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RFK Jr., one of the most damaged people in America, should be NOWHERE NEAR our health & our children’s health. Another of the most damaged people in America, Donald Trump, gave him a big job in exchange for his presidential voters. They should BOTH resign.
The actions today by the Florida SG were a disgrace but not a surprise. He traffics in performative politics. Most polls show strong bipartisan support (80%) for childhood vaccine requirements Go to healthychildren.org for all information related to childhood vaccines and ignore the nonsense
'We know their names': Epstein victims say they are making their own list www.bbc.com/news/live/cp...
Speaker Johnson is trying to stop efforts to force the release of all the documents in the Jeffrey Epstein case. I am proud to stand with my Democratic colleagues in support of these brave women.
Because together they found strength!
This is on you Republican senate. You knew he wasn’t fit for the job and you approved him anyway. Now people are going to die.
Certainly evil, selfish. corrupt..
Once Epstein's survivors start naming powerful men, including Donald Trump, it's going to be hell for Republicans who are stalling their own radicalized base that demands answers and release of the files. They can't keep distracting.
4 months ago, I became the first Senator to call for RFK Jr. to resign. Tomorrow, he will be on Capitol Hill. The question I would ask is simple: Will you accept personal responsibility for the children who have died and will die because of your vaccine conspiracy theories?
Psaki: "Viruses don't care about state lines, and particularly when comes to the protection offered by vaccinations, we are only as strong as our weakest link."
Illinois Gov. Pritzker is right: Authoritarians thrive on silence. Be loud for America. Speak up.
Ohhhhmygod!!! Look how many people are supporting down-ballot Democratic nominees in Missouri. This is just within the last few weeks. We are taking the fight to them. Scroll through the list for a little balm for your soul. ❤️
Staying away won't stop the spead of disease. At the holiday, they will spread the country, visiting thier senior family members. Next spring vacation, college students will go home, after being exposed.
Rand Paul: "It might be ironic if in the end the protectionist flavor of the day - the tariffs we're putting on - brought together our enemies & ultimately led to the collapse of the reserve currency of the world... if you put a 50% tariff on Indian goods, India will become closer to China & Russia"
Respect women. Protect women. Believe women. Release the Epstein files. 🧚♀️
FOUR Republicans intend to vote to release the Epstein files. That means 216 intend to vote NO. How can any Republican, elected official or voter, live with themselves?
“Why did the government work so hard to protect Jeffrey Epstein and not victims like me?” Epstein survivor
About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. “Oh, they’d have died.”
Ossoff: "It's been extraordinary to see the Speaker of the House reduced to lying in order to cover up sex crimes"
Losers then, losers now.
Ossoff on RFK Jr: "Absolutely he should resign. And he never should've been confirmed to begin with... in any normal Senate, he never would've gotten so much as a hearing. This is someone who throughout his public life has embraced just about every piece of quackery & pseudoscience he's come across"
If releasing the Epstein files would end your presidency, then your presidency needs to end.
As a survivor, I can't think of a more fitting metaphor than a rapist creating loud noises with planes as a survivor tries to tell her story. I mean... just wow. Nevertheless, she persisted.
EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN!
Exactly.
'We know the names': Epstein survivor reveals victims are compiling their own list www.rawstory.com/jeffrey-epst...
'Lift the curtain on these files!' Epstein survivor shakes in fear demanding transparency www.rawstory.com/epstein-file...
A Postcard from Ireland Where Our Friends are Counting on Us open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...
'We got played again': MAGA turns on House Republicans over 'fake' Epstein files release www.rawstory.com/jeffrey-epst...
Its one reason they want seniors to die off.
Next they'll be rewriting textbooks to say Japanese American internment camps were delightful summer resorts.
A political novice's campaign to unseat Sen. Susan Collins is off to a strong start Graham Platner, an oyster farmer and combat veteran, represents a new pugilistic approach to Democratic politics.
