Mom & sometime writer & pet therapy volunteer with my rescue Virgil Caine (found in Dixie “hungry and barely alive” but no Confederate) Wellesley PBK ‘74 CT/NYC
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"Epstein once walked me into Donald Trump’s office at Trump Tower, where I was groped by Trump as Epstein stood by and watched. "Let me be clear: I did not consent to being groped by Donald Trump, and I did not consent to being filmed by Jeffrey Epstein." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The original said “Roberts wary of political fray… his POLITICAL ADVISOR says.”
National Guardsmen now stationed outside our DC building confirmed that the only thing they can do if they witness a crime is call 911. The have no more authority than my office mate to intervene. Despite the handcuffs, they can't make arrests. They are very expensive mall cops.
The U.S. is remixing all the greatest hits of post-Communist style de-democratization, and we’re playing them all 3x speed.
This dood's prophecy comes full circle:
Ha! The poorest 25% of workers LOSE money under this bill while the richest Americans get a $270,000 tax cut. They can rebrand all they want. The facts are the facts. They screwed working people to help their billionaire and corporate donors.
To be perfectly clear, the President has now crossed a line in my opinion into outright murder of foreign nationals on the high seas. Alleged drug smugglers. Not many lines left before he is ordering the murder of American citizens for crimes, real or imagined.
BREAKING A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from freezing Harvard funding and said the administration is using antisemitism as a “smokescreen.”
BREAKING: A federal judge issues an injunction BLOCKING the Trump admin from freezing Harvard's funding, calling the antisemitism excuse "a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country’s premier universities." Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
“Jeffrey Epstein’s biggest brag forever was that he was a very good friend with Donald Trump. He had an 8-by-10 framed picture of him on his desk with the two of them.” www.nydailynews.com/2025/09/03/j...
Hilarious that they offered Adams a position at the US Department of the only thing they hire black people for
"Who am I to tell you what your child should put in [their] body?" — says the guy eliminating vaccine mandates and whose job description reads, verbatim: "Implement interventions that prevent or limit the impact or spread of diseases and health conditions"
🔥🔥🔥Epstein survivor Haley Robson: Why was he so protected? And why didn't anyone ever care to stop him? We are requesting transparency, and I am requesting every congressman and woman that goes against this bill be outed.
Anyone involved in human trafficking should be brought to justice, as should anyone involved in covering up these crimes. This should not be a controversial statement.
Abuse like Epstein's proceeds w/ the premise that the victims are voiceless or can be shamed, intimidated, threatened, or discredited so iif they do try to speak up. Today they spoke up and were heard on national media. May their power continue, may accountability come for all the perpetrators.
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"The only area where Trump is reluctant to declare emergencies is in the granting of disaster assistance...to states struggling to recover from floods, tornadoes, wildfires, and the like. Even as Trump makes up fake emergencies, he blows off real ones!"
Newsday.com/matt
Come in, I said, I’ll give you shelter from the storm. A Cabbage White butterfly rests on the window of our conservatory as winds and heavy rain batter our little garden. #Butterflies #WindowsOnWednesday #photography #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin
"The sabotage of America by a sitting U.S. president is a tragic and history-making innovation "But domestic power consolidation is only half of it. The most shocking and tragic part is that this sabotage...is also designed to benefit America’s adversaries" open.substack.com/pub/lucid/p/...
Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):
Yeah, a 22 month long genocide might turn some people off I guess
The sovereign state of Connecticut knows what it means to stand up to tyrants.
Happy Labor Day. Workers over billionaires. youtube.com/watch?v=w038...
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-...
"The new measures affect visas for medical treatment, university studies, visits to friends or relatives and business travel, at least temporarily." What possible justification can there by for such blanket bans? What are they punishing Palestinians for? Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...
Strange how the Pedo Prez apparently lies dead or dying yet the nonsense keep spilling out of the Shite House*. It’s almost as if he was a puppet all along for the billionaire Project 2025 bastards. *Owing to tacky gold leaf, rose garden destruction and occupation by a felon it is now rebranded.
Pretext to override RFK, Jr., be the big hero. Just more sticking their fingers into the wind with the health and safety of the world at stake. Totally not serious people.
In other words he only hired RFK Jr to avoid losing the election, and now doesn’t want to be blamed for hiring a vaccine denier (which RFK Jr has been known for over many years)
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.
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Thread BREAKING: A new 38 page proposal shows Trump & Netanyahu are openly planning to take over Gaza & turn it into a casino & tourism resort. Here are the horrid details, & yes all of this is a violation of international human rights law & further confirms Israel is committing genocide. 1/4
Palestinians will be offered $5000 for their land, 4 years of rent subsidies, & a year of food—if they “voluntarily” leave. This is ethnic cleansing, a war crime If Palestinians don’t “voluntarily” leave, they’ll be placed into concentration camps & imprisoned. This is genocide & a war crime 2/4
He is dead. He knows he is dead. He has had the greatest death in all of mankind. No one had ever seen a death quite like his. Men, big men, with tears in their eyes, have said, "Sir, no one can die the way that you did." That will become the greatest obituary ever
Absolutely. The immigrants we need to forcibly deport are Thiel, Musk and Murdoch. All architects of the destruction of our country.
