The month of August 2025 may go down as the worst in the history of the US Health and Human Services Department. After a month of shocking removals, resignations, and a shooting at the CDC, Democrats are demanding that RFK Jr. pack his bags.
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The month of August 2025 may go down as the worst in the history of the US Health and Human Services Department. After a month of shocking removals, resignations, and a shooting at the CDC, Democrats are demanding that RFK Jr. pack his bags.
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As they should.
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@parkroseperma.bsky.social proposes a novel response to ICE presence. ICE: Quit Your Job youtu.be/Z1Mo3zDqHSA
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Me? I would check with the bank first!
🚨BREAKING: Arizona Court of Appeals REJECTS right wing challenge to Arizona's signature matching process. Another VICTORY for my law firm's clients and the voters of Arizona. www.democracydocket.com/cases/arizon...
Federal agents arrest firefighters working on WA wildfire www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news... There are no words for this travesty.
You’re not dropping a single, asshole. If you’re actually knew anything, it would be criminal not to reveal it now. But of course, this is a bullshit publicity stunt.
If he’s serious about bringing back great cars, I want manual dials for everything. And a manual choke, please. And a switch for a reserve gas tank. And a button starter. We know how. Let’s just make ‘em! In Detroit!
So fragile. So unnerved. On. Off. Simple.
Nope, there isn’t $999 worth of merchandise still in any Best Buy store. Just empty floor space.
#GavinNewsom 🤩👏👏
Did South Park have THIS guy, too? There’s a new baseline—“He’s made for South Park.”
Exactly. If you are free to take ivermectin, you are sure TF free to get a life-saving vaccine
His friends are idiots, too. I lock my old pickup truck everywhere.
GCN is right. Shreveport is much greater need than Chicago or Los Angeles.
Pritzker: This is not about fighting crime. This is about the President and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
Si se puede. Yes we can.
Diverse, inspired, hardworking people. Jeezus gawd, let the whiners move to Texas.
They gaslit you all throughout the election.
They think everyone is as dumb as their “base “ www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/u...
When’s the last time you heard a Vice President talk about an investigation this way? You haven’t. Because the DOJ/FBI are supposed to be independent, and a VP using “we” to describe a particular investigation is not supposed to happen.
That's a fucking fact! 💯 Let people be who the fuck they are and mind your own fucking business. 🏳️⚧️
incredible that three overpaid consultants in a trench coat can get media play by urging democrats not to use words that literally no one in mainstream politics uses
So you may have run across the Former Gov of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger clutching the pearls over Newsom's Electon Rigging Reponse Act. This from someone chosen to be California's governor by a group of wealthy folks at a ranch in Montana.
The puppies!! I need the puppies!!
Wait. Is this the guy who just paved over the Rose Garden?
Anybody remember the old USA and its cute little Constitution God I miss those days
BREAKING: We're filing a petition for the immediate release of Mario Guevara, a journalist who is being detained by ICE because of his reporting on law enforcement activity. The First Amendment is clear: Journalists cannot be detained for doing their jobs.
Gavin Newsom ended 7 wars, he should get the Nobel Peace Prize, everyone is saying it.
"Kennedy’s anti-vaccine position is undeniably a view of autism as degeneracy and, crucially, of any form of 'degeneracy' as necessarily contagious." www.liberalcurrents.com/degenerate-n...
So you may have run across the Former Gov of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger clutching the pearls over Newsom's Electon Rigging Reponse Act. This from someone chosen to be California's governor by a group of wealthy folks at a ranch in Montana.
Rather than embracing candidates that spark grassroots enthusiasm and tap into the populist ferment of the American public, establishment Democrats are working to favorexactly the kind of uninspiring corporatists that dug the party’s current hole. trib.al/qeiXLzM
Y’all knew this was coming.
Irrelevant data being asked to make you feel better. Can't be used in any meaningful way, except to calm you down.
Yes. Yes, you are.
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‘Help me, please!’ Plainclothes “ICE” agents snatch a man outside Los Angeles’ largest courthouse on Wednesday. A tactic that has been repeatedly condemned by the legal community. Painful to watch. Even more painful knowing there are people who not only accept this, are happy about it.
Neither is a short attention span.
I dunno. Is the AI of a suspect minority?
It’s time to wake up - we are literally on the verge of losing our democracy if Donald Trump cheats his way to those seats in Texas.
The destruction of UC is the point. If Reagan thought he could get away with it, he's have done it.
People in Los Angeles have been protesting 24 hours for 2 weeks straight and no news outlet is covering it! 8/8/25
Cost of plastic gold-painted gee-gaws in the Oval Office? Priceless.
Can we DOGE the breach, anyway?
Following up on these warrants. I don't think not showing up to work is illegal. I betcha a lot of these folks issuing the warrants haven't showed up occasionally. And other Texans leave for Cancun.
