Pissed that I have four more years of worrying what the orange hitler does to destroy our country
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This is exactly right! The Right’s core claim is that they represent an authentic, “real" America that is constantly being victimized, made to suffer under the yoke of leftist/liberal overreach, and therefore rightfully aggrieved. And too many Democrats/liberals look at that and go: “I agree.”
And then afterward -- this is the part that makes me feel crazy -- all the retrospective analysis & discussion *shit on Democrats*. They've been on the defense ever since, criticized from all quarters for this or that decision. Much of that criticism is fact-free bullshit, but ...
Long the envy of the world for its capabilities and expertise, the CDC finds itself no longer able to advocate for what its scientists believe the best available research shows. @citizencohn.bsky.social on the CDC purge: www.thebulwark.com/p/kennedy-rf...
Don't be a 'political hobbyist.' Here's how to harness your power. @sulliview.bsky.social
The White House posts that the US has now taken in $8 Trillion in tariff revenue so far. Preposterous insane lies on an hourly basis.
The short version: New Mexico announced that they'll be backfilling 100% of the lost *federal* ACA subsidies with *state* subsidies...but only for enrollees who earn up to 400% FPL. This is still a HUGE deal because 85% of NM #ACA enrollees earn less than 400% FPL.
📣 REPOSTING this from the other day because it's a BFD: acasignups.net/25/08/29/new...
💀 how many people will this MONSTER KILL before we can rid ourselves of him…#KennedyKills 🦠
Technically they could just wait for it to rain, right?
One of the best signs I've ever seen Enjoy your Labor Day Weekend
Cashed out 25% already…thinking of doing another 25%… but completely shocked that the market is just acting like everything is normal
The U.S. Air Force will provide military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt — including a flag presentation, Taps, and a full honor guard. She wasn't a victim. She wasn't a hero. On Jan 6, she ignored repeated warnings to STOP breaching a secured area and paid the price.
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...
You forgot to add, except for MAGA republicans…
No words. This is… a) …laughable b) …dangerous c) …damaging
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🚨 OK, NEXT UP: THE BIG ONE: FLORIDA. 🚨 cc: @davidjolly.bsky.social @maxwellfrost.bsky.social acasignups.net/ira-subsidy-...
Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), top Dem on the Senate health committee, on this evening's chaos at CDC: “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."
Trump: "I won because Latino voters shifted to support me!" Trump, six months later: "If you're Latino I will have armed paramilitaries harass you relentlessly, and gloat how they're going to purge your foreign culture and inferior genes from this country" Democrats: "I see no opportunity here"
This is a free campaign ad for Trump. It tells Americans that the NewDems caucus supports Trump’s general ideas, and says Trump is not a fascist and Republicans are normal and worth working with (“bipartisan”.) This is electoral poison. It hurts the D brand and so every Dem, me and you included.
Fast decent…
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug... The President’s actions are “a five alarm fire” says @paulkrugman.substack.com.web.brid.gy & it affects all of us. A President has never fired a Federal Reserve Governor. PAY ATTENTION AND SPEAK OUT AND SHARE! #authoritarianism #takeourdemocracyback #WeveHadEnough
Reading an article titled "Why didn't Brazilian democracy die?" and a key part of the story is a Supreme Court that actually did its job
Constituent: You talked about abuses in the medicare and medicaid system and I found interesting that the president pardoned someone that defrauded the medicaid system for $1.3 billion
You left out the part where he refused to be coerced into a false confession for a “Ghislane Deal” & is being threatened w deportation to Uganda. By a DESPOT.
Nice to see him finally fighting back…really like him, and need him on the air as much as possible!
MILLIONS OF AMERICANS WILL DIE 💀 www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...
The transformation of the Washington Post editorial page appears to be complete.
More Dems should have the courage to make this point. Trump officials conducting his unconstitutional orders should remember - every autocracy eventually falls. MAGA will be no different. Trump cannot shield them forever. Their participation in this blatant illegality is being thoroughly documented.
“In a rare move for a U.S. public official, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., called for a paper that found no link between aluminum in vaccines and disease to be retracted. The journal rejected the request.” www.scientificamerican.com/article/rfk-...
But he was always on the Sunday shows and any other show he could think of
We really need to reinvent what it means to protest in a social media driven world. Don’t give them the scenes they want. Give them the scenes that make them look ridiculous.
Biden authorized the funding for this bridge. In any case, the finer point here is that the president of the United States is THREATENING TO DEGRADE THE INFRASTRUCTURE OF MAJOR CITIES IF THEIR LEADERS OFFEND HIM. This is front page news!
Virginia Giuffre's family: "The content of these transcripts is in direct contradiction with felon Ghislaine Maxwell's conviction for child sex trafficking. During DAG Todd Blanche's bizarre interview, she is never challenged about her court-proven lies, providing her a platform to rewrite history."
