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Heretic!
Rikers Detainee Becomes Third Person to Die in N.Y.C. Custody in a Week www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/n...
Nadler ‘said that under the leadership of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel was committing mass murder and war crimes in Gaza “without question.”’
Interestingly enough Pelosi actually called for a suspension of offensive military assistance to Israel back in the spring of 2024 and it didn't matter whatsoever. Biden, Schumer, Lew, McGurk and Blinken all ignored her.
Shapiro: “The Trump Administration’s outrageous decision to limit access to the COVID vaccine is an affront to Pennsylvanians’ personal freedom… My Administration is currently reviewing all of our options to ensure Pennsylvanians have access to the health care they want & will have more to say soon”
I have never seen a single news article about whether or not Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer or Kristen Gillibrand need to assure Muslim New Yorkers that they're against Islamophobia and anti-Arab / anti-Asian bigotry
conspiracy nuts say this means hes about to die but that guy in the mirror was only there because trump is gonna make him the new CDC director
Will no one think of the PUNDITS?
[CUE MUSIC: “IN THE ARMS OF AN ANGEL” PLAYING SOFTLY] [FADE IN BACKGROUND SOUND: A solemn voice reads names] Nate Silver. Matthew Yglesias. Megan McArdle. Mark Cuban. [FADE IN: SALLY STRUTHERS sits on a stool in a pool of light on a minimalist set. She looks SAD.] /1
First they laugh at your platform, then they scream at your platform, then they buy your platform.
"Blueskyism" helped the Mississippi Free Press overcome algorithmic suppression on other platforms (Facebook, Threads) and ride out plummeting engagement on Twitter following Musk's X takeover. Thank God we took our eggs out of the X basket when we did.
love it
RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.
JFC, Atlantic Monthly. Michelle Obama wanted kids to eat healthy and exercise. She wasn't bent on destroying our federal health agencies.
Michelle Obama: "please I'm begging you feed kids just one (1) vegetable" RFK: "some children deserve to die. there's a healthy way to eat deep fried burgers" Media: "these are the same, to me"
Jerry Nadler ends his remarkable career, conceding that his brand of politics on the Middle East is over. “I don’t know what to say at this point,” he said. “I can’t defend what Israel is doing.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
Haven't checked out threads in a while, this was the first thing that popped up, some sort of insane AI generated slop that means nothing with real people responding
He talks like the Neutrals on Futurama
I am not now, and have never been, a blueskyist. However if called upon by the Committee, I am willing to name those whom I know to be radical blueskyists
Another brilliant prediction, Nostradamus level.
Guys...I think that might be a bathroom.
The rule of law?
The rule of law?
I wanna see a photo taken inside from one floor up…
Big Blubber is Watching
The irony/idiocy of this banner screaming "American Workers First" is that Trump has forced more than 199,000 federal workers out of their jobs since Jan. Nearly 1 in 10 federal workers gone. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Photo passed along from a federal employee from inside the Dept of Labor building, where a giant Orwellian image of Trump's face is now draped outside. Big Brother is watching.
He demands that Pfizer and other companies show their vaccine data (which he calls drugs) to the CDC to show them how good they are. What does this tell us? That the outrage against RFK Jr. is having an effect and we need to push even harder to force this wedge.
Trump on RFK Jr., the CDC, and vaccines (a translation). He seems to be saying that he was shown data about COVID19 vaccines being safe and effective, but that the pharma companies didn’t show those amazing data to anyone else, like RFK Jr. He thinks this is why there is a “mess” at CDC.
Yes, it was carefully hidden in the New England Journal of Medicine. Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 1/2
If there's one thing that normal Americans find repellent, it's the zoonotic origin of SARS-COV-2
“Blueskyism” Rent free lmao
It’s hard to forget how Trump withheld/confiscated PPE last time, and what Governors had to do to ensure they could protect their hospitals and citizens. lawandcrime.com/covid-19-pan...
One of the idiotic ani-vax family literally murdered their child by not vaccinating him and he died of measles. What’s even scarier is that they stated that if they have a second child they won’t vaccinate him either.
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!
This should be a bigger story. A government official had the YouTube channel of a private citizen shut down bc he didn’t like what that citizen was saying. This administration’s version of free speech is a joke.
This whole scenario feels like it's straight outta the government's Alien Enemies Act/J.G.G. playbook. In J.G.G., Boasberg entered TRO barring removal of named plaintiffs and set weekend emergency hearing on certification of class. But DHS started removing people just before/during hearing...
ABC News is still calling RFK Jr. a “vaccine skeptic.” The dude was one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists for decades. There’s video of him in 2023 saying that there’s no vaccine which is safe and effective. You can call him an anti-vaccine activist!
