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For decades, Sec. Kennedy has spread lies about vaccines. Now, his misinformation will lead to preventable illness & death. Firing independent experts is a dangerous move that makes it harder for Americans to access vaccines that are safe, effective & essential to saving lives.

Turns out, as usual, it was all just talk.

But, but, but, the Founding Fathers wanted everyone to have an assault weapon… www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...

This stuff doesn’t look very protect-and-serve-y

For decades the NRA and other gun nuts told us that their guns were to protect us all from a tyrannical government. So a tyrannical government is here, they are all sitting on their asses, and the people who want gun control have taken to the streets to defy the tyrannical government instead.

Hm interesting bit from Sen. Cassidy's floor speech endorsing RFK Jr www.cassidy.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...

Dear USA Deploying troops against civilians will not go well. Yours Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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Didn’t age so well, did it #KristNoem

“Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has taken the extraordinary step of firing the expert panel that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, saying the action is needed to restore faith in vaccines.” www.statnews.com/2025/06/09/r...

If Hezbollah or the Houthis captured a ship in international waters and arrested its crew, im pretty sure the press and politicians would be calling that kidnapping or hostage taking

#booksky

This is the way to stand up to these bullies! Respect ✊

The correct way to connect the authoritarian presence in LA and the Big Beautiful Bill is that the bill gives the government the resources to do this in dozens of cities at once. So if you don't like what's happening in LA, it's coming to your town if the bill passes.

ICE agents intentionally started the violence in LA.

Let this sink in. Even the Los Angeles Police Chief, Jim McDonnell, made it clear: the people protesting immigration raids were not the ones causing violence. During a Sunday evening press conference, McDonnell condemned the violence as “disgusting”

I still think it's pretty wild that corrupt oligarchs destroyed the entirety of U.S. consumer protection and corporate oversight and it's barely written about by journalists or policy folks just not really of any serious interest

Who the F in their right minds is going to come here for the Olympics in 2028?

“At best a National Guard solider gets 4 hrs of training on civil disturbances a year”—former Illinois NG Commander on NPR just now

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In a world of Stephen Millers, be *anyone* else.

The greta video

Pretty incredible how the press amplified the “OMG EGGS ARE SO EXPENSIVE” narrative only to abandon it cold turkey post election. This is how they’ve failed us—simply repeating the Right’s narratives without ever questioning the facts or motives.

I do wonder what it costs financially to have an army occupying Los Angeles and why I keep being told the government doesn't have enough money to pay for public schools to buy supplies for their teachers

Five years ago today: Buffalo Police knocked down a 75-year old man at a George Floyd demonstration, putting him in the hospital for a month with a concussion. Trump went on Twitter to promote a conspiracy theory about it and say the man had it coming.

A federal program to protect US cities against extreme heat has just evaporated

It is completely unlawful for ICE to turn away members of Congress like this. The law could not be more clear; no member of Congress may be denied access to a facility where ICE is detaining someone, and they cannot be required to schedule in advance. Surprise inspections must be surprise.

We have won both the academic and public debate on the effects of immigration, yet we're losing politically because the propaganda from one political party is so powerful, and the response from the other side is to hide. It's unbelievable.

This is all on Russ Vought at Office of Management and Budget for his insane crusade against federal agencies and universities and on Jay Bhattacharya at NIH for acquiescing to all this. It's red and blue states. It's going to hurt local economies and our nation's health. There is no good here.

Murphy: "Everything that's happened in the last 7 days - the fight w/ Musk & now the deployment of the National Guard - is probably also a distraction from the main story, which is that Trump is trying to pass probably the most unpopular piece of legislation he will attempt to move through Congress"

PROSPECT: “What happened was a product of ICE incitement… seamstresses and construction workers are not commonly construed as gangs… there’s no emergency Trump and his minions aren’t fomenting themselves.” prospect.org/justice/2025...

Trump makes wearing a face covering in public a criminal offense. Law enacted by Truth Social Edict from his country club.

It’s a difficult proposition for undergrads to work through, but choosing a major isn’t really about what kind of jobs you want to do so much as what sorts of questions you want to think about or *how* you want to think about questions throughout your life.

not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates

Statistically “America” is its cities. But we’re stuck with an 18th century political architecture that gives votes to cornfields & thus makes it politically viable to treat them as some kind of weird tumor.

“Ninety-two percent of the targeted Medicaid recipients already work, are in school, have family caregiving responsibilities or have disabilities.” The proposed work requirements have nothing to do with waste, they are designed to cut enrollment through paperwork. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/o...

A more accurate rendition of what is happening in LA if it had happened in any other country

A message from could have been President MVP Kamala Harris on LA

Say it with me…we are cutting programs from college aid to food security to healthcare. Why? To pay for tax cuts for billionaires.

Blocking Nazis, trolls, and fascists doesn’t make it an “echo chamber.” People need to stop gaslighting us into thinking we have to listen to Nazis and debate trolls in order to be informed.

Trump's base, Southern Baptists, have their annual meeting this week. At a time of mass deportations, rather than focus on that, they'll instead try to oust women pastors. religionnews.com/2025/06/06/s...

David Huerta, the local president of SEIU United Service Workers West, was injured and arrested by federal agents in the midst of a fascist and chaotic immigration “enforcement” event on Friday in Los Angeles. Since then, the current admin is “deploying” to provoke unrest in California.

if Thunberg is brave enough to repeatedly put herself directly in harm’s way, then journalists can be brave enough to say that a civilian vessel was illegally seized in international waters, and its crew abducted

🚨BREAKING: 300+ NIH employees call out the harm of censorship & politicized science in scathing email to Bhattacharya, demanding an end to political interference, a lift on funding freezes, & rehiring of fired staff whose work saves lives. This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle. 🧵(1/5)

The Trump admin has detained a woman who fled Vietnam for America as a refugee at age 10, apparently over a crime she was convicted of and punished for more than 20 years ago www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social