He’s providing them with valuable mulching experience though.
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He’s providing them with valuable mulching experience though.
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
The guy who argued Trump could drone strike Biden is arguing exactly this bipolar swill. They’re arguing the petty ante, barely existent, deals Trump has made have “saved” America and applying the law on tariffs will destroy us.
Right. Same thing as 2020 [see below].Through 2 debates and a session on Economics in Chicago during the 2024 campaign I never heard a reporter bring up the cost of the 2020 tariffs & the bailout to farmers WE paid for to cover Trump’s tariff folly. I’m sick of it. www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
Deaths from preventable illnesses are on the rise due to the spread of scientifically unfounded fears about vaccines across social media. www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/baby...
One disabled Marine veteran has not had a primary care doctor assigned to him since his previous doctor left in the winter, his wife said. The VA “was never like this before. There’s a lack of staff, empty rooms, locked doors.”
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...
Yes!! And their words do not ring with authenticity. Voters see right thru it.
I really hope this becomes the black eye it deserves to be www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The US Administration has decided to destroy a top network for clinical trials to test new treatments for children with brain cancer. This is another atrocity that will harm Conservative and Liberal Americans, long after the politicians responsible are gone.
That elides quite a bit of history. Trust did take a hit during Vietnam and Watergate, but it fluctuated after that for a few decades and then spiked after 9/11. It was Iraq, Katrina, and 2008 that caused it to fall off the cliff.
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.
“…I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.” My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
So not only do churches NOT have to pay taxes, they're going to get YOUR tax dollars to boot. This seems like oh, I don't know, government establishing a religion in violation of the First Amendment?
Like I, for one, am FURIOUS that members of Congress think the IDF should get full veterans’ benefits but our veterans should not. I am FURIOUS that all of Congress agrees that Israel should have free health care and college, but not us. NOBODY asks “how are we gonna pay for it” when it comes to
Pete Hegesth keeps talking about a warrior culture, which apparently means masked man kidnapping our allies to send them to our enemies to be tortured. Absolutely shameful.
The problem is their only constituency is the 1% that fuel their re-election campaigns. Nothing else matters, not the US workforce nor our children. They turn a blind eye to the problems they are elected to remedy on our behalf.
If I were charged with a federal crime, I’d hire Pam Bondi’s brother as my lawyer. Because I don’t think this is a coincidence.
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This isn't just a political claim, it's an empirical one. If "the problem is not guns" then we shouldn't see any correlation between gun ownership and oh wait platform.vox.com/wp-content/u...
Replacing human judgement with mathematical models to make things more "fair" and "consistent" is an idea that's been around for over a century, but we keep discovering (again and again) that these models fail due to their design and input while providing cover for systemic cruelty.
Who demands to be treated as the elite, surely not the VP? Fool.
So.... 1)The state of Florida spent >$200 million to build the facility it calls "Alligator Alcatraz" 2) It opened in early July, christened by Trump. 3) Now it is closing, due to a judge's order. 4) It will cost $20 million to dismantle the center, which was used for about 2 months.
Oh please—show us your assembled evidence if you truly have it.
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.
Did you catch this bit of "news"?? It's the next salvo fired against "free and fair" elections. BE PREPARED. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
These are iconic photos for future history books, joining the shocking genre that includes photos of a 1926 Klan parade in Washington DC and a 1939 Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden. Irrefutable images of an America that many people will pretend never existed.
I am livid at what this one man and the feeble Senate that confirmed him have done to damage the scientific, medical, and public health enterprise I've known and worked with for 30+ years This enterprise is as close to a golden goose as we've had in modern history Health and wealth flowed rivers
Witkoff is Blavatnik partner They missed that? Money is stronger than family ties www.counteroffensive.news/p/scoop-trum...
A former CDC staffer adds: “This is the work of a death cult.”
I dunno, when you start blaming OpenAI because unwell people did unwell people things, filing massive lawsuits, and waging ap press campaign, this seems the entirely predictable course correction. You wanted guardrails to ensure mentally ill people can't encounter harmful output, now you got it.
Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:
In a functional government, this would be a five alarm fire where Congress calls in Kennedy and asks him what the fuck is going on
For profit healthcare will always and forever be wrong. Private equity firms—no matter where they exist, do nothing but enrich a few while society as a whole pays the cost.
Think New Mexico isn’t fighting for patients, they’re fighting for private equity. There’s a doctor shortage because Wall Street buys up community hospitals, guts staff, and turns ERs into cash cows. Patients wait 16 hours for care while profits soar. Private equity is strip-mining hospitals.
Not only evil it’s stupid. We have a nursing shortage which she was willing to fill.
“I am not able to serve in this role any longer because of the ongoing weaponization of public health,” wrote Demetre Daskalakis, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases.
The Louisiana State Penitentiary, known as Angola, the nation’s largest maximum-security prison situated on 18,000 acres of land that was originally the site of slave plantations. Every person incarcerated in Angola, 74% are black, works in the fields. Landry wants to send teens there.
