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Doing whatever Jordon is telling him to do.
40% of Republicans think the COVID vaccine killed more people than the COVID virus. One in four believe that QAnon is real. No matter how far they radicalize, we are told over and over again that the people being rude to them are the problem.
“We used to say you can't negotiate with terrorist organizations for a reason. The Republican Party is an extremist movement. You can't negotiate with them.” @stuartpstevens.bsky.social joins @timmiller.bsky.social on The Bulwark Podcast:
All I want is for everyone to hate these fucking fascists as much as I do. That's really all that remains of my politics.
That Pritzker press conference was... surreal, and I think marks a significant moment of escalation in the constitutional omni-crisis. This was the governor of a state saying plainly the Union itself is being torn apart and his state is being militarily invaded by an authoritarian regime.
Senate Democrats: DO NOT FUND the government when the current continuing resolution expires at the end of the month. SHUT IT DOWN unless DC is funded, the troops are withdrawn from our cities, elections are protected, the Epstein files are released in full... SHUT IT DOWN.
New York does not miss. The bleach did it for me. 😭
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson brings 🔥: “Nowhere in the history of the world, where marginalized people sat silent & idle were they able to achieve justice & liberation. We have a unified front in Chicago. We're rejecting the occupation by the military. We’re fighting for our democracy."
He’s so fucking stupid.
The first country the Nazis invaded was Germany. Don't forget that.
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
No need to apologize. This is theater by stupid people for people who are even more stupid.
Honesty time. open.substack.com/pub/micjohns...
"BlueSky isn't important, here's why I'm talking about it unprompted."
Today's ISM survey commentary is fun: "Tariffs continue to wreak havoc" "There is absolutely no activity in the transportation equipment industry. This is 100 percent attributable to current tariff policy. "We are also in stagflation: Prices are up due to material tariffs, but volume is way off.”
One of the biggest failures of social media is that it gave stupid people a platform to create community with other stupid people, ensuring that they all remain stupid.
NAILED IT.
Long after he is gone, we will be left with what we now know about our family members and friends and neighbors; about the people in our churches, about the parents of our children’s friends; about the pillars of our communities, about those we trust to govern, protect, and serve us.
#ISM 🇺🇸
Great lead headline right now, @nytimes.com.
The argument is: We're all meant to sacrifice a bit, so that tariffs can help rebuild American manufacturing. Let's ask American manufacturers whether they're helping.
What was Belichick before Brady? What has Belichick been after Brady? The answer also explains why he’s with a gold digger. He’s having an identity crisis right before our very eyes.
US foreign policy update: friends alienated, enemies united, armed forces spreading mulch in DC. MAGA
And the remaining 40% are dumbasses.
again i will say this today, the greatest threat to democracy, individual freedoms, and most citizens personal safety is not islam, socialism or wokeism, or someone's sex or sexuality. The greatest threat today is "christian" nationalism.
Self-styled conservatives used to pretend to be keenly concerned with such uncertainty, back when the Black Democrat in the Tan Suit was in the White House: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Uncertainty acts like a tax on growth. Firms delay capex and hiring; households save, not spend. Policy whiplash raises hurdle rates and widens possible outcomes. That’s why today’s uncertainty is an economic problem, not just a vibe problem.
there’s no reason any democratic country outside the failed state shithole with a hate speech fetish should not block the personal vanity platforms of american billionaire nazis & chaos agents
In @theatlantic.com the former First Lady advocating healthy lunches is just like the hhs head being an anti vaccine quack killing people. Stop the planet I want to get off.
If you don’t think you can make a difference, you’re right. If you do think you can make a difference, you’re right.
We welcome today's news of the launch of the Fund for Science and Technology (FFST)! Funded by the estate of Paul G. Allen, the new private foundation is focused on Allen’s lifelong passions for bioscience, the environment, and the power of AI for good. www.ff-st.org/news-stories...
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
On this Labor Day, let us remember that it wasn’t the CEOs and billionaires who saved us during COVID-19. It was the janitors, nurses, cleaning crews, grocery and food workers with their hard, often invisible labor.
Smiling at the very people he is helping fuck over.
In case you haven’t seen the latest episodes, this is great… Check out Limitless: Live Better Now on Hulu! www.hulu.com/series/8ff2d...
That’s who they’ve been appealing to all along. That’s how we know there’s more of them than we realized.
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
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:
We are all the CDC this week. My weekend Substack community issue. Check it out and, if you’re interested, consider joining our Social Contract Community. Thanks.👇 open.substack.com/pub/socialco...
Fatality.
If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.
Good reason to never visit. Maybe they’ll move to Florida with the rest of them one day.
I hear there’s a lot of MAGA dumbasses in Huntington Beach.
😂 I love it when Jesus decides Dabo needs to lose.
There will be 10 survivors speaking on the 3rd.
