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No, silly! Men don't give a hoot what women think. It generally doesn't suit their purpose.
You prob could just say racism and leave it at that.
Fear of crime: an unholy alliance between politicians that need a cudgel, local news that needs clicks, social media's ability to share viral anecdotal crime stories, police that need justification to exist, and the fact that police/surveillance tech is a multi-billion dollar industry, and racism.
My pre-labor day reward was to get laid off, do me a favor and sign up to get my now-independent reporting and writing
It’s not just that Congress allowed the CDC crisis. Key lawmakers, on your payroll, allowed it despite statements showing they believe RFK’s views on vaccines are wrong. RFK can say he is doing what he believes; the lawmakers can’t. open.substack.com/pub/steveins...
Welch: As someone who lives in a red state, let me just tell you what MAGA supermajorities get you. We're 50th in education. The worst in the whole country for women to live. We're poorer, worst health care. And if you look at the bottom ten states, they are all MAGA supermajorities.
Look at those ears!❤️❤️❤️
Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who resigned as director of the National Center on Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the CDC, shares he learned the childhood and adult immunization schedules for COVID-19 were changed from a video posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, while in a leadership meeting.
“When I call Kennedy a ‘dangerous crank,’ I'm not saying that as an insult or as hyperbole, but honestly as the most economical way of describing the man's views,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on RFK Jr.
Must read - Powerful warning to the nation as @drdemetre.bsky.social resigns as Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases and posts this post on X. Well done, Sir! 🔥💪 “My resignation letter from CDC. Dear Dr. Houry, 1/x
Not sure the WaPo editorial board opinions mean much anymore. They certainly don't call out issues and concerns the way they once did. "Ominous" isn't nearly strong enough for the former paper of record.
Another day, another dollar of suggested waste or fraud. Just another Thursday in the war against academia. #sad
"The political appointment, first reported by Democracy Docket, shows how self-styled election investigators who have thrown themselves into election conspiracy theories since 2020 are now being celebrated by a presidential administration that indulges their false claims." apnews.com/article/heat...
They are sending soldiers into cities to prepare to intimidate people at the polls next year. They gerrymander because they can’t win on policy. They intimidate because even gerrymandering won’t work at this point.
Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day. Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day. It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.
I celebrate every victory for voting rights, but this one is particularly special. No issue has been more hotly contested or more important to PA voters than this one. The DSCC and DCCC fought hard and it is great to see them prevail. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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?
Pritzker: This is not about fighting crime. This is about the President and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.
This. 100%.
"For those people out there who ... say, 'Well, I just don't like those people either' ... You could be next. ... This is not about any one individual, this is about our rights as Americans, and our right to have a justice system where choices about prosecuting are made without fear or favor."
Yes yes yes! Been saying this to anyone who will listen. Lack of trust in science is and was driven by propaganda and lies. Trying to 'get the word out on science and medicine better to the public' is not going to solve the problem.
The federal government doesn't have the authority to trample on our rights. No matter what uniform they wear, federal agents and military troops in DC are bound by the Constitution. Full stop.
"The Rule of Law in the US Just Took Its Last Breath" With the raid on Bolton's home, and the new investigations against top Democrats, we should be prepared for a new two-tiered system of laws. Rules for everyone else - but not for Trump. Another must-read for Zeteo from @kimwehle.bsky.social
He probably should have started with the unconstitutional thing.....
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...
Gabbard reorganizes ODNI, shrinking election defense office and eliminating the national intelligence university. In the name of money savings and crushing the "deep state." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/u...
America: Universal healthcare creates wait times for healthcare. Also America: waits six months for a neurosurgeon consult and a year to get into a dermatologist…
For those keeping track, another cut to federal support for election security, with the apparent elimination of the Foreign Malign Influence Center, which tracked foreign influence operations and threats to elections. apnews.com/article/gabb...
What a cool find!
Happy @runforsomething.net endorsement day!! 54 amazing new leaders running for state + local office *now* across 21 states. medium.com/run-for-some...
I want to congratulate leading Democrats’ for their insistence on saying the takeover of DC is a “stunt” or a “distraction.” It’s a rare trifecta of intellectual failure, political stupidity, and moral obtuseness.
Democratic Governors, you have to play hardball. Red states can't function without your economies. They clearly want to F around. It's find out time.
