Journalists should be on the side of democracy. Proud CA/BayArea native currently navigating the North Star State. Springsteen heals. Dylan is forever. Young. Animals/nature = sentient beings.
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All kidding about this nonsense answer aside: The regime is asserting the power to murder without trial a boat full of people suspected of drug trafficking, who easily could have been intercepted and arrested instead. That is unconscionable and horrifying even assuming everyone aboard was guilty.
"This is how American tyranny dies. Not through violence but through legal friction at every level of government. Not through waiting for federal institutions to self-correct but through states refusing to cooperate with unconstitutional authority."
This.
Undoubtedly right. As so often is the theme under Trump, the international law violations are blatant and unapologetic, forcing the real question: what is anyone going to do about it?
2/ But also he adds more likely the boat was carrying PEOPLE than drugs:
1/ Blowing up a boat in international waters rather than capturing it and arresting people is horrific enough. But it gets worse:
when you’re upset at the cool kids for not inviting you to their lunch table
Read about how Francis J. Allman, Chief Judge of Florida’s Second Judicial District, is an un-American censorial fascist thug worthy of contempt.
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
We need Pritzker... and multitudes more like this:
Pritzker: "It breaks my heart to report that we have been told ICE will try to disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades. Let's be clear -- the terror and cruelty is the point, not the safety of anybody living here."
KASIE HUNT: Over the summer you said, “There’s no vaccine that’s safe and effective”. Do you still believe that? RFK JR: “I never said that.” KASIE HUNT: “Play the clip.” RFK JR (clip): “There’s no vaccine that is safe and effective.” (March 2024) ht: @cwebbonline.com
I am so so so proud to have been part of this effort. Climate change is already a major threat to human life, health, and thriving. It is important that we get the most accurate science on the record to delineate that threat, so we can build a better future. www.npr.org/2025/09/02/n...
I wonder.
To gauge how it’s “working,” one would have to be clear on what the actual work is, which is not helping to educate children but rather to imbed these systems in a way that they cannot be removed, establish them as a source of truth, and destabilize labor.
"'Here’s a text book on economics,' I said pointing to a little chap, James Ashworth, who was ten years old and who was stooped over like an old man from carrying bundles of yarn that weighed seventy-five pounds."
This is a privacy disaster unraveling here in the USA.
"Among critics of the leaked prospectus was Philip Grant... who called the plan 'a blueprint for mass deportation, marketed as development. The outcome? A textbook case of international crimes on an unimaginable scale: forcible population transfer, demographic engineering, and collective punishment'
Adolf Hitler awarded the War Merit Cross to Adolf Eichmann, architect of the Holocaust. Just saying, awards don't mean sh** if the person awarding them is a fascist. www.foxnews.com/politics/tru...
Labor Day weekend is the end of the peak season for many of the country’s national parks. But, in the last few months, the National Park Service has lost 24% of its staff. From budget cuts to “ideological” changes, the Trump administration is shaping the future of our public lands.
Kressly: I expect in the next couple of weeks, this is going to get worse. You’re going to hear from the same administrative people who have gutted the expertise needed to promote child health — pushing false narratives like, “we need to look at the link between vaccines and autism.” That is a lie.
This should be getting far more attention from the media, and it should be investigated as a hate crime. A 14-year-old Black teen was targeted, beaten, and dehumanized with racial slurs by white teens while people stood around cheering. 1/4
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy just announced the Department of Transportation is taking over Union Station—first priority: make homeless people disappear. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Christ.
Critics of Andrew Bailey, Trump's pick to help run the FBI, say the Missouri AG got the attention of the White House by following Trump’s tactic of targeting political opponents. “What better way to show loyalty than to do exactly what Trump wants,” one said. By @jeremykohler.bsky.social
A Chinese-owned mining company has been accused of covering up the extent of a disastrous toxic spill in Zambia that polluted a major river that millions rely on with cyanide and arsenic.
“How will we know when we’ve lost our democracy?” The short answer—when we have to ask if speaking up against government injustice puts us in danger, and have to debate whether it is easier to appease than oppose? This is the line we as Americans are quickly approaching…..”
