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RFK Jr., driving away with Rudy Guliani tied to the roof of his car
Social Security whistleblower who claims DOGE mishandled Americans' sensitive data resigns from post apnews.com/article/soci...
O'Keefe to Noem: "At least 20 people who signed this letter were current FEMA employees & they've been placed on administrative leave. Is it now the policy of DHS that anytime an employee puts their name on something criticizing you or POTUS, they should anticipate being put on leave or fired?"
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🚨 “The people united will never be divided!” Happening in OUR nation’s capital today. 1/2
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
🚨 Baby dies of whooping cough as childhood vaccinations fall www.thetimes.com/article/196a...
The six reliably pro-Trump justices are "racking up a rap sheet of constitutional abuses of staggering import." ICYMI Philip Allen Lacovara on the coming judgment of history:
I, myself, as a Naval Officer, an engineer, and a Ph.D. scientist have watched the fiasco of "Trickle Down" economics since I was commissioned in the United States Navy, May 1981. I was afraid then of what President Reagan might do. Turns out? Those ideas only needed time to inflict their damage.
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
Holy shit!!!
If James Lankford wants to know why we have more cases of autism, he can read the CDC's own report, which says that improved screening has led to more diagnoses of autism, particularly among Black, Latino, Asian-American and low-income people. www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
One thing that's particularly maddening about what's happening today—beyond that it's happening—is that when people talk about how we are moving toward authoritarianism, toward fascism, by a collection of narcissistic sociopaths, many Americans' eyes glaze over.
"The lunatics are running the asylum."
THIS ➡️ "the New York Times is very much implicated in the false balance and "performative neutrality that enabled this moment"
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
Why do you appreciate unions? I’ll start: Weekends off Paid vacations Work breaks Sick leave Paid holidays No child labor Safer working conditions Health care and retirement benefits
President Pedophile knows that HELPING Ukraine will trigger the release of his Russian sex crimes blackmail videos.
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"'What’s happening at the DNC right now is just farce. If you can’t raise money, you can’t register voters, you can’t put states back in play, and you can’t broaden the tent, I just don’t know what purpose you serve,' said a progressive Dem strategist."
PM Carney is polling at 68% federally which is unheard of four months in. What’s more unheard of is he’s polling at 59 percent approval in Blue Alberta! Dean Blundell lays out the facts and explains why here! A great article! #MarkCarneyOurPM #USDemocracy #Pinks open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...
Everything we take for granted — weekends, paid vacations, sick leave, safer workplaces, health care — exists because of unions.
If "your party" has key figures spouting transphobia, then it is not a left-wing movement. Transphobia is a narrative emerging from the far-right anti-gender movement. Embracing its narratives emboldens them. There can be no embrace of a political movement which abandons trans people.
Hey look 👀 Another vaccine that protects against more than an infection…wouldn’t you want to be protected from cardiovascular disease & stroke?
Ennui shared this. I am thankful for science.
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."
As President Trump threatens to send military troops and federal agents into cities across the country, state governors must be prepared to act as a firewall for our freedoms.
This is what leadership looks like.
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Chris Mooney’s 2005 book got it right. His book can be read alongside “What’s the Matter With Kansas.” The two phenomena—attacks on average people and attacks on science— are driven by the same Republican forces. @chriskmooney.bsky.social
"Here’s the truth we cannot escape: If Ashli Babbitt is honored, then few things are sacred. If loyalty to the Constitution and an attempt to overthrow it are treated as equal, we lose the very meaning of service." www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
Netflix co-founder and Democratic megadonor Reed Hastings has given $2 million to help California redraw its House maps in the latest indication of the campaign’s outsize stakes.
REP. BUDDY CARTER: What eroded confidence in the CDC was the covid vaccine BEDINGFIELD: Who was president in 2020?
CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @mluckovichajc)
Unless you’re a total Trump MAGA Nazi, you’re out. Absolute loyalty combined with complete incompetence is mandatory
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JD Vance: “I don’t believe Trump” will improve the lives of his voters. { ht: @patriottakes.bsky.social }
This part. Everyone should be taking notes from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social’s @mizzwelch.bsky.social
Yep. Republicans have been dumping IOUs for their billionaire tax cuts for decades. A lot of these tariffs haven’t even been collected. It’s really an accounting trick. If you don’t take possession you don’t pay the tariff. Lawsuits are piling up but it’s cheaper to litigate than pay the tariff.
The president’s global trade war has a bad day in court.
🚨BREAKING: Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe (R) reinforced GOP power grabs sweeping the country, calling a special legislative session Friday to redraw congressional districts and weaken the ability of voters to pass laws through ballot initiatives. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Here’s how a real Leader looks at a dictator.
I live in Maryland and was able to make an appointment to get the new/updated COVID vaccine at CVS. At least in Annapolis/Anne Arundel County, they have the new formula. All I did was answer "yes" to having preexisting conditions and no more questions were asked. Marylanders, please share around!
RFK Jr, "We need to stop trusting the experts, right.. Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy" Good luck America 🤷♂️
Scientists have studied mRNA for decades. The vaccine has proven to be safe & effective-saving millions of lives. Researchers are working on mRNA vaccine for HIV. RFK Jr is an ignorant nut. In 2019 he visited Samoa & told ppl measles vaccine is dangerous. Tragically he was believed. 83 kids died
"Anger can turn into activism... Activism can turn into pressure on elected officials and that pressure can turn into laws. It's not hopeless at all." Watch Jen Psaki's powerful remarks on turning anger over today's tragedy in Minneapolis into action against American gun problem.:
📌 Scientists are not in the business of advancing missions antithetical to public health. ✊🏼
WASHINGTON (AP) — Top adviser to RFK Jr. will serve as acting CDC leader after White House pushes out director, AP source says.
He’s a Peter Thiel guy who dabbles in “longevity science” quackery
This is a great reporting by Noah Lanard www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
New: We just published a video featuring parts of our interview with Neri Alvarado, who spent more than 4 months in CECOT after the Trump administration falsely accused him of being a gang member. As you can see in the video, his largest tattoo is an autism awareness ribbon.
We’re going to go on a rant for a minute, and yes we’re bringing some history with us. Back in 1755, Benjamin Franklin wrote words that still echo today: “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
Vance on undermining the Federal Reserve: "I don't think we allow bureaucrats to make decisions about monetary policy and interest rates without any input from the people that were elected to serve the American people...POTUS is much better able to make these determinations."
“Trump Jr. Joins Polymarket Board as Crypto Betting Platform Returns to US” Polymarket is backed by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund. 8/28/25 bravenewcoin.com/insights/tru...
Q: "Now that you're in power, you say that there is no Epstein client list. Why do you think it is that so many of your own supporters don't believe you?" Vance: "We have to remember this entire story blew up during the Biden administration."
Chinese officials "were saying, it's very interesting to watch President Trump because we've had a long-term strategy to basically try to weaken and divide America's alliances....President Trump is just doing it for us." Jake Sullivan joins @timmiller.bsky.social on the latest Bulwark Podcast:
Is "Leftist Lawfare Shark" the lawyer equivalent of left shark?
My boyfriend and I made a list of people we could have sex with if we ever got the chance. He chose Margot Robbie, Charlize Theron, and Ana de Armas. I picked his younger brother, my therapist, and the neighbor who waves at me shirtless.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz dismissed the possibility of a Zelensky-Putin meeting anytime soon, calling it “obvious” that no summit will take place—despite earlier suggestions from Trump and Putin. Trump is reportedly stepping back, leaving it to Ukraine and Russia to arrange talks.
If the Democratic Party intends to win this fight, it must stop functioning solely as a party & instead step into its moment in history: to lead a pro-democracy movement capable of confronting this authoritarian threat. https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/stand-up-america-the-time-for-a-pro?r=2lckc
The first head of state of a European country admits publicly what they all know: that trump is acting as if he is a russian agent. Excellent start. More please.
Portugal’s President Rebelo de Sousa: “The top leader of the world’s foremost superpower is, objectively, a Soviet or Russian asset. He operates as an asset.”
Seems fitting
Looks like Ken was a naughty boy—again!
