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But no matter what they say, pocket rescissions are illegal - and the exact part of the law that they claim *grants* the power actually directly prohibits it instead. However, even if the law did grant them the power, it would be unconstitutional under the LIVA decision. bsky.app/profile/bbko...
Shame on the courts for going along with the pernicious fiction that American national security required stripping employees of union protections
Our society unfortunately incentivizes people to write things like this because itās more āprovocative,ā gets more clicks, etc. This is one of the fundamental problems with how information is disseminated in the digital age. Truth is uninteresting. Nonsense is oddly compelling to a lot of people.
Exactly. Keep the pressure on. Trump will not stick with anyone he thinks may be dragging him further down. That was the beginning of his distancing from Elon. Keep the pressure on. RFK must go.
Damn right
I didnāt really need more evidence that RFK Jr is nuts and delusional.
Make Snakeoil Great Again.
āThere will never be a sound-bite answer to what causes autism,ā says Helen Tager-Flusberg, a psychologist who studies neurodevelopmental conditions. Nature explores the decades of research on the causes of autism. #medsky š§Ŗ
This is nothing else but a hybrid war that Russia wages against Europe Let's name things as they really are:Russia has made an assassination attempt of the President of the European Commission Russia has been jamming GPS-signals over many Eastern Europe countries that are in its immediate vicinity
Who said you canāt get Americans to do day labor? Thereās lots of crops that need picking.
As a metaphor, this is about as accurate as it gets. šš¤£šš¤£šš¤£š
.@velshi.com āHead in the sandā? 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. Thatās what depresses our base.
āWhat I see the Federal Government is doing in Washington, D.C. is a step in the wrong direction. There are no plans, no solutions that I can see. The only thing that I see the Federal Government trying to do is to suppress the people and to try and embarrass the Democratic Party.ā
This is the way
The entire fascist plot relies on us being terrified and sad. This is why theyāre constantly trying to scare everyone with theatrics. They want you to see him as unstoppable and not as a 79-year-old with severe health problems who will die soon.
@sinclairlewis.bsky.social Out your way ICYMI
Please sign and share our petition to remove RFK Jr. www.change.org/p/rfk-jr-mus...
Oxempic/Wegovy etc: āStudies suggest muscle loss with these medications ā¦ ranges from 25% to 39% of the total weight lost over 36ā72 weeksā š§Ŗ A portion of the weight loss is muscle loss- include resistance exercise training www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Anyone surprised? The venn of Trumpās sexism and racism at work. In Trumpās Federal Work Force Cuts, Black Women Are Among the Hardest Hit www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
The UN warned its New York-based employees to carry ID cards because they risk being stopped by immigration officials. Even tourists and permanent residents are being detained for political stances or social media content.
Thousands of Hurricane Helene victims are being evicted ā less than a year after being displacedā¦ And now, as FEMA crumbles, imagine what *future* victims of ecological disasters will have to endure
Wholeheartedly agree with this thread. And on this flip side, caring, Iām afraid we are faced with choice overload. With overwhelming needs it is hard to focus.
THEY ARE USING FACIAL RECOGNITION SCANNERS..
It will be the biggest, bestest, peace prizeiest obituary weāve ever seen.
Apparently the sidewalks in DC are so so fragile.
REP. @brotherjones.bsky.social: āPeople want to give thoughts and prayers after a shooting, but itās a form of theological malpractice when you pray for something you have the power to change.ā
Chocolate lovers delight! This is a wonderful stout. Pairing with Brats off the grill and a simple salad.
Kai Erickson wrote of collective trauma as āāa blow to the basic tissues of social life that damages the bonds attaching ppl together & impairs the prevailing sense of communality.āā¦ people who have been through it no longer believe in the integrity of their communityāš§Ŗš @anamariecox.bsky.social
Hereās the simple truth: The President is trying to change the rules of the game and rig the maps so that you canāt hold him accountable for taking health care away from millions.
Construct an argument for the existence of billionaires where their existence couldnāt be obviated by wealth and inheritance taxes to fund programs for the public good. Betcha canāt. Concentrated wealth is the greatest danger to civilization. History proves it.
