"We will not be ruled by the King"
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That's because RFK Jr. has been an antivax activist for over two decades. Yet, a number of our colleagues, enamored of the promises of tackling chronic disease through improving diet and lifestyle, pretended that he was never really that antivax. He is. sciencebasedmedicine.org/robert-f-ken...
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 had my New York Times op-ed today, but I'm also all over this story about Donald Trump, the worst unionbuster in American history. Trump makes Jay Gould look like Walter Reuther. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
The real winner of Trumpism is China I spend a good bit of time in Mexico and some time in Ireland. Chinese cars are increasingly everywhere in both countries. Why buy American with all our nonsense?
We did this to ourselves www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...
Every year, on Labor Day, I like to re-share this conversation I had with @erikloomis.bsky.social for VICE in 2018 about his excellent book "A History of America in Ten Strikes." Screenshot/excerpt below. Full Q&A here: www.vice.com/en/article/b...
This Day in Labor History: September 1, 1849. The Brotherhood of the Union, an early pro-worker organization, formed. The vision of a George Lippard, this organization established principles in American working class activism that would be incredibly influential throughout the 19th century!!
Today's a good day to learn Colbert found a new job. Hope it's a good one for everybody! #HappyLaborDay
Who's a good boy, eh?!
F*ing millionaires, they are the same everywhere Always wanting more, it's never enough And they only "learn" when the backlash hits their pocket www.dexerto.com/entertainmen...
here's today's post: "Illinois governor, hero. puppy assassin, zero." — a tale of two TV appearances. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter to keep getting the good stuff —
I have an opinion piece in the New York Times today on how the labor movement has failed to step up to the moment in countering Trump, even as Trump unilaterally strips public sector workers of collective bargaining. Labor will die as a movement if this continues. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Oh yes, also, speaking of the cave of wonders: when they are shopping for dinner that "laughs like a hyena" will make, that's the place m.youtube.com/watch?v=wJvL...
Yup When my Lady and I visited the city, we went there on a whim and found ourselves amazed, it's like a cave of wonders inside Had lunch in a little dinner there and while waiting for food began to realize it looks familiar and wham! it hit us - Sleepless in Seattle m.youtube.com/watch?v=ohCy...
See, you're not even saying much yet I have no need to ask "weird? with what? whom?" But yeah, it's deeply weird, for 10 years and going
Right this moment Puppet Vance is calling on National Guard to assist with this murder investigation
and they'll still readily compare themselves with those ordinary people of courage, e.g. see "The Flight 93 Election"
"We've sold toys, clothes, ornaments, even used my kids' old birthday money, just to keep things going." The parents struggling to feed children during school holidays news.sky.com/story/weve-s...
What’s wild to me: NOW, media outlets & medical organizations are “stunned” by the damage RFK Jr. is doing to CDC, other health agencies, & public health. Me & my colleagues have been screaming about him for years. Years. Even more so in the last year. We were called hyperbolic. 1/
As a friend recently put it: the venn diagram of people who assured us the gun violence was worth it because we need the guns to protect ourselves against a tyrannical federal government and the people cheering on Trump as he deploys the military to take over American cities is a circle
Nationwide Labor Day protests #50501
Let's give a shout out to the men & women who labor in the fields to put food on our tables. #WeFeedYou #LaborDay. Mandemosle un saludo a los hombres y mujeres que trabajan en el campo para poner comida en nuestras mesas. Thank you Ignacio Gomez for letting us use this art
I’m absolutely begging reporters to stop suggesting that Lisa Cook stated that she would use both properties as a principal residence on her mortgage APPLICATIONS Mortgage APPLICATIONS and mortgage AGREEMENTS are not the same thing We have no idea what she represented on the APPLICATIONS
#CollectiveCourage: Hundreds of economists from across the country have signed an open letter calling on Congress to uphold Federal Reserve independence. If you’re an economist, you can still sign on: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oGrUv-_CoeulsLZDt_lyNTPbm9wYCAfiTLm7KMiwgzA/edit?tab=t.0
Right now in Michigan, we’re in the middle of a budget showdown. The Republican Speaker of the House slipped a provision into the budget that would kneecap our Attorney General – and make it near-impossible for us to take the Trump Administration to court.
Hi. I’m the executive director of the organization that had the honor of hosting the FEMA Katrina Declaration and I can confirm this is a lie. NICE TRY, KRISTI! @standupforscience.bsky.social @atrupar.com
Trump limits National Guard assignments to 29 days at a time to keep the called up service members from getting healthcare and housing benefits while on duty. And the NG troops are catching on. Stereotypical Trump. Don't give those losers and suckers an extra dime. www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri...
