WWII ended 80 years ago today, as Japan surrendered on the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
Just be nice. If you can’t be kind, at least don’t be an a hole. Also: privilege comes with responsibility. Use it!
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WWII ended 80 years ago today, as Japan surrendered on the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
#RFKJr wants to take away #COVID #vaccines (and then move on to #childhood #preventable #diseases). You can see it in the works now. Write to your member of #Congress now. This makes it easy to do so. @defendpublichealth.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/letters/writ...
Until it is. Ask me how I know.
🚨🚨🚨If you live anywhere in the greater Chicago area…ICE will start using Great Lakes Naval Station as a command center for their “enforcement” operations across Chicago on Sept 5. The base isn’t in the city or Cook County. It’s north, in Lake County. Expect raids across entire the metropolitan area.
Be ready to hit the streets.
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Man, I feel this. 🙏🏽😭
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Great point!!
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!
Lawyers for the children say they're still on planes in El Paso. SOOKNANAN: "I have the government attempting to remove minor children from the country in the wee hours of the morning on a holiday weekend. That's surprising." www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Black women have every right to be furious. The irresponsible choices of white voters has for many of us, taken our livelihood with consequences for our homes, the education of our children, our ability to care for parents. It’s unconscionable. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
This is a plan for ethnic cleansing. It’s morally horrific and absolutely insane
You can't disconnect this from the attacks on Claudine Gay and Black women in academia. They are one and the same, led by white supremacists hell bent on ensuring only white men can ever get positions of power and influence.
Today is Internat’l Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearance. In the US, we are experiencing an unprecedented uptick in enforced disappearances of migrants. Follow the UN WGEID for news and opportunities to report these violations and fight back against these abuses. @wgeid.bsky.social
This is for all the teachers out there. This AM at the farmers market, a stranger recognized me from my online American Revolution lecture course. Apparently, the lectures got her thru an illness when she was stuck in bed. Teaching matters. In so many more ways than we know.
Grateful for a school that taught the why and how, rather than just the when. Exams were blue book essays.
Bernie Sanders: “Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of health and human services, is endangering the health of the American people now and into the future. He must resign.”
But no money for cancer research
OMG what racist drivel
Federal agents detained two firefighters in Washington state... ...while the firefighters were in the middle of fighting one of the largest wildfires in the country. Under Trump’s regime, cruelty takes precedence over everything else.
‼️ALERTA‼️ MPD y Agentes Federales parando vehiculos que van hacia el este en New York Ave NE cerca de Target (16th St NE) a partir de las 9pm 8/28
Nope
I saw a sign somewhere (I wanna say a drugstore, which makes it doubly questionable) saying handwashing was the best protection against COVID. Five years in. Obvs, hand hygiene is very important, just not the best protection against COVID.
OMG. Seems like something that could be tailored a tad depending on the audience. Thankfully my work did not make me watch handwashing videos.
Please tell me this isn’t your annual training for work.
This should not be hard.
The most radically transparent administration ever?! Shedding light on corruption?! Yeah right 🙄 Susan Monzarez wanted materials for vaccine recommendation meetings posted on CDC webpages, TRANSPARENTLY, ahead of time HHS said no www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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Tick tock. Tick tock. RFK Jr.'s time is running out. Today, Senators Cassidy and Sanders both challenge RFK Jr's reign of (t)error at HHS. Call your Senators and Representatives. U.S. Capitol Switchboard: (202) 224-3121
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How about studying how giving people such easy access to guns might have something to do with the amount of violent deaths caused by guns.
Dr. William Foege, 89, who helped end smallpox in the 1970s, recently wrote: RFK Jr.’s “words can be as lethal as the smallpox virus.” And his actions are more lethal still. He’s waging war on America. That’s an impeachable offense. He must be removed from office. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...
Amen, sir. Thank you.
70 years ago today, 14-year-old Emmett Till, an African American from Chicago, was brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman four days earlier. When you see “MAGA,” realize THAT was the America Trumpers are saying was “great.” I want a GREATER America than that. We all should.
We've got to use all non-violent, peaceful means to stop these people. And non-violent doesn't mean weak--from Gandhi to MLK Jr--we can move mountains without raising a hand. 11/
Between last fall and today, there have been over 3 million out-patient visits, over 300,000 hospitalizations and over 30,000 deaths from COVID. This data comes from a presentation at the the June ACIP meeting extrapolated forward. Now there will likely be more as RFK Jr. consolidates his power. 4/
#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/
Thank you for your service, integrity, and courage.
Imagine thinking your "personal freedoms" are worth more than a child's life. Imagine fighting for emotionally unstable 20 something male civilians to have easy access to weapons designed to kill lots of ppl, really fast. Imagine enabling the next mass shooter, while calling yourself "Christian"
Oh some of us see him just fine
All together now: DUMP RFK Jr.
