LTG Honore knows a lot about a lot of things, including how to respond to a disaster and how to conduct military operations in a US city. When the National Guard arrived in NOLA, residents were fearful. "Get your guns down!" As soon as they put away their weapons on his order, it went smooth.
Seems like as good a time as any to reshare my story on the Coffee County voting system breach, which details the key role Giuliani played in Trumpās effort to overturn the 2020 election. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...
Weird, putting tariffs on construction materials and throwing day laborers in concentration camps should have solved the supply problem by now
We've got more for you on Labor Day. More than 82 percent of civilian federal workers have had their right to collectively bargain stripped in the largest act of union busting in US history. Unions are a voice from below, and their autonomy poses a threat to autocrats, Harold Meyerson writes:
I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is. This isnāt normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.
2/ā The law generally prevents the president from using the military as a domestic police force.ā #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks
it shouldn't be easier to get a gun in America than the covid vaccine
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.
Just a reminder that when it was convenient to pile on former Pres Bidenās health, a few of us didnāt choose the easy path and we calmly stated what we saw, while others scored political points. With the current President clearly aging, remember to trust those who call it as they see it.
But it was too late. To understand what happened, you *must* read @kimlanelaw.bsky.social's @jodemocracy.bsky.social article ā¼ā¼ In fact, just drop what you're doing and read it now.
I'm not an expert on Trump Golf videos; but people on Threads and Twitter are saying the video the WH released today showing Trump golfing at his DC club is actually video from June.
I see an ambassador job in his future. š¤Æ
#handsoff #nokings #goodtroubleliveson #ReleaseALLthefiles #EpsteinFiles #lovemyGov Because they're idiots
Hundreds of employees and supporters of the CDC lined the sidewalks outside the agencyās Atlanta headquarters for a āclap outā rally to honor three senior leaders who resigned a day earlier. Read more here: www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...
Union representing CDC employees re: ousted leader Dr Susan Monarez: āWe commend her, not just for doing the right thing, but for doing the hard thing by standing against disinformation. She chose science over politics. This is the leader that CDC needs & our nation deservesā
Online retailers say increased costs due to the new duties will have to be paid by U.S. buyers.
WHOOPSIE DOODLE
BREAKING: Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey JUST CALLED FOR a statewide and federal ban on assault weapons. Whoās with him?
Welch: Everybody's missing the point here. The point is, he's doing this on purpose. He's priming the public to get accustomed to having the military in the streets
A couple of months ago, the Navy dishonored civil rights hero Harvey Milk by removing his name from a ship. Now, the Air Force is dishonoring itself by celebrating a domestic terrorist called Ashli Babbitt.
New, from me: The CDC shitshow is a microcosm of the mismanagement of the Trump era. It also demonstrates some extraordinary courage among principled public servants, who were willing to lose their jobs to draw attention to damage being done to public health donmoynihan.substack.com/p/your-gover...
There is no possible legitimate reason to do this. Itās what despots do. Itās petty. Itās dangerous. Itās unAmerican. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
The Department of Homeland Security is reportedly barring states and organizations that receive government funds from helping undocumented immigrants. This will make it harder for the most vulnerable people to get help in the aftermath of disasters. It was always about cruelty.
Hi, immunologist here: (a scientist who studies immune & inflammatory processes) RFK Jr is talking absolute bullshit when he says he can āsee in kids faces that they have inflammationā Thatās NOT how immunology works. He is an anti-science profiteer. Start calling him such.
BREAKING: Donald Trump cancelled Kamala Harris' Secret Service protection, chaos grows at CDC as employees protest RFK Jr., mass immigration raids coming post Labor Day, and much more. All the news you missed overnight. Subscribe to support! open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
Bill Pulte has emerged as a key enabler of President Trump's extraordinary attacks on Lisa Cook, the Federal Reserve governor, over unverified allegations of mortgage fraud. But what about Pulte's paperwork problems of his own?
CDC leaders on why the left: āI resigned because I could not be part of the weaponization of public health and CDCā¦ we should always be questioning - but you shouldnāt have a preconceived idea before you have the data.ā
NEW: More than two decades after victims and families of the 9/11 attacks began trying to hold the Saudi government responsible for aiding the Qaida terrorists who carried out the plot, a judge has ruled that a lawsuit against the kingdom can go to trial.
Just in case you forgotā¦
The new ICE song by Jesse Welles nails it. ICE isnāt recruiting heroes, itās 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)
GOV. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social : āFacts are stubborn thingsā¦ Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansasā¦. Alabama is a top 3 murder state. Where is the President? ā He isnāt focused on crime & violence. Itās about an expression of authoritarianism.ā (H/T @acyn.bsky.social )
Newsom: Perhaps the president could deploy the National Guard in every corner of Mississippi. Murder rate is out of control there. And the governor may want to make that phone call.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
If I were charged with a federal crime, Iād hire Pam Bondiās brother as my lawyer. Because I donāt think this is a coincidence.
