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Pediatrician that believes in science and human rights. Doing my best to survive in my beloved Texas, ruined by 30 yrs of GOP rule.
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turning Jaffa woke is less hard than you would think
#Ukraine war briefing: No action from Trump as another Putin deadline passes. US president ‘very disappointed’ in Russian ruler; Trump had promised to get Putin to negotiating table with Volodymr Zelenskyy. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Wow.
September 2, 2025
this is almost certainly under Title 32 authorities (meaning the TX guard will be nominally under TX state control but on a federal mission), meaning the posse comitatus issues that came up in California will not apply. that said, it raises a whole lot of other legal problems
The Everglades Concentration Camp costs 3x one of these trains.
It sure didn’t take long for Jeanine Pirro to turn the DC US Attorney’s Office into the most incompetent, feckless, and ridiculous prosecutor’s office in the United States.
And was there a trial? A judgment? A sentence? Just summary execution on the word of an Administration who has demonstrated no fealty to the truth. Were the folks in that boat “the worst of the worst” like the migrants outside Home Depot?
Don't feel like doing a repost that puts the murder video on the timeline yet again but do feel like repeating the point that the president just straight-up assassinated 11 people for supposedly doing something that wouldn't be a death-penalty crime if they were caught and convicted
So our military just bombed a boat in international waters and extrajudicially killed suspected drug traffickers without so much as a conversation, let alone a trial? Then posted it on social media? And we’re all supposed to just trust their account?
Today's ISM survey commentary is fun: "Tariffs continue to wreak havoc" "There is absolutely no activity in the transportation equipment industry. This is 100 percent attributable to current tariff policy. "We are also in stagflation: Prices are up due to material tariffs, but volume is way off.”
Khanna: It’s going to be a bombshell press conference tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. The American people will hear directly from survivors of the Epstein abuse. And they’re not just going to talk about Epstein’s and Maxwell’s abuse — they’re going to talk about rich and powerful men…
Lavrov: "For lasting peace, new territorial realities must be recognized under international law." They want international recognition of Russian-occupied Ukrainian territories. If that happens, that will mean completely destruction of existing international law and order.
"President Donald Trump is mad that China is palling around with his strongmen friends," writes Stephen Collinson | Analysis
About to go to bed but the man who ran on "NO NEW WARS" just ordered a lethal military strike on a ship in the Caribbean, alleging it is a "narco terrorist vessel," but of course no regard for Congressional due process, no evidence, & no care for potential civilians. Nothing autocratic about this.😐
It’s not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters it’s that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.
🔥💪"Crime is down in Chicago.Murders are down almost 50% in the last 4 yrs.Shootings are down 57%.Robberies down 34%.Burglaries down 21%.Motor vehicle thefts down 26%.He has no idea what he's talking about.He is insulting the ppl of Chicago by calling our home a hellhole." www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...
probably many others that die or that still able to live but outside of the US. "The other girls all appeared to be under the age of 18 and didn’t really speak English. Epstein laughed about the fact that they couldn’t really communicate, saying that they are the ‘easiest’ girls to get along with"
As many as 100 victims will show up to today's Epstein victim press conference. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
McDonald's CEO says the quiet part loud! Says, we are living in a two tier economy where the rich are getting richer and doing very well. While the middle and lower class are getting poorer and having to skip meals.
Scott Jennings and Ben Shapiro are currently both sitting at a panel table on CNN, not OANN. Seems like a pretty good barometer of where things are in this country. 😕🇺🇸
I think we can safely lay to rest the entire mythos around Trump being unable to call up the National Guard on January 6th.
To put it more bluntly: Trump is dangerously gambling our nuclear readiness in service to his political pettiness. /thread
"Why should I care about U.S. Space Command being transferred to Alabama? I hate the military-industrial complex. We spend too much money on defense. Why does it matter which rich people get richer off it?" There are a number of reasons you should care, but you really only need one. (thread)
Probably not a great month to go out fishing in the Gulf now. The US military might be your judge, jury and executioner.
Mobile billboard rolling thru downtown Washington DC
Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?"
They paid out a billion dollars in settlements for knowingly lying to intentionally deceive their own audience. As their own internal emails/texts showed in discovery, they have nothing but contempt for their own viewers and laugh at them all the way to the bank. bsky.app/profile/acyn...
A bipartisan group of House members is set to convene a closed-door meeting with Epstein’s victims Tuesday afternoon. A group of Epstein’s victims also plans to hold a rally on Capitol Hill on Wednesday morning. "This has not gone away like the speaker had hoped.” www.politico.com/live-updates...
NEW: DC grand jurors reject more Justice Dept cases Former DOJ attorney: “Not only have I never heard of this happening, I've never heard of a prosecutor who's heard of this happening” www.cbsnews.com/news/d-c-gra...
