Everything we take for granted — weekends, paid vacations, sick leave, safer workplaces, health care — exists because of unions.
#HBCU professor of journalism and PR, ex-health care PR exec #Medicaid #Medicare, multimedia journalist, lover of cats, Dem from birth. Lived in CA, OH, MD, MA, AL, GA and now NC. No DMs. Period. #DoNotObey She/her.
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Everything we take for granted — weekends, paid vacations, sick leave, safer workplaces, health care — exists because of unions.
Pritzker: "We don't want troops on the streets of American cities. That's un-American and frankly the president ought to know better. This one doesn't seem to. He hasn't read any books. He doesn't seem to understand the Constitution or the laws."
Another “dangerous criminal” deported just for being here without papers. She’d just won a scholarship for nursing school. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/a...
Breaking News - President Trump, who has been missing for days, has been spotted in New Hampshire providing emergency care for his business partner, Mayor Giuliani, accompanied by the mayor’s medical provider, RFKJr.
“.. with the exception of the pandemic, Black women have never seen such staggering losses in employment.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
Anything in here you wouldn’t vote for?
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
This quote could encompass everything about the Trump regime, but in the case of our ability to fight disease and save lives, it’s truly sobering. “I only see harm coming.” www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Here’s the thing. We have more guns in this country than people. There are 330,000,000 people in America. What are the odds someone who is not mentally well could get a gun?
Aren’t they still going with their “unitary executive” theory? He has the power to do anything he wants, so he says
OK, we’re all anxious these days, so don’t let this worry you, but www.popularmechanics.com/space/deep-s...
Took it just now as a result of your post and wow, are they fixated on gender and sexuality. Left my name as Harriet Tubman.
He is. He did so much to fight deadly infectious diseases, saved so many lives, and a few deluded right-wing crazies made his life hell
To save the door? Seriously?
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Hey friends, Defend Public Health has a new campaign if you’d like to join in. Write your elected reps about ensuring that COVID19 vaccines are available this Fall!
Please notice that establishment media *are* reporting on this story—see above.
Fellow Triangle residents: watch out for wildlife and make sure your pets are vaccinated. #Rabies is here. #NorthCarolina www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
There is a pattern here, and we all recognize it. In Trump’s world, the only people in power should be white, and male.
I stand with Chicago. I stand with Mayor Johnson. 🚨 NEW: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson just signed an executive order to resist Trump’s federal invasion and occupation of the city. Details in 🧵
Hope no one you know has a child who is diagnosed with brain cancer. No, actually, I hope the people doing these abominable things are locked up and never see the light of day again.
Communicate!
I wonder if Susan Collins will follow the lead of Joni Ernst and drop out because she knows she'll be trounced and most of her constituency hates her.
Surprised it took this long. Smart move, @netflix.com
We are not worthy
Oh
I see red when these MAGA liars say they want to “restore” the #CDC and help it “regain” its reputation When they were the ones tearing it down in the first place. We have lost a premiere #publichealth organization respected around the world. apple.news/AMSJBYkopSLa...
You are emphatically NOT engaging in any sort of conversation about how to find our way out of the dangerous autocracy we are clearly living in. You don’t want an exchange of ideas; you want to show your arrogant superiority. You’re an unimaginative troll.
I’m working on it! Need weirder glasses tho
If you're arrested in Illinois protesting the planned ICE HQ in North Chicago, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.
I have a bottle of Veuve Cliquot chilling in the fridge for that very moment.
"She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it. She was not protecting lives at a gate in Iraq; she was forcing her way through windows in the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power." New from @markhertling.bsky.social:
CHICAGO…
Look at you being a jerk to a total stranger, abusing someone you never met just to get a little frisson of fun from the cruelty. Fuck off.
Happy Saturday to you, too.
CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @mluckovichajc)
Please, let’s keep it that way.
Defenestration? That’s Vlad’s favorite
“Burgled” is so much more fun to say.
More like this www.theparisreview.org/blog/wp-cont...
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This may seem an odd choice, but to me, it's a call to action. Gets me fired up. #Revolution
So…is he?
