Flooding “blue” cities with soldiers on the pretext of fighting crime would be an unprecedented abuse of power that would violate states’ rights and threaten our most fundamental liberties. And it is illegal. bit.ly/4m6TG77
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Flooding “blue” cities with soldiers on the pretext of fighting crime would be an unprecedented abuse of power that would violate states’ rights and threaten our most fundamental liberties. And it is illegal. bit.ly/4m6TG77
When your HHS secretary’s whole deal is that people who get sick caused it themselves and should probably just die, any medical issue is somewhat of a PR pickle.
Being pro-drowning of children seems like a real are-we-the-baddies moment www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Huge.
There are no emergencies. Only a power grab. And narcissism. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Nine former CDC directors basically said RFK Jr is a threat to public health.
CHICAGO…
LOL
"She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it. She was not protecting lives at a gate in Iraq; she was forcing her way through windows in the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power." New from @markhertling.bsky.social:
I'm dying 🤣🤣🤣
all federal law enforcement of all kinds — from fbi to dea to hsi to irs to ice to diplomatic security to everything else — deprofessionalized and combined into a single amorphous and untrained federal “police” force for use in the streets. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
The techbro takeover of the US continues: while CDC employees "clap out" their principled leaders who resigned, Trump swears in a 2-decade Peter Thiel advisor to lead CDC. Thiel's Palantir already has all your data. He controls your Vice President. Now he controls your public health too. 1/
He's a perfect stereotype of american politicians or honestly (from european perspective) american culture as a whole. A complete facade of a personality, always ensures his own benefit at every opportunity, takes everything as granted and at its face value. He's like a caricature from an anime.
huh! no way this could have implications for us though, right? doi.org/10.1080/2162...
Dr. Dmitri Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC says that RFKJr said he believes that Avian flu should be allowed to "burn through" the chickens and then children and others, so we can propagate a "stronger species". RFKJr believes in eugenics. RFKJr needs to resign or be fired.
There is no possible legitimate reason to do this. It’s what despots do. It’s petty. It’s dangerous. It’s unAmerican. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
There is no legitimate reason to do this, or to have done it to Fauci or Bolton. It tells you everything, in case you have not been listening.
NEW: More than two decades after victims and families of the 9/11 attacks began trying to hold the Saudi government responsible for aiding the Qaida terrorists who carried out the plot, a judge has ruled that a lawsuit against the kingdom can go to trial.
Hi, immunologist here: (a scientist who studies immune & inflammatory processes) RFK Jr is talking absolute bullshit when he says he can “see in kids faces that they have inflammation” That’s NOT how immunology works. He is an anti-science profiteer. Start calling him such.
Gun violence is the number one cause of death of children and teens in America. Not food dyes. Not seed oils. Not vaccines. What is the Trump administration and RFK Jr. going to do about it? #MakeAmericaHealthyAgain
This is how eugenicists talk and is an attitude which underpins a not insignificant number of history’s worst atrocities.
Just in case you forgot…
Here he goes.
A couple of months ago, the Navy dishonored civil rights hero Harvey Milk by removing his name from a ship. Now, the Air Force is dishonoring itself by celebrating a domestic terrorist called Ashli Babbitt.
I cannot possibly explain fully what incredibly dark, dangerous, and cynical sh*t this is — literally using the playbook of our enemies against a steadfast ally FOR ABSOLUTELY NO REASON except making b-reel propaganda I’m definitely going to need some more detail on the who, the how, & the funding
I had serious doubts about CDC Director Monarez’s willingness to stand up against RFK Jr.’s personal mission to destroy public health in America—I’m glad that I was wrong. If there are any adults left in the White House: we cannot let RFK Jr. burn what's left of CDC. FIRE HIM.
Republicans talk a good game about mental health. But when it comes down to it, this is the type of shit they pull when they’re in power 👇
What did Putin think of the Alaska summit? Well, he just sent drones and missiles to hit an apartment building, a shopping mall and the headquarters of the European Union in Kyiv. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
Why do we still allow people with serious mental illness to buy guns? Because the first law Republicans passed under Trump in 2017, made it easier. There were over 4,000 mass shootings between 2017-2024, and this country elected him again. If that’s not proof America is sick, I don’t know what is.
Mark this day as the death of expertise at the CDC. All we have between us and the next pandemic are a bunch of horse paste eating conspiracy loons.
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Saying you need an AR-15 to hunt is like saying you need dynamite to fish. Stop the nonsense.
#NIH is hanging by a thread. The #CDC has been decimated. #RFK Jr. and Russell #Vought are psychopaths--I don't say this frivolously--they are cold, calculating, inflicting violence on millions through public policy. It is where we are right now. These men are not normal. 1/
Who in TF would take their child to a politician when they're sick? – let alone one who was addicted to heroin, who has a self-professed nematode in his brain, has a dead animal fetish, and who emotionally tortured his wife? RFKjr is a profound danger to the America. Get him out of the HHS. Now.
