Democracy is the way. Truth and justice matter. Russia can end the war today by leaving Ukraine. Less proud to be an American than I used to be. I really thought we were better than this. #IStandWithUkraine #NAFO Fellas fan
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Countries on track to eliminate cervical cancer: -Australia by 2028 -Sweden by 2027 -Rwanda by 2030 -UK by 2040 -Indonesia by 2030 -Bhutan 2030 -El Salvador by 2030 -Canada by 2040 How? HPV vaccine. Same one RFK Jr is trying to ban. You will note USA is not on this list.
They needed something for today's episode of Trump's Reality TV Show Presidency.
Well @levparnas.bsky.social has connections inside the White House and reported that Trump's health has been deteriorating. He says they're trying hard to keep it under wraps, but that Trump is still very much alive. He doesn't look well, but I doubt we're lucky enough to be rid of him this soon.
Holy shit I forgot all about this from when Trump got covid
One thing they’ve been very successful at is making it so when sober experts put their careers and reputations on the line to issue grave warnings, it gets mostly a shrug.
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I feel like the insistence that voters are just really upset about crime, given this reality, is instructive for the notion that they just really care about high prices
As part of his busy Labor Day morning on his Truth Social platform, the president admitted that he has already seen the data, before making the baffling demand. Honestly IDK what he's up to, other than trying to place blame on anyone other than himself or his appointee.
Trump is defending HHS Secretary RFK Jr from the firestorm over firings and ensuing resignations at the CDC by demanding drug companies turn over information about their COVID research and drugs that the president claims he has already seen. www.rawstory.com/trump-compan...
This does not make America great.
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Sigh. This would be amusing if it weren't so sadly likely.
“Get it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses. Because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” Dwight D. Eisenhower
That is a catastrophic number.
"The reality is that more and more people are becoming chronically ill through Long Covid and other health conditions that Covid can trigger, many of whom can’t work the required half-time—80 hours per month—and some of whom can’t work at all."
There's very little that the billionaires hate more than workers having rights.
Being a tomato dumper is hard work. This crew of 28 pickers harvests thousands of 24lb buckets a day. That makes for a lot of work for the two dumpers. #WeFeedYou #LaborDay
Shame on the courts for going along with the pernicious fiction that American national security required stripping employees of union protections
MAGA Host’s Wife To Die Thanks to RFK Jr., But He Blames Biden
What Rose Garden? There are no roses and there is no garden anymore. It's now a cement patio.
Russia: St. Petersburg restaurant "Wind" aboard a permanently docked ship The Flying Dutchman raided by police, several VIPs arrested with drugs. It's co-owned by Putin's goddaughter Ksenia Sobchak, so either someone is getting purged or she facilitated the raid herself.
This. They must go. Removing them must become a top Congressional priority or the deaths they cause will be on the hands of every member of Congress...and lest they think there be no consequences, those deaths will be mounting up by the time of next year's election.
Russia is a terrorist state, and that's the team Trump wants to play on.
Think about it. "Dems were too zealous in trying to prevent the spread of the virus" is, in US politics, a greater disadvantage, a bigger problem, than "Republican lies got hundreds of thousands of Americans killed for no reason." Just a pathetic fucking country. Pathetic.
But it's always like this. Democrats try to do the right thing. They fall short, like humans do. Everyone teams up to shit on them. Republicans don't even bother pretending. They lie, they smear, they destroy lives, they get people killed, & they face NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR IT.
... even if you buy it all, surely the party that worked desperately to save lives & end the pandemic deserves more credit, a higher grade, than the party that worked desperately to spread lies & get people killed! Surely they're not the ones that should be apologizing!
A pre-dog-walk 🧵 on the pandemic. To me, the lesson of the pandemic is a very familiar one, although as far as I can tell, no one is talking about it or learning it (which is also familiar). It's about the contrast between America's two political parties.
MAGA www.cnn.com/2025/08/31/t...
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Elon Musk calls LinkedIn users “bots” while his own platform X has 76% fake traffic. If twitter were a moose and bots were its ticks, it would be dead.
Yesterday, after enjoining DOJ/DHS from removing dozens of unaccompanied Guatemalan minors, Judge Sooknanan ordered DOJ to file 4 status reports *later that same day*—with a 5th still due this morning—to prove it complied. (“Presumption of regularity” is gone for this DOJ.) ... 1/2
Pakistan PM Shahbaz Sharif looks on as PM Modi, Russian President Putin walks past him at the SCO summit Plenty of rifts in this propaganda show of ‘unity.’ Russia’s push to prove it isn’t isolated only highlights how many enemies sit inside the same room.
