Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
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Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
NEWS: Democratic Rep. Jerrold Nadler, 78, will not seek re-election
BREAKING: Trump announces that Rudy Giuliani will be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which is the nation’s highest civilian honor. Note that Giuliani has been charged with felonies in two different states, including racketeering and has been found liable for over $100 million in damages.
😔🕯️A Canadian First Nations actor who opened doors for Indigenous actors in Hollywood, died September 1 in a Toronto hospital after a long illness. 72. “He was a great man of morals, ethics and character and will be eternally missed,” #Canada #FirstNations #Indigenous deadline.com/2025/09/grah...
Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
After the Trump administration dismantled USAID, and as foreign aid budgets continue to decline, I sat down with @crisisgroup.org’s Comfort Ero, to talk about what she calls a “chapter-defining moment” for the world, when institutions, norms, and principles “are all crumbling.”
New in PN: "By the time you read this, the White House may have put out a Labor Day statement. It will no doubt offer an effusive tribute to Trump, who in his infinite beneficence has delivered workers a utopia of prosperity. But back on Earth, he's the most anti-labor president in modern history."
The US Congress should not require a Federal Circuit decision to assert our voice. We should vote to repeal Trump's blanket tariffs. Let's begin with my bipartisan bill to repeal the COFFEE tariff!
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”
Vaccine sceptic RFK Jr has called for the retraction of a Danish study that found no link between aluminium in vaccines and chronic diseases in children — a rare move... “Kennedy has demonstrated that he wants the scientific literature to bend to his will”, says Oransky. Scientific American
Happy Labor Day! California is proud to be ranked the #1 state for workers. We’re leading the nation with strong wage standards, worker protections, and labor rights that make our communities, businesses, and families stronger.
Here in the US, “two weeks” actually means never.
CNN confirms that the pilots landed the plane using paper maps. www.cnn.com/2025/09/01/w...
Last year, voters in Missouri passed a measure to protect abortion rights. But Republicans in the state have repeatedly blocked the referendum from taking effect—and are adding a new measure to election ballots that would largely overturn it.
We do not fully grasp how damaging the SCOTUS’ presidential immunity decision was. What we know is it was a disaster and the huge damage it has caused is being compounded daily. That is because the result is a collaboration between corrupt justices, a supine Congress and a demented President.
Unions built this city and keep it running. They’ve fought against power and greed to make the impossible possible. Now, they need an ally in City Hall. On Labor Day, the presidents of the Hotel Trades Council, 32BJ and SEIU 1199 make the case at @cityandstateny.bsky.social.
Weird.
If you enjoy… Weekends Safe working conditions Retirement benefits Paid vacations Breaks at work Sick leave Paid holidays … then you’re part of the labor movement. Happy Labor Day.
So Trump put the National Guard on 29-day orders?! That matters because they don’t get full housing allowance or health insurance until 30 days. What an abusive commander-in-chief.
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.
ABC News is still calling RFK Jr. a “vaccine skeptic.” The dude was one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists for decades. There’s video of him in 2023 saying that there’s no vaccine which is safe and effective. You can call him an anti-vaccine activist!
"The lunatics are running the asylum."
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."
Waiting for California Governor Gavin Newsom to play a charity golf game and have his caddies obviously drop golfballs nearer the green in front of the TV cameras!!
Kern County farm workers inspect the irrigation lines. The ground is bare, signaling the beginning of a new crop. #WeFeedYou Campesinos del condado de Kern inspeccionan las líneas de riego. El suelo está sin nada, lo que indica el comienzo de una nueva cosecha. #SoyEsencial
REALITY CHECK: Under the U.S. Constitution, states are responsible for regulating elections, while Congress has the power to enact national election laws. The President does not have unilateral authority to impose new voting rules like nationwide voter ID requirements.
I'm still waiting for the relentless onslaught of media demands for a press conference and calls to resign.
"The straw man being put forward is that it's either we have the military or we're going to get our throats cut at night in DC. Is there no middle ground? Do local law enforcement account for nothing? We've got the National Guard GARDENING right now in DC. Is that an efficient use of our resources?"
Ashley Biden just posted this picture from this weekend with her father. Both look very happy.
