We did this to ourselves www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...
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We did this to ourselves www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...
The six reliably pro-Trump justices are "racking up a rap sheet of constitutional abuses of staggering import." ICYMI Philip Allen Lacovara on the coming judgment of history:
Guy who must be constantly be the center of attention and always needs to be in the spotlight has basically up and vanished for six days and the BIDEN IS TOO OLD crowd in the media is not interested in asking why. Got it.
When unions are strong, our communities and our country are strong. Every person in our nation has benefited from the labor movement. This Labor Day, we celebrate the workers and unions who have fought for fair wages, safe workplaces, and sick leave for all of us.
Why is MSM not reporting on the disappearance of the President of the United States?
And it isn’t even the good stuff !
Yellen: “The Fed has been structured by Congress in order to allow it to make independent decisions that are not influenced by politics….President Trump has made clear he wants the Fed to behave differently… His goals are not price stability and full employment.” www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/w...
Not white enough?
"No one in the administration – the president or anybody under him – has called anyone in my administration or me – have not called the city of Chicago or anyone else. So it's clear that, in secret, they're are planning this – well, it's an invasion with US troops." Gov. JB Pritzker
What He Said…. 🤨🤨🤨🤨
This post brought tears to my eyes 😢please just be kind to each other …. It isn’t difficult surely ?
Day 224 REALITY CHECK: The election was highly compromised. There was a coup. The Supreme Court was the primary lever. Everything we have witnessed is TREASON. There’s no way out of this without MASS MOVEMENTS of the people. No one is coming to save us. We must rise up in peaceful revolution NOW.
" The United Nations exists precisely to ensure that no nation, however powerful, can silence another. ” — Dag Hammarskjöld UN Secretary-General 1953-1961
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...
It is unconscionable for baby formula to be sitting at the border of Gaza as newborns & infants die of starvation. Secretary Rubio must heed our calls to pressure Israel to surge humanitarian aid including ready to feed formula to families in Gaza. Lives depend on it.
After Rep Ty Burns pleaded guilty to domestic abuse, injuring his wife & assaulting his teenage daughter, it's unclear whether OK GOP & House Speaker Kyle Hilbert will take action. They even kept the case against Burns secret until Thursday, Aug. 28. THIS IS WHAT THEY DO & THIS IS WHO THEY ARE!
Just a reminder.....
The government has failed us. So we are stepping in. #media4good @msnbc.com
The FDA has approved new COVID-19 booster shots for this fall, but with certain limitations. MSNBC medical contributor @vinguptamd.bsky.social breaks down what the approval means and offers guidance for those considering or in need of the vaccine.
Reminder: Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.
Let that sink in.
Politics over policy you say. Who could have seen that coming? It’s a shame you don’t know anyone who can fix it.
If you're arrested in Illinois protesting the planned ICE HQ in North Chicago, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.
Corporate America’s playbook: 1) Exploit workers to maximize profits 2) Use profits to buy Congress 3) Use Congress to pass union-busting laws 4) Use these laws to further exploit workers 5) Repeat Let's break the cycle and keep building back a powerful labor movement.
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Can I get an Amen 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 #WTFAmerica #GunSense #Enough
🪬🧿 There is no amount of money, oil, or gold in the world that is worth more than having bees, trees, and clean water.
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Excellent question.
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
70 years ago today, 14-year-old Emmett Till, an African American from Chicago, was brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman four days earlier. When you see “MAGA,” realize THAT was the America Trumpers are saying was “great.” I want a GREATER America than that. We all should.
Vermont wants to make Polluters Pay so Now a Koch-funded campaign is trying to reverse climate action in Vermont vtdigger.org/2025/08/28/h...
It still amazes me how many republicans say the quiet part out loud.
Yes.
However evil you think this is, it’s worse: “The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
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.
Let’s be clear, RFK is now currently limiting access to vaccines by preventing pharmacists from doing their job. This is playing out as we speak. In several states, pharmacists cannot vaccinate if the CDC and relevant advisory groups fail to give recommendations. @msnbc.com
Pay attention. Your family’s safety is on the line.
As long as guns are easily available to crazy people, mass killings directed at so-called soft targets will continue. This is a fact. Countries where it's more difficult for crazy people to obtain guns have less shootings. This is also a fact. Do with these facts as you will.
“Do not offer thoughts and prayers as you systemically enable such tragedies. Do not claim prayers are sufficient when children die as they pray. Do not pretend you do not understand.” — Lydia, 16, Minneapolis
This is so clearly wrong — and it helps explain why Trump’s approval numbers are in the toilet. Anyone who thinks this young woman deserved to be treated this way can go fuck themselves.
Crazy indeed.
“Thank god for IVF so I could get pregnant” “Actually god made you infertile, science made you pregnant. So it’s thank science actually”
The de minimis exemption, which allowed imported packages worth less than $800 to enter the U.S. without facing any duties, will end for all countries on August 29.
