Maggie M. (@maggiemck.bsky.social)
“Signs of fascism” in Sequim, WA
Maggie M. (@maggiemck.bsky.social)
“Signs of fascism” in Sequim, WA
Maggie M. (@maggiemck.bsky.social)
Imprisoned overseas indefinitely after he already served his time in the US. This administration is barbaric. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...
Maggie M. (@maggiemck.bsky.social)
If Noem is going to fire people for incompetence, she’d better start at the top. www.cnn.com/2025/08/29/p...
Maggie M. (@maggiemck.bsky.social)
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Greg Sargent (@gregsargent.bsky.social) reposted
Trump/RFK are decapitating our public health system, a pillar of American greatness. So Dem Govs should scour every corner of the law for creative new ways to defend their people from this madness. Dems should polarize this debate to the max. Thoughts on this here: newrepublic.com/article/1998...
Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted
My reporting uncovered the existence of DoJ training videos instructing FBI personnel on how to flag Trump’s name in the Epstein files. I’m suing to get the videos under FOIA. substack.com/@muellershew...
Maggie M. (@maggiemck.bsky.social) reply parent
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Maggie M. (@maggiemck.bsky.social) reply parent
A wannabe preacher maybe. Looks more like a guy who’s been brainwashed by an Evangelical church, right wing parents, and homeschooling.
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD (@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social) reposted
RFK Jr. likes to claim that thimerosal in childhood vaccines causes autism spectrum disorder (ASD). So I wonder if he’d like to explain how the rates of ASD diagnoses in the U.S. have kept going up when thimerosal was removed from all childhood vaccines in 2001?
Alt National Park Service (@altnps.bsky.social) reposted
The Social Security Administration official who exposed that the Department of Government Efficiency had left millions of Americans’ personal data vulnerable says he has been forced to resign due to retaliation. Charles Borges, who served as the SSA’s chief data officer, told
Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) reposted
👀 apnews.com/article/paxt...
Mother Jones (@motherjones.com) reposted
The United States, just months before its 250th birthday as the world’s leading democracy, has tipped over the edge into authoritarianism and fascism.
Joshua J. Friedman (@joshuajfriedman.com) reposted
I really hope this becomes the black eye it deserves to be www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Angry (@angrystaffer.bsky.social) reposted
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.
Jess Piper (@piperformissouri.bsky.social) reposted
If you’re interested in finding out what we can do to fight back against the gerrymandering in Missouri, I hope you’ll join this call. I will be speaking on the call. www.mobilize.us/indivisiblek...
Maggie M. (@maggiemck.bsky.social) reply parent
Morons on our team 🤦🏻♀️
Eric Holder (@ericholder.bsky.social) reposted
Bernie Sanders: Kennedy Must Resign www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...
Maggie M. (@maggiemck.bsky.social) reply parent
So many Americans gleefully enabling a dictator
Maggie M. (@maggiemck.bsky.social) reply parent
As we all should be
Maggie M. (@maggiemck.bsky.social)
BREAKING NEWS: Trump Launches AI Death Panels! open.substack.com/pub/messageb...
The Bulwark (@thebulwark.com) reposted
"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:
𝗽𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗳𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗱 (@photoframd.bsky.social) reposted
Tongue-Tied Johnson Stumbles as Newsom Rubs in Louisiana’s Higher Crime Rates #GOPHypocrisy www.thedailybeast.com/tongue-tied-... via @thedailybeast
Maggie M. (@maggiemck.bsky.social) reply parent
Heartbreaking and infuriating #BoycottDisney
MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) reposted
Wow: French President Emmanuel Macron just called out Trump at a major press conference with the German Chancellor 😳
Maggie M. (@maggiemck.bsky.social) reply parent
Very reassuring to see a branch of the Armed Forces, supposedly the bravest among us, caving to a dictator who insists on honoring a traitor.
Maggie M. (@maggiemck.bsky.social)
Tell the Smithsonian: Reject demands to whitewash history act.indivisible.org/sign/smithso...
Maggie M. (@maggiemck.bsky.social) reply parent
Her legacy: a coward who enabled a dictator
Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted
The CDC is gutting a program that monitors foodborne illnesses. The program will now only track infections caused by two pathogens, rather than eight. Hello? How does this “Make America Healthy Again”?
Maggie M. (@maggiemck.bsky.social)
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jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) reposted
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
Maggie M. (@maggiemck.bsky.social) reply parent
This only works if these right wing freaks can find women who’ll sleep with them
Maggie M. (@maggiemck.bsky.social) reply parent
I guess public school children don’t make the cut
Maggie M. (@maggiemck.bsky.social) reply parent
Another unqualified white male, with no qualms about making people suffer from his ignorance and incompetence.
Maggie M. (@maggiemck.bsky.social)
An Open Letter from public health experts: America, Wake Up. open.substack.com/pub/techingi...
Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (@jayapal.house.gov) reposted
This is called cutting Medicare coverage. Trump and Republicans are using AI to try and cut your Medicare. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/h...
Maggie M. (@maggiemck.bsky.social) reply parent
I hope @governorferguson.bsky.social is taking action too
Maggie M. (@maggiemck.bsky.social) reply parent
Conscience enough to know she’s hurting her constituents, but not enough to stand up for them now.
