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Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
I love this guy
September 1, 2025
Ah…Kicking Bird 😔 www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...
I don’t know if you all remember, but Sharice Davids was reelected in Kansas even after the GOP gerrymandered her district…
If you are in or near Baltimore you should know that the Walters Art Museum (which is free!) has a small but wonderful exhibit about cats in medieval manuscripts
A reminder on this Labor Day: Slavery still exists in the form of incarcerated labor. It’s long overdue to end forced labor in prisons.
MO Gov Mike Kehoe is calling a special session to gerrymander the 5th District which encompasses Kansas City. He is specifically violating Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which bans any voting practice that denies or weakens the power of a racial minority to elect its preferred candidates.
This is a tactical, as well as moral, error. Musk is spectacularly unpopular in the UK. There's a chance to take the patriotic high-ground, calling out foreign billionaires stoking up violence in Britain, without being seen to dismiss "ordinary people". And you can challenge Reform to back you.
I'm still waiting for the relentless onslaught of media demands for a press conference and calls to resign.
To be clear: 1. We’ve taken in roughly $150 billion in tariffs - nowhere near a single trillion, much less trillions. 2. Tariffs single-handedly saving our military — which has been the strongest in the world for decades — is the dumbest shit I’ve read today.
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...
There's only one way to stop the rumors about Donald Trump's health: a press conference. Why won't he talk to the press, and why isn't the media doggedly demanding it?
#CollectiveCourage: Hundreds of economists from across the country have signed an open letter calling on Congress to uphold Federal Reserve independence. If you’re an economist, you can still sign on: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oGrUv-_CoeulsLZDt_lyNTPbm9wYCAfiTLm7KMiwgzA/edit?tab=t.0
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
Nationwide Labor Day protests #50501
As a friend recently put it: the venn diagram of people who assured us the gun violence was worth it because we need the guns to protect ourselves against a tyrannical federal government and the people cheering on Trump as he deploys the military to take over American cities is a circle
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/
Fatality.
Happy Labour Day!
Nice to see that Stafford has a new bookshop, apparently as of yesterday - That Little Bookshop on Tipping Street. Noticed it about five minutes before they were closing today but they were happy to sell me some Algernon Blackwood.
I’m not sure being under oath will make a damned bit of difference to RFK Jr (he’ll just lie and prevaricate) but it’s worth a try.
I don’t believe in Heaven, but even I know Trump won’t be getting into a place reserved for good folks…
Reminder: Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.
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."
RFK Jr. likes to claim that thimerosal in childhood vaccines causes autism spectrum disorder (ASD). So I wonder if he’d like to explain how the rates of ASD diagnoses in the U.S. have kept going up when thimerosal was removed from all childhood vaccines in 2001?
This is not a hot take but maybe what Labour needs is some actual left-wing policies, to stop supporting genocide, to stop austerity, to stand up for immigration as a net good, to enact a wealth tax, to stop the creeping privatisation of the NHS, to renationalise public services…
We went from modern science to medicine wagon in 7 months.
💉 Shingles vaccine and heart health A global review found the shingles jab was linked to an 18% lower risk of heart attack or stroke, with protective effects seen even in younger adults. 🔗 www.theguardian.com/society/2025... #SciComm #HeartHealth #Vaccines 🧪
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.”
it shouldn't be easier to get a gun in America than the covid vaccine
Our national parks generated $56 billion in visitor spending and supported 415,000 jobs in 2023. The entire National Park Service budget was just $3.6 billion. That’s some return on investment — so why is Donald Trump taking an axe to our parks?
Who voted for war with Venezuela?
I’m old enough to remember when Republicans claimed to support States” rights and attracting investment. Those are weird things for them to give up on, but look at what’s happening in Connecticut and Rhode Island.
New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them. States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.
40% of Missourians vote for Democrats, and this is the Congressional map the Republicans are pushing for.
Television legend Stephen Colbert has just signed a $13.5 million deal with Netflix for a 7-episode series.
If you’re interested in finding out what we can do to fight back against the gerrymandering in Missouri, I hope you’ll join this call. I will be speaking on the call. www.mobilize.us/indivisiblek...
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
I’ve heard from a couple of messaging strategists now that people shouldn’t post so much about COVID19 vaccines because it’s “divisive”. I am here to say that I do not give a damn what is popular. I will never ignore scientific evidence for the sake of expediency, and neither should anyone else.
Of all the “honestly I never expected” things — Congress absolutely rolling over and abdicating its power to the White House — any White House — is one of the most shockingly unnecessary. It will not be remembered well in history, by either side, ironically. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
Trees can be replaced, but that takes time and effort. Dirtier air, soil erosion, habitat destruction … these are all irreversible in the short run, and cause lasting damage in the long run.
⚡️ 'We are already in conflict with Russia' — Merz says Putin destabilizing Germany. "(Russian President Vladimir) Putin is destabilizing a big part of our country," German Chancellor Friedrich Merz told French outlet La Chaine Info.
Americans are used to having a functioning public health infrastructure. It hasn’t been perfect, but it’s been there and it’s prevented a lot of bad stuff from happening to individuals and to us as a population. I suspect we are going to miss it when it’s gone. Like, now.
Sounds like he’ll fit right in with RFK Jr et al: ‘O’Neill has no training in either medicine or the science of infectious diseases.’
Colorado, you in danger, girl.
ATLANTA: “The city is opening a grocery store to clear up a downtown food desert… City leaders say the market will help those in the area who have not previously had easy access to healthy food.” (cc: everyone acting like @ZohranKMamdani is crazy🤔) www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...
