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“It’s starting to form again.” Is “IT” in the room with you right now? 👀
The threat from the Russians is increasing every day, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said. He said that the latest Russian missile technology makes it possible for the missile to fly from the "frontline" countries, such as the Baltic states, to Western European countries in 5-10 minutes.
“L’alliance de prédateurs” is not difficult to translate. Turns out the words for “grifter” and “plunderer“ are the same in English in French. 🤷🏼♀️
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
“Analysts say authoritarians and their students fear science in part because its feats — unlocking the universe, ending plagues, saving millions of lives — can form bonds of public trust that rival or exceed their own.” Echoes of Hitler and Stalin. #science #authoritarianism
And no doubt they’ve procured their implements and mulch from Four Seasons Garden Supply where Rudy Giuliani mistakenly held his 2020 press conference, just down the street from a crematorium and a sex shop. 😆 @gtconway.bsky.social
We won’t notice it at first Maybe an outbreak of cholera in southwest Kansas goes undetected Perhaps the number of flu related deaths ticks up just a bit each year But-ultimately, inexorably-the destruction of the CDC will lead to countless deaths All because of two men Trump and RFK, Jr
Lutnick is, of course, projecting.
Whether it's Barack Obama asking for dijon mustard or RFK Jr. asking for a vaccine ban that will kill hundreds of thousands of Americans, there have been unusual requests on both sides of the aisle.
Personal attacks to try to neutralize those not supporting his agenda and twisting and misrepresenting the truth As he continued to disassemble the CDC, he misrepresented their top 10 medical achievements to claim their priorities were wrong to justify his vicious attack www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview...
Want to learn something about #water and #climate change? A simple approximation is that for every degree C of warming, the atmosphere holds 7% more water. That's one factor behind the growing number of extreme flooding events.
This morning I listened to the @volts.wtf podcast about how grid operators are curtailing less expensive generation sources ahead of coal. Here we have the administration forcing not just the use of more expensive and dirty sources, but perpetuating their existence!
Russian attacks on the Ukrainian cities of Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia killed 10 people and injured dozens on Monday, hours after President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine arrived in Washington, D.C., to discuss a possible path to peace with Moscow. nyti.ms/3JCbitG
In other words, Trump got played.
He might need to release the Epstein files to distract from the Russia summit
“I’ve lived here almost 50 years— The most violent moment was January 6th 2021 when Trump's supporters charged into the Capitol and beat cops. Trump's response to that was to pardon everyone involved.” Those Epstein files must be wild
Another wild scoop on NPR from @tomdreisbach.bsky.social: Video shows a man on Jan. 6 shouting for the crowd to kill police: “Kill ‘em!” He admitted saying it. One of Trump’s first acts in office was to cancel his trial and hire him for a job at the Justice Department.
Vance just out here having the time of his life on the taxpayer dime. Ski trips in VT, Greenland excursion, Disneyland, special boat outing, now he’s off to the Cotswolds. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Thank goodness for the American Medical Association. Here is their YouTube page. Please share this far & wide. MISINFORMATION at CDC is spreading throughout our country & most people have no clue. Please stay updated & bookmark this page for your health & well-being.➡️ www.youtube.com/@americanmed...
Burgum's concern does have some merit I've always wondered what life would be like if I had some portable device I could use at night, while camping, so I could have illumination in the darkness Alas, since there's nothing that could power this mythical electric torch, we'll forever be deprived
Trump’s EPA wants to strip the government’s power to limit climate pollution—ignoring decades of science, rising temperatures, and lives on the line.
The Nazis burned books, attacked universities, and crippled German science. The MAGAs delete websites, attack universities, and cripple American science. The website www.globalchange.gov of the mandated Global Change Research Program & all the National Climate Assessment reports has been deleted.
“I canceled Obama’s nuclear inspection program, then I bombed Iran. Now, I am offering them pallets of $30 billion in cash, plus another $6 billion, if they agree to negotiate Obama’s plan. It’s called the Art of the Deal.”
uh the House bill throws 16 million people off their health care coverage
wait didn’t the Black guy Trump hates already do this and didn’t Trump say it was bad www.cnn.com/2025/06/26/p...
They are really… childlike. It’s the kindest thing I can say.
Did Trump not clear this with Putin?
We still need to learn the facts - but going into this conflict experts warned that bombing was unlikely to eradicate Iran's capabilities and could push the government to actually build nuclear weapons. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...
This is really great. Funny, on point, and engaging. Please share, far and wide!
