Such an odd thing to read in the newspaper www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
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Such an odd thing to read in the newspaper www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
Ossoff: "It's been extraordinary to see the Speaker of the House reduced to lying in order to cover up sex crimes"
When push comes to shove, she won't... or her vote won't matter because they already locked it up (see also: Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski)
8. The second thing is there are not two sides. Vaccines worked then. They work now. They will work in the future. There is no debate. There is no controversy. The fact that we are all standing here, and not six feet under after the worst plague in 100 years, is all the proof you need.
4. That is not who Kennedy is hiring. He’s hiring scammers, liars and hacks, just like himself. They will believe anything if there’s money in it, and they are not skeptical of anything, except of people who actually know their stuff and, because of that, stand in the way of their grifting.
Happening now at NatCon: “OVERTURN OBERGEFELL” They’re coming for the right to same-sex marriage, as we knew they would.
covid directly killed millions of people and disabled millions more and yet it’s likely that the most damage it will do in the long term comes from enabling antivaxxers to take over public health
Remember when we used to argue about what colour a dress was, and whether you need to wash your legs? And we agreed that genocide was bad, human rights were universal and democracy was generally preferable to autocracy…those were the days in retrospect.
The biggest scandal in US public life *ought* to be that we are the richest country in history & yet our infrastructure sucks, our transportation choices suck, our cities suck, our healthcare sucks, our public administration sucks, & in dozens of little ways, our daily lives suck.
BREAKING: A federal judge issues an injunction BLOCKING the Trump admin from freezing Harvard's funding, calling the antisemitism excuse "a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country’s premier universities." Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Dayum!
So much this... Not to mention herd immunity effects!
It doesn’t matter if you feed your kids organic foods, MAHA moms. It doesn’t matter if you lift every day, bro. It doesn’t matter how many supplements you consume. When polio, diphtheria, measles, mumps, and whooping cough come a calling, all that matters is if you are vaccinated or not.
The Schmitt speech today is beyond reprehensible, but it’s also just such a weird moment in American politics where people like Schmitt have to reconstruct an alternate history where *they* are “Heritage Americans”. Bro you are German and Catholic the founding fathers did not want you on the team
“.. Not only have I never heard of this happening, I've never heard of a prosecutor who's heard of this happening," said former federal prosecutor Brendan Ballou. 🤡 @cbsnews.com @macfarlanenews.bsky.social www.cbsnews.com/news/d-c-gra...
The overall takeaway from the Epstein survivors’ press conference is that they are united and are no longer going to allow rich and powerful men to victimize, silence and intimidate them. Including the ones in Congress and the perp in the Oval Office.
Because he lied. And he’s been a habitual liar his entire life. Pretty easy to find lots of evidence of that in about 15 minutes.
Dogs are getting vaccinated less and rabies rates are rising, in part because 37% of Americans think vaccines will give their dogs... pawtism. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
For years, I’ve conducted listening sessions for members of our Intel Community as a key part of my role on the Intel Committee. ...until conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer got involved and got one of my visits canceled. Who’s really calling the shots in this administration?
As a survivor, I can't think of a more fitting metaphor than a rapist creating loud noises with planes as a survivor tries to tell her story. I mean... just wow. Nevertheless, she persisted.
So despite no Authorization for Use of Military Force and no possible invocation of the War Powers Act, the U.S. military is now going to be drone striking people alleged to be committing a crime? Again, on what legal authority?
I guarantee they're coming for contraceptives next. It'll take some time, given how unpopular it will be with even the average MAGA dipshit. But it's coming.
Host: There are new calls this morning for RFK Jr.'s resignation, and those calls coming from inside HHS itself. More than 1,000 current and former HHS workers are making this demand in a letter released this morning. They say his leadership has "put the health of all Americans at risk"
I was a victim of childhood sexual abuse. Seeing these women getting the coverage and support they are this morning...brings a smile to my face. I don't see broken women. I see strong and empowered women. They. Will. Prevail.
Didn't realize this and embarrassed we didn't connect the dots when the FEC report came out. Schwarzman has a history with Susan Collins: He spent another $2,000,000+ to elect her during the 2020 cycle. Also hosted her at his Park Ave apartment. tinyurl.com/4zhj7fxp tinyurl.com/yswjrnz2 #MEpolitics
More of this.
