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A brilliant post from Prof Timothy Snyder for Labor Day. A snippet: "The death that Trump and Vance prefer, and cause, and need is indirect and passive-aggressive: by destroying government functionality, the generate unnecessary suffering, which they then blame on migrants and African Americans."
Lauren Jewett is running for US House, LA-1. Louisianians deserve a representative who works for US. Who respects our dignity & knows that workers are the backbone of our state & country. Retire Scalise. Elect Lauren Jewett. Donate: secure.actblue.com/donate/laure... #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
This is my 95-year-old neighbor. He's been living alone since his wife passed away from cancer, and not long ago, he also lost his loyal companion dog. Now, every day, our chicken Hei Hei escapes the yard just to visit him. She sits with him, accepts treats, and lets him pet her like an old
Meiselas: Xi Jinping and Modi and Putin and all these world leaders are gathering in China, and they're laughing. You know when Donald Trump says the world was laughing at us ā the world was not laughing at us before. The world is quite literally laughing at us right now.
NestlĆ© dismissed CEO Laurent Freixe after only a year due to an undisclosed workplace affair, extending the management turmoil at the worldās biggest food company thatās known for its conservative corporate culture bloom.bg/3JFwwqO š·: Gabriel Monnet/AFP/Getty Images
Jerry Nadler ends his remarkable career, conceding that his brand of politics on the Middle East is over. āI donāt know what to say at this point,ā he said. āI canāt defend what Israel is doing.ā www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
Platner: I believe that input from working people is far more important than input from someone who simply has money. I believe that we shouldnāt be settling for crumbs while billionaires eat the cookie we baked.
Together, we've made Illinois a beacon of hope for workers everywhere. We've made life more affordable for families, created good jobs with fair wages, and made it easier to get an education and find a career. When we stand up and stand together, we win.
China invests in its people and infrastructureā¼ļø The US invests in its billionaires and corporationsā¼ļø
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RFK jr's cult beliefs in no way supersedes anyone's right to prevent death or disease in their self or their family. Full Stop.
Bernie Sanders said fuck the Democrats again today and I wonder will they stop recruiting Janet Mills if they have already started? Hey, the cool thing nowadays is to sabotage shit.
Just saw a post where someone says Democrats should be talking about their accomplishments and their lack of power is an excuse. My brain died on site. It is what it is brother. The American voters did this and they need to fix this. That's the bottom line. Or we can all burn together.
Presidents Xi, Putin and PM Modi would never be palling around today if it wasnāt for the extraordinary foolishness shown by the president of the United States.
It is folks like this that just piss me offā¦ Iām a Black man from SC. By 21, Iād been pulled over a few times for ādriving too slowā or ālooking suspicious.ā Trailed 10 miles on I-20, asked if I had drugs when Iāve never touched drugs in my life. Thatās profiling. So donāt pretend to know my life.
46 years ago today the magnificent ringed planet Saturn was visited for the first time by a spacecraft from Earth: NASAās Pioneer 11. š§Ŗ š
18K US Doctors Signed Quickly! Remove RFK Jr because he endangers lives. More are signing every minute!
Modi and Putin meet at a time when their relationship is under global scrutiny
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In recognition of Labor Day, hereās my SPOLITICS commentary in how the formation of sports unions were central in the overall American labor fight youtu.be/P4wmnnARz-8?...
The people shouldnāt be afraid of their government. @chefjoseandres.bsky.social is amongst the most sincere, giving men on the planet. Today, heās serving an honest #CupOfJoe to the felon in chief. Chef JosĆ© AndrĆ©s radiates compassion. #DemsUnited
Good Morning Happy Labor Day President Biden Honoring and Acknowledging American Workers "The Heart and Soul of our Nation" Just a few minutes ago Trump...nada..nothing... Enjoy your day Celebrate Workers #UnionStrong #LaborDay
We do not fully grasp how damaging the SCOTUSā presidential immunity decision was. What we know is it was a disaster and the huge damage it has caused is being compounded daily. That is because the result is a collaboration between corrupt justices, a supine Congress and a demented President.
RADDATZ: One of the things they are trying to do in DC with the National Guard is have them back up local law enforcement WES MOORE: They are picking up trash
Pritzker on Trump sending troops into cities: "He has other aims other than fighting crime... he would like to stop the elections in 2026 or frankly take control of those elections. He'll just claim there's some problem with an election and then he's got troops on the ground that can take control."
A DOGE whistleblower revealed that employees uploaded a Social Security databaseācontaining full names, dates of birth, and addresses of hundreds of millions of Americansā to a cloud server without āindependent security or oversight," creating āenormous vulnerabilities" to hackers. trib.al/FDTWG43
as @drandrewthaler.bsky.social knows: āScience on Bluesky is kind of the best part of Bluesky. A smaller social network is not necessarily a negative. The engagement is tremendous.ā š§Ŗš
Americans rely on public transportation to go to work or school. But @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social is walking from Philly to Harrisburg to protest PA State Republicans slashing SEPTA funds (Philly's mass transportation) and ā¬ļø fares. We need to elect Dems to the PA senate so we can stop this nonsense.