Trump could’ve intercepted the boat, seized the drugs and imprisoned everyone Instead he approved this Venezuela strike and killed all persons aboard The extrajudicial killing of 11 men and potentially provoking a war with President Maduro is an odd way to campaign for a Nobel Peace Prize
🚨🚨🚨”What we heard today is a cover up. And it is a cover up of epic proportions. A cover up involving the US government, the justice system, rich and powerful individuals… and yes, a cover up by republicans in this chamber.”
Thread, on how LA and MS are sending NatGuard troops to DC even as homicide rates are higher in many of their own cities, and even as Trump guts federal funding for any and all programs that reduce crime but don't use a gun. Social control, not safety. Over and over and over and over.
Gutting such programs for crime control, said @johnpfaff.bsky.social means "your focus is clearly not about reducing crime, it’s about intimidation and social control. And this is made all the more clear by where federal troops deployed — not where the crime is, but where the cameras will be." 5/5
Here’s the thing, do you recall the 1000+ plus individuals that asked not to even confirm him? Keep bending the knee to Trump, get devastation.
Holy hell, more like this:
A political novice's campaign to unseat Sen. Susan Collins is off to a strong start Graham Platner, an oyster farmer and combat veteran, represents a new pugilistic approach to Democratic politics.
Amen! #writingcommunity
HHS MESS: “1,000+ current & former employees of the Department of Health and Human Services wrote a letter to RFK Jr. arguing his leadership has “put the health of all Americans at risk” and demanding his resignation.” www.axios.com/2025/09/03/r...
“.. Quite a hot mic moment on CCTV in Beijing today as Putin and Xi, both 72 years old, are caught casually talking about living to 150 and maybe forever thanks to organ transplants. (As picked up by Bloomberg.)” (via @yarotrof.bsky.social)
Charles Hamilton Houston, born #OTD in 1895, was “the man who killed Jim Crow.” He helped dismantle segregation through decades of legal battles, laying the groundwork for Brown v. Board of Education. #TheMarchContinues
The ad campaign criticizing the use of masks by federal agents working in Washington, D.C. has expanded to 115 bus stops, per organizers
A victim of convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein has revealed how a group of survivors is compiling a client list of their own.
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photos of Trump's hand today (via Getty)
I see Ronny started Happy Hour early again.
New: If you bought Trump’s WLFI crypto token directly from the company, your holdings could be up 5–15x. If you jumped in when it hit the open market, you might be down 25%. Sound familiar? With @siladitya.bsky.social for @forbes.com 1/
Exhibit 248,926 proving that MAGA politicians believe their voters are morons.
Illinois Gov. Pritzker ahead of Trump National Guard deployment: "To Chicagoans... Look out for your communities and your neighbours. Know your rights. Film things that you see happening... Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."
That Pritzker press conference was... surreal, and I think marks a significant moment of escalation in the constitutional omni-crisis. This was the governor of a state saying plainly the Union itself is being torn apart and his state is being militarily invaded by an authoritarian regime.
30,000 files released and nothing new to report? This administration is nothing but smoke and mirrors. Smoke and mirrors protecting child predators. SMH. youtu.be/UagsB3U-goo
Officers who shatter car windows aren’t being disciplined — they’re being promoted. One officer who smashed a window in front of a local TV reporter now has a senior ICE position overseeing operations on the East Coast.
We are being governed by a cabal of pedophiles who protect each other. They rape children.
In the coming days, we expect to see what's playing out in LA and DC happen in Chicago. These efforts are not about fighting crime or making communities safer. This is about Donald Trump testing his power and producing political drama to cover up his own corruption.
Well. He’s puffier and oranger than usual. His hair is insane. But that seems pretty normal to me.
BREAKING: The Pentagon has authorized up to 600 military lawyers to serve as temporary immigration judges. This is a blatant expansion of military power into a civilian judicial process, a dangerous erosion of the separation between the two. Every day, we inch closer to fascism.
Listen to tara_shett (IG) on the hidden cost of disability. #MedicaidMatters Do you have a Republican Congressperson? Make sure they know where you stand. 📱 (202) 224-3121.
Brigitte Gabriel, demonstrating what a raging hypocritical bigot looks like...
Nearly 600 economists, Nobel Laureates sign open letter supporting due process for Lisa Cook and Federal Reserve independence for the good of our economy and democracy. Great work from @tderyugina.bsky.social organizing such a quick response. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Yep, #ScienceMatters!👇 Trump & Kennedy are destroying global science theconversation.com/friday-essay... "Our health, our agriculture, our environmental safety [and so much more] all rely on the proper functioning of the scientific machine. We must not stand by and see it dismantled."
Now that Rudy’s out of the hospital and everything, is it ok to start questioning his version about how that car crash went down? Anyone seen a statement from the young woman who was the other driver involved in the crash to get her side?
