This is why California, New York and every other Blue state with a path to mid-decade redistricting must do it. They’re cheating to win. We must not let them.
Retired English professor. UT Austin and URI. Currently living in a rural red state and trying to be loud against the fascists. I read history.
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This is why California, New York and every other Blue state with a path to mid-decade redistricting must do it. They’re cheating to win. We must not let them.
Wyden on RFK Jr: "This committee's unwillingness to swear in this witness is basically a message that it is acceptable to lie to the Senate Finance Committee about hugely important questions like vaccines."
The Republican party is a terrorist organization.
They just REFUSED to make that known LIAR swear under oath!! What does that say?? KENNEDY will kill more than Covid you watch. Blame all REPUBLICANS especially the current sitting Congress!!
In the near future there's going to need to be a serious reckoning concerning certain flavors of American Christianity. Namely Dominionists. A few other sects too, but mostly Dominionists. They're the ones pushing for militant Christianization of the country. If not dealt with, this will repeat.
RFK is one lying evil bastard. He needs to be removed NOW.
Ahead of today’s hearing, let’s take a look back at when RFK Jr. promised Sen. Cassidy he wouldn’t cut vaccine funding
Exclusive: RFK Jr. and the White House buried a major study on alcohol and cancer. Here’s what it shows. www.vox.com/health/46008...
US stocks vs. rest of the world: worst underperformance since 2009. @mikezaccardi.bsky.social @dailychartbook.bsky.social
This point needs to become better known.
Here's the thing to know about vaccines: They work on the population level far, far better than the individual level. A vaccinated person in an unvaccinated community is much more likely to get sick than an unvaccinated person in a vaccinated community. 1/
The evil of these men is incredible.
Wait until children start dying of preventable diseases.
Support for vaccinating kids against infectious diseases dropped from 81% in 1991 to 51% last year We are getting dumber as a society
If you have the misfortune of being represented by any of these House Rules Committee members, be sure to give their offices a call.
This photo needs to be seen by every MAGAt.
Post from Governor Newsoms press office Is it petty? Absofuckinglutely! Do I love it? Absofuckinglutely
The President is a convicted felon DHS Secretary is puppy killer HHS Secretary is an ex-heroin addict and antivaxxer Education Secretary can't read Defense Secretary is a drunk DNI is a Russian asset WTF happened for us to end up here?????
Citigroup transfers $80 billion in assets to BlackRock reut.rs/47tnSFQ
Republicans control the House by a 7-seat margin, but that's with four vacant seats. Does Trump really want to "take out" Massie? And the three other GOP representatives who joined him? Seems like he's playing with fire. So, yeah: What exactly is in those files?
TODAY IS NATIONAL WILDLIFE DAY S A V E O U R S E A S Human Trash is Killing Our Animals in the Sea
J. Thomas Dunn: The 1% are hoping for an economic downturn. They can survive it, and they want to buy up all of our assets in a recession fire sale. They want to own LITERALLY everything, and charge rent for the rest of the 99% to access it. This is the Sickness of Greed
AHA members Linda K. Kerber (Univ. of Iowa) and David W. Blight (Yale Univ.) co-authored an op-ed for the Des Moines Register protesting the Iowa legislature’s planned closure of the state historical society. 🗃️
Cowardice.
Coward! I hope it loses enrollment!
This admin is just evil as shit. Deporting people to their deaths or imprisonment in Russia? “They tied him to his seat, and he cried the entire way from Egypt to Moscow.” ‘I told my family, I’ll probably die’: US sends Russian asylum seekers back to Moscow www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Caroline Kennedy warned us about her cousin #RFKJr, "a predator" presiding over "perverse scenes" of "despair and violence." His youth was the origin story of a new American Psycho. Now he is the position to inflict pain and suffering on millions. He has to go now. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.change.org/p/rfk-jr-mus...
As national medical, scientific, public health and patient organizations, we call for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to ensure the health of the American people. Read our statement: asm.org/press-releas...
ICE chasing delivery drivers down in the street. FBI as “security” for MPD evicting camps. ATF & DEA at routine traffic stops. Helicopters endlessly circling overhead. National Guard checkpoints at metro stations. Young Black people being body slammed for trying to ride the metro home.
