I hope you’re physically ok, Kat. ICE was brutal against you.
I hope you’re physically ok, Kat. ICE was brutal against you.
open.substack.com/pub/paultsha... On Substack: The importance of- literally - of staying human.
youtu.be/dMj3GM2Xae0 You want to see this. Riveting conversation with Nikole Hannah Jones journalist, scholar, courageous dissenter. And creator of the #1619Project This is a #MUSTSEE
A smart discussion re impact of all the socials on our brains.
Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc
David Letterman is right: you can't appease a tyrant.
Ro Khanna: "They're making comedy illegal. Brendan Carr pressured ABC to cancel Jimmy Kimmel, and Disney cancels Jimmy Kimmel. This canceling from an administration that lectured us about cancel culture. That's why today I'm introducing a motion to subpoena Brendan Carr."
Swalwell: There’s going to be a Democratic majority in just over a year. To the FCC chairperson and anyone in involved in these dirty deals: get a lawyer and save your records because you’re going to be in this room answering questions
After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
To surrender our right to speak freely is to accept that those in power, not the people, will set the boundaries of debate that define a free society.
And it is doing so not because speech glorifies violence or breaks the law, but because it challenges those in power or reflects views they oppose. We must stand firm against every attempt to silence dissent, punish satirists and government critics, and erode individual liberty.
An inexcusable act of political violence by one disturbed individual must never be exploited as justification for broader censorship and control. This Administration is increasingly using the weight of government power to suppress lawful expression. 🧵
Monarez: "Kennedy demanded 2 things of me that were were inconsistent w/ my oath of office. He directed me to commit in advance to approving every ACIP recommendation regardless of the scientific evidence. He also directed me to dismiss career officials responsible for vaccine policy without cause"
One immigrant detained at Fort Bliss was given psychotropic medication with no record of consent. Another was placed on suicide watch, with no record of anyone actually watching them. A new investigation reveals horrific violations at the Fort Bliss detention facility, even by ICE’s own standards.
Well love you forever, well love you for always, Robert Munsch.📚
Terribly concerned that a non-doctor, researcher, medical professional is so grandiose they change medical protocol with no medical input. #RFKJR
Top of the Mountain, a Washington state prison news magazine, was founded in the wake of three suicides that occurred in a single week.
Here’s a story that’s becoming all too common: federal immigration agents using racial and ethnic profiling as a rationale for stopping, questioning and detaining U.S. citizens who they suspect are undocumented.
Propaganda & gun violence diminish all of us.
I’m so saddened to hear yet another school shooting happened today. Our country is terribly ill. May the victims & families receive the support they need as they need it.
There is no place for violence in our democracy — against anyone.
I appreciate this response from #UTAH Governor.
I’m grateful for this response to a terrible event which compassionately sees the humanity of each of us. Gun violence diminishes all of us.
Wow. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. just single-handedly ruled that Congress doesn’t really control the purse strings. This is becoming a massive crisis for checks and balances and the separation of powers.
Bless the Epstein survivors who are speaking out. That level of bravery is something Coward McBone Spurs will never have.
I'm proud to stand in solidarity with Hilton Hotel workers in Houston who are on strike against corporate greed. If Hilton can afford to spend $2.9 billion to buy back its own stock and pay its CEO $28 million, it can afford to pay workers a living wage of at least $23 an hour.
Agree with this completely
Thieves of our health. Thieves of our healthcare. Den of thieves. #WorkersUnite #unionize #healthcareisahumanright #RFKJR #TrumpEpstein
An interview from 2020 that is so prescient, you’ll think it’s from this moment in 2025. It illuminates current experiences, terrifyingly. There is recent precedence for ‘this.’ Only the geography & names have changed. Fascism, Freedom, & Fiction podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Every. Action. & Inaction. Is. Intentional. To. Sow. CHAOS.
The guy that ordered 8 fighter jets to perform a low altitude fly-over in an effort to drown out Epstein survivors is the same guy who wants you to believe he's innocent.
Our intrepid former CMO was just on MSNBC discussing the hearing. It helps to actually understand how CDC works.
Diseases have no boundaries.
