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đź“Ł GOOD NEWS: Thanks to a lawsuit filed by @democracyforward.org on behalf of @drsforamerica.bsky.social & #MainStreetAlliance, a federal judge has put a hold on a bunch of Trump Regime #ACA rule changes! BAD NEWS: ...but not one of the worst ones, and only for now... acasignups.net/25/09/03/goo...
I don't know what Britain's odious pest Nigel Farage was doing in Congress today. But this country already has an oversupply of fascists who eagerly carry water for Vladimir Putin. We certainly don't need to be importing them from the UK.
🚨BREAKING: Cleta Mitchell thinks President Donald Trump may declare a national emergency to allow him to take control of national elections. Her comments will add to growing concern that Trump is plotting a way to use his power over the military and federal law enforcement to rig next year’s vote.
Call it murder. ##TrumpMurderer #TrumpVenezuela #TrumpCaribbean #TrumpWarships #TrumpMaduro
He’s wanted to have a murder excuse for awhile.
The Republican Party and their media friends are covering for child rapists.
The Trump admin is actively destroying all the low-cost and pro-environment energy solutions, so we'll all pay more for energy while we accelerate the climate crisis. No one benefits from this except Big Oil and the Republicans they donate to.
Isn't saying the Epstein files is a Democratic hoax admitting he'd be hurt by them coming out? As cover ups go, this is like a kid with chocolate smeared all over his face claiming he didn't eat the candy.
Yeah, just as I suspected.
About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. “Oh, they’d have died.”
my dude you are standing in front of a state flag designed to evoke the Confederate Battle Flag and the Blood-Stained Banner
Isn't this just the plot of "Clear and Present Danger"
Breaking: Peaceful activists, many with disabilities, are being arrested at the Capitol right now. These individuals are putting themselves on the line to do all they can to save healthcare for millions of Americans.
NEW: After threatening to deploy Texas’ National Guard troops to Chicago, Trump sent a fundraising email to his supporters vowing to “liberate” the U.S.’ third-largest city and asked them to pledge $15 “to join the MAGA Blitz.” From: @jaknutson.bsky.social
RFK never intended to let CDC operate. He was clearly just bidding his time, laying the charges until he could demolish CDC. It’s time to #FireRFK!
As a parent, aunt, uncle, grandparent, human being—if you don’t feel for this young woman and see the injustice here, you’re dead inside. Deported to Guatemala. She’s an honor student, a track star. She doesn’t even speak Spanish. And this isn’t the worst story out there, not by a long shot.
‼️UPDATE‼️ Stand Up for Science files whistleblower complaint against the Trump Administration for "blatantly illegal" retaliation against the #FEMA36. STAND WITH #FEMA36. SIGN our letter of support linked in bio. 🔗
I’ll bet you the Yale educated Governor of Florida vaccinates his kids. Just sayin’.
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reminder that something like 232,000 (per a peer reviewed study) of the US Covid deaths were Delta-wave vaccine refusers. These dupes were sacrificial pawns the conservative movement weaponized in order to sustain the pandemic and try to damage the Biden economy in 2021:
once again I am asking people to correctly answer the question "who was President in 2020"
When people say "We used to drink raw milk from our own cow and it was fine," That's... usually not the case! In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using. We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that? youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk
Boiling milk before use was just what you did. They had dedicated cookware for it. (Specially shaped to contain boil-overs, which milk is really prone to.) Household hygiene had SERIOUSLY high stakes back before hot running water & pasteurization. That's… like… why they taught home economics.
NEW: More details on Trump's Chicago immigration blitz. -230 agents arrive from LA this weekend w/ 140 unmarked vehicles -30 already arrived and are practicing crowd control with shields/flashbangs -agents will leave base daily by 5 a.m. -new no-fly zone at NSGL to keep away news choppers/drones
The Censorship Crybabies Are Now The Censors: FDA’s Vinay Prasad Uses Copyright Claims To Silence Critic It's always fascinating to watch supposed "free speech warriors" reveal their true colors the moment they get a tiny bit of power. We've been covering the ongoing saga of various COVID…
JUST IN: Harvard won summary judgment against the Trump administration with the court finding that the admin violated Harvard's 1st amend. rights. The court has vacated the funding freeze orders and termination letters and issued a permanent injunction. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Nothing that criminals who are actively trying to destroy the government (while profiting from it) hate more than government accountability.
Love to see it
I wish someone would confront him with the evidence that repeated COVID infections are known to cause chronic illness.
They keep losing in court because everything they’re doing is illegal
Oh okay
By all means, listen to the guy who says grocery prices are going down, the next time you buy a gallon of milk.
