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Never forget this: Working people outnumber the billionaires and CEOs by a huge margin. If workers stand together, they will win. Solidarity.
Netflix just gave Gavin Newsom 2 million for the redistricting fight and made a deal with Sesame Street. New episodes will air there and the backlog of old episodes will Be free to watch. Netflix picked a side. I will keep my subscription.
No idea what this Oval Office announcement is. Could be resigning Could be apologizing because Stephen Miller molted all over the Residence and someone caught staff dumping the exuviae out of the window Could be clarifying that tariff revenue is really eleventy three trillion
Tell me why Danielle Smith isn't a traitor and acting in Canada's best interest?? Public policy is made in Houston, now?? Alberta Restrictions Cancel 10.7 GW of New Renewables, 89% of Province’s Peak Power Demand
The war in Ukraine "cannot last forever," says Alexander Kolyandr, noting that "this party is almost over" as Russian wages stagnate and inflation remains at historic highs. https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/a-propos/20250827-this-party-is-almost-over-expert-says-as-russia-slashes-2025-forecast
I love looking at this graph, showing it to my students, and sharing it on social media, even though it unerringly brings out the trolls. This is the efficacy curve of Pfizer's mRNA COVID vaccine. This, people, is what ended the emergency phase of the COVID pandemic. Despite what RFK Jr says.
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.
🧪 from NYT interview with chevron CEO taking NO responsibility for climate change “Human activity is a contributor to climate change. We supply energy that is used. If humans did not consume energy or consume oil and gas, we wouldn’t be in business.” Cannot see beyond his wallet!! Outrageous!
VOLUNTARY??? Wake Up, this is GENOCIDE!
Nate Silver and Taylor and the entire empires is having a crashout because they thought things like humanities and the social contributions of Black people were incidental to the modern age and the wages of Empire should be approved by them And that’s not how this works Not anymore
Today is the first day of public trading for Trump’s crypto scam.
Trump lies about crime in a Blue city. He sends in the Guard. They sleep on floors, rake leaves. NOTHING improves. Trump declares "no more crime wave." MAGAs believe his lies. Rinse and repeat. This is how dictators roll. They LIE to create fear and division, then take control. #FDT #ETTD #WPE
GOP lawmakers screw unions behind closed doors, then lie to our faces about supporting unions. They constantly try to diminish unions, erode their power, shut them down or shut them out. They HATE UNIONS because their oligarch owners hate unions. Republicans never gave a shit about workers. #FDT
Do you have a war memorial in your town? Go look at it. Look at the people that died fighting against Nazis and fascists. Now ask yourself what these people would make of the current situation here and the direction we are heading. News editors this means you, especially you.
An important read for all. Democracy is not a guaranteed, populists and demagogues can always overthrow them if they are not stopped.
“This illustrates the dangerous logic of abdication: the belief that, faced with a rising threat to democracy, surrender is strategy, cooperating with an autocrat is survival, and sparing oneself or one’s party from immediate punishment is worth opening the door to long-term authoritarian rule.”
Best way to understand the anti-vaccine movement: listen to this @npr.org #Throughline episode. Thoroughly researched explainer, haunting reminder of how bad many diseases were just a couple of generations ago. www.npr.org/2025/02/13/1...
In 8 days the 80th UN General Assembly will open & a few big name countries will declare that a Palestinian state actually exists when those same countries abandoned Palestine decades ago. Crying Israel’s actions were unacceptable there is no Palestine left for a state. It’s been eaten alive.
“‘Nakba All Over Again': West Bank Palestinians Still Displaced More Than 6 Months After Israel Forced Them to Flee” The Israeli operation in Jenin, Tulkarm, and other cities, has displaced more than 40,000 people – the largest mass displacement of Palestinians in the West Bank in decades.
AXIOS: “(Trump’s) tariff policy will cost midsize businesses $82.3 billion, according to a new report from the JPMorganChase Institute…” www.axios.com/sponsored/mi...
Thanks to @SenTimKaine for standing up against the Trump administration and far-right Israeli government, both of which apparently want to ethnically cleanse Gaza (Trump wants to turn it into some sort of luxury resort - warped/sick) bluevirginia.us/2025/09/mond...
JB Pritzker to CBS on Trump deploying troops: "He'd like to stop the elections in 2026 or, frankly, take control of those elections. He'll just claim that there's some problem with an election, and then he's got troops on the ground that can take control if, in fact, he's allowed to do this."