I think the fact that the president can make up a bullshit pretext about crime, activate various states' national guard units and invade a major city with basically minimal pushback of any kind reflects very poorly on Americans generally
Every Democratic member of Congress should be in the streets of DC saying this dangerous authoritarian escalation must stop. Do they not grasp what’s going on here?
My quote of the day Fascism says what you and I experience as facts or what reporters experience as facts are irrelevant. All that matters are impressions and emotions and myths. Timothy Snyder
This is so true, and will surely resonate with anyone who has done any freelance/contract writing or consultation. So often the first edition gives the client what they 'say' they want, but it takes another round to figure out what they 'actually' want.
New Guardian article about the Bhattacharya op-ed www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... 1/4
Is there something sort of 'double jeopardy' rule for grand jury hearings? Seems bad that you can basically send the same case to another GJ just because you don't like the outcome from the first.
Newsom: "We're doing this in reaction to a president that called the governor of the state of Texas and said 'find me 5 seats' ... we cannot unilaterally disarm ... other blue states need to stand up"
Taking photos and video of law enforcement officers performing their duties in public is our constitutional right. This includes police, FBI, National Guard troops, ICE agents, and other government officials.
Reporter: What’s going on with those posts on X that are clearly trolling the president? Newsom: I hope it’s a wake up call for the president. I’m just following his example. If you have issues with what I’m putting out, you sure as hell should have concerns with what he’s putting out
A truly disgraceful op-ed in the Washington Post from "NIH Director" Bhattacharya www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... 1/3
Basic income 'critics' usually ignore the data Giving people income security actually boosts employment and education
I'll say it a thousand times -- any account of the past that only celebrates the good parts of a nation without reckoning with the bad is not what we call "history" It is propaganda, pure and simple.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s decision to cancel nearly half a billion dollars in federal funding for mRNA vaccine development is the "most dangerous public health decision" ever, epidemiologist Michael Osterholm said.
Exclusive: CDC Director Susan Monarez met with its vaccine-focused center to talk about yesterday’s shooting. I listened to a recording. Scientists and officials are shaken & pointing fingers at RFK Jr. Many said his vilification and misinfo turned them into targets. www.msnbc.com/opinion/anal...
Reports suggest UnitedHealth gave BONUSES to nursing homes for sending fewer people to the hospital, even if they were sick. Senator Ron Wyden and I are pressing for answers. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Hello journalists. If you report this you gotta say that under the Constitution he has no power to do it. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Article I Sections 9 & 10 of the U.S. Constitution—which limit presidential power over tariffs and protect habeas corpus—have disappeared from Congress’s website. They claim a coding error is to blame.
Not great that people like Micah Beckwith are in positions of power but don’t understand how our constitution works, and are arrogant in their ignorance.
Tim Miller: “There's not any other sex offender in a low security prison like [Ghislaine Maxwell]. Not that you want to rank the different types of sex crimes, but Ghislaine's is about the worst. It's about as bad as you can do—recruiting dozens of girls into quasi-sex slavery.”
Low key one of the worst anbuses of power ever? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
At this stage, I hope more than believe you are right. I haven't given up, but without our pillars of democracy standing firm, it is hard to see how any of the normal things are going to be useful anymore. Things will not work as they have before. They have been fundamentally warped.
The key counterterrorism agencies of the U.S government are not led by America’s best. Indeed, they are led by some of our worst. If catastrophe strikes again, the address of responsibility will not be hard to find. ICYMI Gabriel Schoenfeld:
NEW: You have been reading a lot about the DOJ's effort to collect sensitive voter data. Democracy Docket has broken a lot of the news on this story and now offers this explainer. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/exp...
Over 800 students from across the country completed our National Advocacy Institute in DC over the past 3 weeks. There's more interest now than ever before in the Institute, where students learn about key civil rights issues, build leadership skills, and connect with other incredible advocates.
I love how she uses her tail to balance while floating ❤️😊
Another email to Bhattacharya about his interview and his continued statements that NIH's gain of function research caused the COVID pandemic and killed millions of people. 1/8
Will everyone quit and roll over? The law firms, media companies, universities, government employees. Will you all cling to what you have and hope you can just ride it out, Republic be damned? Shame on all of you who don’t stand up, just remember we will never forget.
