Nine former heads of the CDC—appointed by presidents of both parties—warn the nation of the immense peril RFK Jr is putting the country in. Gift link, please send to families and friends www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
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Nine former heads of the CDC—appointed by presidents of both parties—warn the nation of the immense peril RFK Jr is putting the country in. Gift link, please send to families and friends www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
#EpsteinFiles #Coverup #60Mins Exposing Jeffrey Epstein's international sex trafficking ring (2019) www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQOO...
While looking like death on a cracker.
"The courts have been unpersuaded that we live in a state of permanent national emergency that is global in scope and decades-long in duration, requiring swift executive action on the theory that Congress could never assemble in time to address the issue. … www.nationalreview.com/corner/divid...
Can y'all please report this impersonator? Thanks! bsky.app/profile/muel...
WTF can go wrong?😖 www.vice.com/en/article/u...
China's Xi rolls out carpet for Ukraine war aggressors, sidelining Trump reut.rs/41UkKPJ
The head of the Chinese Communist Party's International Department has mysteriously disappeared. Western officials would not cheer Liu Jianchao’s downfall
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he was confident the Court would uphold the tariffs but added that the administration has a backup plan.
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Vaxxed?
Kristi Neom's "facts" are as authentic as her lips and hair extensions.
Convicted Felon Donald Trump orders federal funds for disaster relief blocked for undocumented immigrants. My latest video on this disgusting lack of humanity & why we can’t let this be our legacy. youtu.be/KV6K42Ldy-I?...
We do not fully grasp how damaging the SCOTUS’ presidential immunity decision was. What we know is it was a disaster and the huge damage it has caused is being compounded daily. That is because the result is a collaboration between corrupt justices, a supine Congress and a demented President.
🚨Let’s hear it for Columbus, Ohio! 🚨
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
"Even in a long line of anti-labor GOP presidents, Trump stands out. And while he may not succeed in completely destroying collective bargaining in America, he’s poised to strike terrible blows against organized labor." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social
Never forget this: Working people outnumber the billionaires and CEOs by a huge margin. If workers stand together, they will win. Solidarity.
Join me and the incomparable Heather Cox Richardson for a members-only live podcast to explore the urgent challenges facing democracy today, and how history helps us understand the path forward. Wednesday, Sept. 3 at 7 p.m. ET | Live on Zoom Sign up now! newsletters.democracydocket.com/hcr-podcast
They should do it anyway for the environmental benefits.
This week, Oversight Committee Dems are meeting with many of the victims of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. We will listen to their stories and continue our work to seek justice against anyone responsible for these horrific crimes.
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The White House account on X boasts of “$8 trillion in tariff revenue.” 🤡
Kressly: I expect in the next couple of weeks, this is going to get worse. You’re going to hear from the same administrative people who have gutted the expertise needed to promote child health — pushing false narratives like, “we need to look at the link between vaccines and autism.” That is a lie.
This non-answer from @semaforben.bsky.social should be disqualifying for anyone remotely interested in reporting the truth. It is a panicked, evasive, bizarre response. It reeks of someone desperate to not offend the powerful. It’s servile.
Platner: I believe that input from working people is far more important than input from someone who simply has money. I believe that we shouldn’t be settling for crumbs while billionaires eat the cookie we baked.
Bluesky is now among and often *the* highest referer to @motherjones.com. That’s traffic that has been additive. Only Twitter has dipped btw, the rest as fairly steady state (and instagram impressions and video views on all platforms up enormously.)
Stop everything and mourn genius and art deadline.com/2025/09/grah...
Just interesting facts, for no particular reason.
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...
#UnionStrong
I don’t know if you all remember, but Sharice Davids was reelected in Kansas even after the GOP gerrymandered her district…
wow
Sometime between the fall of 1963 and the late summer of 1964, the actor and photographer Dennis Hopper stopped at an intersection in L.A., took out his Nikon, and made history.
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:
NEW: Nadler will not seek re-election, citing the need for a new generation of leaders. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
What is that weird lump on Trump’s forehead?
Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
Local news: If you watch it through, it sounds like the police are referring to this as a “fight.” This wasn’t a fight. It was a race-based attack. On August 16, 2025, a 14 YO Black teen from Platteville, Wisconsin, was attacked by white teens at a party in the town of Pulaski, Iowa County. 3/4
This should be getting far more attention from the media, and it should be investigated as a hate crime. A 14-year-old Black teen was targeted, beaten, and dehumanized with racial slurs by white teens while people stood around cheering. 1/4
30 cases of voter fraud annually, and the GOP passes 104 voter suppression laws. 47,000 gun deaths a year, and the GOP does absolutely NOTHING.
Something that has been missing from the Trump administration’s review of the Epstein case: considering the survivors. This week, they speak out, and we should all be listening. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
Bluesky has been critical to Democracy Docket's growth and reach. Nate Silver is an idiot.
Yeah he's not beating the allegations
If they enact a new illegal congressional map, Missouri will be sued.
