"Sen. Bill Cassidy knew all this. He could have blocked Kennedy’s ascension without having to resort to clever Trump-coddling psychological tricks after the fact. But he didn’t. So here we are. Clever or not, it’s not clear his little trick is paying off."
APOLLO: “.. job growth in tariff-impacted sectors is now negative.”
Susan Collins's legacy: tax cuts for billionaires, and starving the hungry.
Just spoke with my CDC sources. They said RFK Jr. has ordered officials to hide tuberculosis cases, even as three active TB cases were just reported in Maine. He’s also suppressing bird flu reports. Pandemics don’t start with viruses they start with secrecy. RFK Jr. must resign now!
I don’t think a headline has ever epitomized “too little, too late” as much as this one.
Manufacturing again lost jobs last month. Despite presidential promises of a manufacturing renaissance, we have fewer manufacturing jobs today than we did at the start of the pandemic in 2020.
RFK Jr. would be nothing without the "MAHA Moms": privileged women who believe they understand health care better than doctors. On "Standing Room Only," I explore their motivations. Are they well-meaning idiots? Or are they complicit in RFK's evil? youtu.be/zEfOfxBivls?...
You can now sign up for the lottery to speak at the next mtg of RFK's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practice 9/18-9/19. Especially since they removed med orgs as liaisons, this is the only way they will receive critical feedback. www2.cdc.gov/vaccines/aci...
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In my view, Amy Coney Barrett kicking off her book tour by doing a sold-out event with Bari Weiss and publishing an exclusive excerpt in The Free Press should end the "Supreme Court justices are not motivated by ideology" discourse once and for all ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
🚨 Rep. Thomas Massie just dropped a name. Billionaire hedge fund manager John Paulson. A major Republican donor. A top backer of the Speaker of the House. A donor to Trump’s campaign. And he is in Epstein’s Black Book. www.instagram.com/reel/DOLuGQS...
Epstein victims' lawyer: While we have seen the documents, you haven't. When you see the documents, you're going to be appalled. The American people deserve to see everything. Evil flourishes in the darkness. RELEASE ALL THE EPSTEIN FILES!
Kavanaugh's statements make the problem worse, not better. If the reason SCOTUS is using cryptic shadow docket orders is because "five" of them can't "reach a consensus or a compromise on a particular issue that might be difficult," then that order should not be precedential —there's no majority.
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
ICE RAIDS ALERT: 7TH AVE AND MARYLAND, PHOENIX AZ 85013 - ppd assisted ice raid at home on 7th ave MORE INFO: stopicealert.ddns.net?alert=WEDSEP...
“In Silence of The Lambs Clarice Starling says that transgender people are passive. But now transgender people are mad that Trump wants to pass a law banning them from owning guns. Which is it? This is exactly the sort of inconsistency that haunts the Democratic Party.” Tomorrow by Matt Yglesias
I just can't help but reflect on Bobby Kennedy's 1968 campaign and how focused and deliberate he was on making vulnerable American lives better and using government as a means to do so. And how what's left of him must be a goddam turbine right now spinning furiously between the grass at Arlington.
I’m just a girl, who did a spinal tap on a preschooler last week, asking you to fire RFK Jr.
Joe Rogan is spreading climate misinformation on one of the country’s most popular podcasts, scientists say—and he’s not the only one.
Bought! They are all bought! 😡
These guys are simply not smart.
FOX BUSINESS: “(more) Disappointing jobs data.”
PULTE: Public officials shouldn't be exempt from scrutiny SORKIN: Speaking of that, Ken Paxton has at least 3 examples of alleged mortgage fraud. Are you looking at that? PULTE: Unless it's been made public, I'm not going to comment on any specific situation S: Why wouldn't you make it public?
MARKWAYNE MULLIN: Why wouldn't we look at vaccines and autism? HUNT: We have looked at it and the studies show there is no connection MULLIN: So we shouldn't look at it again?
Support for vaccinating kids against infectious diseases dropped from 81% in 1991 to 51% last year We are getting dumber as a society
Oracle Deal To Cover Texas, Wisconsin Campuses For OpenAI; Banks Prepare $38B Debt For Oracle-Linked Data Centers
If you have the misfortune of being represented by any of these House Rules Committee members, be sure to give their offices a call.
Live fact check of RFK: - Medicaid bill cuts $800 billion, adds $50 billion. Hospitals will close, that’s a fact - American Medical Providers - the ones you’d want caring for your loved - do NOT support RFK, despite his claims - Chronic disease has always existed. It’s not “Biden’s fault.”
www.vox.com/politics/459...