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There's only one way to stop the rumors about Donald Trump's health: a press conference. Why won't he talk to the press, and why isn't the media doggedly demanding it?
Jesus fucking christ. The Trump administration tried to send a bunch of children to Guatemala at 3 am and justified it by saying that the kids just wanted to return to their parents in Guatemala, but the kids actually told the court that they are afraid of being sent back to Guatemala.
Pure fucking evil. Everyone involved in this shit needs to be held accountable.
NEW: The trump administration attempted to remove 600 terrified unaccompanied minors to Guatemala in the middle of the night on a holiday weekend. Judge Sooknanan stopped it. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-sookna...
He won’t let the press anywhere near him. This is getting weirder and weirder.
I'm still waiting for the relentless onslaught of media demands for a press conference and calls to resign.
NG is collecting trash and tending gardens, that's how "urgent" it was for them to occupy DC
Why is our government deporting children? They are *children*. Are we going to say these are hardened criminals who threaten national security, ffs?
There you have it. The Economic Policy Uncertainty Index (www.policyuncertainty.com) just hit an all-time high, surpassing its previous high from May 2020 - the teeth of the #COVID pandemic. Consequences: worse investment climate, higher risk premia, (likely) higher interest rates...
The poster boy for Trump’s unpopular federal funding freeze is a deeply unlikable and outspoken guy, one who looks and talks like the stock villain in a TV drama about politics and who has a confirmation to a powerful role pending before the Senate. Democrats need to beat him like a piñata
Fucking zealots
Pour one out for Judge Sparkle Sooknanan’s clerks this Labor Day weekend
Can we stop to talk about how remarkable the timing was? Compliant at 1am, Judge engaged at 2am, ex parte call to the Government at 2:30am (they did not answer), TRO at 4am? On a Sunday of a holiday weekend?!
REP. BUDDY CARTER: What eroded confidence in the CDC was the covid vaccine BEDINGFIELD: Who was president in 2020?
Absurd and outrageous map would lead to a 7-1 GOP margin in a state that is often split about 60-40 GOP by creating an absurd district 5 that spans about two thirds of the way across the state, 200 miles from West to East Oppose this.
It seems to me one of the best arguments to the court is that if this is truly a national emergency, the president’s own party controls Congress but has done nothing to address it with legislation, so how can it possibly be an emergency?
If Republicans really think there is a national emergency to justify the tariffs, why don’t they just pass them in Congress like they are supposed to under the constitution. This is supposedly a national emergency, but they are gambling on the Supreme Court while doing nothing?
This is an unconstitutional and authoritarian power grab. The constitution grants power over federal elections to the states and Congress - not the president.
NEW: Man who wants Nobel Peace Prize creates Department of War.
Is this voluntary? Can one opt-out after the fact? Are there any incentives for participation? So many details missing.....
"Newsom is saying two things. First, we’re not going to let Republicans play by different rules anymore. And second, we are going to use our power however we can, no matter what The New York Times editorial board says about it." trib.al/SpzgHnV
If you don’t believe that Trump’s authoritarianism can be defeated, look at how scared MAGA is of chalk:
MAGA cultural "warriors" have the thinnest skin of all species
NYT are traitors to democracy
Who voted for war with Venezuela?
Why don’t you send everyone proof of life first? (Either way, Chicago doesn’t want you here)
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?
The DeSantis administration currently has at least seven Florida Highway Patrol troopers just on anti-chalk duty: Two watching from a Dunkin Donuts next door and five more parked in the lot right behind them.
They’re doing all this to prevent people from MEMORIALIZING A MASS SHOOTING
New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them. States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.
Normally they've booked 40% of their fall soybean sales to China at this point. This year, they are at 0% booked, and no, that's not a typo. www.farmprogress.com/soybean/us-s...
it shouldn't be easier to get a gun in America than the covid vaccine
Trump said tonight he is going to issue an executive order purporting to require enforcement of voter ID rules: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u... The president has no such authority to order how elections are conducted.
Putin landed in China. Will meet with leaders from China, Iran, India, Turkey He will meet “for tea” with Xi, then have a trilateral meeting with Xi and President of Mongolia, Khürelsükh. Kremlin pool shares that DJT has not confirmed nor denied attending the military parade on 9/3 in Beijing.
