Pro-regime oligarch David Ellison brings in anti-democracy pundit Bari Weiss to solidify authoritarian turn for @cbsnews.com.
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Pro-regime oligarch David Ellison brings in anti-democracy pundit Bari Weiss to solidify authoritarian turn for @cbsnews.com.
Since we’re talking about Bari Weiss: She personally targeted the Palestinian poet and professor Refaat Alareer, who lived in Gaza. He was then assassinated by the IDF on December 6, 2023. “If I Must Die” By Refaat Alareer
🚨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.
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.
It's very likely that today's events will be difficult for survivors of sexual violence, as it has been for me. I'm so grateful for (and impressed by) the brave women who spoke out today and will continue to fight. Wherever you are on your own path, take care of yourself. #Pinks #ProudBlue
Mehmet Oz: "In my agency we spend about $1.7 trillion. The major driver of that expense is the health of the American people not being good. If you chronic illness, you end up causing massive problems."
A new name is not going to fix ripping health care away from 15 MILLION people to fund tax breaks for billionaires and billionaire corporations.
You're generous. My thought: another Tump asshole.
Oh. This data is from the notoriously left-wing CPD. (/s)
The National Guard is, in some ways, a distraction. What's going to happen in Chicago is going to be a massive ICE enforcement blitz.
Host: There are new calls this morning for RFK Jr.'s resignation, and those calls coming from inside HHS itself. More than 1,000 current and former HHS workers are making this demand in a letter released this morning. They say his leadership has "put the health of all Americans at risk"
Florida Ends Vaccine Mandates, Calling Them ‘Slavery’; Experts Decry Decision Florida will become the first state to eliminate all vaccine mandates. dailyvoice.com/connecticut/...
One of many…Say her name. Read her story. Out October 21
Gut wrenching & heartbreaking but also hopeful. Very proud of all these courageous survivors. Release all the files & let the guilt/ shame fall where it may.
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@jkbjournalist.bsky.social went through all the…old…Epstein Files dumped last night and found many were duplicates to make it seem like a big release. “This has repeatedly happened as Miami Herald has fought over the past six years to unseal Epstein files,” she says. Where are the real Files?
A victim of convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein has revealed how a group of survivors is compiling a client list of their own.
Hey guys, I'm back from a short break with exclusive details from inside the 2-hour closed-door meeting with Speaker Mike Johnson and Epstein survivors. What lawyers are warning about who could be in the files and what Congress promised to do about it.
A source in the Epstein meeting with the survivors and Speaker Johnson told me that powerhouse attorney Sigrid McCawley informed him that there would be the names of other men who trafficked her clients in the DOJ's Epstein files
HAPPENING NOW: Epstein survivor press conference. They deserve to be heard: www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6fU...
@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com: The most perverse thing during Blanche/Maxwell interview was their laughter youtu.be/r8UG4wfLYMc?...
Trump threatening members of Congress not to sign the Epstein files discharge petition saying it would be a “hostile act” against him is definitely something an innocent person would do. And scheduling a military flyover in the middle of the survivor press conference is also totally normal behavior.
KASIE HUNT: Over the summer you said, “There’s no vaccine that’s safe and effective”. Do you still believe that? RFK JR: “I never said that.” KASIE HUNT: “Play the clip.” RFK JR (clip): “There’s no vaccine that is safe and effective.” (March 2024) ht: @cwebbonline.com
Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., the vice chair of the Intelligence Committee, says he was denied a meeting with career intelligence workers because Laura Loomer objected.
Meanwhile: www.cbsnews.com/news/grok-el...
The largest SNAP cuts in history went into effect yesterday, eliminating or drastically cutting food assistance for millions of Americans. And it’s all to pay for more tax cuts that primarily benefit the super-rich. Trickle-down economics isn't just a hoax — it's cruel.
The Trump administration has decided to get more immigration judges from an unprecedented source: the military. According to several former military lawyers, this move is probably illegal and “should raise all sorts of alarms."
Nory Sontay Ramos was a thriving high school student in L.A. until she and her mom were deported by the Trump administration in July. For @msnbc.com, we visited her in Guatemala as she tries to graduate remotely while hiding from the same gang they fled years ago. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/n...
Under Dr. Oz, Medicare is launching a pilot program that will use AI to determine whether patients would be covered for certain procedures. Companies running the program will be paid a share of the savings from rejecting claims. Who in their right mind voted for this? No one.
Florida and Texas made a quiet move that could have huge implications nationwide: They asked to join a lawsuit against the FDA seeking to drastically roll back access to the abortion drug mifepristone. But unlike the states before them, they seek to rescind the drug's approval. Me in @slate.com:
The next Democratic president should declare that the National Emergencies Act and Article II of the Constitution allow him to: •admit D.C. and Puerto Rico as states •abolish ICE •grant citizenship to any immigrant •disband the 5th Circuit •expand the Supreme Court Seriously: Why the hell not?
DC Statehood! Now, more than ever! The denial of full representation and governing rights to Washington DC residents has allowed for too many abuses — most recently by Trump. Democrats must make DC Statehood a priority of their next administration and Congress!
A Democratic super PAC is launching a $700,000 digital ad blitz slamming Susan Collins for opposing a bipartisan bill that would ban members of Congress from trading stocks. This ad accuses Collins of “the worst kind of greed… using insider information to trade stocks.” Please WATCH and SHARE. 👀
More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.
According to Janine Pirro, MAGA DC Attorney General, in a move to protect 2nd Amendment rights, open carry will no longer be considered a felony in Washington DC. If it is prosecuted at all, it will be as a misdemeanor.
Platner: I believe that input from working people is far more important than input from someone who simply has money. I believe that we shouldn’t be settling for crumbs while billionaires eat the cookie we baked.
