Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
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Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
"Trump is Unfit and Unwell: It's Time For the 25th Amendment" @daniellemoodie.bsky.social and I believe questions of Trump's Presidential fitness, succession, and Democracy can no longer be ignored. We bring the receipts to make our case. open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
More framing like this, please www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
I think that ship sailed some time ago Right now ol' JD better understand: exactly no. one. is going to follow him slavishly like they did (er...do) his cult's leader.
Hey @jaketapper.bsky.social, what’s the timeline for the book on how the President went missing like a week after he had weird bruising on his hands?
Trump not talking in a week is likeTrump not breaking a law in a week. Impossible if he’s capable.
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.
No way! The same album? 😉 It's definitely the GOAT tho'
(raises hand) I'm available to help with that!
truly and officially dead here 🤣🤣🤣
5150 + OU812 = great songs, great fun! 🙌
I think you misspelled "Sweetness Follows" 😉
I just hope that he can soon thank Ashli Babbitt in person for her service.
Troops in the streets and he thinks he’s going to get a Nobel, peace begins at home
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9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
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...
"In short, if Trump and Kennedy are going to divide the country over public health, Democrats should polarize the living heck out of this debate as well—but on *their* terms." YES
I have an opinion piece in the New York Times today on how the labor movement has failed to step up to the moment in countering Trump, even as Trump unilaterally strips public sector workers of collective bargaining. Labor will die as a movement if this continues. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
This is the stupidest thing ever! Trump just called for the full datasets from the Covid Vaccine manufacturers to be released. Trump's FDA has the full datasets. They required the datasets in order to approve the vaccines. The vaccines have saved hundreds of thousands of lives.
Musk now supporting the deportation of anyone who isn’t white. *Do not* use the term “remigration”. It’s an attempt to normalise Nazi hate.
Labor Day is meant to honor and celebrate the workers who built our country and fought for fair pay, benefits, and safe workplaces. As lieutenant governor, I will always fight for labor and protect our workers’ rights to organize and collective bargaining.
also, a MAGAt complaining about “double standards “ really is Something 🙄
so you're admitting he disappeared
Like the problem of being obsessed with being in front of the press is it's really really obvious when you are avoiding them.
They are clearly aware of what's being said - "NEVER FELT BETTER IN MY LIFE," so he apparently said a few minutes ago - but if they're aware they should photograph him in the White House pool, or an exercise bike, or send him into a friendly crowd for an hour. They are not doing that.
Pritzker: "National Guard troops, any kind of troops, on the streets of American city don't belong unless there is an insurrection, unless there is truly an emergency. There is not."
This is the way
#bebest 😆
Another record-breaking year for tourism, but these numbers represent more than just statistics: they signify jobs, local economic growth, and lifelong memories created in the Middle of Everything. Illinois is proud to welcome visitors from across the globe.
THANK YOU!
WELKER: Do you have 100% confidence in Secretary Kennedy? LANKFORD: I believe he's who the president picked. He's challenging some of the assumption - what is it about autism? He seems to be following the science WELKER: The science has debunked links between autism & vaccines for more than 20 yrs
"Conway...boiled it down to what he called the president-elect’s malignant narcissism, which means he is 'inherently destructive.' "'People like Trump, malignant narcissists, actually do, subconsciously or consciously, seek to destroy,' said Conway, a longtime critic of the incoming POTUS. ...
As I said to Wolf Blitzer … {checks notes} … *9 days* after the election: "Conservative attorney George Conway on Thursday suggested that some of Donald Trump’s most controversial Cabinet picks were ones you’d make 'if you were actively trying to do harm to the country, to destroy the country.' ...
FEDERAL AGENTS TAKE NOTE… It’s not just Chicago standing strong. Other blue cities and governors are ready to unite against Trump’s federal invasion. I’m not an attorney, but this point seems huge: if federal agents break state or city laws, they can prosecuted. And Trump cannot pardon them.
right??!? geez a little warning, internet!
Now more than ever, Americans need to make the connection: UNIONS = wealth for WORKERS
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
Hi. If you don’t qualify for a Covid vaccine - like if you don’t have one of the conditions that make you more vulnerable - lie. Don’t feel guilty, because the guidelines are absurd and not rooted in science. So, just lie and protect yourself. If you need permission, there you go.
