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Terrorizing the population into submission to sooth a dictators fragile ego.
There is a reason even his family doesn’t like him.
DOGE wasn’t a cost-cutting venture. It was a data mining operation for private interests. Trump opened the gates to the castle from inside for invaders with bad and greedy intent to plunder and exploit.
Epidemiologist Erin McCanlies spent much of the past two decades studying the environmental causes of autism. Under the leadership of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has promised to find a cause for the condition, her entire division was cut.
This is, just based on what we already know, a bigger cover up than anything Biden’s team ever did and there is no sign they have any intention of being transparent. This should be a 5 alarm fire for Jake Tapper.
"3,000 CDC staffers have left since January, with thousands more gone from the FDA and NIH. The expertise drain also hits cyber defense, nuclear safety, weather forecasting and disaster response."😱 Enabled by a complicit GOP Congress that will live in infamy. www.axios.com/2025/08/30/t...
Holy Shit! Our government is trying to kill us.
#ClimateCrisis
For those trivia buffs out there, real spending by foreign tourists in the U.S. has fallen at a 17.4% annual rate since Trump took office apps.bea.gov/iTable/?reqi... At least the national parks that are burning out of control will be less crowded.
We should be able to agree that funding research for pediatric cancer should be prioritized and expanded. Not canceled. Clinical trials that can be the last hope for kids with cancer stopping recruitment due to funding loss is heartbreaking 💔 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
Every time your electricity bill goes up for the next 10 years, it can be traced back to this Administration’s actions. They are making solar and wind power illegal to build in the United States. They are artificially restricting supply while demand is going up.
Trump death is just a distraction from the Epstein files.
The US's ability to be a leader in the renewable energy industry is being dismantled by Trump. Actively making the US less prosperous, less competitive, less sustainable, and more costly. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
Is Trump going to die before Jake Tapper even questions his health?
We’ll know it’s real when Lindsey Graham starts hopping around JD Vance like that little cartoon dog that hops excitedly around the other cartoon dog
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She was going to lose.
Are we really going to let our public health be controlled by someone who is clearly insane? Are all Republicans really alright with that?
Between destroying the CDC and FEMA, underfunding air traffic control and the weather service, increasing air pollution, cutting health care and food assistance, and accelerating the climate crisis, Trump is going to kill millions of us.
someone should put together a "kennedy death count" for everyone who dies of a preventable disease and just plaster it everywhere www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...
Our national parks generated $56 billion in visitor spending and supported 415,000 jobs in 2023. The entire National Park Service budget was just $3.6 billion. That’s some return on investment — so why is Donald Trump taking an axe to our parks?
Avian influenza being a virus that's killed between 50-99% of people who've caught it in outbreaks in other countries, mind you.
They may well act to save Trump from his own stupidity.
Democrats think this will automatically benefit them, but I guarantee Republicans are working hard to figure out how to blame someone else. Democrats need to start actively crafting the narrative now.
"The first wave of grocery-price increases will likely hit this winter. Roberson predicted produce prices could rise 50% to 100% by early next year as inventories clear and new contracts kick in." fortune.com/2025/08/28/t...
shocking
How does Trump get away with saying Cook is unfit for office when Trump has been found guilty of massive and obvious mortgage fraud?
A pocket rescission is an illegal impoundment, not a rescission. It’s a method of not spending money they are required to spend. The Trump admin is choosing to focus on the foreign aid funding, loudly impounding it. But it’s still quietly illegally impounding other things, like cancer research.
Trump is actively making our lives worse.
Trump’s parade cost $30 million.
Aren’t we all!
Reading the new details about what went down at CDC, one thing jumps out at me: In standing up to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Director Monarez has shown the kind of backbone and integrity that often earns public servants a Profile in Courage Award— —awarded by the family of John F. Kennedy.
No sign of Schumer standing up to Trump either.
"RIP to vaccines; long live Lysenkoism, miasma, and black bile." defector.com/rfk-jr-is-ma...
