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youtu.be/hBOm5FGxkTs?... Absolutely worth the time! @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social @michaelemann.bsky.social. If they say it, at least worth listening
“Who are you gonna believe, me or your own lying’ eyes?” Look no further than electric bills and homeowners insurance.
“Health insurance costs in the United States are on track for their biggest jump in at least five years… “For the 24 million enrollees of Affordable Care Act insurance plans, costs are expected to rise by more than 75 percent next year…” www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
The human race is so brilliant & yet so incredibly flawed. Too much “me” & not enough “us”. We either learn to live together in peace or die together in violence. Not hyperbole, everyone’s sense of entitlement & superiority over anyone who disagrees will end in annihilation. Grow the fuck up!
And if something happened to this guy tomorrow a bunch of centrist pundits would say "I don't agree with all of his ideas, but open and honest debate is a good thing so his loss is deeply felt" bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Try to live your life in such a way that when you die people don't have to be threatened and bullied into pretending they're sad about it.
narcissism gets worse and harder to mask with age so I’m not surprised but Trump just blatantly not giving one flying fuck about Charlie Kirk (pivoting to ballroom plans when asked if he’s sad, dancing at the yankee game) is frying me so bad…
Because the next time a conservative takes responsibility for anything, it will be the first time.
We have to hold to liberal values and principles, especially when it’s hard.
Critical thinking also appears to be at a premium in our nation’s schools. Thank social media, algorithms, & the inability to critically analyze 🐂💩 for so much of the divisive rhetoric, spread on purpose, for being able to incite division!
It's the first Nation's Report Card since the Trump administration began making cuts to the U.S. Education Department. The scores reflect the state of student achievement in early 2024.
1. Azerbaijan hasn't been at war with Albania. Trump confuses Albania with Armenia. But he wants credit, a Nobel Prize, for ending a war in which he can't identify the parties. 2. The Fox hosts are too ignorant or too sycophantic to correct him. 3. Imagine if Biden had said this.
At a time when right-wing extremists are calling for open season on liberals and the left, the president of the United States just told them: Hey, go for it. “I couldn’t care less” about radicals on the right, Trump explicitly said. trib.al/AtFFOB5
Just thinking about how the right made up an entirely fictional left wing character that resulted in so many bomb threats and the like and nobody will face consequences. But people on the left who accurately clocked the victim’s life work lost jobs.
As more info comes in this needs to be said: if it wasn’t some left wing radical that did it, and it appears it wasn’t, there need to be massive pushback because they are STILL pretending it’s some culture war and it is only in their own minds Dangerous times
"Trump administration to cut funding for Oregon program serving deaf-blind students" www.kgw.com/article/news...
Russia's kidnapping of innocent Ukrainian children is an atrocity. These kids are taken from home—often with false promises of safety—and many are forced into military training camps. We must work to find them and demand Russia send them home.
completely ignoring the fact that this was Right on Right murder, the Trump administration is going to use this as an opportunity to crack down on the Left.
America is bleeding out from within. In just the past few years, the U.S. has been rocked by political violence. While the powerful get richer, ordinary Americans are left living in a democracy under threat—where both sides have stopped listening—and it has to stop. Watch: youtu.be/KM_pgn5fI8o
This Guardian quote from an anonymous person who said he knew Robinson in high school years ago, but hasn’t spoke to him in several years, who said he was supposedly a leftist, has been retracted. This single anonymous quote has been posted by thousands of right-wing accounts.
Read every word of this. Millions of Californians can now be profiled by the color of their skin and the language they speak, thanks to the Supreme Court. This is not the slippery slope. We are already on the slide towards dictatorship.
The same people deep in their feelings over jokes about a dead Nazi are the ones who were cheering at the thought of people being eaten by alligators a month ago
Some GOP officials want to clamp down on perceived expressions of schadenfreude about Charlie Kirk's death. Conservative activists are publicizing social media posts that are "celebrating" his death.
The six reliably pro-Trump justices are "racking up a rap sheet of constitutional abuses of staggering import." www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-supr...
Lot of bigots showing up. Remember, don't interact. Just report and block block block.
Meanwhile ProPublica found that three current members of Trump's cabinet actually *did* do the thing it looks like they falsely accused Lisa Cook of doing... www.techdirt.com/2025/09/12/t...
“Militant, nationalistic, white supremacist violent extremism has increased in the United States. In fact, the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism.” The Trump DOJ scrubbed this study from their website.
Charlie Kirk did not deserve to die. Political violence is unacceptable. At the same time, dying doesn't give anyone the right to rewrite history. He said what he said. And a lot of it was hate and lies.
MEMPHIS — Senator Akbari on Trump sending the National Guard to invade against the wishes of nearly all local officials: “This is an abuse of power… Memphis deserves real solutions, not more political stunts.”