Same. I donāt understand how they consider it to be Christian in any way.
Paying people to fortify their buildings creates permanent reminders that they should be afraid. All the time. They donāt want to make people safe. They are funding fear. Because fearful people are easier to control.
A Maine ballot measure restricting mail voting could have an outsize effect on older folks. āWeāre not even a voting rights advocacy organization, but weāve had to become one,ā says the director of the Maine Council on Aging.
To the folks saying interviewing a 10 year old about he went through was bad. I say bullshit. This a kid talking about what he just went through. I say itās about time we started listening to the kids. Every politician should be required to watch this and go look at the dead children.
Heās just angling for his SCOTUS appointment.
Millions will be wasted turning a ballroom into a mausoleum. /sorry
What do we, as non-lawyer people, do to help push #2? I think the answer is probably (1) donate to orgs, (2) donate to independent journalists like @chrisgeidner.bsky.social, and (3) most importantly, keep these guys off their footing. When they're spread thin or pissed off, they get sloppy.
The month before a shooter opened fire on children gathered in a Minnesota church this week, the Trump administration cut funding in the state for efforts to identify potential mass shooters and head off their violence. https://cnn.it/4lS986O
Donald Trump is conservatismās realization ā not its betrayal
Looks like heās on the throne. Is that where heās hidden the Epstein files?
But by far and away, the biggest priority for a Heritage Foundation-captured CDC is going to be using the agency's legal frameworks for access to medical data, and weaponizing them to control women. *Most* of the Project 2025 plan for CDC is a witch hunt against abortion on an unprecedented scale.
The goal is to weaponize the law to write public health out of existence: "By statute or regulation, CDC guidance must be prohibited from taking on a prescriptive character." That means, for example: no vaccine recommendations at all. Not fewer; none.
The TRUTH BY Mike Luckovich AJC #RFKJRisDangerous
EAST TEXAS DWELLERSāļø I am once again asking that if you or a friend of a friend of a friend might even POSSIBLY know someone who could take 1 or 2 sweet healthy adult female cats with all vet care done and no behavioral issues, their disabled senior owners are being evicted and cannot bring cats!
Good.
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
BOOM. The federal appeals court rules Trump's tariffs illegal, because they are. There's no national emergency, and so the power to tariff a country rests with Congress. Trump admin has lost at every stage of the process, but stay tuned for the Supremes to chime in.
A few posts back bsky.app/profile/segm...
There needs to be a hearing in Congress asap to investigate the privacy and security of this most sensitive personally identifying information, offloaded at the behest of DOGE staffers who have zero cybersecurity credentials or knowledge of minimum NIST information security standards. #cybersecurity
If you have not already done it, download your employment wage history from the SSA website. You don't want to have to prove what SS taxes you paid 30 years ago if the computer system crashes.
BREAKING: Social Security Administration chief data officer and whistle-blower Charles Borges has resigned after bombshell report that SSA put highly-sensitive data at risk. He sent out an email to colleagues moments ago. Here is the text of his email shared with me:
someone should put together a "kennedy death count" for everyone who dies of a preventable disease and just plaster it everywhere www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...
A funner from Down Under. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
Edmonton Public Schools has decided that Margaret Atwood is too dangerous for youth to read. As is Brave New World. 1984 is banned by Grade 9s and younger. This is the MAGA machine of Danielle Smith in action. Perhaps a public book burning will reassure the base. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Itās not āno reason.ā Itās an evil reason and a very evil person behind it.
Well, there goes Christmas. š #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks
Iāve covered the Utah Legislature for 45 years. Sanctimonious nitwits www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagl...
the White House is featuring an influencer during today's briefing who insists that mass shootings "are not a gun thing"
The genders are Man, Women, and Nobody.
In defense of President Trumpās decision to deploy National Guard troops in the nationās capital, the White House has put out a āfact sheetā of scary statistics on crime in Washington, DC. Itās about what youād expect: a bunch of brazen, lazy, easily disproven garbage.
I canāt wait ātil they get to the Space Farceā¦
The Navy, of course, being known for their excellence at marching. Spoken of in hushed tones among the other services and internationally.
