Professor, sociology and criminology; medical researcher; author; grew up in US Air Force.
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Hillary Clinton: "In dealing with Trump, there is no larger strategy. There is no overarching goal. It's also personal with President Trump. It's all about how he feels about someone, what he wakes up in the morning thinking, who's the last person who talked to him. Everybody has figured that out."
Hillary Clinton: "When I hear people like Kennedy talking about getting back to a time where we aren't vaccinating, we're drinking raw milk - yeah, & people didn't live! I mean, this is so crazy, it's so wrongheaded, it's so shortsighted and it's going to cause deaths... it already is costing lives"
Hillary Clinton on the midterms: "When they eliminated the enhanced premium tax credit for the ACA, that hits very soon, in the next 30-60 days. Healthcare costs for million of Americans are going up 75% ... so reality is actually gonna bite ... 'okay, who is in charge now?'"
De Niro: "I gotta go. A couple cases of Tylenol fell off a truck and now I gotta figure out how to put autism in them."
I remember when the press was on a weeks-long feeding frenzy because of concerns over the (former) president’s mental state. That concern seems gone 🙄🙄🙄
Gavin Newsom: "It was Hannity, all these guys -- 'Outraged! Offended! Disgusted!' Because we put a mirror up to Trump and the absurdity of what's going on in this country, the absurdity of Donald Trump, the absurdity of these networks playing into it"
Gavin Newsom: "This is a tough time. A lot of anxiety, a lot of stress ... and Democrats frankly have had a difficult time pushing back. There's sort of this weakness that dominates our brand, and I think what people appreciate is that we're willing to fight not only symbolically but substantively"
Newsom: "People ask, 'Are you being hyperbolic?' Bullshit we're being hyperbolic. If you're Black or brown, it's here in this country. And so I'm deeply proud that I had the privilege of signing the nation's first bill to address masking ... these are authoritarian actions by an authoritarian govt"
Kimmel: "The President of the United States made it very clear he wants to see me and the hundreds of people who work here fired from our jobs. Our leader celebrates Americans losing their livelihoods because he cannot take a joke."
“Lucrative”?
Whatever else you think of him, I don't think he is insincere about this stuff, and it should be recognized as extraordinary that he, Pritzker, and other governors are talking about the federal government in these terms. It's not normal political rhetoric, it's the language of existential emergency.
Let’s be clear: What Donald Trump said in public, in plain view, on his own social media feed is more corrupt and dangerous than anything Richard Nixon was caught on tape saying in the White House tapes. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/rid-me-of-...
Trump's UN speech was an embarrassing shitshow that brought disgrace upon the United States. Congrats, America.
It is as if his job is to weaken America and hasten our decline as a global power. It's the central "achievement" of his second term.
Let me go ahead and send my thoughts and prayers to all that plan to take their medical advice from someone who I am old enough to remember also told people to inject themselves with bleach. Why is ignorance being elevated while intelligence is being denigrated?
Summary of Trump’s speech to the UN today: 1. Your countries all suck. 2. None of you know what you are doing. 3. The US is better at everything. 4. All because of me. 5. I’m right about everything. 6. You should listen to me & do what I say. 7. And give me lots of awards.
I'm so embarrassed to be an American right now. Donald Trump is a senile old codger, standing before the United Nations, reading a speech clearly written by an alt right lunatic and a bunch of oil and gas lobbyists. Well done, U.S. voters. You really fucked this one up.
"Where Nixon had to contend with a Supreme Court that rejected his claim of absolute immunity and a Congress that stood ready to impeach him, the other branches of govt these days have no interest in reining in Trump. He can do a Watergate every week safe in the knowledge that no one will stop him."
If he was just a private citizen there would be muttering about how he should probably be under guardianship to manage his affairs.
This speech is such an extraordinary combination of lies, delusions, narcissism, hatefulness, ignorance and lunacy that it could have been given by no other person than the president of the United States. It could well be the low point of US public diplomacy in our history.
Guaranteed everyone in that room, every single one, is more accomplished than our vulgar carnival barker. We will never erase this stain.
Don't think I've ever felt this embarrassed to be an American. There's shame and anger too. But mostly embarrassment. We're the laughingstock of the developed world. And we should be.
bingo 🎯
Imagine being these world leaders and experienced diplomats and just having to sit there and listen to this maniac talking absolute dangerous bollocks for hours. It’s sometimes hard to believe this is real life.
Klobuchar: "Pardoning the insurrectionists, what happened with the Eric Adams case when they dropped those charges, the decision not to pursue a reported bribe attempt on Border Czar Homan for $50,000 -- all these are in same milieu. But this thing? This thing is actually using the law as a weapon."
Pritzker: "One of the reasons Trump wants to send troops into cities is bc he wants to be able to take control of the 2026 elections...if they've got troops in cities, & it becomes a kind of norm for people, then it won't be abnormal for them when they're going to vote having troops at ballot boxes"
He still thinks/claims that “asylum seekers” come from insane asylums
Donald Trump is way less popular than he wants you to believe. And you are significantly more powerful than he wants you to think.
