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The WAPO published a leaked document outlining a plan to forcibly displace all 2 million residents of Gaza and place the territory under U.S. trusteeship for "at least" 10 years. In other words, ethnic cleansing, a "final solution" done IN OUR NAMES...Y'all think real carefully about that.
Nothing says "Warrior Ethos" like slinging mulch and picking up trash.😏
No way in hell trumpy wrote that.
Back when Donald was a failure in real estate, he was famous for not paying his contractors. He would come up with fictional fault in their work as an excuse not to pay them. Now, this unscrupulous cretin is short-changing the National Guard. www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri...
1 September 1939 | A Polish Jewish boy, Meilech Raich, was born in Trzebinia. In 1943 he was deported to #Auschwitz from ghetto in Chrzanów. He was murdered in a gas chamber.
The Supreme Court ruled 5–4 to let the Trump administration cancel $783M in NIH research grants. Critics warn of irreparable harm to science, data loss, and weakened U.S. innovation.
As RFK Jr. pushes to defund the CDC, the threat to public health grows. Steve Schmidt & Dr. Angela Rasmussen break down the CDC’s role in defeating diseases like polio and explains the danger of anti-vaccine misinformation. Watch: youtu.be/ecSHbw3uFX8
As we recognize Labor Day this weekend remember that it’s the labor movement and the support for unions that made America a better place. Child labor laws, worker safety, healthcare benefits, and pensions: we owe votes for unions and improved workplaces. This weekend, celebrate the labor movement!
There is only one crime: opposition to the regime.😏
Source?
Next administration?😕
Spoken like a true arrogant narcissist… During June 17 phone call, Trump repeated claims about having “solved” India-Pakistan war, infuriating Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India. The two populist leaders w/big egos & authoritarian tendencies haven’t spoken since. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/u...
Gavin’s is better Just sayin’
He didn’t know about the the CDC decision on COVID shots until the announcement, even though he led division on vaccination & respiratory disease He kept asking to see the justifying evidence, or hear from experts who supported the move RFK’s team kept saying no www.thebulwark.com/p/kennedy-rf...
I'm still waiting for the relentless onslaught of media demands for a press conference and calls to resign.
Not true. Misleading and inaccurate “quote.”
1 September 1923 | Dutch Jewish woman, Roza Anholt-Delden, was born in Amsterdam. In July 1942 she was deported from #Westerbork to #Auschwitz with her daughter Christina. They were murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
“they’re really moving in an ideologic direction where they want to see the undoing of vaccination. They do want to see the undoing of mRNA vaccination.” triblive.com/news/world/e...
We are living in a police state. #ProveMeWrong
This is why NO institution should pay him a bribe. No university , no corporation , no individual, NEVER. He is not a King! #DoNotObeyInAdvance #NoKingsInAmerica #25thAmendmentNow
"Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)". Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, genocide scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Trump’s unprecedented weaponization of National Guard troops in recent months raises alarming concerns that the administration might be laying the groundwork to interfere with elections in key cities next year and in 2028.
If god didn’t want us to die from cancer he wouldn’t have created cancer. We should not interfere with God’s great plan by trying to cure diseases god created for a reason.🤪
So, the woman whom Giuliani was helping was on the southbound side of Interstate 93. But the car in which he was injured was on the northbound side. And this all happened in the dark of night. www.concordmonitor.com/2025/08/31/r... www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
🥁🥁🥁 If we can't get .5% of the country to show up against fascism where it's happening, maybe we want this. Maybe we deserve it it's 1939 Germany. Show up or give up!
@brontyman.bsky.social
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...
X is a foreign influence operation by an elite tech oligarch who is so far removed from British life he can't even spell 'Labour' and seems to have no idea that the party in question has launched a full on assault against migrants.
Via Euronews: Russia accused of jamming GPS of Ursula von der Leyen's plane during Bulgaria trip www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
Rep. Richard Hudson (R-N.C.) told a closed-door meeting of House Republicans to stop hosting town halls in the midst of backlash from voters. Most appear to have taken that to heart: By mid-August, only 16 of the 219 House Republicans had held at least one in-person town hall event.
Pritzker on Trump sending troops into cities: "He has other aims other than fighting crime... he would like to stop the elections in 2026 or frankly take control of those elections. He'll just claim there's some problem with an election and then he's got troops on the ground that can take control."
An early Nazi plan for Europe’s Jews involved the “voluntary” relocation of them to Madagascar. When that “voluntary” departure failed to materialize the Nazis turned to Plan Zyklon B. Maybe the Palestinians will learn from the Jews’ failure to leave when they had the chance?🙄
Judge Sooknanan: As I said at the start of this hearing, I got a call at 2:36 am [last night] because the government chose the wee hours of the morning on the Sunday of Labor Day weekend to execute a plan to move these children. That's why we're here.
This whole thread is just appalling. The hearing arises from the Trump admin conspiring with a foreign country to violate a federal court order in the middle of the night so it can deny due process to children who escaped dangerous circumstances.
“The techlords and their ideology are mortal enemies of humanity and will stop at nothing to impose their dystopias in the coming years, trying to prevent us from stopping the collapse of all human civilisations.”
Some of the toughest times in basic training were the weed pulling obstacle course and the green trash bag close order drills. We would rather have repeated the tear gas tent than go through those again!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
IN 1940-41 U.S. policymakers came to realize America's security & standard of living depended on free access to as much of the world trade system as possible, & that a coalition of like-minded nations offered the greatest chance for long term prosperity & security. trumpy has reversed that idea.