Vaccines save lives. Pass it on.
Wild that doctors waste a decade on medical school instead of just guessing.
As expected. Noted antivaxxer Geier, who has had many retractions in the lit and was fined for practicing medicine without a license, is who Kennedy hired to "find the cause of autism."
The new CDC director is trying to kill you. Not just āthe most vulnerableā; you, me, everyone. This is a comic book-level evil scenario.
@deadder.bsky.social
If they cared for their kids half as much as they cared for their crackers ā¦
Hey, remember how Nazi Germany destroyed information about LGBT people just before things got really bad? Weāre now at that stage. Do what you can to stop this buffoonery, because things are starting to snowball and we need to make a stand.
Horrorshow, The Sequel.
RFK Jr is doing to the CDC what Hegseth is doing to the Defense Dept and what Bondi is doing to the DoJ and what Rubio is doing to the State Dept and what Gabbard is doing to the Intelligence community and what Bessent is doing to Treasury and what Homan is doing to law enforcementā¦ Get the idea?
Rep. Gomez introduced a bill after DHS deployed a drone over the city during anti-immigration protest. The legislation prevents federal agencies from using drones to surveil people exercising their constitutional rightsāBan Military Drones Spying on Civilians Act. mynewsla.com/business/202...
I often talk about the fact that MAGA does not access the same news as the left wing. I present to you Exhibit A. Dr. Daskalakisā resignation letter excoriated RFK Jr. and shared that RFK Jr. was lying to the public, manipulating data, and ordering unethical actions. This what Fox News served.
NEWS: CVS, the largest pharmacy chain in the country, is currently not offering Covid vaccines in 16 states and DC ā even to people who meet the new FDA criteria ā because the CDC hasn't signed off and isn't expected to do so (if it does so) for at least three weeks.
Just want to be clear that I am very much using both of my kidneys.
some time ago i wrote about ashli babbit, and the other woman who died that day and is never mentioned, because the way she died doesn't suit the role of martyr nymag.com/intelligence...
JP: Thatās a sham hamwich to you.
School shootings from 2018 to present by gender: Cis - 2,826+ Trans - 3 But by all means, let Fox news and all the other bullshit mills scramble to make literally ANY other argument but the most obvious one-- that we need to ban assault rifles and enforce common sense gun laws for who can own them
Not a law among them, and theyāre just sucking on his orders.
I can finally share the link to our preprint! If youād like to read more about our methods for the work reported in this essay, please check it out. MedSky š§Ŗ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Admiral Stockdale survived 7 years of torture by mastering one paradox. That same lesson is the key to defeating Trumpās creeping fascism now.š www.JackHopkinsNow.com
āOnce Upon A Time In Americaā
Itās not running, itās ruining. Other than that, I do agree.
NEW: Yesterday, I posted that I was unable to get the COVID vaccine at my VA clinic, and many of you assured me that the new one would be available soon and that I was overreacting. I was not overreacting. I am no longer eligible for the vaccine. apnews.com/article/vacc...
The Republican party is a death cult. They are antiscience & have no compassion or common sense. Vaccines save life. www.latimes.com/california/s...
RFK Jr is driving this country towards an almost certain public health disaster. If Democrats canāt stop it, at the very least they can get it on the record now that they wanted him gone and the GOP wanted him kept in. Underline how they own the disasters to come. Itās Politics 101.
Amen.
Dems have town halls, itās just the media prefers to look the other way. Like trained seals.
This is absolutely catastrophic for U.S. higher education, and for U.S. global leadership. Just the latest in a series of senseless acts of self-sabotage by a malevolent administration bent on making the United States weak and poor.
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Ashley Babbit dishonored her service by committing insurrection against her country. While her death is absolutely tragic and I wish it hadnāt happened, the Air Force giving her honors is in itself a dishonor.
Every American has to decide what they are going to do now, because your government is out to kill you. Perhaps in January, this might have seemed like hyperbole, but in late August, it sounds like just another Thursday morning in the United States. 9/
Just double checking. RFK Jr is not a medical doctor. Unfit to serve doctorsforamerica.org/statement-re...