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Trump has clearly been in decline for a while, but I'm very skeptical of the narrative he is near death. The big problem is our media spent a year+ hyping presidential fitness with the angle Biden was in terrible shape but not Trump. They are locked in and can't bear reversing. Bogus Dr report OK!
"this morning, there’s not a single story on the homepage of the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, or CNN about Trump’s health — but there is a story on the New York Post about how robust the president’s health surely is!" Trump may be dying, but the media is already dead.
Washington's speculation about Trump's health is at a fever pitch. We've seen multiple reasons this summer to ask questions — and the media doesn't seem to care. What's really going on? www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-time-...
Sending soldiers into cities under the guise of fighting crime is an unprecedented abuse of power. And it’s illegal. bit.ly/4m6TG77
Thread: this is Russ Vought giving himself permission to ignore Congress and the constitution
Vought in the Trump administration is teeing up even more illegal impoundment and telling agencies to ignore when Congress calls it out
Is Trump reusing some of these internment camps from WW2 now? Build informative museums and fill the old camps with wind power and anything else
Did last year actually outpace post-Apr? Either way, this is very impressive! I guess the WI Supreme Court election was a huge driver
Today we monitored ICE flights in support of legal partners who worked tirelessly to stop the unlawful deportation of unaccompanied children to Guatemala. Thanks to their monumental efforts, the planes never took off
I have been skeptical of this health crisis narrative, but it's been going on long enough that it does seem something is up. Death could not be covered up. But I wouldn't think a bad health episode could be either. What good are all the access journalists that we torched traditional coverage for?
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
Can we stop to talk about how remarkable the timing was? Compliant at 1am, Judge engaged at 2am, ex parte call to the Government at 2:30am (they did not answer), TRO at 4am? On a Sunday of a holiday weekend?!
Only 7 months, and Trump has already set up the country to be completely destroyed and our military to be obliterated. He's demanding special treatment of his illegally imposed taxes that go against the constitution to stave off these consequences
Only 7 months, and Trump has already set up the country to be completely destroyed and our military to be obliterated. He's demanding special treatment of his illegally imposed taxes that go against the constitution to stave off these consequences
Trump posts nonsensical voting demands where he has no influence and which are just part of a campaign to corrupt and discredit our election system and NYT writes it up as some valid, well-intended effort to be taken at face value #UnsubscribeNYT #CancelNYT
As long as I’m your Governor, I can promise you this: No matter what you look like, where you live, who you love, or who you pray to, you have a home here in Pennsylvania.
Interesting interactive music coding platform called Strudel
CHICAGO MAYOR ISSUES EXECUTIVE ORDER PROTECTING CHICAGO AGAINST THREATENED FEDERAL ACTION - I HAVE THE FULL EO FOR YOU Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson just announced an Executive Order hardening the City of Chicago against an anticipated federal incursion and military presence.
9-year NBA veteran Jeremy Lin announces retirement reut.rs/4lUm6B1
Doesn't he have like 40 cats in a 1 BR or something?
Reminds me how Fact Checks fail in this era. When Biden pointed to the huge numbers of farm bankruptcies from the Trump 1 trade wars, these outfits rated it half true and wrote extended articles about all the other explanations. Now Trump is back and farmers who voted for him will go bankrupt again
NYT made presidential physical condition the premier issue of the 2024 campaign and then applied this harshly to Biden, completely excluding Trump. Now major questions float around Trump's fitness and they are silent #UnsubscribeNYT #CancelNYT
“'This event in Minneapolis was 100% preventable. This was exactly the kind of event we could have stopped,' said a former DHS employee, who asked not to be named out of fear of their deferred resignation being impacted." #GunViolence #Vote
Trump was spotted this morning in a white polo, MAGA hat and black pants as he heads to a golf course in Virginia, per pool
8. To conclude, Trump is not doing anything for the American people, while he is causing great damage to the US at home and abroad. That should be the essence of objective news reporting. Objective media must point out that Trump is hurting the US & its citizens. /9
Good.
It was all clearly absurd as it was happening
“…I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.” My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
They plan to Make America Healthy Again by hastening the death of everyone deemed unhealthy. Their policy is to turn the stripped down HHS into a death panel
NOW: In response to Russia's large-scale attack, Poland's Air Force said it had scrambled fighter jets to protect Polish air space, as missiles target Ukraine's far-west.
"Her patient had signs of what could be a cancer or could be an unusual infection — diagnoses that would require completely different treatment. Ordinarily, she would confirm an infection after sending a sample to the CDC for testing ...the CDC no longer has the capacity to do that"
BLOCKED: Trump’s “liberation day” tariffs ruled illegal. I call on the Administration to repay and provide relief to small businesses that were forced to pay these damaging tariffs.
