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Brilliant!
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
The Billionaires are ganging up to crush Mamdani. We need to show them they can't buy elections!
I was walking my dogs at the beach at the end of the island on Galveston, there were whole families swimming in the water. Yikes!
Thanks for letting us know!
I'm concerned about the multi-state outbreak of vibrio vulnificus (flesh-eating bacteria) in the Gulf, with 60+ cases across 5 states, & 10+ deaths. On my travels along the gulf states, I didn't see any additional information on how to stay safe. I wonder how CDC cuts have impacted this response.
On September 1, 1979 Dr. Hazel W. Johnson Brown, who had a doctorate from Catholic University and started her career as a nurse, became the first Black woman to achieve the rank of Brigadier (one star) General in the US Army. Among other things she was director of Walter Reed's Institute of Nursing.
I’ll bet he’d take the rabies vaccine if he got bitten by a coyote, though.
Uhhh…ohhhh 👀👀👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼😂
Handsome man.
September 1, 1975 HBCU graduate and and flying in over 170 fighter pilot missions in Korea + Vietnam, Daniel "Chappie" James was named the first Black Four-Star general in the US military. He also held the title of Commander-in-CHief of the North American Air Defense Command.
That about sums it up.
Pritzker is looking more presidential by the day.
Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?"
Things feel uncertain right now, Illinois. I want you all to know we’re doing everything we can to protect your rights. Make sure you know how to stand up for yourself and others at illinoisimmigrationinfo.org.
Pritzker on Trump's plan for Chicago: "Unidentifiable agents in unmarked vehicles with masks are planning to raid Latino communities and say they're targeting violent criminals."
Pritzker: "It breaks my heart to report that we have been told ICE will try to disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades. Let's be clear -- the terror and cruelty is the point, not the safety of anybody living here."
As a physician, I know conversion therapy is dangerous and goes against everything we stand for in healthcare. It's abusive and not grounded in science.
Moving Space Command away from NORAD is stupid. Colorado already has the existing ecosystem to support both the command and the operations. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
NEWS: A federal judge has ruled that Trump’s deployment of military forces to Los Angeles violated the Posse Comitatus Act, a law that prohibits the use of the armed forces as a domestic police force.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6GvjPcr/ How in the HELL does any government lawfully deport 600 unaccompanied minors? Who does that? Who the fuck are we? What are we? What have we become?
Because I’m stuck inside of Mobile with the Memphis blues again.
Bad rubber mask on body double?
This people. This!
This is a fantastic idea Per his nature, numb nuts Trump has destroyed yet another organization, but if California follows through, the former U.S. Center for Disease Control & National Institute of Health Scientists, M.D.s, & support staff will be far better off emotionally & economically
More framing like this, please www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
Just like the Alien movies.
When unions are strong, our communities and our country are strong. Every person in our nation has benefited from the labor movement. This Labor Day, we celebrate the workers and unions who have fought for fair wages, safe workplaces, and sick leave for all of us.
A reminder on this Labor Day: Slavery still exists in the form of incarcerated labor. It’s long overdue to end forced labor in prisons.
🚨Let’s hear it for Columbus, Ohio! 🚨
Chicago strong! Resist! This is what democracy looks like.
President Donald Trump's policies spark protests in multiple US cities on Labor Day https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/president-donald-trumps-policies-spark-002233241.html
Los Angeles, CA Music Festival 9/1/25
Read every banned book you can get your hands on. Give them as gifts. Quote from them every day.
My dad did it by treating the women exactly the same way he treated everyone else. It’s a normal variation.
Good job! That takes so much patience.
Done.
I feel the same way about Jim Butcher’s next Dresden Files book.
According to the Internet, Mia Farrow allowed Woody Allen to co-adopt Dylan when she was a toddler. I believe Dylan when she says he molested her.
Folks now know Columbus was a MONSTER but few have examined the name "America." As a Native person, there's a reason I HATE being called American, not just because theyre occupiers. Amerigo Vespucci was a killer and slaver of our people. And a pompous prick. Immortalized by a misprint in JAMESTOWN.
I like the logic.
Just looked it up, those windows don’t open.
Hey GOP: You are killing the economy with your policies you dumba**es. Who do you think is going to pay your rent and buy your goods after you wreck the economy? The Middle Class literally supports you and your yachting lifestyle and you are crushing us. Wake TF up.
