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.
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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.
My shirt for tomorrow’s protest. Wearable art.
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Exactly. Keep the pressure on. Trump will not stick with anyone he thinks may be dragging him further down. That was the beginning of his distancing from Elon. Keep the pressure on. RFK must go.
💯%. I've come to accept how morally depraved Donald Trump is. But I'll never get over how blindingly imbecilic he is. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trump did this
Boycott update: Updated the Goya Foods entry to be 10 percent more vicious and added a couple of great alternatives to Goya. open.substack.com/pub/psychope...
Record-breaking levels of corruption
NYT gift article. Letter from 9 former CDC directors: "We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health" www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Blocks and blocks of Chicagoans marching against Trump’s fascism.
One of my favorite chants from Chicago’s Labor Day Rally.”Say it once, say it twice—we will not put up with ice” #laborday #Chicago #NoTrumpTroops
Has anybody thought to walk up to them and say “Why are you here?”?
Good job Murica! 🤡🖕🏻
Photo passed along from a federal employee from inside the Dept of Labor building, where a giant Orwellian image of Trump's face is now draped outside. Big Brother is watching.
Happening Now — Washington DC: Pretty massive rally is forming at 14th and U NW.
PragerU spelled certify wrong on the Oklahoma certificate of completion, because of course they did.
If you enjoy… Weekends Safe working conditions Retirement benefits Paid vacations Breaks at work Sick leave Paid holidays … then you’re part of the labor movement. Happy Labor Day.
NATO should respond
I’m sorry, WHAT?
The first sign of a sociopath is harming or killing animals
Of course RFKjr wanted to torture the fish. Of course.
JFK feeling the same way about RFK Jr as the rest of us.
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Once again, of the laws creating aircraft carrier-sized loopholes for the president to utter the magic words "national emergency" or "national security" & then rule like a King must go. We can have nuanced discussion about re-delegation later but not now. bsky.app/profile/mcop...
It's difficult to rank the magnitude of all the lies that RFK jr has told – they've been numerous, manipulative AF, and deadly – because he's trying to cull Americans, en masse. But the idea that Trump has any empathy is so absolutely manipulative – a dangerous lie. Trump has ZERO empathy. NONE.
Chicago this Labor Day… Thousands fighting for what #WorkersDeserve
I miss normal
U.S citizen temporarily detained by ICE says he regrets voting for Trump "We were brainwashed!"
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...
From @timothysnyder.bsky.social today: open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
600 children. SIX HUNDRED CHILDREN. Jesus Christ this country is absurdly awful. Hopefully this nightmare will be stopped. wapo.st/47SlsjY
✅ Dems have overperformed by an avg. 16 pts across 36 Special Elections so far this year, including *flipping* 3 GOP seats! HELP KEEP IT GOING: 9/02: FL SD-15: LaVon Bracy Davis 9/02: FL HD-40: RaShon Young 9/09: VA-11: James Walkinshaw Donate today! #Blue25 secure.actblue.com/donate/speci...
Kamala Harris would not be secretly trying to deport innocent children to Guatemala if she was our president instead right now.
there’s a special place in hell for drew ensign
Any verifiable sign of him today? Not just a photo, but him speaking in front of a camera?
Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan in D.C. convened an emergency hearing on Sunday and ordered the operation to stop.The court made it clear— >> No child can be removed without proper legal process. >>The government must return the children to shelters, and deportations are suspended until further hearings.
“Mr. Kennedy’s team asked him to ‘change studies that have been settled in the past’ apparently to fit Mr. Kennedy’s anti-vaccine views.” @sanders.senate.gov is right. RFK, Jr. should resign, effective immediately. #vaccine #publichealth www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...
This. They must go. Removing them must become a top Congressional priority or the deaths they cause will be on the hands of every member of Congress...and lest they think there be no consequences, those deaths will be mounting up by the time of next year's election.
JB Pritzker to CBS on Trump deploying troops: "He'd like to stop the elections in 2026 or, frankly, take control of those elections. He'll just claim that there's some problem with an election, and then he's got troops on the ground that can take control if, in fact, he's allowed to do this."
This govt is evil. Deporting 7 & 10-year-olds, some orphans. In the dead of night, the Trump admin tried to deport more than 600 Guatemalan children. Guest: Efrén Olivares, Vice President of Litigation at the National Immigration Law Center, whose team stopped the action. 📺 youtu.be/Pw2v3IYOaGw?...
#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...
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.
New threats from this regime come fast — we have to move just as quickly. Fighting back against schemes like Trump’s map-rigging takes urgent resources. Your donation makes it possible. Please pitch in if you can: secure.actblue.com/d...
NEW: 72 of the 76 Guatemalan children previously boarded onto planes have been returned to ORR custody, per DOJ, with the remaining 4 expected to be returned in the next 15 min. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
As long as Avelo Airlines is part of ICE’s abduction-deportation machine, it should have no business in Maryland. Please end our state’s contract with Avelo now–the contract lets you easily. #AveloOutOfBWI #AveloShutDown #AveloTakedown #GroundICE #StopAveloNow #SayNoToAvelo
I’ve been sent numerous photos the last few days of guards members with rifles, including down by the wharf for jazzfest.
Wow. I want every university counsel who is thinking about cowering before the Trump Administration’s threats, to read this and understand the caliber of attorney that has you shaking in your books. Yet another player in Trump’s army of incompetent thugs. www.propublica.org/article/leo-...
