The thing I don’t get is the same press that is being kept at a distance from an obviously not hale and hearty president isn’t screaming for answers?
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The thing I don’t get is the same press that is being kept at a distance from an obviously not hale and hearty president isn’t screaming for answers?
When fascism came to America, political reporters were too cowardly to even use the word.
I'm just gonna flip on some corporate media really quick... ABC: ads CNN: ads Back to CNN: Trump's Chicago "immigration enforcement" MSNBC: Protests in Chicago Back to ABC: A "federal judge getting in the way of Trump's immigration crackdown" Back to CNN: Weekend travel Nothing about Trump MIA
Same girl same
Done
You guys see where this is going? Right?
Depending on the composition of that day’s press pool I’m not 100% positive that if they saw Trump being fully Weekend at Bernied they’d actually report it.
What’s wild to me: NOW, media outlets & medical organizations are “stunned” by the damage RFK Jr. is doing to CDC, other health agencies, & public health. Me & my colleagues have been screaming about him for years. Years. Even more so in the last year. We were called hyperbolic. 1/
If you’re in favor of shutting down museum exhibitions or banning books because they make you feel bad, that’s a pretty good tip that you deserve to feel bad.
If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
Trump said tonight he is going to issue an executive order purporting to require enforcement of voter ID rules: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u... The president has no such authority to order how elections are conducted.
anyway yeah he’s pretty clearly dying faster than usual this week, maybe they’ll get it slowed back down, but whether he dies soon or not we need to keep demanding the media stop pretending he hasn’t had visible dementia symptoms for nearly a decade, followed by a recent acceleration in his decline
If you're arrested in Illinois protesting the planned ICE HQ in North Chicago, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.
today--at the farmer's market! in a liberal college town!--a woman stopped at our table to make some unrepeatably racist claims about why we need police in schools, including that "they" were all going to prison anyway. if you're pro-cop...look at who's standing beside you, and think about why.
So we’re supposed to believe that the Truth Social posts over the last couple days that aren’t filled with terrible spelling and grammar, random capitalization and quotation marks where they don’t belong, with no threats or personal insults, are actually being written by Trump?
Mass shooters since 2018 who were transgender — 4. Mass shooters since 2018 who were not transgender — 4,193. Hope that helps.
Stephen Manning, this guy’s lawyer, is one of the best in the country. It’s very good news that he’s taken this case.
I imagine future historians will judge us by recent events where the shooting of children in church is met with shrugs, thoughts and prayers, and a tech bro getting the crap kicked out of him by a 15-year-old girl resulted in a military occupation of the nation’s capital
People saying Trump is dying or possibly dead, but I for one would urge caution, because it is quite possible a second healtbar will appear as he enters his second phase and a gargantuan centipede will burst forth from his torso, so be careful of his new sweep attacks and toxic buildup from bites.
average Dem strategist: we must focus on bipartisan policies that undercut Republican attacks average Dem voter: having studied the denazification of Germany, we must raze the RNC and leave JD Vance clutching a single wool blanket in a cell after we strip him of everything
J.D. Vance once called Trump “America’s Hitler.” Now a heartbeat away from the presidency, Vance is owned by billionaires who see him as their perfect vessel. More calculating than Trump, more ruthless in ambition, he represents a deeper danger to democracy. 1nadinesmith.substack.com/p/jd-vance-a...
He represents a very deep danger, I fully agree. I find hope from thinking he can't lead the cult. It doesn't mean he can't do tremendous damage, but it does give me hope that it won't be permanent
A woman tt was just talking about how her summer electric bill is usually $200-$250. A data center was built close to her home and now her bill for August was $600. None of this is sustainable for anyone.
DOGE wasn’t a cost-cutting venture. It was a data mining operation for private interests. Trump opened the gates to the castle from inside for invaders with bad and greedy intent to plunder and exploit.
Mixed reality game maybe?
I look forward to hearing the results of said dowsing
Thank you @brendannyhan.bsky.social & @jasonreifler.bsky.social for this impt research which illustrates that getting out *ahead* of rumors & lies about elections — instead of simply responding w/ fact-checking afterwards — is essential. We must tell the truth about how elections are actually run.
We won’t notice it at first Maybe an outbreak of cholera in southwest Kansas goes undetected Perhaps the number of flu related deaths ticks up just a bit each year But-ultimately, inexorably-the destruction of the CDC will lead to countless deaths All because of two men Trump and RFK, Jr
Honestly itd be just like him to dip out right before everything that he set up to break really starts to break in earnest and leave that for the guy coming in after him to deal with
If what we hope will happen ever happens, we'll watch as many, many people in the world of politics, overnight, go on to pretend they were always against what preceded it. This era has been a highly effective acid test for character. Take notes now, so that you don't forget in the future.
