WATCH — @drjessicaknurick.bsky.social : “Here’s a partial list of things Trump is choosing to no longer study — food insecurity, gun violence, toxic exposures etc… Just because you don't measure it doesn't mean the problem went away. Censoring science & data collection is scary in a democracy.”

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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This is it #trumpshutdown 🎥: @warnock.senate.gov

🧐 "Did you want Trump to win the election? And did you direct any of your officials to help him do that?" 👉 Putin: "Yes, I did., Yes, I did." (2018)

Of course — “Bessent’s announcement had massive economic benefits for billionaire hedge fund manager Rob Citrone, who placed large bets on the Argentine economy... a friend and former colleague of Bessent, who helped make Bessent very wealthy.” popular.info/p/trumps-arg...

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... Increased deaths in ER departments at private equity-owned hospitals are most likely result of reduced staffing levels. After hospitals were acquired by private equity firms, patient death rates in the emergency departments rose by 13% compared with similar hospitals

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Our problem isn't a lack of resources. Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.

As a parent, aunt, uncle, grandparent, human being—if you don’t feel for this young woman and see the injustice here, you’re dead inside. Deported to Guatemala. She’s an honor student, a track star. She doesn’t even speak Spanish. And this isn’t the worst story out there, not by a long shot.

".. Social Security numbers .. individuals’ full names, addresses and birth dates, among other details that could be used to steal their identities .." @nytimes.com #DOGE www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...

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Motherfucking wind farms…

The rich don’t spend the money they have, and the poor don’t have money to spend. This is a problem when 70% of the economy relies on consumer spending. Closing our nation's wealth gap isn’t just the right thing to do. It’s essential to save our economy. https://youtu.be/S6dCh48b4oI?feature=shared

Fox News host Charlie Hurt argued that President Donald Trump's administration should bring back child labor to replace undocumented immigrants.

When you strip away humanity

Longtime disability recipients in the US are now being abruptly kicked off the program

Taking from the poor and giving to the rich is a policy choice. Make no mistake: Trump and the GOP just chose to do this.

WTF ‼️ ‼️ #TODAY #OhioPolice brutally beat peaceful protesters—holding a vigil for chaplain at #Cincinnati Children’s Hospital who #ICE arrested. A reporter was also taken away—charged with felony rioting in first degree.

Amazon Ring is introducing a new feature that would allow police to request live-stream access to people’s home security devices. Helllll no. If you have one of those things, get rid of it. Kill it with fire

"Tariffs Are Already Killing New Cars Under $30,000" www.motor1.com/news/766369/...

NEW: Wyden questions DHS over its harvesting of DNA from tens of thousands of immigrant children (despite policies that should exempt them). I take the opportunity to explain why this not great for you, citizen. www.wired.com/story/dhs-an...

"Questioning is the way of learning," Encourage your children to ask questions, not to accept existing answers.

The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?

People living under fascism didn’t survive by giving up joy—they protected it. They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory. Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human. Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.

Today, USAID shuts down. Experts say this could lead to 14 million deaths by 2030—including 4.5 million babies and children under 5. Let’s not forget, Trump recently let a warehouse full of food aid rot rather than feed the hungry. This isn’t America first. It’s America heartless.

💰 WATCH: “How is that happening?” 🤷🏼‍♂️ @aoc.bsky.social informs a confused RFK Jr. that his own HHS is stuffing the pockets of insurance companies by doubling the rates taxpayers pay them even as they defraud us. 🤔

I rarely post personal things. But I need to talk about my 4-year-old niece, Hope. She has a rare disease. A drug called elamipretide has helped her survive. But the FDA recently denied its approval. Now, her health hangs in the balance. Please share her story & urge the FDA to reconsider. 🧵

We’re #1!!!

Please read and share this statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman, children of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark. (via WCCO reporter Caroline Cummings on X)

The greatest con Trump ever pulled was convincing millions of rubes that he cares about them.

BEYER: Isn't this embarrassing? BESSENT: You seem not to have seen the economic data. GDP growth has been quite substantial BEYER: GDP growth is half what it was last year, sir BESSENT: Job growth is solid BEYER: Job growth is a third what it was last year, sir

“if the lion can't claim the safari for himself and call the elephant illegal then neither the FUCK can we” 🫳🎤

David Brooks, a conservative columnist speaks about the amount of people who have died directly as a result of cuts to USAID by Doge. Over 55,000 adults, 6,000 children just from AIDS. That’s a total of 300,000 who have died due to Doge’s cuts. It’s only been four months.

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

Joni Ernst, at her town hall last night. When the crowd said people will die due to Medicaid and SNAP cuts, she said: "well we all are going to die." 🫠🫠🫠🫠

Because they want to kill us, Congress voted to overturn a Clean Air Act regulation limiting toxic emissions from industrial facilities like refineries, chemical plants, and steel mills. This marks the first Congressional rollback of the landmark environmental law's protections since its creation.

Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.

@warren.senate.gov: "They're fighting over how many children should go hungry so that Mark Zuckerberg can buy another Hawaiian island."

Trump seized power, not by winning votes, but by erasing them. Watch my interview with @nicolesandler.bsky.social for the 411 on 47. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZLI...

I’m reliably told this is cutting edge research with lots of commercial and defense applications that no one in their right mind would shutter.

Let's talk about these two department store owners: brother and sister Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld. From Newark, New Jersey. They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵

AOC: The math is not adding up. Their claim is that one million undocumented people are on Medicaid. So why are they trying to cut 13.7 million Americans off their healthcare?

Scanlon: The Gulf of Mexico was so named over 500 years ago. If we want to update that name to reflect our current culture, maybe we should call it the Sea of Emoluments—you know, the place where we can board the Ship of Fools and navigate from a State of Ignorance to the Confederacy of Dunces…

Add McDonalds to the list of negative US comps: McDonalds: down 3.6% KFC: down 1% Pizza Hut: down 5% Chipotle: down 0.4% Starbucks: down 1% @cnbc.com

Watch this before you eat that chicken dinner. 😬🐔

20 federal immigration agents mistakenly raided the Oklahoma City home of a family of U.S. citizens, held the mother and her three daughters at gun point, and seized the family’s phones, laptops, and life savings. Agents from the FBI, ICE, and DHS were cruel and abusive, treating the mother and…

“In the case of the other family, a U.S. citizen child suffering from a rare form of metastatic cancer was deported without medication or the ability to consult with their treating physicians–despite ICE being notified in advance of the child’s urgent medical needs.” www.aclu.org/press-releas...

See the problem here?

I don't think it gets more Second Gilded Age than this.