Nine former heads of the CDC—appointed by presidents of both parties—warn the nation of the immense peril RFK Jr is putting the country in. Gift link, please send to families and friends www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
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Nine former heads of the CDC—appointed by presidents of both parties—warn the nation of the immense peril RFK Jr is putting the country in. Gift link, please send to families and friends www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Unions, community groups join forces for Labor Day protests against Trump and billionaires - USA TODAY
Knowing they will be punished, many members of the press corps censor themselves and thus prove themselves worthless during this time of national crisis.
On this Labor Day, let us remember that it wasn’t the CEOs and billionaires who saved us during COVID-19. It was the janitors, nurses, cleaning crews, grocery and food workers with their hard, often invisible labor.
Netflix co-founder, Reed Hastings, has given $2 million dollars to help California redraw its House maps in the latest indication of the campaign’s outsize stakes. This is to counter Texas’ GOP gerrymandering with a new map designed to oust California Republicans. Let’s do this!! 🔥
Donald Trump pretends to care about Medicare fraud, but then turns around and pardons a guy who ran a $1.3 billion Medicare fraud scheme.
www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/nation... The largest Nurses Union He must be fired or resign RFKJR is truly DANGEROUS Join me in calling your Representatives 202 224-3121
Staph infection?
In a WIN for reproductive rights, Governor Pritzker has signed bill HB 3709 into law. This new law will require all public universities to offer both contraception & abortion meds if the schools have an on campus pharmacy. This law is intended to make these meds more accessible. #Pinks
Were you to ask Leavitt etc, they would identify themselves as patriots whose beliefs rest on the country’s foundation. But with their talk of demons and evil, they are framing reality in a way that would justify Donald Trump’s campaign for fascist power. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/tragedy-br...
Is it fair to say that White Americans historically received advantages that contributed to a head start over Black and Brown Americans? I say yes. What do you think? #ProudBlue #USDemocracy #ResistanceUnited #Voices4Victory
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?
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...
here's today's post: "Illinois governor, hero. puppy assassin, zero." — a tale of two TV appearances. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter to keep getting the good stuff —
MO Gov Mike Kehoe is calling a special session to gerrymander the 5th District which encompasses Kansas City. He is specifically violating Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which bans any voting practice that denies or weakens the power of a racial minority to elect its preferred candidates.
Happening Now — Washington DC: Pretty massive rally is forming at 14th and U NW.
On #LaborDay, we recognize the workers who make so much of our everyday lives possible. And every day, we should have American workers' back by supporting their organized efforts to secure higher wages, good benefits, and safe & dignified workplaces.
Troops in the streets and he thinks he’s going to get a Nobel, peace begins at home
9 Former CDC Directors who were all qualified for their posts are warning that deranged chaos agent RFK Jr is a danger to public health. I’d say he’s actively destroying public health and committing murder on a daily basis with his destructive monstrous agenda.
Weekends. The 40-hour work week. Sick days. That didn't just happen. Organized labor did that. And today, we celebrate how far we've come. And how far we've yet to go to build an economy – and a country – that works for working people.
Unions built this city and keep it running. They’ve fought against power and greed to make the impossible possible. Now, they need an ally in City Hall. On Labor Day, the presidents of the Hotel Trades Council, 32BJ and SEIU 1199 make the case at @cityandstateny.bsky.social.
It’s far more likely he was part of a chain of events that led to domestic violence.
Happy Labor Day, Illinois!
This is, of course, false. The United States exported $83 billion in goods and services to India last year alone.
The National Guardners
As we begin a new month, my law firm is litigation 51 voting and election cases in 25 states. 6 in Arizona 6 in Georgia 4 in Florida 4 in North Carolina 8 involve redistricting
Anyway, I’m glad to know the president is still technically alive so he can watch this tomorrow www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Revoking an entire nationality’s visas is collective punishment and never acceptable — especially in this moment when millions of Palestinians lack equal rights, basic healthcare, and so much more at home, forcing them out of the US is unfathomably cruel. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...
