If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
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If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
The chaos at the CDC in the wake of last week’s firing of its Director and the resignations of four senior officials is fallout from the latest skirmish in RFK Jr.’s war against vaccines. Make no mistake, RFK Jr. is working hard to take away your vaccines, if he can. Here’s a progress report.
So right but using logic for the people who already “get it” is pointless - political wins come with appealing to emotions
If a few health professionals say something you don't like, all said it and we should destroy the CDC. If a few students say something you don't like, all higher ed said it and we should end academic freedom. If the president and his party does something, that's one guy spouting off, let it go.
Once again, of the laws creating aircraft carrier-sized loopholes for the president to utter the magic words "national emergency" or "national security" & then rule like a King must go. We can have nuanced discussion about re-delegation later but not now. bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Leonard Leo used Fed Soc as a cover, in exactly the same way he used trump. Leo has his own agenda. Best evidence - Fed Soc whale Barre Seid gave Leo, not Fed Soc, $1.6 billion. These are Leo judges, not Fed Soc’s. @uofmass.bsky.social @umasspress.bsky.social www.rawstory.com/federalist-s...
The new Pulte-Trump crackdown on mortgage occupancy fraud is nothing if not selective.
Trans rights are not negotiable and should never be up for debate. I will always stand with our trans community, including continuing to protect access to gender-affirming healthcare.
“The claim that trans people are disproportionately responsible for mass violence in America comes up every few months. It has never been true.” USA Today fact check from their extremism beat reporter www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
Reality explained. www.salon.com/2025/08/30/g...
Bernie is right. Health care should be based on medical science. I’m glad I found out I needed a measles vaccine this summer. And it’s right to provide shingles shots to seniors and vaccines for kids. Let’s focus on health care costs instead of upending the CDC. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...
And to those who would use this tragedy to attack our trans neighbors, shame on you. We must stand united against hate in all its forms and ensure that every Minnesota child, family, and community never again experiences the grief we’re all feeling in the wake of this shooting.
It Can Be Done
The best ever!
“The incident took place after several migrants held there began shouting for ‘freedom’ after one received news a relative had died… A team of guards then rushed in and began beating individuals indiscriminately with batons, and fired teargas at them, the detainees said.”
💥 Trump to ban abortions by the VA even for incest & rape Sexual assault remains endemic in the military - 1 in 3 women respond “yes” when asked if they had been forced to endure sexual activity against their will in uniform New regulations also forbid providers from providing any counseling 💥
The Supreme Court’s Chiles v. Salazar is not about free speech. It is about scammers who pose as health professionals that use fake science to hurt kids.
Cook’s lawsuit against Trump could give the Supreme Court its clearest chance yet to overturn the Humphrey’s Executor case that protects agencies from political interference.
When is enough going to be enough? How many parents have to lose their children before we end the violence? We need bans on assault weapons and high capacity magazines, comprehensive background checks into the mental health of potential gun owners, and federal red flag laws.
This should be headline news - the implications are horrifying …
White House declares $4.9B in foreign aid unilaterally canceled in end-run around Congress' funding power.
However evil you think this is, it’s worse: “The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
Are they not praying to end school shootings?
A new update of Australian numbers -29AUG. Main #flu virus remains fluA subtype A(H1N1), derived from our *last* pandemic #influenza virus. 2025=thick red dashed line/red monthly dots. Don't get confuzzled by the last pink dot - that just marks August as an incomplete month. 4,074 added over 1 day.
How can you tell the Trump economic numbers (like today's GDP) are made-up fantasy? The few non-government economic indicators are screaming "WE'RE SINKING!!!" www.brownfieldagnews.com/news/august-...
glaad.org/medical-asso...
This is valuable information, unlike every other periodic table I've seen.
While they persecute and remove benefits from transgender members who have served honorably and with distinction
At Tuesday’s Cabinet meeting, Donald Trump’s performance “seemed right out of the Kremlin playbook,” @sbg1.bsky.social writes. What did he reveal about his Administration’s true plans?
Hey Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, Nancy Mace, and anyone else using he victims of the Minneapolis shooting to push your political agenda of hate, Go F- yourselves! I am pretty sure Jesus is not on your side on this one, sinners. I stand with Senator Tina Smith! www.thedailybeast.com/minnesota-se...
