The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein

They’re struggling

Whenever you can,before or after work ? Thoughts?

1000+ current and former HHS staff speak out: "Should he decline to resign, we call upon the President and U.S. Congress to appoint a new Sec. of HHS, one whose qualifications and experience ensure that health policy is informed by independent and unbiased peer-reviewed science." www.savehhs.org

Texas Republicans are holding a Black woman, a Democratic state rep, hostage in the legislative chamber. They have locked the doors and have banned her from leaving.

I've starting my "Marching Off To Crush The Tyrants" playlist if you want to add songs to smash tyranny by. Obviously "Fight the Power "by Public Enemy was the first in the list. @flavorflav.bsky.social and @chuckdpe.bsky.social have been marching for decades.

105 years have passed today, since the 19th Amendment enshrined women’s suffrage into the U.S. Constitution. It was the culmination of generations of struggle, sacrifice, and unyielding courage. Echoes of that struggle remain as MAGA leaders court forces seeking to remove women’s hard-won rights.

There are multiple National Guard trucks in front of Lincoln Memorial. Why!? Like why the fuck are they here? There’s no crime at Lincoln Memorial. There are barely any people around. Watch the video. It’s all just fash porn. A giant authoritarian show. If Lincoln were alive he’d kick Trumps ass!

I thought this was common knowledge.

Tonight, please spare a thought to all our scientists and public health workers who have dedicated their careers to saving millions of lives. Despite their amazing work they are constantly threatened due to politicization and the unfettered spread of misinformation. It should not be like this 💔

The mafia state

The Supreme Court, in a furtive August ploy, revives a Louisiana case to eviscerate the Voting Rights Act, cynically deeming minority districts discriminatory against whites, unraveling multiracial democracy's fragile facade. #VotingRights

Our federal employees sign up to serve the American people — not to be terrorized. This chilling account details the threats our patriotic civil servants are facing. Every American should be disturbed by these attacks on our public servants.

The good graffiti immediately upon landing.

 "There is no sane human being who can look at the situation and not see a pile of war crimes and evidence of genocide everywhere that they look at this point. Anyone who doesn’t recognize what’s happening in Gaza as war crimes and a genocide is not serious. They are propagandists and that is it."

behold, a woman

The EPA announced that it has terminated collective bargaining agreements with five unions representing thousands of employees.

Here’s a 2019 story about the “model”, explains how she was pulled into Epsteins orbit, eventually raped, taken to the private islands, etc. This seems around the same time she was passed on to Trump. just say mid-90s. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncn...

I think a lot of Americans believe their country is the one they learned about in school. They haven’t grasped the fact that it’s well on the way to becoming a Christofascist dictatorship.

Jim Lovell, famously portrayed by Tom Hanks in Apollo 13, passed away yesterday. One of the first men to orbit the moon in 1968, Captain Lovell carried the hopes and pride of America's space program with dignity & excellence. Fair winds and following seas, Captain. 🇺🇸

🧵 Dear Republican lawmakers, Canada has the largest intact boreal forest on the planet. An increasingly hotter world due to #ClimateChange makes longer dry seasons, far larger wildfires & yes, more smoke. No amount of "raking" fixes it. The scientists warned of exactly this for a very long time /1

Pritzker: Neither Texas nor the FBI at the federal level has the authority to arrest these Texas Democrats They’re welcome to visit to take in the great views and enjoy the incredible restaurants we have. But they won’t be taking anyone home with them, or out of the state.

The MAGA-led response to the Texas floods is going great - so great that locals are still finding rotting human body parts in the debris that no one in government appears to care about picking up:

By spring 2024, the UN had already declared a famine in parts of Gaza. And USAID sent a memo to the Secretary of State that described Israeli interference with aid efforts, including killing aid workers, bombing hospitals and turning away trucks full of food and medicine. From our Sept. 2024 story:

"The hack ... is feared to have compromised the identities of confidential informants involved in criminal cases at multiple federal district courts. ... "It is not immediately clear who is behind the hack, though nation-state-affiliated actors are widely suspected."

NEW: "The electronic case filing system used by the federal judiciary has been breached in a sweeping cyber intrusion that is believed to have exposed sensitive court data across multiple U.S. states, according to two people with knowledge of the incident."

"I’m not sure where Kennedy picked up the term 'antigenic shift'... Antigenic shift usually refers to a drastic, rapid change in flu antigens caused by reassortment. It absolutely does not refer to vaccines encouraging new mutations and prolonging pandemics, bc vaccines don’t do that." 🛟 😷medsky

I honestly don't understand why anyone would want to go backwards and roll back progress. "Dr. Paul Offit said whole-virus vaccines have been around since the late 1800s, noting that “we make safer, better vaccines” today due to technological advances." www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

South Park tells Trump’s Homeland Security to ‘eat a bag of dicks’ after they used an image from the show to promote ICE

“I did not include my brother being picked up by ICE in my whole entire business plan."

Generational public health sabotage

Elvis Costello and The Attractions release their “Punch the Clock” LP 42 years ago today — featuring “Everyday I Write the Book”. “.. the closest I ever came to writing a hit single, in the classic sense,” he said. “Catchy, light, and on the radio. And of course, it was totally misunderstood.” 🎸

RFK Jr., vaccine skeptic turned health czar, axes $500M in mRNA projects against COVID and flu, ditching pandemic saviors for vague "better" tech. Sardonic science sabotage. #BigPharma

Today I learned that when sugarcane farmers burn their fields, a “black snow” falls for months on communities downwind. Under FL law, burns are prohibited when the wind is blowing into wealthy, white neighborhoods. They’re only allowed when it’s blowing into poor, majority black areas.

"As a convicted sex offender, Maxwell would not normally be eligible for a minimum-security prison. According to a Bureau of Prisons policy," it would require "a waiver from an arm of the bureau that designates inmates."

1/2 Repulsive and built on lies. Truth: The criminal case against Ghislaine Maxwell was open and shut. Truth: Trump Justice Department investigated and indicted Maxwell. This disinformation effort should backfire on those who try to carry it out -- many times over.

2/2 Trump Justice Department July 2020: "The powerful testimony of these victims, who had strikingly similar experiences with Maxwell, together with documentary evidence and witness testimony, will conclusively establish that the defendant groomed the victims for sexual abuse by Jeffrey Epstein."