Hey @chrismurphyct.bsky.social and @blumenthal.senate.gov, Connecticut native, constituent, and Yale public health professor here: this is the right moment. I will literally do anything. Make me wait 10 hours for a 2 minute walk and talk meeting with your lowliest intern, and I will make the case.
So the lawyer is telling the physicians how to practice? I’m sure that would go well the other way around
We're not a serious country and I don't know if we will be again in my lifetime. Half of America cares not at all how many children are murdered with guns because we don't have basic, commonsense gun safety laws. But if the shooter seems to have been trans suddenly these MAGAs cry, Oh, the children!
Infuriating bullshit
Did you see she’s fighting?? Hired a great lawyer
It’s dark, for sure. Monarez is fighting, though!!
Animals have a way of doing that. 💕
On the same day the FDA restricted access to COVID vaccines, the CDC director was sacked and top CDC scientists are resigning. And it’s barely been two weeks since an antivax conspiracy theorist fired 180 bullets at CDC headquarters. None of this is making America healthier. What a disaster.
it's definitely not the ready access to guns. no way it is that. just not possible.
Good
He thinks his last name means he’s a god
I’m high risk and eligible; my spouse is not. Mr. Kennedy has taken away her choice to help protect me. Infuriating.
Arguably the most anti-religious administration in history. Just nakedly hostile to those who wish to practice their faith.
The fucking truth.
So if a hurricane or tornado tears down homes, people must retain all of their documents to get aid.
Glad I will still qualify (hopefully, also for continued biannual boosters). My spouse, otoh, won’t.
How can *anyone* think that is OK? I just don’t get it
I emailed them about their ICE contracts and 3 out of 4 emails bounced…
I love this city. Rise up, sandwich heroes.
Agreed. I’m fortunate to have had teachers who taught the reasons why things happened; it sounds like most people were taught a list of dates and major battles and such.
I think it was apparent to anyone with a baseline understanding of history and the time and inclination to pay attention. Unfortunately the current system makes both of these difficult for a vast majority of Americans. To the unlucky few, it’s been an approaching freight train at 3 AM
the hubris is astounding
VETERANS, Family & Friends: Want to participate in organizing Veteran led peace patrols to reassure & remind our National Guardsmen that they have sworn an Oath to the Constitution? It’s forming on every city. JOIN HERE : rememberyouroath.org
Crickets
The United States, famously founded by a group of people in love with the idea of one man being able to do whatever he wanted to do regardless of how it harmed others
It may seem fatal but we have power to push back. ➡️ Talk to your reps and senators. ➡️ Organize with coalitions to oppose RFK Jr. ➡️ Be LOUD AF. Talk to your neighbors, media, anyone who will listen about how critical vaccine access is. Play every card, pull every string. Go for broke. We will. 🗽
Holy hell
The Spanish word autogolpe has been running through my head for around 8 months now
Agreed. Sadly, I know at least one person who lived in a fascist dictatorship and made that exact calculus, more than once.
Like China
“This is about the president of the United States and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.” www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
I just finished reading Garret Graff’s piece you had shared (I think it was you who shared it here; although I subscribe, I hadn’t read it yet). Yikes. But you’re right - we must face facts
I remember watching the returns with my parents that night
turns out maybe the american constitutional system wasn’t designed around an elected dictator
I’ll go check tomorrow. I’m in the DC area, they should have it. Thanks!
Best a city (even just a neighborhood) with relatively few English speakers
Thanks. I’ll see if I can find it outside the evil empire (boycotting knee benders as much as possible).
We are devastated for our neighbor Kilmar and all of the others who have been illegally abducted and torn from their families and homes. They all deserve justice and due process! #FreeKilmar
Ya. That’s pretty clear. Too bad public shaming doesn’t seem to work on them
It seems to be only the independent ones, most of them on Substack/ YouTube etc
I thought Harvard was a private university. I thought Paul, Weiss was a private law firm. I thought Canada was a sovereign nation.
Funny thing, that
Worth a read www.doomsdayscenario.co/subscribe?re...
People. Will. Die. They should care.
Unhoused people need supportive services, not punishment.
Exactly this.
A hearty fuck you to those blaming healthcare workers and scientists for RFK Jr. blocking vaccines. Thousands of us warned Congress and are doing everything in our power to fight this. The people with whom you should be angry are Republican elected officials and the people who voted for them.
You mean the crisis of the hour?
Well, one who was qualified for the job would
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I wonder if people didn’t consider “democracy” one of their top priorities because they didn’t realize it was on the chopping block? (I realize this is giving a fair amount of benefit to the doubt here)
Everyone should listen to this real talk, but especially my fellow journalists. & consider the fact that a governor, saying this now, is putting themselves at risk. That’s his job. It’s our job, too.
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
This
Should never have been confirmed. Isn’t he Dr. Bhattacharya of the infamous Great Barrington Declaration?
What’s That Smell? 
politcally, ethan 