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Joseph Ladapo and his wife who calls herself "an intuitive spiritual healer, movement therapist, and teacher" are highly involved in questionable health theories. Brianna Ladapo has posted about weather modifications, chem trails, frequencies, "experiments to dim the sun," and COVID being planned/
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I'm looking for pitches for @MotherJones' print culture section, Mixed Media! These are ~2,000-word essays that combine reporting, cultural criticism, historical research, and/or personal narrative. More details in our pitch guidelines here: www.motherjones.com/contribute/w...
When your lethal military action is definitely super duper legal.
Daskalakis: There is a program called Vaccines for Children. It is the safety-net program that gets vaccines to kids. Over 50% of kids in the U.S. get their vaccines through this. If the ACIP says this vaccine should not be given to six-month-olds through 12-year-olds, the VFC won’t buy it
The Trump administration in a nutshell (from www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...)
Trump administration formally requests military assistance for Chicago, per memo I obtained. Read the full document here: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...
INBOX — “Ogles neither lives in nor has an office in NASHVILLE. Perhaps he’d like to invite the National Guard into his actual community.” Mayor @freddieoconnell.bsky.social reacts to Ogles calling for the Guard to invade the city. (part of which Ogles supposedly represents)
I am not an expert but it seems ~not great~ that Laura Loomer has veto power over the activities of America's intelligence agencies
Many/Most vaccines require 90% or more use to benefit from herd immunity. Otherwise, outbreaks will start & kids will die. Technically, they will suffer and then die. This isn’t theory bc we have tracked the impact of vaccines: ourworldindata.org/vaccines-chi...
Does he not know any real people?
his top political advisor u say
Authors: if you get an email invite from the Greater Hopewell Book Club, it's a scam: it charges an appearance fee (which it misleadingly describes as an honorarium) of $150. (If this reminds you of other AI-generated solicitations you've rec'd recently, that's not a coincidence)
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Today, AFSCME, alongside a coalition of library and museum organizations, filed an amicus brief urging the court to stop the White House’s unlawful attempt to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) through an Executive Order.
it is genuinely wild that Trump’s top domestic policy guy is basically a monarchist who has all but written that he thinks Trump should rule as a dictator
Opposition to RFKJr is ramping up. Joint statement from Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and 21 other organizations 👇
The entire federal government is being mobilized to destroy the American wind energy industry. Why? Because the toddler king didn't like seeing windmills from a golf course, so he decided he hates wind power and now that's the policy of the United States. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/c...
How to record ICE: 1) Record from a safe distance. DO NOT INTERVENE. 2) Put the DATE, TIME, & LOCATION on the video. 3) Ask for NAMES & BIRTHDAYS 4) CONTEXT, how many people were taken? What happened? How? 5) If possible, document vehicles used and agents, even if masked. @eltragon.bsky.social
For the last decade, the trans community has been face tanking attacks from anti-queer forces in the US (and abroad). What hurts now is not that the attacks have continued or increased (though that does suck) has hurt for the last year is that attacks on the shield have come from behind.
“Many family members of unaccompanied Guatemalan migrant children who are part of a group the Trump admin attempted to deport over the weekend did not want their children returned to Guatemala, according to an internal Guatemalan government report that contradicts assertions made by U.S. officials.”
is it possible to be "wary" of something you do daily and for a living
Thousands of HHS Employees Pen Unprecedented Letter Calling for RFK’s Resignation www.splinter.com/thousands-of...
This used to be taught in law schools: that courts have no enforcement power, and rely entirely on trust, which must therefore NOT be squandered. As a law school faculty brat, it was in the air I breathed, and I wasn't even in law school! How the Reps on SCOTUS came to forget it is a mystery.
The Trumpist majority on SCOTUS, like Trump himself, is spending down a trust fund they did not create, apparently believing it refills automatically. But it doesn’t. The whole system depends on other key institutions treating their rulings as legitimate.
