Thank you on this labor day!!
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Thank you on this labor day!!
Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
Karen McDonald @karenmcdonaldmi.bsky.social "Strong labor unions = strong democracy. This Labor Day, I’m honoring all those who keep our democracy strong by standing together. That’s what unions do. And that’s why I’ll always stand with them. Happy Labor Day!"
CNN confirms that the pilots landed the plane using paper maps. www.cnn.com/2025/09/01/w...
Troops in the streets and he thinks he’s going to get a Nobel, peace begins at home
You guys see where this is going? Right?
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.
ABC News is still calling RFK Jr. a “vaccine skeptic.” The dude was one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists for decades. There’s video of him in 2023 saying that there’s no vaccine which is safe and effective. You can call him an anti-vaccine activist!
Republicans: “Stop making everything about race.” Really? White people enslaved Black people for generations, stole Native land, lynched and segregated us, burned down Black communities that thrived, and treated Mexican land & labor like property to be taken. America already made it about race.
The old sleight of hand. This is how they conduct business.
RADDATZ: You talk about what can be done. After shootings in Buffalo & Uvalde, Congress passed a bipartisan Safer Communities Act. It provided hundreds of millions for schools to expand mental health services. You didn't vote for it. Why? TOM EMMER: I don't remember the reasons I didn't vote for it
If we don’t stand up for these victims, who will ?
obama should claim to have seen the death certificate, and threaten to release it in three weeks
Lankford is so full of it. The whole Sunday circuit is just a stinking pile of propagandistic garbage. There ought to be some accountability for even a single lie like this. There is not.
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!
@jollygoodginger.bsky.social is in DC with other vets right now standing up for democracy. He's playing General Milleys speech on repeat for them today 💜 #LoveTheVets!
“No one thought of it until me” but also “Without them the US could never survive.”
RFK’s disturbed. Clearly these are not the words of someone who can be trusted not to take away vaccines. But we knew that already. Why do we keep playing this game of pretend that a president is entitled to put anyone he wants in a cabinet position?
The only easy day is tomorrow.
FYI www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
“We ran the tests in the outdoor break area of HHS’s headquarters. In a series of controlled trials, we found that that ants near our lunch table did not survive contact with Thimerosal. Incidentally, they did enjoy Diet Minute Maid Lemonade so we believe we have a non-toxic Thimerosal substitute.”
JD Vance on Donald Trump: “I’m a Never Trump guy. I never liked him. I don’t think he’s the person. I don’t think he cares about folks. I think that he’s noxious and is leading the white working class to a very dark place.” { ht: @marcofoster.bsky.social }
If you're arrested in Illinois protesting the planned ICE HQ in North Chicago, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.
BREAKING: Bernie Sanders has called for a special Senate committee hearing on the CDC crisis, demanding that RFK Jr. testify under oath about the disaster he’s created.
Newsom imitates Trunp, we imitate Trump’s followers, embracing a big lie. Could be effective.
REP. @brotherjones.bsky.social: “People want to give thoughts and prayers after a shooting, but it’s a form of theological malpractice when you pray for something you have the power to change.”
The Secretary of HHS does not accept that germs cause illness. The logical conclusion of that is the worst pseudoscience of all: eugenics. He believes that it is not germs that cause illness, but personal failure (or if you're Chinese or Jewish he thinks bioweapons were designed to avoid you).
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.
This is the same thing United Health was doing…
So if the tariffs are also rejected by SCOTUS, what recourse is there for all of the taxes illegally collected?
Damn right.
So blue states kicked in more money to keep red state governance looking better than the trash it is.
They don’t care if you have papers or not. What they care about is whether you look like an immigrant from south of the border.
“…growing tremendously” “Bring your daughter down.” 💀
Welch: As someone who lives in a red state, let me just tell you what MAGA supermajorities get you. We're 50th in education. The worst in the whole country for women to live. We're poorer, worst health care. And if you look at the bottom ten states, they are all MAGA supermajorities.
Would that it were Zuck in a Facebook hoodie getting hauled away.
So the rich people I knew who were so insistent that “we all just have to get back to work” without any regard for the obvious implications now have exactly who they want in charge of the CDC. We may in fact be fucked.
Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States is a must have. 👍🏻 And there’s a Young People’s version for the kids (link). www.zinnedproject.org/materials/yo... 🗣️@want.all.the.things (TT)
That’s a good reminder to reread it. Thank you.
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.
“Give your kids an extra hug and kiss today.” Jesse Merkel spoke at a news conference outside Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, where his 8-year-old son, Fletcher, was one of two children fatally shot at a back-to-school Mass on Wednesday. Read more: nyti.ms/45HBSKN
Most inappropriately equipped landscapers money can buy.
“Please join me in praying for the victims of the horrific evil that took place at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis this morning.”
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen: Putin is a predator. Putin's proxies have been targeting our societies for years with hybrid attacks, with cyber attacks. The weaponizing of migrants is another example.
Sen. Susan Collins hasn’t held a town hall meeting with her constituents in 20 years. So when she showed up at a ribbon-cutting event they gave her a piece of their mind.
