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Kressly: I expect in the next couple of weeks, this is going to get worse. You’re going to hear from the same administrative people who have gutted the expertise needed to promote child health — pushing false narratives like, “we need to look at the link between vaccines and autism.” That is a lie.
I remember early November 2023. I think I was the first person on US mainstream media, while at MSNBC/Peacock, to say the G-word on TV. On my show. It was seen as hugely controversial then. It's controversial no longer. It's undeniable, irrefutable, the consensus view.
Thank you on this labor day!!
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
You guys see where this is going? Right?
"In the dead of night on a holiday weekend, the Trump administration ripped vulnerable, frightened children from their beds and attempted to return them to danger in Guatemala," said Efrén Olivares, a lead attorney at the National Immigration Law Center. www.npr.org/2025/08/31/n...
This vile administration tried to deport children, in the middle of the night, to Guatemala. CHILDREN!
NEW: The trump administration attempted to remove 600 terrified unaccompanied minors to Guatemala in the middle of the night on a holiday weekend. Judge Sooknanan stopped it. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-sookna...
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You've got 97 seconds to summarize the labor econ literature on how to obtain causal estimates of the returns to education. Go.
After this administration hangs a portrait of Robert E. Lee at West Point, perhaps they could put up a nice one of Al Capone at the FBI. Or Mary Mallon at HHS.
Cisgender white men
This fucker vaccinated his own children.
But I can imagine my Governor in #Indiana deciding to push for this. He is a complete acolyte of this administration.
An(other) actual psychopath.
I’m 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
I really hope this becomes the black eye it deserves to be www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
This is so delicious. Trump called PM Modi & said that Pakistan nominated him for the Nobel peace prize for bringing peace between the two countries & that PM Modi should also do so. Modi told Trump he had nothing to do with the cease-fire. Soon after Trump increased India’s tariffs. Story…
CHICAGO…
Love to see the president repeatedly gut blue-collar industries and for the people in those industries to STILL blame anyone but Trump for losing their jobs.
As planned.
CDC leaders on why the left: “I resigned because I could not be part of the weaponization of public health and CDC… we should always be questioning - but you shouldn’t have a preconceived idea before you have the data.”
But will Republicans let him? Likely no.
I’d say they WANT the elderly and the sick and disabled to die. Culling the herd with #eugenics.
When my husband calls our Senators in #Indiana and tells them how pissed and worried he is, I’d say we are at a tipping point. He has never made a call before. #Enough #FireRFKjr
Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC, revealed that RFK Jr. has NEVER been briefed by CDC experts on measles, flu, or Covid: “No one from my center has ever briefed him on any of those topics…He’s getting his information from somewhere”
Use www.5calls.org and let your representatives know that RFJ, jr must resign or be fired. Do it TODAY. #ScienceIsReal #VaccinesSaveLives #ReleaseEpsteinFiles
WSJ Page One: @wsj.com www.wsj.com/business/ret...
How much more clearly can RFK Jr demonstrate that his job is to cull the herd? It’s not subtle.
Will wonders never cease?
Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.
Better not have a display at the Smithsonian telling the truth about colonialism. Too woke.
Dr. William Foege, 89, who helped end smallpox in the 1970s, recently wrote: RFK Jr.’s “words can be as lethal as the smallpox virus.” And his actions are more lethal still. He’s waging war on America. That’s an impeachable offense. He must be removed from office. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...
Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
Dr. Demetre, in his resignation from the CDC, said this: “I have never experienced such radical non-transparency, nor have I seen such unskilled manipulation of data to achieve a political end rather than the good of the American people”. It is an outrage that RFK Jr. remains as head of HHS.
I had serious doubts about CDC Director Monarez’s willingness to stand up against RFK Jr.’s personal mission to destroy public health in America—I’m glad that I was wrong. If there are any adults left in the White House: we cannot let RFK Jr. burn what's left of CDC. FIRE HIM.