Did everyone else miss the news that Trump's director of personnel failed a background check, was using a false name, was born in the Soviet Union despite claiming to be from Malta, and has now been made Ambassador to India? nypost.com/2025/06/17/u...
Ukraine's drones aren't just for blowing up Russian invaders. They also drop Snickers bars www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
"Those who agree to leave would receive $5,000 in cash and assistance covering four years of rent and one year of food, according to the plan." Our Western leaders let this happen with impunity.
'... entire population of the Palestinian territory to be relocated, placing it under US administration for 10 years to transform it into a tourist and technology hub, the Washington Post reported Sunday ." Truly vile.
US post-war plan for Gaza involves displacing the entire population
C’est ce qu’a rapporté dimanche le «Washington Post», qui a consulté le plan de 38 pages.
The administration’s plan to make America healthy again is to let the unhealthy die.
In the US, we’re told by our politicians and our institutions, our media, that supporting Palestinians is controversial, that it’s loaded, and very complicated. Here, it’s not. A refreshing reminder of how much our institutions shape us.
One thing I’ve noticed that’s striking to see as an American, is that support for the Palestinians is everywhere here, especially in rural areas. It’s not controversial, it’s assumed. The history of occupation and famine has created deep cultural memory that informs a very clear viewpoint on this.
I think that’s because Trump’s core ideology is not fascism, it’s the belief that rich people are smarter than everyone else
So the message is, if you are tracing colonial era or indeed WWII era thefts, the Irish museum system will help you examine their collections, if you have access to experts, or a specific claim. It’s v much the policy of govt. They want to help.
Trinity has been active, along with the National Museums to ‘decolonise’ collections. As a post-colonial country, Ireland recognises the pain & cultural destruction such ‘collecting’ has caused so is keen to address those items which have ended up in their collections.
Objects acquired thru British colonial activities are being returned. Collections have been investigated, but there are still numbers of items where not sufficient is known to classify them. The key thing is, valid requests will be returned & efforts continue, to see if other items should also be
Danielle Smith and Ben Shapiro plotting at Prager (Fake Fascist) U in March 2025. Funding a separatist movement crosses the line and can be construed as an aggressive act from a hostile nation.
So, did they manage to fix "the indifference problem" yet and save a mass amount of suffering and preventable deaths??
Upping this (Old??) post.
Prepare for more. They are funding a separatist movement in Canada, in Alberta. Act of territorial aggression just like Russia did with Ukraine. They brainwashed many people into thinking they should just give Canada away. Morons.
Our government tried to send a planeful of unaccompanied minors to Guatemala without due process. Fortunately a judge was able to block it before they took off. What fucking monsters the United States has become. Trafficking innocent children. www-cbsnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.cbsn...
Loading children up to fly them to Guatemala without a hearing to find out if they can be cared for by relatives in USA and whether they will be greatly harmed by the Deportation. These Trump MAGAS sink so low on the morality scale there is no bottom.
Weekend at Bernie's??
A creepy cult, that's what's going on.
What in the ever loving fuck is going on here
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Oh, interesting. Bought one set the other day (Insect Collection) at Walmart distributed from Mexico. Still pricey even without the tariffs.
My sets were made in Denmark and various other European countries and imported into Canada via Mexico. Nothing to do with US.
LEGO is itself something of a metaphor for international trade, isn't it? Pieces fitting snugly together the way supply chains between producers & consumers used to do. Before Trump. Before the Republican Party decided that it would be just fine & dandy to let Captain Queeg sink the ship.
Trump take LEGO
The burning hatred runs deep with this regime.
Ukrainian forces struck the Krasnodar refinery, which is located at the southern end of the Russian city.
Hundreds of employees and supporters of the CDC lined the sidewalks outside the agency’s Atlanta headquarters for a “clap out” rally to honor three senior leaders who resigned a day earlier. Read more here: www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...
Lisa Cook was confirmed twice by the Senate - who, last time I checked, were elected - after being nominated by the President. What Trump wants is to reverse a legitimate democratic process here.
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Martin O’Malley, former Social Security Administrator, says the DOGE bro upload of SSA to cloud is the biggest data theft in history and could maybe lead to need to mass issue new SSA#s. 🤯 www.msnbc.com/the-last-wor...
Hi, immunologist here: (a scientist who studies immune & inflammatory processes) RFK Jr is talking absolute bullshit when he says he can “see in kids faces that they have inflammation” That’s NOT how immunology works. He is an anti-science profiteer. Start calling him such.
The cowards are masked up collecting their scalps, traitorous pieces of shite.