'World Just Changed': TV Host, US Economist Agree India's Tariff Stand Signals New Global Order flip.it/Qt1Q-e
20 mostly white private academies, all founded in the 1960s and 1970s, brought in more than $20 million from North Carolina in three years. None reflected the demographics of their communities. Few even came close. (Published Nov. 2024)
Sen Patty Murray (D-WA): “If there are any adults left in the White House, it’s well past time they face reality… We cannot let RFK Jr. burn what’s left of the CDC and our other critical health agencies to the ground—he must be fired.”
Karoline Leavitt on the CDC: "One of those individuals wrote in his departure statement that he identifies pregnant women as 'pregnant people,' so that is not someone who we want in this administration anyway."
So disappointing to read this idiotic post from a teacher. Hope you didn’t teach civics.
Thanking God for sparing your child when other parents’ children were shot dead is a bit like sending a thank you note to a serial killer for going to the house next door.
Just in case you forgot…
If someone tells you there's nothing we can do about gun violence beyond thoughts and prayers, remind them: —Gun laws in other countries have prevented mass shootings —More guns don't make us safer —A majority of Americans want gun reform We don't have to live like this.
Be sure to call Sen Cassidy and thank him!
It’s almost as if appointing an anti-vax lunatic with zero qualifications to oversee America’s health was a numbskull idea and everybody with a functioning brain knew it.
National Guard doing landscaping in McPherson Square. Washington, DC
She wasn’t patriot. She wasn’t a hero. Ashley Babbitt betrayed her oath and attacked the very country she once swore to defend. Her death is tragic — but honoring her service while ignoring her is a stain on the Air Force. True service means loyalty to the Constitution, not to a wannabe dictator.
All I can say @vanityfair.com is this: it's NOT glamorous to profile the spouse of a president who deported innocent men to a torture chamber in El Salvador and kidnapped children from their parents 8 years ago at the border. It's more like "I need a shower this is so dirty."
Scientific American: For 20 years, Denmark conducted a large and meticulous study of whether aluminum in vaccines caused chronic childhood diseases. The data was clear: It did not. Malignant crackpot RDK Jr wanted a retraction of the study. The Annals of Internal Medicine said no.
Let’s continue to think we don’t need science and stop the petroleum/ fracking to make more and more plastics? Not! www.theguardian.com/environment/...?
The cognitive dissonance required to be anti-abortion (“saving” babies) and anti-vaccine, risking children’s lives and health through exposure to vaccine-preventable diseases is staggering.
“Thank god for IVF so I could get pregnant” “Actually god made you infertile, science made you pregnant. So it’s thank science actually”
Pushing out top officials. Firing hundreds of lifelong public health experts. Trying to slash the CDC’s budget by billions. How is this “Making America Healthy Again”?
If RFK jr would stand up at ANY medical conference and spouts his pseudoscience-cult BS, he would be laughed off stage. Where TF are these same physicians now? Every single doctor in the country must take a stand against this guy.
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
The abrupt attempt to oust Dr. Susan Monarez, the CDC’s director just weeks after her Senate confirmation, is yet another glaring sign of Secretary Kennedy’s failed leadership and reckless mismanagement. www.apha.org/news-and-med...
The newly ousted director of the CDC refused to fire top agency leaders or approve changes to vaccines from RFK Jr.’s hand-picked panel of advisers.
Good. I have questions and the American people deserve answers.
There is a massive walk out at the CDC by staff unfolding right now. It is NECESSARY. I stand in solidarity with my CDC colleagues. standing up for science and public health. It is a moral imperative.
A very strong & powerful resignation letter from Dr. Daskalakis calling out RFK jr. “I am unable to serve in an environment that treats CDC as a tool to generate policies and materials that do not reflect scientific reality and are designed to hurt rather than to improve the public’s health.”
“History shows that when autocrats break democracy’s back, they do it through complicity, civil service cuts, and … expansions of power. And as democracy flails, the perpetrators must give the public a target for their despair.” @staceyabrams.com for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
For reference, these are current fires:
what happens when you fail the purity tests
Eyes Open 