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Trump officials have restored Ronny Jackson's military rank, after his Biden-era demotion from rear admiral to captain. Democrats say they’re aghast “The sacrosanct uniform code of military justice is now the uniform code of Trump,” former Rep. Jackie Speier told me. The code is “now meaningless.”
Wall Street Journal: Top of page one. NY Times: Bottom of page 19.
This way. Accent on the second syllable.
HHS under Biden commissioned a study about alcohol and cancer. But HHS under Trump and RFK Jr. killed the study. Wild story www.vox.com/health/46008...
Support for vaccinating kids against infectious diseases dropped from 81% in 1991 to 51% last year We are getting dumber as a society
Ahead of today’s hearing, let’s take a look back at when RFK Jr. promised Sen. Cassidy he wouldn’t cut vaccine funding
It is a very bizarre feeling, finding oneself cheering on Thomas Massie and Marjorie Taylor Greene. You do not have to hand it to them for anything else. But on this issue, they’re on the right side.
That the White House immediately reacted with anger and horror to this is so telling and I hope gets widespread attention.
An ultra-MAGA county commissioner in Lewis County, WA argues that the Democrats are the new Confederacy because they refuse to acknowledge the total supremacy of federal law in regard to immigration. You'll never guess what this guy thought of federal gun laws in 2021. chronline.com/stories/swop...
As a lawyer, I'll tell you that there's nobody who knows this law better than Ryan and Brian. Sure looks like murder or war crime to me. But as a human, I'll tell you that the Rubio statement -- we could have stopped the boat but we blew it up to send a message -- is sickening and depraved.
This is consistent with the hypothesis that they just fired people at random
which is true? who can say, we're just a news outlet
I’ve written op-eds for the New York Times before and I can remember back when they had these things called “editors” who would challenge laughably false claims like this passage here.
This is op/ed is a hot mess but let's focus on one specific false claim from Oren Cass. He wrote: "the crops are not rotting in the fields" But yes, Oren, they are. Crops are rotting in the fields.
I’ll know Democrats are truly serious about fighting back when they go after his kids. Hunter Biden was shorthand for corruption, a regular public target, for literally years.
Bill Pulte explains how his principal function in the Trump administration is the fabrication of bogus fraud charges against whomever Trump chooses to target as an enemy.
This administration is brimming with villains of all kinds, but FCC chair Brendan Carr is underrated - he brings a level of sheer malevolence and moral corruption to his work that few can match
This is an insane thing to say. Children are going to to die and it will he his fault.
The entire federal government is being mobilized to destroy the American wind energy industry. Why? Because the toddler king didn't like seeing windmills from a golf course, so he decided he hates wind power and now that's the policy of the United States. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/c...
OK, California fire code requires sprinklers in new construction (since 2011). I’d wager the vast majority of homes destroyed in the LA fires were older than that.
Holy shit: Stateline spoke to nearly a dozen firefighters, agency staffers and contractors, who said that top officials assigned to the fire deployed the crews to a remote location under false pretenses so federal agents could check their immigration status. www.hcn.org/articles/fir...
Everything else aside, I have never seen a house with fire sprinklers inside. Not once. High rise apartments and office buildings, yes. Not houses.
it is a sad state of affairs when u realize the only thing that might get RFK jr fired is not universal condemnation from the scientific community but laura loomer complaining he didn’t say good morning to her or something
This is not heroic; it’s criminal. Make no mistake: denying people due process who are not enemies of the United States through extra-judicial executions is repugnant to everything this country is supposed to stand for like the rule of law.
jesus christ I can’t believe I’m applauding RAND FREAKIN PAUL for being the voice of reason. we are truly in the upside down
OMG I can finally use one of my (very few) saved gifs!!
there's this old book called the Peter Principle, which is basically about failing upward to your level of incompetence, but somehow Bari has broken through that limit and continues into the stratosphere
🚨 The Trump admin is moving to de-legalize more than a quarter of a million Venezuelans who have been here for at LEAST four years. The vast majority entered before Biden took office (often on tourist visas) and were previously granted deportation protections by Trump himself.
About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. “Oh, they’d have died.”
All kidding about this nonsense answer aside: The regime is asserting the power to murder without trial a boat full of people suspected of drug trafficking, who easily could have been intercepted and arrested instead. That is unconscionable and horrifying even assuming everyone aboard was guilty.
