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From "Deadwood: Gold, Guns, and Greed in the American West" by Peter Cozzens, explaining why the town was destroyed by fire in 1879. Seems instructive....
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
31 August 1928 | A French Jewish girl, Lea Burstein, was born in Paris. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 10 October 1943 in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from #Drancy. She did not survive.
"That’s why it’s so hard to sell the lie that Trump doesn’t collude with Putin: He just goes out and does it again." ICYMI @saletan.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/putin-trum...
There is little good to report and much insanity everywhere.
Nurturing the earth. Not "lethality."
The warfighters in DC got the trash picked up, now time to mulch.
If you don’t know about Heather Honey, you should. She’s a national embarrassment, virulent election denier and now in charge of election policies for the US government. www.propublica.org/article/heat...
Gotta say it was pretty awesome growing up in an era when the government believed in science. Ah, the good old days.
President Homelander www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Everything is fine. No need to worry.
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.
Ashley Babbit dishonored her service by committing insurrection against her country. While her death is absolutely tragic and I wish it hadn’t happened, the Air Force giving her honors is in itself a dishonor.
NEW: A federal grand jury has REFUSED to indict sandwich guy! I imagine the DoJ will keep trying. They have two weeks, at which point they’ll have to drop the charges or reduce it to a misdemeanor. 🥪 www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
What we're facing is the greatest fear of those who designed the Constitution- an autocratic tyrant who disregards the rule of law. Having arguably seized all three branches of government, the safeguards of the Constitution appear to be failing.
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Witkoff: "There's only one thing I wish for: that that Nobel committee finally gets its act together and realizes that you are the single finest candidate since that Nobel award was ever talked about."
this stuff is such a disgrace. a free citizen of a free country should be ashamed to engage in it.
Or a nothingburger.. . . .
this is exactly right. it's the same stupid bet every republican has made since 2015.
The Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 revolutionized technology transfer by allowing universities, small businesses, and nonprofits to retain intellectual property and to license discoveries –that were based on federal research funding www.aau.edu/key-issues/p...
www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6bLcqEP/ Everything started with Black people. That is all.
Every disaster movie or story begins with a scientist nobody will listen to. We are in one of those stories right now.
Gus Speth: "I used to think that top environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and climate change. I thought that 30 years of good science could address these problems. I was wrong. The top environmental problems are selfishness, greed and apathy...”
A lot happened for a Monday. But there’s a common theme: Trump’s increasing openness about his power grab. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
Projection. Always projection.
We are very far off the cliff here folks. 🇺🇸
"But of course, the business of THIS president is not fundamentally like that of his predecessors. The business of THIS president is subverting our free government. And yesterday was another day at the office for carrying out THAT business." www.thebulwark.com/p/dictator-f...
Is Democracy Dead in the United States? "Once fascists win power democratically, they have never been removed democratically. Not once. Ever. "https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-tips-into-fascism-f51000e08e03254d
You are living through the unthinkable: the president of the United States using the military to seize domestic power. The greatest crisis of executive power in American history, at the hands of the worst, most corrupt, and most unfit president in American history.
Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her. Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.
Walz: "It boggles my damn mind that in the midst of a military takeover of our cities, the flaunting of the rule of law, that the press finds the need to talk about, 'Oh, there's a division in the Dem Party.' There's a division in my damn house & we're still married and things are good. That's life"
I have held this card for over 20 years. Almost time, maybe.....
Don't put this on "the Democrats." It's on us. You and me.
Oh, I think it’s pure trolling. “It turned out I was above the law, and now I’m going to throw that pious slogan back in your face with a sneer as I show how to abuse the law to harm my enemies.”
Recognition that the MAGA-ized court majority, devoid of judicial integrity, is nothing but a band of partisan hacks should inform democracy advocates’ agenda.
The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
Lying is now an American value.
It is not deportation. It is extraordinary rendition. Extraordinary rendition is the practice of kidnapping or capturing people and sending them to countries where they face a high risk of torture or abuse in interrogations. www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtua...
In addition to creating a joyous event, Zohran Mamdani just showed the stupidity of Fox News's "Crime is so bad in New York City, people are afraid to go out in the street or take the subway!!!"
