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Studies repeatedly show that most people age out of "hardcore" crime by their late 30s and 40s. And nobody is "born to be" a criminal. Even Trump, who is a hardcore criminal who has not aged out of his illicit behavoir, was not born like this. I blame his parents.
The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
Frickin’ truth. IT IS AN AUTHORITARIAN POWER GRAB.
also they never fuckin shut up about it of course people do not want to hang out with them
again we’re seeing how the glide path toward authoritarian overreach here is disrupted by regular people than by big institutions or the powerful people who run them
I'm aware that the President likes to go on television and beg me to call him to ask for troops. I find it strange, as Chicago doesn't want troops. I also have experience asking him for assistance – just to have the rug pulled up from underneath me when execution meets reality.
Nobody should trust a solitary shred of data out of this anti intellectual quagmire.
I heard they’re still struggling to get the president to master the line “putting on the ritz!”
I often talk about how bad the White House comms team is and this is another example. This is one press conference you *really* want on time, or close to on time. And here we are...40 minutes late. Total clown show shit. I don't think something happened to Trump. I think they're all incompetent.
what would pawtism even look like? oh no, my dog is awkward and singularly focused on like three things. you know, a dog. my dog already has a special interest, it's hot dogs
Reanimation sequence malfunction
FUCK, man.
The Trump admin is now moving to effectively double the number of immigration judges by citing flimsy legal authority to deputize hundreds of totally inexperienced military lawyers to take these jobs. Notably, immigration law is infamously complex, often described as second only to tax law.
There is no cure for rabies
I hate it here.
WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive GLOBAL study revealed COVID-19 vaccines utilizing mRNA technology PREVENTED OVER 2.5 MILLION deaths WORLDWIDE between 2020 and 2024. It reveals that vaccinations didn’t JUST protect against illness. They PRESERVED nearly 15 MILLION years of human life.
I wrote about how the U.S. refuses to ratify the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child. "ParentalRights.org is an organization that has been actively campaigning against U.S. ratification of “dangerous U.N conventions that “threaten parental rights” www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-p...
His trans daughter is on another magazine cover today
One of the wild things is the level of condescension you'll get from "tech experts" who will say "wrong answers from Google is good, actually". I would submit that anyone who doesn't understand why Google suddenly getting basic questions wrong, that it used to get right, is bad... may be off track.
Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.
Ignore people…
Childbearing is physically dangerous & painful for women; childrearing is an exhausting, degraded, isolating, and impoverishing endeavor that annihilates women’s other opportunities & goals. When women are free, they choose fewer children. There is no way to make them have more that is not violent.
"Some EMS workers make as little as $36,330 during the first few months with salaries capped at $76,028 after five years for paramedics. EMTs make $59,800 at most." This is criminal. Tax NY billionaires at 90% and pay the people who save your life a living wage
Finishing up August numbers and our trans health patients nearly doubled in Dr. Kennedy's first month. And that was the first month. So, if you want to help with trans health service support in Alabama, here's a link. All donations are welcome but $10 monthly recurring are ESPECIALLY so
It's an honor to earn the endorsement of the Bronx Democratic Party and the elected officials who fight for this borough every day. Families in the Bronx are being crushed by the affordability crisis. As Mayor, I’ll deliver for them and all New Yorkers.
Maria Bartiromo thinks we're making a big mistake by thinking the wind will blow and the sun will shine in the future.
my liberal, mostly offline BFF is so angry about ICE and RFK and harming trans children she's incandescent.
it’s exasperating to see people who know nothing about this be treated as authorities across media. because the people who do study it have real answers — if anyone wants to listen
Why does hip-hop love Bruce Lee? Watch the video here! For more info, visit watermirrorecho.net Every Tuesday we’re dropping another short on Bruce Lee. Stay tuned! #WaterMirrorEcho
100 percent
The CEO is Piotr Szczerek and he deserves to be miserable forever.
It’s going to be a spectacle. The survivors of Epstein’s and Ghislaine Maxwell unimaginable crimes have a Press Conference tomorrow in D.C. He is going to try to overshadow that and is desperate!
An important 🧵on COVID vaccine development and positive health impacts, the exact opposite of what RFK Jr's contrarian grifters are pronouncing - and no "mitochondrial challenges" were observed on children's faces. TLDR? See the final screenshot here.👇🏼 (FYI @chrischirp.bsky.social)
I’d bet fewer than 1% of voters know Trump has made billions in a crypto scheme WHILE PRESIDENT.
