VACCINES SAVES LIVES!!!!👍🇺🇸🥳
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VACCINES SAVES LIVES!!!!👍🇺🇸🥳
Here's the response from Paul Bryant, the Black veteran and lawyer whom the govt arrested in part bc he had a legal weapon in DC, to USG attempt to get him detained. It leans heavily into the lack of Body Cam proving he shoulder checked some Guardsmen. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
🇱🇹🇪🇪🇱🇻 NATO’s easternmost member states are grappling with a sharp rise in radio and satellite interference, with Baltic governments accusing Russia of positioning equipment for EW close to their borders, - Bloomberg
One thing they’ve been very successful at is making it so when sober experts put their careers and reputations on the line to issue grave warnings, it gets mostly a shrug.
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no Anglo-Saxon civilization without migration. “Anglo-Saxon Migration to Britain : Angles, alongside Saxons and Jutes, migrated to Britain in the 5th and 6th centuries CE, taking advantage of the Roman withdrawal and opportunities for farming, new settlements, and trade.
Great lead headline right now, @nytimes.com.
Countries on track to eliminate cervical cancer: -Australia by 2028 -Sweden by 2027 -Rwanda by 2030 -UK by 2040 -Indonesia by 2030 -Bhutan 2030 -El Salvador by 2030 -Canada by 2040 How? HPV vaccine. Same one RFK Jr is trying to ban. You will note USA is not on this list.
If you were actually mistreated by federal agents multiple legal hurdles stand between you and compensation, but if you were fake mistreated you can just, like, ask the Trump admin for money. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
To understand Trump's modus operandi for authoritarian consolidation, listen to this podcast of @radleybalko.bsky.social, the nation's premier expert on the militarization of law enforcement, by @ezraklein.bsky.social youtu.be/UcTZ_en5FTM?... .
This would be 88 Billion dollars PER DAY since April. A literal impossibility. The total amount of money moved in the entire country totals about 80 Billion dollars PER YEAR.
“In 2017, O’Hanlon was captured at Trump’s first inauguration festivities in DC decked out in his full Eagle Scouts uniform. The photographer who took the photo wrote on his personal website of ‘the Boy Scout kid that looked like a Brownshirt.’”
I keep imagining an Always Sunny episode titled "The Gang Sets Monetary Policy"
Marsha Blackburn wants the National Guard in Memphis. www.actionnews5.com/2025/09/01/s...
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"Yet another “2 Week” threat has come to nothing, and Trump’s “Art Of The Deal” has manifested as a new characterisation - the “Art of the Fail”. from Beefeater
By far my favorite part of January 6.
“LIKE A BROKEN RECORD” Now that the @nytimes is reporting Modi and Trump had a falling out over Trump’s lie that he deserves credit for the India-Pakistan ceasefire, we re-submit to you this clip of an Indian anchor calling him out months ago — even as 🇺🇸 media wouldn’t.
Belgium will join the group of countries that will recognize the state of Palestine at this month’s U.N. General Assembly and will impose sanctions on Israel over the war in Gaza, Foreign Minister Maxime Prévot announced overnight.
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Yet another “2 Week” threat has come to nothing, and Trump’s “Art Of The Deal” has manifested as a new characterization - the “Art of the Fail”.
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Russia Intensifies Strikes in Ukraine, Defying Trump’s Shifting Deadlines for Peace www.wsj.com/world/russia...
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2 dead, 22 hospitalized after contracting flesh-eating bacteria: See where www.usatoday.com/story/news/h...
Historians See Autocratic Playbook in Trump’s Attacks on Science www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/s...
“Nothing can justify such an information blockade. Yet, it has been tolerated without debate by many of Israel's Western allies, who claim to defend the right to information as a matter of principle.” www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...
Remember to go protest today:
Elon Musk calls LinkedIn users “bots” while his own platform X has 76% fake traffic. If twitter were a moose and bots were its ticks, it would be dead.
This is my shocked face.
