And now about the war. As of August 25, due to russian war in Ukraine, 1,553 cultural heritage sites and 2,388 cultural infrastructure facilities have been destroyed or damaged. – Ministry of Culture and Strategic Communications of Ukraine
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And now about the war. As of August 25, due to russian war in Ukraine, 1,553 cultural heritage sites and 2,388 cultural infrastructure facilities have been destroyed or damaged. – Ministry of Culture and Strategic Communications of Ukraine
Support for Trump amongst his youngest voters is already collapsing. And, trust me, we’re gonna keep dragging it down. 🫡
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Only 50% of your criticism is for the fascist dictator who is literally destroying this country and all of its institutions??
What have the ppl who had custody of these kids been doing that the kids were not in a group and returned as a group? This doesn’t make any sense and given the party we’re talking about I have concerns. Why were they not in a group and returned as a group???!!!
I’ve had kitten-shaped lumps under the covers of my otherwise perfectly-made bed before. 😹
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👆 Didn't learn anything from 2016. 👆 Still falling for Russian ops. 👆 Would rather sacrifice U.S. democracy altogether than save it and actually make progress going forward. 👆 Will never learn.
Well, I’m pretty pissed off at Bernie and his “strong supporters”, who helped get us into this mess in the first place, so I guess we balance each other.
Sorry, but did you really need “reasons” to vote against the demented criminal who promised to be a dictator on day one??? Or were you so white privileged, you thought you’d come away from a second Trump presidency unscathed?? (Surprise!!) Was it worth it to you not to vote for the woman? 🤨
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
It’s very hard. I have the same with my mom now. Hugs!!
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.
Who voted for war with Venezuela?
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
New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them. States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.
Wait! I thought Trump was supposed to be “ending homelessness.” HUD just announced a nationwide audit of Section 8 “citizen status.” Mixed-status families could lose rental assistance, even when kids are U.S. citizens. Families including children could be thrown into eviction & face homelessness.
I had two calico sisters (orange, black & white). Their colors extended down to their skin beneath their fur, and yes, to the insides of their mouths! You could see it when they yawned. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
The Social Security Administration official who exposed that the Department of Government Efficiency had left millions of Americans’ personal data vulnerable says he has been forced to resign due to retaliation. Charles Borges, who served as the SSA’s chief data officer, told
The extent to which ICE is ignoring all civil rights and due process is astounding — and indicative of a culture where they’ve been told they can do literally no wrong. Agency and admin leaders must face sanctions and legal consequences.
She influenced people in 2016 and 2024. She gets the share the blame and the shame.
They were ops to get Trump elected just signed it the first time too by funneling votes from Hilary
Life for Palestinians in Gaza has gotten worse under Trump, not better. So where are Jill Stein and Cornel West now? They aren’t leading protests in DC outside the White House, no rallies. Almost like the whole 2024 thing was just performative.
@nealkatyal.bsky.social: “You’ve got the president who's imposed the largest tax increase on American consumers since 1993 … and he did it without Congress saying one word. That is not our constitutional structure.”
I really hope this becomes the black eye it deserves to be www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
This firefighter arrived in the US at age 4, has been here for 19 years, was on track to legal status, and was on a crew trying to contain a major blaze (in Washington state, vs Oregon, fwiw.) h/t @joshuajfriedman.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
My reporting uncovered the existence of DoJ training videos instructing FBI personnel on how to flag Trump’s name in the Epstein files. I’m suing to get the videos under FOIA. substack.com/@muellershew...
Dr. Dmitri Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC says that RFKJr said he believes that Avian flu should be allowed to "burn through" the chickens and then children and others, so we can propagate a "stronger species". RFKJr believes in eugenics. RFKJr needs to resign or be fired.
Television legend Stephen Colbert has just signed a $13.5 million deal with Netflix for a 7-episode series.
“ILLEGALS” MY ASS! Green card holder Rami Othmane speaks out after being snatched off the street by ICE while driving to the grocery store. He’s a documented immigrant and the husband of Dr Wafaa Alrashid, chief of staff at a local hospital. He was locked in detention for 13 days.
📌 City department of law are directed to pursue every legal mechanism, to resist unconstitutional efforts & hold them accountable 📌 Demands Trump stand down from deploying the military in Chicago 📌 Chicago PD not to wear masks or collaborate with ICE on patrols, arrests, or immigration enforcement
I stand with Chicago. I stand with Mayor Johnson. 🚨 NEW: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson just signed an executive order to resist Trump’s federal invasion and occupation of the city. Details in 🧵
“…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.” My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
Poor Dandy! It must have reminded her of earlier trauma before she picked out a disheveled man and demanded he adopt her. 😻
JUST IN: Judge Cobb has blocked the Trump administration’s effort to extend rapid-fire deportation procedures to immigrants who have been in the U.S. more than two years — warning that it is a flagrant deprivation of due process that could ensnare anyone. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
Okay, my 101-year-old grandfather is really enjoying the responses he’s gotten here, so I’ve finally convinced him to let me share something he’s been working on for years; a series of sculptures he calls “Trumpinnochios.” Here’s one of his best. I’ll share a few more in this thread.