“There are those who would try to refuse the worker any effective power to bargain collectively, to earn a decent livelihood and to acquire security. It is those shortsighted ones who threaten this country with class dissension…” — Franklin Roosevelt, Sep. 6, 1936 www.thebulwark.com/p/labor-day-...
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Excellent news. "During August there were twice as many posts about science each day compared with July and more than triple the number from March." #SciBlueSky #Science www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
"the Ukrainian crisis"🙄
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And, btw, Trump having a childish fit with India has nothing to do with Russia-Ukraine and has actually already helped Putin by driving India closer to China and Russia. It was all because India would not lie on Trump's behalf and claim he settled their dispute with Pakistan.
The USA has screwed up so badly by decimating the US relationship with India because of Trump’s childish, destructive ego, that the state department is now in the process of grovelling. In the end the US will probably cave, as it has with China.
Politics today is less driven by ideological conviction and more by parties chasing votes based on a distorted picture of public opinion, one filtered through algorithms that amplify emotionally engaging content. This incentivises performance over substance and erodes democratic deliberation.
Remember the Goolsbee Rule, also called the “pathological irony of crisis”: If you lose credibility, your statements begin to mean the opposite of what you say.
W.H. Auden's fantastic poem.
If you know California voters, tell them that if Trump rigs the next election and Republicans keep Congress, they will most certainly not certify the election in 2028 if they don't like the result. No one is saying gerrymandering is good, but unilaterally disarming could be the end of our democracy.
Tony Blair and Jared Kushner are apparently partnering in Trump's rebuilding Gaza in his own image plan, to the dismay of many. www.rawstory.com/trump-267394...
MORE: Sparkle Sooknanan is still awake -- and she wants a fourth status report from DOJ. The judge orders the government to update her when all putative class members have been returned to ORR custody.
This. I vividly recall the theatrical post-COVID balcony scene during his first term. If Trump were even healthy enough to *try* put the rumors to bed, he would have done so already. The fact that the best he can muster is a short walk to a motorcade and a week-old Jon Gruden photo is quite telling
Ouch.
Pete Hegseth in December on military training: “We’re bringing a war-fighting ethos back to the Pentagon. Everything else that distracts from lethality shouldn’t be happening.”
The puzzle site masquerading as a newspaper fails once again.
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JUST IN: Judge Sooknanan ordered the government to file a status report by 4 pm to address whether the children have been deplaned. DOJ blew the deadline. Now she orders them to show cause why they didn’t file the report in time — and sets new 6:30 pm deadline.
“.. with the exception of the pandemic, Black women have never seen such staggering losses in employment.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
wow
A Silicon Valley billionaire just declared Burning Man “demonic.” This is a heavy concept to drop on people who are currently tripping balls at the annual festival in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert. Get ready for “Satanic Panic,” Silicon Valley style. www.thenerdreich.com/demonic-sili...
Apparently the final straw alienating Modi was Trump going on and on about how great Pakistan (India's biggest enemy) was for nominating Trump for a Nobel, and how Modi should do the same. Trump ignored Modi when he pointed out that Trump had nothing to do with the ceasefire he claimed credit for.
Trump lies that the US has extracted "trillions of $ in import tariffs." No! In 2024, the US imported goods for $3.36 trillion. The current average tariff is 18% = $605 bn for a whole year, but loopholes will prevail. Tariffs are taxes on Americans. www.cbp.gov/newsroom/sta...
In America we've set up a cool system where, when you get *super* rich, you actually pay *lower* taxes.
To be clear: 1. We’ve taken in roughly $150 billion in tariffs - nowhere near a single trillion, much less trillions. 2. Tariffs single-handedly saving our military — which has been the strongest in the world for decades — is the dumbest shit I’ve read today.
Sad but true: “Black women are the canaries in the coal mine, the exclusion happens to them first,” Ms. Roy said. “And if any other cohort thinks it’s not coming for them, they’re wrong. This is a warning, and it’s a stark one.”
Come on, @governor.ca.gov. The fourth largest economy can push back against the leathery bear fisting sociopath.
James Stroud, who is one of at least 21 FEMA employees, put on leave after signing a letter criticizing Trump’s disaster preparedness, discusses the culture of fear within the agency. “One thing that is underreported is the day to day agony and humiliation we’ve been suffering this whole time.”
In China, a new axis of power is forming. Alliances are being struck between nations that are not allies, that have no love for each other—but share one common goal: rewriting the global order. These are nuclear states, authoritarian regimes, men who see the future not in freedom, but in domination.
From @levparnas.bsky.social "Once again, the nightly attacks on Ukraine—families killed, cities burning—barely make a headline. But what truly stopped me cold was the near-total silence about what is happening right now on the other side of the world." levremembers.substack.com/p/breaking-d...
