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Take a closer look at the top-ranking officials who have quit the CDC www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/p...
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.
Congratulations to Stephen Colbert!
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.
Donald Trump's grave site will be the most visited gender-neutral bathroom ever.
I heard some passengers forgot their bunjee cords and had to be duct taped to the wings this time.
We owe thanks to the labor of women each and every day. Way too many men take advantage of women. Just stop it.
Sending National Guard to Blue States only is an Abuse of Power! It's a prelude to the Trump admin declaring Martial Law to prevent the next election, which would almost certainly result in his losing the House.
That quote is so riddled with logic equivalents of double-negatives, that I have no idea how many dolls are nesting inside.
“Get it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses. Because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” Dwight D. Eisenhower
He’s going try to bankrupt America, but we’ve got to continue to fight for our democracy.
They’re just trying to get rid of some files. Nothing to see here🤔😉🤣🤣
Ran the candy stand a a revived art deco movie palace.
Overtime pay and Fire Exits and CHILD LABOR LAWS. Please return the favor of his sacrifices by fighting to keep unions legal and strong!!! Happy Labor Day
My grandfather, who was sent to work in a shoe factory as an orphan, became a labor union organizer by the time he was 12. Earning him a price on his head by the czar by the time grandpa was 16. After immigrating to the US, his ongoing efforts--repeatedly landing him in jail--got YOU weekends and
This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I can’t overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.
THANK YOU. I *so* do not find Macs intuitive. They make me cuss.
🚨When all is said and done the money that was WASTED on Alligator Alcatraz could’ve easily been the 1 TRILLION that was cut from Medicaid. There must be oversight for the OUTRAGEOUS costs: 1) Monetarily 2) Environmentally & 3) The Physical & Mental Health stress this cost people and their families.🚨
OMG, RED PANDA BABIES!
Same. I have had elderly relatives on bloodthinners have bruising like that from everyday bumps and bangs, though.
Oh, Andy Borowitz. What a gem you are.
If we don’t stand up for these victims, who will ?
One of these is going to be his last post ever, isn't that fun to think about?
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100% this. Unfortunately, that circle also fits fully inside another circle of people immune to feeling shame about their hypocrisy.
Links: apnews.com/article/immi... www.reuters.com/world/us/us-... www.fox13seattle.com/news/lawyers...
It took a federal judge to step in and block the deportation, blasting the midnight raid tactics as a betrayal of due process and human dignity. Maybe Border Patrol should focus on fighting fires. After all, the military is busy in D.C. spreading mulch.
Targeting firefighters while they work. Dragging children from their beds in the dead of night. MAGA will go to any length. We’ve said it before, eventually the monster comes for us all!
#NYC baseball coach confronts ICE child predators. “There's only one way to get into the cage, so my whole thing was I can control that. I was in front of the entrance and that's when I just said, you know, I may die here, but they will not take one of these kids." www.wcpo.com/politics/imm...
Trump limits National Guard assignments to 29 days at a time to keep the called up service members from getting healthcare and housing benefits while on duty. And the NG troops are catching on. Stereotypical Trump. Don't give those losers and suckers an extra dime. www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri...
Rudy Giuliani was seriously injured in a car accident. I hope he gets the same expert medical care that he would wish for a disabled transgender immigrant.
EVERY STATE Needs to follow New Mexico. 👏👏💜💜
Darwin Award winners.
@olbermann.bsky.social Nails it! (+ you never did answer my request to have my babies all those years ago)
The petty little orange pedophile trying to flex by taking away Kamala's Secret Service detail just got bitch slapped by Commissioner Sean Duryee.
They violated their Hippocratic Oath to help the sick and do no harm. They should be stripped of their medical license.
This is not only disgraceful, it's embarrassing. Not sure how long it will be before we no longer have any allies.
This 👇👇👇
As I recently wrote: “Mr. Trump may think his word is law, but neither a social media post nor an executive order has the power of a royal edict“ www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o...
How many unconstitutional executive orders does Trump have to issue before the GOP grows a backbone?
While you are looking at Trump, the oligarchs are seeding themselves deeper into the fabric of society, your government, and your resources. Your media is captured, your institutions are captured, your politicians are captured, and your algorithms are captured. A full system reboot is needed. #3E
Hey, sorry I didn't finish that sentence. My brain decided it was done for the day.