Jesus fucking christ. The Trump administration tried to send a bunch of children to Guatemala at 3 am and justified it by saying that the kids just wanted to return to their parents in Guatemala, but the kids actually told the court that they are afraid of being sent back to Guatemala.
NEW: A week or so ago, one federal agent kept popping up in videos from Trump's violent DC crackdown—so @jsweetli.bsky.social and I investigated. Turns out he's a 26-year-old US Parks Police officer, a lesser known law enforcement unit currently championed by Interior Sec. Doug Burnum. Our report:
Pure fucking evil. Everyone involved in this shit needs to be held accountable.
wow
Rudy Giuliani has been released from hospital after doctors realized he just looks like that
america’s mr. bean
Spent the day driving around Manchester, New Hampshire, a city for 80-something New Yorkers in deep debt apparently. I was driving alone, something I’m known to do. I saw a woman fleeing domestic violence. I “rendered aid,” vaguely. Minutes or maybe an hour later I was walloped by a Mack truck.
"The Republican Party wants to pull YOUR teenage daughter's pants down in the middle of gym class if they think she's too good at lacrosse, this is vile and depraved and only the start of their intrusive government overreach" should be the party line and I don't think it's a heavy lift
why can't the democrat messaging on trans people be "no, we are not going to force children to undergo genital inspections in order to play sports"
considering republicans are trying to traffic children literally as we speak, “we will protect your children from republicans” is a broadly applicable goal that seems easy to sell but i guess we don’t talk about child safety at the kitchen table?
“.. with the exception of the pandemic, Black women have never seen such staggering losses in employment.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
Has the NY Times ever asked Trump or the many other far-right figures in his circle and in the Republican Party whether they would classify themselves as fascist?
Just saw a video of Bill Maher calling Mamdani a “straight up communist” and I continue to be struck by the depiction of policies associated with the New Deal Order as far-left extremism, which goes along with a refusal to depict Trump’s unprecedented authoritarian actions as far-right extremism.
Didn't list Unregistered Paid Foreign Agent for the Turkish government
this mastery of the passive voice deserves an award of some sort
“Why don’t kids want to play outside anymore?” Conservatives after making a society increasingly hostile towards children.
"A person was questioned and released" A known murderer got away with it because the kid was the wrong color and it's Texas
An 11-year-old boy was pronounced dead after he was shot while running from a home after having rung its doorbell, Houston city officials say. The boy had been ringing doorbells and running as part of a game known as “doorbell ditch,” the city said in a statement.
Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi, who fled the Taliban in 2021, had worked to help U.S. diplomats understand his homeland. Then DOGE put his family’s lives at risk by exposing his sensitive work for a U.S.-funded nonprofit.
I'm wondering if anyone's looked for flight data yet. I don't think the government can be trusted with any of this.
There are two
Thelat bring up a good point. Target any job fairs/events where ICE is listed as a sponsor with protest and complaints. Pointedly Ask whoever is in charge of these organizations if they would feature a hitman recruiting firm or gang member sign-up.
idea: some more inconspicuous activists go and fein interest at the DHS table to occupy their time (maybe eventually get them to say some shit on hidden camera)
Happening now: protesters in Chicago are interrupting a hiring fair at the Congress Hotel, where U.S. Customs and Border protection is recruiting today. Banner reads, "stop kidnapping our neighbors!" It's quite the scene in here, and the DHS table has been blocked for several minutes already.
“At Goodwill of North Georgia, the number of Black people who for the first time ask for help finding work is up 41% over the past three months, compared with a 23% increase in the number of new white job seekers.” www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...
The much, much, much more likely scenario is that Rudy saw a young lady being helped by state troopers on the opposite side of the highway, hit the brakes at high speed or told the driver to stop, and then got rear ended Trooper's statement made it clear that the accident happened on the other side
Rudy's running down the road after drinking a load Such a fun sight to see There's a girl so sweet that her boyfriend beat Needin' help from drunk Guiliani
I jumped into a pool with mine in my pocket. Took me weeks to get a new one and recover the data on it
Judge: I got a call at 2:36 a.m. because the govt chose this time on a holiday weekend to execute this plan. I have been up since then. I haven't been able to reach anyone from govt until this morning at 9:30 a.m. So absent this intervention, all children would already have been sent to Guatemala!
Judge: During recess, I read provision you cited and then the complaint. Every one of 10 named plaintiffs says they are *afraid* of being sent back to Guatemala. (Reads aloud from declarations.) Doesn't line up with what govt is saying. This is why we have courts.