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Disinformation is creeping into ChatGPT’s knowledge backbone, with over 40% of its referenced content now being derived from Reddit. open.substack.com/pub/beefeate...
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11-year-old fatally shot after ringing doorbell and running from Houston home, officials say The boy was playing "doorbell ditch," a game in which someone rings a doorbell and runs away, police said. A person was questioned and released. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Social Security and Medicare cuts are coming because the bond market will eventually bring Congress to its knees, economist says fortune.com/2025/08/31/s...
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Alarm in Texas as activist faces hate-crimes trial over anti-Israel graffiti www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Embarrassing': Trump's 'atrocious' plan to profit from Ukraine war stuns former diplomat www.rawstory.com/michael-mcfa...
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Crisis within CDC is spilling into real world, experts say From food safety to vaccine availability, loss of trust and talent threaten health: ‘We are in much worse shape’ www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...
This should be a bigger story. A government official had the YouTube channel of a private citizen shut down bc he didn’t like what that citizen was saying. This administration’s version of free speech is a joke.
"He noted that snippets of Prasad’s comments still appeared on anti-vaccine social media accounts, suggesting Prasad was directing his removal demand only at a critic and not anti-vaccine influencers. In the past, Prasad has complained about censorship by social media companies."
I wrote about the humility of expertise and the arrogance of ignorance, the profound laziness that attends believing that you can find knowledge by ignoring the accumulation of inherited human knowledge, and the ways lazy arrogance fuels narratives of fascism. www.the-reframe.com/your-ignoran...
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New D.C. campaign ribbon. @waitmanwbeorn.com @fpwellman.bsky.social @rogerzenaf.bsky.social
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Wisconsin has had an acute labour shortage since 2017, and its businesses “desperately” need more workers, he said. www.ft.com/content/f055...
A Silicon Valley billionaire just declared Burning Man “demonic.” This is a heavy concept to drop on people who are currently tripping balls at the annual festival in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert. Get ready for “Satanic Panic,” Silicon Valley style. www.thenerdreich.com/demonic-sili...
not just that he has no constitutional authority, there isn't even any particular legal or institutional mechanism by which the president can make anyone treat this as anything other than a weird advisory opinion.
I've already said: War crimes, clearly. But if every instance of large and indiscriminate civilian casualties is "genocide," the word will have less meaning and world leaders will be more reluctant to use it than they already are.
Meanwhile in Russia: Zakhar Prilepin explained that regardless of any ceasefire, Russia will eventually resume its efforts to take all of Ukraine. He scoffed at Trump's peacekeeping proposals and emphasized that Russia will never be friends with America. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKrS...
Want to understand Russian policy? Ignore what they say to us in the West, listen to what they say among themselves:
NEW -- Exactly 10 days after taking the oath early this year, Donald Trump nearly drowned dozens, potentially hundreds, of his own citizens in California’s Central Valley. Why? Because he is one of the most ignorant people you will ever meet. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Videos Contradict Israel’s Rationale for Deadly Hospital Attack The strikes "killed at least 20 people. A Times visual analysis calls into question what the Israeli military was initially targeting there, and why its troops attacked a second time, killing first responders and journalists."
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iPhones without RuStore will be sold in Russia. Such smartphones will be marked as "defective." This is how stores circumvent the new law that requires smartphone manufacturers to pre-install RuStore on smartphones. 1/2
Unpatriotic farmers to sell products on open market? Comrade Trump says no! Great Patriotic Farmers grow glorious harvest, put in silos, watch rot, get taxpayer compensation taken from businesses still allowed to make money. Wonderful future awaits at completion of Five Year Plan.
Just to be clear: 1360 western businesses including PepsiCo, Burger King, Spa. They are sponsors of war and remain active in russia. 3 years into a genocide of Ukrainians. 4/4
Chancellor Merz warned that the war in Ukraine could last much longer, stating, “We are trying to end it as soon as possible—but certainly not at the price of Ukraine’s capitulation.” He stressed that while the war could end tomorrow if Ukraine surrendered, that would only invite further aggression.
