For the first time in decades, I handed my successor an air traffic controller workforce that was growing instead of shrinking. Disturbingly, the Trump administration can't or won't say whether that’s still the case.

RFK Jr.’s pick to reshape the childhood vaccine schedule embraces Covid conspiracy theories Dr. Kirk Milhoan is a pediatric cardiologist and church pastor who has falsely stated that Covid vaccines cause cancer, miscarriage and widespread heart disease. By @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social

‼️ Friends, this is very important. Please share to whoever this may concern, especially if you are in the United States. Ukraine wants peace. Lasting, just, sustainable peace, and not a pause before the next bloodbath. I cannot stress this enough.

Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share

When power is used without transparency, public safety erodes, a well-documented tool of autocratic governments. Everyone wants violent offenders removed, but indiscriminate raids and unmarked paramilitary teams make communities less safe, as Gov. Stein warns in this video.

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.

When we were deployed, some Afghans risked their lives to help us. Now Trump wants to send them out to be killed by the Taliban. It’s a disgrace, a betrayal, and a decision that endangers future US troops.

I think a lot about the chance we had at the start of COVID to finally become a more compassionate, collectivist nation, and how profoundly we were failed not only by the sociopathic greed of the ruling class but by each other. It doesn’t mean we won’t get there, but the lost opportunity haunts me.

A massacre of over 2,000 people in Sudan and nothing in the MSM. Who decides what news we get? @fascinatorfun.bsky.social @ottoenglish.bsky.social

HEY CORPORATE MEDIA, Say it with me. Your headline is REPUBLICAN CONGRESS FAILS TO FUND GOVERNMENT: SHUTDOWN IMMINENT Let me know if you need any help with this

Thanks Republicans. Pre-vaccine measles killed hundreds of American kids every year. "Measles has been quiet in the headlines, but cases continue to climb. The annual U.S. count now stands at 1,527 confirmed cases—the highest in 30 years." yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/measles-ou...

Little kids are having to use their bodies to shield friends from gunfire while armed soldiers are busy picking up trash.

It is important to alert the public to the damaging -- indeed lethal -- plans of the current Secretary of Health, which are becoming more apparent by the day: thehill.com/opinion/heal... @caulfieldtim.bsky.social @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social @michaelemann.bsky.social @brendannyhan.bsky.social

As a former Texas State Rep, let me be clear: LOCKING Rep. Nicole Collier inside the chamber is beyond outrageous. Forcing elected officials to sign “permission slips” & take police escorts to leave? That’s not procedure. That’s some old Jim Crow playbook.

Cutting off mRNA research because the first mRNA vaccines weren't good enough - *even if that were true, which it really isn't* - is like if we banned personal computers in 1981 because the IBM PC was too expensive

From Russia Today's Telegram channel, this morning

Putin told him to do this. That’s a very important piece of the story. Im not kidding. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

BRENNAN: Well that February meeting in front of cameras where Zelenskyy was dressed down-- RUBIO: Do you know how many meetings we've had since then? BRENNAN: I was just up in Alaska watching the one with Vladimir Putin where a red carpet rolled out. It was very different

Public lands might be out of the mainstream headlines, but they're very much front and center in the Trump admins attempts to enrich themselves: wessiler.substack.com/p/where-nati...

1. Since Roe was overturned, Republican AGs have engaged in aggressive legal campaign to limit abortion not only in their states, but across the nation. These efforts are being financed by major American corporations — including CVS, United HealthCare, Airbnb, and the parent company of Coachella

"Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr, who oversees the CDC, did not make a statement the day of the shooting. Late the following morning, more than 30 minutes after posting photos of fishing with his family, Kennedy posted condolences on his official X account..." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/u...

RFK Jr.'s vaccine pullback stokes fears of lost medical breakthroughs

Did RFK Jr just take away your cancer treatment? mRNA promised to help turn cancer from a death sentence into a manageable condition.

He didn't get to the moon but he got his crew home, and that was the more remarkable task. www.nbcnews.com/news/rcna223...

Noticing a pattern here.

This is too much. Too much. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/h...

August 4 marks the 235th birthday of the US Coast Guard. Now this once-revered federal agency is been used to transport people to US concentration camps.

Olympic level cognitive dissonance.

Trump’s USDA is killing the Forest Service’s 9 regions dumping 193 million acres into chaos severing field science from Missoula to Asheville and gutting fire crews mid-season. The loggers are back in suits and the forests just lost their last line of defense.

It's official: Former Democratic Governor Roy Cooper has entered the North Carolina Senate race.

The Trump admin just exempted over 100 chemical plants, sterilizers & coal facilities from Clean Air Act rules, rolling back protections that would’ve cut cancer risk by up to 96% for nearby communities.

The ban would bar members of the state board and county boards from making “written or oral statements intended for general distribution or dissemination to the public at large encouraging or promoting voter turnout in any election.” www.democracydocket.com/analysis/don...

A rational mind can’t comprehend this. The fact is they are motivated by cruelty and hate and don’t care how much suffering and death they cause.

From the Venn Diagram of Incredulity: Sec. Bessent has expressed the opinion that Donald Trump is the best president in history regarding economics + this is the same president who doesn't understand why a Liberian speaks English + I have so many good book ideas for Jake Tapper.

BESSENT: We inherited this fiscal situation-- BENNET: You inherited it from Donald Trump! He's the first president to come back after a four year hiatus after we know exactly what the last tax cuts did, which was blow a massive hole in our deficits and debt. You can't sit here and lie about that!

BOYLE: “When you worked for Soros you railed against deficits/debt, what happened?” BESSENT: “It’s… smart spending.” BOYLE: “Tax cuts for billionaires while throwing 16 million people off their health care?” BESSENT: *tries to lie about numbers* *gets dunked on repeatedly*

New in PN: ABC is too cowed to state the obvious about Stephen Miller "Miller and Trump are hateful bigots. Independent journalists can still say that. Journalists at ABC can’t, because the president gets a veto over their coverage. That’s not democracy and it’s not a free press. It’s fascism."

Stephen Miller got caught repeatedly trafficking in white nationalist rhetoric and conspiracy theories and an ABC News reporter got suspended for calling Miller hateful

Deploying the military on U.S. soil as law enforcement against Americans was on page 555 of Project 2025. So don’t say “I didn’t vote for this,” because you did. This isn’t a response. This was always their plan.

In amongst all the excitement I fear many have missed this outstanding bit of trolling by Friedrich Merz. The Chancellor gifted Trump a gilded framed copy of his grandfather’s German birth certificate... reminding Americans that Trump is both the child and grandchild of migrants.

🔥 OBAMA: “IMAGINE IF I HAD DONE ANY OF THIS… I say this not on a partisan basis. This has to do with something more precious — who are we as a country, and what values do we stand for?” 🇺🇸

Please share!!! This is getting ridiculous—they just can’t accept a loss. Please help spread the word to North Carolina. The North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled in a 2-1 decision that over 60,000 votes cast in last year’s closely contested state Supreme Court race must be verified and recounted.

Since January, SpaceX has received over $560 million in government contracts—an amount projected to surpass $2 billion in taxpayer funding by year’s end, averaging roughly $6.1 million per day. Follow the money and see where it goes.

In case this insanity has been under-reported: the Trump admin and Israel have reached out to officials in 3 African countries, including Sudan (*currently in a civil war that has displaced 8.2 million) to discuss using their country as a destination for moving Palestinians from Gaza (IEP).

‪SLAVA UKRAINI 🇺🇦

Russia, Russia, Russia.

Thank you, @wired.com, for having the high ground. Please keep up the amazing work.