Any Senators here? I’m a biomedical scientist with immunology, cancer, infectious disease expertise. RFK Jr lied to you in his confirmation hearings. Repeatedly. Provably. He’s lied to EVERYONE for 30+ years. Repeatedly. Provably. He WILL lie today. Repeatedly. Provably. 1/
RFK Jr. wants to "make America healthy again." So he's doing that by dismantling federal health agencies and firing civil servants who inspect our food, track infectious diseases, and research life-saving treatments and vaccines. Do I have this right?
Warnock to RFK jr: "For the first time, we are seeing deaths of children from measles. We haven't seen that in two decades. We're seeing that under your watch. You are a hazard to the health of the American people."
Thank you, Kai. Once you see one child’s preventable death, you never forget it. #vaccinationssafeandeffective #vaccinate
A lawsuit filed by the NAACP Wednesday seeks to stop Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe’s (R) special legislative session, calling his attempt to redraw maps and rewrite the ballot initiative process an unconstitutional power grab that threatens democracy in the state. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
“How can you be that ignorant?” #RFKJR #SenatorWarner #WeAreNotSafe #TrumpEpstein
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!
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
GOV. WHITMER on marriage equality 🏳️🌈 attacks: “Treating people equally is a Michigan value… LGBTQ+ Michiganders make our state stronger, better, and more vibrant.”
The damage this man has done is incalculable.
Huge news - appeals court rules that a majority of the President’s tariffs are illegal. The President is wreaking havoc on our economy, and he is breaking the law to do it. We must right this ship. We need sane trade policy again.
someone should put together a "kennedy death count" for everyone who dies of a preventable disease and just plaster it everywhere www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...
#ChurchOfDemocracy I’m in. #taxexempt ⛪️
Depriving millions of #Missourians representation, but he ‘prayed on it.’ #MOGOVERNOR #gerrymandering
The Gilded Rage
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
We want to apologize if it feels like we’ve been venting a lot lately. It’s just hard to ignore that nearly every move from this administration seems to be illegal, unlawful, or outright unconstitutional and yet nothing happens.
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
BREAKING: mRNA HIV Vaccine Shows Strong Early Results A new mRNA HIV vaccine triggered robust B and T cell responses, with 80% of recipients developing Tier 2 neutralizing antibodies in early trials.
we are going to win www.cnbc.com/2025/08/27/f...
They’re going to kill #US We are not safe. #medicalabuse #RFKJR
take my views on this with a grain of salt I guess (I am on team pro-civility and anti-debate), but I feel like the "civil debate" discourse is totally committed to the worst of both worlds
One thing that really hits you when you're directly affected by gun violence in schools is that there's nowhere to hide. Public, private, religious, whatever - unless you're going to homeschool your kids, we live in a world where they're at risk of something like this happening.
I don’t say this lightly: we’re living in a #GRIFT unlike the #USA has seen before & it’s happening with #GOPDerelictionOfDuty #TRUMPGRIFT #RFKJRGRIFT #TheRegime #itstheguns #ICEISLAWLESS #ThisIsFascism #mentalunwellness
DC *is* being run poorly... by *Congress* 🙄 Congress gutted DC's budget so that Trump could say the city was in trouble and invade it. We've seen this Trump regime playbook before: break it, and then say it's broken.
This is amongst the best reported stories about the current state of ICE Air. Must read.
70 years ago today, Emmett Till’s bright young life was brutally cut short in an act of racist hate and violence. I’m remembering him and his mother Mamie Till-Mobley today. May God bless their memory. We must continue our fight to end racism and hate in every form.
Trump’s ICE is arresting firefighters who are ACTIVELY FIGHTING ONE OF THE LARGEST WILDFIRES IN THE UNITED STATES. There aren’t words to describe this cruelty. It’s absurd and completely against America's best interests. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
How I wish his entire family could live under the rule of the most magnanimous enslaver on the most well run plantation for as long as it takes… #TrumpEpstein #EpsteinFiles #1619Project #Smithsonian
Trump’s so-called “law and order” in DC is just open season on Black and brown workers.
From Russia Today's Telegram channel, this morning
#RiseUpDEMS
She is a gift to us all! And isn’t this video extra incredible showing us how she marks up books pre-interview!?!?! Brilliant! #TerryGross
If you could see my bookshelves…📚📕📗📘📙📚📖📕 #kindredsoul #bibliophile #TerryGross #FreshAir
Also shoutout to @m-i-4.bsky.social, our wonderful Creative Director, and our graphic designers in the Discord server for making these designs and even more!
