More are united around a simple message: RFK Jr should not be HHS Sec. His decisions undermine our public health capacity and put lives and health at risk. As 6 former Surgeon Generals argue: "He has rejected science, misled the public and compromised the health of Americans." 🎁 wapo.st/3VTALll

These are the lowest cost insurance options for a 62 year old Georgian making $65k. 2025: $228 2026: $1142 She will lose $704/month in credits because of GOP cuts to health care. This is a crisis. We cannot wait to fix this.

"First they fascinate the fools. Then they muzzle the intelligent." - Bertrand Russell on how fascism starts. Good grief, is this ever true given all that's happened to me.

Jayapal: It is a strange and bizarre time when we literally have a president thinking about plating the ballroom in gold—while he’s thrown 15 million Americans off healthcare, fired over 150,000 federal workers, and is threatening to fire even more if we go into a shutdown.

Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!

Tune of the day…Horace Silver - Peace. This melody is like a mantra that you just want to keep playing over and over again. The multiple key centers, makes you want to explore another chorus. Also interesting to me is how he channels a bit of Ellington in his fills. #jazzsky youtu.be/ieaAHwvqljg

I still think it’s backwards that every mass shooter owning an AR-15 is considered a right while their victims’ healthcare is considered a privilege.

Crazy Grandpa Repeatedly Yells 'Get Off of My Lawn' While at the UN #ABlueView🧵1/3

Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then here we go again:

you could remake this movie almost verbatim and they only thing you’d need to change is replace “computer error” with “DOGE”

There’s understandably been a lot of focus on the CDC lately, but I don’t anyone to miss the bad tidings from the EPA. -Scientists at the Office of Water have been ordered to stop publishing papers without review by a political appointee. -Office of Research and Development has been eliminated.

The corruption of the Justice Department has reached advanced stages. More honorable, ethical DOJ lawyers will find themselves forced to this step, or to become complicit in an ongoing assault against the law and the rights of our fellow citizens. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...

Never in our history, not even during Watergate, has a single news cycle so comprehensibly established the deep corruption and politicization of the Department of Justice

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Riley Fanning. #NewYorkerCartoons

I think it’s important to note and thank the professional CDC staff that prepared such an exhaustive litany of information for the briefings that made clear that the decisions the “ACIP” voted on were actually counter to what the scientific evidence supported and was driven by their bias and animus

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

Our democracy is not self-executing. It depends on us all as citizens, regardless of our political affiliations, to stand up and fight for the core values that have made this country the envy of the world.

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.

It needs to be said that by rebranding Charlie Kirk's views as moderate by both right wingers and liberal cowards resets the extremist views he held as normal and pushes the Overton window to the far right

It is truly maddening to see reporter after reporter breathlessly talk of arcane antifa arrow symbolism & WWII songs, when anyone with a teenager and a PS5 can recognize the gamer memes. Even “hey fascists, catch!” is a Helldivers 2 meme. Pay more attention to your kids I guess.

if you’re an isolated, angsty, strange young man, please know that you can become a Kierkegaard scholar instead of joining fringe online communities

I've got a new friend... 🦗😺😻

Charlie Kirk’s assassination is a call to action for people of goodwill to take a stand against all forms of violence. Paraphrasing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., we must all learn to live together as brothers (and sisters), or we will all perish together as fools.

This is the effect that Fox "News" set out to create almost exactly thirty years ago: to make every truth implausible and every lie believable. Now that that as a possibility's been completely normalized, every instance of actual fact is automatically suspicious. Our collective goose is now cooked.

If we live in a simulation, it’s not very plausible. You need to ground the fictional worldview in a plot line that makes sense

Who was president in 2020?

I consume a good amount of normie, center-left political content (New Yorker, NYTimes, Atlantic, Bulwark, Hayes, Maddow, etc.) produced mostly by people who've been in the US politics biz for over 2 decades...and in the past month there's been a noticeable shift in tone and urgency.

This is the assignment. Get everyone you know to show up. This is not a drill. I repeat. This is not a drill. Spread the word, far and wide. OCTOBER 18th. www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

Trump gets booed at the US Open today.

The US doesn’t have a healthcare system. We have a system that exploits people in need of care in order to transfer wealth away from the working class to generate profits. When the success of a healthcare system is measured by profits, it’s not a healthcare system.

Tim Walz: "Where are the don't tread on me people? You are being tread on every single day. These folks are enriching themselves. The most successful thing he's done is grift off the American people."

Department of War? Let's do them all. Dept of Agribusiness Dept of Ignorance Dept of Industry Dept of Fossil Fuels Dept of Human Disease Homeland Gestapo Dept of Private Parks Dept of Unpaid Labor Dept of State Control Dept of SUVs & Trucks Dept of Bankrupt Treasury Dept of Veterans Abuse

In the U.S., this is called going limp or passive resistance. One benefit is police can't claim you assaulted them. A comrade who is an able practitioner of going limp was prosecuted for Resisting Arrest. He fought it in court. Now, in NY state, you can't be prosecuted for going limp. Thanks, JF!

Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.

Sure the renaming to the War Department will cost billions for a purely cosmetic change, but at least it will weaken our international standing.

"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up." ~ Anne Lamott

Being shitty about/to unhoused people is such a hardline dealbreaker. It means you’re nakedly motivated by your disgust for a group of people in your community and not at all curious about the material conditions that got them there.

This is a really, really good article. I highly recommend it

Everyone's focused on the first part of this but if a Democrat suggested that religion is a form of totalitarianism that requires setting aside independent thinking conservatives would make it an epic scandal and the fact that no Dems are pushing that line is yet another example of their ineptitude

My cartoon for issue 1640 of @privateeyenews.bsky.social, out now

"I have never experienced such radical non-transparency, nor have I seen such unskilled manipulation of data to achieve a political end rather than the good of the American people." ...

Weird that these mass shootings get narratively framed as random violence caused by an imprecise miasma of social pathology and not as independent contributions to a specific and highly organized political program.

This is Jack. He shocked everyone with an unhinged scream before he launched into a race… and then won. 14/10 (TT: paigephills)

It’s official. September 6th. From all across this nation. We march in D.C. Join us.

➡️ New webinar on NSF EDU funding Have questions about this new solicitation? Or about other NSF funding for research on STEM learning? Ask and hear from NSF program officers next Thursday. Sept 4, 1:00-2:30 pm ET. Register here: nsf.zoomgov.com/webinar/regi...

In honor of Count Basie's birthday (1904), let me share what are easily some of the best 43.5 minutes of music in the 20th century. I can't tell you how many times I've had this playing in our house and I always pinch myself at the extraordinary caliber of musicians and musicianship.

The homeless are painful to look at because they remind us of how unfair our world is, of how much suffering it contains, of how arbitrary and undeserved and precarious our own comforts and health are, of how we have failed to be sufficiently generous and merciful to others.

“This is very much connected to the rise of authoritarianism that we’ve seen across the country,” said the executive director of the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center. “They can’t win fairly, so they’re trying to rewrite the rules to get their way.” (Published May)