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In another nod to Putin, Trump administration officials inform European diplomats that the US will no longer fund programs that train and equip militaries in eastern European countries that would be on the frontline of any conflict with Russia. www.ft.com/content/0157...
BREAKING: New York Governor Kathy Hochul is set to sign an executive order allowing pharmacists to prescribe and administer Covid-19 vaccines to anyone who requests them, regardless of age or underlying conditions.
Is there a don’t vote for Cuomo or Adams shirt?
Can a state ban entry to unvaccinated people of another state, because of a health emergency? Not asking for a friend @governor.ny.gov @govpritzker.illinois.gov @marklevinenyc.bsky.social
Why is Darth Vader testifying before the Senate Finance Committee?
The status is that the remaining duopoly in NYC - Walgreens and CVS - are claiming that a prescription is necessary for a Covid vaccine- but they aren’t administering any, even to those over 65 yo [taps mike] @governor.ny.gov hello? @thecity.nyc @katiehonan.bsky.social
The status is that the remaining duopoly in NYC - Walgreens and CVS - are claiming that a prescription is necessary for a Covid vaccine- but they aren’t administering any, even to those over 65 yo [taps mike] @governor.ny.gov hello? @thecity.nyc @katiehonan.bsky.social
Ugh! Now I'm crying in the doctor's waiting room! Not a good look 😭
John Fetterman inherited a cursed amulet from Kyrsten Sinema. His staff have repeatedly pled with him to just take the damn thing off, but it’s gaudy as hell and Fetterman, like Sinema before him, has awful taste.
Embedded in RFK Jr. And if Democrats don’t fix this, & so many other things, since the media obviously won’t, look up the descriptive word- Vichy. You seem to be missing the plot of the next 3 years: normal people know what the fascists are up to. If the Democrats can’t act, they will be abettors
I think it's important to note that Venezuela is saying this didn't happen. They've recovered no debris, and they contend the video appears to be a deep fake. Yet crucially, the US media is mostly avoiding reporting this, or examining the video. www.cbsnews.com/video/venezu...
TLDR: 74% of Americans want vaccines to be more available. Sadly, 71% of Americans are so ill-informed that they don’t know that RFK Jr is making vaccines less available. Once again, an information gap that media and Democrats are not successfully bridging.
TLDR: 74% of Americans want vaccines to be more available. Sadly, 71% of Americans are so ill-informed that they don’t know that RFK Jr is making vaccines less available. Once again, an information gap that media and Democrats are not successfully bridging.
Ding ding ding! I’ve said it before: Trump’s pretextual invocation of antisemitism to attack universities is the most antisemitic thing I have ever experienced.
NEW: @reuters.com got its hands on a document from the Guatemalan government further undermining the claims the Trump admin made publicly (and to a federal judge) that the attempted deportation of 600 children in the dead of the night was requested by parents.
This is important. The first 24 hours of press coverage fumbled the ball. But the US just murdered 11 people in international waters. Analogies to the US’s (highly suspect, morally and legally) targeted killings of suspect terrorists don’t work. This crossed their own lines, and they know it.
“The former official also said it was unusual to have 11 people manning a vessel that could easily be crewed by two or three, especially since traffickers are always trying to maximize the amount of cargo space devoted to carrying drugs, not human beings.”
Daskalakis: There is a program called Vaccines for Children. It is the safety-net program that gets vaccines to kids. Over 50% of kids in the U.S. get their vaccines through this. If the ACIP says this vaccine should not be given to six-month-olds through 12-year-olds, the VFC won’t buy it
Statement tonight from Alan Garber, 31st president of Harvard. Good for him. Good for Harvard. Good for standing up to defend "core values of American higher education." And (again) what about all those "Harvard about to cave" stories? Main point: Worth reading what Garber says.
So now the fascist wants to make sure that no lessons are learned from the Holocaust. I wonder why…
I guess they’ll have to another one of those deals or it won’t be enough for Don Jr.
RIP CBS News
Seems to me that tourism to Florida should drop to zero - too dangerous to be among the unvaccinated.
