this is what's so strange to me. the news has a material incentive to sensationalize, and this is huge stuff without any exaggeration. is journalistic ideology really that impenetrable?
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this is what's so strange to me. the news has a material incentive to sensationalize, and this is huge stuff without any exaggeration. is journalistic ideology really that impenetrable?
When President Trump used 32 U.S.C. § 502(f)(2) in 2020, that was to have out-of-state National Guard troops sent to D.C.—which has no sovereignty of its own. Sending the un-federalized TX National Guard into IL without the latter’s consent raises *serious* Article IV problems that 2020 … didn’t.
i don't think it's great that there is no one in the GOP asking about congressional war powers
Don't feel like doing a repost that puts the murder video on the timeline yet again but do feel like repeating the point that the president just straight-up assassinated 11 people for supposedly doing something that wouldn't be a death-penalty crime if they were caught and convicted
you'd think the governor of illinois basically going "we're being invaded by an authoritarian" would be something you'd see real easy on the front page of most everything an hour later
The Supreme Court has original jurisdiction for disputes between states (meaning they can actually file the lawsuit there, rather than have it go up on appeal). This would be a good time for Illinois to utilize it.
The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
Everyone has a second full time job being mad at the government now
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
"While speaking with police, Hinton said months of intelligence and a confidential informant led the bounty hunters to Hussein Alsaadi, and that an AI facial recognition tool showed a 79 percent match to the capital murder suspect they were targeting." 🤦♀️🤬
at no point did we defund the police. it's important when we talk about defunding the police to note it never actually happened. would it work? we don't know! but merely phrasing the idea succinctly incited a reactionary backlash that put fascists in charge of all 3 branches of government. curious!
Google's search engine was the greatest information retrieval tool I'd ever experienced in my life. So many mysteries unraveled under the scrutiny of a few keystrokes. They lobotomized it *for this*.
Great day for this story to drop
The difference between the text of the post and the headline of the article below it is staggering
NASA scheduled a major workshop for early career researchers during the most important week of the Jewish calendar, during two of the most important days of that week and expects me to accept that this was “difficult scheduling conflicts” That’s what casual antisemitism sounds like
Add in that the MN shooter might have been preventable if FBI and DHS hadn't refocused their domestic terrorism policing, and FBI didn't even MENTION the terrorist attack at CDC.
#BREAKING: Judge Breyer has held that the Trump admin. *violated* the Posse Comitatus Act in its military deployments in and around Los Angeles, and has enjoined further use of those troops for law enforcement tasks. The order is stayed through 12 PDT on 9/12: georgetown.app.box.com/file/1973361...
Holy crap, NYT let Charles Munger Jr. write an op-ed opposing the California redistricting without disclosing that he's FUNDING the opposition to the California redistricting. I have 4 mailers he paid for in my house right now and that's just the beginning. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/o...
🚨BREAKING: A federal judge ruled Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s use of National Guard troops and Marines in Los Angeles earlier this year violated a federal law that prohibits using the military as a domestic police force. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
BREAKING: Trump, Hegseth violated the Posse Comitatus Act with their troop deployment to Los Angeles, Judge Charles Breyer rules after trial. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Great thread. At every turn, our media (and therefore our voters) reward the party that has embraced the theory that “you can’t lose if you don’t bother trying”. And Dems keep getting seduced by that line of thinking, especially on trans rights and climate change. It’s maddening.
All kidding aside, it is so *insane* & *shocking* & *dangerous* that Corporate Media has collectively decided to completely bury objective fact that the President is uninformed, confused, and physically & mentally deteriorating.
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.
OH while walking home from the grocery store: “$20 is the new $5.”
The grocery shop I just did usually cost between $60-$80. Today, it cost me $130. I bought nothing outrageous. I shopped at the most inexpensive grocery store in our area. But yeah, that decaying heap of slop we call a president is really helping prices.
(And if the BLS also captures food prices going up, there's another reason why 47 would be firing all the honest leadership over there...)
Alt text: Today Show video screenshot: Wholesale Vegetable Prices Skyrocket Nearly 40%: Will Shoppers Take the Hit? Wholesale vegetable prices ⬆️ 38.9% June to July for fresh & dry vegetables. Source: Producer Price Index, Bureau of Labor Statistics. Caption: fresh & dry vegetables skyrocketed
You are 100% right. It's terrifying.
