Prioress, The Sanctuary @ Mud Bay, WA. Retired healthcare data analyst & clinical RN. I love democracy, the PNW, my offspring and my chug (Lucy). “If you want safer communities, invest in people, not punishment.” Quasim Rashid, human rights lawyer
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Let's give a shout out to the men & women who labor in the fields to put food on our tables. #WeFeedYou #LaborDay. Mandemosle un saludo a los hombres y mujeres que trabajan en el campo para poner comida en nuestras mesas. Thank you Ignacio Gomez for letting us use this art
I first fought alongside Jerry Nadler when we took on a corrupt bankruptcy system that was rigged against working families. When New Yorkers needed a champion, Nadler always had their backs. He’s a man of principle, and I’m deeply grateful for his years of public service.
ABC News is still calling RFK Jr. a “vaccine skeptic.” The dude was one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists for decades. There’s video of him in 2023 saying that there’s no vaccine which is safe and effective. You can call him an anti-vaccine activist!
The regime has cut minimum wage protections for federal workers and halted plans to require companies to pay disabled workers $7.25 per hour; and it will advance plans to eliminate minimum wage protections for millions of child care and home care providers. www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...
Nine former CDC directors basically said RFK Jr is a threat to public health.
“They Will Attack Every Organized Worker in America” A powerful warning from the head of the largest federal employees union. Trump’s attacking federal workers and their unions now. But it’s only a matter of time before the most anti-labor president in history attacks every union—and every worker.
Fifty-one of the 85 Federalist papers were written by a guy born in Nevis.
$50 says that’s Stephen Miller wearing his skin
Chicago this Labor Day… Thousands fighting for what #WorkersDeserve
Yesterday’s projects: plum jam, more tomato sauce and apple crisp.
They're going to show a picture of a pile of ashes on the golf course and MAGA will be like, "Such amazing vigor from OUR president! How does he do it?"
The National Guardners
I’m sorry, WHAT?
Pure fucking evil. Everyone involved in this shit needs to be held accountable.
DEVELOPING: Advocates are seeking a court order to block the Trump administration’s effort to deport hundreds of unaccompanied minor children to Guatemala. Judge abruptly moved 3 pm hearing up to 12:30 after she was notified that some children “are in the process of being removed" today.
Nite
RFK Jr., driving away with Rudy Guliani tied to the roof of his car
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.
ICE will intensify operations in sanctuary cities after Labor Day, targeting Portland, New York, Los Angeles, and Seattle. Homan promises more raids as TRAC finds over 70% detained lack convictions. Portland holds its line. Immigrant groups prepare families.
JB Pritzker uses the word "invasion" to describe what Trump has planned for my city, Chicago. And that's exactly what it would be – an autocratic government trying to crush our dissent because we oppose his corruption, cruelty and incompetence. It's what dictators do.
To state the obvious, petty street crime would likely be very rare in a totalitarian state where the military could execute you on suspicion of shoplifting; doesn’t mean this should be seriously discussed as an anti-crime stately. “Lowering crime” is not the only prerogative in a civilized society
🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump said in a weekend social media post he plans to issue an executive order to impose voter ID requirements. And he reiterated his desire to ban mail voting. The president lacks the authority to take either step. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
NEW: A week or so ago, one federal agent kept popping up in videos from Trump's violent DC crackdown—so @jsweetli.bsky.social and I investigated. Turns out he's a 26-year-old US Parks Police officer, a lesser known law enforcement unit currently championed by Interior Sec. Doug Burnum. Our report:
He won’t let the press anywhere near him. This is getting weirder and weirder.
This feels like a metaphor for 2025 www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...
Pritzker out here giving a master class in countering the right wing propaganda machine’s efforts to justify further federal invasions and occupations of American cities: he’s effectively reframing the discussion (beyond debates re: crime rates) to one of rising authoritarianism & federal overreach.
The gullibility is breathtaking - et voila, the militarization of cities becomes framed as anti-crime
Pritzker: "We don't want troops on the streets of American cities. That's un-American and frankly the president ought to know better. This one doesn't seem to. He hasn't read any books. He doesn't seem to understand the Constitution or the laws."
Why do I blame Bill Cassidy for the destruction of the CDC and the NIH? Because he is a physician. He knew or should have known the danger that Kennedy poses to the U.S. and the globe. Kennedy has never hidden what he is—a predator, a fraud, an anti-science hack, and a gargantuan narcissist.
