Elon is quoting Nazis again
Elon is quoting Nazis again
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apartheid man-child sez what?
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could never listen to those guys. annoyingly smug and self-centered.
From: www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
To run a voting station,I had to swear an oath to uphold the Constitution. May everyone who has sworn that oath continue to honor their oath.
2/ forced him out of the race in the final stretch. totally unprecedented in American history. meanwhile you've got Trump showing up in public events with parts of his body looking like morgue photos and talking like he's playing mad libs and yet ... I guess the elite press ran out of reckoning ...
‘This should alarm every American’ @WashingtonPost.com Nine former directors of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), dating back to 1977 and serving under every Republican and Democratic president, are raising the alarm about the impact of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
“A respected network of hospitals and cancer centers is halting enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it would no longer provide funding to the group.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
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we need much more awareness of this
He demands that Pfizer and other companies show their vaccine data (which he calls drugs) to the CDC to show them how good they are. What does this tell us? That the outrage against RFK Jr. is having an effect and we need to push even harder to force this wedge.
ive got no idea what's going on with Trump's health. But the 'biden precedent' is just so glaring and hilarious. half of 2025 has been taken up with elite press shaming of how no one ever talked abt Biden's age which was actually their main topic in 2024. Ok. Set aside that his party literally ...
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What was that?
Get the hell off Substack before you literally can’t anymore without blowing up your business
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DO RAPISTS GO TO HEAVEN
wow
Well played, sir.
reminder Meta hired this shitcunt to police their AI for 'bias'
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So many radical authoritarian right-wing Catholics in this whole story
readeradrift.bsky.social (@readeradrift.bsky.social) reply parent
So many radical authoritarian right-wing Catholics in this whole story
ABC News is still calling RFK Jr. a “vaccine skeptic.” The dude was one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists for decades. There’s video of him in 2023 saying that there’s no vaccine which is safe and effective. You can call him an anti-vaccine activist!
Reminder: the apparent plan was to spirit these children away in the middle of the night without them ever seeing the inside of a courtroom to challenge their deportation. Children.
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Delete facebook
Science is real
MAGA got everything they wanted out of Cracker Barrel and they still want to punish the company anyway. Just about the most predictable outcome you could imagine.
Exactly. It doesn't give him implicit authority, either.
Very good discussion of the intellectual roots of MAGA, its deep flaws and incoherences, and the challenge of the moment for liberalism in response, from @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social and @lkatfield.bsky.social, off of her new book, which I highly recommend: www.theunpopulist.net/p/what-is-th...
Trusting experts is not, in fact, a feature of religion or totalitarianism.
Well done America
The Free State of Florida is now trying to ban *sidewalk chalking*
You could walk into a movie theater and pay a couple cents to watch a lynching video. In the north.
This from the good news section of a Black newspaper (1914) really puts things in perspective
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Too much apathy among the people, too much giving away power in advance, too much blaming others for your own inaction Not a Republic if WE can’t keep it
Need people to understand that literally the only lever here is public opinion
You spelled ENDANGERING wrong, @nytimes.com. “Pushing the boundaries” is a *positive* frame implying unconventional innovations. There are no innovations here. Just medieval anti-science populist attacks on some of best methods of truth seeking we have.
“The reluctance to scrutinize Trump’s health is part of a long pattern… The jarring photos published in recent weeks should have been a turning point. Instead, they’ve underscored the gap between what the public can see and what the press is willing to report.”
I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is. This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.
Crony capitalism and corruption will be dominant now. And barely a twentieth of Americans will know or care about it.
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No genocide on our dime
The US Administration has decided to destroy a top network for clinical trials to test new treatments for children with brain cancer. This is another atrocity that will harm Conservative and Liberal Americans, long after the politicians responsible are gone.
Since Texas’s near-total abortion ban went into effect, tens of thousands of women have left the state for abortion care. Most of them pay for their flights, hotels, rideshares, and procedures out of pocket, with many also taking time off work and figuring out childcare.
