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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...
❗️The plane Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu was on was forced to land in Bulgaria due to suspected Russian GPS interference -FT There are reports that the pilots even had to use paper maps due to GPS jamming as they made the emergency landing.
Once more for those in back: They were never going to be able to implement a mass deportation program without prioritizing people like this. Criminals and gang members are too hard to find and apprehend. Regular folks who show up to work, church, and their scheduled immigration appointments are not.
The US Administration has decided to destroy a top network for clinical trials to test new treatments for children with brain cancer. This is another atrocity that will harm Conservative and Liberal Americans, long after the politicians responsible are gone.
NEW from me at The Dispatch. Imagine if a president could just eliminate border spending on a whim. Or gut defense, Medicaid or veterans spending. Even defund SCOTUS after a decision, or end SocSec in blue districts. This is the power Trump seeks with impoundment. 🧵 thedispatch.com/article/trum...
I think the US government putting out plans to ethnically cleanse Gaza is really bad. I recognize that some Americans like it, while some others think it isn't a relevant change and makes no difference, but I disagree. I think it's bad, worse than what came before.
"That’s nearly a quarter of a billion dollars of taxpayer money, at least, that may as well have been burned to ashes. In fact, Ron DeSantis and his enablers actually would have done a lot less harm—to people, to the environment, to the rule of law—if they had simply set the cash on fire." #Florida
Yeah it's not exactly subtle what's going on here
This whole thread is just appalling. The hearing arises from the Trump admin conspiring with a foreign country to violate a federal court order in the middle of the night so it can deny due process to children who escaped dangerous circumstances.
The fuck did I just read?!
Straight-up ethnic cleansing
I dream of a time when people of all races, genders, religion, beliefs, orientation, and nation of origin, in peace, with respect for rule of law, in tolerance, and with universal democracy, dress in Philadelphia Eagles fan gear, and together say, "Go Birds!
On my way over. Save me a plate.
You really cannot emphasize this enough… CARSON WENTZ HAS MORE SUPER BOWL RINGS THAN DAK PRESCOTT
Every day we stray further from God's light
That is an extremely weird position to take when we are still a bit more than three years away from that election. So much shit is going to happen between now and then.
Ethnic cleansing.
(Yet.)
Absurd and outrageous map would lead to a 7-1 GOP margin in a state that is often split about 60-40 GOP by creating an absurd district 5 that spans about two thirds of the way across the state, 200 miles from West to East Oppose this.
To be able to say things like this with a straight face, you have to know with certainty that you are talking to babies
Gonna sound obvious but in retrospect the right's half-century-long campaign to convince the public that the government doesn't actually do a ton of useful stuff was among the most successful PR campaigns ever
He's got at least two votes in Alito and Thomas
The lies' laughable implausibility is a feature, not a bug. They're not trying to convince discerning, skeptical, fact-based people. They're trying to give supporters a fantasy that validates their feelings and creates a sort of loyalty test, while flaunting the absurdity in everyone else's faces.
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.
not just that he has no constitutional authority, there isn't even any particular legal or institutional mechanism by which the president can make anyone treat this as anything other than a weird advisory opinion.
trump can issue as many executive orders as he wants, perhaps coverage should reflect the fact that a lot of these have the legal force of a child's wishlist for santa
Clemson got a huge gift
Just saw someone refer to Cheryl Hines as The Marvelous Mrs. Measles and 💀💀💀💀💀💀
Make all Americans equal under law. End agents' impunity. Abolish qualified immunity. Require agents pay for liability insurance.
As we all know, the best way to catch dangerous criminals is by arresting immigrants who voluntarily show up to court hearings to comply with the law.
As we all know, the American Revolution was fought to ensure the chief executive could impose taxes without representation.
"She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it." She attacked our Capitol "to stop the peaceful transfer of power, one of the most sacred traditions of our Republic." @markhertling.bsky.social, soldier and patriot, on the abomination of military honors for Ashli Babbitt
1. Research facilities within NIH have been ordered to shut down their infectious disease work completely, as of earlier this week. www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
Callback to this, right? 😎 www.thenutmegnews.com/current/2018...
An all-timer of the genre where I wonder how not one person involved with arresting these firefighters, at any level of leadership or not, didn't stop and just ask "wait this one's probably not a great idea, right?" [🎁]
Visited Kingston on a business trip. Nice town, home to the Royal Military College of Canada
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...
When you can’t find a video to teach you how to play cornerback.
Bringing booty back? In this economy?!
Like a glitch in The Matrix
“The guys before you broke things so bad that you weren’t able to fix it before the next election and we’re angry, so as punishment, we’re putting the guys who broke everything back in charge.”
ISWYDT
And I'm sure they'd also tell you that even if you do comply with the police's demands, you still deserve whatever violence they bring down on you
Immunity doctrines aren’t designed to protect against (and they aren’t necessary to protect against) meritless claims. Instead, they protect against *meritorious* claims, which is their main function. Immunity doctrines ensure that government officials can’t be sued even when they violate the law.
I know there are no silver bullets here, but I think constantly about how our culture of insanely aggressive and thoughtless policing would be upended if federal and state officials were subject to individual liability for their torts instead of being protected by a vast web of immunity doctrines.
“…I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.” My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
Unbelievably bad. “The CDC you knew is over. Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.” www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
These people would rather let wildfires kill us than miss a chance to deport some people. They explicitly target immigrants following the rules and on their way to court appointments. Read @aselrod.bsky.social on it today
My favorite evergreen Molly Ivins quote: "I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag."