Republicans aren't running for office...their polls are dropping...their own base is mocking them and yelling at them at town halls... And yet they seem very comfortable and unbothered. Ask yourselves why?
"Trump and Republicans are going to cheat to stay in power. How do we fight back?" This should be the question Democratic leaders are asking privately, and publicly, they need to sound the alarm and provide solutions. Or they can keep attacking Mamdani
someone should put together a "kennedy death count" for everyone who dies of a preventable disease and just plaster it everywhere www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
I keep saying this, but... ...punishing the homeless is how big-city and blue state liberals do fascism.
I will never get over how a handful of tech bros set billions of dollars on fire to build a plagiarism machine that doesn't work and will destroy human society when they could have used a fraction of that money to fund a new golden age of creativity and knowledge.
In 7 months, Trump and Republicans have done generational damage to the United States, our economy, our national security, our reputation, and our health care. They're hollowing it out. Rich will get richer, and Putin will get what he wants.
This post prompted me to update my profile and add a "Vaccines are safe. Slavery was bad. Nazis are wrong" description
Can't believe that in 2025 we have to be telling people that vaccines are safe and slavery was bad.
If RFK jr would stand up at ANY medical conference and spouts his pseudoscience-cult BS, he would be laughed off stage. Where TF are these same physicians now? Every single doctor in the country must take a stand against this guy.
Did you increase your spending last month? No? Me neither. That isn't anecdotal. The underlying numbers don't support this. The source here is the commerce department. I no longer trust the numbers coming out of this regime. I call bullshit! www.cnbc.com/2025/08/28/u...
RFK wants people to die to get them off social security and Medicaid and that’s what’s going on with the vaccine.
hey hey rfk how many kids did you kill today
The press could save a lot of ink on “this looks like authoritarianism” pieces if they just took Trump’s word for it when he keeps announcing he’s a dictator now.
Food safety is woke now.
people keep talking about "american nuremberg trials" as an exercise in mostly venting rather than anything substantial. when the liberal wing returns to power this rhetoric will all be forgotten as it always is every half decade unless something changes this time
Please stop voting for his nominees. All of them. Stop aiding the fascist please
RFK jr, a man with a laundry list of behavioral problems is running the HHS (including the CDC, NIH, FDA, CMS). If he wants to personally have cult-beliefs, that's on him – but we must not allow him to project his own pathological beliefs onto 345 million people of this country. This is not science.
the thing that worries me is that basically all routes out of this mess involve some significant segment of our sclerotic, insane elite admitting, even obliquely via the sheepishly belated passage of necessary reforms, that they were catastrophically wrong in a way that cost everyone
Me too
How much more clearly can RFK Jr demonstrate that his job is to cull the herd? It’s not subtle.
Tempting to ask why in less than 24 hours we know more about the Minneapolis school shooter than the "Earwojima" assassin, in Butler PA, a year ago.
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.
NEVER FORGET: The GOP Congress lack of interest in the breach of actual science at the CDC has made it CLEAR: they don’t care if we live or die.
RFK Jr walking through the airport, staring at children, eyes bulging, bicep veins popping out, whispering “I just want to know if he’s heaaaaalllllthyyyyyy” as concerned parents whisk their kids away and dial the airport police
If only they protected children as well as they're protecting the Epstein files
I'm also worried about what they'll do with the list of people who do get the vaccine (a list I will be on), as it is an admission of a condition that makes me an undesirable to his sick, sick mind. I trust my pharmacist to honor HIPAA, but don't trust the gov't not to try to breach it
Trump has indeed found a "solution" to the immigration issue: Make this country such a dumpster fire that no one wants to come here. It's like fixing a restaurant's overcrowding problem by poisoning all the diners.
🚨Border Patrol arrested two firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire at the time. When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member “you need to get the f*ck out of here. I’m going to make you leave.”
Holy moly this @monicapotts.bsky.social story. "The Democratic Party has handcuffed itself with data rather than use it to their advantage." THAT. That, in one sentence, is precisely what I and @waytowinus.bsky.social have been trying to solve for since 2018. 🎯🎯🎯 newrepublic.com/article/1996...
Don't get it twisted. Trump is having the National Guard pick up trash to debase them. He hates the military. He is incapable of understanding anyone who would make sacrifices for the greater good. He thinks they are suckers and losers, and he's treating them as such.
RFK Jr says he’s uncovered “interventions” that cause autism. There’s no scientific basis for his statement. He’s using autism to come after vaccines, antidepressants, certain food and medications. The “interventions” will be anything MAHA doesn’t want you to have.
RFK Jr.'s stupidity will kill people.
Texas voters, Texas removed 100k voters from the voter rolls. Please spread the word and check your registration and re-register if necessary. thehill.com/homenews/484...
Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is trying to illegally fire her. Your words shape reality — get it right.