Just to piggyback on this, I just sent this over to a friend of mine who is a regional director for a big grocery chain. His full response: “Strap the fck in. You haven’t seen anything yet.”
Better go hit the stock up places now. Dented cans stores, dollar stores, everywhere. Rice, beans, dry milk, pnut butter, canned fish and meat. Buy some herb plants. And watch Struggle Meals! Love Frankie's approach to simple affordable yummy food. He's on youtube, tastemade, etc.
As a manufacturing girly, this is not an exaggeration. I’ve been telling my ppl to buy extra dry and canned goods every shopping trip for months now. Daily diets will be changing drastically by force.
I feel you. 10 oz of the good chocolate chunks at Aldi were $5 last time I went ... my chocolate chip cookies are getting pricey. 😬
Many authors have searched The Atlantic's LibGen database of pirated titles to see if they are listed there. However, I've uncovered that authors of short fiction aren't always discoverable there. Here's how I discovered more of my short fiction in the list. 1/ www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
CVS & Walgreens are carrying them in my area. I have to wait a little bit on them because of a health insurance issue I'm hoping will be cleared up shortly, but I've definitely been scoping this out.
If you have not been, now is a really good time to start tracing your multi-size patterns instead of cutting them out. This is a resource we'll never have again.
Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms
We dumped a president for being too old only to elect one who immediately died. You can't say that's not funny
9 past CDC directors condemn Kennedy's destruction of the agency. Gift link.
The kids are physically inactive. Oops, better vax 'em.
It is just wild to me that the largest facility used during Japanese internment will now be used to intern immigrants from ICE raids, people who are disappeared by masked officers off the streets, and there is still a debate about whether naming and shaming those doing it is fair.
I think what a lot of people forget is just how much we didn't know in those early months; I remember scrubbing my hands red for weeks & the smell of alcohol on everything before it turned out transmission was airborne. Scientists & health officials were doing the best they could in terra incognita.
Trump putting the National Guard on 29 day orders so he doesn't have to pay them all the way is just so on the nose
I think we should dust off the Third Amendment to argue against National Guard troops in our cities for no reason.
Seems like a good day for a reminder about the thousands of lawsuits against Donald Trump and his companies, millions in fines for unpaid work, 24 violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act, countless liens for stiffing contractors, and 4 corporate bankruptcies.
This is an important thread for everyone to read about the #health #effects of the mess that RFK Jr is causing at the #CDC.
the big 4 sewing pattern brands are being sold off for parts. if you want patterns, get them *now*. (if you're secretly a zillionaire who likes sewing patterns, call the liquidator immediately with your chequebook) craftindustryalliance.org/parent-compa...
Too sick for spray tan? 🤷♀️
I don’t normally ask to hear from the president but it’d be nice to see if he can still complete a sentence
I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field. There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.
If all the documents were released, all the records, all the interviews, if every shred of paper written on the Epstein sex trafficking operation were released tomorrow, there would still be horrific things we’ll never know. Think about that.
❗️The plane Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu was on was forced to land in Bulgaria due to suspected Russian GPS interference -FT There are reports that the pilots even had to use paper maps due to GPS jamming as they made the emergency landing.
"chatGPT 5 is like having a bunch of phds in your pocket" here's ten trillion dollars "bluesky is having an *actual* bunch of phds in your pocket" dying platform. it disgusts me
This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I can’t overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.
let’s hit pause here. rfk jr. wasn’t picked until november 14, 2024. most folks in politics thought it wouldn’t happen, while public health was ringing alarm bells many former cdc directors spoke out against him before before everyone else realized he was a serious threat
I wouldn't be surprised. The staff at the CDC generally wants people to be safe; it's kind of their job, even if they're currently cursed with RFK Jr.
People are melting down at a Tribune article about CHSD 230 considering adding Arabic to its language learning electives. I wasted time in the comments, which I normally avoid doing since it's useless and awful, but it led to possibly the funniest thing anybody's ever said to me about France.
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
It makes me emotional to see Judge Sooknanan showing that she values each individual child’s life at a moment when this administration is doing exactly the opposite
Courts still matter.