TWSS
1/ This week, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer demanded that the Wikimedia Foundation hand over information on editorial policies & individual contributors to help the committee investigate "propaganda" on Wikipedia. These demands are offensive to 1st Amendment values
America is already great
Just absurd own goals involved in this crusade. Here's one of the projects they're withdrawing funding for, with improvements to a Rhode Island port that improves it generally but "includes offshore wind components." That port is among the top 10 auto importers in the country.
BREAKING: Appeals court rejects Trump’s authority to impose sweeping tariffs under IEEPA. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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I hope Swift, Gomez, Hathaway et al are feeling particularly litigious
A dramatic, extremely worrying moment; over 61,000 people held in ICE detention. That is the highest number ever on record in United States history; roughly 6,000 higher than the previous record set under Trump six years ago, and over 21,000 higher than when Trump took office just seven months ago.
They most certainly are not righteous dudes
The miracle technology currently propping up the US economy has applications as varied as: plagiarism cheatbots, encouraging actual suicide, and creating fake porn of underage actresses or impersonation celebrity chatbots. Things are going just great. www.reuters.com/business/met...
I guess I never had that specific convo with my kids, but I guess I'd have said: most boys like girls, most girls like boys, but some boys like boys and some girls like girls and that's totally OK.
And with your spirit
"Her patient had signs of what could be a cancer or could be an unusual infection — diagnoses that would require completely different treatment. Ordinarily, she would confirm an infection after sending a sample to the CDC for testing ...the CDC no longer has the capacity to do that"
Come Thursday I expect my feed to look like this: 🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅
Now a smart Democrat would look at this and focus on highlighting stories about how Trump's rampant misgovernance and corruption is affecting the most popular agencies and those who work for them.
Subway has to be so happy "sandwich guy" means something else now
the founders envisioned a madman potentially becoming president what the founders did not envision was the majority of Congress and the Supreme Court becoming part of a cult of personality around said president. it’s both pathetic and horrifying
If this oleaginous haircut thinks local crime rates merit a federal military intervention, then he should be leading the armored column down to his home state of Louisiana, which is one of the worst in the nation.
The sheer cruelty with which ICE officers operate on a daily basis—these masked officers have gone out of their way to NOT be IDed as law enforcement—demonstrate it is an organization that cannot be allowed to exist in a democracy.
A majority of Senators can amend that rule whenever they want to.
i think it would be bad if the republican president and the republican majorities in both chambers of congress failed to do their very basic duty to fund the government.
more seriously gun regulation should actually regulate the ability of a gun to fire a bullet of a certain size at a certain speed. nothing that shoots a fucking 7.62 round should be available on the open market at any price
wut
Could also have gone with a Monkey's Paw analogy
This has the same energy of the Oracle at Delphi saying, "If King Croesus crosses the Halys River, a great empire will be destroyed."
People in the thread are talking about win conditions, like what promises could Dems get in a funding bill that would make them support it, but it’s the wrong question because republicans have shown that the contents of a bill no longer bound the man exercising the powers of the presidency.
Cheers
*Lisa Cook
The GOP has the ability to pass a budget or a CR without a single Democratic vote. So the Dems should withhold their votes. If the GOP can't show solidarity within their own ranks, that's not the Democrats' problem.
Yes, because contracts signed more than 30 years apart are totally comparable 😎
Simple majority for removal means that every time a POTUS's opposition gets majorities in both houses of Congress, they get impeached and removed regardless of whether there was any actual malfeasance.
Recall that last year Trump said he wanted to staple green cards to every international grad student’s diploma and much of the press reported it as fact. Three days ago he suddenly declared he’d bring in 600k Chinese students (?). This is basically the opposite of what his admin has actually done
These are exactly the kinds of students we should be hoovering up and then convincing to stay and work/found their companies here. Even Trump has said so. But this is what happens when you outsource your immigration policy to Stephen Miller, who hates immigrants more than he loves America.
Trump admin planning to change student visas from lasting for duration of academic program to fixed 4-yr term, and then much harder to renew Could destroy US ability to attract global talent, particularly those seeking advanced degrees in STEM. The median time to complete a PhD is 5.7 yrs per NSF.
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I miss the old brand #CDC
“Denmark summoned the head of the U.S. Embassy … after allegations emerged that three Americans with close ties to President Trump were running ‘covert influence operations’ in Greenland.” Is there a Nobel prize for creating a conflict by threatening to seize the territory of a democratic ally?
A healthy country doesn’t put up monuments to its traitors.
I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.
Yeats knew what was up
70 years ago, on this date, Emmett Till was kidnapped and brutally murdered by white men. His family, including his cousin who was with him at the time, is repeating the train ride he took from Chicago to Mississippi in 1955 to mark the anniversary
true story i used to be one of those red pandas who thought booing was impolite and unsportsmanlike but this administration and its shitty people has completely changed my stance i am all for booing and public shunning of every single one of these fucks tbh thank u for coming to my TED talk
The poor snap just added to the degree of difficulty
"Margin Call" is an *amazing* film. The scene where the traders get told "this will set your career on fire, but you'll get this big bonus if you unload your quota" was something else. For The Big Short, I did like the vignettes with Margot Robbie et al that tried to explain the concepts.
Takes a special sort of shamelessness for John Barrasso to write this when he was literally in the Senate for McConnell’s refusal to even allow the Merrick Garland nomination a vote
I mean he’s quite literally arguing out loud to a mainstream outlet that all power of the federal government should be consolidated in one man who can thereby *dictate* everything of consequence in the country.