WHY is no member of the press challenging this ridiculous claim?
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WHY is no member of the press challenging this ridiculous claim?
By essentially taking control of the mobile phone, the user – in this case, Ice – can not only track an individual’s whereabouts, read their messages, look at their photographs, but it can also open and read info held on encrypted applications (WhatApp/Signal). www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Gov. Gavin Newsom: “No president is a king — not even Trump — and no president can trample a state’s power to protect its people.” He added: “Trump’s attempt to use federal troops as his personal police force is illegal, authoritarian & must be stopped in every courtroom across this country.”
"He wants to run the world and the Kennedy Center. He wants the Nobel Peace Prize, and the World Cup trophy. He wants to takeover Greenland, and protect the integrity of the “soft, beautiful, stone”[vii] on the new White House patio." @sifill.bsky.social nails it. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
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...
"It’s a failure all around. And indicative of all the ways in which this president has repeatedly hidden the truth, intimidated journalists, gutted public trust, and created a culture of impunity in the Republican Party." Truth from @jillfilipovic.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/jill/p/w...
This was $12 at the beginning of the year
Excellent piece by @nberlat.bsky.social in PN.
What’s really notable, though, is the extent to which GOP senators & leaders have remained largely 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. New in PN: www.publicnotice.co/p/rfk-jr-mon...
Trump will make "an announcement" at 2pm in the Oval Office tomorrow, per White House guidance. Via @brianmetzker.bsky.social on X.
WH just posted.. this youtu.be/SXGIN7Er9Y0?...
Yes, please xx
Checks & balances were our tyranny vaccine. Their efficacy is fading fast. Since his inauguration, Trump has exerted unfettered authority over pretty much anything and everything that tickles his fancy, caresses his ego or bloats his wealth. @frankabruni.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
🧵 Thank you, @nadler.house.gov!
Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
The elephant in the room was Trump, who has helped end Mr. Putin’s isolation, both by welcoming him to U.S. soil for the first time in a decade and by clashing with leaders from Brazil, India and South Africa, pushing them closer to Putin. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...
Let’s see. Who should I trust? My own doctor, 1,000’s of scientists, & researchers. Or someone who thought using heroin for 12 years was one of the best things he could have done, swam in a sewage polluted creek with his grandkids, had a brain worm, has no actual medical training. Tough call.
"It isn’t that many more Americans wouldn’t like to belong to unions if they could —they don’t have the chance. That decline in union membership is no accident." By @paulwaldman.bsky.social in PN: www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-labo...
Is there a ribbon for last place?
Public health has played the biggest role in improving both the length and quality of life in our nation. The CDC has led efforts to eradicate smallpox, increase access to lifesaving vaccinations and significantly reduce smoking rates. No longer. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
I guess Trump should call his friend Xi to discuss. wapo.st/421KwBm
Thank you, MAGA and Trump!
Oh, Andy Borowitz. What a gem you are.
It took Donald Trump just one summer to obliterate gains in the American/Indian relationship. Repeating that, ONE summer! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/o...
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.
As a doctor, I am disturbed by what RFK Jr. is doing to America’s public health system. It is time for medical associations, Republican doctors, and all who believe in science to step up and speak out about the lack of science behind these moves.
Good! #EpsteinFiles
So damn grateful for you.
“LA would have burned to ground if we hadn’t stepped in.” Give me a freaking break, Kristi Noem.
NEW: Man who wants Nobel Peace Prize creates Department of War.
Absurd and outrageous map would lead to a 7-1 GOP margin in a state that is often split about 60-40 GOP by creating an absurd district 5 that spans about two thirds of the way across the state, 200 miles from West to East Oppose this.
“How about instead we invest in LOCAL law enforcement and community organizations.?” Well said, Gov. @wesmoore.bsky.social
When I first saw this, I allowed myself to believe that this was the boy’s father taking the cap for safekeeping because the alternative was far too macabre for me to absorb.
