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Is there still anyone with any doubts? Seriously? Are any of them capable of standing up for the truth any more? For basic decency? Capable of standing up to Trump, who is only a weak, small man in a position of power. NOT a powerful man. It's a dangerous combination. #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
'AI Death Panels': Trump Pilot Program Seeks to Bring 'Very Worst' FOR-PROFIT Insurance Practices to Medicare AI firms to get big incentives to maximize the DENIAL of claims for Medicare patients. Pls share on Bluesky & beyond! Tons of folks follow no news. www.commondreams.org/news/trump-a...
To think he is President of the United States. Disgraceful & sick to say the least.
Lol
It’s important for states like Washington to step up to protect public health, but diseases don't recognize borders. We still need a functioning and trustworthy federal health department—for that to happen, RFK Jr. must be fired immediately.
i cannot overstate how extraordinary it is for federal civil servants to do this
Every Democrat a choice. Either face our dire reality for what it is and rise to the occasion, or keep doing what you’re doing and hope (in vain) things will return to normal. Jeffries appears to be languishing in the latter. The days of normal are long gone.
If Trump had any real interest in addressing crime, his regime would work with law enforcement & Chicago leadership. Instead, he talks about “going in,” like he’s prepping a military invasion. This is nuts. This is dangerous. And it’s pitting states against states, echoing America’s deadliest war.
Totally bonkers.
So this entire thing was to punish Colorado. We are no longer the “United” States of America. Only MAGA states get representation
The tolerance for lies is killing our country. Trump just called Chicago “the most dangerous city in the world, by far.” But its homicide rate isn’t even in the U.S. Top 20. Will major media call out the lie – and call it “a lie” – or will they talk about his “tenuous relationship with the truth”?
Under Dr. Oz, Medicare is launching a pilot program that will use AI to determine whether patients would be covered for certain procedures. Companies running the program will be paid a share of the savings from rejecting claims. Who in their right mind voted for this? No one.
Kennedy must be removed from office. He has already caused a catastrophe at HHS and the CDC. I strongly suspect that he is about to use data manipulated by unscrupulous and unqualified individuals to attempt to falsely show that vaccines are in some way a net harm. He simply must be stopped.
Everything I've seen about Democrats' version of Project 2029 is far too modest and weak-kneed. Democrats need to look at the precedents Trump is setting (and shattering) and figure out how a progressive can maximally wield the power that this administration is concentrating in the executive branch.
Powerful piece by @markhertling.bsky.social. “I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.” www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
Nope
Bless her heart. To be so dumb & yet so sure of herself.
RFK Jr must be fired. He’s too deranged and full of himself to leave voluntarily. So it’s vital to convince Trump that keeping Kennedy around drains his own political power and thus his personal wealth by so visibly endangering the health of everyone in the U.S. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
That Trump and Trumpism are fascist doesn’t explain the sheer vandalism of unleashing mass murdering mayhem via RFK to replace medical/scientific institutions of immense value and prestige with medieval peasant superstitions. That is a criminal madness facilitated by but above and beyond fascism.
JD Vance: “I don’t believe Trump” will improve the lives of his voters. { ht: @patriottakes.bsky.social }
Bill Cassidy Senator Louisiana Call or write WASHINGTON, DC 455 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington, D.C. 20510 Phone: (202) 224-5824 Hours: M-F9-5:30pm www.cassidy.senate.gov
Welch: As someone who lives in a red state, let me just tell you what MAGA supermajorities get you. We're 50th in education. The worst in the whole country for women to live. We're poorer, worst health care. And if you look at the bottom ten states, they are all MAGA supermajorities.
What a joke.
FLAG: Missouri's governor just called a special session of the state legislature to pass a gerrymandered congressional map in favor of Republicans. Just like what Greg Abbott did in Texas.
What a disaster!
My God, these people are racist & flat out evil, although am sure they identify as Christian.
Sounds fishy & totally partisan. Also, waste of tax payer money.