Don’t look away
"The oft-mentioned tyranny being opposed by gun owners is really just the sense that the wrong people are encroaching on the privileges and prerogatives of whiteness." From 2020:
The newly ousted director of the CDC refused to fire top agency leaders or approve changes to vaccines from RFK Jr.’s hand-picked panel of advisers.
I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.
Remember when COVID vaccines were first available? Remember how they saved lives and helped us move toward normalcy? Remember how relieved and grateful we were? Remember how amazing our healthcare workers were? Remember how science rescued us?
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This interview, which is also available to listen to as a podcast, provides a useful overview of some of the dangerous trends we’ve been seeing in recent months regarding federalization and militarization of state and local police functions.
the complete embrace of nihilism and the rejection of being genuine is the greatest danger to humanity right now
Fawlty (Trump) Towers
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
Tonight one of the CDC’s top public health leaders, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, has resigned from his post. Below is his full resignation letter. You should read every word. This is a truly scary moment for public health in America. 1/2
The Resignation Letter Of Dr. Demetre C. Daskalakis Of The Centers For Disease Control open.substack.com/pub/simonwdc...
Grateful to Dr Demetre Daskalakis for his voice tonight 🔥 🛟🧪🩺
True at CDC, NIH, NSF, and every science agency.
“In a scientific sense, this is a total loss.” US Supreme Court allows NIH to cut $2 billion in research grants www.nature.com/articles/d41...
I bet most consumers don't know about any of these wide scale regulatory and funding claw backs. When they hear of them for the first time it's just "nerds in a lab just breeding woke mice...". Thanks for your work in reminding us all that it does matter. Eat safe.
The good news is that the Trump administration's policies on food safety only matter to those who eat food. For everyone else, however, there’s cause for concern. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
Access to Covid shots will be restricted for healthy American adults, unless you are over 65. Kennedy is ignoring the fact that Covid-19 vaccinations averted 2.5 million deaths globally in the recent years. The "science" and "sense" behind this is non-existent. 🧪 apnews.com/article/vacc...
Multiple leaders resign or refuse to resign
"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter." academic.oup.com/icb/advance-...
Yikes! The CDC has quietly scaled back its FoodNet surveillance, now only tracking salmonella and STEC. Monitoring for Listeria, Campylobacter, Vibrio and other pathogens has stopped- even after last year’s deadly Listeria outbreak. buff.ly/OyTTIOA h/t @boghuma.bsky.social #medsky #IDsky 🛟🧪
Listeria kills off the olds and the weak...not surprising that this regime no longer give a f.
The point is that AMERICA'S gun trade, much of it illegal, is supporting the killing of thousands of children across the globe. The world is burying their own dead children's bodies.
Kudos to Catelin Drey on her victory in Iowa. This is a district that Trump won easily last November. It's one special election, yes. But it's a sign of hope and another reminder that every election is important. Democracy is not a spectator sport.
We're in the worst and stupidest timeline www.cnbc.com/2025/08/27/f...
"In addition to praising the tariff plans, the UAW called on U.S. automakers to swallow the additional costs on behalf of their shareholders, workers and customers." Shawn Fein is no friend of the working class.
BREAKING: VETERAN'S BEGIN A SIT-IN IN WASHINGTON DC AND WON'T STOP UNTIL THE MILITARY LEAVES TOWN
Walz says Harris "would have been a fantastic president... we wouldn't wake up every day to a bunch of shit on TV. We would wake up to an adult w/ compassion & dignity doing the work, not a manchild crying about whatever is wrong with him. May his fat ankles find something today. Petty as hell."
“Birthing person”: extremist, divisive “Poisoning the blood of our country”: normal, healthy
the net effect of this worldwide will be that any right-wing party about to lose political power will attempt a coup, because worst comes to worst they know they'll have Trump on their side
Yes we deliberately kill journalists and aid workers and yes we deliberately bomb hospitals and yes we recently bombed a hospital specifically TO kill a journalist but this time we bombed the hospital and killed journalists and aid workers it was a mishap, both the first bomb and then the follow-up
The prolonged public torturing of a single man because the state cannot admit to its errors is not something that occurs in a free country
so a generalized decree of martial law without pretext
The rest of the world should stage a big old Flag Burning Party and call Liberation Day!
The west faced no reckoning for the death and destruction it wreaked in Iraq. That made the war crimes we’re now witnessing inevitable
He's such a pathetic liar. I have walked DC streets for ten years, day and night, without worrying about my safety. What a fucking, lying moron.
How bad could it get?? Right??