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GOLDMAN DESK: “.. September is comfortably in first place as the worst month of the year for the S&P 500 with an average return of -1.17% looking back to 1928 ..”
Trump is attacking unions, driving up costs, and dismantling workers’ rights. On Labor Day, we’re reminded that America deserves better. I’m proud to have helped author the PRO Act to expand workers’ rights & strengthen unions—and I’ll keep fighting to put workers first.
Who else feels safer in a neighborhood full of pride flags? I’ll start. 🏳️🌈 🙋🏻
Sending soldiers into cities under the guise of fighting crime is an unprecedented abuse of power. And it’s illegal. bit.ly/4m6TG77
You guys see where this is going? Right?
We are who we’ve always been: A nation founded on violent bigotry. And when good people rise up, we smash down the inhumane amongst us. We must rise up and fight or we will all lose.
You’re ignorant if - you believe that the government is ‘chipping’ you with vaccines. You’re a ignorant if - you think that the mRNA in a vaccine is manipulating your DNA. You’re a ignorant if - you believe that vaccines cause autism. Vaccines are safe and effective! Vaccines cause old age.
I like the rebrand.
Our TV president is avoiding the TV. Suspicious AF
“The world's leading genocide scholars' association has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, its president said on Monday.” 86% of those who voted backed the resolution.
Not to worry. No bad foreign actors would even think of taking advantage of a leaderless country with an administration full of incompetent boobs.
The biggest news story in the news right now is that the president of the United States hasn't made a public appearance or spoken to the protective pool in four days and the White House is actively lying about his activities, yet no news organization is covering it.
India and China fought a war in 1962 over border disputes. They’ve never been allies, which has been to our geopolitical and economic advantage. Thanks to Trump’s insane tariffs the two manufacturing/pharma/tech giants are teaming up, accelerating their rise…and our subsequent downfall.
Trump wants war. Trump wants emergency powers. Trump wants Totalitarianism.
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.
Good to see a bipartisan group of former CDC Directors raise alarms in the NY Times about RFK Jr. dismantling US public health. And I can’t help but feel frustrated that they didn’t do this last year when public health was on the ballot—nor did NYT frame it that way—when we had a chance to stop it.
Pritzker on Trump's authoritarian takeover: "The playbook is the same. It's thwart the media. It's create mayhem that requires military interdiction. These are things that happen throughout history and Donald Trump is just following that playbook."
The administration’s abrupt termination of these vital grants and programs had devastating impacts. I’m pleased the hundreds of Illinoisans who serve some of the most vulnerable populations will once again be able to give back to their communities: tinyurl.com/ydyyhhj2
Gov. Wes Moore: "As the Commander in Chief of the Maryland National Guard...the National Guard is not trained for municipal policing. You know who is? Local law enforcement, FBI agents, and ATF agents—and the president's budgets cut funding for them."
"Donald Trump is a dictator – and we are further along the road of authoritarianism than people want to admit." Marc Elias
Somewhere in Iceland.
Republicans: “Stop making everything about race.” Really? White people enslaved Black people for generations, stole Native land, lynched and segregated us, burned down Black communities that thrived, and treated Mexican land & labor like property to be taken. America already made it about race.
According to @epi.org, Black women are OVERREPRESENTED in the federal workforce. Black women makeup 9.2% to be exact. That's not an issue until you realize where the massive cuts are taking place and who tends to get cut from the workplace first. This is #TheDoubleTax. 🤷🏿♀️
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 is #TheDoubleTax. The cost of racism and sexism is bore by all, not just Black women. DON'T IGNORE the warning signs!
Assuming he's sick, l just pray he follows the medical advice of "one of the world's foremost voices, advocates and experts on public health," RFK Jr.
Important Essay in @nytimes.com by 9 former CDC directors. "We have a message for the rest of the nation as well: This is a time to rally to protect the health of every American...." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
What a gang of mindless amateurs in Washington accomplished in Beijing:
This morning 9 former CDC Directors, whose tenures date back to 1977, published this warning in the NYT: RFK Jr is a danger to public health. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Trump's dodging the cameras as much as he's been dodging the Epstein files
They wouldn’t be laughing if Harris was President.