“The loyalists around Trump are much more open and much bolder in their authoritarianism than they were six months ago,” Harvard professor Steven Levitsky told TNR's Greg Sargent. “So we’re in a very dangerous moment.” trib.al/kIENaBA
NEW: my office has received disturbing whistleblower reports that the Trump administration plans to separate 700 children from their families, lawyers, and support systems. Disappearing vulnerable children beyond the reach of American law and oversight is beyond depravity.
Nick Davies - who broke UK tabloid hacking scandal wide open - puts Wash Post's Will Lewis once more under a spotlight He asks: was Lewis involved in cover up for Murdoch & executives rather than cleaning up? via Air Mail airmail.news/issues/2025-...
Peter Thiel discussing his relationship w Opus Dei priest Arne Panula. x.com/DBrozeLiveFr...
Mayor Brandon Johnson signs executive order banning law enforcement from wearing masks in #Chicago and requiring their agency and badge number be identifiable at all times
@dahlialithwick.bsky.social for help descriptively distinguishing between National Guard and federal law enforcement in DC 👇
Just saw a video of Bill Maher calling Mamdani a “straight up communist” and I continue to be struck by the depiction of policies associated with the New Deal Order as far-left extremism, which goes along with a refusal to depict Trump’s unprecedented authoritarian actions as far-right extremism.
Powerful piece by @markhertling.bsky.social. “I 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.” www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
The insurrectionist-in-chief returned to power to establish a vindictive autocracy and mandate the white nationalist mythology that drives his movement. Only seven months into Trumpist rule, America has reached “Ashli Babbitt: Blood Martyr” territory. January 6 ultimately prevailed.
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He uses women in the same way
The term “comfort women” was a euphemism for South Korean women forced into military sex slavery during WWII. Use of the phrase has been criticized for minimizing the harm and gravity of Japan’s actions. But given Trump's history, it’s no surprise he doesn’t understand. trib.al/Ly6uK0W
All the think pieces about “how did we get here” are superfluous when this video exists. A third of the country is this f’in guy. That’s how we got here.
Honestly I think this is how most of the Trump faithful consumes Trump content already so it'll be a mostly seamless changeover when he dies
In the entirety of human history the people who banned books were never the good guys.
don't want to let it slip under the radar that racist law prof amy wax lost her discrimination suit against penn and will be suspended from teaching this year
Another observation from my 101-year-old grandfather, since he's tickled pink that people enjoy his points of view. He says he listened to Father Coughlin's radio show back in his youth and that nothing reminds him of that infamous antisemite and bigot as Tucker Carlson's commentary today.
This future sucks
Outstanding reporting here, the playbook laid bare, resistance outlined… so much more than we’re used to seeing from all the “get a load of this guy” reportage on right wing kooks
Kennedy “has to go,” said @colincarlson.bsky.social. “Seeing Patty Murray and APHA come to the same conclusion – that RFK has to go – gives me a lot of hope. Let’s fight. I think we can win.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"While ChatGPT use has been linked to suicides and mental-health hospitalizations among heavy users, this appears to be the first documented murder involving a troubled person who had been engaging extensively with an AI chatbot."
I’d like to think two decades from now Palestinian Americans who lost family in Gaza can be bringing Israel to trial
BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout. They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base. (🎥 AP)
NEW: In his criminal case in Tennessee, Kilmar Abrego Garcia's lawyers seek an order stopping the Trump administration's nonstop prejudicial statements against their client. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
New acting director of CDC Jim O'Neill expressed being pro paid organ donation. "There are plenty of healthy spare kidneys walking around, unused."
Here is the terrifying truth: D.C. residents outnumber the populations of Vermont and Wyoming. What’s happening to them now could happen to those of us who enjoy the full privileges of the Constitution. trib.al/VmNYUSN
“While ChatGPT use has been linked to suicides and mental-health hospitalizations among heavy users, this appears to be the first documented murder involving a troubled person who had been engaging extensively with an AI chatbot.”
The President of Portugal said that Trump is a Russian asset “He functions as an asset,” Rebelo de Sousa calmly explained his reasoning.
