Monday mood

omg! "Demolition crews have begun tearing down part of the White House... "Construction teams Monday were demolishing a portion of the East Wing, with a backhoe ripping through the structure..." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Maybe one of you can explain to us why this is able to be happening and how any of you can still pretend he's planning to leave. @sanders.senate.gov @warren.senate.gov @whitehouse.senate.gov @ocasio-cortez.house.gov @schiff.senate.gov @booker.senate.gov @amyklobuchar.com @reptedlieu.bsky.social

Trump responds to No Kings by posting video depicting him as a king

George Stephanopolous did what every anchor and host should have been doing since Bush 2000: Rejecting the bullshit, gaslighting, and rude, evasive filibustering the GOP has perfected to hide their lies. NO MORE BULLSHIT.

I'm sitting here thinking about having a 15 daughter being chased down and abducted by masked men while the local police watch and let them carry her away to god-knows where w/zero accountability we have to understand that girls are in severe danger of sexual violence from anonymous ICE goons

Trump and Johnson are prepared to double our health care premiums and keep the government closed just to keep MAGA corruption and their war on the working middle class going. Democrats say no way. Cancel the cuts, expand health care and restore government to the people.

EMERGENCY MEDICAID REIMBURSES HOSPITALS FOR CARE TO UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS BECAUSE BY LAW HOSPITALS CANNOT TURN AWAY ANYONE IN AN EMERGENCY. RONALD REGAN SIGNED THIS INTO LAW.

Let me be clear: this will impact ALL of us. It’s bigger than just Medicaid & Medicare. We will all pay the price.

This is your regular reminder that Covid is airborne. It’s not over. It’s still killing and disabling people. It’s a novel virus and we still don’t know the full long term effects, but what we do know is not encouraging. Wear a mask. Clean the air. Stay home when sick. Protect one another.

Freedom of speech is EVERYTHING. Welcome back, Jimmy Kimmel.

Newsom: "I fear that we will not have an election in 2028 -- I really mean that in the core of my soul -- unless we wake up to the code red, what's happening in this country, and we wake up soberly to how serious this moment is."

This is delusional but you don’t have to read the whole thing. Boils down to: he’s shutting down the government because he thinks he’s a king.

The day isn't over yet. There's still time for them to get raptured. 🤞🤞🤞

Nexstar, the largest TV broadcaster, needs Donald Trump's approval for a $6 billion deal. If approved, Nexstar would control TV stations reaching 80% of households — violating the cap set by Congress to protect against monopolies. This censorship of Kimmel reeks of corruption.

new from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity. "To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."

ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59

Oh my god, they weren't kidding, I've just seen the warnings leaflet that comes with a box of Tylenol. How were they keeping this quiet?!

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

'Independent modelling teams demonstrate that maintaining a universal COVID-19 vaccine policy yields consistent population-level benefits, reducing hospitalizations & deaths beyond hi-risk-only strategies, even as immune escape shifts timing of seasonal peaks.' 👇 www.news-medical.net/news/2025092...

Think of an economy as like baking a cake. H1-B visas exist so that if you're out of a specific ingredient, you can Instacart it and keep baking. Add a $100k delivery charge and you'll choose to: 1. Quit baking; or 2. Use an inferior recipe; or 3. Import cake instead of making it

Let me add that a ban of any material showing 'a disconnection between biology and gender,' will lead to a ban of many of Shakespeare's plays, including Twelfth Night and As You Like It. www.transvitae.com/m... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Franklin told us we had “a Republic, if you can keep it.” Right now, he’d be screaming, "WTF are you DOING?!"

Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.

this is… not how it works. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

There’s a terrible situation at an ICE facility in Chicago. ICE GOONS are forcefully arresting people, pushing through protesters, and even lobbing tear gas at reporters.

@timmiller.bsky.social: “Too many people are folding to the fear…I think that the right posture towards this administration's aspiring authoritarianism is to stand up to it.”

A woman protesting outside the ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois, was brutally assaulted by goons who used mace and sting balls on her.

There goes the First Amendment.

It needs to be understood that every incremental step that RFK Jr. and ACIP take to create barriers against vaccination means that fewer and fewer people have access to lifesaving vaccines…until no one can access them at all. This is their plan and their desire. Don’t kid yourself.

The questions from and behavior of RFK Jr.‘s ACIP is the most egregious and dangerous display of science denialism I’ve ever personally witnessed. The harm to the United States is incalculable.

These are your words of the week crucible empathy hate speech genocide preempt antifa lulu www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/the...

moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot. one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.

Microsoft project to use 2.8 million gallons of Lake Michigan water share.google/7B1Jb8GRkGrj...

At Least 12 NYC Democratic Officials Detained by DHS

Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly. sbgi.net/tv-stations/

“Does the COVID vaccine reduce hospitalization for children under 18?” Paul. “It can,” Monarez responded, prompting Paul to insist, “It doesn’t.” Yes, multiple studies show that COVID-19 vaccinations reduce hospitalizations in children. Rand Paul is wrong! #Medsky

Democratic New York lawmakers — as well as City Comptroller Brad Lander — were arrested by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officers Thursday after demanding access to an alleged detention facility run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at 26 Federal Plaza.

Today’s ACIP meeting promoted false claims and misguided information about vaccines. AAP will continue stepping up and working with our local, state and federal partners to make sure every child in every community continues to have access to immunizations. bit.ly/4puP4uf

I stand with PBS. I stand with NPR. I stand with Stephen Colbert. I stand with Jimmy Kimmel. I stand with the First Amendment. PERIOD.* *Also #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files

They know what they’re doing.

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

We are not in 1933 Germany. We are in 1947 USA It took about 10 years to get out of maybe a little longer and it happened without a war. This is McCarthyism, if you didn’t learn about it in school, now is a great time to brush up.

California, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia Voter Registration Deadlines Below. Don’t wait.

1/5 📢Media‼️ -- take note. There is a massive civil rights violation about to blow up in court: CDC "leadership" just banned telework as a reasonable accommodation (RA) for people with disabilities. 🧵

I am not a “doomer”. What I am is someone who expected this fever to break a long, long time ago. And I do fear we underestimate how much worse it is going to get before it gets better, and the price that each of us is going to have to be willing to pay.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.