Angry Democrat. Lapsed writer. "Love that dirty water, ooooh, Boston you're my home."
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Oka, that’s a good headline.
He’s ranting about Covid so I’m thinks that’s what he’s got. Covid is pretty bad for obese 80 year old men with heart issues. And it continues to be a danger for months afterwards.
He’s not traveling to NJ like they had announced. Not even to Florida. Sure does seem like someone is staying awfully close to Walter Reed, doesn’t it?
As for the rest our foundation has to go back to the aspirational beginnings of the country—a government of the people, by the people, for the people. All the people, regardless of biases and prejudices. Right now it’s a government of the 1%, by the 1%, and for the 1%.
I deleted my post postulating that Trump went in for some kind of procedure. I now believe he has Covid, based upon today’s Covid rant on his “look at me look at me” site. If he’s talking, he’s talking about himself.
It’s funny you posted this, Susan. I was literally walking around the house yesterday singing “ding dong the witch is dead” Gotta work on my singing and dancing skills for the big day, may it be soon.
He’s always talking about himself so I’m thinking he has Covid. I bet that’s why we haven’t seen him—my understanding is the newest strain feels like razor blades in your throat, so he wouldn’t want to speak. Docs probably gave him paxlovid and then had to explain how vaccines work.
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So they’re trying to make blue areas red by weakening some red areas, which could in the end mean a lot of purple districts. So instead of defending, say, 10 red districts and ignoring 4 blue districts, they now have to spend money and time on 12-14 districts.
You all should be watching the US and doing the opposite. Take it from people living here—you do NOT want to go down this road.
Cheers!
This is powerful. Nine former CDC leaders just came together to defend SCIENCE. Maybe it’s time we LISTEN TO THEM— not the loud voices spreading MISINFORMATION. Science saves lives. Lies cost them www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
It’s baffling.
What a gang of mindless amateurs in Washington accomplished in Beijing:
wow
Happy Labor Day 🙂
DESCRIPTION: self-described alpha male, wearing body armor, assault rifle, and wraparound sunglasses because he’s “afraid of nothing.”
Well I’ve got a checkmark now, so figured I’d re-introduce myself. I’m Santiago Mayer, I’m 23 years old and the Executive Director of @votersoftomorrow.org. I have spent the last 7 years working to turn out Gen Z and stop MAGA, and I’m not stopping now. Can you RT and follow to help reach others?
If you know California voters, tell them that if Trump rigs the next election and Republicans keep Congress, they will most certainly not certify the election in 2028 if they don't like the result. No one is saying gerrymandering is good, but unilaterally disarming could be the end of our democracy.
Serious Credit Card Delinquencies (unpaid balances for at least 90 days) hit their highest level in 14 years #EconSky
So that means 85% of Americans have a gloomy view of the economy.
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
Yeah, that’s not what a hand shake looks like. It’s weird.
Jesus fucking christ. The Trump administration tried to send a bunch of children to Guatemala at 3 am and justified it by saying that the kids just wanted to return to their parents in Guatemala, but the kids actually told the court that they are afraid of being sent back to Guatemala.
This exchange gives me hope.
If he’s dying he won’t care about nuclear fallout. I’m not sure we can depend upon the people around him to stand up to that kind of madness either. I can’t get out of my head the discussion he had with Musk about how Nagasaki is a great place now so nukes aren’t really all that bad after all.
I'm still waiting for the relentless onslaught of media demands for a press conference and calls to resign.
Look at the hand on the right. You can see a line that is not blurred between his hand and his upper wrist. That makes me think there are two sets of bruises they’re hiding.
Those hands have been photoshopped to hide the bruises. You barely need to zoom in to see the blurring and the poorly matched coloring.
His hands have been photoshopped, likely to hide bruises. I am not an expert, but I’ve done similar—shoddy—work with the clone tool on Gimp.
