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Is this extortion actually working?
"I don't think" being the main point
Hawaii’s health insurers say they will cover COVID vaccinations for anyone older than six months, despite new FDA guidance that says children and healthy adults don’t need the shots.
We tried to warn you. If RFK Jr.’s lips are moving, he’s lying. I’ve been following this man for years—it’s a fact.
The Dem Senate leadership's unbelievable negotiating position is that they will give Trump everything he wants except that they demand: an extension of Obamacare subsidies so that they expire right after the midterms, not before. This sounds like political malpractice on several levels.
War crime...
No they don't. He's describing a war crime.
"Long the envy of the world for its capabilities and expertise, the CDC finds itself no longer able to advocate for what its scientists believe the best available research shows." This is very bad!
I wrote about how AI is killing jobs and where things might go from here for my newsletter
Lutnick Family Angling To Make Astronomical Sums Off Court Nixing Tariffs talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/lutni...
Support for Trump amongst his youngest voters is already collapsing. And, trust me, we’re gonna keep dragging it down. 🫡
The Guardian has today printed the names, and where possible, images, of all the media workers killed in Gaza, as part of an international day of action involving more than 150 media organisations. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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...
Trump/RFK are decapitating our public health system, a pillar of American greatness. So Dem Govs should scour every corner of the law for creative new ways to defend their people from this madness. Dems should polarize this debate to the max. Thoughts on this here: newrepublic.com/article/1998...
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Sure thing...
An Industry Insider’s Changes at the E.P.A. Could Cost Taxpayers Billions 😡😡😡 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/c...
NEWS: Trump and House Republicans' budget cuts seek to eliminate the HOME affordable housing program that’s built/rehabbed 1.3M homes in 30 yrs, including 540k in rural areas. 84% of those homes are in districts that voted for him. Rural families now face losing their lifeline.
Mark Zuckerberg lobbied Donald Trump to challenge digital services taxes, just days before he threatened countries around the world with tariffs if they continued taxing and regulating US tech companies.
A Trump administration proposal to reverse a landmark finding that climate change is dangerous to the public relies heavily on a report from the Department of Energy that dozens of scientists say is flawed. The Associated Press surveyed scientists for their views. Here are some key takeaways:
On why the media is suddenly covering Epstein: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/mafia-stat...
ICE will intensify operations in sanctuary cities after Labor Day, targeting Portland, New York, Los Angeles, and Seattle. Homan promises more raids as TRAC finds over 70% detained lack convictions. Portland holds its line. Immigrant groups prepare families.
This is good: With Trump/RFK destroying CDC, JB Pritzker's officials are exploring the possibility of buying Covid vaccines from manufacturers and distributing them in-state themselves, source tells me. Dem govs must step up and fill the void. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1998...
Katrina inspired a $3B wetlands rebuilding project. Louisiana just killed it.
Hopefully she loses her taxpayer provided healthcare
For all the dog lovers. This is a classic. Worth seeing again.
Shorter post: Big Balls stole your data: www.npr.org/2025/08/26/n...
This post made me research whether Mississippi is gerrymandered. It is. I’ve always wondered how a state with so many Black residents can continue to elect evil white dudes. The Black vote is being suppressed in Mississippi via gerrymandering: www.aclu-ms.org/en/news/figh...
BREAKING: Denmark summons top U.S. diplomat after the national broadcaster reported that at least three people with connections to President Donald Trump have been carrying out covert influence operations in Greenland.
72% of adults surveyed in 25 countries see the spread of false information online as a major threat. Meanwhile the US is harassing the researchers and civil servants who studied the challenge and attempting to export that harassment campaign to other countries. 🙃 www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/...
DHS & FEMA have chosen the vengeance route against the public signatories of the FEMA Katrina Letter. Effective immediately, all public signatories have been placed on administrative leave. They have also been ordered not to tell anyone. Whistleblowers are to be protected, not retaliated against.