The media should ask..."What are the Epstains on your hands sir?"
“The United States is being governed by a regime that depends on denying scientific findings from climate science to economics and medical science to sociology,” said Eric Klinenberg...director of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
@theguardian.com again shows @nytimes.com & @washingtonpost.com how to write a headline. "Trump says he plans unconstitutional executive order to mandate ID for voters "President also wants to ban most voting by mail in push stemming from baseless claims..." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
“Trump once said he wanted the generals that Hitler had. He’s certainly working on getting the science that Hitler and Stalin had.” 🧪 #Totalitarianism www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...
Evil. *This* is end-stage capitalism: Genocide for profit.
It's not Trump who normalizes autocracy. It's the rest of American news media. The Guardian can and should stand apart as the one outlet unafraid to declare autocracy is here. Stop asking. Declare. Has Trump succeeded in normalising American autocracy? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"But it isn’t just that this administration has turned America over to bullies, thugs, and thieves. It has also drawn a hard line around the entire aspirational ideal of becoming American. . . the central premise and promise of immigrating to this country—the idea that you can make a new life here"
Useful frame for understanding Trumpism from @aselrod.bsky.social: "It’s not merely rule by the worst but an active assault on virtue wherever it exists. Trump/MAGA have turned the country over to the cruelest, most rapacious, and least honorable among us." www.liberalcurrents.com/let-it-burn-...
This is what rewilding looks like 🐺 👀 🧪
"Surfaces" isright! Yes ago after he crashed the Atlantic City casino and bankrupted contractors, they tried to sell it for parts, and soon discovered all the "marble" and "gold" and other "luxury" surfaces and furnishings were all fake and cheap and already falling apart. Like Trump.
"Surfaces" are right! Yes ago after he crashed the Atlantic City casino and bankrupted contractors, they tried to sell it for parts, and soon discovered all the "marble" and "gold" and other "luxury" surfaces and furnishings were all fake and cheap and already falling apart. Like Trump.
It's a good thing nothing is going on in the world that might require the attention of the president of the United States, otherwise he might not have time to supervise the contractors.
"She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it. She was not protecting lives at a gate in Iraq; she was forcing her way through windows in the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power." New from @markhertling.bsky.social:
If NYC decides to shut Mamdani out, the city will be under siege by Trump for the next several years with no opposition to whatever he wishes.
We want to apologize if it feels like we’ve been venting a lot lately. It’s just hard to ignore that nearly every move from this administration seems to be illegal, unlawful, or outright unconstitutional and yet nothing happens.
A public health catastrophe. Not “immanent,” not “potential.” This is the catastrophe.
One hell of a yarn from David Amsden www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Just sayin
There are banshees howling outside the White House today. The world holds its breath with a barely suppressed grin.
DOGE wasn’t a cost-cutting venture. It was a data mining operation for private interests. Trump opened the gates to the castle from inside for invaders with bad and greedy intent to plunder and exploit.
I hope Khashoggi's ghost comes for his ass.
Mitochondrial challenges?
time for the WorldCup and Olympics to do the same
Republikans live off of soulless hacks, but this fucking guy is a new low, even for the Party of No Ideas! open.substack.com/pub/captainf...
All they do is ask questions that they know the answer to and don't make a single demand. www.offmessage.net/p/schumer-an...
So appeals court strikes down tariffs but leaves in place pending Trump appeal to SCOTUS. Does that mean, if SCOTUS upholds lower courts and throws out tariffs, that Americans can sue for the billions of dollars collected? What a scam this whole thing is. Stop the tariffs now if unconstitutional.
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.
Our national parks generated $56 billion in visitor spending and supported 415,000 jobs in 2023. The entire National Park Service budget was just $3.6 billion. That’s some return on investment — so why is Donald Trump taking an axe to our parks?
"We’re looking at a battle between RFK Jr. and Elon Musk for who has racked up the most deaths around the world. We’re not talking about the hundreds or thousands, but potentially even millions." On the pod @donmoyn.bsky.social is fantastic on CDC mess and Leavitt BS newrepublic.com/article/1998...
“Troops are mostly staying in hotels and have access to hot meals around the clock, officials said. The administration said it's not tallying the cost of all this yet and has no idea how much it will cost the federal government.” 3/3
Slayin' 'em. Newsday.com/matt
Gun violence is the number one cause of death of children and teens in America. Not food dyes. Not seed oils. Not vaccines. What is the Trump administration and RFK Jr. going to do about it? #MakeAmericaHealthyAgain
BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout. They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base. (🎥 AP)
Give us a break. The only action you guys have taken is to weaken gun laws, allowing scores of criminals to get guns; shut down funding for anti-violence programs in our cities; close the Office of Gun Violence Prevention. You've taken action - and it's gotten people killed.
One of the first victims of authoritarianism is the truth. Everyone knows exactly what happened on January 6th. There is absolutely no ambiguity. But now the very Members of Congress who were cowering for their lives try to rewrite history in sycophantic devotion to Trump.
