Brilliant
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it shouldn't be easier to get a gun in America than the covid vaccine
RFK Jr. is destroying the CDC. He’s barking mad, and he’s gutting the health institutions Americans rely on to stay healthy and safe. He’s firing lifelong experts in their fields and forging policy based on poppycock. He has to be impeached. Now. My column: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe called a special session to redraw congressional maps, blatantly gerrymandering to protect GOP seats and target Dem Rep. Emanuel Cleaver Democrats slam it as unconstitutional power-grabbing, with sneaky moves to limit citizen ballot initiatives too apnews.com/article/texa...
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It turns out your constituents don't like being told "well, we're all going to die" anyway, as you vote to strip away their health care. #JoniErnst #IASen www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
GOP Rep Chuck Edwards is confronted by infuriated constituents at his town hall.
The Trump Administration is using outright lies to try to defend its illegal actions.
Sick hearts, sick minds, sick souls.
Wouldn’t it be nice if people refocused their priorities?
Do not let their murder go unnoticed. These deadly attacks on the press are no coincidence.
I'm still waiting for the relentless onslaught of media demands for a press conference and calls to resign.
New $250 visa fee risks deepening US travel slump - www.reuters.com/world/us/new...
Pakistan evacuates a million people as farming belt hit by worst floods in decades - www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
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."
I'm attending May Day Strong's event, “Grand Junction, Colorado #WorkersOverBillionaires Labor Day” - sign up now to join me! #citizensa www.mobilize.us/citizensagai...
Rumors abound that Trump has suffered a major health event and I can't see anything about it on the major news networks. But I seem to recall that if Biden stuttered or stumbled it was worth 24/7 coverage for about a week.
Media should hound him at least half as much as they hounded Biden. But they won’t.
FUCK YEAH SCIENCE arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Because this is what a real scenario looks like: youtu.be/EYI79ziwh0w
And NO ONE trusts tech bros Theil, Bezos or Zuckerberg. They should head to New Zealand now and hope for the best.
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More sick than Covid and every other disease combined.
Garcia says the Epstein estate will finally deliver the actual book. It will be a great addition to our massive expose on the Trump-Epstein relationship. Check it out: https://americanmanifesto.news/the-trumpstein-files-redux
“.. Roberson predicted produce prices could rise 50% to 100% by early next year due to tariffs and deporting agricultural workers.” @waiterich.bsky.social @fortune.com #CPI fortune.com/2025/08/28/t...
Like they ever wouldn’t. apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump's approval ratings are tanking. He hasn't done squat to help working people. The Epstein scandal haunts him. He's a tyrant with his back against the wall, so he and his cronies are rigging elections in Texas. Understand what's going on here.
Here we go Democrats. LFG Iowa! 🇺🇸🇺🇸 bsky.app/profile/josh...
Catelin Drey flips an Iowa state senate seat, and 2 days later Senator Ernst decides to not seek reelection? Have the winds of change in Iowa met tornado level?
Dickey's Egret, a life first for me, Torrey Preserve, Torrey Pines State Beach, August 28, 2025. More flora and photos: www.inaturalist.org/observations... #Bird #Birds #Nature #Wildlife #BirdsUS #Egret #Egrets #DickeysEgret #TorreyPreserve #TorreyPines #TorreyPinesStateBeach
When a president decides to disregard the will of the American people, you’re right, that’s the mark of authoritarian rule. The White House has notified Congress that it plans to cancel $4.9 billion in foreign aid funding that lawmakers had already approved, doing so without their consent.
We all know this👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
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📌 Trusted Sources I know I’m preaching to the choir here, but with our current HHS dept clearly compromised, it’s more important than ever that we have access to reliable sources to health, outbreaks and related information — Website and YouTube (subscribe for notifications) links in 🧵…
WHAT PUTIN HAS ON TRUMP www.closertotheedge.net/p/what-putin...
Ryan Seachrest makes 28 million per year. Vanna White? 10 million after decades on the Wheel of Fortune. Give me an f-ing break.
At this point, it's not just the guns, it's the additional propaganda, the weaponization of misinformation, the manufactured hornet's nest, the lack of an ethical Congress and Supreme Court, and the delusional nationalism riddled with Christofascism.
substack.com/@immunologic...
I watch the networks now…who are cutting out the most experienced journalists and it feels like watching a small market. ABC, NBC, CBS. Ugh. You must do better.
so many people are going to die because not enough people were willing to believe that RFK jr would actually try to do exactly what he has said for decades that he wanted to do
please don’t stop talking about what they’ve done to dc
20 years ago, Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast—devastating families, destroying homes and exposing deep injustices. Today, we mourn the lives lost, honor the survivors and recall the lesson of Katrina: in times of crisis, government must be ready and no one can be left behind.
Yes.
Whole lot of rich but sick perverts freaking out about now.
Good God. Norah O’Donnell was an experienced journalist/anchor who EARNED her way to the top. Despite a contract CBS “news” disappeared Norah after Trump took office. Now, this?? Who looks strangely like …who??? And is terrible at this job. As a career broadcast journalist this makes me sick.
