Donald Trump's half-baked decision to hijack the California National Guard into his own domestic police force to terrorize people in the LA area was never about public safety. It was only about dictatorial power and his political propaganda.
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Donald Trump's half-baked decision to hijack the California National Guard into his own domestic police force to terrorize people in the LA area was never about public safety. It was only about dictatorial power and his political propaganda.
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Harvard University won a crucial legal victory in its clash with the Trump administration on Wednesday, when a federal judge said that the government had broken the law by freezing billions of dollars in research funds. Gift link: nyti.ms/41CEOWy
once again I am asking people to correctly answer the question "who was President in 2020"
I hear eugenics
RFK never intended to let CDC operate. He was clearly just bidding his time, laying the charges until he could demolish CDC. It’s time to #FireRFK!
When you stand up and fight; sometimes you lose and sometimes you win. But do you know what happens if you don't fight at all? Nothing.
Column: President Convicted Felon's climate denial depends on not saying the word (sounds like when Rick Scott was #Florida governor). www.sej.org/publications... via @sejorg.bsky.social
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Children and teens. Being taken from shelters. Pulled from their beds. In the middle the night. This is where things are here in the USA.
First Bernie Sanders. Then the CDC directors. Now, more than 1,000 current and former HHS staffers are demanding RFK Jr. step down just in time for his testimony before the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday.
SEPTA service reductions and fare increases are not inevitable—they’re the result of Senate Republicans choosing politics over Pennsylvanians.
AOC: Millionaires are very overrepresented in congress… If we want a congress that reflects the actual country we seek to represent and fight for, we need to have working class people who work here
Missouri Republicans beginning special session today to gerrymander state on Trump’s orders & eliminate seat of Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, one of two Dems in US House. Plan would give Republicans 90% of seats even though Trump only won MO with 58% of vote in 2024 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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This polarization is going to produce some pretty dramatic statistics pretty soon.
Ending school mandates for vaccines will allow diseases to thrive across Florida at their peril of our kids. #ourkids #florida #politics #floridapolitcs #flapol #swfl #fortmyers #hd78 #ourhealth
If you have "a great governor who wants us to come in," why isn't that governor just ... calling out his own National Guard?
RFK Jr. is going to release a report on what he thinks are the causes of Autism Spectrum Disorder. There is reason to believe it won’t be trustworthy, so @defendpublichealth.bsky.social has released our own evidence-based report of ASD risk factors to the public. Vaccines aren’t one of them.
Ayatollah Covfefe is now contemplating sending the National Guard to blue cities in red states where the AG won't sue him.
"WAY DOWN". "Windmills,""big time"
This needs to be a billboard.
Every canceled bus route, every delayed train, every fare increase—it all traces back to one cause: Senate Republicans who refused to fund mass transit.
I moved my family out of Florida 2022. I am so, so glad I did.
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Everyone has a second full time job being mad at the government now
Rich parents with sense are going to send their kids to schools that mandate vaccination. Public school kids aren't going to get that option.
An Aug. 29 policy statement from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the federal agency, will from now on bar nonpartisan groups such as the League of Women Voters from offering voter registration services at the end of naturalization ceremonies. /1
Every planned fare hike is another burden on working families. Coupled with service cuts, this is the cost of Senate Republicans refusing to fund SEPTA.
Florida’s decision will have horrific consequences for public health. More and more kids are going to get sick and die from vaccine preventable diseases. Their parents won’t, though. Florida is proudly sending their kids to their deaths.
REP. MASSIE: “.. there’s over 200 Republicans who have not signed this discharge petition. We only need two of them to sign it.” @politico.com #Epstein www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
“I have a Republican representative, what can I do?” This. Call every office they have, every day. Be polite, be persistent, but push
Trump on what he's doing stop Russia's war on Ukraine: "We have stopped the money. We send weapons to NATO. They pay full price." (In other words he's trying to compel Ukraine to surrender but not Russia to stop the violence.)
They have no fear of deadly diseases because vaccines work. Now that they’re preventing vaccines from working, they will soon remember to fear.
Last week, the anti-worker authoritarian-in-chief screwed over thousands of federal workers with an order ripping away their collective bargaining rights. Workers deserve better than this betrayal.