Maggie M. (@maggiemck.bsky.social)
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
Charlotte Clymer (@charlotteclymer.bsky.social) reposted
"Ashli Babbitt was a grown ass adult who made a series of conscious, ill-advised decisions to engage in treasonous behavior, and she got exactly what she deserved. She was a traitor. She was a threat to national security. There is no nuance needed here."
Maggie M. (@maggiemck.bsky.social)
This administration is trying to kill us. www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Maggie M. (@maggiemck.bsky.social) reply parent
He’s got the frequent vacations down anyway
Frank Amari (@frankamari.bsky.social) reposted
The Scientific American: Can You Get a COVID Vaccine This Year? Here’s What We Know Many questions still surround COVID vaccine access this fall, but here’s what we know so far Who Is Eligible for the COVID Vaccine in 2025, and How to Get It | Scientific American share.google/OgvVDxr6XINd...
Rep. Dan Goldman (@repdangoldman.bsky.social) reposted
In the past month, vegetable prices have soared nearly 40% due to Trump’s idiotic tariffs. He promised to lower the cost of living, but has instead nearly doubled the price of produce. He’s torching the humming economy he inherited from Biden and betraying the middle class he vowed to protect.
Maggie M. (@maggiemck.bsky.social) reply parent
Worse than petty, he knows that this puts her life at greater risk.
Fred Guttenberg (@fredguttenberg.bsky.social) reposted
(1,5) This opinion article in the @WSJ by Lott and Massie is pure bullshit and must be called out. The issue is not gun free zones and the answer is NOT adding more guns. Simply put, shootings happen where guns are present which was the case with Parkland and Uvalde. www.wsj.com/opinion/anot...
The New Yorker (@newyorker.com) reposted
A months-long investigation estimates that the profits from the Trump family's ventures in private clubs, hotels, golf courses, crypto currencies, NFTs, and other businesses has raised President Trump’s net worth by billions of dollars.
The Washington Post (@washingtonpost.com) reposted
Three senior CDC leaders who resigned told The Post they were asked to participate in an unscientific vaccine recommendation process that they believe could harm the health of Americans.
WIRED (@wired.com) reposted
Academics once loved Twitter—but in the age of X they’ve abandoned it in droves. www.wired.com/story/bluesk...
Barack Obama (@barackobama.bsky.social) reposted
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.
Katelyn Jetelina (@kkjetelina.bsky.social) reposted
CDC employees standing up and walking out in light of the mass shootings, firings, and *waves hands in the air* everything else. #USAnotRFK Lets gooooo
Maggie M. (@maggiemck.bsky.social) reply parent
A hearing??!! 🙄 Get a few of your GOP colleagues to impeach this predator before he kills is all.
Senator Ron Wyden (@wyden.senate.gov) reposted
Arresting firefighters putting their lives on the line to protect our communities doesn't make us safer. This evil stunt is putting families in harm's way just so Donald Trump can score a Fox News hit.
Chris Tyrell (@raisencain.bsky.social) reposted
@cnn.com Canada is the second highest to the US for handgun deaths. 95% of illegal handguns in Canada are sourced from the US. It is the gun access.
Jeremy Faust, MD (@jeremyfaust.bsky.social) reposted
Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.
Maggie M. (@maggiemck.bsky.social) reply parent
As if age 65 is some magic dividing line between good health and bad 🙄
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD (@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social) reposted
Dr. Demetre, in his resignation from the CDC, said this: “I have never experienced such radical non-transparency, nor have I seen such unskilled manipulation of data to achieve a political end rather than the good of the American people”. It is an outrage that RFK Jr. remains as head of HHS.
Keith Olbermann (@olbermann.bsky.social) reposted
It's time to remove Robert F. Kennedy Jr from government before he kills us all
Mark Zaid, Esq (@markzaidesq.bsky.social) reposted
Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:
Maggie M. (@maggiemck.bsky.social)
Every cowardly #GOP Senator who voted to confirm #RFK should be held personally responsible for the total destruction of public health under his watch. #Shameful
Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) reposted
Think New Mexico isn’t fighting for patients, they’re fighting for private equity. There’s a doctor shortage because Wall Street buys up community hospitals, guts staff, and turns ERs into cash cows. Patients wait 16 hours for care while profits soar. Private equity is strip-mining hospitals.
Maggie M. (@maggiemck.bsky.social) reply parent
His stupidity and arrogance threaten us all.
jen 🌻 (@bunnibytz.bsky.social) reposted
"I have never experienced such radical non-transparency, nor have I seen such unskilled manipulation of data to achieve a political end rather than the good of the American people." ...
Voters of Tomorrow (@votersoftomorrow.org) reposted
Voters of Tomorrow statement on shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, Minnesota
Maggie M. (@maggiemck.bsky.social) reply parent
The absence of information isn’t exculpatory in the case of these SCOTUS grifters
Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted
Frey: And don't just say, this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying. It was the first week of school. They were in a church.