As kids return to school, another mass shooting has stolen young lives. Children shouldn’t fear their classrooms. Teachers shouldn’t risk their lives. Parents shouldn’t wonder if their kids will come home. We are the only country with more guns than people—and this is the devastating result.
Litter is definitely a massive emergency that warrants mobilizing units from several states’ National Guard, arming them heavily and sending them into the streets of the capital.
One important point is that it would cost about a third as much to house and feed every homeless person in DC as it is costing to keep the National Guard there, but of course that would be radical craziness.
🚨 OUT NOW! Our new @science.org study led by @kohrathefog.bsky.social is the first to comprehensively quantify the health impacts of and inequities in outdoor air pollution exposure across all stages of the US oil and gas lifecycle: extraction ➡️ transport/storage ➡️ refining/processing ➡️ end-use. 🧵
Nah, the average voter cannot provide him with the $$ he needs for reelection. He’s spending his time where he can get his hands on the money and of course then providing them with the votes they request. The system has been compromised.
No amount of appearing reasonable and trying to avoid provoking them will stop them from escalating against you. The only thing you'll do is inspire revulsion in everyone else: if you won't even stand up for yourself how can you stand up for anyone else
"putting the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans at risk of being leaked or hacked, according to a whistle-blower complaint filed by the Social Security Administration’s chief data officer." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u... 2/2
Gah, such an embarrassment. Sorry to say she is a fellow Oregonian. I hope when this administration is done it tanks any future she might have in politics.
Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook disputed President Trump’s authority to fire her and said she wouldn’t resign after Trump moved to oust her over unproven allegations of mortgage fraud, as he ratcheted up efforts to bend the central bank to his will. https://wapo.st/47fcOfb
President Trump’s federal takeover of D.C.’s local police is unprecedented. “The last person who asserted the authority to use military personnel for routine law enforcement anywhere in the country for any reason was King George,” a legal scholar said.
This is such an outrageous not to mention idiotic lie. This whole charade would be a joke were it not also so dangerous.
Exactly. But only if we’re organized and not numbed by those preaching the “there’s no point” sermons.
So say we all.
The second amendment guarantees the right to a militia to guard against federal tyranny. But if a president can use that force against its own state, against the wishes of that state, then it is no militia at all and a clear violation of the second amendment.
The number of times I look back with relief on my decision not to move to the USA when I had the opportunity is only growing daily. This is not the America I fell in love with. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The Trump administration has upended “any presumption of good faith by flinging weightless accusations of criminality at those who challenge it.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/o...
So, uh, first off, the US gov't getting a $10b stake in Intel (by converting grants to equity) is not "giving us $10b." And, second, this is insane. Nationalizing US businesses used to be the sorta thing that Republicans freaked out about. As a former Intel employee, I find this all very stupid.
Here’s what was NOT released today: - the proffer agreement between Maxwell and the DoJ - the agreement transferring Maxwell to club fed - communications showing who waived Maxwell’s sex offender status allowing her transfer and possible work assignments outside prison - the Epstein files
Yes, I am also the product of a decaying society. Thank you for asking.
FBI agents "busted" into John Bolton's house. I am sure in full raid gear. Contrast with FBI agents showing up in plainclothes at Mar-a-Lago and asking nicely to search the premises...treating Trump differently in an attempt to avoid it looking political. (That was Merrick Garland's DOJ 🙄)
The clearest picture of corporate greed in this country is CEO-to-worker pay ratios. At the 100 lowest-paying major US companies, CEO pay averaged $17.2M in 2024. Median worker pay at these companies was just $35,570. That’s a ratio of 632 to 1. How can anyone defend this?
Do you know how insane and infuriating it is to live in a country where one party claims, with media and public support, the mantle of being the ‘tough on crime’ party while its leader openly calls for convicted criminals to be released from prison ‘or else’?
BREAKING: We're filing a petition for the immediate release of Mario Guevara, a journalist who is being detained by ICE because of his reporting on law enforcement activity. The First Amendment is clear: Journalists cannot be detained for doing their jobs.
ICE's budget increased so much that they are now just blowing $2.4 million for 25 Chevy Tahoes and custom car wraps. They zeroed out life-saving foreign aid that will ultimately kill 14 million people under the guise of "waste, fraud, and abuse."
TX Rep. Nicole Collier (D) abruptly left a call with DNC Chair Ken Martin, Gavin Newsom, & others while in the bathroom in the State House. “Sorry, I have to leave,” she said, “They said it’s a felony for me to do this.” #ProudBlue www.yahoo.com/news/article...
I try to be understanding, but jesus christ, the whole story is about how infiltration (which I’ve also covered for years) is not necessary when agencies are openly recruiting them, and they’ve volunteering, and their missions are now the same
This entire fascist story remains completely absent from the home pages and front pages of our major media outlets 🤷♂️
California has walked the walk on independent redistricting at the state level for 15 years. But we cannot unilaterally disarm while other states throw out the rules to gain power. With one vote, Californians can punch back and also demand nationwide independent redistricting.
Extending a big middle finger to the governors of Mississippi, Tennessee, and Louisiana, who are sending hundreds of unneeded National Guard troops to D.C. to buttress Trump's lies and military occupation. The overriding incentive in today's GOP is to stay on Trump's good side no matter what.
