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Graham Greene, Dances with Wolves actor, dies aged 73
🚨 Gun violence in America is no act of nature. It is the predictable result of law and inequality. Each school shooting asks the same question: how many children must die to preserve extraordinary access to firearms? open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
Taking away or raising the cost of healthcare is not politically popular, and even some of the people doing it are realizing that
WAY TO GO, UNCOMMITTED MOVEMENT. You know who wouldn't have done this? President Harris. You live, you learn, I guess. 🤷🏻♀️ US reportedly suspends visa approvals for nearly all Palestinian passport holders www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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A sea turtle surfacing by a MASSIVE school of rays near Clearwater, Florida a couple days ago. Another post into the BluSky void. Maybe 2 or 3 people will see this one and my time won't have been wasted. I'll keep trying a little longer. #nature #animals #amazing #wildlife #awesome #ocean
In the cheap fun category: Trump posted this morning that he had raised $8 trillion, or $65,000 per household, from import taxes (tariffs) so far this year. Every Republican in Congress can be asked if they agree with Trump's numbers.
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
Remember your history so you recognize it and avoid repeating it.
At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm owners to elect pro-gun politicians. By @coreygjohnson.bsky.social (Published Oct. 2024)
Holy smokes This is the crowd at the Bernie Sanders/Graham Platner Fighting Oligarchy event in Portland, ME tonight Platner is the oyster farmer challenging Susan Collins; Senate seat👇 Overwhelming turnout! I feel like maybe Susan's number is finally up ..
We’re only a few years removed from creatjng a vaccine to protect against a deadly airborne virus in a matter of months. Now, we have a scion fail son running the CDC into the ground not because it failed, but because its success conflicts with RFK Jr’s eugenicist ideology.
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I can’t overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.
The mental fitness of elderly Presidents has been such an important issue for the media lately, so I expect wall-to-wall coverage of how President Trump has once again thrown a fit about one of his own signature policies, showing no awareness of how it arose or who executed it.
HAMILTON COUNTY: “@hamcoschools learned of a student suicide a week before the board voted 6-5 to end the federally funded in-school therapy…” Republicans axed the Centerstone contract because they helped 🏳️🌈 kids. Ugly stuff. Hate over kids’ safety. www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/au...
We keep seeing this exact gaslighting over and over — @RepJohnRose & Sexton also said this to NC5 $1 TRILLION in Medicaid cuts only impacting people who *shouldn’t be on it* + “waste/fraud/abuse” is nonsense Also: if all this fraud exists, why 0 arrests?
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.
What in the ever loving fuck is going on here
“ILLEGALS” MY ASS! Green card holder Rami Othmane speaks out after being snatched off the street by ICE while driving to the grocery store. He’s a documented immigrant and the husband of Dr Wafaa Alrashid, chief of staff at a local hospital. He was locked in detention for 13 days.
The ACIP meeting, to be held on September 18 and 19 at CDC headquarters in Atlanta, will include discussions and possible votes on recommendations for COVID-19 vaccines; hepatitis B vaccine; measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella (MMRV) vaccine; and respiratory syncytial virus.
Well, get your measles vaccine or booster before then, I guess🥲
The Justice Department had once argued that Ghislaine Maxwell should be sentenced to at least 30 years in prison. Now its second-ranking official—and Donald Trump’s former lawyer—is aligned with a woman whose crimes the department had called “monstrous.”
This seems exceptionally unhinged, even for Trump.
In olden times, you’d sound out constituents, gauge support for a bill, then vote. Now, it’s the opposite. @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
I agree 100%. She in no way deserves military honors. Her actions on January 6th can, at best, be described as dishonorable. Heinously dishonorable.
"She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it. She was not protecting lives at a gate in Iraq; she was forcing her way through windows in the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power." New from @markhertling.bsky.social:
Twenty years ago, Donald Trump pledged to stand behind New Orleans as it rebuilt after Hurricane Katrina. The place where the 70-story building was supposed to sit is still a parking lot. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Love these—-brilliant👍🏻
Amen. In this age, during this time in our republic, we must call a spade a spade.
BERNIE: “Secretary Kennedy is putting Americans’ lives in danger, and he must resign.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...
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Last January, a source shared evidence with me that DOGE was installing devices on govt servers to upload data to the cloud. Some hosts were FOREIGN. On Friday, a whistleblower resigned and came forward to share the same. Listen to what we found in January: www.muellershewrote.com/p/a-fork-in-...
📣 #NEWJERSEY may seem like a blue state, but we can't take it for granted, especially for Governor. Massive protest turnout won't mean ANYTHING unless people also VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS UP & DOWN THE BALLOT. Donate today! #Blue25 secure.actblue.com/donate/njblu...