Trump has clearly been in decline for a while, but I'm very skeptical of the narrative he is near death. The big problem is our media spent a year+ hyping presidential fitness with the angle Biden was in terrible shape but not Trump. They are locked in and can't bear reversing. Bogus Dr report OK!
"but SCOTUS sides w Trump almost every time" That's the cynicism. Lower courts are doing good work, and the public doesn't have confidence in our Supreme Court
A court ruled in our favor and declared that the President cannot impose tariffs whenever, wherever, or however he wants. This is a victory for hardworking families and businesses in New York and our nation. We will never stop fighting to protect people and their wallets.
In just 7 months, Trump has set up the country for total disaster, in his own words. He demands special treatment from the Supreme Court to continue his illegally levied massive tax hike on ordinary Americans to stave off disaster
BREAKING: Most Trump tariffs are not legal, US appeals court rules reut.rs/4p0kf0d
canadian economy down 1.6%, shrinking for the first time in 2 years thanks to us trade war knocking exports
Breaking: A federal appeals court struck down Trump’s global tariffs.
Most of President Donald Trump’s global tariffs were ruled illegal by a federal appeals court that found he exceeded his authority in imposing them, but the judges let the levies stay in place while sending the case back to a lower court for further proceedings. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
This is a sound conclusion, but it's not an easy call on account of how many monsters are poised to kill us in this administration. Musk, Vought, and Miller, along with more. Trump himself betrays us daily and would liquidate any number of us if there's something to gain
Trump is attempting more ILLEGAL cuts to government investments, trying to push Congress to the side entirely. This is a brazen attempt to steal Congress's power to be YOUR voice on taxpayer spending. Trump does NOT have a line-item veto, much less a retroactive one.
Then whatever lesser system they use on persistent drones over their own territory will reveal a capability. Doesn't sound like handing out some shotguns will do the job. And it's foreign action on their own territory! Definitely demand it stop and chase the source
Just how well they can be detected and tracked is good info. And they aren't that easy to shoot down. Germany has an impressive Rheinmetall system that can do the job, and this application would tie up many units and reveal deployment details
Demanding an action like that stop first makes total sense. It should not become a game of what the adversary can get away with, and using force has large risks and leaks capabilities
It's for him to experiment and try coding, so it's set up permissively. He has multiple SD cards he can switch between. He gets some interesting things working
Yeah, he has images he could revert to from earlier, Raspbian and Ubuntu. I did have time to check out the damage myself and talk him through what's going on, so I did that
My kid has started to use ChatGPT to help install games and solve problems on his raspberry pi. It goes crazy chasing dependency problems until half the 3d graphics are downgraded it's all incompatible. Big mess for me to clean up manually after
this is the funniest thing i've ever seen
“Do not offer thoughts and prayers as you systemically enable such tragedies. Do not claim prayers are sufficient when children die as they pray. Do not pretend you do not understand.” — Lydia, 16, Minneapolis
Here's some good news: Catelin Drey won a special election this week to flip a seat blue in the Iowa Senate and break Republicans' supermajority.
Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.
AP livestream www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ7Q...
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...
Chicago hasn’t asked and doesn’t consent to Donald Trump deploying the military to our city. Period.
Strange substitution of ICE for gray duck
Bruising on his hands and other rumors led some to say he has congestive heart failure or some other condition that will lead to death in a short time frame
The debacle at CDC shows how dysfunctional this government is. This chaos is directly under Secretary RFK Jr. He must resign and let the scientists do their jobs
The supposed diagnosis is based on too little, and neither can I imagine him reacting that way. He would never believe it, would lash out, deny. We'd see bizarre extended rants on his social media before cryptic preparative remarks showing mindfulness
WH is telling reporters that the President fired the director, but nothing is forthcoming with the President's own statement? Hmm
That particular post is good, and I think collapse is the right way to think of it. But the thread leans heavily on the idea Trump is headed soon to death and knows it. I don't buy this. The collapse is that he knows most of the country and the world looks down on him. And his buddy Putin won't help
WH is telling reporters that the President fired the director, but nothing is forthcoming with the President's own statement? Hmm
Sanders speaks up about the chaos at CDC with RFK Jr in charge at HHS
It’s outrageous that Sec. Kennedy is trying to fire the CDC Director — after only a few weeks on the job — for her commitment to public health & vaccines. The Sen. HELP Committee must hold a hearing with Kennedy & the CDC Director as soon as possible. Vaccines save lives. Period.