Wages of unionized workers are 13% higher than their nonunion counterparts. But unions also set a higher pay standard that all workers enjoy. In high-union-density states, median household income is $12,000 higher than in low-union-density states. This is why unions are vital.
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
I’m not an ornithologist. Can anyone identify the bird in this photo?
Trump working hard to cover-up his child rape and sex trafficking with Epstein while literally trafficking children to Guatemala. Can someone in the media please point that out. That's the real deportation block headline.
JB Pritzker just dropped a bomb, saying that Trump is putting military in U.S. cities because he might aim to stop the election in Nov 2026. Pritzker, who's Jewish, compared it to how the Nazis came to power in Germany: "Donald Trump is just following that playbook."
Just saw a clip on ABC news that showed a small Guatemalan child being led to a plane for deportation with her ankles shackled. This country has lost its soul.
Remember when they attacked Biden because "the American people deserve to know the truth about the President’s health?” Now after being missing for 5 days we get a picture of Trump taken with a telephoto lens from hundreds of feet away.
I’m with Allison! #TrumpMustGo #25thAmendmentNow open.substack.com/pub/muellers...
Id heard that Cantor Fitzgerald, the Wall Street firm formerly run by Commerce Secy Lutnick and now run by his sons is one of the big buyers of these refund rights. Turns out it’s already public back in July when they were buying them at 20 to 30 cents on the dollar. www.wired.com/story/cantor...
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
Tomorrow (9/1). Stop the billionaire takeover. More than 1,000 protests nationwide. Find one near you. MayDayStrong.org.
Philly DA goes off: "Republicans are actually TERRIBLE at public safety"
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Johnson may have thought taking an early break would cover up the Epstein files but Massie and Khanna have enough votes for their discharge petition to overrule the speaker. They are coming back with a press conference on Wednesday that includes Epstein Victims. #ProudBlue#Voices4Victory apple.news
The Trump regime wants us to forget that the Kent State massacre happened — that pitting the National Guard against American citizens is a recipe for disaster.
They're moving in an ideological direction & want to see the undoing of vaccination. Daskalakis disagreed w/ changes to recommendations on who should get a new COVID-19 vaccine this fall, w/ new dosage creating confusion & uncertainty for those who want the latest shot. #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
Another dispatch from the “hellhole” of Chicago.
Outrageous. FEMA staff warned that disaster response has been gutted—and instead of fixing it, they were suspended. Retaliating against civil servants for telling the truth puts Americans at risk.
These MAGA justices are letting Trump get away with murder www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...
Now let’s see him walk a golf course.
Tulsi Gabbard is *very obviously* a foreign intelligence asset and I hope we all live long enough to see her tried and convicted for it.
Oh, Andy Borowitz. What a gem you are.
As the federal government continues to press states for voting information, Colorado election officials are pushing back against its demands. “This all is part of a bigger ploy to further undermine our voting in this country,” a state county clerk said.
Mass shooters since 2018 who were transgender, total of 4. Mass shooters since 2018 who were not transgender, total of more than 4,000. Transgender folks are 1.0% of the population and they make up less than 0.1% of the mass shooters.
Around 10 ICE agents showed up at Malcolm X Park to detain an unarmed man peacefully sitting on a bench. Wouldn't it be great to see them raking leaves instead of harassing innocent, harmless people and using the National Guard for free maintenance labor? What a total disgrace. #OnYourSide
Canadians accepted the assignment and excelled.
JUST IN: Judge who blocked the transfer of about 600 Guatemalan minors from US to Guatemala Sunday is keeping a very tight leash on the government. Echoes of Alien Enemies Act litigation simply deafening here. Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Go on. Take a wild guess who was president both times.
California stepping up.
Because no one is going anywhere…
Not white enough?
What is this? A Republican with a pair?? And they said unicorns were not real! #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks
the judge is now basically checking every couple of hours to make sure her directions are being followed to the letter because she is dealing with lying liars who lie astounding how much credibility the government has burned with the courts
By the time DOJ files this status report, Judge Sooknanan will have been awake for nearly 20 hours.