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
The Trump plan for Gaza includes the relocation of the entire population - 2 million people - a US “trusteeship” and the creation of a tourism and tech hub. Landowners get digital tokens worth $5,000 and rent subsidies. Investors are promised 4x return on $100 billion.
Through vanity and false claims, Trump destroyed US-Indian relations in a period of just four months. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/o...
Exclusive: President Trump and international partners are discussing plans to build a “Riviera of the Middle East” on the rubble of Gaza. One plan would establish U.S. control and pay all of Gaza’s more than 2 million population to leave.
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Yet RFK was a injury attorney who people hire for their expertise.
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@radiofreetom.bsky.social Didn’t someone write a book about this rejection of expertise?
Finally! 9/3 there will 10 survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s abuse—some of whom will be speaking publicly for the first time—to attend and share their experiences - at the House Triangle (Capitol Hill) aimed at urging the release of additional records from the “Epstein Files.”
trump can issue as many executive orders as he wants, perhaps coverage should reflect the fact that a lot of these have the legal force of a child's wishlist for santa
Watching him, Lankford clearly knows how bad Kennedy is. He doesn't subscribe to the conspiracy theories. But he's trying to contort himself into a political shape that lunatic MAGA voters will accept, which requires him to pretend RFK is pursuing valid science and not speaking directly ill of him.
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RFK: A warm poultice and fresh air will cure most diseases. Maybe we should rethink leeches?
To pick one of many possible examples: the Nazis basically went “those world class nuclear physicists are nerdy eggheads and way too Jewy, not like manly Aryans” while Hitler had people researching the occult. The 20th century equivalent of thinking Putin’s military will easily win because pushups.
RADDATZ: One of the things they are trying to do in DC with the National Guard is have them back up local law enforcement WES MOORE: They are picking up trash
Not a very long path from "Why wouldn't you want the regime to deploy federal troops in your city when it reduces carjackings?" to "Why would you be opposed to the erection of internment camps for deviants when it reduces crime?" And a good chunk of mainstream media will just follow along.
They like Trump and want to help him
The perils of using illegal tariffs to make "trade deals": "US Trading Partners ‘Dazed and Confused’ After Tariff Court Loss" Oh well! www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Convicted Felon, Donald Trump, disrespects our armed forces & offers military funeral honors to deceased 1/6 insurrectionist, Ashli Babbitt. My latest on how the Trump Admin paid her Estate $5 million & inspired a copy-cat lawsuit from the Proud Boys. youtu.be/4SVwrjpvTAc?...
@radiofreetom.bsky.social explained it better than anyone; this is from a thread he posted after the 2024 election. For us, it has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with character. ⬇️
Ah….never mind. Executive orders are bad when Democrats do them. FWIW, Obama signed 129 EOs in his second term. Trump has issued 198 so far in **the first seven months** of his second term.
It’s not true that there are no principled conservatives, and every time they appealed to principle it was merely a mask for “it’s bad if you do it, but good when we do it, and we’re eager to do it a lot more.” It’s just that principled conservatives all went NeverTrump, by Jan. 6 at the latest.
That Trump and Trumpism are fascist doesn’t explain the sheer vandalism of unleashing mass murdering mayhem via RFK to replace medical/scientific institutions of immense value and prestige with medieval peasant superstitions. That is a criminal madness facilitated by but above and beyond fascism.
Counterpoint: yes it does, it explains everything, this is what fascist regimes do. This really could be a description of Nazi Germany, and if that is not widely understood—particularly by reporters!—that is a problem.
Griffin’s definition of fascism as palingenetic ultranationalism—specifically a reactionary nostalgia for a lost history of the nation that never existed—remains undefeated. A nostalgia for a type of bread that is ubiquitous, created in the 20th century, and rage towards bread as old as civilisation
These people are in a cult and live inside a batshit alternate reality and are trying to get as many Americans as possible to join them inside it.
