Dr. Mar 💙 (@boldnewme.bsky.social) reposted
So: race can’t open doors to opportunity, but it can slam them shut with ICE raids.👇
Dr. Mar 💙 (@boldnewme.bsky.social) reposted
So: race can’t open doors to opportunity, but it can slam them shut with ICE raids.👇
mmbren.bsky.social (@mmbren.bsky.social) reposted
All Australians should watch Race to the Bottom on ABC 4 Corners. Good versus evil. "The Metal Company" under Gerrard Barron wanting to mine the seabed against Opposition from Pacific Islanders and environmentalists. Australia as a Pacific nation,and the CSIRO under criticism Will greed win?
mmbren.bsky.social (@mmbren.bsky.social) reply parent
We can only hope that the Brits are smarter than Americans.But God help us the nation has been badly served by the two other Parties.
mmbren.bsky.social (@mmbren.bsky.social) reply parent
Bombing boats and murdering 13 people is not going to stop drugs coming into the US. Ajyway boats with so many passengers is certainly not carrying drugs.
mmbren.bsky.social (@mmbren.bsky.social) reply parent
The President is, by tradition and decency, should be ruling for ALL Americans. Not acceptable? This is treasonous.
mmbren.bsky.social (@mmbren.bsky.social)
All Australians should watch Race to the Bottom on ABC 4 Corners. Good versus evil. "The Metal Company" under Gerrard Barron wanting to mine the seabed against Opposition from Pacific Islanders and environmentalists. Australia as a Pacific nation,and the CSIRO under criticism Will greed win?
mmbren.bsky.social (@mmbren.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes. That's what I was trying to say.
mmbren.bsky.social (@mmbren.bsky.social) reply parent
One wonders what this discourse is doing to autistic kids and their parents. And autistic adults. The claims are not based on research, and the sole intention is to spread alarm and fear,and undermine the US vaccination programs.
mmbren.bsky.social (@mmbren.bsky.social) reply parent
But British Labor is a basket case. It's authoritarianism and neglect of the poor could even bring about a Farage Government.
goldmartin (@gillmartin.bsky.social) reposted
Police arrested Services veterans, wheelchair bound pensioners, vicars, doctors as terrorists for holding cardboard signs #MET #justfollowingordersjust
Jack Hopkins-The Original (@therealjackhopkins.bsky.social) reposted
Sen. Rand Paul blasted CDC immunization director Demetre Daskalakis...claiming that his “lifestyle” is evidence for unfitness in office. Daskalakis had resigned...warning that political ideology under RFK Jr. was undermining science at the CDC. What is the "lifestyle" of Daskalakis? He's gay.
Paul Eric Scannell (@pauleric70.bsky.social) reposted
Don Winslow But how can this be? Donald Trump and his brigade of bullshit artists have told everyone how happy the people in Washington, D.C. are with his invasion of their city. Do they look happy?
mmbren.bsky.social (@mmbren.bsky.social) reply parent
Keir Starmer is totally responsible for the rise and rise of Nigel Farage.
Master Elrond [he/him] (@inuyasha1953.bsky.social) reposted
occupydemocrats 🚨 BREAKING: Trump suffers a HUMILIATION for the ages as ALL NINE living former CDC directors — Republicans AND Democrats — unite to publish a SCATHING open letter torching Trump and RFK Jr. for pushing deadly anti-science conspiracies.
Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan.bsky.social) reposted
The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, not a metaphorical one, on a major American city, and one governed by his political opponents. In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.
mmbren.bsky.social (@mmbren.bsky.social) reply parent
Highest prison population in the world. And up there with China, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Somalia for the 5 top executioners in the world.
Josep Goded (New Main Account) (@josepgoded2.bsky.social) reposted
Israeli forces bombed a tent sheltering displaced families in the Al-Rimal neighborhood, west of Gaza City, killing at least two children.
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
🔔 🔔 🔔
Viktor 🇵🇸🍉🦘🦘🪃 (@viktx.bsky.social) reposted
@albomp.bsky.social @australianlabor.bsky.social Is this the right to self defence?
