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Why do I blame Bill Cassidy for the destruction of the CDC and the NIH? Because he is a physician. He knew or should have known the danger that Kennedy poses to the U.S. and the globe. Kennedy has never hidden what he is—a predator, a fraud, an anti-science hack, and a gargantuan narcissist.
Dump him in the ocean, next to bin Laden.
This is not (merely) the ranting of a fevered extremist. This is the man who has the ear of the President of the United States. And we are seeing the consequences rolled out on a daily basis. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
Why do I feel like no matter how well the parade turned out, he'd still be doing this?
The Florida government has signed contracts with at least $245 million of taxpayers' money for this this short-lived un-American photo-op cruelty.
I can't stop thinking about this photo. How dare Republicans call themselves “pro-life” when this is what their policies do.
I hope the DNC is paying attention to the overwhelmingly positive response Pritzker is getting from this.
Dem Govs and Health Secretaries need to organize a ferocious campaign of resistance to what Kennedy is doing to their constituents.
GRAND JURY NULLIFICATION! Prosecutors Fail to Secure Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
The prolonged public torturing of a single man because the state cannot admit to its errors is not something that occurs in a free country
Pritzker is absolutely right.
I wonder how long it will be before they start fabricating the evidence they need. My guess is a month, tops.
This is especially troubling given that final approval was expected by many for COVID19 vaccines last week, and it did not come. I’m devastating that the Republican Party would rather watch people die than remove Kennedy from office.
Donate to your local food banks and shelters if you can. The amount of funding they typically rely upon is probably going into putting children in cages or a second gilded ballroom. www.cbsnews.com/news/usda-ca...
The safety of the people of Illinois is always my top priority. There is no emergency that warrants the President of the United States federalizing the Illinois National Guard, deploying the National Guard from other states, or sending active duty military within our own borders.
DEMOCRATS: 1. THE WAY TO MOVE PUBLIC OPINION IS TO ATTRACT ATTENTION 2. THE WAY OT ATTRACT ATTENTION IS TO AMPLIFY GENUINE CONFLICT AND REAL CRISIS 3. THE MILITARY OCCUPATION OF WASHINGTON, D.C. IS A GENUINE CONFLICT AND A REAL CRISIS
The American Taliban
I’ll die laughing if the Cracker Barrel logo ends up saving the Republic.
"The Trump administration’s memo suggests that Christians have been discriminated against in public life, and in government jobs in particular. But this is nonsense," writes Noah Berlatsky. sojo.net/articles/opi...
If you haven’t realized that the Trump regime is focused 24/7 on ending what remains of competitive elections in the US & using false claims about crime to normalize a police state, you aren’t paying attention.
NEW: In March, the Trump administration announced a massive purge of workers at the nation's health agencies. We asked them how many workers were laid off, pushed out or left. They refused to give us numbers. So we conducted our own analysis... 🧵 projects.propublica.org/federal-heal...
A week and a half ago, a shooter emptied hundreds of bullets into a federal building
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
"Remake the central bank" is today's euphemistic normalization of the white nationalist authoritarianism
“Sorry, if Putin really prayed for Trump’s life, it is because he knows that no other American president could possibly be manipulated as easily as Trump has been. Putin is not and never has been looking for “peace” with Ukraine.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/o...
The whole power structure from Trump and Noem on down that isn’t firing this Nazi is also responsible. The US newspapers and tv stations that are treating it as a nonstory are responsible too.
Once again, Trump ‘jokes’ about staying on in office beyond 2028 and canceling the next elections. But it’s just a joke, right? He’s just trolling us? Ok.
This.
“These issues are all too serious to Ukraine and the Europeans to be left to the whims of an ignorant 79-year-old narcissist who seeks peace mainly because he wants to win a big prize and finally get the respect that has (rightly) eluded him all his life.”
Yeah, this is a highly unusual all-hands-on-deck meeting that wouldn’t be happening if Alaska was productive. 5 European leaders, the head of NATO and the head of the EU don’t just drop everything and fly to DC. H/T: @radiofreetom.bsky.social
He’s keeping a pretty high profile for a habitual lawbreaker. 🤔
If pundits would like to talk about violence, a terrorist recently shot up the CDC and another assassinated Democratic officials in Minnesota but they sort of let both stories disappear Not as threatening as motorbikes in DC I know but maybe we could circle back?