Civic education and especially the press in this country aren't great, but the big problem here is that the people acting like the president isn't a public servant tasked with faithfully executing the law, but instead The Country's Boss, includes the GOP majorities in Congress and the Supreme Court.
Pritzker: "National Guard troops, any kind of troops, on the streets of American city don't belong unless there is an insurrection, unless there is truly an emergency. There is not."
Indian Prime Minister Modi is in China for the first time in seven years, where, on the sidelines of the SCO summit in Tianjin, he held a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. India and China have drawn closer against the backdrop of trade wars.
WASH POST: “A postwar plan for Gaza circulating within the Trump administration would turn it into a trusteeship administered by 🇺🇸 while it is transformed into a gleaming tourism resort… temporary relocation of Gaza’s more than 2 million population…” 🤔 www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Trump’s plan to rename the Department of Defense as the Department of War shows (once again) that his self-characterization as the “pro-peace” candidate was complete bullshit. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
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The surrender is peace president? Trump suggested that Ukraine would be at fault if it failed to accept Putin’s terms for peace. He told Hannity that Putin was “pretty close” to a deal but that Zelensky might “say no because Biden handed out money [military aid] like it was candy.”
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Putin and Trump, Still Colluding Every time the president’s apologists swear he’s not conniving with the Russian dictator, he does it again. www.thebulwark.com/p/putin-trum...
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Trump victim blaming? Trump promoting peace through surrender. Scoop: White House believes Europe secretly undoing Ukraine war's end www.axios.com/2025/08/30/t...
If you haven’t watched @katmabu.bsky.social’s video on right-wing efforts to make their own Wikipedia reality, what are you even doing? youtu.be/X3j-DuH1G4w?...
One disabled Marine veteran has not had a primary care doctor assigned to him since his previous doctor left in the winter, his wife said. The VA “was never like this before. There’s a lack of staff, empty rooms, locked doors.”
Russia's war is Trump's war. 100%. This is my tweet from eight years ago, when Trump occupied the White House. Russia had invaded Ukraine, was invading Ukraine, and continued to invade Ukraine. Trump did nothing to stop it because he is a Russian asset and traitor to the USA.
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Stuart Stevens, currently to the left of most democratic leaders on the Hill
The thing about a lot of these never Trump Republicans is that, unlike a lot of institutionalist Dems who think the fever will break and we can all return to comity or whatever, these guys saw the rot up close and know the only appropriate response is to tear them out of government root and branch.
We keep seeing this exact gaslighting over and over — @RepJohnRose & Sexton also said this to NC5 $1 TRILLION in Medicaid cuts only impacting people who *shouldn’t be on it* + “waste/fraud/abuse” is nonsense Also: if all this fraud exists, why 0 arrests?
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Trump's "patriotic capitalism" and the late-communist era notion of state monopoly capitalism are essentially indistinguishable. www.ft.com/content/830e...
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”
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Trump commutes sentence of convicted fraudster who aided GOP effort to impeach Biden www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
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Why did Trump issue this pardon? Payback? Jason Galanis: A former associate of Hunter Biden, Galanis' 189-month prison sentence for multiple fraud schemes was commuted to time served in March 2025. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
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Trump Grants Clemency to Executive Who Orchestrated $205M Medicare Fraud Scheme truthout.org/articles/tru...
Republicans keep saying the $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts are only cutting “waste fraud and abuse”… and yet not a single arrest. Funny how that works!
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President Trump owned between $615,000 and $1.3 million in Nvidia shares at the end of 2024 and $650,000 to $1.35 million of Apple stock, forms show. Nvidia and Apple have both recently benefited from special concessions Trump has made to tech companies.
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Donald Trump Stocks: 8 Stocks Owned by the President money.usnews.com/investing/ar...
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The concept of “gratitude” in American politics is an insidious one that implies a caste system where betters confer largess upon lessers and where those lessers must consistently pay homage to their betters. And there is always an implied threat that without proper homage the largess will stop.