Today we learned the US economy has lost jobs for the first time since 2020. In other words, we haven’t seen jobs news this bad since - well, since the last time Trump was in charge.
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Today we learned the US economy has lost jobs for the first time since 2020. In other words, we haven’t seen jobs news this bad since - well, since the last time Trump was in charge.
One would think he would be done by this ⬆️ admission.
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For context, remember that freak show Fear Factor; Joe Rogan was the host convincing people to partake in doing unconscionable gross things and dangerous stunts for viewers entertainment. The beginning of the end of decency began.
Any Senators here? I’m a biomedical scientist with immunology, cancer, infectious disease expertise. RFK Jr lied to you in his confirmation hearings. Repeatedly. Provably. He’s lied to EVERYONE for 30+ years. Repeatedly. Provably. He WILL lie today. Repeatedly. Provably. 1/
🔮 Measles proliferation
The Antichrist of modern medicine IS RFK.
We need an HHS Secretary who respects science and does not make policy based on conspiracy theories. Vaccines are safe and effective. Kennedy is threatening the health of our kids and all Americans. He must resign.
In 1900, nearly 1 in 5 children in America died before age five. Vaccines changed that. But Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s lies are fueling a public health catastrophe. People will get sick. People will die. Science saves lives—misinformation kills.
Warnock to RFK jr: "For the first time, we are seeing deaths of children from measles. We haven't seen that in two decades. We're seeing that under your watch. You are a hazard to the health of the American people."
They are privatizing Medicare, which means they will profit off denial of coverage. Say no to the GOP or face loss of insurance.
Hinge
RFK is also bad at math 🧮
RFK Jr: It's gonna be the biggest infusion of federal dollar into rural healthcare in American history BERNIE SANDERS: Yeah. You know why? Because you're cutting $150b for rural hospitals, you're putting $50b back. That's not an infusion. That's a loss of $100b.
www.savehhs.org
Ossoff: He never should have been confirmed by the senate and he needs to resign. It is one thing to be a skeptic or a reformer. It is quite another to be a fool…
Epstein victims' attorney Kuvin: [Epstein's co-conspirators] remain unnamed. The feds know who they are, but they’re refusing to disclose it. The public needs to know, and the public deserves to judge for themselves why someone may have been at Epstein’s home with a bunch of topless underage girls
When a HHS Secretary says “I think” I’m thinking why is he Secretary making health decisions for every American; he isn’t a Scientist nor Doctor. He is a narcissistic nut job pretending he’s and expert.
Hence, their new Trump branded name Department of War according to headlines yesterday 🥶
This administration will be infamously remembered in history books as absolute murderers.
Spencer Kuvin, Epstein's victims' lawyer, says the FBI interviewed 40+ girls, some just 14, and prepared a 54-count indictment. Then came the secret plea deal that let Epstein walk. Those interviews are in the files. Kuvin says Alan Dershowitz scoured the girls' MySpace pages to smear them as liars.
⬆️ this is signature for Republicans today.
What about the same for AG Ken Paxton’s three mortgaged homes.
He is an incompetent nut job destroying every American’s future health.
What’s happened to Marsha Blackburn, she looks absolutely haggard and unkept in the RFK senate hearing today.
There is no moral justification for today’s extraordinary concentration of wealth. It is distorting politics, rigging markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people. Closing our staggering wealth gap is crucial to the survival of our economy and our democracy.
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The president is using the military to dismantle cities that didn't vote for him The president is using the military to distract from women speaking out against his and Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuses. We are not living in ordinary times. Extraordinary responses are called for.
Google won’t be forced to sell its Chrome browser and can keep paying companies to keep its search engine as the default on smartphones, thanks to a federal ruling. In other words? Google gets to remain a monopoly and keep its harmful, anti-competitive practices. Shameful.
Voters without comprehension skills…
New policy, blow to smithereens and leave no evidence behind. 🤥🫡🥶
Next they'll be rewriting textbooks to say Japanese American internment camps were delightful summer resorts.