Source: Sierra, which builds AI customer service agents, nears a $350M raise at a $10B valuation, up from $4.5B in October 2024, and is set to top $100M in ARR (Ina Fried/Axios) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Israel began mobilizing tens of thousands of reservists and repeated evacuation warnings on Tuesday as part of its plan to widen its offensive in Gaza City, which has sparked opposition domestically and condemnation abroad.
Dems "need to just go at this stuff and they need to *very* personalize it. I would be putting billboards in front of Mike Johnson's church, saying, does Mike Johnson support a pedophile? Child sex trafficker in a Club Fed?" Stuart Stevens joins Tim Miller:
DOJ lawyer in case accusing Harvard of antisemitism once wrote a paper from Hitler's perspective for a class at Harvard. The assignment was to write from the perspective of a controversial figure, but his choice of Hitler so unnerved the instructor that he was asked to redo the assignment.
Teens calling Idaho's suicide hotline are being told they can't proceed with the conversation without parental consent. Many of the callers are then hanging up. Idaho approved a strict parental consent law last year. idahocapitalsun.com/2025/08/29/i...
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.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said a gay leader at the CDC who resigned last week in protest of HHS Secretary RFK Jr. had “no business being in government” due to the “lifestyle” he led.👇🏻
We’re back in session after Speaker Johnson let us out early at the end of July, feeling the pressure from our subpoenas for the Epstein files. Today, @oversightdemocrats.house.gov sat down with survivors who endured horrific abuse. What we heard was beyond disturbing. (1/2)
While those at the bottom of the corporate ladder—Gen Z—are being plummeted by AI, CEOs are embracing the technology. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella now says GPT-5 on Copilot has become part of his “everyday workflow.” trib.al/EX9mUD4
KASIE HUNT: Over the summer you said, “There’s no vaccine that’s safe and effective”. Do you still believe that? RFK JR: “I never said that.” KASIE HUNT: “Play the clip.” RFK JR (clip): “There’s no vaccine that is safe and effective.” (March 2024) ht: @cwebbonline.com
GOP Rep. Thomas Massie has filed a discharge petition to force the disclosure of Justice Department investigative files related to the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
🚨🚨🚨If you live anywhere in the greater Chicago area…ICE will start using Great Lakes Naval Station as a command center for their “enforcement” operations across Chicago on Sept 5. The base isn’t in the city or Cook County. It’s north, in Lake County. Expect raids across entire the metropolitan area.
Tens of thousands of people gather in Hanoi to celebrate declaration of independence from French colonial rule.
what’s hard for me to understand is how these journalists? talk show hosts? can keep themselves from laughing out loud at these inane responses.
What in the ever loving fuck is going on here
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Maybe ICE shouldn’t have lowered their standards for new recruits.
The layoff of the American Experience team is such a stomach-dropper of a story. This is really tragic for people who want to understand our country better - the story-telling they do is unparalleled. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/a...
With O'Neill (apparently) taking over CDC (if they ever get around to firing Monarez), I think it's worth looking back to Project 2025 and asking what they actually intend to *do* to CDC. So, I went to remind myself today. Here's what's in store:
🚨ICE agents are racially profiling and arresting Hispanic drivers in the DC area today, targeting work vehicles like trucks and vans. A friend who was targeted sent me video today. Here’s a picture that shows one of two agents before he pulled on his mask. Unmarked black Ford truck, plate: NTV9211.
An activist has started using artificial intelligence to identify ICE agents beneath their masks — a use of the technology sparking new political concerns over AI-powered surveillance. Can Washington do anything about it?
www.wistv.com/2025/08/29/m...
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — US Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa is expected to announce next month that she won't run for reelection in 2026, AP sources say.
ICYMI: Four soldiers at Joint Base Lewis-McChord are facing court-martial for the sexual assault of a female military student in a barracks on the base last October.
Gov. Gavin Newsom says President Trump hinted he will seek a third term during an Oval Office meeting between the two men in February.
The recently selected chair of a North Carolina county Board of Elections was charged for allegedly drugging ice cream from Dairy Queen with MDMA and Cocaine and giving them to his two grandchildren
She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse. ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.
Texas voters, Texas removed 100k voters from the voter rolls. Please spread the word and check your registration and re-register if necessary. thehill.com/homenews/484...
Now that the shooter has been identified as a white male who was radicalized in part by previous white nationalist, racist shooters who promoted anti-semitic conspiracies that MAGA and the GOP promote....I expect him to fall out of the news cycle like Vance Boelter...remember him?
In the richest country on Earth, hospitals are closing en masse. In rural Maine you’re driving an hour to the nearest birthing center. The hospital in Blue Hill where I was born is closed. It’s a disaster brought on by decades of pure greed, and nothing short of Medicare for All can turn the tide.
