This hits harder than when I saw this movie the first time. #CaptainAmerica
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This hits harder than when I saw this movie the first time. #CaptainAmerica
Indeed. I have a sign and a hat I stole it from reading "Make Orwell Fiction Again." At a protest a few weeks back, a woman approached me and agreed, adding "Make Atwood Fiction Again...and Huxley...and Lewis..." May make a second side for my sign. A "Make Gilead Fiction Again" t-shirt exists. 🖇️✊
As a physician, I know conversion therapy is dangerous and goes against everything we stand for in healthcare. It's abusive and not grounded in science.
ICE says they want to start arresting US citizens for posting Memes against ICE lol it’s America vs the pedophiles!!!! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
A note to RFKJ- don’t cross the nurses. They’re tough as nails and get things done. We’re glad to have National Nurses United join the fight against unscientific nonsense.
Concerning Trump‘s press conference today… In light of the Epstein survivor testimony expected this week, take whatever you’d expect Trump to say, raise it to the stupidest exponent imaginable… Then double it.
The last and only good Republican president in my 71 years. Who probably would be considered too progressive for today's Democratic party establishment, let alone the MAGA fascist travesty calling itself today's Republican party. Sure he had his faults, we all do. Nonetheless, one of the greatest.
😎🌵🪴 The current Amerikan president has scheduled an announcement from the Oval Office Tues., 2 Sept at 2pm ET. I think this announcement will be ridiculously dramatic so as to distract from the press conference scheduled for Wednesday in the House Triangle with the victims of the #EpsteinFiles
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The President of the United States went essentially completely missing for four days. Just looked at their apps. Nothing about it in the Washington Post, nothing about it in the NYT. The press has been failing us for years but this is completely ridiculous.
This was when news reporting lost all sense of humanity&pride.No honesty,no apologies if something reported was incorrect.No shame, whatsoever,for who they hurt,who they sided with.They spoke like it was the gospel truth.Always biased with whoever,paid them the most bucks!They ALL worshipped money!
More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.
National Nurses United Called For Firing Or Resignation Of RFK Jr "RFK Jr's tenure at HHS has been one disaster after another, dangerously eroding public trust in the institutions critical for the health and safety of all Americans. Time for him to go.” www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/nation...
My voice may be a small one but I’m calling on my fellow physicians to demand the firing of RFK Jr. We can’t entrust our nations health to pseudoscience and political conjecture. Science is apolitical but RGK Jr has tainted it. Don’t let politics get you killed.
NOVEMBER 2026 REMEMBER
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Robert is Correct......
"That is why 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." Yes, there is a difference.
. THIS is one of the biggest problems of our time . . . ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ .
Indeed. Traditional media has morphed into the Ministry of Truth. Make Orwell Fiction Again!
Right-wing billionaires who own the media are enabling the Trump regime’s authoritarian takeover. This is why it is so critical to support independent journalism right now. Traditional media is no longer a trustworthy source of information for the public to stay informed and fight against fascism.
Indeed, but I would argue that only the ones the orange dictator wannabe awarded are meaningless. And suggest that the next Democratic Congress begin efforts to rescind the meaningless Medals he who will not be named awarded. As part of the broader effort to nullify every idiotic thing he's done.
So, the 34-felony convict liable for sexual assault will have awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to an adulterer (Limbaugh), an election fraud charged with 9 felonies (Giuliani), and a pedophile protector (Jim Jordan). The medal is now meaningless.
Indeed. I can only assume the Ministry of Truth has absorbed it completely. Make Orwell Fiction Again!
All kidding aside, it is so *insane* & *shocking* & *dangerous* that Corporate Media has collectively decided to completely bury objective fact that the President is uninformed, confused, and physically & mentally deteriorating.
Vaccine sceptic RFK Jr has called for the retraction of a Danish study that found no link between aluminium in vaccines and chronic diseases in children — a rare move... “Kennedy has demonstrated that he wants the scientific literature to bend to his will”, says Oransky. Scientific American
Personally, I get General Jack D. Ripper vibes... except they're not funny. Nope, don't like 'em one bit...
Indeed. While propaganda is rife on both sides of the proverbial aisle, the left tends mostly to exaggeration while the right tends almost exclusively to lies. "The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth" has become an endangered species.
Time to Wag the Dog, eh?
“The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.” –Albert Einstein www.snopes.com/fact-check/e...
Jasmine Crockett is one Woman I Believe,and I Believe In Her......
Indeed. Profits* are the roots of most of the misery and evil in this world. *Homophones may apply.
Food isn't expensive. Water isn't expensive. Even power isn't expensive. Mega-rich bosses demanding gigantic profits are expensive.
It’s the guns!
Robert Reich is correct ! Chump has us on the Fast Track to Fascism, demolishing our Democracy, brick by brick......
Ashley Babbit dishonored her service by committing insurrection against her country. While her death is absolutely tragic and I wish it hadn’t happened, the Air Force giving her honors is in itself a dishonor.
Indeed. 🎯
No one is attacking private prayer. The problem is treating it as a substitute for action while in office, leaving solutions to divine intervention instead of doing your job. Kids being shot in a church isn’t God "working in mysterious ways" — it’s a failure of policy.
New, from me: America is no longer a functioning democracy. It is a competitive authoritarian system, hurtling rapidly toward authoritarianism. This was a hard piece to write but we can't move forward if we don’t acknowledge where we are. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...
Yes, it should. However, that would require an effective mainstream media in America — which we don’t currently have.
It's possible ... hear me out, here …. It may well be that these people lie their asses off whenever they exhale
The UBI part is great but I think it would be better to tax wealth, carbon pollution, transactions, and land value.