If shipping out people to concentration camps and taking over train stations doesn't sound familiar to you, please brush up on the history of fascist Germany.
I have a column on this going up in the morning, but I'm telling you folks, there's an immediate need for people to light up lawmakers' phones and clang pots and pans and protest and do whatever the hell can be done to get RFK Jr. booted, or at least constrained. This is a five-alarm fire.
Jennings is so gd nauseating. Like fingernails on a chalkboard.
Welch: Everybody's missing the point here. The point is, he's doing this on purpose. He's priming the public to get accustomed to having the military in the streets
Exactly. Hannity is an idiot.
He is such a moron.
Where is the opposition to this stuff? What the hell is wrong with everyone that they think this is ok?
It’s happening
Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.
It’s a slap in the face to every veteran who gave their life for this Country defending Democracy & the Constitution. She wanted to overthrow the Government. Disgusting.
“.. democracy often erodes slowly at first .. But with each concession, autocrats become bolder.. and reversal becomes harder. Responses that, early on, can feel pragmatic—waiting it out, remaining silent, cutting a deal—only embolden ..” @dziblatt.bsky.social www.foreignaffairs.com/germany/hitl...
Plus Edmond Sub stack BREAKING: Trump quietly appointed Heather Honey, who tried to help him overthrow the 2020 election, to oversee our election infrastructure. 😳 The media is SILENT. We need them to wake up, demand they watch her every move. You know what to do. 26 is coming vote them all out
RFK Jr is driving this country towards an almost certain public health disaster. If Democrats can’t stop it, at the very least they can get it on the record now that they wanted him gone and the GOP wanted him kept in. Underline how they own the disasters to come. It’s Politics 101.
New, from me: America is no longer a functioning democracy. It is a competitive authoritarian system, hurtling rapidly toward authoritarianism. This was a hard piece to write but we can't move forward if we don’t acknowledge where we are. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...
With NYT now blocking games without a subscription means I won’t waste so much time in the morning. Never going to subscribe.
Sen. Patty Murray is calling for RFK Jr. to be fired. "We cannot let RFK Jr. burn what's left of the CDC and our other critical health agencies to the ground—he must be fired." "I hope my Republican colleagues who have come to regret their vote to confirm RFK Jr. will join me."
Literally, the government is helping burn America to the ground.
Where is Senator Bill Cassidy, the chair of the Senate Health Committee with responsibility for oversight? The man who told us he voted to confirm Kennedy because of "assurances." The public and the press should not give him a moment's rest. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
The price of eggs? Wait until you see your ACA premiums. Got cancer? The hope for new cures has been dashed. If H5N1 develops mutations that confer easy human-to-human transmission? Fuggedaboudit. 7/
He is a danger to society.
This. And that democracy matters.
You’re right, should have added (?) after LE. Who knows who they are.
In a functional government, this would be a five alarm fire where Congress calls in Kennedy and asks him what the fuck is going on
In the current American world we will die by guns or disease.
So sad. School shooter or ICE ? What are kids supposed to make of all this? Shot at one day, while another day armed LE are ready to grab their parents & ship them to Uganda. What messed up country.
The stock market is the only thing in America that is not in a free fall.Please make it make sense.
America, the Country where very young kids are shot at sitting in church while the National Guard is picking up trash in DC. Something is seriously wrong with this picture.
Heard it on the radio & it choked me up. A 10 yr old shot at in church explaining a shooting. My God, how deaf are our leaders ? Absolutely heartbreaking.
We live in a very sick society. Human life means nothing to a vast number of people.
Too bad the media can’t say nor print that word.
What a horrible thing to say to grieving parents. Every R lacks empathy & sympathy.
"Almost every day there’s a scandal that just skates by that in any other moment of presidential history would launch endless follow-up stories, congressional investigations, and sink an administration. I want to zero in on just two scandals from this week — and it’s only Wednesday morning! "
Undermining the Fed to get lower rates now is like ripping the batteries out of your smoke alarm because it’s beeping. It’s quiet for a bit. Then your house burns down. Credibility anchors expectations; expectations anchor inflation.