Disney, ESPN Sue Sling TV For The Crime Of Streaming TV Pricing Innovation Earlier this month, Dish's Sling TV unveiled a rare bit of innovation in an increasingly enshittified streaming video market. They began offering what they called "mini-subscriptions," allowing users to subscribe to live…
If RFK Jr. were to go on health version of Jeopardy tomorrow vs. the corpses of Salk & Pasteur, he'd still come in last.
The whole nation must hear their stories. We owe them that, and Trump owes us full transparency.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Republican-controlled North Carolina elections board teamed up on a proposed deal that could disenfranchise tens of thousands of voters in the Tar Heel State. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Non shockable rhythm and no epi available
Dude, you knew he was a vaccine-denying piece of shit whose plan was to dismantle the public health apparatus in the US when you confirmed him, don't try the "shocked, shocked" act now
In case it still isn’t clear A vote for Cuomo is a vote for Trump 👇🏽 Per NYT, Trump is discussing giving jobs to Eric Adams & Curtis Sliwa to make Cuomo vs. Zohran a 1 on 1 race. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/n...
So Rep. Massie stands up for Epstein victims, and Trump immediately goes live on the air to say he's an "insurgent" who should be “taken out”. What on earth is in those files?
He's going to be in charge of housing Turkish people I assume.
Near the US Embassy in London
Eh, fuck this dude (not literally, he's terrible)
Beyond parody.
Release all the files. No matter who is implicated.
Kind of hard not to start tallying all of the ways this administration is pro child abuse.
Complete quackery. Dangerous quackery that will KILL people.
Kristi Noem invited top officials from Argentina to the signing of a special new Visa Waiver program that would allow Argentinians to visit for up to 90 days without a visa, but she forgot to tell Lil' Marco, who promptly cancelled the whole thing and sent them home. www.rawstory.com/kristi-noem-...
NEW: Dr. Ned Calonge issued a “standing order” allowing anyone six months or older to receive the updated COVID-19 vaccines at a pharmacy in Colorado starting Friday.
Why are they trying to kill us? Especially the kids?! You'd think with their focus on people having more babies because of the dangers of low growth rates that they wouldn't go out of their way to kill off the kids who have already been born. Honestly IDK if this is dumbfounding stupidity or malice.
"Bluesky's a bubble, an echo chamber, an intellectual and political monoculture stubbornly devoted to inflexible refusal to recognize how trenchant and insightful I am and how sophisticated this publication's readers are." Please give me $20 for a pizza and I will finish this column for ur magazine
The laugh we all need right now….brand new luxury yacht being launched and immediately capsizes and sinks 🤣 www.thedailybeast.com/watch-luxury...
A centrist San Franciscan championed efforts to recall the city's progressive DA and other progressive officials. Then, he boasted of his accomplishments to run for the city's board of supervisor, and succeeded. And now... he's facing a recall himself. One of my 10 elections to watch this month:
People have lost their damn minds.
Tell Congress: Stop Trump's Plan to Let AI Deny Medicare Coverage act.indivisible.org/sign/trump-o...
Epstein survivor Lisa Phillips speaks out.
NEW: The DOJ and North Carolina's GOP-led election board propose a deal that could disenfranchise almost 100,000 voters if they don’t provide additional ID information. The agreement would settle a DOJ lawsuit challenging the state’s voter roll maintenance practices. From: @mattdcohen.bsky.social
Students being progressive is not a bigger problem than a sustained assault by an authoritarian president, please get a grip www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Everglades Concentration Camp costs 3x one of these trains.
Trump will do literally anything but release the Epstein Files
They bombed without warning a non-threatening small boat, which is insane and a violation of international law even if it was carrying contraband which we have no way of knowing, and then gleefully shared it as a snuff video.
A former Fox News producer with history of posting racist stuff on social media — and, each time, prompting a controversy, including getting impeached from student government while in college — now has a gig at the EEOC, the worker protection agency created as part of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Hate when 'The Internet' stokes baseless conspiracy theories about a president's health
Thread, on how LA and MS are sending NatGuard troops to DC even as homicide rates are higher in many of their own cities, and even as Trump guts federal funding for any and all programs that reduce crime but don't use a gun. Social control, not safety. Over and over and over and over.
"Blood and soil is a nationalist slogan expressing Nazi Germany's ideal of a racially defined national body ('Blood') united with a settlement area ('Soil')." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_a...
"There is none" -- Trump says crime is "down 100 percent" in DC
Chicagoans: buy up some Texas flags to burn in the presence of military uniforms. abc7chicago.com/post/texas-n...