Maybe it’s just me, but I’ll always see Dr. Fauci as a national treasure as well as an American hero whilst I see deranged chaos agent RFK Jr as an unqualified dirty piece of shit charlatan as well as a disgusting murderer.
I give zero credit to MTG. She's a conniving self-serving leech, and just because she rolled out of bed one morning and decided arbitrarily that being on the side of survivors might get her more press than siding with the molesters doesn't suddenly mean she has any semblance of a moral compass
LA LA LA LA LA LA
This is the most important news of the day. Sending Texas guardsmen to Illinois is an intentional, unprecedented provocation. It should be immediately challenged in court. Follow @democracydocket.com for breaking news and updates on this developing story. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Drug trafficking is not a capital crime; it doesn’t carry a death sentence. I genuinely cannot think of anything under U.S. law that would permit premeditated government assassination of people suspected of drug trafficking.
That Pritzker press conference was... surreal, and I think marks a significant moment of escalation in the constitutional omni-crisis. This was the governor of a state saying plainly the Union itself is being torn apart and his state is being militarily invaded by an authoritarian regime.
On the overwhelming public support for climate action: Great to see Ximeng Fang and Stefania Innocenti quoted on their research that sparked the 89% Project. (And globally, 69% of people are willing to give 1% of their income to help fix climate change.) @coveringclimatenow.org
It’s not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters it’s that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
"The GOP is signing on to mass murder of children based on the novel theories of a man who has no party ties except a single Trump endorsement. It is a measure of the party’s utter hollowness, brokenness, and evil that even in this case, it can barely find the resources to demur."
A judge ruled that Trump can't act as national police chief, declaring that the president broke the law when he deployed troops to Los Angeles.
This is literally what scholars mean when they speak of the fascist ethos of “blood and soil.” It’s adapted from a European context, but it’s the real deal. We’re in it.
they’re so close
"I didn't vote for this." - people who absolutely voted for this but thought this would only hurt people they hate
Hot damn, Pritzker is saying all the right things and hitting all the key points! Why can't more D leaders be like this?
Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?"
The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
Yep. Now it IS possible, if the original image is frequency-banded, to reproduce higher res versions of a sampled (pixel-based) image using something called the Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem. But "enhancements" driven by gen AI aren't doing that - they're just making shit up probabilistically
The inventor of autocorrect died. The funnel will be tomato.
Pritzker: "It breaks my heart to report that we have been told ICE will try to disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades. Let's be clear -- the terror and cruelty is the point, not the safety of anybody living here."
Apparently Guillermo Del Toro has ruined Frankenstein by… being relatively faithful to the source material. Oh my.
If someone doesn’t vote for the Democrat (& against whomever the GOP candidate is), if they stay home or vote third party, they are helping fascism and authoritarianism to become a permanent reality. There is no inbetween. If I have to explain it to someone then it’s probably not getting through.
This is the way. Have clips lined up every time they speak.
The sovereign state of Connecticut knows what it means to stand up to tyrants.
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The biggest mistake liberals make on media issues is assuming the mainstream media gives a single fuck. They don’t care. They’re rich and they’re white and they’re protected. None of this affects them. They don’t give a shit. If you understand this fact then the tone of the coverage makes sense.
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From every living former director of CDC: We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Wondering about the safety and efficacy of the COVID19 vaccine or any other vaccine? This simple life hack will simplify everything! Do not believe a word coming from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. without verifying with a trusted, knowledgeable source.
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Uncertainty acts like a tax on growth. Firms delay capex and hiring; households save, not spend. Policy whiplash raises hurdle rates and widens possible outcomes. That’s why today’s uncertainty is an economic problem, not just a vibe problem.
Remember, when a cult leader dies, the cult doesn't disappear. It fragments. The high-ranking members under the leader will have their own supporters, but none have the majority, and without majority rule, the smaller factions can not retain control. Even a child of the og leader is never the same.
