Book cooker.
Just a normal citizen here in Vermont Project manager by day, political junkie the rest of the time
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Book cooker.
Mamdani has raised the max he’s allowed to spend. So he’s created this brilliant ad.
MAGA, you were right to be worried about an Epstein cover up. You were right to care deeply about the economy. You were right to want to put working families first. So let’s be consistent - It’s time to turn on Trump, he's failed you miserably every front.
I am once again asking you to stop sending us money. But we do need your time. ⏰ zohranfornyc.com/events
“We never do that, because it's not within our authority,” a current DSS employee says of previous agency actions. “It’s sort of like having IRS agents investigate espionage in NASA. They do not have legal authority to do so.” www.wired.com/story/state-...
what the fucking fuck
Made some charts about how employment has changed during Trump's second term. www.pbump.net/o/who-isnt-b...
Find someone who loves you like an octogenarian Democrat loves themself
"I don't know what a constitutional crisis would look like. I don't think that we are currently in a constitutional crisis, however."
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You've got to remember that even though RFK Jr looks like an idiot and sounds like an idiot, he is, in fact, an idiot.
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RIP ADP labor economists
We have to basically build safe zones to protect our kids from RFK.
PULTE: Public officials shouldn't be exempt from scrutiny SORKIN: Speaking of that, Ken Paxton has at least 3 examples of alleged mortgage fraud. Are you looking at that? PULTE: Unless it's been made public, I'm not going to comment on any specific situation S: Why wouldn't you make it public?
3/ Full story: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
Rep. Andy Ogles: "The president is a true leader ... I think he should be eligible for a third term."
The questions for 2026 are, can Dems win the pre-election and election and stand to take one or both houses of Congress? If they do, does Trump care enough to activate a 2020-style post-election push? And if he does, can the Dems defeat it and actually take power?
There are three levels to the 2026 midterms. Pre-election: Laws, regs, and enforcement shape who votes and how much their votes can impact the election. Election: Which candidate the voters select. Post-election: Votes are counted, certified, and candidates take office.
RFK Jr. is apparently trying to quickly add more allies to ACIP. @jeremyfaust.bsky.social broke this story. I don’t recognize the names but I’ll be digging in. I will say that it doesn’t matter who they are. Fifteen days is not enough time to get up to speed before the next meeting Sept 18th.
Q: On the Venezuela vessel strike, what legal authority were you guys working under? JD VANCE: The legal authority is there are people who are bringing -- literal terrorists -- who are bringing deadly drugs into our country
RFK Jr.’s apparent new appointees to ACIP: Joseph Fraiman, an MD who thinks COVID19 vaccines are bad and that higher rates of obesity have been caused by medical care allowing for overweight patients to survive childbirth. This paper is absolutely chilling and vile.
Ouch SCOTUS
RFK Jr.’s apparent new appointees to ACIP: Joseph Fraiman, MD, who thinks COVID19 vaccines are bad and that higher rates of obesity have been caused by medical care allowing for overweight patients to survive childbirth. This paper is absolutely chilling, vile, and scientifically unsound.
RFK Jr.’s apparent new appointees to ACIP: John Gaitainis, MD, who thinks that there should be no vaccine requirements for school entry and makes wild, unsupported claims that these requirements harm the most vulnerable. www.bostonglobe.com/2021/07/10/o...
Vote GOP, get the new Dark Ages.
Extremely troubling news...that they acknowledge in the eighth paragraph was reported first by @missouriindependent.com yesterday: missouriindependent.com/2025/09/02/t...
Standing in front of the U.S. Capitol, a group of eight survivors shared emotional stories of abuse and demanded more transparency from Congress on the government's investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.
Love to see it
Oh okay
There now is no such thing as public health. Viruses rule!
The governors of California, Washington and Oregon announced they will form a West Coast Health Alliance to begin coordinating public health guidelines separate from the CDC. https://cnn.it/41BLxzZ
You are looking at the possible future of the Divided States of America.