Novo Nordisk’s move to cut the price of Ozempic to $499 for the uninsured is a modest step forward, but let’s not forget. Ozempic costs just $59 in Germany while it costs less than $5 to make. The U.S. must no longer pay the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs.
NY Mag article from July which is not an opinion piece nymag.com/intelligence...
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Vaccines don’t cause autism. This visual analysis shows how a father-son duo manipulated data despite no connection between vaccines and autism, writes Jess Steier.
Senate Probe Uncovers Allegations of Widespread Abuse in #ICE Custody. Led by US senator Jon Ossoff, the investigation cites hundreds of reports since January, including accounts of miscarriages, child neglect & sexual abuse at ICE detention centers in dozens of states. www.wired.com/story/senate...
How fortunate we are that the United States is so bereft of serious crimes that we can afford to have FBI agents standing around the Metro all day watching for turnstile-jumpers.
Vladimir Putin: I will flatter narcissist Trump and get him to cede Europe to me. Europe: We will flatter narcissist Trump and clarify the stakes of this fight. NYT: We will flatter narcissist Trump and reveal we don't understand how weak that makes him. www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/19/r...
Reminder that Putin has never said he wants a trilateral meeting, had never said he would respect Ukrainian sovereignty, and has never said he wants to end the war. Not to be a downer, but the discussion of security guarantees is premature.
ICE starts a fire at Portland protest—shoot at people when they rush to put it out. Agents fired flash grenades that ignited dry grass next to an open umbrella. Then shoot "less lethal" bullets at people dousing the fire with water—including someone helping from a wheelchair.
He's so unwell. He doesn't give a rat's ass about peace, our country, global stability, or anything like that. It's all about him, his feelings, his ego. And until journalists start reporting it that way, they will continue to deceive themselves and those who watch and read them.
I've written a statement for Cato on Trump's latest absurd Truth Social rant about mail-in voting and voting machines, with its pernicious claim that states are somehow agents of the feds on elections. Colleague Stephen Richer has also penned a brilliant rapid response. First here's my statement: /1
The problem with "Trump said" framing in a nutshell. Lede reports what Trump said. Second paragraph opens with Trump's bogus claims about fraud in the 2020 election. Second sentence weakly notes Trump's AG Bill Barr said Trump's completely fabricated claims "couldn't be proven."
The war will be against "the enemy from within," and it will be waged with his 10,000 new ICE gestapo brownshirts. We have GOT to flip congress in 2026 and stop him.
Jesus Christ www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
A government agency bragged about destroying posters protected by the First Amendment.
Aside from everything else, they’re pissing our tax dollars away on dragging National Guard troops away from their lives to participate in a stunt while they’re defunding food programs for kids and cancer research.
States like Oregon and Washington are all by mail voting and we’ve been doing it for successfully for years.
From Russia Today's Telegram channel, this morning
Step aside. You’ve lost the plot. DC has been militarized by this admin, it wants to cede Ukraine to Russia. They invited a war criminal to AK, and he plans to disenfranchise voters by denying mail in voting, all among a bunch of other shit, incl financial harm to the non-billionaires.
Holy shit.
Here is the link to the full @theatlantic.com article by Anne: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
🚨🚨" It was humiliating to watch an American president act like a happy puppy upon encountering the dictator of a much poorer, much less important state, treating him as a superior". Spot-on by @anneapplebaum.bsky.social of #anchorage debacle.
Neither the public, the media, not the courts have to accept Trump’s declaration at face value. We should be probing the veracity of it in every forum & making him justify it in detail. That’s active citizenship.
Do we even need DHS? As I understand, it was created after 9/11 to coordinate responses within the various agencies to a national security risk. Maybe we should have just fixed communication channels? Idk but paying for cosplay Barbie and her tv ads seems dumb.
For a tiny snapshot into his decades-long profiteering, read this: news.immunologic.org/p/rfk-jr-des...
He was also a delivery driver not a criminal and it shouldn’t take 5 government thugs beating him up to detain him. Call it out for what it is.
Yes, truly incredible.
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Listen, you can’t break the Trump cult, but they are the minority. We need a sustained presence of Democrats in rural spaces to talk to their neighbors and run for office. Seats go uncontested for decades. Hate gerrymandering? Get Democrats on every ballot and every race. We have to run to win.
Late last night I mapped crime rates for cities in OH, SC and WV to show how often they exceeded the rate in DC — where those states’ governors are sending National Guard troops to “combat crime.” www.pbump.net/o/more-peopl...
Misinformation and disinformation are incredibly dangerous. She says that she was not aware of the risks related to consuming raw milk. I believe her, because when the HHS Secretary promotes the product, well, people are going to believe him, even though their trust in him hasn’t been earned.
📽️ WATCH: Student Kenneth Santizo captured ICE and FBI officers stopping a family on their way to church in the Boston suburbs. Agents broke the window, forced Daniel Flores-Martinez to his knees and slammed him to the ground while his children and his wife, a U.S. citizen, sobbed in the car.