Vaccines are safe and effective. RFK Jr. isn’t.
“The recent change in the adult and children’s immunization schedule threaten the lives of the youngest Americans and pregnant people.” This should be one of the biggest scandals in America right now. And every Democrat should be loudly calling for RFK Jr’s resignation
Sen Patty Murray (D-WA): “If there are any adults left in the White House, it’s well past time they face reality… We cannot let RFK Jr. burn what’s left of the CDC and our other critical health agencies to the ground—he must be fired.”
This is a major story. “Trump wants Greenland”? King Leopoldo wanted the Congo. And took it. It’s naked imperialism. And espionage. More than 80% of the population of Greenland is indigenous. “Beautiful” Inuits are not “asking Trump to take over.” They categorically don’t want it.
There’s plenty of disinformation trying to blame the nascent offshore wind industry for whale deaths without evidence. Not only is that misleading, it also takes the focus away from solutions that might actually address the leading causes of death — vessel strikes and entanglement with fishing gear.
It's time to remove Robert F. Kennedy Jr from government before he kills us all
He has no business being in charge of healthcare in this country. When people die, every Republican Senator who voted for his confirmation is to blame. And I include both of my senators from #Indiana!
CHAOS ERUPTS AT CDC CDC Director Susan Monarez has been ousted after RFK Jr. demanded she change her policy on the COVID vaccine. Top officials from the Vaccine Unit, Zoonotic Division, and the Chief Medical Officer are resigning, per reports. Horrifying news for public health.
False. www.scientificamerican.com/article/whal...
It's so, so, hard to figure out.
AMEN
💔Why has the Republican Party abandoned democracy?!
Donald Trump can try to stop offshore wind. But he will not succeed.
Go to findaprotest.info. To find a protest near you. Please, please, please, share this on all platforms and get the protest info out there. We need 3.5% of the population to show up. Show up before it's too late and you can't protest anymore. Now is the freaking time to SHOW UP!!!
Academics and activists have tried to help people see that social problems are structural--that people's struggles often stem from the way systems of power and privilege prevent them from getting by or getting ahead. That kind of structural thinking is inoculation against authoritarianism.
Constituent: You talked about abuses in the medicare and medicaid system and I found interesting that the president pardoned someone that defrauded the medicaid system for $1.3 billion
Pritzker gets it.
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
This constant drama with Kilmar Abrego Garcia and the utter refusal by the Regime to just admit they fucked up and leave him alone is a perfect distillation of how incompetent and cruel they are.
TRUMP: “A lot of people are saying maybe we’d like a dictator.” He’s saying it. Are you listening? 🇺🇸
Heard from a close friend in DC that the occupying forces have arrested a few observers who were documenting their actions. Not a surprise, but that’s an escalation from how things had been.
My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
Shipping someone to a country to which they have no ties is not deportation, it is human trafficking. The United States of America is engaged in human trafficking.
Haley McNamara calls the release of Ghislaine Maxwell’s DOJ interview “PR for [a] pardon," and explains how it is “incredibly discouraging” for survivors everywhere.
Let’s hear it for science!! #ScienceIsReal #SupportScientificResearch
Let’s get those six year olds back in factories!
Chairman Mao touts his state-run economy
I always created infinite loops when I took a Fortran class at Ball State in 1973. Attention to detail matters!needless to say, I did not pursue programming.
ICE agents are not wearing ‘masks’. They’re face coverings. Bandanas. Gaiters. Masks are a public health tool. They’re a form of both resistance and community care. ICE agents wear them to terrorize people & hide their identity. The rest of us wear masks to protect one another.
I must have missed all the Law and Order SVU episodes where they didn't interview the victims and just asked the criminals what happened.
Virginia Giuffre’s family denounces “DAG Todd Blanche’s bizarre interview” of Ghislaine Maxwell in a statement. www.allrisenews.com/p/maxwell-tr...