DJT: “I have the right to do anything I want to do. I’m the President of the United States.” This would have been considered a pretty shocking statement under any other circumstances.
Dr. Demetre, in his resignation from the CDC, said this: “I have never experienced such radical non-transparency, nor have I seen such unskilled manipulation of data to achieve a political end rather than the good of the American people”. It is an outrage that RFK Jr. remains as head of HHS.
There aren't many stories that prompt gasps at our editors' daily budget meeting. But this was one.
AMERICA: “It’s a mental health issue.” REST OF THE WORLD: “We have those. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA: “It’s video games.” WORLD: “We have those too. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA B: “It’s cause they took Jesus out of the classroom.” WORLD: “God, you’re stupid.”
It's time to remove Robert F. Kennedy Jr from government before he kills us all
DEMOCRATS: EVERYONE WILL AGREE WITH YOU THAT THIS IS DUMB AND BAD. BUT YOU HAVE TO TELL PEOPLE IT HAPPENED.
This is painful to watch. Felon Trump has the National Guard picking up trash in D.C. Because there isn’t enough crime to keep them busy?
My God is right Lorie. But all I can truly say is, just wait. It’ll happen again. And again. And again. As it has in this country, that is so in love with the gun, they will allow their children to be targets. Because gun control is to strip the adults of their god given rights to bear arms.
#ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #Pinks Ask yourself why the GOP is going after the abortion pill, mifepristone for so-called safety reasons when over 5M people in the US have used it since its FDA approval over 21 yrs ago. It’s their backdoor to a nationwide abortion ban & a way to control women.
Words cannot adequately describe what a colossal disappointment our mainstream media has been during our slow descent into authoritarianism.
You are living through the unthinkable: the president of the United States using the military to seize domestic power. The greatest crisis of executive power in American history, at the hands of the worst, most corrupt, and most unfit president in American history.
Israel double tap strike. It murders journalists then sends a drone in to kill the paramedics trying to retrieve their bodies. A war crime, broadcast live and sponsored by the US and Europe. 🚨Boycott EVERY news channel that doesn’t show this footage today🚨
This is an incredibly important article. This isn't a joke. And isn't a president "challenging norms". This is a full blown assault on our Democracy and we have already slid far down into the dictatorial hole. Please read this if you can, and do whatever you can, even if small, to resist.
Well, this has certainly escalated quickly. National Guard units patrolling the nation’s capital under Trump’s orders are now carrying firearms. The moment our military turns its weapons on American citizens will mark a point of no return.
Garcia: What we got was complete bullshit. We demanded the full Epstein files, and that’s not what was sent over. The White House cover-up clearly continues. What they sent us was 33,000 pages of documents that have already been in the public domain.
I’ve heard military law experts advise, if you are given an illegal command as a soldier, do not blindly obey. Call your attorney. Obeying an illegal command can result in a court martial.
Walz says Harris "would have been a fantastic president... we wouldn't wake up every day to a bunch of shit on TV. We would wake up to an adult w/ compassion & dignity doing the work, not a manchild crying about whatever is wrong with him. May his fat ankles find something today. Petty as hell."
National Guard troops in DC will be armed from this evening, ABC reports. And the Pentagon confirmed plans are being drawn up for the deployment of the National Guard in Chicago.
🚨 Mayor Wu faces criminal charges because she is decent. We all know what ⏰ it is. Of course you are going after a female POC first. She is a “suspicious person” in 2025.
Looking for a reason not to visit Shitstainastan? The rule of law is a sick joke.
Meanwhile "eating in public" is a federal offense worthy of public beating by federal officers on the other side of the city. bsky.app/profile/iwil...
He’s wanted to declare martial law from day one. Bypass all checks and rule as a tyrant. Many have speculated how he’d do it. Now his gambit is clear. DC was a test. He’s using manufactured crime stats to send troops into blue states & cities. This is not a drill. Democracy is at defcon 1.
We’re 7 months in, and “Pentagon plans military deployment in Chicago” is a headline in the Washington Post. And because it’s city number three, we’re already numbing to it. If you read this about any other democracy in the world, you’d conclude that it was well on the road to a dictatorship.
Yes, President Trump's tariffs will make your prescription medications more expensive. All the more reason to ditch them for the supplements—collagen, tallow, antler powder, and other such byproducts—that are produced tariff-free in America's slaughterhouses. by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein could not have sold women and girls for sex without wealthy men buying women and girls for sex. I feel like more people should mention that.