Only the best people, eh? What utter trash.
Just an astonishing, powerful op-ed that drives home what we are losing and what's already been lost. We are so incredibly fortunate to live with the advances modern medicine and health science. Destroying and stymieing it is just unforgivable. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
"To pretend that her death deserves the same recognition as that young soldier at the gate is obscene. It is a betrayal of the oath she once swore and a desecration of the sacrifice made by so many who kept faith with theirs."
One time joe biden had a medium decaf coffee with the former prime minister of kazakhstan and let him pay
Not today, Satan‼️ Got this garbage in the mail a few days ago. Republicans trying to trick California voters into voting NO on Prop 50. Suddenly they care about “democracy”? Please. Vote YES on Prop 50. Don’t let the cheaters write the rules.
🧡Thank You
What could possibly go wrong?
Take a closer look at the top-ranking officials who have quit the CDC www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/p...
Anyway, I’m glad to know the president is still technically alive so he can watch this tomorrow www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Your climate-changed future is here. mainichi.jp/english/arti...
It makes me emotional to see Judge Sooknanan showing that she values each individual child’s life at a moment when this administration is doing exactly the opposite
TIM DILLON: “Get over it. We’re taking the money.” Some of the biggest 🇺🇸 comedians will get $1 Million+ for 1 show in SAUDI ARABIA. Dillon says he’s getting paid to look the other way— and slaves there are probably proud of building nice hotels. Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DOEESmI...
Schatz is set up to be whip of the Senate Democratic caucus. He maybe younger but his brained is addled with “bipartisanship” toxins - unfit to take on fascists for the time we are living in. PS: he also surrendered and voted to give Trump/Musk blank checks in March when he had a chance to fight.
You guys see where this is going? Right?
INSANITY
Immokalee farmworker dies a week after collapsing in the Florida heat www.wusf.org/local-state/...
Just a quick reminder of who JD Vance is... his entire life is defined by his encounter with Peter Thiel, who "made" him.
This Labor Day, the Trump administration will advance plans to eliminate federal minimum wage protections for millions of child care and home care providers.
52 of 53 Republican senators voted to confirm him.
Just visited the ruins of the Smallpox Hospital on Roosevelt Island. I was looking for a sign announcing that RFK Jr. will begin renovations soon because, you know: Make Smallpox Great Again.
"Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)". Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, genocide scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...
What a gang of mindless amateurs in Washington accomplished in Beijing:
Read this
Fifty-one of the 85 Federalist papers were written by a guy born in Nevis.
Trump is trying to repeal a roadless rule that prevents loggers from denuding National Parks—something they just announced and which public only has a few weeks to speak against insideclimatenews.org/news/3008202...
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.
Let's give a shout out to the men & women who labor in the fields to put food on our tables. #WeFeedYou #LaborDay. Mandemosle un saludo a los hombres y mujeres que trabajan en el campo para poner comida en nuestras mesas. Thank you Ignacio Gomez for letting us use this art
Volkswagen Brazil found liable for ‘slave labor’ after priest’s long struggle — “In the 1970s, a Catholic priest began investigating forced labor on an Amazon ranch. Now a Brazilian judge has ordered Volkswagen to pay $30 million in damages” wapo.st/3HZr1ma
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I know that's all really frightening. You may have already watched this video on YouTube with @hcrichardson.bsky.social and Gil Duran. If you haven't seen this, it's very informative. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWjR...
What’s wild to me: NOW, media outlets & medical organizations are “stunned” by the damage RFK Jr. is doing to CDC, other health agencies, & public health. Me & my colleagues have been screaming about him for years. Years. Even more so in the last year. We were called hyperbolic. 1/
Perfection.
"The lunatics are running the asylum."
"If we want more success stories for endangered or threatened species, we have to celebrate recovery, not punish it with endless federal purgatory." The latest from Brian Yablonski and Blake Henning:
Want to understand Russian policy? Ignore what they say to us in the West, listen to what they say among themselves:
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
I would read a whole series of reports like this on each individual federal goon. They all deserve a profile.