Donāt look away
Republicans are trying to redraw congressional district lines to keep their grip on Congress in the midterms and beyond. Voters should pick their politicians, not the other way around. Get involved with the @democraticredistricting.com as they fight back: bit.ly/3HJ1ayW
This week, a federal judge ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service broke the law when it decided not to protect gray wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains under the federal Endangered Species Act. www.humaneworld.org/en/blog/laws...
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve on the Minnesota shooting: "The sad thing is we can't sit here and tell them that help is on the way. Because we're not going to do a damn thing about it."
Unfortunately we still need to be reminded of this lesson by #Superman
Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:
Note that there's language from June on the CDC website that you can self-confirm you are immunocompromised in order to get vaccinated. However, in real world practice, this depends on the pharmacy.
The Minneapolis shooter was apparently a fan of several mass murderers who were motivated by the same "Great Replacement Theory" that has pretty much taken over the Republican Party.
The normalization of fascism continues apace.
Oh, in the Times story, here's some nuanced reporting on what has happened this week. We knew some of this already, but this clearly puts it together and adds some notes: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...
Demetre Daskalakis was a key figure in the Covid, mpox, and bird flu responses. This is a huge loss.
Update ā hearing that the White House has formally fired Monarez, per two admin sources. Monarez's lawyers said earlier tonight she had neither resigned nor been fired
5,203 mass shootings since 2015. FOUR of them by trans people. Yet MAGA clowns keep attacking trans folks instead of doing a damn thing to stop these shootings. Theyāve got all the power at their fingertips, but wonāt lift a finger to actually protect our kids.
"Monarez also clashed with Kennedy and his team over vaccine policies, including an impending announcement that could draw links between immunizations and autism, according to a person familiar with the situation." www.cnn.com/2025/08/27/h...
The MAHA (Make America Healthy Again) anti-vaccination conspiracy movement, led by RFK Jr., is in control of the U.S. governmentās health agencies, including the CDC. MAHA is already causing health crises, and it will cause more in the coming months. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...
How do concentration camps close? The top five answers on the board. Survey says: 5. Defeat in War 4. Death of Cult Leader 3. External Pressure 2. Judicial Action 1. Citizen Action
I guess for no reason at all, I'm reposting a piece I wrote two years ago, entitled "it's the fucking guns, you fucking fucks."
Who else LOVES Tammy Duckworth?
So excited for this!
This right here!
1) This dangerous lunatic is spouting Naomi Wolf-like woo-woo bullshit. 2) A president in his right mind would fire this dangerous lunatic. 3) A non-chickenshit Congress would impeach and remove this dangerous lunatic. 4) Instead, this dangerous lunatic is attacking the CDC. Right now. Tonight.
RKF Jr. is a dangerous man who is determined to abuse his authority to act on truly terrifying conspiracy theories and disinformationāleaving us unprepared for the next deadly pandemic and snuffing out potential cures while heās at it. My full statement.
Today in the NYTās further & ongoing & shameful normalization of seizing territory from our NATO allies, something that is illegal under multiple treaty commitments we have signed & ratified, & which would have immediately ended any presidency from Truman to Obama: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
More than 20 years ago, N.C. legislators passed a law requiring that landslide hazards be mapped across 19 mountain counties. But after only four of those counties were mapped, lawmakers gave in to developers who said it could harm property values. (Published May 2025)
A reminder that, among Republicans, only Mitch McConnell voted against RFK Jr. Susan Collins voted to confirm. Lisa Murkowski voted to confirm. Former physician Bill Cassidy advanced him out of committee and voted to confirm and lied to defend him. www.senate.gov/legislative/...
Inside the USAID Fire Sale we see Marco Rubioās brand of management. Food burned by the ton, contraceptives torched, clinics abandoned, defibrillators sold like junk. This is not oversight it is waste and fraud on a historic scale and it carries Rubioās name stamped in ashes.
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Would love for Mayor Bowser to take this example to heart!
Forcing them to fight for every inch - and escalating every conflict to the utmost - spends their time, their legal resources, and makes each subsequent battle RISKIER for them rather than SAFER, as youāre constantly testing public acquiescence and you never know when popular opposition might emerge
So much of their power flows from the way people quietly bow out of their way, forcing them to expend essentially no political capital to shred vital and popular institutions. And then, having done so, they look even stronger, and itās even easier next time.
Monarez is playing her weak hand perfectly, and should be a model for institutional resistance for the next four years: 1. Make them fire you 2. Donāt go along to get along 3. Donāt apologize, have confidence in your own integrity and the importance of your role 4. Always escalate the conflict
Damn! Expected to hear about the loss of food programs in the schools. Did NOT expect to hear about the loss of gym teachers & nurses in the school, health classes, outdoor programs. And for what? More money in the pockets of people like the DeVos family so they can add to their yacht collection??
