That about sums it up.
That about sums it up.
180 shots fired, 150 broken windows. Tumultuous firings and resignations at the CDC. The installation of a techno-optimist with a history of pushing unproven medical treatments. The month of August 2025 may go down as the worst in the history of the US Health and Human Services Department.
Weird White House Window Heaving:
Somebody is throwing things out of a window of the White House wtaf
Photo passed along from a federal employee from inside the Dept of Labor building, where a giant Orwellian image of Trump's face is now draped outside. Big Brother is watching.
Whether it’s Michelle Obama suggesting kids exercise instead of watching tv or RFK Jr. telling kids to drink raw milk instead of taking vaccines, both figures took a controversial approach to children’s health.
She was arrested on the morning of Feb. 20 at her home in Charlotte while caring for her three younger siblings — the youngest of whom has autism — while her mother was at work.
The United States killed American Indians and drove them from their homes in order to steal their land. Could it work in Gaza?
"Donald Trump is a dictator – and we are further along the road of authoritarianism than people want to admit." Marc Elias
This isn’t politics. It’s not left or right. It’s not conservative or liberal. Cutting funding to treat children with brain cancer is hate and greed.
Meet Candon Dahle, Why isn't he not in jail for life? Bingham County Idaho THIS CHILD RAPIST was sentence to 180 days in jail for raping a 7 year old girl for 5 years, part of the plea deal was that he would not have to register as a sex offender. WOW: (white privilege )
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Around 10 ICE agents showed up at Malcolm X Park to detain an unarmed man peacefully sitting on a bench. Wouldn't it be great to see them raking leaves instead of harassing innocent, harmless people and using the National Guard for free maintenance labor? What a total disgrace. #OnYourSide
Thread BREAKING: A new 38 page proposal shows Trump & Netanyahu are openly planning to take over Gaza & turn it into a casino & tourism resort. Here are the horrid details, & yes all of this is a violation of international human rights law & further confirms Israel is committing genocide. 1/4
The plan is completely illegal; it’s openly in violation of black letter law. Nevertheless, the Trump admin is trying to claim that the budget bill effectively amended the law; even though it was a budget bill, and cannot by definition amend the law.
They’re doing all this to prevent people from MEMORIALIZING A MASS SHOOTING
“Actual issues that impact our real lives” In Chattanooga, Candidate for Governor Jerri Green (D) asks if folks care about rising grocery prices (YES), women’s rights (YES), or trans athletes (NO) @marshablackburn runs on it, but we’ve had 0 trans athlete issues in Tennessee
This is phenomenal messaging. Hello Democrats? Knock knock, anybody home?
Who voted for war with Venezuela?
Jones: We have a presidential administration that has more outrage about the changing of the cracker barrel logo than they do about changing the policies that allow our children to be gunned down in school…
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
The DeSantis regime will do more to protect sidewalks from chalk than children from bullets.
These are my patients. Kids dying of brain cancer. Kids and families desperate for treatment and hoping to find a cure through experimental therapies. Trump is dismantling science and children with brain tumor are the victims. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
Why don’t you send everyone proof of life first? (Either way, Chicago doesn’t want you here)
For Black Memphis residents already burdened by pollution, the gas turbines that powered Musk’s supercomputer raised concerns. The Chamber of Commerce downplayed fears by claiming 9 government agencies oversee the facility. That’s not exactly true. By @wendicthomas.bsky.social, w/ @mlk50.com
This interview, which is also available to listen to as a podcast, provides a useful overview of some of the dangerous trends we’ve been seeing in recent months regarding federalization and militarization of state and local police functions.
NEWS: Walgreens just got taken over by private equity. Private equity has a record of running companies into the ground. Walgreens could be the latest victim: closing more stores, service plummeting, workers losing their jobs, and eventually bankruptcy.
National Guard keeping DC safe
Trump and the GOP are hellbent on killing our kids. Whether it’s no gun control or defunding pediatric brain cancer research/trials. Our kids deserve better than Trump and his feckless Republicans.
NEW figures show that 61,226 people are currently in ICE detention — the highest number ever in US history. According to ICE data, 70% of these people have no criminal conviction.