I’ve heard from a couple of messaging strategists now that people shouldn’t post so much about COVID19 vaccines because it’s “divisive”. I am here to say that I do not give a damn what is popular. I will never ignore scientific evidence for the sake of expediency, and neither should anyone else.
listen he cannot officially be declared un-dead until his caddie casually drops a ball on the green after he shanks one into the woods sorry I don't make the rules here
It's the happiest moments we've had since January.
Once again, Border Patrol tells the press this was a targeted kidnapping, yet they took a man who is legally here & in the immigration process. This shows that it was not a targeted investigation as they claimed. Press must stop printing lies. apnews.com/article/immi...
⚡️ Update: Ex-parliament speaker’s murder ‘carefully prepared,’ Zelensky says. President Volodymyr Zelensky said he had instructed security services to present verified information about the investigation of Andrii Parubii's murder as soon as possible.
A brief public service announcement: Do not give up hope that we can overcome this. That’s how Trump and his regime wins.
Fifteen thousand doctors from the Committee to Protect Healthcare.
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.
Curious what the reasoning for this could possibly be. My first thought it that it was a Putin request
Why is the destruction of NIH / CDC not front headline everywhere. I am a cancer researcher and I see no future here. We are going backwards in time and give up our health and science leadership. It is maddening. Never thought this would happening.
New in PN: Alert the media — the WH is lying about Trump's health "Something's clearly up & the official explanations don’t make sense. That’s not a shock given that Trump is a liar surrounded by toadies who surrendered their shame long ago. But it’s past time for reporters to ask some questions."
This the bravery and solidarity we need right now.
CDC Director Dr. Monarez was allegedly ordered to accept ACIP’s forthcoming recommendations for COVID19 vaccines regardless of what the evidence from scientific data shows.
🚨Gun violence in America is not an act of nature. 1/2: It is the foreseeable outcome of laws and inequalities that turn grievance into carnage and leave families mourning futures that will never arrive. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/how-many-m...
“It feels like the CDC is over.” Current and former CDC officials say that the departure of several top leaders will further undermine the agency’s ability to provide reliable guidance to Americans, Tom Bartlett reports.
AP live feed of the CDC walkout in Atlanta. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ7Q...
Elected Dems need to loudly call for RFK Jr. to be fired or impeached.
Calling for RFK Jr’s firing should be something basic and simply not enough. Dems need to be uniformly calling for his impeachment and should be looking to leverage upcoming funding fight to rein in the lawlessness at CDC.
The FDA approved the next round of COVID vaccines, but is restricting them to people at high risk for COVID complications.
The “de minimis” exemption, which allowed shipments of goods worth $800 or less to enter the United States duty free, will be eliminated starting Friday. https://cnn.it/4oW72Fw
Of all the photos posted by the Strib related to the shooting at Annunciation Church, this was the one that got me the most. Maybe because we cant see the (presumably) mom’s face, so it seems more universal? arc.stimg.co/startribunem...?
So many adults have to fail a child before he ends up 10 years old telling CNN about the mass shooting he lived through this morning
Brief 🧵, as someone who has studied mass shootings for 13 years: -gender does not cause them -SSRIs, no -mental illness, no -internet/gaming, no Above can be compounding factors—but motive is complex, often very. The most fundamental combo: suicidality + rage + isolation + easy access to guns
5/ And, I'm sorry to say, it probably won't be too long before we'll be talking about all this again in the context of Texas — whose GOP leaders just made it even harder to prevent school massacres www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. Remember this before you order your next pumpkin spice latte.
We can't allow ourselves to become numb to mass shootings. What happened today in Minneapolis is heartbreaking, and Michelle and I are praying for the parents who have lost a child or will be sitting at their hospital bedside after yet another act of unspeakable, unnecessary violence.
School just started, and we are already mourning two children killed and dozens more injured as they prayed during mass. It doesn’t have to be this way. Congress must act to keep our kids safe.
AMERICA: “It’s a mental health issue.” REST OF THE WORLD: “We have those. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA: “It’s video games.” WORLD: “We have those too. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA B: “It’s cause they took Jesus out of the classroom.” WORLD: “God, you’re stupid.”
This is very bad news. Louisiana won't even defend its own map in SCOTUS. It abandoned its own Black voters. Those of us committed to defending the VRA are now entirely on our own. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Trump’s America. An utter disgrace.
Fed responds to Trump effort to fire Lisa Cook, notes president needs ‘cause’ - CNBC
Democrats: The primary election's on Tuesday, October 7th—where you choose which Democrat you want to go up against the GOP candidate. On Tuesday, December 2nd, it's the general election—you go vote for your Democrat who's running against the GOP/MAGA person. Vote Blue. wpln.org/post/meet-th...