Trump's cover-up is failing. But that raises one big, beautiful question....
"Who am I to be the top medical officer in my state"
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The story of two ongoing free speech controversies And an object lesson in how MAGA sees the world www.thebulwark.com/p/desantis-d...
As many as 100 victims will show up to today's Epstein victim press conference. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
Um, I was told that tariffs would bring the American manufacturing back
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Councilwoman @jerrigreen4tn , a Democratic candidate for governor, reacts to @marshablackburn backing Trump putting the National Guard in Memphis:
In barring Trump's deployment of the military in US cities, Judge Charles Breyer wrote that Trump appears intent on "creating a national police force with the President as its chief." www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
These lame weasel words seem designed to avoid saying the obvious: This wannabe dictator has been gleefully shredding the Constitution; he is Framers’ worst nightmare and the sort of autocratic figure “conservatives” used to denounce open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
“I keep seeing these memes where Indians are bragging about taking our tech jobs…So I said, ‘Oh yeah? Well I’m going to work with these guys that are going to arrest you, slam your face on the pavement and send you home.’” www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
“I keep seeing these memes where Indians are bragging about taking our tech jobs,” said Ely, 36. “So I said, ‘Oh yeah? Well I’m going to work with these guys that are going to arrest you, slam your face on the pavement and send you home.’” wapo.st/3VrzEJg
Ports across the country were planning to become economic hubs for the growing offshore wind industry. The Trump administration is cancelling grants to build the infrastructure for it.
"Hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio has warned Donald Trump’s America is drifting into 1930s-style autocratic politics — and said other investors are too scared of the president to speak up." www.ft.com/content/b86b...
OMG don’t give them ideas
Jones: I would say to my colleagues who serve in government—keep your thoughts and prayers, keep your tweets. If you want to address gun violence, you don't need to tweet. What you need is a mirror. You have the power to change things.
Gavin Newsom is exactly right, Trump is doing everything we told you he would do and more. It's time to wake the hell up, America. Authoritarianism is here.
Trump and the GOP are hellbent on killing our kids. Whether it’s no gun control or defunding pediatric brain cancer research/trials. Our kids deserve better than Trump and his feckless Republicans.
“You have to let us break the law or we will be embarrassed” is not a good legal argument
ILLINOIS - @govpritzker.illinois.gov : “Trump doesn’t seem to understand it’s actually Republican states that have the crime problem.”
TEXAS: “Would I be required to carry my birth certificate to the restroom because I have short hair? Is there anything in it to protect people like me?” REP. ORR: “No. It protects biological females.” @jessicafortexas.bsky.social : “That’s what I am.” More: www.fox7austin.com/news/texas-h...
I'm telling y'all right now, this is the kind of Democrat who needs to be running and this is the kind of Democrat who can win back regular Americans.
“Trump Shrank Staffing of National Parks. See How Many Are Struggling” 🎁🔗 @esullivannyt.bsky.social for @nytimes.com
Once upon a time and regardless of administration, US diplomacy was by far the world’s most professional. In my 30 years dealing with diplomats no one came close to the Americans, whether or not I agreed or liked what they said. This, however, is Burkino Faso level.
I am finding the joy of the blocking feature
I'm sorry, are you talking to me?
Copy of the resignation letter of Charles Borges, SSA whistleblower. Says resignation is involuntary, result of punishment for exposing wrongdoing. “I have suffered exclusion…a hostile work environment…making work conditions intolerable.”
Hearing that the whistleblower, Charles Borges, has now resigned. He was the SSA Chief Data Officer. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
BREAKING: Social Security Administration chief data officer and whistle-blower Charles Borges has resigned after bombshell report that SSA put highly-sensitive data at risk. He sent out an email to colleagues moments ago. Here is the text of his email shared with me:
Still not ok
OMG Who are you to say? Dear lord, be kind
Here's your recap of what happened in the leadership shakeup at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week.
