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It’s Time to Stand Up for America. Again! On October 18, communities across the nation will rise up to make clear to President Trump that in this country, we don't have kings or wannabe dictators. America belongs to us. No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings. tinyurl.com/3nx96vcx

We thought No Kings Day in June would be a good protest. We did not know it would break records, with 2,169 protests in every state and 27 countries. We need your help to make October 18 even bigger: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

“Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people —does not even pretend to try. Instead he tries to divide us” -Trump’s former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis (2020)

Fascism didn’t end after ww2, it just bought a shiny, new, star-spangled face and learned to act “polite” while ushering in their new age The internet stochastism and total ownership of the media is the penultimate success of the fascist

As more info comes in this needs to be said: if it wasn’t some left wing radical that did it, and it appears it wasn’t, there need to be massive pushback because they are STILL pretending it’s some culture war and it is only in their own minds Dangerous times

“Dems cannot pretend this is a normal Republican administration. They cannot ignore masked agents in the streets, armed troops in the cities, billions of dollars of money going into the Trump family’s pockets… If Dems cannot make an issue out of all that, then they are screwed and so are we.” 🎁🔗

Piece by Ezra Klein.

More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.

Somehow. They know

That means he’s going to accelerate what he’s been doing for decades. The Senate ushered that in, knowing full well his history. I’ve written so much about him I’ve organized a section of my newsletter under “RFK Jr” Find them all here ⬇️⬇️⬇️ 🔗 news.immunologic.org/t/rfk-jr 🧵

Bill Cassidy, a physician, cast the deciding vote confirming RFK Jr. Never let anyone forget that.

Journalists ignored his well-documented history & wrote flattering articles about him. He’s doing the same shit he has for 40 YEARS. Did you actually think he’d stop being an anti-science profiteer? Of course not. Now he’s got the power and authority of the Federal government behind him. 2/

What’s wild to me: NOW, media outlets & medical organizations are “stunned” by the damage RFK Jr. is doing to CDC, other health agencies, & public health. Me & my colleagues have been screaming about him for years. Years. Even more so in the last year. We were called hyperbolic. 1/

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Donald Trump incited a violent coup to overthrow the 2020 election and hold onto power. It will never be ok that he was not held accountable, including banning him from ever again holding public office.

This gentleman is a hero But the story has an ominous post script I believe he then went on a national news program where he said that after the incident, almost all the kids stopped coming to practice Terrorizing children That's what ICE does

The Oklahoma Teacher Qualification Test from PragerU is finally up on their website (but you have to at least provide them fake contact info first): "Educators who pass the test will receive an official PragerU Teacher Certificate..." www.prageru.com/teacher-qual...

Watch this. Apparently, police followed Rep Collier into the bathroom and threatened her with a FELONY for being on a press call with Senator Corey Booker and Governor Newsom.

Newsom: "We're doing this in reaction to a president that called the governor of the state of Texas and said 'find me 5 seats' ... we cannot unilaterally disarm ... other blue states need to stand up"

California will not sit idle as Donald Trump and Republicans take a wrecking ball to our democracy. This moment calls for urgency and action. That's why we’re giving voters a way to fight back and nullify congressional gains in Texas or any state that tries to rig its maps.

California will not look away from the election rigging orchestrated by Donald Trump. If Texas or any state manipulates their maps to silence voters, we will act — because free and fair elections belong to the people, not a corrupt few willing to break the system to hold power.

Newsom: If California, one of the most un-Trumped states in America, is not successful, it’s at our peril. We may not get this back. I’m telling you, we may not. He is rigging this next midterm election before one vote is cast. He tried to wreck our democracy after the last vote was cast last time.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Are you paying attention?

Article I Sections 9 & 10 of the U.S. Constitution—which limit presidential power over tariffs and protect habeas corpus—have disappeared from Congress’s website. They claim a coding error is to blame.

Grapes of Wrath. Again.

This quote from Bill Burr highlights how cruelty from the wealthy towards the people who make them their wealth, is something that we accept, the status quo. No raises this year. No holiday bonuses! We're laying off 20% No dental insurance. But executive bonuses are 8 figures. That's wrong!

We owe it to the people around us, the people in our society, to not stand still on one viewpoint and then grow old and bitter and make it everybody else‘s problem. We have to keep moving. Or we are the ones falling out of the chain - and we’ll have as company only our own selfishness.

Living means constantly growing, adapting all over again - especially when you think you know it all. There is no one and done. To keep oneself flexible in mind and attitude is number one priority always. And for the sake of OTHERS we have to force ourselves out of phlegmatism.

I think a lot of people have a hard time accepting that what may have been okay at one time, is not acceptable at another. What is behavior that necessarily brought people forward in the context of one time, is at another time, outdated and damaging. Life is never one-sided, one solution forever.

@govpritzker.illinois.gov: "Texas Rangers can come to Illinois and enjoy our lakefront, but they're not arresting anybody and taking them away."

I know nobody under 30 will believe me, but this is the sort of scandal that ended careers, back in the before-times. Congressional hearings, weeks worth of Nightline reports, the whole works. The press _lived_ for this stuff.

Judge Orders Kilmar Abrego Garcia Released And Prohibits Immediate Re-Arrest https://twp.ai/4iprAL

It's Wednesday... And on Wednesdays, we're ferocious! 😂 #cats #catsofbluesky

"We’re demanding that the Trump administration stop sabotaging our students’ future and follow the law by releasing all education funding that has been appropriated by Congress." — @oftunion.bsky.social President @mcropper.bsky.social

"Coverups are difficult in free societies. They are routine for authoritarian governments. The Epstein coverup will be an indicator of how far we are down the road to authoritarianism. The success of such a coverup would take us much further down that road." www.thebulwark.com/p/why-the-ep...

Believing what the rich and powerful say about the poor and powerless rather than believing what the poor and powerless say about their actual lived experience is the root cause of so many of our problems today.

Found in House Republican conference: 219 able-bodied adults who refuse to work.

The veterinarian in Iran is being so adorably gentle with this grouchy cat. He’s saying, “will you give me permission to listen to your heart?” And then he jokingly curses the stethoscope after the cat rejects it.

Let that sink in for a sec.

Congratulations on learning absolutely nothing about making deals with him, Senator.

The world breaks my heart every day in multiple ways, but also a bluebird alerted me to a barred owl this evening

Alert: 2/3 of our nation's fruit & nuts come from California, as does 80% of our wine & 1/3 of the nation's vegetables. Over 3/4 of our farmworkers are undocumented & over 90% are Latino. Every one of them is at risk from Felon Trump's cruel immigration policy & we'll all suffer because of it.

The Massachusetts House just advanced a bill to keep red states from snooping on your private medical info, such as your reproductive care. More states need to create similar bills and pass them!💙👍

Absolutely outrageous. 😡

Why so quiet, Gulf states? Y'all just sittin' down there waitin' for blue states to do your heavy lifting for you, as usual? www.axios.com/2025/07/17/f...