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NatCon’s “The Bible and American Renewal” breakout session is underway. Josh Hammer is speaking now, but all three of the other panelists — Timon Cline, Chase Davis, and William Wolfe — are all either tied to or directly employed by the same organization: the American Reformer.
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😂 Just had my follow-up. It's weird but so necessary
Epstein survivors say they’re compiling their own client list. “We know who abused us. We saw who came and went. This list will be survivor-led—for survivors”
Y’all this is absolutely wild. You need to read this article. Coordinated targeting of firefighters on a 10% contained wildfire for immigration enforcement under the pretense of *padding their time cards*. This is insane.
This is going to massively increase rates of #measles and other infectious diseases in the state (and because of travel and tourism, the country at large). Mandates are what allowed us to eliminate endemic measles in the US. The 2020s have been such a step backwards for public health.
Others are rightly pointing out what a creepy, slanted presentation this is, so I'll ask a more mundane question: NPR calls this an "exhibit" at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. But the EEOB is closed to the general public, so what does it mean to have an exhibit there? Exhibited to whom?
An Aug. 29 policy statement from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the federal agency, will from now on bar nonpartisan groups such as the League of Women Voters from offering voter registration services at the end of naturalization ceremonies. /1
If it’s under Title 32 authority, the Texas guard remains under state control. That would mean that one state is deploying armed forces into the territory of a non-consenting state. And that’d clearly be a violation of the principle that states are co-equal, territorially limited sovereigns.
Sing it.
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.
We also need to remember that the vast majority of people participating in those protests were masked. I think a lot of people like to say that some things should have been different while forgetting what it was actually like in the moment. The uncertainty was stressful.
I’m enjoying his public absence while it lasts
Ah, yes. I remember when Michelle Obama ravaged the NIH and CDC, killed off vital vaccine research and denied inoculations to millions for reasons of pure BS. I remember this because I have Pundit Memory™️, an exciting new product that makes you able to both-sides and whatabout anything!
Yes, it was carefully hidden in the New England Journal of Medicine. Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 1/2
Such a cruel disease. I'm sorry for him and his family
I trust this statement as much as I trust Giuliani's claim that he was so violently attacked by this man that he was in tremendous pain. youtu.be/UD01t99hMmI?...
The LGML case came very close to being JGG redux. But just before the hearing began, the judge decided not to wait. She entered a TRO barring removal of all the children. That made all the difference: DHS already had the kids loaded on planes. One plane even took off (then turned around).
I think it’s two different times. Still, keeping his distance from the press this long isn’t normal for him
Must be Gruden’s favorite golf outfit since he wore it last week at Trump’s club in Virginia.
This is about wealth, not age
And spending time with family members he’s rarely seen with outside a formal setting.
It’s not true that there are no principled conservatives, and every time they appealed to principle it was merely a mask for “it’s bad if you do it, but good when we do it, and we’re eager to do it a lot more.” It’s just that principled conservatives all went NeverTrump, by Jan. 6 at the latest.
This is the kinda stuff right wing media said when Michelle Obama oversaw a school nutrition program fyi. Glenn Beck transcript is from 2010.
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Reports show that Trump is using loopholes to avoid paying National Guard troops fully. Every time I think this POS can't go any lower, he does. www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri...
I’m surprised that so few knew his history. It’s not like he ever tried to hide it.
RFK Jr: “If you’ve ever compared an unvaccinated kid to a vaccinated kid… you see the bright eyes, the engagement, the social interactions, the curiosity. And you compare them to the child who even had one or two vaccines, and they’re completely different.“ This man is an existential threat.
Wait! I thought Trump was supposed to be “ending homelessness.” HUD just announced a nationwide audit of Section 8 “citizen status.” Mixed-status families could lose rental assistance, even when kids are U.S. citizens. Families including children could be thrown into eviction & face homelessness.
Read the tweet before this one to understand the context. Unbelievable
They were desperate for scandal when Biden was president. With Trump they have plenty to print. They must be happy he’s back.