JFC 😡
Spot on 🎯🎯
More of this, please! Chicago Mayor Johnson signed an executive order instructing city departments not to collaborate with an anticipated deployment of National Guard troops. time.com/7313566/chic...
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"Newsom is saying two things. First, we’re not going to let Republicans play by different rules anymore. And second, we are going to use our power however we can, no matter what The New York Times editorial board says about it." trib.al/SpzgHnV
Yup! "What’s happened is that the anti-vaccine activists have been shouting from the sideline for decades. Now they’re making public policy. In summary, we’re screwed." www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
It's truly like we're living in a bizarre parallel universe.
This seems exceptionally unhinged, even for Trump.
Normally they've booked 40% of their fall soybean sales to China at this point. This year, they are at 0% booked, and no, that's not a typo. www.farmprogress.com/soybean/us-s...
Our national parks generated $56 billion in visitor spending and supported 415,000 jobs in 2023. The entire National Park Service budget was just $3.6 billion. That’s some return on investment — so why is Donald Trump taking an axe to our parks?
Just imagine for one second: Caring more about stopping a memorial for those murdered in a mass shooting than actually stopping mass shootings.
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How is that even believable?
Inflation and cost of living are way up as Trump appears to be spoiling like a Trump Steak. Also, still no Epstein files. But at least Trump is fighting Cracker Barrel for you. Feeling great yet, everyone? https://meidasnews.com/news/trump-white-house-spoke-to-cracker-barrel-about-logo-switch
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Milton Friedman, a pillar of genuine conservative economic thought, warned in his 1990 book Free to Choose "The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny." Perhaps Trump should give it a read. time.com/7313446/trum...
The country’s largest professional association of pediatricians, who treat our children every day, calls immunizations “one of the greatest public health achievements,” which prevents tens of thousands of deaths and millions of cases of disease. ~@sanders.senate.gov www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...
Asked about the CDC meltdown Friday, Trump’s creepy consigliere Stephen Miller told reporters that Kennedy is “a crown jewel of this administration. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...
Liberals: “We could try to DO some things to reduce gun violence; ‘thoughts and prayers’ isn’t enough.” Republicans: “Outrage! Disgrace! They’re attacking prayer.” There’s no need to be polite or defensive in response to this. Invoking faith as an excuse to shun responsibility deserves no respect.
“.. The Oval Office photos don’t resolve those questions. They raise them. And until the press decides to treat Trump’s health the way it treated Biden’s, makeup and memos will remain the White House’s first—and last—line of defense.” @passantino.bsky.social www.status.news/p/trump-heal...
There’s a word for that: corruption.
No truer words.
Truly 🎯
Disgusting! About her crimes, Maxwell remained utterly lacking in remorse. She allowed that “somebody’s inappropriate”—such as seeing Epstein masturbating on a massage table—“and mine may be different.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Making America Great 🫠 “The U.S. is helping China to increase its global influence. China may suffer economically because of the tariffs, but politically, China is gaining more sympathy and more support from other countries, and not just in the Global South.” www.wsj.com/world/while-...
Something blue states will need to explore: how to create cross-state compacts dedicated to a functioning government as the Trump administration walks away from it's responsibilities.
Great question, @agawande.bsky.social!
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...
It just keeps getting better.
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 wonder why Bill Pulte didn’t send this case over to DOJ with a criminal referral along with his selective targeting of Adam Schiff and Lisa Cook? apnews.com/article/paxt...
“[Bill] Pulte got his job in the administration about three years after his wife, Diana Pulte, donated $500,000 to a super PAC backing Trump. The donation was channeled through a Delaware shell company, ML Organization LLC, that Bill Pulte controlled.”
In a two week period: Trump fired 7 of the 8 members who do independent federal oversight on nuclear waste. Peter Thiel (Palantir) is found to be backing the first privately developed uranium enrichment facility in the US.
