nine former heads of the cdc: This is unacceptable, and it should alarm every American, regardless of political leanings.
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nine former heads of the cdc: This is unacceptable, and it should alarm every American, regardless of political leanings.
Wow. NINE former heads of the CDC sound the alarm www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
It is simply astonishing the degree to which open racism and bigotry have become normalized. This was the kind of thing that only used to get asked on neo-Nazi podcasts, now it's part of the 'respectable' media discourse.
It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isnât even news.
A reminder on this Labor Day: Slavery still exists in the form of incarcerated labor. Itâs long overdue to end forced labor in prisons.
Last year, voters in Missouri passed a measure to protect abortion rights. But Republicans in the state have repeatedly blocked the referendum from taking effectâand are adding a new measure to election ballots that would largely overturn it.
âIf this process were truly about sensible reform, crucial experts in technology or China policy in whom our country has invested so much wouldnât have been pushed out.â
it's worse than we know
Happy Labor Day everyone! A reminder that Trump has just about decimated the federal workforce. Nearly 10% of all federal workers forced out of their jobs since Jan. "Weâre seeing the arson of our government." www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
By the 1880s, even the staunchly Republican Chicago Tribune complained about the links between business and government: âBehind every one of half of the portly and well-dressed members of the Senate can be seen the outlines of some corporation interested in getting or preventing legislation.â
New, in my newsletter: Donald Trumpâs military occupation of American cities is unpopular. The news media is trying to manufacture consent for it. www.findinggravity.net/trumps-milit...
In general, media & pundits assume crime helps Republicans. And it often* does! But despite months of friendly "Trump is tough on crime" coverage in 2020, it didn't much help him. After 2022, lots of journos retconned 2020 results to fit narrative * largely because of the way the media covers crime
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The last 2 weeks have seen many articles clearly stating Trump has taken US into some state of authoritarianism, even dictatorship, some by indie journalists, but also, major international media. Today on 1A, Germanyâs Frankfurter Allgemeine & Spainâs La Vanguardia. 𧾠www.faz.net/aktuell/poli...
The Guardian has today printed the names, and where possible, images, of all the media workers killed in Gaza, as part of an international day of action involving more than 150 media organisations. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
This is nothing else but a hybrid war that Russia wages against Europe Let's name things as they really are:Russia has made an assassination attempt of the President of the European Commission Russia has been jamming GPS-signals over many Eastern Europe countries that are in its immediate vicinity
A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment. Millions of people with jobsâeven multiple jobsâaren't safe from homelessness in this country.
To be fair, Supreme Court gets much of the credit for taking us here by ruling in Trump v USA against the USA â and the collaborationist Congress has never missed an opportunity to grease the wheels.
âNothing can justify such an information blockade. Yet, it has been tolerated without debate by many of Israel's Western allies, who claim to defend the right to information as a matter of principle.â www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...
At some point western nations will treat these attempted assassinations as acts of war.
If current trends continue Trumpâs demented fantasy of winning a Nobel peace prize may lead us into a world war
This is why what @pgourevitch.bsky.social said is so dangerous. Because now we have people agreeing that RFKâs evil cannot be understood. That itâs mysterious and unique. When you position it like that you imply it canât be fought. But itâs actually totally rote, common, and very easily understood
Anyway a bunch of white guys think RFK is an unknowable mentally ill weirdo clouded in mystery so I guess we might as well just walk around with question marks over our heads and pretend we canât learn.
Every single thing, EVERY SINGLE THING, that RFK has done was predictable and predicted. He is doing what every other fascist eugenicist has done before him. The disability community has been warning about this for YEARS. It is not in any way shape or form mysterious and unknowable.
I think one of the things people misunderstand about being anti-ChatGPT and related products is that they are being forced into institutions and other products and services in ways that affect all of our lives whether they work or *not* and we will all have to deal with the consequences
SCOOP: Revolution Wind employed 80 fishermen over the past 2 years, paying out $9.5 million to captains, deckhands, and fishing boat owners. Trump's pause means he just put Trump-voting fishermen out of work. When Trump paused Empire Wind, the fishermen stayed quiet. This time, they spoke to me.đ
"As the nation heads into the most intense months of the Atlantic hurricane season, employees worry that the agency is not prepared to face another catastrophe." New from @mollytaft.com www.wired.com/story/fema-f...
If you listen closely you can probably hear me screaming. A couple of years ago I reported a ârescueâ to AC for discouraging vaccinations and using home remedies and shit and AC was on their side, thought it was fine to tell people not to vaccinate dogs and put colloidal silver in their eyes.
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âThe rule of thumb, experts say, is that rabies should be suspected any time a wild animal is behaving in an aberrant way, whether itâs too aggressive, too fearless or too friendlyâ
First article on our Rural Racism reports, released this morning @jayrayner1.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Search inquiries for âTrump,â âis Trump deadâ and âTrump deadâ were among the top searches on Google as of noon Saturday while âWhere is Donald Trumpâ was trending on X.