People like Trump who fantasize about being a dictator and demand to be surrounded by loyalists tend to attract similar personalities. Kennedy is one of those personalities. Trump doesn’t care what RFKJ believes, he only cares that he’s loyal. Just so happens that RFKJ is a conspiratorial psycho.
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We plan on having a garden with a lot of variety at our next house. Amy have to take up canning
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...
The Republican Congress is going to try to rewrite the history of RFK Jr.’s confirmation as HHS Secretary. “We didn’t know” “Nobody told us” “He promised he wouldn’t…” This thread will be about the warnings from thousands of scientists and HCW who loudly and publicly opposed his confirmation.
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..
Epidemiologist Erin McCanlies spent much of the past two decades studying the environmental causes of autism. Under the leadership of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has promised to find a cause for the condition, her entire division was cut.
Hotel television should be like in-flight entertainment. What it is now is annoying and dated
As distasteful as it is, I think most people are always watching feeds for “that particular news”
Every time your electricity bill goes up for the next 10 years, it can be traced back to this Administration’s actions. They are making solar and wind power illegal to build in the United States. They are artificially restricting supply while demand is going up.
Comments under a story showing the National Guard spreading mulch in DC...yea
“Our job is lethality and readiness and warfighting.” – Pete Hegseth, U.S. secretary of defense 🥴
I listened to an interview on POTUS XM radio with a WH reporter and she mentioned at the end that she heard music coming from the Rose Garden patio and that Trump was sitting out there just listening to music. Hard at work🙄
Giving robbers a chance to ask a higher court, with justices they know personally, if they can keep the money.
You sure are, shitbird. They are either going to skyrocket or you are going to direct employees to fake the data. Or both.
Beautiful
I personally don't like any of the altered flags showing support for different agencies or departments. Come up with your own thing, don't alter the stars and stripes.
Not only did Lee commit treason, but West Pointers in the Union Army seriously debated overthrowing the Lincoln admin & to install a dictatorship. Gen. George B. McClellan, their leader, "joked" that people are "calling on me to save the nation—alluding to the Presidency, Dictatorship &c."
I was just at Walgreens to get my flu shot, and she told me they didn't have any CV19 doses yet and didn't seem to know anything about the new criteria either.
Catherine is right about this; a lot of the biggest changes to immigration will take years to manifest, including mass deportations. The price shocks are not going to be sudden.
White House official Lindsey Halligan on the Smithsonian: "The president wants to see more positivity and more patriotism ... 98% of the population should not be be forced to accommodate or adjust their morals to make less than 2% of the population comfortable."
This thread It’s just soul sucking awful that this passed. Speaks so much of how the Texas Legislature has lurched further and further extremist since that 2017 defeat of this abomination of a bill.
Wolf in sheep's clothing
* TRUMP REVOKES KAMALA HARRIS' SECRET SERVICE PROTECTION -- CNN @reuters.com
The only reason he’d do this is because it was a bill signed by Obama. He doesn’t care what it is, just that Obama signed it. The man has no depth
The insanity of Trump’s decisions has no bounds. He just signed a bill revoking gun checks for people with mental illnesses. Now any mentally ill person in the U.S. will be free to own a gun without checks. I’m sure this will make America “safe” again.
Amazing legacy. Thankful for his work
My grandfather also wants to pass along the message that RFK Jr. is destroying one of the prime achievements of American medicine. This is something he knows well, given the decades of his life he dedicated to medicine, to the scientific pursuits, and to helping research new treatments for diseases.
Something tells me that's the plan. I get the feeling Trump wants this country to be more like the UAE. A place of immense wealth and privilege with extremely strict laws (and lots of gaudy gold crap everywhere). Aside from higher education, his actions fit.
"Pediatric Brain Cancer Trial Group to Be Phased Out" "A network of hospitals and cancer centers dedicated to early phase trials of novel treatments will no longer receive federal funding." 🎁🔗 Nina Agrawal for @nytimes.com
The best often want to do things the right way, which is often slow, while the worst want to push the fastest possible route to their goal. This is a problem in a society that demands instant gratification.