A major determiner of when and whether Xi Jinping eventually thinks, "OK, *today* is the day it's finally worth the risk of invading Taiwan," is when and whether US cuts Ukraine loose. Surely Marco R "knows" that. And that it would affect "life in America on a daily basis, and around the world."
Watching Rubio flail and twitch on Face The Nation defending Russia and pretending that both sides of the war are morally equivalent is the work of a man desperate to be President when Trump is gone and terrified of offending the pro-Putin MAGA base.
In much of the rest of the world, Putin would have been seized and shackled on landing. There is an international warrant out for the arrest of the war criminal. But Trump rolled out the red carpet open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
This administration’s incompetence is staggering. Future generations should use this as a cautionary tale for why you don’t replace experienced career officials with ideologues and toadies.
It’s actually a member of a 5-man comedy troupe, along with Chico, Harpo, Zeppo, and Gummo.
Assuming they know what the Gestapo is.
No agency insignia at all on their uniforms, so this is likely not DEA or ATF or FBI or Border Patrol. So probably it’s DHS, most likely ICE. And yeah, the comment about “liberal” is really telling. These guys are wildly unprofessional.
Fox News can dish it out, but it sure as shit can’t take it.
“if the U.S. is not willing to use any economic, military, or political tools to help Ukraine, if Trump will not put any diplomatic pressure on Putin or any new sanctions on Russian resources, then the U.S. president’s fond wish to be seen as a peacemaker can be safely ignored.”
This is a direct consequence of the right-wing media’s assault on anyone and everyone outside the conservative ecosystem. How many times have we heard Rush, Tucker, Hannity, Glenn Beck, or O’Reilly basically say, “Liberals are ruining America”?
‘Stab in the back’: Kyiv reels as Trump embraces Putin’s terms on.ft.com/41EZq0c
Subway sandwich guy has been released on his own recognizance. His attorney argued the felony charge was excessive, and the judge agreed. Oh, and he’s a USAF veteran. www.wusa9.com/article/news...
The president the United States using armed, masked paramilitaries to intimidate a political rival.
For being a former MMA fighter, Markwayne is kind of gutless.
Hoagie assault guy, if convicted, will be punished more strongly than J6 folks who beat police officers with poles and other objects and are now walking free (and probably joining CBP)
same guy lmao
The 6% who picked a wildly wrong answer…just, how? 😮🤦♂️
"Straight out of the Twilight Zone." Rep. Jimmy Gomez explains why the conditions he witnessed at an ICE facility in downtown Los Angeles felt staged after months of being denied entry to conduct an oversight visit. "That's what we knew would happen if we gave them notice."
Issue-specific targeted checkpoints like DUI checkpoints can be constitutional, but a generalized roust-everyone-for-anything checkpoints are definitely not. There may be an exception for a special purpose to help a career sex pest and rapist evade attention to his connection to a serial pedophile.
Dolly Parton has sent my daughter a new book every month for years as she does for thousands of children. She help fund the development of the Covid vaccine. She’s not a billionaire. I think as non wealthy people it’s hard to even imagine how much billionaires *could* be doing with their money.
This might be Trump’s worst deal ever, and that takes some doing.
RFK Jr isn’t just one of the most dangerous men in America, he’s doing harm worldwide. He’s pressuring a medical journal to retract a Danish study which found no harm from aluminum in vaccines. He wants to restrict vaccine access worldwide to further his “wellness” grift.
A Democratic Party with any spirit would stage a press conference every single day to present Donald Trump with one sarcastic award after another. The Dennis Hastert Award for Enabling Pedophilia The Richard Nixon Memorial Trophy for Lawlessness The Blue Ribbon for Setting a Record Federal Deficit
Right-wing US news channel Fox News sparked a controversial debate after it aired a TV segment alleging that Dublin is one of the most dangerous cities in Europe, while also implying that crime and migration are linked. #EuroVerify
This will keep happening to non-trans girls and women who aren't perceived as sufficiently feminine to fucking weirdos.
They go fast when they want to go fast and slow when they want to go to slow and the decision is *always* an ideological one.
Just when I managed to forget she ever existed. . .you are a bad person, Charlotte. 😝
You know what other law gets a lot of flack for supposedly hindering public safety efforts? The 4th Amendment.