Six deaths from rabies have been reported over the last 12 months in the U.S., the highest number in years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Rudy Giuliani is recovering from a fractured vertebra and other injuries following a car crash in New Hampshire in which he was a passenger, a spokesperson for the former New York City mayor said Sunday.
Conservatism is a criminal ideology. Yes, even your 'moderate' family members. All conservatives are criminals and conservatism is the root cause for everything rotten with the world, if that includes you somehow, either get better, or do the world a favor and die in whatever manner suits you.
Iâm absolutely begging reporters to stop suggesting that Lisa Cook stated that she would use both properties as a principal residence on her mortgage APPLICATIONS Mortgage APPLICATIONS and mortgage AGREEMENTS are not the same thing We have no idea what she represented on the APPLICATIONS
Encouraging people to âdo their own researchâ has consequences.
They want people convicted of a felony to not have a say in their government by removing their Constitutional right to vote, but are just fine with a felon being the president đ¤
The United States, just months before its 250th birthday as the worldâs leading democracy, has tipped over the edge into authoritarianism and fascism. â @vermontgmg.bsky.social
Jonathan Howard received an email from YouTube, which stated that Vinay Prasad, who is the FDAâs top vaccine regulator, had demanded the removal of six videos of himself from Howardâs YouTube channel. Howardâs entire channel has now been deleted by YouTube, which cited copyright infringement.
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?
I am generally driven to give my colleagues the benefit of the doubt but itâs just wildly disappointing to see supposedly serious journalists discussing a military invasion of the nationâs cities as if it were just another policy
Trumpâs Decapitation of the CDC Takes a Darker Turnâand Hands Democrats a Weapon Illinoisâs JB Pritzker is leading a charge other Democratic governors should take up: In our America, weâll make sure public health systems remain strong.
But *weâre* the snowflakes⌠Christ alive this is stupid.
This whole thing is great but the highlighted bit made me laugh out loud. đ Marlon on Snoop:
right?!
This âexplicitâ is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. Itâs not ambiguous.
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.
"His mother told NBC4 that the agent told her son they had confused him with someone else, but to âlook at the bright side: youâre gonna have an exciting story to tell your friends when you go back to schoolâ." WTF www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
canât believe iâm saying this: today i leave for my first tour of the entire united states to go play massive rooms with a rock band dreamt of this moment since i was a lilâ kid iâm so excited to chronicle this journey here for all of you đĽš
The press should refer to these things as âmemos.â Or social media posts. Executive orders direct federal agencies to do things consistent with the law. Like many others, this isnât an executive order. If they didnât call his brainfarts executive orders, maybe he wouldnât find them so appealing.
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This notion that Republicans are coasting right now and the wind is beneath the sails of Donald Trump is just not true. Joni Ernst is not going to run for reelection in Iowa. There was a special election in Iowa earlier this week and the Democrats have now broken the Republican super majority.
âWe essentially have become a kleptocracy that would make Putin blush⌠In the first three months, the Trump family has become $3 BILLION wealthier, so thatâs a billion dollars a month.â @profgalloway.com @nicollewallace.bsky.social @newrepublic.com bsky.app/profile/prof... bsky.app/profile/scho...
trying not to think about how just one of those $8k Dem âinfluencerâ payments could have paid my half of the rent for 10 months, hahaaa
I applaud whoever decided (probably Miller himself) to have Stephen Miller act increasingly as âspokesmanâ for this Administrationâs policies. He is so fundamentally repellent that I suspect even loyal MAGA adherents get the heebie-jeebies when they listen to him,& ask themselves, âAm I w/this guy?â
Murkowski found herself in a lonely fight, with her fellow Republicans declining to protect funding for stations that serve as a lifeline of communication for many rural Americans. She said fear of Trump overrode their concern for their own constituents. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
A federal appeals court ruled Trump overstepped his presidential powers when he enacted punitive financial measures against almost every country in the world. It must sting. It proves heâs not a king.
"How Dems Come Back: Be Real; FIGHT #DonaldTrump & His MAGA Mobsters!" I debate w @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social how Dems can win on policy/politically based on my 1st piece in a series of 4 on this called, simply, "Be Sherrod Brown" Please check out & Share! www.blueamp.co/p/cliff-v-jo...
This is an OK piece on how drones could potentially be used for terrorism in the U.SâŚ.but the example case cited here, in which Neo-Nazi Skyler Philippi plotted to blow up an energy facility with a drone in 2024, has been, IMO, overblown as an example of a drone terrorism near-miss:
If you're arrested in Illinois protesting the planned ICE HQ in North Chicago, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.
Worth thinking about how Chris Van Hollen, hardly a ultra left-wing firebrand, has accumulated a ton of credit over the last few years from the growing pro-Palestine constituency of the DP by simply 1) Demanding that there be justice for Shireen Abu Akleh, 2) Demanding that US law is adhered to.