If you enjoyā¦ Weekends Safe working conditions Retirement benefits Paid vacations Breaks at work Sick leave Paid holidays ā¦ then youāre part of the labor movement. Happy Labor Day.
Some astonishing omissions by Eric Loomis in his Times oped on labor š www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o... Not that unions & all of us don't need to do more--we do But the essay ignores the substantial efforts that unions have undertaken that I chronicle hereš1/x open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
Does pushing India closer to China and Russia make America great again? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...
You won't see this on the news. In fact, you may not see this anywhere. Residents of Washington D.C. march up 14th Street on Saturday August 30, 2025 chanting "Troops Go Home".
1 September 1914 | A Dutch Jew, Alexander de Vos, was born in Amsterdam. In #Auschwitz from 2 December 1942. No. 79383 He perished in the camp on 13 February 1943.
Hey Sen. James Lankford, stop your Orwellian doublespeak. We're not "jumping to conclusions" ā RFKjr is a dark tetrad. He knows nothing about human healthcare. He's systematically trying to cull the American public. Remove him from office. Immediately.
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...
When he said he wanted to make America healthy again, he meant by unleashing a scourge that only the "healthy" would survive.
"It's further eroding...the credibility of those who are in leadership positions in our military, that they would allow full military honors to someone who lost their life while committing the act of sedition." Michael Fanone discusses Ashli Babbitt with JVL:
Early voting starts today, Boston! Find where and when at michelleforboston.com/vote.
Some Putin history over the last 20 yearsā¦some of which was cited on @lastword.msnbc.com last night. My latest in the @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/putin-alwa...
The President and SecDef love yes men. Thatās very, very dangerous. My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/donald-tru...
The great @jamiegangel.bsky.social nails it!
āā¦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.ā My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
Let that sink in !
ā.. Kennedy was acting bizarre, saying he can tell as he walks past children if they are dealing with āmitochondrial challengesā .. Can he mysteriously divine illnesses just by looking? āOur health secretary is a certified quack.ā @nytopinion.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...
I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is. This isnāt normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.
As long as guns are easily available to crazy people, mass killings directed at so-called soft targets will continue. This is a fact. Countries where it's more difficult for crazy people to obtain guns have less shootings. This is also a fact. Do with these facts as you will.
Iām not sharing this to scare peopleāthough itās fucking terrifying. Iām sharing it because we all need to be on guard. We wonāt be getting reliable data from the CDC anymore. Worse, the guidance could be harmful. RFK Jr. has no medical training, no scientific backgroundā¦
Welch: Am American president talks to other American citizens like that, and propagandists come on TV and normalize this behavior. And nothing about this is normal. Nothing
Hey Mark- Told one of my chiropractic patients about Cost Plus Drugs last week and your mission after he complained a skin cancer medicine was going to cost him $1700- He found it on your website for under $20- for real. Best project ever. @costplusdrugs.com
To those who say I should talk more about the role of mental helath in school shootings. You are right. Letās talk about Trump wanting to cut $1B from youth mental health grants and programs: nonprofitquarterly.org/how-trumps-b...
Two days later ā¦.
New, from me: The CDC shitshow is a microcosm of the mismanagement of the Trump era. It also demonstrates some extraordinary courage among principled public servants, who were willing to lose their jobs to draw attention to damage being done to public health donmoynihan.substack.com/p/your-gover...
I was on NewsNation again last nightācalling out Trump for politicizing crime in American cities to distract from the economy, the Epstein files, and getting pushed around by Putin.
Johnson, polls can "manipulated," except when we like them.
š§µ In the wake of numerous reports of interactions with AI chatbots that resulted in deadly consequences, the Center for Democracy & Technology's Dr. Michal Luria says AI firms should stop designing products that pretend to be human.
šš§Ŗ can soneone help me to find an image of the cover of the september 19, 1959 issue of nature? i can't find it online... your help would be much appreciated!
Republicans have decided that their political careers are so important that the gruesome deaths of children are a small price to pay.
Just in case you forgotā¦
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."
"You don't need a partisan lens to see when troops are occupying the nation's capital and masked men are kidnapping people off the street, you should be worried about authoritarianism. If you've cracked the history book once or twice, you don't need much expertise to recognize what we're seeing."
Bondi, Patel, Hegseth et al are doing what Trump wants. They're his loyalists and his agents. Trump (who is proud of Operation Warp Speed) has no similar relationship to RFK Jr. Trump made a deal with him. He could dump him. There's a potential wedge there, between Trump and Kennedy. Exploit it.
Yes, it should. However, that would require an effective mainstream media in America ā which we donāt currently have.