Every time your electricity bill goes up for the next 10 years, it can be traced back to this Administration’s actions. They are making solar and wind power illegal to build in the United States. They are artificially restricting supply while demand is going up.
Now this is the attitude ALL district attorneys need to take when it comes to dealing with Trump.
The media needs to stop calling this an “immigration crackdown.” That’s not what Trump’s doing. He’s using the military and ICE to invade cities and occupy them. Trump is itching for a fight, and he wants it with blue-city mayors and blue-state governors. The good news: they’re not backing down.
Me too!!
Me too!!
Now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the lord my soul to keep. If he dies before I wake. I pray my phone so loud I wake.
Ooh - adding that to the top of my celebratory playlist!
Welch: As someone who lives in a red state, let me just tell you what MAGA supermajorities get you. We're 50th in education. The worst in the whole country for women to live. We're poorer, worst health care. And if you look at the bottom ten states, they are all MAGA supermajorities.
The Pentagon is restoring a portrait of Gen. Robert E. Lee, which includes a slave guiding the Confederate general’s horse in the background, to the West Point library three years after a congressionally mandated commission ordered it removed, officials said. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/u...
Let's remember to keep talking about the Trump-Epstein scandal next week when Congress returns from its Epstein recess. They want us to forget and move on. Let's not. Release the Epstein files – all of them.
I see you’ve settled on protective coverings for at-risk disheveled feet. Smart! 😹😹
russian bombers are on their way to the Ukrainian night. It’s almost 1 am here. All I want is for everyone to wake up in the morning.
Stripey stretch!!! 😹
And I was planning a quiet evening ... paulkrugman.substack.com/p/an-emergen...
The Republican Party simply does not believe in representative democracy anymore. It’s turned its back on a bedrock principle of our country in favor of grabbing power by theft.
Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC, revealed that RFK Jr. has NEVER been briefed by CDC experts on measles, flu, or Covid: “No one from my center has ever briefed him on any of those topics…He’s getting his information from somewhere”
Fire Robert Kennedy Jr.! open.substack.com/pub/roberthu...
This should be headline news - the implications are horrifying …
Earnings call after earnings call are all saying the same thing: we ate some of the tariffs for a time hoping he'd reverse course, he hasn't, and we intend to raise prices in response. www.wsj.com/business/ret...
Including NY. I have to figure out where I can get vaccinated.
NEW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia is asking a federal judge for a gag order against Kristi Noem, Pam Bondi and their subordinates. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
70 years ago today, Emmett Till was lynched by white supremacists. Here in Illinois, we promise to never hide from our history — no matter how painful the chapter. We honor his memory and his brave mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, by continuing the fight for civil rights and justice.
Daskalakis: I very specifically use the term pregnant people, and very specifically added my pronouns at the end of my resignation letter to make the point that I am defying this terrible strategy of trying to erase people
Don’t look away
Convicted felon, Donald Trump, is on a crusade to hurt Americans because there isn’t any other reason to explain why he is making immigration checks of firefighters who are IN THE MIDST OF BATTLING WILDFIRES a priority. Trump makes America less safe everyday.
Your alt text forgot to mention that the out-of-focus kitten is upside-down! Had to zoom in to see that much-talked-about glowing eye! (It was worth it.) 😹😹😹
When Trump publicly claims “the right to do anything I want to do” and the news media *still* won’t say his goal is a dictatorship, that’s both cowardice and complicity. And a shameful dereliction of duty.
CBO analysis of the One Big Beautiful Bill and how it impacts different parts of the income spectrum: —A net resource increase of $13,600, on average, for the top one-tenth of U.S. earners. —A net resource decrease of $1,200, on average, for the bottom one-tenth of U.S. earners.
Arresting firefighters putting their lives on the line to protect our communities doesn't make us safer. This evil stunt is putting families in harm's way just so Donald Trump can score a Fox News hit.
One of the firefighters arrested is an Oregonian. My office has been in touch with his lawyer who says he can't locate his client. My office is working to get more information on his whereabouts ASAP.
I don't know who needs to hear this, but RFK Jr. has ZERO idea what mitochondria are, and what they do. KNOWING A BIG WORD DOES NOT MAKE YOU A QUALIFIED SCIENTIST.