Trump Retreats to NJ Golf Club Amid Economic Strain More personal leisure as Americans struggle with high prices meidasnews.com/news/trump-r...
POLITICO: “A federal judge worried publicly Friday Trump had, “with a wink and a nod,” deported a group of African nationals to Ghana, only to have Ghana redirect them to countries where they may face torture and persecution.” www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
“Our employers told us it was ok… I will never visit 🇺🇸 again. It feels good to be free.” Hundreds of South Korean workers detained in shackles landed home, met by family who tearfully hugged them. Arrested building a factory to employ thousands. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/w...
This Administration treats the actual military with utter contempt. Just a few weeks ago, some of them were calling to revoke Florent Groberg's Medal of Honor because he spoke at the DNC. And when Garrett Foster, a veteran, was murdered, they celebrated it and pardoned his killer.
Every day of delayed clean electrons moves $$ to Trump fossil fuel donors. Raising costs for consumers also moves $$ to fossil fuel donors.
“Charlie Kirk in His Own Words” 17 quotes you should read from the right-wing activist and Trump ally who was tragically shot and killed on Wednesday in Utah.
An idiot is in charge. Luckily, the suspect’s family turned him in.
Charlie Kirk said Palestine does not exist, Democrats support everything God hates and he thinks empathy is a made-up term. Read 17 quotes from the right-wing activist and Trump ally who was murdered on Wednesday at Utah Valley University: zeteo.com/p/charlie-ki...
seems like—I know this sounds crazy, but let me just quickly throw it out there, on the remote chance there might be something to it—a pattern
The 16-year-old boy accused of shooting two classmates at Evergreen High School embraced conspiratorial, antisemitic and white supremacist social media content
In case you missed it….Senate Republicans voted down an amendment to make more of the Epstein files public – the next move in their coordinated attempt to cover this story up.
This year, your health insurance costs will spike higher than they have in 15 years because Congressional Republicans are refusing to extend the health care tax credits. Democrats are united in fighting to extend these credits and lower your health care costs.
TRUMP, this morning: “The Mayor of MEMPHIS is happy about it.” @mayorpaulyoung , hours later: “I didn’t ask for the National Guard, and I don’t think it’s the way to drive down crime. However, the decision has been made.”
In Opinion | “On Thursday, the Brazilian Supreme Court did what the U.S. Senate and federal courts tragically failed to do: bring a former president who assaulted democracy to justice,” Filipe Campante and Steven Levitsky write.
Breaking news: The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed eliminating a requirement that businesses report their greenhouse gas emissions, ending a program that has tracked the climate impact of major polluters since 2010.
Work boats idle at Quonset because Donald “Stop Work” Trump stopped work on an 80%-complete billion-dollar project.
“Let’s not speculate as to his motives”— Nah I remember 25 hours ago when you were happy to speculate without knowing anything at all, and now you know MORE but want to say less? Fascinating.
And for what @michaelemann.bsky.social and I actually say about doomerism (perhaps this is the “smear” he’s referring to?!), please read: www.sustainableviews.com/the-antidote...
The Charlie Kirk Shooting Is Just Another Sign of America's New Violent Era Like terror-plagued Italy in the 1960s and 1970s, the US under Trump is entering its own 'Years of Lead', writes @jscros.bsky.social: zeteo.com/p/the-charli...
Alleged Charlie Kirk shooter Tyler Robinson wore a Trump costume for Halloween
The reaction to Kirk’s murder on the right is a reminder that Republicans are the most bad faith people on the face of the planet.
Six impeachable things before breakfast
CBS… CNN…
It crossed my mind immediately. If Trump can do one staged assassination, he’s not afraid to do another.
The Show Me State is showing up for our democracy.
This is the biggest story in America right now. Coffee up 20.9% year-over-year Steaks up 16.6% Apples up 9.6% Bananas, 6.6%. www.axios.com/2025/09/11/t...
Fox News brings on Jack "1488" Posobiec for a segment calling for legal action against those who call the obviously fascist MAGA movement a fascist movement. For starters, Jack calls leftists "unhuman" and praises Francisco Franco. Don't make me laugh.
“We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job,” wrote Justice Sonia Sotomayor in a fiery dissent.
Mainstream pundits have instantly sanitized and ignored Charlie Kirk's core political project and its impacts. He has been remembered by the mainstream press as someone they merely disagreed with, a debate me-guy whose words and actions had zero consequences: www.404media.co/charlie-kirk...
Just gonna drop this here tonight wapo.st/3VKVNT2
This rollover for the criminals and kleptocrats who hide in U.S. shell corporations is a real national security problem.