"The law gets in the way of doing my job" is every crooked cop's rationale. Shame on you for giving Pirro a platform, knowing full well what she's insinuating.
I contend that these extremists' "faith" in God is more of a compulsion to hate and persecute the people they've been brainwashed into thinking that God hates.
Same-sex marriages have zero effect on religious extremists. A same-sex married couple doesn't prevent your relationship with God or with Christ or your fidelity to Christ's teachings. So, I'm left concluding that your faith in God is very fragile and weak in the first place.
That's not good.
I think the unofficial term would be "recon by fire".
Dang. I had high hopes for that show.
Slightly diminish a band: Squirt Guns 'n' Roses
They recovered over 180 bullet shells at the CDC. Debris from shattered glass is still being cleaned up. I am completely stunned at how quickly the news cycle has moved on. This was an act of terrorism targeting public health experts, and the response seems to be a collective shrug.
Not a distraction. It's the plan. WaPo today: "The Trump administration is evaluating plans that would establish a 'Domestic Civil Disturbance Quick Reaction Force' composed of hundreds of National Guard troops tasked with rapidly deploying into American cities facing protests or other unrest."
the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.
Raskin: In any event, if he really cared about public safety in DC… he would not have pardoned 1600 insurrectionists and violent cop beaters on his first day in office.
Don’t let this die. Keep elevating this.
And yet, more than one ammosexual is blowing a gasket right now, shrieking about "tHe tYraNniCaL gOveRnMenT!"
He's already got a reason (flimsy pretext) to "need to" ready, and is itching to use it.
This is one of the biggest failures of legacy media to date. And considering how often and how badly it has failed us, that's saying something.
Moving backwards.
Thanks to RFKJ’s rhetoric, CDC staff got our “shots” early this year. Dark humor aside, live posting our way through this domestic terrorism event at a Federal agency was scary. 180 bullets, an officer lost his life, and workers are traumatized. Why the fu** isn’t this getting more attention?
D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton has words: “It does not escape me that the president is calling in the [DC National Guard] on the pretext of a surge in crime that the numbers do not support while he was nowhere to be found for hours on Jan. 6, 2021" as D.C. officials asked him to send in the Guard.
Trump's attempt to militarize and federalize D.C. is an incredibly dangerous acceleration of his fascist takeover of the nation AND It's clear he's pursuing it to distract from the Epstein Files His craven personal self-preservation is driving this escalation and that makes it all the scarier.
None of this is based on actual crime statistics, btw. It’s based on Trump’s brain calcifying in the late 1980s and his deeply ingrained racism.
There’s such a constant stream of bad that it almost gets normalized, but there are still things that stop you dead in your tracks.
Short 🧵
A teenage 4channer was beat up by two 15 year olds in DC, which was spotted and quickly stopped by nearby police. He told his friends, the richest man in the world and the Vice President of the United States, that he was pummeled by a dozen adult Romanians. A week later, Trump federalized DC police.
I wonder if the WH Press Pool will finally push back when Trump describes the entire United States as a violent hellscape that needs an iron fist, the way he's doing with Washington DC.
Understatement of the year.
BREAKING via AP Australia will recognize a Palestinian state, the Prime Minister says. Australia's decision to recognize a Palestinian state will be formalized at the United Nations in September. Australia joins France, Britain, and Canada in announcing plans to recognize a Palestinian state.
Remember when Republicans thought free enterprise was a good idea? www.wsj.com/economy/the-...
ICE looted their restaurant and tried to break into the safe. News chopper footage caught them backing their cars up to the door and carrying out cases of food.
Trump sending troops into DC was one of the reasons we have Hegseth, a man without spine or judgment or character of any sort, as SecDef.
No one wants to hear this, but it’s true. Either we can value education — not for a select few but for anyone willing to put in the effort — and provide the requisite resources, or we can watch it become a pursuit available only to an elite minority, with everyone else getting a cheap facsimile
There hasn't been a better time for progressive policies since Hoover left office.
Expanding and reforming SCOTUS Passing a newer, stronger version of the Voting Rights Act Purging the government of any MAGA influence
Where are the hard-working Americans who screamed, “They’re stealing our jobs”? You’re getting your wish. Immigrant workers aren’t showing up, and farm owners are hiring.
Sorry, let me put this more succinctly— We sort through RFK Jr.'s dangerous, deadly bullshit; please read: