BREAKING: The Texas Legislature just officially passed HB7, the new ābounty hunterā ban on abortion medication. #txlege State Sen. Molly Cook said, āIt is my honor to fight for the rest of my life to repeal these bills.ā thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/01/t...
EXCLUSIVE: Susan Collins raked in $2 million from a billionaire private equity exec a day before she voted to advance Trumpās Big Beautiful Bill. Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
RFK Jr. is going to release a report on what he thinks are the causes of Autism Spectrum Disorder. There is reason to believe it wonāt be trustworthy, so @defendpublichealth.bsky.social has released our own evidence-based report of ASD risk factors to the public. Vaccines arenāt one of them.
A victim of convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein has revealed how a group of survivors is compiling a client list of their own.
NEWS: Rep. Robert Garcia tells Jen Psaki that the Trump White House is actively telling Republicans to not sign the discharge petition that would force a vote on the release of the Epstein files. @robertgarcia.bsky.social @jenpsaki.msnbc.com
I feel like in the 1980ās/90ās this would be a major plot point in a Tom Clancy novel, and the operation would be carried out as an off-book, illegal black op, with various characters trying to cover it up lest they face congressional hearings. Now the President just announces it.
Please someone persuade me that Trump hasnāt completely lost his mind and that we arenāt hurtling deep into mad king territory.
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...
Former CDC directors ā under multiple Republican and Democratic administrations, going back to 1977 ā denounced RFK Jr.ās actions: āThis is unacceptable, and it should alarm every American, regardless of political leanings.ā www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Hoping every state makes them available. We live in weird times.
Shapiro: āThe Trump Administrationās outrageous decision to limit access to the COVID vaccine is an affront to Pennsylvaniansā personal freedomā¦ My Administration is currently reviewing all of our options to ensure Pennsylvanians have access to the health care they want & will have more to say soonā
New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them. States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.
I wonder why Trump imposed secondary tariffs only on India for buying Russian oil while not caring about all the other countries who buy Russian oil?
My reporting uncovered the existence of DoJ training videos instructing FBI personnel on how to flag Trumpās name in the Epstein files. Iām suing to get the videos under FOIA. substack.com/@muellershew...
At some point in the not too distant future the conventional wisdom will be that this was a period where the US focused on dumb shit while China took the lead in multiple domains
Meidas Health is filling the void in healthcare leadership and trusted health information. 1 million views in less than 24 hours! We are just getting started. @meidastouch.com
BREAKING: Epstein estate agrees to hand over documents to Congress, including the "birthday book," according to ranking member @robertgarcia.bsky.social.
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NEW. A wide-ranging and I think very instructive conversation with @anneapplebaum.bsky.social on Ukraine, Europe, Trump, and the danger of authoritarianism. youtu.be/F8yzpfxOm6o?...
NEW: The White House appears to have instructed leaders at the General Services Administration (GSA) to add xAIās Grok chatbot to a list of approved vendors āASAP,ā according to an email sent by agency leadership earlier this week, which WIRED obtained.
russia targets civilians. Ukraine doesnāt
āIt feels like the CDC is over.ā Current and former CDC officials say that the departure of several top leaders will further undermine the agencyās ability to provide reliable guidance to Americans, Tom Bartlett reports.
Oh my god Jim is WHAT?!
Masked federal agents and MPD are conducting a checkpoint on New York Ave in Ivy City in DC.
Less than two weeks after Trump rolled out the red carpet for Vladimir Putin on US soil, the Russian leader targeted central Kyiv ā a European city of 4 million residents ā with 32 missiles and 598 attack drones. This video shows 2 missiles striking Zhylianska St.
Three senior CDC leaders who resigned told The Post they were asked to participate in an unscientific vaccine recommendation process that they believe could harm the health of Americans.
HAPPENING NOW: CDC staff members are greeted by supporters as they stage a walkout at their headquarters in Atlanta in protest against the damage being done to the agency by conspiracy theorist RFK Jr. ht: @marcofoster.bsky.social
What was that saying about glass houses?
Physical Activity. I'm in.
Uh oh
The GOP is preparing to change Senate rules to make it easier to adopt Trumpās agenda and confirm nominees. Good thing Manchin and Sinema āpreserved democracyā with their performative bullshit. Dems have to quit holding themselves to standards the GOP wonāt meet.
Overnight, the CDC unraveled. Its director fired, senior officials resigning, and public health left in chaos. As Jen Rubin explains, the White House chose politics over science, and Americans will pay the price.
