The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
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The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
Trump's "murder people we don't like" doctrine is now fully in play. All the worst people you know are cheering at it.
"...seven in one blow!"
What. The Actual. F#¢k.
Reporters, I beg you, please stop using headlines with the form “Trump does X” when X is something the president clearly lacks any legal authority to do.
Too evil for Rand Paul. TOO. EVIL. FOR RAND. PAUL. This is where we are.
I’m just a simple country poster but it seems to me if the right actually thought Mamdani would be an albatross around the neck of his party they wouldn’t be desperately trying to sabotage his election
Massie (R) says Republicans are being threatened by Trump to not support the release of the files. As one does when one is totally innocent!
WHAT (and I cannot stress this enough) THE F#¢K
Sing it.
The fact that nobody is talking about how trump said garbage bags flying out of his window was "AI" and didn't happen, even though his White House confirmed it DID happen, is why we can't have nice things. It's a firehose of insanity.
Fox News had to pay 3/4 of a BILLION dollars for lying to its viewers. And it STILL lies.
"...with liberty and justice for ALL." #ONEV1 #Pinks 🌸 #Voices4Victory
'The military violated Posse Comitatus' is never something like you like to hear www.kenklippenstein.com/p/los-angele...
"I didn't vote for this." - people who absolutely voted for this but thought this would only hurt people they hate
Trump dying in office after Biden lived through his term would be such an indictment of the press. Made “Biden Old” the top story, treating it as an uncovered secret, a scandal. Then lamented not covering it even more. All while treating “Trump Old” as a nonstory. Because he’s loud and lies a lot.
Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world’s top scholars on the crime say
The Democratic Party has badly lost its way.
I am amused that Mamdani is seen as a raving communist for suggesting mid-tier FDR type reforms and there's an actual Eugene Debs dude running for Senate in Maine and he's not freaking out anybodyyyy oh yes. Shit. He's white. Sorry, I just got it. Go about your business.
Thank you on this labor day!!
This was like a couple of thugs in the Arkham series going "It's the Bat! We can take him!" ...and then the predictable results ensue. 😎 (For the few clueless who might see this, Zohran Mamdani is Batman in this analogy.)
This doesn't mean the exhaustion and burnout isn't real - it is. It just means you're still privileged to have this life, especially compared to what it was before.
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fucking wild that the fundamental moral test of our time is something as simple as "can you denounce fascism" and so many people are failing it
Your daily reminder. You have a sexual predator in the WH. #ReleaseAllTheEpsteinFiles
![DEFENDANT TRUMP TIED ME TO A BED, EXPOSED HIMSELF TO ME, AND THEN PROCEEDED TO FORCIBLY RAPE ME [AT AGE 13].... TRUMP THREATENED ME THAT, WERE I EVER TO REVEAL ANY OF THE DETAILS... MY FAMILY AND I WOULD BE PHYSICALLY HARMED IF NOT KILLED. KATIE JOHNSON](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3sdbof6be3apln2u62iu6ljn/bafkreigazw5wigt3dryrrmqtttfftdcao6xx6wmq4ey5tamlv4vntakn7m@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Not a doctor. Not a scientist. Not a public health leader. He is barely a cogent and responsible adult. You wouldn't let your dog drive your car, right? Entertaining in theory but catastrophic in practice. Why is Robert F. Kennedy in charge of the CDC? www.facebook.com/thaddeushowz...
Bans Can’t Stop the Abortion Pill nymag.com/intelligence... Now, because of lawsuits trying to ban these effective meds, “abortion pills are flowing more freely than ever before. They’re cheaper than ever before. & more people know about them than ever, partly thanks to the antiabortion movement”
The Trump regime has pulled the US out of the UN Human Rights Universal Process Review. This is chilling. This review happens every 4-5 years for each country in the UN. No country has ever pulled out of the review. Until now. I remember the last time the US had its UPR... 🧵
CNN: “At least 47 killed in Gaza City on Saturday, 6 children… footage showed a row of dead children shrouded in floral blankets… Video from after the attack showed numerous children wandering dazed, covered in blood and dust…” www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/m...
"This is the bottom line...They don't like facts because facts are bad for them." Trump's war on facts makes all of us less safe— @neeratanden.bsky.social explains.