Trump 3.0 is JD Vance! Just as crazy but a little smarter!
I'm going to be on with @velshi.com at 11 to talk about my article on the small acts of noncompliance that we can take against our dispicable government. I guess Summer is over. www.thenation.com/article/acti...
What’s wild to me: NOW, media outlets & medical organizations are “stunned” by the damage RFK Jr. is doing to CDC, other health agencies, & public health. Me & my colleagues have been screaming about him for years. Years. Even more so in the last year. We were called hyperbolic. 1/
Not a very long path from "Why wouldn't you want the regime to deploy federal troops in your city when it reduces carjackings?" to "Why would you be opposed to the erection of internment camps for deviants when it reduces crime?" And a good chunk of mainstream media will just follow along.
And in yet another episode of “Let’s Do Something Even Stupider than LAST Week”, we have… www.npr.org/2025/08/31/n...
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
Look if people insist on electing 80 year olds with bad McDonalds habits as President, we will all have to play the very silly game of “dead or not dead” on the regular.
RFK Jr: “If you’ve ever compared an unvaccinated kid to a vaccinated kid… you see the bright eyes, the engagement, the social interactions, the curiosity. And you compare them to the child who even had one or two vaccines, and they’re completely different.“ This man is an existential threat.
It’s likely CA GOP is responsible for mailers sent to Californians falsely claiming League of Women Voters opposes Prop 50, re redistricting. LWV’s statement below, they are taking a neutral position. Please spread the word. Stop the GOP disinformation. Vote for Prop 50 #Prop50 lwvc.org/prop50/
Little kids with brain cancer. That’s who Donald Trump and RFK Jr. are screwing over by cutting health care.
If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you
The Executive Order threats RE Elections are telegraphing that his analysis shows him losing any fair franchise, even after his purges of the US. This is weakness.
Sorry boss, can’t work today, mitochondria are too challenged
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.
Feel safer yet? ICE made a “brave”arrest of two firefighters in Washington state who were part of a crew battling a massive fire. Are they going to march into a hospital room and arrest the anesthesiologist? Or maybe the nurse who is giving CPR? New meaning of stupid!
Epidemiologist Erin McCanlies spent much of the past two decades studying the environmental causes of autism. Under the leadership of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has promised to find a cause for the condition, her entire division was cut.
open.substack.com/pub/danielle... Anti-science quack calls the shots. What can possibly go wrong?
Oh so he's not being charged with flag burning and won't be going away for a year? How embarrassing for Donald!
DOGE isn't fighting fraud — it's potentially exposing Americans to more of it. And now a Social Security Administration whistleblower is resigning after apparently being punished for trying to warn the public. Nothing about this fake government agency is "efficient."
Another super wealthy kook who is delusional
Stephen Manning, this guy’s lawyer, is one of the best in the country. It’s very good news that he’s taken this case.
Trump & Kennedy, instead of attacking diseases are attacking the scientists who keep us safe, exactly what anyone who watched Trump’s performance during Covid, is familiar with Kennedy’s anti-science views, or read Project 2025 could have anticipated. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/h...
In addition to everything he details about data concerns, which is important, do note that Borges makes three statements that certainly sound like an employment lawsuit is coming: - "involuntary resignation" - "constructive discharge" (means, functionally, you fired me) - "hostile work environment"
Image caring more about stopping a memorial for people killed in a mass shooting than stopping mass shootings. #Priorities
California Highway Patrol will continue to protect Kamala Harris after Trump pulls Secret Service protection. 😏 California will always be a thorn in Trump’s swollen ankles and clogged arteries. www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-h...
Chuck Grassley claims he is “leaving the door open” to run for re-election of his senate seat in 2028 He would be 95 YEARS OLD at the time of election and 101 years old by the end of his term.
RFK Jr joined the fight on deadly diseases on the side of deadly diseases.
Unbelievably bad. “The CDC you knew is over. Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.” www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
If Trump actually did die, we would not be told for days so that Stephen Miller, JD Vance and others could sign orders in his name
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.
ILLINOIS - @govpritzker.illinois.gov : “Trump doesn’t seem to understand it’s actually Republican states that have the crime problem.”
Once again, Border Patrol tells the press this was a targeted kidnapping, yet they took a man who is legally here & in the immigration process. This shows that it was not a targeted investigation as they claimed. Press must stop printing lies. apnews.com/article/immi...