Venezuela says the US and Erik Prince have plans to stage an attack on an ExxonMobil off-shore platform as a pretext to invade it…and normally that would be an insane claim but… www.latintimes.com/venezuela-sa...
Pritzker: "He has no idea what's he's talking about. There is no emergency that warrants deployment of troops. He is insulting the people of Chicago by calling our home a hellhole, and anyone that takes his word at face value is insulting Chicagoans too."
Agree Mr. De Niro.......
Gavin Newsom mocking Karoline Leavitt as Effie Trinket from the Hunger Games 👏🏼🤣🏆
In recent days, Elon Musk promoted "remigration" for the UK via his very widely followed account on X. In case you were not familiar with this concept here's a good explanation of "Europes's far-right buzzword" in The Guardian from 2024. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/o...
Shouldn't they all know something of the department's they are destroying., in this corrupt regime.
I know this sounds crazy, but shouldn’t the Secretary of Energy know something about energy?
Lori Chavez-DeRemer: "I was elected as the Labor Secretary for all Americans" (She was not elected)
Trump is covering for Trump
The president of the United States is a horrific serial child molester. The GOP are depraved sociopaths for enabling him.
Epstein/ Maxwell files
He's doing this, of course, only to make us respond disgustedly and angrily and waste our attention and anger and disgust on something that doesn't really matter. So move along and don't respond.
It sure didn’t take long for Jeanine Pirro to turn the DC US Attorney’s Office into the most incompetent, feckless, and ridiculous prosecutor’s office in the United States.
I like JB Pritzker.
In the coming days, we expect to see what's playing out in LA and DC happen in Chicago. These efforts are not about fighting crime or making communities safer. This is about Donald Trump testing his power and producing political drama to cover up his own corruption.
I disagree. We need a Congress to pass laws and take responsibility. Afghanistan did not go on for 20 years because presidents are *that* powerful, it went on because Congress didn't want the responsibility - and the American people didn't want to be bothered.
He and the rest of the corrupt regime, are doing exactly what trump and cronies want .
Kennedy must be removed from office. He has already caused a catastrophe at HHS and the CDC. I strongly suspect that he is about to use data manipulated by unscrupulous and unqualified individuals to attempt to falsely show that vaccines are in some way a net harm. He simply must be stopped.
Morning joe lost any credibility, when they caved to trump last November..
Whiny Ass Joe Scarborough is grilling Bill De Blasio about cities with free busses. He doesn't think it works. It's been working in Richmond, Virginia since COVID days. Get up to speed Joe. Big mouth dumb ass. Some of those MSNBC folks are NOT part of any solutions, they just stir the pot.
How pathetic trump is..
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Trump threatening members of Congress not to sign the Epstein files discharge petition saying it would be a “hostile act” against him is definitely something an innocent person would do. And scheduling a military flyover in the middle of the survivor press conference is also totally normal behavior.
A republican, first. Rule number one trump and cronies lie.
Mike Johnson calls himself a Christian. Mike Johnson is covering up for Trump and his involvement with sex trafficking rapist Jeffrey Epstein.
We are overdue for a “ Have you no decency” kind of moment.
Someone please tell the Texas Governor GregAbbott that addressing gun violence, not creating new redistricting maps, is an appropriate reason to call a special session. @texasdemocrats.bsky.social
Pritzker: "It breaks my heart to report that we have been told ICE will try to disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades. Let's be clear -- the terror and cruelty is the point, not the safety of anybody living here."
That Pritzker press conference was... surreal, and I think marks a significant moment of escalation in the constitutional omni-crisis. This was the governor of a state saying plainly the Union itself is being torn apart and his state is being militarily invaded by an authoritarian regime.
Rule number one trump and cronies lie.
So our military just bombed a boat in international waters and extrajudicially killed suspected drug traffickers without so much as a conversation, let alone a trial? Then posted it on social media? And we’re all supposed to just trust their account?