Same
A reporter should ask Karoline Leavitt whether—if she had to choose just one—she’d pick prayers or body armor for protection if she were being shot at with a semiautomatic weapon.
As long as guns are easily available to crazy people, mass killings directed at so-called soft targets will continue. This is a fact. Countries where it's more difficult for crazy people to obtain guns have less shootings. This is also a fact. Do with these facts as you will.
This should be on every major news outlet highlighting the deranged views of the radical right. Same language and methods used to persecute others through American history. www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/08/marj...
Three senior CDC leaders who resigned told The Post they were asked to participate in an unscientific vaccine recommendation process that they believe could harm the health of Americans.
(1/3) Pediatric health care and strong public health agencies are two planks in the foundation of children’s health and wellbeing. CDC has long been a leading resource for research and evidence-backed recommendations on how to keep children healthy.
Here he goes.
🚨 This…does not bode well:
One trans shooter, and you have to do this but yet you don’t call the killings of two Democrats a hate crime or call MAGA domestic terrorist🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 interesting abcnews.go.com/US/2-minneso...
Funny how these MAGAts never talk about mass shootings by bible humping, male Trump supporters. 95% of all mass shootings over the past 60 years are by men, and 55% are by White men. But keeping telling yourself the problems are with Trans people. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Best Twitter riposte of the day.
The most important thing to know about the “comprehensive crime bill” Trump touted earlier this week: It doesn’t appear to exist outside of his imagination. Unfortunately, this isn’t the first time he’s pushed made-up legislative efforts. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
What civilian needs a gun that fires 116 rounds that quickly
Federal officials arrested two firefighters on Wednesday during what appeared to be an immigration raid on first responders combating the ongoing Bear Gulch wildfire in Washington state. Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
A trans person has never threatened me. But the leather-faced worm-brained science-denying conspiracy nut in charge of America's healthcare is openly threatening to kill and maim tens of thousands of us.
things you don't ever expect to see in print "It is unusual for federal border agents to make arrests during the fighting of an active fire, especially in a remote area." www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Every white male is seriously delusional. Kids are dying from them. They should all be removed…..stupid logic Matt. Apparently Matt is the delusional one.
The newly ousted director of the CDC refused to fire top agency leaders or approve changes to vaccines from RFK Jr.’s hand-picked panel of advisers.
We’re going to go on a rant for a minute, and yes we’re bringing some history with us. Back in 1755, Benjamin Franklin wrote words that still echo today: “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
No, they won’t
Michigan AG Dana Nessel comes out swinging against University of Michigan for stopping care for trans youth.
Wow
How do you know how much money trans people have?
And to my former congressional colleague Sen Bill Cassidy, you’re responsible for all of this as well. Shame on you.
Fuck you Michael-how does it feel to publicly show your ignorance
At this time it seems she’s only in it for reelection and protecting her position
Yep
Yes how many white men have committed these horrible atrocities….. So if transgender people are villains so are they? The logic follows…I don’t believe that….
Sacrifice trans people and others will be next- there is no compromise on human rights-ZERO
This from Riley Gaines is why trans people freak out when Democrats try to carve out some compromise over sports. The politicians and activists attacking trans people are not interested in compromise! They're interested in our eradication from public life and are exploiting sports to that end
A truly sickening statement
Breaking News: FEMA suspended about 30 employees who had told Congress that the Trump administration had gutted the nation’s emergency preparedness.
Stuart Stevens on National Guard deployment: "The murder rate of Jackson, Mississippi is 3 times that of D.C.... the whole thing is complete fraud"
FW, TX, is cutting more than 100 polling sites & reducing early voting, after Trump vowed to end mail-in ballots. It disproportionately affects Black, Hispanic, & student-heavy areas. Texas GOP is shrinking in-person access too, making it harder for working-class & minority voters to cast a ballot.