Like I said, I've been to the Tuol Sleng genocide museum & The Killing Fields in Cambodia. First think Pol Pot & the Khmer Rouge did was empty the cities & target the educated population - teachers, artists, lawyers, scientists. For any journalist to be ignorant of that history is an embarrassment.
respectability politics will see us all killed
SCOTUS thought they could ride the tiger and get what they wanted ideologically. In exchange, they would give him everything he wanted except the Fed. Just leave the Fed alone and you can ignore all federal law. But it ended the same way it has for everyone who tried to ride the tiger since 2016.
Meiselas: Stop both-sidesing it, media. Stop trying to sow division within the Democratic Party when we literally have military invasions into American cities, aided and abetted by red state governors, who, again, are the takers who wouldn't exist without the blue states
I’m convinced Trump could announce he’s bringing back human sacrifice to assure the harvest and the Times headline would deem it “unconventional plan for farmers.”
“This is about the President of the United States and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.” – Gov. J.B. Pritzker
Make Sure Everyone Knows 😊💙 HOLY S**T look at this: Florida GOP Senator Rick Scott just quietly disclosed stock trades a year late – worth $26 MILLION – on companies HE LEGISLATED. 😳 This is corrupt to its core, and he's hoping no one will notice. You know what to do.
The prolonged public torturing of a single man because the state cannot admit to its errors is not something that occurs in a free country
Just wondering why I would want a technology whose "grandest promises" include destroying the need for human creativity and creating a new class of enslaved people trapped inside data centers controlled by oligarchs
Normal person: Genocide is bad Crazy person: Woah hey, let’s not get political
Trump doesn't have thoughts anymore but the people operating him are doing this flag-burning EO bullshit because they want news footage of anti-ICE, anti-regime protesters burning American flags. It scares them that anti-regime protests are reclaiming patriotism as the opposite of Trumpism.
The fact that this administration is hell bent on punishing Kilmar Abrego Garcia while rewarding Ghislane Maxwell tells you all you need to know about their violent racism and misogyny.
Excellent book haul today #Vromans #ShopIndie @charliejane.bsky.social
Right now they’re saying that visas are a privilege, next they’ll be saying that citizenship is a privilege
It’s clear that the main goal of the Maxwell interview was to get her to say that she didn’t see Trump do anything wrong. Which can only mean that there is something in the files that suggests that he did. Why else would she need to say that? The interview is more incriminating, not less.
There will be one less as soon as I can get there!
So I'm hearing that the convicted perjurer, who thought it was appropriate to groom and sexually abuse young teenage girls, said that she never saw the only person on the planet with the power to get her out of prison do anything inappropriate. Surely that's enough to convince MAGA, right?
that the phrases “intentionally destroying the economy” and “worst economic president of our lifetimes” arent being said everywhere right now by dem politicians makes my head want to explode
The GOP is causing all of this chaos just so everyone will stop talking about the Epstein files. Never stop asking where the files are and why they're covering it up.
This becomes Nazi talk once you realize JD Vance opposes more housing for the homeless, affordable government healthcare and expanded city social services. He just wants a final solution for ridding cities of their undesirables.
Miller complaining about protestors-- "respectable" old white ones, no less!-- is a strong sign that 1) they are scared of protest; 2) protests are happening; and 3) they are having an impact, even if the media refuses to cover them.
I refuse to believe we are going to relitigate slavery. SLAVERY. It’s too much.
If you want to put back statues and memorials and names of Confederate traitors while tearing down museum exhibitions on slavery because they don't show the greatness of the nation... the nation whose history you're celebrating is whiteness. The kind of nationalist you are is a white nationalist.
Trump is mad that the Smithsonian is talking about "how bad slavery was." That's where we're at.
Seems strange that they've got a whole elected official detained and the press is just like "hey look they've got an elected official detained" instead of, i dunno, making some people answer some pointed questions
As a former Texas State Rep, let me be clear: LOCKING Rep. Nicole Collier inside the chamber is beyond outrageous. Forcing elected officials to sign “permission slips” & take police escorts to leave? That’s not procedure. That’s some old Jim Crow playbook.
Controversial opinion: When it comes to US presidents, "blatantly breaking laws and violently violating people's rights" is a bigger deal than "is old," meriting greater public concern and a higher percentage of attention.
Taps mic. I have heard more complaints out of Hakeem Jeffries (our supposed House leader) about a democratically nominated mayoral candidate than a full blown insane fascist sending troops into DC and concentration camps and terrorizing immigrants.
Every Democratic member of Congress should be in the streets of DC saying this dangerous authoritarian escalation must stop. Do they not grasp what’s going on here?
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
Okay. Enough media attention on that humiliating Trump summit with Putin. Time to remember the Epstein and Maxwell victims who deserve full transparency.
If you don’t think Trump is compromised, ask yourself how Ghislaine Maxwell got a meeting with Todd Blanche and how Putin got a summit on American soil.