It’s Sunday. zohranfornyc.com/events
GORKA: Instead of blaming an inanimate object, which is the weapon, how about addressing the human being instead? KEILAR: DHS cut funding in July to the Minnesota Dept of Safety and the Hennepin Country Sheriff's Office in July that is the kind of funding used to assess mass violence threats
“He has built a kingdom on lies and illusion, masking the nefarious underworld in which he swims freely by courting an image that corporate media was only to happy to help propagate.” open.substack.com/pub/noelcasl...
Jill Stein and Cornel West both disgust me — such goddamn, self-serving hypocrites.
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
Clean energy isn’t “woke.” It’s an essential part of our energy future and saves us all on power bills. This administration’s war on offshore wind and solar is just going to raise Americans’ utilities.
RFK Jr. likes to claim that thimerosal in childhood vaccines causes autism spectrum disorder (ASD). So I wonder if he’d like to explain how the rates of ASD diagnoses in the U.S. have kept going up when thimerosal was removed from all childhood vaccines in 2001?
If NYC decides to shut Mamdani out, the city will be under siege by Trump for the next several years with no opposition to whatever he wishes.
Andriy Parubiy, a former speaker of Ukraine's parliament who was a leading figure in the country's pro-European protest movements, was shot dead on Saturday in western Ukraine, officials said.
2 deceased 17 injured in a Catholic school after 23 year old opens fire.
It's gross for a Christian nationalist non-Catholic like Mike Johnson to talk this way about the murders of Catholic schoolchildren when the Catholic Church says it is, in fact, the guns and that gun safety laws are needed.
Well...this is a clear example for all clergy and us (regular folk) everywhere. I'm taking my ordinary ass out to join a local group and get into some good trouble.
🚨Priest uses his body to attempt to stop ICE vehicles in Broadview, Illinois outside of a detention facility that has refused entry to members of Congress.
Its about damn time that some politicians are showing some guts. I liked my time in Chicago although it was too short. I would hate to see it become another D.C. full of federal agents who are doing what? Terrorizing the population because they are ignoring their oaths and obeying a madman.
Ponch and Jon are on the move.
A months-long investigation estimates that the profits from the Trump family’s ventures in private clubs, hotels, golf courses, crypto currencies, NFTs, and other businesses has raised President Trump’s net worth by billions of dollars.
Pediatric Brain Cancer Group to Lose Federal Funding. 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. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
Epidemiologist Erin McCanlies spent much of the past two decades studying the environmental causes of autism. Under the leadership of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has promised to find a cause for the condition, her entire division was cut.
THURSDAY: Tune into "It’s Happening with Velshi & Ruhle” LIVE on YouTube. @velshi.com and @stephruhle.bsky.social answer your questions and take a look at the major stories at the intersection of business, politics & the economy. Email us your video questions: Velshiruhlequestions@msnbc.com
Let that sink in.
Question: Why did US put big tariffs on India despite major national interest in cultivating a strategic counterweight to China and trying to isolate Russia? Answer: Because the US president lied that he fixed India-Pakistan and India wouldn’t go along with the lie. (Seriously, that’s the answer)
You know who benefits most from antivaccine conspiracy theories as national health policy? Our enemies.
🚨 🚨 🚨 Elgin, Illinois. Has Governor Pritzker seen this?! 1/2
The Free State of Florida is now trying to ban *sidewalk chalking*
The first layer of the plan focuses on building the long-term capacity of Ukraine to resist aggression. The second layer carries the weight of deterrence through external guarantees.
Donald Trump is golfing while Ohio State is playing Texas . He doesn’t drive . He has never owned a dog . He’s literally unlike ninety percent in the US and yet 60 percent of us voted for him ( men , not me lol ) .
"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:
BREAKING: Bernie Sanders has called for a special Senate committee hearing on the CDC crisis, demanding that RFK Jr. testify under oath about the disaster he’s created.
Inhuman. “I don’t have any choice” is a lie.
Hey Mark- Told one of my chiropractic patients about Cost Plus Drugs last week and your mission after he complained a skin cancer medicine was going to cost him $1700- He found it on your website for under $20- for real. Best project ever. @costplusdrugs.com
"It's a win for the Constitution." Former acting U.S. Solicitor General Neal Katyal, who is representing a group of small businesses suing over Trump's tariffs, reacts to a new federal appeals court ruling that deemed most of the tariffs illegal.
