Don't forget the nutter
Seeking some joy for the end of the world
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Don't forget the nutter
People from all over are showing up for DC. This is not a moment. It’s a movement. We are united in our demands. We are all DC! #FreeDC
The Democratic Party establishment has proven its loyalty not to Democrats, but to its own ironclad control. trib.al/kUKAkiZ
Only someone who avoided the draft would want to rename the Department of Defense to the Department of War.
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n
Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.
"How to Report ICE" zines are available for free printable download for these places: California Chicago Colorado DC Metro Area Florida Massachusetts NC Triangle Area NYC Philly Pittsburgh Portland St. Louis Metro Area Washington State Zine request form in folder. drive.google.com/drive/folder...
We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...
Rodrigo Dueterte is literally in The Hague for this headline. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/u...
We need an HHS Secretary who respects science and does not make policy based on conspiracy theories. Vaccines are safe and effective. Kennedy is threatening the health of our kids and all Americans. He must resign.
Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
Trump's hand?
America’s vicious cycle: Corporations crush workers to protect their bottom lines, then use their profits to lobby for policies that allow them to keep crushing workers. Labor Day is the perfect time to remind ourselves it doesn’t have to be this way. https://youtu.be/JSralhrpK44?feature=shared
Adorbs!
These disappointing Democrats love to take a far right frame and run with it. Covid protocols saved lives. Vaccines saved millions of lives. We don't need these cowards in this moment.
There's a terrifying embrace of eugenics in this administration.
Thank you. He never should have been confirmed. Many people will die due to his appointment. Please work fast.
Get out today, if you can! There are hundreds of Labor Day events where you can stand up for workers and against the cruelty and destruction of this billionaire-consumed regime. www.mobilize.us/aflcio/map/...
This Labor Day, I’m thinking about all my colleagues in the US federal government who lost their jobs due to the Trump administration’s cruel and unconstitutional dismantling of our democracy. Solidarity and gratitude for your service to our country.
why can't the democrat messaging on trans people be "no, we are not going to force children to undergo genital inspections in order to play sports"
Billionaires are stealing our future.
Another linked article indicated conditions that form these anti-social/dark traits: "They refer to these as “aversive societal conditions” (ASC), measured by four factors: corruption, economic inequality, poverty, and violence." No shortage of these in America. www.psypost.org/dark-persona...
Good.
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.
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
“Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time rather than his current ability to kill by the thousands. Why is it that killing a single person is seen as murder but killing masses is excused if you are a politician?” Dr Bill Foege
"RFK Jr. is perhaps the most confidently wrong person in public life today... What can be done with someone so disdainful of actual expertise, so assured of his own infallible correctness that he will gleefully undermine decades of vaccine and public health progress?"
I'm so *livid* at the fact that Dems who read the news and basically everyone in indie media understands that America is speeding toward a collapse of its culture, economy, rule of law, and international influence but but we must *still* be subjected to utter gobshite from mainstream media everyday.
CTA: Call Your Member of Congress and U.S. Senators Regardless of which party your Member of Congress and U.S. Senators belong to, please call them (actually call them on the phone if at all possible) and tell them: www.patreon.com/posts/137525...
![Urgent CTA: RFK Jr Moving to Destroy CDC. Call Your Reps Hello my name is [$NAME]. I am a constituent calling from [$CITY/TOWN, $ZIPCODE]. I'm calling to urge [the Senator / the Representative] to demand the removal of RFK Jr. as HHS Secretary. RFK Jr. is a clear and present danger not just to the health of the American people but to the entire world. Firing CDC Director Dr. Monarez because she was carrying out her duty to ensure that life-saving, safe, and effective vaccines against COVID, a disease which has killed more than 1.2 million Americans, are available to all Americans is inexcusable. RFK Jr's deliberate, determined campaign to undermine the public health mission of CDC has caused the principled resignations of four other senior CDC leaders, including the expert who heads the national center that combats emerging infectious disease — the top CDC official in charge of preventing bird flu from killing millions of us. RFK Jr. is compromising the biosecurity and national security of the United States and endangering me and my family. Shouldn't Need To Be A Lawyer Patreon.com/mattbc](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rtsa65yj6j6azdkmatuckxec/bafkreieyr7dzvbywv6egqajygailivvkaifvothb6japh6anopm5jni5qm@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Goddamn technofascists
And then sent them more weapons
RFK Jr.'s #2 is stepping in as acting CDC director. You need to call your Congress people now and demand hearings until RFK is forced out. They're politically weak for another 48-72 hours, then they'll do unbelievable damage in the next month. Show me that you called and I will give you a reward 👇
Jim O’Neill is a tech investor, former CEO of the Thiel Foundation, and co-founder with Peter Thiel of the Thiel fellowship. He has no direct medical education or experience. It’s hard to get away from the feeling that they really are trying to kill us.