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.
not just that he has no constitutional authority, there isn't even any particular legal or institutional mechanism by which the president can make anyone treat this as anything other than a weird advisory opinion.
Jan 6th was a terrifying day. No one knew if they were *only* targeting the Capitol, and we went on alert everywhere. When people riot and try to overturn an election, you see, it isn't clear what other boundaries they will cross. The word for that day was treason, not honor.
RFK Jr: “If you’ve ever compared an unvaccinated kid to a vaccinated kid… you see the bright eyes, the engagement, the social interactions, the curiosity. And you compare them to the child who even had one or two vaccines, and they’re completely different.“ This man is an existential threat.
As I said earlier this year… www.editorialboard.com/unsaid-make-...
sure was a good idea to put the world's biggest narcissist into the Oval Office - thanks, MAGAts! 🙄
Great to meet you, JP! Always a pleasure to meet a teacher here in Illinois. Good luck during the school year!
“As Al Qaeda seeks to empty out the World Trade Center towers…”
"She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it. She was not protecting lives at a gate in Iraq; she was forcing her way through windows in the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power." New from @markhertling.bsky.social:
@nealkatyal.bsky.social: “You’ve got the president who's imposed the largest tax increase on American consumers since 1993 … and he did it without Congress saying one word. That is not our constitutional structure.”
“.. I never have seen an instance of an advanced, affluent country with among the finest scientific resources .. under assault, not from small pockets of the public or people who have unusual beliefs, but from the government itself.” @mollyjongfast.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
We won’t notice it at first Maybe an outbreak of cholera in southwest Kansas goes undetected Perhaps the number of flu related deaths ticks up just a bit each year But-ultimately, inexorably-the destruction of the CDC will lead to countless deaths All because of two men Trump and RFK, Jr
"January 6 survivor and former MPD Officer Michael Fanone launches a campaign demanding that federal officers remove their masks, advocating for transparency." Check out our new D.C. campaign demanding federal agents take off their mask! @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social www.wusa9.com/article/news...
count me in, team average Dem voter!
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but we don’t need to fight fairly against fascism. We just need to fight.
Asking for the millionth time: Where are all the "campus free speech" scolds? Oh, yeah. They're all basically right wing activists parading as 'moderate/centrist' pundits.
Promise tariffs ⟶ faff around ⟶ announce tariffs ⟶ pause tariffs ⟶ promise deals ⟶ court rules tariffs illegal ⟶ appeal ⟶ court order stayed ⟶ make no deals ⟶ 90 days expires ⟶ delay tariffs again ⟶ announce tariffs again ⟶ appeals court rules tariffs illegal again ⟶ you are here
yes…abandon the experts, put your life (and your family members’ lives) in the hands of complete kooks… 🙄 thanks for your wisdom and insight there, RFK Jr, ya putz
VIRGINIA TOO PLZ!
Dr. Dmitri Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC says that RFKJr said he believes that Avian flu should be allowed to "burn through" the chickens and then children and others, so we can propagate a "stronger species". RFKJr believes in eugenics. RFKJr needs to resign or be fired.
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
Unbelievably bad. “The CDC you knew is over. Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.” www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
BOOM. The federal appeals court rules Trump's tariffs illegal, because they are. There's no national emergency, and so the power to tariff a country rests with Congress. Trump admin has lost at every stage of the process, but stay tuned for the Supremes to chime in.
When It Happens, blast any Democrat who "looks forward to working with Vance" directly into the sun. Democrats need to make it clear from minute one that they have this guy's number, know he doesn't have the juice, and that they're going to make his life a living hell from the moment Trump drops.
Threatening the people who give out the Nobel Peace Prize
A federal judge has ordered Florida to shut down "Alligator Alcatraz," after the state spent a staggering $218M to build the now-vacant detention camp. Closing it will run taxpayers another $20M. An utterly cruel and costly waste.
Now a smart Democrat would look at this and focus on highlighting stories about how Trump's rampant misgovernance and corruption is affecting the most popular agencies and those who work for them.