Robert Mueller was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 2021. We’re just learning about it now because he was asked to testify in the Epstein matter and won’t be able to. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
Can the media STOP referring to Jeffrey Epstein as a “financier”? The money he made came from SEX TRAFFICKING MINORS, RAPING CHILDREN, and BLACKMAIL. He was NOT a financier. I’ve seen at least five stories from three outlets refer to him this way in the past week. This is the latest from the Times:
If this is the “strong leader” they keep selling us, why are they hiding him like Weekend at Bernie’s? 👀
Oh, the irony if #DonaldTrump dies before Joe Biden. What will corporate media do with itself?
Hey! Just icymi: FEMA is now evicting THOUSANDS of Hurricane Helene survivors Our government hates us. And millions voted for this degree of brutality and cruelty. Why?
Fatality.
And there's more FEMA is doing/NOT doing. When Trump blames Biden then be assured it's something Trump's team is doing. Below is just drop in the bucket. www.youtube.com/watch?v=llF7...
Her it is: abc11.com/post/hurrica...
Dear people who refused to vote for Kamala over Gaza, or AIPAC or...reasons. You LITERALLY made this situation worse. Again YOU DID, not Kamala, not Joe. YOU: www.huffpost.com/entry/israel...
My hot take on Gavin Newsom is there’s over 30 special elections coming up THIS year alone. secure.actblue.com/donate/speci...
NEW: Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” will hand out $67 BILLION to companies next year to "incentivize" research these companies did YEARS ago. That means next year, the federal government will spend five times more on these handouts than what it spends annually on child care.
Mary Shelley wrote an entire book trying to warn us about extremely arrogant nerds who create things irresponsibly and take no accountability for them for when they wreck society, by the way.
Good.
Judge Chutkan ruled May 27, 2025, that Elon Musk and DOGE lack legal authority—Musk isn’t Senate-confirmed, and DOGE was never authorized by Congress. A lawsuit seeks to end DOGE and reverse its actions. www.axios.com/2025/05/28/l...
a kid like this can either bloom into an empathetic beautiful soul or can curdle into a bully bent on revenge
“.. 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...
Nearly 250K people have already watched my interview with Cong. Jamie Raskin that posted on Friday. That is a lot for our YouTube channel! Take some time this weekend and watch for yourself. You will hopefully learn and enjoy. youtu.be/YDLIgNzb5FM
Trump has essentially deployed the National Guard in an effort to prevent the release of the Epstein files.
💯%. I've come to accept how morally depraved Donald Trump is. But I'll never get over how blindingly imbecilic he is. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
FEDERAL AGENTS TAKE NOTE… It’s not just Chicago standing strong. Other blue cities and governors are ready to unite against Trump’s federal invasion. I’m not an attorney, but this point seems huge: if federal agents break state or city laws, they can prosecuted. And Trump cannot pardon them.
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!
I don’t believe in Heaven, but even I know Trump won’t be getting into a place reserved for good folks…
Racism Is the reason for the current regime's National Guard invasion of majority non-white cities Fear is not going to sweep over them Resistance is the answer JB Smiley will defend all of Shelby County as Mayor #Vote4JBSmiley
Exactly. It doesn't give him implicit authority, either.
I'm still waiting for the relentless onslaught of media demands for a press conference and calls to resign.
This is just sad. We’ve posted about this before. Now here is what is going down. The rainbow crosswalk at the Pulse memorial in Orlando (created to honor the 49 lives lost in the 2016 shooting) has now become the target of state enforcement.
This is the second judge in a week that has brought up the fact that the government can't be trusted with clear instructions - likely because the government ignored Judge Boasberg's order to turn the planes around last March saying "verbal orders from judges don't count."
Fight back with every ounce of joy, compassion and courage in our hearts.
When 47 isn’t out golfing over a long weekend, something is definitely up.