“Get it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses. Because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” Dwight D. Eisenhower
Joined there for political activism. Came here for the sanity. Glad to be on the right side of history, come what may. Fluent in reality TV. This is my cat, Nico.
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“Get it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses. Because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” Dwight D. Eisenhower
Happy Labor Day to the union workers who built America’s middle class.
Remember when Biden was too old?
Trump’s plan to rename the Department of Defense as the Department of War shows (once again) that his self-characterization as the “pro-peace” candidate was complete bullshit. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
Television legend Stephen Colbert has just signed a $13.5 million deal with Netflix for a 7-episode series.
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They've been pretending since 2015 so I'm not sure that they'll change their game
Why does the film "Weekend at Bernie's" keep coming to mind?
"We head out at midnight." #Caturday
GOV. WHITMER on marriage equality 🏳️🌈 attacks: “Treating people equally is a Michigan value… LGBTQ+ Michiganders make our state stronger, better, and more vibrant.”
*rump’s America, in two headlines.
Chef's kiss.
Corporations socialize their losses and privatize their gains.
Without consumer advocacy, I can't see any of this news as more than corporations giving themselves permission to raise prices
This is the way forward.
Joni Ernst, who cast key vote on Hegseth, vandalizes U.S. military and walks away.
OpenAI acknowledges that lengthy conversations with ChatGPT might regrettably kill your kids.
SUE THE FUCK OUTTA THEM, LADIES
I will never forget.
If what we hope will happen ever happens, we'll watch as many, many people in the world of politics, overnight, go on to pretend they were always against what preceded it. This era has been a highly effective acid test for character. Take notes now, so that you don't forget in the future.
Welch: As someone who lives in a red state, let me just tell you what MAGA supermajorities get you. We're 50th in education. The worst in the whole country for women to live. We're poorer, worst health care. And if you look at the bottom ten states, they are all MAGA supermajorities.
Blue states banding together to make up for a Federal vacuum in health policy feels like the first step into… something.
TRUMP IS AMERICA’S BIGGEST LOSER.
Current, continuous mood:
This is 8 year old Fletcher Merkel, who was killed in the horrific Minneapolis shooting. His father says “Fletcher loved his family, friends, fishing, cooking and any sports that he was allowed to play.” Let’s remember Fletcher and lift up him and his family.
Yes, there is that.
Never thought I'd see the day where there are Labor Day specials on weed, so there's that.
🚨BREAKING: Portugal’s President Labels Donald Trump a ‘Russian Asset’ — Respect From World Leaders Clearly Lacking
🤣🤣🤣 Satire
Just another reason to keep giving Netflix my money.
Washington DC is under something close to COVID restrictions. But radio silence from the people who regarded the latter as Naziism. Reminder that, at its peak, COVID was killing people at 50 times the murder rate. In fact, it still slightly exceeds the murder rate.
Just noticed this on the checkout notification I get from the Chicago Public Library. I think it’s new and I love it!
Word.
Good make Susan Collins work for it.
A huge fuck you to everyone who told us we were "overreacting"!
Please fill this out, and consider noting that you don't really care what a government program costs. They will absolutely use those innocent little questions like I only want this if it's cheap for the government to Nix the program. Every dollar we spend on the IRS gets multiple dollars back!
Yep, inflation’s on the rise again. Must be all that ‘winning’ we were promised. I’m definitely feeling it in my wallet. Are you?
The damage this man has done is incalculable.
That's how I got a wonderful dog. Dude returned her, a 5-week old puppy (she was separated too young from her mama and littermates) because she cried the first night. He was going to bring her back the next morning but I took her. She was my partner for 13 years.
No matter what, he won't get what he deserves... as always.
I will never get over how a handful of tech bros set billions of dollars on fire to build a plagiarism machine that doesn't work and will destroy human society when they could have used a fraction of that money to fund a new golden age of creativity and knowledge.
The problem is Mike Johnson doesn’t have a human heart. They blame mental health yet they cut funding for mental health services. They don’t want their constitutional rights inconvenienced yet they ignore our kids’ inalienable rights to live w/o active shooter drills and Kevlar backpacks.
Wake. Up.
👀🤔 @gentlem.bsky.social www.axios.com/2025/08/29/c...
I’m not sharing this to scare people—though it’s fucking terrifying. I’m sharing it because we all need to be on guard. We won’t be getting reliable data from the CDC anymore. Worse, the guidance could be harmful. RFK Jr. has no medical training, no scientific background…
It seems like every day I see something that makes me want to start crying and never stop. But it's never the obvious things, it the other heartbreaks that catch me unguarded.
I agree with you, but it's better that they don't keep her (or any pets).
"A mural of the Statue of Liberty in shame" by JDL Street Ar in Lille , Roubaix France 🇫🇷
What is WRONG with people? What kind of arsehole supports this? SICKENING
She's a gem. So proud of her.
www.thedailybeast.com/minnesota-se...
The next days and months and years will demand from all of us great courage — and solidarity. Be prepared.
It seems like every day I see something that makes me want to start crying and never stop. But it's never the obvious things, it the other heartbreaks that catch me unguarded.
