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Which brings me to what just happened in Florida, that petri dish of infectious diseases we thought we had eliminated. As bad as Kennedy was ā and he created whole new categories of ghastliness ā whatās happening in Florida is a darkling omen. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
resistance through art
So Trump approved a botched military mission during which SEALs killed a number of North Korean civilians, and then likely illegally the Trump administration never briefed Congress about it
The Trump regime is targeting US veterans specifically. He sent his goon squad to arrest a patriot for conspiracy, and the conspiracy? A peaceful protest against ICE. All he has to do is label them terrorists and heāll murder them too. #3E
Everything Trump touches dies.
Mikie Sherrill on Lara Trumpās claim that prices are coming down: I think in New Jersey weād call that a barrage of shit. Prices are not going down. Weāre seeing them go up everywhere, and I think that trend is only going to continue.
Trump just said āknows nothing aboutā the 2019 SEAL raid in NK he had to personally sign off on. Weāve accepted lying from our POTUS. What a weak ass press corp not to follow up and let him endlessly spew his propaganda against immigrants.
"This is pure, uncut Christian nationalism married to a need for dominance. And we are not talking about the ravings of a crank on 8chan but the considered thoughts of a senator, speaking at a conference put on by the new intellectual elites."
Still pretending you know what youāre doing, Donald?
It has been revealed that Trump murdered 6 innocent fishermen in North Korea in 2019. He initially ordered Seal Team 6 to infiltrate North Korea and plant a listening device but they failed the mission immediately on arrival and murdered 6 civilians for just existing. Trump hid it from congress.
Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children
WE.WILL.KNOW.ALL. OF. THEIR. NAMES. They better know that. The hiding is over.
HOT MIC Moment - At the Tech bros dinner w Trump.. Mark Zuckerberg sitting right next to Trump for a reason. Trump asks how much will Meta be spending in the U.S.? Zuckerberg says, abt 600 billion by 2028. HOT MIC - Zuckerberg quietly says to Trump "I wasn't sure what number you wanted me to use"
Imagine at your summer internship a guy gives a talk about how women generally have lower IQ. It's awkward enough that a senior administrator later explains that the talk was inappropriate. Now, imagine reading that the President has nominated this person to lead a major govt agency!
Only someone who avoided the draft would want to rename the Department of Defense to the Department of War.
www.savehhs.org
In 1900, nearly 1 in 5 children in America died before age five. Vaccines changed that. But Robert F. Kennedy Jr.ās lies are fueling a public health catastrophe. People will get sick. People will die. Science saves livesāmisinformation kills.
Itās almost like the vice president doesnāt fully understand tariffs
Free speech absolutists now censoring sidewalk chalk
Bragging that you ended 7 wars... and then changing the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War seems incongruous.
CNN put together a clip of RKF Jr denying today he linked antidepressants and mass shootings, followed by a clip of RFK Jr last week linking antidepressants and mass shootings
Pam Bondiās acting deputy chief was filmed bragging to a date about the departmentās plans to alter the Epstein files to protect Republicans.
Zuckerberg saying Meta intends to spend at least 600 billion in the US Zuckerberg at the end caught on a hot mic
If this was Krusty Noem she needs to be fired! If I was Hyundai Iād close the plant.
Nothing says, "Hey international companies, bring your manufacturing to the US" like arresting 475 workers at a Hyundai (70% of whom are South Korean).
Priorities.
You had your chance to remove and bar him from the presidency after Jan 6. And you chickened out.
Tylenol maker Kenvue denies the connection allegedly made in the report, which is expected to be published by the Department of Health and Human Services this month.
Sen. Warren Daniel (RāNC, District 46) was caught trading stocks right on the Senate floor. Didnāt even wait for a break. Playing the market on the taxpayersā timeā¦pure abuse of power.
This is embarrassing. Trump hosted an oligarchsā dinner at the White House last night. The main course was kissing his ring. Heās going to take credit for investment plans they already made.
Careful what you say on a Hinge date! She could be an undercover right-wing media reporter exposing your entire departmentās Epstein cover upā¦
Sen. John Kennedy wants the National Guard in New Orleans because there aren't enough cops. "He's not a commentator on Fox. He's a senator. What they could do is pass a bill that gives funding to local jurisdictions to hire more police." @timmiller.bsky.social joined by @markhertling.bsky.social
BREAKING: Hundreds of South Korean nationals detained in largest single-site immigration raid at a Hyundai facility in Georgia
Wasnāt Trump found liable for mortgage fraud? Seems like lying to lenders about the square footage of your apartment to get lower interest rates constitutes mortgage fraud.