A poll released Tuesday shows a dead heat between the top four Republican candidates vying to succeed former U.S. Rep. Mark Green in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District. via @tennesseelookout.com
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
Yes.
Everything else from here on out is just a matter of degree and wondering how bad it will get and how far it will go. Do we end up “merely” like Hungary, or do we go all the way toward an American Reich? Read @vermontgmg.bsky.social on our slouch into fascism.
War is still raging in Ukraine. Measles outbreak. US cities under siege. Gas, coffee, grocery prices are all up. No tax on tips. Value of the US dollar down. Radioactive shrimp? Millions thrown off health insurance while the plague makes a comeback... And still no Epstein files.
Elizabeth Warren: "Donald Trump needs a scapegoat and a diversion, and that's what he's doing with the Fed."
Howard Lutnick on CNBC indicates that the Trump administration will try to partially nationalize defense companies like Lockheed Martin
Texas flood relief took a back seat to Trump's redistricting demands: “It’s a travesty." [via @grist.org + @climatedesk.org]
LUTNICK:
⚡️ Update: 1 mine worker killed, 3 injured after Russian attack, energy company says. "The attack damaged the enterprise's buildings and equipment, causing a power outage," the DTEK energy company said.
Donald Trump "takes on" China by threatening to impose high taxes on ordinary Americans.
He’s wrong about everything, and thinks he’s right about everything. Hard to tell which is worse. The war will end when Russia decides no longer to fight. The US could make that happen with a few simple policies. Instead the Trump administration offers ridiculous analysis and pathetic excuses.
Krugman sobering on Maddow; they share conviction we’re in deep political trouble now. Krugman brilliant explaining where non-independent Fed under Trump could lead “80% inflation … Venezuela … Turkey … completely wild not five years down the pike but in months.” www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
one sign that the “unitary executive” is less the restoration of an older constitutional order and more the imposition of a radical new one is that allowing the president to act untethered from most legal or congressional limits has largely just served to plunge the country into disorder
No one is covering the GOP's growing redistricting scheme as closely, with as much context and analysis as Democracy Docket. Its team of 20 works around the clock to provide you independent pro-democracy news and information. Support their work by signing up today. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0
As a DC resident I feel like I should say: This is a complete and utter lie. My kid, under age 12, walked to school last year into an area close to downtown. Telling the truth is an important thing.
Valerie Thomas, the NASA scientist behind the illusion transmitter patent, made 3D movies possible and paved the way for women in STEM. Her groundbreaking work at NASA continues to inspire future innovators worldwide. #BlackExcellence #BLM #UnitedWeStand
🚨BREAKING: In a landmark victory for voters, a Utah judge struck down the state Legislature’s gerrymandered congressional map and reinstated the citizen-led redistricting reforms voters approved in 2018. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
She's an eejit. If that's all it took was googling a now disproven conspiracy theory during a time of mass misinformation then good riddance to her "massive" intellect. She must've been hanging on by a thread.
I get what you're saying but I do need someone to be reporting on where the battle is moving from one day to the next, as Trump is attacking everything, all at once—with no rhythm or reason.
Absolutely! Fight 🔥 with 🔥. All day. Every day. Stop fascism.
Correct. Democrats. We need more Democrats.
TRIGGER WARNING ⚠️ - Israel just bombed Nasser Hospital again as they were trying to recover bodies after a bombing that had killed 15. Live on air.
Sam Stein: "This is all power play stuff, the Chris Christie threats...the Bolton raid, obviously is part of it. Even the Intel story, he went from threatening to company's CEO to saying he's a great guy because he gave him a 10% share."
Remember that most of the people in the National Guard want nothing to do with this and are, in fact, probably pretty pissed off that their governor ripped them away from their normal lives to do security theater miles away from home.
Hypocrisy at its finest. And... oh yeah... It's not about crime. It's about control. It's about seizing control. It's also about slowly turning up the temperature on the pot in which the frog is bathing.
This is dangerous.
⚡️Norway pledges $8.5 billion in aid to Ukraine in 2026. The move underscores Norway’s growing role in supporting Ukraine’s defense as Western partners move closer to finalizing security guarantees amid a push to organize a high-level meeting between Kyiv and Moscow.
Once again: Pick a state, any state... acasignups.net/ira-subsidy-...
It’s funny, we never get those anguished “but how will I explain this to my child?” posts when it’s armed goons violently snatching people off the street. They save that for the real horrors, like someone having two dads.