NPR (@npr.org) reposted
More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.
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view profile on Bluesky NPR (@npr.org) reposted
More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.
Atul Gawande (@agawande.bsky.social) reposted
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Molly Jong-Fast (@mollyjongfast.bsky.social) reposted
Trump did this
Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
Lori (@loribedell.bsky.social) reposted
Remember when COVID vaccines were first available? Remember how they saved lives and helped us move toward normalcy? Remember how relieved and grateful we were? Remember how amazing our healthcare workers were? Remember how science rescued us?
Dawn Herbst (@bijousig.bsky.social) reply parent
OMG... what a sick and useless waste of time abd money!
Dawn Herbst (@bijousig.bsky.social)
BRAVO BRAVO BRAVO! 💪🏼
Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) reposted
This is what autocrats say and do. Some threats he intends to carry out, others are just meant to intimidate to produce a change in behavior caused by fear. Every day we move closer to autocracy. Who will be fearless & fight, who will ignore it and hide, & who will bend the knee?
Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1.bsky.social) reposted
Breaking: Kilmar Abrego García has just been detained by ICE after arriving at the agency's Baltimore field office as part of a required check-in, according to his attorney. "The only reason to take him into detention was to punish him."
Alt National Park Service (@altnps.bsky.social) reposted
Outside the Baltimore immigration office, Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s attorney told the crowd that ICE had taken him into custody.
George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) reposted
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
Life comes at you fast
Hoodlum 🇺🇸 (@nothoodlum.bsky.social) reposted
When you’re having trouble with your DUI field test…
Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen.bsky.social) reposted
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "I think he should start with Shreveport, Louisiana, and Speaker Johnson's district that has 6x the per capita murder rate of Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco. What about the carnage, Mr. President, in Shreveport? Why aren't you protecting the folks there? What bullshit."
Dawn Herbst (@bijousig.bsky.social) reply parent
😃
Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) reposted
This former model, with no background in history, has been put in charge of curating what is "appropriate" at the National Museum of African American History.
Philip Gourevitch (@pgourevitch.bsky.social) reposted
Grossly irresponsible of the Times to have this ludicrous credulous spin as the top story the morning after a president who rules by fiat proclaims a totally specious emergency to militarize the capital - an editorial insult to our intelligence and our democracy.
Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: Senator Whitehouse asked the BOP for Ghislaine Maxwells sex offender waiver, custody level, transfer code, and security point score. I have them. She's also been granted the ability to leave the facility for work assignments. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted
NEW: In addition to her sex offender waiver, Ghislaine Maxwell has an “out” designation that would allow her to leave the facility for work assignments. Some work assignments for FPC Bryan inmates are at Texas A&M University which is just 6 miles away. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/muellers...
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
Not enough people are talking about the chilling subtext and imagery in the messages being sent by the official DHS accounts
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
BBC: “Al Jazeera’s entire team in Gaza city has been killed.”
Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) reposted
NEW: Police bodycam footage introduced at the trial of Jared Wise showed him berating police officers on Jan. 6, 2021, and yelling "kill 'em" as rioters attacked law enforcement. He’s now working as a senior adviser for the Department of Justice.
Jeff Tiedrich (@jefftiedrich.bsky.social) reposted
weird how the guy born into obscene wealth, bailed out repeatedly, allowed to fail upwards forever until he fell ass-backwards into the presidency, and then was declared by the Supreme Court to be a Very Special Boy Who Can Crime Forever never stops whining about how everything is rigged against him
Kai Ryssdal (@kairyssdal.bsky.social) reposted
Hello. The president's continued insistence that the BLS numbers are rigged, political, or otherwise manipulated is a lie. Please stop saying 'baseless claim.' Thank you.
Adam Parkhomenko (@adamparkhomenko.bsky.social) reposted
Appreciation post for this incredible American showing up in Marjorie Taylor Greene’s own district to say HELL NO to the chaos, cruelty, and coverups. When grandmas are grabbing neon signs and oxygen tanks to speak truth you know the tide is turning.
Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: A higher up at the Bureau of Prisons WAIVED Ghislaine Maxwell's sex offender status in order to transfer her to a minimum security camp in Texas, per source. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
Dawn Herbst (@bijousig.bsky.social) reply parent
Same. Hope shook. Shattered?
Dr. Mar 💙 (@boldnewme.bsky.social) reposted
“I did not predict the capitulation.” -Kamala Harris That line broke something in me. Because none of us did. Not like this. We believed there would be a line. That someone - many someones - would stand up. Capitulation is judges bowing. Agencies gutted. Legislators playing dead.
