Why do people persist in believing that Trump ever thinks ahead about anything

“Should the administration seek rapid changes to vaccine ingredients, certain shots could become less available and protection against dangerous diseases that haven’t been a widespread threat in decades — including measles, mumps, rubella, tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis, and polio — could wither.”

A president who pulled every lever, jiggled every handle, and applied every kind of pressure he could think of, up to and including inciting a riot, to prevent his successor from taking office deserves no benefit of the doubt. ICYMI @monacharen.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/its-time-t...

They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.

He has now erased fully 10% of the term to which Grijalva was elected.

New market manipulation scheme just dropped

Pritzker: "Stephen Miller is clearly ordering people to break the law. So he should know that yeah, it may be three years from now that he is held accountable, but I think it's important for them to know that whatever they do now, it's not like we're going to forget."

Apropos of nothing, once the President of the United States confirms covert CIA operations in a country… say, Venezuela, those operations are no longer covert. And it puts CIA officers at significantly more risk.

"In unison." Amen. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

I’m old enough to remember when we had a system of checks & balances that involved Congress, when Congress controlled the purse and legislated, and the president respected the Constitution & rule of law. I’m old enough to remember when a U.S. president wouldn’t want to be King George or a dictator.

15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more. Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.

Heaven help. This is just so unbelievable. It cannot be happening in the United States of America.

As I've noted, central to Stephen Miller's propaganda is the claim that the Chicago complex targeted by ICE was "filled" with Tren de Aragua "terrorists." Now @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social reports that the number of TdA members netted in that raid is down to *one.* newrepublic.com/article/2016...

So now the Administration are saying that the mass firing of CDC scientists, including many responsible for preventing outbreaks, was an “error” and many will be brought back. Whether by intention or incompetence, dismantling public health will kill people.

I don’t know how medical professionals are going to be able to treat patients without the information they require from the CDC. The CDC is sometimes our only warning system about certain diseases.

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

Let’s be clear: Donald Trump is waging war against America with our military.

Social media clips of ICE arrests "have kept up the appearance of an ever-expanding campaign," Nick Miroff writes. But "ICE’s own data show that the agency’s buildup stalled over the summer":

Breaking on MSNBC: An FBI agent in the Washington field office has been fired for refusing to arrest and perp walk James Comey. This news was first reported by Reuters.

Just when people are already smacked with health care costs & groceries, Trump adds more tariffs. And this time they hit you in your home. Washington Post headline: Trump’s tariffs on timber, wood, furniture &kitchen cabinets could raise the cost of building and buying a home.

Jimmy Failla, a comedian who works on Fox News, mocked how former president Barack Obama walked down stairs - no really. China hasn't bought a single soybean from U.S. farmers this season but Obama's walk was worth an entire segment on Fox.

so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

Shelters that house unaccompanied minors are bracing for "Freaky Friday," the start of an ICE operation that will first issue letters to children, seeking to pressure them to return to the countries they've fled in exchange for a cash payment. If they decline, their parents will be targeted by ICE.

So listen, I knew *nothing* about kids before I had mine. Had never held a baby or changed a diaper. Reading a baby book just before having oldest kid, I read my one favourite ever line. “You are your child’s favourite toy.” You are your child’s favourite toy. You. That line has reassured me. /1

This. This administration is even worse than any of us thought possible. Who had destroy NIH, CDC, USAID, EPA, scientific research all at the same time on their bingo card?

I still think it should have been all over when he said, “find 11,780 votes.”

Don’t want to get into an argument about this, but will say: The political strategy of political operative Jay Bhattacharya DEPENDS on his credentials. ”Stanford” is half the reason he’s where he is. Too many scientists don’t get how the politics work. It IS important to say he’s a lightweight.

“I’m really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell.” To the people of the world who wonder if there are Americans who grasp how mad he is: There are. We can see it. We are working to mobilize our people to oppose him and his dangerous regime.

“We are told by leaders that we are the future. But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes.” Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!

“Our employers told us it was ok… I will never visit 🇺🇸 again. It feels good to be free.” Hundreds of South Korean workers detained in shackles landed home, met by family who tearfully hugged them. Arrested building a factory to employ thousands. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/w...

Justice Barrett, speaking at Notre Dame, is asked about the Dobbs leak and part of her response was kind of interesting: "All of us could use reminders about not letting details slip to our spouses or our parents, or carelessly letting notes or things like that sit around."

USDA quietly said Friday it will, after a century, end the Farm Labor Survey (FLS), the only wage survey of ag employers. FLS is a critical input to setting local minimum wages for H-2A visa workers to try to avoid harm to U.S. workers' wages. #LaborDay #EconSky www.nass.usda.gov/Newsroom/Not...

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the consequences of freezing of PEPFAR in Trump's first 100 days "By late April, one clinic reported that 25% of the pregnant women living with HIV that it supported had given birth to a child with HIV. Its clinician said drugs had not been delivered" www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Last respiratory virus season 278 children in the US died of influenza, more than any year since 2009. The majority were previously healthy, but 90% had *not* received a flu vaccine. Facts are stubborn things www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/h...

National Guard soldiers called into service for President Trump's law enforcement surge in D.C. have been assigned to spread mulch at federal monuments. Normally the Park Service does that, but the administration laid off the workers. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

"The important thing to understand is that we are all Lisa Cook." - @pkrugman.bsky.social. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/we-are-all...

Some are embracing the fantasy that the cuts to #NIH funding will only have an impact here in the USA. As Nature reports, the NIH is the largest global funder by far and dwarfs the rest of the world’s funders of biomedical research. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Hard to see how an ethical district court judge could accept a plea as voluntary under these circumstances.

These are the “Career criminals” Trump is talking about. Sickening.

American Millennials Are Dying At An Alarming Rate, But It’s Only Alarming If You Know About It, And Anyway It’s Totally Not Caused By Covid Infections

This is exactly what Trump, Bhattacharya, RFK Jr, & Vought want...... [On a side note: how does one go from being a Stanford economist to someone who uses their leadership of the NIH to destroy America's vaunted scientific enterprise? Ugh.]

Andrea Velez says she was left traumatized after she was slammed to the ground and arrested by federal agents during an immigration raid, @nbcla.com reports. bit.ly/470x7wZ

There's been a lot of discussion lately around mRNA vaccines. Learn about them from mRNA researcher & Nobel Prize winner Prof. Katalin Karikó. Science, solutions & solidarity.

Funding crisis forces UN food agency to shut Nigeria clinics www.semafor.com/article/08/0...