The bipartisan, bicameral Colorado congressional delegation released a joint statement on Trump's news that the Space Command HQ would be moved from CO to AL "Colorado Springs is the appropriate home...we will take the necessary action to keep it there" 4/6 of the lawmakers are Republicans
This is a sobering--and depressing statistic. Sizable layoffs in the federal government are likely contributing to the increase in unemployment among Black college graduates. www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...
Pritzker: "We have reason to believe that the Trump administration has already begun staging the Texas National Guard for deployment in Illinois."
Pritzker is doing two things here that are smart. One, he's describing this forcefully and unapologetically and in his own terms, not adopting the Admin/media frame. Two, he's making clear that he will blame the Admin for any violence or disorder sparked by their invasion of his state.
Those pupils. In a bright ass room.
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BREAKING: President Donald Trump said he will order federal law enforcement intervention in Chicago and Baltimore, despite local opposition.
Pritzker: "It breaks my heart to report that we have been told ICE will try to disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades. Let's be clear -- the terror and cruelty is the point, not the safety of anybody living here."
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."
Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
The threat from the Russians is increasing every day, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said. He said that the latest Russian missile technology makes it possible for the missile to fly from the "frontline" countries, such as the Baltic states, to Western European countries in 5-10 minutes.
Things feel uncertain right now, Illinois. I want you all to know we’re doing everything we can to protect your rights. Make sure you know how to stand up for yourself and others at illinoisimmigrationinfo.org.
The tolerance for lies is killing our country. Trump just called Chicago “the most dangerous city in the world, by far.” But its homicide rate isn’t even in the U.S. Top 20. Will major media call out the lie – and call it “a lie” – or will they talk about his “tenuous relationship with the truth”?
Too many women already have to travel hours just to get maternity care. Congressional Republicans’ Medicaid cuts will force even more hospitals to close their doors. We should be strengthening access to care, not making it harder for moms and babies. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
If only they would actually follow them instead of displaying them on government property.
If today is Department of War Day, in particular, Dems need to openly start saying that removal and charges are the only way forward. Trump didn't float this before. This is a fetish of Hegseth & changing the name amid these urban occupations sends only one message: You are subjects, not citizens.
The asymmetry between the parties is reflected perfectly in these bad-faith dust-ups over TV news editing. CBS edited Harris down for time; here, by contrast, edited out a bunch of defamatory nonsense from Noem. Fox edits down Trump to make him sound sane. Etc. newrepublic.com/article/1998...
"The GOP is signing on to mass murder of children based on the novel theories of a man who has no party ties except a single Trump endorsement. It is a measure of the party’s utter hollowness, brokenness, and evil that even in this case, it can barely find the resources to demur."
The president is busy, of course. He is frequently late and it can’t be avoided. But I would expect for this they’d try to keep it to five or ten minutes. They’re a bunch of clowns and amateurs.
#France issues an arrest warrant for Bashar al-Assad over the 2012 killing of #journalists
that fuckin newspaper
Let us be clear: there is no emergency in Chicago that warrants the President of the United States deploying the military. I joined Senators Duckworth and Durbin and 10 Members of Congress from IL to demand that Trump & the Pentagon suspend plans for the deployment of military personnel to Chicago.
Vance follows a coterie of online Nazis on X, has described Curtis Yarvin as a major intellectual influence, and openly attacks immigrants in blood and soil terms. The response of most of the political press? "Doesn't look like anything to me."
NEWS: A federal judge has ruled that Trump’s deployment of military forces to Los Angeles violated the Posse Comitatus Act, a law that prohibits the use of the armed forces as a domestic police force.
To hear Kristi Noem and DHS tell it, CBS “deceptively” edited an interview and “tried to cover up” some of her Kilmar Abrego Garcia allegations. But (a) her allegations were baseless; and (b) networks do not have a responsibility to air unedited lies. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
We must keep fighting them. It does make a difference!
BREAKING: Judge Breyer rules that President Trump's deployment of the military to Los Angeles violated the Posse Comitatus Act, says Trump is using military as a "national police force with the president as its chief." Injunction granted. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
It's my kids' first day of school for the year, so let me share with you a summary of the empirical literature I share with them: School can feel like hard work, but it makes you healthier, wealthier, and happier.
Enjoying Labor Day? Thank a union! Organized labor is the backbone of America. As Trump and Republicans continue attacking unions and our rights to organize in the workplace, we’ll keep fighting for better wages and protections for all.
Yes, it was carefully hidden in the New England Journal of Medicine. Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 1/2
Time to remind people about the Commercial Pattern Archive — it doesn’t have instructions and search is a bear but there’s two hundred years’ worth of clothing patterns in here including all the big names new and old: copa.apps.uri.edu
That’s because former Fox host Jeanine Pirro was unable to get the grand jury to indict her, which is conveniently left out here.
🚨Who makes money off of human detentions? Core Civic and GEO Group 1/2
1. Read the whole thread. 2. Raise fifteen kinds of hell, holy and otherwise, about Vought.