It seems like federal district courts are in full revolt against SCOTUS. I've never seen such direct scathing criticism of SCOTUS like this from the bench over their shadow docket rulings quietly overturning precedent without explanation. From the Harvard decision today.
my mom just called to ask for tips on how to plan some international travel because she doesn’t trust what she’s getting with Google and non-influencer travel media basically doesn’t exist anymore afaict
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⤵️
The response to this piece has been incredible. Huge thanks to all the translators and localizers who shared their stories. I'm now planning the next two editions: First, if you're a healthcare worker—a nurse, therapist, tech, admin, doctor—and AI has impacted your job, I'd love to hear from you.
oh look yet another poll finding Americans *oppose* Trump's actions, contrary to the lazy pundit reframe that this is some super-savvy political trap he's setting for Democrats. cc: @chriscillizza.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/toda...
NEW: More details on Trump's Chicago immigration blitz. -230 agents arrive from LA this weekend w/ 140 unmarked vehicles -30 already arrived and are practicing crowd control with shields/flashbangs -agents will leave base daily by 5 a.m. -new no-fly zone at NSGL to keep away news choppers/drones
what stage of empire is it when a state guts public transit service so a gambling app has to subsidize it in order to ensure a full house at the gladiator games
It enrages me that major outlets won't talk about this. this is why the box office down. Sony’s mainstream movie divisions released eight theatrical films in summer 2013. They only put out three films the entire summer 2025. Combine that with Disney wiping out 20th Century Fox, that's why...
Trump and FHFA director Pulte are floating plans to privatize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac – but who would really benefit? As Elizabeth Warren put it, privatization would be “great for billionaires, terrible for hardworking people.”
Trump demonstrates the danger of a dictator confusing his own, often sadistic, fantasies with the desires of the public -- and repeatedly enacting dystopian theaters of cruelty in the nation's streets, as I discuss here.
"Far from being popular, Trump’s distractions are themselves theaters of cruelty and nihilism that alienate more and more people, thus leading to the need for more diversions." Good @davidrlurie.bsky.social look at the MAGA vortex of extremism over at @atrupar.com's place:
They're going to try to ruin the lives of the cops who fought the rioters to make sure no cops fight the rioters next time
Ouch SCOTUS
“Signs accusing the US president of ‘protecting pedophiles’ were raised alongside placards demanding the administration ‘release the files’, and messages of support for survivors, reading ‘we believe you.’” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
NEW on Heads Up News: All eyes on Chicago’s resistance www.headsupnews.org/p/all-eyes-o...
No one did more to make the Epstein scandal a central political issue than Donald Trump. But as soon as his minions opened them and confirmed — as AG Bondi did — that Trump’s name is in them, he did a 180 to insist it’s all irrelevant.
This paragraph is brutal.
The entirety of the American political machine- Republican and Democrat- is organized against Zohran Mamdani. They wouldn’t do that if they believed Mamdani’s plans are going to fail. They’re doing it because they know he’ll succeed. www.nydailynews.com/2025/09/03/t...
"Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone." — Michael Okuda How quick we forget.
The Supreme Court keeps yelling at the district courts for not understanding that the new rule is to decide in favor of the Trump administration and their allies in every case regardless of the facts or the substance of the law.
As with tariffs, it seems like we’re going to have to relearn some lessons the hard way as the generations that remember how this worked out in the past die off.
"I used to be easily intimidated into supporting bad things, but not anymore!" says man as he embraces an ascendent hatred stoked by the leaders of the world's most powerful government
They’re going to fight the wind so they can boil the ocean. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/c...
We don’t build power alone. It takes solidarity, organizing, and showing up for one another. That’s how we win better wages, safer workplaces, and a future worth fighting for.
Houston hotel workers just made history. On Labor Day, staff at Hilton Americas-Houston walked off the job demanding $23/hr, fair schedules, and respect. 99% voted yes, and they’re standing strong. This is what solidarity looks like. seiu.co/47ndZcF
“This is going to have an immediate impact on many, many people’s ability to survive,” said Lorelei Lee, a sex worker, organizer and professor of law at Cornell University. @jazzmyth.bsky.social reports for @19thnews.org. 19thnews.org/2025/09/age-...
