POPE LEO: “Let us plead God to stop the pandemic of arms, large and small, which infects our world.” He prays for the victims in Minneapolis, and “the countless children killed and injured every day around the world”
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POPE LEO: “Let us plead God to stop the pandemic of arms, large and small, which infects our world.” He prays for the victims in Minneapolis, and “the countless children killed and injured every day around the world”
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⚡️ Ukraine destroys Russian S-300 radar in occupied Crimea, military says. Radars serve as the "eyes" of an air defense system — without them, anti-aircraft units are effectively blind and unable to operate.
My nominee for Post of the Day:
Brandolini's Law: "The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude larger than to produce it."
If you work in #TEFL, you know that @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social is the stuff of legends - so when he talks about unions you know he's got our attention!
Put it in the Louvre
How Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.,’s Anti-Vax Agenda Is Infecting America www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a... @pauloffit.bsky.social: "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."
“in six months sec. kennedy has undermined 60 years of vaccine preventable diseases in this country.” dr. tom frieden frmr dir of CDC let that sink in-the damage this regime has inflicted on us.
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.
⚡️ Ukraine says it destroyed 2 Russian Mi-8 helicopters, tugboat in occupied Crimea, shares footage. Drones struck the Russian military air base in Hvardiiske near Simferopol, destroying helicopters worth an estimated $20–30 million, according to HUR.
And I have to imagine there are countless stories like this throughout the federal judiciary and bureaucracy of federal workers showing extraordinary bravery and attentiveness in the face of lawless behavior, regardless whether their bravery is ever publicized
Okay, here's what I know and don't know* about the planes that were supposed to take children to Guatemala today. *None of this flight tracking would be necessary if ICE Air didn't keep its operation secret and if Drew Ensign didn't talk to the court in riddles. 1/
Yep. Historians See Autocratic Playbook in Trump’s Attacks on Science www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/s... “Authoritarians have long feared and suppressed science as a rival for social influence.”
It's great that politicians can afford 2 and 3 or more homes. But they need to remember their constituents would like to have just one. apnews.com/article/paxt...
🧵Last week, on the explicit orders of her Führer, Gabbard revoked the security clearances of 37 individuals named on a list who had been marked for retribution by Trump. One of the 37 names released publicly was a CIA NOC agent, a covert operative, who Gabbard has now exposed and compromised.
States have a lot of power to dictate health policy for their residents. The New Mexico Department of Health has issued a public health order to help ensure all New Mexicans can access the COVID-19 vaccine. I hope other states follow suit. www.nmhealth.org/news/vaccine...
After this administration hangs a portrait of Robert E. Lee at West Point, perhaps they could put up a nice one of Al Capone at the FBI. Or Mary Mallon at HHS.
We get outraged over children dying. They get outraged over Cracker Barrel changing the logo. We are not the same!
UPDATE: DOJ says that all but 4 of the unaccompanied migrant children have been returned to ORR custody. Transfer of the remaining four children is expected at approximately 11:00 p.m.
⚡️ There will be strikes deep into Russia. Forces and means are already prepared, — Zelensky The President also reported that Russian troops suffered the greatest losses precisely in the Donetsk region, while failing to implement any of their strategic objectives.
IT’S ALL NATIVE LAND!
NEW: In the dead of night, the Trump admin ripped vulnerable kids from their beds, attempting to return them to danger in Guatemala. We’re heartened the Court prevented this injustice. We’ll keep fighting to protect our plaintiffs & all class members until the effort is enjoined permanently.
Someone recently pointed out that a huge portion of those who die from measles without vaccination are in fact those with other conditions. That is actually the goal of RFK Jr. It's a cull.
This reminds me of @katesheppard.bsky.social’s book “Women in the Valley of the Kings” about women Egyptologists.
RFKjr continues to be the most dangerous person in this regime. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
My authority over election law is fully equal to the president's. That is, none. Explicit or implicit, ffs.
They loaded up those planes with children - some as young as 10. I don’t believe they had a safe place to go in Guatemala. And the government did not care. This admin is the least compassionate of any in my lifetime.
Im old enough to remember when America thought children were our future. Under this minority rule we value the gun rights of a small minority of people over the lives of every child. We put children on planes to deport them to countries with no guardians or due process. This is not Great America.
