Defend democracy. Defund billionaires. Defeat fascism.
Defend democracy. Defund billionaires. Defeat fascism.
Just an astonishing, powerful op-ed that drives home what we are losing and what's already been lost. We are so incredibly fortunate to live with the advances modern medicine and health science. Destroying and stymieing it is just unforgivable. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Iโm not complaining but surprised NYT didnโt stir their word choices better before rolling them out
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nationโs 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...
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Mayor Brandon of Chicago responds to a question from a reporter if pushing back will make things harder? โCan you imagine if my ancestors would have had the same rationale? Letโs not fight against the Confederacy. Letโs just try to get along, and maybe one day theyโll give us our freedom?โ
---> www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Here's a #GiftLink for those who want to read the full NYT obit of historian of science & gender, Margaret Rossiter. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/s... #histSTM ๐งช๐๏ธ
When will Ms Dowd apologize for her editorials that helped elect 45 in 2016? Still waitingโฆ
Thank you! Itโs striking & haunting
Michigan voters, we could use @mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social in the US Senate!
Yes, thanks for noticing!
Tile twin!
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Yes, it's true. Someone did take your job. And your healthcare, pension, wage hikes and life off a single income. It just wasn't immigrants, welfare recipients, queer people or women having abortions. If you want to know who took your money, it's the people with all the money.
Lucky you! Margaret Qualley mesmerizes? Of course. I watched Maid on Netflix because Iโd never seen anyone captivate the way she did by playing a game with Jimmy Fallon
@nealkatyal.bsky.social: โYouโve got the president who's imposed the largest tax increase on American consumers since 1993 โฆ and he did it without Congress saying one word. That is not our constitutional structure.โ
Whom can we credit if we print on our Labor Day protest sign?
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com โRobert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of health and human services, is endangering the health of the American people now and into the future. He must resign,โ Senator Bernie Sanders writes in a guest essay.
From @markhertling.bsky.social โ retired Three Star General, veteran of our modern wars. www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
โโฆI 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.โ My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
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The maddening thing is that we know EXACTLY how to prevent this. Yes, kids should get vaccinated, test, stay home when sick, mask as much as possible. But even without any of that: Better ventilation and filtration in schools can MASSIVELY reduce viral spread, for all sorts of respiratory diseases.
I miss the old brand #CDC
Heh
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Really important new study on the tax rate of billionaires from @gabrielzucman.bsky.social et al Upshot: The top 400 ultrabillionaires: 23.8% Avg Americans: 30.2% Yes, the superrich pay far less in taxes than the rest of us. www.nber.org/papers/w34170
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One of the most important and urgent pieces I have written! contrarian.substack.com/p/our-guardr...
Wow. On NPR, @gbrumfiel.bsky.social reports a Social Security official โcopied the Social Security numbers, names and birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private section of the agency's cloud.โ The source is a whistleblower, who is named: Charles Borges, SSN chief data officer.
Wish I were anywhere in NC! Grateful for your leadership & for @captmarkkelly.bsky.social
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A person who is used to covering for and enabling pedophiles would say this
If Trump wants to throw the book at people who commit โviolent crimeโ while desecrating the American flag, why did he pardon people who on Jan. 6, 2021 violently assaulted our cops with American flags-on-poles, calling them heroes and rewarding their bloody flag desecration?
Hang in there in DC!
Trump: "We're not going to hurt anybody on Medicaid, Medicare, or Social Security....Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, we're going to protect it." Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act just cut Medicaid...
Two days in a row? Wow!!!
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America has had โ50 years in which we did not make the right decisionsโ economically, says @rbreich.bsky.socialโฌ. โTrickle-down economics is a hoaxโ #Velshi
Whee!!!
Yay!!!
Slideshow of today in Washington DC, and how it looks when a terrorizing government scares people away. By me, no paywall: fallows.substack.com/p/a-summer-a...
Not enough exclamation points!!!
Wow!!!
New York Times story with profiles of researchers whose grants were terminated. [Gift Link] www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...
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Can we please, please stop referring to this president and his administration as stupid or clowns? They are a cabal of murderous gangsters and just about everything they are cramming through is dangerous and sticking.
And Ozempic face?
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By the way, any of my peers wanting to depict Trump talking out of his ass, knock yourself out. Another weapon from the long tie/tiny hands arsenal of freedom
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Noting the patriots who discovered this lapse sent it directly, and only, to NPR
Right back atcha!
Mark Zuckerberg has spent $110M to buy 11 houses in one Palo Alto neighborhood. He's turning the homes into a compound. That's on top of his 30 bedroom, 30 bathroom compound in Hawaii and another in Lake Tahoe. I donโt want to hear that billionaires canโt afford a wealth tax.
Television cable networks need to juxtapose this with Trump at the โpress conferenceโ with Putin why yet again about Russian collusion
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Such a great question: Will Zelenskyy get a red carpet?
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Marsden & Merritt: โ๏ธ Wayans: shame on me for blanking on one-word title Vulture Telematrix No. 49: Aug 11, 2025 I got 6/9 Correct Score: 1614 ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ โฌโฌโฌ Play at: vulture.com/vulturetelem...
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They are going to burn up billions in taxpayer funded equipment because they donโt want Americans to have access to scientific proof
An absolutely stunning article that we Democrats need to read and reread. Present ourselves as the party of reform, not government. Talk about the rising body count - even if we canโt relate it to Gatsby, as the authors eloquently do. Thank you for this gift!
"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people
Good tile-reading. I try but fail to enjoy each word equally, as Ms Casey would instruct
What the senior senator from Utah posted, making a joke out of the Minnesota state legislators who were shot in their own homesโTHAT was obscene
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Medicare for All - "That's socialism!" Social Security - "That's socialism!" Debt free education - "That's socialism!" Universal childcare - "That's socialism!" $1 trillion in tax cuts for the richest 1%... "That's just how it is."
Try muting Wordle in your Moderation settings
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A government-sanctioned "truth arbiter" will soon arrive at CBS. Their role will be to ensure that journalists do not criticize this Administration or express views that conflict with its agenda. This is a betrayalโnot just of journalistic independence, but of the public trust. ๐งต
The student newspaper. This fell. To the student. Newspaper.
Tied ya. On days like these I choose to believe the Botโs skill score ๐
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Just a note that these are likely career civil servants, and their firing is illegal, but the Supreme Court has chosen not to stop the purge of government employees for partisan reasons.
Dear unemployed Americans, kindly go back to the last place of business and that told you they were not hiring due to increased tariffs and a slowing economy and tell them to check out the new charts. Works every time.
Hello journalists. If you report this you gotta say that under the Constitution he has no power to do it. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Smart mother
Newsflash, Wannabe Dictator: I donโt care how many times you shake the Etch A Sketch trying to redraw these lines. Iโm not disappearing. Iโll be back, still on your behind every step of the way. (1/2)
3.5 avg? Take a bow!