💙Christine Slemmer💙 (@slem63.bsky.social) reposted
Gotta love how DeSantis stops vaccines for public schools when his kids go to a private school that requires vaccinations.
mmbren.bsky.social (@mmbren.bsky.social) reply parent
News to Native Americans
goldmartin (@gillmartin.bsky.social) reposted
Parliament Square, London today. Thousands arriving in support of Palestine and protesting the proscription of Palestine Action The largest act of civil disobedience in many years. ✊️
Kat Abughazaleh (@katmabu.bsky.social) reposted
The streets of Chicago are full with tens of thousands of people standing up to ICE and Trump. Join us.
LorennaCleary.bsky.social (@lorennacleary.bsky.social) reposted
Okay now this is impressive! Sound on!
Katie Mack (@astrokatie.com) reposted
Every once in a while I tell people from other countries about how the health insurance system works in the US and they are aghast. Yesterday a guy straight up didn’t believe me when I said people can die because of not being able to afford medicine. He was sure I meant in the distant past.
mmbren.bsky.social (@mmbren.bsky.social) reply parent
All you need to do to prove the dire state of national health is to look at the statistics. The US is 55th in the world for longevity. And the only way to improve this shameful statistic is: 1) The alleviation of poverty 2) A National health scheme Not going to happen.
Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) reposted
Where are the red Make America Great Again hats out in the fields? You know, the same people who swore immigrants were “taking their jobs.” Keep snatching hard-working folks who are just trying to support their families and don’t be shocked when this becomes the new norm.
mmbren.bsky.social (@mmbren.bsky.social) reposted
mmbren.bsky.social (@mmbren.bsky.social)
mmbren.bsky.social (@mmbren.bsky.social) reply parent
And wanting a world peace prize Beyond satire.
mmbren.bsky.social (@mmbren.bsky.social)
@goodenergyonly2025.bsky.social Sell your to the people in Gaza.
Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) reposted
I’ve studied US drone strikes, I wrote a book called “Drones and Terrorism,” and this Caribbean strike is different. Lethal fire at a non-threatening target in a non-hostile environment on purpose when other means, such as capture, were easily doable, and without even attempting a legal rationale.
mmbren.bsky.social (@mmbren.bsky.social)
@elonmusk Time to start focusing on your own country.
Paul Eric Scannell (@pauleric70.bsky.social) reposted
JUST IN: Lt. Col. Anthony Aguilar and Capt. Josephine Guilbeau ARRESTED for Speaking against Genocide.
Master Elrond [he/him] (@inuyasha1953.bsky.social) reposted
rbreich Under Dr. Oz, Medicare is launching a pilot program that will use AI that will determine whether patients will be covered for certain procedures. Companies running the program will be paid a share of the savings FROM REJECTING CLAIMS. Who in their right mind voted for this? No one,
mmbren.bsky.social (@mmbren.bsky.social) reply parent
It will be catastrophic
Oliver (@oliver48.bsky.social) reposted
While Starmer keeps arming genocidal mass murderers ... "Scottish government launches boycott of Israel" morningstaronline.co.uk/article/scot...
mmbren.bsky.social (@mmbren.bsky.social) reply parent
Israel Russia. The US The portents are saying that the Judean-Christian Period is coming to an inglorious end.
mmbren.bsky.social (@mmbren.bsky.social) reply parent
So many people forget that the Nazi regime was responsible for the deaths of at least 7 million Germans. These neo-Nazis should learn some history.
Mother Jones (@motherjones.com) reposted
“Rather than defending civil liberties and civil protections, you’re turned inward to potentially hinder [them].” In June, we sat down with a veteran and military law expert to discuss “being used against your neighbor” as a soldier.
Steven Beschloss (@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social) reposted
Surely, the decision to hold a military spectacle at that time is just coincidence.
mmbren.bsky.social (@mmbren.bsky.social)
For the first time in Australia the full horror of Israel's military attacks on Gaza is our TV screens with details of the bombing of hospitals, and doctors and their families deliberately targeted in their homes. An estimated 80 have died this way. Health professionals being targeted in a war.
mmbren.bsky.social (@mmbren.bsky.social)
mmbren.bsky.social (@mmbren.bsky.social) reply parent
How come one of the most advanced nations on earth has descended into a having as their Secretary of Health a man who does not believe in Science and is an anti-vaxer. And who will eventually put American lives at risk.
Josep Goded (New Main Account) (@josepgoded2.bsky.social) reposted
Two-year-old Yumna and her parents were killed last night in an Israeli strike on their home in Al-Bureij refugee camp, central Gaza.
mmbren.bsky.social (@mmbren.bsky.social) reply parent
Don't get too excited. The US may soon have J D Vance as President.
mmbren.bsky.social (@mmbren.bsky.social) reply parent
Also pay the highest rate of taxation.