Here's one more livestream
"To even remotely understand what Kennedy is talking about requires one’s brain to be thoroughly bathed in corrosive acid." -From @annamerlan.bsky.social's "The Brain Rot Cabinet"
A new, possibly more deadly, pandemic could start at anytime. Trump is making us making us much less safe while spending billions on fake anti-crime theatrics.
Stop attacking Gavin Newsom people. We need everyone to help stop a dictatorship now. The 2028 election is far, far away and there is no guarantee it will even happen.
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.
All it would take to end this insanity is a handful of Republicans in congress to caucus with Democrats. Unfortunately there is not a handful of Republicans in congress who will stand up for democracy and the rule of law, they are all complicit.
This is very good, but Democrats are not going to change until they start firing all the people that got us into this mess. www.elizabethspiers.com/why-dems-kee...
All it would take to end this insanity is a handful of Republicans in congress to caucus with Democrats. Unfortunately there is not a handful of Republicans in congress who will stand up for democracy and the rule of law, they are all complicit.
KIDNAPPED. LATimes: "L.A. teen is moved to ICE detention center out of state without parents’ knowledge Benjamin Guerrero-Cruz was grabbed by immigration agents while walking his dog in Van Nuys just days before he was set to start his senior year of high school."
What could go wrong?
Now that trump and RFK Jr. have demolished our CDC & fired the scientists, Americans are left without updated Covid guidance. I'm taking mine from Canada's apolitical CDC. Please bookmark & share this link: bit.ly/46aw7Fo
House Democrats could force a vote on impeaching RFK any time they want. Of course it would fail. But do you want to make an issue of it or not?
I'm tired of playing nice. I've been talking to Joe Jacobson from Progressive Action Fund about creating an ad targeting vulnerable members of Congress on cuts to scientific research at NIH and other agencies. I've raise about $30,000 for this but we need $50K. 1/ secure.actblue.com/donate/paf20...
Full resignation letter from Demetre C. Daskalakis, a CDC leader, does not hold back. "The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud."
ICE has absolutely nothing to do with keeping us safe. It makes us much less safe.
After Trump crusaded against public broadcasters and pressured Republicans to slash their funding, rural stations in Alaska and beyond may not have the bandwidth to send emergency alerts. That could be the difference between life and death. By @mmineiro.bsky.social:
Sen Patty Murray (D-WA): “If there are any adults left in the White House, it’s well past time they face reality… 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.”
The Trump Administration is an attack on our economy.
RKF Jr. is a dangerous man who is determined to abuse his authority to act on truly terrifying conspiracy theories and disinformation—leaving us unprepared for the next deadly pandemic and snuffing out potential cures while he’s at it. My full statement.
Our government is doing horrible things in our name.
They should have indicted the sandwich.
“Just as our experiences online are being steadily enshittified by Big Tech companies, our time on this earth is being steadily enshittified by Big Oil companies and their allies in the federal government.” aaronregunberg.substack.com/p/climate-ch...
A good opportunity to repeat one of my favorite points: the transition from fossil fuels to clean energy would overwhelmingly pay for itself *purely through reduced air & water pollution*, even if climate change didn't exist.
"Air pollution from oil and gas causes more than 90,000 premature deaths and sickens hundreds of thousands of people across the US each year, a new study shows..." If MAHA were anything other than dipshit reactionary fantasies & conspiracy theories, it would focus overwhelmingly on air pollution.
Republicans created a $70 billion secret police force of masked thugs in response to a handful of ‘migrant crimes’ but when this type of thing happens on a weekly basis, all we get are hopes and prayers.
Trump should not be able to position himself as tough on crime while he is weak on gun control.
My theory is that the candidate best positioned as an outsider has won every recent presidential election. Obama was able to paint Romney as an insider while both Hillary and Harris ran as insiders. Biden was an insider, but not compared to an unpopular sitting president.
Seems likely the grand jury thought that masked secret police deserve to get sandwiches thrown in their face.
Is it good that all our government functions are designed around the ego of a narcissistic sociopath?