This post wins the "Is Trump Dead" sweepstakes for the day. And just remember, always aim for the glowing red spots! 😁
Has anyone checked outside the White House windows? Sudden Putin Anger Syndrome has claimed many an oligarch in the past... #IsTrumpDead #TrumpKrasnov
Depends on the jinx. 😎
regardless of what happens to the tariffs, they're doomed from the start because the average conservative holds all three of these positions at once: — virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing — against increasing the minimum wage — buys foreign imports because they're cheap
Dems Break GOP Supermajority in Iowa Statehouse ‼️ Catelin Drey won 55%-46% in district Trump won by 12 points ‼️ Drey won by championing "affordable housing, childcare, healthcare, strong public schools & bodily autonomy," wrote one progressive Iowa journalist www.commondreams.org/news/iowa-se...
"it's bad politics to tell voters that the other side is bad" news basically to all winning presidential candidates in american history
Today’s Executive Order creating a *nationwide* military “quick reaction force” and setting up an online portal to permit random fascist vigilantes to join soldiers is one of the scariest things I’ve seen in U.S. politics in my adult life. Why is it not getting more attention?
New in PN: Then they came for John Bolton "It’s tempting to embrace fascist attacks on people you dislike or see as enemies, but if you let fascists build power, they’ll eventually get around to using it to come after someone you care about."
As a DC resident I feel like I should say: This is a complete and utter lie. My kid, under age 12, walked to school last year into an area close to downtown. Telling the truth is an important thing.
this is fixable and the way you fix it is with public trials
Ouch.. Fascism can be pricey.. #politics #economics #fascism
Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her. Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.
All joking aside, if the Commander-in-Chief of the world’s greatest nuclear power doesn’t know how numbers work, or what words mean… maybe that’s an issue?
“I’m about to lose my farm… Do you think we’re idiots? You know nothing about what a working class citizen does.” 🔥 Whew. Watch. Share.
The thing is: They’re not wrong about this part. But it exposes how hypocritical they’ve been to attack anyone who has pointed this out as “socialists” for decades — and what a convenient lie the “free market” has always been.
I mean, Ronald Reagan paved the way for Donald Trump in countless ways, but this still isn't wrong. 🤷
Whether it's Zohran Mamdani opening city-run grocery stores or Eric Adams handing potato chip bags filled with cash to reporters, both candidates have provocative ways of getting food to New Yorkers.
Washington Post vs Democracy Docket. Support independent media. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0
"Israel’s Full Takeover Plan of Gaza Proves This War Was Never About Hostages "I call on President Trump and every member of Congress: Oppose Israel’s escalation. Stop funding genocide. Demand an immediate ceasefire. www.commondreams.org/opinion/isra...
The fascist billionaire Republicans want you to believe resistance is useless. They want you to think nothing can change. But Kilmar’s freedom is proof that awareness matters, solidarity matters, and fighting back works.
“By Thursday afternoon in Orlando, some of the rainbow had returned, if only temporarily. A local resident, Dallas Perdew, came by with chalk to fill in the now-empty gaps with color.” You can’t erase us. We will always find a way to thrive 🌈 www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/08/21/r...
I am so damn proud to be a California Democrat today. Who’s with me? Vote YES on Prop 50. Let’s win this 🔥
You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you? (On the one hand, I had to search my streaming history for this. On the other hand, my kidnappers are so screwed. 😎)
20 Aug 25 -- Bluesky has suspended multiple trans users for anti-J.K. Rowling posts even when they didn't mention threats or violence. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
WATCH: Laura Loomer, a self-described "Islamophobe" with very close ties to Donald Trump, successfully pressured the U.S. State Department to halt medical visas for severely injured Palestinian children from Gaza. @chrislhayes.bsky.social
Obama is backing California’s plan to counter mid-decade redistricting efforts by Republicans in Texas. At a fundraising event for the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, the former president said the party needs to "respond effectively" to GOP attempts to gerrymander.
YIKES — Cuomo in the Hamptons telling on himself. @andrewcuomo “feels good about” Trump wanting him to beat @ZohranKMamdani? What else do you need to see, NYC? www.politico.com/newsletters/...
It doesn’t matter what’s happening, they’re going to keep telling you what they know you want to hear. This is the plot of ‘1984’
I bet he'd hate if this side-by-side went viral.
“Newsom’s threat to retaliate in kind is not a divisive attack on good governance. It is, instead, the only hope for democracy. Bipartisanship right now is appeasement. Democrats cannot and should not hide behind neutrality and fairness as MAGA incinerates the remaining tatters of our republic.”
Racist Texas legislature is holding a Black woman hostage because she won't consent to their plan to gerrymander Black Texans out of representation.
Do not look away. #TrumpsAmerica
This quote from NYT's review of Nixonland captures as perfectly as anything I've ever seen why and how the US center-left elite was so unprepared for Trump.
"The whole point of the Jade Helm hysterics was conservatives seeming genuinely afraid of the federal government sending active-duty troops into local American communities — a step that conservatives, at the time, characterized as obvious authoritarianism..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
Policing and punishment don't solve homelessness – they make it worse.
The pretexts for these paramilitary takeovers don’t matter They’re lies Don’t buy into their narrative They’re normalizing military takeovers That should be the opposing narrative, not crime rates which let them steer the conversation WE should steer it What they’re doing is unacceptable Period
National Guard reminder. Putin summit reminder. Everything about Trump reminder.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWCx... It's good to know that some journalists remember how to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. #TrumpEpsteinFiles #CommittingJournalism
"It just gets tiresome to say the same things over and over again, that’s part of it. Part of it also is he exhausts people, and that’s what narcissists do."
Gotta save all that data for AI production! 🙄 Cyberpunk is officially canon for reality.
"Let me be crystal clear: Crime in DC is ending and ending today."
📍 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋: Reports reveal that men have impersonated ICE agents to kidnap, sexually assault, and terrorize women — exploiting the anonymity created by masked, plainclothes enforcement. This dangerous gap in accountability has put vulnerable communities at risk. #AbuseofPowerWatch
In fairness, they also continue to support their pastors and priests.
They’re so jealous you can write. They’re so jealous you can draw. They’re so jealous you can make music. They have all the money in the world, but they’ve been driven insane because they don’t have your joy.
"If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing." --Nickie Haflinger, in "The Shockwave Rider" by John Brunner
Trump touts Evil Increase chart from Department of Injustice
If you believe, as I usually do, that we're living in something like Germany in the early 30s or Russia after Putin's return, it's tough to know where to start. But one thing is obvious: you don't want the goddamn secret police conscripting your local cops.
As you read this eye-popping story alleging GOP Congressman Cory Mills engaged in revenge porn w/Miss USA, remember that Eagle Ed Martin refused to investigate the earlier abuse allegations against him. So this is abuse Pam Bondi's DOJ let continue. www.dropsitenews.com/p/miss-unite...
It would also be spectacularly illegal if the Schutzsupreme Court hadn't declared Cult 45 above the law.
George Conway is sharing Keith Olbermann quotes. "These are the end times." - Wally West/the Flash, Justice League Unlimited, "Destroyer"
READ... ‘He has trouble completing a thought’: bizarre public appearances again cast doubt on Trump’s mental acuity Joe Biden was hounded for his age-related gaffes, but Trump’s increasingly strange behavior has largely been ignored www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQbD... #Resist #TrumpIsEvil
new video shows the ICE agent who claimed he was randomly "assaulted" by this 4'11" US citizen on her way to work is shown literally picking her up and carrying her away.
Write for those who can't. Write for those who are afraid. Write for those who need to know they're not alone.
This is actually hilarious 😆
If you work in/adjacent to Democratic politics, or even if you are an occasional Democratic donor, this new @adambonica.bsky.social piece is the most important thing you can read today. The Democratic Party cannot build power if it allows scam pacs to thrive open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...
The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand: $678M raised through those spam tactics $282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies. $11M to actual campaigns (1.6%) The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.
Abbott cites an opinion from AG Ken Paxton claiming that lawmakers who leave the state can be expelled. So, chaser:
Sooo...are any Dems in NJ up for primarying Sen. Booker?
"Nazi It Coming" for $800, please
He straight up, deliberately lies about demonstrable facts (the jobs revision happened before not after the election and Trump called it out at the time!) and no reporter challenges him on it. No Sunday show host challenged his officials about his lies. He gets away with it.
The core problem isn’t that Trump can’t do math & doesn’t understand what it means to “cut prices” by more than 100% — rather, it’s that there are people who actually believe this can be true & an entire political movement & media ecosystem that encourage it.