I’m one of those old ladies terrorizing the subway whenever I’m in NYC. 😆
“The Bubonic Plague — it always seemed to me maybe that could’ve been solved without losing 75-200 million people.”
Big deal
@ashdashlee.bsky.social
So grateful to be in the @indivisible.org #nokings call, hearing about the 2165+ protests in the US and globally. Also hearing more about the tragic shooting of Democratic legislators in Minnesota. From San Francisco, sending thoughts of solidarity.
It was a pleasure to speak with @anacabrera.bsky.social and @markhertling.bsky.social on @msnbc.com this morning. As Israeli goals shift from the nuclear program to regime change, Gen. Hertling and I warned of the risks of escalation. www.msnbc.com/ana-cabrera-...
This is Paris celebrating 75 years after its liberation from the Nazis. Joy. Redemption. Not some wannabe soldier playing at strength. These people suffered and fought. Real sacrifice and nothing performative. #antifascists #D-Day #Nokings
The Obama administration brokered a complex deal with Iran that reduced enrichment levels, quantities, and allowed in inspectors. It took war with Iran off the table, much to Bibi’s chagrin. Trump backed out of the deal and could not broker another. And here we are. The #JCPOA was working.
“Mountainhead” on HBO perfectly encapsulates the machismo energy that led the world into WWI and, subsequently, WWII. While fully acknowledging that young men today are in crisis, let’s not short-circuit the convo re how unmitigated bro culture leads us into catastrophe. #mountainhead
Mr. Trump picked a 22-year-old with ZERO experience to tackle U.S. extremism. 5 years ago he was a gardener. Last year, he worked in a grocery store. Only the best people!!!
HAWLEY: Let's see the Trump chart. You don't think it's a little bit anomalous that Trump has so many more nationwide injunctions against him? KATE SHAW: A very plausible explanation you have to consider is that he's engaged in much more lawless activity than other presidents
Everything they say is a lie. It’s One Big BANKRUPTING Bill. #stopthegrift
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I guess we might end up with a “deep state” after all. #bigbrotheriswatching
And Musk aspires to build the wasteful, useless “Golden Done”. It will be a dome of rocket wreckage.
“The Trump administration has launched a comprehensive attack on knowledge itself, a war against culture, history, and science.”
This is crazy.
“What does China offer that the United States doesn’t? Small hands, a massive, seasonal work force and millions of engineers.” Wait… small hands? Doesn’t Trump have small hands? I think we found a job he can do.
National missile defense is the longest-running scam in the history of the US Department of Defense, @joecirin.bsky.social tells @thebulletin.org's EIC @meckdevil.bsky.social. thebulletin.org/2025/05/the-... #GoldenDome #missiledefense #Trump #nukesky
The latest Republican plan is killing all clean energy projects *60 days* after their terrible law is enacted. Hard to believe, but the bill got worse... If it passes the Senate, it will jack up energy bills across the country and put hundreds of thousands of people out of work.
MAD: “Make America Decent” (or MADA if you want to include “Again” — though the case can be made that we’ve always been flawed).
A Former ‘Star Wars’ Engineer Weighs In on the ‘Golden Dome’ By: @tkbarnes.bsky.social inkstickmedia.com/a-former-sta...
Golden Grift, more aptly.
“One factor jarring markets is a bill in Congress that would make President Trump’s signature 2017 tax cuts permanent and could add trillions of dollars to federal debt.” All for a squalid tax cut for billionaire’s at the expense of regular people. #MAGAsucks
Didn’t see becoming inspired by #Romania on my bingo card for 2025.
The vast majority of people in Gaza — 93 percent — are facing crisis levels of food insecurity, and Sen. Chris Van Hollen said that the United States is “complicit” in their hunger.
“Project Esther exclusively focuses on antisemitism on the left, ignoring antisemitic harassment and violence from the right. It has drawn criticism from many Jewish organizations.” Hint: It’s not about antisemitism. It’s about the Rapture.
Walmart’s CEO says the company is raising prices due to tariffs: “We will do our best to keep our prices as low as possible. But given the magnitude of the tariffs, even at the reduced levels announced this week, we aren’t able to absorb all the pressure given the reality of narrow retail margins.”
It’s not just Newark: Nearly all air traffic control facilities in the U.S. are understaffed.
Pretty incredible that Jeff Bezos' Amazon announced a "$5 billion-plus" partnership w/ a Saudi AI co launched by Mohammed Bin Salman and sent CEO Andy Jassy to meet with him less than 7 years after MBS murdered Jamal Khashoggi, a columnist for Bezos' Washington Post. techcrunch.com/2025/05/13/a...