#YHGtBFKMwTS www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Says the guy who invited Bill Clinton's accusers to a debate with Hillary Clinton
I wonder how long he practiced that in the mirror. (Without noticing how awful his beard is.)
Hilarious that they offered Adams a position at the US Department of the only thing they hire black people for
There are many reasons we don’t let drug warriors play judge, jury, and executioner — like killing innocent civilians. No doubt Hegseth would have cheered this shoot down of a suspected drug flight over Peru in 2001. Whoops, it turned out to be US missionary Veronica Bowers & infant daughter.
Why stop there? I demand the freedom to choose which side of the road I drive on, anything less is illegitimate government intrusion into my private life.
It wasn’t the CDC, it was the MAGA movement that insisted that the vaccines were poison and that people should take horse dewormer instead. That’s who failed us.
This guy went to Yale Law School?
BREAKING: A federal judge reverses the Trump administration's cut of billions of dollars to Harvard University.
Republicans control the House by a 7-seat margin, but that's with four vacant seats. Does Trump really want to "take out" Massie? And the three other GOP representatives who joined him? Seems like he's playing with fire. So, yeah: What exactly is in those files?
Man, they REALLY don’t want to hang that plaque honoring the police officers who defended the Capitol on Jan 6. @acyn.bsky.social
Firefighters, famously, have a house they all live in, where they wait for people to call them, actually.
"This is an encroachment on everything we signed up for, and it feels like a violation.”
These people are going to kill kids, and they held a press conference to announce it. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
DoNaLd ThE dOvE
The contemporary Republican Party has gathered together, under one banner, the worst human beings in the country. It barely even has an ideology any more beyond "be your worst self."
A personalist dictatorship can have no settled policy except the will of the leader. No facts matter, no principles other than the leadership principle (Fuhrerprinzip)
When you’re so innocent you have to threaten members of Congress in your own party to not release the evidence that would prove your innocence.
They manage to make it better in the film because it becomes a giant dance number. But in the stage version, it’s awful.
I know I say this almost every day but I truly, truly do not understand the authoritarian personality. I genuinely can not imagine acting like a sniveling apparatchik like this in public and then looking at myself in the mirror at night. What goes on in their heads? Why are they like this?
NEW: The plaintiffs challenging the Trump administration's holiday weekend effort to send children to Guatemala have filed their motion for a preliminary injunction in the case, along with many declarations from the children who are involved. It is as horrifying as it appeared over the weekend.
From the Broadway version of the same show, “The Red Blues.”
This level of corruption is not normal or acceptable. Even if we are exhausted by each report of it going further and further, we can never grow numb to it.
Anyone making voting decisions based on who’s blocking who on Bluesky is a moron.
i cannot overstate how extraordinary it is for federal civil servants to do this
Florida road crews in St. Pete were out at 3 a.m. just to do this
Even before the start of President Trump's surge, D.C. had the most police per-capita of any U.S. city. By a quite a bit. And that's just counting the city's force, not the huge array of other police agencies here. The Capitol Police, also in D.C., is bigger than Baltimore's police department.
I am once again begging the Sparta fanboys to read up on how Thermopylae ended for Leonidas
Key phrase here is "and only us" This was the core of Dred Scott, that the founders meant the word citizen to only mean white settlers. And 14th Amendment birthright citizenship clause was an explicit repudiation of that, that all born here have an equal claim on what it means to be an American
When Democratic Socialist Bernie Sanders lost the Democratic primary nomination, he campaigned for the candidates who won it. That's good party behavior. This, on the other hand, is a self defeating dismissal of the will of Democratic primary voters.
People who aren’t paying attention don’t think anti-trans stuff matters, as they don’t know any, & think of caricatures of trans ppl on sitcoms etc. To the far right yobs it does matter. This happened in Dublin, which doesn’t have the anti-trans culture of Britain. You should care:
4% capacity. That's how low ticket sales are for Stuttgart Ballet's October performances at the Kennedy Center. For @washingtonian.com, here's my look at the latest Sturm und Drang. www.washingtonian.com/2025/09/03/s...
Just to say what is actually happening in a way the press will never: Your President, a known sexual predator and pedophile, has dispatched the military to terrorize and silence sexual assault victims who, it is likely, he personally interacted with.
Why not 1300%, 1400%, 1500%?
And that's why we fired all the top women and black people in the military.
Davies: And his biggest brag forever was that he was very good friends with Donald Trump. He had an eight by ten framed picture of him on his desk with the two of them, like they were very close.