Did Goering, Goebbels and Himmler have such a good time during the Nazis’ 12-year reign that it was worth what came afterward, with their names enduring as symbols of degradation and evil? Asking for Marco Rubio.
Excellent question.
Girl bye.
Page One in Raleigh: #SNAP
“A respected network of hospitals and cancer centers is halting enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it would no longer provide funding to the group”
He’s trying to get her killed…
I'm glad that I believe in karma.
Trump has stripped Kamala Harris’ Secret Service protection that Joe Biden had quietly extended before he left office.
Remembering the late great GENE WILDER - who left us 9yrs ago today.
WSJ Page One: @wsj.com www.wsj.com/business/ret...
Starbucks CEO pay: $96 MILLION Starbucks worker pay: $15,000 Coca-Cola CEO pay: $28 MILLION Coca-Cola worker pay: $14,000 CEOs used to make like 20x the average worker. In 2024, the average CEO earned 632x more. The system is rigged.
Can't stop thinking this morning about the amount of talent, leadership, and institutional knowledge that has been pushed out of the science wings of our government this year. The structural integrity of so many of those useful organizations have been severely - perhaps permanently - damaged. So sad
Enjoy!
In Atlanta, staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gathered to applaud colleagues who resigned following the firing of Director Susan Monarez. With four top officials stepping down, many now feel that the CDC is effectively finished.
CDC scientists receive a heroes welcome after walking out today.
With their gutting of the CDC and other agencies Canada should no longer accept any food imports from the 🇺🇲. It's a public health issue #BoycottUSA
Hi, immunologist here: (a scientist who studies immune & inflammatory processes) RFK Jr is talking absolute bullshit when he says he can “see in kids faces that they have inflammation” That’s NOT how immunology works. He is an anti-science profiteer. Start calling him such.
Hey Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, Nancy Mace, and anyone else using he victims of the Minneapolis shooting to push your political agenda of hate, Go F- yourselves! I am pretty sure Jesus is not on your side on this one, sinners. I stand with Senator Tina Smith! www.thedailybeast.com/minnesota-se...
Ashli Babbitt was a domestic terrorist who was shot while committing a violent crime that demonstrated a clear intention to do bodily harm to the people on the other side of those doors. The officer ended the threat she represented...as they were required to do by lethal force if necessary. It was
Just admit it: You love your guns more than your children. The first step is acknowledging the problem.
My thought exactly.
Watch. If you claim one of these to get a vaccine, they’ll use it later as a preexisting condition to crank up your health premium or kick you off your plan.
Your weekly reminder to join a union while you can #WorkersOfTheWorldUnite
Happy Birthday (belated).
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Sales of Tesla cars in Europe plunged in July, in the company’s seventh consecutive month of declines, while Chinese rival BYD saw a monthly surge of 225%, data released on Thursday showed.
Alabama has a homicide rate 290% higher than California’s, but Fox News is choosing to ignore that.
Chicagoans will rally and march on Labor Day starting at 11 a.m. at the Haymarket Memorial to protest Trump's threat of a military occupation of the city. It's time to speak out. Join us.
also why he's coming for mail-in voting
Vile.
It shouldn't be up to American children to save each other from getting shot. It's the job of American adults to stop shootings from happening in the first place. Ban assault weapons again now.
One thing that really hits you when you're directly affected by gun violence in schools is that there's nowhere to hide. Public, private, religious, whatever - unless you're going to homeschool your kids, we live in a world where they're at risk of something like this happening.
Thank YOU. As it happens, awhile back I found a folder, I had long assumed lost, with some of my earliest paid clips (early 90s, typed on my Apple 2c). I had really knocked myself out working on them. I prepared to cringe hard, but they were really pretty good!
This is the nicest thing I've read all week. Makes me genuinely happy for you.
Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve on the Minnesota shooting: "The sad thing is we can't sit here and tell them that help is on the way. Because we're not going to do a damn thing about it."
Susan Monarez, the CDC director, was fired just shy of a month into her role. At least four other top CDC officials have also submitted their resignations, with one of them writing, “I am not able to serve in this role any longer because of the ongoing weaponizing of public health.”
who among us didnt do molly and coke with their grandpas? not gonna lie that would make for a hell of a trip to chuck e cheese.
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
Landlords say they can’t afford a rent freeze, but have $2.5M to give to Cuomo. Reminds me of corporations that spend millions to bust unions instead of just raising wages and offering benefits. Doing the right thing is always cheaper than the cost to block it.
Republicans could pass gun safety laws any time they want. They don't give a shit.
We are in very dark times. It’ll take an entire political/social movement, an overwhelming rebuke at the polls, and a new vision of governance to unstick this country from whatever this collapse is.
Dr. William Foege, 89, who helped end smallpox in the 1970s, recently wrote: RFK Jr.’s “words can be as lethal as the smallpox virus.” And his actions are more lethal still. He’s waging war on America. That’s an impeachable offense. He must be removed from office. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...
Five press freedom groups band together to form the Journalist Assistance Network. @rcfp.org @penamerica.bsky.social International Women's Media Foundation @freedom.press @pressfreedom.bsky.social