UPDATE: With Reps. Mark Pocan and Lateefah Simon, 15 members of Congress are now calling Israel's genocide of Gaza a "genocide." A new poll shows 50% of US voters think Israel is committing genocide. 15 of 531 members of Congress agree.
🚨Border Patrol arrested two firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire at the time. When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member “you need to get the f*ck out of here. I’m going to make you leave.”
One more time, shout out to the very serious people who suggested that RFK had some really good points about public health. No way to have predicted how things would turn out, except to look at his past record and everything he said about vaccines.
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I have a parent who is a malignant narcissist. Been warning everyone since 2015. Don’t think he won’t annihilate the world or kill millions of people as punishment for his own painful demise.
#Pinks #ProudBlue If you live in GA., you better make sure you’re still registered to vote. Hundreds of thousands have been taken off the voter rolls, especially young black people. GOTV. ✊💙 georgiarecorder.com/briefs/georg...
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It’s not like Hillary, Kamala, Obama and others didn’t put it plainly. Too many Americans just ignored them all.
“I think we should all be scared about the nation’s health security.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...
ICE took 2 firefighters OFF THE FUCKING FIRE LINE!?
Absolutely bonkers personalist regime stuff www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
A former CDC staffer adds: “This is the work of a death cult.”
I know that “this should be the top story” discourse is tired but “Trump Says Americans Want a Dictator, Not Democracy” really should be the top story.
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Some good news
"That deafening silence on Tuesday was Republicans and business leaders reacting to Donald Trump’s latest authoritarian power grab: his effort to fire Lisa Cook" My latest column: www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...
If the US follows through with a COVID-19 vaccine ban this fall, many Americans will be forced to do a vaccine run to Canada. "Moderna’s latest COVID-19 vaccine is both approved and ‘made in Canada’" globalnews.ca/news/1134908...
Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it
Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day. Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day. It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.
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#NoKings
"Honey, I don't have much time. I've been arrested by ICE and they are sending me to a detainment center. I love you and the kids, I will be OK, please call our attorney" -- John Shin, DACA resident, speaking to his wife last week. She hasn't heard from him since www.fox13now.com/news/local-n...
In the NIH funding case, Justice Gorsuch (joined by Justice Kavanaugh) claimed that this was the third time in recent weeks that lower courts had "defied" a #SCOTUS ruling. As today's "One First" explains, that claim is not only nonsense; it's enabling a dangerous anti-court narrative on the right:
Happy to Announce, we have a date now: On September 6, We Take Back DC. "This is our city. We live here. We work here. We raise our families here." Saturday, September 6 at 11 AM. We march at 12 PM. Allies join us! Malcolm X Park, 16th St NW &, W St NW, Washington, DC 20009 www.wearealldc.com
72% of adults surveyed in 25 countries see the spread of false information online as a major threat. Meanwhile the US is harassing the researchers and civil servants who studied the challenge and attempting to export that harassment campaign to other countries. 🙃 www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/...
It’s Women’s Equality Day! 105 years ago the 19th Amendment was ratified! We are still waiting for the ERA! #Pinks #MomSky
These guys should be home with their families.
The 19th Amendment was ratified on this day in 1920, barring voting discrimination based on sex. But for women of color, the right to vote wasn’t fully realized until the Voting Rights Act of 1965. 105 years later, we're still fighting for equal ballot access for all.
“I don’t know of a single rainbow crosswalk that has ever killed a child,” said one Florida resident. “Yet I can name countless bus stops across this state w/out traffic lights—real dangers where tax dollars could be used to protect lives, rather than being wasted on erasing LGBTQ+ visibility.”
"a protege of Cleta Mitchell, a lawyer who tried to help Trump overturn the 2020 election results... played a key role in Mitchell’s behind-the-scenes effort to change Georgia’s election rules... also promoted election conspiracy theories" Literally named to an "election integrity" position at DHS.
If they catch you littering, they’ll waterboard you on the Group W bench.
Paul Krugman on Trump's attempted take over of the Fed:
National Weather Service meteorologist applicants are now being asked to pledge their support for Trump’s executive orders. (Image reposted with alt-text)
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Tell that to all the cruise customers