![FEMA Memo Text MEMORANDUM Date: August 26, 2025 To: All FEMA Employees in the affected regions and all members of the FEMA National Emergency Management Agency. From: Jay Bradley, Chief of Staff, FEMA. Joseph A. ... [rest of name is cut off] ..., Director, National Emergency Management Agency. Subj: Employee administrative leave and a further notice. Effective immediately, and continuing until further notice, you are being placed on administrative leave with pay and all benefits, including retirement, health and life insurance. You will be responsible for your time sheet regarding working and future pay periods. You may use your government issued cellular phone and tablet for personal use, but you will not have access to FEMAEMS facility, connect to FEMAEMS personnel, and like [sic] editor or your official capacity. Failure to comply will result in disciplinary action up to and including removal from federal service. You will continue to have access to your personal email, but you will not have access to FEMAEMS information or telecommunication systems including, but not limited to, your e-mail. You will have access to your voicemail, but do not retrieve or listen to any messages. You will have access to FEMAEMS facility, connect to FEMAEMS personnel, and like [sic] editor or your official capacity. Failure to comply will result in disciplinary action up to and including removal from federal service. If you need access to a FEMAEMS information or telecommunication systems to perform your duties, you must receive a written directive from your supervisor. You must contact your supervisor via telephone or e-mail only. Any violation of these rules will be viewed as an act of insubordination. You must provide a current home address, a current home phone number, a personal email address and phone number where you can be reached while you access to your FEMAEMS information or systems. You must not contact any FEMAEMS personnel until you receive a written directiv…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:obksvg6m2wchvxqwrqclknbs/bafkreiem7f3vubks2gr76g6wzgy2ptd2fuennzswokvpja3i5p767fjtlu@jpeg "Click to view full size")
![FEMA Memo Text MEMORANDUM Date: August 26, 2025 To: All FEMA Employees in the affected regions and all members of the FEMA National Emergency Management Agency. From: Jay Bradley, Chief of Staff, FEMA. Joseph A. ... [rest of name is cut off] ..., Director, National Emergency Management Agency. Subj: Employee administrative leave and a further notice. Effective immediately, and continuing until further notice, you are being placed on administrative leave with pay and all benefits, including retirement, health and life insurance. You will be responsible for your time sheet regarding working and future pay periods. You may use your government issued cellular phone and tablet for personal use, but you will not have access to FEMAEMS facility, connect to FEMAEMS personnel, and like [sic] editor or your official capacity. Failure to comply will result in disciplinary action up to and including removal from federal service. You will continue to have access to your personal email, but you will not have access to FEMAEMS information or telecommunication systems including, but not limited to, your e-mail. You will have access to your voicemail, but do not retrieve or listen to any messages. You will have access to FEMAEMS facility, connect to FEMAEMS personnel, and like [sic] editor or your official capacity. Failure to comply will result in disciplinary action up to and including removal from federal service. If you need access to a FEMAEMS information or telecommunication systems to perform your duties, you must receive a written directive from your supervisor. You must contact your supervisor via telephone or e-mail only. Any violation of these rules will be viewed as an act of insubordination. You must provide a current home address, a current home phone number, a personal email address and phone number where you can be reached while you access to your FEMAEMS information or systems. You must not contact any FEMAEMS personnel until you receive a written directiv…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:obksvg6m2wchvxqwrqclknbs/bafkreig7ebtholwj7wchjcwxpcmd6dsh3cr26wpgjjqlg6hmy7edtoe3r4@jpeg "Click to view full size")
well well well www.the-downballot.com/p/iowa-democ...
Wow. On NPR, @gbrumfiel.bsky.social reports a Social Security official “copied the Social Security numbers, names and birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private section of the agency's cloud.” The source is a whistleblower, who is named: Charles Borges, SSN chief data officer.
Ukrainian's gathered in massive numbers to celebrate their independence and show the world they aren't backing down. These were the scenes from Kharkiv which gets bombed daily by Russia. The brave crowds sang and celebrated even as Russian troops attack just a few miles away. #3E #StandWithUkraine
RFK Jr. is applauding West Virginia for making it easier to exempt children from vaccines required for school entry. WV has historically been one of two states with the highest vax coverage because they haven’t allowed this. This is exactly the opposite of what an HHS Secretary should be doing.
Pritzker: This is not about fighting crime. This is about the President and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.
Before his immigration check-in, Kilmar Abrego Garcia delivered an emotional plea to immigrants and the immigrant rights community. “Regardless of what happens here with ICE, promise me this that you will keep fighting, praying, believing in dignity — not only for me but for everyone,” he said.
DHL has suspended worldwide deliveries to the USA as of today, too. It's fun being a pariah!