“They just see us as little toy soldiers to put on the street to show some muscle.” Alex, a National Guard recruiter who requested anonymity to speak freely, told Mother Jones that the DC mission has deterred potential recruits and pushed soldiers to their breaking points.
This is why we fight. This is why this #SolidaritySeason we’re continuing to demand care, dignity, and power for all working families. seiu.co/3JLaSBx
Prominent far-right influencers have been attempting to rehabilitate Hitler's reputation. That's not an exaggeration; it's easily documented. I wrote about why they are doing this, what they hope to gain, and what it means for America.
How come racist assholes can conduct themselves however the hell they want but the people from the group they're targeting have to be a fucking paragon of grace and maturity if they respond? Sure sounds convenient for the racist, doesn't it?
AOC: If anybody says “this isn’t fair, I'm gonna have to divest all my stocks if I run for congress” maybe you should stay home.
"Blaise just spent $30,000 in taxpayer dollars on a film crew contract to follow him around & help him look pretty in front of cameras." #Florida CFO Blaise Ingoglia, who's searching for wasted tax money, wasted $30K on himself. www.miaminewtimes.com/news/florida... via @naomifeinstein.bsky.social
The Trump administration has given notice that political appointees, rather than scientists, will ultimately decide who gets grant money from the world’s largest biomedical research funder — the federal government’s National Institutes of Health.
I know political memories are short, but damn! In July, Schiff joined Republicans to pass the industry-friendly crypto bill that allowed Trump to take in more crypto bribes.
#Florida Gov. Ron DeSastrous says crosswalk art is a safety hazard. Studies say the art actually makes the crosswalks SAFER. www.tampabay.com/news/educati... via @tampabaytimes.bsky.social
IF ONLY THERE WAS SOMETHING THE SENATE COULD’VE DONE TO PREVENT THIS IF ONLY THERE WAS SOMETHING THEY COULD DO NOW
Just remembered that Florida's surgeon general (in the news today for revoking the state's public-school vaccine mandate) appeared on the podcast of fringe-right anti-Semite Stew Peters. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
John Malone's attacks on CNN underscore yet again that the MAGA audience cannot be won over by truth-telling news organizations, no matter how much they bend over backwards to please them. Here's what I wrote in @status.news: www.status.news/p/john-malon...
🚨NEW: Declarations filed in the lawsuit against the rushed attempt to deport 600 Guatemalan children reveals the chaotic way the Trump admin carried out the operation. Children were taken out of bed after midnight to be rushed onto planes. One girl "was so scared she vomited."
Most of this energy seems to come from the “how DARE someone tell YOU what to do with YOUR children which are YOUR property!” sentiment. Maybe there’s a way to spin antivax as “they’re trying to steal YOUR children! By killing them by preventing them from getting vaccinated!”
Just 6 years ago anti-vaxxers were a laughable fringe group. Now their victory is so total they're setting government policy. This is like if schools started teaching Flat Earth. A complete failure of education and science comms. Kids will die because we couldn't convince their parents of the truth.
There’s a woman who sits in front of the Heritage Foundation with a sign that reads “Heritage = Nazis” and just blows a whistle at every staffer who leaves the building, and I love it and love her for doing it.
It is such a weird turn of events that the best way to avoid criminal prosecution is to become president of the United States.
Moskowitz uses his questioning time of Farage to tick through everything Republicans are doing to cover up the Epstein files
literal lunatics are in charge of public health right now
The largest rally of Epstein survivors is happening right now. The system tried to silence them, but they’re louder than ever.