ATLANTA: “The city is opening a grocery store to clear up a downtown food desert… City leaders say the market will help those in the area who have not previously had easy access to healthy food.” (cc: everyone acting like @ZohranKMamdani is crazy🤔) www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...
“…I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.” My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
According to RFJ Jr, you can create a pandemic that skips over certain groups of people. I think the last time I read something like this it was in the Old Testament. The U.S. is not a viable nation anymore with such “leadership”
We have the “Doomsday Clock” for all to see, but we should have an RFK Jr. Death Clock as well, maybe in Times Square, NYC to count how many deaths occur due to his idiotic “leadership”
The mutually beneficial relationship between President Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is based on a striking alignment of some of their views.
"January 6 survivor and former MPD Officer Michael Fanone launches a campaign demanding that federal officers remove their masks, advocating for transparency." Check out our new D.C. campaign demanding federal agents take off their mask! @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social www.wusa9.com/article/news...
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They arrest this guy and put him in some random black truck. Who are these people!
Nuns from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the women on Texas’s death row—and even made them affiliates of their order. Lawrence Wright reports on a powerful spiritual alliance.
Father Michael Pfleger, a priest for more than 50 years, said this about Trump: “Look into your mirror and address the violence coming from the White House ... of cutting Medicare/Medicaid … address the violence of refusing to ban assault weapons.” More here: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps-det...
Good. We need to fight back.
Garcia: We finally got word from the Epstein estate. They're going to be providing the actual Epstein book… the estate is actually going to actually now get us that book and a bunch of other documents that they have that's actually not been reported yet.
Love thy neighbor.
FROM KONSYSE: Entry-level positions, which are typically held by workers aged 22 to 25, in fields highly exposed to automation have decreased by approximately 13% over the past 3 years, thus raising concerns about workforce development.
RFK Jr is banning the Covid vaccine which is tantamount to mass murder. On day 28, I discovered the refrigerated trucks because there were too many bodies for the morgues. The whir of the motors when there were bodies inside is an indelible memory
I experienced a similar situation with both parents dying in quick succession within days. It’s very difficult.
Lies. No one believes this propaganda.
The injustice continues. A terrorist is now being honored by our military... My latest God I'm pissed!!! substack.com/@harrydunn/n...
#JustTheFacts with me and @msjournalist.bsky.social talking about why you can’t believe a word that Maxwell said to Trump’s lawyer. youtu.be/MQV6IZ3j89o
Here he goes.
Ashli Babbitt was a domestic terrorist who was shot while committing a violent crime that demonstrated a clear intention to do bodily harm to the people on the other side of those doors. The officer ended the threat she represented...as they were required to do by lethal force if necessary. It was
If Ashli Babbitt's parents really wanted to avenge her death they would, instead of pitifully whitewashing her legacy, be suing Fox News for filling their child's gullible head with dangerous nonsense that directly led to her death.
BREAKING: Kilmar Abrego Garcia is has just asked a judge for a GAG ORDER against Kristi Noem, Pam Bondi and their subordinates.
CINDY MCCAIN: “The desperation is overwhelming.”
This is so gross - I cannot believe this traitor was given Military Honors.
REUTERS: “Trump's special representative, Steve Witkoff, violated diplomatic protocol in Moscow when he went to the Kremlin on August 6 for a meeting with Putin without a stenographer and a representative from the U.S. State Department.” ⬇️
Watching Fox News can get you killed. Ask Ashli Babbitt.
"Ashli Babbitt was a grown ass adult who made a series of conscious, ill-advised decisions to engage in treasonous behavior, and she got exactly what she deserved. She was a traitor. She was a threat to national security. There is no nuance needed here."
Newsom: Perhaps the president could deploy the National Guard in every corner of Mississippi. Murder rate is out of control there. And the governor may want to make that phone call.
The newly ousted director of the CDC refused to fire top agency leaders or approve changes to vaccines from RFK Jr.’s hand-picked panel of advisers.