Step 1: Cut funding for food stamps Step 2: Stop measuring hunger Step 3: There's no evidence cuts to food stamps led to a rise in hunger www.wsj.com/economy/trum...
Another Jeanine Pirro felony case just crumbled. Prosecutors claimed DC resident Scott Pichon assaulted guardsmen by spitting at them, but moved to withdraw the charge “after reviewing the evidence.” Judge: “The way this is supposed to work is the U.S. Attorney’s Office does its due diligence.”
I missed yesterday that the president announced that 88% of the United States had died
These people are very dangerous.
The president is boasting about how he has shut down boating and fishing in the Caribbean because everyone is afraid that he’ll murder them.
I think it’s fair to say there have been more overt attacks on and threats to freedom of expression in the US since January than in our entire history. And recently they are accelerating and getting more brazen.
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Trump does his best to avoid events that aren't all about him because he finds them very dull. Amazing that anyone would expect him to sit through all those eulogies when none of them are talking about Trump. That said, maybe he wasn't feeling up to it? The man does not look well.
This isn't a lawsuit. It's blackmail. And the only question is whether Sulzberger will hold firm or fold. I guess we'll see.
Cook is a painful reminder to bigots of the successes of the Civil Rights movement they are assiduously working to undo. Trump likely, absurdly, believes he can convince people that the nation’s growing economic problems are the fault of a Black woman, not his own incompetence, as I discussed here.
Is it possible for a legal pleading to be psychotic? I think we have an answer.
Proposed cuts to NIH funding will have ripple effects on research that will hamper the U.S. for decades. theconversation.com/proposed-cut...
She also loved her kids, and Hitler loved his dog, until they killed them in the Führerbunker.
A sneering midwit with inherited wealth got the facts wrong, and accused an honest public servant—Lisa Cook—of fraud. His meddling created a crisis well beyond his portfolio, undermining the Fed. Bill Pulte can do the right thing and resign. If merit still matters, he should be fired.
“.. I can’t remember anyone ever telling me we can’t say anything critical about a civilian like this. He was not in our chain of command or anything,” the officer said. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court said the Trump administration can resume indiscriminate immigration-related stops in Los Angeles based solely on a person’s appearance, the language they speak or their occupation. More on another "unsigned" ruling👇
Fox News is just forging ahead tonight as though a card-carrying Democrat gunned down Charlie Kirk. The narrative is impervious to facts.
Stephen Miller: "The last message that Charlie Kirk gave to me before he joined his creator in heaven was he said that we have to dismantle and take on the radical left organizations in this country that are fomenting violence. That was the last message that he sent me ... we are gonna do that."
"The professors have to go away" -- Fox News is really trying to make fetch happen tonight with the anti-college stuff
“Our employers told us it was ok… I will never visit 🇺🇸 again. It feels good to be free.” Hundreds of South Korean workers detained in shackles landed home, met by family who tearfully hugged them. Arrested building a factory to employ thousands. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/w...
The Environmental Protection Agency plans to end a federal reporting rule that tracks the quantities of greenhouse gases like methane, carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide released into the air by industrial facilities. www.cbsnews.com/news/epa-gre...
NEW: Missouri voters filed a lawsuit Friday that challenges the GOP’s new congressional map, calling it an unconstitutional gerrymander that dismantles Kansas City’s Black Democratic representation and rigs the 2026 elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
I know these “interviews” with Justice Barrett are carefully scripted. But if she’s going to keeping urging Americans to “read the opinions,” and not just commentary, it sure would be nice if someone would ask her what we should do when—as is so often the case these days—there’s no opinion to read…
It absolutely matters here that Pritzker was effective at sounding the alarm and plainly stating this would be unconstitutional in a profoundly radical and fundamental way, and showing he could rally practical popular opposition, which then gets spun as backing out over "legal headaches."
This can’t be accurate because Trump said we took in like $17 trillion in tariffs.
Moore: I take real pride that when I look at my team, these are subject matter experts.. Trump doesn’t have that. He has sycophants who go into cabinet meetings and spend three and a half hours telling him how good he is instead of actually educating him
I’m begging just one reporter to ask all these Republicans who are “they”? Because if the answer is liberals or college professors or educated people or non-fascists, they’re making this mythical enemy up in their heads.
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The knives are out.
(CNN) - President Donald Trump shelved his plans to target Chicago as the next city for his domestic crime push after advisers warned him that sending in troops .. could create legal headaches they want to avoid, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2025/09/12/p...
A debate is when two people argue but are not at cross-purpose. Kirk’s last argument was the 2A shouldn’t apply to trans people b/c he accused them of being more dangerous. His opponent came with real data that empirically shows otherwise. Calling it a debate implies Kirk was there to be swayed.