Japan Post just announced they will no longer deliver mail to the United States, joining Germany, Austria, Denmark, Italy, France, and Sweden.
Good
Agreed. He's a rare one and I'm glad he's doing this.
REPORTER: It requires an act of Congress to rename the Defense Department TRUMP: We’re just gonna do it. I’m sure Congress will go along if we need that
Illegally too
Frank is ...well... Frank. He's always close but not really. Rufo's pit of things to hate and incite more hate of is bottomless.
Yes, the stakes here are large. Very large.
Walz: "It boggles my damn mind that in the midst of a military takeover of our cities, the flaunting of the rule of law, that the press finds the need to talk about, 'Oh, there's a division in the Dem Party.' There's a division in my damn house & we're still married and things are good. That's life"
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.
Nothing says democracy like agitprop. Teddy - who believed in breaking trusts, not the working man - must be turning in his grave.
Virginia Giuffre, the sex trafficking victim who accused the Duke of York of sex crimes, wrote an autobiography which will be published posthumously later this year. Giuffre claimed she was forced to have sex with the Duke when she was 17. She died by suicide at the age of 41 in April.
Let’s be clear: deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda makes no sense—it’s not his home country. Nothing about this process has been fair. ICE is targeting him with cruelty. This is the weaponization of government, not justice.
Wildfire smoke is no longer just a Western problem. New research shows our kids are breathing more of it than ever. Let's protect our families and demand action on climate change. #MomsForClimate #CleanAirForKids www.wltx.com/article/weat...
Virginia Giuffre’s lawyer Sigrid McCawley reacts to the Maxwell transcripts, saying Maxwell “repeatedly and brazenly lied” to the government and is trying to “recreate history.” Full statement
Can you imagine a US envoy handing a Nazi medal to the family of an American who died fighting for Hitler? Because this just happened: www.cnn.com/2025/08/20/p...
HIPAA???
WTF
IDK — Maybe it really is the end times 🤦🏽♂️ South Lake Tahoe resident tests positive for plague.
Okay so apparently the head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency has become a key part of the Trump authoritarian regime, by ginning up accusations of mortgage fraud against all his enemies, and then publicly requesting that Bondi investigate them, to set the stage for DOJ harassment
🔥COACH @sullydawg2.bsky.social on who’s really getting deported. (not violent criminals) “You made a big deal about ‘coming in the right way’ —they’re waiting for asylum hearings and getting arrested, as private prisons get rich… Share in the shame of your vote.” Full: www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6C7xKgr/
A United States Senate investigation has identified more than 500 credible reports of human rights abuses in US immigration detention since January, including alarming allegations of mistreatment of pregnant women and children.
Translation: ‘kill mail-in ballots so Democrats can never win again.’ This adds fuel to the idea that Trump is plotting a third term. It’s almost like he thinks Democrats will just roll over and play dead for this.
The US capital is being flooded with military troops at the direct order of the president and media is barely talking about, because the president didn't say "I am doing authoritarianism" but "the military is here to fight crime"
Awful: Trump just threatened to try to ban mail voting by executive order. What's telling is he openly linked this to the midterms, showing he will abuse presidential power in every way he can to rig them. We talked to elections experts about what's coming. It's bad: newrepublic.com/post/199202/...
Grimly amusing to have this drop the same day Trump is re-hyping garbage vote-fraud conspiracy theories.
A blog post attributed to the person listed as the Department of Homeland Security’s speechwriter celebrated the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and likened the resulting political fallout for conservatives to slavery and the Holocaust. www.notus.org/trump-white-...
Putin's puppet is throwing Europe to his master
Kharkiv right now. Moscovia bombs sleeping families. 4 victims including kids. Don’t tell me about peace that Putin wants. Do not dare.
President Macron: We are talking about an imperialist and revisionist power that is today's Russia, which since 2008 has constantly sought to conquer new territories, has constantly revised international borders, and has never kept its promises of peace and non-aggression.
Trump Rolled Out a Red Carpet for Putin. We Rolled Out Resistance
MAGA’s really out in full force today, guess we struck a nerve. Lots of comments like “liberals don’t know anything about respect” and “Trump was just showing respect to Putin.” Uh huh… respect for who exactly? Putin? Russia? Yeah, no! We’re good.