It’s good that the courts are making clear that Trump’s destructive tariffs are illegal. These tariffs are crushing small businesses and costing regular people thousands of dollars for no good reason. Democrats will keep pushing to end these tariffs & restore economic sanity.
Philadelphia’s District Attorney Larry Krasner has suggested an effective playbook— We should arrest rogue ICE agents at the state level, which would shield them from a presidential pardon. This is the kind of hardline approach we need from our Democratic leaders.
Proving once again the S&P 500 is a wealth index, not a measure of the economy #EconSky #FinSky
"She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it. She was not protecting lives at a gate in Iraq; she was forcing her way through windows in the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power." New from @markhertling.bsky.social:
We should all follow!
One of the only reasons I can sleep at night is knowing that Fontes is in charge of AZ elections.
NEWS: Walgreens just got taken over by private equity. Private equity has a record of running companies into the ground. Walgreens could be the latest victim: closing more stores, service plummeting, workers losing their jobs, and eventually bankruptcy.
Corporate America’s playbook: 1) Exploit workers to maximize profits 2) Use profits to buy Congress 3) Use Congress to pass union-busting laws 4) Use these laws to further exploit workers 5) Repeat Let's break the cycle and keep building back a powerful labor movement.
Wes Moore is NOT playing: I am the Commander in Chief of the National Guard. I will not authorize the Maryland National Guard to be activated. THIS is how you fight back.
The overall goal here is clear: Trump wants full control of the U.S. economy. That’s reckless no matter who the president is. But it’s a ruinous mission for a president who obviously has no idea what he’s doing. trib.al/VnbR4iD
EVERY time I read about someone who fought overseas in the military now taking a very public stand defending against the fascist overtake here, I get a feeling of ... elation. Truer still for military academy alums. I reflexively contrast them w/ Supreme Ct justices. newrepublic.com/maz/post/199...
listen he cannot officially be declared un-dead until his caddie casually drops a ball on the green after he shanks one into the woods sorry I don't make the rules here
I’ve heard from a couple of messaging strategists now that people shouldn’t post so much about COVID19 vaccines because it’s “divisive”. I am here to say that I do not give a damn what is popular. I will never ignore scientific evidence for the sake of expediency, and neither should anyone else.
CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @mluckovichajc)
Question: Why did US put big tariffs on India despite major national interest in cultivating a strategic counterweight to China and trying to isolate Russia? Answer: Because the US president lied that he fixed India-Pakistan and India wouldn’t go along with the lie. (Seriously, that’s the answer)
Dear Americans, welcome to the thrilling game of ‘Did this dictator die or just disappear for a day?’ We’ve been playing it with Putin and Lukashenko for decades. Enjoy the suspense.
“…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...
Every Dem governor and blue state should be building parallel institutions right now. There’s no excuse for any blue state to not have vaccine and abortion pill/birth control stockpiles to survive the next 5-10 years.
Important victory in our fight for affordability and jobs. As Governor, I was proud to stand with labor and business to file a brief in this case. It’s important to make sure Washington’s voice is heard as one of the most trade-dependent states in the nation.
RFK Jr looks like he’s been sampling the diseases at the CDC
Making enough tomato sauce, pesto and frozen green beans to last all winter. #GardenBounty
Mass shooters since 2018 who were transgender — 4. Mass shooters since 2018 who were not transgender — 4,193. Hope that helps.
Good.
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.
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Donald Trump ran his campaign on sending out the worst of the worst. I’m not sure who’s more the best of the best than our firefighters, actively fighting the largest fire in Washington.
#ResistanceRoots Today in history, 1970: A group of 23 Native Americans begins a two-month occupation of Mount Rushmore. The activists climbed to the top of the monument to reclaim land they believed to be rightfully theirs under the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie. /1
If you're fighting for the next unstable 20something mass shooter to have easy access to AR-15s, bc "personal freedom" means more to you than the bodies of dead American children, then maybe the problem is *your* mental illness.
No one voted for this.
A lot of politically connected vendors literally made hundreds of millions of dollars off taxpayers through no bid contracts in just two months of Alligator Alcatraz operating. Waste, fraud, and abuse.
RFK Jr.’s FDA Denies COVID Vax to Millions of Americans talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
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.
"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." www.foreignaffairs.com/germany/hitl...
