There’s always a tweet. #ROTFLMAO
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There’s always a tweet. #ROTFLMAO
"'I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.'"
“LIKE A BROKEN RECORD” Now that the @nytimes is reporting Modi and Trump had a falling out over Trump’s lie that he deserves credit for the India-Pakistan ceasefire, we re-submit to you this clip of an Indian anchor calling him out months ago — even as 🇺🇸 media wouldn’t.
Bluesky has been critical to Democracy Docket's growth and reach. Nate Silver is an idiot.
As Trump attacks unions and occupies our city, we’re called to remember how we got here. Labor Day would not exist without the workers who fought and died at the Haymarket Massacre and the Pullman Strike in Chicago. It’s not a coincidence he’s targeting Chicago:
Platner: Our taxpayer dollars can build schools and hospitals in America, not bombs to destroy them in Gaza.
VACCINES SAVES LIVES!!!!👍🇺🇸🥳
Distraction du jour. But it may show a crack in the support of ‘Bobby.’ Keep hammering!
“Get it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses. Because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” Dwight D. Eisenhower
Here's the response from Paul Bryant, the Black veteran and lawyer whom the govt arrested in part bc he had a legal weapon in DC, to USG attempt to get him detained. It leans heavily into the lack of Body Cam proving he shoulder checked some Guardsmen. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The gadfly, RFKJr, can go F himself,
Vaccine sceptic RFK Jr has called for the retraction of a Danish study that found no link between aluminium in vaccines and chronic diseases in children — a rare move... “Kennedy has demonstrated that he wants the scientific literature to bend to his will”, says Oransky. Scientific American
It’s still early, but pretty good turnout so far for Bernie Sanders and Graham Platner’s (running against Susan Collins) rally here in Maine today.
Fear of crime: an unholy alliance between politicians that need a cudgel, local news that needs clicks, social media's ability to share viral anecdotal crime stories, police that need justification to exist, and the fact that police/surveillance tech is a multi-billion dollar industry, and racism.
Yeah he's not beating the allegations
I opened my own Little Free Library today ♥️ Pittsburgh friends...message me for the address!
UPDATE: House Oversight is convening a private roundtable with survivors of Epstein’s abuse. This is a testament to our pressure. I look forward to hearing from survivors & won't stop pushing for a full, public hearing so their stories are documented in the Congressional Record.
As much as X runs the Republican Party?
That’s a good theory. I really hope it’s true!
Vinay Prasad got the YouTube channel of @joho.bsky.social taken down. Dr. Howard provides facts and truth about science, including debunking Prasad’s false claims about vaccines and COVID19. Dr. Howard is much more calm about this than I would be. This is an affront to free speech.
Republicans: “Stop making everything about race.” Really? White people enslaved Black people for generations, stole Native land, lynched and segregated us, burned down Black communities that thrived, and treated Mexican land & labor like property to be taken. America already made it about race.
There was absolutely no MSM investigative reporting done on this quackpot during his presidential run. And it was all out there for the taking. From his well documented junk science anti vax tirades to his straight up racism (covered by deceased NY Newsday journalist Len Levitt)
Be careful what you wish for.
Here's why media did this. upine.medium.com/why-mainstre...
That means he’s going to accelerate what he’s been doing for decades. The Senate ushered that in, knowing full well his history. I’ve written so much about him I’ve organized a section of my newsletter under “RFK Jr” Find them all here ⬇️⬇️⬇️ 🔗 news.immunologic.org/t/rfk-jr 🧵
When you cut the social safety nets, you can expect people to fall and land on the streets.
Makes not one damn bit of sense.
The mysterious case of disappearing Trump continues to leave more questions than answers with each “proof of life” post put out by him. Get the latest updates in this weekend's bulletin.
How about not giving the violent people guns? How about we try the last thing that dropped deaths by 50%, outlawing assault rifles?