An art teacher who had the Annunciation Catholic Church shooter in her class in 2017 said she saw signs of self-harm on her then-student.
@nealkatyal.bsky.social: âYouâve 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.â
Mark Knoller, longtime CBS News correspondent, dies at 73
pretending trump's health problems are going to solve this for us, either by making him unpopular or taking him off the board I think is just wishful thinking.
This firefighter arrived in the US at age 4, has been here for 19 years, was on track to legal status, and was on a crew trying to contain a major blaze (in Washington state, vs Oregon, fwiw.) h/t @joshuajfriedman.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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strong end-of-empire vibes
My students, who attend a working-class rust-belt college, openly talk abt how much they hate AI & are afraid of its consequences. I wonder how much of the oft-reported student enthusiasm for the tech is the merely result of the NYTâs Ivy League bias
Iâve polled 40 students at my liberal arts college in the Pacific Northwest. 60% report that they avoid AI chat bots like the plague. 75% report having a generally or strongly negative opinion about how AI will impact the future.
I feel terrible for our country but this is incredible content.
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Meta is an unethical company run by Peter Thielâs techno-fascist billionaire protĂŠgĂŠâMark Zuckerbergâand is part of the Trump regimeâs surveillance state. Itâs time to leave Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsAppâand while youâre at it, drop Amazon, Google, and OpenAI as well. Learn how in this thread:
OF COURSE itâs the rich CEO of a company stealing from the kid because every story these days ends that way www.themirror.com/sport/tennis...
Please, people, don't ever be this guy. Don't let your kids grow up to be this guy. Don't be friends with this guy. #USOpen.
I was in New Orleans recently. While driving around the city, I noticed that every roofer and landscaper and contractor I saw out working under the blazing sun was Hispanic.
âDonât just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying,â Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey told a news conference after the shooting, in which an assailant killed two Annunciation students and wounded 18 other people attending Mass.
Of all the âhonestly I never expectedâ things â Congress absolutely rolling over and abdicating its power to the White House â any White House â is one of the most shockingly unnecessary. It will not be remembered well in history, by either side, ironically. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
developers sure get their quo in exchange for the quid they put in eric adamsâs pockets
Rent is about to go up for thousands of families who get help paying for their housing through city vouchers. The Adams administration has moved ahead with a controversial rule that will, after five years of receiving rental help, require voucher-holders to pay 10% more in rent.
âspeak friend and enterâ
In some ways Ham-Face is the perfect Trump voter: all his decisions blow up in his face but the explanation is always, you don't understand, the radical leftist Joe Biden made us mad.
![[twitter] Jesse Spafford @jessespafford Can't believe the evil Dems made Trump appoint RFK: [embedded video of Ham-Face bloviating] Erick Erickson @@EWErickson ⢠18h My wife is caught in the crosshairs of the CDC mess and vaccines. The left says](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:aq6ucuguuc67yqwu4x4eipro/bafkreichwgzalj7dvqgzdmahudlqoekjonwxksgxxovaow5oxmyv3huz6i@jpeg "Click to view full size")
MORE: Ukrainian forces continue to strike Russian military assets and energy infrastructure in Russia and occupied Ukraine. Ukraineâs ongoing strikes campaign against Russian oil infrastructure continues to contribute to gasoline shortages in Russia. âŹď¸https://isw.pub/UkrWar082925
From @markhertling.bsky.social â retired Three Star General, veteran of our modern wars. www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
"i dont care if you gave me a brain parasite" i whisper sweetly to my cats. "capitalism is a brain parasite" they hiss back in unison. "holy shit i didn't know you could talk." i respond curtly, unsure as to how to continue.
The Social Security Administrationâs chief data officer has resigned days after filing a whistleblower complaint warning that Trumpâs so-called âDepartment of Government Efficiencyâ put the sensitive personal information of millions of Americans at risk.
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Imagine if we all kick ass like this. Join my wife and I on the streets. Join this proud Patriot who is standing up for you. Enough of this shirking into the background. Get out on the front line.
Was thinking about the Katrina aftermath and how hugely different the info environment was then. We were still in the early years of everyone having a camera on their phone. A trickle of info from people in and around the Superdome for instance, with truly potato resolution on photos.
today we donât need the magnifying glass
new york â and the country â deserve better
nypl book of the day Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital Sheri Fink Fink investigates patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital and the moral implications of decisions made after Hurricane Katrina in this suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice.
đ¨ Back to the USSR - by @knecessary.bsky.social Link here: open.substack.com/pub/davidpep...
Shuler: Thirteen billionaires in one pictureâfour of whom now run agencies of our federal government. If youâve ever met someone who says the word âoligarchyâ is too confusing or too complicated, well, you can explain it with that one photo.
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