Thank you, Trump voters.
Every time your electricity bill goes up for the next 10 years, it can be traced back to this Administration’s actions. They are making solar and wind power illegal to build in the United States. They are artificially restricting supply while demand is going up.
Them: “Cities are all rotting hellscapes!” Cities:
#bluesky #news
I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is. This isn’t 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.
The Trump administration's bid to remove Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve board has been temporarily blocked by a federal judge, who expressed skepticism over the president's claims of misconduct.
Social Security’s chief data officer, Charles Borges, submitted a whistle-blower complaint this week detailing how DOGE uploaded the confidential personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans to an insecure cloud server (NYT story below). Today Borges resigned, citing his persecution.
BOOM. The federal appeals court rules Trump's tariffs illegal, because they are. There's no national emergency, and so the power to tariff a country rests with Congress. Trump admin has lost at every stage of the process, but stay tuned for the Supremes to chime in.
Missouri’s governor has called a special session to redraw the state’s congressional map, targeting the seat of Black Democrat Emanuel Cleaver (MO-05). apnews.com/article/texa...
Here's my Friday post: - U.S. voters say that crime is a serious problem, esp. in big cities. - But they do not approve of Trump exerting federal control over local police departments. - Latest example of the president moving the policy thermostat too far. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/voters-say...
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Then you could stop defunding mental health programs and back red flag laws. Simple!
Mike Johnson will go down in history as the white supremacist Christian nationalist Speaker of the House who attempted to cover up a pedophilic criminal regime and replace US democracy with a fascist dictatorship.
Trump’s Pentagon is reinstalling a 20-foot portrait of Robert E. Lee — with a slave guiding his horse in the background — at West Point. Trump and Hegseth are honoring traitors who fought against America to keep people enslaved. There’s nothing “patriotic” about this.
Host: Ghislaine Maxwell told the Deputy AG, 'I never, ever saw any man doing something inappropriate with a woman of any age.' How much weight do you put in the comments of Maxwell? Speaker Johnson: Not much at all. She has no credibility. She's been convicted for sex trafficking
He’s trying to get her killed…
Oh my fucking god 😳😳😳😳😳
Welch: This is a guy who has redecorated the oval Marie Antoinette style and is building himself a ballroom because he has no intention of leaving.
This GOP Board of Elections Chair was arrested in my town yesterday for putting pills of MDMA and cocaine in his granddaughters Dairy Queen and blaming it on employees but got busted by security footage.
America is being held hostage by a death cult.
8/28/25😳 second time this month, Justice Department dropped charges against a client represented by Pam’s brother abcnews.go.com/US/doj-drops...
Ain't no way RFKJ wrote this when he literally called us "troubled" only a few hours ago. Sorry, anon comms person/maybe the AI forced to write this drivel... We just added a few notes. Anything to be helpful! ✨😊😇
Get him, Liz!!
Little kids are having to use their bodies to shield friends from gunfire while armed soldiers are busy picking up trash.
Crazy indeed.
AP Livestream - CDC coming out in force to support our ousted leaders.
Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.
CDC employees standing up and walking out in light of the mass shootings, firings, and *waves hands in the air* everything else. #USAnotRFK Lets gooooo
Again: Faith leaders *themselves* have long also criticized "thoughts and prayers" rhetoric — including leader's Leavitt's own Catholic tradition. Here are some examples from the past 24 hours, including a statement from Sisters of Mercy of the Americas (Catholic nuns) on the shooting.
Refusing to act, then falsely accusing those who want to see something tangible done to protect kids of attacking prayer on top of it, is doubly shameless.
Someone needs to get all the Megans, Meagans, and Meghans, in a room and finally figure this mess out.
This is how it’s done.
CINDY MCCAIN: “The desperation is overwhelming.”
She appears unaware or what her own government decided yesterday. Most of the country can NO LONGER get the vaccine. It isn’t about individual choice.
There’s no good scenario in our future. Even his steady unraveling is being sane-washed. Everything is on fire. Everything is breaking. Everything is getting more expensive. Everything is worse. Everything.