Who in TF would take their child to a politician when they're sick? ā let alone one who was addicted to heroin, who has a self-professed nematode in his brain, has a dead animal fetish, and who emotionally tortured his wife? RFKjr is a profound danger to the America. Get him out of the HHS. Now.
This man is not even a doctor, nor has he had any medical training, but he claims he can diagnose kids who are walking by him in an airport.
DC Mayor Muriel Bowser Praises Donald Trumpās Police Takeover
Someone should create a government agency that protects consumers
She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse. ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.
I did promise that Republican states that capitulate to Trump's demands to illegally gerrymander their maps will be sued. And history shows I never bluff and usually win. I also said that there are only two types of GOP officials -- proud MAGA and scared MAGA. That is true.
This is insanity. This is the sign of a government that has lost its mind.
According to federal data, 13 of the top 20 cities in homicide rates have Republican governors. None of those cities are Chicago. 8 of the top 10 states in homicide rates are led by Republicans. None of those states are Illinois. And yet Trump is sending troops here.
Proud to have helped out with this enormous effort. Say it louder for the people in the back: "The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it."
The abrupt attempt to oust Dr. Susan Monarez, the CDCās director just weeks after her Senate confirmation, is yet another glaring sign of Secretary Kennedyās failed leadership and reckless mismanagement. www.apha.org/news-and-med...
We. Have. A. Dictator. In. The. White. House.
Iowa tonight is exactly why Republicans are redrawing their maps.
This was an amazing discussion about media, democracy, and community. Heather Cox Richardson Leigh McGowan (Politics Girl) Joanne Carducci (JoJoFromJerz) Dana Goldberg substack.com/@muellershew...
Trump on Schumer: "He's become a Palestinian. We call him our great Palestinian senator."
If Obama or Biden had said this, it would be rightfully understood as them arrogating dictatorial authority to themselves, it would be the only thing anyone in the media or opposition would talk about for a year, and it would probably end their presidency. For Trump, itās literally just Tuesday.
Dem messaging nerds: Messages about Donald Trumpās ārising authoritarianismā are āunconvincingā Trump: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Letās all take a moment to reflect on how this just absolute alpha male sprayed on his hair for TV
So much winning. THANKS, TRUMP! šØ Bankruptcies surged past 2020 pandemic levels. They reached their highest level for any seven-month period since 2010. S&P Global Market Intelligence found that 71 large companies filed for bankruptcy last month.
Trump's termination of federal grants for universities has jeopardized lifesaving research breakthroughs at Harvard Medical School ā including treatments for cancer and developmental disorders. His attacks on higher education will hurt us all.
As a Brit who regularly travels to America & has family (my daughter & her family) who live in San Diego, I see people out protesting EVERY SINGLE WEEKEND that we are there. People willing to put their heads above an increasingly violent parapet. Never underestimate how dangerous that is right now.
"Actions speak louder than words, and this labeling change will accomplish little if anything." Read the full #OpEd on the FDA's new opioid labeling initiative from ryanmarino.bsky.social at: https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/toxicology-report/117145?trw=no
AFRICOM reported today that the US conducted an airstrike three days ago in Somalia on 23 August. But only on AFRICOM's website. Not on Twitter. Not on BlueSky. Only on AFRICOM's website.š www.africom.mil/pressrelease...
this (from the brilliant @everywhereist.bsky.social) puts into words the big black tangle of frustration i have whenever i get the same question
you know who else had an infraction
Apparently, no one seems particularly bothered, but for the past few days, Trump has been talking repeatedly about being a dictator. If Americans donāt want that, the window to stop him is closing quickly.
You made this monster, John Roberts
In a small town in County Cork, Ireland, a monument stands in appreciation to the American Choctaw Indian Tribe. Although impoverished, shortly after being forced to walk the Trail of Tears, the tribe somehow gathered $170 to send to Ireland for famine relief in 1847 [Historic Vids]
Friends, we are far beyond the buckle up, it's going to be a bumpy ride quips. We have passed the secure your oxygen mask moment. So, allow me to say it plainly. FUCK YOU, Republicans who won't stop this mad man. You could stop this and have him out of office if you wanted. Impeach, Convict, Remove
For folks not in DC: - There are full-on police checkpoints most nights - Gangs of 30+ federal agents roam DC - National Guard folks w/ guns patrolling a Harris Teeter - Every day, multiple friends see ICE kidnapping ppl - Daycares are scared to have kids go on walks due to ICE
Has anyone forgotten about the Epstein Files? š Just a reminder: Ask about the Epstein list. Every. Single. Day. ā¼ļø #BlueCrew #BlueCircleFamilyšš¦ #BluePetPatrolšš¾ #Resist #ProudBlue #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #trumpLiesMatter #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