“whatever else republican house speaker mike johnson (and the congressional republicans who serve under him) ever do in this life, this headline will last forever and ever, for their whole blessed lives. (gift link, no paywall)” @maddow.msnbc.com bsky.app/profile/madd... bsky.app/profile/madd...
One of the reasons Democrats need to get loud about things like this now is we need to start making the case for prosecutions now. You want to do it so people understand these crimes are happening now and aren’t something you magically find only when you’re in power.
Ro Khanna on the Epstein Files: “Only 3% of the documents that were given to us were new. 97% were already in the public domain. Less than 1% of the Epstein Files have actually been released. They’re stonewalling and not releasing things.” ht: @marcofoster.bsky.social
NBC News confirms: Pete Hegseth has authorized the approximately 2,000 National Guard troops in D.C. to be armed. @msnbc.com
“When the students poured into Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government almost blew it,” Trump said. “Then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength. That shows you the power of strength..." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
There's plainly a major escalation underway as we speak: newrepublic.com/article/1994...
Yes. Collapsing all fed law enforcement into one undifferentiated, untrained, masked force. "Agents said they worried the changes would transform the FBI from an investigative agency focused on national security into something more akin to a federal police force..." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/u...
The display of asskissing is unparalleled in the history of my universe. How empty and weak does a person have to be to require this sort of display? How weak does a person have to be to indulge him? Thank you South Park for pushing back! #BTG #Pinks #RESIST #SouthPark youtu.be/sEJpQQVJecI?...
The Metro Police and federal agents were caught by a group of women in Washington D.C. breaking into their car and searching through it. When the women asked what they were doing, without a warrant, the officers walk around without an explanation. Those officers got aggressive with the women. 🤬
I for one am concerned.
The size of Pete Hegseth’s security detail is insane. Grown to 400+ agents since January. They’re pulled from the Army’s Criminal Investigation Division, which should be investigating crimes in the ranks. Instead, they’re stuck guarding his ex-wives, multiple kids, and multiple properties.
Vance = insufferable little prick
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Ossoff: "There is at some point is going to be a reckoning for all of this. These folks who are working at these private prison companies who are on Kristi Noem's staff right now, they are at some point going to have to testify under oath about what is happening in the facilities they're running."
The judge points out that the 76 pages of grand jury testimony are a drop in the well compared to the 100,000 documents the government could release.
Boston’s @mayorwu.boston.gov speaks her powerful truth from her soul. She has defended all of us from the heinous Trump administration’s threats. In MA, we have leaders like Michelle Wu who will not back down. I hope many more city & state leaders will stand up to Trump’s tyranny. Rise Up
Ok , so they would be OK with a predominantly, black male legislature, imprisoning a white woman because she won’t allow policeman to follow her everywhere she goes. How is this not false imprisonment? Why isn’t this on every newscast every minute?
A beatdown in broad daylight was caught on video: Masked men in tactical vests grappled, tased, and piled onto a delivery worker. Pinning the worker face down on the pavement, agents tased him again and punched him repeatedly in the head.
Nancy Mace: "In my time in Congress, I actually helped secure the largest infrastructure grant in state history, in South Carolina history. So I've worked very hard on the policies that matter to voters here." (Mace is taking credit for legislation she voted against!)
“Black woman held against her will by small cabal of racist white men who are demanding she either agree to 24/7 police surveillance, or stay locked up in the chamber.” Fix your fucking headlines. #MessWithTexas #Voices4Victory
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu: “Silence in the face of oppression is not an option. The U.S. Attorney General asked for a response by today. So here it is…Stop attacking our cities to hide your administration's failures.”
The wholesale price of vegetables skyrocketed by a whopping 40 PERCENT in July. You can thank Donald Trump’s chaotic tariff policies.
Thank you, Boston Globe. This is how it's done.
Art expresses what words cannot
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Stand firm today, Ukraine. Do not let murderous Putin and his orange minion take a single inch of your home.
The poor man has seen unspeakable horrors done to his people and is living through daily trauma...and the US admin/press focuses on and jokes about his fucking clothes jfc.
How is it possible that law enforcement need not identify themselves? What’s to stop any group of thugs from playing dress up and kidnapping people
This is what we are now? We sneak up on people and attack them? This is democracy? Every day I worry about the status of our freedom - anyone's freedom, Why do we let this man destroy our country?
And, this — "Trump's executive order federalizing local police forces" — wording is representative of the awful way almost all media has been describing this. But, that is not what has happened, as DOJ acknowledged in court on Friday.
Trump is the ‘New Great Appeaser’ Neville Chamberlin promised “Peace in our time” by allowing Hitler to seize The Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia in 1938 Trump promises “peace in Ukraine” by giving Putin the Donbas 1938 Munich Agreement led to WW2. Alaska may do the same #ProudBlue