Masked raids are tools of fear, not freedom. Despite what this administration wants you to believe, they are not about “safety.” They are about letting ICE agents hide from accountability while carrying out inhumane acts.
It needs to stop TODAY. call your representatives and demand an end to anonymous and masked law enforcement agents on our streets. This does not make us feel safe! Use www.5calls.org to get names and numbers! #UnmaskICE
Yes. Collapsing all fed law enforcement into one undifferentiated, untrained, masked force. "Agents said they worried the changes would transform the FBI from an investigative agency focused on national security into something more akin to a federal police force..." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/u...
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Here is how the media should be reporting this morning's news. As part of a growing pattern of political retribution, Donald Trump's FBI has raided the home of a prominent administration critic. In this instance it happens to be John Bolton. The pretense is largely irrelevant.
In #Indiana we are not allowed to have referendums. Go figure.
The judge points out that the 76 pages of grand jury testimony are a drop in the well compared to the 100,000 documents the government could release.
Jesse Watters did not believe the election fraud claims but still texted his colleague Greg Gutfeld to say he thought Fox would get “incredible” ratings if they “went ALL in on STOP THE STEAL.” Who cares about democracy if you can get ratings? www.mediaite.com/media/news/j...
The redacted Epstein files is just a blank page titled: “Trust Us, Everyone You Suspect Is In Here.”
The interpreter is badass. Watch without sound. Message received!
My required humanities courses at Ball State University changed my life. That was 1972. I wonder if they require them now?
We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.
CW: Sexual assault Men are impersonating ICE agents to kidnap and assault women. This is one of many reasons why we shouldn't have a masked, unaccountable secret police force roaming the streets. Tell your elected officials to take action today: www.bluestatedefiance.org/no-secret-po...
Very bad sign when masked, unidentified agents of the security state are not just grabbing people off the street but openly identifying with the regime's politics
These are not law enforcement agents. These are sadistic thugs and monstera unleashed on the American people.
America: from storming Normandy to scrubbing Putin’s boots.
Imagine if they’d had sandwiches. 🥪
“He’s been here 25 years cutting the state’s grass, paying his taxes — never even had a ticket… we got a felon in the White House but these are the people they got in there. Without immigrants this country is gonna go down.” 🇺🇸
He will convince EVERY RED STATE to stop mail in and absentee voting. This will be devastating and we need to start pushing back NOW.
Throwing a sandwich at a cop: felony. Beating a cop unconscious with a flag pole: tourist behavior.
What's the difference between Donald Trump and a fiddle? Putin can't play the fiddle.
Trump was overmatched. He is incompetent and incapable of negotiating with Russia.
People who want to protect "The Sanctity of Marriage" are always people who voted for a man who raped his first wife, deserted his family of three young children to run off with one of his mistresses, deserted her and their child for another mistress, and then cheated on her with a porn actress. 🤔
One thing I know for sure is that if *I* called the cops and said “some guy just threw a sandwich at me” they would consider me to be a huge baby and think I was wasting their time.
Yes, this and other of my best-known cartoons were rejected the first time. Hear all about it on this week’s Caption Contest Podcast www.buzzsprout.com/1719352/epis...
Keep up the pressure ☎️ 📱⌨️, #Hoosiers. Why should we have to live in a state that ranks #49th out of #50 in quality of life, when we have some of the best universities and amazing (e.g. profitable --to their oligarch owners) businesses in the world here? Hey, legislators: Leave our maps alone!
Subway sandwich guy has been released on his own recognizance. His attorney argued the felony charge was excessive, and the judge agreed. Oh, and he’s a USAF veteran. www.wusa9.com/article/news...
"President Donald Trump’s increasingly aggressive intervention in the U.S. technology sector has come even though his financial disclosure forms show significant holdings in some of the companies most directly affected by his efforts, including Apple and Nvidia."
Sean Duffy is an ignorant ass. And Pete was a phenomenal Secretary of Transportation.
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