Another appeal I co-signed to close Ukrainian skies: my stance from the outset. European and US leaders' inaction has resulted in thousands of Ukrainian casualties. Some talk about the risks. But not taking action against russia now would mean taking a much greater risk tomorrow. #SkyShieldNow
He obviously knows where he’s going.
Washington Post vs Democracy Docket. This one is easy. The Washington Post ignored Trump's latest attack on democracy entirely. It went with one about "grey rocking" instead. Support pro-democracy independent media. Subscribe to Democracy Docket today. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0
“they had so much fun” terrorizing people
As @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & I document in great detail in #ScienceUnderSiege (due out 9/9: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/science-un...), the New York Times is very much implicated in the false balance and "performative neutrality" that has enabled this moment. Here's a brief excerpt from the book:
Late is the hour in which both William Broad and the New York Times (www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/s...) express concern over the Trump administration's promotion of antiscience: 🧵
Laugh crying.
We’re suing the Department of the Interior and the National Park Service for records that could shed light on Trump’s politicized use of federal power in D.C., from enforcing cruel immigration policies to deploying the military against protesters. americanoversight.org/american-ove...
Just unbelievable that these people voted to destroy their own community by 30 points.
This is the one Labor Day graph that tells you the actual problem in America. The problem is not that America lacks abundance. The problem is that a handful of oligarchs are hoarding America’s abundance. www.levernews.com/the-labor-da...
DC area folks — this non-partisan rally in solidarity with survivors exploited by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell is happening Wed morning if you want to support.
Trump limits National Guard assignments to 29 days at a time to keep the called up service members from getting healthcare and housing benefits while on duty. And the NG troops are catching on. Stereotypical Trump. Don't give those losers and suckers an extra dime. www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri...
Rudy Giuliani’s spokesman now trying to stop conspiracies from getting spread about the car accident he was involved in.
Thou shalt not end vaccines. God will not save you from plague. The Middle Ages should’ve made that very clear.
"hell is empty and all the devils are here"
BREAKING: Rudy Giuliani seriously injured in a car accident in New Hampshire
Green recalls that when he was doing public speaking and trainings in the 90s, people had a very set idea of what a trans person might be, and it wasn’t a trans man. “They’d be disappointed because they were expecting a transsexual, who they think is a man in a dress,” he said.
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.”
He likely voted the way his party and the NRA lobbyists demanded he vote, and the reasons weren't important to him. So now he doesn't have an easy excuse.
"We’ve seen it before: the Trump regime attempting to clandestinely and illegally remove people from the United States under the cover of darkness, only to be ordered to stop operations mid-flight." Terrified children shipped off to somewhere dangerous in the middle of the night. WTF are we doing?
Pure fucking evil. Everyone involved in this shit needs to be held accountable.
For the umpteenth thousandth time, how would the press have reacted, and what would they be demanding if Biden had been clearly physically ill and refusing to appear or talk to them?
This is the way
The Secretary of HHS does not accept that germs cause illness. The logical conclusion of that is the worst pseudoscience of all: eugenics. He believes that it is not germs that cause illness, but personal failure (or if you're Chinese or Jewish he thinks bioweapons were designed to avoid you).
Putin has not changed. In the last 25 years he started four wars. He can only be kept in check through strong deterrence. We must be precise and fast with the surge in our defence posture ↓ europa.eu/!wgH6QK
The last 3 years have been the hottest in around 125,000 years. CO2 levels are their highest in MILLIONS of years. But most people have no idea this is happening, let alone what it means for our kids’ futures. Our politics & media have failed our children. We should be furious.
EXTRAORDINARY HEAT IN JAPAN 40C again 40.0 at Nagoya today and several records broken: ALL TIME RECORDS 39.0 Obu 37.4 Tsuchiyama 36.1 Hari MONTHLY RECORDS 39.6 Toyota 38.8 Ogaki Hundreds if not thousands of records will fall next week. Deadly heat (THis up to 50C) will continue
Trump is boldly opting out of the U.N.’s human rights review—the first time any member has ever refused. Critics slam it as a shameful dodge, proving the U.S. prefers skipping accountability to actually practicing human rights.
This picture.😂
Mark Zuckerberg lobbied Donald Trump to challenge digital services taxes, just days before he threatened countries around the world with tariffs if they continued taxing and regulating US tech companies.
One of the Putlers arrived in China today, ahead of a conference. Putin's four-day visit started in Tianjin, where the SCO summit will be held. China's president already met today with Aleksandr Lukashenko, the self-appointed leader of Belarus.
Today in the casual media normalization of lawless personalist authoritarianism
VA is a disaster right now. I generally don't trust the private sector with my healthcare, yet had wrist surgery three weeks ago at Baylor Scott & White in Dallas because VA couldn't handle it. First time I've had a major procedure or serious condition treated outside the military or VA since 1996.