Ahhhhhh
This is the remark that made me go “hmmmm” this week: Trump said he doubts he will see the Pearly Gates. “I want to try and get to heaven if possible. I’m hearing I’m not doing well. I’m really at the bottom of the totem pole.” Sounded like bad health to me. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Somewhere in a basement there’s a beautiful portrait of an extremely handsome young RFKJr
Absolutely must read this brief thread about the harm racism does personally, individually, physically
No matter what the next time we see Trump, we all have to agree that he’s been replaced by a clone and not the real him
Yeah, it does hit on my cred, but it’s true. Even when I covered the Georgia legislature every day, never used that. This is three decades ago.
Here’s what we’ve got so far. Needs more current stuff—please share some good recent songs. music.apple.com/us/playlist/...
Adding it.
Always local, and not much pool work. I remember the phrase, but only from decades ago.
Worth remembering that any time I say, “It's happening,” I’m talking about the latest drop of a new pair of comfy shoes
Oh god I hadn’t thought of that
Bluesky right now ...
Geez, ladies, just pack up and go.
He is big on demanding thank-yous, isn’t he?
Can I reserve that middle lounge chair? Thanks Good morning, y’all lovelies! 🌅
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You’re seeing it too, then
Scratch that about full lid. It’s just end of day.
Good catch—and if memory serves, “full lid” on the press is significant too.
He does seem like an automaton at that teleprompter sometimes, doesn’t he?
It’s just wish fulfillment—we all want it to be true, so we’re sharing the rumor hoping that makes it true
Want the patisserie book
That’s why so many believe; it’s comforting.
@crockett.house.gov for POTUS!
Not only is he not an expert, he doesn’t have an M.D., an MPH, or any experience ever working in #publichealth. He’s a hack, an arrogant self-aggrandizing boob determined to force us all to eat beef tallow and drink raw milk.
Perfect answer.
One of my faves from the sixties, and the lyrics are perfect now. youtu.be/YVhn1edWaDA?...
Submissions taken here for the #Revolution playlist.
Opinion | Americans don’t need to go shooting things into their arms to be healthy by RFK Jr.
Every. Damn. Day
#PedoParty
Trade you countries—
Hi, Jaye. Let me get you a cuppa.. #ProudBlue #Resistance
There are still so many good men out there, but those just starting out on the adult maleness are being dragged into a #manosphere that hurts them, that tells them they can’t show weakness or be “soft,” and that women can’t be trusted.
My Dad is still my model cisgender guy. He was modest and funny. Handsome, without arrogance. Sensitive to a girl who had already survived a horrible loss, and trying to heal, himself, from that loss: her big sister had died at age 4. Strong, confident, caring. I still miss him, and always will.
The book is written by Casey Means, who’s close to Junior But she’s far from knowing what she writes about, and is engaging in “scienceplotation.”
Apparently this is where #RFKJr got his idiotic idea that “mitochondria” are causing visible damage to children that he can see when they walk past him—a book. www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...
One of them wears a label that says “police illegal alien” and we have no way of knowing whether that’s a cheap fake ICE outfit and these two are just disappearing young Hispanic men at random
NEW: A federal judge ordered an Arkansas school district to take down Ten Commandments displays in its classrooms following our lawsuit.
If you’re a current CDC employee and would like to share information anonymously, please reach out via Signal: @slooterman.18
I hate what's coming. You know there will be chaos, whether it's in the financial markets or when a hurricane devastates the coast and FEMA is non-existent. This demonizing of cities and the people who live in them; the talk about "being a dictator," the military in our streets.
We need a Revolution playlist! youtu.be/BGLGzRXY5Bw?...
Kyle is so good.
Didn’t his cousin say he was a predator? His whole family has disowned him.
Perfect example bsky.app/profile/rbre...
Saying this will make no difference, I know, but just for the record: The reason our enormous federal government hires experts like #SusanMonarez and other #CDC researchers and physicians is to get the best input on health policy. They’re not supposed to follow POTUS, but inform and advise.
What is it that lets people knowingly sink to the depths of amorality and greed, to watch as “their” people hurt the helpless and kick those already down? How can anyone do what so many in America are doing right now, this minute, today?
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Hey, guys—it’s walking like a duck.
I’m out of gift articles til September, but here’s the @nytimes link. Abortion in America is mostly a private thing, now, with the meds easily available and you can take them at home. Don’t get used to that. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/u...
First they came for the LGBTQ 🏳️⚧️ people, and I did not speak up because I wasn’t LGBTQ. Then they came for the immigrants, not caring about their legal status, sending them to countries they never lived where violence is endemic, and I didn’t speak up. Then they came for us, for women.