I'm aware that the President likes to go on television and beg me to call him to ask for troops. I find it strange, as Chicago doesn't want troops. I also have experience asking him for assistance – just to have the rug pulled up from underneath me when execution meets reality.
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
Surely, the decision to hold a military spectacle at that time is just coincidence.
when you’re upset at the cool kids for not inviting you to their lunch table
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Leap into fascism
BREAKING: The Pentagon has authorized up to 600 military lawyers to serve as temporary immigration judges. This is a blatant expansion of military power into a civilian judicial process, a dangerous erosion of the separation between the two. Every day, we inch closer to fascism.
GOP Rep. Thomas Massie has filed a discharge petition to force the disclosure of Justice Department investigative files related to the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
See through it.
As many as 100 survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and other victims of sexual abuse are expected to attend a rally Wednesday in Washington, D.C. as a bipartisan Congressional effort gains steam to force the U.S. Department of Justice to make public its controversial files on the disgraced sex trafficker.
Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
Is World War III Already Underway? open.substack.com/pub/thenextm...
#OnMyWalk I found HOPE in the form of this silly #Halloween pic with @harttandsoul.bsky.social from 2 years ago! Miss you, but we will spend my favorite holiday together this year! #HalloweenIsComing🧡🎃💛🧛🧡🐈⬛💛🧙♀️🧡🎃💛🧛🧡🐈⬛💛🧙♀️🧡🎃💛🧛🧡🐈⬛🧡🧙♀️🧡🎃💛🧛🧡🐈⬛💛🧙♀️🧡🎃
Indeed 🦋💙🦋
"Every one of these people is taking with them skills and knowledge that will be difficult to replace. But there may be no single individual whose departure better captures what is being lost and destroyed than Demetre Daskalakis."
He may endorse someone eventually or he may just let a primary play out & let the people decide without putting his thumb on the scale. I think that too should be entirely up to him. I wouldn’t worry about losing this seat to a Republican.
Virtually everyone on earth deserves better than Susan Collins
I applaud Nadlers for doing the right thing. This is real leadership and an action that reveals a man cares more about the country than his ego. If only this would inspire other Dem leaders to do the same... www.axios.com/2025/09/02/n...
I think @nadler.house.gov stepping down in favor of someone younger is great. And I also think good longtime members like him who have always voted for progressive causes have earned the right to decide what they want to do.
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
Except that it’s completely based on nothing. First of all, it’s never the “DNC,” it would be the DSCC & Schumer. It’s the DCCC if it’s a House seat. But Mills’ arm has been twisted out of its socket all along. If anything, Platner’s emergence might make it *less* urgent.
joycevance.substack.com/p/forgetting...
She is doing great for her state of Maine. She knows where she wants to be, in her state, not that H hole D.C. has become.
Corruption oozes out of him.
RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.
He was a great. So sorry to hear he is gone.
OK, this is silly. EVERYONE has been trying to convince Janet Mills, a popular governor who stood up to Trump, to run, at least until Platner suddenly appeared out of nowhere. Janet is going to be 78 & seems reluctant to take on a 6-year term commuting to DC. No one is a villain here.
Today's a good day to learn Colbert found a new job. Hope it's a good one for everybody! #HappyLaborDay
Two remarkable Ambassadors for our Planet, 99 year old Sir David Attenborough and 91 year old Dr. Jane Goodall. They’ve dedicated their lives to educate and protect.. 🌍 #janegoodall #davidattenborough #nature #chimpanzees #wildlife #environment #drjanegoodall #jane #sirdavidattenborough #bbc #bsky
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.
Trump: I FEEL GREAT NOTHING IS WRONG HERE LOOK A PHOTO OF ME GOLFING FROM A WEEK AGO Giuliani: I WAS HELPING SOMEONE DONT SPREAD CONSPIRACY THEORIES ABOUT MY CAR WRECK Trump: EPSTEIN IS OVER HE DIED A LONG TIME AGO GET OVER IT Sure, guys.