Seems to me that tourism to Florida should drop to zero - too dangerous to be among the unvaccinated.
Advisers to Trump have discussed the possibility of giving Mayor Eric Adams a position in the administration as a way to clear the field in November’s mayoral election and damage the chances of the Democratic front-runner, Zohran Mamdani, according to three people with knowledge of the discussions.
What a disgrace. The right wing stole the Zionist election and stole the voices of the progressive movements in Israel and among Jewish organizations- and their funds. ejewishphilanthropy.com/zionist-supr...
Like the American Revolutionary War, where Britain fought for the colonists’ right to speak their lang.. oh, wait
Like the American Revolutionary War, where Britain fought for the colonists’ right to speak their lang.. oh, wait
this now brings us up to six (!) grand jury refusals to charge (that we know about), plus two cases filed as part of the dc surge dismissed on the us attorney's office's request
No notes
The Wall Street Journal confirms: Ukraine has deployed AI-powered drone swarms in combat. These drones can communicate, coordinate, and decide the timing of strikes without direct operator input. WSJ describes this as a new frontier in warfare
Rep. Thomas Massie files a discharge petition to force a floor vote compelling the Justice Dept. to release all of the files from the Jeffrey Epstein case.
Also the fact that they are all finding time to write books suggests they don’t have enough to do in their day jobs. Maybe up the workload and take away a few clerks. The upside of a heavier workload is that maybe the old ones would retire.
Don’t sit on any “brass tax”
NOW: Judge Breyer finds President Trump violated the Posse Comitatus Act with deployment in LA. Enjoins further use: Ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
🚨BREAKING: A federal judge ruled Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s use of National Guard troops and Marines in Los Angeles earlier this year violated a federal law that prohibits using the military as a domestic police force. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
And let it not be forgotten, Giuliani and his administration knew that NYC firefighters had defective radios, which meant many could not hear the order to evacuate the WTC. Finally, because the crisis HQ was no longer usable, Giuliani spent much of 9/11 running away, uptown. a.co/d/6hMJqvx
Giuliani built his emergency HQ where the experts told him not to - 7 WTC. He had tens of thousands of gallons of fuel oil stored there for emergency generators. The two larger WTC buildings were struck and fell and 7 WTC fell thereafter. That fuel oil burned and destroyed the air until December.
I wouldn’t bet the ranch on it but Barrett seems to trend normalish if the case doesn’t involve sex, gender or reproduction. And Roberts occasionally demonstrates a scintilla of concern that he not be remembered as the worst CJ in SCOTUS history Consequently, my prediction: 5-4 striking the tariffs
I wouldn’t bet the ranch on it but Barrett seems to trend normalish if the case doesn’t involve sex, gender or reproduction. And Roberts occasionally demonstrates a scintilla of concern that he not be remembered as the worst CJ in SCOTUS history Consequently, my prediction: 5-4 striking the tariffs
Despite that appellate court’s rejection, Trump’s tariffs will likely be with us for many more months— likely til next spring, at least. Excellent analysis via @jessbravin.bsky.social www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Enormous impoundment-related changes in Trump/Vought's Circular A-11 update from Friday, which is OMB's guidance to agencies They: -removed the definition of impoundment -said GAO's impoundment determinations don't matter -claimed pocket rescission authority -claimed profound deferral authority 🧵
Had D POTUS rung up $37T debat, started a trade war, knocked job growth down from the 200,000s to 10,000's , tried to fire fed gov, fired experts who had the temerity to contradict him and his cultists with facts, and sounded loony (birds and windmills!) we'd be in impeachment or 25thA territory
Something doesn’t add up “The state police confirmed the domestic violence incident, saying in a statement that it had occurred on a southbound stretch of the highway in Manchester, N.H.” It “did not say why the accident occurred on the northbound side of I-93.”
