Trump and Vance want badly to stop you from using the f-word That's because if we accurately call out rising fascism from the streets of Chicago to the waters of the Caribbean, we will understand that we must fight back with the moral strength of war My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

One of the things I took away from the 60s and Richard Nixon, first mentioned by Hunter Thompson, but I believe to be true, is the fact that we believed, at time, that all our protesting, marching and sign waving was futile and pointless when in fact, it drove Richard Nixon to alcohol fueled madness

So let me get this straight: a Blackhawk helicopter and dozens of masked, armed federal agents roll up on a Chicago apartment building, cuff everyone—including kids—and then run checks for warrants and immigration status? What the hell is going on in this country? How is that not fascism?

Hey Pete. We need the smartest. Not the strongest. You don’t meet the standards.

Here’s a story that’s becoming all too common: federal immigration agents using racial and ethnic profiling as a rationale for stopping, questioning and detaining U.S. citizens who they suspect are undocumented.

BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout. They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base. (🎥 AP)

The battle of our day is no longer about Democrats versus Republicans or left versus right. The choice right now is democracy or dictatorship. And we're sliding faster than I ever thought possible into the latter. Everyone must choose which side they’re on.

Make America Healthy Again and Save the Children by cancelling longitudinal study on pediatric brain tumor treatment! Bobby "The Quack" Jr strikes again. #ImpeachTheQuack

I’ve Seen What Happens When a Country Messes With Data. America, Beware. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/o...

Who Will Prevent More Measles Deaths? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/o...

I’m a Proud Conservative. My Disabled Son Needs Medicaid to Live. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/o...

Private equity looted 3 Connecticut hospitals. Services cut, nurses buying their own supplies etc. They will do it to your hospital if we don't stop this trend right now. 1/ Today I'm releasing a report on the truth about private equity in health care. tinyurl.com/adangerousprospect

@thinkingpoker.bsky.social How will this be incorporated into Play Optimal Poker 3?

There was really no need to ever repeat Abu Ghraib... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

What's happening with these grants is much more complicated and mostly unknown. None of the NIH have been officially cancelled. The NIH was just ordered to stop paying. They got the Unis to enforce silence on their own campuses because they thought they were "negotiating" and cld get the funds back.

Republicans are pushing to restrict abortion pills based on a garbage new 'study.' We’ve seen fake data like this reach SCOTUS—but if we make it politically toxic now, we might stop it before it spreads. Feel free to steal these images, or read the full debunk in my newsletter

it's important this go as viral as the original story for morale purposes if nothing else. despite the image they project these people are NOT unaccountable. consequences CAN be forced. focused anger and outrage MATTERS.

Trump is handling the global economy with the recklessness of somebody playing a low-stakes poker tournament with their buddies six beers deep

Democratic Senator Chris Murphy on Mahmoud Khalil.

My #Yale colleague Harlan Krumholz explains why the cuts to indirect costs are a disaster for biomedical research in the United States. Want to do something about it? I'll list those who have to hear from us below. Share, recruit friends and family to help. 1/ www.statnews.com/2025/02/08/n....

I stand with the trans community. Pass it along.

Tell your Senator to put kids over Trump and stoprfkjr.com

Anyone who ever again suggests that the GOP is the party of the police or the party of law and order should be laughed out of the room. There has never been anything like this before in modern US history: the president pardoning people who we all saw on live TV assaulting police.

If you want any optimism right now, this is probably the strongest Trump and MAGA will ever look

A helpful thing to remember, or at least it has been for me: in hard times, there will be discrete moments—maybe lots of them—where you experience love and joy and community. It is no sin to enjoy them, and arguably more of one to refuse them.

I wrote about why Dems should not only NOT indulge the transparently bad faith "DOGE committee", but should be messaging––in unison and at the top of their lungs––that it's just a rebranded Cat Food Commission designed to take away grandma's social security, weaken workers, and gut public education.

We need to normalise, in media, on socials and in face to face conversations, saying 'This is a stupid conversation and I'm not going to continue it.'

Also, courage is contagious. I continue to stand against American fascism in the hope that others will take heart, too.

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Daniel Hunter was doing what no one wanted to do--thinking about what it would look like if Trump won. Still, amazing to have this much center on the 7th. Pairs well with @andreapitzer.bsky.social's piece from the 9th about what history tells us about what comes next, and what we can do about it.

I have faced fascism before, in this very country. I was one of 120,000 Japanese Americans summarily rounded up and expelled from our homes at gunpoint, all for the crime of looking like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor. I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/