Maggie M. (@maggiemck.bsky.social) reply parent
The dumbest men in America think women should submit to them
Senator Chris Van Hollen (@vanhollen.senate.gov) reposted
With the worst of hurricane season still ahead, Trump and his cronies’ dismantling of FEMA has gutted the agency’s ability to respond to disasters and keep people safe. These brave FEMA employees tried to sound the alarm, so naturally Trump is punishing them. Beyond shameful.
Maggie M. (@maggiemck.bsky.social) reply parent
Of course
Maggie M. (@maggiemck.bsky.social)
All the President’s ‘Butt Snorkelers’ open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted
Attempting to rig elections on his behalf. Turning the military on citizens. Toying with the idea of declaring martial law. Attacking political enemies and punishing those who speak out against his regime. If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?
Steve Inskeep (@steveinskeep.bsky.social) reposted
Wow. On NPR, @gbrumfiel.bsky.social reports a Social Security official “copied the Social Security numbers, names and birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private section of the agency's cloud.” The source is a whistleblower, who is named: Charles Borges, SSN chief data officer.
Clara Jeffery (@clarajeffery.bsky.social) reposted
Democrats just picked up a seat that was +11 pts for Trump in 2024 to break an Iowa supermajority. Trump wants to appear indomitable. But he's also a lame duck and those winds can shift quickly. www.the-downballot.com/p/iowa-democ...
Maggie M. (@maggiemck.bsky.social) reply parent
He knows what side his bread is buttered on
Maggie M. (@maggiemck.bsky.social) reply parent
No wonder we find ourselves in this authoritarian nightmare
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
We are very far off the cliff here folks. 🇺🇸
kamimagic (@kamimagic.bsky.social) reposted
Charles Borges, Social Security Administration’s chief data officer and whistleblower, said that DOGE team members uploaded a database with the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans to a vulnerable cloud server. Free 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
Maggie M. (@maggiemck.bsky.social)
whistleblower.org/press-releas...
Maggie M. (@maggiemck.bsky.social)
www.npr.org/2025/08/25/n...
Maggie M. (@maggiemck.bsky.social) reply parent
The thugs running DHS are now threatening our security instead of protecting it.
Mother Jones (@motherjones.com) reposted
Influencers love unpasteurized milk—and so does the H5N1 virus.
Linda Lombard (@heavensgone.bsky.social) reposted
#ClimateChange has directly amplified the triggers of cloudbursts in #Pakistan, especially. Every 1°C rise allows the air to hold about 7% more moisture, increasing the potential for heavy rainfall in short bursts #ClimateCrisis apnews.com/article/clou...
Maggie M. (@maggiemck.bsky.social) reply parent
Words like “security” and “justice” perverted by this incompetent, corrupt, grotesque administration
Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News (@froomkin.bsky.social) reposted
The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state. presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...
Joshua J. Friedman (@joshuajfriedman.com) reposted
Judge Xinis: Your clients are *absolutely forbidden* from removing Mr. Abrego from the continental United States. You understand this? DOJ: Yes.
Maggie M. (@maggiemck.bsky.social) reply parent
This corrupt clown isn’t qualified to lecture an actual leader about anything .
Maggie M. (@maggiemck.bsky.social) reply parent
Following the Nazi playbook: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degener...
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
ROBINSON: “Trump loathes cities, his rants are often indistinguishable from Travis Bickle’s unhinged monologues in Taxi Driver… his actions aren’t about crime, it’s an escalation of his war against 🇺🇸 cities — And racism is at the core of it.” www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-raci...
Maggie M. (@maggiemck.bsky.social) reply parent
Slandering a man while admitting he’s “only speculating.” Bolton should sue
Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) reposted
That got us wondering: How would those governors feel if National Guard troops from other states were ordered onto their streets, perhaps to patrol one of the 53 cities in those states with a higher murder rate than Washington’s? So, we asked them. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/the...
Luca Migo ❌👑 (@victinibcn.bsky.social) reposted
Arnold Schwarzenegger is ready to campaign against Newsom’s redistricting but he’s oddly quiet about Trump’s undemocratic moves in Texas or even about his immigration policies and his involvement with Epstein. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) reposted
“Papers, please”
Maggie M. (@maggiemck.bsky.social)
When justice is corrupted by lawless authoritarian thugs
Maggie M. (@maggiemck.bsky.social)
Firing truth tellers and promoting sycophants won’t keep Americans safe. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/u...
Josh Marshall (@joshtpm.bsky.social) reposted
This article should have made much more clear that Bill Pulte is a hard core Twitter warrior on Trumps behalf who is himself campaigning for a Fed seat. Seems to be zero mention of this. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/u...
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
🔥 STEWART: “This is the lie they tell you — that all this money flowing towards corporate interests is actually for YOUR benefit…. That government intervention for corporations is our ‘FREE MARKET’, but government intervention for workers is ‘SOCIALISM’.
Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) reposted
This is so important… Sharon has been tracking license plates on cars driven by ICE agents, and she’s finding they don’t match the vehicles. In other words, ICE is using secret, illegal tactics—just like we suspected. REMINDER: the DMV is not a federal agency. @governor.ca.gov 🧵