Something doesn’t add up “The state police confirmed the domestic violence incident, saying in a statement that it had occurred on a southbound stretch of the highway in Manchester, N.H.” It “did not say why the accident occurred on the northbound side of I-93.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
Five states — Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arkansas and Louisiana — have a positivity rate of 15% to 19.9%. But is the govt promoting vaccination? No www.axios.com/2025/08/29/c...
The United States killed American Indians and drove them from their homes in order to steal their land. Could it work in Gaza?
How did the Palestinian movement to vote against Harris turn out? Here’s how www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
One of the most well known jokes told by Jews: how amazing that Hitler is going to die on a Jewish holiday….
One of the most well known jokes told by Jews: how amazing that Hitler is going to die on a Jewish holiday….
At 3 pm Wed., a woman was stabbed just off a busy intersection on H Street, NE. National Guard members were dining al fresco at a taqueria DIRECTLY across the street, yet the suspect got away. "So safe," a local texted us. Our postcard from an Occupied D.C.: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The last columnist focused on metro at a New York paper hangs it the spurs. This sucks. — www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/n...
Trump/RFK are destroying the American public health system, so Dem governors need to step up now and defend their constituents against this madness. In this piece, I suggest things these govs can do to protect their people. This is a big opening to show leadership. newrepublic.com/article/1998...
This is good: With Trump/RFK destroying CDC, JB Pritzker's officials are exploring the possibility of buying Covid vaccines from manufacturers and distributing them in-state themselves, source tells me. Dem govs must step up and fill the void. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1998...
🚨BREAKING: Hostage Ilan Weiss who was murdered during the October 7, 2023, Hamas massacre in southern Israel and kidnapped into Gaza has been recovered by the IDF.
Unfortunately, the full picture of how to get a Covid vaccine is more complicated. In NY, for example, CVS isn’t offering them at all (yet?) and even over 65 yo Walgreens requires a prescription. People are going to die this winter. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
“Over the past few months, an increasing number of Israeli reserve soldiers have not been showing up for military service. Some cite exhaustion, as well as the need to save strained marriages or foundering careers. Others say they are increasingly disillusioned with the war.”
One famous guiding saying is, "You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it." You *have to do the work*.
I'm a practicing Jew. We pray a lot. One of the things we also believe in, however, is that prayer by itself isn't the solution - you have to combine it with actions.
Because everyone knows that marching is the most important skill for the Navy
At a moment when Israelis are in the streets demanding a hostage deal and an end to the war, Netanyahu is busy legitimizing the settlement movement and promising there will never be a Palestinian state. His vision is endless conflict. We demand a better future.
From the other site
GOP Sen. Susan Collins’s first public, press conference-style event in her home state in nearly a decade, turned into a public shaming as more than 200 protestors gathered to jeer. “You don’t ever listen to us!” “Your votes destroyed our Supreme Court!” trib.al/dEglsv3
DHS is forcing synagogues & other institutions to choose between vital nonprofit security $ and their core religious values & beliefs, with grant conditions potentially requiring cooperation with ICE & banning DEIA @thejcpa.bsky.social is urging these terms be waived now www.jta.org/2025/08/26/p...
He’s telling us he’s too old
So then Trump’s multiple convictions for fraud….
Where are all the corporate media headlines demanding his resignation? Where are the all the assumptions that about specialists visiting the White House meaning the president is dying? They did this daily with Biden. Why not now? Are they covering for their cash cow? Are they paid to cover it up?
Obviously @nytimes.com statement is giving cover to anti Semites.
Glad this is being covered but this is anti Semitic. “Still, there is no sign of a unified public effort by the largest American Jewish institutions to pressure Israel into ending the war.” It’s obvious to all that the Israeli right wing has run amok. So somehow US Jews should be able to stop it?
Glad this is being covered but this is anti Semitic. “Still, there is no sign of a unified public effort by the largest American Jewish institutions to pressure Israel into ending the war.” It’s obvious to all that the Israeli right wing has run amok. So somehow US Jews should be able to stop it?
UPDATE: Lisa Cook says she's not going anywhere and Trump's bid to fire her is baseless. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Targeting Gal Gadot has nothing to do with helping Palestine. It's just discrimination, and we should call it out as such.
