“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

We need a shadow cabinet, now, and they need to be loud. We can’t wait for a shadow president to be nominated.

De Niro: "I gotta go. A couple cases of Tylenol fell off a truck and now I gotta figure out how to put autism in them."

Violet Affleck spoke at UN Healthy Indoor Air: A Global Call to Action on Sep 23, 2025, advocating for #CleanAir and masking as vital tools to address the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and protect children from #LongCOVID. #MaskTogetherAmerica Source: webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1v... 2:40

JUST IN: Spiro Cheriogotis will be the next mayor of Mobile, Alabama, per the call from local station WKRG. He's ahead of Barbara Drummond, a Democratic lawmaker, 51.4% to 48.6%. He'll replace Republican Sandy Stimpson, who endorsed him.

RESULT: Adelita Grijalva is heading to Congress. The Democrat has won the #AZ07 special election very easily, and she will replace her father Raúl Grijalva. AP just called it. Among other things, Grijalva is expected to be the 218th person to sign the Epstein discharge position.

It's important to remember when GOP Reps and Sens are yelling about the 'violent left' that they routinely tell reporters and colleagues how theyre afraid to do this or that because their own supporters routinely threaten violence agains them.

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The ACIP vote was tied 6-6 for requiring everyone to get a prescription for the COVID19 vaccine. The chair broke the tie by voting NO. Prescriptions will NOT be required.

At the ACIP meeting this afternoon, a representative from the American Pharmacists Association had to point out to members that in many states, the authority for pharmacists to give vaccines is based on ACIP recommendations. It's as if the new ACIP members don't actually know what ACIP does.

I like this. Since under RFK Jr, Covid shots are now for people with underlying conditions that put them at risk, Michigan’s chief medical executive Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian states that not having the most recent Covid shot constitutes such an underlying condition. www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside...

From the ACIP website. The current group did not follow this guidance.

Finally, the ACIP votes on COVID Vaccine Vote 1 - include lies about vaccine to patients Vote 2 - require prescription for all COVID vacs Vote 3 - doctor has to spend time discussing nonexistent risks This will kill COVID vaccination uptake.

ACIP member Retsef Levi just announces that they're proposing a vote on requiring a prescription for getting a COVID-19 vaccine. This was not announced ahead of time. Astonishing, mind-boggling, absolutely contrary to reams of data he himself just heard in this meeting.

Breaking News: Eleven Democratic elected officials were arrested in New York City after demanding access to ICE’s migrant detention cells.

They were totally confused about what they were voting for.

EtR (evidence to Recommendations) is gone. We're now forming vaccine policy based on vibes and public opinion. Mallone admits they are making a decision not based on a safety signal...but on trust? There is no reason to defer the Hep B birth dose except to advance the anti-vaccine agenda.

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

Trey Reed, DSU, 09/25 Cory Zukatis, Vicksburg, MS, 09/25 All of these were public hangings and all ruled suicides. This first caught my eye during COVID because I used to live in California. 2 suicides in the high desert? Both black men, hanged? Astronomical odds.

‼️‼️ Malcolm Harsch, Victorville, CA, 05/20 Dominique Alexander, Upper Manhattan, 05/20 Robert Fuller, 06/20, Palmdale, CA Earnhardt Elementary (TX), 17yo student Trevonte Jamal Shubert Helton, North Georgia, 02/23 Orville “Mickey” Richardson, Colbert Co, AL, 09/24 Earl Smith, Albany, NY, 06/25

Donald Trump is diverting law enforcement from going after human traffickers, child predators, and terrorists. He's the most pro-predator president in history.

This was LITERALLY last month. I feel like I'm losing my mind seeing rightwing posts over on Twitter tonight. nytimes.com/2025/08/13/u...

Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment. Jared Polis has failed Colorado.

When President Clinton banned assault rifles in 1994, mass shootings dropped by 43%. When the GOP let the ban expire in 2004 they increased by 243% - don’t try to say bans don’t work, the data doesn’t lie.

In other news, per the media, three Colorado students shot while trying to live through another day are in critical condition. The future of our country is being murdered and maimed for going to school. What happened to their inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? .

The Speaker Emerita of the Minnesota House was gunned down in her home and slaughtered along with her husband and dog, and Trump didn't say a thing. Half-mast, my ass.

When a right-wing man murdered Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota, progressives asked MAGA to tone down the rhetoric to prevent more violence. Within hours of Kirk’s murder, motive still unknown, the right is demanding that the government wage a campaign of violence against their enemies.

Turning Point USA made a literal watch list of professors, primarily women, queer folks and people of color, and made us targets of political violence. I’ve received hate mail and harassment and death threats off and on for nearly a decade in part due to that man’s organization so 🤷🏽‍♀️

The state hopes the initiative will lead to the creation of 55 new child care centers and 1,120 home-based child care options.

Same autocrat who demands other nations invest big in the US also spurs mass arrests of the staff here to implement the promised projects! apnews.com/article/sout...

BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.

Sure seems that way. 😕 🇺🇸

Jeffrey Epstein had doctors prescribe birth control and sedatives to his victims. They also screened his victims for STDs. He had dentists work on their teeth. I’d like to know who these people are and why they have been protected.

Five— five!!— grafs until the NYT suggests to readers it might not be lawful. Complete and total abidication of their responsibility to readers to inform and not parrot propaganda.

LADAPO: This whole 'Florida hasn't done any analysis' -- that's nonsense TAPPER: You said you hadn't done any projections! LADAPO: We don't need to do any projections

“They’re taking our jobs” was always a lie. Alabama proved it. Alabama tried a “tough” immigration law, and it backfired hard. Immigrants fled, crops rotted, and farms collapsed. Americans tried to step in but couldn’t last a day. They’re not taking your jobs; they’re doing the jobs you won’t do.

The administration continues to crack down on an immigration process it deems is “too easy” to pass.

TAPPER: Hepatitis A, whooping cough, & chickenpox cases are rising in Florida. Before you made this decision to lift vaccine mandates, did your dept do any analysis of how many new cases there will be? LADAPO: Absolutely not T: You didn't even do a projection? L: It's an issue of right & wrong

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

Weeks after a gunman opened fire on the CDC, House GOP 2026 budget proposes a ban on federally-funded research aimed at developing policies to prevent gun violence. The research resumed in 2020 after a two-decade freeze.

There you have it. The Economic Policy Uncertainty Index (www.policyuncertainty.com) just hit an all-time high, surpassing its previous high from May 2020 - the teeth of the #COVID pandemic. Consequences: worse investment climate, higher risk premia, (likely) higher interest rates...

Changing the name of the Department of Defense will cost billions.We could build units for all unhoused veterans. Or give service members a pay raise so 35K active duty members wouldn’t have to rely on food stamps. Or… or… or…

had a conversation with a prominent pundit recently who did not seem to realize that the departments of the executive branch are congressional creations, so not surprised at this

Nothing says “Nobel Peace prize” quite like the changing the name of the Department of Defense to the “Department of War.”

Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction 🧪 From Edward Tufte & graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...

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Little League coaches, neighbors, pedestrians using cell phones to record ICE arrests put themselves at risk every day to fight fascism. Meanwhile, powerful billionaires grovel and debase themselves so the mad king might exempt them as he ruins the rest of the country.

Its almost impossible to find real info about it, but this is horrorific www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...