NEW: Humanitarian officials staged a last-minute plea to Trump officials at their fancy hotel to re-start food aid $ for a huge refugee camp in Kenya. The Trumpers blew it off and babies starved. @annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy www.propublica.org/article/keny...

Dachau opened in March 1933 under the legal fiction of “protective custody.” People were detained without charges, trials, or limits. Courts were sidelined under emergency decrees. Families were separated. The Nazi regime insisted this was lawful, temporary, & necessary for state security.

People of character @darwunstjames.bsky.social @amadorbatten.bsky.social @fireeyebooks.bsky.social @ldog562.bsky.social @shellnoel34.bsky.social @jbminatra.bsky.social @rosannaphillips.bsky.social @sheilaharris.bsky.social @baron333.bsky.social @wisewonders.bsky.social @butterflyhg.bsky.social

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Remember: The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy. When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice. The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

excerpt: ^^^ After what Goodarzi called “the abduction,” everyone “was crying, terrified, huddled together.” “To do it in a place where children are, with complete disregard for what children see, there’s no low these people won’t stoop to,” Goodarzi said.

If only this had been predictable when you voted to put Kennedy in charge

Share Jimenez Rosa's harrowing story and remember her name. The cruelty of this administration is astounding. #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks

This is the enduring lesson of Weimar: extremism never triumphs on its own. It succeeds because others enable it—because of their ambition, because of their fear, or because they misjudge the dangers of small concessions www.foreignaffairs.com/germany/hitl...

Thank you, Trump voters.

Historians will need to explain how we went from Congress being an honorable profession to electing a slew of selfish, greedy grifters

NEW 🚨 The violence is the point. Elected Dems must call for widespread resignations (RFK, Bhattacharya, Prasad) in response to the CDC shooting. Public health must demand this of them, and the public must demand that of us. With @publichealthguy1.bsky.social in STAT: www.statnews.com/2025/08/15/c...

We cannot allow them to silence our voices! Submit to the cause... NEVER to them! Fuck their blueprint! We design the path to our destiny! We will not go back!!!!! #ONEV1 #Pinks 🌸 #BlueSkyVets #Voices4Victory

"Get it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses. Because somewhere down the track of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened." – Dwight D. Eisenhower, Germany, 1945

He called the CDC a cesspool of corruption that lied about the COVID vaccines. Now someone has committed violence because of the same misinformation.

An innocent President would simply release the Epstein Files and demand a full FBI investigation into every Epstein client. That’s it. That’s the whole ballgame summed up.

contrarian.substack.com/p/the-courts... @rickhasen.bsky.social is brilliant here- and this should scare you … we are on verge of voting rights meltdown

The astonishing thing about Watergate, in contrast to today, is how the President was actually shamed into leaving office. Imagine that: shame.

Ghislaine Maxwell has been barred from participating in service dog training while in prison because of her crimes. I feel like if prison officials don't trust you around dogs, you shouldn't be eligible for a pardon under any circumstances.

DEMOCRATIC. LEADERSHIP. YOU. ARE. NOT. DOING. ENOUGH.

“I don’t think I’ve seen a more dangerous decision in public health in my 50 years in the business,” said Mike Osterholm, a University of Minnesota expert on infectious diseases and pandemic preparations.”

We could have had cancer vaccines, and instead the United States will contribute nothing whatsoever to mRNA research, condemning millions of people worldwide to unnecessary illness and death

This about covers it.

Life on a Monday in August may seem normal enough. And yet the reality is "We have a consolidating dictatorship in our country." I so appreicate @maddow.msnbc.com describing the simple reality clearly. It does us no good to pretend it's not real. The only question is what we do about it.

This is what is happening right now.

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Russell Vought claimed on CNN this weekend that NIH funding is corrupt. A reminder, his family has directly benefited from the NIH.

A classic coordination failure: everyone makes excuses for why they go along with authoritarianism rather than resisting. And democracy and the rule of law crumble. We thought our institutions and culture were stronger, but we are following Hungary's path.

"The great irony of vaccines is that populations become complacent about a disease and the need for immunisation largely because a successful vaccine made it feel as though the threat was consigned to the past" excellent stuff by Francis Ryan on the rise of measles across the globe

Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants. Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this. Do not.

The United States has a concentration camp in Florida. Let that sink in.

It will never be comprehensible or forgivable that the man who incited a deadly insurrection and attack on our Capitol was able to run again and retake the levers of power.

Already worse than 2019…&it’s July. “Falling childhood vaccine coverage and a large, smoldering outbreak…have driven the United States to a troubling new milestone: There have been more measles cases in the US this year than any other since the disease was declared eliminated a quarter-century ago.”

Freedom from kings. Freedom from fascism. Power to the people forever. ♥️ Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸

Can’t make this up.

pretty weird how there's always billion dollars just lying around whenever ICE needs concentration camps but there's never any money when children need healthcare or a simple school lunch. oh well just one of those things I guess

We just had a political assassination in the United States last week. We CANNOT let this leave the news cycle and be forgotten.

Senator Bill Cassidy cast a pivotal vote to confirm RFK Jr. while vowing to constrain him. Cassidy has clearly failed to do so, writes Nicholas Florko.

This is already happening.

Cassidy opened the door and let RFK Jr. in. Now, he’s listlessly watching as RFK goes wild on health. Quite a precipitous fall for the good doctor. Sadly, we have not hit rock bottom yet in this new anti-vaxx era. Cassidy’s reputation still has further to fall, too. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Three dead, dozens sick from Listeria in premade chicken meals sold at Walmart & Kroger. In normal times, CDC would issue a HAN. Instead, we’re wasting energy revisiting thimerosal myths while real threats go unchecked.

This makes me so sad. Fire flies were one of the joys of my childhood.

Not surprising, just another in a long list of lies

We have entered the "The police is saying that if the police is at your door you are not safe call the police immediately" stage of making America great again

“American women are at a breaking point; an overwhelming majority of them, irrespective of party, say they want paid family and medical leave. As the sociologist Jessica Calarco has observed, other countries have safety nets. The United States has women.”

Agreed!