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None of what Trump is doing is popular and voters are telling us that
November 5, 2025 at 2:15 AM
None of what Trump is doing is popular and voters are telling us that
The American people are speaking tonight and they're sending a message to the current occupant of The White House.
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 AM
The American people are speaking tonight and they're sending a message to the current occupant of The White House.
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In Chicago, a woman was driving to get coffee when a DHS vehicle fleeing an angry crowd crashed into her car. Armed agents jumped out of the vehicle, yanked her door open, pulled her by the legs out of her car at gunpoint, held her incommunicado for hours, then released her with no charges.
November 3, 2025 at 6:34 PM
In Chicago, a woman was driving to get coffee when a DHS vehicle fleeing an angry crowd crashed into her car. Armed agents jumped out of the vehicle, yanked her door open, pulled her by the legs out of her car at gunpoint, held her incommunicado for hours, then released her with no charges.
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trump is demolishing our national symbols and selling the country for scrap to his corrupt donors
Exclusive: Leaked documents detail Trump's plans to open East and West coasts to offshore oil drilling.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Exclusive: Leaked documents detail Trump's plans to open East and West coasts to offshore oil drilling
The Trump administration plans to open whole swaths of the East and West Coasts to offshore drilling, including areas previously protected for environmental reasons, documents show.
www.yahoo.com
October 22, 2025 at 11:16 PM
trump is demolishing our national symbols and selling the country for scrap to his corrupt donors
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I am sounding the alarm that the GOP is engaged in an all out attack voting rights and free and fair elections. Voter suppression, gerrymandering, and troops in blue cities are just some of the ways they are using to try to rig the rules to keep power in 2026 and beyond.
Pay attention and act!
Pay attention and act!
October 15, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I am sounding the alarm that the GOP is engaged in an all out attack voting rights and free and fair elections. Voter suppression, gerrymandering, and troops in blue cities are just some of the ways they are using to try to rig the rules to keep power in 2026 and beyond.
Pay attention and act!
Pay attention and act!
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I’m old enough to remember when their biggest fucking grievance was a made-up complaint that Obama did this.
BREAKING via WSJ
The Trump administration is planning sweeping changes in criminal division at the IRS.
Full Story: on.wsj.com/3LbVFtK
The Trump administration is planning sweeping changes in criminal division at the IRS.
Full Story: on.wsj.com/3LbVFtK
October 16, 2025 at 1:03 AM
I’m old enough to remember when their biggest fucking grievance was a made-up complaint that Obama did this.
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It’s horrific and inexplicable. Donald Trump and RFK Jr. are objectively pro-cancer. They’re destroying the entire infrastructure that has made so much progress and is poised to make much more. People will suffer and die because of them. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...
How the Trump Administration Is Dismantling America’s Cancer-Research System
www.nytimes.com
September 14, 2025 at 12:25 PM
It’s horrific and inexplicable. Donald Trump and RFK Jr. are objectively pro-cancer. They’re destroying the entire infrastructure that has made so much progress and is poised to make much more. People will suffer and die because of them. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...
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The far right has been looking for a reason to commit mass political violence and it’s extremely important to unite around the principle that all political violence in America is unthinkable and unacceptable.
September 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
The far right has been looking for a reason to commit mass political violence and it’s extremely important to unite around the principle that all political violence in America is unthinkable and unacceptable.
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SCOTUS allowing ICE to racially profile will embolden Trump to use ICE & military against his political opponents, potentially demanding citizenship checks at polls & intimidating Dem voters in 2026. Already seeing such tactics with occupation of LA, DC & Chicago www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Project 2026: Trump's plan to rig the next election
From nationalizing voter suppression to flooding the streets with federal agents, the president and his allies are using all the tricks in the authoritarian playbook to tilt the midterms in their favo...
www.motherjones.com
September 8, 2025 at 5:39 PM
SCOTUS allowing ICE to racially profile will embolden Trump to use ICE & military against his political opponents, potentially demanding citizenship checks at polls & intimidating Dem voters in 2026. Already seeing such tactics with occupation of LA, DC & Chicago www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Imagine if RFK and co destroy childhood vaccination in the US?
A 50% decline in childhood vaccination could result in 51.2 million measles cases over a 25-y period, 9.9 million rubella cases, 4.3 million polio cases, 10.3 million hospitalizations, and 159 200 deaths
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
A 50% decline in childhood vaccination could result in 51.2 million measles cases over a 25-y period, 9.9 million rubella cases, 4.3 million polio cases, 10.3 million hospitalizations, and 159 200 deaths
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Modeling Reemergence of Vaccine-Eliminated Infectious Diseases Under Declining Vaccination in the US
This study estimates the number of cases and complications in the US under scenarios of declining childhood vaccination for measles, rubella, poliomyelitis, and diphtheria.
jamanetwork.com
September 4, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Imagine if RFK and co destroy childhood vaccination in the US?