Brilliant
AP: “Florida could be on the hook for $218 million… Alligator Alcatraz may soon be completely empty as a judge upheld her decision late Wednesday ordering operations to wind down indefinitely…” apnews.com/article/flor...
What would great is if everyone just acted like he was dead anyway. Publish obituaries. Just act like he isn’t there anymore. Front it out like they did with the whole “We won the election” thing. Think how furious that would make him.
Folks. Please read this. It’s just one page of simple declarations from a 10 year kid from Guatemala who doesn’t want to be sent back there. The US government is trying to do so, on a holiday weekend, and was going to just *do it* until folks started pushing back. 10. Years. Old. WTAFF?
And in shorts.
We need proof of life. A press conference in the wrecked Rose Garden will do. And not behind a desk.
Just saw a clip on ABC news that showed a small Guatemalan child being led to a plane for deportation with her ankles shackled. This country has lost its soul.
"Here’s the truth we cannot escape: If Ashli Babbitt is honored, then few things are sacred. If loyalty to the Constitution and an attempt to overthrow it are treated as equal, we lose the very meaning of service." www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
Remember the Goolsbee Rule, also called the “pathological irony of crisis”: If you lose credibility, your statements begin to mean the opposite of what you say.
Raddatz: "One of the things that they're trying to do in D.C. with the National Guard is have them back up federal law enforcement." Gov. Wes Moore: "They're picking up trash."
Exactly. It doesn't give him implicit authority, either.
Can the media STOP referring to Jeffrey Epstein as a “financier”? The money he made came from SEX TRAFFICKING MINORS, RAPING CHILDREN, and BLACKMAIL. He was NOT a financier. I’ve seen at least five stories from three outlets refer to him this way in the past week. This is the latest from the Times:
The CDC’s largest ever overseas intervention began in March 2014 when an Ebola outbreak occurred in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia... CDC staff provided technical advice on strengthening laboratory diagnosis, contact tracing and surveillance. theconversation.com/what-chaos-a...
I hope you understand that the CDC (literally the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention) kept infectious diseases like Ebola from spreading around the world, from spreading to the U.S. Trump and RFK Jr. have put us all massively at risk. The entire administration is a plague-level event.
Trump and his Caninet of incompetents must go. They are destroying this nation and endangering the lives of us all. Their incompetence is dangerous, deadly, and treasonous.
Unafraid to speak truth to power, President of the American Academy of Pediatrics Dr. Susan Kressly joins @vinguptamd.bsky.social on Meidas Health for a powerful discussion on truth, conviction, and her deep commitment to ensuring optimal childhood health for the nation amid chaos at the CDC.
This is the second judge in a week that has brought up the fact that the government can't be trusted with clear instructions - likely because the government ignored Judge Boasberg's order to turn the planes around last March saying "verbal orders from judges don't count."
I'm still waiting for the relentless onslaught of media demands for a press conference and calls to resign.
wow
Meanwhile Trump and Noem are gutting FEMA and only leaving “Heck-of-a-job Brownie” sycophants in charge. People will unnecessarily die under this toxic regime.
Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina, retired Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré, who led recovery efforts as commander of Joint Task Force Katrina, urges people to be prepared for future disasters.
Reminder: Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender, white, heterosexual men.
Reminder: Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender, white, heterosexual men.
Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare. Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed. Getting big money out of politics. Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages. If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.
“.. with the exception of the pandemic, Black women have never seen such staggering losses in employment.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
"Nobody wants to be a cop [in DC]. They were abused. They were spit on." "When you when you say they were abused and spit on, I'm assuming you're talking about January 6th, correct?" "All you guys want to do was bring up J6 about the answer to everything."
White people ultimately want legislation that harms others, but not them. That’s why they are currently willing to wager their safety and security. White voters intentionally mean to do you harm if you are not white
There’s a special place in hell for morons who get millions of people killed.
Washington Post uncritically repeating Trump & Netanyahu’s plans to commit genocide and war crimes. Billionaire owned corporate media carrying water for genocidal fascists. Shame on all the politicians of both parties who continue to fund this genocide. Blood on your hands.