When Laura Ingraham was a student at Dartmouth, she attended a meeting of the Gay Student Union and wrote down the names of the attendees, which she then published in the student newspaper. This was a time when it was very dangerous to be outed as gay. She is a dispicable, vile person.
An extraordinary joint op-ed and plea by NINE former directors or acting directors of the CDC under both Democratic and Republican administrations, succinctly describing undermining of public health, and what’s needed now. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
"Move fast and break things" but the things are kids and the people allowing tech bros to break them are educators.
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The utter exhaustion of overwork required to just afford to live in America makes it so hard to resist fascism. Which is of course the point, and how we got here, and why they will just make it worse on us all. Which is yet another reason our message has to be around basic income, free housing etc.
Maybe you’re being ironic. I know viruses do not respect borders, but why should we give tourist dollars to a state bent of killing children?
Florida’s ending all vaccine mandates. Because nothing says “personal freedom” like spreading preventable diseases. They say it’s about “choice.” But the kids can’t choose. Cancer patients can’t fight. This isn’t freedom. It’s a death cult. Let the weak die, as long as the base stays angry and dumb.
Ugh: “Trump’s DOJ seeks voting equipment in Missouri ahead of 2026 election” electionlawblog.org?p=151915
I swear to God, the trials for this will be brutal and justice will be served.
"'A review of the administrative record makes it difficult to conclude anything other than that Defendants used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country’s premier universities,' Judge Burroughs wrote." #EduSky apnews.com/article/harv...
About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. “Oh, they’d have died.”
Fine. But it will not absolve you of the crime of putting RFK in charge of the HHS.
Well, isn’t he a good little Nazi.
Unfit.
This is not normal.
When people say "We used to drink raw milk from our own cow and it was fine," That's... usually not the case! In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using. We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that? youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk
Ghislaine Maxwell is the most dangerous woman alive because of what she knows. Her life is in serious danger even after she is pardoned. Many of the rich and famous flew on her helicopters, so they couldn't be tracked from St. Thomas. They now say they were never on Epstein Island. They're lying.
This isn't abstract. Ending vaccine mandates will kill children. Any one who is trying to do this should be removed from office immediately.
Report: Tens of thousands of outraged active duty service members and veterans petition against Trump-MAGA plan to cut abortion care for them. 'Was my service to my country for naught?' www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Why hasn’t his medical license been revoked?
appeasement ... its whats for dinner
I would include evil.
BREAKING: A federal judge reverses the Trump administration's cut of billions of dollars to Harvard University.
Can we charge him for conducting a multi billion $ business on our property? A 50% split will do! @patti3333.bsky.social @suzyq4u.bsky.social @annettebeebe.bsky.social @chummychumlee.bsky.social @dkrappe.bsky.social @bluebird4us.bsky.social @filosia.bsky.social @bluestormcomin1.bsky.social
In response to Florida’s insane vaccine policy, please share this w anyone who has children www.healthychildren.org
There is no justice in Idaho.
1/ I worked at DoD. I literally cannot imagine lawyers coming up with a legal basis for lethal strike of suspected Venezuelan drug boat. Hard to see how this would not be "murder" or war crime under international law that DoD considers applicable. Read expert analysis by @bcfinucane.bsky.social⤵️
It's great that states are forming regional public health alliances to ensure people still have access to vaccines. They should take it one step further & include distributing free masks & tests, installing clean air infrastructure etc. The best way to prevent outbreaks is with layered protections!
Terrific piece by @mehdirhasan.bsky.social for @theguardian.com. The country desperately needs congressional Democrats to get their shit together, and it needs to happen sooner rather than later.
MASSIVE BREAKING: Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi just revealed that an attorney told them today that an Epstein bodyguard was an intermediary between Epstein and the CIA in 2009. Release the Epstein files now !
National Guardsmen now stationed outside our DC building confirmed that the only thing they can do if they witness a crime is call 911. The have no more authority than my office mate to intervene. Despite the handcuffs, they can't make arrests. They are very expensive mall cops.
If Trump backs off Chicago because of Pritzker’s warnings, as seems to potentially be happening, that is a lesson to all of us in how to make the regime cave. Relentless strong refusal to be terrified and crushed. Relentless refusal to capitulate to threats. Relentless refusal to comply. LFG.