We are almost there, as frightening as it is.
We are in a whole different country now & it is not a better one.
All you need to see to know we are now a police state under a fascist government. No sugar coating, no politeness, no careful phrasing. This is fascism. Trump is ruling by decree. Congress has not even dared challenge his silly Trump Import Taxes, he has no right to levy as there is no emergency.
The republicans mean this...every gesture, every word. They intend the end of American democracy. This is not a drill.
Exactly!
I long for the days we had a President who didn’t tweet lies, slander & gibberish every waking hour.
More clowns than Ringling Brothers Circus.
How do they live with themselves? Nauseating talk.
Yes Chef!
Was hoping he was better than this.
This is going too far over the line.
Where are these cities she speaks of? The FBI should be arresting these terrorists she fears instead of innocent citizens.
I encourage you to visit Aaron Rupar’s page today @atrupar.com and read his reporting on F47’s cabinet meeting. If the craziness in that meeting doesn’t scare the heck out of you nothing will. We are in serious trouble.
No one is saying that. He is insane.
Hottest by denying climate change?
This makes me so sick.
Donald Trump is trying to assume total and complete control over the American economy. That’s what the tariffs are about. That’s what seizing 10% of Intel is about. That’s what firing Lisa Cook is all about.
I am proudly one of the attorneys representing @yaeleisenstat.bsky.social. We will not permit the #securityclearance process or national security to be weaponized by the Trump Administration.
Quite telling that the rest of the world is doing more to fight the fascist fck in the WH than the American people are.
Among all the other things, "The President has screwed things up so badly that the world's other rich countries won't deliver mail to us anymore" really should end it immediately.
Trolling an innocent American citizen about sending him to another country on Twitter from AN OFFICIAL US GOV ACCOUNT straight out of Joseph Goebells ghost playbook" disgusting
TRUMP signed an executive order creating “SPECIALIZED UNITS” within the National Guard to be his PRAETORIAN GUARD 🤬 #FascismIsHere
But there are two sides Democracy-and fascism And the evidence is undeniable Donald Trump and the Republicans are pushing for fascism Military takeover of cities Violating Constitutional rights Dismantling federal agencies Every time the press fails to point it out-they’re helping the fascists
Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her. Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.
CBS already paid the extortion so they weren’t called out. The Mobster will now demand his cut from every entity in the country.
To Uganda, where their prisons are 200+% overcrowded and where diseases including HIV are rampant. This is heinous, abhorrent treatment with the purpose of instilling fear and intimidation, retribution against any who'd stand against them, and the propaganda show of unfettered power.
Still waiting for someone of prominence to admit it was not about eggs.
Trump’s golf outings cost taxpayers millions. Why don’t Republicans cut these trips instead of school lunches?
I must have missed all the Law and Order SVU episodes where they didn't interview the victims and just asked the criminals what happened.
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.
These thugs look like they are in a war zone 🤬
Excuse my language, but he is a f’king disgrace to the Oval Office & the Country.
"The deal could face a challenge from shareholders or others concerned about its legality. The CHIPS Act may not allow the U.S. government to convert grants into equity, lawyers and bankers who have studied the law said."
Democracy, nor America as we know it, will still be standing after this regime has bled it dry, cashed it out, deported innocent people, erased history, cancelled research & education, made health care unaffordable & life in general miserable for everyone.
He is not from Uganda so this is not deportation. It is trafficking. 🤨
Serious question… what gives any president/White House control over what the Smithsonian displays? Why does Trump have the power to suppress discussion of the parts of American history he doesn’t like or agrees with?
That was my thought.
Such bs coming from this regime. All it means is they are guilty of said crime.
LISTEN to this. ➡️ "The Attorney General of the United States is now a rogue actor who has become a political tool of a corrupt President seeking to undermine the constitution of the United States and the rule of law." substack.com/@politicsusa...