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Hey Congress – make Alex Acosta's testimony public and televised. There's absolutely no ethical reason for it to be private and transcribed. Nefarious AF. We need to hear your questions. We want to see him squirm. We need to see him squirm. Yet another sign of a cover-up.
So, kudos to both #Democrats & #Republicans in the House for their draft mark-up for next year's #budget, which maintains funding for #NIH (just like the Senate). This is rare, true #bipartisanship and should be praised. But #RussellVought will not be stopped by an appropriations bill. Why? 1/
As we look on in horror as Tя☭mp continues his authoritarian takeover of our country, it’s wise to remember how he/we got here. #PutinsPuppet #RussianAsset
Russia is a terrorist state, and that's the team Trump wants to play on.
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"At The Atlantic, he will cover ... a particular focus on attacks against enlightenment values... Tom comes to us with great expertise in scientific controversy and rooting out scientific dishonesty." Umm, what? I think they meant spreading, not "rooting out." www.theatlantic.com/press-releas...
Happy Labor Day? F*ck him!
"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."
This is described in a book written in 2025 in the following terms: “a huge mass of humanity leapt off the Confederate pan of the balance scale and leapt onto the Union pan.” Read Du Bois for an account that actually does the self-emancipation of enslaved workers justice.
A view from the inside 👇 bsky.app/profile/jben...
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These are the current owners of SCOTUS. They are absolutely getting their money’s worth. Robber Barons and Jim Crow. America saw this photo several years ago, and shrugged.
NEW: A week or so ago, one federal agent kept popping up in videos from Trump's violent DC crackdown—so @jsweetli.bsky.social and I investigated. Turns out he's a 26-year-old US Parks Police officer, a lesser known law enforcement unit currently championed by Interior Sec. Doug Burnum. Our report:
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This is basically the exact same headline we read everyday now. This is what happens when insurrectionists are allowed to remain in office. #ZEROAccountability #ZEROConsequences
A plan for Gaza circulating within the Trump administration calls to “voluntarily relocate” Palestinians, establish U.S. control, and turn the area into a “gleaming tourism resort and high-tech manufacturing and technology hub.” (Washington Post)
No. The @nytimes.com has. And The @washingtonpost.com and @cbsnews.com and @nbcnews.com and …
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A different meaning to thermostatic politics: Ohio Republican Rep. Roy Klopfenstein (R., Haviland) wants to allow utilities in Ohio to remotely set Ohioans' thermostats in their houses.
We must accept that this SCOTUS is bought and paid for by a very small group of corrupt billionaires who hold complete power and sway over them and their rulings. They are not representative of our country and are unconcerned with the law or future generations of Americans. This is just one example.
It really is deplorable.
This photo from a Pro Publica article should really clarify things for all of us. SCOTUS is corrupted by the same gang that owns Congress. It’s as simple as recognizing (and admitting) that these billionaires have unlimited access and sway to get whatever they want. Who’s going to stop them?
It is literally a transnational crime syndicate masquerading as a government. He and his sycophants are going to tear it down and sell it for parts. We’re watching it happen. @sarahkendzior.bsky.social told us this in 2019.
You should listen to this person. It’s truly disconcerting. I don’t think we really understand what is happening. She is literally saying that she (ICE) can impose their enforcement wherever they want. Whether the mayor or governor approves or not. Lawless roaming militias, backed by Tя☭mp. Wow.
Exactly! Why has our media (society?) normalized the freaking POTUS openly threatening individuals and entire cities? How can this be remotely acceptable?
And then there’s this👇 bsky.app/profile/leah...
Wow RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!
Statistician James Stroud, who is one of at least 21 FEMA employees put on leave after signing a letter to Congress criticizing the Trump administration’s disaster preparedness
Oh please. John Bolton is a despicable human being who withheld vital information so he could publish it in a book and capitalize off of the carnage. Anyone with an ounce of integrity would be in front of a camera (or Congress) asap. That includes today as well.
Rubio has denied Palestinian diplomats visas to attend the UN meeting claiming "terrorism"—but grants access to Israeli officials despite undeniable evidence of war crimes, genocide, famine, bombing Christians, & child sexual abuse & prisoner rape by IDF soldiers. This is what fascism looks like.
Over 300 MILLION American citizen's files stolen by DOGE. Why can't 1 person with access steal the EPSTEIN Files? #LEAKtheEPSTEIN_Files
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. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
I’m absolutely begging reporters to stop suggesting that Lisa Cook stated that she would use both properties as a principal residence on her mortgage APPLICATIONS Mortgage APPLICATIONS and mortgage AGREEMENTS are not the same thing We have no idea what she represented on the APPLICATIONS
“The Hamptons” crew, and their counterparts across the country, need to start fearing a backlash from the working class. Grassroots activists and coordinated action is our only chance. We need to mobilize.
The Trump administration is scaling back efforts to study and counter violent extremism, and the impact is becoming clear. On Thursday, Sept. 4 at 4 p.m. ET, join ProPublica for a conversation about what these recent changes mean for domestic security and public safety. 📌 RSVP and submit q's:
He is trying to erase all history of Democrat contributions to our society. Paving over the Rose Garden was symbolic. Taking over The Kennedy Center. Attempting to rollback The New Deal via EOs. Gutting the Civil Rights Act. He wants to return to the time of the Robber Barons and Jim Crow. #RESIST
This court is totally corrupt and illegitimate. Pretending they represent the people of this country is laughable. However, it is no less of a threat than the traitor in the White House. Insurrectionists completing a coup. #ClearAndPresentDanger #ZEROAccountability #ZEROConsequences
We must fight this takeover with everything we have. I know it is incredibly difficult to imagine, but once an authoritarian regime takes control, it is almost impossible to get it back. #ClearAndPresentDanger
This firefighter arrived in the US at age 4, has been here for 19 years, was on track to legal status, and was on a crew trying to contain a major blaze (in Washington state, vs Oregon, fwiw.) h/t @joshuajfriedman.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Donald Trump incited a violent coup to overthrow the 2020 election and hold onto power. It will never be ok that he was not held accountable, including banning him from ever again holding public office.