The next president has to do two things: 1) right the wrongs of Trump and go after those who broke the law and were corrupt. 2). Then spend time divesting power from the presidency and building real guardrails and passing laws like, “the president is not immune” etc. And get the money out
Eliminating a famous program that cost just $32 million but delivers an estimated $40 billion in annual savings on utility bills just as our nation faces increasing costs & soaring demands has to be one of the dumbest public policy choices on a very competitive list. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/c...
www.npr.org/2025/05/12/g...
So glad some people are still fact checking on that ol’ decrepit site.
The GOP’s “big beautiful bill” includes a clause giving Donald Trump the ability to revoke the tax-exempt status of any group the Treasury Department says is a terrorism supporter. The bill is in the reconciliation process, meaning it only requires a simple majority in the House and Senate to pass.
Not easy to write a song about nuclear winter but voila. Takes a physicist.
This is the Church I grew up in — a church that prioritized social justice, respect, the “seeing” of others. Imagine how confused I was to encounter #ChristoNationalism as well as prosperity and dispensational Christianity. It was as if the cross turned upside down. #EpiscopalChurch
It's a fantastic book - download it - buy it - or just borrow it and read it. The Dust Bowl Triolgy are worth the effort.
For the umpteenth - but almost certainly not last time - the institutions of the American economy depend on the institutions of American democracy.
🚨 Disturbing footage shows the brutal arrest of a terrified 16-year-old girl—sobbing, screaming as “ICE agents” abducted her mom without a warrant or ID. At least 4 grown men slammed her face into the pavement. This is child abuse. This is state terror. Worcester police are complicit.
Those greedy little girls. Always chomping on apples and things.
But what was that thing about Hunter Biden’s laptop? #nicegrift
staffers are still cleaning up the Kristi Noem mess after she got gutted/filleted by @chrismurphyct.bsky.social this is A MOMENT. #MustWatch 🧢 @trumpfile.org
How many kings? No kings. nokings.org
There’s also no water. And they used to just dump the sewage in the Bay. Another dumb grift.
Anybody else who came to Washington and said, "I will give you $100 million of free legal services if you do this for me," would be convicted of a bribe. -- John Keker on 60 Minutes interviewed by Scott Pelley.
And by the way, a missile shield cannot work over the US like it (sort of) does over the tiny bit of land that is Israel. Nice grift, though.
A cool thing for Dems to do would be to list conservative organizations they would revoke tax-exempt status for (on the entirely reasonable line that many are not real social welfare orgs and are not nonpartisan). Might concentrate the minds of some Federalist Society (501c3) members.
Trump is doing his best to create division and discord between Muslims and Jews, and joining him is a sustained campaign of propaganda. Here I prove that Muslims and Jews have had a Long history of peace together—one we must revive on the tenets of justice. www.qasimrashid.com/p/debunking-...
The president is lying. Existing home sales fell 5.9% February to March. Slowest pace Since 2009.
"I see that so many people of good will, not only Catholics, (…) appear to be gripped by fear” that is the fodder of populism, he said. Fear, the Pope continued, is the beginning of dictatorships. #PopeFrancis
Pope Francis knew the enemies within: “In every religion there is always a fundamentalist group that does not want to go ahead and lives on bitter memories, on the struggles of the past, looking for more war and also sowing fear." www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.
You are on a roll tonight.
“Department of Government Efficiency.”
Make America Fail.
Steve Kerr wore a Harvard basketball shirt after the Warriors’ win tonight: “Yes, this is me supporting Harvard. Way to go. Way to stand up to the bully.”
i mean, he's not wrong. sesame street has indoctrinated millions of american children in the cult of "sharing" and "counting" and "cookies" behold the cult leader and his top priest
@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com gives full-throated praise to #Harvard tonight. Be like Harvard, y’all. #weareallHarvard
More of this, please. In the short term: brutal. In the long term: our country may be saved. #democracy #freedom #harvard
When you are one hundred percent committed to battling anti-semitism:
“Book banning can be a canary in a coal mine and could predict a stifling of free speech and thought,” he added. “Books that challenge us make us stronger. We need officers who are educated, not indoctrinated.”
Super! Can it bring back the Eisenhower Republicans?
Is this the Oval Office? Holy smokes — it looks like the Goebbels takeover of the Rothschild mansion in Paris that was later liberated by the Allies. May we liberate this one soon.
In anticipation of the blood bath on Monday. @therickwilson.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social @kairyssdal.bsky.social
Were white. We’re old. We’re not going away. 5000 strong in San Rafael. #handsoff @maddow.msnbc.com @jaredhuffman.bsky.social