Psaki: "What Secretary Kennedy means when he says that nobody knows how many Americans died of Covid is not actually that nobody knows. People know. What he means is that he does not like the data."
Kavanaugh's statements make the problem worse, not better. If the reason SCOTUS is using cryptic shadow docket orders is because "five" of them can't "reach a consensus or a compromise on a particular issue that might be difficult," then that order should not be precedential āthere's no majority.
Blah blah blah And Roe v. Wade was āsettled law.ā So much for the words of Amy Coney Barrett.
Their cruelty is only exceeded by their incompetence. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Donald Trump, Scott Bessent, Kevin Hassett, and Howard Lutnick inherited a great economy and are running it into the ground.
Or in parking lots.
We tried to warn you. If RFK Jr.ās lips are moving, heās lying. Iāve been following this man for yearsāitās a fact.
DUN DUN DUN -- Fox Business announces that the 22,000 jobs added in August are "much less than the expectation of 75,000" and that they June and July numbers were revised down as well
JB Pritzker: āThe president knows so little about the government and he cares so little about delivering anything that talking to him is a useless endeavor. Iām about delivering for the people of my state, heās about delivering for himself.ā
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Umm ā¦ itās pretty stupid.
California, Oregon and Washington announced yesterday theyāve created their own health alliance, saying the CDC has become āa political tool that increasingly peddles ideology instead of science.ā New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island have now done the same.
Going to love seeing him tried at The Hague
This is what lawlessness looks and sounds like
We now live in a country where: ā The president is a felon. ā The DHS chief kills puppies. ā The HHS chief is an antivax ex-addict. ā The education secretary canāt read. ā The defense secretary is a drunk. ā The DNI answers to Moscow. WTF happened?
FOX: The August jobs report wasn't the number you wanted. How come? KEVIN HASSETT: The BLS has been struggling with bad response rates FOX: So it's their fault? HASSETT: Well I'm saying we expect this number will be revised up FOX: The revisions for June and July were lower
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As it turns out, the "Kennedy Curse" wasn't that the smart ones were killed, but that the stupid one survived.
Yeah, moron, and whose fault was that? š¤Ø
Cities everywhere:
But will the guys who knew he was crazy when they confirmed him going to do anything about it?
GOP discontent with RFK Jr. is growing Bill Cassidy was joined by John Barrasso and Thom Tillis in confronting the health secretary about his leadership at a hearing.
RFKJ: Anybody can get the booster. We donāt recommend it. Warren: if you donāt recommend it, people canāt get it. RFK: Iām not taking it away. Most Americans will be able to get it for free. Iām not going to recommend drugs for which there is not clinical data. THERE IS TONS OF CLINICAL DATA.
Yes, RFK Jr is a monster. A cruel, ignorant, pathologically dishonest, conspiratorial monster. And itās not surprising RFK Jr is where he is now. A cruel, ignorant, pathologically dishonest, conspiratorial monster chose him, nominated him. Vote in 2026 like your life depends upon it. Bcuz it does.
Love how DeSantis will stop vaccines for public schools when his kids go to a private school that requires vaccinations. So trumpian.
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I once toured Atlantaās 175-year-old Oakland Cemetery with a friend. Were struck by how many families lost multiple children within days of each other. We realized it was due to the lack of vaccines. And this kooky, lying moron wants to take us back to those days. RFK Jr. should resign.
RFK Jr. rolled out that old chestnut again about how healthy Americans were in the 60ās, so hereās a fact check. In 1965: -42% of American adults smoked; itās 11% now. -The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; itās 5.6/1000 now. -Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.
The āproblemā 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.
An absolute barnburner by @gregggonsalves.bsky.social! www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Florida's new jingle: "It's a smallpox world after all."
Split appeals court decision allows #Florida Gov. Ron DeSastrous to continue operating his polluting Everglades concentration camp, despite ignoring environmental regs in building it in a nature preserve. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i... via @miamiherald.com
RFK lied to my face. He said he hadnāt fired any scientists. RFK has fired over 3,000 scientists from HHS. Itās shameful. He must resign.
We need an HHS Secretary who respects science and does not make policy based on conspiracy theories. Vaccines are safe and effective. Kennedy is threatening the health of our kids and all Americans. He must resign.
RFK Jr in this hearing:
I think that since the overwhelming majority of mass shooters are cisgender men, we should take their guns first.