New: “A federal grand jury refused to indict a man who threw a sandwich at a federal officer, and grand jurors refused three times to indict a woman accused of assaulting an FBI agent.” www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
When local leaders start threatening ICE agents with prosecutions — like this — it *will* be effective
We're now learning in greater detail how Musk, Thiel and others got your social security data. A whistleblower complaint alleges that DOGE staffers uploaded a copy of all federal Social Security numbers and information to an unsecured server in June. abcnews.go.com/US/whistlebl...
if you don't know the word "epistemicide," today's a great day to learn. when human teachers can't acknowledge trans people exist & the AFT is spinning up AI for schools that can't be "woke," that's a whole generation of trans kids growing up in the dark & i can tell you some will not survive it.
I'm sure this surprises no one A third of the U.S. economy is already in a recession or at high risk, and another third is stagnating, Zandi warns | Fortune share.google/YEgJryy6qIq5...
In Fortune - Why every CEO and every American should be fed up with Trump’s Fed attack... Even if there is a strong case against Cook, then Trump’s clumsy interference could subvert his own Justice Department... fortune.com/2025/08/26/t...
No one is covering the GOP's growing redistricting scheme as closely, with as much context and analysis as Democracy Docket. Its team of 20 works around the clock to provide you independent pro-democracy news and information. Support their work by signing up today. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0
I don’t recall this hysteria from John when Mitch stole a Supreme Court Justice.
Yes, I agree with all the liberals jacked right now about Newsom. He is showing other Dems how to fight Trump, which is priceless But... ...cozying up to AI billionaires, a flop on homelessness, his transgender betrayal, he's still a loser for '28 My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
Trump vows to prosecute protesters who burn American flags to the maximum extent permitted by the Constitution — so, not much www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/u...
Trump takes the extraordinary step of removing Lisa Cook from the board of governors of the Federal Reserve, a legally dubious maneuver that could undermine the independence of the central bank. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
When Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, President George W. Bush said “No one could have known this would happen.” But *I* knew it would happen. Because I read an article in @sciam.bsky.social back in 2001, describing precisely the disaster unfolding. When experts issue warnings, LISTEN.
Yes, the stakes here are large. Very large.
The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state. presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...
There are now dozens of such incidents around the country—men wearing masks and refusing to identify themselves but insisting they are police officers. What causes this? Kristi Noem knows. Houston Politice Department Detective Kyle Stringer "noted that real officers do not wear ski masks."
I don’t want to hear a single word about Democrats and socialism ever again. EVER.
It's great that we all keep, correctly, pointing out all of these illegal things, & we will keep doing that. But he's doing legions of illegal things on a daily basis without facing any consequence at all. And doing them right in the Oval Office in front of cameras. bsky.app/profile/mcop...
An inmate who bunked with Ghislaine Maxwell said it was common knowledge she tried to get a pardon from President Joe Biden by offering evidence of Trump's pedophilia before the 2024 election. President Biden, being a decent man, refused to entertain her. www.thedailybeast.com/ghislaine-ma...
Where’s the economic productivity in America?
They gaslit you all throughout the election.
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker blasted Donald Trump over his threats to send federal troops to Chicago as he's done in Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Justice Jackson is basically reporting live from inside a garbage fire www.ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/nih-c...
1. You should know about the Compton Cafeteria riots... predating Stonewall, transgender people in San Francisco fought back against police brutality and anti-drag laws in the 60s. A little history from S. Baum here. Subscribe to support our journalism. www.erininthemorning.com/p/the-trans-...
Just another reason to never go back there.
1. In an alarming move, the Trump administration has banned trans coverage for federal employees and their families, including youth and adults. It mandates faith-based conversion therapy coverage. It is one of the largest removals of coverage in the US. Subscribe to support our journalism.
Florida government sides with the Pulse shooter
Confederate statues are “history” but a rainbow crosswalk dedicated to victims of a mass shooting is “political.”
1. One of the most anti-trans attorneys general in the United States, Andrew Bailey, has been appointed as Co-deputy director of the FBI. He used his power to reign terror on trans people in Missouri. Now he joins an agency doing the same nationally. Subscribe to support our journalism.
Every tyrant in history has sought to stifle criticism of himself and his regime. But America was founded on criticism. American democracy was built on dissent. Every institution, group, firm, or individual that surrenders to Trump’s wanton tyranny invites more of it.
From "highly CONFLICTED" to "Highly Respected" in just weeks — and all it took was for him to give away 10% of his company
The White House listed an exhibit on LGBTQ history at the Smithsonian as objectionable and something to be removed.
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