“Frayed collar workers in gold plated times.” 30 years ago I issued a stark warning about the health of America’s working class. Watch and tell me what you think. https://youtu.be/8rW1kkAV-gw?feature=shared
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities. —Voltaire Guess that makes me part of the resistance.
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“Frayed collar workers in gold plated times.” 30 years ago I issued a stark warning about the health of America’s working class. Watch and tell me what you think. https://youtu.be/8rW1kkAV-gw?feature=shared
Zscaler becomes first company to admit breach via the Salesloft sales agent integration www.zscaler.com/blogs/compan...
"Call me old-fashioned, but … shouldn’t we be talking about this a little more? Has America ever seen a serving president and his family making profits like this?" Um, Yes and No, Politico Playbook. If only you knew someone who could talk about this more? www.politico.com/newsletters/...
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If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
He looks like he just had a stroke.
This is not normal. Japan is continuing its run of astonishing temperature records. The country has just had its hottest summer for the third year in a row, and by a substantial margin. Data: JMA
Because trying to get kids out to exercise more is …exactly equivalent to discontinuing the single most effective therapy we have for keeping kids alive. 🤦♂️🤬
Nine former CDC directors, from Bill Foege onward, speak out about the incalculable harm that RFK, Jr. is doing to public health in the US and around the world. Gift link.
Yup, and the entire system has been increasingly rigged against us since 1973: www.epi.org/publication/...
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New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them. States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.
Gift Article www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/s...
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Today, this chapter of the Weimar Republic’s history should be revisited. At a moment in which democracy is backsliding in places as varied as Hungary, India, Turkey, and the United States, it is a reminder that democracy often erodes slowly at first, via the gradual surrender of those entrusted..
Trump did this
You would think that documenting these effects - on farms, in meat-packing plants, in the garment industry, and restaurants would be a popular beat for reporters in MSM.
An(other) actual psychopath.
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...
A public health catastrophe. Not “immanent,” not “potential.” This is the catastrophe.
😬 Vibrio vulnificus thrives in warm waters… yet another symptom of a warming planet. May be a good idea to be careful where you source your shellfish!
Word… But it ain’t looking great across the pond, either. Y’all look to be ready to hop into our footprints. (Farage, Reform, weak-ass milquetoast Labor Party… really?) May want to rethink that…
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 damage this man has done is incalculable.
Why can we not follow the tradition of the Chinese Qin emperors, since he fancies himself as king of the world? www.theworldofchinese.com/2021/11/how-...
We dead.
What a cursed sentence (gift link) “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.”
If I were charged with a federal crime, I’d hire Pam Bondi’s brother as my lawyer. Because I don’t think this is a coincidence.
When you find yourself longing for the past, read old literature. It meets the need for nostalgia, and doubles as a reality check when your favourite character dies of mumps/consumption/a minor infection.
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.
Welch: Everybody's missing the point here. The point is, he's doing this on purpose. He's priming the public to get accustomed to having the military in the streets
Don’t look away
Landlords say they can’t afford a rent freeze, but have $2.5M to give to Cuomo. Reminds me of corporations that spend millions to bust unions instead of just raising wages and offering benefits. Doing the right thing is always cheaper than the cost to block it.
Almost 20 years ago I talked at Google about how privacy should be akin to a second amendment issue. Tl;dr given the scale of force available to the government, all the guns in the world are useless against an all-knowing tyrant and thus privacy is necessary for the security of a free state. Anyway:
We've done a lot of damage. Much of it is irreversible, and in that sense we're already fucked. But I think that what many don't understand is that although we cannot make many things better, we can make them MUCH WORSE. And we are choosing to do so, which is STUPID.
Gupta: Here’s why this matters: 1. Because the FDA indications have changed, if I prescribe it to you, I’m opening myself up to a lawsuit. He directly signals that… 2. A pharmacist is no longer able to prescribe and administer a COVID-19 booster that doesn’t meet indications.
There are a bunch of events planned this weekend, and protests scare the sh!t out of him. There were also stunning election wins this week in Iowa and Georgia. Lots of time to win before midterms. www.fiftyfifty.one
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Dr. Demetre, in his resignation from the CDC, said this: “I have never experienced such radical non-transparency, nor have I seen such unskilled manipulation of data to achieve a political end rather than the good of the American people”. It is an outrage that RFK Jr. remains as head of HHS.
👇💯👇 Everything private equity touches, dies. And there’s a reason that sounds like the other guy. They’re owned by the same people.
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To be fair, the letter is long-winded - but it was penned in 1755, and includes that exact quote. It’s just that the context doesn’t match the modern interpretation. Oh, and Franklin was born in 1706. Don’t think he was penning letters in the 1600’s 😉 founders.archives.gov/documents/Fr...
Brief 🧵, as someone who has studied mass shootings for 13 years: -gender does not cause them -SSRIs, no -mental illness, no -internet/gaming, no Above can be compounding factors—but motive is complex, often very. The most fundamental combo: suicidality + rage + isolation + easy access to guns
She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse. ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.