If you want a Covid vaccine (good idea!), you definitely have a qualifying condition. Physical inactivity is ~impossible to disprove (& not even defined as far as I can see; maybe don't wear an "I won the marathon" shirt to the pharmacy, though). Good luck with vaccination acquisition! 💉 #MedSky
Or household members. I agree. (Actually, I think everyone willing should be eligible. But I digress.)
Are they... not offering the shot in Florida anymore? You clearly meet the specifications given by CDC.
A new study finds that #COVID19 vaccines reduce the risk of coronary heart disease. Each additional COVID vaccine you receive further reduces the risk of coronary heart disease. www.frontiersin.org/journals/pub...
Clearly all those people are suffering from "physical inactivity" & need vaccines as well. bsky.app/profile/vach...
Newsom's comms team could do much better.
Literally the one thing the dude did that worked was the COVID vaccine and he is considering dumping it because of RFK.
Your keywords are physical inactivity: bsky.app/profile/vach...
For those trying to gaslight about vaccinations during the pandemic, just remember: Every hospital in the world had a COVID unit No hospital had a vaccine side effects ward #medsky #covid #vaccinations
for the scientifically illiterate like the MOFOTUS a basic search on "COVID vaccine efficacy" in PubMed returns over 8000 papers, including studies in various conditions like pregancy, chronic disease, and co-infection. It's hard to dumb it down for an 8-yr-old pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34598660/
FWIW, just claim physical inactivity.
It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isn’t even news.
This is the second judge in a week that has brought up the fact that the government can't be trusted with clear instructions - likely because the government ignored Judge Boasberg's order to turn the planes around last March saying "verbal orders from judges don't count."
The entire fascist plot relies on us being terrified and sad. This is why they’re 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.
Remember, kids: A real big goal of "AI" is to entirely sever capital from labor, and no, there will be no universal basic income, you can all just starve and die, thanks www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...
Wise advice to cities targeted or shall I say invaded by ICE Small towns are also seeing these unlawful kidnappings too Spread the word! All it takes to stop them is a few arrests Show the video to your local DA
Every single US city needs to do this, and enforce it.
FEDERAL AGENTS TAKE NOTE… It’s not just Chicago standing strong. Other blue cities and governors are ready to unite against Trump’s federal invasion. I’m not an attorney, but this point seems huge: if federal agents break state or city laws, they can prosecuted. And Trump cannot pardon them.
Make no mistake, everything that’s happening in the United States is being significantly enabled by the right wing oligarch capture of media. Every other country needs to do everything possible to keep that from happening where they are. Including protecting the CBC from Poilievre here in Canada.
Yeah it's not exactly subtle what's going on here
Trump's dodging the cameras as much as he's been dodging the Epstein files
Here's a picture of a wee coo to lighten ye heart.
Really strongly recommend everyone get off Substack. Not just for the Nazi stuff, but because they're going to lock you into the platform and then slowly bleed you dry
Having lived through a decade of harrowing events as a child, I'll say it's *good* to imagine the day you'll move beyond the reach of a cruel person—even if that moment won't fix everything. They want to convince you of your powerlessness, but that's not how this story ends.
The United States killed American Indians and drove them from their homes in order to steal their land. Could it work in Gaza?
Thank you. That was fantastic. Tonight needed those two. :)
I hope you understand that private industries have, for years, worked to limit scientific credibility. They don't want to be accountable if they cause cancer, if they poison you by dumping in your neighborhood's water.
I hope you understand that if you show up at a hospital with an infection no one has ever seen before that the US had somewhere you could call. That place would answer, offer testing you can’t get anywhere else and come visit you to solve if necessary.
I find this compelling:
Oh, wait, better option: bsky.app/profile/adam...
Just found out it was crossposted! bsky.app/profile/adam...
Sorry - had a bunch of notifications & working my way through slowly. 🙂 Thanks for the sleuthing!
This seems like the best explanation for what's up with 47 that I've heard yet. (If you need alt tags, try my screenshot version from before I knew the thread was here as well: bsky.app/profile/did:... )
Thank you!! I didn't think to check if it was crossposted!
Sorry, I didn't realize that. Try this:
Click through here:
It's weird how the exact same people who claimed Biden was hiding have absolutely no concerns that the man who is all about dominating every news cycle is not having any public events.
No worries - I thought it was a good thread & worthy of folks being able to read here. I did slack off on the descriptions of the images within, though. This dude agrees with you & your mom & has evidence to support, including from his most recent health checkup.