Hi, immunologist here: (a scientist who studies immune & inflammatory processes) RFK Jr is talking absolute bullshit when he says he can “see in kids faces that they have inflammation” That’s NOT how immunology works. He is an anti-science profiteer. Start calling him such.
Portugal’s president gets it, branding Trump a “Russian asset,” and blasting him for his tepid response to Moscow. “The supreme leader of the world’s greatest superpower is, objectively, a Soviet, or Russian, asset. He functions as an asset.” www.thedailybeast.com/portuguese-p...
“Scientists Are Flocking to Bluesky *** Academics once loved Twitter—but in the age of X they’ve abandoned it in droves.” 8/28/25 arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Pay attention. Your family’s safety is on the line.
"Ashli Babbitt was a grown ass adult who made a series of conscious, ill-advised decisions to engage in treasonous behavior, and she got exactly what she deserved. She was a traitor. She was a threat to national security. There is no nuance needed here."
But it is the guns. Metal detectors and perimeter controls aren’t going to stop an armed maniac from shooting kids. Just like common sense won’t stop a Fox maniac from shooting his mouth.
The injustice continues. A terrorist is now being honored by our military... My latest God I'm pissed!!! substack.com/@harrydunn/n...
Fuck this regime. Every goddamn one of them. Honoring a fucking traitor. www.fox23.com/news/air-for...
Chicagoans will rally and march on Labor Day starting at 11 a.m. at the Haymarket Memorial to protest Trump's threat of a military occupation of the city. It's time to speak out. Join us.
Disturbing. I gave it a like anyway because Styopka’s face is so cute in this picture.
My area doesn’t have it yet. 😠
AND lousy journalists.
NEW: Yesterday, I posted that I was unable to get the COVID vaccine at my VA clinic, and many of you assured me that the new one would be available soon and that I was overreacting. I was not overreacting. I am no longer eligible for the vaccine. apnews.com/article/vacc...
🚨 The CDC as we know it is being severely altered tonight. In addition to the CDC director being ousted, the Post is reporting that several senior leaders are leaving as well. Here are from two of the resignations:
This is very bad news. Louisiana won't even defend its own map in SCOTUS. It abandoned its own Black voters. Those of us committed to defending the VRA are now entirely on our own. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Hey MSM, ask RFK Jr to define 'inflammation'. Ask him to define 'mitochondria'. Ask him how, specifically, that he can tell how children have 'mitochondrial challenges'. Ask him what, specifically, about children's faces and body movement indicates inflammation. He won't know. He's making shit up.
Senator Murray Calls for Immediate Firing of RFK Jr.
Wtf!?!?!?! The audible scream i just let out. thehill.com/policy/defen...
Dr. William Foege, 89, who helped end smallpox in the 1970s, recently wrote: RFK Jr.’s “words can be as lethal as the smallpox virus.” And his actions are more lethal still. He’s waging war on America. That’s an impeachable offense. He must be removed from office. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...
More than numbers. At night, russia attacked Ukraine with 598 drones and 31 missiles. 12 people were killed in Kyiv - among them three children, aged 2, 14, and 17. More than numbers.
Friends, we're ok 50min after a massive 9hr attack we had another 2hr one Tonight russia killed 14 Ukrainians in Kyiv, incl children On the photo is the street I used to go to my office before we moved in Dec 24 This is the very center of Kyiv Many buildings damaged, incl the British Council office
This is near Lukyanivka metro station My office is 500m from there
The death toll from russia’s attack on Kyiv has risen to 14 - among them 3 children aged 2, 14 and 17 💔💔💔
Pro-kremlin fascist channels boast russia hit “military & energy facilities” at night, claiming 10 targets destroyed In fact russia hit residential buildings in Kyiv with drones&missiles Hundreds of sites damaged incl a mall&a train At least 14 killed incl children, 50+ injured Please share this
Last night russia attacked Ukraine with hundreds of drones&missiles Among them were new Geran-3 drones with PBS TJ40-G2 engines (Czech) & SW400 Pro (China) Also found Bosch 0-580 fuel pump (Germany), normally used in cars These findings show russia actively uses foreign components in its drones
Someone had fun with their thesaurus. 😡
RFK Jr is banning the Covid vaccine which is tantamount to mass murder. On day 28, I discovered the refrigerated trucks because there were too many bodies for the morgues. The whir of the motors when there were bodies inside is an indelible memory
Omg 😢
A photo of the destroyed house from another angle It is already known about 17 dead in Kyiv. Rescuers continue to clear the rubble
These children were shot in a church. 🤨
BREAKING: Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appear to be conspiring to kill as many Americans as possible. The CDC Director has been ousted.
I don't know what to do with all this anger.