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Thank you on this labor day!!
Do you have a price? Is there a payoff amount that would make you look the other way? There's a good r/ conversation about this; participants noticing who is on the lineup, and discussing how one comedian is good at calling out power dynamics but doesn't recognize his own privilege.
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For the ever lovin' love.
The best horror of the day. Thanks, even if virtual.
Here's a better response to RFK's destruction of our public health system than what Senator Schatz is offering here, from JB Pritzker (with some additional ideas thrown in from me and public health experts): newrepublic.com/article/1998...
senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽
"That's just not a serious approach." Wes Moore on a better way to spend $1 million a day.
...which is lovely, and gets to be today's #random.
Make no mistake, everything that’s happening in the United States is being significantly enabled by the right wing oligarch capture of media. Every other country needs to do everything possible to keep that from happening where they are. Including protecting the CBC from Poilievre here in Canada.
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
The stem cell research initiative did indeed pass in California. www.nature.com/news/2004/04...
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#DailyDose 30 August 2025 1/x
History shows us the opposite: Undermining and censoring scientists and experts is a central feature of authoritarianism.
Jain: We have a U.S. Attorney’s Office that is also facing a vacancy crisis. And that is at least partially because the predecessor to the current U.S. Attorney, Jeanine Pirro, was Ed Martin. He fired more than 20 prosecutors whose only “crime” was prosecuting violent January 6 insurrectionists.
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
And now government doctors got my entire channel removed. Don’t worry. I won’t base my entire identity around this or claim it is worse than covid. 😂
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
Kellogg was sidelined specifically because he’s a better negotiator. They aren’t actually trying to end this war.
"He is especially well-connected in the longevity movement, which seeks to extend human lifespans, and, to a lesser extent, to the “network state” vision of decentralized techno-governance championed by Thiel and other influential Silicon Valley figures." Goody.
In a #random break from the usual postings, I offer the news that @neorsd.org is still winning the social media presence game. (See them also for good information about wastewater management.)
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But let's just #DailyDose some more. Some states requiring prescriptions; in many others, still cannot schedule a COVID vaccination online. Unclear if inability to schedule is a provider choice or due to lack of stock. 2/x www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
This man will cook all of us if left to continue. The damage he has done already is profound.
Haven't done #DailyDose in a while...because . We are now here. www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
Excellent question.
As the U.S. becomes a fascist dictatorship isolating itself from the world, the United Nations needs to start looking for a new home.
The new ICE song by Jesse Welles nails it. ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures. Losers with power become the most dangerous kind. (c/o Caroline Codsi)
Like I said, really glad to be reconnected with Jack Jenkins' reporting and observations.
Welp. (I lost @jackjenkins.me when I migrated over from the birdfire site, and then forgot to keep looking for him here. Glad to have bumped into him now; his voice, as ever, appreciated.)
Again: Faith leaders *themselves* have long also criticized "thoughts and prayers" rhetoric — including leader's Leavitt's own Catholic tradition. Here are some examples from the past 24 hours, including a statement from Sisters of Mercy of the Americas (Catholic nuns) on the shooting.
I have never seen so many public servants protest the mismanagement of a government. Trumpists will point to this as proof of the deep state, but the reality is that these are professionals who are desperately trying to get the public to understand how bad things are.
Hello it’s me Sam Altman I have a zillion dollar idea it’s a chat bot that tells teenagers to kill themselves and you can generate csam with it and it poisons the air and water and it’s wrong most of the time and we’re going to put it in your refrigerator and stuff 👍 I need more money for this btw
I’ve said it before but reading all the medieval history books I’ve been reading lately has been so comforting. Makes you realize that there have always been mad and incompetent kings and they almost always die in ignominy and everyone piles shit on them for centuries after they’re gone.
It’s continues to be despicable how the media has spent a decade normalizing the orange felon so much so that they are reporting on his authoritarian militarization of Washington DC as if it were a routine military exercise. They deliberately failed democracy for clickbait.
The grifter in the White House pretending to govern with teasers and cliff hangers for ratings but zero substance and increasingly loud TACO was bad enough. Now enter stage right role playing science for entertainment. (But not enlightenment. Heaven forfend advancing actual science.)
👀 (gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/b...
"No, they won't be stopping and deporting people." Well-known woke WSJ headline: Florida Cops Turn Traffic Stops Into Deportations gift link www.wsj.com/us-news/flor...
The United States Secret Service, a subset of whom allowed a former President / presidential candidate to stand up and expose himself to harm so that he could pump his fist and yell for a photo op, is now detaining a veteran for the established as non-offense of burning a U.S. flag.
In addition to dismantling democracy, the regime is cruel. And ALSO the guy who can't walk a straight line spent years partying with a human trafficker. But democracy, all y'all.