An Israeli Official Was Arrested in Vegas For Trying to Have Sex With a Child: Why Was He Allowed to Flee to Israel? How come Trump, Republicans, Democrats & corporate media aren't covering the scandal of the summer? open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
wow
“The drone fired at the window and the fuel tank. It was obvious I was being targeted.” Journalist Hossam Shabat spoke with us about being targeted by drones before he was killed by an Israeli air strike in Gaza. Watch episode 3 of Business of War now ▶️ youtu.be/K9cz0N1HDRY
The media elites are extremely eager to sacrifice your freedom to allay their paranoia.
NEW: The trump administration attempted to remove 600 terrified unaccompanied minors to Guatemala in the middle of the night on a holiday weekend. Judge Sooknanan stopped it. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-sookna...
The time between fucking around and finding out for messing with the climate and environment is long, and attribution is sometimes difficult. So conservative politicians have gotten away with appointing imbeciles to positions of power in these areas. However, no such luck for them in public health.
Also HHS document indicates some facilities housing Guatemalan minors in US balked at handing them to ICE, prompting a Trump administration official to threaten criminal prosecution. She worked for DHS just a few months ago before taking the HHS job. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
A story told over and over in Louisiana. Only the names are changed.
They are talking to people who have no concept at how big Los Angeles is. You can drive for 25+ miles in a straight line, every block urbanized.
P.O.S.
Emmer would apparently benefit from the very law he voted against, but can't remember why. His mental health is clearly in question.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested John Shin, who has played with the Utah Symphony and Ballet West. The Department of Homeland Security cited his 2019 DUI conviction as the reason.
VOTE: With your dollars, every day. This new list reveals 10 brands that are fighting for progress. belib.org/U8lQkzo
This gentleman is a hero But the story has an ominous post script I believe he then went on a national news program where he said that after the incident, almost all the kids stopped coming to practice Terrorizing children That's what ICE does
California alone is the fourth largest economy in the world. Blue states can definitely band together to establish a formidable block. We can unite on many other issues as well.💪
Was this in that thread of posts-as-political-science-curriculum? If it wasn't it should be
Sickening living in a country where tens of millions of mlneighbors wanted these wretched, embarrasing, bottom-feeding people representing us.
Also in the Times today: an article about a violence prevention program in MN that was cut by the Trump WH designed to prevent the kind of attack that happened last week: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/u...
Using our money and our arms TO POUND SUBURBS. A shame that will last as long as any shred of human decency exists.
"Trump is showing, with this insane rant, that he fully intends to maximally abuse presidential powers in every way possible to try to rig and swing the midterms. It’s not an accident that this is all happening while he’s militarizing cities." trib.al/8vnBGIq
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
“With the Ice crackdown and the creation of this massive law enforcement agency that only obeys the president – there are no good historical references where that works out well.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"Newsom is saying two things. First, we’re not going to let Republicans play by different rules anymore. And second, we are going to use our power however we can, no matter what The New York Times editorial board says about it." trib.al/SpzgHnV
Evil. *This* is end-stage capitalism: Genocide for profit.
Trump/RFK are decapitating our public health system, a pillar of American greatness. So Dem Govs should scour every corner of the law for creative new ways to defend their people from this madness. Dems should polarize this debate to the max. Thoughts on this here: newrepublic.com/article/1998...
One disabled Marine veteran has not had a primary care doctor assigned to him since his previous doctor left in the winter, his wife said. The VA “was never like this before. There’s a lack of staff, empty rooms, locked doors.”
1.2 Million Americans died of COVID-19. Over 80% would still be alive if Trump had simply ordered wearing masks in March 2020. bsky.app/profile/papo...
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.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
A Senator of the United States of America says that he was refused the ability to see Gaza for himself as part of a Jordanian aerial mission over the occupied territory.
Fascism-plus.
A federal employee directory helped us figure out just how many workers have left federal health agencies since the beginning of President Donald Trump’s second term. Here’s how we crunched the numbers. By @pratheekrebala.bsky.social @anniewaldman.bsky.social @bxroberts.org