Appreciate James's candor. I was fortunate enough to be at an LWCC event with Kaine yesterday, and I can honestly tell you that everyone in that room understands. 47 is the tyrant the founders warned us about. And we have a flag in Virginia just for this purpose.
The DOJ is telling the court that all unaccompanied children Trump is sending to Guatemala have parents or guardians in that country who have requested their children be returned to them. The plaintiffs are saying that's not at all true. You can read the back and forth here:
Federal rules restrict who gets COVID shots. New Mexico stepped in—removing barriers so all ages 6 months & up can get protected. Let’s all get on board 💉 #BlueSky #MedSky 🧪 #IDSky #SciSky #EMSky #EMedSky #NurseSky #FmSky #PedsSky #CardioSky #ObSky
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
If this is the “strong leader” they keep selling us, why are they hiding him like Weekend at Bernie’s? 👀
Dr Demetre Daskalakis is one of the big CDC officials who just resigned. He said RFK Jr never met with experts from his division, not even for briefings on measles, COVID, or RSV, in the seven months he has served. “He has never been briefed by any human from my center about anything.”
If you want to see Trump's plans for Gaza that do not involve Gazans, see the link below. My "favorite" part was the "Elon Musk Smart Manufacturing Zone" under the Gaza 10 Mega Projects: www.washingtonpost.com/documents/f8...
Hey @mollyjongfast.bsky.social thank you for pushing back on misogynistic bullshit other guests on MSNBC The Weekend were spewing about the victims of Jeffrey Epstein being somehow UNFIT to testify in court because they were PAID for SEX. They were all WRONG, and you were the only one to call it out
August 5, House Oversight Committee issued a subpoena to DOJ for all documents related to Epstein & Maxwell, inc Epstein's death Ordered to be produced by 12:00 pm August 19 Comer issued a press release Aug 18 saying DOJ complying Here is the subpoena Watch to see how much of it is complied with
So Ali decided to respond to me responding to someone defending him with this. He deleted it but not before I got a screenshot. Im done. Completely done with these folks. To post say THIS as his institution continues to fail the country takes real stones
Personally, I expand this to include everyone who didn't vote for Harris, and every Democrat they could for House, Senate, and local races as well. Because even if they didn't actively vote for Trump, they didn't care to even try to lift a finger to stop him. They were fine with his winning.
The Constitution provides Congress the power to override a Presidential veto. They aren’t co equal on law passing. Congress is the superlative body.
Crazy idea: what if we make electricity cost more for non-residential use.
Can the media STOP referring to Jeffrey Epstein as a “financier”? The money he made came from SEX TRAFFICKING MINORS, RAPING CHILDREN, and BLACKMAIL. He was NOT a financier. I’ve seen at least five stories from three outlets refer to him this way in the past week. This is the latest from the Times:
Nation’s largest nursing union: Time for HHS Secretary RFK Jr. to go | National Nurses United www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/nation...
I mean it would help if certain tv journalists I could mention would actually talk about this part... But I guess screaming "do something" is more viscerally satisfying to them...
Also fun fact: As a caregiver, if your loved one is on Medicare and not Medicaid, there isn't a dime of help for you! You are literally on your own financially! This was one of the reasons why I voted for her because I knew the help that this would bring to so many caregivers.
.@velshi.com “Head in the sand”? Please. Part of the problem is limp news coverage that turns every Dem wobble into a five-alarm fire while treating GOP extremism as background noise. That’s what depresses our base.
Trump lies about everything, but if you listen carefully he also tells you exactly what his intentions are… never good for anyone except himself and the oligarchy. They blew it. He got control and made his intentions real, while attacking families and communities here and around the world.
"Computer science isn't political!", they said. "I'm just going to develop AI products for startup cash and to draw cute girls", they said. "You're over reacting and making everything political", they said. We need ethics training in engineering.
I like the rebrand.
California stepping up.
He told us quite clearly before that he would clear Gaza out and turn it into a bee-you-tee-ful Trump Beach Resort. People only hear what they want to hear. 😒
So the photos we get of the “golf outing” today is a pale and feeble looking one of him getting to a car at the WH and this one of him returning. Nothing from the course.
Setting aside the enormous consequences to public health, this is all just so sad. And it would have been literally unfathomable when I started studying ACIP ~20 years ago. (Or for that matter, unimaginable even just one year ago.)