Wow
wrote this back in may!
Everything the rich have ever wanted is being delivered, a further weakened labor movement, a gutted regulatory regime, a public sector being strangled in a puddle. The rest was hokum invented by academic scribblers searching for a logical rationale for the rich to be more dominant.
The prolonged public torturing of a single man because the state cannot admit to its errors is not something that occurs in a free country
one sign that the “unitary executive” is less the restoration of an older constitutional order and more the imposition of a radical new one is that allowing the president to act untethered from most legal or congressional limits has largely just served to plunge the country into disorder
BREAKING: Four journalists, including a freelancer who worked with AP, are among eight killed by an Israeli strike on southern Gaza's Nasser Hospital.
This line sums up exactly what I've felt about AI from the jump: "AI is mostly an exercise in deskilling its users and humanity at large."
It is confusing because it isn’t true. Not in a way that should be confusing, anyway. Data center jobs don’t offset ai related job losses, provide few long term jobs for tax base, & also data centers are ecological disasters www.npr.org/2025/04/10/n...
This is the content I'm here for!
OKAY good morning everyone, let's talk about the ostensible katydid testicles on display here and their horrifying evolution
NEW: A federal judge in Miami has ruled that operations at the controversial detention facility Alligator Alcatraz must begin to wind down, ordering state and federal officials to stop transferring detainees there and relocate current detainees within 60 days.
David Brooks in the @nytimes.com tells us that progressives are responsible for the rise of the far-right nihilism of the current moment. We made it happen. Not one iota of introspection here considers that the American conservative movement of the past 60 years spawned this atrocity all by itself.
It’s just kind of hard to think you actually care about keeping the streets safe when you refuse to do anything to keep them from being flooded with guns.
the butterfly effect is when you see one and go ‘ooh butterfly!’ and then your day is better
NEW 🚨 The violence is the point. Elected Dems must call for widespread resignations (RFK, Bhattacharya, Prasad) in response to the CDC shooting. Public health must demand this of them, and the public must demand that of us. With @publichealthguy1.bsky.social in STAT: www.statnews.com/2025/08/15/c...
ICE is scum of the Earth.
"Support Scientists Who Stand Up" by Michael E. Mann & Peter Hotez ( @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social) | An excerpt for @americanscientist.org from our forthcoming book #ScienceUnderSiege: www.americanscientist.org/article/supp...
A rally in Alaska ahead of the meeting between President Trump and Putin.
We're re-writing history and falling into a trap the far-right has set. How COVID contrarianism is being mainstreamed to our collective peril. My latest for @thenation.com. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
This fascist power grab serves multiple purposes: to silence not merely DC residents but protest itself as DC is where we go to speak out; to stoke fear in order to have people self-censor in word & deed; to advance narrative of lawless, POC-led cities that must be brought to heel.
A Democratic Party with any spirit would stage a press conference every single day to present Donald Trump with one sarcastic award after another. The Dennis Hastert Award for Enabling Pedophilia The Richard Nixon Memorial Trophy for Lawlessness The Blue Ribbon for Setting a Record Federal Deficit
Motherfucking wind farms…
Leavitt says that Trump will imprison homeless people who refuse to go to shelters
guys it’s really not funny that the fbi agent took a footlong to the chest. stop laughing. it’s NOT FUNNY that an fbi agent in head to toe tactical gear tried to chase the guy who hucked a sandwich straight at his bulletproof vest but couldn’t outrun him
The worst single-day crime spree in modern Washington history, of course, took place on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump issued no order to the National Guard to intervene -- Mike Pence did -- and later pardoned the perpetrators.
"I entrust you with Palestine – the jewel in the crown of the Muslim world, the heartbeat of every free person in this world" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Authoritarian regimes that capture capitol cities remain in power far longer than those that don't. #FreeDC
An entire news crew working for Al Jazeera was killed by Israel as they sought to bring the world firsthand reporting from #Gaza. Among them was prominent journalist Anas Al-Sharif, who had been previously smeared and threatened by the IDF. #NotATarget Full statement: cpj.org/2025/08/isra...