There is not enough recognition that so much of what the Trump admin does just straight harms the country and hurts people. On trade, economy, military, data, water management, science, health. It's not just a different vision but harmful policies that benefit maybe a few cronies or no one at all
A former CDC staffer adds: “This is the work of a death cult.”
Now would be the time for this effort to move quickly to snap up experienced public health officials who could help us (the Northeast) maintain some semblance of sane public health policy.
Valid question
Tonight one of the CDC’s top public health leaders, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, has resigned from his post. Below is his full resignation letter. You should read every word. This is a truly scary moment for public health in America. 1/2
The White House does not view senators as having legitimate oversight authority and will terminate officials who are candid with senators.
What will it take for Republicans to understand that RFK Jr. is dangerous?
RKF Jr. is a dangerous man who is determined to abuse his authority to act on truly terrifying conspiracy theories and disinformation—leaving us unprepared for the next deadly pandemic and snuffing out potential cures while he’s at it. My full statement.
A Chinese folktale may seem like an unlikely contender for the year’s biggest movie. But after watching “Ne Zha 2,” @shirklesxp.bsky.social explains why its $2 billion haul at the global box-office is no surprise:
This CDC situation is getting wilder
Four more top #CDC officials have submitted their resignation in the past few hours - Debra Houry (chief medical officer), Demere Daskalakis (director of NCIRD), Daniel Jernigan (director of NCEZID) + Jen Layden (director of OPHDST) www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... It is horrifying
Well this is unambiguously terrifying
There's an attempt at this in a book One Billion Americans, but it didn't catch fire and the author isn't the most popular on Bluesky
Did she do that? Haven't chased down everything, just saw she gave thanks for the guard
Techdirt Podcast Episode 428: Blacksky Demonstrates The Promise Of Open Social Media Protocols Support us on Patreon » The goal of Bluesky and the ATProtocol, and of the push for protocols over platforms in general, has always been to see more people building their own communities in a modular…
Is this because of the Federal suit on environmental grounds? Because it's so expensive and impossible to staff? I don't suppose they are finally having an attack of morals
Vacation might help his numbers. Somehow masses of people forget his negatives when not reminded
It ignores robots.txt?
It's a big mix, but the voices saying independent creators should just be left to do their thing and be funded without contracts resonated with me. Really didn't know how to take its general theme of a shadowy network of propagandists given what I see and what happens on the R side
These thoughts come to me a lot, and I usually push them away as a kind of escapism. The real challenge and work faces us now. So much is up in the air that it is still hard to be thoughtful and realistic about the future after. Wishful thinking abounds, even though serious discussion is very good
I'm sad to report that Rainer (Rai) Weiss passed away yesterday at age 92. Rai developed the design for LIGO, he and Kip got it funded, trained countless researchers, and received the 2017 Nobel Prize. Rai always had time for students and treated us as equals. May his memory be a blessing
By June 12th SSA security responded: no, you can't create any kind of new system without the property security process, an Authority to Operate (ATO). And you can't take real SSA data out of SSA and move it to a place the SSA's IT shop does not control.
Quite a moving story
DC has $1B of DC taxpayer money sitting unused in an account because Congressional Rs didn't want to go to the benefit of the city. Could pay for a lot of trash pickup
"A fascist president is assembling a national army of right-wing thugs & invading US cities to terrorize their citizens & intimidate their leaders." I mean ... does that sound real? Even if you know, intellectually, that it is, have you really *absorbed* it?
Be careful with your new crypto account
KPop Demon Hunters becomes Netflix’s most-watched film with 236m views
Dems need to start running against NYT. It causes a big public perception problem that there is a common notion that major media and NYT in particular are biased for Dems, when the opposite is in fact true
I don't have the full statement yet but the Fed has finally spoken *FEDERAL RESERVE: GOVERNORS MAY ONLY BE REMOVED 'FOR CAUSE' *FEDERAL RESERVE WILL ABIDE BY ANY COURT DECISION: FED STATEMENT *FEDERAL RESERVE: REMOVAL PROTECTIONS SERVE AS SAFEGUARD
Huh, candidate for which award?
What in tarnation
An @afm-union.bsky.social and @sagaftra.org gal. An NFLPA guy. We love a union love story. Congrats Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce!
I have received confirmation from ... the NFL twitter account ... that Taylor Swift is engaged
🚨| Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are getting married!!! “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married🧨”
Like this is one of the most romantic and beautiful photos I’ve ever seen
🚨 Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce announce they are engaged: “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married 🧨”