Phil Lewis (@phillewis.bsky.social) reposted
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is shutting down operations after loss of federal funding:
lisadiana (@lisadiana.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
youtu.be/ZtAOxeKouSE?...
lisadiana (@lisadiana.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
60 Minutes Australia Best Voice for Virginia Giuffre 👇🏼 youtu.be/_OHL_s7LRPg?...
The Bulwark (@thebulwark.com) reposted
Epstein victims lawyer Spencer Kuvin: "We now know from the words of the President himself that Virginia was right all along, and that she was trafficked out of Mar-a-Lago.”
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
“Did not show Epstein’s cell or even the stairway”
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
“What did you think Epstein was ‘stealing’ those women for?”
George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) reposted
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
"In 2020, the government pointed to Maxwell’s 'willingness to brazenly lie under oath about her conduct' as a reason to deny her bail. Now, with her entire life in the government’s control, it turns to her as a source of truth. Or, if not truth, a story that can help the president out of this jam."
Dawn Herbst (@bijousig.bsky.social)
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/u...
Noah Shachtman (@noahshachtman.bsky.social) reposted
WHOA. One of Eric Adams' former police commissioners just filed a lawsuit accusing him of running the NYPD like a "racketeering enterprise."
Hunter Walker (@hunterw.bsky.social) reposted
EXCLUSIVE: DeSantis diverted disaster prep resources during hurricane season in the rush to build the "Alligator Alcatraz" detention camp talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/co...
mccraephilosophies.bsky.social (@mccraephilosophies.bsky.social) reposted
Totaling 97 pages and containing the names, numbers, and addresses of a considerable cross section of the global elite ... www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Dawn Herbst (@bijousig.bsky.social) reply parent
EXACTLY. 🤬
WIRED (@wired.com) reposted
NEW: Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”
Dawn Herbst (@bijousig.bsky.social) reply parent
What a sick and twisted claim! 😝
judgeluttig.bsky.social (@judgeluttig.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
www.cnn.com/2025/07/15/p...
Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1.bsky.social) reposted
WASHINGTON (AP) - US inflation accelerated last month to highest level since February.
Dawn Herbst (@bijousig.bsky.social)
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I Post Animal Vids... 😊 (@realjfairclough.bsky.social) reposted
WHAT YOU MEAN THROW HIM A DONUT?? DON'T YOU SEE HOW POLITE HE IS??!
Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted
Ossoff: Did anyone really think the sexual predator president who used to party with Jeffrey Epstein was going to release the Epstein files?
🇺🇸MoralCore (@americanmoralcore.bsky.social) reposted
Jeffrey #Epstein’s cushy federal deal was the only one of its kind in South Florida for at least three decades Over the last 29 years, 3 non-prosecution agreements (NPAs), the kind of deal Epstein got, went to big companies. www.floridabulldog.org/2021/04/jeff...
Thomas Kennedy (@tomaskenn.bsky.social) reposted
250 people detained in the Florida Everglades have no criminal convictions or pending charges.
Adam Isacson (@adamisacson.com) reposted
Florida is committing "enforced disappearance," a very serious violation of international human rights law. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i... www.ohchr.org/en/special-p...
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
BARRASSO: We have over 5 million people sitting at home who are able to work who are on Medicaid and choose not to work WELKER: 92 percent of people who are on Medicaid are either working or would qualify for an exemption
MN-Julie (@jmiedtke.bsky.social) reposted
ugly fall out from the big beautiful bill will hit Minnesotans www.timberjay.com/stories/anal...
AnnieOakleyinGA (@annie1x.bsky.social) reposted
The thing that no one wants to talk about and is rampant in the U.S. and all over the world. I think we should take a closer look at human trafficking since the government throwing out the Epstein case is confirmation that the regime is okay with it. #Pinks 2021-2025.state.gov/humantraffic...
Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) reposted
If the Supreme Court agrees with the 8th Circuit’s ruling, it could end voters and private groups’ ability to file Section 2 lawsuits, leaving only the U.S. Department of Justice with power to enforce one of the most important protections in federal civil rights law.
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
CNN is reporting the FEMA response was delayed 3 days because of Noem’s cost controls, and FEMA officials were “taken aback” by how limited the agency’s response was.