Yes, it should. However, that would require an effective mainstream media in America — which we don’t currently have.
Now is the time to fill the void. Thank you @meidastouch.com for the trust.
RULE ABOUT AMERICAN FLAGS: If you burn the fabric part, you're looking at jail. But it you use the pole part to assault a police officer, you get a presidential pardon, praise, and some cash.
We’re going to go on a rant for a minute, and yes we’re bringing some history with us. Back in 1755, Benjamin Franklin wrote words that still echo today: “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
I didn’t say a word about denying guns. I said common sense gun laws. Two entirely different things.
Whether it’s on MSNOW or @meidastouch.com - I know I speak for all those involved that we will do whatever we can to continue to fill the gap in basic health information, now more than ever. Thank you for the trust.
Other non-authoritarian countries do not have mass shootings on a weekly basis because they have common sense gun laws
…..and they’re 2nd in division
This is very bad news. Louisiana won't even defend its own map in SCOTUS. It abandoned its own Black voters. Those of us committed to defending the VRA are now entirely on our own. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Cal Raleigh has driven in 127 runs this season and 50 of those runners have been named Cal Raleigh.
Texas voters, Texas removed 100k voters from the voter rolls. Please spread the word and check your registration and re-register if necessary. thehill.com/homenews/484...
Going to be wild to have Clarence Thomas and other members of the court write that even the appearance of impropriety is sufficient to allow the President to remove Federal Reserve members from office, and then head off to Harlan Crow’s yacht
Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is trying to illegally fire her. Your words shape reality — get it right.
Our oath is to the U.S. Constitution and that's it! Not no wannabe dictator or king. youtube.com/shorts/tmH7c...
Gov JB Pritzker (D-IL) “This isn’t a time to pretend there are two sides to this story. This is not a time to fall back into the reflexive crouch that I so often see, where the authoritarian creep by this administration is ignored in favor of some horse race piece on who will be helped politically”
The Supreme Corpse
How is the President declaring “a lot of people are saying maybe we'd like a dictator" not the headline of every newspaper in America? And don’t say, what are newspapers?
"Only when the last tree has been cut, the last river has been poisoned & the last fish been caught will they realize that they can't eat money" old Cree proverb
Meiselas: Stop both-sidesing it, media. Stop trying to sow division within the Democratic Party when we literally have military invasions into American cities, aided and abetted by red state governors, who, again, are the takers who wouldn't exist without the blue states
Starting now! Please join us :)
CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%. Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
Virginia Giuffre, the sex trafficking victim who accused the Duke of York of sex crimes, wrote an autobiography which will be published posthumously later this year. Giuffre claimed she was forced to have sex with the Duke when she was 17. She died by suicide at the age of 41 in April.
THIS 👇
Referring to yourself in the third person is weird. Saying you are always right is dishonest. Wearing a ball cap in the Oval Office is tacky. Using your left hand to cover up medical issues on your right hand is concerning. And has he stopped being able to tie a tie?
In addition to creating a joyous event, Zohran Mamdani just showed the stupidity of Fox News's "Crime is so bad in New York City, people are afraid to go out in the street or take the subway!!!"
Virginia Giuffre isn’t here to tell her story anymore, but she wrote a memoir and it’s coming out in October. She deserves to be heard and remembered. #BookSky Details here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/712958...
Rising star Ilona Maher becomes rugby's biggest breakout sensation since Jonah Lomu. The 5-foot-10 US center — with a blend of speed, power, and body positivity — has leveraged social media and an Olympic bronze medal to propel herself to global fame and bring new audiences to women's rugby.
“I was r*ped sometimes 3 times a day on that island… and I was not the only girl on that island… Ghislaine must die in prison, because I’ve been in hell and back for the last 17 years.” Listen to the survivors.
There is famine in Gaza. There was famine in Gaza. There is and was Israeli-manufactured famine in Gaza. A policy of extermination. A pathway of mass death. A form of violence layered into 22 months of Israeli genocide. Don't stop talking about Palestine.
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Hey mainstream media colleagues: you cannot be deported to a country you are not from. That’s kidnapping and trafficking. Call it that. You are lying if you say otherwise.
The DOJ cut Epstein’s jail video into pieces to remove what they didn’t want us to see. They did the same with the Maxwell/Blanche transcript. This isn’t transparency — it’s a cover-up.
If you’re a parent who’s trying to ban “inappropriate” books from the school library but you let your kids listen to the current President unsupervised you’re doing it wrong
I must have missed all the Law and Order SVU episodes where they didn't interview the victims and just asked the criminals what happened.
An “underage woman “ is called a girl. Pass it on.
Today, the president threatened to militarily occupy numerous American cities without authorization or rationale. He was also praised by a notorious child sex trafficker, with whom he obviously cut a deal, to cover up evidence he sexually abused kids. The GOP is united behind him. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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