"This could be the difference whether your child gets cancer. Are you willing for them to die because the therapy for them is delayed?" Powerful video with voices from top US scientists on the very real and devastating impacts of the funding cuts.
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"This could be the difference whether your child gets cancer. Are you willing for them to die because the therapy for them is delayed?" Powerful video with voices from top US scientists on the very real and devastating impacts of the funding cuts.
“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
Difference between a husky and border collie... 👀😅🤣 #dog #dogday #bluesky
Public health is about We, not Me.
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I think it's a dopey waste of time.
Just saw someone refer to Cheryl Hines as The Marvelous Mrs. Measles and 💀💀💀💀💀💀
Belly laughing!! LOL!😂
Shameful.
A whole Dunning Kruger administration 🙄
A beautiful story - I loved that book ❤️
For decades, Republicans in Washington have told us that tax cuts would trickle down to workers. Instead, wealth and power have accumulated in the hands of the richest 1% at the expense of the rest of us. Trickle-down economics was never supposed to work. It was a hoax.
They didn't logic their way in, so they are not going to logic their way out.
This is too cute, dogs really are the best... 🥺❤️ #dog #dogday #bluesky
Everyone who voted to confirm him is complicit.
With a general message you essentially speak to no one.
They should be acting like a dissident movement TODAY!
"The reality is that Secretary Kennedy has profited from and built a career on sowing mistrust in vaccines. Now, as head of H.H.S., he is using his authority to launch a full-blown war on science, on public health and on truth itself." Truth from @sanders.senate.gov. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...
The administration got rid of the Consumer Product Safety Commission anyway so no more dumping products that injure people.
No jurisdiction should be giving a tax boost to data centers hogging all the power at low rates while people pay more. #FightThePower Literally.
Um, this doesn't look good 😳
Moose are amazing ❤️
She was awesome ❤️
My favorite evergreen Molly Ivins quote: "I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag."
This one was feral on the streets when we adopted him. Ate an ENTIRE rotisserie chicken (found only a wing on the table & a grease spot on the floor.a few weeks after we brought him home). And now, this ❤️
And yet, in your house, they domesticated themselves.
Of hate.
We could start w the words of the Declaration of Independence and add from there
I love these! Thank you for sharing!!
They are disappearing undesirables. They are deploying the military into cities. And now they are trying to commandeer railway stations. I can’t put my finger on it but this sounds familiar.
Man! Can't unsee that 🙈
If someone tells you there's nothing we can do about gun violence beyond thoughts and prayers, remind them: —Gun laws in other countries have prevented mass shootings —More guns don't make us safer —A majority of Americans want gun reform We don't have to live like this.
However evil you think this is, it’s worse: “The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
Little kids are having to use their bodies to shield friends from gunfire while armed soldiers are busy picking up trash.
Why is he sitting in that chair? Maybe it's comfy but it looks like he needs a booster seat.
A little doggo joy for your day!
So lemme get this straight... This kid who shot up a church posted about doing this online *for a month*? And no one did anything about this? Isn't this literally the point of homeland security, the FBI, the DoJ? Worthless, the whole friggin lot of em.
And they wonder why women don't want to share their company 🙄
Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve on the Minnesota shooting: "The sad thing is we can't sit here and tell them that help is on the way. Because we're not going to do a damn thing about it."
The constant question to ask with this administration is whether the action they’re taking actually works to keep people safe. The answer will always be no. For them it’s never about safety and always about power and control. But we have to keep asking the question and keep centering safety.
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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...
NEW: ProPublica has identified at least 15 major disasters since 2016 in which officials in the most-harmed communities failed to use a federal system to send emergency alerts to residents — or waited until it was too late. By @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social
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/
The response writes itself except Dems won't see it 😪💔
Take advantage of this list if you need/want a covid vaccine this year. They don't want you to have it but your health, and what YOU need, is the most important consideration.
Hang onto this image of CDC's full list of underlying conditions tied to severe risk of COVID. If you're an adult aged 18-64, RFK Jr. is now making you show some proof of one of these underlying conditions in order to get a COVID vaccine.
BREAKING: Susan Monarez, the new director of the CDC is reportedly being fired weeks after she was confirmed to lead the public health agency. The worst public health administration in US history continues.
Yes, it is. But it’s not a done deal, folks. We can still frickin’ push back. Good trouble.
There can’t be any gun restrictions because we have to protect against federal government tyranny, and if kids get shot we just have to live with it. Also the President can send troops to cities because the federal government can do whatever it wants. These two ideas are consistent and reasonable.
Living like this is a policy choice.
Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!
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“My friend got hit in the back… my friend Victor saved me, he laid on top of me…” We are failing them.
Your periodic reminder that people who blame “mental illness” for every mass shooting want to make it easier for people to get guns and harder for people to get mental healthcare.
Republicans: Mass shootings: “it’s the price of freedom. Send thoughts and prayers” Homelessness: “Deploy the National Guard”
re-upping this old scalia clip: “if i were king, I would not allow people to go about burning the american flag. however, we have a first amendment…”
Mesmerizing.
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Who's gonna tell them?
In fact, that messaging writes itself! Dems can't message themselves out of a paper bag 🙄
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The battle of our day is no longer about Democrats versus Republicans or left versus right. The choice right now is democracy or dictatorship. And we're sliding faster than I ever thought possible into the latter. Everyone must choose which side they’re on.
And it was during the pandemic, further depressing response rates.
Same. Let kids keep phones in their backpacks but as long as people have out of control access to weapons of war, at least let them have access to call 911! Or to text their parents that they love them in their final minutes. 💔😪
"A big fort"?!
It isn’t normal for a president to repeatedly threaten the use of military force against American citizens. Treating the National Guard as a political pawn disrespects those who serve and undermines public trust in our military.
We're going to message test ourselves into oblivion. If we're not there already.
*looks at today's date* I guess this is predictive AI?
Again:Journalists are not stenographers. We are to get information, report and verify the facts, and then report the reality not the talking point. What Trump is doing in DC and threatening in cities is NOT a crime crack down because he says it is. Don’t regurgitate. Report the truth not propaganda.
Now, maybe this is where we're headed but clearly the Bills didn't finalize on Aug 26 - YET.
"Runs" seems a bit of a stretch.
we really do need to figure out how this guy managed to create an environment where he can say "i wasted an amount of taxpayer dollars so large I can't even tell you how much it was" & it doesn't cause immediate national outrage
Thank you @eric-reinhart.com ! So much here echoes my experiences as a community social service provider - 15 minute meetings and billing codes as diagnoses w prescriptions. Appreciate the link to social and political determinants impacting mental health. Something to work on.
Agree - no magic age. And: "Even if you believe that people under 25 aren’t ‘as good’ at decision-making as older people, it doesn’t mean they can’t do it, or shouldn’t be allowed to." Also like the points abt cognitive decline. Something we're witnessing every day 🙄 Thx for sharing!
One definition of maturity is the age at which the development of prefrontal cortex is complete. But I don't think this means people shouldn't be allowed to make their own decisions before that. Esp if we call them adults at 18. Maturation of the adolescent brain - PMC share.google/3CqJMMCsY2Ip...
While brain development is a consideration, as the interviewer mentions we allow lots of decisions to be made before 26 including military service & voting. The concern seems especially disingenuous as we allow the age of consent and to purchase of assault weapons to drop.
This is what speaking truth to power looks like. Thank you @judgeluttig.bsky.social May we all aspire to be as clear and strong in the face of the admin's manifestly unjust actions. And if anyone is asking, this is an example of what we want our Dem leaders to do.
Federally funded research saves lives. We can't afford to lose this critical resource.
A better world is possible. There are roadmaps for our collective liberation. We don't have to be reinventing the wheel during the biggest crises of our own lifetimes, we don't.
"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." . ~Alice Walker
This isn't a photo of classified records in John Bolton's bathroom. This is a photo of classified records that Donald Trump stole and stuck in his Mar-a-Lago bathroom.
I can think of ONE person who is apparently above the law 🙄
This high school student is more intelligent than this entire administration combined.
The craziest thing about this Cracker Barrel story is that Donald Trump was best friends with Jeffrey Epstein for decades and publicly admitted to trafficking young women to him out of Maralago.
He is also completely wrong. 55 million is the total number of people in the entire world who hold visas which allow them to enter the United States.
May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.
WHAT?!
"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." —The Declaration of Independence
🚨 They’re escalating tensions on purpose. Legalizing rifles in DC while arresting people for throwing a sandwich is the playbook for martial law. Pay attention.
We are the leaders we've been waiting for!
Within months of consolidating control of the White House and Congress, Republicans went to work destabilizing Social Security, Medicare, and the entire American health care system. The public hates it, so Republicans hide their mischief.
Is he "patrolling" on his golf cart?
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RFK Jr. Vowed to Find the Environmental Causes of Autism. Then He Shut Down Research Trying to Do Just That. www.propublica.org/article/rfk-...
I love this. Sometimes the tunnels in subway stations are magical places. #HumpDay