So you’re suggesting that we are the only country in the world with mental health issues, correct, Mike Johnson? Because no other country on this earth suffers mass shootings over and over and over again!
So you’re suggesting that we are the only country in the world with mental health issues, correct, Mike Johnson? Because no other country on this earth suffers mass shootings over and over and over again!
"CNN’s Scott Jennings Brawls With Colleagues Over Cause of Minnesota School Shooting" This is how far CNN has fallen. Instead of presenting news, they have people debating a school shooting where children were murdered like it's a sporting match. www.mediaite.com/media/tv/cnn...
Brava 👏🏼👏🏼
There is no possible legitimate reason to do this. It’s what despots do. It’s petty. It’s dangerous. It’s unAmerican. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
If Ashli Babbitt's parents really wanted to avenge her death they would, instead of pitifully whitewashing her legacy, be suing Fox News for filling their child's gullible head with dangerous nonsense that directly led to her death.
Don’t look away
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Please don’t stop. We desperately need you. 🙏🏼🩵
Spot on 🎯
"Ashli Babbitt was a grown ass adult who made a series of conscious, ill-advised decisions to engage in treasonous behavior, and she got exactly what she deserved. She was a traitor. She was a threat to national security. There is no nuance needed here."
Gavin Newsom responds to a completely fake Vanity Fair cover being spread by MAGA, who think it is real
Can you begin to imagine what life is like living in Ukraine? 🥲
U.S. government is now holding a massive fire sale for mosquito nets, water towers, printers, iPads, chairs, generators, defibrillators, textbooks, agricultural equipment, motorbikes, mobile health clinics, and more. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
This is obscene thehill.com/policy/defen...
This is the most important thing you'll read today: "Democracy rarely dies in a single moment. It is chipped away via abdication: rationalizations and compromises as those with power and influence tell themselves that yielding just a little ground will keep them safe..."
"How many Americans will die driving hours to a distant hospital? How many rural resident will lose access to preventative care and critical diagnostic tests? How many trauma centers will close, leaving accident victims without emergency care? The Trump regime apparently does not care."
Upgraded from “concerned” to “extremely alarmed” 😳
Join some Nobel Laureates and sign this petition to remove RFK Jr. from office. He is a danger to the people of the United States and a national security threat. www.change.org/p/demand-rfk...
Important words from @donmoyn.bsky.social: “It doesn’t mean we should give up, or that improvement is not possible. But it is difficult to move forward if we don’t acknowledge where we are.” open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
Say it with me - abortion care is health care. abortion care is health care. abortion care is health care. Women, no matter where they are (🇺🇸 or Africa) deserve access to have ALL their health care needs met. MAGA/ Christian fundamentalists need to just mind their own damn business. #MomSky #Pinks
Refusing to act, then falsely accusing those who want to see something tangible done to protect kids of attacking prayer on top of it, is doubly shameless.
New: In 7 months, Kennedy has broken the CDC, perhaps irreparably. For all he’s done with mass firings, gutting expertise, and attacking vaccines, Wednesday’s loss of its most senior and competent leaders—truly the CDC’s backbone—is the most consequential attack yet. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/c...
Spot on 🎯
We’re here folks.
"No hostile power could have dreamed up so many ways to threaten the Americans’ health and safety as has the MAGA crowd." @jenrubin.bsky.social nails it. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
A former CDC staffer adds: “This is the work of a death cult.”
"It’s not just the individual threats that weigh on us. It’s the sheer volume. The autocrat’s playbook isn’t just about single acts of repression; it’s about creating a dozen crises at once. This is not incompetence; it is a strategy." @ianbassin.bsky.social www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/the-hard-w...
“The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning,” he wrote. “My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud.” Via @hcrichardson.bsky.social's newsletter. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
Trump administration moves to bar states and even private (!) nonprofits, such as Red Cross, from helping undocumented immigrants after disasters. Evil. s2.washingtonpost.com/4467742/68af...