A sea turtle surfacing by a MASSIVE school of rays near Clearwater, Florida a couple days ago. Another post into the BluSky void. Maybe 2 or 3 people will see this one and my time won't have been wasted. I'll keep trying a little longer. #nature #animals #amazing #wildlife #awesome #ocean
Anyway, I’m glad to know the president is still technically alive so he can watch this tomorrow www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
It’s a little weird to demand people vote for a candidate as a necessary lesser evil three years before you even know if they’re going to be the candidate
Wages of unionized workers are 13% higher than their nonunion counterparts. But unions also set a higher pay standard that all workers enjoy. In high-union-density states, median household income is $12,000 higher than in low-union-density states. This is why unions are vital.
This is, of course, false. The United States exported $83 billion in goods and services to India last year alone.
Sunrise, Monday, September 1st (HAPPY FIRST SAY OF SPRING) from Makorori Headlands, Aotearoa / New Zealand. There’s a little stream here so you get wave sounds AND bubbling creek noises. Ata mārie / Good Morning ☀️
Stunning footage of a rare dark coloured deer, with estimates suggesting they make up less than 1% of all deer.
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
IDF spokesperson: "we are doing everything we can to keep civilians out of harms way" Like dropping 2,000lb bombs on densely crowded refugee camps, killing 15 medics in cold blood, firing 355 bullets into a car to slaughter a family, double tap strikes to murder journalists etc?
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.
A 6.0-magnitude earthquake hit Afghanistan, striking 17 miles from the eastern city of Jalalabad, near the border with Pakistan, at around midnight local time. At least 800 people have been killed and more than 1,300 others injured with the death toll expected to rise.
#CDC directors going back to 1977 tell the truth about #RFKJr: he is endangering the health of every American. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽
Daily Reminder: Social Security is OUR money!
A pilot project aims to use a 13-kilometer breakwater that protects the Port of Los Angeles to harness enough wave energy to power 60,000 U.S. homes.
“Jobs disappear and the markets cheer.” On Labor Day 30 years ago, I issued a warning the growing divide between workers and the super-rich. Watch. youtu.be/8rW1kkAV-gw
FEDERAL AGENTS TAKE NOTE… It’s not just Chicago standing strong. Other blue cities and governors are ready to unite against Trump’s federal invasion. I’m not an attorney, but this point seems huge: if federal agents break state or city laws, they can prosecuted. And Trump cannot pardon them.
Do we really think Jim Jordan wants justice for the victims?
He put chalk on his shoes then walked on the Pulse Memorial crosswalk. Police arrested him. But the court said they had no cause and he was released. The man arrested is now considering suing the state of Florida citing first amendment right violations.
Unafraid to speak truth to power, President of the American Academy of Pediatrics Dr. Susan Kressly joins @vinguptamd.bsky.social on Meidas Health for a powerful discussion on truth, conviction, and her deep commitment to ensuring optimal childhood health for the nation amid chaos at the CDC.
From the WH pool this morning: Trump left for an “unannounced location” at 9:27 a.m. His motorcade then drove to his golf club in Virginia, arriving at 10:02 a.m. “There was one person in a car who gave the motorcade the middle finger as it drove by,” the pool report states.
Trump isn’t just axing the Constitution. He’s axing something we all love. Watch. https://youtu.be/HS7IJaB5NDc?feature=shared
An upcoming news conference with victims of Jeffrey Epstein could be “explosive,” one of the congressmen pushing for full release of the files on Epstein predicts. Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna said the victims’ accounts will force lawmakers to vote on a bill requiring DOJ to release its files.
The Trump regime wants us to forget that the Kent State massacre happened — that pitting the National Guard against American citizens is a recipe for disaster.
Id heard that Cantor Fitzgerald, the Wall Street firm formerly run by Commerce Secy Lutnick and now run by his sons is one of the big buyers of these refund rights. Turns out it’s already public back in July when they were buying them at 20 to 30 cents on the dollar. www.wired.com/story/cantor...
Meanwhile in Russia: Vladimir Solovyov and Margarita Simonyan discussed Trump's health and America's diminishing global standing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezOy...
As long as donOLD likes your lies, you are a great person.
Fifty-one of the 85 Federalist papers were written by a guy born in Nevis.
DESCRIPTION: self-described alpha male, wearing body armor, assault rifle, and wraparound sunglasses because he’s “afraid of nothing.”
These are being circulated in LA and possibly around the state. Obv a RW op and recognized as such by many at this point but we have work to do. Just for your awareness, esp if you plan to help to pass the CA ballot measure.
This is the kind of thing you post at 6:54 if you might be dead.
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.
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Ghislaine Maxwell's deposition was not under oath. She was not video taped, which is very unusual for a deposition. And there are many cuts where they stopped the audio tapes so lawyers could confer with her off-the-record. None of that stuff is the way you do a deposition.
California stepping up.
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?
Another dispatch from the “hellhole” of Chicago.
They stand for nothing.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2twM...
Blue states should team up on purchasing, protocols, distribution
Robert Mueller was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 2021. We’re just learning about it now because he was asked to testify in the Epstein matter and won’t be able to. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
If we don’t stand up for these victims, who will ?
Can the media STOP referring to Jeffrey Epstein as a “financier”? The money he made came from SEX TRAFFICKING MINORS, RAPING CHILDREN, and BLACKMAIL. He was NOT a financier. I’ve seen at least five stories from three outlets refer to him this way in the past week. This is the latest from the Times:
Oh, Andy Borowitz. What a gem you are.