New in PN: RFK Jr gives Republicans a chance to defy Trump on easy mode "What’s really notable is the extent to which GOP leaders have remained supine even in the face of a radical assault on their grandchildren by a transparent death-dealing fraud who wasn’t even a member of the party a year ago."
Nazis calling everything antisemitism is the new Nazis calling everything communism. Less of a dog whistle & more of a display of bigots trying to make words mean entirely different things while actively engaging in the true definition.
RT in my 🐦 archive by @obyrska.bsky.social "One of the photos that inspired me to choose immediate post-WW2 history .. was photo by Michael Nash from in Warsaw in 1946. It shows everything I've been writing about: the destruction, the hope, the need to rebuild lives, the contrast between the two."
The EPA fired five agency employees who signed a June declaration decrying moves that contradict science and undermine public health, alongside four more served removal notices
The groypers in the Trump administration aren't being hypocritical per se; rather, the sense of being humbugs on antisemitism, of holding their foes to standards they themselves flout, fills them with glee.
Only upside to Trump’s purge of the DOJ is they’re going to be stuck with bottom of the barrel lawyers, whilst incurring a logistical nightmare amount of lawsuits. I imagine they’ll be losing cases on procedural errors alone. Limits his authoritarian push, yet also the ability to enforce the law.
Perfect encapsulation of the Trump administration: The guy suing Harvard for alleged antisemitism is a straight-up Hitler-admiring Nazi. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
BREAKING: Judge Breyer rules that President Trump's deployment of the military to Los Angeles violated the Posse Comitatus Act, says Trump is using military as a "national police force with the president as its chief." Injunction granted. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Imagine winning 8 Super Bowls and not simply retiring to enjoy the rest of your life
fucking wild that the fundamental moral test of our time is something as simple as "can you denounce fascism" and so many people are failing it
The lack of ego Rep. Nadler is showing is a perfect example of putting service before self. This deserves so many props and respect. Thank you, @nadler.house.gov.
Someone call Cordelia Cupps STAT!!
To be honest, if I knew the whole world was watching and speculating about the president being about to snuff it, I, too, would probably throw random black bags out the window of the White House just to fuck with everyone. But I'm a terrible person.
Alaska vowed to resolve the murders of Indigenous people. But when one nonprofit asked state law enforcement officials for a fundamental piece of data — a list of Indigenous murders they’d investigated — the state said no. By @kylehopkinsak.bsky.social, w/ @adn.com
We made sure the crowd had someone to boo. Boston Labor Day March
Made everything he was in better
Scenes of chaos play out in Gaza City as military closes in on panic-stricken residents facing forced displacement.
This thread
Nine former CDC directors basically said RFK Jr is a threat to public health.
Whatever he's got, I hope it's something they were about to find a cure for, but his administration canceled the funding.
Michelle Obama: Eat an apple! Eat some vegetables! Get some exercise! RFK Jr: Autistic people sit in the corner drooling because of vaccines! Let's ban all vaccines, bring measles back and have the survival of the fittest! American Media: Michelle Obama and RFK Jr. had the exact same agenda!
Believe it or not, Ich make certayne to check ideas for jests onlyne bifor Ich poost here. It ys awe-ynspiringe and terrifyinge how manye bad puns have alreadye been made. Ich thynke of somethinge but then, nope, somebodye years ago alreadye seyde Doceratops or Donotceratops ther ys no Triceratops.
I feel like losing my mind every time we do another round of Covid discourse because I live in Bergen county NJ, I saw the freezer trucks full of dead people with my own two eyes
Denver Protesting today! #Laborday
Somebody is throwing stuff out of a window on the front of the White House. I wonder who in there would be so confused as to think this was a good idea.
Rudy gets into a very mysterious car wreck and the same day the White House decides to give him an award? Nah, man. Someone spill it.
What's going on at the White House?
JD Vance is redecorating the White House in preparation to become #48.
Internet ERUPTS As Objects FLY Out of WHITE HOUSE WINDOW youtu.be/vrbTlGG2M08
Being a tomato dumper is hard work. This crew of 28 pickers harvests thousands of 24lb buckets a day. That makes for a lot of work for the two dumpers. #WeFeedYou #LaborDay
This story just got even worse: Firefighters question leaders’ role in Washington immigration raid Wildfire veterans believe top officials on the fire sent their crews into an ambush
One of my favorite chants from Chicago’s Labor Day Rally.”Say it once, say it twice—we will not put up with ice” #laborday #Chicago #NoTrumpTroops
Somebody is throwing things out of a window of the White House wtaf
Remembering when the NYT went on a weeks-long bender covering a decades-old real estate deal the Clintons were involved in, in which they *lost money*.
