Weeks before an assailant opened fire on a Catholic church in Minneapolis, the Trump administration cut funding to a program in Minnesota aimed at preventing acts of mass violence, documents show.
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Weeks before an assailant opened fire on a Catholic church in Minneapolis, the Trump administration cut funding to a program in Minnesota aimed at preventing acts of mass violence, documents show.
Unafraid to speak truth to power, President of the American Academy of Pediatrics Dr. Susan Kressly joins @vinguptamd.bsky.social on Meidas Health for a powerful discussion on truth, conviction, and her deep commitment to ensuring optimal childhood health for the nation amid chaos at the CDC.
Clearly they didnāt see Hamilton.
My favorite sentence in the New York Times explainer on Mamdani and socialism.
To read the 337-page transcript of Ghislaine Maxwellās interview with the Deputy Attorney General, Todd Blanche, is to be horrified, even enraged, by Maxwellās brazen airbrushing of her conduct, and by Blancheās placid acceptance of her rendition of events.
Heās just showing the nation what happens when you take RFK Jrās health advice.
Public safety in California is on the rise. Last year, California had the second-lowest homicide rate since at least 1966, decreasing by nearly 12% overall since 2023. We're going to drive that progress forward up and down the state.
Reed is one of the smartest guys Iāve ever worked for. Good to see this.
This is worth sharing far and wide. Federal Employees and contractors oral history project. Im not involved in this. Just got the link, idea seems to be to create a record of the assault on the American Repuvlic after Jan 2025. www.fecohp.org
Whaleās Jake Tapper? š¤
Reduce costs- food, housing, healthcare, education. Keep ICE/Feds from kidnapping innocent people. Keep the govt from taking my civil rights.
Jesse Watters: āYou werenāt ever on Jeffrey Epsteinās jet, were you?ā RFK Jr: āI was on Jeffrey Epsteinās jet two times.ā Release the freaking Epstein Files. Believe the survivors and their families. We want accountability.
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!
Pritzker on Trump sending troops into cities: "He has other aims other than fighting crime... he would like to stop the elections in 2026 or frankly take control of those elections. He'll just claim there's some problem with an election and then he's got troops on the ground that can take control."
I keep thinking about whether Vance can keep MAGA together and I donāt think so. Aside from being pretentious and generally disliked, heās not a reality TV guy and I think a whole lot of people want the āYouāre Firedā persona. I hope youāre right.
Reminder: Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.
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.
"If you donāt want to tear it down and start from scratch, youāre part of the problem. If you *do* want to tear it down and start from scratch, congratulations, youāre hired." Not much more to it than that.
NEWS: Trump and House Republicans' budget cuts seek to eliminate the HOME affordable housing program thatās built/rehabbed 1.3M homes in 30 yrs, including 540k in rural areas. 84% of those homes are in districts that voted for him. Rural families now face losing their lifeline.
WELKER: Do you have 100% confidence in Secretary Kennedy? LANKFORD: I believe he's who the president picked. He's challenging some of the assumption - what is it about autism? He seems to be following the science WELKER: The science has debunked links between autism & vaccines for more than 20 yrs
El multimillonario polaco Piotr Szczerek, robĆ”ndole la gorra a un niƱo que le regala un tenista en el US Open como otra motivaciĆ³n mĆ”s para que el Eat The Rich se haga ya realidad:
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
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.
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Unbelievably bad. āThe CDC you knew is over. Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.ā www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
Californiaās homelessness growth rate last year was lower than 40 other states, including Texas and Florida. The work doesnāt stop here. With our new SAFE Task Force, weāre going to bring it down even further to ensure that everyone has a safe place to call home.
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Sadly there are only a handful of countries more lunatic than the US right now. Please keep NZ sane, itās high on my bucket list to visit!
That wonāt take too long Iām sure.
āā¦I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.ā My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
The question is, why arenāt we stopping this. I just donāt know how, other than vote them into oblivion in 2026. But millions of Americans seem to think this is fine due to Fox and social media.
"She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it. She was not protecting lives at a gate in Iraq; she was forcing her way through windows in the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power." New from @markhertling.bsky.social:
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Oh New Zealand. I thought you had the wrong country at first. But the US is plagued with incompetent businessmen AND former Fox News hosts.
Jones: We have a presidential administration that has more outrage about the changing of the cracker barrel logo than they do about changing the policies that allow our children to be gunned down in schoolā¦
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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.
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I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is. This isnāt normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.
WATCH ā @jessicatarlov.bsky.social : āIf a Democratic president were doing any of these things you would be losing your mind.ā šÆ
FOX: *plays clip of Gavin Newsom pointing out that crime is higher in Louisiana than in California* FOX: Your response? MIKE JOHNSON: He needs to go an govern his state and not be engaging in this
Freudian slip?
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These agents are just thugs. If I were a real law enforcement officer Iād be so ashamed.
Disgraceful.
Welch: He claims that he's the law and order president. But we all know that's a lie because he's a convicted felon. He pardons convicted felons, he surrounds himself with obsequious people that kiss his all day, every day
Professional Utah violinist arrested by ICE on his wifeās birthday Source: DC News Now share.newsbreak.com/eqfgf75r?s=i16
There is a massive walk out at the CDC by staff unfolding right now. It is NECESSARY. I stand in solidarity with my CDC colleagues. standing up for science and public health. It is a moral imperative.
Ashley Babbit dishonored her service by committing insurrection against her country. While her death is absolutely tragic and I wish it hadnāt happened, the Air Force giving her honors is in itself a dishonor.
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.