A new Gallup poll finds 40% of Americans approving of President Donald Trump’s overall job performance. That means 40% or Americans are either, racists, white supremacists, Nazi scum, or just plain ignorant twats (aka... MAGA).
If you don’t believe that Trump’s authoritarianism can be defeated, look at how scared MAGA is of chalk:
I AM furious. People prefer to live in constant denial.
Republicans are trying to kill us, yet again
Stand up for democracy or suffer the consequences. And there will be consequences.
Deport MAGAs!
Links: www.wusf.org/politics-iss... www.wesh.com/article/sign... people.com/trump-admini...
We are literally becoming a police and military state under this administration, when chalk at a memorial is treated like a crime, it’s not about “safety.” It’s about this administration having complete control on the American people.
A collection of clips from MSNBC of multiple Republicans getting booed at town halls this week.
Executive order is useless. Intent to issue executive order is less than useless.
You guys, I am consuming novels like they're potato chips. What are your coping mechanisms?
I think any time i hear anyone say anything about trump from now on, i’ml just be like, i thought he was dead
If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you
Dick Tator is about to die? No wonder JD (Junior Dick) is taking all of his vacations now.
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Thousands of women writing and speaking for decades with all the creativity and feeling possible about the wrongness of rape can’t make sexual violence stop or even be understood as real violence but RFK Jr croaking “beef tallow is the philosopher’s stone” has the force of policy now
Trump is again threatening Chicago with a takeover on social media. We will again say those who trade liberty for the illusion of temporary safety deserve neither. We are not, and will not become, a military state. Remember freedom is something they can never take away, no matter what they tell you!
Y'all: They're saying snow above 10,000' tonight. Bring it. #fucksummer
LOVE. We balance the Universe.
IT is.
Most Republican lawmakers are staying relatively silent about the ongoing shakeup at the Center for Disease Control, but one decided to stand up on Saturday.
Masked ICE aren’t about safety; they’re about fear and evading responsibility. Demand transparency and accountability by adding your name to this petition:
Trump certainly has no intention of running for a 3rd term, his intention is to have an indefinite extension of his 2nd term.
Republicans twist themselves into knots trying to blame anything for school shootings while they ignore the obvious.
"You're so resilient" ME: Not on purpose or anything
Score one for the “prayers don’t work” argument.
I did this the other day for each and every one of the 15 or so titles of mine it stole. Let's do this!
ICE forcing firefighters to stop battling a wildfire and make them all show their papers, then arresting some active firefighters and pulling them off the line shows there's no bottom. As @aselrod.bsky.social pointedly argues, it's nothing less than an "active assault on virtue wherever it exists."
"Stephen Miller and Russell Vought are the ones really calling the shots" says @hcrichardson.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qoy1...
"If the US government persists down this current path...the world will inevitably witness a tragic increase in child deaths..." Sobering warning from @drsethberkley.bsky.social @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
I'm afraid to go to the morgue because what if they decide to keep me.
The Trump administration announced that it plans to dismiss nearly all remaining employees at Voice of America, escalating tensions with a federal judge who had previously blocked efforts to overhaul the government-funded broadcaster.
Trump is not dead. He just smells that way.
You know what we really need besides a non-dictator as President? Healthcare for ALL!
Why did you decide to try to destroy our country, @nytimes.com ?
Maybe we should aim higher than toughness, with the virtues the Greeks strove towards such as courage, truthfulness, goodness, sophrosyne, etc.
Dear Americans, welcome to the thrilling game of ‘Did this dictator die or just disappear for a day?’ We’ve been playing it with Putin and Lukashenko for decades. Enjoy the suspense.
The Rev took attendance…
Stuart Stevens, currently to the left of most democratic leaders on the Hill
Those of us who depend on Walgreens especially people like me who take multiple medications NOW is the time to START planning a plan B for your medications. Here in Manhattan NY they have been shuttering stores for the last few years. My local Walgreens has been wonderful to me. This is devastating.
I love this so hard. ✊️
Trump did this
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social if Trump doesn't fire Kennedy, start impeachment proceedings Tuesday morning. Republicans can't stop you. Force them to vote! @normornstein.bsky.social