At some point, you have to defend democracy, not just pivot to talking points, or there won't be fair future elections to win www.cnn.com/2025/08/31/p... What I told @ronbrownstein.bsky.social (joking/not joking):
HUGE: "Nevertheless, at Defendants’ orders and contrary to Congress’s explicit instruction, federal troops executed the laws. ... In short, Defendants violated the Posse Comitatus Act." Working link here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Vaccine sceptic RFK Jr has called for the retraction of a Danish study that found no link between aluminium in vaccines and chronic diseases in children — a rare move... “Kennedy has demonstrated that he wants the scientific literature to bend to his will”, says Oransky. Scientific American
Why is Newsom’s team better at pretending to be Trump than Trump’s own team?
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This is the way
This is exactly right! The Right’s core claim is that they represent an authentic, “real" America that is constantly being victimized, made to suffer under the yoke of leftist/liberal overreach, and therefore rightfully aggrieved. And too many Democrats/liberals look at that and go: “I agree.”
This is "the one big trick" that the right has mastered. They present their movement as just "the authentic voice of the volk outraged by Democratic overreach," when really what they're doing is just old fashioned political mobilization. Organize a passle of pissed off people & call it a movement.
Schatz seems to forget that Trump was in office when COVID lockdowns began and that the mismanagement was entirely due to the GOP catering to horse dewormer-peddling anti-vaxers
My inexpert opinion is still that, on balance, this figure is likely too high by a large degree. That’s because the analysis relies on a presumption that immigrant survey response rates haven’t changed, and I’d bet dollars to donuts they have.
If you enjoy… Weekends Safe working conditions Retirement benefits Paid vacations Breaks at work Sick leave Paid holidays … then you’re part of the labor movement. Happy Labor Day.
If the media had been doing this since, I dunno, since George W let's say... we'd be in a MUCH much better place now
I have a language suggestion, which everyone can do, but is primarily for media members who value truth and Democratic politicians: Instead of asking and adjudicating if an obvious lie is false, make the fact that it's false your premise. "Why are you lying?" instead of "some say that's not true."
If they enact a new illegal congressional map, Missouri will be sued.
Words... how do they work?
3. The brain worms make him do stuff
Today we celebrate the strength and resilience of working people everywhere. Nearly 300,000 federal employees have lost their jobs this year not because of necessity, but because of a political agenda. And while people’s lives were destroyed in the name of “saving money,”
You guys see where this is going? Right?
Revoking an entire nationality’s visas is collective punishment and never acceptable — especially in this moment when millions of Palestinians lack equal rights, basic healthcare, and so much more at home, forcing them out of the US is unfathomably cruel. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...
Good to see a bipartisan group of former CDC Directors raise alarms in the NY Times about RFK Jr. dismantling US public health. And I can’t help but feel frustrated that they didn’t do this last year when public health was on the ballot—nor did NYT frame it that way—when we had a chance to stop it.
ABC News is still calling RFK Jr. a “vaccine skeptic.” The dude was one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists for decades. There’s video of him in 2023 saying that there’s no vaccine which is safe and effective. You can call him an anti-vaccine activist!
🙃 #GavinNewsom #EpsteinFiles
"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...
No matter what @MarshaBlackburn keeps saying, it’s not criminals they’re targeting. www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...
I fear we've even crossed that Rubicon... and that MAGA will prefer to ignore the sex trafficking of children, rather than go against their precious godsent leader. I mean they already ignore the repeated murders of children by armed gunmen... it's not even much of a stretch
What’s wild to me: NOW, media outlets & medical organizations are “stunned” by the damage RFK Jr. is doing to CDC, other health agencies, & public health. Me & my colleagues have been screaming about him for years. Years. Even more so in the last year. We were called hyperbolic. 1/
Yep, I think three points are key here: (a) the unsustainability of using military personnel for policing (any crime reduction is likely just a temporary shock effect), (b) its unconstitutionality, and (c) the immense dangers and slippery slope aspect of this approach, as you said
A wise Ben Franklin once truthfully stated "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety,"
Not sure whose fault it is primarily that most people don't seem to know that the president is basically a manager whose job is to carry out the will of Congress, and not The Country's Boss
“ILLEGALS” MY ASS! Green card holder Rami Othmane speaks out after being snatched off the street by ICE while driving to the grocery store. He’s a documented immigrant and the husband of Dr Wafaa Alrashid, chief of staff at a local hospital. He was locked in detention for 13 days.
CHICAGO…
This is never going away, is it?
