The Chairman of the JCS and the CNO need to be called before Congress to testify under oath about legal basis and other details.
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The Chairman of the JCS and the CNO need to be called before Congress to testify under oath about legal basis and other details.
Message: Trump is a cold blooded murderer.
Ossoff: "It's been extraordinary to see the Speaker of the House reduced to lying in order to cover up sex crimes"
That’s putting it mildly.
Such an odd thing to read in the newspaper www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
Yeah. They never bothered to consider if murder was legal.
Think about that.
Impeach.
And this is a big fat reason to join the AAUP. Faculty, postdocs, graduate students, join - and support academic freedom everywhere! www.aaup.org/join
It's Time to Release the Epstein Files. People who fight this hard to hide something have something to hide. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
A few of our pictures from last week's clap-out. We needed to see these. We hope these warm your heart a little bit. Make some joy for yourself and others. #saveCDC #savepublichealth #saveHHS @drdebhoury.bsky.social @drdemetre.bsky.social
More women have nearly bled to death during miscarriage under Texas’ abortion ban. Experts say the trend paints a troubling picture of the harms of unnecessary delays in care. “This is striking,” one doctor said. “The trend is very clear.” (Published July)
When your lethal military action is definitely super duper legal.
open.substack.com/pub/simonwdc... By: @simonwdc.bsky.social
Next they'll be rewriting textbooks to say Japanese American internment camps were delightful summer resorts.
Yes. And attacking NOLA won’t go well for him.
Wait did @jbpritzker.bsky.social totally bitch slap Sickly Don and now he's going to skip Chicago and take it out on New Orleans? (And no NOLA is a Democratic city that doesn't deserve this either. But in federalism terms this is like getting scolded by yr boss and going home and kicking yr dog.
I went to school in New Haven and I’M proud of Harvard.
Thinking about this moment ahead of RFK Jr's Senate hearing tomorrow.
Freaking classic.
They have fired a bunch of people who were doing important jobs extremely well. Why?
It’s appalling.
They murdered a boatload of people.
How could anyone forget? But so many have.
DeSantis is bringing Donald Trump and RFK Jr.’s attacks on science and the health and safety of children to Florida. Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
because polio is freedom
Pretty simple.
In the 1950s, my brother had rubella, spiked a fever, went into convulsions. He was never the same
It's time to lay down a marker: If (or when!) there's a crypto crash, there's no reason for a federal bailout. Would love to see Republican congressional reps go on the record on this now, before the President's private interests lead them to wilt under pressure later.
Elizabeth Warren: "Donald Trump supports Andrew Cuomo to be mayor of New York. Period. And he is willing to bring down the force of the US government not on behalf of the people of the US, but to be able to manipulate the mayoral race to help Andrew Cuomo."
Rep. Jim McGovern: "Republicans are terrified because the president doesn't want to release all the Epstein files after promising that he would release them during the campaign ... What are they trying to hide?"
This guy is stepping up.
I think we should follow the Constitution.
🚨⚖️📚 Rep. Jasmine Crockett calls Epstein case a RICO-level crime. She demands answers on Maxwell’s transfer, bipartisan fixes to Crime Victims Act loopholes, and full release of all files—urging anyone with info to come forward to Oversight.
What kind of pedophile dictator flies military aircraft over to drown out sex trafficking victims speaking out?
McGovern: "You guys think you work for Trump ... Let me repeat -- every single Republican on the Rules Committee voted against releasing the Epstein files. Every single one. We heard last night that all Republicans want full transparency. But that's just not true."
If this was 2021 and this was an Epstein survivor saying Epstein had an eight by ten framed picture with Biden on his desk it would be on a loop on Fox, the only story that the Times was covering, and Alex Jones would be having a cardiac arrest on his livestream. But...
I was thinking about this earlier today. Read @mehdirhasan.bsky.social
🚨NEW: Declarations filed in the lawsuit against the rushed attempt to deport 600 Guatemalan children reveals the chaotic way the Trump admin carried out the operation. Children were taken out of bed after midnight to be rushed onto planes. One girl "was so scared she vomited."
@nytimes.com @cnn.com
Massie: "The Speaker of the House just offered a fig leaf to my colleagues. They're gonna vote on a non-binding resolution today that does absolutely nothing ... they're allowing the DOJ to curate all of the information that the DOJ is giving them ... the perpetrators are being protected"
Raskin: "When private comments made by federal employees are scrutinized for anti-Trump bias and they can lose their jobs because of it, then we've entered the realm not just of Vladimir Putin but Joseph Stalin."
Trump spends oodles of $$ for an absurd military flyover to silence victims of Epstein’s and Maxwell’s awful crimes as he protects the perpetrators of those crimes.
"I thought they were going to make me board the plane like they did with the other kids from the shelter, but they asked me for my name and told me I was not on the list." A terrifying declaration from an unaccompanied child nearly removed to Guatemala straight out of Schindler's List.
@thebulwark.com
Deplorable
Why speak publicly now a reporter asks? Because DOJ gave Maxwell a platform and was put on a pedestal. Because Trump called it a hoax. We won’t be silence anymore.
