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The stupidest people are in charge because we couldn’t prosecute a political crime because it would look too political.

When Padilla was like "if they'll do this to a senator, imagine what they'll do to a worker" this is what he meant

As jaded as I am, I still wasn't prepared for how sanguine the US media would be about the appearance of gangs of masked gunmen abducting people in broad daylight all across America.

“Separate but equal.”

By now, we've all seen the video of Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) being forcibly removed and handcuffed for asking a question during Kristi Noem's press conference. But what Noem said just moments before the video was taken is "classic authoritarian red-baiting," points out @davidcorn.bsky.social.

Today they have crossed a deep red line. We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.

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1. When Trump ran for office, he pledged to "restore free speech." Then, as president, he deployed the military against people protesting his immigration policies. This wasn't an isolated incident It is part of an attack on freedom of speech, targeting anyone who does not share Trump’s ideology

i understand the framing, which is about RFK jr lying to a senator to get senate approval but RFK jr also lied to the american public just completely unacceptable for a public official and senator bill cassidy is not the only one who should take action for being lied to

LAPD when they think nobody is watching

This is the first time in 60 years that a president has deployed a state’s National Guard for a domestic operation without the governor’s request.

kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes

So much of the world of these dudes is based on the idea that the "realistic", "pragmatic" and "rational" thing to do is to commit civilisational suicide by boiling ourselves alive.

No words

Another banner day for the Department of Child Snatching

Hi! I specialize in medication toxicity. All available, real-world data has proven mifepristone is actually even safer than many over the counter medicines. Mortality rates: Mifepristone: 0.65/100,000 Penicillin 2/100K Viagra 4/100K Pregnancy in the US: 22/100,000 (some states see rates >60/100K)

A top coronavirus vaccine adviser at the CDC has resigned, citing concerns that she could no longer help vulnerable people after officials rescinded recommendations to immunize children and pregnant women.

Yikes

Darren Beattie - the State Dept official who dismantled the US government's main center for fighting Russian and Chinese propaganda around the world - turns out to have personal ties to the Russian elite. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

"We might lose a generation of talent—and that’s not going to get fixed four years from now” Read this by @jtemple.bsky.social: www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/02/1...

RFK Jr. is absolutely poisonous. He has now caused Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos, the person in charge of COVID19 vaccinations at the CDC, to resign. She did so because RFK Jr. demanded that the experts in charge of vaccine guidance listen to him and not to the scientific evidence.

I recently had an earnest discussion with a family member about #rawmilk. They had a lot of misconceptions about #pasteurization. Here's a quick 🧵 on dairy #science 🧪 so you can combat milk #conspiracies too. 1/

"If you’re among the vast sea of Americans who remain enthusiastically grateful for vaccines, the time for pushing back against Kennedy isn’t later, when he’ll likely be ratcheting up his program to 'reevaluate' longstanding pediatric vaccines."

I'm so over this lying, puritanical pixie.

Similarities between ICE & the Gestapo

Law enforcement officers should never cover their faces when making arrests or conceal their identities (unless they are working undercover). They work for us. We have a right to know who they are. These face coverings are frightening & unAmerican, as though they're ashamed of what they're doing.

I think it’s good Ernst released that video and I think all our evangelical overlords should make more videos and spend more time publicly shouting their beliefs because once they’re relentlessly laying it on the table the average person might finally start to understand what we’re up against.

If Joe Biden posted something like this Hannity would be roused from his sleep to anchor special coverage. But Trump posts apeshit conspiracy theories and the mainstream press yawns. His craziness has been completely normalized.

The entire point.

You know how these guys are really into the idea that any disease can be cured with a healthy diet of unprocessed foods? Doesn’t work so well when the disease is E. coli from lettuce that isn’t reported publicly because FDA isn’t competent to keep food safe. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

trump speaking at the crypto dinner next to a lecturn with the presidential seal while his press secretary claims it was a personal event is just another one of those things i guess

A common clapback from measles minimizers is that, "Measles was no big deal when I was a kid. Everyone had it. So why are you so panicky now?" Let's break it down with some national Canadian data... Thread [1/6]

Young Kim is rep for California's 40th congressional district. She is on record that she would not vote for a bill that cuts medicaid. She just voted for a bill that will cut medicaid $700 billion over the next 10 years. She won last year with 55% of the vote. Vote her out in 2026.

If you do in fact want Covid boosters for yourself or anyone, you can submit public comment to the FDA here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

This is from The Atlantic. This is exactly how Democrats should message Trump‘s bill. 👇🏻

the very concept of “adaptive immunity” means that every child is born with a naïve immune system that is eventually “educated” by an antigen vaccines educate harmlessly viruses educate pathologically this is so basic as to be an alarming oversight by this FDA

THREAD: We recently heard that the Trump administration was leaning on the government of Gambia to help Elon Musk. For weeks, our team made phone calls, wrote letters and knocked on folks’ doors to try to confirm it. But we were stuck. So our reporters got on a plane to Banjul. 1/

Hey do you guys remember the promises @SecKennedy made to @SenBillCassidy? I do. youtu.be/QrJcBtkfwvo?si…

From The Archives: You People Made Me Give Up My Peanut Farm Before I Got To Be President theonion.com/you-peo...

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