Josep Goded (New Main Account) (@josepgoded2.bsky.social) reposted
A video captures the moment Israeli forces demolished homes in Gaza City.
mmbren.bsky.social (@mmbren.bsky.social)
Paul Eric Scannell (@pauleric70.bsky.social) reposted
DO YOU SENSE THE CHANGE??? Thousands took part in a torch procession to salute the ships of the Global Sumud Flotilla, as they set off for Gaza with humanitarian aid to break the siege imposed by Israel. Israel will stop them, but the movement is getting bigger and stronger‼️
papaesoco.bsky.social (@papaesoco.bsky.social) reposted
open.substack.com/pub/terrymor... What is taken is unspeakable. What was given is eternal. There is so much to do to save our children from the uniquely American evil that threatens them, and from the refusal of so many of our leaders and our fellow citizens to do anything to stop it.
mmbren.bsky.social (@mmbren.bsky.social) reply parent
Israel is a lawless nation.
Josep Goded (New Main Account) (@josepgoded2.bsky.social) reposted
During the night, Israeli forces raided al-Sileh al-Harithiya, west of Jenin, and destroyed surveillance cameras on Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank.
Greed Apocalypse (@juanmunoz.bsky.social) reposted
substack.com/@broadwaybab... Doctors, scientists & medical experts are leaving the CDC. They are quoting eugenics behind these new FDR jr MAHA policies. It’s culling of our herd from the disabled, elderly, those with pre existing conditions & all who are NOT able to pay taxes to support the rich.
mmbren.bsky.social (@mmbren.bsky.social) reply parent
RFK is the national choice for being in charge of Health, in what WAS one of the most advanced democracies in the world, And the ruling Republican Party seems to have no problem with that. Nor has it a problem with everyone owning a gun, in spite of 147 deaths by gunfire in 2004. It's hopeless.
Laurie Loves Data (@laurelann.bsky.social) reposted
This man is an authentic American hero A Black man facing armed federal agents to stand up for his youth baseball team. Brave. www.wcpo.com/politics/imm...
Emma Evans (@trance.bsky.social) reposted
So the belief that sending mentally ill people literally to the farm upstate is multifold. First, there's still a lot of people due to the stigma and misrepresentation/misunderstanding/ignorance of MH issues who truly believe most are just fakers and whiners and hard work and sunshine is JUST...
mmbren.bsky.social (@mmbren.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes. When did Virtue become virtue signalling?
mmbren.bsky.social (@mmbren.bsky.social)
How did an advanced Democracy get to be this dumb? It has chosen a man to be responsible for the nation's health. HEALTH who is anti-Science. He is also a crank anti-vaxer. He is not going to ban vaccinations, apparently His method is to make them more difficult to get.
Sara Margarita Medina Ramos (@sarammedinaramis.bsky.social) reposted
The first step...
mmbren.bsky.social (@mmbren.bsky.social) reply parent
Well done!
mmbren.bsky.social (@mmbren.bsky.social) reply parent
Most leaders don't do pressers as often as Trump who is an attention seeker 5 days is not a long time.
Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted
NEW: The trump administration attempted to remove 600 terrified unaccompanied minors to Guatemala in the middle of the night on a holiday weekend. Judge Sooknanan stopped it. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-sookna...
mmbren.bsky.social (@mmbren.bsky.social) reply parent
There is zero evidence for this. There are 2 billion Muslims in the world. ALL insane?? Certainly the fanatics could be, but ALL Indonesians for example? This is nonsense, also pointless.
mmbren.bsky.social (@mmbren.bsky.social) reply parent
Your arguments would be far more cogent if you stopped seeing religion as a mental health issue.
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD (@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social) reposted
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.
Steven Beschloss (@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social) reposted
Trump repeatedly asserts "no one is above the law" in his lawless, weaponized attacks on our fellow Americans and his demolition of our democratic institutions. Our job is to spotlight his lies, confront the danger and identify concrete solutions that can hasten this regime's demise. bit.ly/4mVlzzu
🌻Liza (@lizayes.bsky.social) reposted
Mother of 15-year-old was held by Immigration Forces at gun point, traumatizing him and herself. She's filing a $1 million claim against those agents. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
No matter what @MarshaBlackburn keeps saying, it’s not criminals they’re targeting. www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...
mmbren.bsky.social (@mmbren.bsky.social) reply parent
Marilyn Monroe said the same of the men in Some like it Hot.
mmbren.bsky.social (@mmbren.bsky.social)
"O Wind, if Winter comes, can Spring be far behind"? In Melbourne. Far behind.
