This 🧵 is long so please bear with me. It is compiles evidence in a historical timeline on how effective #COVIDVaccines are. When a pandemic ends we quickly and easily forget the tools that got us out of it. So here is my labour day gift to you prompted by this headline.
Thinking about how the great Barbara Ehrenreich nailed one of the primary problems with modern journalism a full decade ago. “The real face of journalism today: not million dollar-a-year anchorpersons, but low-wage workers and downwardly spiraling professionals…“ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/nation... The largest Nurses Union He must be fired or resign RFKJR is truly DANGEROUS Join me in calling your Representatives 202 224-3121
absolute fabulosity
Google's banner celebrating Labor Day does away with those pesky workers
In 79 Israeli schools - high school students walked out in protest to end the war and to demand a deal from their government “We won't return to studies without the hostages!” Telma Yellin students in the streets of Givatayim 📸 Zohar Goldman
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nothing quite as depressing as the American lawn, except the country's politics. And there may be some strong psycho-cultural links between pesticide-enforced lack of diversity and a certain voting pattern www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...
A brave whistleblower revealed that DOGE stole the American people's Social Security data. The Trump administration forcibly removed him. This is illegal.
Professional clowning has seen a significant decline in recent decades as clowns have shifted to the more lucrative business of politics.
8 vacations in 6 months is the best training
Linda Richman would say that RFK Jr has shpilkis in his genechtagazoink.
💥 Iowa under Trump: Democrats 2, Republicans 0 Catelin Drey (37) from Sioux City won District 1 election by 55% to Christopher Prosch’s 44% in deep red #Iowa where Trump won by 13%. The second state seat to be flipped this year & which has now broken the Republican senate supermajority (33-17). 💥
if his hand is bruised from all the hand shaking, his sphincter must be ulcerated from all the ass kissing.
Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair.
Shedd and DOGE are stealing not just money, but data. Tesla is under investigation by OSHA and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Could DOGE be stealing data that will help Tesla escape justice in those investigations? We don't know. The theft is happening out of sight.
Desitin
This is the way. Semper Fidelis
Constituent: You need to take your head out of Trump’s ass.
i can hear the chuckling in Oslo from across the ocean
oozing pus
Pritzker: This is not about fighting crime. This is about the President and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.
Union station, DC
"This conflict has a way of sanitizing what at one time was unfathomable... Time is the normalizer of all things. Ethics pose no obstacle to creative vocabulary." www.newyorker.com/news/essay/w...
My full statement on the Gaza Famine :
it's a crime scene
www.haaretz.com/archaeology/...
Video of Columbia Heights residents driving ICE agents out of their area. source: www.instagram.com/reel/DNjkvLQ...
why not gold plated?
holy shit this is a helluva ad from the Democrat running against Joni Ernst in Iowa. worth every second
By his looks, Greenblatt's choice of bagel is cinnamon raisin. Dry.
I cannot imagine a band of apes would ever consider an orange fraud their alpha male.
when do you declare it is cancer? before or after it metastasizes?
such a ninny
the Matryoshka summit has concluded
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the bromance made in hell
The percentage of male teachers in US in K-12 is 23% (a decline from 30% in the 1980s). In Denmark it's 38%.
It's time for a reckoning.
Guess which country is blocking an international treaty to reduce plastic pollution?
These two things cannot both be true: 1: throwing a sandwich at a federal officer is a violent assault worthy of prosecution. 2: raiding the Capitol grounds, assaulting police offices & vandalizing federal property in an effort to interfere with an election is a harmless protest worthy of pardons.
This was a fun interview about climate change and the solutions that can meet other needs too. Check it out!
no wonder he's the minority leader
Petrostates derail negotiations www.theguardian.com/environment/...
"unless you give me the prize Zelenskyy is going to go through some things" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/s...
afraid to kangaroo your offspring and be called names? for $155 sprinkle a bit of toxic masculinity on your dad gear.
Zuckerberg and Jenner laughing all the way to the bank
what a pathetic, desiccated person
For those saying, "We're approaching martial law," no. We are not APPROACHING martial law. Martial law is when laws are enforced by the military. National Guard is a military, and they are now law enforcement in D.C. D.C. is officially under martial law. Full stop. It is a military police state.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/o...
nyet
anyone who fails to see we already are in a fascist system has no pulse
absolutely savage
luxury= fake gold; glamour= silicon implants; entertainment=village people
“How did it get so late so soon?” ― Dr. Seuss
Very not good
the sordid parade of GOP perverts is sufficiently notable and well documented to qualify for a dedicated entry on Wikipedia
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This is Logan Ireland, he is a Master Sergeant in the United States Air Force who served four presidents over 15 years of dedicated service. He was removed from his position and denied retirement benefits after serving our country successfully just for being trans. Hopefully he sues and wins.
Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all: “If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.” Israel just killed him.
Boston Consulting Group consultants modelled relocating Palestinians to Somalia and Somaliland during a project on postwar Gaza, according to people familiar with the work. www.ft.com/content/2206...
reign of terror. that's what they want.
Andrea and Immaculata Cuomo arrived in the US in the 1920s. The Erie Canal was completed in 1825. "We built" is doing a lot of rhetorical work.
Messianism and international pariah statehood on sale.. A blue light special. Cost of Israeli control of Gaza could exceed $50 billion a year, estimates show www.ynetnews.com/business/art...
18,500 children have been killed by the Israeli military in Gaza. Despite these war crimes, the US has provided more than $22 BILLION for the war. Our taxpayer dollars are being used to starve children, bomb schools & gun down hungry people as they wait for aid.
Tel Aviv, Israel, tonight. Demonstration of thousands calling for an end to the war and a hostage deal. 📸 Aviv Atlas
Avraham Burg, former Knesset speaker and ex Chair of the World Zionist Organization, is calling on one million Jews worldwide to petition the ICJ to charge Israel for crimes against humanity Jews – Rebel. Now!!! A Jewish Plea to The International Court of Justice substack.com/home/post/p-...
this is the Judaism I've always admired & learned from
me me me me me me me me me me me me me myself and I
Today is the day that Trump was supposed to impose tough new sanctions on Russia if they didn’t agree to a cease fire.
"And because plastics inevitably break down into microplastics and then nanoplastics, eventually making their way into our lungs, guts, brains and even our unborn children, whatever is in our plastic is in us, too." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/o...
"there are at least 16,000 known chemical additives used by the plastics industry, of which at least 4,200 are known to be toxic."
needs to change from Lip-Bu Tan to Orange Tan
Soon colleges and universities health clinics will be dispensing Murti-Bing pills as a cure for independent thought.
Chris Cuomo posting a deepfake of AOC the same week that Jim Acosta “interviews” a deepfake of a school shooting victim are both harbingers of how traditional media power players will help usher in the worst of the AI slop era
According to the City of Paris, in the last 10 years 150K trees have been planted & 45ha of parks created in the already hot city, all intended to not only improve quality-of-life today, but also help the city adapt to & manage summer heatwaves of 50℃ (122F) by 2050. Just the start. Common sense.
if the abacus was good enough for Jesus it should be good enough for America
Good morning. Illustrating this piece's points, a thread: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Families of Israelis killed or kidnapped in Hamas' October 7 massacre file a $1 billion lawsuit against Meta, accusing Facebook of enabling terrorists to livestream atrocities www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
this was UNEP's assessment over a year ago www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
the Stone Age did not end because they ran out of stones
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80 years on, mutually-assured destruction is still being sold to all of us as "security."
Making Chindia Great Again
we can only afford a nuclear plant on the moon
This is not unrelated to my essay of today: “Crack-pot science-conspiracy theorists who have grown up in the most peaceful, prosperous, and healthy age in human history [are] undo[ing] some of the most magnanimous things humans have ever done for one another.” www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/what-we-lo...
"one-third love, one-third law, and one-third sitting on your hands" - Jewish parenting principles from Dr Miriam Adahan
We are a disgrace on the world stage, an utter disgrace.
good for TNR to put on a picture of the smiling victim
the list of illegally defunded missions is long and growing. all this cutting entails loss of precious knowledge and waste of resources. the only rationale is pure spite and plain nefariousness.
i know. it's tragic, wasteful, wrong-headed and nefarious.
no fuck windmills?
so the research and manufacture will move overseas and then tariffs will be applied to those imported drugs.