A 50% decline in childhood vaccination could result in 51.2 million measles cases over a 25-y period, 9.9 million rubella cases, 4.3 million polio cases, 10.3 million hospitalizations, and 159 200 deaths
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
A 50% decline in childhood vaccination could result in 51.2 million measles cases over a 25-y period, 9.9 million rubella cases, 4.3 million polio cases, 10.3 million hospitalizations, and 159 200 deaths
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Here's a partial transcript of my @slate.com Amicus conversation with @dahlialithwick.bsky.social about the risks to the Voting Rights Act this term at the Supreme Court:
slate.com/news-and-pol...
slate.com/news-and-pol...
The Supreme Court Is Poised to Trigger an Earthquake in American Politics
The court seems poised to do away with the crown jewel of the Civil Rights Movement.
slate.com
September 2, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Here's a partial transcript of my @slate.com Amicus conversation with @dahlialithwick.bsky.social about the risks to the Voting Rights Act this term at the Supreme Court:
slate.com/news-and-pol...
slate.com/news-and-pol...
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Welch: As someone who lives in a red state, let me just tell you what MAGA supermajorities get you. We're 50th in education. The worst in the whole country for women to live. We're poorer, worst health care. And if you look at the bottom ten states, they are all MAGA supermajorities.
August 30, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Welch: As someone who lives in a red state, let me just tell you what MAGA supermajorities get you. We're 50th in education. The worst in the whole country for women to live. We're poorer, worst health care. And if you look at the bottom ten states, they are all MAGA supermajorities.
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My grandfather also wants to pass along the message that RFK Jr. is destroying one of the prime achievements of American medicine. This is something he knows well, given the decades of his life he dedicated to medicine, to the scientific pursuits, and to helping research new treatments for diseases.
My grandfather is 101. He was a doctor and researcher for generations. In his life he’s seen near-miracles of medical science come to fruition. To this day he reads Nature and Science and keeps up with the latest discoveries.
He tells me he is deeply worried about public health.
He tells me he is deeply worried about public health.
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...
x.com/dr_demetre/s...
August 29, 2025 at 1:38 AM
My grandfather also wants to pass along the message that RFK Jr. is destroying one of the prime achievements of American medicine. This is something he knows well, given the decades of his life he dedicated to medicine, to the scientific pursuits, and to helping research new treatments for diseases.
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I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do.
Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.
Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.
RFK Jr on the mass shooting in Minnesota: "We're launching studies on the potential contribution of some of the SSRI drugs and some of the other psychiatric drugs that might be contributing to violence."
August 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do.
Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.
Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.
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Reading an article titled "Why didn't Brazilian democracy die?" and a key part of the story is a Supreme Court that actually did its job
August 25, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Reading an article titled "Why didn't Brazilian democracy die?" and a key part of the story is a Supreme Court that actually did its job
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The Fall of Philadelphia humantransit.org/2025/08/the-... via @humantransit.bsky.social
The Fall of Philadelphia — Human Transit
The Pennsylvania State Senate has decided that the transit system of America’s fifth largest city should be substantially destroyed. Similar dramas are playing out in Illinois, Oregon, and Rhode Isla...
humantransit.org
August 26, 2025 at 9:08 PM
The Fall of Philadelphia humantransit.org/2025/08/the-... via @humantransit.bsky.social
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Not trying to downplay, but understand.
To me, this reads as saying they want to make an online portal to apply to, say, ICE or BPD or the FBI or whoever else is being told to patrol DC, but not creating a new agency.
Is that the right read?
Bc if so, it comes back to a big pt for me:
To me, this reads as saying they want to make an online portal to apply to, say, ICE or BPD or the FBI or whoever else is being told to patrol DC, but not creating a new agency.
Is that the right read?
Bc if so, it comes back to a big pt for me:
So Trump is making an online portal where ppl with vigilante & vigilante-adjacent expertise sign up & get deputized as regime-approved brownshirts. Instead of venting on 4chan or Stormfront they can now sign up & be brutalizing regime enemies w/promise of legal immunity. Am I missing something?
August 26, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Not trying to downplay, but understand.
To me, this reads as saying they want to make an online portal to apply to, say, ICE or BPD or the FBI or whoever else is being told to patrol DC, but not creating a new agency.
Is that the right read?
Bc if so, it comes back to a big pt for me:
To me, this reads as saying they want to make an online portal to apply to, say, ICE or BPD or the FBI or whoever else is being told to patrol DC, but not creating a new agency.
Is that the right read?
Bc if so, it comes back to a big pt for me:
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So Trump is making an online portal where ppl with vigilante & vigilante-adjacent expertise sign up & get deputized as regime-approved brownshirts. Instead of venting on 4chan or Stormfront they can now sign up & be brutalizing regime enemies w/promise of legal immunity. Am I missing something?
August 26, 2025 at 2:39 AM
So Trump is making an online portal where ppl with vigilante & vigilante-adjacent expertise sign up & get deputized as regime-approved brownshirts. Instead of venting on 4chan or Stormfront they can now sign up & be brutalizing regime enemies w/promise of legal immunity. Am I missing something?