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Introducing Acting Director of CDC, Jim O’Neill. Also HHS Deputy Sec. Has America run out of health practitioners w/ demonstrated experience improving public health? Did his friend Peter Thiel, who runs Palantir, get him this job? Lucky / unlucky? Jim can be CDC's Acting Director for 210 days. 1/2 🧵
not the first person to make this observation but its rules that the "i wont let my body temple be defiled by putting seed oils or processed food in it" people and the "let me go behind the gym to inject these steroids i bought from a guy i met here" people have merged into the same group.
They attack Fauci, an actual doctor and scientist, but praise RFK Jr., who’s never even seen the inside of a lab. Make it make sense.
Could’ve been so beautiful
Yup. Population density in Europe is much higher. England (not the UK, just England) is roughly the size of Ohio, and it has five times the population. Germany (83 million) is roughly the same size as Montana (1.1 million).
#StreetArt Banksy
Public safety in California is on the rise. Last year, California had the second-lowest homicide rate since at least 1966, decreasing by nearly 12% overall since 2023. We're going to drive that progress forward up and down the state.
#RobinWilliams #filmsky #moviesky 💔🔄 #BeKind #BeKindAlways ❤️ #LGBTQIA 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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🚨This OK lawmaker was found guilty of running a vehicle with his daughter and an adult relative off of the road and INTO a ditch, causing injuries — and he is STILL in office?!? Of course, he has a history of both domestic violence and law enforcement.
In case you were wondering, mRNA vaccines are not really new 👇🏽
This is the way
The President of Portugal Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa called the orange felon a Russian asset in a live televised speech. Well done, this is how you do it. 👏
Make no mistake, everything that’s happening in the United States is being significantly enabled by the right wing oligarch capture of media. Every other country needs to do everything possible to keep that from happening where they are. Including protecting the CBC from Poilievre here in Canada.
Saw this on IG, looked it up and it’s indeed true: Lenny Kravitz has Ukrainian Jewish roots through his father, Sy Kravitz. His paternal grandfather was from Kyiv, and his great-grandfather immigrated to the United States from the region. Kravitz visited Kyiv in 2008. Thought to share 😊
Personally, I prefer tan suits to brownshirts.
💥 Ukrainian intelligence forces have destroyed several key Russian targets in Crimea. The operation was carried out by the HUR special unit “Ghosts.” Among the high-value Russian assets destroyed were air defense components, reconnaissance equipment, and navigation systems, including:
Gordon Lightfoot - Sundown (1974) #GordonLightfoot #MusicSky #Music youtu.be/YdBU-jpJJtA?...
And he's a Republican! Finally one with some balls.
1. I think it's difficult for people not in the US to appreciate how absolutely non-useful/condescending "use a train" is as advice. Where I live, the nearest passenger train station is 90 miles away, in Cincinnati. However, there is a bus from Dayton to that train station, a mere 43 miles from me.
🚨🚨🚨 This video is just over an hour old now. The judge’s order to halt of the deportation of 600 children to Guatemala was upheld - for now! The person who made this video was threatened. Details on the following post.
Why is the Draft Dodger-in-Chief trying to drag us into a war with Venezuela? The claim is that drug cartels are so out of control they’ve been designated an international terrorist organization, so we need to send warships. But we’re denying Venezuelan’s asylum claims who fled for their lives. 🤔
Labor Day is about recognizing the people who work toward creating a better America. This firefighter was working to protect the only country he can remember living in and was taken off the fire line, away from the duty he was performing to be put in a cell for not having been born here. #resist
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."
💀 Video of the destruction of Russian elevator from which they launched drones at people on the right bank of the Kherson region.
Bill Cassidy is a physician who is being humiliated daily by Robert F. Kennedy. Kennedy has exposed Cassidy’s craven prioritization of his own power over the health and safety of his constituents and of the United States of America. Kennedy has exposed Cassidy’s powerlessness to stop him.
Good morning with good news: Solar repays its upfront CO2 debt from manufacturing in 4 months and 57 times over its life! Solar is 19x cleaner than coal per kWh. Solar is 8x cleaner than gas per kWh. Gas is dirty, not "clean!" #energysky interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/so...
He’s providing them with valuable mulching experience though.
Don’t let anyone fool you. This is not about ensuring proper compensation for people who are harmed by vaccines (and remember—the benefits of vaccines far outweigh the risks). This is just another way to reduce vaccine availability, sow distrust, and spread misinformation