You did it! Thank you for voting. Democrat Catelin Drey has flipped an open Iowa state Senate seat, raise a glass! This victory means Republicans no longer hold a supermajority in Iowa.
Why do we knock on doors and Organize year-round and nonstop you ask?? It’s simple…
Watch @kendallyb.bsky.socialtalk show was how Kristi Noem is living rent free in military housing that is reserved for coast guard leadership in order to better hide her affair with Corey Lewandowski. This is causing a ripple effect to active duty service members not getting base housing
* FAMINE HAS STRUCK PART OF GAZA AND WILL LIKELY SPREAD OVER NEXT MONTH, SAYS GLOBAL HUNGER MONITOR * ISRAEL'S MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, IN RESPONSE TO IPC REPORT: THERE IS NO FAMINE IN GAZA @reuters.com
U.S. Justice Department blocks use of grants for legal services to undocumented immigrants, internal emails and interviews reveal.
Seems like a problem that most every smart liberal and left wing writer, researcher, analyst, and NGO worker I know is unemployed, grossly underpaid, or in a super unstable job, while a bunch of 20 year old Nazis with the talent and expertise of ass hair are getting paid $300K to post on Twitter.
The Defense Health Agency made a buyout offer to an unidentified number of civilian personnel to be considered for lump-sum payouts to leave their jobs.
I would love to see a detailed legal analysis on how this is possible. Are they being deputized as civilians?
Meta Signs $10 Billion Google Cloud Computing Deal Amid AI Race Meta Platforms Inc. has reached a cloud computing agreement with Alphabet Inc.’s Google worth at least $10 billion, under which Facebook and Instagram’s parent company will pay a minimum of $10 billion over six years
An excellent & extremely relevant piece in @theatlantic.com by former CIA Director and State Department Foreign Service Officer William Burns. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Doesn’t it look really strange that Tulsi Gabbard cut 50% of ODNI within a week of Putin being inside the Beast?
Supreme Court: Allows Trump to cut off millions in NIH science grants.
On December 14, 2012, a mass shooter murdered 20 children, ages 6 and 7, and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut. Four days later, evangelical author James Dobson claimed the mass shooting was God's retribution for abortion and gay marriage. He died today at 89.
⚡️Trump's intelligence chief ordered halt to intelligence sharing on Russia-Ukraine peace talks among 'Five Eye' allies, CBS reports.
Please sign and share our petition to remove RFK Jr. www.change.org/p/rfk-jr-mus...
The GOP is causing all of this chaos just so everyone will stop talking about the Epstein files. Never stop asking where the files are and why they're covering it up.
A rainbow crosswalk in Orlando that was part of the city’s Pulse Memorial was painted over by the state last night at the order of Ron DeSantis. The memorial honored the 49 people fatally shot by a gunman at the Pulse LGBTQ nightclub in 2016 — the largest mass shooting in the country at the time.
Federal authorities have set up checkpoints around the nation’s capital, sometimes asking people for their immigration status and detaining them, as President Donald Trump’s crackdown ensnares more residents each day. https://to.pbs.org/4lDUzn4
Don’t forget that we are in this redistricting battle because the ideological Supreme Court held (5-4) that partisan gerrymandering cases couldn’t be heard in federal courts Remember: This was a SC that that was configured that way after Republicans stole a SC seat. No stolen seat=different result.
Why does it seem like the president is constantly allowed to break the law without any consequences?
interested to read this upcoming book on roberts. and very intrigued by his the consequences on his formation of growing up in a highly segregated indiana suburb.
What blue state is stepping up next? Who’s gonna meet this moment with the urgency it deserves? Who wants to be able to tell their kids and grandkids that when everything was on the line, they didn’t just SAY the right things, but DID the right thing with the power they had?
May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.
Just now…
Commentary: Top tech executives are engaged in a no-holds-barred fight for the best people, with employees holding all the cards and the days of collusion long gone.
As DC was taken over by Trump’s secret police, where were congressional Democrats? They weren’t in DC and some weren’t even in the US. Instead of fighting back against the authoritarian takeover here at home, 22 House “Democrats” were being spoon-fed lies about Gaza on a trip paid for by AIPAC.
Late last night I mapped crime rates for cities in OH, SC and WV to show how often they exceeded the rate in DC — where those states’ governors are sending National Guard troops to “combat crime.” www.pbump.net/o/more-peopl...
If there's one thing that has defined Trump's second term, it's his targeting of the most vulnerable people. His most recent target: the homeless. Reverend Dr. William Barber II joins me at 10a ET on Trump's hostile takeover of DC & what it signals for other American cities down the line. #Velshi