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Did America seem like a country in urgent crisis before January 20? Are its cities burning? Are its people being displaced in their millions? No, no, & no (unless you're a migrant). The only chaos is Trump's doing, the only emergency his continued rule. It will only end with his removal from power.
August 25, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Did America seem like a country in urgent crisis before January 20? Are its cities burning? Are its people being displaced in their millions? No, no, & no (unless you're a migrant). The only chaos is Trump's doing, the only emergency his continued rule. It will only end with his removal from power.
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If Trump spreads this police crackdown, the restaurant industry might face its worst crisis since Covid:
-Deportations of the workforce (some the best French cooks are Mexican and Salvadoran)
-Tariffs cut into their wholesale purchases
-More tariffs = less disposable income for eaters
-Deportations of the workforce (some the best French cooks are Mexican and Salvadoran)
-Tariffs cut into their wholesale purchases
-More tariffs = less disposable income for eaters
August 22, 2025 at 12:11 AM
If Trump spreads this police crackdown, the restaurant industry might face its worst crisis since Covid:
-Deportations of the workforce (some the best French cooks are Mexican and Salvadoran)
-Tariffs cut into their wholesale purchases
-More tariffs = less disposable income for eaters
-Deportations of the workforce (some the best French cooks are Mexican and Salvadoran)
-Tariffs cut into their wholesale purchases
-More tariffs = less disposable income for eaters
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They’re whitewashing our history in books and museums
…recruiting Nazis into ICE.
…deploying the military into our cities.
…shielding the pedophiles and predators in their ranks.
…stealing your data, social security & Medicaid.
Because some of you couldn’t handle pronouns.
…recruiting Nazis into ICE.
…deploying the military into our cities.
…shielding the pedophiles and predators in their ranks.
…stealing your data, social security & Medicaid.
Because some of you couldn’t handle pronouns.
August 20, 2025 at 11:35 AM
They’re whitewashing our history in books and museums
…recruiting Nazis into ICE.
…deploying the military into our cities.
…shielding the pedophiles and predators in their ranks.
…stealing your data, social security & Medicaid.
Because some of you couldn’t handle pronouns.
…recruiting Nazis into ICE.
…deploying the military into our cities.
…shielding the pedophiles and predators in their ranks.
…stealing your data, social security & Medicaid.
Because some of you couldn’t handle pronouns.
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In October, we published secret recordings of Project 2025 architect Russell Vought discussing plans to eviscerate entire agencies and decimate the morale of federal workers if Trump won a second term.
It's hard to imagine a more prescient piece of journalism.
It's hard to imagine a more prescient piece of journalism.
The October Story That Outlined Exactly What the Trump Administration Would Do to the Federal Bureaucracy
Historians have hindsight when they look into the past; journalists have the facts on the ground and context to help them look ahead. That means we can sometimes be surprised by how prescient a story…
www.propublica.org
August 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
In October, we published secret recordings of Project 2025 architect Russell Vought discussing plans to eviscerate entire agencies and decimate the morale of federal workers if Trump won a second term.
It's hard to imagine a more prescient piece of journalism.
It's hard to imagine a more prescient piece of journalism.
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Next up is Martial Law, folks. He will suspend elections and unleash ICE and his goons to arrest protestors.
August 15, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Next up is Martial Law, folks. He will suspend elections and unleash ICE and his goons to arrest protestors.
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Just so we’re keeping score & everyone understands where we are now: you live in a country where there are two tiers of citizenship, the government is sending people to concentration camps, the president sets the policies of elite universities, & there are security checkpoints in the capital city.
Police have set up a checkpoint and appear to be stopping every single car on 14th st NW, between W+V, here in northwest DC. Some cars are being pulled over after being stopped.
Some police are wearing “HSI police” vests (Homeland Security Investigations)
Some police are wearing “HSI police” vests (Homeland Security Investigations)
August 14, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Just so we’re keeping score & everyone understands where we are now: you live in a country where there are two tiers of citizenship, the government is sending people to concentration camps, the president sets the policies of elite universities, & there are security checkpoints in the capital city.
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Worth asking why the same news outlets that tripped over themselves to explain that Obama getting 53% of the vote was meaningless - “still a center-right country”! - but Trump getting 49.8% of the vote against a candidate who entered the race in July is effectively the Enabling Act.
again, what is interesting to me about this stuff — beyond the obvious fact that what trump wants is propaganda — is that it is grounded in a political theory which holds trump to be the sovereign will of the nation, who can impose his demands on every aspect of the nation's society
White House Announces Comprehensive Review of Smithsonian Exhibitions
www.nytimes.com
August 12, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Worth asking why the same news outlets that tripped over themselves to explain that Obama getting 53% of the vote was meaningless - “still a center-right country”! - but Trump getting 49.8% of the vote against a candidate who entered the race in July is effectively the Enabling Act.