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Yesterday we visited Green Mountain Falls, CO to visit the kinetic sculpture Off the Beaten Path by Patrick Shearn. I wasn’t ready for just how dynamic it was even in the slightest breeze. Reminds me of a murmuration of starlings. Incredible artwork. It’ll only be up through October 19th.
Yes but Trump doesn’t read and Kennedy has some personal conspiracy theory bullshit to promote.
“LIKE A BROKEN RECORD” Now that the @nytimes is reporting Modi and Trump had a falling out over Trump’s lie that he deserves credit for the India-Pakistan ceasefire, we re-submit to you this clip of an Indian anchor calling him out months ago — even as 🇺🇸 media wouldn’t.
I used to read books like Lord of the Rings or watch movies like Star Wars and think the villains were unbelievable. And of course, now watching the tech oligarchs (who could not spend all their money if they tried) destroy civilization for power, I’m like, guess I was wrong. People are that awful.
KASIE HUNT: Over the summer you said, “There’s no vaccine that’s safe and effective”. Do you still believe that? RFK JR: “I never said that.” KASIE HUNT: “Play the clip.” RFK JR (clip): “There’s no vaccine that is safe and effective.” (March 2024) ht: @cwebbonline.com
Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
This should be getting far more attention from the media, and it should be investigated as a hate crime. A 14-year-old Black teen was targeted, beaten, and dehumanized with racial slurs by white teens while people stood around cheering. 1/4
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I’m not an ornithologist. Can anyone identify the bird in this photo?
We are standing against tyranny! 🗣🔥🎬
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Do not come to Chicago but we're going to be ready for you if you do! 💙💙👏🏼👏🏼👇🏼
I really hope this becomes the black eye it deserves to be www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Do you notice he doesn’t even have the strength to apply his orange paint?
One week ago, thousands of New Yorkers tried something new. They heard about it last minute. They didn’t know where it would take them or who they would meet. It was free, earnest, even educational. It was the #ZcavengerHunt and it was a thing of beauty.
DHS and DC Police detaining a peaceful, unarmed man sitting on a bench at DC's Malcolm X Park.
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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.
This part. Everyone should be taking notes from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social’s @mizzwelch.bsky.social
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
WHERE IS DEMENTIA DONNIE? bsky.app/profile/ther...
We can't even play basketball 🏀 🤬
Days after filing a whistleblower complaint claiming that DOGE put Americans’ Social Security data at risk, the agency’s chief data officer “involuntarily” resigned.
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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.
RFK Jr. is destroying the CDC. He’s barking mad, and he’s gutting the health institutions Americans rely on to stay healthy and safe. He’s firing lifelong experts in their fields and forging policy based on poppycock. He has to be impeached. Now. My column: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
If you are interested in what is happening in Columbia Heights and Mount Pleasant these days @maustermuhle.bsky.social at @51st.news has written the best article I've seen.
CDC leaders on why the left: “I resigned because I could not be part of the weaponization of public health and CDC… we should always be questioning - but you shouldn’t have a preconceived idea before you have the data.”
WHOOPSIE DOODLE
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
Learn to decipher the codespeak.
THIS 👉🏾 What price are you willing to pay? “You’re letting masked men snatch girls’ parents off the streets.”
Excellent question.
Dear people who are saying that the CDC directors who quit yesterday should have “stayed and fought”, With all due respect, you do not grasp the magnitude of the problem of RFK Jr. He is asking them to do unethical and immoral things that will actively harm the people of the United States. 1/3
There it is!!! 📍
Yes, your last sentence said it all. He was being perfectly reasonable and spoke in an outwardly respectful tone, suggesting the possibility that Trump’s staff had misled him about where the real crime problem was located, implying that they were maybe acting in an untrustworthy manner.
**Newsom's got the look right: Serious and Responsible. **He does have the facts on his side. Most Americans are hearing ONLY about crime in Blue cities and states. This corrects that. **He goes along with the pretense that Trump is acting in good faith--challenging Trump on Trump's chosen ground.
Newsom: Perhaps the president could deploy the National Guard in every corner of Mississippi. Murder rate is out of control there. And the governor may want to make that phone call.
Don’t look away
RFK, Jr., Demanded Vaccine Study Be Retracted—Journal Said No Secretary of Health and Human Services Kennedy, called for a paper that found no link between aluminum in vaccines and disease to be retracted. The journal rejected the request. apple.news/AXMJankaHQBW...
Do other countries’ people take SSRIs? Of course they do. So our focus should be on what is different between us and them. Easy access to guns. Poor mental health care. A society that has become next to impossible for young people to thrive. Bullying. How about we start with those.
#Pinks #ProudBlue If you live in GA., you better make sure you’re still registered to vote. Hundreds of thousands have been taken off the voter rolls, especially young black people. GOTV. ✊💙 georgiarecorder.com/briefs/georg...
Republicans are trying to redraw congressional district lines to keep their grip on Congress in the midterms and beyond. Voters should pick their politicians, not the other way around. Get involved with the @democraticredistricting.com as they fight back: bit.ly/3HJ1ayW
Newsom tells our Christopher Cadelago that he has final say over his x posts, but is using his "kill switch" to reject posts "less every day." Watch the interview from our Politico Live California Agenda Summit 👇
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 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
This GOP budget for Michigan is a disaster: bridgemi.com/michigan-gov...