America tips into fascism" By Garrett Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social Recommended. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
As always, @amorrow.bsky.social gets it "This should be 5-alarm fire for Wall Street, an institution that owes much of its success to the existence of a US monetary policy nerve center that is, by law and by tradition, insulated from the whims of any party or politician" www.cnn.com/2025/08/27/b...
“In a scientific sense, this is a total loss.” US Supreme Court allows NIH to cut $2 billion in research grants www.nature.com/articles/d41...
If nothing else, the threat of progressives winning may wake Schumer and Jeffries up out of their comas.
This is not someone who will ever willingly give up power just because he loses an election.
MAGA is fine with child rape.
And Trump rewarded him with a spot in his cabinet.
And sending in the national guard to fight crime is not a real solution to a problem, it is entirely performative. To actually lower crime, you would address the roots of the problem, which Republicans are making far worse.
And when that happens, the Democrats and the media will have no plan to respond. They will scream and shout for about a week and then just accept it.
We feel like we are under attack from Republicans every day and the fact that the Democratic leaders aren’t willing to fight back with us seems like the most epic betrayal.
This thread captures pretty much every American I personally know, at home and abroad. (I know a lot of Americans.)
Are we really alright with this guy having the nuclear codes? Every Republican politician who is enabling him is responsible for every disaster he creates.
Bush’s popularity tanked after his incompetent response to Katrina. Sadly, I think the media environment has degraded so much over the last 20 years, that Trump could probably blame it on Nancy Pelosi and get away with it.
Republicans made this guy acting president and acting congress for about 4 months and now no one really talks about it.
As I told the NY Times, the Trump Administration's order to halt this mostly-complete offshore wind project is a flashing red light to the clean energy industry. If you have all your permits and have spent billions of dollars and they still shut you down, who will want to invest? nyti.ms/47yLAR5
I wonder how many people who watched Mountainhead know that real billionaires are even weirder.
Hope 💥
"There has just never been a president in recent American history who has gone out of his way to free more criminals and accommodate more crimes than Donald Trump," says @chrislhayes.bsky.social.
Wow, they must think we are all really stupid.
Why are you referring to a DOGE staffer as a Social Security official?
Someone should go to prison for this and Elon Musk should go to prison for allowing a bunch of teenage incels to muck around in our most important databases. And all Republicans in congress should resign after letting Musk run wild.
My current favorite bit of right-wing Christian hypocrisy is Ken Paxton, a man whose wife is divorcing him for adultery, forcing Texas schools to unconstitutionally post "Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery." www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
Red-state Republicans who are eager to take on blue turf to ram through new mid-decade gerrymanders at Trump's behest *might* want to reconsider. Or maybe not! Up to them, really.
This is not surprising, but so appalling. About 180 FEMA staff members knew they would be risking their jobs to communicate the degradation of emergency response under Trump tells you how bad things are. We can't say we were not warned, but the people who warned us are being punished for doing so.
🚨 MAJOR BREAKING Democrat Catelin Drey FLIPS Iowa SD-1 — a district Trump won by 11.5 points in 2024 — defeating Republican Christopher Prosch in a landslide special election and breaking the GOP supermajority.
Trump can claim he is lowering crime in DC, but part of the discussion (aside from the fascism) should be the cost-effectiveness of the solution. His solution is incredibly expensive and wasteful while making everyone’s lives worse.
Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day. Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day. It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.
This is why the Democrats plan to wait for the midterms and hope Trump is unpopular is so dangerous. We are in a race to make Trump politically toxic before he fully consolidates power. This is time to act.
Super important thought from Steve Levitsky, co-author of "How Democracy Dies." newrepublic.com/article/1996...
The Trump Administration’s irrational dislike of solar and wind energy imperils both the environment and the economy, @billmckibben.bsky.social writes.
Just pure propaganda from politico.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
I caught Trump taking a homeowner tax exemption on his Trump Tower suite while living in the White House. If falsely claiming a residence for financial benefit is cause for dismissal… www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/u...
This is an all hands on deck moment. Democrats need a media strategy and message discipline for once. Politicians need to get their message out on every platform available. Left groups need a huge messaging effort with lots of ads and social media. Rich and small donors need to donate now.