Incredible. Trump drags the reputation of a highly regarded economist, first Black woman to be a Fed gov, thru the mud claiming she committed mortgage fraud. But the documents his appointee to run Fannie & Freddie got for him & that he said showed fraud don’t actually say that.
Just thinking about how the right made up an entirely fictional left wing character that resulted in so many bomb threats and the like and nobody will face consequences. But people on the left who accurately clocked the victim’s life work lost jobs.
Sen. Bill Cassidy said Friday that Louisiana is undergoing its worst whooping cough outbreak since 1990 and called on the nation's vaccine-leery health secretary to promote vaccinations. https://www.wbrz.com/news/cassidy-asks-kennedy-to-promote-vaccines-targeting-whooping-cough-after-major-outbreak
Let me get this straight: Pulte‘s family committed mortgage fraud but Cook didn’t? And his family only got caught because Pulte falsely accused Cook? The writers have outdone themselves this season.
Incredible and devastating stories coming from farm country, daily. Trump is destroying the country with his illegal and unconstitutional tariffs so he and his friends can pay less in income taxes.
Anyone who has the slightest real world experience with the military - or who reads - knows people in the military joke about *everything* including death.
What I don't understand is people who aren't interested at all in democracy, don't see the point of it, but then swoon onto a divan when there's a political murder or act of terrorism. Do they get without democracy, that's what "politics" becomes? Power, violence, intimidation, murder, terrorism?
Time for a defamation suit
The idea that “dissenters” are denied tenure in academia is fairly stupid even by the Free Press’ standards
Loomer is now DMing me and threatening my family. Last year, she doxxed my home address. So much for the tolerant right.
For those asking—yes, I’m on the phone with the police reporting Loomer’s threat.
He was in the electrical apprentice program for the last 3 years at Dixie Technical College in Utah. bsky.app/profile/acyn...
the Trump administration told The New York Times that IUDs, hormonal implants, and the Pill are actually abortions open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...
www.wired.com/story/extrem...
AXIOS: Inflation ticks up to the highest since '21. Manufacturing shrank 6 months running. Unemployed workers exceeding jobs. If Biden had numbers like that, you'd be on Fox saying, 'What's going on'? LUTNICK: So, the economy that Trump owns starts at the end of this year A: Doesn't work that way!
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has signed an executive order which permits pharmacists and other medical personnel to administer vaccines recommended by state officials, no prior prescription needed. The order also requires insurance companies to cover the vaccines.
In all seriousness, I'd love to see a reporter try to get comments from all of these people about their initial impulse to declare a literal war on half of their fellow citizens and to see if any of them regret it, apologized for it or learned anything at all from it.
The damage to the U.S. vaccination program that is about to be caused by RFK Jr. and his fellow fraudsters misusing data to falsely claim that the COVID19 vaccine caused the deaths of 25 children will be incalculable. These people are committing scientific misconduct of the most grievous kind.
Pro tip to Laura Loomer who deleted this: The Internet is written in indelible ink.
HE FUCKING TURNED HIMSELF IN.
“Every political movement in history, including the most bloodthirsty, has condemned political violence by its opponents. The only real test is whether you also oppose political violence by your allies. This is a test Trump has repeatedly failed.”
How do we expect foreign investments when we treat foreigners like this?
See you Valhalla is often spoken by members of the military as a sign of respect for fallen soldiers. That Patel, who i believe did not serve in the military, to address Kirk, who also did not serve in the military, strikes me as stolen valor.
This is the most batshit insane interview by someone for whom batshit insane is the standard
“Nearly all the major media and technology assets in the country would fall under the control of Trump allies or those willing to bend the knee to him.” Democracy is dying in broad daylight & the billionaires are saying ‘how can we help?’ www.status.news/p/david-elli...
American Academy of Family Physicians said on Monday that it recommends all adults over the age of 18, children and pregnant women to receive COVID-19 vaccines, a contrast to the U.S. government's narrowed approvals. www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Nancy Mace plays the victim card on CNN: "It's very one-sided right now. I have never called one of my colleagues the kind of names that we've been called. I've never dehumanized my colleagues." (Would've been nice for Kate Bolduan to push back on Mace's blatant lies.)
WSJ edit board spins a fantasy: "for Mr. Trump, while this is a moment of personal sadness, it is also an opportunity for leadership...he can help the country rise above this madness. He can say that this is the moment when the descent into political violence must stop.” Meanwhile — no, he can’t:
Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."
How do you even measure the Washington Post cringe factor at being embarrassed like this in coverage of your own city... Same event: Left side - New York Times headline Right side - Washington Post white house press release I mean headline
Judges across the country should be challenging the looming threat of Trump’s unconstitutional executive actions. Surprise — they aren't. Austin Sarat digs deeper into the radical way Trump is refashioning the rules to bind the power of the courts
This will make you angry. It might make you feel a little sick. It’ll definitely shock you into thinking about the unthinkable.