Before he became a martyr, he was a healer. 🎧 Discover how Dr. Joseph Warren went from smallpox hero to revolutionary icon—on the 250th anniversary of his death. Listen: www.benfranklinsworld.com/413 #BenFranklinsWorld #AmericanRevolution #Revolution250 #History
What a guy. Time to wipe that smile off his face. @fireeyebooks.bsky.social @mlipsitt.bsky.social @kidnurse.bsky.social @stacernresists.bsky.social @tully.sheshed.rocks @maryosteen.bsky.social @sassy0210.bsky.social @liberalwarrior.bsky.social @petrooka.bsky.social @mmpadellan.bsky.social
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.
That’s because the capitalist pigs run everything .
Yesterday, protesters stopped traffic near the White House to protest Russ Vought's refusal to disburse Congressionally appropriated funds, especially to fight HIV/AIDS, which they say is "illegal and unprecedented." Here are my photos from the protest: notadoctor.news/2025/09/03/t...
Trump and his buddies are constructing a mafia state. They are all thugs.
One of our clients managed to flip his entire zoning board in favor of community gardens city-wide last night by organizing 30 people to show up and fight to a place where kids and community could be safe, gather for change, and feed one another. We have so much untapped potential.
I have been saying for months that it is critical to monitor your state’s vaccine requirements for school entry. They are the only things standing between us and massive infectious disease outbreaks. With Florida ending these requirements, other states are sure to follow.
the two americas
Tomorrow RFK is testifying in front of the Senate Finance Committee. He should be prepared to answer: Why are the world’s greatest scientists demanding that you resign? www.cnn.com/2025/09/03/h...
No one should travel to Florida then. Make it, like Texas, a pariah state.
Florida is ending childhood vaccine requirements for school entry. This is going to have a massive negative impact on the health of children in Florida and throughout the United States. Florida will now be ground zero for infectious disease outbreaks. H/t @bethlinas.bsky.social.
Florida is a center of international tourism and has one of the top 3 populations of retirees. Ending childhood vaccine requirements for school entry there is so dangerous I don’t even know where to start. Ground zero for massive unchecked outbreaks of vaccine preventable disease.
The law is very clear: No one, not even the president, can use the U.S. military for community policing Erwin Chemerinsky on why a federal judge was right to declare Trump’s military deployment to Los Angeles illegal
What happens when vaccine coverage collapses in Florida because they are ending vaccine requirements for school entry? 1. Disease outbreaks that end up hospitalizing and killing infants too young to be vaccinated by responsible parents, the elderly whose immunity wanes, and the immunocompromised.
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.
There is no moral justification for today’s extraordinary concentration of wealth. It is distorting politics, rigging markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people. Closing our staggering wealth gap is crucial to the survival of our economy and our democracy.
So after the Epstein survivors themselves said this matter wasn't a hoax and told their stories, the President told them they were lying. That's the headline every reputable media outlet should be running.
Read Borges' resignation letter here: whistleblower.org/wp-content/u...
Since 2000, daycare costs have risen 153%. Parenthood is unaffordable for many Americans. We need to pass my childcare bill that will offer care for $10/day while paying employees $24/hour.
Born in Trinidad, Dr. John Alcindor earned his MD in Scotland in 1899 & was a physician, political activist, & senior district medical officer in London. He was awarded a Red Cross medal for his work treating the wounded in WWI. His great-nephew is Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
Gift Article - “Florida moves to end all school vaccine mandates, first in nation to do so Florida Surgeon General Joseph A. Ladapo criticized school vaccine mandates, which every state has, and likened them to slavery.” wapo.st/4p68Vzy
He, like RFK jr, will also become a murderer when Florida’s children start dying of preventable diseases.
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Dozens of scientists find errors in a new Energy Department climate report flip.it/NXhztx
Massie: "The Speaker of the House just offered a fig leaf to my colleagues. They're gonna vote on a non-binding resolution today that does absolutely nothing ... they're allowing the DOJ to curate all of the information that the DOJ is giving them ... the perpetrators are being protected"
More of this.
Deregulation is no friend of the people, but it's best friends with corporations.
Cruel and unusual, to say the least: apnews.com/article/immi... 3 men deported by US are held in African prison despite completing their sentences, lawyers say