Lisa Gerrish 💙 (@gerrishlisa.bsky.social) reposted
Republicans flip out at Fox News host Trey Gowdy because he dared to say “I mean, how many school shootings does it take before we’re going to have a conversation about keeping firearms out,” after another school shooting. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
mmbren.bsky.social (@mmbren.bsky.social)
Could the US finally be moving to ban gun-ownership-for-everyone. Is there any hope? 147,000 deaths last year and no political action. It's enough to make you despair.
mmbren.bsky.social (@mmbren.bsky.social)
The US is 55th in the world for longevity. This disgraceful statistic is not going to improve any time soon. In fact, it could get a whole lot worse
mmbren.bsky.social (@mmbren.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes. Seems the key criterion for women in Trump's Administration is beauty.
Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted
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.
mmbren.bsky.social (@mmbren.bsky.social) reply parent
This is how many of them talk. It's very hard for the rest of the world to get their heads around .
mmbren.bsky.social (@mmbren.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
That is why the policy never changes. But it doesn't explain why the majority of Americans are unmoved by the fact that more than 35,000 Americans died by gunfire last year. That death rate means 128 deaths every single day.
mmbren.bsky.social (@mmbren.bsky.social) reply parent
That is why the policy never changes. But it doesn't explain why the majority of Americans are unmoved by the fact that more than 35,000 Americans died by gunfire last year. That death rate means 128 deaths every single day.
mmbren.bsky.social (@mmbren.bsky.social) reply parent
It is totally inexplicable that the American people have allowed this to happen. Are most Americans in favour of everyone owning a gun?
mmbren.bsky.social (@mmbren.bsky.social) reply parent
Not just crazy people. If there are guns available to all but the crazy people, then they are available to all. And who knows when anyone can go crazy? Psychosis is not uncommon. These shootings are terrible but the hidden, domestic cost in lives is even worse.
mmbren.bsky.social (@mmbren.bsky.social)
Beyond satire. The only leader who has ever campaigned for the Nobel Peace Prize is now establishing a Department of WAR.
mmbren.bsky.social (@mmbren.bsky.social) reply parent
Here in Australia I swore I could never vote Democrat because of Israel, and Ukraine where Biden chose to fuel the war rather than negotiate.a peace. That was a mistake given the consequences
mmbren.bsky.social (@mmbren.bsky.social) reply parent
Democrats have done nothing for world peace, or the alleviation of poverty. What ARE they good for?
mmbren.bsky.social (@mmbren.bsky.social) reply parent
So?
mmbren.bsky.social (@mmbren.bsky.social) reply parent
Fraid. not.
Master Elrond [he/him] (@inuyasha1953.bsky.social) reposted
thedemocraticcoalition You are going to want to have a good answer when your kids and grandkids ask you what you did during this pivotal and dangerous time in our nation's history.
Josep Goded (New Main Account) (@josepgoded2.bsky.social) reposted
During the night, Israeli occupation forces stormed the towns of al-Karmel and Um al-Nizil, east of Yatta in southern Hebron, in the occupied West Bank, attacking Palestinian homes.
mmbren.bsky.social (@mmbren.bsky.social) reply parent
This could not happen in any other democracy. The people and the Courts would be fighting it. Do Americans even know what is happening to their nation?
The Lincoln Project (@lincolnproject.us) reposted
Stuart Stevens on National Guard deployment: "The murder rate of Jackson, Mississippi is 3 times that of D.C.... the whole thing is complete fraud"
mmbren.bsky.social (@mmbren.bsky.social) reply parent
Why are you picking on her? This is the nation's choice for the highest authority on health. One thing is certain The shameful US ranking of 55th in the world for longevity is not going to improve any time soon.
derek guy (@dieworkwear.bsky.social) reposted
Japan Post just announced they will no longer deliver mail to the United States, joining Germany, Austria, Denmark, Italy, France, and Sweden.
mmbren.bsky.social (@mmbren.bsky.social) reply parent
Because they are rich and famous.
YourAnonHope (@youranonhope.bsky.social) reposted