Far-flung powers trying to exert authority over Boston haven't fared well historically
He’s trying to get her killed…
I often talk about the fact that MAGA does not access the same news as the left wing. I present to you Exhibit A. Dr. Daskalakis’ resignation letter excoriated RFK Jr. and shared that RFK Jr. was lying to the public, manipulating data, and ordering unethical actions. This what Fox News served.
Tulsi Gabbard revealed undercover CIA agent’s name on Twitter. Can we please have a real government?
I realise that to cis people, when trans people lose access to gender-affirming care, it seems like we're bitching about not getting our little treats. I have more than one friend whose body is currently falling apart because it no longer makes its own hormones and the government banned their HRT.
Four million dollars. They’re cutting a program to test treatments for children with brain cancer to save four million dollars a year.
Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC, revealed that RFK Jr. has NEVER been briefed by CDC experts on measles, flu, or Covid: “No one from my center has ever briefed him on any of those topics…He’s getting his information from somewhere”
I grew up in the Columbine era of clear backpacks, when politicians thought that would stop shooters. I was 13 when that happened and I'm almost 40 now. It's getting worse. FFS.
Between RFK decimating the CDC, normalizing Ashli Babbitt & the umpteenth school shooting... I'm losing the will to post. #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files
Mexican American history is American history.
And if you have guns at home, they’re at risk there too.
It's the guns. Stupid!
To say this photo op is appalling is a gross understatement. So profoundly unamerican.
The Florida government has signed contracts with at least $245 million of taxpayers' money for this this short-lived un-American photo-op cruelty.
Karoline Leavitt without a shred of irony: "Decline is a choice."
Art by @mackinnonart.bsky.social
This FDA is the least bound by science in living memory. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
New, from me: America is no longer a functioning democracy. It is a competitive authoritarian system, hurtling rapidly toward authoritarianism. This was a hard piece to write but we can't move forward if we don’t acknowledge where we are. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...
This sounds good. It shouldn’t be a radical position, but I know someone somewhere will say it is.
Yes, it should. However, that would require an effective mainstream media in America — which we don’t currently have.
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...
Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
Anything but calling for an assault weapons ban. I can’t with this man.
Michael Broadway died from an asthma attack on a scorching day inside an Illinois prison. Witnesses said a nurse didn't want to climb the stairs to his cell. A friend in a nearby cell put it plainly: “staff in these prisons DO NOT see us as human beings.”
This is kidnapping. Outright criminal kidnapping. www.latimes.com/california/s...
She’s getting a husband, not a lobotomy. She’ll be fine. You can stop clutching your pearls now.
Submitting to men will never equate to female empowerment.
With its rivals away, Reform basks in summer headlines. It has truly been Farage season, taking advantage that the rest of Westminster is OoO. Here's how they have dominated everything - and why Starmer may come to regret how they let that happen. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Fuck RFK JR. tinyurl.com/mun9z72w
Important.
The guy responsible for the most massive crime wave in U.S. history...is telling you he's crushing crime. Read that a couple more times.
Gupta: Here’s why this matters: 1. Because the FDA indications have changed, if I prescribe it to you, I’m opening myself up to a lawsuit. He directly signals that… 2. A pharmacist is no longer able to prescribe and administer a COVID-19 booster that doesn’t meet indications.
AMERICA: “It’s a mental health issue.” REST OF THE WORLD: “We have those. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA: “It’s video games.” WORLD: “We have those too. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA B: “It’s cause they took Jesus out of the classroom.” WORLD: “God, you’re stupid.”
Per CDC leadership exodus, @drdemetre.bsky.social, the Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, has posted his resignation letter on Instagram. “The intentional eroding of trust in low-risk vaccines favoring natural infection and unproven remedies…
reform: www.npr.org/2022/06/01/1... We don’t want thoughts and prayers. We don’t want more ‘good guys with guns’. We want sensible gun control.
I’ve had enough of the ‘guns don’t kill people, people kill people’ bollocks. I’ll say it again, the guns are the problem. We know this because other countries have figured this out and stopped it. For example, in the UK, it took one school shooting, way back in 1996, to get meaningful ...
personal arsenals. The media is going to try to make yesterday’s shooting about trans people. Don’t let them distract you. Most trans people, like most of the rest of us, want to be left to live their lives in peace. The guns are the problem. We have to do something about them –
While I’m no Constitutional Law scholar, I am pretty good at reading (PhD in English lit). It’s always been my understanding that the Second Amendment is more about allowing States to protect themselves should a tyrant take over the Federal government, than about allowing individuals to amass ...
What is happening right now with public health and vaccinations and everything related is so huge and overwhelming and painful and dangerous that my brain has translated this feeling into “looking at the sun”. That is what it feels like to me right now—what I imagine looking at the sun is like.
This wannabe dictator, through his party, is already stifling the press. If you want to know how this ends if it's not robustly challenged now, look across the Atlantic.
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.
This really shouldn’t need saying: leave traumatised school children alone. They can’t/won’t demand answers from elected officials, but they’ll use children as click bait?
Susan Collins shamed at ribbon cutting ceremony for not having held a town hall in 20 years.
This. Thread.
ICE took 2 firefighters OFF THE FUCKING FIRE LINE!?
Cruelty and indignity are the point: ‘The firefighters at work combating a wildfire in the state of Washington likely also felt the indignity inflicted by the government today when ICE agents showed up and made them line up so the agents could check their IDs. The agents arrested two firefighters’.