush.
Mass shooters since 2018 who were transgender — 4. Mass shooters since 2018 who were not transgender — 4,193. Hope that helps.
ICYMI — Republican Former State Senator just had his law license reinstated by the Board of Professional Responsibility of the Supreme Court of Tennessee after getting pardoned by Trump for campaign finance crimes. He pled guilty, only did 2 weeks. www.fox13memphis.com/news/brian-k...
Exclusive: Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities — including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez — to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found reut.rs/3JWb00R
RFK Jr. taps his top deputy, Jim O’Neill, to be the new CDC director. Both men appear to wear skinny ties from Otaa. Otaa's ties are made in China from microfiber, a kind of plastic that, under the right conditions, can migrate to your balls.
for what it’s worth I think “fire RFK” is potentially a concrete ask that could work for the budget, assuming that Rs can’t get their shit together. Rs would probably like to be able to blame an RFK firing on Ds and I think that’s a totally acceptable trade
that last cabinet meeting where they all had to kiss Trump’s ass for like five hours was his Make-A-Wish
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Looks like the DOGgies were stung by it, and hacked it out of everybody's mailboxes.
Susan Collins voted for this, and Platner (or whoever the Dem nominee ends up being) should go out of their way to remind voters of this as the consequences accrue
A federal judge has ordered Florida to shut down "Alligator Alcatraz," after the state spent a staggering $218M to build the now-vacant detention camp. Closing it will run taxpayers another $20M. An utterly cruel and costly waste.
Huge news - appeals court rules that a majority of the President’s tariffs are illegal. The President is wreaking havoc on our economy, and he is breaking the law to do it. We must right this ship. We need sane trade policy again.
But by far and away, the biggest priority for a Heritage Foundation-captured CDC is going to be using the agency's legal frameworks for access to medical data, and weaponizing them to control women. *Most* of the Project 2025 plan for CDC is a witch hunt against abortion on an unprecedented scale.
In the next Covid-19, mpox, H5N1, etc. - what scientists call "Disease X" - O'Neill's CDC won't even test people to try to track infections, let alone stop them from spreading.
With O'Neill (apparently) taking over CDC (if they ever get around to firing Monarez), I think it's worth looking back to Project 2025 and asking what they actually intend to *do* to CDC. So, I went to remind myself today. Here's what's in store:
Who wants this? I can't imagine Republican voters want this. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
I know there's a lot of bad shit going on. But I'm high key mad that when this is all over - and it will all end - we're all going to have to get new social security numbers abcnews.go.com/US/whistlebl...
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
"Her patient had signs of what could be a cancer or could be an unusual infection — diagnoses that would require completely different treatment. Ordinarily, she would confirm an infection after sending a sample to the CDC for testing ...the CDC no longer has the capacity to do that"