Guess which network is ignoring the survivors? Fox isn’t news.
Q: "Trump said that this Epstein issue is a hoax. Can we get your reactions?" Epstein survivor Haley Robson: "Mr. President Donald J. Trump, I am a registered Republican...I cordially invite you to the Capitol to meet me in person so you can understand this is not a hoax."
After the chaos at the CDC this past week, Oregon, Washington and California say they are going to form their own "Western Health Alliance," particularly around vaccines.
Epstein survivor Chauntae Davies: "Epstein had a free pass. He bragged about his powerful friends, including our current president, Donald Trump."
You know, you could just say that he’s flagrantly violating the Constitution and illegally trying to amass more power.
100 VICTIMS is astounding. Even more astounding, that's less than 10% of Epstein and Maxwell's victims.
Don't feel like doing a repost that puts the murder video on the timeline yet again but do feel like repeating the point that the president just straight-up assassinated 11 people for supposedly doing something that wouldn't be a death-penalty crime if they were caught and convicted
Like I said, hard to read this as anything other than sneering contempt from ownership & leadership of the NYT at the idea that "the health of the president" is an concern that should be applied to Trump in the same way they applied it towards Biden.
"All Americans have equal rights" is a concept so foreign to today's Republican Party that they think a Democrat saying as much is a major gaffe.
The Schmitt speech today is beyond reprehensible, but it’s also just such a weird moment in American politics where people like Schmitt have to reconstruct an alternate history where *they* are “Heritage Americans”. Bro you are German and Catholic the founding fathers did not want you on the team
Wherever there's an inspiring younger candidate for office, rest assured that the leadership of the congressional Democrats will do whatever they can to snuff it the fuck out. Jeffries already has Mamdani covered, so Schumer is going to take down Platner.
In the aftermath of Emmett Till's lynching, white supremacists called for federal troops to invade and occupy Chicago. "If the federal government intervenes in the interests of law enforcement anywhere, it should start in Chicago, crime capital extraordinary." h/t @larryglickman.bsky.social
They'll keep taking your lunch money until you stop giving it to them.
Read about how Francis J. Allman, Chief Judge of Florida’s Second Judicial District, is an un-American censorial fascist thug worthy of contempt.
certain people made their careers flipping the fuck out, rightly, about the Bush-Obama drone assassination campaign. then in early 2017 they mysteriously went silent about it being radically ramped up, and again stayed silent when Biden largely ended it
I can’t believe a sitting US Senator gave this speech.
imagine hiring someone even ron desantis thought was just a little too much of a nazi
So when JB Pritzker calls people to action, it’s good. But when a member of the media says “wow that call to action was good,” it’s bad. Got it.
RFK Jr. is a heroin user who eats roadkill and has boasted about sleeping with hundreds of women.
"President of Peace"
I kept waiting for at least a reluctant, cursory throw-in line like, “and of course the descendants of slaves are Americans too,” but nope.
I must’ve missed it too because it seems like you’re yelling at someone for praising Pritzker.
"Prominent critic of RFK Jr. blocked from FDA vaccine committee Paul Offit, a pediatrician and co-inventor of the rotavirus vaccine, can no longer participate in the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee." www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Drug trafficking is not a capital crime; it doesn’t carry a death sentence. I genuinely cannot think of anything under U.S. law that would permit premeditated government assassination of people suspected of drug trafficking.
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.
Lethal force against a civilian vessel in international waters is a war crime if not in self-defense. If not in self-defense, only non-lethal actions, such as warning shots or disabling fire, are allowed. "Not yielding to pursuers" or "suspected of carrying drugs" doesn't carry a death sentence.
I feel like in the 1980’s/90’s this would be a major plot point in a Tom Clancy novel, and the operation would be carried out as an off-book, illegal black op, with various characters trying to cover it up lest they face congressional hearings. Now the President just announces it.
I know it’s all bad faith bs BUT I keep thinking about how the whole “reason” we apparently can’t pass any effective gun control legislation to prevent mass shootings is the idea that we need an armed populace in case the federal government decides to invade our cities and towns. Like??????????
Shouldn’t this have been a job for the DEA? Since when do we use the US military against civilian vessels, even if we believe them to be carrying drugs?
My amazing doggie daycare posts photos to their IG stories every day (which is why this is a screenshot) and this was one of today’s entries. My Jodie is middle back.
Seriously could you imagine such callousness