"Kennedy might have prospered had he simply been content to continue slapping a MAHA coat of paint on the good work of the government’s actual scientists. Instead, he seems determined to rip the engine out while the car is hurtling down the interstate." www.thebulwark.com/p/camelot-fo...
🚨 Medicare Cuts👇🏽 This is what it looks like. No matter what lies @MarshaBlackburn and the GOP tell about Trump’s big ugly bill. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/h...
“I couldn’t believe how fast it went up,” Paternoster said. “I’m not buying this little piece of meat for this.”
Well, here are the anticipated pocket rescissions: a back-door path to impoundment. GAO, the Congressional watchdog, has said these are illegal. But GOP Congressional leadership likely to favor Trump over the law. (Good headline for headline critics amongst us). www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
WATCH: “The script is sadly familiar by now.” Rep. @maxwellfrost.bsky.social of the ‘Mass Shooting Generation’ 💔 tells CNN common sense gun laws are popular but the NRA & special interests own Republicans— as Trump slashing mental health funding guarantees more school shootings.
The Darwin award season is going to be lit www.joemygod.com/2025/08/texa...
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How it started How it’s going @SenJoniErnst edition
If you’re an Expanse nerd you probably remember Prax talking about simple-complex systems and cascade failure in book 2. Liberal-democracy a simple-complex system and we're seeing a cascade failure, right now. This one is pretty good. Read the whole thing. www.thebulwark.com/p/democracy-...
Kellogg was sidelined specifically because he’s a better negotiator. They aren’t actually trying to end this war.
New, from me: The CDC shitshow is a microcosm of the mismanagement of the Trump era. It also demonstrates some extraordinary courage among principled public servants, who were willing to lose their jobs to draw attention to damage being done to public health donmoynihan.substack.com/p/your-gover...
BERMAN: When might you call for the National Guard in Shreveport? The FBI stats show there's more violent crime there than DC JOHNSON: There's a lot of good work that's been done. We have a Democrat DA there who has not been prosecuting crime as some other more aggressive DAs have. Soros funded him
Seems like just a month ago that people were furious because CDC Director Susan Monarez “only” had a PhD in microbiology and immunology. Wait…it was. Now we’ve got this guy, with degrees in humanities who wants to build villages on the ocean so they are outside of any country’s laws.
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.
I don't think they could pay me enough to have Gutfeld constantly sneer at me.
"I have no answer so here is a non answer"
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
If he thinks a few transgender people out of several thousand murderers is "a common denominator," wait until he hears how many of them were using automatic weapons.
Speaker Mike Johnson on the Minnesota shooting: "At the end of the day the problem is not guns. Ok, Jen Psaki? The problem is the human heart. It's mental health."
PERINO: Do you think specifically there has to be some sort of accountability on the transgender front? SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON: I think so. I mean, there's a common denominator to so much of this, right? The last one of these school shootings that we all saw and remember was another transgender.
Google AI: "As of August 2025, there have been two confirmed school shooters who were transgender, making them a very small minority of all school shooters."
This is (in part),a very easy problem to solve: Congress can mandate human claims reviewers. THOSE reviewers can still deny claims of course, but at least they’d do it with a smile.
In today's Morning Shots: @eggerdc.bsky.social provides an excellent analysis of the chaos and destruction at the CDC, and the price we'll pay for it. I put myself in Trump's mind and explain why he may well fire Kennedy. www.thebulwark.com/p/camelot-fo...
I work with pediatricians across the country - this is a super scary time They are already having to deal with vaccine hesitant parents because of disinformation
There is no possible legitimate reason to do this. It’s what despots do. It’s petty. It’s dangerous. It’s unAmerican. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
“SCIENCE OR TRUMP? The question of whether to follow the data or follow the president is especially acute for those charged with keeping Americans safe — from foreign threats, economic crises, diseases…” www.cnn.com/2025/08/29/p...
"Inflation Ticked Up Last Month In Line With Forecasts—As Tariff Impact Watch Continues" Ty Roush for @forbes.com