Keith Olbermann (@olbermann.bsky.social) reposted
Breaking: per FEMA sources Kristi Noem was responsible for THREE DAY DELAY in deploying search-and-rescue in Texas Fire her. Blood on her hands.
Dawn Herbst (@bijousig.bsky.social)
😝!
Guardrails of Democracy (@demguardrails.bsky.social) reposted
Silence is Complicity & Staying engaged is how we win. Don’t allow them to wear you down & make you immune to it.
Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) reposted
The Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 called for dismantling the NOAA, which provides warnings of natural disasters, such as the deadly floods in Texas. The irony is that Heritage wanted these cuts because it’s angry that NOAA helps prove the reality of climate change--the thing causing floods.
Charles Ornstein (@charlesornstein.bsky.social) reposted
With deep job cuts at the FDA, inspectors say the ongoing strain could compromise policing an industry spread across more than 90 countries. “Things will be missed, we are going to have a lot less safe drugs,” a former inspector said.
Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) reposted
BREAKING: Documents filed in court today assert that officials from El Salvador told the United Nations that it "facilitated the use of the Salvadoran prison infrastructure" by the U.S. but that "the jurisdiction and legal responsibility for these persons lie exclusively with the" U.S.
Faine Greenwood (@faineg.bsky.social) reposted
Noem's comments about the flood warning system are extra gross in light of the Kerr County government transcripts - which indicate that officials COULD have used ARPA funding to install them and declined to do so.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) reposted
Military documents confirm that the LA operation today was a “show of presence” intended to send a message to LA residents about the power of the federal government. After staging with armed soldiers and Border Patrol agents on horse, they packed up and left after a short walk.
Molly Jong-Fast (@mollyjongfast.bsky.social) reposted
George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) reposted
This is a real post from the official WH account. This is what he’s done to lower us all down to his base level.
Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen.bsky.social) reposted
"Some experts say staff shortages might have complicated forecasters’ ability to coordinate responses with local emergency management officials," per NYT.
Dawn Herbst (@bijousig.bsky.social)
A tragedy just waiting to happen. 😠 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...
George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) reposted
No “President” has a right to strip citizenship and deport people who challenge his policies. That’s fascism, not America.
Dawn Herbst (@bijousig.bsky.social)
Ditto, Joan!
Hayden Black (@haydenb.bsky.social) reposted
In a particularly slick move, the cuts to Medicaid and food stamps/SNAP will not kick in until January 2027, two months AFTER the midterm 2026 elections, so people won’t notice the damage before they vote next year.
Jack Hopkins-The Original (@therealjackhopkins.bsky.social) reposted
Speaker Mike Johnson wants you to know, "I'm grateful to God for being able to get this Bill done. Our rights did not come from the government; they came from God himself." On behalf of Democracy loving Americans, I say this to Speaker Mike Johnson: Go F*ck Yourself.
MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) reposted
Mike Johnson just said if you are for reducing the deficit, this bill is for you. The bill adds 3-4 trillion dollars to the deficit. They just lie.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@aoc.bsky.social) reposted
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) reposted
What, exactly, are we celebrating tomorrow? Our cutting off healthcare to the needy to enrich the greedy? Our new concentration camps? Our dying economy? Our ditching due process? Our corruption? Our broken legislature? Our corrupt SCOTUS? Our ridiculous buffoon president? #FourthOfJuly
Dawn Herbst (@bijousig.bsky.social) reply parent
BRAVO BRAVO BRAVO!
Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen.bsky.social) reposted
Breaking: The US lost 33,000 jobs in June. They were expecting to *gain* 100,000.
Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) reposted
1/ On January 6th, Jared L. Wise "told other rioters who were attacking law enforcement officers, 'Kill ’em! Kill ’em! Kill ’em!'" He is now "serving as a counselor to Ed Martin, the director of the so-called Weaponization Working Group" of the Bondi Justice Department.
The Intellectualist (@theintellectualist.bsky.social) reposted
The U.S. Department of Defense will stop transmitting microwave satellite data vital for hurricane forecasts by June 30, 2025, catching forecasters off guard. Experts warn the move will reduce forecast accuracy. open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) reposted
NEW: "in a Zoom call that was reviewed by Democracy Docket that the group aims to convince lawmakers to attach the SAVE Act to a must-pass piece of legislation this fall — likely either a continuing budget resolution or the National Defense Authorization Act." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Dawn Herbst (@bijousig.bsky.social) reply parent
Worst of the worst, he is.