Why aren't Democratic leaders holding daily press conferences to list out every single authoritarian action he's taking each day? Please. Start now. Stop waiting for what the polls say. Stop looking to consultants for what language to use. Speak plainly about fascism now. START NOW!
The fact that all major news sources in the United States have daily lead stories like "Experts weigh in on the most delicious ice cream" and not "Democracy is dead" is one of the greatest derelictions in duty in the history of the country.
This is a very useful list and interview from one of the authors of a recent book about UBI that is his recommended list of books to read about UBI, starting off with Marx and Hayek as intros, then Standing and Parijs to go deep, and then his book: "Basic Income: The Policy That Changes Everything."
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Trump just halted a nearly completed wind project that was set to power 350K homes at a stable rate for 20 years. Over 1,000 jobs—gone. Electric bills—up. All to protect Big Oil. This isn’t "national security." It’s political sabotage. They'd rather destroy our future than build a better one.
It’s continues to be despicable how the media has spent a decade normalizing the orange felon so much so that they are reporting on his authoritarian militarization of Washington DC as if it were a routine military exercise. They deliberately failed democracy for clickbait.
Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day. Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day. It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.
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He just keeps rewriting the rule book.
Wow. On NPR, @gbrumfiel.bsky.social reports a Social Security official “copied the Social Security numbers, names and birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private section of the agency's cloud.” The source is a whistleblower, who is named: Charles Borges, SSN chief data officer.
“As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism, or hatred of the vulnerable – then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.” Noam Chomsky
Says it all really……
Call things what they are...
No better way to infuriate Donald Trump, who salivates over the Nobel Peace Prize like it’s his crown jewel, than for it to be awarded instead to USAID. He craves it, he dreams it, but watching the honor go to the institution he undermined—now that would be epic.
Attempting to rig elections on his behalf. Turning the military on citizens. Toying with the idea of declaring martial law. Attacking political enemies and punishing those who speak out against his regime. If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?
I suspect that if investigations are thorough enough, we'll find the same group of oligarchs behind all of it. Or, at the minimum, a few overlapping ones.
Fascism is everywhere in the world, hoping that no one notices until it is too late. When will people wake up to what is happening in this world?
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Respect. For principles and people that earn it. Not for objects from decrees.
20 Year combat veteran arrested for using his 1st amendment right
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For all the dog lovers. This is a classic. Worth seeing again.
Fascism has festered in our nation since its inception. In slavery, in Jim Crow, in capitalism—it’s morphed to survive, to build, to dominate. But all that time, freedom has grown too; America has progressed and the world has connected. We are more ready for this than ever before. Good will win.
Gus Speth: "I used to think that top environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and climate change. I thought that 30 years of good science could address these problems. I was wrong. The top environmental problems are selfishness, greed and apathy...”
When an insurance company is deciding whether to pay for your medical treatment, it generates a file, which should contain all records associated with your case, including documents explaining why the claim was denied. You have a right to see this file. (Published May 2023)
If someone tells you past models exaggerated how bad things would be, they’re wrong. www.iflscience.com/climate-mode...
The Posse Comitatus Act bars presidents from turning the military on civilians. Trump shredded that guardrail in 2020, using the Guard to police protests. A law meant to stop tyranny was twisted into his plaything. Congress must close the loopholes before it happens again.
Bcuz he lies as he breathes, bcuz he lies a thousand times every day, and bcuz he’s been doing this forever, the media no longer calls him out on his lies. They stopped doing that a long time ago. Shame on the media. They’ve normalized his lying. They’ve let him destroy truth.
I was in the news business for only 4 decades, so maybe I don't know much. But it seems like the transformation of the U.S. into a police state would be worth a headline and a few paragraphs.
Just to be clear: Kilmar Abrego García is in custody and will probably be trafficked to a dangerous country, not because he has done anything wrong, but because Donald Trump is a vicious simpleton and Pamela Jo Bondi is an easily corrupted incompetent.
ARREST ME DADDY 😂
The lead prosecutor in the Ghislaine Maxwell case, Maurene Comey, was fired 8 days before her interview with Deputy AG Todd Blanche on July 24-25, 2025. There was no official announcement or explanation. It's funny how careers end right before the questions begin.
Make Sure Everyone Knows 😊💙 HOLY S**T look at this: Florida GOP Senator Rick Scott just quietly disclosed stock trades a year late – worth $26 MILLION – on companies HE LEGISLATED. 😳 This is corrupt to its core, and he's hoping no one will notice. You know what to do.
✅People protesting, showing up for their communities: great, awesome, you're the best. ✅People going the political route ousting GOP: great, awesome, you're the best. ✅People countering regressives online: Great, awesome, you're the best. ❌People infighting, fighting anyone but Trump: Bad, you suck.
What do you want America? Oligarchy or Democracy Right now we have a full blown Oligarchy.
Republican Voter Suppression campaign. Put this together to bring GOP vote-cheating tactics in one place. Did I miss any?
What’s the term for this again? Ah, yes. “Snowflakes.”
Indeed. It is scary that in such a short time we've gone from "It can't happen here" to "It IS happening here" to "It DID happen here." But then, the underlying plan for this has been in motion for decades. McConnell's judges. The Heritage Foundation. Trump is merely the front man of the moment.
The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
Republicans don’t win by having better policies: their policies are almost uniformly cruel, corrupt, and designed to serve the morbidly rich at the expense of everyone else. They win because they fight at the cultural level. They win because they tell a story, over and over, that makes people feel.