DO NOT PUT CHILDREN ON TV TALKING ABOUT A SHOOTING THEY JUST LIVED THROUGH The media who do this are heartless bastards
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WASTE! FRAUD! ABUSE! Send the $400 million bill to Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump. šØAlligator Alcatraz will be empty within days, according to an email obtained by ABC News.
wtf is this nonsense? He thinks he can understand kidās āmitochondrial challengesā just by looking at them? This is an insane person.
Monarez is playing her weak hand perfectly, and should be a model for institutional resistance for the next four years: 1. Make them fire you 2. Donāt go along to get along 3. Donāt apologize, have confidence in your own integrity and the importance of your role 4. Always escalate the conflict
I had serious doubts about CDC Director Monarezās willingness to stand up against RFK Jr.ās personal mission to destroy public health in AmericaāIām 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.
I think if my kids were shot to death in a church Iād lose any faith I had in anything.
Vaccines are safe and effective. RFK Jr. isnāt.
Itās almost as if appointing an anti-vax lunatic with zero qualifications to oversee Americaās health was a numbskull idea and everybody with a functioning brain knew it.
Sen Patty Murray (D-WA): āIf there are any adults left in the White House, itās well past time they face realityā¦ We cannot let RFK Jr. burn whatās left of the CDC and our other critical health agencies to the groundāhe must be fired.ā
NEWS: Japan's top trade negotiator Ryosei Akazawa CANCELS his visit to the United States this week. (Kyodo)
Interesting- I was confused because I thought they were non-partisan. Thanks!
Frey: And don't just say, this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying. It was the first week of school. They were in a church.
Thereās plenty of disinformation trying to blame the nascent offshore wind industry for whale deaths without evidence. Not only is that misleading, it also takes the focus away from solutions that might actually address the leading causes of death ā vessel strikes and entanglement with fishing gear.
Newsom has debunked this pretty effectively
Platner is really compelling. Collins has been very hard to unseat. It will be interesting to see if he can gain traction.
This is gross.
Iowa Democrats win massive upset to break GOP supermajority www.the-downballot.com/p/iowa-democ...
My biggest fear about DOGE was this- take the ssn data and correlate it with all the other data they stole. We are so screwed.
Texas voters, Texas removed 100k voters from the voter rolls. Please spread the word and check your registration and re-register if necessary. thehill.com/homenews/484...
20-year combat veteran arrested after burning American flag outside White House.
This is not who we are. We must join together to call this out, to make more people understand what is happening and work to stop it.
First, they came for John Bolton And I did speak out Because even though I'm not a nutty right-wing warmonger with a ridiculous mustache, I am an American who is horrified by a simple-minded tyrant using our Justice Department to avenge his petty, personal grudges.
I celebrate every victory for voting rights, but this one is particularly special. No issue has been more hotly contested or more important to PA voters than this one. The DSCC and DCCC fought hard and it is great to see them prevail. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Fancy an all-you-can-eat salmon buffet? Then head on over to Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska. It's the salmon run season right now, and the waterfall is absolutely swarming with bears. They've all gotten so chubby from feasting. š»š§ø Yummy.. #nationalpark #bears #salmon #wildlife
"For those people out there who ... say, 'Well, I just don't like those people either' ... You could be next. ... This is not about any one individual, this is about our rights as Americans, and our right to have a justice system where choices about prosecuting are made without fear or favor."
This is your Democratic campaign message for 2026
He doesnāt even know how to say the name correctly. I wonder if he knows who itās named after.
Attempting to rig elections on his behalf. Turning the military on citizens. Toying with the idea of declaring martial law. Attacking political enemies and punishing those who speak out against his regime. If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?
In a small town in County Cork, Ireland, a monument stands in appreciation to the American Choctaw Indian Tribe. Although impoverished, shortly after being forced to walk the Trail of Tears, the tribe somehow gathered $170 to send to Ireland for famine relief in 1847 [Historic Vids]
My current favorite bit of right-wing Christian hypocrisy is Ken Paxton, a man whose wife is divorcing him for adultery, forcing Texas schools to unconstitutionally post "Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery." www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
BREAKING: In a massive win for democracy, a Utah judge struck down the GOPās gerrymandered congressional map. Utah voters demanded fairer maps and politicians must now deliver.
Interesting www.sltrib.com/news/politic...
This is 100% correct.
Howwwwww is the Lisa Cook story not in your newscast?? Malpractice.
J.B. Pritzker smashing through the fascism wall like he's the Kool Aid Man
Daniil Medvedev after a loss at the US Open. Another grown man throwing a tantrum like he's a 3yo toddler. Ffs, mate. Do the world a favourāget off the court and stay off.
Pritzker: Over the last four years, we have seen homicides drop in half. Thatās something the President should pay attention to. I know he doesnāt read but I know he watches TV so perhaps if someone from Fox or Newsmax is here
Jordy: I call it the leaky fascist faucet. You have CEOs giving Trump gold, then it's let's do a little gerrymandering, let's send the National Guard into this one city, and the next. And then? It'll be: We need to deploy the military during elections to make sure no "election fraud" is happening.
āThis is about the President of the United States and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.ā ā Gov. J.B. Pritzker
Meiselas: Stop both-sidesing it, media. Stop trying to sow division within the Democratic Party when we literally have military invasions into American cities, aided and abetted by red state governors, who, again, are the takers who wouldn't exist without the blue states
Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her. Your words shape peopleās reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
Yep Iāve had two so far. The other was from the Ca League of Women Voters. I had no idea they were so right wing. Sadly weāre going to have to throw money into this fight. The opposition is scarily well funded.
Good to know my state tax dollars go toward helping children thrive as opposed to my federal tax dollars that are going toward illegally arresting and detaining legal aliens and citizens.
With a straight face.
Judge Xinis: Your clients are *absolutely forbidden* from removing Mr. Abrego from the continental United States. You understand this? DOJ: Yes.
I love this so much. This is the sweetest thing ever!