Awww! Hope she starts feeling better soon xxx
Statement from the largest economics association about the BLS firing As context: AEA approximately never makes such public statements This is a big deal
A university scientist who discovered alarming levels of toxic chemicals in a lake in southeastern Louisiana was abruptly removed from her research position this week without explanation
I am baffled by the Washington Post's sanitized framing of this story. The Supreme Court is clearly going to "rule on the law" -- that is what courts do! The news is that SCOTUS signaled that it might gut the VRA entirely. Compare WaPo and Democracy Docket's headlines. Which source do you trust?
Today would be a good day to release the Epstein Files. Unredacted. In their entirety.
Requesting more uplifting quotes on Fridays. Please.
Not only is today’s employment report uniquely bad, but revisions to the prior months show that, on average, we have seen 35k net new jobs created for the last 3 months: JAN: +111K FEB: +102K MAR: +120K APR: +158K MAY: +19K JUN: +14K JUL: +73K No way to put lipstick on this pig.
Put an economic moron in charge, get a failing economy.
“This is the worst economic jobs report since the end of the pandemic.” - CNN
the just out July jobs report is not good news for the economy
“It’s hard to overstate the scale of recklessness involved in cutting limits on greenhouse gas emissions. This is criminal…we’ll all pay for this hostile rejection of reality.” www.americaamerica.news/p/arson-on-a...
Wait the projected number was 110,000? So there were one-third (!) fewer jobs than anticipated last month?
CNN: "We came into this week and we said it was a pivotal week for the economy. And I gotta say -- indicator after indicator has turned out worse than expected. Core GDP really showed that the US economy slowed down during Q2. Yesterday's inflation report -- that heated up."
CNN: An auto parts maker in Detroit just had to layoff 100 workers and shut down a warehouse. The owner specifically blamed tariffs. STEPHEN MIRAN: It's always convenient to blame political changes when your business fails
NEWS: The U.S. added just 73,000 jobs in July—far below expectations—while the unemployment rate rose to 4.2%. May and June payrolls were revised down by a collective 258K, painting a trouble picture for the economy.
Of course they did.👇
Show me your budget, and I'll show you your values
Weakest 3 months of job growth since 2020.
Already moved from worried into horrified and disgusted....
Okay, *now you can start to worry about data being manipulated.
COLBERT: You warned everyone…he would prosecute political enemies, cut Medicaid, alienate our allies, give tax cuts to the rich. I know you're not here to say 'I told you so' but would you like to? HARRIS: You're correct. I did predict a lot of that. But what I did not predict was the capitulation.
Interestingly, the Board *does have control. Powell only gets one vote See also: not understanding how the economy works
On Inauguration Day, I listed 12 signs that would indicate we were living in a dictatorship. One of them was: "Fictional government statistics." Today Trump fired the commissioner of labor statistics because her bureau's numbers didn't match his lies.
It has taken medical science 200 years to advance humans to the point where people are so healthy and living so long that they can deny that science and medicine is what got us here.
Motherfucking wind farms…
‘1984’ is upon us
Reminder that the US has a signed and ratified trade deal with Korea that an international treaty & part of US law, & here is wildly illegal & we should stop sanewashing & normalizing of it & simply enforce the damn law even for this One Special Boy.
Right. There's an actual existing ratified trade deal with S. Korea that is current law!
My quote of the day We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. Abraham Lincoln
New Science story about multi-year funding and it potential catastrophic consequences www.science.org/content/arti... 1/n
Once again, if there were actually "national security" (Section 232) or "national emergency" (IEEPA) reasons for tariffs, they wouldn't keep nventing reasons for truces & postponements. This is how you know the tariffs are wildly illegal, not only under WTO treat obligations, but also US law.
Love this.
Odds of winning NIH grants plummet as new funding policy and spending delays bite | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Exactly. Once they admit he’s done one bad thing, there can be no stopping point, as he’s a bottomless pit of moral depravity. And once they step on that slippery slope, they can’t escape their own culpability. So instead they look away, and lie to others—and to themselves.
The president calling for the prosecution of individuals & companies he doesn't like should immediately end a presidency like it would have for anyone before this One Special Boy
“I told them I was an American citizen. I questioned why they were using those tactics on me. I asked about my constitutional rights. An officer outright said out loud that I have no constitutional rights at a point of entry,” says Wilmer Chavarria, a school superintendent in Vermont.