I am just going to say this again bluntly: Blue states are going to need to become the federal government. Mutual aid compacts, mutual defense compacts, healthcare, taxes, trade the whole deal. Literally create a new system outside of the fascist federal system.
It's important to know what we're dealing with. Though some in the media still try to horse-race, both sides this, we're faced with psychopaths at the helm of our nation's public health, scientific and healthcare efforts. They want to inflict pain and suffering. It's a goal, not a by-product. 6/
This is just part of RFK Jr.'s body count. And Russ Vought? His destruction of the ranks of CDC (and NIH etc) are making it impossible for remaining staff to do their jobs. This is what he wants. As he said he wants bureaucrats to be traumatized. Does this sound like a normal human being? 5/
#NIH is hanging by a thread. The #CDC has been decimated. #RFK Jr. and Russell #Vought are psychopaths--I don't say this frivolously--they are cold, calculating, inflicting violence on millions through public policy. It is where we are right now. These men are not normal. 1/
If you lived in NYC you'd be getting VM warnings about dangerous heat levels from Connie Ed.
I’m reminded of Hunter S Thompson’s glorious eulogy for Richard Nixon.
Senior CDC leader resigning his post today: "Having worked in local and national public health for years, I have never experienced such radical non-transparency, nor have I seen such unskilled manipulation of data to achieve a political end rather than the good of the American people"
Is this criminal premeditated public endangerment?? If experts in the medical say vaccines are safe and advise that we continue to vaccinate based on best evidence - how can an unqualified lunatic decide unilaterally that we no longer get access to vaccines? @marcelias.bsky.social
Restricting COVID vaccines while 47,500 Americans died last year is not “science”—it is sabotage. Denying families access forces risk onto the vulnerable, deepens inequity, and weaponizes public health for ideology. This is cruelty dressed as policy. #HealthNotPolitics #VaccineAccessNow
There was just a meeting in RI with all New England governors (except NH) plus NY, NJ and PA to discuss something like this
They can issue JOINT health guidance, they can buy up supplies of needed vaccines, etc... [just on the health front]. Hire all of the excellent people who are resigning.
Worth a read:
Our best hope of getting out of this, is not that more than white half of all US white people will suddenly realize that ethnic cleansing is wrong. That'd be great! But no. Our best hope is that fascist economic destruction drives so many white folk bankrupt that they vote Blue to save their money.
"It’s a way of showing who owns whom. "And doing it over nothing, for no reason other than that the president can do it, shows who’s boss in a way that doing it for a reason never could."
5. That's not because federal law requires that reading of state law -- the federal law just requires providers to comply with state law, whatever it is. It's because the feds are now treating the federal law as giving them the power to tell the state what the state law is.
There might have been clashes especially recently with the new "Covid booster." She said at her confirmation: "Vaccines absolutely save lives, and if I'm confirmed as CDC director, I commit to making sure we continue to prioritize vaccine availability."
Definitely not because she refused to agree to attend a presser with RFK announcing Autism is a disease caused by vaccines next week. That for sure is not the reason. (It is definitely the reason)
I still can’t get over “noble”, versus “Nobel”. He said “noble” THREE times. They are all sycophantic morons!
Even their (sometimes) 'Patron Saint Ronnie' said so. Repeatedly. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihUo... (Mostly due to Biden and Grassley's repeated efforts to "freeze"/cut Social Security to "balance the budget".)
"Data collected from the state’s health department revealed the 2024 overall infant mortality rate in Mississippi increased to 9.7 deaths per 1,000 live births. "... the Black infant mortality rate in Mississippi was more than twice as high as the mortality rate for white infants in 2024.
"Cuts to Medicaid under President Donald Trump’s so-called Big, Beautiful Bill present another challenge for some low-income and uninsured pregnant people in Mississippi. According to data by KFF Health News, 57% of births in Mississippi were covered by Medicaid in 2023"
The US is reaching grotesque levels of inhumane policymaking, and we have a eugenics-curious wannabe quack in charge of our healthcare www.huffpost.com/entry/missis...
Mississippi health officials declared a public health emergency last week in response to the state’s rising infant mortality rate, stating that too many “families are losing their babies before their first birthday.”
Trying to lose those very winnable midterms a full year in advance. Fuck the DNC.
This staged obsequiousness is brutal. We’ve seen this horror movie before. No one with a shred of self-respect who genuinely liked their boss would ever want or need to worship him or her in public. Who doesn’t see this deference as pathological coercion, fear, and extortion infecting politics?
Which in turn means, when prosecutors have a straightforward case, that the grand jury said fuck you to the prosecution and they're hoping that the jury-jury doesn't do the same when the misdemeanor comes to trial.
A thing to know: Typically, you need a grand jury to charge a felony, but not a misdemeanor. Which means that when you read that prosecutors "failed to get a felony indictment, and will charge as a misdemeanor," what it's saying is "the grand jury refused to bring charges."
Ogre in My Swamp 