Once again: the military takeover of U.S. cities is not a distraction from the thing, it is the the thing
President Truman had it exactly right
Watch this movie. Watch it again. Get everyone you know to watch it. www.imdb.com/title/tt0434...
They gaslit you all throughout the election.
These Reichstag fires don’t start themselves.
The Trump administration wants to create circumstances in which it is completely reasonable and justifiable to put a bullet in a federal agent for the purpose of waving the bloody shirt as a pretext for further crackdowns.
Centrists are beginning to suspect everyone is getting tired of their bullshit.
It's telling that as Trump threatens a military takeover of cities, actively censors universities, imposes his politics on private companies, and weaponizes the DOJ against his critics, reactionary centrists who've made free expression their core issue . . . are still focused on wokeness.
Endlessly astonished at how completely unself aware MAGA always is
No frickin way #allythepiper #piperally #freebird
"We are at war." Every time you consider what we need to do to respond to Trump remember that we are at war. Trump and his regime don't want to govern, they want to RULE us. What we do in the next few years will determine if we remain a free people or live under a cruel fascist regime.
The DOJ released the security video of Epstein's jail in parts so they could take out anything inconvenient. The DOJ released the Maxwell/Blanche transcript in parts so they could take out anything inconvenient. Such an obvious cover-up.
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Telling the truth is a fireable offense in Trump’s fascist government.
“If you are nice to President Trump, he will use the full force of the state to help you. There is no “law.” Not even a pretense of objectivity. There are only friends and enemies. This is Putinism. It’s happening, right here. Today.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
It used to be far-right groups who flooded cities wearing masks and military gear, looking for a fight. Now it’s anonymous federal agents who are violently attacking people on the street. trib.al/TwXSx7N
As in using law enforcement for retribution. More accurate to state a corrupt mix....
The US tolerance of presidential corruption is incredible & unacceptable for a country that still considers itself democratic and subject to the rule of law.
The convicted perjurer, who thought it was appropriate to groom and traffic teenage girls, says she never saw the only man who can pardon her do anything inappropriate.
"Garland’s protection of the DOJ did nothing but preserve that institution long enough for Trump to return to power and weaponize it against political opponents. It was a profound failure that our democracy will be lucky to recover from."
Oh, so there’s a military leadership purge happening? If only Democratic leaders had any history to draw from to know what that means and usually precedes, they might have cause to sound the alarm.
"Exhaustion is a strategy. Distraction is a strategy. Confusion is a strategy. And while we’ve been caught up in the noise, Trump has been moving forward with something far more dangerous than the daily scandals: a long-term plan to rig the system so he never loses power again.”
I'm not interested in what notorious liar Ghislaine Maxwell has to say. I'm interested in evidence of what she did. Release the Epstein Files. Stop Donald's coverup.
back in 96 a former nixon aide and rupert murdoch launched fox news because they wanted a platform for gop propaganda. in 2025 the democratic party is writing opeds on that platform and promoting links to that oped on twitter, another platform owned by a right wing propagandist. no lessons learned
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"If you want to have a coup against the constitutional order, you want to control the capital city. And if he has control of the policing in the city of Washington...Who's gonna tell him to leave the White House?" @gtconway.bsky.social joins @jvl.bsky.social:
He could have been talking to somebody more well known....
Did they check the bathroom for broken and overflowing boxes of classified information?
May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.
Here, fixed it.
We are very far off the cliff, folks. 🇺🇸
“If you want to know the state of our democracy, look no further than this house floor. Representative Nicole Collier has been held here, against her will, for two full days." "She’s being surveilled and detained in her own capitol simply for dissenting.” - Rep. John Bucy #txlege
White woman puts Mexican flag on her truck to waste ICE’s time.
He Speaks For Me.. #activism
"Republicans have taken away the liberty, and now the voice, of a Black woman elected by voters to represent them in the government. This is a crisis far bigger than Texas." open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
Sandwich Fascists Cartoon by Nick Anderson Editorial Cartoons II for Raw Story #PoliticalCartoon #EditorialCartoon #Trump #USPolitics