In a magical sleight of hand, the Census Bureau ALREADY has a plan to repeat the Census (in 2030) and that plan is PUBLISHED on the internet and includes counting rules from the Constitution! Talk about ahead of the curve.
@jamestalarico.bsky.social: "We're here in IL, the land of Lincoln... When he was a state senator in 1840, broke quorum by jumping out of a window in the statehouse. I believe my colleagues and I are participating in a long tradition of standing up to bullies, civil disobedience, of good trouble."
“For we are all pedos…uh… sinners, and prayer hasn’t done us much good, except for the cash rolling in. Amen.”
I think we could demonstrate the “environment” concept at his office
Marc Maron calls him “The Shittiest Kennedy”.
As we evaluate data from 2025, will we be able to exclude government sponsored crimes and crimes erased by the government? There will be a lot of false equivalencies - if there is any data released at all.
Secular humanism and fascism: “Fascism subsumes individuals into collective identities: racial, national, religious. By contrast, humanism insists that ethical responsibility resides in the individual, which is ultimately where it belongs.” secularhumanism.org/2025/07/the-...
I tell you what - I’ll promise to buy the “deal” too, and I have some Bed Bath and Beyond coupons to kick in as well. Countries Promise Trump to Buy U.S. Gas, and Leave the Details for Later www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/b...
riffs
Ring Users! Just so’s you know the situation - bsky.app/profile/phil...
Can we do that? I’m makin’ a list!
Start your morning with two minutes of the testimony of Samuel Garcia, an average American who drove 3 hours to speak truth to power to the Texas legislature. Let’s decide that we are all Samuel Garcia. Get in their faces and make them listen. Mr. Garcia is a great American.
Enron. Enron. Enron Enron Enron. ENRON.
WTAF?
Too late for that now.
Among other things….,
And there it is.
Can we just make the rest of his term an internet hoax and send him home?
Mike Johnson, you better go home and get on your Christian knees and seek forgiveness from Jeezus and the Universe for being such an unfathomable hypocritical prick that even your porn promises can't save you.
FRIEDMAN: Is it accurate that at least 80% of the calls that went to FEMA call centers on July 7 went unanswered? RICHARDSON: When the tragedy struck, ah-- F: It's a yes or not question RICHARDSON: The majority of the calls were answered at the call centers F: That's not what the report says
What I want from my politicians: • End Citizens United • Term limits - no more aging out of office • Ban stock trading • Lifetime lobbying ban Is that so much to ask?
Look at all these beautiful, happy people!! Let’s keep being loud 📢 Santa Barbara, CA ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼✊🏻
I'm not loving a country that pays its adults half as much to teach children to spell as it does to kidnap them.
Bring back DEI please.
Oh so the president could release secret files if he wanted to, you say?
Thomas Jefferson was 44 when he began what many in 2025 STILL consider a romantic tryst or loving affair with Sally Hemings. Ms. Hemings had no legal capacity to consent to such a relationship not only because she was enslaved, Jefferson's property, BUT ALSO BECAUSE SHE WAS 14-YEARS-OLD. /1
This is what fear looks like.
I LIKEd IKE, I still like Ike. Man.. how far we have sunk.😔
The irony is that the hedge funds dismantled Sears for parts and one thing parted out is the Sears Repair Services. The former Sears CEO bought it out of the Sears bankruptcy.
This was my second thought. My first thought was to try to estimate the dollar amount of just this effort in the fiasco.
They don't say how long those FBI employees worked, but I bet it cost more than I can count.
I call Triple-Dog-Bullshit!
The Supreme Court’s decision to allow the administration to effectively shut down the Department of Education is technically temporary. But the damage is done. bit.ly/4eUmw8E
You kidnap us in broad daylight. You are protecting no one but each other.
Watch Bernie Sanders’ pep talk to people thinking about running for office - then sign up with @runforsomething.net at runforwhat.net
Let’s repeat- do NOT forget Dershowitz.
Progressives, and young Progressives, are not cowering. They are putting themselves out there with not much from the Party, and often open hostility. Supporting Progressives is one way to unity. You can't be more corporate and expect much.
Does anyone remember that commercial where someone does something BiG and a reporter asks “whaddya gonna go now?” And they say, “I’m going to Disneyland!”
are you saying? 'The Govt IS Controlling the Weather'? if so maybe MTG will help spread the word :-/
BARRASSO: We have over 5 million people sitting at home who are able to work who are on Medicaid and choose not to work WELKER: 92 percent of people who are on Medicaid are either working or would qualify for an exemption
Again, weak push back. Speak clearly…tell him what he said is wrong & not true then follow it up with the facts. More clarity & less wordy responses from these journalists would be helpful.
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