This seems exceptionally unhinged, even for Trump.
One disabled Marine veteran has not had a primary care doctor assigned to him since his previous doctor left in the winter, his wife said. The VA “was never like this before. There’s a lack of staff, empty rooms, locked doors.”
"except for those that are very ill"? I see the president has carved out an exemption for himself, being very ill in the head
lmao @ both the ridiculous idea that $15T is being invested in the US because of the tariffs or that we’d become a “third world nation” without them
I like the rebrand.
California stepping up.
here's today's post: "Chicago cordially invites the Mad King to go fuck himself" — Chicago will not comply with Donny’s police state fascism. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —
The U.S. is one of the world's biggest human rights violators under Trump. Well done, maga.
🐔 Rep Chuck Fleischmann (R) tells the Chattanooga Times Free Press he will “never” do a town hall www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/au...
I wonder why Trump imposed secondary tariffs only on India for buying Russian oil while not caring about all the other countries who buy Russian oil?
40% of Missourians vote for Democrats, and this is the Congressional map the Republicans are pushing for.
Our gerrymandered congressional maps are creating all kinds of problems. Redistricting assassin Dave Daley has a solution. Watch him explain on an all new LP Podcast, out NOW: https://youtu.be/k-bL8JHdoJQ
Stuart Stevens on National Guard deployment: "The murder rate of Jackson, Mississippi is 3 times that of D.C.... the whole thing is complete fraud"
Inflation and cost of living are way up as Trump appears to be spoiling like a Trump Steak. Also, still no Epstein files. But at least Trump is fighting Cracker Barrel for you. Feeling great yet, everyone? https://meidasnews.com/news/trump-white-house-spoke-to-cracker-barrel-about-logo-switch
"Congratulations to President Donald Trump and his whip-smart administration on turning America’s brave National Guard troops into the most expensive gardening crew in human history." https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/08/28/trump-national-guard-picking-up-trash-dc/85853498007/
Jones: I want to bring theology into this because you have all these people that want to give thoughts and prayers. But I was a minister, and that is a form of theological malpractice—when you pray for something you have the power to change.
@nealkatyal.bsky.social: “You’ve got the president who's imposed the largest tax increase on American consumers since 1993 … and he did it without Congress saying one word. That is not our constitutional structure.”
Thousands of farm animals & livestock are going unattended. They aren’t being milked. They aren’t being fed. I feel a great deal more for those animals than for the farmers who voted for this shit. They KNEW who their workers were & where they came from. But they voted to hurt them anyway.
and such a low bar it is these days
Opposition figures and others in Uganda have criticized the agreement with the U.S. to receive deported migrants, questioning the lack of parliamentary approval and saying the deal eases political pressure on the country’s authoritarian president.
He may be alive, but he’s definitely not well.
Oh
During a town hall Wednesday in Worth County, Iowans urged Hinson to “stop lying” after she claimed that the president’s key legislation had ushered in “higher wages” and an improved cost of living. “Higher wages?” shouted one woman incredulously. “For who? For you?” trib.al/KPLYXyQ
I really hope this becomes the black eye it deserves to be www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
We won’t notice it at first Maybe an outbreak of cholera in southwest Kansas goes undetected Perhaps the number of flu related deaths ticks up just a bit each year But-ultimately, inexorably-the destruction of the CDC will lead to countless deaths All because of two men Trump and RFK, Jr
"His true desire, it seems, wasn’t to simply become the president of the United States, but to become the single most enduring representation of America itself." www.vox.com/politics/459...
If you’re interested in finding out what we can do to fight back against the gerrymandering in Missouri, I hope you’ll join this call. I will be speaking on the call. www.mobilize.us/indivisiblek...
ICYMI ICE Poster Boy Dean Cain only made it one week And unlike hard-working Brown People, he will get short-term disability until Republicans eliminate that ICE must be stopped and investigated Call Your Representatives 202 224-3121
A big difference between Republicans and Democrats is that Republicans understand the science of political communication. Republicans dictate the topics/terms of debate while Dems (and the left) usually burn energy in constant response. Thiel and Co call this mimetics, Lakoff calls it framing.
Once again, Border Patrol tells the press this was a targeted kidnapping, yet they took a man who is legally here & in the immigration process. This shows that it was not a targeted investigation as they claimed. Press must stop printing lies. apnews.com/article/immi...
listen he cannot officially be declared un-dead until his caddie casually drops a ball on the green after he shanks one into the woods sorry I don't make the rules here