Thank you on this labor day!!
Surely Sean O’Brien has something to say…wait, I’m hearing Black women are a big cohort here…never mind www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
As Chris Smither wrote, “I know simple answers aren’t easy, and easy answers aren’t often true…”
People that like easy answers in a time of complicated problems alway seem to have the loudest voice
Hopeful, though.
And molested his other adopted daughter.
Yeah, he's dead.
The "Christians." 😒
We were hoping we’d improved…
Just saw a clip on ABC news that showed a small Guatemalan child being led to a plane for deportation with her ankles shackled. This country has lost its soul.
The Internet does help karma be more instant.
People will vote their wallets regardless of party. Trump is doing the Republican Party in with the giant economic missteps like the Tariffs and the great, big, bogus wealth transfer bill.
This should be getting far more attention from the media, and it should be investigated as a hate crime. A 14-year-old Black teen was targeted, beaten, and dehumanized with racial slurs by white teens while people stood around cheering. 1/4
The victim was identified as Keontae. He managed to escape and called his mom from a cornfield an hour away. Thankfully, he did not suffer serious physical injuries, but local leaders say the emotional scars are already heavy—mistrust, fear, and trauma. 4/4 www.wkow.com/news/top-sto...
Hours after trying to assassinate the EU Commission president, Russia tried to assassinate Germany’s military's inspector general, Carsten Breue, the highest-ranking general in the Bundeswehr. His plane was also jammed once over the Baltic Sea and once over Lithuania.
When I was an Amazon driver, holidays weren’t really holidays. Nobody gets paid holidays. If the holiday falls on a day that you’re regularly scheduled, you have to make up that day to get your regular weekly hours. Would it kill the company to give everyone real paid holidays? Happy Labor Day.
PAYWALLED: Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky academic.oup.com/icb/advance-... #twitter #bluesky #PAYWALL
And not getting housing allowances or medical benefits because Trump only signed an order for 29 days.
Troops hanging out in the DC metro today, displaying assault rifles, doing absolutely nothing
NYT: “When Tennessee’s Republican governor @GovBillLee dispatched troops to support Trump’s crackdown on crime, critics wondered why he didn’t keep them within state lines. Memphis has a murder rate twice DC’s, Nashville’s is higher as well.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
This is Seamus. He and I understand sad anniversaries and hope you feel better soon.
It’s my Gran’s birthday today (84!) Here’s an oil painting I did of her a few years back during lockdown #oilpainting #artist
I’m staying with Bluesky in addition to reading. Bluesky has consistently had news prior to it breaking in the media and great links to independent sources I wouldn’t otherwise have found.
Many people can't handle learning about our real history because it was so horrible. talkafricana.com/watkinsville...
The new pope is awesome.
Pope Bob continuing Pope Francis's love of making moves that anger the trads.
I can’t find any support for this.
This Wednesday..... let the truth come out....
Here in the US, “two weeks” actually means never.
Anyway, I’m glad to know the president is still technically alive so he can watch this tomorrow www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Yes. Body double. Which explains keeping the press pool at a distance.
Through eight months, 501 people have now died on Virginia’s roadways in 2025. Each of the last four years, I’ve offered bills to provide a new, dedicated funding stream for the Virginia Highway Safety Improvement Program so we can prevent deaths and injuries. The Governor vetoed it this year.🧵
“To do nothing is to be complicit in the horrors we are visiting upon the world.” “…small, individual acts of noncompliance are also tools that can frustrate great and evil powers.” www.thenation.com/article/acti...
❗️The plane Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu was on was forced to land in Bulgaria due to suspected Russian GPS interference -FT There are reports that the pilots even had to use paper maps due to GPS jamming as they made the emergency landing.
Republicans: “Stop making everything about race.” Really? White people enslaved Black people for generations, stole Native land, lynched and segregated us, burned down Black communities that thrived, and treated Mexican land & labor like property to be taken. America already made it about race.
I spent my teenage years doing just that, reading banned books.
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Not just threatening— he’s got people over there trying to overthrow Denmark’s control and turn Greenlanders into traitors.
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If he pulls us out of NATO, it will never happen.
I wish it was still sold in the US. I don’t want to drive a huge car or SUV. Or pay that much for gas.
Concerning...