Compare the murky, indeterminate data on school closures to the stark, decisive findings on vaccine hesitancy. Republican policies and rhetoric killed hundreds of thousands of people! We don’t need to bolster this fake narrative. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
No one is "disregarding" this, it has been the subject of relentless coverage from media and politicians since 2020. Everyone knew school closures were going to be very hard on kids. The trade-off was that not closing them was going to result in mass death. No win-win scenario was on the table.
Fascism is as fascism does. encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...
"The new measures affect visas for medical treatment, university studies, visits to friends or relatives and business travel, at least temporarily." What possible justification can there by for such blanket bans? What are they punishing Palestinians for? Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...
After banning visas for Palestinian children seeking medical care, the Trump administration is now banning any Palestinian passport holders from entering the United States. Extraordinary bigotry being converted into US policy. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...
“These are not typical requests from a health secretary to a C.D.C. director. Not even close. None of us would have agreed to the secretary’s demands, and we applaud Dr. Monarez for standing up for the agency and the health of our communities.” Op-ed written by 9 former CDC directors! 🧪 #IDsky
The Maple, along with hundreds of other news outlets, has joined Avaaz and Reporters Without Borders’ campaign to draw attention to the 220+ Palestinian journalists killed by Israel since October 2023. Gaza has the bravest journalists in the world. rsf.org/en/rsf-and-a...
Black Woman: "Kids should have access to healthy food." White man: "The plague can only be beat by good genes." The Atlantic in Pam Beasely voice "They're the same picture."
CHICAGO IS IN THE STREETS! #LaborDay #DefendHigherEd #WorkersOverBillionaires
As far as the eye can see. Boston Labor Day march. #LaborDay
Alt text pro tip: For those of us who don't regularly NEED alt text? But demand and advocate for alt text?? ... Please always read the alt text in any image you boost. The amount of lazy, shitty, jokey, not actually alt text "alt text" out there is massive.
I have a master of public health, but it wasn’t until my grandmother got sick and started researching what assistance was available that I found out exactly how states use Medicaid to essentially steal from families that can’t afford to pay for treatment. They’re almost state-run reverse mortgages.
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HEY NYC! The great @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social dancing on the @jcod3.bsky.social float at the West Indian Day Parade! #CuomoCouldNever
This is so important… Sharon has been tracking license plates on cars driven by ICE agents, and she’s finding they don’t match the vehicles. In other words, ICE is using secret, illegal tactics—just like we suspected. REMINDER: the DMV is not a federal agency. @governor.ca.gov 🧵
Federal agents in DC have been starting dangerous car cases for small stuff like tinted windows. The chases violate DC police policy. Out of 10 cases, six ended in a crash. One car had a minor in back. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Michelle Obama: kids should have healthier school lunches RFK Jr: maybe if we let the plague run wild we can build a master race Media: wow these are the same thing
13/31 Then in June, we see Trump's swollen ankles, and for the first time, the White House medical team is willing to admit: 1) He's got "CVI" 2) His bruising is related to "aspirin regime" and shaking hands.
10/31 Statins like Rosuvastatin will manage cholesterol alone where as Ezetimibe will be used as a second-line if the patient is at high cardiovascular risk such as prior strokes, heart attacks, or arterial disease. Then its used for stroke prevention.
1/31 I believe there is growing evidence, that the White House is covering up the fact that Donald Trump has been dealing with TIA strokes. AND that he likely had a more significant ischemic stroke this week.
Chicago this Labor Day… Thousands fighting for what #WorkersDeserve
Tourism down in five out of six months, with experts linking decline to president’s rhetoric and restrictive policies.
This Weeks Editorial Cartoon: Causing a Führer
People are melting down at a Tribune article about CHSD 230 considering adding Arabic to its language learning electives. I wasted time in the comments, which I normally avoid doing since it's useless and awful, but it led to possibly the funniest thing anybody's ever said to me about France.
Oh my
I truly feel for poor NY Times Pitchbot having to see their bit turned into a reality whereby the NYT's inhouse LLM spits out a column idea prompt to be fed to the meatsuited GenAI Tom BartChat 2.0 to spew out slop-eds like this
Today's a federal holiday because on the eve of the 20th century machinists, carpenters, and people who worked in mills, mines, and factories joined together to fight for better wages and a day to honor working people. If you're enjoying the holiday today, thank the labor movement.
It's a floor polish AND a dessert topping!