Spent the day driving around Manchester, New Hampshire, a city for 80-something New Yorkers in deep debt apparently. I was driving alone, something I’m known to do. I saw a woman fleeing domestic violence. I “rendered aid,” vaguely. Minutes or maybe an hour later I was walloped by a Mack truck.
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."
youtu.be/fSgGYoIydnQ?...
Many states don’t let you get a COVID vaccine without a prescription as they had existing laws that tied access to official CDC approval. This made sense as a safety measure, but now the CDC has been taken over by antivaxxers, several states are rightfully modifying these laws to reinstate access.
And again.
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."
More name changes afoot… Department of Defense = Department of War Department of Education = Department of Keeping You Stupid Center for Disease Control = Center for Crackpot Conspiracies Department of Agriculture = Department of Subsidies for Farmers going broke from tariffs
This is a real danger but to jamelle's point in this thread, folks often don't appreciate the scale of American elections: how many polling places, election workers, and decentralized redundancies, and how little of it is under any federal control. It far outstrips federal manpower in its vastness.
More big losses to come…
Not sure he could have fielded that any worse than he did.
As Marco Rubio shuts down USAID, CNN find clips and a letter of him praising USAID
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!
Speaking as someone who used to spend time in their chats, SO much of US contemporary fascism is a function of men assuming that the way adulthood worked was, you got a job and in exchange you got a woman to be your mom plus your sex toy. They are ENRAGED that they have a job but no sex mommy.
Pathetic.
Love it.
The fact that the United States and China both literally rolled out a red carpet for this piece of shit shows you how much of a fucking loser Donald Trump is and how much Republicans suck ass.
The firing of the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the resignation of several high-profile agency leaders pose immediate challenges to the operations of the nation’s premiere public health agency, experts said.
Sons of Satan…
You are correct. And I just realized how my brain isn’t as good as I thought it was.
He’s another son of Satan that was at Epstein Island…
New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them. States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.
The average American simply has no idea how quickly the infrastructure that keeps us safe and healthy is collapsing. These systems run in the background thanks to government employees who quietly do critical work. Those employees are being purged and systems are being destroyed.
Trump did this. Republicans did this. And anyone who voted for them made it possible. Lots of people learning what we tried to tell them…Trump and Republicans don’t give a fuck about them. They used you for your vote and then bent you over.
APOLLO: “.. Will We See a Repeat of 2021 and the 1970s? .. There is upside pressure on inflation and inflation expectations .. The risks are rising that we could see another ‘inflation mountain’ emerge over the coming months.”
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...
Thousands of farm animals & livestock are going unattended. They aren’t being milked. They aren’t being fed. I feel a great deal more for those animals than for the farmers who voted for this shit. They KNEW who their workers were & where they came from. But they voted to hurt them anyway.
@nealkatyal.bsky.social: “You’ve got the president who's imposed the largest tax increase on American consumers since 1993 … and he did it without Congress saying one word. That is not our constitutional structure.”
More like Ouch Manning, amiright?
This is starting to feel like the Watching Paint Dry Bowl.
They both need to start manning up. Just sayin.
Going to be really interesting to see how the new Ohio State QB measures up against Texas today… Just Sayin….
"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:
Are you just sayin they are manning up?
He would be even better if he lost the hype-bro schtick.
The “mustache” isn’t helping things.
Well said. Pat McAfee and Dave Portnoy are like adding elephant shit to your smoothies.
A thing I keep thinking about is how Lee Corso never would've gotten that job today. Networks lean heavily into hiring big names over actual TV talent, people who view the job as just a job. Lee viewed the role as more than that. Perhaps there's a lesson there.
Sounds like a great idea...
Opinion from Rebecca Phillips: For Kansans in need, hunger is real. Our compassion and generosity can make the difference. #ksleg
NEW figures show that 61,226 people are currently in ICE detention — the highest number ever in US history. According to ICE data, 70% of these people have no criminal conviction.
Good question. That’s like trying to choose to add cow shit or elephant shit to your morning smoothie.
Once again, Border Patrol tells the press this was a targeted kidnapping, yet they took a man who is legally here & in the immigration process. This shows that it was not a targeted investigation as they claimed. Press must stop printing lies. apnews.com/article/immi...
Adding Dave Portnoy to Big Noon Kickoff is like adding elephant shit to a smoothie. #collegefootball
It’s long past time you all stopped using “Congress” when you mean “Republicans”. Not a single Democrat voted for this hot mess of an appointment. This endless grind to maintain a non-partisan tone, despite the partisanship of our fascist reality, is willfully blind, & a betrayal of your country.
Meidas Health will feature two of the nations best healthcare leaders this week: Sunday: a conversation with the President of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Dr Susan Kressly Mid-week: Dr Demetre Daskalakis, former top leader at the CDC Tune in! @meidastouch.com @ameracadpeds.bsky.social
If you’re smart, you want to get smarter. Read this and you will. At least you should. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/thoughts-a...