In Maine, an oyster farmer running as a Democrat has taken a 16-point lead over incumbent Susan Collins. He has now been endorsed by Bernie Sanders. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
Retroactively?
This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I can’t overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.
The pedophiles think it’s okay to come out in public these days. Let’s show them they’re full of shit.
This 👇👇👇
Geek PragerU is just gaslighting you post if the decade. These folks are dangerous liars and bullshitters. They are not America’s friends.
PragerU spelled certify wrong on the Oklahoma certificate of completion, because of course they did.
I’m following Gavin, @bsky.app, why do I have to read about his posts in a UK paper?
Hey Sen. James Lankford, stop your Orwellian doublespeak. We're not "jumping to conclusions" – RFKjr is a dark tetrad. He knows nothing about human healthcare. He's systematically trying to cull the American public. Remove him from office. Immediately.
Post a video of yourself with today’s newspaper saying this
Maybe we should also get his tariffs reversed, his DEI travesty fixed, his gutting of USAID replaced, his Bitcoin bullshit outlawed and give him a lash for every lie he’s told.
He’s an obsessed douchebag. Not even a single scholarly bone in his body or a single scholarly cell in his brain. He’s all about gas lighting and imaginary history. What a waste of attention.
Label it. It’s okay to laugh at or with AI. It’s not okay to impersonate a human being.
The third battle of the continuing saga of phase seven of America’s civil war.
Tesla denied having fatal crash data until a hacker found it
Rudy Giuliani was seriously injured in a car accident. I hope he gets the same expert medical care that he would wish for a disabled transgender immigrant.
Kamala Harris would not be secretly trying to deport innocent children to Guatemala if she was our president instead right now.
Is it because they’re showing their badges?
How white of them! How do they sleep at night? Scared shitless or just shamed?
He thinks he’s being clever, when he’s just showing the country he’s an asshole.
No candidate interviewing for medical school who, upon expressing RFK jr's views, would ever be accepted. They'd be laughed right out of the room. And yet this man runs the HHS – including the CDC, NIH, ACF, CMS, HRSA, and SAMHSA? WTAF?! Remove RFK jr for dereliction of duty. Immediately.
#ROTFLMAO It’s like trying to claim America never gets in any wars. Give it a try…
Nichols knows what he’s talking about. He’s a remnant of saner times. He has a hard time believing PINO and MAGA are fascists, but even he can’t deny it anymore.
*Trump* may not be canny enough to be *planning* to weaponize the government in a methodical way, but "there are people behind the scenes...and they know what they're doing." @radiofreetom.bsky.social talks Trump's abuses of power and more with @timmiller.bsky.social:
Geek Economists #Resist post of the year. May the Roberts Court decide this gas lighting is a step too far, they carved out the fed as special! They’ve allowed him to fire anyone else, but they called out the fed in particular to be protected. Let’s see if this reverse CalvinBall holds. Sigh.
I signed an open letter from economists supporting Fed independence & Governor Lisa Cook Letter: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Add your name by Monday: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
1/ 4⃣senior CDC officials resigned last week, citing political interference in the agency’s scientific work, especially around vaccines. Meanwhile, CDC Director Susan Monarez was fired last week, less than a month into her tenure.
Lady Gaga’s ‘Wednesday’ character is revealed! See Netflix’s first-look image of the pop star as Rosaline Rotwood. www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
Drawing down our presence in Europe to focus on the Indo-Pacific would reflect a recurring American error: our repeatedly misplaced confidence that we can predict the next war and optimize for it in advance. ICYMI @markhertling.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/withdrawin...
Anything except gun control.
Anyway, I’m glad to know the president is still technically alive so he can watch this tomorrow www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Hey! Just icymi: FEMA is now evicting THOUSANDS of Hurricane Helene survivors Our government hates us. And millions voted for this degree of brutality and cruelty. Why?
This is, of course, false. The United States exported $83 billion in goods and services to India last year alone.