Big news: California, Oregon and Washington State just announced a joint "West Coast Health Alliance" to counter Trump/RFK destruction of our public health system. As I argued last week (see below), this is becoming a new frontier in Dem Gov resistance to Trump.
the thing is if you have a six hour day for eight hours pay & full employment you now have time to enjoy walking your dog. to cook yourself something at leisure. to enjoy taking care of your dwelling. the answer isn't magic robots. it's unions, it's workers getting the means of production
DAILY MEMO: Hundreds of New Agents Arrive in L.A. as Chief Bovino Prepares to Take “This Show” to Another City @eltragon.bsky.social
A little legal positivity... ⚖️✅ @jenpsaki.msnbc.com shows how Trump's unpopular & illegal agenda is suffering one legal loss after another in court challenges. Guests: @normeisen.bsky.social of Democracy Defenders Fund, @skyeperryman.bsky.social of Democracy Forward. 📺 youtu.be/j7fj6-NMeo4?...
Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should
"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, & evil that even in this case, it can barely find the resources to demur." 🧾 is.gd/4M40i4
Laura Loomer has more power over your government than US Senators.
Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., the vice chair of the Intelligence Committee, says he was denied a meeting with career intelligence workers because Laura Loomer objected.
GOP Publishes Old Epstein Files in Panic Bid to Bury Crisis #EpsteinCoverup www.thedailybeast.com/lawmakers-re... via @thedailybeast
ACTION OPPORTUNITY: Public Comment Period for urging CDC to restore old guidelines that everyone get COVID vaccine access, opposing new restriction to high-risk only (which will reduce number of places stocking it & make it easier for insurance to deny coverage). Commenting takes literally 1 minute!
SCOOP: Sources at the House Oversight Committee confirm documents posted by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna are the same ~33,000 pages of Epstein documents they received — 97% already public — and part of a broader plan to block transparency.
Schutzstaffel in formation. Not sure what the final title & mission will be, but an array of paramilitary forces that will use violence to carry out the (illegal or unconstitutional) policies of the leader are coming into view:
Rep. Jim McGovern: "Republicans are terrified because the president doesn't want to release all the Epstein files after promising that he would release them during the campaign ... What are they trying to hide?"
Let’s make sure the Epstein victims get the attention they deserve. RESTACK all the Epstein/Trump content you see and make it trend! #Epstein #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #Trump-Epstein mdavis19881.substack.com/p/epstein-xi...
Oh, _now_ he’ll wear a mask
"Christian Osborne has been itching to serve his country since he was discharged from the Marines after refusing the coronavirus vaccine." And there it is, ICE in a nutshell: Guy who couldn't follow orders and was kicked out of the Marines longs to wear a mask, carry a gun & round up brown people
The New York Times’ headlines are still repeating claims by the most pervasive liar in U.S. political history without including even a hint of skepticism.
you'd think the governor of illinois basically going "we're being invaded by an authoritarian" would be something you'd see real easy on the front page of most everything an hour later
Congressional reporter says Trump is threatening Republicans not to back the bipartisan push for an Epstein files release vote…
“The new head of the CDC [Jim O’Neill] has no training in medicine and once helped Peter Thiel develop man-made islands floating outside U.S. territory” 8/29/25 … 1/ fortune.com/2025/08/29/w...
Khanna: It’s going to be a bombshell press conference tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. The American people will hear directly from survivors of the Epstein abuse. And they’re not just going to talk about Epstein’s and Maxwell’s abuse — they’re going to talk about rich and powerful men…
A federal appeals court panel rejects the Trump administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to expel Venezuelan immigrants.
Read about how Francis J. Allman, Chief Judge of Florida’s Second Judicial District, is an un-American censorial fascist thug worthy of contempt.
This only seems contradictory if you view MAGA types as concerned about Jews. But if you view them as using Jews as scapegoats, there's no contradiction at all.
Given that the general strategy of this administration is to try small transgressions and, if they don’t get pushback, go bigger…letting them extrajudicially kill people in international waters seems bad.
Coal miners pushed for years for a silica dust rule to reduce black lung disease. The Trump administration has delayed its enforcement until at least October, while claiming to love coal miners. @kimkelly.bsky.social reports
Straight up Nazi shit, no exaggeration