This week in Scranton, the #SenDemPolicy Committee held a hearing on the impacts, operations and policy considerations for data centers. We heard from four panels of experts on this important topic. Watch the full hearing anytime at buff.ly/HD8tpMS
Popular environmental land-buying program funds are running low, but #Florida county puts no more $$$ into budget for next year & commissioners refuse to answer questions about why. www.news-press.com/story/news/l...
Lol! What a silly goose.
The #SenDemPolicy Committee held a hearing on the impacts, operations and policy considerations for data centers. We heard from four panels of experts on this important topic. Watch the full hearing anytime at buff.ly/HD8tpMS
Fox News had to pay 3/4 of a BILLION dollars for lying to its viewers. And it STILL lies.
New in PN: RFK Jr gives Republicans a chance to defy Trump on easy mode "What’s really notable is the extent to which GOP leaders have remained supine even in the face of a radical assault on their grandchildren by a transparent death-dealing fraud who wasn’t even a member of the party a year ago."
One of many great articles by @stateline.org on the #BearGulchFire raid. Here's a few facts: 1. CBP's closest field office is in downtown Seattle 2. 9p on a Tuesday, it's a ~2hr drive from CBP; weekdays? easily >3hrs 3. The majority of the Olympic Peninsula is the Olympic National Forest & Park
That Pritzker presser? Unreal. A sitting governor saying, flat out, the Union is coming apart and his state is being invaded by an authoritarian regime. This is a whole new level of crisis.
Let's break this down. I'm a merchant Captain for former USAF officer. The US Navy destroyed a civilian vessel in international waters without attempting to seize/board the vessel and without being engaged in combat. This is "manifestly unlawful". The US Navy has a DUTY to refuse illegal orders.
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100 VICTIMS is astounding. Even more astounding, that's less than 10% of Epstein and Maxwell's victims.
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"We have been told ICE will try and disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades. Let's be clear: the terror and cruelty is the point, not the safety of anyone living here."
Senate Democrats: DO NOT FUND the government when the current continuing resolution expires at the end of the month. SHUT IT DOWN unless DC is funded, the troops are withdrawn from our cities, elections are protected, the Epstein files are released in full... SHUT IT DOWN.
This, all day every day.
🚨 The Trump admin is trying to gut our future while already withholding $8 BILLION in science funding. On Thurs, Sept. 4th, we’re calling voters in swing districts to demand their reps protect NIH + NSF funding 📍 Online: RSVP for the Zoom link here: actionnetwork.org/events/calli...
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Jay Bhattacharya, an icon of apolitical objectivity, is giving a talk at a conference for MAGA ideologues this week. I thought it worthwhile to dissent to his hypocrisy. open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...
What we’re witnessing in this country is textbook authoritarianism. Trump thrives on targeting those who are least able to defend themselves, exerting control and cruelty to tighten his grip on power. To think it ends here is naive. We cannot let this go on any further.
Nory Sontay Ramos was a thriving high school student in L.A. until she and her mom were deported by the Trump administration in July. For @msnbc.com, we visited her in Guatemala as she tries to graduate remotely while hiding from the same gang they fled years ago. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/n...
It’s long been obvious, and now clearer than ever: Trump rants, but Stephen Miller writes the script. He’s the one in charge.
We are filing a request for a preliminary injunction to block the extension of soldiers’ deployment in Los Angeles through Election Day. There was never a need — and there is certainly no need now — for troops to be deployed against their own communities.
The largest SNAP cuts in history went into effect yesterday, eliminating or drastically cutting food assistance for millions of Americans. And it’s all to pay for more tax cuts that primarily benefit the super-rich. Trickle-down economics isn't just a hoax — it's cruel.
We’re back in session after Speaker Johnson let us out early at the end of July, feeling the pressure from our subpoenas for the Epstein files. Today, @oversightdemocrats.house.gov sat down with survivors who endured horrific abuse. What we heard was beyond disturbing. (1/2)
New York does not miss. The bleach did it for me. 😭
This guy gets it. This is the way.
Yesterday the president demanded that evidence about Covid vaccines be shown to the public. Today @apoorvanyt.bsky.social & I run through some of the studies made public over the past 4+ years that show that the vaccines work. Gift link: nyti.ms/46k17Tq
Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?"