13 year old that have no reason to lie, aren't going to lie about someone else. #USDemocracy
Mike Johnson dismisses the unpopularity of the Big Beautiful Bill: "The individual provisions of that giant piece of legislation are wildly popular." CNN host John Berman immediately debunks that claim.
First he accuses Democrats and media of misinformation. Then he hits us with “polls can be manipulated.” It’s just garbage. A pile of hot, filthy garbage. Mike Johnson would lie to your face and smile the whole time. He’s a special kind of evil.
The last story is incredible.
Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
The DOJ has released 1% of what they have.
And he’ll lie under oath. What we needs is for him to receive a neuropsych exam and an interview with a good psychiatrist. Maybe scan that brain for more worms, too.
It’s a sad existence but they don’t feel sad, they feel superior to those who aren’t sharp enough to “recognize the conspiracies against them.”
“There is something deeply hypocritical about praying for a problem you are unwilling to resolve.” -Miroslav Volf (Our VPOTUS #JDPogue is an disingenuous a$$hole.)
National Guardner? National Park Service workers laid off, and now the National Guard is doing landscaping in DC. Felon Trump really turned soldiers into gardeners.
That’s expensive landscape work.
In another instalment of: “Didn’t Age Well” This video was deleted from Twitter. So you know what to do. 😏
TV cameras ought to have brain detectors
Not it chief
Maxwell’s perfect gentleman
I’m hungry, my best hope for lunch is deep-fried velociraptor steak with Yeti sauce
“Wifey and I are off to cozy new digs on a tidally-locked planet with no atmosphere. We’ll be making babies in arrrrghghhhhhhhhghhghh………………”
😂
I had an important appointment today. I’ve been feeling bluesy so I laid out a “hapoy outfit” to wear. I wore my Reading Rainbow T-shirt. I got so MANY comments! So many folk told me how happy that show made them (me too). LeVar Burton did so much good for little Black children but also for others.
Loved that show! But you don’t have to take my word for it.
If Ashli Babbitt's parents really wanted to avenge her death they would, instead of pitifully whitewashing her legacy, be suing Fox News for filling their child's gullible head with dangerous nonsense that directly led to her death.
She wasn’t patriot. She wasn’t a hero. Ashley Babbitt betrayed her oath and attacked the very country she once swore to defend. Her death is tragic — but honoring her service while ignoring her is a stain on the Air Force. True service means loyalty to the Constitution, not to a wannabe dictator.
BREAKING: Kilmar Abrego Garcia is has just asked a judge for a GAG ORDER against Kristi Noem, Pam Bondi and their subordinates.
Is it insensitive to millions of Americans to deny facts? Science? Apparently only religious people are worthy of sensitivity. Why does Leavitt infantilize believers?
'I don't believe in insulin': 80-year-old grandma dies after granddaughter swaps diabetes medication for supplements and 'prayers' She crying in the pic cos she got caught. She laughing now cos she got OFF. This was a nurse! Which makes it 100 times more evil. Bet she doesn't lose her license.
What a way to end the Kennedy legacy.
Councilmember Tim McOsker Los Angeles City Councilmember for the 15th District
It's possible ... hear me out, here …. It may well be that these people lie their asses off whenever they exhale
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Looks like Ken was a naughty boy—again!
Spotted on the @apnews.com Instagram account: apnews.com/article/isra...
Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.
He can always make himself a sandwich.
You think we weren’t prepared for the last pandemic ….
Bringing back memories of The Captain’s Steak Joynt.
RULE ABOUT AMERICAN FLAGS: If you burn the fabric part, you're looking at jail. But it you use the pole part to assault a police officer, you get a presidential pardon, praise, and some cash.
CHAOS ERUPTS AT CDC CDC Director Susan Monarez has been ousted after RFK Jr. demanded she change her policy on the COVID vaccine. Top officials from the Vaccine Unit, Zoonotic Division, and the Chief Medical Officer are resigning, per reports. Horrifying news for public health.
I had serious doubts about CDC Director Monarez’s willingness to stand up against RFK Jr.’s personal mission to destroy public health in America—I’m glad that I was wrong. If there are any adults left in the White House: we cannot let RFK Jr. burn what's left of CDC. FIRE HIM.
Gupta: Here’s why this matters: 1. Because the FDA indications have changed, if I prescribe it to you, I’m opening myself up to a lawsuit. He directly signals that… 2. A pharmacist is no longer able to prescribe and administer a COVID-19 booster that doesn’t meet indications.
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Fuck guns. Fuck the unhinged assholes who murder people with guns. Fuck this dumb ass country which worships and fetishizes guns over human lives. I’m so sick of this shit.
Something is wrong with a system where 76% of workers say they’re worried to make ends meet, while greedy corporate CEOs make 285x what the median worker does. Working people don’t have to accept this. A union contract is how we fight back.
AMERICA: “It’s a mental health issue.” REST OF THE WORLD: “We have those. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA: “It’s video games.” WORLD: “We have those too. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA B: “It’s cause they took Jesus out of the classroom.” WORLD: “God, you’re stupid.”
Is this just the usual authoritarian praise fest or are we watching a slow moving wake?