If not for Chicago, we might not have Labor Day. Keep your eyes peeled on Monday for a much longer video where I dive into the history of unionization, violent strike suppression, and workers’ victories in Chicago, and how they impacted workers across the country.
I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is. This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.
Citizens United. Presidential immunity.
someone should put together a "kennedy death count" for everyone who dies of a preventable disease and just plaster it everywhere www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...
Colorado: Pay attention!
Read "Most Trump tariffs are not legal, US appeals court rules" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-66tsMkuI/5... /I hope this holds
How does this help? Exactly. He started the fire.
Because corruption is absolutely the point.
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...
Mike Johnson makes clear that when Congress returns next week he's going to work tirelessly to cover up the Epstein files
Depriving injured Palestinian children of help is absolutely depraved. In falling to MAGA the GOP has lost all moral compass. apnews.com/article/isra...
substack.com/@vilniusscho...
🔴 STOP ISRAEL'S KILLING OF JOURNALISTS IN GAZA 🔴 On 25 August, Israel bombed the main hospital in southern Gaza killing at least 20 people including five journalists and rescue workers. Will you contact your MP and demand that they act? newint.org/campaigns/ta...
Turns out people do not like fascists.
Lara Loomer is the Nurse Ratchet of the Trump admin. Karma is looking for her. apnews.com/article/stat...
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Beautiful.
To prove it's possible, a region of Germany cut itself off from the national grid & ran its own regional standalone grid purely on renewable energy & batteries. No nuclear, no fossils.
This doesn’t feel very free speech-y
Starting in September, Gov. Greg Abbott and GOP lawmakers will make it even harder in Texas to prevent school shootings, suicides, and murders by domestic abusers www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Your anonymity, not his 🇺🇸
BREAKING: @marcelias.bsky.social's law firm is seeking a preliminary injunction to prevent Texas' map (which violates the Voting Rights Act) from going into effect once signed into law by Abbott
My law firm is currently litigating 52 voting and election cases in 23 states. This includes the Ohio case we filed on Friday night and the redistricting case challenging Texas' new congressional map. I am thankful for our clients willing to wage these fights. They, not the lawyers, are the heroes.
This hits right on time… My wife and I had the great privilege of visiting the African-American Museum in DC, and let me just tell you if you have not been…It is a masterpiece—go.
Gov. Moore’s pedigree is jaw numbing 😮 Born & raised Marylander Valley Forge Military AA; Johns Hopkins BA; Oxford MLitt (Rhodes Scholar) 17 year U.S. Army & Reserve Intel Officer 82nd Airborne (Bronze Star) Stand your ground, Maryland ✊🏽
Got that, Bone Spurs? Wes Moore says keep his name out of your mouth. Well done, Governor! 👏🏻
First Karl Rove’s attacks on political rivals…now this. It cannot stand.
Word!
Note date. 2017. Do you really have to be a CIA analyst to come to this conclusion? Bet he’s not working there anymore. Wonder if he’s still alive?
À better measure of the US economy would be how the bottom 33% are making do on their income, rather than how the top 10% are making do in the stock market.
8/19/25😳TX commissioners court voted to cut 100+ voting locations. Alisa Simmons calls out commissioner court members for ignoring the plea(A lie is a lie)🇺🇸
Kid Rock: I will no longer sell my music in California. Scott Baio: I will no longer act in California. Governor Newsom: My policies are working.
This is a town hall in a Trump +20 district in Nebraska. If this isn’t a guide to Dems on what to focus in the midterms, how to capture back popular support, I don’t know what is www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/u...
WoodCIDE spilled 16,000 litres of oil into the Indian Ocean north of Ningaloo in May 2025 & today, news of #NingalooReef's mass coral bleaching & mortality It's extraordinary that @wamuseum.bsky.social has extended it's partnership with WoodCIDE for a further 5 years & is hosting Woodside Open Day
Not happening.
The thing is Jews all over Israel are standing up to Netanyahu in the far rights, extremeism, and brutality against Gaza. But not Schumer? He’s gonna hang in there with Huckabee and Trump?
With all due respect, AIPAC is more than merely friendly. They've become paymasters for most members of Congress who cash the checks and advance Israel's interests far ahead of our nation's interests. Any member of Congress who's accepted more than $150K from AIPAC should be given the boot ASAP.
AIPAC et al could also possibly be one of the entities holding up the release of the Epstein files: “Ehud Barak, who served as Prime Minister of Israel from 1999 to 2001, is the most prominent Israeli politician whose ties to Jeffrey Epstein have been revealed in court documents”
Chris Murphy, Raskin and AOC are all impressive.
Two terrible decisions in a row for certain. :(
Not sure why a self proclaimed democrat would use the repscums logic against other Democrats. I'm not a democrat BTW , i'm too mean to be a dem and too smart to be a MAGAt.
We don’t know if they were imposters. ICE endangers citizens, officers & its own untrained 18 year old recruits—who may have taken the job for the $. Trump/Noem/GOP did this.
youtu.be/gEO3Eoqq0Tc?...
Several Western nations are prepared to formally acknowledge a state of Palestine at the upcoming UN General Assembly. “In some senses, the move is symbolic,” Hussein Ibish argues, “but it is a major step nonetheless.” https://theatln.tc/BnvFpTRm