If the U.S. military isn't going to release details on the justification for killing 11 civilians in a civilian boat who weren't posing a threat to anyone, then we have to conclude the "justification" is: the U.S. military is willing to kill civilians to give Trump social media content.
(Reuters) - U.S. oil and gas producer ConocoPhillips will cut 20-25% of its workforce amid a broader restructuring program, a company spokesperson said on Wednesday. @reuters.com $COP www.reuters.com/business/wor...
Guess who Newsmax's antitrust suit against Fox was just assigned to... www.courtlistener.com/docket/71258...
Epstein survivor Marina Lacerda: "The worst part is that the government is still in possession right now of documents & information that could help me remember and get over all of this maybe, and help me heal. They have documents w/ my name on them that were confiscated from Jeffrey Epstein's house"
Trump is rejecting the pleas of Epstein's victims, but he did find room in his heart to move Epstein's child rape co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell to a nicer prison.
"I have no opinion on it. I don't know" Nigel Farage Farage's response to Rep. Jared Moskowitz as to whether or not the Epstein client list should be released – after he had, only several months ago, demanded it be released.
It's not about what YOU want, Tom. A Dem congressman should focus on what Dem voters want: someone who actually listens to us, instead of Wall Street, Trump, or some center-right think tank. Mamdani's shown he can do that. If you can't, just join the damn fascists already.
Epstein survivor Haley Robson calls out Donald Trump for referring to this story as a hoax, and demands to be humanized.
The press needs to stop using “vaccine skeptic” and start using “child abuser.”
WTAF???!!! This is so dangerous.
A story about Meta’s community standards.
"His [Epstein's] biggest brag forever was that he was very good friends with Donald Trump." Epstein survivor
Oh, you stupid, stupid man . . . admitting that you had *thousands* of pages related to Jeffrey Epstein isn't the show of innocence you think it is. Nor is sending fighter jets to distract from your victim's press conference today.
Anytime you get confronted by MAGA regarding immigration or mass shootings (mass murders), please remember what Jon Stewart says here.
GOP: “ladies we have the right to legislate what you do with your own bodies” ALSO GOP: “…except when it comes to vaccines because we’re the party of personal choice you see”
“Why did the government work so hard to protect Jeffrey Epstein and not victims like me?” Epstein survivor
It's like a huge chunk of the past 15 years of my work has been flushed down the toilet. I can't even imagine how doctors and medical researchers feel. Or reality based Florida parents.
Ah, the conflict of hating elites, wanting to capture elite spaces, and being unable to maintain them
Smallpox is pushing at the door of the lab.
Lockstep Vatniks.
are his files As full as thy report?
Cops are great
One detail an Epstein survivor noted in today's presser: DOJ did not inform Ghislaine Maxwell's victims she was being moved to cozier digs.
It’s black & white for me. Either you support rapists or you don’t. I didn’t vote for Trump. Didn’t support him. This is not a GOP/Dem issue. It’s a moral & human issue. Every Republican should support Massie. If you don’t…well, that’s who you are.
The CDC funded swimming lessons for kids at high risk of drowning, making the program illegal for promoting DEI and accessibility, a crime now, like planting trees in cities. Trump Defunds CDC Drowning Prevention, Launches Exciting Initiative, 'Let’s Drown!' www.wonkette.com/p/trump-defu...
/2 …focus on “kitchen table” issues like the threat of trans people in college sports. Moreover the Bluesky attitude of making Guatemalan children a big deal, and not acknowledging the wisdom of experts who advocate ignoring this issue, alienates median voters.
The fact is the median voter does not care about the administration attempting to deport large groups of Guatemalan children secretly in the middle of the night. Democrats must learn to take a centrist position that does not focus on unpopular issues like the humanity of children and instead…/1
Fifth Circuit Reverses Lower Court, Shuts Down Texas University’s Illegal Drag Show Ban In September 2023, Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk decided it was constitutional for a Texas university (West Texas A&M) to shut down a "PG-13" drag show. This was a decision he arrived at despite this being said (on…
🚨🚨 Over 1,000 colleagues across Health and Human Services (HHS) have signed a letter demanding RFK Jr’s resignation. When your own staff lines up to say you’re bad at your job… that’s not “health freedom,” that’s just failure. #SaveHHS #DemandRFKJrResign #USAnotRFK
"I thought they were going to make me board the plane like they did with the other kids from the shelter, but they asked me for my name and told me I was not on the list." A terrifying declaration from an unaccompanied child nearly removed to Guatemala straight out of Schindler's List.
so according to the GOP, getting justice for sexual abuse and rape victims is a “very hostile act.” got it. very on brand.