This is abhorrent. @washingtonpost.com deserves a complete boycott.
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
I am pleased with the court’s decision upholding a Court of International Trade ruling that the president has acted unlawfully and exceeded his authority under the law: tinyurl.com/yx57er2k
This hate is stupid.
Since the cops are apparently arresting people for chalking rainbows on the crosswalk in front of Pulse, activities should just start painting all the other crosswalks. You can’t post 7 cops on every crosswalk in the city.
O'Keefe to Noem: "At least 20 people who signed this letter were current FEMA employees & they've been placed on administrative leave. Is it now the policy of DHS that anytime an employee puts their name on something criticizing you or POTUS, they should anticipate being put on leave or fired?"
He starts randomly jabbering on about getting into heaven. Mysterious bruising on his hand. He disappears from the public eye for days. Even a child would suspect something was up. Everyone but Congress and mainstream media.
Everywhere I go, I hear the same thing: Costs are going up, and corruption is getting worse. Iowans are tired of the B.S. And next year, we're going to flip this seat, flip the Senate, and deliver a new generation of leadership.
REP. BUDDY CARTER: What eroded confidence in the CDC was the covid vaccine BEDINGFIELD: Who was president in 2020?
Pritzker: "National Guard troops, any kind of troops, on the streets of American city don't belong unless there is an insurrection, unless there is truly an emergency. There is not."
Scream this from the rooftops. Scream it again.
Not a very long path from "Why wouldn't you want the regime to deploy federal troops in your city when it reduces carjackings?" to "Why would you be opposed to the erection of internment camps for deviants when it reduces crime?" And a good chunk of mainstream media will just follow along.
The Constitution makes it clear: states choose how to run their elections. WA has the best elections system in the country: secure, convenient, and fun! Hands off our ballots!
Pritzker: "We don't want troops on the streets of American cities. That's un-American and frankly the president ought to know better. This one doesn't seem to. He hasn't read any books. He doesn't seem to understand the Constitution or the laws."
He won’t let the press anywhere near him. This is getting weirder and weirder.
WELKER: Do you have 100% confidence in Secretary Kennedy? LANKFORD: I believe he's who the president picked. He's challenging some of the assumption - what is it about autism? He seems to be following the science WELKER: The science has debunked links between autism & vaccines for more than 20 yrs
“Invasion”. That’s exactly what Trump is doing. Invading American cities who reject his dictatorial delusions like the domestic terrorist that he is. January 6th was a warm up.
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
Raddatz asks how anyone could object to the National Guard in DC because carjackings are down 87%. Brilliant. If they hermetically sealed all DC residents inside their homes, they could get that stat down to nothing at all. Should we do that, Martha?
RADDATZ: One of the things they are trying to do in DC with the National Guard is have them back up local law enforcement WES MOORE: They are picking up trash
They escaped abuse and trafficking only to land here and be abused and trafficked again to any country that will take them.
New England states (minus New Hampshire) are looking to form a public health coalition. All blue states can unify to protect their people.
“Who. Pays. The. Tariffs!”
Remember who we have to thank for shutting down Alligator Alcatraz.
Instagram influencer Adventorin goes viral after demonstrating how simple it is to climb over the U.S. Border Wall.
Su: The BLS collects statistical information — things like the nation’s inflation rate, the unemployment rate, the number of jobs created, which industries are growing, and which are contracting. And on every one of those fronts, Trump is failing.
I don’t care what the rapist says. He doesn’t have the power to do this, so stop reporting his delusions as if they are facts, @nytimes.com.
Hover had Hoovervilles during his tariff-fueled Great Depression. Under Trump’s disasterous tariff taxes, gutting of the federal workforce, and now threatening housing support for our vulnerable neighbors, get ready for Trumpvilles across the U.S. Fight.
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.
I don’t care what the rapist says. He doesn’t have the power to do this, so stop reporting his delusions as if they are facts, @nytimes.com.
Note the complete failure of the Republican administration to provide essential services. So, who gets fired?
States should aggressively move to function independently of federal agencies in general. The federal government has been destroyed.