*Blue states and cities are on the front line, but we aren’t the winning battles. Right now, democracy is in the hands of red state voters. They are the ones who put these people into power and they are the ones responsible for voting them out.
We need a lot more people in the streets in red states* But we also need the DNC to create one united message, one united front. Clear, succinct—for God’s sake be succinct—and fight for that every single day. DO NOT GIVE AN INCH.
Apparently, censorship is only a problem when someone else wants to take down your misinformation. Vinay Prasad forced a takedown of @joho.bsky.social 's YouTube channel which was posting the receipts for the flood of misinfo from Prasad and pals. Shameless www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I hope you report back on how that went. If there were hoops you had to jump through and such.
It's often said he sounds terrible because he has spasmodic dysphonia but that's not the whole story. He's had that for decades but his voice used to be much better; the dumbass didn't "trust the experts" so stopped his approved Botox treatment that was working and got an unapproved useless implant.
Walter Reed to Trump’s golf course is 14 miles as the crow flies and 34 minutes by car.
In other words, Trump, Kennedy and all other Republicans are responsible for the destruction of the CDC and NIH. We cannot let any of them off the hook. It’s on Republicans and if we end up with some massive epidemic in the US that we can’t control, it’s on them. All of them.
He won’t let the press anywhere near him. This is getting weirder and weirder.
JB Pritzker uses the word "invasion" to describe what Trump has planned for my city, Chicago. And that's exactly what it would be – an autocratic government trying to crush our dissent because we oppose his corruption, cruelty and incompetence. It's what dictators do.
I absolutely believe Florida is cooking the books.
Good to see you just having a good time.
If it were me, I’d be looking to paint random crosswalks all over the city in LGBTQ colours. With a bit of organisation, you could have them dancing all over the city trying to stop you. Finish with one outside DeSantis’s mansion 😂
There’s less crime in military states”is not great selling point. In the U.S. a military state IS a crime.
Pretty sure Prasad works for the government. This is the government censoring social media—authoritarianism at its core.
I am a fan of paper ballot backups, though.
Rest assured. The seeds of Trump’s destruction have already been sown. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-263
We’re moving to a place where, truly, only the rich will be able to be doctors, and the rich are NOT the best and brightest. Making lots of money, hoarding lot of money, does not mean you’re smart nor does it mean your kids are smart.
Student loan limits are going to make this worse.
This whole thing is great but the highlighted bit made me laugh out loud. 😂 Marlon on Snoop:
No.
“No one in their right mind thinks that with 4,500 people you can invade a country” Yeah, but Trump isn’t in his right mind. I’m confounded by the fact that “smart” people still believe he will act rationally about anything. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Question: Why did US put big tariffs on India despite major national interest in cultivating a strategic counterweight to China and trying to isolate Russia? Answer: Because the US president lied that he fixed India-Pakistan and India wouldn’t go along with the lie. (Seriously, that’s the answer)
Just saw someone refer to Cheryl Hines as The Marvelous Mrs. Measles and 💀💀💀💀💀💀
Ad hoc national security = chaos. And danger . It significantly increases the chance of a terrorist attack and dead Americans. WTF can't they just say it?
If farmers want some of that socialist help from the government, they're going to have to tax some rich people and help us suburban and city dwellers with OUR issues, like the high cost of housing and childcare.
I’m serious. This REALLY infuriates me. @nbcnews.com @cbsnews.com @cnn.com Do your job. You failed to lift this up in 2024. If farmers are hurting, explain why and who is to blame. And remind Americans that we paid BILLIONS for Trump’s first tariff blunder. It’s so irresponsible to ignore this.
metaphor alert
The chalk brigade should expand their chalking to other areas.
So much respect for @briantylercohen.bsky.social who has used his own platform and know-how to help so many talented young creators
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“.. Kennedy was acting bizarre, saying he can tell as he walks past children if they are dealing with “mitochondrial challenges” .. Can he mysteriously divine illnesses just by looking? “Our health secretary is a certified quack.” @nytopinion.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...