Wage growth now favors job stayers over job switchers share.google/b7AIfrkBuH1N... You won't see this on Fox Please share this with someone you know seeking to switch employment 🧵1 Article talking now of "Job Stayers " not "Job Seekers"
the actual communication problem democrats have is this: their most prominent national figures filter everything through focus grouped lines and are incapable of plain speech
The States Sending Troops to DC Have Way Worse Crime Problems How would those governors feel if National Guard troops from other states started to patrol their 53 cities with a higher murder rate than DC? Most didn't say they would like that. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/the...
“Black babies in Mississippi are particularly vulnerable, with more than 15 deaths for every 1,000 live births in 2024 – a 24% jump in one year over already higher-than-average rates.” North Korea has a lower infant mortality rate – 13.6 in 2022 (UNICEF). Shame on the richest country on earth.
The Trump administration is ignoring a directive from Congress and refusing to fully fund an HIV prevention program that is widely credited with saving millions of lives.
It’s a flat out LIE to blame clean energy for higher bills. Experts point to fossil fuels, aging grids, and extreme weather. Wind and solar are the cheapest power. Trump promised lower costs—families are getting the opposite. abcnews.go.com/Business/wir...
Newsom: We can’t do things the way we’ve done. Let’s disabuse ourselves of that. The Democratic Party needs to assert itself. We need to be strong again. Strength matters. People want conviction. They want character. They want a sense of intention and purpose…
Mockler: They say that they oppose it at a 79% rate, 61% of them feel less safe… So the question that I then want to ask is, why don't we mobilize the National Guard to the eight out of ten red states that are the highest homicide states?
BREAKING: Vladimir Putin is pushing to meet Zelensky in Moscow and Zelensky has obviously turned this down. Why would Zelensky meet Putin in the country that wants him killed? This is all a big joke to Putin. He has no plans on stopping. He has no plans for peace.
This a great read.
‘In national security terms, mRNA is the equivalent of a missile defense system for biology. The ability to rapidly design, produce and deploy medical countermeasures is as vital to our defense as any military capability.’ www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/o...
This is superb. Infuriating, but brilliantly presented.
RFK Jr. has a plan to kill our entire vaccine system. It’s working. (@cnn.com source article below.)
Jackson, Mississippi, has the nation's highest homicide rate, more than 3 times the rate in DC
Crow: "Putin doesn't care about a B2 bomber flyover ... what he cares about is 3 things: economic pressure in form of sanctions, being a pariah state, and military defeat ... this admin continues to be unwilling to do anything to assert pressure in any of those 3 areas."
Police in San Bernardino found immigration agents had shot at a suspect who fled. Later, an unidentified man reported masked men tried to stop him, broke his car window, and shot at him, seeking police help, unsure who the attackers were. www.latimes.com/california/s...
The White House is mobilizing red state military forces to occupy a Democratic stronghold and let me tell you: No one has ever pretended something isn't happening harder than Democratic leaders are pretending this isn't happening right now.
Being careful about the use of language is useful for surviving authoritarianism because authoritarianism seeks to control fact, truth, history, reality itself through misleading, false, inflammatory, and distorted language, as well as suppressed information, and to make it the norm.
This week was so good!
Anyway here's the piece. Follow @votebeat.org. www.votebeat.org/texas/2025/0...
Newsom: “Wake up, America. If he rigs this election, you won’t have a country anymore.”
I’ve driven through DC a million times, I mean, that dude is quite paranoid, and the statement alone says a lot about the problem going on in his mind…
My oped in the NYT today, as we mark the 80th anniversary of the Manhattan Project and the end of the World War II, Trump is undoing the model of innovation that powered US prosperity ever since. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o... www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...
aging well, unfortunately 👇
www.motherjones.com #MotherJones current issue:
Gerrymandering is really so toxic to American democracy But the dissolution of Medicaid, erosion of due process, exploding inflation and unchecked executive power are bigger concerns The Democrats have no choice but to match-or even exceed-Republican overreaching apple.news/A69X4BEBaSfq...
This is why Texas is "Red" Gerrymandering Is illegal if used to disenfranchise minorities.
ICYMI - Trump’s “booming economy” is circling the drain. This is what happens when you elect a con man to run the country like one of his bankrupt casinos. *Post by Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics.
The part that is mind blowing is how everyone in business is bending at the knee and folding…
“The studies imply that estimated life expectancy [in Gaza has fallen by more than 35 years, to half the pre-war figure. In percentage terms…bigger than…during China’s Great Leap Forward; in absolute terms it is similar to the one in the Rwanda genocide”
Regardless, this is just another gift to Putin. The tally thus far: a fractured alliance, fragmenting security environment, pressure on friends, embrace of Russia, no ceasefire, and Russia elevated. All in all, this Summit is shaping up to be a disaster.