I love this guy
Portland, Maine crowd as Democratic US Senate candidate Graham Platner takes the stage today.
I got a brand new suit and a brand new wife I can live on rice and beans Some people never worked a day in their life Don't know what work even means www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGT7...
Per White House pool report: Trump “has visited golf courses he owns on 66 of the 225 days of this term…”
Photo passed along from a federal employee from inside the Dept of Labor building, where a giant Orwellian image of Trump's face is now draped outside. Big Brother is watching.
J.B. Pritzker is 100% right. Please listen to him, pay attention, and join us in speaking out against authoritarianism and to protect free and fair elections.
Washington's speculation about Trump's health is at a fever pitch. We've seen multiple reasons this summer to ask questions — and the media doesn't seem to care. What's really going on? www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-time-...
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
The techbro takeover of the US continues: while CDC employees "clap out" their principled leaders who resigned, Trump swears in a 2-decade Peter Thiel advisor to lead CDC. Thiel's Palantir already has all your data. He controls your Vice President. Now he controls your public health too. 1/
Not only is our new acting director of the CDC NOT a scientist, but he also has deep ties to Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s techno-utopia movement. One epidemiologist compared Jim O’Neill’s appointment to “making Elon Musk head of the FAA.”
The U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services is a direct threat to public health. "Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is planning to remove all the members of an advisory panel that determines what cancer screenings and other preventive health measures insurers must cover."
GOP Rep Chuck Edwards is confronted by infuriated constituents at his town hall.
Princeton Professor Kim Scheppele joins me for our final discussion about this month’s book club pick, 1984. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
Ha. Haha. Haaa. I get it.
Why don’t you send everyone proof of life first? (Either way, Chicago doesn’t want you here)
He’s on another QAnon posting spree tonight.
This is good! I’m at an ice cream shop on Aiken, SC and two elderly white women are talking. Both church-goers. One said she’s always been a Republican but she’s very upset at how Republicans in Congress aren’t standing up to Trump.
There's a shift in the air. Demonstrating the standing up for change with "joyful abandon" @jbf1755.bsky.social "They're losing their grip on the American people" @hcrichardson.bsky.social We're defining who we are and what we care about, right now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2-I...
This is for all the teachers out there. This AM at the farmers market, a stranger recognized me from my online American Revolution lecture course. Apparently, the lectures got her thru an illness when she was stuck in bed. Teaching matters. In so many more ways than we know.
One has mental decline and fails to recognize dates, important conversations, history, and didn’t recognize his wife. The other is Joe Biden. (Pictures were both taken today)
It's taken far too long for the American people to recognize the authoritarian agenda of dictator-wannabe Trump and his fascist regime — but thankfully, people are finally waking up to the chilling reality. 😳👇
Makes you wonder. My own thought last night was that he had gone in for some sort of medical treatment that's why he had been out of the public eye.
This is why Republicans have to cheat with maps. They can't win on policy.
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Talk to Putin, then fire your Russia expert. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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.
"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:
Absolutely. Very happy too. 😺
Anthem. youtu.be/c8-BT6y_wYg?...
So many Cohen favorites but for today: youtu.be/DU-RuR-qO4Y?...
“When President Joe Biden ran for reelection at 81, his age and health were subjected to persistent scrutiny … In Trump’s case—the oldest person to take the oath of office who regularly fabricates stories and misremembers names—the bruises and swelling have barely merited a wire-service brief.”
So many Cohen favorites but for today: youtu.be/DU-RuR-qO4Y?...
I keep thinking I can't hate him more than I already do, but then he goes & proves me wrong. I keep telling myself to hate the sin, not the sinner, so to speak, but it's so hard when he's putting the lives of so many people, including people I love most, in jeopardy.
“A respected network of hospitals and cancer centers is halting enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it would no longer provide funding to the group”
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”
Welch: As someone who lives in a red state, let me just tell you what MAGA supermajorities get you. We're 50th in education. The worst in the whole country for women to live. We're poorer, worst health care. And if you look at the bottom ten states, they are all MAGA supermajorities.
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Sounds good. TY
Backattcha! 😺
This guy wants to talk to you about your childrens’ mitochondria.
Hope it's not too late to join the party!
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I've been filling in at Blog for Iowa this week. Here is today's post. “The average Iowan will spend 39% less on electricity than the average American because it produces 57 percent of its electricity from the wind, the second-biggest wind state in the country.” blogforiowa.com/2025/08/29/e...
Economists warn that tariffs and mass deportations leading to labor shortages could lead to sky-rocketing inflation and growing costs. "The first wave of grocery-price increases will likely hit this winter...prices could rise 50% to 100% by early next year..." fortune.com/2025/08/28/t...
WSJ Page One: @wsj.com www.wsj.com/business/ret...
ICE kidnapping a mother as her child begs the officers not to take her. Heartbreaking 💔 😢
Trump's trying to help those targeting Kamala Harris. edition.cnn.com/2025/08/29/p...
Undermining the Fed to get lower rates now is like ripping the batteries out of your smoke alarm because it’s beeping. It’s quiet for a bit. Then your house burns down. Credibility anchors expectations; expectations anchor inflation.
The same administration that cut nearly $1 billion in funding for cancer research labeling it 'waste, fraud, and abuse' is spending nearly $1 billion to paint the border wall black.
This interview, which is also available to listen to as a podcast, provides a useful overview of some of the dangerous trends we’ve been seeing in recent months regarding federalization and militarization of state and local police functions.
Dr. William Foege, 89, who helped end smallpox in the 1970s, recently wrote: RFK Jr.’s “words can be as lethal as the smallpox virus.” And his actions are more lethal still. He’s waging war on America. That’s an impeachable offense. He must be removed from office. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...