Senator @campbell4tn.bsky.social calls out Pinocchiogles
All action taken on suspicion 🫣
At least someone is pleading for your help Mr. President; does anyone believe he will act on their behalf?
It's Time to Release the Epstein Files. People who fight this hard to hide something have something to hide. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
Sued into homelessness…for exposing the truth. How far we have fallen, as a civil society, if we cannot get justice, after 2 1/2 decades, for all these sexually abused women.
I’ve studied US drone strikes, I wrote a book called “Drones and Terrorism,” and this Caribbean strike is different. Lethal fire at a non-threatening target in a non-hostile environment on purpose when other means, such as capture, were easily doable, and without even attempting a legal rationale.
May he retire in shame for the remainder of his time on 🌍
Breaking: Peaceful activists, many with disabilities, are being arrested at the Capitol right now. These individuals are putting themselves on the line to do all they can to save healthcare for millions of Americans.
How on earth can any man support someone with such a fragile ego; a man that resorts to such infantile distractions as flyovers to silence survivors of childhood rape?
The guy that ordered 8 fighter jets to perform a low altitude fly-over in an effort to drown out Epstein survivors is the same guy who wants you to believe he's innocent.
As a sexual abuse survivor, I need to talk about my anger. I'm so angry about the government not stopping Epstein when they had the opportunity, causing hundreds more girls to fall prey to him because of inaction. I'm enraged about the cover up. And I'm furious about lack of care for young girls.
Working parents trying to make ends meet with no close family to help…basic needs such as food on the table, roof over their heads, clothing, etc. The plight of the working class vs wealthiest 2%.
The President is begging me to call him to bring in the National Guard. I’m not going to beg him for something we don’t want.
A lawsuit filed by the NAACP Wednesday seeks to stop Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe’s (R) special legislative session, calling his attempt to redraw maps and rewrite the ballot initiative process an unconstitutional power grab that threatens democracy in the state. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
The 100 lowest-paying US corporations spent $644B on stock buybacks from 2019 to 2024. Buybacks artificially boost share prices and inflate CEO pay. The typical worker at these companies earned $35k last year. Meanwhile, the average CEO was paid $17.2M See the problem?
That and the ruckus of loud shouting and police presence going on nearby tells me this hits at the heart of the upper echelons all around the 🌎 and they want it silenced. FINCen documents, wow indeed.
"For so many years, it felt like Epstein's criminal behavior was an open secret." “We’re not going away. We’re not staying quiet. We’re not going to give up.” Annie Farmer (Epstein survivor)
Where is the intel briefing on this military strike on civilians in international waters based on suspicion? Who authorized this? So many questions on the legality of this military operation killing civilians. The usual process is via the judicial court system not murder.
“Fire RFK Jr. now.” From @motherjones.com ⬇️ www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
32 USC § 502(f)(2) would violate Article IV of the Constitution if applied to support deployment of un-federalized out-of-state National Guard troops into a state that didn’t want those troops there, as with Trump’s proposed use of the Texas National Guard to invade Illinois
We are overdue for a “ Have you no decency” kind of moment.
100 VICTIMS is astounding. Even more astounding, that's less than 10% of Epstein and Maxwell's victims.
That $9b worth of crap 💩 is food for the poorest of the poor; just looking at Leavitt, you know she has never missed a four course meal, ever.
Cheek
Kennedy must be removed from office. He has already caused a catastrophe at HHS and the CDC. I strongly suspect that he is about to use data manipulated by unscrupulous and unqualified individuals to attempt to falsely show that vaccines are in some way a net harm. He simply must be stopped.
Absent a tear though; I assume that was a non-existent tear Effie was wiping from her check.
De ja vu…I just watched Mockingjay Part 2 and thought the same thing. It also crossed my mind that all that gold trim idea came from President Snow’s palace. Bonkers, People!
Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
As we begin September, Democracy Docket is tracking 139 voting and election cases is 40 states. 13 in Georgia 13 in North Carolina 10 in Texas 9 in Arizona 8 in Pennsylvania 8 in Wisconsin Democracy is on the docket! www.democracydocket.com
It’s as if those two positions operate on the honor system; like the current SCOTUS majority…😳🤔🧐🤨
BREAKING: The Pentagon has authorized up to 600 military lawyers to serve as temporary immigration judges. This is a blatant expansion of military power into a civilian judicial process, a dangerous erosion of the separation between the two. Every day, we inch closer to fascism.
Under Dr. Oz, Medicare is launching a pilot program that will use AI to determine whether patients would be covered for certain procedures. Companies running the program will be paid a share of the savings from rejecting claims. Who in their right mind voted for this? No one.
🚨BREAKING: Federal court STRIKES DOWN down new South Dakota law imposing a nine-month deadline to file ballot measures declaring it unconstitutional under the First Amendment. Congrats to Dakotans for Health and their legal team! www.democracydocket.com/cases/south-...
This ⬆️ is what leadership looks like in the 🇺🇸 under The Constitution.
Things feel uncertain right now, Illinois. I want you all to know we’re doing everything we can to protect your rights. Make sure you know how to stand up for yourself and others at illinoisimmigrationinfo.org.
If Trump/Republicans keep this up the military will have a mass exodus and we won’t have a military. 🇺🇸 Without honor there can be no valor.
"That is why I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it." Yes, there is a difference.
A relative just sold a 2 family he inherited because he can no longer afford living on his SS. He is now going to be spending $1400/month for a 1 bedroom that doesn’t include utilities. That’s $16,800/year. His SS is $1700/month. We warned him to keep his only asset and rent the other unit. 😖
I agree
Troops in the streets and he thinks he’s going to get a Nobel, peace begins at home
Happy Labor Day to the union workers who built America’s middle class.
The only talent Noem has is pretending.
Statisticians are experts in analyzing numbers and data ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ experts in their field.
There's very little that the billionaires hate more than workers having rights.
If the CDC was going to publish these guidelines its scientists had an obligation to review the evidence behind them. But HHS officials rebuffed repeated requests. “The answer was no—they declined to share any of the materials that they were using to support that decision…CDC has never seen it.”
Newsom v. Trump: a federal court granted our injunction, blocking Trump’s illegal use of the military for domestic law enforcement. The ruling is clear: Trump is breaking the law by trying to create a national police force with himself as its chief.
KOH: “Trump Stripped 1 million workers’ bargaining rights while plastering his face on the Labor Dept… Closed miner health clinics… Cut $2.4 Billion from youth & senior job programs… This is the real story of Trump & Labor.” #LaborDay
Immunized military brat still kicking it here too!
I am 76 & I have had most of these vaccinations at one time or another. Also vaccinations against Covid, Tetanus, plus Cholera & Yellow Fever when travelling in foreign countries. These prevented me catching horrible diseases & dying a gruesome death. They did not harm me, they protected me!
This week, Oversight Committee Dems are meeting with many of the victims of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. We will listen to their stories and continue our work to seek justice against anyone responsible for these horrific crimes.
Blue sky 😃
Looks like blue 👖
Kressly: I expect in the next couple of weeks, this is going to get worse. You’re going to hear from the same administrative people who have gutted the expertise needed to promote child health — pushing false narratives like, “we need to look at the link between vaccines and autism.” That is a lie.
Positive connectivity vibe!!
I thought it was just me.
Way to rise up San Diego Labor Day ✊
NEWS A federal judge BLOCKS the Trump admin from using the military in California for civilian law enforcement in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act. Ruling storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Background www.allrisenews.com/p/general-sc...
This is how, we as people, connect positivity!
📌 Nice to see D.C. show up day after day. ✊🏼 Power to the people!
Agree, that goes hand in hand with term limits. Left up to We the People to determine via referendum; not Congress.
I am outraged at the hatred and violence perpetrated at this innocent kid and thankful for those who intervened. Unconscionable violence can never be tolerated nor accepted in a just and civil society. This is a hate crime and needs to be treated with severe consequences.
Accumulating that amount of money doesn’t happen overnight; longevity breeds corruption.
No one beats the original 007; Sean Connery
Oops 🙊 Laura 😅