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.
No Riley: We The People want our #USCONSTITUTION to win. We’re not loyal to a man, you whiny loser. Get out of the pool & read a damn book.📚
Social Security turns 90 today. The cornerstone of FDR's New Deal keeps millions out of poverty every year. How is the Trump regime celebrating? By shrinking the SSA workforce, crashing its website, increasing wait times, and replacing humans with AI chatbots.
RADDATZ: The president went in to that meeting saying he wanted a ceasefire and there would be consequences if they didn't agree on a ceasefire in that meeting, and they didn't agree to a ceasefire. Where are the consequences? RUBIO: That's not the aim RADDATZ: The president said that was the aim
The CDC shooting didn’t even really register in the news and the details are absolutely insane
This must be prosecuted. #LAWLESS #FASCISM #FREEDC #ICEISLAWLESS
@jayapal.house.gov is a #MUSTFOLLOW for facts & wise actions. #prodemocracy #antifascist
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "I think he should start with Shreveport, Louisiana, and Speaker Johnson's district that has 6x the per capita murder rate of Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco. What about the carnage, Mr. President, in Shreveport? Why aren't you protecting the folks there? What bullshit."
Remember when Kamala said Putin would eat Trump for lunch? I was thinking about that today for no particular reason.
#TrumpDeal #TrumpMaxwell #TrumpPutin
When you watch Trump clapping for and touching war criminal Putin with such delight, remember Trump’s disgraceful treatment of Volodymyr Zelensky in February.
Putin’s a former #KGB agent & Trump’s a reality-TV star. So, duh. #FoxEntertainment
It’s racist. DC belongs to The People.
Every day, I see Trump decimating America as a brand. Americans seem to be grossly overestimating our ability to ‘come back’ to the place we once held as leader/partner. Trump has ruined us. Our ‘brand’ once aspirational & consistent is, across the world, poisonous. What a horrific waste.
No American President worthy of the office could unleash thugs in our cities to threaten, kick, punch, beat, & do harm to The People. All those who have perpetrated these acts on The People need to be removed. They lack the love of country to hold office. Hating our people = unqualified to lead. 🇺🇸❤️🩹
Imagine if they’d had sandwiches. 🥪
“Many people are saying…” bravo & thank you. Keep fighting! @governor.ca.gov
Making 3/5th of a human being great again.🤦🏻♀️ #SenatorHaggerty #TN-R
& how did #TN get this Senator? Big money & #gerrymandering
substack.com/@demsmight/n... I can only echo #GovernorNewsom - Wake UP America! #TXDEMS4DEMOCRACY #StopFascism
When racists ‘take over’ Black-led cities. We cannot let this stand. #DC does not belong to the regime. #HANDSOFFDC
If you think it’s problematic that Homeland Security sent ICE to intimidate Governor Newsom during this press conference Just wait until Trump applies the $30 billion allocated in the Big Ugly Bill to expand ICE And sends out these thugs to “maintain order” during the midterm elections
Oh God. This is heartbreaking. #HomeDepotRaid #ICE #Lawless
Occurs to me that Trump's entire regime consolidation strategy is to persuade everyone through displays of force that the regime is already consolidated and there's no point in resisting. Which I don't think will work, but also shows how important public acts of noncompliance are.
His tax returns?
Touché, sir! #MamdaniOnCuomo
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
I was lucky enough to talk to @joyannreid.bsky.social and @katiephang.bsky.social today back to back on THE LEFT HOOK especially both of them give absolutely 0 F's now and were on fire. Lordy! It'll be out today. Thelefthook.substack.com
😳🥵 “‘How come I can’t breathe?'” Elon Musk’s AI company is “belching smog-forming pollution into South Memphis *** None of the 35 methane gas turbines that help power xAI’s massive supercomputer is equipped with pollution controls typically required by federal rules.” 5/6/25
@mluckovich.bsky.social thx for another great one. #TrumpPutin
#GAVINNEWSOM #CAPressConference #BigBeautifulPressConference #CARedistricting
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