I miss him so much. I did not enjoy those 9 years nearly enough.
It’s wild, isn’t it?
I legit would like Joe Biden to roll up with ice cream and his aviators at Trump's funeral and then flip anyone at the NYT the bird.
someone should put together a "kennedy death count" for everyone who dies of a preventable disease and just plaster it everywhere www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...
“[Monarez] had two lines in the sand,” Besser said. “One was anything that was deemed illegal. And the second was anything that she felt flew in the face of science. And she says she was asked to do both of those.” Principled leadership matters. RFK Jr is unfit to serve as Secretary of HHS.
I’m always wrong on these things, so I’m going to say he is neither dying or dead. #teamdeath
There are studies indicating various vaccines offer small protection against dementia in seniors. That makes me think there’s likely a correlation between infectious diseases and the onset of dementia. Maybe we could have had some breakthroughs on that, if we hadn’t cut research budgets.
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The Political Awakening of the Oyster Farmer Gunning for Susan Collins Graham Platner’s campaign launch has been a sudden sensation. But what he’s building now is rooted in the work of a lifetime.
Until the TCJA, the top 400 US individuals by wealth and the full US population both had effective tax rates of ~30%. The TCJA reduced the Top 400 individuals’ total effective tax rates to 23.8% in 2018 – 2020, well below those of the full population (still ~30%). www.nber.org/system/files...
Stockmarkets have been compared to casinos for decades. But in recent months the line between investing and gambling has arguably been blurred out of existence
BREAKING: A U.S. appeals court has ruled that most of Trump’s “reciprocal” tariffs...imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act...are illegal...arguing that the president overstepped authority reserved for Congress. Tariffs stay in place during appeal.
Farmers in Arkansas going broke. They voted for this. #econsky www.kait8.com/2025/08/27/w...
Oh FFS. Sorry you have the same kind of jerks in Alberta that we have in various states. Fighting this stuff is exhausting.
JD says he's ready to be president. Via Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social: This makes me question the president’s health more than the size of his ankles Carl Quintanilla: “.. if, God forbid, there's a terrible tragedy, I can't think of better on-the-job training than what I've […]
www.nbcnewyork.com/bronx/7th-pe... Seventh person has died as a result of the Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in Harlem. NYC Health Department said that seventh death was one of 114 confirmed cases in all since late July.
I was walking through Minute Man Park (where the first battle of the American revolution was fought) last year and stopped to read a sign. It was about a barn raising for a colonist that the community came together to work on. Rugged individualism is a crock. We were founded on community.
As I said in my last post, we are living in a tornado created by Trump—induced chaos, and we don’t know if we’ll land in Oz or the Sahara Desert.
Meanwhile the stock market is just whistling past the graveyard because the market doesn’t tend to react until there’s huge news that cannot be ignored. It’s all just chaos.
And now he’s messing around with stats coming from the BLS and screwing around with the independence of the fed, so it’s hard to know how it will handle interest rates over the next year.
We’re seeing electricity prices spike in some areas due to AI. But the jury is still our on how useful AI is so do we know if that increase will continue? Meanwhile Trump is trying to destroy solar and wind energy, while working to sell LNG to other countries, which powers electric plants.
We have data on unemployment but because of the on-again off-again federal force reduction policies we can’t get firm numbers there, and many will not enter the ranks of unemployed until September.
We have data on inflation but we don’t really know if it’s reflecting tariffs because we don’t know what will happen with new tariffs and when the current tariffs will hit prices, since big businesses built up inventory ahead of the tariffs.
I’ve been following economic data since January and after 8 months this is my take: it’s chaos.
Much of Trump's econ damage is slower-burning, longer-term—politicizing Fed, discarding rule of law, shaking down firms, degrading data, destroying talent pipeline, alienating trade partners etc These will have costs in the short-term, sure. But biggest costs will be evident in coming years, decades
Jonathan Howard 