"The Centers for Disease Control and Preventionāthe agency with responsibility for protecting Americaās healthāmay have just lost its director and four seasoned leaders...Itās shaping up to be a crisis of governance as unnerving as any weāve seen in the Trump era." www.thebulwark.com/p/prayers-pe...
What modern athlete do you think would most dominate in an older era? Why? And what athlete from a prior era do you think would dominate today? Why?
I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns donāt kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.
Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
What is going on
šØBorder Patrol arrested two firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire at the time. When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member āyou need to get the f*ck out of here. Iām going to make you leave.ā
A former CDC staffer adds: āThis is the work of a death cult.ā
Pay attention to whatās going on at the CDC tonight. Itās the agency charged with reducing the spread of disease and several of its scientists say their work is in danger.
Sure, letās roll the dice with the nationās public health by putting a former heroin addict/sexual deviant & overall quack whoās not a physician and not a scientist in charge. Howās it āplaying out?ā Shame on both Cassidy & Tillis.
Itās outrageous that Sec. Kennedy is trying to fire the CDC Director ā after only a few weeks on the job ā for her commitment to public health & vaccines. The Sen. HELP Committee must hold a hearing with Kennedy & the CDC Director as soon as possible. Vaccines save lives. Period.
āThe recent change in the adult and childrenās immunization schedule threaten the lives of the youngest Americans and pregnant people.ā This should be one of the biggest scandals in America right now. And every Democrat should be loudly calling for RFK Jrās resignation
And to my former congressional colleague Sen Bill Cassidy, youāre responsible for all of this as well. Shame on you.
Meidas Health Emergency Episode: The Trump regime removed the CDC director, triggering multiple high-level resignations. Dr. Vin Gupta explains what this means for public health:
If you are under 65 it is going to get much harder to get a COVID vaccine now. Kennedy is fucking insane. "Depending on the panelās advice, Americans under age 65 could be expected to provide documentation of a serious medical problem before they can get a shot." apnews.com/article/vacc...
Can the health secretaries in the blue states organize themselves as the 23 Dem AGs do and start more aggressively pushing back on what Kennedy is doing? Their citizens are at risk.
Does it have to ruin them? Why can't ai specialize? Ai for physics and everyone who chooses to contribute gets compensated. Same with every other field. One ai that knows everything by stealing intellectual property seems like a mistake.
Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!
Voters disapprove of National Guard to DC by 56-41. Trump keeps losing every big argument with the American people. Heās underwater on everything that matters.
Nice video from AZ. Experienced this a couple of days ago. youtu.be/4cV3eSvMhzI?...
Anthropic says a hacker used its Claude chatbot "to an unprecedented degree": Claude identified vulnerable companies, wrote infostealer malware, analyzed stolen files for extortion purposes, calculated extortion amounts, and wrote extortion messages. www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...
All across the Russian-occupied Ukrainian land, Moscow is struggling to provide one of the most basic needs of the very people it claims to have "liberated" ā water.
How much evil has this corporation done to this world? www.wsj.com/business/ene...
NPR: āA whistleblower says a former senior DOGE official now at the Social Security Administration copied the Social Security numbers, names & birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private section of the agency's cloud lacking adequate security...ā www.npr.org/2025/08/26/n...
I asked for the latest COVID vaccine this week at my VA clinic and they didn't have any. They said they are "out" but maybe more is on the way. The don't have an ETA.
Hereās a script to call your representatives and demand that they step up and advocate for everybody to have access to the updated Covid vaccines this fall. The health of the public is at stake. And so is freedom of all people to have the choice to protect themselves with safe, effective vaccines.
I feel like this should have at least 3 sirens.
Promise him a Nobel prize if Ukraine wins the war and pushes Russia off its territory.
TW ā ļø NBC shows another angle of the 2nd strike on Nasser hospital, which targeted rescue workers responding after the first strike killed journalists International volunteers say they were suspiciously required to leave for a training. Bibi calls it a ātragic mishapā
Trump taking Intel's CHIPS grant money, allocated for manufacturing and research, and converting it to an equity stake, no strings attached, is the opposite of "socialism" or whatever centrist pundits are vomiting out. It's a $9 billion giveaway to prop up their failing stock.
Statement from Fed Gov Lisa Cook: āPresident Trump purported to fire me āfor causeā when no cause exists under the law, and he has no authority to do so. I will not resign. I will continue to carry out my duties to help the American economy as I have been doing since 2022.ā
Where are all the corporate media headlines demanding his resignation? Where are the all the assumptions that about specialists visiting the White House meaning the president is dying? They did this daily with Biden. Why not now? Are they covering for their cash cow? Are they paid to cover it up?
Trump fires Lisa Cook in an unprecedented move, and immediately the US dollar sinks against the Yen (in red), the Euro (teal), and the British Pound (purple). Stocks are also sorting it out, but down around a quarter point. Point is: Markets don't think this is move helps American business.
This is what you do if you want the Democratic nomination for president (and thatās healthy). Democrats should compete over who looks like they will most vigorously undo Trumpās policies and most effectively defeat J.D. Vance.
I spent a quarter century being lectured by libertarians and republicans about how minimal government oversight of large companies was radical socialism and if you mentioned nationalizing stuff like telecom for the public good they'd have a six week embolism
Sarah Matthews: "We know that Virginia Giuffre was recruited by Ghislaine Maxwell while she was working at Mar-a-Lago...It leads one to believe that Donald Trump knew exactly why these young women were being poached by Epstein and what they were being used for."
"Either the Russian military has terrible aim or you are targeting civilians. Which is it?" Meet the Press moderator Kristen Welker asked. Watch/Read: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The Trump administration has moved to end temporary protected status for immigrants from Honduras and other countries. Among them are health care workers tending to older and disabled people.
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PragerU's "conservative" alternative to PBS has hit classrooms in 10 states, but āthey have a 50 state strategy,' warns āŖ@msnbc.comās @ahylton26.bsky.social. What these videos present is "not just a little wrong -- it's really insidious." #Velshi
How did that age?
The Pentagon is blocking Ukraine from using long-range missiles to hit Russian military targets. No wonder Putin still thinks he can win the war www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
Destroying government records is illegal and the people doing it should face grievous consequences. The attorneys overseeing it should be disbarred.
šØBREAKING: Hours after Texas passed its new map, my law firm has challenged it in federal court. In addition to violating the VRA, HB 4 violates the 14th Amendment because it unjustifiably considers race and partisanship as part of a voluntary, mid-cycle redistricting. @redistrictfdn.bsky.social
That got us wondering: How would those governors feel if National Guard troops from other states were ordered onto their streets, perhaps to patrol one of the 53 cities in those states with a higher murder rate than Washingtonās? So, we asked them. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/the...
š¶Putin Huilo - Putin Huilo š¶ Kharkiv right now celebrates its birthday with chants and songsš
Reducing crime, especially violent crime, requires a lot more work than just sending a bunch of FBI desk-jockeys in tactical gear to wander around the city hassling weed smokers.
Real news.
We mourn the fallen and celebrate the living. We are our own parade, our own entertainment. We will not bow. We are proud of each other. Happy 371st, my Kharkiv. All our enemies will perish, and we will bloom again.
Justice Dept. palms off 33,295 pages of mostly recycled Epstein drivel to Congressā97% public scraps, a mere 3% fresh flight logsāmocking transparency with bureaucratic sleight of hand. #EpsteinFiles
BREAKING: Rep. @khanna.house.gov reveals that only 3% of the documents given to the House Oversight Committee by the DOJ is new, and less than 1% of the Epstein files have been released.
Trump just kiIIed a $4B wind farm that was 80% buiIt, 45 turbines already built, enough to power 350k homes in Rhode Island and Connecticut by next Spring. F**king sickening.ļæ¼
Read @polgreen.bsky.social
Thrilled to platform the nations very best healthcare leaders on Meidas Health. Next up for Episode 14? The distinguished Dr Susan Kressly, President of the American Academy of Pediatrics! We welcome her truth, expertise and authenticity with open arms. Going live this week! @meidastouch.com
From "highly CONFLICTED" to "Highly Respected" in just weeks ā and all it took was for him to give away 10% of his company
"The United States paid nothing for these Shares" is an interesting way of describing "the U.S. released $8.9B in CHIPS funding intended for Intel in exchange for $8.9B in stock." Perhaps Congress could've demanded shares for CHIPS money, but POTUS adding this ad hoc is simply unconstitutional.
"JVL hit on the little thingsāyou know, food, energy, stuff that likeāearlier in the week. But letās get to what matters. Yesterday, Sony announced that PlayStations would cost $50 more per system." New from @sonnybunch.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/donald-tru...
So, MAGA has gone full Communist now, but Democratic Socialists are scary? Cool, cool. Cool.
Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users. While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.
BREAKING: Trump announces that the CEO of Intel has agreed to give the U.S. government a 10% stake in the company.
To all my fellow Americans, itās a really straightforward question: Do you want America to become a police state? Yes or no?š
So much for being "tough on crime."