Trump recently ordered the Department of the Interior to halt work on a huge wind farm. 1,000 union workers had already completed 80% of the project. Now they're fired. He made sure the oil and gas billionaires got their tax breaks, though. Happy Labor Day, I guess.
Remember the Goolsbee Rule, also called the “pathological irony of crisis”: If you lose credibility, your statements begin to mean the opposite of what you say.
Crazy idea: what if we make electricity cost more for non-residential use.
If the President of the United States was seriously ill, surely his executive staff and physicians would provide full details of his condition to the public. Right? Anyway, just hauling this up from the archives.
They already had the kids loaded onto the planes,hoping to leave without US citizens knowing . . .right on brand for this POS.
Ah, CVS closed down in my neighborhood.
Where?
We’re only a few years removed from creatjng a vaccine to protect against a deadly airborne virus in a matter of months. Now, we have a scion fail son running the CDC into the ground not because it failed, but because its success conflicts with RFK Jr’s eugenicist ideology.
Match to a tee!
Netflix just gave Gavin Newsom 2 million for the redistricting fight and made a deal with Sesame Street. New episodes will air there and the backlog of old episodes will Be free to watch. Netflix picked a side. I will keep my subscription.
So right on schedule, Kremlin spokesperson Peskov just denied Russia jammed GPS signal for Ursula von der Leyen’s plane. In case you needed more proofs it’s them.
AP: “Florida could be on the hook for $218 million… Alligator Alcatraz may soon be completely empty as a judge upheld her decision late Wednesday ordering operations to wind down indefinitely…” apnews.com/article/flor...
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.
What I did this weekend: Spent hours emailing the foreign affairs offices of all major nations with one simple request - to send me their press releases, data and statistics directly with ability to follow up. First tens of emails came back approving the request. Now we will have actual information
Just an astonishing, powerful op-ed that drives home what we are losing and what's already been lost. We are so incredibly fortunate to live with the advances modern medicine and health science. Destroying and stymieing it is just unforgivable. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
ICE procurement activity since August 22, totaling ~$19M. Companies highlighted in yellow are new to the "Who's Profiting from ICE?" map, available here: bit.ly/3TgUZEq Source: USAspending.gov
Last night, at the final show of her Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour, Cyndi Lauper brought out Joni Mitchell (for “Carey”), Cher (“Girls Just Want To Have Fun”), SZA (“True Colors”), John Legend (“Time After Time”), and more. www.stereogum.com/2321337/cynd...
In approximately 60 days, several major elections are going to take place across the country. I think SOMEONE at the DNC should be responsible for INFORMING all of the Dems in America how we can help our team members win. SOMEONE should be sending out links to sign up for letter writing, call &
The Rumford Medal 2025 is awarded to Professor Bernard F Schutz FRS for contributions to relativistic astrophysics, the detection of gravitational radiation and education. #RSMedals https://royalsociety.org/medals-and-prizes/rumford-medal/
Cruelty is the point. They’re sadists and they think this is a winning play.
They loaded up those planes with children - some as young as 10. I don’t believe they had a safe place to go in Guatemala. And the government did not care. This admin is the least compassionate of any in my lifetime.
What would great is if everyone just acted like he was dead anyway. Publish obituaries. Just act like he isn’t there anymore. Front it out like they did with the whole “We won the election” thing. Think how furious that would make him.
I like the rebrand.
Nailed it!
IT’S ALL NATIVE LAND!
As we begin a new month, my law firm is litigation 51 voting and election cases in 25 states. 6 in Arizona 6 in Georgia 4 in Florida 4 in North Carolina 8 involve redistricting
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...
I used a 5-min segment on CBC News Network to push back directly against 3 separate myths we often hear. I emphasized that: 1) BRICS is nothing more than optics; it's members are not actual allies; 2) Ru maintains its maximalist demands; no progress was made in Alaska; 3) Ru isn't winning the war.
www.huffpost.com/entry/salmon...