Trump is doing and saying things that are weird and unstable even for him. I'm not a doctor. I have no medical expertise. I am unqualified to assess his mental health. And yet, as we all seem to be thinking: absolutely nothing would surprise us at this point. It is clearly that bad.
Vance has taken eight vacations during those 200 days
This might be the angriest I’ve ever been in print. Kash Patel tweeting about his pullup workout instead of doing the job of counterterrorism kind of broke me. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-cdc-th...
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...
"Criminals wear masks, so why can't we?" Because you're not supposed to be criminals, that's why.
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About a dozen current/former *pro-enforcement* ICE agents tell Reuters the Trump Admin's arrest quotas are leading to detention of thousands of non-criminals, green card holders, and even citizens. Share this. Every Republican should lose in 2026 bcuz of this.👇 www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.
He was born *after* Sandy Hook
I’ve never felt safer than when I’m at Mass and in communion with others in the presence of God. That anyone, let alone a child, would ever feel unsafe at Mass is beyond heartbreaking. Words can’t do justice for the pain the families of these children are feeling.
Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. Remember this before you order your next pumpkin spice latte.
If you're a CDC employee and have heard anything about the removal of Susan Monarez as director, please reach out! You can contact me at pjacobs@aaas.org or on Signal at phiejacobs.48 @altcdc.altgov.info
This is good, very, very good.
When it comes to crime, I think a gunmen murdering two children in a Minneapolis church is more concerning than a nanny taking kids to a playground in Los Angeles or a homeless person laying on a bench in DC. Sorry to get so partisan, but that's how I feel.
BREAKING: In Atlanta, GOP operatives are trying to strong-arm Fulton County into installing two far-right activists on Georgia’s LARGEST elections board Both have ties to the national voter suppression machine & a record of undermining confidence in our elections This can't fly under the radar
Two children were killed and seventeen people were injured in a shooting at Annunciation Catholic School. A Cracker Barrel logo change received far more scrutiny and attention than any fight against the epidemic of gun violence in this country. Our priorities remain idiotic.
This is how you stand up to bullies and aspiring tyrants.
"The posthumous memoir of Virginia Giuffre, one of Jeffrey Epstein’s most prominent accusers, will be published in the autumn, a publisher has announced... The 400-page book will be released on 21 October, according to the Associated Press."
The memoir will be released just months after Giuffre’s death.
With a straight face.
Well that’s what happens when you stop funding women’s care. Not to mention strip them of their rights. www.cbsnews.com/news/mississ...
Walz: "It boggles my damn mind that in the midst of a military takeover of our cities, the flaunting of the rule of law, that the press finds the need to talk about, 'Oh, there's a division in the Dem Party.' There's a division in my damn house & we're still married and things are good. That's life"
📌Not one question was asked about this gruesome-looking death hand today. This, after video of repeated leg drags, and bloated ankles. Trump's morbidly obese, 79, and in obvious failing health. It's a big fucking story. Unless those kinds of things were just reserved for Joe Biden ...
Words cannot adequately describe what a colossal disappointment our mainstream media has been during our slow descent into authoritarianism.
KILMAR IN BALTIMORE: “Never lose hope. Promise me you’ll continue fight for freedom — not just for me, for everybody.” He was just taken into ICE custody.
My heart breaks into 10,000 pieces once again.
Walz says Harris "would have been a fantastic president... we wouldn't wake up every day to a bunch of shit on TV. We would wake up to an adult w/ compassion & dignity doing the work, not a manchild crying about whatever is wrong with him. May his fat ankles find something today. Petty as hell."
In solidarity with Kevin Sorbo and Scott Baio stating they are refusing any acting jobs in California, I hereby refuse to play defense for the Colorado Avalanche in the upcoming season! I will also not be pitching for the Rockies this year... HOLD THE LINE, BOYS!👍
People daily ask me why I became a Democrat 2 months ago. My answer is always this: Bcuz my former political party is a real threat to democracy, the Constitution, & the rule of law. They must be defeated. And every day, in ways big & small, they prove what a threat they are.👇
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