Oh boy. The end of Fed independence
Trump signs an executive order tasking Hegseth to establish "specialised units" within the National Guard to "deal with public order issues" across the US. Using the US Military against the American public.
An excellent summary of one week on the path to dictatorship from Bill Kristol
Susan Collins went from being pro-choice to being anti-choice and the local and nat'l media -- and even some misguided abortion rights groups -- have spent the last few years looking the other way. A creepy, dystopic and increasingly ridiculous state of affairs. #MEpolitics
The article that @nytimes.com should have been published in June. Seems the Times has finally given up on Cuomo only now. Amazing that one can publish an article of this length without using the word about the system of power we fought a war to defeat - dynasty. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/n...
Update: * He’s been charged with a felony * Initial spreadsheet of recent arrests lists officer’s badge as 12345 * @cmlewisgeorgew4.bsky.social will be requesting body cam footage
The far left hates Jews for being “white colonizers.” The far right hates Jews for not being white enough. Antisemitism comes from all sides, and it must be condemned every single time. This poster, seen in Maine, is shocking and must never be normalized. Never again.
NEW: Ghislaine Maxwell was an honored guest at a prestigious Clinton event in 2013 - years after abuse allegations against her were publicly known. Information we reviewed showed her on a list recommended for free access by either Bill or Hillary Clinton, per a source familiar.
it's smart that the woman in the audience is being kept at a safe distance
A national corporation changing its branding is actually a secret message to me mocking my values stop laughing I am not “crazy”
I really, really don’t think what blue voters want to hear right now is “military takeover is redundant because we can crack down on crime more effectively.” They want to hear “this is fascism and we won’t stand for it” and vanishingly few national dems are doing that
Exclusive: Years after public abuse allegations surfaced, Ghislaine Maxwell was an honored guest at a prestigious Clinton event. https://cnn.it/45Nnn6H
Threatening to traffic Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda if he doesn't plead guilty is extortion, not justice. If the corrupt and incompetent Pamela Jo Bondi had evidence of a crime, she would have the DOJ prosecute instead of making threats. apnews.com/article/abre...
Garcia: What we got was complete bullshit. We demanded the full Epstein files, and that’s not what was sent over. The White House cover-up clearly continues. What they sent us was 33,000 pages of documents that have already been in the public domain.
The IRS — which lost nearly 25 percent of its workforce, from buyouts, resignations and firings — told employees that it now wants to reverse some of those losses, asking workers who took buyouts to return and launching a hiring campaign.
And finally, after a quick word search, nothing was mentioned in the transcripts about a prison transfer. No mention of FPC Bryan, or a minimum security facility. So if these are the complete transcripts, where is that discussion? END/
A couple of interesting things about the Ghislaine Maxwell/Todd Blanche audio recording: it's not one continuous recording. It's broken up into 7 parts on day one, and 4 parts on day two. Further, Todd Blanche says he spoke to Maxwell off the record for several minutes before the recording. 1/
This is actually a good development. Let the Trump supporting and inclining corporate CEOs chew on this
This is actually a good development. Let the Trump supporting and inclining corporate CEOs chew on this
Trump said Chicago will be the next city that his administration targets following D.C.
This is getting very bad: *FBI raids top Trump critic's home *Trump loyalist gins up "mortgage fraud" pretexts for DOJ probes of Schiff, Letitia James, Lisa Cook *Bannon says ICE will monitor 2026 voting *DHS memo vows LA operations "for years to come" New from me: newrepublic.com/article/1994...
So the FBI does a big, splashy search on John Bolton's house on the very same day DOJ is set to begin releasing some Epstein files to Congress. I'm sure it's all just some kind of crazy coincidence, rather than an attempt to divert public attention away from the Trump/Epstein/ Maxwell scandal.
i'll say it again, my loud and vigorous support for any democrat who calls for televised hearings and criminal charges for everyone involved in DOGE. this guy should never be able to live in peace again.