Europe really needs to get their shit together about **really** supporting Ukraine , because this thinking is how world wars start…and the US is no longer a reliable partner
Rewarding aggressors for attacking sovereign nations by giving them land and claiming they "earned" it through invading and killing its inhabitants is depraved and only encourages more wars. This is shameful coming from the nation that calls itself the "Leader of the Free World."
The Emory shooter was a regular visitor to right-wing social media accounts which persuaded him that the Covid-19 vaccine was to blame for all his personal medical problems. So he took his gun to shoot up the CDC, killing a policeman in the process.
A government-sanctioned "truth arbiter" will soon arrive at CBS. Their role will be to ensure that journalists do not criticize this Administration or express views that conflict with its agenda. This is a betrayal—not just of journalistic independence, but of the public trust. 🧵
Dramatic changes to the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program could drive drugmakers from the market, threatening access to shots, experts say. “If (Kennedy’s) unstated goal is to basically destroy the vaccine industry, that could do it.” By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social
Lost elections are rigged, won elections are fair. Good job numbers are real, bad ones are fake. Sex trafficking is bad, unless the traffickers will blame your enemies. Crime is bad, unless the criminals are pro-Trump. This isn’t 4D chess, or even tic-tac-toe, just Autocrat 101.
We could have had cancer vaccines, and instead the United States will contribute nothing whatsoever to mRNA research, condemning millions of people worldwide to unnecessary illness and death
this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025
And we're officially at the end of being able to trust the jobs numbers in this country ever again.
August 2025 Jobs Report - Under the amazing leadership of President Trump, BLS concludes that the economy is doing amazing and is on fire. It’s so hot right now, like Hansel. Workers are making more money than they ever dreamed was possible. Grown men with tears in their eyes are expressing thanks.
The fact that literally zero outlets ever cover crime decline as a story is a huge reason. (And before you yell at me, we do!)
"They have solid access, they get big party invites, they're primed for book deals and speaking gigs, network slots and promotions, etc. And they don't wanna mess that up. They don't want this whole fascism thing to derail their timeline or deplete their capital."
Yes, this IS absolute madness.
Some generations were asked to storm beaches. Ours is being asked to stay engaged. That’s not too much to ask. I wrote this piece not just as a veteran or former congressman but as a dad. We are not the generation that lets this flame die. Not on my watch adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/we-are-not...
Similar article about him but not behind a paywall: www.columbiadoctors.org/news/jeffs-s...
New: 11 more Planned Parenthood clinics have announced that they will close, or have closed, after Trump signed the budget bill which "defunds" large abortion providers. That brings the total for the year to 32 by my count as the health provider navigates other funding freezes and increased costs
This Chiropractor was dropping off his precious child at preschool when ICE thugs broke his window with his toddler in the back seat & detained him in front of his kid. No community is safe from the Pedo's thugs! He just finished his Greencard interview & was waiting for finalization. Speak out!
Man, when Welker is standing up to a republican with their own words, the tides might indeed be changing…
“Gov. Ron DeSantis’ assault on local government spending comes even as his own office has spent millions of taxpayer dollars through no-bid contracts distributed under authority he gains by keeping Florida under a continued state of emergency.” www.tallahassee.com/story/news/l...
Since the spring, federal agents have been patrolling the government buildings in New York City, waiting to arrest migrants as soon as they step out of the courtroom. Jordan Salama reports on an asylum seeker’s experience.
My daughter is obsessed with this movie!
An initiative launched last year by Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has now erased $429 million in medical debt for 352,000 Arizonans. Elections matter. www.abc15.com/news/state/m...
Pause for three minutes and soak up the grace of this man. Earlier today, the father of three U.S. Marines, Narciso Barranco, spoke publicly for the first time after being pinned to the ground and savagely punched by ICE agents while they arrested the landscaper outside the IHOP where he worked.
It’s really good, episode 4 was just crazy!
It’s really good! This coming from someone who hasn’t like a Dexter season since like season 4 of the original show
SHUT DOWN THE WHOLE FUCKING THING. Seriously, why is this so difficult for Congressional #Democrats to get this simple idea through their fucking heads? This is EXACTLY why they keep getting their asses kicked by monsters - they bring pocket knives to nuclear bomb fights. Good grief. 🤦🏼♂️
"In 2020, the government pointed to Maxwell’s 'willingness to brazenly lie under oath about her conduct' as a reason to deny her bail. Now, with her entire life in the government’s control, it turns to her as a source of truth. Or, if not truth, a story that can help the president out of this jam."
This is exactly the kind of work the Catholic Church should be doing. Glad they’re stepping up. 🙏🏽 Archdiocese of Los Angeles launches program to help families impacted by immigration raids. The raids have made immigrants worried to leave their homes.
I think it’s worth noting this piece generated the most unsubscribes I’ve seen in a while, and the newsletter version had the lowest open rate in many months. These horrors persist in part because too many people go to great pains to avoid them.