Look guys, the martial law is temporary. It’s just a brief vacation from having any rights.
Federal courts have ruled most of President Trump's tariffs illegal. But the import taxes are still being collected, leaving importers in a kind of limbo, unable to make long-term plans, as they await a final decision from the U.S. Supreme Court. n.pr/4g5aHgd
Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
#Resist #VisitYourNationalParks
The Department of Energy hired five academics to raise doubts about climate change. 85+ climate experts (organized by @andrewdessler.com) reviewed their report. Our conclusion, detailed in 450 pages of analysis: it is biased, full of errors, and not fit to inform policy making.
"Even in a long line of anti-labor GOP presidents, Trump stands out. And while he may not succeed in completely destroying collective bargaining in America, he’s poised to strike terrible blows against organized labor." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social
Senate Republicans' refusal to come back to work will lead to a full funding stoppage for vital services. Working families will be hit the hardest by their inaction. Come back to work and pass a #PAbudget!
Hurricane season begins with Trump gutting the "gold standard" weather services that save lives. "We’re squandering our future. We’re squandering our ability to keep getting better with these predictions."
One of my Supreme Court reform takes is they should be completely barred from taking any outside income (incl. publishing deals) and it should be particularly frowned upon, normatively, to be writing books. Memoirs are for writing after you retire, not five years into a lifetime appointment.
When Susan Collins was sworn in for the job she still has as U.S. Senator, the World Wide Web was less than five and a half years old. Netflix hadn’t been founded yet. And Maxwell Frost, the youngest Member of Congress, wouldn’t be born for another two weeks.
A1 above the fold in the @nytimes.com. The message is getting through. Keep pushing everyone. We can save the #CDC, save the #NIH from the clutches of #RussellVought #StephenMiller and #DonaldTrump. Keep the pressure up on your members of Congress and the media (letters to editors, op-eds).
Kressly: “It’s going to get worse. The same people who dismantled child health expertise will now peddle the dangerous lie that vaccines cause autism. It’s not science — it’s propaganda.”
1. Concentration camps are bad. 2. Emergency Managers shouldn't be involved in building and operating concentration camps. 3. Emergency management agencies should not be used for political stunts. 4. Don't follow orders from white nationalists. disasterology.substack.com/p/disasterol...
If the CDC was going to publish these guidelines its scientists had an obligation to review the evidence behind them. But HHS officials rebuffed repeated requests. “The answer was no—they declined to share any of the materials that they were using to support that decision…CDC has never seen it.”
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Remember, the epidemic of mass shootings is neither inevitable nor unsolvable.
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🚨🚨🚨Heads up, Chicago!!!! The gestapo is headed your way on September 5!!!! Download the @iceblock.app if you haven’t already, start using Waze for your navigation to get and make alerts of ice, and start planning in your communities for active, peaceful resistance!!!!! This is all hands on deck!!!!
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Anti fascist educational film from 1945
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.
Pritzker: "We don't want troops on the streets of American cities. That's un-American and frankly the president ought to know better. This one doesn't seem to. He hasn't read any books. He doesn't seem to understand the Constitution or the laws."
Also, weird to see my name as the first two words of the article
📣 Call for Papers is open! In_equality Conference 2026 | 15–17 April | Konstanz We invite papers on the political causes & consequences of #inequality Submit Aug 8–Oct 5 ➡️ inequality-conference.de @uni-konstanz.de
Pittsburgh is a union town, and we're proud of it. Labor is at the forefront of the fight against authoritarianism, because we know solidarity is stronger than any dictator. To our union workers this Labor Day and every day–I've always got your back ✊🏾
Graham Platner, an oyster farmer from Maine, wants to “claw back wealth that was created by the labor and the consumption of working-class Americans who have not shared in the riches they helped build.”
How did ancient civilisations contend with #ClimateChange? The 4.2kya event was an abrupt arid phase that lasted a few centuries from ~2150BC. In the Indus Valley, reliance on wheat and barley monocultures led to the decline of urban centres. 🏺 #Archaeology 1/2
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
Research seems to do better on @bsky.app! www.nature.com/articles/d41... Compared to X: — posts get more attention — higher levels of interaction (such as likes and replies) — posts summarize research articles rather than just paper title — more interpretive, reflective #science #scicom 🧪