Rep. Seth Moulton: "This is insane. What the hell are we doing? ... this is illegal."

You have the right to be yourself at your public school, no matter what lawmakers say. 🏳️‍🌈

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s assault may have dealt lasting damage to the CDC, experts fear, with harsh consequences for public health. (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/h...

New, from me: America is no longer a functioning democracy. It is a competitive authoritarian system, hurtling rapidly toward authoritarianism. This was a hard piece to write but we can't move forward if we don’t acknowledge where we are. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...

On December 14, 2012, a mass shooter murdered 20 children, ages 6 and 7, and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut. Four days later, evangelical author James Dobson claimed the mass shooting was God's retribution for abortion and gay marriage. He died today at 89.

It’s unbelievable how many people do not know what happened at CDC on August 8th. Here is a good summary thread.

Everything about this article and post. Public health and health care workers must unite and demand sweeping changes. Violence against health workers is unacceptable. RFK, Malone, and the rest must resign.

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand: $678M raised through those spam tactics $282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies. $11M to actual campaigns (1.6%) The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

Absolutely terrible and another sign of the downfall of a democratic society.

Concentration camp jobs posted on Indeed. I wonder if they’ll start advertising that the uniforms are being made by Hugo Boss: www.indeed.com/cmp/Critical...

I’m here in MacArthur Park in Los Angeles, where military style vehicles have pulled up down Wilshire and Alvarado, amid rumors of an ICE raid in the park have proliferated since last night

Totally predictable. And terrible.

BREAKING The Israeli military is warning residents of District 7 in Tehran, specifically those who live in the red circle, to evacuate immediately. This is a densely populated area, I have some family in this part. There is no internet in Iran right now.

Sean Hannity, and many others, are posting this video claiming it is the explosion at Fordow after the US military bombed it. Its not. This is from Syria in December 2024.

6/21, Los Angeles: A neighborhood volunteer documenting ICE was stopped by agents in an unmarked car, surrounded, and threatened by masked agents while they filmed him on their phones.

In the spring of 2008, I feared America was on the verge of war with Iran — and, believing that it’s good style to get to know people before you bomb them, I made “Rick Steves’ Iran,” a one-hour special that could (and would) only debut on PBS. Sadly, this special has become pertinent again today.

ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds. He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings. He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights. This is political intimidation.

Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife. While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE. This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.

Vance Boelter, the man who committed political violence by assassinating and shooting Democratic elected officials, was a Trump voting, registered Republican—a US citizen, not an immigrant.

Undocumented immigrants paid an effective federal income tax rate of 5.27% in 2022. That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations. So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?

Find your closest rally on Saturday and go. You can tell your kids where you were on the other side of this. Outnumber him everywhere. www.nokings.org#map

Nearly a dozen immigration officers and eight deportees are sick and stranded in a metal shipping container in the searing-hot East African nation of Djibouti, where they face the constant threat of malaria and rocket attacks from nearby Yemen, according to a federal court filing.

🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles. Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.

Best thing I have seen today.

Since taking office, Trump has been pushing voting restrictions, gutting election security and stacking agencies with loyalists. Experts warn it’s not just about winning—it’s about entrenching power and weakening U.S. democracy from the inside. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/tru...

Babies can only have milk. They can’t even have water. Since Israel is banning all aid including baby formula, these babies will die. And since Israel is also starving everyone in Gaza, moms can’t nurse their babies either. They’re just watching their babies die as they die to.

The “Genius Act” doesn’t stop Trump’s memecoin from allowing people to literally buy access to the White House itself. Call Ossoff today to express your disappointment in his “yes” vote—tell him he can’t take his left-wing voters for granted! 470-786-7800 @ossoff.senate.gov @ossoff.bsky.social

“In the first three months, the Trump family has become $3 billion wealthier, so that’s a billion dollars a month.”

House Democrats are fighting back against Trump's Tax Scam by getting Republicans on the record. Democrats have introduced over 100 amendments to protect people's health care but Republicans have voted down all of them, including: Requiring HHS to certify the bill won't reduce Medicaid coverage. 🧵

The % who support Medicaid cuts in 2026 battleground districts: IA-01 (Miller Meeks): 9% AK-AL (Begich): 9% CO-08 (Evans): 8% PA-07 (Mackenzie): 8% PA-10 (Perry): 9% PA-08 (Bresnahan): 8% NE-02 (Bacon): 8% AZ-06 (Ciscomani): 9% WI-03 (Van Orden): 8% CA-41 (Calvert): 8%

🚨 BREAKING: I'm suing #RFKJr @ #HHS & #JayBhattacharya @ #NIH Canceling medical research grants threatens innovations benefiting ALL Americans, no matter your politics! 🇺🇸 Thanks to my lawyers @aclu.org @aclum.bsky.social @protectdemocracy.org & @cspi.bsky.social Long 🧵 on why I'm suing 👇 1/

"Siri, what does an American secret police look like?"

Great clip of Sen Murphy laying out in plain speak how Noem and DHS are breaking the law and spending tons of taxpayer $$ illegally.

For 66 days the Netanyahu government has blocked ALL food and aid from going into Gaza. Now we're told it plans to seize and reoccupy huge parts of Gaza, as it pushes for Trump's plan to force 2 million Palestinians to leave. That would be ethnic cleansing by another name. We can’t stand for it.

NEW: Dark money spending in the 2024 federal elections hit $1.9 billion — nearly double the previous record. This is an unprecedented surge in secret political spending. Here’s the full @brennancenter.bsky.social report with all of the details: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

This is bonkers. Amazed we hadn’t heard this before too.

Genocide.

We could be 'flying blind' with respect to understanding where bird flu is spreading later this year. I talked with @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social of the @pandemiccenter.bsky.social about the situation. @thebulletin.org thebulletin.org/2025/05/will...

I just want this to be true. Did not verify but worth the laugh at least for sharing.

Yarvin and Thiel - the architects of destroying US democracy - based on racist beliefs that focus on building communities run by tech overlords that look like them.

Kindness matters. We don’t need more billionaires.

This is terrifying and a complete travesty. More firefighters, coal miners, food processing plant, and healthcare workers (and many other professions) will get sick and die because NIOSH has been destroyed so billionaires can exploit workers even more than they already do.

The VA has abruptly ended the only low-interest, affordable loan modification option for thousands of vets who are behind on their mortgages. If you're a vet at risk of foreclosure, we want to hear your story.

🧵RFKJ insists HHS cuts “won’t affect the science”. So let’s talk employee numbers. In January 2025, CDC had ~13,000 employees. On Feb 17, ~700 were fired (150 rehired). On Apr 1, 2700 were fired. Several hundred more will take early retirement. We have already lost over 1 in 4 workers.

Georgia is planning to cancel 500,000 voter registrations between now and July. The move is expected to disproportionately affect Black voters, but we urge everyone to check—and keep checking!—the status of their voter registration. 👇