The maddening thing is that we know EXACTLY how to prevent this. Yes, kids should get vaccinated, test, stay home when sick, mask as much as possible. But even without any of that: Better ventilation and filtration in schools can MASSIVELY reduce viral spread, for all sorts of respiratory diseases.
Dear people who are saying that the CDC directors who quit yesterday should have “stayed and fought”, With all due respect, you do not grasp the magnitude of the problem of RFK Jr. He is asking them to do unethical and immoral things that will actively harm the people of the United States. 1/3
He’s the Vice President of the United States. He could actually *do* something about this instead of just play pretend games.
We need more walkouts.
Lisa Cook was confirmed twice by the Senate - who, last time I checked, were elected - after being nominated by the President. What Trump wants is to reverse a legitimate democratic process here.
more of this tbh
CDC employees standing up and walking out in light of the mass shootings, firings, and *waves hands in the air* everything else. #USAnotRFK Lets gooooo
saying “i told you so” has never felt more joyless
RFK Jr. will testify before a Senate panel next week. The Finance Committee hearing was in the works before Wednesday’s CDC shakeup.
Every nation on earth has people with brains as deeply broken as RFKJr’s. The difference is they wouldn’t let any of those folks burn their public health system to the ground. #FireRFKJr
ol' JD knows the score fortunately, very large majorities of Americans know JD is actually much worse than his orange benefactor, and EVERYONE knows JD has zero ability to hold the GOP together once trump's gone
Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.
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Dr. Demetre, in his resignation from the CDC, said this: “I have never experienced such radical non-transparency, nor have I seen such unskilled manipulation of data to achieve a political end rather than the good of the American people”. It is an outrage that RFK Jr. remains as head of HHS.
every time someone says “fuck you, make me” an angel gets its wings
It’s outrageous that Sec. Kennedy is trying to fire the CDC Director — after only a few weeks on the job — for her commitment to public health & vaccines. The Sen. HELP Committee must hold a hearing with Kennedy & the CDC Director as soon as possible. Vaccines save lives. Period.
YES MORE NON-RESIGNERS ACROSS THE BOARD!! STAY AND FIGHT! MAKE THE CASE!! MAKE THESE CLOWNS EXPLAIN THEMSELVES AND FIGHT IT OUT!
ABSOLUTELY! NO RESIGNING - MAKE THEM FIRE YOU, PATRIOTS!! It'll show them (and the world) just how non-existent their case is
wtf is this nonsense? He thinks he can understand kid’s “mitochondrial challenges” just by looking at them? This is an insane person.
MORE REFUSALS TO RESIGN PLZ AMERICA! MAKE THESE MFs OWN IT WHEN THEY DO STUPID, MALICIOUS SH!T
After the Department of Health and Human Services said Susan Monarez is no longer the CDC director, her lawyers said she did not resign and had not been fired, accusing HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of “weaponizing public health for political gain.”
Someone please make him explain that bullshit, I’m begging you
No point in shouting "shame." To get through to Collins, they need to use works she can relate to. Try chanting "Concerned. Concerned. Concerned."
How about just “illegal and completely unnecessary”? 🤨
The Minneapolis shooter was apparently a fan of several mass murderers who were motivated by the same "Great Replacement Theory" that has pretty much taken over the Republican Party.
it's a great point (and a harbinger of things to come after the '26 and '28 elections, unfortunately) last time even the folks who predicted the worst underestimated the scale of his corruption and malice
great way to put it! 🙌
anyone who's anti-MAGA would be great! oh...and please add some good NFL stuff too 😉
Ed “Big Balls” Coristine—who worked tech ops for Elon Musk’s DOGE project—is under FBI investigation for data theft. This is the same 19-year-old who was linked to a cybercrime ring earlier this year.
Again, Hegseth is justifying all of his stupid firings because he wants our warriors focused on fighting. Instead he has them working as mall cops, picking up garbage, searching for drugs, stopping cars in cities… Weak! www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/n...
RULE ABOUT AMERICAN FLAGS: If you burn the fabric part, you're looking at jail. But it you use the pole part to assault a police officer, you get a presidential pardon, praise, and some cash.
right? since when did “the consequences would be too severe for the perpetrator” count as an excuse to toss justice in the trash can? 🤨