I don't know, maybe he shouldn't have dismissed the seriousness of the virus and undermined the effort after celebrating OWS, taking credit for fast-tracking the development of the vaccine. Maybe, instead, he should have regularly encouraged people to listen to Fauci and get vaccinated!!!!!!!
Understandable
🚨50 shades of fucked up. No fear but much loathing these “people” in 2025.
Shoutout to the National Guard on the Mall today for bravely holding the line…of tourists waiting for photo ops.
As expected. Noted antivaxxer Geier, who has had many retractions in the lit and was fined for practicing medicine without a license, is who Kennedy hired to "find the cause of autism."
They listen to people who lie to them every day, and so far, it's probably not affecting them personally. It will, but it isn't yet. And even if it does affect them negatively, they'll be happy that the people they hate are being treated worse. We have a very unhealthy electorate.
The TN-6 field has a new entry. (We know what you’re thinking, but Dirk beat you to it) www.tennessean.com/story/news/p...
I often talk about the fact that MAGA does not access the same news as the left wing. I present to you Exhibit A. Dr. Daskalakis’ resignation letter excoriated RFK Jr. and shared that RFK Jr. was lying to the public, manipulating data, and ordering unethical actions. This what Fox News served.
Yes, all of those vacations have been very educational
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I love it when you post something that's meant to be a subtle warning and someone responds, "It's an exciting time!"🙄
I'll feel a tiny bit of excitement when we get all of the people in this administration out of power
VP Vance frames this as a left-wing argument opposed to faith, but that's not how it's worked. Faith leaders *themselves* regularly made similar arguments — including in his own tradition, Catholicism. E.g., this is a statement from Sisters of Mercy of the Americas (Catholic nuns) on the shooting.
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
What did Putin think of the Alaska summit? Well, he just sent drones and missiles to hit an apartment building, a shopping mall and the headquarters of the European Union in Kyiv. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
Agreed
It's pretty clear he's saying these things to keep people like my in-laws afraid of the unknown.
This kinda reminds me of my in-laws, who have lived in small-town OK most of their lives, when they found out we were moving to Los Angeles. They were so worried we'd get shot or something. Then they visited and were surprised that it actually isn't a terrifying place of constant violence.
This is how I feel about Trump, "Well, he's got a point about crime in cities..." NO
I used to have a bad cold at least once every year. Ya know the kind that plugs up your nose so badly that you can't sleep? I haven't had one since before 2021. The only thing I've done differently is get the COVID-19 shot and subsequent boosters. I don't consider that a coincidence.
"We are seven months into the new administration, and no CDC subject matter expert from my Center has ever briefed the Secretary. I am not sure who the Secretary is listening to, but it is quite certainly not to us. Unvetted and conflicted outside organizations seem to be the sources..."
wtf is this nonsense? He thinks he can understand kid’s “mitochondrial challenges” just by looking at them? This is an insane person.
The Wednesday Night Massacre at #CDC. Key leaders depart after firing of Director. #RFKJr #Vought & #Trump have now destroyed the agency. Their acts will kill people. They have blood on their hands. www.statnews.com/2025/08/27/c...
I have a list of things we can do to change this tempo of tragedy The proposals are based on real data They have had signals of efficacy It may feel hopeless today but: I refuse to give up. Because - Our babies & our communities deserve better than a rolling litany of horrors.
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
Two innocent children are dead and the far right are racing to use it as pretext to further eradicate trans people. This mass shooting had nothing to do with the shooter being trans and everything to do with them being radicalized online by a nihilistic murder cult that worships mass shooters.
Arguably the most anti-religious administration in history. Just nakedly hostile to those who wish to practice their faith.
Considering cult followers desire to emulate the object of their adoration, it doesn’t surprise me that they’d stop drinking because Trump doesn’t drink.
Oh, this breaks my heart. Sweet boys💔
I see it more as mocking than imitating
Jones responds to Ogles…
They’d probably ban gathering for church before banning guns of any kind
Me, trying again, on how John Roberts gave Big Balls access to all our Social Security data. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzdH...
Discussing real estate possibilities no doubt
Yes
After Sandy Hook.