New — I wrote about the violent assault on a DC delivery worker this morning by masked federal agents, and how these agents have made the disturbing turn from quiet thugs to playing for the cameras.
The pretexts for these paramilitary takeovers don’t matter They’re lies Don’t buy into their narrative They’re normalizing military takeovers That should be the opposing narrative, not crime rates which let them steer the conversation WE should steer it What they’re doing is unacceptable Period
Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game. The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.
Newsom has proved that he will set aside every liberal ideal you think he holds for the sake of power. You simply can’t trust him. I don’t object to him forcefully opposing Trump where he can, but the reason people qualify their support is that he’s a snake.
In other words: They lied.
75% of the National Guard troops deployed to Los Angeles said they will not re-enlist due to the deployment davisvanguard.org/2025/07/trum...
There’s no longer any pretense this has anything to do with crime (there are cities or parts of cities in SC and Ohio that have higher crime rates than DC — send the troops there!). This is about establishing a precedent for Trump seizing control of the nation’s capital when he wants to.
TACO! And also staggering incompetence www.npr.org/2025/08/16/n...
Imagine if they’d had sandwiches. 🥪
Remember the guy who wanted to make federal employees feel trauma? To hate going to work every day because they were the enemy? That obviously very disturbed walking bag of flesh? Here’s ‘A Deep Dive on Russell Vought (Part 1)’ jfhatfield.substack.com/p/a-deep-div...
Remember when Kamala said Putin would eat Trump for lunch? I was thinking about that today for no particular reason.
This is how a REAL president treats a WAR CRIMINAL - he certainly doesn’t roll out the goddamned red carpet.
Putin must think Trump is the easiest mark he’s ever played. Trump got nothing!
ICE used your taxpayer dollars to trick out a bunch of trucks in new livery, all painted black with "ICE" and a logo printed in gold on the side (and Trump's name in gold on the back window), then shoot a rap video in DC to post on social media. I am not making this up.
Comer loves bullying people he doesn't like. Such a small man trying to act tough. This guy wilts when anyone pushes back on him.
It’s gone completely under the radar but Trump is set to start kicking out Ukrainians who came here legally under Biden as part of a program for people fleeing the war.
This was a fringe idea a couple of years ago, pushed by DeSantis and conservative lawyers, and now it is a key argument for government censorship of campus speech.
Seizure medication, wheelchairs, Social Security cards, dentures, urns of ashes, work uniforms — just some of what's been thrown away during cruel, degrading, utterly counterproductive homeless sweeps. A good time to revisit this gutting @propublica.org story:
One year ago, ProPublica and @documented.net obtained 14+ hours of videos from Project 2025’s Presidential Administration Academy, intended to train the next conservative administration’s political appointees “to be ready on day one.” Check to see how Trump 2.0 is deploying this playbook:
this is just straight-up dictatorship and it’s repulsive and pathetic our newspapers and TV stations still won’t say so. there is no emergency. there is no precedent for this in US history. Trump is establishing military and paramilitary control of the capital
Armed Trump administration agents wearing masks just showed up outside of Gavin Newsom’s press conference. This is what rising fascism looks like.
Y’all out here complaining about Jizzlane Maxwell’s cushy camp cupcake prison digs & work release perks need to remember FL GOP AG’s let Jeffrey Epstein OUT of jail every day so he could go back to his mansion in Palm Beach and molest schoolgirls. Not a joke.
Anyone considered that she should probably take a sobriety test daily?
Well, he is a rather special kind of ... person. So maybe stuff happened? There would be some kind of proof, police report, recording or something but alas ...
So assuming this story is correct -- and the WSJ reporter is excellent -- Trump's chief negotiator on Ukraine is meeting with Putin about how to end the war while also scouting sites for a possible Trump hotel in Moscow. www.wsj.com/world/russia...
And he said his house was burned down so there's no record of that either
The guy who was paid by the Kremlin to spew right wing talking points is making up stories about violence in DC - he has no proof because none of what he said happened. There haven't been mass shootings in DC for YEARS. He's full of ----
Trump paints safe cities as war zones to justify deploying troops and seizing police control. In reality, crime is at historic lows nationwide, but his falsehoods feed fear and pave the way for authoritarian expansion. www.rawstory.com/tru...
It would be wrong to say that the GOP is a party of pedophiles. But it seems like they are pedophile-philes
New Yorker cartoons don’t miss.