Folks. Please read this. It’s just one page of simple declarations from a 10 year kid from Guatemala who doesn’t want to be sent back there. The US government is trying to do so, on a holiday weekend, and was going to just *do it* until folks started pushing back. 10. Years. Old. WTAFF?
Meanwhile, did you see? A federal judge on Friday allowed the Trump admin and the Oklahoma AG to use his court to subvert democracy through a sham lawsuit manufactured to get rid of a pro-immigrant state law they don’t like without needing to go through the trouble of actually repealing the law.
How the libertarian project in Argentina is going under Javier Milei, with him being pelted by rocks and vegetables by the public after his government was implicated in a bribery scandal.
🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump said in a weekend social media post he plans to issue an executive order to impose voter ID requirements. And he reiterated his desire to ban mail voting. The president lacks the authority to take either step. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Blue states should team up on purchasing, protocols, distribution
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.
“.. with the exception of the pandemic, Black women have never seen such staggering losses in employment.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
I hope people read these stories and are encouraged to take their own action: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/08/la-u...
Pritzker on Trump's authoritarian takeover: "The playbook is the same. It's thwart the media. It's create mayhem that requires military interdiction. These are things that happen throughout history and Donald Trump is just following that playbook."
If only there were a Nobel Prize for crimes against humanity, Trump would be a shoe-in.
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.
JUST IN: DOJ says all children on planes that were supposed to fly to Guatemala today have been unloaded and are being returned to custody of HHS's Office of Refugee Resettlement. Drew Ensign says missed deadline earlier was bc DOJ wasn't aware. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Dictators and fascists always want to bring the intellectuals down, no matter the cost.
Fascism-plus.
Addressing federal judges like you're a sarcastic, surly teenager.
Watch governor of Nebraska become a moral black hole www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6Gqk8pb/
This is the way
It's really sad that we can't trust anything Rudy Giuliani or his spokespeople say about what happened to him last night.
ALL. OF. THIS. We are a *federation*. 50 states, 50 different elections. Very few countries do this & it’s a major bulwark against fuckery he & Bannon et al would or could do nationally
every day i see hundreds of comments of people spinning elaborate scenarios to explain how trump can control everything and all opposition is futile. a) i think a lot of you need to log off and stop following professional doomsayers. b) i think a lot of you are cowards
a bunch of you really believe that trump is the unstoppable god king who can do whatever he declares and it is dumb as hell
how would this work, exactly? let's say jon ossof wins reelection next year. who forces the state of georgia to throw out the ballots? bsky.app/profile/jmb0...
trump can issue as many executive orders as he wants, perhaps coverage should reflect the fact that a lot of these have the legal force of a child's wishlist for santa
there is nothing, for instance, that can trump can say or do that would force the colorado secretary of state to mandate voter ID or restrict mail-in voting
J.B. Pritzker is 100% right. Please listen to him, pay attention, and join us in speaking out against authoritarianism and to protect free and fair elections.
Thou shalt not end vaccines. God will not save you from plague. The Middle Ages should’ve made that very clear.
For me, I think a key question is not just “what sort of government do we have,” but rather, “what sort of country are we?”
He’s providing them with valuable mulching experience though.
MAGA Republicans continue to get burned in their town halls for lying about the Big Brutal Bill being good for Americans. Watch Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-IA) get called out on “higher wages and lower taxes.” The People: “Higher wages? Stop lying!” America is taking back its power and rising! 🔥🔥🔥
From @marisakabas.bsky.social:
Grandparents must lead on vaccines. We remember the dangers of vaccine preventable diseases. Our message- it is crucial that every child be vaccinated following the AAP childhood immunization schedule. @donnagaffney.bsky.social and my op-ed is here: www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/us-v...
Critics Pounce As Murkowski Slams Trump Official She Voted To Confirm
Our White House should be hands-off to this president. He should not be ALLOWED to add a ballroom without taxpayer approval.
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
Our news media are so broken. There's a way to challenge someone in an interview without looking like you're the press secretary for the other side. ABC's Martha Raddatz badly misses the mark. "Why fight with the president?" she asks.
RADDATZ: One of the things they are trying to do in DC with the National Guard is have them back up local law enforcement WES MOORE: They are picking up trash
This guy does a great job nailing the fact that RFK Covid rules means we have to weigh endangering someone who is immune compromised or not seeing them. It is obscene www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6GBXgxK/
This is phenomenal messaging. Hello Democrats? Knock knock, anybody home?
we’re going to get endless bad faith bullshit from now until November but I’m putting my marker down: the CA redistricting is going to pass people are sick and fucking tired of Republicans changing the rules and are done with “when they go low, we go high”
not just that he has no constitutional authority, there isn't even any particular legal or institutional mechanism by which the president can make anyone treat this as anything other than a weird advisory opinion.
EDITORIAL: "Let us hope that the bold stances against Trump by Governor Wes Moore of Maryland and Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago spread as fast as his administration’s intent to impose a military presence in the nation’s major cities."
Good times, good times... www.usatoday.com/story/news/h...
I realize it's been 5 years but how is it no one remembers the early days of the covid pandemic and how scared we were? I was waiting for medical doctors and epidemiologists to do their thing and save us. I welcomed the vaccine after I almost died. Does no one remember how bad it was?!
DHS and DC Police detaining a peaceful, unarmed man sitting on a bench at DC's Malcolm X Park.
FEMA employee on leave describes "culture of fear “ among agency employee
I am not alone in my assessment of John Roberts‼️‼️‼️ thank you @joyannreid.bsky.social ‼️🥰