DOJ: I have transmitted your order both to TK and to DHS, and I don't believe there will be an issue. Judge: Have any flights departed? DOJ: My understanding is that all flights are on the ground. Judge: Is it possible that any flights department? DOJ: It's possible one took off and returned
Judge Sooknanan has ordered the Trump admin not to deport any members of the class of Guatemalan children while she is hearing the case
HAPPENING NOW: Judge Sparkle Sooknanan holds an emergency hearing as the Trump admin is reportedly trying—imminently—to deport hundreds of Guatemalan children without required process or access to representation. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71240...
As I said to Wolf Blitzer … {checks notes} … *9 days* after the election: "Conservative attorney George Conway on Thursday suggested that some of Donald Trump’s most controversial Cabinet picks were ones you’d make 'if you were actively trying to do harm to the country, to destroy the country.' ...
One thing that's particularly maddening about what's happening today—beyond that it's happening—is that when people talk about how we are moving toward authoritarianism, toward fascism, by a collection of narcissistic sociopaths, many Americans' eyes glaze over.
He also defunded mRNA vaccine programs, which is the only hope we have at producing bird flu vaccine at scale. Most vaccines are grown in chicken eggs, and we've already had to cull millions of laying hens. This is definitive insanity.
Dr. Dmitri Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC says that RFKJr said he believes that Avian flu should be allowed to "burn through" the chickens and then children and others, so we can propagate a "stronger species". RFKJr believes in eugenics. RFKJr needs to resign or be fired.
One thing Sensible Centrists refuse to acknowledge - and this was true during covid when people were also saying this stuff explicitly - is these people are eugnenicists who welcome a good plague to get rid of the old, botched, and bungled
Trump did this because he’s trying to boost Russia’s influence: he is deliberately pushing India back into Russia’s arms.
The NY Times' whole shtick is to describe Republicans' illegal, criminal, traitorous, or unconstitutional acts using adjectives like "bold", "strong", "maximal", "norm bending", etc to suggest masculinity, strength, creativity rather than criminality and destruction
Question: Why did US put big tariffs on India despite major national interest in cultivating a strategic counterweight to China and trying to isolate Russia? Answer: Because the US president lied that he fixed India-Pakistan and India wouldn’t go along with the lie. (Seriously, that’s the answer)
Current situation with COVID19 vaccines at CVS. ACIP is meeting September 18-19 so it will likely become available at pharmacies w/o a prescription then, unless ACIP pulls the rug out. Prescription requirement related to state laws requiring ACIP approval for pharmacist administration.
Guy who wrote a book saying his mom is a junkie slag and his people are lazy trash thinks that everyone else should be more grateful
"83.3% of LLM users were unable to quote even one sentence from the essay they had just written"
Tesla could have settled for $60 million, got hit with a $240 million judgement, and it was caught covering up Autopilot crashes in the process... but now they figure the right fancy lawyers can put the toothpaste back in the tube www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
The US Holocaust Museum is planning to "upgrade" its exhibit on the US response to Nazi Germany, and staff are concerned the Trump administration wants to downplay the extent to which the Immigration Act of 1924 doomed more European Jews to die. abcnews.go.com/US/upcoming-...
That's your fault for pulling out your staff
Exclusive: The Justice Department gave some senior career attorneys a choice: They could either quit or go to a new Sanctuary Cities Enforcement working group. Six months later, all of those attorneys have left DOJ. “The assignment was a sham,” one said.
Actual lol at the latest installment in this series
average Dem strategist: we must focus on bipartisan policies that undercut Republican attacks average Dem voter: having studied the denazification of Germany, we must raze the RNC and leave JD Vance clutching a single wool blanket in a cell after we strip him of everything
NEW: my office has received disturbing whistleblower reports that the Trump administration plans to separate 700 children from their families, lawyers, and support systems. Disappearing vulnerable children beyond the reach of American law and oversight is beyond depravity.
This is appalling, criminal, and the GOP plan for everywhere: block cheap renewables in favor of expensive gas turbines. It won't even provide enough power, there's a 3-5 year backlog for turbines. We'll all pay far higher electricity bills to be sicker and to do more environmental damage.
A collection of clips from MSNBC of multiple Republicans getting booed at town halls this week.
The Alabama (!) people chanting "who pays the tariffs? who pays the tariffs" and then turning to "shame! shame!" when their rep turns tail and leaves is a keeper.
Excellent running commentary by his daughter, as #ICE thugs kidnap Alirio Castillo Sanchez from his legal court appt, by force. Son of a decorated US Army master sergeant. #GoFundMe set up for family legal fees: www.gofundme.com/f/help-aliri...
A GoFundMe has been set up to help Alirio Castillo Sanchez. "We have legal teams on standby, but we've lived paycheck to paycheck our whole lives," his daughter wrote. "Please help me put my family back together by donating to assist Alirio's release and reunion."
Sorkel 
Carol Hedges 