Pritzker: This is not about fighting crime. This is about the President and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.
I really thought we'd be done with using that word/admonition at this point. Just because the person gilding the White House is neck deep in a major human trafficking ring does not mean the grifting nor nor the attempt to establish an authoritarian regime is a distraction. Save democracy, y'all.
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Step up, press.
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No lies detected.
I was told that wanting a little social safety net as a treat was communism, but now we have the federal government eager to take over private companies for some kind of centralized economic planning model.
Sometimes it's hard to believe this is real.
In further solidarity, I will decline any principal chair positions with all major orchestras.
Never lose hope. Regardless of what happens here today in my ICE check in, promise me this: Continue to pray, fight, resist, and love, not just for me, but for everyone. Continue to demand freedom.
Agree.
Nowadays, if an "emergency" is declared, one is well justified in looking around for either "disloyalty" or hurt feelings.
Let’s be clear: deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda makes no sense—it’s not his home country. Nothing about this process has been fair. ICE is targeting him with cruelty. This is the weaponization of government, not justice.
The guy who runs the NIH will be speaking. So will Jay Bhattacharya.
Slava Ukraini !
In addition to creating a joyous event, Zohran Mamdani just showed the stupidity of Fox News's "Crime is so bad in New York City, people are afraid to go out in the street or take the subway!!!"
I was not expecting a snort from this realm. Thank you.
Why do we keep ignoring Kristeva? She was there, out in Grant Park, doing all the things: mirroring, signifying, flashing letters excavated from Ivana's grave.
Correct. Stop with saying "distractions." This regime is throwing everything against the wall now, including starting to set up state ownership in companies, disrupting currency, installing censors, deleting data, and abducting people. There are many rings going full bore in the circus now.
Here’s what was NOT released today: - the proffer agreement between Maxwell and the DoJ - the agreement transferring Maxwell to club fed - communications showing who waived Maxwell’s sex offender status allowing her transfer and possible work assignments outside prison - the Epstein files
Virginia Giuffre’s family denounces “DAG Todd Blanche’s bizarre interview” of Ghislaine Maxwell in a statement. www.allrisenews.com/p/maxwell-tr...
RFK Jr. likes to wax nostalgic about how “healthy” America was in the 1960’s. He bases this on one datapoint, the prevalence of obesity. But let’s dip our toes into reality. In 1965: -42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now. -The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now
Grifty grifty grifters.
Hold 'em...to Constitutional fire. Ongoing thanks to you and your team.
“Papers, please”
The upside down is inside out. Madness.
My name is Captain Dylan Blaha, and this message is for members of the National Guard across the USA. I've served in the Illinois Army National Guard for over 12 years, including a deployment to Afghanistan and three years on active duty in Europe. What's going on right now is not normal.
Goon squad redux.
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motherfuckers who have ALL the advantages and ALL the privileges, still want to tip the scale. sociopaths.
This is being tried in Austin (TX). "McAferty, an Arizona resident, said Musk and America PAC induced voters in seven battleground states to sign his petition by promising that $1 million recipients would be chosen randomly, as in a lottery, though the voters had no real chance to collect."
Dumb dumb
In addition to much AI engagement proving to be obsequious nothing burgers (so nothing it doesn't even really read things it is asked to), most versions have not been trained with "morals" (whatever those might be), and, as this author points out, are more than happy to create a self-feeding $ loop.
👀 "OK, that’s bad. Is there some safeguard to keep these AI systems from self-dealing? No. Also on Monday, GSA launched USAi.gov, a government-wide AI preview, which states 'we do not have guardrails beyond those provided by our model providers'"
I rather miss the days when the Kennedys were content to kill people individually through coups and drunk driving accidents, instead of en masse through the reckless revocation of modern healthcare technologies. The sooner our country is quit of this godawful family, the better off we’ll all be.
Blame them
10 days ago a guy lost in Anti-Vax madness fired **500 bullets** at the Centers for Disease Control and killed the first cop who came to stop him. The cop was Marine Veteran David Rose, whose name has somehow NOT been a national story since the day he was killed. taskandpurpose.com/news/marine-...
1. We have normalized having a toddler in the White House who uses random " marks ("HOTTEST"?). How is any of the below normal? How are we okay with this? 2. We have a president who doesn't want us to cover, in our museums "how bad Slavery was". Was it not bad? Imagine if Reagan had said this? FFS
Motion to name the since-JFK ivy "Democracy." All in favor, vote AYE.
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.
She is the last spine standing.
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How about the Hague?
Being against vaccines when diseases are rampant (measles, Covid) is like adding chlorine to the gene pool. Darwin is watching.
📌 Be the one calling them out. History has it’s eyes on us.
Thank you @schiff.senate.gov!
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And all the doctors who told us he was great so they could advance their careers.
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