Warnock: "Dr. Miran, the Fed's job is to maximize employment and keep prices stable. That's it. Not to soothe the president's ego; not to inflate his poll numbers; not to carry out his political agenda...That's why our economy, even when it struggles, is the envy of the world."
Thank Trump
RFK Jr. kept insisting in his hearing that COVID19 vaccines are accessible to everyone, and he also made this false claim last week. In fact, yesterday Defend Public Health chose this particular RFK Jr. lie as our Whopper of the Week.
Let's roll the tape
His smug but demented demeanor was just over the top. Clearly Republicans didnāt put him under oath because they knew he would outright lieā¦.and he had some whoppers. The man is bonkers.
šØ CDC report fivefold increase in Measles cases under RFK Jr. 2024 Year Total: 285 2025 To Date: 1,431 šØ #Measles #MMR #RFK #Vaccines
I thought the idea was just to call balls and strikes and then let the folks on SportsCenter argue about it at 11
Florida's Surgeon General is dead wrong. Requiring children to get vaccinated to prevent measles, mumps & polio is not akin to "slavery." Over the past 50 years, vaccines have saved millions of lives & reduced the infant mortality rate by 40%. Vaccines save lives ā period.
BREAKING: Trump's Fed Nominee just confirmed to @reed.senate.gov that he will NOT resign from the White House while serving at the Fed. President Trump is trying to take over the Fed and install his lackeys. Trump's takeover would make life far more expensive for American families.
His every decision is partisan so thatās bullshit.
They are trying so hard to make the rent-a-wife look relevant. It just showcases her lack of any qualifications for anything.
"A dozen federal judgesāappointed by Democratic and Republican presidents, including Trump, and serving around the country ā pointed to a pattern they say has recently emerged: ...
This has to go through the state legislature. Hoping more sanity there, even among republicans.
This guy is fucking nuts. I feel so sorry for the parents of school-age children in Florida.
Iām not exaggerating when I say millions of $$ are going down the drain to fund Trumpās National Guard stunt in LA. Let's do the math: $71M for food and necessities $37M in payroll Over $4M in logistics supplies $3.5M in travel ā the list goes on. Itās time to wake up, America.
In my view, Amy Coney Barrett kicking off her book tour by doing a sold-out event with Bari Weiss and publishing an exclusive excerpt in The Free Press should end the "Supreme Court justices are not motivated by ideology" discourse once and for all ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
covid directly killed millions of people and disabled millions more and yet itās likely that the most damage it will do in the long term comes from enabling antivaxxers to take over public health
Sen. Wyden: āThis is a witness who has lied to members of the Senate Finance Committee. In response to over 35 written questions, including from me, he said, āThat he would do nothing as HHS secretary that makes it difficult or discourages people from taking vaccines. That was clearly not true."
Absolute bullshit. This stat comes from a study that was retracted because it was crap. Real studies show ZERO relationship between vaccination and autism. Again, RFK cherry picks data, even data that has been retracted and found to be in error. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25285211/
Iām old enough to remember polio, pertussis, all the variety of measles. FLORIDA! Fight this return to the dark ages. Little ones die a horrible death from whooping cough! Get all vaccinations! Then, vote BLUE! #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #Pinks
Hilarious the Louisiana Gov and Senators are now asking Trump to federalize the Guard to take over New Orleans like supplicant subjects should. Let's remember. The Gov can do this any day of the week. That's what the Guard is. A state militia. Asking Trump to federalize them is some weird GOP kink.
RFK: "Diabetes has gone up 98% in 20 years. Nobody is doing anything about it. CDC's job was to make sure this didn't happen." Under RFK's watch, the NIH cancelled funding for an ongoing 30-year study tracking patients with diabetes.
Note to the news media: RFK JR. IS NOT A "VACCINE SKEPTIC." He's an anti-vaxxer. He's dismantling our vaccine system to usher in an era of unnecessary deaths. Lose the weasel-wording.
Kennedy continues to claim that vaccines arenāt adequately tested. He is a liar. They are the most thoroughly tested intervention of all.
RFK Jr has taken a chainsaw to American public health and undermined the mission of HHS. It's no surprise the patriots who still believe in that mission are calling on him to resign. He is a danger to Americans' health. He should be fired immediately.
Any Senators here? Iām a biomedical scientist with immunology, cancer, infectious disease expertise. RFK Jr lied to you in his confirmation hearings. Repeatedly. Provably. Heās lied to EVERYONE for 30+ years. Repeatedly. Provably. He WILL lie today. Repeatedly. Provably. 1/