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“Team Tя☭mp” is dismantling every aspect of our society and disappearing people from our streets. All while Congress watches and comments about the pending danger. Do something!
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
On why the media is suddenly covering Epstein: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/mafia-stat...
We dead.
Media displays "real maliciousness behind this journalistic malpractice...slow-walking us through this coup that is ongoing and into this authoritarian state" says @lincolnsbible.bsky.social on my podcast. Clips courtesy of @chattjazz.bsky.social. Full podcast link: www.patreon.com/c/PoliticsWi...
Daskalakis’s resignation letter is an electrifying indictment of the monsters in charge of HHS: bsky.app/profile/bren...
This crime at Social Security might amount to the biggest data theft in human history. Committed by a government against its own citizens. I don’t think anyone has begun to grasp the sheer scale of corruption and institutional destruction that has occurred in the last few months. Era-defining.
NEW — I wrote about the resignation of SSA's chief data officer just says after he blew the whistle on a major data vulnerability, including the full text of his blistering email and how his allegations confirm those made by a previous whistleblower and a former employee back in March:
Meanwhile, on the Eastern edge of NATO…. I find it tragically depressing that we have allowed a Russian asset (who is owned by Putin) to demolish our entire society. How do you recover from firing thousands of scientists, doctors, first responders, humanitarians? What happens to them? And us?
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Imagine if he (or some other smart, ambitious Dem elected official) actually laid out a detailed plan on how to address this crisis and steps forward to solve it! That’s what we need. Unfortunately, the country is under siege everywhere everyday continuously. Wow.
I will believe it when I see it. Not going to get my hopes up.
This is US right now. Before Labor Day.
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This is what a collapsing democracy looks like. This is insanity. What are we actually doing here?
Garcia: We finally got word from the Epstein estate. They're going to be providing the actual Epstein book… the estate is actually going to actually now get us that book and a bunch of other documents that they have that's actually not been reported yet.
We are so fucked.
We are. And no one (with any actual power) is going to do ANYTHING about it. Wake the F*ck up!
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Like a deadly virus, created in the lab of bad public policy at the Heritage Foundation, Project 2025 has been let loose on our nation with impacts we are all just beginning to comprehend. My latest on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...
Trump just ended the century-old "de minimis" exemption, which allowed items worth less than $800 to be shipped to the country duty-free, or without having to pay any tariffs. In response, postal services from around the world have begun suspending shipments to the US www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...
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Jan Carey is charged with lighting a fire in an undesignated area and in a manner causing damage to real property or park resources — Class "B" misdemeanors, typically resolved in D.C. with a small fine, per this story. He called Trump's executive order bluff.
The history of Germany’s Weimar Republic serves as “a reminder that democracy often erodes slowly at first, via the gradual surrender of those entrusted to defend it.”
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The hyper normalization of open fascism continues apace in the nations capital.
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.
CDC leaders on why the left: “I resigned because I could not be part of the weaponization of public health and CDC… we should always be questioning - but you shouldn’t have a preconceived idea before you have the data.”
1,000 Xs THIS!!!
The national Democratic Party has forgotten how to fight. But in this critical moment, we need fighters — not folders. We need a Democratic Party that is a little less Washington and a little more Texas.
"Our goal, in short, is a humane alternative to genocide” - Yarvin "Yarvin’s disturbing manifestos have earned him influential followers, chief among them..tech billionaire..Thiel... one can imagine-with horror-what a receptive would-be autocrat like Trump might do with those ideas" @gilduran.com
And then there’s this👇 bsky.app/profile/leah...
I don't know wtf happened to my Governor, but he continuously seems to spew crazy shit like this more and more.
Every day. Absolutely exhausting. bsky.app/profile/geor...
Pay attention. Your family’s safety is on the line.
Kyle should have a national audience. He knows what is happening and is willing to call it out. Brave in today’s world.
The Pentagon is restoring a portrait of Gen. Robert E. Lee, which includes a slave guiding the Confederate general’s horse in the background, to the West Point library three years after a congressionally mandated commission ordered it removed, officials said. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/u...
She is a Russian asset. But so is Tя☭mp, so it’s not surprising.
“Those who forget the past….” This was 8 years ago. When you look at this, it explains so much about what is happening now. This is what they have been waiting for and these are the people who support him. Very Chris Rufo and Stephen Miller. Or Thiel. “Fine people on both sides.”
They are emerging from the shadows. They have been waiting for this. How easily we have forgotten “fine people on both sides.” Remember them? How old are they now? Right. #ClearAndPresentDanger #ZEROAccountability
This Thiel lieutenant / eugenics freak thinks billionaires should have their own lawless artificial island countries ("seasteading"), there should be markets for selling human organs, and the FDA should allow drugs to be sold without evidence they're effective. www.citizen.org/article/jim-...
Trump Is Attacking Our Ability to Find Out What Is Going On in Our Country www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...