RFK Jr.: "I was at the bottom of my class. I started doing heroin, and I went to the top of my class. Suddenly, I could sit still and I could read." (2024)
If ever there was somebody who was clearly āoverburdened by mitochondrial challengesā itās RFK Jr
Dr. William Foege, 89, who helped end smallpox in the 1970s, recently wrote: RFK Jr.ās āwords can be as lethal as the smallpox virus.ā And his actions are more lethal still. Heās waging war on America. Thatās an impeachable offense. He must be removed from office. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...
Shuler: Thirteen billionaires in one pictureāfour of whom now run agencies of our federal government. If youāve ever met someone who says the word āoligarchyā is too confusing or too complicated, well, you can explain it with that one photo.
Trump's use of red state National Guards in DC is really about viciously turning Americans against each other, about stoking hate and violence *among Americans.* JB Pritzker's response is so good because it lays *this* bare. Me and @brianbeutler.bsky.social on this: newrepublic.com/article/1997...
"The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/h...
Anything but calling for an assault weapons ban. I canāt with this man.
Gupta: Hereās why this matters: 1. Because the FDA indications have changed, if I prescribe it to you, Iām opening myself up to a lawsuit. He directly signals thatā¦ 2. A pharmacist is no longer able to prescribe and administer a COVID-19 booster that doesnāt meet indications.
Ashley Babbit dishonored her service by committing insurrection against her country. While her death is absolutely tragic and I wish it hadnāt happened, the Air Force giving her honors is in itself a dishonor.
āā¦in one conversation, the tester asked Meta AI whether drinking roach poison would kill them. Pretending to be a human friend, the bot responded, āDo you want to do it together?āā āAnd later, āWe should do it after I sneak out tonight.āā
One part of the resignation letter from Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who formally resigned from his position as Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the CDC.
šØBorder Patrol arrested two firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire at the time. When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member āyou need to get the f*ck out of here. Iām going to make you leave.ā
Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:
Wow! I knew something shady was going on. Susan Monarez, the CDC director, was ousted because she refused to go w/ MAGA shady agenda. This a āwarning to every American: our evidence-based systems are being undermined from withinā Science is under attack. š§Ŗ www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
The president deployed the National Guard to deal with a so-called crime emergency in Washington, D.Cāso why are troops wandering around picking up trash? trib.al/kLU5gwQ
Michigan Republicans are following Trumpās lead and defunding the police in a big way across the state. Horrible.
Itās been 17 days since Trump militarized DC. Crime is on the rise. Trump owns it.
āMy grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece & lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him & his legacy proud. The nationās health security is at risk & is in the hands of people focusing on ideological self-interest.ā Dr. Daskalakis, CDC immunization director
According to federal data, 13 of the top 20 cities in homicide rates have Republican governors. None of those cities are Chicago. 8 of the top 10 states in homicide rates are led by Republicans. None of those states are Illinois. And yet Trump is sending troops here.
The recently selected chair of a North Carolina county Board of Elections was charged for allegedly drugging ice cream from Dairy Queen with MDMA and Cocaine and giving them to his two grandchildren
if i were on this deployment i would be pissed. these people have actual jobs! and here they are, walking around picking upt rash.
Jesus Christ. If your credit isnāt frozen at all three bureaus, I would strongly consider doing that now
"For those people out there who ... say, 'Well, I just don't like those people either' ... You could be next. ... This is not about any one individual, this is about our rights as Americans, and our right to have a justice system where choices about prosecuting are made without fear or favor."
Our slide into authoritarian rule would not be possible without Trump's willing accomplices. William Pulte's corruption of the bureaucracy to single out the mortgages of Trump foes like Lisa Cook for "investigation" is the perfect example of this. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1996...
FORTUNE: ā.. any alleged misconduct on her part seems almost as reprehensible as the bank fraud that led to Trumpās conviction for inflating the value of his assets to obtain favorable loan and insurance rates.ā @fortune.com @jeffsonnenfeld.bsky.social fortune.com/2025/08/26/t...
Growing sense in the last couple of days that things are spiraling quickly.
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Ominous: Trump and Stephen Miller are very clearly working to acclimate Americans to the spectacle of US troops in US cities, to the idea of the military carrying out domestic enforcement on US citizens. Harrowing stuff from @vermontgmg.bsky.social in this exchange: newrepublic.com/article/1995...
The prolonged public torturing of a single man because the state cannot admit to its errors is not something that occurs in a free country
one sign that the āunitary executiveā is less the restoration of an older constitutional order and more the imposition of a radical new one is that allowing the president to act untethered from most legal or congressional limits has largely just served to plunge the country into disorder
Truth Art! #arresttrump #art
The US President has ordered the creation of āspecializedā military units to āquell civil disturbancesā in all 50 of our states. Military units under his personal control. Deployed across our homeland, in peacetime. Little time is left to stop this insanity.