We can, and should, deplore Charlie Kirk's murder, without whitewashing who he was. ttps://www.thenation.com/article/society/charlie-kirk-assassination-tragedy/
OK, I’ll admit it: Envying Brazil its seemingly principled Supreme Court wasn’t on my bingo card. Like, not ever. apnews.com/article/braz...
You know who was also a young husband and father—not to mention ex-Marine—who died, not attacking others to make himself rich and powerful, but to save the lives of others? David Rose, the officer killed by the anti-vax domestic terrorist who attacked the CDC. apnews.com/article/deka...
Also this is why people need to start explaining WHO Charlie Kirk was, all the evil shit he said and did, so then they can be like wait, and the flag is half mast WHY
He was not even arguing civilly! That's the thing! Setting the content of what Kirk said entirely aside, the idea that he modeled reasoned, respectful, fact-based debate and charity towards one's political opponents is completely insane! The form was also extremely bad!
Ordinary people really don’t know the local Chevy dealership has its flag at half staff for a Nazi. It’s an insane state of affairs.
If only the useless Merrick Garland hadn’t been AG for four years, we could have tried to do something similar here. Instead we’re stuck with Trump and MAGA and this assault on democracy and free speech and free elections.
Wait. The same Clay Higgins who suggested Twitter execs would be investigated by the FBI and jailed for doing basic content moderation... is now demanding that social media accounts be banned for life?
"Leading Climate and Vaccine Scientists on How to Fight Antiscience" | My co-author @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & I spoke with Mina Kim of @kqednews.kqed.org @kqedforum.bsky.social about our new book #ScienceUnderSiege: www.kqed.org/forum/201010...
Racism really is illogical bc how are you threatening HBCUs bc a white man shot another white man at a white rally at a white university in what has GOT TO be one of the top 5 whitest states in the country??? Black people couldn't be further from this if we actually tried.
Remember when Trump announced a multimillion-dollar secret deal with CEO David Ellison? And then — shocker — Trump approved Ellison buying CBS/Paramount. Now, Ellison wants to take over CNN/Warner Bros. This media merger must be blocked as a dangerous concentration of power.
Republicans Who Voted Against 9/11 Families Tweeted "Never Forget" Today 3 of them are now running for governor of their state meidasnews.com/news/republi...
The CDC has quietly and drastically scaled back the country’s most comprehensive system for tracking the food-borne illnesses estimated to sicken millions of Americans each year.
Climate change is real—no matter what fake report Trump wants to cite to justify helping his big oil donors allowing corporations to pollute our air and water and raise your energy bill.
Opinion: While condemning violence is something most can get behind, the sanitization of Charlie Kirk's hate has gone too far, argues Erin Reed.
My floor speech yesterday: 1/ The rules change Republicans are pushing through the Senate - to confirm dozens of Trump nominees with one vote - is another sign of our vanishing democracy, as the legislative branch voluntarily bends the knee to the executive.
2/ This new rules change is just one more abdication of legislative power allowing Trump's destruction of democracy can move faster. Republicans are letting Trump seize congressional spending power; doing no oversight over his corruption.
3/ None of this is normal. If Republicans continue to view themselves as Trump's employees, instead of an independent branch charged with checking runaway executive power, the damage to our democracy will be fatal.
I re-iterate the point:
I mean if this is a Leftist the disguise is either very good or very consciously ironic or both. "ChatGPT, show me a picture of a guy named Not All Men"
there is nothing more american than news of a political shooting being interrupted by news of a school shooting
Americans in the Health Insurance Marketplace will see their premiums increase by an average of 75% next year because Republicans refuse to extend health care tax credits. Trump promised to lower costs—but he’s sending them skyrocketing.
Grocery prices are up. Rent is too expensive. Now, Trump is making it harder for borrowers to pay off their student loans. Americans can’t afford Trump’s disastrous economic policies.
No one deserves to be killed for expressing their views but they do not deserve to be canonized after death either. Flags at half mast is a step too far.
“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind
many people seem unaware that you can say that it's bad someone got killed without also saying that that person was jesus
I can’t remember the author but, “republicans and democrats are both afraid of right wingers. No one is afraid of left wingers“ resonates in my mind. I am a pacifist to my core. And this is also true.
Trump’s name surfaced again in an August 23, 2007 email, around the time Epstein was making an intense backchannel lobbying effort to get federal prosecutors to drop their case against him.
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President Trump temporarily delayed the repatriation of more than 300 South Korean workers after the Hyundai-LG raid in Georgia to explore whether they could stay in the U.S. to educate and train American workers, South Korean officials said.
If the right is upset now about Charlie Kirk, then please tell me how upset they got about Minnesota's state House Speaker Emerita, who was murdered by a political assassin. You can't. Because that didn't happen.