While Trump isolates the United States, Xi consolidates alliances for China. www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/c...
Today Syria and Lebanon, tomorrow the rest of the Promised Land! Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Why did we move away from the public policy of the Great Prosperity to a 60+ year transformation into a govt. focused on tax cuts to the wealthiest and corporations, privatization of public services, voter suppression, and unprecedented income inequality? open.substack.com/pub/tcavant/...
If you don’t believe that Trump’s authoritarianism can be defeated, look at how scared MAGA is of chalk:
“It’s important that the American people know that their state leaders have their backs. It’s crucial for the American people to know that in many places at the local and state level, public health is alive and well.” Public health expert @gregggonsalves.bsky.social, to me, in this piece:
Just because you feel like your day to day life may have not changed that much much doesn't mean that America hasn't changed dramatically under Trump. Authoritarianism is here, right now. We all need to be as clear eyed about it as @vermontgmg.bsky.social: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
NEWS: Trump Fundraises on his Desire to "Get to Heaven" and Trump Cuts Pediatric Brain Cancer Research Funding open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
BREAKING: PLEASE SHARE Christian Stephen, a member of the US military was placed on a 72 hold in a psych facility for posting this video stating that he wants to uphold our Constitution.
They’re totally going to do this.
The month before a shooter opened fire on children gathered in a Minnesota church this week, the Trump administration cut funding in the state for efforts to identify potential mass shooters and head off their violence. "What could go wrong?" www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...
The Social Security Administration official who exposed that the Department of Government Efficiency had left millions of Americans’ personal data vulnerable says he has been forced to resign due to retaliation. Charles Borges, who served as the SSA’s chief data officer, told
I would offer to buy them lunch.😏
How China uses facial recognition to control human behavior - CNET share.google/6B2w7y1gs7HK....
DC PD using some sort of facial scanning software on people they illegally stop during the federal occupation of Washington DC
A "pig butchering" scam might open with a simple “Hi” or some good-natured confusion about why your phone number seems to be in the person’s address book. It's the first step in a process intended to drain your bank account and ruin your life. (Published Sept. 2022)
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz stated that Russia is attempting to destabilize Germany, including targeting its infrastructure, and therefore Berlin is in direct conflict with Moscow.
Something blue states will need to explore: how to create cross-state compacts dedicated to a functioning government as the Trump administration walks away from it's responsibilities.
“…I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.” My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
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.
"Leavitt pretended Trump is defending the integrity of our vaccine system—but RFK is destroying it, and the continuing CDC walkout also wrecks her claim." While RFK Jr attempts to become the new Mengele, I'm left wondering whether Leavitt doesn't understand the gravity of his efforts or doesn't mind
"At one point, a woman asks, “Why are people not getting due process? Why are immigrants not getting due process?” Moore’s answer went down like a lead balloon. “So, due process for a citizen and a non-citizen are different things.” He was drowned out by loud jeers and cries of 'false!'"
"Moore continued speaking into his mic, but he couldn’t be heard over the crowd’s reaction. Failing to restore calm, he turned to an aide who took the mic from him before he headed for the exit to chants of shame!" "Moore denied slipping out the back."
They're not planning on ever leaving, regardless of what happens. It's been the plan all along. www.ladbible.com/news/us-news...
I love this ad by Gavin Newsom! Must watch 👇👇👇👇👇
Pay attention, Canada. If Alberta is successful in this book banning, this will spread. Look around you, b/c this is how it starts. We're on the same ledge the US was on. And we either start fighting this right-wing rise now, or we follow the Americans over the edge. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
This should be headline news - the implications are horrifying …
Trump is a lifetime ardent admirer of Adolf Hitler. He proves it day after day. seriously, this bullshit is is as big a tell as his secret police force!
Only a matter of time before trumpy issues an executive order banning fraternization with the enemy.🤪
This is good. Make friends with our soldiers instead of confronting them. Remind them in a friendly way that they are OUR troops, not trumpy’s private army.😏
Newsom: Perhaps the president could deploy the National Guard in every corner of Mississippi. Murder rate is out of control there. And the governor may want to make that phone call.
The is a crisis among young men. We would be wise to pay attention. My latest adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/young-men-...
CNN plays a montage of Trump cabinet members pathetically fawning over their Dear Leader ht: @marcofoster.bsky.social
Trump's use of red state National Guards in DC is really about viciously turning Americans against each other, about stoking hate and violence *among Americans.* JB Pritzker's response is so good because it lays *this* bare. Me and @brianbeutler.bsky.social on this: newrepublic.com/article/1997...
I bet if ICE went to the scene of the mass shooting in Minneapolis they could find some immigrants to fill their daily quota.😏
The de minimis exemption, which allowed imported packages worth less than $800 to enter the U.S. without facing any duties, will end for all countries on August 29.
Public outrage grows as Republicans ignore gun violence, spotlighted by a Minneapolis mass shooting killing children and injuring many. Critics also fault Trump for inaction on gun control, prioritizing other political issues over urgent safety reforms. www.rawstory.com/mass-shootin...
RFK, jr. is working to remove all vaccines from the American healthcare system.😏 #ProveMeWrong
Kennedy can do a lot of damage to vaccine manufacturers without any change in law. This is how he might do it:
Trump plans to require aid groups to verify citizenship before providing assistance, sparking backlash. Critics label the proposal “cruel” and “anti-Christian,” arguing it would deny help to vulnerable populations and politicize humanitarian aid. www.rawstory.com/trump-charit...
