Exactly this.

Just absolutely fucked and undermining of democracy. These unelected radical far right judges are destroying the rule of law intentionally. The corruption and abdication of duty to the country, its people and its laws is staggering.

the fact that in multiple cases the Supreme Court has worked to legalize bribery in the United States is a major corrosion of our civil order

This.

Insurers sometimes deny coverage citing lack of progress, labeling patients’ conditions as chronic. Yet if they do make progress, insurers have also used that to argue patients no longer need treatment. Doctors are left to walk a tightrope. (Published Dec. 2024)

just formalizing a big part of Our Current Crisis, the utter collapse of Congress as an institution

no privacy, all surveillance. not the country that it was.

"kristi noem and corey lewandowski, who we can confirm are not only dating but running DHS together" absolutely cursed sentence

Cascade employees just won a four-yer union contract in May. During protracted negotiations with management, they highlighted the fact that the company's CEO made nearly $500,000 in 2023, including $74,000 in bonuses. The federal cuts amount to $3.5 million.

OK, we got the Antifa "order," and it's weak. It cites no specific laws. I imagine, this was the drafting process: Boss: Quick, Trump said something, what can we do? Lawyer: Basically nothing, other than enforce laws? Boss: Hmm. Well, make it sound like something, OK? Lawyer: I'll ... try?

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.” Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability & quality of life. Common sense. Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

“It’s hard to push back when you don’t have power, but Bob Iger and Dana Walden have power,” [WGAW President Meredith] Stiehm said of Disney’s CEO and entertainment chair. “They know what this is. This is appeasement. This is cowardice. They’re being bullied. And they should say no."

4th deadly US strike on a boat in the Caribbean. As with the others: -in area US military operates freely -arrest low risk -no legal rationale -violates international law -no evidence of who US hit If really traffickers—very much an if—the move is interdiction. Would get evidence and intelligence.

Student visas dropped to a four year low. Trump also cuts spending on research by hundreds of billions on college campuses. This is how you end American exceptionalism. I gifted this article so you can read it www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"As the Supreme Court was making the nation less democratic, it was also working to make its government less responsive and effective." newrepublic.com/article/1997...

What happens when inflation goes up, unemployment rises and the billionaires in charge of government cut supplemental assistance for food? Hungry kids.

This should alarm everyone. Among all the teachers, professors, and staff members who have been fired for posting about Charlie Kirk, one was placed on leave at UCLA for his post on Bluesky. They are coming for everyone.

There is no one more motivated to understand autism than Dr. Hotez, as a doctor, scientist and autism dad. Unfortunately, being an autism parent means having to understand the grifters that live to profit from our situation. Dr. Hotez absolutely nails it here

The United States also already has a major physician shortage, which is bad now and projected to worsen to pretty extreme levels as Boomers continue to age. Making H1-B visas dependent on a $100K bribe is going to cause thousands of medical students & residents to stop coming here every single year.

We must acknowledge where the American government is headed: authoritarianism and violence against Americans.

The @washingtonpost.com story on Tylenol & autism leaves out a MAJOR 2.5M sibling-controlled study of children in Denmark, which "found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Something. Better than nothing. More of this. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

In 2028, I don't want to hear "Forwards, not backwards" BS. The criminal behavior up and down the Trump administration needs to be forcefully prosecuted because the history of this country is one of white supremacist violence almost never facing accountability. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Jimmy Kimmel was fired for saying MAGA was using Charlie Kirk’s death as a tool to advance their agenda. Jimmy Kimmel was not wrong.

Sounds like the segregationists in Connecticut are having a grand ole time “While waiting for the police to arrive, the old Karen’s friend said, ‘You’re not the minority anymore.'” www.blackenterprise.com/alex-okeefe-...

A report in HuffPo says ICE is evacuating a DHS facility it was using outside of Chicago for its operations. Protests and direct action once again drive Trump out of #Chicago. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-ev...

These shits don't want anyone reporting on increased Americans starving under their garbage policies and budget priorities.

Really excellent pro-democracy & anti-corruption movement in Brazil to jail Bolsanaro & his co-conspirators. Regretful that the U.S. failed to take these appropriate measures when we had the chance. But we can still stand up for democracy & the rule of law. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

BREAKING: The governments of Canada, Australia and the UK have formally recognised the Palestinian state. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/lcqb2s

Abraham Lincoln spoke about a "government of the people, by the people, for the people." It's 2025 and: 1. Citizens track controversial government activities and make them public, so 2. Government agents hide their activities.

Raskin: "He wants to condition the public to the idea that it's completely legitimate for the president not only to be ordering prosecutions of particular people over the objections of prosecutors, but he wants to condition the public to accepting the idea he can do that in public, openly."

It’s no accident that Donald Trump posted a seemingly private message to Pam Bondi on Truth Social. He’s trying to send a message that he can practice his corruption out in the open and there’s nothing we can do about it.

the @nlgchicago.bsky.social condemns the “violent actions” of ice/border patrol on friday outside the broadview detention center. in a statement, nlg says feds targeted protesters w/o provocation & sent 2 people to the hospital. 10 people arrested. some were let go miles away behind a gas station.

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

"We see ... the vulnerability of children who have lost their parents and found themselves on the move again. They're struggling to find any patch of land where they can stay in the absence of their parents and are completely reliant on strangers to survive."

Per NYT, the “BAG OF CASH” $50,000 cash payment Homan took from undercover FBI agents was inside a bag from Cava. Trump’s DOJ made the investigation go away. A wildly corrupt regime. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

While 🇺🇸 farms go under…

TAX THE RICH is always a solid campaign pledge.

awful.

Hat tip to @aoc.bsky.social, this is pretty excellent

Macron says ten nations are preparing to recognize a State of Palestine based on the 1967 borders.

"In the VA's Texas region, which covers most of the state, officials reported ... in June that approximately 90 people had turned down job offers 'due to the uncertainty of reorganization' and noted that low morale was causing existing employees to not recommend working at the medical centers."

"[P]roblems that [Dr. Debby] Day spotted have stayed with her. In a case involving a newborn who needed an epilepsy evaluation, Day noticed that a Cigna nurse had listed the mother's name as the patient, rather than the baby's. ... [Day's] bosses didn't want to hear that she was catching errors."

So much rot.

I would like Never Trump Republicans to demand that George W. Bush appear and speak up for democracy in this country. Why do ppl always ask Obama to do things and “where is Kamala”? Where is the 43rd President of the United States while democracy crashes & burns. This is the party he led. 1/

Breaking news: The Environmental Protection Agency has ordered scientists in at least one of its research offices to immediately pause almost all research and stop publishing their studies.

It was amazing to me that the report I heard on this *only* mentioned effects on tech. Especially given the war(s) on universities, and on immigrants, being so visible on other fronts.

Here's an idea: take the billions in tax cuts away from the billionaires and corporations and redirect it to social security.

How can anyone deny this is a genocide? Sickening. Abhorrent. Unconscionable. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

“Why pass a budget if Russell Vought can unilaterally rescind it?” - @schumer.senate.gov taking a #nokings line. Will the Senate Democrats stand strong? Only if they hear from the public that they must