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:
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America tips into fascism" By Garrett Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social Recommended. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
Someday I am going to write a book about how America managed to create a strain of Christianity that is completely antithetical to, well, Christianity.
A hoard of anti-Christians, led by… 🤔
Going to be wild to have Clarence Thomas and other members of the court write that even the appearance of impropriety is sufficient to allow the President to remove Federal Reserve members from office, and then head off to Harlan Crow’s yacht
The thing abt Bill Gates cutting off funding to Dems (on the same day he visits Trump) -- he actually IS someone that Epstein ... or Ghislaine -- might have blackmail on. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
If you think the attack on the Fed's Lisa Cook has nothing to do with you, you're wrong — any one of us may be next paulkrugman.substack.com/p/we-are-all...
Not even a partial attempt to push back, even to keep subscribers from fleeing. I know media has always been owned by the wealthy, but it has now been turned into nothing but a propaganda tool.
Words cannot adequately describe what a colossal disappointment our mainstream media has been during our slow descent into authoritarianism.
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Talked to @therickwilson.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YT0...
F*ck‼️ Fort Bliss Army base used for a WWII Japanese internment is now the nation's largest ICE detention center.
It’s as if the entire Democratic consulting establishment were undermined… Oh, wait. That’d be pretty clever of a few billionaires, no?
Only the best people…
And bemoan school absences… 🤬
They want us fighting so we never notice who is stealing from us all. Don’t get lost in the circus.
For the US govt partially nationalizing Intel, they didn't pay shareholders for the 10% the state now owns, right? As far as I can tell, they converted grants to equity. So it's statist intervention + an investor haircut. Though they may get it back in stock price rise due to a corrupt govt boost.
👇💯👇 That said, the Right understands that words (or more importantly, the emotions attached to words) - really do matter. They are masters at ‘rebranding’ these words to be toxic, making the topic itself toxic. The problem is that they literally have an entire industry setup to do this. We… don’t
If you haven’t gotten a chicken pox (varicella) vaccine, you may want to. Getting chicken pox as an adult can be life threatening. Had a friend whose dad almost died after their kids came down with it. Vaccines are wonderful.
What is it called when government owns the means of production again?
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
He’s wanted to declare martial law from day one. Bypass all checks and rule as a tyrant. Many have speculated how he’d do it. Now his gambit is clear. DC was a test. He’s using manufactured crime stats to send troops into blue states & cities. This is not a drill. Democracy is at defcon 1.
SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov on fascism in 🇺🇸 : “There is not safety in keeping your head down… People who oppose public policy decisions but are too afraid of retribution from their government to speak their mind should send a chill down all of our spines.”
OSINT folks, the bar has been raised
That’s quite a badge of honor. Well deserved, sir!
That was very cool! Love the trip through a topic I’d never thought of in that way. Thanks! 📌
This feels like a spot of good news www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
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1. 'Overall, our findings raise compelling questions about the potential role of SARS-CoV-2 infection in accelerating or triggering neurodegenerative diseases linked to protein amyloidosis'. An example of such a disease is Parkinson's Disease (PD). pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
The DOJ releases Maxwell audio and transcripts. I have a suggestion: listen to the number of times she says, "...I believe..." It's one of the primary perjury busting tools around. Right up there with, "I can't recall," or "To the best of my memory."
And… 🤬🤬🤬 bsky.app/profile/reic...
Remember when I said to look up "competitive authoritarian regimes" and how autocrats "rule by law" (which they control) instead of following the "rule of law" (which binds them), here we are:
Many, many folks here and in the other place have slowly stopped posting new science… Between exhaustion and abuse, I’m seeing less info as the rest of the world “move on,” oblivious to the ongoing threat. I truly appreciate both the information and the effort. Thank you.
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This is why we created the Atlas of Surveillance: so journalists and other community members could easily discover what kinds of technology local police are using to spy on them. Kudos to @forwardky.bsky.social for shining a light on it! forwardky.com/are-you-bei...
Just amazing that presumably smart administrators don’t see this path leads to ever-escalating requests to sell your soul. …And that the only path forward is solidarity and resistance.
Not like these folks tend to foreshadow their intentions at all…
This is really Bad JuJu ☠️😳 bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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“A growing number of scientists believe that the SARS-CoV-2 virus may…be subtly altering our immune systems… “There has definitely been a change in the character of the immune response since 2019… It’s certainly impacting our immune health, and probably our overall health as well.”
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Whatever he has, it must be devastating, given what is already well documented… Pedophilia and trafficking ✅ Rape ✅ Money laundering ✅ Collaboration with Russia, Saudis ✅ Intimidation and violence ✅ All the above on tape, plus proof the election was rigged and stolen? 🤔
🧐 I sense a pattern, here…
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Headline of the year.
Important www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/o...
The @washingtonpost tracked where Trump's forces are patrolling in Washington. Spoiler alert: They're not where the crime is.