BBC: “Al Jazeera’s entire team in Gaza city has been killed.”
Homelessness is a policy failure, not a personal one.
I realize broad science-literacy problems cannot generally be solved just by shoving more facts at people but I really wish more people understood that the entire purpose and mechanism of a vaccine is to educate your OWN immune system, making it about the most "natural" medical intervention possible
Same
"Imagination is nothing to take for granted. It is one of the main qualities that fascist regimes attempt to outlaw. But they do not need to outlaw what is surrendered. AI is soul stripping."
Now, all countries do the same.
This man whining about people taking things personally while playing the victim after he kissed up to the party that wants to destroy unions. The politician that takes thing most personally: Trump. I hate how stupid everything is.
It’s mind boggling how many additional people this administration is killing. “I have been in this business for over 50 years on the front lines of public health…And I can say unequivocally that this was the most dangerous public health decision I have ever seen made by a government body.”
Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.
mRNA vaccines are one of the most important tools we have for preventing future catastrophic pandemics because we can update them more quickly than any other vaccine technology in response to new emerging viruses & variants. RFK Jr cancelling millions in mRNA research makes the world far less safe.
kennedy is going to kill a lot of people
If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages
As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.
Such an important point: “Progressive policies…are very popular in this country…but you have a segment of the Democratic Party that keeps trying to convince progressives we’re losing elections because their policies need to be more moderate.” Matt Dowd I wish more understood this. A confession… 🧵
the way you actually fight fascism is by locking up as many of their leaders as you can as quickly as you can, and identifying all their sources of power and influence and breaking those. they control the courts? break their control of the courts. crush fox news. destroy the federalist society. etc
The gulf between popular opinion and policy on Palestine in country after country is unreal. The establishment parties around the world are torching their credibility with voters, and for what? To help Israel commit genocide? I honestly can't understand it
NEW: We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims officers use a “minimum amount of force.” You can judge for yourself. By @nicolefoy.bsky.social @mckenziefunk.com
On top of $1 billion for the qatar jet. And $45 billion for ICE to terrorize and detain immigrants.
Educators need a pay raise—and they need to be respected. @aft.org member Cory O’Hayer spoke at the #TEACH25 Lobby Day where he said educators are being priced out of the profession. aftvoices.org/not-a-teache...
Deskilling is real. This is the world generative AI peddlers long for, one where people are incompetent without their service. Don't outsource your brain to this shit. You'll regret it.
time.com/7306493/us-h... "Peaceful protests are confronted with military force, critics are treated as criminals, journalists are targeted, and support for civil society and international cooperation have been cut back,” said Mandeep Tiwana, Secretary General of CIVICUS.
I remember the episode when Listler tells Marissa's dad to turn around when he's in the fridge without his pants on??? Or something like that.
Turn around!
Do they not have cartoon colons on every other commercial in England?
Barf
Feeling just absolutely helpless and devastated about starvation in Gaza. I'm donating to the Sameer Project and calling my representatives and talking to my offline friends. chuffed.org/project/1132...
Apply the Leahy Law to Israel now. Stop arming Netanyahu when his gov't is purposefully starving people to death and opening fire on civilians trying to reach aid. Their gov't openly calls for ethnic cleansing. US is long complicit.
Why is Israel exempt from Leahy Law? Stop sending them weapons. They are starving people to death.
The distance between what is in happening Gaza, fully backed with US dollars and political support, and the reaction of American politicians who by and large just don’t seem to care or support it is just completely brain-breaking. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/w...
Read my latest:
Uranus, so hot right now
Trump administration is going to go after the "endangerment finding" that's the basis of pretty much all federal climate regulation. A huge gift to the fossil fuel industry and a "screw you" to the world.
My only hope is that one day Trump and his officials will face a tribunal on crimes against humanity.
When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
The images of children starved to death in Gaza should be the lead of every news program.
This is really disturbing. A person detained in the Everglades was handcuffed and left outdoors in the sun as punishment for attempting to go on a hunger strike. As mosquitoes swarmed him, he pleaded with guards to bring him inside and was kept outside for nearly three hours.
A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency. "Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die" Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:
