Great episode. I completely agree with Nadia on Gardeners’ World. Btw, love your show and listening to your conversations. You are the Gardeners’ World of the weird left!
Wag more, bark more, and be excellent to each other. Real person for real people. I stop for animals. #Manatee #LeftIsBest #RushFamily pro: he/him
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Great episode. I completely agree with Nadia on Gardeners’ World. Btw, love your show and listening to your conversations. You are the Gardeners’ World of the weird left!
Jo Cox was murdered by a man with a house full of neo-Nazi agitprop and this was then retconned into a vague narrative about social media abuse
The United States had one of the worst COVID outcomes in the entire world from a body count standpoint. Anyone who argues with a straight face we were TOO cautious is an unserious imbecile.
The Trace spoke to veteran researchers who explained that the president’s strategy to decrease crime in urban cities ignores leading public health research, and sidelines critical suicide prevention efforts. Read more: thetr.ac/Cti2X
Seems like as good a time as any to reshare my story on the Coffee County voting system breach, which details the key role Giuliani played in Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...
On September 1, 2025, we lost a true legend. Graham Greene, Oneida from Six Nations Reserve, walked on at the age of 73. Over the span of more than 175 acting credits, he gave us characters that were unforgettable, complex, and real. redpopnews.com/remembering-... #redpopnews
It's Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, and I’m asking our community of travelers to help me spread the word: the earlier prostate cancer is found, the better your chances are of beating it. Visit cancer.org/getscreened to learn more from @acscan.bsky.social & find a screening location near you.
What does #LaborDay mean to you? ✊ For MSP airport workers, it’s fighting for affordable health care. For Uber/Lyft drivers, it’s a dignified waiting lot. For all of us, it’s solidarity—saying NO to Trump + the billionaires rigging the rules.💪 #WorkersOverBillionaires #FamiliesFirst @seiu.org
i'll note this is limited almost exclusively to areas where affordable housing is allowed
As @txsharon.bsky.social likes to say, these massive methane leaks would never happen if it weren't invisible. "What we have here is a cover-up at every conceivable scale, by ConocoPhillips...."
I can't believe the U.S. Congress is flying Nigel Farage over to tell them about freedom of expression in a hearing this week. judiciary.house.gov/committee-ac... Hey people in the UK, are there any particularly choice tidbits you'd like to share about this guy??
Missouri’s governor signed a law this spring for the state to grab control of St. Louis Police, returning the city to a Civil War-era arrangement. A local official calls the move "a clear gesture of white men wanting to control urban areas."
Have to agree. 🤣
Whenever I think of Worf he’s speaking like he has a stick up his bum: "A warrior would not show weakness. It is not our way." The kind of thing spoken by a Midwestern white kid cosplaying at a Renaissance festival.
The most ferocious insult you can direct to the abundance agenda is trying to make it a reality
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Important Essay in @nytimes.com by 9 former CDC directors. "We have a message for the rest of the nation as well: This is a time to rally to protect the health of every American...." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment. Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.
I realize news outlets are sensitive about defamation lawsuits but this is a pretty clear case. He’s flatly lying about recent history if he says he’s not an anti-vaccine activist. There’s video!
Brooke Bourgeois, 2020 #goodcompany #mydemons
Russia suspected of jamming GPS on plane carrying Ursula von der Leyen
A big FU to working people.
Europe will only give a top safety rating to cars w/buttons (not just touchscreens): “The overuse of touchscreens is an industry-wide problem, with almost every vehicle-maker moving key controls onto central touchscreens, obliging drivers to take their eyes off the road.” etsc.eu/cars-will-ne...
This Day in Labor History: September 1, 1849. The Brotherhood of the Union, an early pro-worker organization, formed. The vision of a George Lippard, this organization established principles in American working class activism that would be incredibly influential throughout the 19th century!!
2112, but Dark Side of the Moon is the best.
Leading genocide scholars formally declare that Israel’s war on Gaza meets the UN’s definition of genocide.
President Trump’s most recent attack on mail voting is part of a concerted effort to undermine our elections. The administration has provided us with clues about what comes next. The good news: key actors can be ready to respond. bit.ly/4fRIqtA
This is nothing else but a hybrid war that Russia wages against Europe Let's name things as they really are:Russia has made an assassination attempt of the President of the European Commission Russia has been jamming GPS-signals over many Eastern Europe countries that are in its immediate vicinity
"Forget the partial deals. Go in with full force and finish this,” the premier [Netanyahu] reportedly said Trump told him." www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...
Kennedy is living proof that fascism can never and will never make anyone safer or more prosperous. The damage he has done to our pandemic preparedness and just basic public health is incalculable. To say nothing of our global reputation as a leader in science.
“We’re not even a voting rights advocacy organization, but we’ve had to become one.” That refrain’s going to be awfully familiar over this next stretch.
I stand with Chicago. I stand with Mayor Johnson. 🚨 NEW: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson just signed an executive order to resist Trump’s federal invasion and occupation of the city. Details in 🧵
Berlin, Germany - broken arm, broken nose, broken State.
Ok, hear me out. A Lord of the Rings re-make, but with Rush taking the One Ring to Mordor:
I studied Medieval English, so I was always gnawed by everyone’s Minnesotan ye-olde English stylings. I too liked fantasy fiction as a 16 year old (nuff said). But I do enjoy MRF.
In the wake of numerous reports of interactions with AI chatbots that resulted in deadly consequences, the Center for Democracy & Technology's Dr. Michal Luria says AI firms should stop designing products that pretend to be human.
Saleh sent me this photo of some of his sweet kiddos ❤️
Yes, of course. It’s an obtuse argument so that he can make policy based on his personal feelings. It’s ridiculous to expect people to do all their own science. Libertarianism and science are incompatible, it’s the science of a toddler, not accepting anything he can’t put in his mouth.
He is right (in an obtuse way) that expertise per se is not infallible and that non-experts can and do contribute to science. Scholarship is about testing hypotheses, debate, and dialog, creating knowledge as much as discovering truth. But expertise and science are not the same thing.
The assault on expertise is driven by an agenda to place uniformed, ill-conceived, often politically-motivated antiscience from charlatans on an equal footing with scientific consensus. Please read #ScienceUnderSiege by @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & me: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/science-un...
Ah. Everything at the extremes becomes its opposite.
"The interview had no evident legal purpose. It was a damage-control operation. Blanche was not so much investigating Epstein and Maxwell’s crimes as attempting to exculpate President Donald Trump..."
If you’re in the summoning circle, stay in the summoning circle.
Haven’t heard, is it something like: now is not the time for this, a butterfly flapping its wings will cause all Dems to lose, no one is perfect….
At Gettysburg, reenactors celebrate the past while a new Trump order tells the National Park Service to remove “partisan ideology” from signs. Some say slavery should be downplayed. Others call that erasure. 🎧 Listen on Reveal:
Sums up America in 2025 pretty well I’d say
Insurance Companies are practicing medicine instead of doctors.
DFL politicians who have voiced support for trans people in the last couple days: -Omar Fateh -Doron Clark -Leigh Finke -Jason Chavez -Jacob Frey am i missing anyone?
This ends with Neil.
So good
Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Mike Johnson makes clear that when Congress returns next week he's going to work tirelessly to cover up the Epstein files
This was the op-ed, published in the Harvard Independent, BTW God bless student alt-weeklies!!!!
I will never understand how American elites managed to convince themselves that uncivil debate — not fascism, not impunity and not widespread indifference to facts — is the defining problem of our time. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...
OHHHHH. I GET IT NOW. So this is why I got a form letter back from The Crimson when I pitched them my op-ed denouncing Harvard Hillel LMAOOOOOOOOO The Crimson is fucked now
the right wing view of covid is, basically: it is very bad the evil chinese manufactured this bioweapon to kill us all, but also we should've let it kill more people
Merlin has been a real game changer.
Videos posted to social media and shared with KUOW show federal agents arresting two firefighters working on the Bear Gulch fire on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula on Wednesday.
Denny’s Announces Free Pancakes For Customers Who Take Fight Outside https://theonion.com/dennys-announces-free-pancakes-for-customers-who-take-fight-outside/
“We are returning to the airport.”
Meteorologists now face a Trump ‘loyalty test’ when applying to National Weather Service jobs www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...
The immigration detention center in Florida's Everglades will soon be empty. State officials expect the facility to have no detainees "within a few days."
The very concept of communicable disease is also antithetical to the politics of the right. Your wellbeing is inextricably tied to mine, and our individual decisions necessarily impact the community as a whole.
New: In 7 months, Kennedy has broken the CDC, perhaps irreparably. For all he’s done with mass firings, gutting expertise, and attacking vaccines, Wednesday’s loss of its most senior and competent leaders—truly the CDC’s backbone—is the most consequential attack yet. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/c...
And what about this? bsky.app/profile/uwch...
"Thx for the hospitality. Great, impressive island" is not a good sentence to have emailed Jeffrey Epstein in 2014.
Christ So a woman was accused of spitting on a fed cop at the zoo & the DoJ said not to lock her up pretrial but feds didn't bring her to court & kept her jailed for a week bc they said there was a warrant out on her. The warrant was the one they hit her with for spitting on a fed cop at the zoo
People so hate dealing with getting prior approval from health insurance companies - and the attendant denials - that someone shot a CEO over it. Now the Trump administration is beginning to bring the prior approval system to Medicare - and will use AI to decide who's covered for what.
Texas Democrats say Trump’s maps expose a nationwide attack on democracy. www.levernews.com/https-www-le...
"Did you people throw this kind of shit-fit at Denny’s, or did you just order a Moons Over My Hammy and keep on truckin’?"
Funny I just read this interview with Mould the other day, where he says "I was born in 1960, so I grew up with pop music in my DNA. When I was a kid, jukebox singles were my toys..." I didn't realize he meant that literally!
Every day I am more and more convinced that The Atlantic is a decades-long prank.
Nazi scum arrested firefighters while they were actively fighting the Bear Gulch fire near Lake Cushman. #washingtonstate #beargulchfire #olympicnationalforest #ICE #pnw #cascadia
House Democrats could force a vote on impeaching RFK any time they want. Of course it would fail. But do you want to make an issue of it or not?
Wow blatant plagiarism from the new Grace Street Greenway proposal
Someone should do something about it.
After refusing to enforce US and international law whilst serving as senior advisor to President Biden during the previous administration, Jake Sullivan today says he would withhold weapons from Israel
🔥🧵 Resignation letters from top CDC experts: "Their desire to please a political base will result in death & disability of vulnerable children & adults. Their base should be the people they serve not a political voting bloc." - @drdemetre.bsky.social Thanks for your service.
It won’t fit in screen shots but linking here the full letter of resignation posted by one of the departing CDC officials, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who ran the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases and led efforts to fight COVID, monkeypox, and bird flu x.com/dr_demetre/s...
I look forward to their upcoming debates on slavery & pedophilia! *touches earpiece* Oh, I'm hearing that they won't be doing those? It's just trans people that are up for debate? 🖕🏻
Oh well. I am making my claim and every author should.
If I'm forced to pay even a penny out of pocket for the COVID vaccine due to this offensively stupid FDA decision I'm send the bill to RFK Jr and taking him to small claims court if he refuses to pay. And so should you.
ROTF. Trump is sitting there listening to this like “WTF?”
Sadly, there are documented cases:
Not a newsletter guy but if I were I'd make a weekly "terrible people suffer misfortune"
Love Pentangle!
Los Lobos, a national treasure, under the stars earlier on a perfect night at the Minnesota State Fair
I enjoyed Elaine Pagels books years ago. I can’t remember what that book had to do with Antichrist but it’s been about 35 years.
"There has just never been a president in recent American history who has gone out of his way to free more criminals and accommodate more crimes than Donald Trump," says @chrislhayes.bsky.social.
New from me: Trump and RFK Jr. blathered on about autism being a “horror show.” But all the while, RFK Jr.’s the Department of Health and Human Services has terminated millions of dollars of grants midway through research projects, rendering the money wasted. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Immorality and lawlessness rampant to a degree that seems incomprehensible.
“Yehezkeli, a settler living in the occupied West Bank, said that the journalists had helped damage Israel’s reputation by sharing images of starvation the state has imposed on Palestinians in the besieged territory” ISIS with a tie, nice www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli...
Do it now before armed government men are deployed to polling places.
Target cities should hold military takeover referendums. Get the population on record on whether this is what they want. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/think...
Danielle Froom 🏳️🌈 