In the most important court decision on a day full of them, the most conservative federal appeals court became the first to address the substance of President Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act and found it to be unlawful. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
Plunge?
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"
Read the speech. It’s white nationalist propaganda.
Why would the release of the investigation files on a serial sexual predator harm the President? Why does he want to use the military to drown out the voices of the survivors? There’s only one hideous answer.
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.
This is happening nationwide.
New, from me: The EPA is breaking. *About 1 in 4 employees out *Core research unit closed down *Employees suspended and fired for writing letter for dissent *Trump judicial appointees OK'd cancelling of $20 billion climate change program donmoynihan.substack.com/p/your-gover...
The Department of Energy hired five academics to raise doubts about climate change. 85+ climate experts (organized by @andrewdessler.com) reviewed their report. Our conclusion, detailed in 450 pages of analysis: it is biased, full of errors, and not fit to inform policy making.
A former Fox News producer who was ousted from his school’s student government over accusations of racism, is working in the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s communications department. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/former-...
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Why are federal agents wearing masks to hide their face? Public servants should face the public — take off your masks! We just launched ads at over a hundred bus shelters around Washington, D.C. — check them out!
No. This is what they do. They should set up a table 50 feet away and offer tea and cookies.
Sure he’s a weird white nationalist. But when you see Eric Schmitt I want you to remember this: theappeal.org/missouri-att...
No
He said this before the election. Why did anyone doubt he believed it and would do it if given the chance?
Should.
As concerns that Trump could be deploying National Guard troops as a test run for future election interference, we take a look at one law that will impact stationing federal troops at the polls themselves. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
Thank you @joycewhitevance.bsky.social
The month of August 2025 may go down as the worst in the history of the US Health and Human Services Department. After a month of shocking removals, resignations, and a shooting at the CDC, Democrats are demanding that RFK Jr. pack his bags.
Yes!
Insanity
WTF? This is part of the ceremony of citizenship. These people aren’t against illegal immigration, they’re against legal immigration as well, and always have been.
We could have cool stuff like this. Instead we have men in masks breaking car windows and stopping people from fighting fires.
Jeff Danziger
👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
Pritzker: "It breaks my heart to report that we have been told ICE will try to disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades. Let's be clear -- the terror and cruelty is the point, not the safety of anybody living here."
Wonderful
I am 76 & I have had most of these vaccinations at one time or another. Also vaccinations against Covid, Tetanus, plus Cholera & Yellow Fever when travelling in foreign countries. These prevented me catching horrible diseases & dying a gruesome death. They did not harm me, they protected me!
Every year, the Supreme Court’s nine justices fill out a form that discloses their financial connections to companies and people. Using our database, you can search for organizations and people that have paid the justices, reimbursed them for travel, given them gifts and more.
This!
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
Crime is down in Chicago, but it’s up 752% in the imaginary Chicago in their heads.
Pritzker: Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: Once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next
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
Just made one, using olive oil instead of butter because my daughter in law can’t eat dairy. It was yummy (but I do love the buttery original).
Democrats "have to give up on the idea that they're a governing party. They have to give up on the idea that the Republican party is a traditional political party of which you can have some sort of meeting of the minds." @stuartpstevens.bsky.social joins @timmiller.bsky.social:
NEW: An NBC News joint interview with six women who say they were sex trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein or convicted co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell. www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol... They want Trump to release the Epstein documents and not pardon Maxwell.
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 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.
We already got to the bottom of it. RFK Jr. intended to destroy our vaccine system, and we all knew that. But Cassidy was too chicken to oppose his nomination as HHS. He gave Kennedy the keys to the car, knowing he would drive it--and us--off the cliff.
If it’s under Title 32 authority, the Texas guard remains under state control. That would mean that one state is deploying armed forces into the territory of a non-consenting state. And that’d clearly be a violation of the principle that states are co-equal, territorially limited sovereigns.
Can't say this often enough.
Buried 35 paragraphs in: "Violent crime in Chicago has dropped significantly in the first half of the year, according to official data released by the city. Shootings are down 37% and homicides have dropped by 32% compared to the first half of 2024, while total violent crime dropped by over 22%..."
SPOTTED: Mobile billboards driving around D.C. demanding federal agents take their masks off — because public servants should face the public. Go follow @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social!
The rule of law matters. The separation of powers matters. The Constitution matters. We are a nation of laws, and no one is above the law ⬇️
Vance follows a coterie of online Nazis on X, has described Curtis Yarvin as a major intellectual influence, and openly attacks immigrants in blood and soil terms. The response of most of the political press? "Doesn't look like anything to me."
A1 above the fold in the @nytimes.com. The message is getting through. Keep pushing everyone. We can save the #CDC, save the #NIH from the clutches of #RussellVought #StephenMiller and #DonaldTrump. Keep the pressure up on your members of Congress and the media (letters to editors, op-eds).
As a human in DC right now I would get a significant boost to quality of life via a widely available COVID vaccine compared to armed men harassing my neighbors. Would call my representatives in federal government to point this out, if I had any
Corruption to the max
Fire him