President Donald Trump’s administration has asked a military base outside Chicago for support on immigration operations, the base said Thursday, signaling a push to expand its law enforcement crackdown to other cities. apnews.com/article/trum...
Yeah, you should.
This interview, which is also available to listen to as a podcast, provides a useful overview of some of the dangerous trends we’ve been seeing in recent months regarding federalization and militarization of state and local police functions.
#NIH is hanging by a thread. The #CDC has been decimated. #RFK Jr. and Russell #Vought are psychopaths--I don't say this frivolously--they are cold, calculating, inflicting violence on millions through public policy. It is where we are right now. These men are not normal. 1/
The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121.
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.”
Dr. William Foege, 89, who helped end smallpox in the 1970s, recently wrote: RFK Jr.’s “words can be as lethal as the smallpox virus.” And his actions are more lethal still. He’s waging war on America. That’s an impeachable offense. He must be removed from office. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...
Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), top Dem on the Senate health committee, on this evening's chaos at CDC: “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."
I like the first one.
Brilliant advice on #Resistance from Europe… they have centuries of experience! 🥇😂
It’s a whole lot more than a little scary. It’s fucking terrifying! I never thought I would ever see so many people debase themselves. And Trump eats it up like the nut job he is. Sickening.
The elders are calling bullshit, but the representatives aren’t listening. I feel the aggravation in that room. As though this government was hellbent on causing our elders to go into early graves.
#chicago #nationalguard #fdt
I hear windmills are super scary.
🗽ID what ppl need/want & give it I would expand this — study the problems plaguing the people, find solutions to achieve results, devise implementation strategies and clearly communicate with the people. Not little blips and made for tv (social media) bullshit. Real work.
"I will judge Bolton when I see what allegations emerge from this investigation, if any, and when I can evaluate the evidence in support of those allegations. But I don’t need to wait that long to judge the FBI’s conduct."
I miss these Texas days and her.
Fuckers. Please go sign in support of these good folk. www.huffpost.com/entry/fema-l...
Cheyenne Hunt @cheyennehunt.bsky.social
EIA: Solar and wind leave coal in the dust with record 2025 output flip.it/dmIr3Y WHICH IS WHY BIG OIL WANTS THEIR TODDLER POTUS TO SHUT ALL GREEN ENERGY PROJECTS.
He’s all over the place. Anti-Semitic on his guns, firing on Catholics. Just generally filled with fear, hate and self loathing. How in the hell do we help these young white guys so they can quit killing people?
Refuse Fascism NYC Chapter @refusefascism.bsky.social #Nov5 #TrumpOutNow #NoFascistUSA refusefascism.org
Moore: The president seems to obsessed with me. Today he called me a beauty. And when I first met him, he just talked about how I was a good looking guy.
Moore: "The thing that gets me most about this is how deeply disrespectful this is to members of the National Guard who signed up for this job as I did when I deployed overseas & led paratroopers in combat where we signed up w/the expectation the commander in chief was actually taking it seriously"
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It’s the authoritarians who cause most immigration and refugees.
We are seeing this worldwide. The people of the world need to get it together and unite. There is no reason for the super rich to not pay more in taxes and there is no reason for people to live in extreme poverty or under authoritarian rule.
I am sickened by the relentless demonisation of refugees. No refugee underfunded a school. No refugee closed a hospital. No refugee took away support from the sick and disabled. We need solutions not scapegoats. Stop blaming refugees and tax the rich instead!
The Iowa Senate seat that Democratic candidate Catelin Drey flipped tonight has been in GOP hands for 13 years. Not anymore.
Jesus Christ. If your credit isn’t frozen at all three bureaus, I would strongly consider doing that now
"For those people out there who ... say, 'Well, I just don't like those people either' ... You could be next. ... This is not about any one individual, this is about our rights as Americans, and our right to have a justice system where choices about prosecuting are made without fear or favor."
POTUS's baseless allegations against Lisa Cook are an attack on the independence of the Fed It's already making everything more expensive, weakening the dollar & harming us all I discussed @symonedsanders.bsky.social @michaelsteele.bsky.social @eugenedaniels2.bsky.social
This jerk off is a total failure as governor how the fuck did he get elected?? Are people in the failed state of Mississippi mentally handicapped? 👉🏼This guy should never hold a job in politics again! He's a do nothing failure Mississippi is a shit hole state because of him!🤨👇🏼
A man, near the White House, who describes himself as a "retired disabled combat veteran," after burning an American flag tells bystanders "I am being detained because I expressed my First Amendment rights."
Exactly! Why don’t those states focus on their own crime? And why are we focusing on cities only. Pretending that impoverished rural areas are any better. Their young people have no jobs and the rate of meth use is off the charts. If you’re afraid of cities, don’t visit.
Meiselas: Stop both-sidesing it, media. Stop trying to sow division within the Democratic Party when we literally have military invasions into American cities, aided and abetted by red state governors, who, again, are the takers who wouldn't exist without the blue states
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.
"If I were king, I would not allow people to go about burning the American flag. However, we have a First Amendment, which says that the right of free speech shall not be abridged. And it is addressed, in particular, to speech critical of the government." --Antonin friggin' Scalia
How very terrible for them. Perhaps Russia should focus on its own problems instead of inflicting war and death on others.
What a ginormous waste of money! How much of this will be shouldered by the citizens of Florida? When the next hurricane disaster hits Florida, will all of the disaster relief funds have already been spent on a ridiculous concentration camp?