Almost every major news story this week is about how the entire economy is now gambling, scams, bribes and theft.

Holy shit! That motherfucker TORE DOWN THE WHITE HOUSE!

Buy Guitars, not Guns! #Guns #GIfts #Guitars

Canadian COVID Forecast: Oct 11 - Oct 24, 2025 SEVERE: NL, NS, SK VERY HIGH: MB, NB, North, PEI HIGH: CAN, AB, BC, ON, QC MODERATE: none About 1 in 95 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

So if Russ Vought and Bob Kennedy were deliberately trying on behalf of an enemy to sicken and kill Americans by destroying the public health structure - what would they be doing differently?

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Yes. Collapsing all fed law enforcement into one undifferentiated, untrained, masked force. "Agents said they worried the changes would transform the FBI from an investigative agency focused on national security into something more akin to a federal police force..." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/u...

Boiling, but slowly www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...

If you grew up in a household with an evangelical right-wing parent, as I did, you already know that the dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education, like the reversal of Roe v. Wade, is the culmination of a 50-year project.

The hoods are off.

Spot on. It’s happening right now…this is how it starts.

The fact we have secret police whisking people off the streets doesn’t get enough attention. It ain’t normal and we’re further down the road to authoritarianism than you think.

OPINION: Lawrence: What you're feeling is the banality of cruelty from Trump and the Republican Party At least 17 million Americans will lose healthcare coverage under Donald Trump’s budget bill. @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com says this is part of Donald Trump’s worldwide campaign of cruelty.

The budget bill contains tens of billions to fund an army of 10,000 more ICE agents. This is a red alert moment for our democracy.

Seriously depraved. If you had any doubt at all these people are Nazis, you can stop wondering. They are. Full stop.

BREAKING: 1 in 4 nursing homes say they will be forced to close if Republicans pass Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill. No grandma should be kicked out of her nursing home so that Mark Zuckerberg can buy another Hawaiian island.

mad relevant:

I'm still not over yesterday's obscene SCOTUS decision that our government can deport people to prisons in countries they're not from. How is anyone walking around going about their day?

ICE looking more and more like the American Gestpo.

I think it would be good to get some women in charge of the countries that have nuclear weapons. Women talk to each other. Women can be reasonable. Enough with the macho men and swinging dicks.

Governor Tim Walz is holding a press conference at 9:30 CT/10:30 ET on the Minnesota Democratic lawmakers who were shot

You guys…..when Corey says it’s bad

Worth considering that one reason Bluesky doesn't always feel super fun is that current events are relentlessly horrifying and bad

Why is ICE arresting employees but not employers? DOJ policy is to charge the most culpable people. The employers would seem to qualify.

Watching the right now oppose the part of the second amendment that guarantees a well regulated militia under state control is… something.

More from the East Coast now where there are more response protests going on in New York City, Boston, Rhode Island and other places against ice and governmental forces

Donald Trump deploying the military against protesters is what happens in fascist countries.

Tanks being moved into DC. National guard being mobilized in LA. Paramilitary thugs being unleashed across America. It's summer in America in fascism is in full bloom.

2,000 Guard troops. But possibly not just the National Guard: Hegseth is now also threatening to activate the marines at Camp Pendleton, too - against Californians. Newsom shouldn't have just sat there, last week. It was his responsibility to prevent this. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/u...

Experts:

Check out what Medicaid covers in Maine. #mepolitics Source for this and other graphs: files.kff.org/attachment/f...

In 5 years, long covid has surpassed asthma as the most common chronic illness among children in the US. The only way to avoid long covid is to avoid catching covid. Masks lower your instance of illness. These are facts. Cognitive dissonance & denial are kicking people’s ass.

The Energy Department announced on Friday that it was terminating $3.7 billion in Biden-era awards to companies trying to demonstrate technologies that might one day help tackle global warming.

The Trump administration deported a 31-year-old Salvadoran man minutes after a federal appeals court barred his removal while his case proceeded, the government admitted in a court filing this week.

San Diego. Unconscionable.

Raskin: This is a gangster state. This is not basically a legitimate government that is sometimes doing corrupt things. This is an essentially corrupt enterprise. It's like watching The Sopranos. Every day, they get up and they try to figure out how to plunder and pillage the people

"We all are going to die." A true statement but not something politicians usually say when asked about cutting health care benefits.

…and the grifters…

as a reminder, we still don’t know who is in charge of CDC these days

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RFK Jr and MAHA promised a return to “gold standard science.” Their report (likely AI generated) cites studies that don’t exist, and misrepresents existing ones. “Gold standard”? I’d fail an undergrad kid for this.

Everyone in ICUs during COVID has haunting pregnancy stories: tenuous patients, emergency intubations, crash C-sections. Even after 5 years of immunity from vaccines and past infections, COVID harms placentas and pregnancy outcomes. Undermining vaccine confidence only endangers pregnant people.

Canadian Stephanie Case, who started 30 minutes after elite runners, placed first among women with a time of 16:53:22, making headlines globally for the viral race photos where she's breastfeeding her six-month-old baby. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Important lawsuit for people who care about free speech & the free press. NPR sues Trump admin over a basic constitutional principle: Congress, not POTUS controls the power of the purse & their fed’l funding www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/b...

The effects of Covid in pregnancy are devastating and preventable by vaccination; now we have strong data from Penn Medicine that vaccines protect children and adolescents from long Covid

This guy is like one of 4 Americans who actually went and got their REAL ID and immediately they said it was a fake. Just so everyone knows when they toss your ass in a truck it won't matter what passport or identification you have they'll throw it in the street and you're gone

"The prohibition abruptly expanded to include adults hours before the House passed the bill, escalating the crackdown on transgender care once focused on children." It was never going to stop with pediatric care. People will die b/c of this, if it's enacted. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

If the hospital closes it doesn’t matter if you have “great” health insurance or a briefcase of cash—it’s closed

Just realized that the reason this is so eerie for me is, this is exactly how the brownshirt fash (Proud Boys, Patriot Front, etc) show up. If you told me that's who this is, I would say yeah duh And I spent YEARS tracking those motherfuckers.

A Johns Hopkins study found SARS-CoV-2 may reprogram neutrophils—the body’s most common white blood cells—disabling their pathogen-fighting role. Instead, they suppress other immune cells, weakening the immune response and potentially worsening COVID-19 outcomes. Source: archive.md/kSXuG